Re: [GENERAL] COPY locking

2001-05-14 Thread John Coers
current file length) --- the caller always knows this already, > having already done smgrnblocks(), so it's silly to do it over > again inside mdextend. Net result: extension of a file now takes > one lseek(SEEK_END) and a write(), not three lseeks and

[GENERAL] RPM problem

2001-05-11 Thread John Coers
ed by postgresql-7.1-1 libpq.so.2 is needed by postgresql-7.1-1 libpq.so.2.0 is needed by php-pgsql-3.0.15-2 -- John CoersIntrinsity, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austin, Texas ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't &#x

Re: [GENERAL] COPY locking

2001-05-10 Thread John Coers
ng on > the lock. John's trace only showed one active backend, so I figured > that there shouldn't be any blockage. Keep in mind that I only sent a sample of trace data to show the kind of things I was seeing, not the entire process from end-to-end. -- John Coers

[GENERAL] COPY locking

2001-05-09 Thread John Coers
, disk access, etc. are not pegged, so what else is could be slowing me down? -- John CoersIntrinsity, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austin, Texas ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister

[GENERAL] Re: commit_delay CANCEL

2001-05-04 Thread John Coers
John Coers wrote: > > What do the commit_delay and commit_siblings options do? > > I am unable to find any documentation on them in Chap 3 or 9 > of the Admin manual or in the man page for postmaster. > > -- > John CoersIntrinsity, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED

[GENERAL] commit_delay

2001-05-04 Thread John Coers
What do the commit_delay and commit_siblings options do? I am unable to find any documentation on them in Chap 3 or 9 of the Admin manual or in the man page for postmaster. -- John CoersIntrinsity, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Austin, Texas ---(end of

[GENERAL] Copy

2001-04-30 Thread John Coers
Does a COPY FROM block? In case I am using the wrong terminology, what I need to know is if I have multiple clients performing COPY FROM...PQputline() using asynchronous connections, will I lose data? Will the server simply execute them serially? ---(end of broadcast)---

[GENERAL] Re: Performance with Large Volumes of Data

2001-04-30 Thread John Coers
ry to reduce disk access. Am I missing something? Are there any other configurable kernal params that I need to know about? What exactly will the sort mem (-o "-S") buy me? Thanks for your patience! -- John CoersIntrinsity, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]