Re: [BUGS] Index speeds up one row table (why)?

2003-06-01 Thread Dave E Martin XXIII
Rod Taylor wrote: >An 8 k page will hold approx 140 tuples based on your structure. So, >for every ~100 updates you'll want to run vacuum (regular, not full) on >the table Alas, for this application, that means a vacuum once every 5 seconds or so. I'll see if I can set up a separate little task t

Re: [BUGS] Index speeds up one row table (why)?

2003-06-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 17:17:38 -0600, Dave E Martin XXIII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking of which, since the row is locked with select for update (so it > can't be involved in any other transactions anyway) and the change > doesn't change the length of the row, can't it just be updated

Re: [BUGS] Index speeds up one row table (why)?

2003-06-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 16:56:56 -0600, Dave E Martin XXIII <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (ok, experimented a bit more just now) > Hm, it appears that degredation occurs with the index as well, I guess > at the time I created the index, it just initially did better because it > got to skip al

Re: [BUGS] Bug or not...

2003-06-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 16:33:55 +0400, Nick Altmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I think it's not bug, but difficulty. > > I cannot use trusted connections for my localhost. I use password. But psql, > pg_dump, pg_restore doesn't support password parameter in command line. Also, i

[BUGS] Bug or not...

2003-06-01 Thread Nick Altmann
Hello!   I think it's not bug, but difficulty.   I cannot use trusted connections for my localhost. I use password. But psql, pg_dump, pg_restore doesn't support password parameter in command line. Also, i cannot do nightly backup if I don't use trusted connections. Cannot you add password co

Re: [BUGS] Question to You

2003-06-01 Thread Serge Obeuf
Hi, My pg_dumpall is first time running on PostgreSQL 7.2 upon Solaris.8. Expectatively, it's well doing in test platform but not in productive one. I don't find the difference except the name of the users : pgsql in test, postgres in production. Their home directories change too. But, LD_LIBRAR

[BUGS] sudoers file??

2003-06-01 Thread Vivek
I am trying to connect to postgreSQL through PHP. I am facing lots of problems. Itried to configure postgreSQL for the above purpose.I tried the following command to set PGALLOWTCPIP=yes sudo vi /etc/postgresql/postmaster.init It says : postgres is not in sudoers file. What does it mean? Can I

[BUGS] Bug in parser?

2003-06-01 Thread Gerhard Dieringer
POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE Your name : Gerhard Dieringer Your email address : [EMA

[BUGS] Qube2

2003-06-01 Thread Dan Higham
Hi, I have installed postgresql on a qube2 running netbsd 1.6, when I try and init the database, I get this error; IpcSemaphoreCreate: semget(key=4, num=17, 03600) failed: No space left on device This error does *not* mean that you have run out of disk space. It occurs when either the syste

Re: [BUGS] Index speeds up one row table (why)?

2003-06-01 Thread Rod Taylor
> vacuum verbose bigint_unique_ids; > INFO: --Relation public.bigint_unique_ids-- > INFO: Index bigint_unique_ids__table_name: Pages 29; Tuples 1: Deleted > 5354. > CPU 0.01s/0.04u sec elapsed 0.05 sec. > INFO: Removed 11348 tuples in 79 pages. > CPU 0.00s/0.02u sec elapsed 0.02 sec. >

Re: [BUGS] Index speeds up one row table (why)?

2003-06-01 Thread Dave E Martin XXIII
Tom Lane Writes: Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It probably has one visible row in it. If it can changed a lot, there may be lots of deleted tuples in a row. That would explain why an index scan speeds things up. Right, every UPDATE on unique_ids generates a dead row, and a seqscan h

Re: [BUGS] Index speeds up one row table (why)?

2003-06-01 Thread Dave E Martin XXIII
Tom Lane wrote: Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It probably has one visible row in it. If it can changed a lot, there may be lots of deleted tuples in a row. That would explain why an index scan speeds things up. Right, every UPDATE on unique_ids generates a dead row, and a seq

Re: [BUGS] db growing out of proportion

2003-06-01 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Creager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm interested to narrow down exactly what was the issue here. > shared_buffers was 1024, now 8192 > max_fsm_relations was 1000, now 1 > max_fsm_pages was 2, now 10 > wal_buffers was 8, now 16 > sort_mem was 1024, now 64000 > vacuum_mem was

Re: [BUGS] Index speeds up one row table (why)?

2003-06-01 Thread Tom Lane
Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It probably has one visible row in it. If it can changed a lot, there > may be lots of deleted tuples in a row. That would explain why an > index scan speeds things up. Right, every UPDATE on unique_ids generates a dead row, and a seqscan has no altern

Re: [BUGS] Index speeds up one row table (why)?

2003-06-01 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Sat, 31 May 2003, Dave E Martin XXIII wrote: > select next_id from unique_ids where name=whatever for update; > update unique_ids set next_id=next_id+1 where name=whatever; > pass on value of old next_id to other code... > > where unique_ids is: > > create table unique_ids ( > name text not