Re: [GENERAL] Reasons for postgres processes beeing killed by SIGNAL 9?

2012-05-17 Thread Steve Crawford
On 05/17/2012 03:44 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote: Hi, Recently single postgres processes are killed by SIGNAL 9 on our virtual vvmware managed server without any manual interaction - causing lost transactions. Any ideas what could be the reason? Could postmaster the source of the signal? We are r

Re: [GENERAL] difference in query plan when db is restored

2012-05-17 Thread Tom Lane
"John Watts" writes: > I have a database query which executes normal (under 1s) with 21 steps > according to the query paln. However, when the database is dumped and > restored on the _same_ PostgreSQL server, the query plan takes 34 steps > to complete and it executes in excess of 90 seconds! Us

[GENERAL] difference in query plan when db is restored

2012-05-17 Thread John Watts
Hi folks, I have a database query which executes normal (under 1s) with 21 steps according to the query paln. However, when the database is dumped and restored on the _same_ PostgreSQL server, the query plan takes 34 steps to complete and it executes in excess of 90 seconds! Why is the query pla

[GENERAL] Reasons for postgres processes beeing killed by SIGNAL 9?

2012-05-17 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, Recently single postgres processes are killed by SIGNAL 9 on our virtual vvmware managed server without any manual interaction - causing lost transactions. Any ideas what could be the reason? Could postmaster the source of the signal? We are running postgreql 8.4.7 on Linux 64-bit. Thank you

[GENERAL] Replication recovery?

2012-05-17 Thread John Mudd
Sorry if this is a dumb question. Feel free to just point me to a doc. I've read a little about Postgres replication and the concept of a master and one or more slaves. If one db is down then you just switch to one that's still running. There's even additional software like pgpool to make the swit

Re: [GENERAL] How to debug the performance issues via which system catalog.Thanks.

2012-05-17 Thread Steve Crawford
On 05/17/2012 11:54 AM, leaf_yxj wrote: I know we can know the currenct activity via pg_stat_activity. What's else you guys use to debug. And for some times back, how can we check the activities? Thanks. Grace Performance is a complex enough issue to warrant its own mailing list (CPU type, num

Re: [GENERAL] How to write a script to analyze and vacuum all the tables in the system catalog?Thanks.

2012-05-17 Thread Steve Crawford
On 05/17/2012 11:30 AM, leaf_yxj wrote: Hi Guys. Please help me about this. For postgres database, it looks like we need analyze and vacuum all the tables periodly. I need to write a script which can be executed in crontab. I don't have any clues about that. I only know the command : analyze ta

[GENERAL] How to debug the performance issues via which system catalog.Thanks.

2012-05-17 Thread leaf_yxj
I know we can know the currenct activity via pg_stat_activity. What's else you guys use to debug. And for some times back, how can we check the activities? Thanks. Grace -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/How-to-debug-the-performance-issues-via-which-syste

[GENERAL] How to write a script to analyze and vacuum all the tables in the system catalog?Thanks.

2012-05-17 Thread leaf_yxj
Hi Guys. Please help me about this. For postgres database, it looks like we need analyze and vacuum all the tables periodly. I need to write a script which can be executed in crontab. I don't have any clues about that. I only know the command : analyze tablename; vacuum tablename; Please helps.

Re: [GENERAL] difference in query plan when db is restored

2012-05-17 Thread John Watts
No change I'm afraid :( -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:t...@sss.pgh.pa.us] Sent: 17 May 2012 22:59 To: John Watts Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] difference in query plan when db is restored "John Watts" writes: > I have a database query which execu

Re: [GENERAL] cannot compile www_fdw Foreign Data Wrapper

2012-05-17 Thread Tom Lane
Adrian Schreyer writes: > I am trying to compile the www_fdw foreign data wrapper on PostgreSQL > 9.2 beta but I am getting the following error: We changed the planner API for foreign data wrappers in 9.2, so you won't be able to compile 9.1 FDWs until their code is updated.

[GENERAL] Re: Is EXISTS the most efficient approach for PostgreSql to check for existence of nodes in a tree?

2012-05-17 Thread Seref Arikan
Trying to reply to Rob: Apologies if this does not end up in the thread (gmail is just driving me mad, I can't seem to receive messages, so I've subscribed again) For some reason Limit 1 cause my query to go on for minutes without a response, which was not the case. The following query takes abo

[GENERAL] cannot compile www_fdw Foreign Data Wrapper

2012-05-17 Thread Adrian Schreyer
Hi all, I am trying to compile the www_fdw foreign data wrapper on PostgreSQL 9.2 beta but I am getting the following error: cp sql/www_fdw.sql sql/www_fdw--0.1.0.sql gcc -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security -Werror=format-security -fPIC -DLINUX_OOM_ADJ=0

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 9.0 Streaming Replication and Load Balancing?

2012-05-17 Thread Paulo Correia
Yes, that was the results of our tests ... It seems we'll have to do a lot of work on the application to separate the queries in order to achieve the load-balancing. Thanks anyway, Best regards, Paulo Correia On 17/05/12 09:32, Sumit Raja wrote: Unsure you can achieve this without a read on

Re: [GENERAL] Is EXISTS the most efficient approach for PostgreSql to check for existence of nodes in a tree?

2012-05-17 Thread Rob Sargentg
On 05/17/2012 03:06 AM, Seref Arikan wrote: I have a key value table in my Postgresql db, which represents hierarchical data through parent_feature_mapping column that points to id of feature_mapping_id column of the same table. I need to select root nodes that has children which satisfy vario

[GENERAL] Is EXISTS the most efficient approach for PostgreSql to check for existence of nodes in a tree?

2012-05-17 Thread Seref Arikan
I have a key value table in my Postgresql db, which represents hierarchical data through parent_feature_mapping column that points to id of feature_mapping_id column of the same table. I need to select root nodes that has children which satisfy various conditions. The conditions may extend to chil

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 9.0 Streaming Replication and Load Balancing?

2012-05-17 Thread Sumit Raja
Unsure you can achieve this without a read only and a read write application set up, I've always had RW application servers separate from RO ones. You could disable the application connection pool completely and let pg-pool do the pooling for you (not sure of performance impact, if any) as the ses