Re: [GENERAL] transaction limits?

2005-10-21 Thread Mark Rae
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:25:36PM +0200, Nicolas Barbier wrote: > On 10/21/05, Richard Huxton wrote: > > jeff sacksteder wrote: > > > Are there known limits to how many rows can be inserted by one > > > transaction, > > > Well, the system will need to be able to roll back the transaction, ... >

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL on Dual Processors, Dual-Core AMD Chips

2005-10-19 Thread Mark Rae
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:55:18AM -0700, William Yu wrote: > Mark Rae wrote: > >With the newer kernels you should find that a dual core will > >be giving you about 80% increase over a single core. > > I'm not experiencing this problem right now because I have NU

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL on Dual Processors, Dual-Core AMD Chips

2005-10-19 Thread Mark Rae
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 12:32:36AM -0700, William Yu wrote: > Expect to need to upgrade to later Linux cores though. Previous kernel > on this server was 2.6.9+ (FC3 64-bit) -- promptly kernel panic'd upon > install of the DCs. FC3 installer did the same thing. Went to FC4 > (2.6.11+) and it has

[GENERAL] Database Comments

2005-10-07 Thread Mark Rae
Hi, Using COMMENT ON DATABASE only allows you to create a comment for your current database which is then only visible from that database. However, if I manually insert appropriate values into pg_description in other databases I can make comments appear for another database. e.g. If some users ha

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Projecting currentdb to more users

2005-07-12 Thread Mark Rae
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 03:11:35PM -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 15:06, Mark Rae wrote: > > I think its more a case of AMD now having solid evidence to back > > up the claims. > > Wow! That's pretty fascinating. So, is the evidence pretty > o

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Projecting currentdb to more users

2005-07-12 Thread Mark Rae
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:41:14PM -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 13:24, Mohan, Ross wrote: > > From AMD's suit against Intel. Perhaps relevant to some PG/AMD issues. > Well, this is, right now, just AMD's supposition about Intel's > behaviour, I'm not sure one way or the othe

Re: [GENERAL] SMP scaling

2005-03-18 Thread Mark Rae
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 01:31:51PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > BTW, although I know next to nothing about NUMA, I do know that it is > configurable to some extent (eg, via numactl). What was the > configuration here exactly, and did you try alternatives? Also, > what was the OS exactly? (I've heard

Re: [GENERAL] SMP scaling

2005-03-18 Thread Mark Rae
On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 10:38:24AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Hey, that looks pretty sweet. One thing this obscures though is whether > there is any change in the single-client throughput rate --- ie, is "1.00" > better or worse for CVS tip vs 8.0.1? Here are the figures in queries per second. Cli

[GENERAL] SMP scaling

2005-03-18 Thread Mark Rae
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:00:25PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Oh, you have to try CVS HEAD or a nightly snapshot. Tom made a major > change that allows scaling in SMP environments. Ok, I've done the tests comparing 8.0.1 against a snapshot from the 16th and the results are impressive. As well

Re: [GENERAL] prelimiary performance comparison pgsql vs mysql

2005-03-15 Thread Mark Rae
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:00:25PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Oh, you have to try CVS HEAD or a nightly snapshot. Tom made a major > change that allows scaling in SMP environments. Ok, I'll give it a try in the next couple of days when there is some free time available on the machine. -Ma

Re: [GENERAL] prelimiary performance comparison pgsql vs mysql

2005-03-15 Thread Mark Rae
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:46:50PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Mark Rae wrote: > > Also, while on the subject of scaling. I had the opportunity > > to try postgres on a 16CPU Altix and couldn't get it to scale > > more than about 4x, whereas Oracle got up to about 12x

Re: [GENERAL] prelimiary performance comparison pgsql vs mysql

2005-03-15 Thread Mark Rae
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:51:03PM -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > Be careful assuming that. DB benchmarks are hard to do in a general > sense. His results probably indicate a general trend, but you should > test your application yourself to get a real result. His pattern of SQL > queries might be very

Re: [GENERAL] prelimiary performance comparison pgsql vs mysql

2005-03-15 Thread Mark Rae
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:04:01PM -0500, Chris Browne wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Rae) writes: >> Clients 1 2 3 4 6 812163264 >> 128 >> -- >&g

Re: [GENERAL] prelimiary performance comparison pgsql vs mysql

2005-03-14 Thread Mark Rae
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 06:52:58AM -0500, Rick Schumeyer wrote: > Below are some PRELIMINARY results in comparing the performance of pgsql and > mysql. > ... > I have not yet done any testing of transactions, multiple concurrent > processes, etc. > I would say that doing the concurrency tests is

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Release Candidate 4

2005-01-10 Thread Mark Rae
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:04:00PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > A current list of *known* supported platforms can be found at: > http://developer.postgresql.org/supported-platforms.html > We're always looking to improve that list, so we encourage anyone that is > running a platform not l