[ADMIN] max_locks_per_transaction and partitioned tables

2012-09-22 Thread Michael Holt
We've had a system in operation for a few years that makes use of a substantial amount of partitioning. The parent table now has over 4,000 children tables. Within the last couple of days the server started giving "out of shared memory" errors with the suggestion to increase the max_locks_per_tr

[ADMIN] Multiple servers with Postgresql

2012-09-22 Thread John Coryat
I have a number of web servers that access a server largely dedicated to just Postgres. There are over a million queries a day to this server. It's working well and doesn't seem to be bogged down. I would like to improve my server system by using a mirror or alternate machine for both backup an

Re: [ADMIN] Windows Services and Postgresql 9.1.3

2012-09-22 Thread Craig Ringer
On 09/22/2012 06:25 AM, Walter Hurry wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:33:25 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Vincent Dautremont wrote: Hi, I'm using Postgresql 9.1.3 x64 on Windows 2008, I'm doing reliability tests and effects and consequences of a server power failur