Re: [HACKERS] Index corruption with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY

2017-02-06 Thread Robert Treat
general, we should be less worried about the age of a bug vs our expectations that users are likely to hit that bug now, which does seem high based on the above numbers. In the meantime, it's certainly worth warning users, providing help on how to determine if this is a likely proble

Re: [HACKERS] Remove array_nulls?

2015-12-18 Thread Robert Treat
Given the overhead from a development standpoint is low, whats the better user experience: delay removal for as long as possible (~10 years) to narrow the likely of people being affected, or make such changes as visible as possible (~6+ years) so that people have clear expectations / lines of demarca

Re: [HACKERS] Standalone synchronous master

2014-01-08 Thread Robert Treat
ly offer an R = 1, W = 1 or 2, and N = all. And it's worse than that, because we have golden nodes. This isn't to say there isn't a lot of confusion around the issue. Designing, implementing, and configuring different guarantees in the presence of node failures is a non-trivial problem. Sti

Re: [HACKERS] How to detect invisible rows caused by the relfrozenxid bug?

2013-12-05 Thread Robert Treat
ost something. That said, if anyone else has come up with a method, I'd be interested in looking at it. Robert Treat play: xzilla.net work: omniti.com -- 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] Feature Request: pg_replication_master()

2012-12-26 Thread Robert Treat
x27;s better for postgres dedicated tools, but I think you're going to really make it harder for people if you eliminate the trigger file method for coming out of recovery. Robert Treat play: xzilla.net work: omniti.com -- 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] Page Checksums

2012-01-24 Thread Robert Treat
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:02 AM,   wrote: >> * Robert Treat: >> >>> Would it be unfair to assert that people who want checksums but aren't >>> willing to pay the cost of running a filesystem that provides >>> checksums aren't going to be willing to

Re: [HACKERS] Vacuum rate limit in KBps

2012-01-23 Thread Robert Treat
that's cheap enough that you should probably just do it more. We're probably a lot more agressive on our vacuum / analyze scale settings than some people (we cut the defaults in half as a matter of course), and I come from the "don't limit stuff" camp too, but by and large what we do works, even if it's more black magic than people would like. :-) Robert Treat conjecture: xzilla.net consulting: omniti.com -- 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] Page Checksums

2012-01-23 Thread Robert Treat
to assert that people who want checksums but aren't willing to pay the cost of running a filesystem that provides checksums aren't going to be willing to make the cost/benefit trade off that will be asked for? Yes, it is unfair of course, but it's interesting how small the camp of th

Re: [HACKERS] IDLE in transaction introspection

2011-11-15 Thread Robert Treat
27;ll happily update all of the tools and samples I deal with to support this > change.  Most of the ones I can think of will be simplified; they're already > parsing query_text and extracting the implicit state.  Just operating on an > explicit one instead will be simpler and more r

[HACKERS] Working with git repo tagged versions

2011-11-11 Thread Robert Treat
Thanks in advance. Robert Treat conjecture: xzilla.net consulting: omniti.com -- 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] Measuring relation free space

2011-11-09 Thread Robert Treat
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Greg Smith wrote: > On 11/08/2011 05:07 PM, Robert Treat wrote: >> >> It's already easy to get "good enough" numbers based on user space >> tools with very little overhead, so I think it's more important that >> th

Re: [HACKERS] Measuring relation free space

2011-11-08 Thread Robert Treat
pment that adds a ring > buffer for example. It's already easy to get "good enough" numbers based on user space tools with very little overhead, so I think it's more important that the server side tool be accurate rather than fast. Of course, if we can get both, that's a

Re: [HACKERS] IDLE in transaction introspection

2011-11-04 Thread Robert Treat
be interesting to see rows for autovacuum or replication processes showing up in pg_stat_activity with a corresponding state (autovacuum, walreciever?) and the "query" field showing what they are working on, at the risk that we'd need to build more complex parsing into the various

Re: [HACKERS] IDLE in transaction introspection

2011-11-04 Thread Robert Treat
endent. > If they aren't I don't think we need both columns. +1 for leaving them independent though. Robert Treat play: xzilla.net work: omniti.com -- 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] unite recovery.conf and postgresql.conf

