[PERFORM] 8.1 planner problem ?

2007-11-26 Thread Gianluca Alberici
Hello, I have ran into an interesting problem with 8.1 and i would like anybody to explain me if there's a problem with the planner or there's a problem with myself. In both cases a solution is welcome. The following query: SELECT sum(qty) FROM _abi_main_pof_r ampr inner join _ab

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL performance on various distribution stock kernels

2007-11-26 Thread Greg Smith
On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Damon Hart wrote: Fedora 8: Linux 2.6.23.1-49.fc8 #1 SMP Thu Nov 8 21:41:26 EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux OpenVZ: Linux 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5.028stab049.1 #1 SMP Thu Nov 8 16:23:12 MSK 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux 2.6.23 introduced a whole new scheduler: http://www.linu

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL performance on various distribution stock kernels

2007-11-26 Thread Damon Hart
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 18:06 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Damon Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So, what's different between these tests? I'm seeing performance > > differences of between +65% to +90% transactions per second of the > > OpenVZ kernel running on the HN over the stock Fedora 8 kernel.

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL performance on various distribution stock kernels

2007-11-26 Thread Damon Hart
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 17:00 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Nov 26, 2007 4:50 PM, Damon Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So, what's different between these tests? I'm seeing performance > > differences of between +65% to +90% transactions per second of the > > OpenVZ kernel running on the H

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL performance on various distribution stock kernels

2007-11-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Nov 26, 2007 5:00 PM, Alexander Staubo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/26/07, Damon Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, what's different between these tests? I'm seeing performance > > differences of between +65% to +90% transactions per second of the > > OpenVZ kernel running on the HN o

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL performance on various distribution stock kernels

2007-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
Damon Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, what's different between these tests? I'm seeing performance > differences of between +65% to +90% transactions per second of the > OpenVZ kernel running on the HN over the stock Fedora 8 kernel. Is > this reflective of different emphasis between RHEL an

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL performance on various distribution stock kernels

2007-11-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Nov 26, 2007 4:50 PM, Damon Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, what's different between these tests? I'm seeing performance > differences of between +65% to +90% transactions per second of the > OpenVZ kernel running on the HN over the stock Fedora 8 kernel. Is > this reflective of differen

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL performance on various distribution stock kernels

2007-11-26 Thread Alexander Staubo
On 11/26/07, Damon Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, what's different between these tests? I'm seeing performance > differences of between +65% to +90% transactions per second of the > OpenVZ kernel running on the HN over the stock Fedora 8 kernel. Is > this reflective of different emphasis bet

[PERFORM] PostgreSQL performance on various distribution stock kernels

2007-11-26 Thread Damon Hart
Is there a source comparing PostgreSQL performance (say, using pgbench) out of the box for various Linux distributions? Alternately, is there an analysis anywhere of the potential gains from building a custom kernel and just what customizations are most relevant to a PostgreSQL server? Some backg

Re: [PERFORM] Base de Datos Transaccional

2007-11-26 Thread Pablo Alcaraz
Si tenes el hardware necesario y planificas el deployment de la base de datos apropiadamente sin dudas puede llegar a manejar esa carga. Saludos Pablo Fabio Arias wrote: Hola amigos, les escribo por que necesito conocer si PostgreSQL es lo suficientemente robusto para manejar una plataforma t

Re: [PERFORM] Base de Datos Transaccional

2007-11-26 Thread Peter T. Breuer
Translaterating ... "Also sprach Fabio Arias:" > Hola amigos, les escribo por que necesito conocer si PostgreSQL es lo > suficientemente robusto para manejar una plataforma transaccional de 2000 tx > per second. necesito conocer la manera de separar mi operacion transaccional > de la aquella que e

[PERFORM] Base de Datos Transaccional

2007-11-26 Thread Fabio Arias
Hola amigos, les escribo por que necesito conocer si PostgreSQL es lo suficientemente robusto para manejar una plataforma transaccional de 2000 tx per second. necesito conocer la manera de separar mi operacion transaccional de la aquella que es de consulta sabiendo que existe informacion comun para

Re: [PERFORM] TB-sized databases

2007-11-26 Thread Stephen Cook
I think either would work; both PostgreSQL and MS SQL Server have success stories out there running VLDBs. It really depends on what you know and what you have. If you have a lot of experience with Postgres running on Linux, and not much with SQL Server on Windows, of course the former would

Re: [PERFORM] TB-sized databases

2007-11-26 Thread Pablo Alcaraz
I had a client that tried to use Ms Sql Server to run a 500Gb+ database. The database simply colapsed. They switched to Teradata and it is running good. This database has now 1.5Tb+. Currently I have clients using postgresql huge databases and they are happy. In one client's database the bigge

Re: [PERFORM] TB-sized databases

2007-11-26 Thread Oleg Bartunov
We have several TB database in production and it works well on HP rx1620 dual Itanium2, MSA 20, running Linux. It's read-only storage for astronomical catalogs with about 4-billions objects. We have custom index for spherical coordinates which provide great performance. Oleg On Mon, 26 Nov 2007,

Re: [PERFORM] TB-sized databases

2007-11-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Peter Koczan wrote: Hi all, I have a user who is looking to store 500+ GB of data in a database (and when all the indexes and metadata are factored in, it's going to be more like 3-4 TB). He is wondering how well PostgreSQL scales with TB-sized databases and what can be done to help optimize the

[PERFORM] TB-sized databases

2007-11-26 Thread Peter Koczan
Hi all, I have a user who is looking to store 500+ GB of data in a database (and when all the indexes and metadata are factored in, it's going to be more like 3-4 TB). He is wondering how well PostgreSQL scales with TB-sized databases and what can be done to help optimize them (mostly hardware and

Re: [PERFORM] doubt with pg_dump and high concurrent used databases

2007-11-26 Thread Peter Childs
On 25/11/2007, Pablo Alcaraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tom Lane wrote: > > "Peter Childs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On 25/11/2007, Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Does the pg_dump create this kind of "consistent backups"? Or do I > need to do the backups using

Re: [PERFORM] Problems with PostGreSQL and Windows 2003

2007-11-26 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
There is no mention of Out of Memory in that piece of log. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using a cursor. Here is the a piece of log file (psqlodbc): [0.000]conn=02DE3A70, PGAPI_DriverConnect( in)='DSN=BI;UID=biuser;PWD=x;', fDriverCompletion=0 [0.000]DSN info: DSN='BI',server='loca