[GENERAL] Planner forces seq scan when select without quoting its values

2012-09-12 Thread Alex Lai
alex1 is a table with 47 million rows and a rule that deletes from another table whenever an insert is made into alex1. Insertions into alex1 are causing a seq scan that takes a very long time: "EXPLAIN insert into alex1 (fileid, archiveset) select 35352974, 10003;" (EXPLAIN output is at

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-09-12 Thread Sébastien Lorion
pgbench initialization has been going on for almost 5 hours now and still stuck before vacuum starts .. something is definitely wrong as I don't remember it took so long first time I created the db. Here are the current stats now: *iostat (xbd13-14 are WAL zpool)* device r/s w/skr/s

Re: [GENERAL] how long to wait on 9.2 bitrock installer?

2012-09-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/12/12 10:42 PM, Dann Corbit wrote: I just let it sit. 3.5 hours later, it completed. ... I have several versions of PostgreSQL already installed on this machine. We need to test compatibility with PostgreSQL database systems with our products. I tried to install 9.2 64 bit using th

Re: [GENERAL] how long to wait on 9.2 bitrock installer?

2012-09-12 Thread Sachin Srivastava
The reboot might have purged the installation log. On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Dann Corbit wrote: > I should mention also that the new PostgreSQL instance is working fine. > I am looking forward to testing it. > > ** ** > > *From:* Dann Corbit > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 12, 2012 1

Re: [GENERAL] how long to wait on 9.2 bitrock installer?

2012-09-12 Thread Sachin Srivastava
If possible, can you share the installation log? (%TEMP%\install-postgresql.log) On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Dann Corbit wrote: > I just let it sit. 3.5 hours later, it completed. > > ** ** > > *From:* pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto: > pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org]

Re: [GENERAL] how long to wait on 9.2 bitrock installer?

2012-09-12 Thread Dann Corbit
I just let it sit. 3.5 hours later, it completed. From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Dann Corbit Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 1:24 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] how long to wait on 9.2 bitrock installe

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-09-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/12/12 10:01 PM, Sébastien Lorion wrote: pgbench initialization has been going on for almost 5 hours now and still stuck before vacuum starts .. something is definitely wrong as I don't remember it took so long first time I created the db pgbench initialization with a high scale facto

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-09-12 Thread Chris Travers
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Vincent Veyron wrote: > Le mardi 21 août 2012 à 01:33 -0400, Sébastien Lorion a écrit : > > > > > > > Since Amazon has added new high I/O instance types and EBS volumes, > > anyone has done some benchmark of PostgreSQL on them ? > > > > I wonder : is there a reaso

Re: [GENERAL] Where do I get pgAdmin 1.16 for openSuSE?

2012-09-12 Thread Mike Christensen
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Adrian Klaver > wrote: >> On 09/10/2012 09:43 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: >>> Is there a place to download pgAdmin 1.16 for openSuse (or a >>> repository I can add?) >>> >>> All I can find is packages for

Re: [GENERAL] Where do I get pgAdmin 1.16 for openSuSE?

2012-09-12 Thread Mike Christensen
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:49 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 09/10/2012 09:43 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: >> Is there a place to download pgAdmin 1.16 for openSuse (or a >> repository I can add?) >> >> All I can find is packages for 1.14, however this version is unable to >> connect to Postgres 9.2

Re: [GENERAL] replication requires redundant rule in pga_hba?

2012-09-12 Thread Tom Lane
Wells Oliver writes: > It seems like the following is redundant: > host all all 0.0.0.0/0md5 > hostnossl replication replicationuser 0.0.0.0/0md5 > The first one allows either SSL or non SSL to all users for all DBs from > any address via MD5. Good for e

[GENERAL] replication requires redundant rule in pga_hba?

2012-09-12 Thread Wells Oliver
It seems like the following is redundant: host all all 0.0.0.0/0md5 hostnossl replication replicationuser 0.0.0.0/0md5 The first one allows either SSL or non SSL to all users for all DBs from any address via MD5. Good for everything, no? Yet if I remove

Re: [GENERAL] Tables with lots of dead tuples despite autovacuum

2012-09-12 Thread Jeff Janes
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Wells Oliver wrote: > We have a few tables that are updated nightly on the order of deleting and > inserting 500k records. Out of how many in total? > I assumed autovacuum would do its thing and clean up the dead tuples, but in > looking at pg_stat_user_tables, I

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-09-12 Thread Sébastien Lorion
Forgot to say that this is it with new values suggested (see included postgresql.conf) and ARC cache size set to 32GB. Sébastien On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Sébastien Lorion wrote: > I recreated the DB and WAL pools, and launched pgbench -i -s 1. Here > are the stats during the load (st

