[GENERAL] UUID vs int keys....

2008-03-03 Thread Nathan Wilhelmi
Hello - Curious if anyone has any experience with the new UUID type in 8.3? We are currently using sequences for all of our keys and ids. However using a UUID instead of a sequence would make some parts of the application easier. However we have a few concerns about performance issues

Re: [GENERAL] Deferred constraints and locks...

2008-02-14 Thread Nathan Wilhelmi
Jan Wieck wrote: On 2/12/2008 3:04 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Nathan Wilhelmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello - Trying to track down a lock contention problem, I have a process that does a series of select / insert operations. At some point the process grabs a series of RowExclusiveLock(s

Re: [GENERAL] Deferred constraints and locks...

2008-02-12 Thread Nathan Wilhelmi
Tom Lane wrote: Nathan Wilhelmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello - Trying to track down a lock contention problem, I have a process that does a series of select / insert operations. At some point the process grabs a series of RowExclusiveLock(s) and has the obvious effect of stalling other

[GENERAL] Deferred constraints and locks...

2008-02-12 Thread Nathan Wilhelmi
Hello - Trying to track down a lock contention problem, I have a process that does a series of select / insert operations. At some point the process grabs a series of RowExclusiveLock(s) and has the obvious effect of stalling other processes. I logged all the statements and don't see any for

[GENERAL] Disk configurations....

2008-01-24 Thread Nathan Wilhelmi
Hello - Typically case of a software guy needing to spec hardware for a new DB server. Further typified case of not knowing exact amount of data and I/O patterns. So if you were to spec a disk system for a new general purpose PostgreSQL server any suggestions of what to start with? Details I

[GENERAL] Specify client encoding for backups...

2007-12-18 Thread Nathan Wilhelmi
Hello - We are using PG_ADMIN backup to create the schema DDL scripts for our application. Is there any way to get PGAdmin to not include the encoding value or configure PostgreSQL to set the client encoding to UNICODE? Having problems with the JDBC driver and the UTF8 encoding when we try to

[GENERAL] Script to reset all sequence values in the a given DB?

2007-12-10 Thread Nathan Wilhelmi
Hello - Does anyone happen to have a SQL script or function that can reset all the sequence values found in a given DB? When we rebuild the DB it would be handy to be able to set all the sequence back to a known starting place. Thanks! -Nate ---(end of

[GENERAL] Importance of CPU floating point performance...

2007-11-09 Thread Nathan Wilhelmi
Hello - Trying to find out how much floating point operation performance effects Postgres in general. Looking at some lower power machines that have good integer performance but not great floating point performance, shared FPU across cpus. If we store, but don't use in query criteria, floating

[GENERAL] Configuration starting point...

2007-09-19 Thread Nathan Wilhelmi
Hello - Several people kindly responded directly to me with some specific suggestions for this, however the message was mistakenly deleted and not in the archives. If you remember who you are and wouldn't mind resending that would be fantastic! Thanks! -Nate Hello - Just installed 8.2.4 on

[GENERAL] Configuration starting point...

2007-08-10 Thread Nathan Wilhelmi
Hello - Just installed 8.2.4 on a Solaris 9 box. It's an 8-way (15000 MHz sparc) with 32GB of ram. We don't know the exact table structure yet or access patterns, although the first thing that will be looked at is a Sesame triple store DB. I would expect that this DB will be more skewed to

[GENERAL] Data corruption problem...

2006-12-01 Thread Nathan Wilhelmi
Hello - Ran into an interesting problem last week with data unexpectedly being deleted. Has anyone else experienced this and have any suggestions on how to prevent this in the future? Here is the environment: Server: 8.0.3 on Solaris 9 JDBC Driver: 8.0.311 This is the series of statements