2011-11-01 Thread Robert Treat
your solution", and I already confirmed back to you > that would be possible. > "It's possible to run a replica without having a recovery.conf file" is not the same thing as "If someone makes a recovery.conf file, it won't break my operations". AIUI, you are not su

Re: [HACKERS] IDLE in transaction introspection

2011-11-01 Thread Robert Treat
tools are actually parsing that field.  Most that I see just dump >> whatever is in current_query to the user.  I would imaging that, so long as >> the server obeyed pgstat_track_activity_size most tools would behave nicely. > > Really? I'd assume every single monitoring tool

Re: [HACKERS] unite recovery.conf and postgresql.conf

2011-11-01 Thread Robert Treat
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Robert Treat wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Joshua Berkus wrote: >>> >>>> So, we have four potential pat

Re: [HACKERS] unite recovery.conf and postgresql.conf

2011-10-31 Thread Robert Treat
se tool providers you are trying to help, as they will be forced to support the behavior *both ways*. I'd much rather see some type of switch which turns on the old behavior for those who really want it, because while you can teach the new behavior, if you can't prevent the old behavior,

Re: [HACKERS] postgresql.conf archive_command example

2011-09-07 Thread Robert Treat
plish more advanced awl management goals. So far the biggest criticism we've gotten is that it wasn't written in python, for some of you that might be a plus though ;-) Robert Treat play: xzilla.net work: omniti.com -- 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] Informix FDW - anybody working on this?

2011-09-01 Thread Robert Treat
s of a riak fdw he hasn't listed yet... guess I should go pester him). Robert Treat conjecture: xzilla.net consulting: omniti.com -- 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] branching for 9.2devel

2011-05-01 Thread Robert Treat
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: >> Tom Lane wrote: > >>>        CF #1: June 1-30 >>>        CF #2: August 1-31 >>>        CF #3: October 1-31 >>>        CF #4 (one week shortened CF): December 1-7 &g

Re: [HACKERS] branching for 9.2devel

2011-05-01 Thread Robert Treat
full CF#5, but we wouldn't let anything new come into CF#5. This way when we get the 100 patch pile up in CF#4, there's no expectation that those patches will be committed, just that they can be sanity checked for the 9.2 release. Robert Treat play: xzilla.net work: omnit

Re: [HACKERS] why is max standby delay only 35 minutes?

2011-03-04 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 04:00, Robert Treat wrote: >> I have a server where I wanted to do some reporting on a standby, and >> wanted to set the max standby delay to 1 hour. upon doing that, i get >> this in the logs: &

[HACKERS] why is max standby delay only 35 minutes?

2011-03-03 Thread Robert Treat
rs than in microseconds. OTOH, maybe it's a bug? The default resolution is in milliseconds, and you can't set it to anything less than that (afaict). I asked on irc and the consensus seemed to be that the internal representation is off, are we missing something? Robert Treat play: xzilla.

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Why our counters need to be time-based WAS: WIP: cross column correlation ...

2011-02-28 Thread Robert Treat
about how he's trying to solve this internal to the database. Robert Treat play: xzilla.net work: omniti.com hiring: l42.org/Lg -- 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] Problem with pg_upgrade (8.4 -> 9.0) due to ALTER DATABASE SET ROLE

2011-02-28 Thread Robert Treat
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 06:21, Tom Lane wrote: >> Robert Treat writes: >>> Did anything ever come of this discussion? >> >> I think it's a TODO --- nothing done about it as yet, AFAIR. >> >&g

Re: [HACKERS] Problem with pg_upgrade (8.4 -> 9.0) due to ALTER DATABASE SET ROLE

2011-02-27 Thread Robert Treat
; It generates an error because the ALTER ROLE fails with the role not existing, which causes pg_upgrade to bail out (it's in the on error stop part). ISTM this fails in general, so not blaming pg_upgrade; I think there should probably be a fix in pg_dumpall to create all roles first before

Re: [HACKERS] We need to log aborted autovacuums

2011-01-05 Thread Robert Treat
use case for user level tracing support. Add a probe around these bits, and you can capture the information when you need it. Robert Treat http://www.xzilla.net -- 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] Sync Rep Design

