Re: [PERFORM] Postmaster using only 4-5% CPU

2006-03-23 Thread Edoardo Serra
At 18.44 21/03/2006, Scott Marlowe wrote: Here's what's happening. On the fast machine, you are almost certainly using IDE drives. Oh yes, the fast machine has IDE drives, you got it ;) Meanwhile, back in the jungle... The machine with IDE drives operates differently. Most, if not all,

Re: [PERFORM] Indexes with descending date columns

2006-03-23 Thread Theo Kramer
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 08:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a performance problem when traversing a table in index order with multiple columns including a date column in date reverse order. Below follows a simplified description of the table, the index and the associated query \d

[PERFORM] Problem with query, server totally unresponsive

2006-03-23 Thread Bendik Rognlien Johansen
Hello, I have a big problem with one of my databases. When i run my query, after a few minutes, the postmaster shows 99% mem i top, and the server becomes totally unresponsive. I get this message when I try to cancel the query: server closed the connection unexpectedly This probably

Re: [PERFORM] Indexes with descending date columns

2006-03-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Theo Kramer wrote: All good input - thanks, however, before I start messing with my stuff which I know will be complex - some questions to any of the developers on the list. i Is it feasible to extend index creation to support descending columns? ... this is supported on other

Re: [PERFORM] Scaling up PostgreSQL in Multiple CPU / Dual Core Powered Servers

2006-03-23 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jojo Paderes) wrote: I'd like to know if the latest PostgreSQL release can scale up by utilizing multiple cpu or dual core cpu to boost up the sql executions. I already do a research on the PostgreSQL mailing archives and only found old threads dating back 2000. A lot of

[PERFORM] Problem with query, forget previous message

2006-03-23 Thread Bendik Rognlien Johansen
Seems the problem was with the custom aggregate function not being able to handle thousands of rows. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [PERFORM] Scaling up PostgreSQL in Multiple CPU / Dual Core

2006-03-23 Thread Frank Wiles
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 14:19:24 +0800 Jojo Paderes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to know if the latest PostgreSQL release can scale up by utilizing multiple cpu or dual core cpu to boost up the sql executions. I already do a research on the PostgreSQL mailing archives and only found old

Re: [PERFORM] Scaling up PostgreSQL in Multiple CPU / Dual Core

2006-03-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 00:19, Jojo Paderes wrote: I'd like to know if the latest PostgreSQL release can scale up by utilizing multiple cpu or dual core cpu to boost up the sql executions. I already do a research on the PostgreSQL mailing archives and only found old threads dating back 2000.

Re: [PERFORM] Scaling up PostgreSQL in Multiple CPU / Dual Core

2006-03-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Has someone been working on the problem of splitting a query into pieces and running it on multiple CPUs / multiple machines? Yes. Bizgress has done that. I believe that is limited to Bizgress MPP yes? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In

Re: [PERFORM] Scaling up PostgreSQL in Multiple CPU / Dual Core

2006-03-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 10:43, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Has someone been working on the problem of splitting a query into pieces and running it on multiple CPUs / multiple machines? Yes. Bizgress has done that. I believe that is limited to Bizgress MPP yes? Yep. I hope that someday it

Re: [PERFORM] Scaling up PostgreSQL in Multiple CPU / Dual Core

2006-03-23 Thread Christopher Browne
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Marlowe) wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 10:43, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Has someone been working on the problem of splitting a query into pieces and running it on multiple CPUs / multiple machines? Yes. Bizgress has done

Re: [PERFORM] Indexes with descending date columns

2006-03-23 Thread Theo Kramer
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 16:16, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Theo Kramer wrote: All good input - thanks, however, before I start messing with my stuff which I know will be complex - some questions to any of the developers on the list. i Is it feasible to extend index creation to support

Re: [PERFORM] Indexes with descending date columns

2006-03-23 Thread Tom Lane
Theo Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If so, I would appreciate any pointers on where to start on this - already fumbling my way through Interfacing Extensions To Indexes in the manual... Search the PG list archives for discussions of reverse-sort opclasses. It's really pretty trivial, once