Re: ODP: [firebird-support] Re: Issue with large table in FB 1.5 and 2.5

2019-06-06 Thread liviuslivius liviusliv...@poczta.onet.pl [firebird-support]
I resend my email - it do not reaach the yahoo group :-(   Hi,   you can try modify your logic by adding IMPORT_ID to that table and then you can import data without need to delete in the same time. Then you can delete data in some portions during a day. and successively run     SELECT COUNT(*)

[firebird-support] Re: Issue with large table in FB 1.5 and 2.5

2019-05-31 Thread my...@techsol.org [firebird-support]
An update and a huge thank you to everyone for your input and help on this. I spent most of yesterday writing Linux bash scripts and closing off ports on the database server so I could run this from a remote SSH request from a web server. I wrote a pretty extensive script library that will

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Issue with large table in FB 1.5 and 2.5

2019-05-31 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer t...@iblogmanager.com [firebird-support]
Hi Mark, > On 30-5-2019 16:14, Thomas Steinmaurer t...@iblogmanager.com > [firebird-support] wrote: >>> Also one further question  Do later versions of Firebird (ie. 3 or >>> 4) have any performance increase for cooperative garbage collection at >>> all?  Would I expect to see any performance

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Issue with large table in FB 1.5 and 2.5

2019-05-30 Thread 'Carlos H. Cantu' lis...@warmboot.com.br [firebird-support]
MRmlnfs> Truncate table (CORE-2479) isn't implemented yet, so it is unsure this MRmlnfs> will land in Firebird 4. MRmlnfs> Mark Btw, truncate was predicted for Firebird 3, but something seems to be delaying its implementation :-( I hope it will be available for FB 4, and even better if it can

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Issue with large table in FB 1.5 and 2.5

2019-05-30 Thread Mark Rotteveel m...@lawinegevaar.nl [firebird-support]
On 30-5-2019 16:14, Thomas Steinmaurer t...@iblogmanager.com [firebird-support] wrote: >> Also one further question  Do later versions of Firebird (ie. 3 or >> 4) have any performance increase for cooperative garbage collection at >> all?  Would I expect to see any performance improvement by

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Issue with large table in FB 1.5 and 2.5

2019-05-30 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer t...@iblogmanager.com [firebird-support]
> Also one further question  Do later versions of Firebird (ie. 3 or > 4) have any performance increase for cooperative garbage collection at > all?  Would I expect to see any performance improvement by any newer > version, or different server implementation here? Likely TRUNCATE TABLE ...

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Issue with large table in FB 1.5 and 2.5

2019-05-30 Thread Mark Rotteveel m...@lawinegevaar.nl [firebird-support]
On 30-5-2019 01:26, my...@techsol.org [firebird-support] wrote: > >To me this sounds like the cooperative garbage collection kicks in when > you select from the table. You may want to consider dropping the table > entirely and recreating it. Alternatively, switch to SuperServer and set > its

Re: [firebird-support] Re: Issue with large table in FB 1.5 and 2.5

2019-05-29 Thread Helen Borrie hele...@tpg.com.au [firebird-support]
> Also one further question Do later versions of Firebird (ie. 3 > or 4) have any performance increase for cooperative garbage > collection at all? No. GC requires reading the version chain of all records in the contexts of their transactions. It takes as long as it takes. > Would I

[firebird-support] Re: Issue with large table in FB 1.5 and 2.5

2019-05-29 Thread my...@techsol.org [firebird-support]
Also one further question Do later versions of Firebird (ie. 3 or 4) have any performance increase for cooperative garbage collection at all? Would I expect to see any performance improvement by any newer version, or different server implementation here? Thanks Myles

[firebird-support] Re: Issue with large table in FB 1.5 and 2.5

2019-05-29 Thread my...@techsol.org [firebird-support]
>That is your solution - but *do not delete those records*. Thank you for the detailed reply, Helen. I can definitely execute a script to drop all dependencies and then drop the table, and then rebuild them back in via a CLI Linux script. I thought that was pretty extreme, but if this is the

[firebird-support] Re: Issue with large table in FB 1.5 and 2.5

2019-05-29 Thread my...@techsol.org [firebird-support]
>To me this sounds like the cooperative garbage collection kicks in when you select from the table. You may want to consider dropping the table entirely and recreating it. Alternatively, switch to SuperServer and set its garbage collection policy to background (I believe this was introduced in