Re: [PERFORM] slony rpm help slony1-95-2.2.2-1.rhel6.x86_64

2016-07-16 Thread Jan Wieck
r when i test the upgrade. > In the past i was able to find the 2.2.2-1 version rpm for previous > versions on postgres website but not this time for postgresql 9.5 > > > > Thanks > Avi > > > > > -- Jan Wieck Senior Postgres Architect

Re: [PERFORM] Performance degradation after successive UPDATE's

2005-12-06 Thread Jan Wieck
On 12/6/2005 4:08 AM, Assaf Yaari wrote: Thanks Bruno, Issuing VACUUM FULL seems not to have influence on the time. I've added to my script VACUUM ANALYZE every 100 UPDATE's and run the test again (on different record) and the time still increase. I think he meant - run VACUUM FULL once,

Re: [PERFORM] 15,000 tables - next step

2005-12-05 Thread Jan Wieck
On 12/4/2005 4:33 AM, Michael Riess wrote: I will do the following: - switch to 10k buffers on a 1GB machine, 20k buffers on a 2GB machine - try to optimize my connection polls to remember which apps (groups of 30 tables) were accessed, so that there is a better chance of using caches - swap

Re: [PERFORM] 15,000 tables - next step

2005-12-03 Thread Jan Wieck
On 12/2/2005 6:01 PM, Michael Riess wrote: Hi, thanks for your comments so far - I appreciate it. I'd like to narrow down my problem a bit: As I said in the other thread, I estimate that only 20% of the 15,000 tables are accessed regularly. So I don't think that vacuuming or the number of

Re: [PERFORM] 15,000 tables - next step

2005-12-03 Thread Jan Wieck
On 12/3/2005 11:41 AM, Michael Riess wrote: Alvaro Herrera schrieb: Michael Riess wrote: Shared memory ... I currently use 1500 buffers for 50 connections, and performance really suffered when I used 3000 buffers. The problem is that it is a 1GB machine, and Apache + Tomcat need about

Re: [PERFORM] 15,000 tables

2005-12-02 Thread Jan Wieck
On 12/1/2005 2:34 PM, Michael Riess wrote: VACUUM FULL was probably always overkill, unless always includes versions prior to 7.3... Well, we tried switching to daily VACUUM ANALYZE and weekly VACUUM FULL, but the database got considerably slower near the end of the week. This indicates

Re: [PERFORM] Perfomance of views

2005-10-27 Thread Jan Wieck
On 10/27/2005 7:29 AM, Richard Huxton wrote: Don't forget to CC the list Svenne Krap wrote: What do you mean exactly but pushing conditions inside ? If I have something like SELECT * FROM complicated_view WHERE foo = 7 then the planner can look inside complicated_view and see where it can

Re: [PERFORM] Need help to decide Mysql vs Postgres

2005-06-06 Thread Jan Wieck
On 6/6/2005 2:12 PM, PFC wrote: Please pardon my ignorance, but from whatever I had heard, mysql was supposedly always faster than postgres Thats why I was so surprised !! I heard a lot of this too, so much it seems common wisdom that postgres is slow... well maybe some old version

Re: [PERFORM] column name is LIMIT

2005-03-21 Thread Jan Wieck
On 3/14/2005 4:26 AM, Qingqing Zhou wrote: So is it to make SQL parser context-sensitive - say the parser will understand that in statement SELECT * from LIMIT, LIMIT is just a table name, instead of keyword? More or less, yes. To use a reserved keyword as an identifier (table or column name), it

Re: [PERFORM] column name is LIMIT

2005-03-14 Thread Jan Wieck
On 3/14/2005 1:28 PM, Robert Treat wrote: Yeah... how come no one told him don't do that? LIMIT is an SQL reserved word, so it's likely to cause trouble in any database you try to use it on... I'd strongly recommend renaming that column asap. You can see other reserved words at

