[firebird-support] Re: A question about rdb$character_set_id

2014-02-11 Thread Dmitry Yemanov
11.02.2014 03:42, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote: Is the integer value of the column rdb$character_set_id from the table rdb$character_sets constant between Firebird versions? E.g. will character set UTF8 always be 4 (and was it 4 in pre-2.5 versions)? Yes, these values remain constant. Purely

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird slowdowns while resources are available

2014-02-11 Thread Alexey Kovyazin
Hi Zoltan, this problem is often topic here. Solving this problem is a long boring process, where community will try to explain you basics about transactions and transaction markers meaning, ask you to send gstat statistics, then explain about record versioning and garbage and long-running

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird slowdowns while resources are available

2014-02-11 Thread Zsazsi
Hi Alexey, I've sent a mail directly to You about this particular case asking for personal assistance. Any suggestions or hints are welcome if someone else is willing to participate. Best Regards Zsolt 2014-02-11 9:58 GMT+01:00 Alexey Kovyazin a...@ib-aid.com: Hi Zoltan, this problem is

[firebird-support] Firebird slowdowns while resources are available

2014-02-11 Thread Paul Beach
- fb_lock_print displays the following about the database: LOCK_HEADER BLOCK Version: 145, Active owner: 0, Length: 2097152, Used: 1335440 Flags: 0x0001 Enqs: 9993237, Converts: 93191, Rejects: 1417230, Blocks: 2 Deadlock scans: 0, Deadlocks:

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird slowdowns while resources are available

2014-02-11 Thread Mezei Zoltan
Hi Alexey, Thanks for the answer. I'll look at our options regarding the professional services. Regards, Zoltan PS: I am familiar with database concepts like MVCC, transactions, locking and query execution planning but unfortunately I don't know how to investigate these mechanisms within

Re: [firebird-support] Re: A question about rdb$character_set_id

2014-02-11 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2014-02-11 17:54 GMT+09:00 Dmitry Yemanov dim...@users.sourceforge.net: 11.02.2014 03:42, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote: Is the integer value of the column rdb$character_set_id from the table rdb$character_sets constant between Firebird versions? E.g. will character set UTF8 always be 4

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird slowdowns while resources are available

2014-02-11 Thread Mezei Zoltan
Hi Paul, Thanks for the answer. On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Paul Beach pabe...@waitrose.com wrote: - How should the output of fb_lock_print interpreted in this case? Are these numbers wrong in some sense? Can they be improved by some parameter tuning? Rejects = Lock requests that

[firebird-support] Transaction statistics issue

2014-02-11 Thread Paul Beach
I found a strange issue when sweep is executed. I'm using Firebird 2.5.2 Super Server for Linux AMD 64 bits. I first execute SHOW DATABASE in isql: PAGE_SIZE 16384 Number of DB pages allocated = 524480 Sweep interval = 2 Forced Writes are OFF Transaction - oldest = 26483174 Transaction -

[firebird-support] datetime trunc

2014-02-11 Thread Maximiliano Robaina
Hi, Is there an equivalent function to trunc datetime fields in firebird ? Something like date_trunc in postgre [1] -- Maxi [1]  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-TRUNC

Re: [firebird-support] datetime trunc

2014-02-11 Thread Virna Constantin
EXTRACT()http://www.firebirdsql.org/refdocs/langrefupd25-intfunc-extract.html On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 4:42 PM, Maximiliano Robaina maxi_roba...@yahoo.com.ar wrote: Hi, Is there an equivalent function to trunc datetime fields in firebird ? Something like date_trunc in postgre [1]

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird slowdowns while resources are available

2014-02-11 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer
I have a strange slowdown problem with a Firebird database. During the daily use of the database the clients experience significant slowdowns while the system still have lots of resources available. Some information about the environment: - 64 bit Firebird 2.5.2 server running in SuperServer

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Transaction statistics issue

