[ADMIN] vacuum full suddently took extremely long

2013-07-29 Thread Bert
already did this 2 times), but this time it took over 8hours, while the table did not grow significantly. Does anyone has an idea what could have triggered the vacuum go this slow? wkr, Bert -- Bert Desmet

[ADMIN] restoring a table after an online backup

2013-07-15 Thread Bert
Hello, I was just wondering: Is it possible to restore a specific table from an online backup? Or is it only possible if we first restore the backup, replay all the logs, and then take the table files? wkr, Bert Desmet

Re: [ADMIN] Primary DB stuck becuase of unavailable standby (synchronized streaming) - please help

2013-04-18 Thread Bert
Hell**o Yuval, I would suggest to buy a third server if you want to do synchronous replication. However, if your network is broken, I would first fix the network. :) cheers, Bert On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.comwrote: On Apr 18, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Sofer

Re: [ADMIN] slave restarts with kill -9 coming from somewhere, or nowhere

2013-04-04 Thread Bert
need a lot of connections. But I want to process a lot of data fast. cheers, Bert On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Bert bier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have turned vm.overcommit_memory on 1. It's a pretty much dedicated machine anyway, except for some postgres maintainance scripts I run

Re: [ADMIN] slave restarts with kill -9 coming from somewhere, or nowhere

2013-04-03 Thread Bert
Hi Tom, thanks for the tip! it was indeed the oom killer. Is it wise to disable the oom killer? Or will the server really go down withough postgres doing something about it? currently I already lowered the shared_memory value a bit.. cheers, Bert On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Tom Lane t

Re: [ADMIN] slave restarts with kill -9 coming from somewhere, or nowhere

2013-04-03 Thread Bert
Hi all, I have turned vm.overcommit_memory on 1. It's a pretty much dedicated machine anyway, except for some postgres maintainance scripts I run in python / bash from the server. We'll see what it gives. cheers, Bert On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Bert bier...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tom

[ADMIN] slave restarts with kill -9 coming from somewhere, or nowhere

2013-04-02 Thread Bert
exactly? wkr, Bert -- Bert Desmet 0477/305361

[ADMIN] vacuum / analyze parent tables on partitioned tables.

2013-01-23 Thread Bert
. Does anyone has an idea why in this case the vacuum/analyze takes almost as long on the parent table as on the biggest child table? (the other child tables are smaller than f_tranaction_1, and their vacuum/analyze time is much shorter). wkr, Bert

Re: [ADMIN] vacuum / analyze parent tables on partitioned tables.

2013-01-23 Thread Bert
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Albe Laurenz laurenz.a...@wien.gv.atwrote: Bert wrote: I wrote a script to make sure all tables are vacuumed and analyzed every evening. This works very well. Autovacuum doesn't do the job for you? That would save you from worries like the ones you have

Re: [ADMIN] vacuum / analyze parent tables on partitioned tables.

2013-01-23 Thread Bert
, that's the main reason we want to control it with postgres too. I am still wondering why the children need to be analyzed, if we vacuum/analyze the childs seperatly. but thank you for giving me some clarification. cheers, Bert On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Rural Hunter ruralhun...@gmail.com

Re: [ADMIN] vacuum / analyze parent tables on partitioned tables.

2013-01-23 Thread Bert
! :) cheers, Bert On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Prashanth Ranjalkar prashant.ranjal...@gmail.com wrote: *Hi Bert,* ** *Vaccum analyze operation would be a time consuming activity when it operates on partitioned table in parent and child relationship by using a manual vaccum option. When

Re: [ADMIN] vacuum / analyze parent tables on partitioned tables.

2013-01-23 Thread Bert
complex queries and star schemes, and still a high insert / update load. pretty much all the time. But that's where the challenge is, I guess. cheers, Bert -- Bert Desmet 0477/305361