[ADMIN] Date formats in 7.0b2

2000-04-05 Thread Hernan J. Gonzalez
I'm puzzled with the date formats in the 7.0b2 version. Perhaps I'm missing something trivial, (SQL standards?) but I have been using postgres from years, and never had this kind of problem. I use the -e switch, so that > dates passed to and from the > frontend processes will be > assumed to be i

Re: [ADMIN] Advantages of pg_dumpall over tar/gzip?

2000-03-20 Thread Hernan J. Gonzalez
--- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's the advantage of using pg_dumpall over > tar/gzip for backup? > > pg_dumpall grabs a constent snapshot of the data. > tar/gzip is just > backing up the files, so you can get some data in > some table that is > committed, but miss data in an

Re: [ADMIN] Tuning postgres for high volume applications

2000-03-20 Thread Hernan J. Gonzalez
-- Brian Baquiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Postgres 6.5.2 in a high-volume > application that has on the order of a > hundred inserts and selects (but mostly inserts) a > minute. My loadaverage hovers > around 1.0, and can go much, much higher (50-80) > during vacuum and que

[ADMIN] bug with serial field?

2000-02-23 Thread Hernan J. Gonzalez
My table 'clientes' has a serial field, with name 'rid'. Now, take a look at these queries: ss => select rid from clientes where rid > 18974 and rid < 18976; rid - 18975 (1 row) ss => select rid from clientes where rid = 18975; rid --- (0 rows) A vacuum (or vacuum analyze) did

Re: [ADMIN] request for tuning suggestions from PC Week Labs

2000-01-31 Thread Hernan J. Gonzalez
My init script includes this line (in red hat 6.1): echo "1" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax to increase the available shared memory, and afterwards: /sql/bin/postmaster -B5892 -D/sql/data -o "-e -B5892 -S4000 -F" -i >> /sql/log/sql.log > When fsync is off, how is > data loss possible? >