Re: [HACKERS] libxml incompatibility

2009-03-06 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:32:25 -0600, Kenneth Marshall wrote: > On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:58:30PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> Yes, I discovered this a few weeks ago. It looks like libxml is not >> reentrant, so for perl you need to use some other XML library. Very >> annoying. >> > Ugh! That is

Re: [HACKERS] QuickLZ compression algorithm (Re: Inclusion in the PostgreSQL backend for toasting rows)

2009-01-05 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:44:57 -0500, Andrew Chernow wrote: > Robert Haas wrote: >> >> What we do have is a suggestion from several people that the database >> shouldn't be in the business of compressing data AT ALL. If we want DB2 users generally seem very happy with the built-in compression. >

Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM FULL out of memory

2008-01-07 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:57:53 -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > Note that you should almost never use VACUUM FULL unless you've really > messed things up. I understand from the thread that you're just testing > things out right now. But VACUUM FULL is not something you should _ever_ > need in produ