Re: [GENERAL] Linux equivalent library for "postgres.lib" from Windows

2016-11-10 Thread David Guyot
If you are looking for the name of the package providing the postgres library, it will probably change over the distros; under Debian, you're probably looking for libpq5 for the library itself, but I don't know the name of the package containing debugging symbols for this one. Depending on your de

Re: [GENERAL] Linux equivalent library for "postgres.lib" from Windows

2016-11-09 Thread Gadamsetty, Kiran
[mailto:michael.paqu...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2016 9:21 AM To: Gadamsetty, Kiran Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Kumar, Sunil(RM engineering) Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Linux equivalent library for "postgres.lib" from Windows On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Gadamsetty, Kiran wro

Re: [GENERAL] Linux equivalent library for "postgres.lib" from Windows

2016-11-08 Thread Albe Laurenz
John R Pierce wrote: >> I am new to the product and in windows “postgres.lib” provides certain >> functions which we are >> using in windows for creating extensions. >> >> Now I am porting the project to Linux and there no straight library with >> this name in Linux >> binaries packages. >> >>

Re: [GENERAL] Linux equivalent library for "postgres.lib" from Windows

2016-11-07 Thread Michael Paquier
On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 1:29 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > I am not sure what this postgres.lib is, what are the functions you're using > ? It contains references to all the exposed functions of the backend on Windows. Using something like dumpbin /exports postgres.lib would show exactly that if I re

Re: [GENERAL] Linux equivalent library for "postgres.lib" from Windows

2016-11-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/7/2016 7:51 PM, Michael Paquier wrote: There is no need to go down to this level of details perhaps? You could just use the PGXS infrastructure to guess it for you. +1 I forgot to mention PGXS, that provides a portable method of building server-side extensions. See https://www.post

Re: [GENERAL] Linux equivalent library for "postgres.lib" from Windows

2016-11-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/6/2016 9:28 PM, Gadamsetty, Kiran wrote: I am new to the product and in windows “postgres.lib” provides certain functions which we are using in windows for creating extensions. Now I am porting the project to Linux and there no straight library with this name in Linux binaries packages

Re: [GENERAL] Linux equivalent library for "postgres.lib" from Windows

2016-11-07 Thread Michael Paquier
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Gadamsetty, Kiran wrote: > I am new to the product and in windows “postgres.lib” provides certain > functions which we are using in windows for creating extensions. > > Now I am porting the project to Linux and there no straight library with > this name in Linux bin

[GENERAL] Linux equivalent library for "postgres.lib" from Windows

2016-11-07 Thread Gadamsetty, Kiran
Hi, I am new to the product and in windows "postgres.lib" provides certain functions which we are using in windows for creating extensions. Now I am porting the project to Linux and there no straight library with this name in Linux binaries packages. Can someone please advise the equivalent lib

Re: [GENERAL] Linux replication to FreeBSD problem

2014-08-20 Thread Jov
Yes,it is locale problem. I do some more testing,and find that in my DB locale which is zh_CN.UTF-8,the indexes on FreeBSD slave can works if the indexed data is lower case ascii,it can't find data contain upper case. Explicit set the column collate to "C" can solve the problem. I will recreate al

Re: [GENERAL] Linux replication to FreeBSD problem

2014-08-20 Thread Tom Lane
Adrian Klaver writes: > On 08/20/2014 07:53 AM, Jov wrote: >> I setup a PG 9.3.5 master on CentOS 6 x86_64,and 2 screaming replicaton >> slaves,one on CentOS6 x86_64,the other on FreeBSD 10 amd64. >> The replication work fine for a week,But today I find a problem on sql >> running on FreeBSD:simpl

Re: [GENERAL] Linux replication to FreeBSD problem

2014-08-20 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 08/20/2014 07:53 AM, Jov wrote: I setup a PG 9.3.5 master on CentOS 6 x86_64,and 2 screaming replicaton slaves,one on CentOS6 x86_64,the other on FreeBSD 10 amd64. The replication work fine for a week,But today I find a problem on sql running on FreeBSD:simple sql use index do not return resul

[GENERAL] Linux replication to FreeBSD problem

2014-08-20 Thread Jov
I setup a PG 9.3.5 master on CentOS 6 x86_64,and 2 screaming replicaton slaves,one on CentOS6 x86_64,the other on FreeBSD 10 amd64. The replication work fine for a week,But today I find a problem on sql running on FreeBSD:simple sql use index do not return result.If I disable the index ,use seqscan

