Re: [GENERAL] pg 8.1.2 performance issue

2006-03-25 Thread chris smith
On 3/26/06, Ed L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday March 25 2006 9:36 pm, Ed L. wrote: > > I have a performance riddle, hoping someone can point me in a > > helpful direction. We have a pg 8.1.2 cluster using > > Apache::Sessions and experiencing simple UPDATEs taking > > sometimes 30+ sec

Re: [GENERAL] pg 8.1.2 performance issue

2006-03-25 Thread Ed L.
On Saturday March 25 2006 9:49 pm, Ed L. wrote: > On Saturday March 25 2006 9:36 pm, Ed L. wrote: > > I have a performance riddle, hoping someone can point me in > > a helpful direction. We have a pg 8.1.2 cluster using > > Apache::Sessions and experiencing simple UPDATEs taking > > sometimes 30+

Re: [GENERAL] pg 8.1.2 performance issue

2006-03-25 Thread Ed L.
On Saturday March 25 2006 9:36 pm, Ed L. wrote: > I have a performance riddle, hoping someone can point me in a > helpful direction. We have a pg 8.1.2 cluster using > Apache::Sessions and experiencing simple UPDATEs taking > sometimes 30+ seconds to do a very simply update, no foreign > keys, no

[GENERAL] pg 8.1.2 performance issue

2006-03-25 Thread Ed L.
I have a performance riddle, hoping someone can point me in a helpful direction. We have a pg 8.1.2 cluster using Apache::Sessions and experiencing simple UPDATEs taking sometimes 30+ seconds to do a very simply update, no foreign keys, no triggers: Table "public.sessions" Column

Re: [GENERAL] PANIC: heap_update_redo: no block

2006-03-25 Thread Alex bahdushka
> Hrm ok ill see about doing either the patch or setting wal_debug to > true (or both). However im currently on vacation till Saturday so ill > do this first thing then and report the results back. Thank you very > much! Ok here is the output with wal_debug set to 1 in the config and the final

Re: [GENERAL] Problems running regression tests

2006-03-25 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 03/24/2006 10:07:24 PM, Tom Lane wrote: "Karl O. Pinc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Makefile has Does it work better if you change that to [ -x /usr/bin/chcon ] && /usr/bin/chcon -u user_u -r object_r -t postgresql_db_t testtablespace results Nope. The other thing to keep in mind

[GENERAL] A place to post pgbench results

2006-03-25 Thread Just Someone
After exchanging a few emails regarding pgbench in the list, I was thinking it'll be cool to have a place to post pgbench resulats from all over the place. Just so people can get an idea of what others are getting. If more people think it's a good idea, I'll be glad to host it as part of my blog.

[GENERAL] Planet PostgreSQL : Do you want to blog?

2006-03-25 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, We currently have 28 bloggers in Planet PostgreSQL (http://PlanetPostgreSQL.org ), and we hope to grow more. For the people who want to blog on PostgreSQL, but does not have a blogging area, we provide a space: http://people.PlanetPostgreSQL.org . If you think you are interested, please dro

[GENERAL] experiences needed - how does Itanium2/1.5GHz(4MB) compare to AMD and Intel CPUs as far as Postgresql is concerned

2006-03-25 Thread Tomaz Borstnar
Hello! First tried some searching around, but did not find anything useful so I gave up and decided to ask here... I am wondering how do pair of 1.5GHz Itanium2(4MB cache) stack up against pair of AMD or Intel server CPUs as far as postgresql performance is concerned? Is it worthy or not? Th

Re: [GENERAL] Advantages of PostgreSQL over MySQL 5.0

2006-03-25 Thread Chris Travers
Leif Jensen wrote: Hello, I have with great interrest been following this thread. We have a (small) flame war in house about this and I'm very happy about all the arguments I have seen. I'm a long time user of PostgreSQL (which possibly makes me a bit biased ;-) ) and I think it's great. I'm

Re: [GENERAL] prepared SELECT and placeholders with NULL values

2006-03-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 15:24:16 -0600, Michael Lea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $s = $db->prepare('SELECT id FROM person WHERE lname = ? AND fname = ?'); > > But this does not, returning an empty list: > $s->execute('Cher', undef); = NULL will return NULL for every row and no rows will

Re: [GENERAL] Advantages of PostgreSQL over MySQL 5.0

2006-03-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 14:30:54 +0100, Leif Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) I wonder that no one has mentioned anything about security issues in > those two. I know that I'm a novice and that I didn't use MySql very much, > but it seems to me that the PostgreSQL security is much better

Re: [GENERAL] pgadmin

2006-03-25 Thread A. Kretschmer
am 25.03.2006, um 14:12:16 +0100 mailte Peter Eisentraut folgendes: > Am Freitag, 24. März 2006 18:48 schrieb A. Kretschmer: > > am 24.03.2006, um 19:13:56 + mailte Mary Adel folgendes: > > > Is the server running on host "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" and accepting > > > TCP/IP connections on port 5432?

Re: [GENERAL] Practical limit on number of tables ina single database

2006-03-25 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 06:56:19PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "Just Someone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Actually, most table are VERY small. On each schema I would expect 4 - > > 5 tables to go over 1000 records. The rest will be much smaller, with > > most at under 100. And aside from 2-3 table

Re: [GENERAL] Advantages of PostgreSQL over MySQL 5.0

2006-03-25 Thread Leif Jensen
Hello, I have with great interrest been following this thread. We have a (small) flame war in house about this and I'm very happy about all the arguments I have seen. I'm a long time user of PostgreSQL (which possibly makes me a bit biased ;-) ) and I think it's great. I'm not a big database

Re: [GENERAL] pgadmin

2006-03-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Freitag, 24. März 2006 18:48 schrieb A. Kretschmer: > am 24.03.2006, um 19:13:56 + mailte Mary Adel folgendes: > > Is the server running on host "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" and accepting > > TCP/IP connections on port 5432? > My guess: you should check your pg_hab.conf. If that were the problem, th

Re: [GENERAL] inheridt tables from db

2006-03-25 Thread chris smith
On 3/25/06, nik600 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > > i am considering to port an important web applications to postgres, > this applications is made of php and i reuse the same code for many > customer, due to have a clean structure and simple updates... > > now i have one code and many databases

Re: [GENERAL] regarding join

2006-03-25 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 12:06:34PM +0530, AKHILESH GUPTA wrote: > hi all, > below I have created two tables in pgsql with field name as 'name' and 'id' > as their datatype 'varchar(15)' and 'integer'. Looks like: select * from test1 UNION ALL select * from test3; would be a very good start. --