Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum taking an age

2008-01-03 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 03.01.2008, at 05:48, Brian Modra wrote: I have a pretty "live" table: rows being inserted and updated more than once 1 per second, though far, far more inserts than updates. Not that busy ;-) It has not been vacuumed for months. Not good. Now a vacuum on that table takes hours, and I

Re: [ADMIN] growth of the database

2007-03-21 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 21.03.2007, at 11:25, Karthikeyan Sundaram wrote: Our database is growing fast. I want to create a cronjob that should tell me what is the current size of the database on each day. How can I find this from the database? Is there any pre-written scripts written by somebody to shar

Re: [ADMIN] best OS and HW for postgreSQL

2006-09-24 Thread Guido Neitzer
Hi. On 9/25/06, Jim Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As for hardware, until recently, AMD was the un-disputed king when it came to running PostgreSQL (and databases in general). But the newer Intel CPUs seem to have surpassed the Opteron. I believe there's a tweakers.net article floating around

Re: [ADMIN] DB Performance Tuning

2006-09-05 Thread Guido Neitzer
HI. Can you try (just for testing) using a jdbc2 driver and a connection string with "protocolVersion=2" included in the jdbc connection? I had the same issue with this and the problem is, that the query optimizer sometimes decides NOT to use indexes on prepared statements (the newer JDBC driver

Re: [ADMIN] front-end to Postgres

2006-08-18 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 18.08.2006, at 16:14 Uhr, Karen Springer wrote: I am curious what others out in the community are using as a front- end to Postgres. We are currently using Microsoft Access & Python CGI scripts. We use WebObjects [1] for internal and external applications. WebObjects and its DirectToWe

Re: [ADMIN] two databases in one

2006-08-16 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 16.08.2006, at 9:13 Uhr, Soulabaille Samantha wrote: I've got two databases with the same tables and schema on two different servers. I want to have only one database. Okay. I don't know how to do this because almost of the tables contains serial. And you have overlapping keys from t

Re: [ADMIN] 8.0 install via fink on OS X, now what?

2006-05-29 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 29.05.2006, at 22:27 Uhr, Peter Kovacs wrote: Are there any known issues related to compiling for OS X on Intel? No issues I know about. But I have only build it once on our test MacBook Pro. cug ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forg

Re: [ADMIN] 8.0 install via fink on OS X, now what?

2006-05-29 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 29.05.2006, at 19:56 Uhr, Mitch Pirtle wrote: Now finally getting comfortable on the new PowerBook, and after weeks of whining about no OS X packages I discovered the fink binaries, which I dutifully installed last night. Bad idea. They are normally old, install in stupid locations, are not

Re: [ADMIN] which is the best

2006-04-17 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 17.04.2006, at 5:18 Uhr, Michael Fuhr wrote: Which way is "better" depends on your access patterns. PostgreSQL doesn't support cross-database queries (except via functions like dblink), so if you need to join tables in one database with tables in another then you'll probably want make A, B,

Re: [ADMIN] Autovacuum ideas

2006-04-12 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 13.04.2006, at 7:56 Uhr, Brendan Duddridge wrote: What I'd like to see is a table exclusion list. I have a few very large history tables that are never updated or deleted, only inserts and selects. But if you do selects regularly you may want to have the analyse part of autovacuum for