Re: [ADMIN] Case insensitive

2000-03-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Armin Diehl writes: > of cause that works, but what if we need a case incensitive primary key, the Then it's not really a primary key, isn't it? > example ist very slow if you have a lot of records. Is that possible ? You probably want to convert or check your data on input, depending on your

Re: [ADMIN] Tuning postgres for high volume applications

2000-03-19 Thread Chris Albertson
I have an application that did many inserts also. Only I was running on a much lower powered machine and could get nowhere nere your 100 per minute rate. What I did has re-write the application to batch the inserts and then use COPY. COPY it turns out is _much_ faster than INSERT maybe by an o

Re: [ADMIN] Tuning postgres for high volume applications

2000-03-19 Thread Guido Goldstein
Hi! On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:30:10 +0800 Brian Baquiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped] > I'm running postmaster with the options -B600 -N300. I'm using the RedHat RPMs > >from a pretty-much-stock RH6.1 installation. Can I tune postgres to load more > data into memory? You should increase

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Re: [ADMIN] Advantages of pg_dumpall over tar/gzip?

2000-03-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
> I was using pg_dumpall nightly (with the help of cron) to backup and > suddenly my backup fails. The following was what I get from my backup file: > > \connect template1 > select datdba into table tmp_pg_shadow from pg_database where datname > = 'template1'; > delete from pg_shadow where

Re: [ADMIN] Advantages of pg_dumpall over tar/gzip?

2000-03-19 Thread thomas
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > What's the advantage of using pg_dumpall over tar/gzip for backup? > > pg_dumpall grabs a constent snapshot of the data. tar/gzip is just > backing up the files, so you can get some data in some table that is > committed, but miss data in another table that is part of th