Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-20 Thread Diehl, Jeffrey
gt; Cc: Diehl, Jeffrey; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP! > > > Diehl, > > > Um no, I just need a smaller problem to solve. The database worked > > quite > > well when the problem was half this size. > > > could do with 60 day

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-20 Thread Josh Berkus
Diehl, > Um no, I just need a smaller problem to solve. The database worked > quite > well when the problem was half this size. > could do with 60 day's...!" And they are right, if it can be done... > If it > can't, I'll tell them and they will understand. What I'm saying is, based on your d

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-20 Thread Diehl, Jeffrey
MAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: September 19, 2001 6:36 PM > To: Diehl, Jeffrey; 'Tom Lane'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Diehl, Jeffrey; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP! > > > Mike, > > > I recently lost a hard drive and had to re-inst

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-20 Thread Diehl, Jeffrey
PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: September 20, 2001 12:56 AM > To: Diehl, Jeffrey > Cc: 'Haller Christoph'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP! > > > "Diehl, Jeffrey" <

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-20 Thread Tom Lane
"Diehl, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, can someone explain to me why this first query might run faster than the > second? > select src,dst,count(dst) from data; > select src,dst,count(*) from data; Hmm, I'd expect the second to be marginally faster. count(*) counts the number of rows

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-19 Thread Josh Berkus
Mike, > I recently lost a hard drive and had to re-install, so the PG version > I am > using is only about 3 weeks old. However, as I said in my original > post, I > have A LOT of data in this database. Brick* implies 1334 tables, > some of > which have 2.5M records... All told, I have about 3

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-19 Thread Tom Lane
"Diehl, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brick* implies 1334 tables Hmm ... I wonder if the query is somehow holding onto a buffer pin for the last block of each successively-accessed table? Will look into it. What -B (# of shared buffers) setting are you running the postmaster with? Try

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-19 Thread Diehl, Jeffrey
andia National Laboratories. (505) 284-3137 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Haller Christoph [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: September 18, 2001 7:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP! > &g

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-19 Thread Diehl, Jeffrey
EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: September 18, 2001 5:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP! > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D&

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-18 Thread Mark kirkwood
Previously: >psql ids -c 'select src,dst,count(*) from brick* where src_port=135 >group by src,dst' > /tmp/135.dat This is just a guess, increasing the parameters shared_buffers and sort_mem might help. For example if your table is about 1Gb in size then try shared_buffers=1 and sort_mem

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-18 Thread Kovacs Baldvin
> psql ids -c 'select src,dst,count(*) from brick* where src_port=135 > group by src,dst' > /tmp/135.dat > > and I get: > > ERROR: out of free buffers: time to abort ! Does anybody knows if the buffers of pgsql are insufficient, or the operating system cries out this error? Regards, Baldvin

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-18 Thread Tom Lane
"Diehl, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > psql ids -c 'select src,dst,count(*) from brick* where src_port=135 > group by src,dst' > /tmp/135.dat > and I get: > ERROR: out of free buffers: time to abort ! Oh? What PG version is this? What is the schema you are actually working with --- how

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-18 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes: > Thus spake Diehl, Jeffrey >> psql ids -c 'select src,dst,count(*) from brick* where src_port=135 >> group by src,dst' > /tmp/135.dat > Hard to tell without knowing more but perhaps you need another table > instead of/in addition to this one that just

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-18 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Thus spake Diehl, Jeffrey > I have a large query that I'm trying to run, but it never finishes. I > get an error message and it quits. > > I'm doing: > > psql ids -c 'select src,dst,count(*) from brick* where src_port=135 > group by src,dst' > /tmp/135.dat Hard to tell without knowing more but

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-18 Thread Haller Christoph
As long as there are no nulls allowed in column 'dst' the select src,dst,count(dst) from ... should retrieve the same result. Try it. It should run faster anyway. Maybe there are other ways to word your query, but without more knowledge about your table structure and intentions I can't tell

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-18 Thread Diehl, Jeffrey
Hi all. I sent this once before, but didn't see it appear on the list... So here we go again... I have a large query that I'm trying to run, but it never finishes. I get an error message and it quits. I'm doing: psql ids -c 'select src,dst,count(*) from brick* where src_port=135 group by src