Re: [ADMIN] Streaming replication status and fail over questions

2011-06-03 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 11:07 -0700, Michael Holt wrote: > I'm investigating moving from slony to streaming replication as we > plan some upgrades from 8.x versions of postgres to 9. I've managed to > get it working but there's a couple questions I've been unable to find > answers to so far. > > 1)

[ADMIN] Streaming replication status and fail over questions

2011-06-03 Thread Michael Holt
I'm investigating moving from slony to streaming replication as we plan some upgrades from 8.x versions of postgres to 9. I've managed to get it working but there's a couple questions I've been unable to find answers to so far. 1) I've seen things about using pg_current_xlog_location(), pg_last_xl

Re: [ADMIN] surprised to find bloat in insert-only table

2011-06-03 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Stosberg writes: > Compared to 1669 MB reported as table bloat in the 'bloat' view. So, > the bloat is about 40% of the total size. > For an index, it's 410 MB of bloat, vs 1669 MB for an index size. Hm ... 40% unused space wouldn't be surprising at all for an index. The traditional rule of

Re: [ADMIN] surprised to find bloat in insert-only table

2011-06-03 Thread Mark Stosberg
Thanks for reply, Tom. > It's hard to evaluate that without knowing what the actual table/index > sizes are, or IOW what is the reported bloat on a percentage basis? The table size is reported as: 4036 MB according to: select pg_size_pretty(pg_table_size('table_name')); Compared to 1669 MB

Re: [ADMIN] viewing results in terminal on RedHat 6.1

2011-06-03 Thread Campbell, Lance
Brett, Thanks! That did it. Lance -Original Message- From: pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Brett Parker Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 8:32 AM To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] viewing results in terminal on RedHat 6

Re: [ADMIN] surprised to find bloat in insert-only table

2011-06-03 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Stosberg writes: > I recently set up partitioning on a table that sees heavy insert > traffic. There are never updates or deletes, we just drop the partitions > later. > It's my understanding that bloat can only appear through updates or > deletes, but these partitions are reported to have s

[ADMIN] surprised to find bloat in insert-only table

2011-06-03 Thread Mark Stosberg
I recently set up partitioning on a table that sees heavy insert traffic. There are never updates or deletes, we just drop the partitions later. It's my understanding that bloat can only appear through updates or deletes, but these partitions are reported to have significant bloat in them. Where

[ADMIN] any tricks to get foreign key constraint builds faster

2011-06-03 Thread Mike Broers
I am in the process of implementing cascade on delete constraints retroactively on rather large tables so I can cleanly remove deprecated data. The problem is recreating some foreign key constraints on tables of 55 million rows+ was taking much longer than the maintenance window I had, and now I a

Re: [ADMIN] viewing results in terminal on RedHat 6.1

2011-06-03 Thread Brett Parker
On 03 Jun 12:49, Campbell, Lance wrote: > Postgres: 9.x > On RedHat 4.x when I would access Postgres through a terminal for command > line queries if the results of a queries exceeded more than 50+ lines I would > still see the results after pressing "quit". On RedHat 6.1 Workstation when > I s

Re: [ADMIN] - upgrade advice

2011-06-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
fel wrote: > I have a small server running RHEL 5.2 32bit / Postgresql 8.3.3. > I would like to upgrade Postgres to 9.0 on a new server running > RHEL 5.5 but 64bit. > > What would be the best solution : > - Dump data from 32bit to 64bit then upgrade to v9.0 (using > pg_upgrade). > - Upgrade

[ADMIN] viewing results in terminal on RedHat 6.1

2011-06-03 Thread Campbell, Lance
Postgres: 9.x On RedHat 4.x when I would access Postgres through a terminal for command line queries if the results of a queries exceeded more than 50+ lines I would still see the results after pressing "quit". On RedHat 6.1 Workstation when I see queries that exceed some threshold 50+ when I p

[ADMIN] - upgrade advice

2011-06-03 Thread fel
Hello all, I would need advice regarding upgrade. I have a small server running RHEL 5.2 32bit / Postgresql 8.3.3. I would like to upgrade Postgres to 9.0 on a new server running RHEL 5.5 but 64bit. What would be the best solution : - Dump data from 32bit to 64bit then upgrade to v9.0 (using