[ADMIN] Performance

2002-01-18 Thread Martins Zarins
Hello all! I need to setup high performance DB server. Some time ago I red there about processor cache influence on query execution performance. A question: What system would perform better? lh6000 with two xeon 7000Mhz 2MB cache or with four xeon 7000Mhz 1MB cache Mark -

[ADMIN] adding fields

2002-01-18 Thread Jodi Kanter
I need to add a field to an existing table that contains a good amount of data. Do I need to drop table, recreate, and then reload data to do this? I cannot seem to find any documentation to say otherwise. Thanks Jodi ___Jodi L KanterBioInformatics Database Admi

Re: [ADMIN] adding fields

2002-01-18 Thread Jodi Kanter
Thank you. I found this doc just after I sent the email. I appreciate the quick response. Jodi - Original Message - From: Florian Helmberger To: Jodi Kanter Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 10:14 AM Subject: RE: [ADMIN] adding fields Hi

Re: [ADMIN] adding fields

2002-01-18 Thread Heather Johnson
Hi Jodi--   No, you shouldn't have to go to that amount of trouble. Try this instead (change the name of the table, the default value, the column name, and the column type to suit your needs):   BEGIN WORK;LOCK TABLE table_adding_stuff_to IN ACCESS EXCLUSIVE MODE;   ALTER TABLE table_adding_s

Re: [ADMIN] adding fields

2002-01-18 Thread Florian Helmberger
Hi.   You should use     ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN ;   instead. Also, take a look at the docs:     http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-altertable.html   Cheers, Florian -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jodi KanterSent

[ADMIN] problem concerning vacuum/statistics & query performance

2002-01-18 Thread Esger Abbink
Hi, i have a performance problem with a db. This db consists of only a few tables and is continuously fed with new datasets (3min interval) and at night it is pruned (all but the last set are deleted) and vacuumed. the problem is that queries run (far) too slow because the planner seems to be

[ADMIN] problem concerning vacuum/statistics & query performance

2002-01-18 Thread Esger Abbink
Hi, i have a performance problem with a db. This db consists of only a few tables and is continuously fed with new datasets (3min interval) and at night it is pruned (all but the last set are deleted) and vacuumed. the problem is that queries run (far) too slow because the planner seems to be

Re: [ADMIN] problem concerning vacuum/statistics & query performance

2002-01-18 Thread Tom Lane
"Esger Abbink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > if i manually VACUUM ANALYZE the db when it is pretty loaded (~300k > rows) the planner starts using a different plan which runs acceptable > performance wise. however after the daily cleanup it reverts back to > the old (bad) plan. > so it seems the n

[ADMIN] duplicate post

2002-01-18 Thread Esger Abbink
did everyone else also receive two copies of my last post? if so, i hope it stays at 2 as on an other pg list one post got duplicated 5 times and tbh i'm stumped as to why it happens... /me scratches head.. -- NeoMail - Webmail that doesn't suck... as much. http://neomail.sourceforge.net ---

Re: [ADMIN] Performance

2002-01-18 Thread Jeremy Buchmann
On Friday, January 18, 2002, at 02:00 AM, Martins Zarins wrote: > Hello all! > > I need to setup high performance DB server. Some time ago I red > there about processor cache influence on query execution > performance. > A question: > What system would perform better? > lh6000 with two xeon 7000

Re: [ADMIN] Using Database, 2 or more filesystem

2002-01-18 Thread Chad R. Larson
At 05:00 AM 1/14/2002 , Rodrigo Miguel wrote: >My problem is, my filesystem is full and I can't extend it, so can i use a >secondary filesystem ? Yeah, move some files to another file system, and then use symbolic links to point to them from within $PGDATA. -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL2

Re: [ADMIN] HELP: language option software package not installed

2002-01-18 Thread Randall Shutt
It's all good. The root of the problem lied in the fact that the default perl install for Solaris8 was built using SUNWspro (Sun's compiler), and therefore the Config.pm had flags/paths/arguments to reflect that compiler However, we are using the sunfreeware installs of GCC and