2014-02-11 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer
I found a strange issue when sweep is executed. I'm using Firebird 2.5.2 Super Server for Linux AMD 64 bits. I first execute SHOW DATABASE in isql: PAGE_SIZE 16384 Number of DB pages allocated = 524480 Sweep interval = 2 Forced Writes are OFF Transaction - oldest = 26483174

Re: [firebird-support] datetime trunc

2014-02-11 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 11-2-2014 16:06, Virna Constantin wrote: EXTRACT() http://www.firebirdsql.org/refdocs/langrefupd25-intfunc-extract.html Extract is not the same as PostgreSQL date_trunc. Extract returns the requested value as an integer, while date_trunc returns a DATE or TIMESTAMP truncated to the

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird slowdowns while resources are available

2014-02-11 Thread Mezei Zoltan
2.5 should behave pretty well on SMP systems, at least according to the release notes. Windows task manager shows that CPU load is distributed among the available cores. Am I missing something here? On Feb 11, 2014 8:15 PM, Thomas Steinmaurer t...@iblogmanager.com wrote: I have a strange

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird slowdowns while resources are available

2014-02-11 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer
2.5 should behave pretty well on SMP systems, at least according to the release notes. Windows task manager shows that CPU load is distributed among the available cores. Am I missing something here? Then you are not using SuperServer, or SuperServer not serving a single database but several

Re: [firebird-support] datetime trunc

2014-02-11 Thread Ismael L. Donis Garcia
SELECT CAST(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as DATE) || ' ' || EXTRACT(HOUR FROM CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) || ':00:00' as date1 FROM RDB$DATABASE Best Regard | ISMAEL | - Original Message - From: Mark Rotteveel To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, February 11,

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird slowdowns while resources are available

2014-02-11 Thread Mezei Zoltan
I have one fbserver.exe. I have multiple databases though, one with high load, the others with very low load . On Feb 11, 2014 8:34 PM, Thomas Steinmaurer t...@iblogmanager.com wrote: 2.5 should behave pretty well on SMP systems, at least according to the release notes. Windows task manager

RE: [firebird-support] Firebird slowdowns while resources are available

2014-02-11 Thread Leyne, Sean
From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mezei Zoltan Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 3:14 PM To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Firebird slowdowns while resources are available I have one fbserver.exe. I

Re: [firebird-support] datetime trunc

2014-02-11 Thread Alan McDonald
Cast the result of the extract as a date or timestamp. On 12/02/2014 6:20 AM, Mark Rotteveel m...@lawinegevaar.nl wrote: On 11-2-2014 16:06, Virna Constantin wrote: EXTRACT() http://www.firebirdsql.org/refdocs/langrefupd25-intfunc-extract.html Extract is not the same as PostgreSQL

Re: [firebird-support] datetime trunc

2014-02-11 Thread Mark Rotteveel
On 11-2-2014 21:54, Alan McDonald wrote: Cast the result of the extract as a date or timestamp. That doesn't work and that is ok: I'd be surprised when casting the result (= 20) of EXTRACT(hour from TIMESTAMP '2001-02-16 20:38:40') would result in 2001-02-16 20:00:00, while the result (= 2001)

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird slowdowns while resources are available

2014-02-11 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer
I have one fbserver.exe. I have multiple databases though, one with high load, the others with very low load . fbserver.exe = SuperServer (SS). With several databases, the CPU utilization makes sense then, even under SuperServer. But still, SuperClassic or Classic might even utilize the CPU

Re: [firebird-support] Firebird slowdowns while resources are available

2014-02-11 Thread Ann Harrison
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Mezei Zoltan mezei.zol...@gmail.comwrote: Rejects = Lock requests that cannot be satisfied no big deal \ Slightly more specifically, (IIRC) they're requests to convert a lock from read to write without releasing the read lock. That happens to prevent

[firebird-support] Re: Transaction statistics issue

2014-02-11 Thread Dmitry Yemanov
11.02.2014 23:11, Thomas Steinmaurer пишет: Does this also apply to the output via the Trace API? AFAIR, no. Dmitry