Re: [PERFORM] column name is LIMIT

2005-03-14 Thread Jan Wieck
On 3/14/2005 2:26 PM, Bryan Encina wrote: Note also that the Slony-I replication system has problems with column names identical to reserved words. This is rooted in the fact that the quote_ident() function doesn't quote reserved words ... as it IMHO is supposed to do. Jan Does this apply to

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL clustering VS MySQL clustering

2005-02-06 Thread Jan Wieck
On 1/28/2005 2:49 PM, Christopher Browne wrote: But there's nothing wrong with the idea of using pg_dump --data-only against a subscriber node to get you the data without putting a load on the origin. And then pulling the schema from the origin, which oughtn't be terribly expensive there. And

Re: [PERFORM] sort_mem affect on inserts?

2004-11-19 Thread Jan Wieck
On 11/17/2004 5:07 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: David, I understand that the sort_mem conf setting affects queries with order by, etc., and the doc mentions that it is used in create index. Does sort_mem affect the updating of indexes, i.e., can the sort_mem setting affect the performance of inserts?

Re: [PERFORM] Free PostgreSQL Training, Philadelphia, Oct 30

2004-10-18 Thread Jan Wieck
On 10/13/2004 11:47 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: Aaron, That makes two of us. Hanging out with Tom, Bruce, and others at OSCON 2002 was one of the most informative and fun times I've had. That and I could really stand to brush up on my Postgres basics You're thinking of Jan.

Re: [PERFORM] First set of OSDL Shared Mem scalability results, some

2004-10-18 Thread Jan Wieck
On 10/14/2004 6:36 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: [...] I think Jan has said this also in far fewer words, but I'll leave that to Jan to agree/disagree... I do agree. The total DB size has as little to do with the optimum shared buffer cache size as the total available RAM of the machine. After reading

Re: [PERFORM] First set of OSDL Shared Mem scalability results, some

2004-10-18 Thread Jan Wieck
On 10/14/2004 8:10 PM, Christopher Browne wrote: Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Riggs): I say this: ARC in 8.0 PostgreSQL allows us to sensibly allocate as large a shared_buffers cache as is required by the database workload, and this should not be constrained to a small percentage of server RAM.

Autotuning of shared buffer size (was: Re: [HACKERS] Getting rid of AtEOXact Buffers (was Re: [Testperf-general] Re: [PERFORM] First set of OSDL Shared Memscalability results, some wierdness ...))

2004-10-18 Thread Jan Wieck
Trying to think a little out of the box, how common is it in modern operating systems to be able to swap out shared memory? Maybe we're not using the ARC algorithm correctly after all. The ARC algorithm does not consider the second level OS buffer cache in it's design. Maybe the total size of

Re: [PERFORM] [HACKERS] Getting rid of AtEOXact Buffers (was Re: [Testperf-general]

2004-10-18 Thread Jan Wieck
On 10/17/2004 3:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seeing as I've missed the last N messages... I'll just reply to this one, rather than each of them in turn... Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 16.10.2004, 18:54:17: I wrote: Josh Berkus writes: First off, two test runs with OProfile are

Re: [PERFORM] First set of OSDL Shared Mem scalability results, some

2004-10-13 Thread Jan Wieck
On 10/9/2004 7:20 AM, Kevin Brown wrote: Christopher Browne wrote: Increasing the number of cache buffers _is_ likely to lead to some slowdowns: - Data that passes through the cache also passes through kernel cache, so it's recorded twice, and read twice... Even worse, memory that's used for

Re: [PERFORM] First set of OSDL Shared Mem scalability results, some

2004-10-13 Thread Jan Wieck
On 10/14/2004 12:22 AM, Greg Stark wrote: Jan Wieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which would require that shared memory is not allowed to be swapped out, and that is allowed in Linux by default IIRC, not to completely distort the entire test. Well if it's getting swapped out then it's clearly