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-09-12 Thread Sébastien Lorion
I recreated the DB and WAL pools, and launched pgbench -i -s 1. Here are the stats during the load (still running): *iostat (xbd13-14 are WAL zpool)* device r/s w/skr/skw/s qlen svc_t %b xbd8 0.0 471.5 0.0 14809.3 40 67.9 84 xbd7 0.0 448.1 0.0 14072.6 3

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-09-12 Thread Sébastien Lorion
One more question .. I could not set wal_sync_method to anything else but fsync .. is that expected or should other choices be also available ? I am not sure how the EC2 SSD cache flushing is handled on EC2, but I hope it is flushing the whole cache on every sync .. As a side note, I got corrupted

Re: [GENERAL] Compressed binary field

2012-09-12 Thread Edson Richter
Em 12/09/2012 15:09, Kevin Grittner escreveu: VACUUM FREEZE VERBOSE ANALYZE Sorry, most of the messages are in portuguese, but I guess numbers are more important, right? INFO: índice "pk_notafiscalarq" agora contém 715084 versões de registros em 1963 páginas DETALHE: 0 versões de registros

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-09-12 Thread Sébastien Lorion
Is dedicating 2 drives for WAL too much ? Since my whole raid is comprised of SSD drives, should I just put it in the main pool ? Sébastien On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:28 PM, Sébastien Lorion wrote: > Ok, make sense .. I will update that as well and report back. Thank you > for your advice. > > Sé

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-09-12 Thread Sébastien Lorion
Ok, make sense .. I will update that as well and report back. Thank you for your advice. Sébastien On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:04 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 09/12/12 4:49 PM, Sébastien Lorion wrote: > >> You set shared_buffers way below what is suggested in Greg Smith book >> (25% or more of R

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-09-12 Thread Sébastien Lorion
The DB back-end of my application has 2 use cases: - a normalized master DB, sharded by userid (based on their activity, not a formula such as modulo, because some users can be 1-2 order of magnitude more active than others) - many denormalized read-only slaves, with some different models dependi

Re: [GENERAL] Tables with lots of dead tuples despite autovacuum

2012-09-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/12/12 5:00 PM, Wells Oliver wrote: We have a few tables that are updated nightly on the order of deleting and inserting 500k records. I assumed autovacuum would do its thing and clean up the dead tuples, but in looking at pg_stat_user_tables, I notice there are lots and lots of dead tup

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-09-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/12/12 4:49 PM, Sébastien Lorion wrote: You set shared_buffers way below what is suggested in Greg Smith book (25% or more of RAM) .. what is the rationale behind that rule of thumb ? Other values are more or less what I set, though I could lower the effective_cache_size and vfs.zfs.arc_ma

[GENERAL] Tables with lots of dead tuples despite autovacuum

2012-09-12 Thread Wells Oliver
We have a few tables that are updated nightly on the order of deleting and inserting 500k records. I assumed autovacuum would do its thing and clean up the dead tuples, but in looking at pg_stat_user_tables, I notice there are lots and lots of dead tuples, on the order of a 500-600k. What can I d

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-09-12 Thread Sébastien Lorion
You set shared_buffers way below what is suggested in Greg Smith book (25% or more of RAM) .. what is the rationale behind that rule of thumb ? Other values are more or less what I set, though I could lower the effective_cache_size and vfs.zfs.arc_max and see how it goes. Sébastien On Wed, Sep 12

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-09-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/12/12 4:03 PM, Sébastien Lorion wrote: I agree 1GB is a lot, I played around with that value, but it hardly makes a difference. Is there a plateau in how that value affects query performance ? On a master DB, I would set it low and raise as necessary, but what would be a good average valu

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-09-12 Thread Sébastien Lorion
I agree 1GB is a lot, I played around with that value, but it hardly makes a difference. Is there a plateau in how that value affects query performance ? On a master DB, I would set it low and raise as necessary, but what would be a good average value on a read-only DB with same spec and max_connec

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-09-12 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/12/12 3:17 PM, François Beausoleil wrote: What are the iostat / vmstat numbers during the test? note you need to run iostat with -x and ignore the first sample as its average since reboot. I usually use 5, 10, or 30 second intervals when analyzing IO performance problems. on a s

Re: [GENERAL] CentOS initd Script

2012-09-12 Thread Ondrej Ivanič
Hi, On 12 September 2012 16:41, Kenaniah Cerny wrote: > In the service script that gets installed to /etc/rc.d/init.d/, there is a > hard-coded value for PGPORT. Would it be possible to have this variable and > the corresponding -p flag set when calling postgres removed? My init.d script has the