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-11 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 17:15:28 +0300 Achilleas Mantzios wrote: > pl/java has nothing to do with this. The argument against using > packages/ports for postgresql upgrades, is that upgrades in general > involve : > - reading HISTORY thoroughly and understanding every bit of it, > especially the migrat

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-11 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
On 11/04/2014 15:05, Alban Hertroys wrote: Although it is getting a bit specific, would you care to elaborate why you would advice strongly against using ports or packages for Postgres on FreeBSD? Because that’s a rather strong statement you’re making and so far the only argument I’ve seen is tha

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-11 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 09:16:04 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Curious: Why not consider OpenBSD also? Or NetBSD. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain | Democracy is three wolves http://www.druid.net/darcy/| and a sheep voting on +1 416 788 2246 (DoD#0082)(eNTP) | what's for dinner

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:05:43 +0200 Alban Hertroys wrote: > My advice to the OP: > > Install FreeBSD on a system to play around with, get a feel for how > it works and whether you like it or not. See how it performs with > Postgres on different file-systems; UFS2 or ZFS - UFS is the faster > of t

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-11 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 11 Apr 2014, at 12:39, Achilleas Mantzios wrote: I moved this bit of the conversation up as it’s relevant to the OP: > On 11/04/2014 13:05, Alban Hertroys wrote: >> On 11 Apr 2014, at 8:04, Achilleas Mantzios >> wrote: >>> I don't mean to scare the OP, but FreeBSD is not for everyone. >>

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-11 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
On 11/04/2014 13:05, Alban Hertroys wrote: On 11 Apr 2014, at 8:04, Achilleas Mantzios wrote: Basically it goes beyond what ppl would describe as OS holly wars. If one chooses to go by FreeBSD, then he better be prepared to handle the burden, both the part that is imposed by the OS administr

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-11 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 11 Apr 2014, at 8:04, Achilleas Mantzios wrote: > Basically it goes beyond what ppl would describe as OS holly wars. > If one chooses to go by FreeBSD, then he better be prepared to handle the > burden, both the part that is > imposed by the OS administration itself, as well as the part that

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-10 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
Basically it goes beyond what ppl would describe as OS holly wars. If one chooses to go by FreeBSD, then he better be prepared to handle the burden, both the part that is imposed by the OS administration itself, as well as the part that is a side effect of the different base system. Example of

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-10 Thread Jan Wieck
On 04/10/14 17:25, Christofer C. Bell wrote: I'm not wanting to get after anyone here, but I want it on the record that I am not the source of the above quote discouraging the use of Ubuntu in a server role. That would be Bruce Momjian. While Bruce is entitled to his opinion, it's not one I agre

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-10 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:36 PM, François Beausoleil wrote: > > Le 2014-04-09 à 16:20, Bruce Momjian a écrit : > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:02:07AM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > This highlights a more fundamental problem of the difference between a > workstation-based on OS like Ubuntu and

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-10 Thread Stuart Bishop
On 4 April 2014 11:03, François Beausoleil wrote: > Hi all! > > Does PG perform that much better on FreeBSD? I have some performance issues > on a Ubuntu 12.04 which I'd like to resolve. iowait varies a lot, between 5 > and 50%. Does FreeBSD better schedule I/O, which could alleviate some of the

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, April 09, 2014 09:02:02 PM Brent Wood wrote: > Given the likely respective numbers of each OS actually out there, I'd > suggests BSD is very over-represented in the high uptime list which is > suggestive. Suggestive of ... sysadmins who don't do kernel updates? -- Sent via pgsql-

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-09 Thread Brent Wood
c: Christofer C. Bell; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD Le 2014-04-09 ? 16:20, Bruce Momjian a ?crit : On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:02:07AM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: This highlights a more fundamental problem of the difference between a workstation-based on

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-09 Thread Bosco Rama
On 04/09/14 14:46, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > I'm not deploying any new distro version that soon. :) I know folks > just putting 12.04 into prod to replace etch and lenny. :) You can easily get the 3.11.0 kernel on 12.04.4 LTS by installing the linux-generic-lts-saucy package. IIRC, the fix for th

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-09 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Steve Atkins wrote: > > On Apr 9, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Christofer C. Bell >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:03 PM, François Beausoleil >>> wrote: Hi all! Does PG perform that much better

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-09 Thread Steve Atkins
On Apr 9, 2014, at 1:33 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Christofer C. Bell > wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:03 PM, François Beausoleil >> wrote: >>> Hi all! >>> >>> Does PG perform that much better on FreeBSD? I have some performance issues >>> on a Ubuntu 12.

