Re: [ADMIN] Postgres & large tables on average machine

2002-03-29 Thread Jeremy Buchmann
Fred Moyer wrote: > Your UDMA 33 bus will limit disk reads to 33 Mbytes/sec so there is your > first bottleneck. Get a 66 mhz PCI ide adapter (Promise is cheap) and that > will increase your disk speed dramatically. > Also you won't be able to do much with 128 Mb of ram, put in as much as you >

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres & large tables on average machine

2002-03-29 Thread Fred Moyer
Your UDMA 33 bus will limit disk reads to 33 Mbytes/sec so there is your first bottleneck. Get a 66 mhz PCI ide adapter (Promise is cheap) and that will increase your disk speed dramatically. Also you won't be able to do much with 128 Mb of ram, put in as much as you can. That box is likely 66

Re: [ADMIN] Direct I/O and Linux 2.4

2002-03-29 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Richard Emberson writes: > Does Postgresql support the use of Direct I/O or Raw I/O? No. And no one has announced any concrete plans to implement it either. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get of

[ADMIN] Direct I/O and Linux 2.4

2002-03-29 Thread Richard Emberson
An earlier post referenced a bunch of Oracle performance pages. One of them, http://www.ixora.com.au/notes/direct_io.htm indicates that on Linux 2.4 kernels one can use Direct I/O (if you DB supports it). Does Postgresql support the use of Direct I/O or Raw I/O? Base on another page http://ww

Re: [ADMIN] PgSQL postmaster.opts

2002-03-29 Thread Bruce Momjian
MG wrote: > > Hi! > > I subsrcibed to this list again. :) > I use the version7.0.3-8 of pgsql from RedHat rpm. > I have a problem. The "/var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.opts" file contains this: > > /usr/bin/postmaster > -p 5432 > -D /var/lib/pgsql/data > -B 64 > -b /usr/bin/postgres > -i > -N 32

[ADMIN] PgSQL postmaster.opts

2002-03-29 Thread MG
Hi! I subsrcibed to this list again. :) I use the version7.0.3-8 of pgsql from RedHat rpm. I have a problem. The "/var/lib/pgsql/data/postmaster.opts" file contains this: /usr/bin/postmaster -p 5432 -D /var/lib/pgsql/data -B 64 -b /usr/bin/postgres -i -N 32 If I modify it (for examlpes, -N 16

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres & large tables on average machine

2002-03-29 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Nicholay P. Chuprynin writes: > Resently I had to create and manage the (relatively) large table. > In the mean time it's about 8 million rows, and surely will grow above > this size. > The problem is that queries takes absolutely not acceptable time. > Database located on average Celeron 400 mac

[ADMIN] Postgres & large tables on average machine

2002-03-29 Thread Nicholay P. Chuprynin
Hello, All! Resently I had to create and manage the (relatively) large table. In the mean time it's about 8 million rows, and surely will grow above this size. The problem is that queries takes absolutely not acceptable time. Database located on average Celeron 400 machine with 128 Mb of RAM and

[ADMIN] Index Existence

2002-03-29 Thread Herb Blacker
Is there a shell script (or a call to a function) available to check the existence of an index before it is dropped? I'm reloading a set of tables, and I want to drop the index before the COPY, then recreate it. _ Herb Blacker Database Administrator ReCare, Inc. [EMAIL PR