Re: [GENERAL] Checkpoint question

2003-07-21 Thread u15074
Zitat von Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Probably insufficient disk bandwidth. If you have two drives available, > try putting the WAL files (pg_xlog directory) on a different drive from > the data files. Assuming you have adequate RAM, updates will be mainly > limited by writes to WAL, while ch

Re: [GENERAL] Checkpoint question

2003-07-21 Thread u15074
Zitat von Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A checkpoint pushes out all unwritten data since the last checkpoint. > So yeah, it stands to reason that if you increase the time between > checkpoints, each checkpoint will take longer. Whether this is really > a problem is not clear --- the checkpoint

Re: [GENERAL] Is it possible to change the wal file size?

2003-06-27 Thread u15074
> You can not change the size but you can increase the number of WAL files > used. > See postgresql.conf. > > Setting it too high does not achieve anything though. You need to have enough > > disk bandwidth to make use of 200MB WAL logs. I want write a lot of data (large objetcs) without any in

[GENERAL] Is it possible to change the wal file size?

2003-06-27 Thread u15074
Can I change the size of a wal file, and if so where can I change this? I'd like to set the value to bigger value than 16MB. Thanks, Andreas. - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ ---(end of broadcast)

[GENERAL] Large Object table data file does not have expected size

2003-06-27 Thread u15074
I am a little bit confused by the following effect. For test reasons I insert about 10 large objects into the database. Each has a size of 10240 Bytes (10K). So the expected size of the large object datafile should be at least 102400 Bytes (about 976MB) just to hold the large objects. But t