[ADMIN] Execution plan

2010-07-23 Thread std pik
Hi all.. Can any one help me? I'd like to know how can we get the following information in PostgreSQL: Execution plan The I/O physical reads and logical reads, CPU consumption, number of DB block used, and any other information relevant to performance. Taking into consideration that these

Re: [ADMIN] Restore a backup to a different disk?

2010-07-23 Thread Andreas Schmitz
Reading this thread confuses me a little bit. There is no need to backup a cluster in order to move it to another disk within the same machine. Stopping the Database, moving $PGDATA, adjusting scripts and routines if nessecary and firing up the whole thing would do fine. regards -Andreas

Re: [ADMIN] Execution plan

2010-07-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:10 PM, std pik std...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all.. Can any one help me? I'd like to know how can we get the following information in PostgreSQL: Execution plan explain your query here explain analyze your query here explain just shows the plan, explain analyze shows

[ADMIN] FTP client functions?

2010-07-23 Thread Lou Picciano
I've dont only cursory research on this so far, so thought I'd ask here first... Does anyone know of any ftp client capabilities in Postgresql, any prebuilt functions or extensions already built? Or is it a roll-your-own kind of thing? Thanks, Lou

Re: [ADMIN] FTP client functions?

2010-07-23 Thread Joe Conway
On 07/23/2010 09:58 AM, Lou Picciano wrote: I've dont only cursory research on this so far, so thought I'd ask here first... Does anyone know of any ftp client capabilities in Postgresql, any prebuilt functions or extensions already built? Or is it a roll-your-own kind of thing? plperl

Re: [ADMIN] FTP client functions?

2010-07-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Lou Picciano loupicci...@comcast.net wrote: I've dont only cursory research on this so far, so thought I'd ask here first... Does anyone know of any ftp client capabilities in Postgresql, any prebuilt functions or extensions already built? Or is it a

Re: [ADMIN] FTP client functions?

2010-07-23 Thread Lou Picciano
Thanks, Scott, for that. I've already experimented a little from doing ftp calls from straight from shell - using PL/sh - of course, this is sub-optimal(!), but was good for an experiment. Having trouble so far getting PL/php built on v9, too... OK, we'll keep at it! - Original

Re: [ADMIN] FTP client functions?

2010-07-23 Thread Lou Picciano
Joe, thanks for that suggestion. I'll try it. I'd imagined any internal function would have to wrestle with encapsulating the communications - async? delays? - within a function process. Probably not too easy. Lou - Original Message - From: Joe Conway m...@joeconway.com To: Lou

Re: [ADMIN] How much RAM is too much ?

2010-07-23 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com writes: In news I don't consider unrelated, FreeBSD is now working on adding DTrace support: http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.com/2010/06/dtrace-userland-project.html which will give me yet another reason to consider deploying on that OS instead of Linux.