[GENERAL] Shared Buffers

2009-03-02 Thread Siddharth Shah
Hello All, How Postgres Maintains data in Shared Buffer Does It maintains queried data in memory or table data and Next time how postgres fetch data from memory rather than disk Which algorithm is used for storing data how data is indexed in shared buffers Thanks Siddharth

Re: [GENERAL] pg_xlog content

2008-12-02 Thread Siddharth Shah
Albe Laurenz wrote: Siddharth Shah wrote: I am not using wall based replication ? I no not have frequent & long transaction , need of checkpoints Just want to get what data resides in pg_xlog that it takes 16MB without any transactions. It contains the transaction log files.

Re: [GENERAL] pg_xlog content

2008-12-02 Thread Siddharth Shah
Richard Huxton wrote: Siddharth Shah wrote: Hi, When I initialize database, pg_xlog direcory takes almost 17 MB size Why pg_xlog/WAL takes 17 MB of size while there is no transaction occurred ? What is the content of pg_xlog , If it's only wal file it's must be blan

[GENERAL] pg_xlog content

2008-12-02 Thread Siddharth Shah
Hi, When I initialize database, pg_xlog direcory takes almost 17 MB size Why pg_xlog/WAL takes 17 MB of size while there is no transaction occurred ? What is the content of pg_xlog , If it's only wal file it's must be blank after on write of transaction on database. regards, Siddha

Re: [GENERAL] configure options

2008-12-01 Thread Siddharth Shah
Tom Lane wrote: Siddharth Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: In My Application I have only 256MB storage device and I have to manage many other application in same storage Quite honestly, you're going to need some other database besides Postgres if you need a disk footp

Re: [GENERAL] configure options

2008-12-01 Thread Siddharth Shah
Albe Laurenz wrote: Siddharth Shah wrote: In My Application I have only 256MB storage device and I have to manage many other application in same storage So, have to remove use less files , From configuration disabling unwanted options helps to reduce the size. So, I need detail

Re: [GENERAL] configure options

2008-12-01 Thread Siddharth Shah
Albe Laurenz wrote: Siddharth Shah wrote: I am compiling postgres, I have some doubts on ./configure options --disable-largefile Does it refers to for storing blob objects to store or anything else ? I couldn't find this configure switch in the documentation for 8

Re: [GENERAL] configure options

2008-12-01 Thread Siddharth Shah
Albe Laurenz wrote: Siddharth Shah wrote: I am compiling postgres, I have some doubts on ./configure options --enable-nls[=LANGUAGES] enable Native Language Support Do I need to supply each language name which i am going to store in my database or just have to take

[GENERAL] configure options

2008-11-28 Thread Siddharth Shah
Hi, I am compiling postgres, I have some doubts on ./configure options --enable-nls[=LANGUAGES] enable Native Language Support Do I need to supply each language name which i am going to store in my database or just have to take support UTF-8 ? and --disable-largefile Does

[GENERAL] Effect of stopped status collector process

2008-11-25 Thread Siddharth Shah
Hello, I have started to explore PG, I have found pgstat.stat file taking too much write hits. As my need to deploy on flash based storage. I don't want higher I/O's To stop status collector process I have change postmaster.c by removing calls of pgstat.c Now every thing is working fine, Sta