[PERFORM] PostgreSQL Solaris packages now in beta

2006-01-25 Thread Robert Lor
With big thanks to Josh Berkus and Devrim Gunduz, I'm happy to announce that Sun has just released a Solaris distribution of PostgreSQL 8.1.2 with ready-to-install packages for both Sparc and x86. These packages are currently in Beta, and we expect to FCS in 2 -3 weeks. The packages, along

Re: [PERFORM] DB responce during DB dump

2006-01-25 Thread Evgeny Gridasov
Ok, It's VERY simple =) here: http://deepcore.i-free.ru/simple_shaper.pl I could dump it to a spare machine, but I don't have one. Current DB server is 2xXEON / 4GbRAM / RAID10 (4 SCSI HDD). Performance is excellent, except during backups. I wanted to set up some kind of replication but it's use

Re: [PERFORM] DB responce during DB dump

2006-01-25 Thread Evgeny Gridasov
All I was trying to achieve is to limit I/O rate done by pg_dump. The script is a very simple pipe rate limitter and nothing more: it reads input, but outputs data no more than at rate specified. I guess it helps because even if pg_dump outputs data at 20 mb/sec, the script won't be able to read i

Re: [PERFORM] DB responce during DB dump

2006-01-25 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Huxton writes: > Evgeny Gridasov wrote: >> I've written a perl script to limit pg_dump output bandwidth, >> ... >> Is there any other solution to avoid this problem? > That's an interesting solution, and I'd guess people might like to see > it posted to the list if it's not too big. Yea

Re: [PERFORM] DB responce during DB dump

2006-01-25 Thread Richard Huxton
Evgeny Gridasov wrote: Hi, everybody! I experience problems with backing up one of my Postgresql 8.1.2 installations. The problem is that when I do DB backup, all queries begin to run very slow =( The database only grows in its size (~20Gb today), and the number of transactions increases every

[PERFORM] DB responce during DB dump

2006-01-25 Thread Evgeny Gridasov
Hi, everybody! I experience problems with backing up one of my Postgresql 8.1.2 installations. The problem is that when I do DB backup, all queries begin to run very slow =( The database only grows in its size (~20Gb today), and the number of transactions increases every month. A year ago such sl

Re: [PERFORM] Inconsistant query plan

2006-01-25 Thread Alessandro Baretta
Daniel Gish wrote: Hi, Thanks for your response. The actual query is below; the joins are only 4 deep. Adjusting the stats target did help, but not dramatically. QUERY PLAN