Re: [PERFORM] First set of OSDL Shared Mem scalability results, some

2004-10-13 Thread Jan Wieck
On 10/13/2004 11:52 PM, Greg Stark wrote: Jan Wieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10/8/2004 10:10 PM, Christopher Browne wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Josh Berkus) wrote: I've been trying to peg the sweet spot for shared memory using OSDL's equipment. With Jan's new ARC patch, I was expecting

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql performance with multimedia

2004-08-24 Thread Jan Wieck
On 8/24/2004 1:08 AM, my ho wrote: --- Jan Wieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/17/2004 8:44 PM, my thi ho wrote: Hi, I am working on a project which explore postgresql to store multimedia data. In details, i am trying to work with the buffer management part of postgres source code. And try

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Bottleneck

2004-08-08 Thread Jan Wieck
On 8/8/2004 8:10 AM, Jeff wrote: On Aug 8, 2004, at 1:29 AM, Martin Foster wrote: I am currently making use of Apache::DBI which overrides the DBI::disconnect call and keeps a pool of active connections for use when need be. Since it offloads the pooling to the webserver, it seems more

Re: [PERFORM] Performance Bottleneck

2004-08-07 Thread Jan Wieck
On 8/3/2004 2:05 PM, Martin Foster wrote: I run a Perl/CGI driven website that makes extensive use of PostgreSQL (7.4.3) for everything from user information to formatting and display of specific sections of the site. The server itself, is a dual processor AMD Opteron 1.4Ghz w/ 2GB Ram and 2

Re: [PERFORM] Working on huge RAM based datasets

2004-07-12 Thread Jan Wieck
On 7/12/2004 12:38 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: Rond, Chris, What would be most interesting to see is whether this makes it wise to increase shared buffer size. It may be more effective to bump down the cache a little, and bump up sort memory; hard to tell. How do we go about scheduling tests with

Re: [PERFORM] Working on huge RAM based datasets

2004-07-11 Thread Jan Wieck
On 7/9/2004 10:16 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: What is it about the buffer cache that makes it so unhappy being able to hold everything? I don't want to be seen as a cache hit fascist, but isn't it just better if the data is just *there*, available in the postmaster's address space ready for each

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL on VMWare vs Windows vs CoLinux

2004-06-02 Thread Jan Wieck
Using VMware myself quite extensively, I wonder what the disk configuration was that you created for the VM. Where the disks preallocated and did you make sure that they are contiguous on the NTFS filesystem? Did you install the VMware tools in the guest operating system? What did you use to

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [PERFORM] MySQL vs PG TPC-H benchmarks

2004-04-22 Thread Jan Wieck
| off (113 rows) suggestions, doubts and commentaries are very welcome regards __ Eduardo Cunha de Almeida Administrao de Banco de Dados UFPR - CCE +55-41-361-3321 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Jan Wieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josh Berkus wrote

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [PERFORM] MySQL vs PG TPC-H benchmarks

2004-04-21 Thread Jan Wieck
Josh Berkus wrote: Folks, I've sent a polite e-mail to Mr. Gomez offering our help. Please, nobody flame him! Please keep in mind that the entire test has, other than a similar database schema and query types maybe, nothing to do with a TPC-H. I don't see any kind of SUT. Foreign key

Re: [PERFORM] [pgsql-advocacy] MySQL+InnoDB vs. PostgreSQL test?

2004-02-06 Thread Jan Wieck
Mike Nolan wrote: Seriously, I am tired of this kind of question. You gotta get bold enough to stand up in a meeting like that, say guy's, you can ask me how this compares to Oracle ... but if you're seriously asking me how this compares to MySQL, call me again when you've done your homework.

Re: [PERFORM] [pgsql-advocacy] MySQL+InnoDB vs. PostgreSQL test?

2004-02-03 Thread Jan Wieck
Josh Berkus wrote: Folks, I've had requests from a couple of businesses to see results of infomal MySQL +InnoDB vs. PostgreSQL tests.I know that we don't have the setup to do full formal benchmarking, but surely someone in our community has gone head-to-head on your own application? Josh,