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-09 Thread François Beausoleil
Le 2014-04-09 à 16:20, Bruce Momjian a écrit : > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:02:07AM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > This highlights a more fundamental problem of the difference between a > workstation-based on OS like Ubuntu and a server-based one like Debian > or FreeBSD. I know Ubuntu ha

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-09 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:03 PM, François Beausoleil > wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> Does PG perform that much better on FreeBSD? I have some performance issues >> on a Ubuntu 12.04 which I'd like to resolve. iowait varies a lot, between 5 >

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:02:07AM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:03 PM, François Beausoleil > wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > Does PG perform that much better on FreeBSD? I have some performance issues > > on a Ubuntu 12.04 which I'd like to resolve. iowait varies a lot,

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-09 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 11:03 PM, François Beausoleil wrote: > Hi all! > > Does PG perform that much better on FreeBSD? I have some performance issues > on a Ubuntu 12.04 which I'd like to resolve. iowait varies a lot, between 5 > and 50%. Does FreeBSD better schedule I/O, which could alleviate s

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-08 Thread Vick Khera
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 12:03 AM, François Beausoleil wrote: > Our workload is lots of data import, followed by many queries to summarize > (daily and weekly reports). Our main table is a wide table that represents > Twitter and Facebook interactions. Most of our reports work on a week's worth >

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-04 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
As a side note, when we migrated the exact same pgsql 8.3 system from linux kernel 2.6 to 3.6, we experienced an almost dramatic slowdown by 6 times. Linux Kernel's were known to have issues around those dates, i recall. We had to set synchronous_commit to off, this gave a huge boost , but this w

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-04 Thread François Beausoleil
Le 2014-04-04 à 08:11, Ray Stell a écrit : > > On Apr 4, 2014, at 12:03 AM, François Beausoleil wrote: > >> I have some performance issues on a Ubuntu 12.04 which I'd like to resolve. >> iowait varies a lot, between 5 and 50%. > > Is the SAN dedicated to this app? I wonder if the i/o, if n

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-04 Thread Ray Stell
On Apr 4, 2014, at 12:03 AM, François Beausoleil wrote: > I have some performance issues on a Ubuntu 12.04 which I'd like to resolve. > iowait varies a lot, between 5 and 50%. Is the SAN dedicated to this app? I wonder if the i/o, if not related to your app, is being pressed by some other s

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-04 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
FreeBSD is OK if you are experienced. As a system it requires much more maturity by the admin than lets say Ubuntu which is targeted at a larger user base. I'd say, explore your other Linux options first, since you already have experience with Linux. FreeBSD requires a much bigger learning curve

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-03 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:33 AM, François Beausoleil wrote: > Hi all! > > Does PG perform that much better on FreeBSD? I have some performance > issues on a Ubuntu 12.04 which I'd like to resolve. iowait varies a lot, > between 5 and 50%. Does FreeBSD better schedule I/O, which could alleviate > so

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/3/2014 9:03 PM, François Beausoleil wrote: The host is a dedicated hardware machine at online.fr: 128 GB RAM, 2 x 3TB disk in RAID 1 configuration. just a passing comment... 3TB disks are 7200rpm and suitable for nearline bulk storage (or desktop use), not high performance database rand

[GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-03 Thread François Beausoleil
Hi all! Does PG perform that much better on FreeBSD? I have some performance issues on a Ubuntu 12.04 which I'd like to resolve. iowait varies a lot, between 5 and 50%. Does FreeBSD better schedule I/O, which could alleviate some of the issues, or not at all? I have no experience administering

Re: [GENERAL] Linux OOM-Killer

2014-03-17 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 03/17/2014 04:21 AM, basti wrote: uname -a Linux h2085616 3.2.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 23 02:45:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux At any time there are not more than 20-30 Connections at once. Swap is disabled. free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem

Re: [GENERAL] Linux OOM-Killer

2014-03-17 Thread Albe Laurenz
basti wrote: >>> Since a few days we had problems with the Linux OOM-Killer. >>> Some simple query that normally take around 6-7 minutes now takes 5 hours. >>> We did not change any configuration values the last days. >>> >>> First of all I have set >>> >>> vm.overcommit_memory=2 >>> vm.overcommit_

Re: [GENERAL] Linux OOM-Killer

2014-03-17 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 12:21:30PM +0100, basti wrote: > uname -a > Linux h2085616 3.2.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 23 02:45:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > At any time there are not more than 20-30 Connections at once. > > Swap is disabled. > free -m > total used free

