[ADMIN] Multiple backends on a single physical database

2002-10-09 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
I am wondering if it is sane to mount PGDATA over NFS on many machines and run posmaster backends on them, so that all the postmasters are using the same database. Obviously performance is going to suffer because network traffic is going to be high, but later we may use a distributed filesystem

[ADMIN] Re: Re: disable wal

2001-05-02 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
I understand that that WAL is an integral part of 7.1 and "disabling" is not possible. I also don't want to switch back to 7.0 becuse I _DO_ need the new features. If I don't care for reliability (for reasons I outlined earlier in this thread), are there other parameters I can set to optimize fo

[ADMIN] Re: disable wal

2001-04-30 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Oliver Vecernik wrote: > Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > > > > Is there a way to disable write ahead logging (WAL) in 7.1? > > Why do you want to do this? > Because I have a copy of my real server on a laptop and I do all the development on it. I

[ADMIN] disable wal

2001-04-29 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
Is there a way to disable write ahead logging (WAL) in 7.1? Thanks in advance. Anuradha ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl

[ADMIN] Re: 7.1 performance

2001-04-29 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
I had to run a script which did few thousand queries on 7.1 few times and after that even the queries that are done entirely based on indexes were also _VERY_ slow. But I did a "vacuumdb dbname" as postgres user and after that thigs were back to normal - very fast. But I could _NOT_ reproduce th

[ADMIN] Re: Restoring a pg_dump fails with

2001-04-29 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
Will vacuumdb help? On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > Reiner Dassing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> That shouldn't happen. Could we see the dump file? (Just the schema > >> commands, not the data itself...) > > > Thank you for your help. Certainly I will give this

[ADMIN] Re: Reason to not upgrade from 6.5 to 7.0 or above

2001-04-29 Thread Anuradha Ratnaweera
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Joel Burton wrote: > Is there anything that datetime did that timestamp doesn't? datetime is provided to ensure compatibility with older releases, although they are not guranteed to exist in future releases (chapter 3.4 users guide) > Could you > >pg_dump | sed | ps