[ADMIN]

2001-08-21 Thread Joshua Franklin
I just moved in as system administrator at a small ISP. We have a postgresql database to keep track of user logins, for example to see if a new user has not used the account and so might be having trouble getting it set up. Anyway, the db, called radiusdb, grows fairly quickly. What we'd like to d

[ADMIN] delete/vacuum not freeing disk space

2001-10-06 Thread Joshua Franklin
I've got a large database that's getting too big. I checked with the users and deleted approximately 1/6th of the records (we have archived backups) and then ran a VACUUM, which took a really long time to complete (several days). But, the disk space usage doesn't seem to have changed. Do I need to

Re: [ADMIN] delete/vacuum not freeing disk space

2001-10-13 Thread Joshua Franklin
Sorry, I realize now that my original post was very unclear. I read the FAQ and therefore know that just running VACUUM will not show decreased disk usage. However, I would expect that after deleting 1/6 of the db and running vacuum, the db would quit growing on the disk (except for maybe some log

Re: [ADMIN] postgresql under Windows is slow

2002-01-30 Thread Joshua Franklin
Oleg Bartunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > anybody has an experience how is stable postgresql under Windows system ? > I tried postgresq 7.1 under Cygwin, Windows 98 and was dissapointed > by very bad performance. As you might guess, Cygwin's speed depends heavily on the version of Windows yo