Re: [GENERAL] Linux OOM-Killer

2014-03-17 Thread basti
uname -a Linux h2085616 3.2.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 23 02:45:17 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux At any time there are not more than 20-30 Connections at once. Swap is disabled. free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 32215 16163 16051

Re: [GENERAL] Linux OOM-Killer

2014-03-17 Thread Tomas Vondra
Hi, On 17 Březen 2014, 11:45, basti wrote: > Hello, > > we have a database master Version: > PostgreSQL 9.1.6 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian > 4.7.2-2) 4.7.2, 64-bit > and a WAL-Replication Slave with hot-standby version: > PostgreSQL 9.1.9 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compil

[GENERAL] Linux OOM-Killer

2014-03-17 Thread basti
Hello, we have a database master Version: PostgreSQL 9.1.6 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian 4.7.2-2) 4.7.2, 64-bit and a WAL-Replication Slave with hot-standby version: PostgreSQL 9.1.9 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (Debian 4.7.2-5) 4.7.2, 64-bit. Since a few da

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-17 Thread Vincent Veyron
Le dimanche 13 janvier 2013 à 18:27 +, Shaun Thomas a écrit : > I'm not sure the last time I saw this discussion, but I was somewhat curious: > what would be your ideal Linux distribution for a nice solid PostgreSQL > installation? We've kinda bounced back and forth between RHEL, CentOS, and

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-16 Thread SUNDAY A. OLUTAYO
- Original Message - From: "Stuart Bishop" To: "Bruce Momjian" Cc: "Scott Marlowe" , "SUNDAY A. OLUTAYO" , "Gavin Flower" , "Chris Ernst" , pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2013 1:00:56 PM Subject:

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-16 Thread Stuart Bishop
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 08:46:58PM -0700, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> The reasons to NOT use ubuntu under PostgreSQL are primarily that 1: >> they often choose a pretty meh grade kernel with performance >> regressions for their initial LTS release. I.e. they'll choose a >> 3.4.0 kernel over a very s

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-15 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 08:46:58PM -0700, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> The reasons to NOT use ubuntu under PostgreSQL are primarily that 1: >> they often choose a pretty meh grade kernel with performance >> regressions for their initial LTS releas

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-15 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 08:46:58PM -0700, Scott Marlowe wrote: > The reasons to NOT use ubuntu under PostgreSQL are primarily that 1: > they often choose a pretty meh grade kernel with performance > regressions for their initial LTS release. I.e. they'll choose a > 3.4.0 kernel over a very stable

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-15 Thread Vincent Veyron
Le mardi 15 janvier 2013 à 07:52 -0700, Scott Marlowe a écrit : > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Vincent Veyron wrote: > > Le lundi 14 janvier 2013 à 16:35 -0600, Shaun Thomas a écrit : > > > >> My personal server is on Debian too, with a similar uptime. But we > >> recently ran into this guy on

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-15 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Vincent Veyron wrote: > Le lundi 14 janvier 2013 à 16:35 -0600, Shaun Thomas a écrit : > >> My personal server is on Debian too, with a similar uptime. But we >> recently ran into this guy on our 12.04 Ubuntu systems: >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-15 Thread Vincent Veyron
Le mardi 15 janvier 2013 à 12:54 +0100, Daniel Verite a écrit : > Vincent Veyron wrote: > > > > > > On Debian/Ubuntu, the default behavior is to have SSL enabled out > > > of the box, including for TCP connections to localhost. > > > > It is in Ubuntu, but not in Debian. > > No, I've seen

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-15 Thread Daniel Verite
Vincent Veyron wrote: > > > On Debian/Ubuntu, the default behavior is to have SSL enabled out > > of the box, including for TCP connections to localhost. > > It is in Ubuntu, but not in Debian. No, I've seen it a number of times with Debian. pg_createcluster will enable SSL in postgresq

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-15 Thread Vincent Veyron
Le lundi 14 janvier 2013 à 16:35 -0600, Shaun Thomas a écrit : > My personal server is on Debian too, with a similar uptime. But we > recently ran into this guy on our 12.04 Ubuntu systems: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1055222 > Ha, so you seem to need to use the X

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-14 Thread T. E. Lawrence
On 15.01.2013, at 00:28, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, T. E. Lawrence wrote: > >> When forced on Linux we like Debian because it is so conservative (which >> can sometimes drive one crazy, especially if one needs some cutting edge >> feature). > > T. > > Take a look at Slackware

