Re: [HACKERS] possible vacuum improvement?

2002-09-05 Thread Richard Tucker
How about counting the number of dead tuples examined and the number of live tuples returned. As the ratio of dead tuples over live tuples visited increases the table becomes a candidate for vacuuming. -regards richt > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [HACKERS] PITR and rollback

2002-07-22 Thread Richard Tucker
> -Original Message- > From: Dhruv Pilania [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 11:37 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: PITR and rollback > > > Hi, > > I am a new postgresql developer. needed some help with wal/PITR. Ca

Re: [HACKERS] Issues Outstanding for Point In Time Recovery (PITR)

2002-07-18 Thread Richard Tucker
oint me to your source online, that would be good too. I just want to clarify though: is this work released to the PostgreSQL Development group by Progress and Multera, or do they still claim copyright interest in it? Regards, J.R. Nield On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 12:56, Richard Tu

Re: [HACKERS] Issues Outstanding for Point In Time Recovery (PITR)

2002-07-17 Thread Richard Tucker
I don't know how our marketing came up third most popular but I think the order is, Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL or maybe Oracle, MSSQL and PostgreSQL. I'm sure there is some criterion by which PostgreSQL is tenth and by some other its number one. Of course, my posting was about Point In Time Re

Re: [HACKERS] Issues Outstanding for Point In Time Recovery (PITR)

2002-07-17 Thread Richard Tucker
BA to protect the database from media loss just needs to set the wal_file_duplicate paramater and periodically pg_copy the database. The BIG THING we have not done is address the issue that add/drop tables and indexes do not propagate through the roll forward recovery mechanism properly. -reg

Re: [HACKERS] Firebird 1.0 released

2002-04-16 Thread Richard Tucker
While it is true that you can't do binary searches on compressed indexes you may get a large payoff with compressed indexes since the index fits in fewer pages and so may be more efficiently cached in the buffer pool. Even a small reduction in io load may compensate for the higher computational d