Re: [ADMIN] Server Hardware Configuration

2005-11-26 Thread Michael D. Sofka
On Monday 21 November 2005 12:12, you wrote: > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:41:36AM -0500, Michael D. Sofka wrote: > You're talking about a 16G database that you expect to grow to 64G. That > would fit happily in a RAID1 (mirror) of two SCSI 72G drives. I haven't > priced that kind of stuff out recen

[ADMIN] Problems when initdb on WinXP with SP2.

2005-11-26 Thread Johnson Zhao
Hi, I use Postgresql 8.03/ 8.04 on windows xp with sp2, all have same problems. run the windows cmd by: runas /user:postgres cmd and run the initdb program like: initdb --locale=C --username=postgres -W -A md5 -E UNICODE -D ../data then it says: creating directory ../data/ ... ok creating di

[ADMIN] pgstattuple, vacuum and free_space

2005-11-26 Thread Colton Smith
Hi: I did the following after installing the pgstattuple contrib code: select * from pgstattuple('wind'); -[ RECORD 1 ]--+-- table_len | 224854016 tuple_count| 1492601 tuple_len | 207535124 tuple_percent | 92.3 dead_tuple_count | 11569 dead_tuple_len

[ADMIN] query planning and partitioned tables

2005-11-26 Thread Colton Smith
Hi: I have a 440 million row table that I'm attempting to partition. The table is named 'pressure' and holds pressure data from an undersea sensor measuring wave height. The sensor reports every half second. The partitions are named 'p0', 'p1' ... 'pN' and are divvied according to measure

Re: [ADMIN] pgstattuple, vacuum and free_space

2005-11-26 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On 11/24/05, Colton Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My question: when you vacuum a table and generate 'free_space', who isallowed to consume this 'free_space'? Is it released to the OS forgeneral use? Or is it reserved just for the database? If the latter, isit reserved just for 'wind' (in this ca

Re: [ADMIN] Problems when initdb on WinXP with SP2.

2005-11-26 Thread Qingqing Zhou
"Johnson Zhao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > run the windows cmd by: > > runas /user:postgres cmd > > and run the initdb program like: > > initdb --locale=C --username=postgres -W -A md5 -E UNICODE -D ../data > > then it says: > > creating directory ../data/ ... ok > creating directory ../data/glo

Re: [ADMIN] Problems when initdb on WinXP with SP2.

2005-11-26 Thread Thomas Harold
Johnson Zhao wrote: Hi, I use Postgresql 8.03/ 8.04 on windows xp with sp2, all have same problems. run the windows cmd by: runas /user:postgres cmd and run the initdb program like: initdb --locale=C --username=postgres -W -A md5 -E UNICODE -D ../data then it says: creating directory ../d