2010-12-30 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 15:07 -0500, Robert Treat wrote: > > > If more than one standby server specifies synchronous_replication, > > then > > > whichever standby replies first will release waiting commits. > &

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump --split patch

2010-12-30 Thread Robert Treat
i to create his own version, I've both enjoyed reading this thread and seeing this wheel reinvented yet again, and wholeheartedly +1 the idea of building this directly into pg_dump. (The only thing better would be to make everything thing sql callable, but that's a problem for another day). Robert Treat http://www.xzilla.net

Re: [HACKERS] Sync Rep Design

2010-12-30 Thread Robert Treat
covery or in standby mode. > hot_standby_feedback (boolean) >Specifies whether or not a hot standby will send feedback to the >primary about queries currently executing on the standby. This >parameter can be used to eliminate query cancels caused by >cleanup records, though it can cause database bloat on the >primary for some workloads. The default value is off. This >parameter can only be set at server start. It only has effect if >hot_standby is enabled. > > i was expecting this section to mention the synchronous_replication (bool) somewhere, to control if the standby will participate synchronously or asynch; granted it's the same config as listed in 18.5.5 right? Just that the heading of that section specifically targets the primary. HTH, looks pretty good at first glance. Robert Treat http://www.xzilla.net

Re: [HACKERS] Anyone for SSDs?

2010-12-29 Thread Robert Treat
ostgres's memory settings arc being zfs's adaptive replacement cache, so basically giving the server a second, very large level of memory to work with, and then configuring postgres to make use of it. It wasn't terribly obvious to me why this ended up outperforming the initial idea of putting everything on ssd, but my impression was that the more you could force postgres into making decisions as if it was dealing with fast storage rather than slow storage, the better off you'd be (and that random_page_cost is not so wholly inclusive enough to do this for you). Robert Treat http://www.xzilla.net

[HACKERS] understanding minimum recovery ending location

2010-12-29 Thread Robert Treat
ld is actually reporting something different in this context, so I am hoping someone can help clarify it for me? Robert Treat http://www.xzilla.net

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to add a primary key using an existing index

2010-12-04 Thread Robert Treat
. In the case where you say CONSTRAINT it'd be a bit plausible > > to write something like > > > > ALTER TABLE table_name ADD CONSTRAINT con_name PRIMARY KEY USING EXISTING > INDEX; > > > > (implying that the index to use is named con_name) but I don't know > > what to do if you want to leave off the "CONSTRAINT name" clause. > > Because this seems plain weird. > > +1 Robert Treat play: http://www.xzilla.net work: http://www.omniti.com/is/hiring

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to add a primary key using an existing index

2010-12-03 Thread Robert Treat
it would be optional with the new syntax as well... Also, I'm not wedded to the idea of keeping the column list, but if you are arguing to make it super consistent, then I think you need to include it. Robert Treat play: http://www.xzilla.net work: http://www.omniti.com/is/hiring

Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying replication

2010-10-20 Thread Robert Treat
something rather limiting. On the whole the customers we are talking with are far more concerned about things like managing failover scenarios when you have multiple slaves, and it's the lack of capabilities around those kinds of things that hurt postgres adoption much more than it being hard to set up. Robert Treat play: http://www.xzilla.net work: http://omniti.com/is/hiring

[HACKERS] docs on contrib modules that can't pg_upgrade?

2010-10-15 Thread Robert Treat
exist, I'll start a wiki page on it, but thought I'd ask first. -- Robert Treat Play: http://www.xzilla.net Work: http://omniti.com/is/hiring -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

[HACKERS] Postgres officially accepted in to 2010 Google Summer of Code program

2010-03-19 Thread Robert Treat
ooking forward to another interesting year with GSoC, and hoping you'll join in. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- 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] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-24 Thread Robert Treat
On Saturday 23 January 2010 16:19:11 Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > > I'm not saying there aren't > > downsides, but having a name the community can unify on is a definite > > plus, and imho that name has to be Postgres. > > Translation: &quo

Re: [HACKERS] 8.5 vs. 9.0, Postgres vs. PostgreSQL

2010-01-23 Thread Robert Treat
PostgreSQL instead of reverting to plain Postgres was the single worst mistake this project ever made." I think I would have to agree, and I can't see this issue ever going away as long as we stick with PostgreSQL. I'm not saying there aren't downsides, but having a name

