Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] Major Problem, need help! Can't run our

2005-11-14 Thread Rod Taylor
On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 23:02 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Tim Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We've seen reports of people firing this particular foot-gun before, > > haven't we? Would it make sense to rename pg_xlog to something that > > doesn't sound like it's "just" full of log files? Eg pg_w

Re: [ADMIN] [PERFORM] autovacuum on a -mostly- r/o table

2006-09-27 Thread Rod Taylor
On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 18:08 +0200, Edoardo Ceccarelli wrote: > > I have read that autovacuum cannot check to see pg load before > launching > vacuum but is there any patch about it? that would sort out the > problem > in a good and simple way. In some cases the solution to high load is to vacu

Re: [ADMIN] Table versions

2003-10-31 Thread Rod Taylor
> What I did next, is put a trigger on pg_attribute that should, in theory, > on insert and update, fire up a function that will increment a version System tables do not use the same process for row insertion / updates as the rest of the system. You're trigger will rarely be fired. signature.asc

Re: [ADMIN] [PERFORM] Postgres on Netapp

2004-01-18 Thread Rod Taylor
> I'd appreciate if anyone could share your experience > in configuring things on the filer for optimal > performance or any recomendataion that i should be > aware of. Netapps are great things. Just beware that you'll be using NFS, and NFS drivers on many operating systems have been known to be

Re: [ADMIN] [pgsql-performance] Is dump-reload the only cure?

2002-11-01 Thread Rod Taylor
=1 width=4) > -> Seq Scan on email_bank_mailing_lists (cost=0.00..6788.24 rows=30001 width=4) > > EXPLAIN -- Rod Taylor ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail

Re: [ADMIN] [pgsql-performance] Is dump-reload the only cure?

2002-11-01 Thread Rod Taylor
> >> VACUUM > >> tradein_clients=# explain SELECT count( email_id ) from >email_bank_mailing_lists where > >> query_id=499;NOTICE: QUERY PLAN: > >> > >> Aggregate (cost=6863.24..6863.24 rows=1 width=4) > >> -> Seq Scan on ema

Re: [ADMIN] [pgsql-performance] Is dump-reload the only cure?

2002-11-01 Thread Rod Taylor
(fetch) the index pages, then fetch the pages from the table. Since the table fetches are random, the harddrive will probably incur a seek for each tuple found in the index. The seeks add up much quicker than a sequential scan (without nearly as many seeks or drive head movements). -- Rod Tayl

Re: [ADMIN] [HACKERS] Security question : Database access control

2002-10-25 Thread Rod Taylor
ons, or touching certain filesystems. PostgreSQL will let you put a password on the data. But that only works if they actually try to use PostgreSQL to get at the data. There are a couple of tools which were designed to recover database data while the db is not running. -- Rod Taylor ---

Re: [ADMIN] uppercase = lowercase

2003-03-10 Thread Rod Taylor
t count the number of times I've sent in emails when I would have preferred to send a patch. The only website I can find source for (without trying hard) is developers.postgresql.org. -- Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [ADMIN] problems with pg_restore

2003-07-19 Thread Rod Taylor
> Hm. Evidently not :-(. The COMMENT ON DATABASE facility is a bit bogus > anyway (since there's no way to make the comments visible across > databases). You might be best advised not to use it. > > Hackers: this seems like an extremely bad side-effect of what we thought > was a simple addition

Re: [ADMIN] problems with pg_restore

2003-07-19 Thread Rod Taylor
> 3. Ignore the specified DB name, store the comment as the description >of the current DB; possibly give a warning saying we're doing so. >This would allow correct restoration of dumps into different DBs, >but I think people would find it awfully surprising :-( I like this one for 7.4

Re: [ADMIN] Why table has drop, but the foreign key still there?

2003-08-14 Thread Rod Taylor
> insert into state (state_code,state) values ('GU','Guam'); > drop table whitepage; > delete from state where state_code = 'GU'; > ERROR: Relation "whitepage" does not exist Old version of PostgreSQL? Effort went into cleaning up inter-object dependencies in 7.3. I don't recall having that pa