Re: [GENERAL] Support for BDR in 9.5?

2016-01-08 Thread Andrew Biggs (adb)
On 1/8/16, 12:51 PM, "Simon Riggs" mailto:si...@2ndquadrant.com>> wrote: On 8 January 2016 at 18:56, Joshua D. Drake mailto:j...@commandprompt.com>> wrote: On 01/08/2016 10:42 AM, Andrew Biggs (adb) wrote: Installed 9.5 to CentOS7 via yum, and tried going through the

Re: [GENERAL] Support for BDR in 9.5?

2016-01-08 Thread Andrew Biggs (adb)
On 1/8/16, 10:53 AM, Rob Sargent wrote: On 01/08/2016 10:39 AM, Andrew Biggs (adb) wrote: Can anyone tell me if PostgreSQL 9.5 supports (either natively or by extension) the BDR functionality? I tried it out and ran into issues, but it could well have been I was doing something wrong. Thanks

[GENERAL] Support for BDR in 9.5?

2016-01-08 Thread Andrew Biggs (adb)
Can anyone tell me if PostgreSQL 9.5 supports (either natively or by extension) the BDR functionality? I tried it out and ran into issues, but it could well have been I was doing something wrong. Thanks! Andrew

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Re: Fast Inserts and Hardware Questions

2001-03-16 Thread adb
it all depends on the number of drives, the type of drives and if raid is being done in hardware or software. A three drive raid 5 array in software with older drives is probably going to be slower than a single 7200rpm ata100 drive. Not that this is what you have, just pointing out that it's po

Re: [GENERAL] LIKE and indexes?

2001-03-14 Thread adb
When in doubt, try the explain command Not exactly sure about postgres but in general LIKE can only use an index in the case of LIKE "Something%" LIKE "%Something" or LIKE "%Something%" won't use an index since it would have to scan the entire index to find all matches. Alex. On Wed, 14 Mar

Re: [GENERAL] Fast Inserts and Hardware Questions

2001-03-14 Thread adb
Have you done any benchmarks with a prototype of your application. Based off of some of the numbers I've been seeing with my testing, I would not be surprised if a single pIII 1ghz box with a decent disk (ata 100 or scsi 160) would handle the load you describe and is way cheaper than some big smp

Re: [GENERAL] Request regarding logs

2001-03-06 Thread adb
I think there's an option to log the pid in postgresql.conf in 7.1 log_pid = true Alex. On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jean-Christophe Boggio wrote: > > When you log pg's activity with statistics enabled you can get this > kind of report : > > StartTransactionCommand > query: select * from identity wher

Re: [GENERAL] How robust is PostgreSQL

2001-03-06 Thread adb
As of version 7.1 postgres uses write ahead logging which is what you are looking for. As for backups, currently your only option is full dumps of the entire db or full dumps of individual tables. Some folks are working around this by using replication to a secondary server with rserv (in contr

[GENERAL] What are your settings for SHMMAX and max files?

2001-03-02 Thread adb
Hi, I'm trying to figure out what some reasonable settings would be for kernel parameters like shared memory and max open files. I've read the section of the manual but it doesn't seem to give any rule of thumb based on number of users or frequency of queries. With my load testing I definitely bu

Re: [GENERAL] Re: serial properties

2001-03-02 Thread adb
every story: your side, their side, the > truth, and what really happened. > - Original Message - > From: "adb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gregory Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "PostgreSQL-General" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, Ma

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Thought on OIDs

2001-03-02 Thread adb
I personally would like to see 8byte OIDs or at least int8 sequences, I'm a little worried about the pain of managing a potential rollover when I'm using sequences as a replication key between servers. Alex. On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Rod Taylor writes: > > > Someones boun

Re: [GENERAL] Re: serial properties

2001-03-02 Thread adb
I agree that they are very handy. They become a major pain in the butt when you start doing replication between servers. For instance if you fail over to a standby server and you forget to update it's sequence first, merging data later becomes a nightmare. I'd like to have int8 sequences and ba

Re: [GENERAL] how do I get arbitrary sql results as strings in C

2001-02-23 Thread adb
If there's no simple way to do this, I think I found an example of what I need in function printQuery in psql/print.c Alex. On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, adb wrote: > > Is there an easy way in libpq to get the results from > any query as strings. > > Imagine a cgi where you inpu

[GENERAL] max / min explain

2001-02-19 Thread adb
I've noticed that select max(the_primary_key) from some_table does a table scan. Is there any plan to implement max/min calculations using index lookups if the appropriate index exists? Thanks, Alex.

Re: [GENERAL] Rserv question or docs?

2001-02-16 Thread adb
I'm willing to do some writing if someone will explain things to me. I've pretty much disected all the sql used by Rserv.pm to see what it does so I've got a decent head start. The two questions that are holding me up at this point are: 1. which column do you specify for setting up the replicatio

Re: [GENERAL] Re: PostgreSQL over NFS?

2001-02-09 Thread adb
I've heard of other people running databases on a Netapp Filer I think this is generally ok because the netapp has a special write cache in NVram and that's what makes it so fast. On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, tc lewis wrote: > > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Shaw Terwilliger wrote: > > I've been using PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] recovery from media failure

2001-02-02 Thread adb
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Alex Pilosov wrote: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, adb wrote: > > > Is there any way to have up to the minute recovery from a disk > > failure in postgres? > RAID1? :) > > > Is there a timeframe for the recover from WAL feature? > If you are asking if WAL

[GENERAL] recovery from media failure

2001-02-02 Thread adb
Is there any way to have up to the minute recovery from a disk failure in postgres? Is there a timeframe for the recover from WAL feature? Thanks, Alex.

Re: [GENERAL] Order of Rules

2001-01-30 Thread adb
Sounds like you need to use a trigger set to fire after the insert on table A Alex. On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Nelio Alves Pereira Filho wrote: > I read at the docs that rules are executed before the query that > generated them. Is there any way to change this? > > Here's my problem: I have two tabl

[GENERAL] Too many open files! how do I fix on linux?

2001-01-26 Thread adb
Hi again, I'm getting stuff like ERROR: cannot write block 1056 of tradehistory [testdb] blind: Too many open files in system and postmaster: StreamConnection: accept: Too many open files in system I understand that I need to up the max number of open files in the linux kernel but I'd like t

[GENERAL] how do you run your backups?

2001-01-26 Thread adb
Hi, I've read the administrator guide section on backups and I'm wondering is there an easy way to do backups of the transaction log similar to sybase or oracle? I imagine I would use pg_dumpall nightly but I'm wondering if there's something else to run every 10 minutes or so to dump the log. Or

[GENERAL] Poor man's replication using WAL

2001-01-26 Thread adb
Has anyone implemented a form of one way replication with the new write ahead logging in 7.1? I'm looking for a way to have a warm or hot standby server waiting to take over in the event of a machine failure. I know there's discusion about adding replication to future releases, I'm just wonderin