Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum taking an age

2008-01-03 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 03.01.2008, at 05:48, Brian Modra wrote: I have a pretty live table: rows being inserted and updated more than once 1 per second, though far, far more inserts than updates. Not that busy ;-) It has not been vacuumed for months. Not good. Now a vacuum on that table takes hours, and I

Re: [ADMIN] DB Performance Tuning

2006-09-05 Thread Guido Neitzer
HI. Can you try (just for testing) using a jdbc2 driver and a connection string with protocolVersion=2 included in the jdbc connection? I had the same issue with this and the problem is, that the query optimizer sometimes decides NOT to use indexes on prepared statements (the newer JDBC drivers

Re: [ADMIN] front-end to Postgres

2006-08-18 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 18.08.2006, at 16:14 Uhr, Karen Springer wrote: I am curious what others out in the community are using as a front- end to Postgres. We are currently using Microsoft Access Python CGI scripts. We use WebObjects [1] for internal and external applications. WebObjects and its

Re: [ADMIN] two databases in one

2006-08-16 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 16.08.2006, at 9:13 Uhr, Soulabaille Samantha wrote: I've got two databases with the same tables and schema on two different servers. I want to have only one database. Okay. I don't know how to do this because almost of the tables contains serial. And you have overlapping keys from

Re: [ADMIN] 8.0 install via fink on OS X, now what?

2006-05-30 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 29.05.2006, at 22:27 Uhr, Peter Kovacs wrote: Are there any known issues related to compiling for OS X on Intel? No issues I know about. But I have only build it once on our test MacBook Pro. cug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't

Re: [ADMIN] 8.0 install via fink on OS X, now what?

2006-05-29 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 29.05.2006, at 19:56 Uhr, Mitch Pirtle wrote: Now finally getting comfortable on the new PowerBook, and after weeks of whining about no OS X packages I discovered the fink binaries, which I dutifully installed last night. Bad idea. They are normally old, install in stupid locations, are

Re: [ADMIN] Autovacuum ideas

2006-04-13 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 13.04.2006, at 7:56 Uhr, Brendan Duddridge wrote: What I'd like to see is a table exclusion list. I have a few very large history tables that are never updated or deleted, only inserts and selects. But if you do selects regularly you may want to have the analyse part of autovacuum for