Re: [HACKERS] Regression failure with PostgreSQL 8beta1 and Intel

2004-08-12 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
report on 8.0.0beta1 when our testing is complete. --Bob +---------+----+ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | President, Congenair LLC| URL: http://www.congen.com/~bruc | | P.O. Box 314| Pho

[HACKERS] Regression failure with PostgreSQL 8beta1 and Intel Itanium 2 C compiler

2004-08-10 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
ot;, l, st, endp); } using the Intel compiler provided libraries prints l = -1234 st = 6fffb720 endp = 6fffb726 whereas gcc and glibc yields l = 0 st = 6fffb710 endp = 6fffb710 Boo hiss... +-+---

[HACKERS] Successful proting report for 7.4beta4 on Irix and Altix

2003-11-12 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
+-++ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | President, Congenomics Inc. | URL: http://www.congen.com/~bruc | | P.O. Box 314| Phone: 609 818 7251| | Pennington, NJ

Re: [HACKERS] Compilation of PostgreSQL on Irix

2003-10-28 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
ted. --Bob +-+----+ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | President, Congenomics Inc. | URL: http://www.congen.com/~bruc | | P.O. Box 314| Phone: 609 818 7251| | Pennington

[HACKERS] Compilation of PostgreSQL on Irix

2003-10-08 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
Dear Devrim, I have been using Postgres on Irix for over 8 years, and I have only used the SGI provided compilers. GCC doesn't work well on Irix. In addition, you can build a 64 bit version of PostgreSQL. Here's the script we used for PostgreSQL 7.3.2: #!/bin/ksh -x ./copy_local_files_for

Re: [HACKERS] Problem with 7.3 on Irix with dates before 1970

2002-11-11 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
Bristol-Myers Squibb, and I will spend some time to keep it working. Sincerely, Bob > > > "Robert E. Bruccoleri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There are differences in the regression test

Re: [HACKERS] Problem with 7.3 on Irix with dates before 1970

2002-11-08 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
947 23:59:12')::int4; int4 -714589248 (1 row) --Bob > > > "Robert E. Bruccoleri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There are differences in the regression tests for PostgreSQL > > 7.3b2 with handling of times before 1970. I recently sent ou

[HACKERS] Problem with 7.3 on Irix with dates before 1970

2002-11-08 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
7.2 works fine on Irix for these cases. Can anyone familiar with the code please take a look at the diffs and identify where the trouble may be? I'd be happy to rerun the regression tests to help diagnose the problem. --Bob +-+-----

Re: [HACKERS] Test of PG7.3.2b2 on SGI Irix

2002-11-05 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
o WRT to this diff. --Bob +-++ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HACKERS] Test of PG7.3.2b2 on SGI Irix

2002-10-31 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
Dear Tom, > > > "Robert E. Bruccoleri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > gmake[4]: Entering directory `/pg/postgresql-7.3b2/src/backend/utils/hash' > > cc -64 -g -woff 1164,1171,1185,1195,1552 -I../../../../src/include >-I/stf/sys64/include -

[HACKERS] Test of PG7.3.2b2 on SGI Irix

2002-10-31 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
^ Looks like a bug to me. All the regression tests pass except for tests involving Savings Time which are off by one hour. --Bob +-+------------+ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | P.O

Re: [HACKERS] Question about LWLockAcquire's use of semaphores instead of spinlocks

2002-07-28 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
elp you improve your > performance. > Regards +-+--------+ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | P.O. Box 314| URL: http://www.c

Re: [HACKERS] Question about LWLockAcquire's use of semaphores instead of spinlocks

2002-07-28 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
000 system available to you with hardware support, would the group be willing to tailor the SGI port for better performance? Sincerely, Bob > > > "Robert E. Bruccoleri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [HACKERS] Question about LWLockAcquire's use of semaphores instead of spinlocks

2002-07-27 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
Tom Lane writes: > > > "Robert E. Bruccoleri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On SGI multiprocessor machines, I suspect that a spinlock > > implementation of LWLockAcquire would give better performance than > > using IPC semaphores. Is there any speci

[HACKERS] Question about LWLockAcquire's use of semaphores instead of spinlocks

2002-07-26 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
? +-++ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | P.O. Box 314| URL: http://www.congen.com/~bruc | | Pennington, NJ 08534

Re: Fw: Fw: [HACKERS] bad performance on irix

2002-03-20 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
reation and sorting), but without success. +-+----+ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | P.O. Box 314| URL: http://www.congen.com/~bruc | | Penningto

Re: Fw: Fw: [HACKERS] bad performance on irix

2002-03-20 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
the MIPS test_and_set instructions are really fast and should be used. +-+----+ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | P.O. Box 314| URL: http://www.congen.com/~bruc | | Pennington,

Re: Fw: Fw: [HACKERS] bad performance on irix

2002-03-18 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
iginal Message - > From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Luis Alberto Amigo Navarro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Robert E. Bruccoleri" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 5:36 PM

