[GENERAL] pg_dump slow on windows

2012-09-06 Thread Kobus Wolvaardt
Hi, I hope this is the right list. I have read through a few pg_dump slow posts but none of them seem to apply to our case. We have a nice big server running windows server 2008 and postgres 8.4. The machine does nothing else and every so often running the nightly backup take 10 to 12 hours to

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres memory question

2009-08-10 Thread Kobus Wolvaardt
Hi, Thanks for all the answers. I think I need to first look into the windows connection issue (where some memory pool gets used up and then new connections cannot be made). If that does not help, upping the ram by a bit might help (at least buy some time). And looking into tuning the options

Re: [GENERAL] Accessing a database form another database

2009-08-10 Thread Kobus Wolvaardt
Just a thought, but would it not be possible to add a trigger written in python that makes a connection to another database and does what it needs to? I have not done this, but if it is possible it should solve your problem and one that I have. It should allow updates and selects. I am sure the

[GENERAL] Postgres memory question

2009-08-09 Thread Kobus Wolvaardt
it in transaction pooling mode it works for simple queries, but something goes lost says the programmer (views that were setup or something). Any help or pointers would be nice, either on how to make usage less, or on how to get pooling to work. Thanks, Kobus Wolvaardt P.S. We are growing the users by another

[GENERAL] Postgres memory question

2009-08-09 Thread Kobus Wolvaardt
it in transaction pooling mode it works for simple queries, but something goes lost says the programmer (views that were setup or something). Any help or pointers would be nice, either on how to make usage less, or on how to get pooling to work. Thanks, Kobus Wolvaardt P.S. We are growing the users by another

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres memory question

2009-08-09 Thread Kobus Wolvaardt
2009/8/9 Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Kobus Wolvaardtkobusw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We have software deployed on our network that need postgres, we have server that hosts the server and all worked fine until we crossed about 200 users. The