Re: [GENERAL] Trying to minimize the impact of checkpoints (resend)

2004-06-11 Thread Gregory S. Williamson
There is something wonky on this mail list. I did not send this. -Original Message- From: Gregory S. Williamson Sent: Fri 6/11/2004 2:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [GENERAL] Trying to minimize the impact of checkpoints (resend) In-reply-

Re: [GENERAL] Opteron scaling with PostgreSQL

2004-06-11 Thread Steve Wolfe
I would very much like to see the same test with Fsync on. A test that does not reflect real-world use has less value than one that just shows how fast it can go. > > For a read-only database, fsync could be turned off. For any other > system it would be hair-brained and nobody in their right mind

Re: [GENERAL] Opteron scaling with PostgreSQL

2004-06-11 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Wolfe > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 2:09 PM > To: pgsql-general > Subject: [GENERAL] Opteron scaling with PostgreSQL > > > >Some time ago, I asked about how well PostgreSQL scales with th

[GENERAL] bytea functions

2004-06-11 Thread Eric Lu
Hi, I am just wondering if bytea functions (byteaeq, byteage,byteagt,...) will be included in the offical document and assumed to be supported in future release. For now, I could only find them in release 7.2 note. Your confirmation reply is appreciated. Thanks! Eric ps.Is this the right place to

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to minimize the impact of checkpoints (resend)

2004-06-11 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm using PostgreSQL 7.3.4 on RH9. Data and logs are on separate > disks. (These are low-end IDE disks. That part of the problem > is out of my control.) > When a checkpoint occurs, all operations slow way, way down. Not too surprising; you haven't got enough I/O bandw

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to minimize the impact of checkpoints (resend)

2004-06-11 Thread Doug McNaught
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Does anyone have any experience in modifying the priority of the > checkpoint process itself, (re-nicing it)? Unfortunately for you, re-nicing doesn't generally affect a processes I/O rate--it's meant for CPU-bound processes. It might be possible to add code to "throt

[GENERAL] Trying to minimize the impact of checkpoints (resend)

2004-06-11 Thread jao
[Sorry if this is a repeat. I think the first message may have been rejected due to an attachment.] I'm using PostgreSQL 7.3.4 on RH9. Data and logs are on separate disks. (These are low-end IDE disks. That part of the problem is out of my control.) When a checkpoint occurs, all operations slow w

[GENERAL] Set returning functions and Crystal Reports

2004-06-11 Thread JosuƩ Maldonado
Hello list, Apologize first if this is off topic. have this function in plpgsql DECLARE crow histmer%rowtype; BEGIN select * into crow from histmer where fecha = date 'now'; if found then return next crow; end if; select * into crow fr

Re: [GENERAL] bytea functions

2004-06-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Eric Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am just wondering if bytea functions (byteaeq, byteage,byteagt,...) will > be included in the offical document and assumed to be supported in future > release. We generally do not bother to document functions that are only meant to support operators. Use

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM FULL produce warnings

2004-06-11 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > if i understand right, after some time vacuum must run without > warnings, but after first warning vacuum print this warnings every > time until reindex. Oh? I was thinking of transient conditions, but it sounds like you have found a way to produce a permanent mismatc

Re: [GENERAL] Information Schema - Can the views be applied to older versions of PostgreSQL

2004-06-11 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Can I take the INFORMATION SCHEMA views from 7.4 and install them in older > versions of PostgreSQL, if so, how far back can they work? I doubt they would just drop in, but you could possibly adapt them to mostly work... regards, tom lane -

Re: [GENERAL] Information Schema - Can the views be applied to older versions of PostgreSQL

2004-06-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can I take the INFORMATION SCHEMA views from 7.4 and install them in > older versions of PostgreSQL, if so, how far back can they work? No. For your purposes, you maybe be able to backport them and distribute the altered versions with your product. For some cases this

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to minimize the impact of checkpoints

2004-06-11 Thread jao
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > When a checkpoint occurs, all operations slow way, way down. > The attached spreadsheet (xls file, prepared in OO so unlikely > to be dangerous) shows a run of a few hours, and the various spikes > every 25-30 minutes seem consistent with checkpointing. The > applicat

Re: [GENERAL] Solaris ecpg program doesn't work - pulling my hair out!

2004-06-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
This will be fixed on Solaris in PostgreSQL release 7.4.3. --- Wes Palmer wrote: > On 3/23/04 8:28 PM, "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I had to take a guess, there is something wrong with the ecpg progra

[GENERAL] Installing 7.4.2

2004-06-11 Thread Scot L. Harris
I have been using Postgresql 7.2.4 on a Redhat 8.0 system. Prior to putting the system into production I want to upgrade Postgresql and PHP to the latest stable versions. To that end I have downloaded the latest versions and compiled them. I have saved my current databases using pg_dumpall. Cur

[GENERAL] Information Schema - Can the views be applied to older versions of PostgreSQL

2004-06-11 Thread mike . griffin
My name is Mike Griffin and we are adding PostgreSQL support to our product, MyGeneration. MyGeneration pulls meta-data from DBMS systems to generate business objects and stored procedures and such. We are using the .NET managed provider Npgsql.dll. We typically get meta data from OleDb providers

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql training course, please recommend

2004-06-11 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, [iso-8859-1] zhicheng wang wrote: > can any one recommend a good postgresql training > course in the UK. thanks http://techdocs.postgresql.org/companies.php Some companies provide training courses for PostgreSQL. Regards, -- Devrim GUNDUZ devrim~gunduz.org

Re: [GENERAL] lost pg_xlog (SOLVED)

2004-06-11 Thread Dennis Breithaupt
Dennis Breithaupt wrote: Hy all, I request your support for the following problem. (with "postmaster (PostgreSQL) 7.4.1") On a development-system I lost the pg_xlog-directory due to a system crash, where the physical device on which the mountpoint pg_xlog was located got broken. [...] ...in th

[GENERAL] lost pg_xlog // recover database-structure without it?

2004-06-11 Thread Dennis Breithaupt
Hy all, I request your support for the following problem. (with "postmaster (PostgreSQL) 7.4.1") On a development-system I lost the pg_xlog-directory due to a system crash, where the physical device on which the mountpoint pg_xlog was located got broken. LOG: could not open file "/usr/local/

[GENERAL] postgresql training course, please recommend

2004-06-11 Thread zhicheng wang
dear all can any one recommend a good postgresql training course in the UK. thanks cheng = Best wishes Z C Wang ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - so many all-new ways to express yourself http://uk.me

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM FULL produce warnings

2004-06-11 Thread spied
>> look please http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=253295 TL> I wouldn't worry about it. It's probably due to the fact that we tend TL> to release write lock on system catalogs immediately after updating the TL> catalog, instead of holding the lock till commit. ok, but what is best:

Re: [GENERAL] out of memory error

2004-06-11 Thread Martin Marques
El Jue 10 Jun 2004 22:14, escribiĆ³: > Hi, > > we are using Postgres with a J2EE application (JBoss) and get > intermittent "out of memory" errors on the Postgres database. We are > running on a fairly large Linux server (Dual 3GHz, 2GB Ram) with the > following parameters: > > shared_buffers = 8192

Re: [GENERAL] out of memory error

2004-06-11 Thread Richard Huxton
Mark Striebeck wrote: Hi, we are using Postgres with a J2EE application (JBoss) and get intermittent "out of memory" errors on the Postgres database. We are running on a fairly large Linux server (Dual 3GHz, 2GB Ram) with the following parameters: shared_buffers = 8192 sort_mem = 8192 effective