[GENERAL] drastic reduction in speed of inserts as the table grows

2001-04-17 Thread Rini Dutta
Hi, I was comparing speed of inserts in C vs JDBC and found that as the table size increases the speed differential decreases till there is no difference (no problem). However inserts kept getting slower and slower as the table size increased and the performance became quite poor. Here is the

Re: [GENERAL] drastic reduction in speed of inserts as the table grows

2001-04-17 Thread Rini Dutta
--- Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rini Dutta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is the performance statistics on the same table. Note the fall in performance as the test proceeds. Try 7.1. I think you are running into the lots-of-pending-triggers problem that was found and fixed

[GENERAL] 'Unknown Result Type' - JDBC Driver

2001-03-05 Thread Rini Dutta
Hi, I am using the JDBC interface. Does anybody know what could lead to the following two errors I ran into - 1. Cannot handle multiple result groups. at org.postgresql.Connection.ExecSQL(Connection.java, Compiled Code) at

[GENERAL] RE: [SQL] handling of database size exceeding physical disk space

2001-02-23 Thread Rini Dutta
the table and bails out of the transaction. I just wish it didn't happen so often... grin Mike Diehl, Network Monitoring Tool Devl. 284-3137 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Rini Dutta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: February 20, 2001 9:35 AM To: [EMAIL

[GENERAL] handling of database size exceeding physical disk space

2001-02-23 Thread Rini Dutta
Hi, Does anyone know how postgres/ postmaster handles the situation where the physical hard disk space is full ? Does it crash / corrupt the database, or does it cleanly exit with appopriate message so that relevant tables can be pruned (by the user) to free up disk space and get it working

[GENERAL] how critical is WAL ?

2001-02-23 Thread Rini Dutta
Hi, I happenned to come across the following in the documentation on WAL implementation in v7.1 - * Before WAL, any crash during writing could result in: 1.index tuples pointing to non-existent table rows 2.index tuples lost in

[GENERAL] psql - use of default editor

2001-02-23 Thread Rini Dutta
Is there a way to temporarily turn of the use of a default editor when using psql ? I need to do this when I try to use psql from a script/batch file. Whenever a query is executed psql displays a result, displays it - I need to hit 'q' to end the display and would like to avoid this unnecessary