Re: [ADMIN] memory strangeness (fwd)

2004-09-24 Thread Curt Sampson
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Tom Lane wrote: > Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Shared memory pages, IIRC, are locked, meaning that they cannot be > > swapped. > > Is that really how it works on *BSD? That's great if so --- it's > exactly what Postgres

Re: [ADMIN] Disk Utilization Increases And Time for Vacuum Increases.

2003-08-28 Thread Curt Sampson
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > While we're at it, anybody got a clue on how to reindex system tables? > The procedure given in the REINDEX reference page doesn't work for you? You mean with the standalone backend?

Re: [ADMIN] Disk Utilization Increases And Time for Vacuum Increases.

2003-08-28 Thread Curt Sampson
ts out around a few megabytes, and doesn't take too long to grow to several hundred megabytes.) So far, the only way I've found to fix this is to do a complete dump and reload of the database, but that's a pain since we have tables with mutual constraints that can't be reload

Re: [ADMIN] Disk Utilization Increases And Time for Vacuum Increases.

2003-08-25 Thread Curt Sampson
0 (zero). > I dont know how to interpret that. What does > it mean. It means you haven't done an ANALYZE after changing the size of the database. cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.NetBSD.org

Re: [ADMIN] Indexes on Large Tables

2003-02-06 Thread Curt Sampson
these purposes). Try doing an ANALYZE. cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you

Re: [ADMIN] Tape/DVD Backup Suggestions?

2002-07-17 Thread Curt Sampson
for retreiving stuff older than that and for off-site backups. cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [ADMIN] Controlling performance impact of multiple users

2002-07-15 Thread Curt Sampson
you could always shut down both databases and rsync one to the other. cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [ADMIN] Controlling performance impact of multiple users

2002-07-14 Thread Curt Sampson
I recommend somehow replicating the data from the OLTP server to another server for the OLAP folks. cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC -

Re: [ADMIN] memory strangeness (fwd)

2002-07-09 Thread Curt Sampson
ck, keep a separate list of changes to the block that any other processes must also examine, and only apply those changes to the block after the WAL entry is confirmed written to stable storage. cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don&#

Re: [ADMIN] memory strangeness (fwd)

2002-07-09 Thread Curt Sampson
GB of data, since the number of blocks buffered will not be limited by the maximum address space of a single process. cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we're all light. --XTC ---

Re: [ADMIN] views: performance implication

2002-07-07 Thread Curt Sampson
;ll want to check with EXPLAIN that you're still getting the same query plan. But I don't think this is true of every view, just some of them. cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +81 90 7737 2974 http://www.netbsd.org Don't you know, in this new Dark Age, we

Re: [ADMIN] memory strangeness (fwd)

2002-07-06 Thread Curt Sampson
C... What's the sysctl setting I use > to set/check the data size limits? It's not a sysctl, because those limits are settable per-process. Use "ulimit -aS" to check the current (soft) limits, and "ulimit -aH" to check the hard limits (beyond which the soft

Re: [ADMIN] Are statistics gathered on function indexes?

2002-06-28 Thread Curt Sampson
w many you get? If you know you want to do a table scan if you have more than, say, 500 rows that match 'W%', you'd only have to read a few index pages to determine whether or not there are more than 500 rows, right? Or am I on crack here? cjs -- Curt Sampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ADMIN] Hardware needed for 15,000,000 record DB?

2002-04-22 Thread Curt Sampson
er products in that class being worthwhile. An SQL Server installation is typically a $10,000-$50,000 kind of thing. (You can do it for a lot less, but most such products that can get by with such small installations would probably be just as well off with PostgreSQL.)