[HACKERS] Re: Various silliness in heap_getnext and related routines

2001-06-11 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
Dear Tom, > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert E. Bruccoleri) writes: > > BTW, given the high level of support that you provide to the PostgreSQL > > community, it's very accurate to state that support for PostgreSQL > > is far superior to that of Oracle, especiall

[HACKERS] Re: Various silliness in heap_getnext and related routines

2001-06-11 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
Dear Tom, > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert E. Bruccoleri) writes: > > For my immediate problem, would removing the spinlock acquisition > > be OK? > > It'd be interesting to remove the marked lines: > > bufHdr = &BufferDescriptors[buffe

[HACKERS] Re: Various silliness in heap_getnext and related routines

2001-06-09 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
for looking into this problem. Sincerely, Bob +--+--------+ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | Phone: 609 737 6383| | President, Congenomics, Inc. | Fax: 609 737 7528| | 114 W Franklin Ave, Suite K1,4,5 | email:

[HACKERS] Re: XFS File systems and PostgreSQL

2001-05-07 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
es to improve PostgreSQL's performance. For example, the XFS filesystem journal can be placed on a drive different from the data drive. This would substantially improve write performance. +--+----+ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D.

Re: [HACKERS] XFS File systems and PostgreSQL

2001-05-02 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
been with PostgreSQL 6.5.3 which doesn't have the WAL. If I have some time, I will try the experiment of loading a database of mine into PG 7.1 using -F or not and I'll report the timing. +--+------------+ | Robert E. Bruccol

[HACKERS] XFS File systems and PostgreSQL

2001-05-02 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
e and administer (at least on SGI's). +--+------------+ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | Phone: 609 737 6383| | President, Congenomics, Inc. | Fax: 609 737 7528| | 114 W Franklin Ave, Suite K1,4,5

[HACKERS] Irix binaries of 7.1 RC1 are available

2001-04-02 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
der. +--++ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | Phone: 609 737 6383| | President, Congenomics, Inc. | Fax: 609 737 7528| | 114 W Franklin Ave, Suite K1,4,5 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | P.O. Box 314 |

Re: [HACKERS] Spinlocks on SGI's

2001-03-27 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
more reliable than Irix 6.2. --Bob +--+------------+ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | Phone: 609 737 6383| | President, Congenomics, Inc. | Fax: 609 737 7528| | 114 W Franklin Ave, Suite K1,4,

Re: [HACKERS] Spinlocks on SGI's

2001-03-27 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
Dear Marc, > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Robert E. Bruccoleri wrote: > > > I contributed the first working s_lock.c code for the SGI's over three > > years ago (using the test_and_set library calls). It's been working > > for me ever since in a heavy multi-user

Re: [HACKERS] Spinlocks on SGI's

2001-03-27 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
t works well. BTW, SGI is distributing its compilers for Linux/Intel under an open source license. Depending on the progress of Intel chips versus MIPS chips, the cost issue of the compilers on SGI's will eventually disappear. Regards, Bob +------+------

[HACKERS] Spinlocks on SGI's

2001-03-27 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
mpiler systems works poorly on SGI's. In this environment, you need to stick to the SGI provided compilers. Once you get used to them, they work fairly well. Sincerely, Bob +--+------------+ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D.

[HACKERS] Regression testing on Irix

2001-03-22 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
I've successfully tested release 7.1beta4 on Irix 6.5.11. I'll run another test on the most recent beta or RC next week. +--+----+ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | Phone: 609 737 6383| | President, C

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Performance degradation in PostgreSQL 7.1beta3 vs

2001-01-17 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
Dear Hannu, > > "Robert E. Bruccoleri" wrote: > > > > Dear Hannu, > > > > > > "Robert E. Bruccoleri" wrote: > > > > > > > > explain select count(*) from comparisons_4 where code = 80003; > > >

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Performance degradation in PostgreSQL 7.1beta3 vs

2001-01-17 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
Dear Hannu, > > "Robert E. Bruccoleri" wrote: > > > > explain select count(*) from comparisons_4 where code = 80003; > > NOTICE: QUERY PLAN: > > > > Aggregate (cost=15659.29..15659.29 rows=1 width=0) > > -> Seq Scan o

[HACKERS] Re: Performance degradation in PostgreSQL 7.1beta3 vs 6.5.3

2001-01-16 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
ly, I apologize for being a little strident here. I've been advocating for and using Postgres for four years, and it's frustrating when a new version results in a serious and noticeable performance degradation. Sincerely, Bob +--+-

[HACKERS] Performance degradation in PostgreSQL 7.1beta3 vs 6.5.3

2001-01-16 Thread Robert E. Bruccoleri
recently. Thank you. +--+--------+ | Robert E. Bruccoleri, Ph.D. | Phone: 609 737 6383| | President, Congenomics, Inc. | Fax: 609 737 7528| | 114 W Franklin Ave, Suite K1,4,5 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | P.O. Box 314