Re: [GENERAL] My Experiment of PG crash when dealing with huge amount of data

2013-08-31 Thread Jeff Janes
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:10 AM, 高健 wrote: > > > postgres=# insert into test01 values(generate_series(1,2457600),repeat( > chr(int4(random()*26)+65),1024)); The construct "values (srf1,srf2)" will generate its entire result set in memory up front, it will not "stream" its results to the insert st

Re: [GENERAL] SSI and predicate locks - a non-trivial use case

2013-08-31 Thread Kevin Grittner
Kevin Grittner wrote: >  - We don't distinguish between heap relation locks which need to > prohibit inserts (those caused by a table scan) and heap relation > locks which don't conflict with inserts (those caused by promotion > from finer granularity).  We would reduce false positives if we > d

Re: [GENERAL] SSI and predicate locks - a non-trivial use case

2013-08-31 Thread Kevin Grittner
Gianni Ceccarelli wrote: > At work we have a program that seems to be stressing the SSI > implementation, and I thought that it could provide useful > insights to better tune it. In particular, there are a few parts > that are described as "chosen entirely arbitrarily (and without > benchmarking)