Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-10-08 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2010/10/7 Simon Riggs : > On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 14:10 +0200, Vincenzo Romano wrote: > >> Making these things sub-linear (whether not O(log n) or even O(1) ), >> provided that there's  way to, would make this RDBMS more appealing >> to enterprises. >> I mean also

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-10-07 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2010/10/7 Simon Riggs : > On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 14:10 +0200, Vincenzo Romano wrote: > >> Making these things sub-linear (whether not O(log n) or even O(1) ), >> provided that there's  way to, would make this RDBMS more appealing >> to enterprises. >> I mean also

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-10-07 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2010/10/7 Stephen Frost : > * Vincenzo Romano (vincenzo.rom...@notorand.it) wrote: >> So, what'd be the right approach in your vision? > > Have you read http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Table_partitioning and the > various places it links to..? > >> I mean, if y

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-10-07 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2010/10/7 Stephen Frost : > * Vincenzo Romano (vincenzo.rom...@notorand.it) wrote: >> I would expect a parser to ... ehm ... parse the CHECK constraint >> expression at "CREATE TABLE " time and >> extract all the needed "high quality metadata", like the li

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-10-07 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2010/10/7 Stephen Frost : > * Vincenzo Romano (vincenzo.rom...@notorand.it) wrote: >> 2010/10/7 Stephen Frost : >> > * Vincenzo Romano (vincenzo.rom...@notorand .it) wrote: >> > The problem is that CHECK conditions can contain just about anything, >> > hence

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-10-07 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2010/10/7 Stephen Frost : > * Vincenzo Romano (vincenzo.rom...@notorand.it) wrote: >> Which kind of information are you thinking about? >> I think that the stuff you put into the CHECK condition for the table >> will say it all. > > The problem is that CHECK condit

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-10-07 Thread Vincenzo Romano
ble to. But I need to understand things that are already known but I didn't know yet. > -- > Álvaro Herrera > The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. > PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Vincenzo Romano at NotOrAnd Information Technologie

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-10-07 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2010/10/7 Greg Smith : > Vincenzo Romano wrote: >> >> I see the main problem in the way the planner "understands" which >> partition >> is useful and which one is not. >> Having the DDL supporting the feature could just be syntactic sugar >> if t

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-10-07 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2010/10/7 Stephen Frost : > * Vincenzo Romano (vincenzo.rom...@notorand.it) wrote: >> I see the main problem in the way the planner "understands" which partition >> is useful and which one is not. >> Having the DDL supporting the feature could just be syntactic sugar

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-10-07 Thread Vincenzo Romano
rs of partitions as long as we have to resort to > theorem-proving to lead us to the correct partition. > >                        regards, tom lane > I'm not sure about MySQL, but Oracle can handle large partitioning. So I would say there's a way to achieve the same goal. -- Vincenzo

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-10-07 Thread Vincenzo Romano
some way off.  If you're in a > position to help with (or fund) the coding, it can be made to happen > faster, of course. This is why I was asking for directions: brwosing the whole code to look for the relevant stuff is quite time consuming. > -- > Robert Haas > Enterp

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-10-07 Thread Vincenzo Romano
50+ a year. Is there any precise direction to where look into the code for it? Is there a way to put this into a wish list? -- Vincenzo Romano at NotOrAnd Information Technologies Software Hardware Networking Training Support Security -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS -- Sent via pgsql-hacker

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-10-07 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Any feedbacks from TGL and Heikki, then? 2010/7/29 Joshua D. Drake : > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 19:52 +0200, Vincenzo Romano wrote: >> 2010/7/29 Joshua D. Drake : >> > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 19:34 +0200, Vincenzo Romano wrote: >> > >> >> I expect that a more com

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-07-30 Thread Vincenzo Romano
ke I need to go the hard way ... Starting from postgresql-8.4.4/src/backend/optimizer -- Vincenzo Romano at NotOrAnd Information Technologies Software Hardware Networking Training Support Security -- cel +393398083886 fix +390823454163 fax +3902700506964 gtalk. vincenzo.rom...@notorand.it skype. no

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-07-30 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2010/7/30 Greg Stark : > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Vincenzo Romano > wrote: >> At a first glance it seems that for inheritance some bottleneck is >> hindering a full exploit for table partitioning. > > There have been lengthy discussions of how to implement par

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-07-30 Thread Vincenzo Romano
good insights about scalability. At a first glance it seems that for inheritance some bottleneck is hindering a full exploit for table partitioning. Is there anyone who knows whether those algorithms are linear or not? And of course, I agree that real tests on real data will provide the real

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-07-29 Thread Vincenzo Romano
test. Or maybe checking against the source code and its documentation, if any. -- Vincenzo Romano at NotOrAnd Information Technologies Software Hardware Networking Training Support Security -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@po

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-07-29 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2010/7/29 Joshua D. Drake : > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 19:34 +0200, Vincenzo Romano wrote: > >> I expect that a more complex schema will imply higher workloads >> on the query planner. What I don't know is how the increase in the >> workload will happen: linearly, subl

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-07-29 Thread Vincenzo Romano
2010/7/29 Joshua D. Drake : > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 19:08 +0200, Vincenzo Romano wrote: >> Hi all. >> I'm wondering about PGSQL scalability. >> In particular I have two main topics in my mind: >> >> 1. What'd be the behavior of the query planner in

[HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-07-29 Thread Vincenzo Romano
ection algorithms in these two cases that would kill my design. Is there any insight about these two points? -- NotOrAnd Information Technologies Vincenzo Romano -- NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to you

Re: [HACKERS] [PL/PgSQL] EXECUTE...USING enhancement proposal

2010-01-15 Thread Vincenzo Romano
simpler and enough > > Pavel I do like the printf-like approach more than my proposal! Do you think about a built-in implementation rather than the on in PLGSQL? -- Vincenzo Romano NotOrAnd Information Technologies NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS -- Sent via pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] [PL/PgSQL] EXECUTE...USING enhancement proposal

2010-01-15 Thread Vincenzo Romano
e composite and > nested values are significant break. > > see in archive > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2006-08/msg00267.php > > Regards > Pavel Stehule > > > 2010/1/14 Vincenzo Romano : >> Hi all. >> There's currently a limitation

[HACKERS] [PL/PgSQL] EXECUTE...USING enhancement proposal

2010-01-14 Thread Vincenzo Romano
e the responsibility to the programmer to ensure whether the dynamic command makes any syntactic and semantic sense. -- Vincenzo Romano NotOrAnd Information Technologies NON QVIETIS MARIBVS NAVTA PERITVS -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to