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-09-12 Thread François Beausoleil
Le 2012-09-12 à 17:08, Sébastien Lorion a écrit : > As you can see, I am nowhere near the results John mentioned for a 10,000 > scale (about 8000 tps) and I am not sure why. My instance setup and > configuration should be ok, but I am far from an expert (a startup founder > has to wear many ha

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-09-12 Thread Sébastien Lorion
Finally I got time to setup an instance and do some tests. Instance: High-Mem 4x large (8 cores, 68 GB) EBS-Optimized flag set (allow up to 1000 Mbits/s transfer) 10GB standard EBS for OS 8x100GB in RAID10 for data (max 1000 iops) 2x100GB in RAID0 for WAL (max 1000 iops) FreeBSD 9.0 PostgreSQL

[GENERAL] how long to wait on 9.2 bitrock installer?

2012-09-12 Thread Dann Corbit
I have several versions of PostgreSQL already installed on this machine. We need to test compatibility with PostgreSQL database systems with our products. I tried to install 9.2 64 bit using the one click installer from this location: http://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgdownload.do#windows I

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0 to 9.2 pg_upgrade pain due to collation mismatch

2012-09-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 09:54:57PM +0200, Henry C. wrote: > > Thanks to all who responded - upgrade was successful! > > One final note, when using pg_upgrade ... --link, it finally recommends > use of delete_old_cluster.sh to remove the old data files. I'm tempted, > but --link re-uses old data

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0 to 9.2 pg_upgrade pain due to collation mismatch

2012-09-12 Thread Henry C.
Thanks to all who responded - upgrade was successful! One final note, when using pg_upgrade ... --link, it finally recommends use of delete_old_cluster.sh to remove the old data files. I'm tempted, but --link re-uses old data files,... bit of a contradiction there, if you follow my meaning? Is

[GENERAL] bgwriter and pg_locks

2012-09-12 Thread Ben Chobot
In an attempt to get a hackfix for http://pgfoundry.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1011203&group_id=1000411&atid=1376, I'm wonder if it's true that, when looking at pg_locks, the only pid which will have virtualxid = '1/1' and virtualtransaction = '-1/0' will be the bgwriter. That seems

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0 to 9.2 pg_upgrade pain due to collation mismatch

2012-09-12 Thread Tom Lane
"Henry C." writes: > Anyway, thanks for the feedback. Ok, so it's simply a case of: > update pg_database set datcollate='C', datctype='C'; > Correct? Mine are all POSIX, so no where clause needed. Yeah, that should do it. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general m

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0 to 9.2 pg_upgrade pain due to collation mismatch

2012-09-12 Thread Henry C.
> "C" is the official name of that locale. Not sure how you got it to say > "POSIX" ... maybe we didn't have normalization of the locale name back > then? > > Anyway, simplest fix seems to be to update the 9.0 installation's > pg_database to say "C" in those entries. Never ceases to amaze me wher

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0 to 9.2 pg_upgrade pain due to collation mismatch

2012-09-12 Thread Tom Lane
"Henry C." writes: > 2. My 9.0 (old) db is using encoding/Collation/Ctype: > SQL_ASCII/POSIX/POSIX, and for the life of me I cannot initdb the new > (9.2) data/ folder to the same to ensure pg_upgrade works (currently keep > getting "old and new cluster lc_collate values do not match" error). "

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0 to 9.2 pg_upgrade pain due to collation mismatch

2012-09-12 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 20:12 +0200, Henry C. wrote: > > 1. I ran into the (usual?) issue with ld libraries conflicting, so > renamed /etc/ld.so.conf.d/postgresql-9.0-libs.conf to blah, and reran > ldconfig, then I could initdb the new data/ folder For the records, I fixed this issue in the

[GENERAL] 9.0 to 9.2 pg_upgrade pain due to collation mismatch

2012-09-12 Thread Henry C.
Hi all, Using centos 5.x I'm trying to upgrade (without having to dump/restore a 1.5TB db) from 9.0 to 9.2 using pg_upgrade, but am having a few issues. 1. I ran into the (usual?) issue with ld libraries conflicting, so renamed /etc/ld.so.conf.d/postgresql-9.0-libs.conf to blah, and reran ldcon

Re: [GENERAL] Compressed binary field

2012-09-12 Thread Kevin Grittner
Edson Richter wrote: > SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('mydatabase')); > pg_size_pretty > > 7234 MB > SELECT nspname || '.' || relname AS "relation", > pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(C.oid)) AS "size" >FROM pg_class C >LEFT JOIN pg_namespace N ON (N.oi

Re: [GENERAL] Compressed binary field

2012-09-12 Thread Edson Richter
Em 12/09/2012 09:16, Kevin Grittner escreveu: Edson Richter wrote: Em 12/09/2012 00:37, Edson Richter escreveu: Em 11/09/2012 14:59, Kevin Grittner escreveu: Edson Richter wrote: [biggest relation was a table heap with 29321 pages] [block size is 8 KB] So your biggest table is actual

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a way to use "pack" in pl/perl without resorting to pl/perlu?