Re: [HACKERS] Streaming replication status

2010-01-12 Thread Robert Treat
guess is that we won't get them into core for 8.5, but that we might be able to provide some additional facilities after the fact as we get more of these systems deployed. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Streaming replication status

2010-01-12 Thread Robert Treat
to retrieve the information. The ideal api is that I can find the information out via result of some SELECT query; view, table ,function doesn't matter, as long as I can select it out. Bonus points for being able to get information from the hot standby. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.x

[HACKERS] 8.5alpha3 bug in information_schema.table_privileges

2010-01-11 Thread Robert Treat
(line ~1065) in "postmaster.c" [30] main(argc = ???, argv = ???) (optimized), at 0x688336 (line ~188) in "main.c" Both of those systems run Solaris, though one was compiled with gcc, the other with SunStudio. I can probably dig up more info if needed. Oh, seems it might be related

Re: [HACKERS] damage control mode

2010-01-09 Thread Robert Treat
On Sunday 10 January 2010 01:38:07 Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat writes: > > ... I don't see much sense in worrying about it now; the 2 weeks between > > end of CF and Beta are when we need to be cut-throat. Given that this > > time the "must-have" feature

Re: [HACKERS] damage control mode

2010-01-09 Thread Robert Treat
s you are most worried about will have taken care of themselves (one way or the other) But I don't see much sense in worrying about it now; the 2 weeks between end of CF and Beta are when we need to be cut-throat. Given that this time the "must-have" feature is already in th

Re: [HACKERS] 8.5alpha3 hot standby crash report (DatabasePath related?)

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Treat
ot cause of the failure has been addressed and a correctly designed test executed. I will wait a day for your confirmation and/or other's comments. Looks good from my end, thanks Simon. Robert Treat http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] 8.5alpha3 hot standby crash report (DatabasePath related?)

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Treat
On Jan 7, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 16:56 -0500, Robert Treat wrote: Not much more to send really. No problem. I can see what causes it, nothing more required, thanks. What I don't fully understand yet is why the error hasn't shown itself before,

Re: [HACKERS] 8.5alpha3 hot standby crash report (DatabasePath related?)

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Treat
On Jan 7, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 14:41 -0500, Robert Treat wrote: Doing some testing with 8.5alpha3, my standby crashed this morning whilst doing some testing. Seems I have a core file, so thought I would send a report. Version: PostgreSQL 8.5alpha3

[HACKERS] 8.5alpha3 hot standby crash report (DatabasePath related?)

2010-01-07 Thread Robert Treat
ork under Linux, but that we need DatabasePath to not be null in the above. FWIW, the SQL I was running on the master did involve two create database commands back to back. LMK if you have any questions. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Se

Re: [HACKERS] SE-PostgreSQL/Lite Review

2009-12-11 Thread Robert Treat
;t have spent this > > much time talking about it if I didn't believe that to be true. On my > > side, in addition to helping coordinate everyone pushing in the same > > direction, I'll also continue trying to shake out some sponsorship > > funding for additional wo

[HACKERS] limit to default display in psql

2009-11-15 Thread Robert Treat
e, that would save me some trouble. Thanks in advance. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- 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] Standalone backends run StartupXLOG in an incorrect environment

2009-09-21 Thread Robert Treat
istr cases where I couldn't startup regular postgres but could in stand-alone mode that had system indexes disabled...I could be misremembering that so that the postmaster would start, I just couldn't connect unless in stand-alone. In any case this does seem less than ideal, but if ther

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-www] commitfest.postgresql.org

2009-07-03 Thread Robert Treat
; > > I'm also not sure what you would think that it's not self-explanatory, > > since it looks pretty self explanatory to me. > > It's impossible to know that this is commitfest 2009-07. > commitfest.postgresql.org/2009/07 ? That, or any similar scheme, seem

Re: [HACKERS] single bit integer (TINYINT) revisited for 8.5

2009-07-03 Thread Robert Treat
core. I don't see much reason to include it in > core: its not an SQL standard datatype, it complicates catalog entries > and most people don't need or want it. > That's too bad. I'd much rather see someone implement something closer to Oracle's number type. --

