Re: [HACKERS] Reporting WAL file containing checkpoint's REDO record in pg_controldata's result

2012-03-25 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 18:05, Fujii Masao wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Robert Haas wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Fujii Masao wrote: >>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Fujii Masao wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23,

Re: [HACKERS] Command Triggers, v16

2012-03-25 Thread Andres Freund
On Friday, March 16, 2012 10:40:46 AM Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > > This will have the effect of calling triggers outside of alphabetic > > order. I don't think thats a good idea even if one part is ANY and the > > other a specific command. > > I don't think there is any reason anymore to separate th

Re: [HACKERS] initdb and fsync

2012-03-25 Thread Jeff Davis
posix_fadvise() is a fallback. Regards, Jeff Davis initdb-fsync-20120325.patch.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] patch for parallel pg_dump

2012-03-25 Thread Joachim Wieland
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Are you going to provide a rebased version? Rebased version attached, this patch also includes Robert's earlier suggestions. parallel_pg_dump_5.diff.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-

Re: [HACKERS] COPY / extend ExclusiveLock

2012-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
Jim Nasby writes: > On 3/22/12 2:13 PM, Stephen Frost wrote: >> Has anyone been working on or considering how to improve the logic >> around doing extends on relations to perhaps make larger extensions >> for larger tables? Or make larger extensions when tables are growing >> very quickly? > I k

Re: [HACKERS] COPY / extend ExclusiveLock

2012-03-25 Thread Jim Nasby
On 3/22/12 2:13 PM, Stephen Frost wrote: Greetings, I've recently become a bit annoyed and frustrated looking at this in top: 23296 postgres 20 0 3341m 304m 299m S 12 0.9 1:50.02 postgres: sfrost gis [local] COPY waiting 24362 postgres 20 0 3353m 298m 285m D 12 0.9 1:24.9

Re: [HACKERS] checkpoint patches

2012-03-25 Thread Jim Nasby
On 3/23/12 7:38 AM, Robert Haas wrote: And here are the latency results for 95th-100th percentile with checkpoint_timeout=16min. ckpt.master.13: 1703, 1830, 2166, 17953, 192434, 43946669 ckpt.master.14: 1728, 1858, 2169, 15596, 187943, 9619191 ckpt.master.15: 1700, 1835, 2189, 22181, 206445, 821

Re: [HACKERS] who's familiar with the GSOC application process

2012-03-25 Thread Josh Berkus
On 3/23/12 1:58 PM, Dave Cramer wrote: > Someone has approached the JDBC list to do some work on the driver as > a GSOC project. > > I need to know what is involved in mentoring and how to get the > project approved I've approved you as a mentor. I suggest also joining the pgsql-students mailing

Re: [HACKERS] how can i see the log..?

2012-03-25 Thread Kevin Grittner
lekon wrote: > i want see the log of INSERT, SELECT, DELETE... within postgresql > v9.1.3 The pgsql-hackers list is for discussions about development of the PostgreSQL datatbase system; discussions about how to use it should go to another list. The particular question would be appropriate for

Re: [HACKERS] Command Triggers patch v18

2012-03-25 Thread Andres Freund
On Friday, March 23, 2012 04:32:02 PM Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > I would like to get back on code level review now if at all possible, > and I would integrate your suggestions here into the next patch revision > if another one is needed. Ok, I will give it another go. Btw I just wanted to alert you

Re: [HACKERS] occasional startup failures

2012-03-25 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 18:59, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan writes: >> Every so often buildfarm animals (nightjar and raven recently, for >> example) report failures on starting up the postmaster. It appears that >> these failures are due to the postmaster not creating the pid file >> within

Re: [HACKERS] occasional startup failures

2012-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan writes: > Every so often buildfarm animals (nightjar and raven recently, for > example) report failures on starting up the postmaster. It appears that > these failures are due to the postmaster not creating the pid file > within 5 seconds, and so the logic in commit > 0bae3bc9be

Re: [HACKERS] query cache

2012-03-25 Thread Billy Earney
Thanks.. I'll keep those issues in mind. On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > >> Well, you'd have to start by demonstrating the benefit of it. The > >> advantage of query caches in proxies and clients is well-known, because > you > >> can offload some of the work of the datab

[HACKERS] occasional startup failures

2012-03-25 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Every so often buildfarm animals (nightjar and raven recently, for example) report failures on starting up the postmaster. It appears that these failures are due to the postmaster not creating the pid file within 5 seconds, and so the logic in commit 0bae3bc9be4a025df089f0a0c2f547fa538a97bc k

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Never convert n_distinct < 2 values to a ratio when computing stats

2012-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas writes: > The bit about maybe not getting both t and f as MCVs on a Boolean does > seem a little worrying, but I'm not sure whether it actually affects > query planning in a materially negative way. Can you demonstrate a > case where it matters? If we were trying to force that to hap

