When to start new PT database?

[DDBeast]

My ptrack file is about a gig, do I need a new database?

I haven't used it yet, but there's a feature in the new versions of PT to cull out old entries, based on how long since you played a hand against them, how many hands they played, etc. Maybe that will work better for you than starting over from scratch?

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when PT starts slowing down i'd make a new one. its not like you are losing data, since PAHUD will read from as many databases as you want.

When The HUD software is slow to refresh (btw I use playerview) is that because the database is large or because there are several tables open? Which is the biggest contributer?
-Shaggy

Just convert from Access to the Postgres SQL version in PT. Also to the cleanup every so often. You should not have any problems then.

[Brice]

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Just convert from Access to the Postgres SQL version in PT. Also to the cleanup every so often. You should not have any problems then.

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How do you do this exactly? I know that SQL is much faster than Access so I would be interested in going ahead and doing that even though my DB is still small at this point.

I am hitting convert and it asking me for my username and password even though I am on localhost.

Edit: I read the documentation and got it working.