Re: [HACKERS] WAL dump tool

2009-05-09 Thread Robert Treat
ompile for Solaris. I think it might have still had issues actually dumping data, but it did do a good job at finding corrupted xlogs. istr Theo submitted a patch, but I think the author had abandoned it. Personally I'd love to see it moved into postgresql proper (and get the cleaning/

Re: [HACKERS] Restore deleted rows

2009-04-30 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 14:03:14 Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 28 April 2009 20:43:38 Robert Treat wrote: > > We had started down the path of making a function to read deleted tuples > > from a table for a DR scenario we were involved with once. The idea was

Re: [HACKERS] Restore deleted rows

2009-04-28 Thread Robert Treat
or most people, if you told them that they could do create table as select * from viewdeletedttuples(...) t(...) after doing a mis-placed delete/update, at the cost of having to sift through extra data, they would make that trade in a heartbeat. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.n

Re: [HACKERS] Prepared transactions vs novice DBAs, again

2009-04-28 Thread Robert Treat
point no one seemed to raise. I used to recommend people set this to 0 pretty regularly, since most web shops don't even know what prepared transactions are, let alone use them. I got less agressive about this after a few people reported to me that they had run out of lock slots on thier s

Re: [HACKERS] Unexpected Result in Windowing

2009-03-30 Thread Robert Treat
> > ORDER BY random() > > > ) > > > FROM foo; > > > ERROR: ORDER/GROUP BY expression not found in targetlist > > > > Fixed. > > Thanks! :) > Yes, thanks! -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.c

Re: [HACKERS] psql \d* and system objects

2009-03-30 Thread Robert Treat
haven't run into that case yet; in the work I've been doing in 8.4, the above is how I've been wanting it to work, and swapping to \df* to see system hasn't been much of an issue. BTW, I often do \df *.sin when looking for a function I'm not sure of where it live

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-26 Thread Robert Treat
reSQL in conjunction with an > external log rotation tool. > Hey! We were just complaining about this behavior the other day at $dayjob. We were considering hacking our build to make it stop doing this ourselves, but decided to use syslog in the end. Nice to see this "feature" di

Re: [HACKERS] contrib function naming, and upgrade issues

2009-03-21 Thread Robert Treat
x27;ve been talking about this magical "proper module facility" for a few releases now... are we still opposed to putting contrib modules in thier own schema? People who took my advice and did that for tsearch were mighty happy when 8.2 broke at the C level, and when 8.3 broke all

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-21 Thread Robert Treat
m guessing they will start helping, and eventually Bruce will join in. Outside of that I think we're wasting our time on this. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- 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] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Treat
take a fresh look at your list of twenty things and see what can be delegated out to others. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://w

Re: [HACKERS] Should SET ROLE inherit config params?

2009-03-12 Thread Robert Treat
S > > ... or similar; I'd need to find an existing keyword which works. > > I think this bypasses a lot of the issues which Tom raises, but I'd want > to think about the various permutations some more. > How bad of an idea would it be to split set session authorization t

Re: [HACKERS] Hot standby, running xacts, subtransactions

2009-03-03 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 03 March 2009 03:22:30 Simon Riggs wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 21:11 -0500, Robert Treat wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 February 2009 16:43:54 Simon Riggs wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 13:33 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > > > > > You raised that as a

Re: [HACKERS] Hot standby, running xacts, subtransactions

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Treat
if you have it wrong until you fire up the standby (ie. you can't tell at the time you make your base backup), right ? -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

[HACKERS] sanity check on max_fsm_relations

2009-03-02 Thread Robert Treat
l, but I'm wondering if there might be other performanace implications that I'm not aware of? Anyone ever run with 6 figure fsm relations (not just pages) before? -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing

Re: [HACKERS] autovacuum not honoring pg_autovacuum in 8.3.5?

