Re: [HACKERS] More thoughts about planner's cost estimates

2006-06-03 Thread Mike Benoit
... if we did, we could have told > people how to use it to set the variables already. I'm very very > suspicious of any suggestion that it's easy to derive appropriate > numbers for these settings from one magic benchmark. > > regards, tom lane > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend -- Mike Benoit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] BEGIN inside transaction should be an error

2006-05-10 Thread Mike Benoit
valid transaction state - active SQL-transaction." > > /Dennis > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend -- Mike Benoit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [HACKERS] SQL99 Hierarchical queries

2005-02-28 Thread Mike Benoit
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Re: Release planning (was: Re: [HACKERS] Status report)

2004-07-13 Thread Mike Benoit
. Then the "big installations" can see that a major feature has been in two stable releases (even if the time period was only a year) and feel much more comfortable in upgrading. Why would they have to upgrade more often then necessary anyways? Assuming security exploits are back ported of

Re: [HACKERS] Nested Transactions, Abort All

2004-07-01 Thread Mike Benoit
sub-transaction aren't we? To me that sounds just as bad. "ABORT ALL" sure would be nice. -- Mike Benoit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Official Freeze Date for 7.5: July 1st, 2004

2004-06-01 Thread Mike Benoit
l somewhere ... > > In any case, I think a target date should be set at the beginning of a > dev cycle and a hard date should be set closer to the end of the cycle. > Trying to adhere rigidly to a date set nine or twelve months previously > doesn't strike me as good p

Re: [HACKERS] Summary of Changes since last release (7.4.1)

2004-02-11 Thread Mike Benoit
rror, Simon Riggs > > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mike Benoit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---(end of broadcast)--- TI

[HACKERS] Frustration with date/times/epoch in v7.3.

2002-12-11 Thread Mike Benoit
Table: Column | Type | Modifiers ---+---+- imported_date | integer | not null default 0 PG v7.2.1 (nice and clean):

Re: [HACKERS] Thinking about IN/EXISTS optimization

2002-11-29 Thread Mike Benoit
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 13:22, Tom Lane wrote: > Mike Benoit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm just curious, will your proposed in/exists optimizations help for > > queries like: > > > db=# explain delete from dns_expired_domains where domain_id in (select >

Re: [HACKERS] Thinking about IN/EXISTS optimization

2002-11-29 Thread Mike Benoit
his will just waste cycles.) > > Anyone see a nice way to do this? > > regards, tom lane > > --(end of broadcast)-- > TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command > (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMA

Re: [HACKERS] idle connection timeout ...

2002-10-25 Thread Mike Benoit
ke this feature very nice. -- Best Regards, Mike Benoit NetNation Communication Inc. Systems Engineer Tel: 604-684-6892 or 888-983-6600 --- Disclaimer: Opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of my employer ---

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Performance while loading data and indexing

2002-10-03 Thread Mike Benoit
Some of you may be interested in this seemingly exhaustive benchmark between ext2/3, ReiserFS, JFS, and XFS. http://www.osdl.org/presentations/lwe-jgfs.pdf ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.post

Re: [HACKERS] Advice: Where could I be of help?

2002-10-02 Thread Mike Benoit
I'm not a developer, but I know this item on the todo list has been a magor pain in my side for quite a while: # Make IN/NOT IN have similar performance to EXISTS/NOT EXISTS [http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgtodo?exists] Any time I've attempted to use this feature, the query cost is in th

Re: [HACKERS] Improving speed of copy

2002-09-20 Thread Mike Benoit
increase > in size. Vacuum was run on database. > How did you calculate the size of database? If you used "du" make sure you do it in the data/base directory as to not include the WAL files. -- Best Regards, Mike Benoit NetNation Communication Inc. Systems Engineer Tel: 604