2012-09-12 Thread Herouth Maoz
Thanks. I was hoping there was a way to enable individual operators through the postgresql configuration file or something. Anyway, I replaced the functionality with $content =~ s/([a-fA-F0-9]{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg; which seems to be doing the same thing as unpack( "H*", $content ), which is basi

Re: [GENERAL] RPM contents for 9.2 community release.

2012-09-12 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi Jeremy, On Wed, September 12, 2012 6:23 pm, Jeremy Whiting wrote: > I tried installing using the Direct Download RPMs for two systems I am > using. The installation using the rpm files did not install in one case > and the other did not install all files to the target directory I was > expec

Re: [GENERAL] CentOS initd Script

2012-09-12 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Wed, September 12, 2012 7:09 pm, Scott Marlowe wrote: > Sorry wasn't clear. I meant does RH support running > 1 cluster of > the same version with simple commands from the command line. Like > pg_createcluster does. Well, no. Except running cp /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.2 /etc/init.d/se

Re: [GENERAL] CentOS initd Script

2012-09-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, September 12, 2012 6:49 pm, Scott Marlowe wrote: > >> Does RH support > 1 cluster of the same version of postgres yet? >> Looking at the link I can't really tell. Looks like not. > > That link exactly tells you how to do t

Re: [GENERAL] CentOS initd Script

2012-09-12 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Wed, September 12, 2012 6:49 pm, Scott Marlowe wrote: > Does RH support > 1 cluster of the same version of postgres yet? > Looking at the link I can't really tell. Looks like not. That link exactly tells you how to do that. Running > 1 9.2 clusters in parallel. Regards, -- Temporaril

Re: [GENERAL] CentOS initd Script

2012-09-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, September 12, 2012 5:54 pm, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> While RHEL is a solid and reliable OS, it was never built to run > 1 >> version etc of pgsql easily. > > I would disagree with this. All you need is this: > > http://svn.pg

[GENERAL] RPM contents for 9.2 community release.

2012-09-12 Thread Jeremy Whiting
Hi, I tried installing using the Direct Download RPMs for two systems I am using. The installation using the rpm files did not install in one case and the other did not install all files to the target directory I was expecting. 1) Upgrading postgresql on a 64 bit Fedora 16 desktop from 9.1.5 to 9

Re: [GENERAL] CentOS initd Script

2012-09-12 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Wed, September 12, 2012 5:54 pm, Scott Marlowe wrote: > While RHEL is a solid and reliable OS, it was never built to run > 1 > version etc of pgsql easily. I would disagree with this. All you need is this: http://svn.pgrpms.org/browser/rpm/redhat/9.2/postgresql/EL-6/README.rpm-dist#L187

Re: [GENERAL] CentOS initd Script

2012-09-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > Your best bet for running > 1 versions and / or > 1 clusters of the > same version, is to run debian or any debian based distro. You create > a new cluster like so: Just a quick note that back when Centos / RHEL was my main db server OS, I

Re: [GENERAL] CentOS initd Script

2012-09-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Kenaniah Cerny wrote: > Hi all, > > I would first like to thank everyone involved for all of the hard work that > goes into the postgres and the RPMs.I have a small request: > > In the service script that gets installed to /etc/rc.d/init.d/, there is a > hard-code

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a way to use "pack" in pl/perl without resorting to pl/perlu?

2012-09-12 Thread Tom Lane
Herouth Maoz writes: > I created a function that does some heavy string manipulation, so I needed to > use pl/perl rather than pl/pgsql. > I'm not experienced in perl, but the function works well when used as an > independent perl subroutine - it depends only on its arguments. I use the > Encod

Re: [GENERAL] CentOS initd Script

2012-09-12 Thread Tom Lane
Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=DCND=DCZ?= writes: > On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 23:41 -0700, Kenaniah Cerny wrote: >> In the service script that gets installed to /etc/rc.d/init.d/, there is a >> hard-coded value for PGPORT. Would it be possible to have this variable and >> the corresponding -p flag set when c

[GENERAL] Is there a way to use "pack" in pl/perl without resorting to pl/perlu?