2009-02-19 Thread Robert Treat
autovacuum table really gone in 8.4, or just deprecated? -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- 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] pg_migrator progress

2009-02-18 Thread Robert Treat
d to run pg_resetxlog to set the > WAL position and XID counter anyway, and it can set the OID counter too. > +1 for doing this, otherwise we need some strong warnings in the migrator docs about this case imho. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- 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] pg_restore --multi-thread

2009-02-14 Thread Robert Treat
ng to pg_dump, I think keeping consistency with that in pg_restore would be a bonus. (I still see people get confused because -d work differently between those two apps) Possibly -w might work, which could expand to --workers, which glosses over the thread/process difference, is also be availa

[HACKERS] connection logging dtrace probe

2009-02-12 Thread Robert Treat
stly wondering about probe name or location). TIA -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c b/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c index 3380b80..ddf23d8 100644 --- a/src/backend/postmaster/postmaster.c +

Re: [HACKERS] confirm timezone changes for new releases was Fwd: Re: [pgsql-slavestothewww] New News Entry (id: 1055)

2009-02-06 Thread Robert Treat
On Friday 06 February 2009 10:43:30 Bruce Momjian wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Robert Treat wrote: > > > I know that the fedora tzdata-2009a packages have the Argentian changes > > > (as well as some others depending on version of fedora), but I'm not &

[HACKERS] confirm timezone changes for new releases was Fwd: Re: [pgsql-slavestothewww] New News Entry (id: 1055)

2009-02-06 Thread Robert Treat
I am inclined to think they aren't in there, but can someone confirm for our release announcement if 8.3.6 et al have Argentinian timezone updates? (Or any other updates we should mention) TIA Robert Treat -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [pgsql-slavestothewww] New News

Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 release planning

2009-01-30 Thread Robert Treat
ne), keep the patch queue pretty manageable (right up untill the end, when we stopped the cycle), and also delivered us some really big features along the way. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-h

Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 release planning

2009-01-29 Thread Robert Treat
mplications on a number of levels for users and developers. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- 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] 8.4 release planning

2009-01-28 Thread Robert Treat
we can improve things for the people working on the next release, well, I think that's a good idea too, and I dont see how doing nothing is going to help. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- 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] 8.4 release planning

2009-01-28 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 20:12:40 Bruce Momjian wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > > The revisionism was that of "remarkable failure". That was our shortest > > release cycle in the modern era. And it didn't have the advantage of the > > commitfest process. &

Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 release planning

2009-01-28 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 12:35:42 Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat writes: > > On Wednesday 28 January 2009 08:55:56 Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> We're still going to have to pay the full cost of doing a release every > >> time. With beta/rc management, releas

Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 release planning

2009-01-28 Thread Robert Treat
right now, and that's with more dev cycles than I'm talking about for 8.5. And I think most people (aka not the patch authors :-) would have been willing to push the stuff we're dealing with now if they knew the next release would be closer to 6 months than 14 months. -- Robe

Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 release planning

2009-01-27 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 21:07:48 Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat writes: > > The more I think about it, the more I feel that where we failed for 8.3 > > was not having a short 8.4 cycle lined up, which would give more freedom > > to bump patches to the next release. &g

Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 release planning

2009-01-27 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 19:04:49 Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat writes: > > On Tuesday 27 January 2009 10:34:59 Joshua D. Drake wrote: > >> We have tried the short release cycle before, it was called 8.2. It > >> fails, remarkably. > > > > I think this

Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 release planning

2009-01-27 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 18:51:01 Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Treat writes: > > Now I am starting to think that we cannot prevent large patches from > > showing up at the end of a cycle no matter what, and the only way to > > really "solve" that problem is to lesson

Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 release planning

2009-01-27 Thread Robert Treat
elease 8.5, open 8.6 December - first commitfest for 8.6 Jan 2010 - second dev cycle Feb - final commitfest March - 8.6 beta April - 8.6 rc May 2010 - release 8.6 -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- 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] 8.4 release planning

2009-01-27 Thread Robert Treat
talked to several oracle and db2 shops that want a standby for reporting that has relatively easy setup/maintenance (handling ddl is a big part of this) and the HS feature your working on will give them something as good as what they are getting now. So yeah, HS appeals to future users as well.

