Counting Queries: PostgreSQL SQL Analysis [www.databasejournal.com]

An article on tuning queries by munging through the postgres server logs.
veryone wants their database-backed web application to run faster on the same hardware - if a software tweak can postpone a hardware upgrade for a year, it's usually well worth it. One way to improve performance is to examine how the application is interacting with the database, and see if there is anything that we can do to speed things up. We will take a look at a handy script that can examine PostgreSQL logs and let you know what queries are getting run the most.

03:31 PM, 29 Jun 2004 by Jeff Davis Permalink | Comments (0)

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