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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@cs.berkeley.edu>
To: Sunay Tripathi <sunay@kriti.iitd.ernet.in>
Cc: post-questions@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: BUG in v4r2 or . ..
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 95 20:09:36 -0800
Message-ID: <199501250409.UAA28689@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199501241528.UAA11043@kriti.iitd.ernet.in>

sunay@kriti.iitd.ernet.in (Sunay Tripathi) writes:
> "FATAL: no response from backend: detected in dump_data"

the server dumped core into the database directory.  past that, it's
hard to tell from the information given.

> 3) Where can I get some info on kind of queries to make (to improve
> 	efficiency).

judicious use of indices helps an awful lot.  also, if you do not
vacuum periodically, then the query optimizer has no information and
picks really stupid query plans.  some of this is covered in the user
manual.
--
  Paul M. Aoki          |  University of California at Berkeley
  aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU  |  Dept. of EECS, Computer Science Division (#1776) 
                        |  Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

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