Re: [HACKERS] 8.4 release planning

2009-01-27 Thread Robert Treat
release (ie. require binary or data file level compatability with 8.4 for the 8.5 release, and remove that restriction for 8.6) to lesson the upgrade path. (alternativly, a working IPU plan could make that less of an issue) -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- 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] Auto-updated fields

2009-01-22 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 21 January 2009 20:21:41 Bruce Momjian wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Robert Treat wrote: > > > On Thursday 08 May 2008 00:27:10 Tino Wildenhain wrote: > > > > David Fetter wrote: > > > > Ref: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-ha

Re: [HACKERS] New pg_dump patch -- document statistics collector exception

2009-01-20 Thread Robert Treat
or patch, which supplied a --no-stats flag. > > This is a documentation only patch, not tied to a recent code change. s/varriable/variable/g also, I forget which way is proper, but you're inconsistent with your closing tags for in that paragraph (using both ) -- Robert Treat Conject

Re: [HACKERS] Status Report on Hot Standby

2009-01-20 Thread Robert Treat
this get into the main source tree to make it easier for future testing. (For example, one hurdle on Solaris, I had to get a different version of patch to handle Simon's diff... ugh!) -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] Copyright update

2009-01-01 Thread Robert Treat
nk the correct resolution to the question is to ask legal. Yes? > > So I can get three different answers? It is not a priority for me. > Nor does it need to be... copyright for organizations runs ~ 100 years, so a year here or there is unlikely to make much difference to any of us. (T

Re: [HACKERS] Hot standby and b-tree killed items

2008-12-24 Thread Robert Treat
bench on a master with pg_bench select test on slave isn't that bad of a scenario to match the above; it might be a little too much activity on the master, but has anyone else run such a test? -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via

Re: [HACKERS] Hot standby and b-tree killed items

2008-12-23 Thread Robert Treat
cancel query for replay, and pause replay for queries, are probably enough for a first go around (especially if you can get the query canceling to work only when changes are made to the specific database in question) -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.om

Re: [HACKERS] Hot standby and b-tree killed items

2008-12-23 Thread Robert Treat
ost, although the standby can fall very > much behind, and it can take a while to catch up. > I was thinking the condition Simon was concerned about was that on a very busy slave with wal delay, you could theoretically fill up the disks and destroy the slave. With query cancel, you might be a

Re: [HACKERS] Hot standby and b-tree killed items

2008-12-19 Thread Robert Treat
ill have, since I think most of thier DDL can be done online. (This might require some extra modules / high end version of Oracle, please consult your local Oracle wizard for more details) -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-hack

Re: [HACKERS] Coding TODO for 8.4: Synch Rep

2008-12-16 Thread Robert Treat
that will end is still undetermined. In other words, if you have a patch for 8.4 that is already submitted but not committed, keep hacking! -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.or

Re: [HACKERS] plperl: Documentation on BYTEA decoding is wrong

2008-12-15 Thread Robert Treat
On Monday 28 January 2008 05:37:03 Florian Weimer wrote: > * Robert Treat: > > Note we've been using Theo's plperl bytea patch on one of our > > production servers for some time; if anyone wants access to that > > lmk. > > I'm interested. Could you post

Re: [HACKERS] Quick patch: Display sequence owner

2008-12-09 Thread Robert Treat
uence.) > It feels like noise to me; showing indexes/triggers/constraints affect how you interact with a table, but whether a sequence is owned or not doesn't make a significant difference. Given we don't list other dependencies (views/functions/etc...) I'm not e

Re: [HACKERS] Mostly Harmless: Welcoming our C++ friends

2008-12-05 Thread Robert Treat
in c. I'm not sure there should be any, but maybe someone with more experience in this area might have ideas on what to watch out for? -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- 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] default statistics target testing (was: Simple postgresql.conf wizard)

2008-12-05 Thread Robert Treat
ewhat underwhelming. > The one thing this test seems to overlook is at what point do we see diminshing returns from increasing dst. I think the way to do this would be to plot dst setting vs. query time; Robert, do you think you could modify your test to measure prepare time and the

Re: [HACKERS] Statement-level triggers and inheritance

2008-11-29 Thread Robert Treat
rs on *each* target. > This would amount to statement level triggers firing multiple times per statement wouldn't it? That behavior might be rather surprising for folks. I guess the alternative is to have it fire only on the parent in an inheritance stack. I'm not sure that's much

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