Re: [ADMIN] Requirements for a database server

2001-07-26 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm trying to vacuum the tables, but the pg_xlog is gettting very big > (filling up the harddrive). As an estimate, how much space do you need to > vacuum a 30GB table (data + indexes) ? Not a lot, if you apply the previously posted patch to truncate the xlog a little

Re: [ADMIN] Requirements for a database server

2001-07-25 Thread Robert . Farrugia
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Re: [ADMIN] Requirements for a database server

2001-07-23 Thread Robert . Farrugia
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Re: [ADMIN] Requirements for a database server

2001-07-22 Thread Ron Chmara
On Tuesday, July 17, 2001, at 10:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I have been using postgres for the last year now. The database > has grown > from a mere few MBs to over 100GB data and expected to top up > 300GB by the > end of the year. Interesting. The most I've ever seen a PG data

Re: [ADMIN] Requirements for a database server

2001-07-19 Thread Robert . Farrugia
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Re: [ADMIN] Requirements for a database server

2001-07-19 Thread Tom Lane
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ragnar_Kj=F8rstad?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:38:25AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Since I have a number of heavy inserts per day, dropping the indexes and >> recreating them could be an option. Only problem I see is that to >> recreate them th

Re: [ADMIN] Requirements for a database server

2001-07-19 Thread Ragnar Kjørstad
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:38:25AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since I have a number of heavy inserts per day, dropping the indexes and > recreating them could be an option. Only problem I see is that to > recreate them they take alot of time, at which queries will be tremendously > slow.

Re: [ADMIN] Requirements for a database server

2001-07-18 Thread Robert . Farrugia
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Re: [ADMIN] Requirements for a database server

2001-07-18 Thread Robert . Farrugia
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Requirements for a database server

Re: [ADMIN] Requirements for a database server

2001-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have been using postgres for the last year now. The database has grown > from a mere few MBs to over 100GB data and expected to top up 300GB by the > end of the year. Lately performance of queries, inserts, updates has > continued to grow worse as the dataset has gr

Re: [ADMIN] Requirements for a database server

2001-07-18 Thread Ross J. Reedstrom
Robert - You mention having a PostgreSQL database in production for around a year. May I ask what version it is? I'm guessing you're still at 6.5.X, in which case, I'd suggest an upgrade to 7.1.2, before doing anything more drastic. Not only are there bug fixes, many improving stability of the s

Re: [ADMIN] Requirements for a database server

2001-07-18 Thread Robert . Farrugia
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[ADMIN] Requirements for a database server

2001-07-18 Thread Robert . Farrugia
Hi, I have been using postgres for the last year now. The database has grown from a mere few MBs to over 100GB data and expected to top up 300GB by the end of the year. Lately performance of queries, inserts, updates has continued to grow worse as the dataset has grown larger, even though most