Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL (fwd)

2000-04-13 Thread The Hermit Hacker
uninformed in that we have not put the OO/OR features to the side, and, in fact, have developers actively working on it ... On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > pe

Re: [GENERAL] database file size bloat

2000-04-13 Thread Ed Loehr
Matthew Arnison wrote: > > three times now this week (on two different servers) the raw database on > disk has ballooned in size, from about 10 megs to 50 megs in two cases, > and from about 10 megs to 250 megs in another case. > > a VACUUM VERBOSE ANALYZE; cleans it back down to the proper size

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL (fwd)

2000-04-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
> > this is a totally uninformed and inaccurate assessment ... the current > > state of OO/OR features in PgSQL has been sitting pretty much on one > > persons shoulders ... v7.0 has some extensions/fixes added in this arena, > > and we would very much welcome anyone that wishes to work with us to

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL (fwd)

2000-04-13 Thread Ed Loehr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > perhaps you'd better first find an evaluation copy of informix, seems that > > > they have more systematic and well-thought feature set. > > > > > > there are s

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL (fwd)

2000-04-13 Thread kaiq
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Ed Loehr wrote: > Kaiq may be wrong, possibly not knowing of more informative conversations > going on in the private pgsql mailing lists (pg-core, etc.), but he is not > coming from left field. wow, there is a pg-core, can I get in? -- ok, maybe later, after I prove myself

Re: [GENERAL] Remove fields

2000-04-13 Thread Aage J. Skjolingstad
I think I found it myself under FAQ 4.5, - Thanks and sorry for posting this. I think I found it myself under FAQ 4.5, - Thanks and sorry for posting this. "Aage J. Skjolingstad" wrote: > > Have tried searching for this but it does not return any results today; > - only me having this problem ?

[GENERAL] Postgresqlism & Vacuum?

2000-04-13 Thread Thomas
Ed Loehr wrote: > ... it is a well-known "postgresqlism" > that you should consider running vacuum analyze at least nightly, possibly > more frequently. [I run it hourly.] I think there must be something wrong with the optimiser that it's "postgresqlism" that you must vacuum analyze frequently.

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresqlism & Vacuum?

2000-04-13 Thread Andrew Snow
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Thomas wrote: > For large 24x7 installations, it's impossible to vacuum nightly because when > postgresql is vacuuming the table is locked up, to the end-user the database > has already hung. That's right. I complained about this in a discussion with a Postgresql developer,

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresqlism & Vacuum?

2000-04-13 Thread Andrew Snow
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Thomas wrote: > For large 24x7 installations, it's impossible to vacuum nightly because when > postgresql is vacuuming the table is locked up, to the end-user the database > has already hung. That's right. I complained about this in a discussion with a Postgresql developer

Re: [GENERAL] database file size bloat

2000-04-13 Thread Matthew Arnison
the bloat is a big problem. i just checked it again, and the db has balloooned to 20 megs again, with i think 2650 unused pages. this is after vacuuming it last night. i guess we need to setup the vacuum script to run every hour. i am worried about this locking out users during the vacuuming, alth