2012-09-12 Thread Herouth Maoz
I created a function that does some heavy string manipulation, so I needed to use pl/perl rather than pl/pgsql. I'm not experienced in perl, but the function works well when used as an independent perl subroutine - it depends only on its arguments. I use the Encode package (in postgresql config

Re: [GENERAL] Compressed binary field

2012-09-12 Thread Kevin Grittner
Edson Richter wrote: > Em 12/09/2012 00:37, Edson Richter escreveu: >> Em 11/09/2012 14:59, Kevin Grittner escreveu: >>> Edson Richter wrote: [biggest relation was a table heap with 29321 pages] [block size is 8 KB] >>> So your biggest table is actually 229 MB. Something is not add

Re: [GENERAL] Displaying image from php script displays string

2012-09-12 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 11/09/2012 20:42, Alexander Reichstadt wrote: > Thanks for the push, I found the information I needed. It works now. Glad you got sorted. For people looking at the archives, what was the problem, and how did you fix it? Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland r...@iol.ie -- Sent v

[GENERAL] pg_dump -Fd must create directory

2012-09-12 Thread François Beausoleil
Hi all! Why must pg_dump create a fresh new directory everytime? I'm running some tests where I dump a database to a directory, git init and git add --all, then dump again. When I did that after doing some modifications (specifically creating a new table and adding a few hundred thousand record

Re: [GENERAL] Compressed binary field

2012-09-12 Thread Edson Richter
Em 12/09/2012 00:37, Edson Richter escreveu: Em 11/09/2012 14:59, Kevin Grittner escreveu: Edson Richter wrote: Em 11/09/2012 14:34, Kevin Grittner escreveu: Edson Richter wrote:

Re: [GENERAL] CentOS initd Script

2012-09-12 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 23:41 -0700, Kenaniah Cerny wrote: > In the service script that gets installed to /etc/rc.d/init.d/, there is a > hard-coded value for PGPORT. Would it be possible to have this variable and > the corresponding -p flag set when calling postgres removed? > > Explicitly s

[GENERAL] Race condition between hot_standby_feedback and wal_receiver_status_interval ?

2012-09-12 Thread Stuart Bishop
Hi. I am running streaming replication with PostgreSQL 9.1.5, and using hot_standby_feedback=on. Per previous messages, I'm still experiencing query cancellations on the hot standbys triggered by vacuums on the primary (http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/pg-dump-on-hot-standby-canceled-despi

Re: [GENERAL] CentOS initd Script

2012-09-12 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 10:58 +0200, Albe Laurenz wrote: > You should ask the people who roll the RPMs for CentOS, > they are the ones who created that script. It is actually Tom and me who are responsible for those init scripts, CentOS does not roll their own packages. Regards, -- Devrim GÜ

Re: [GENERAL] CentOS initd Script

2012-09-12 Thread Albe Laurenz
Kenaniah Cerny wrote: > I would first like to thank everyone involved for all of the hard work that > goes into the postgres and > the RPMs.I have a small request: > > In the service script that gets installed to /etc/rc.d/init.d/, there is a > hard-coded value for > PGPORT. Would it be possible

Re: [GENERAL] force defaults

2012-09-12 Thread Sim Zacks
I haven't checked more recent versions, but in 8.2 using     case when new.val is null then 'U' else new.val end worked a hell of a lot faster then coalesce. However, just going into the trigger is significant overhead. Alban's suggestion of using a

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication assistance

2012-09-12 Thread Albe Laurenz
Gustav Potgieter wrote: > Hope you can assist and that I am posting to the right forum. Sending the question twice with the same wording does not make it clearer... > We currently have multiple Postgresql 9 instances running with warm standby, and the replication work > wonderfully. > > The prob

Re: [GENERAL] force defaults

2012-09-12 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 12 September 2012 08:49, Willy-Bas Loos wrote: > Hi, > > I want to force deafults, and wonder about the performance. > The trigger i use (below) makes the query (also below) take 45% more time. > The result is the same now, but i do have a use for using the trigger (see > "background info"). >

[GENERAL] CentOS initd Script

2012-09-12 Thread Kenaniah Cerny
Hi all, I would first like to thank everyone involved for all of the hard work that goes into the postgres and the RPMs.I have a small request: In the service script that gets installed to /etc/rc.d/init.d/, there is a hard-coded value for PGPORT. Would it be possible to have this variable and th