Re: [HACKERS] Gsoc2012 Idea --- Social Network database schema

2012-03-25 Thread Robert Haas
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Marc Mamin wrote: > Hello, > > Here is something we'd like to have: > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2012-01/msg00650.php > > As we are quite busy and this issue hasn't a high priority, we haven't > followed it until now :-( > > I'm only a Postgres

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Never convert n_distinct < 2 values to a ratio when computing stats

2012-03-25 Thread Robert Haas
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Dan McGee wrote: > This is a bit of a corner case in all honesty, but if you have a short > table (under 20 rows), the 10% heuristic used that decides whether > distinct values scale with the row count will result in rather odd > values for stadistinct in pg_stati

Re: [HACKERS] PostgreSQL optimisations on Linux machines with more than 24 cores

2012-03-25 Thread Robert Haas
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Constantin Teodorescu wrote: > "This paper analyzes the scalability of seven system applications (Exim, > memcached, Apache, PostgreSQL, gmake, Psearchy, and MapReduce) running on > Linux on a 48-core computer. Except for gmake, all applications > trigger scalabili

[HACKERS] PostgreSQL optimisations on Linux machines with more than 24 cores

2012-03-25 Thread Constantin Teodorescu
Hello all ... again ! SHORT INTRODUCTION === Remember me? A couple of years ago (maybe 10) I created the PgAccess package for managing PostgreSQL! Since than I have done many things, all of them related to PostgreSQL, of course! Our company is managing the National Animal Tracking

[HACKERS] [PATCH] Never convert n_distinct < 2 values to a ratio when computing stats

2012-03-25 Thread Dan McGee
This is a bit of a corner case in all honesty, but if you have a short table (under 20 rows), the 10% heuristic used that decides whether distinct values scale with the row count will result in rather odd values for stadistinct in pg_statistic, such as '-0.2' or '-0.67', rather than the expecte

[HACKERS] who's familiar with the GSOC application process

2012-03-25 Thread Dave Cramer
Someone has approached the JDBC list to do some work on the driver as a GSOC project. I need to know what is involved in mentoring and how to get the project approved Dave Cramer dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca http://www.credativ.ca -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgr

[HACKERS] pg_upgrade incorrectly equates pg_default and database tablespace

2012-03-25 Thread Ants Aasma
Hi, while working on a support case I stumbled upon a bug in pg_upgrade. Upgrade fails with "No such file or directory" when a database is moved to a non-default tablespace and contains a table that is moved to pg_default. The cause seems to be that the following test incorrectly equates empty spc

Re: [HACKERS] Weak-memory specific problem in ResetLatch/WaitLatch (follow-up analysis)

2012-03-25 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi, [...] > > Placing a sync (i.e., the strongest Power barrier) accordingly would, > > however, > > still be insufficient for the second problem, as it would only fix the > > reordering of read-read pairs by Worker 1 and the store atomicity issue from > > Worker 0. But the writes on Worker 0 cou

[HACKERS] how can i see the log..?

2012-03-25 Thread lekon
i want see the log of INSERT, SELECT, DELETE... within postgresql v9.1.3 i'm so sorry, my english level... how can i see that. transaction log?... or other thing...? -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/how-can-i-see-the-log-tp5583083p5583083.html Sent fro

Re: [HACKERS] Regarding column reordering project for GSoc 2012

2012-03-25 Thread Claes Jakobsson
On 20 mar 2012, at 13.08, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > On 20.03.2012 11:10, Claes Jakobsson wrote: >> >> Personally I'd love a type 2 JDBC driver for PostgreSQL. > > Why? listen/notify over SSL for example unless that's been fixed in the JDBC driver recently. And I'm sure there are other things

Re: [HACKERS] Error trying to compile a simple C trigger

2012-03-25 Thread Marco Nenciarini
Il giorno mar, 20/03/2012 alle 11.16 +, Peter Geoghegan ha scritto: > On 20 March 2012 10:53, Marco Nenciarini > wrote: > > alert.c: In function ‘dbms_alert_defered_signal’: > > alert.c:839:33: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type > > make: *** [alert.o] Error 1 > > > > I've also tr

Re: [HACKERS] Regarding column reordering project for GSoc 2012

2012-03-25 Thread Claes Jakobsson
On 19 mar 2012, at 22.45, Merlin Moncure wrote: > one pl/java based project that IMO is just screaming to be done is a > pl/java based FDW (wrapping JDBC) that would approximately reproduce > dblink...maybe with some extra features geared towards ETL type jobs > like a row based callback for transf

Re: [HACKERS] Gsoc2012 Idea --- Social Network database schema

2012-03-25 Thread Marc Mamin
Hello, Here is something we'd like to have: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2012-01/msg00650.php As we are quite busy and this issue hasn't a high priority, we haven't followed it until now :-( I'm only a Postgres user, not a hacker, so I don't have the knowledge to he

Re: [HACKERS] foreign key locks, 2nd attempt

2012-03-25 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Here is v11.  This version is mainly updated to add pg_upgrade support, > as discussed.  It also contains the README file that was posted earlier > (plus wording fixes per Bruce), a couple of bug fixes, and some comment > updates. The mai