Re: [PERFORM] Is Diskeeper Automatic Mode safe?

2009-11-16 Thread cb
On Nov 16, 2009, at 8:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Make sure you're not in the line of fire when (not if) that version eats your data. Particularly on Windows, insisting on not upgrading that version is unbelievably, irresponsibly stupid. There are a *large* number of known bugs. I hear ya, and h

Re: [PERFORM] Is Diskeeper Automatic Mode safe?

2009-11-16 Thread cb
On Nov 16, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Robert Schnabel wrote: I've been a Diskeeper customer for about 10 years now and consider it 'must have' software for Windows machines. So the short answer is yes, I have it running with PostgreSQL and have not had any problems. So that seems to be a definite

Re: [PERFORM] Is Diskeeper Automatic Mode safe?

2009-11-16 Thread cb
On Nov 16, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Robert Haas wrote: I'm not sure what the answer is to your actual question, but I'd highly recommend upgrading to 8.3 or 8.4. The performance is likely to be a lot better, and 8.0/8.1 are no longer supported on Windows. Ugh, yeah, I'd love to upgrade but the powe

[PERFORM] Is Diskeeper Automatic Mode safe?

2009-11-16 Thread cb
I've got a pair of servers running PostgreSQL 8.0.4 on Windows. We have several tables that add and delete massive amounts of data in a single day and are increasingly having a problem with drive fragmentation and it appears to be giving us a decent performance hit. This is external fragmen