Re: [CORE] [HACKERS] back-branch multixact fixes & 9.5 alpha/beta: schedule

2015-06-09 Thread David Gould
ng for a friend... -dg -- David Gould 510 282 0869 da...@sonic.net If simplicity worked, the world would be overrun with insects. -- 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] [CORE] Restore-reliability mode

2015-06-08 Thread David Gould
ment is knowing that "grouping sets are in" not that "it is July now". -dg -- David Gouldda...@sonic.net If simplicity worked, the world would be overrun with insects. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql

Re: [HACKERS] [CORE] Restore-reliability mode

2015-06-08 Thread David Gould
would mainly be the release notes, or some other mark in the sand that says "As of Alpha-3 feature X is included and expected to mostly work." -dg -- David Gould da...@sonic.net If simplicity worked, the world would be overrun with insects. -- Sent via pgs

Re: [HACKERS] Vitesse DB call for testing

2014-10-17 Thread David Gould
s, tom lane > > I don't have any inside knowledge, but from the presentation given at the recent SFPUG followed by a bit of google-fu I think these papers are relevant: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol4/p539-neumann.pdf http://sites.computer.org/debull/A14mar/p3.pdf -dg -- David Gould

Re: [HACKERS] Spin Lock sleep resolution

2013-06-18 Thread David Gould
on a > modern AMD system. I'll see what I can do. However I don't have acces to any large modern AMD systems. -dg -- David Gould 510 282 0869 da...@sonic.net If simplicity worked, the world would be overrun with insects. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mail

Re: [HACKERS] Spin Lock sleep resolution

2013-06-18 Thread David Gould
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:09:55 +0300 Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > On 02.04.2013 22:58, David Gould wrote: > > I'll give the patch a try, I have a workload that is impacted by spinlocks > > fairly heavily sometimes and this might help or at least give me more > > informa

Re: [HACKERS] Spin Lock sleep resolution

2013-04-02 Thread David Gould
still has a ways to go. Hopefully it is actually there this time. I'll give the patch a try, I have a workload that is impacted by spinlocks fairly heavily sometimes and this might help or at least give me more information. Thanks! -dg -- David Gould da...@sonic.

Re: [HACKERS] Re: bulk_multi_insert infinite loops with large rows and small fill factors

2012-12-14 Thread David Gould
On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:39:44 -0500 Robert Haas wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:29 AM, David Gould wrote: > > We lose noticable performance when we raise fill-factor above 10. Even 20 is > > slower. > > Whoa. Any interest in a fill-factor patch to place exactly one row

Re: [HACKERS] Re: bulk_multi_insert infinite loops with large rows and small fill factors

2012-12-12 Thread David Gould
R) CPU E7-L8867 @ 2.13GHz stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 2128.478 cache size : 30720 KB -dg -- David Gould 510 282 0869 da...@sonic.net If simplicity worked, the world would be overrun with insects. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql

Re: [HACKERS] Re: bulk_multi_insert infinite loops with large rows and small fill factors

2012-12-12 Thread David Gould
HeapTuple heaptup = heaptuples[ndone + nthispage]; I don't know if this is the same thing. At least in the comments I was reading trying to figure this out there was some concern that someone else could change the space on the page. Does RelationGetBufferForTuple() guara

Re: [HACKERS] Re: bulk_multi_insert infinite loops with large rows and small fill factors

2012-12-12 Thread David Gould
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:27:11 +0100 Andres Freund wrote: > On 2012-12-12 03:04:19 -0800, David Gould wrote: > > > > COPY IN loops in heap_multi_insert() extending the table until it fills the > Heh. Nice one. Did you hit that in practice? Yeah, with a bunch of hosts that

[HACKERS] bulk_multi_insert infinite loops with large rows and small fill factors

2012-12-12 Thread David Gould
Most of the diff is just indentation changes. Whoever tries this will want to test this on a small partition by itself. -dg -- David Gould 510 282 0869 da...@sonic.net If simplicity worked, the world would be overrun with insects. \set ECHO all \timing on drop table if exists

Re: [HACKERS] Strange errors from 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 (I hope I'm missing something obvious)

2012-12-11 Thread David Gould
On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:58:58 -0700 Josh Kupershmidt wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:01 PM, David Gould wrote: > > > > I'm sure I've had a stroke or something in the middle of the night and just > > didn't notice, but I'm able to reproduce the follo

[HACKERS] Strange errors from 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 (I hope I'm missing something obvious)

2012-12-11 Thread David Gould
med in key does not exist LINE 2:  i INTEGER, PRIMARY KEY (i) ^ Someone please set me straight, and tell me I've had a brain injury because I am not comfortable with computers just fucking with me which is the other explanation. -dg -- David Gould 510 282 0869

Re: [HACKERS] huge tlb support

2012-08-21 Thread David Gould
e memory may be so fragmented that this is just a waste of time. Real as opposed to transparent hugepages would be a huge win for applications that try to use high connection counts. Each backend attached to the postgresql shared memory uses its own set of page table entries at the rate of 2KB pe

Re: [HACKERS] huge tlb support

2012-08-16 Thread David Gould
gish systems (128GB to 512GB memory, 32 cores). The system sometimes goes 99% system time and is very slow and unresponsive to the point of not successfully completing new tcp connections. Turning off transparent_hugepages fixes it. That said, explicit hugepage support for the buffer cache would be a bi