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-14 Thread T. E. Lawrence
> Hey guys, > > I'm not sure the last time I saw this discussion, but I was somewhat curious: > what would be your ideal Linux distribution for a nice solid PostgreSQL > installation? We've kinda bounced back and forth between RHEL, CentOS, and > Ubuntu LTS, so I was wondering what everyone els

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-14 Thread Shaun Thomas
On 01/14/2013 04:19 PM, Vincent Veyron wrote: The only downtime I had in over two years was due a forced bios upgrade by the hosting service, and I have no formal training in server administration. Debian stable certainly works. My personal server is on Debian too, with a similar uptime. But w

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-14 Thread Vincent Veyron
Le lundi 14 janvier 2013 à 18:03 +0100, Daniel Verite a écrit : > On Debian/Ubuntu, the default behavior is to have SSL enabled out > of the box, including for TCP connections to localhost. It is in Ubuntu, but not in Debian. To the OP : I maintain three servers using Debian stable, each facing

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-14 Thread Daniel Verite
Edson Richter wrote: > Do you have any fact that support RHEL being slower than others? > I would like to improve our servers if we can get some ideas - so far, > we have tried Ubuntu LTS servers, and seems just as fast as RHEL for > PostgreSQL (tests made by issuing heavy queries). On

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-14 Thread Gavin Flower
On 14/01/13 22:24, Hendrik Visage wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Shaun Thomas mailto:stho...@optionshouse.com>> wrote: Hey guys, I'm not sure the last time I saw this discussion, but I was somewhat curious: what would be your ideal Linux distribution for a nice sol

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Edson Richter wrote: > Em 14/01/2013 01:46, Scott Marlowe escreveu: >> >> My preference personally is for debian based distros since they >> support the rather more elegant pg wrappers that allow you to run >> multiple versions and multiple clusters of those versio

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-14 Thread Hendrik Visage
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Shaun Thomas wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm not sure the last time I saw this discussion, but I was somewhat > curious: what would be your ideal Linux distribution for a nice solid > PostgreSQL installation? We've kinda bounced back and forth between RHEL, > CentOS, an

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread Condor
On 2013-01-14 00:44, Gavin Flower wrote: On 14/01/13 07:27, Shaun Thomas wrote: Hey guys, I'm not sure the last time I saw this discussion, but I was somewhat curious: what would be your ideal Linux distribution for a nice solid PostgreSQL installation? We've kinda bounced back and forth bet

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > Most importantly, if you've got LOTS of talent for one distro or > another, you're probably best off exploiting it. If 95% of all the > developers and ops crew run Ubuntu or Debian, stick to one of them. > If they favor Fedora / RHEL stick t

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread Gavin Flower
On 14/01/13 16:46, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 4:06 PM, SUNDAY A. OLUTAYO wrote: 4 reasons: 1. One place where I worked Ubuntu was standard, I tried it and found that it lacked at least a couple of desktop features in GNOME 2 that I found very useful into Fedora. F

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread Edson Richter
Em 14/01/2013 01:46, Scott Marlowe escreveu: On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 4:06 PM, SUNDAY A. OLUTAYO wrote: 4 reasons: 1. One place where I worked Ubuntu was standard, I tried it and found that it lacked at least a couple of desktop features in GNOME 2 that I found very useful into Fedo

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 4:06 PM, SUNDAY A. OLUTAYO wrote: > 4 reasons: > > 1. One place where I worked Ubuntu was standard, I tried it and found > that it lacked at least a couple of desktop features in GNOME 2 that > I found very useful into Fedora. Fortunately, I was allowed to > re

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread David Boreham
I'm not sure the last time I saw this discussion, but I was somewhat curious: what would be your ideal Linux distribution for a nice solid PostgreSQL installation? We've kinda bounced back and forth between RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu LTS, so I was wondering what everyone else thought. We run

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread Edson Richter
Em 13/01/2013 16:27, Shaun Thomas escreveu: Hey guys, I'm not sure the last time I saw this discussion, but I was somewhat curious: what would be your ideal Linux distribution for a nice solid PostgreSQL installation? We've kinda bounced back and forth between RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu LTS, so

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/13/2013 04:07 PM, Chris Ernst wrote: On 01/13/2013 03:44 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: I've seen the opinion of "avoid Ubuntu like the plague" expressed many times, but it is never followed up with any solid reasoning. Can you (or anyone else) give specific details on exactly why you believe Ub

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread Gavin Flower
Please don't top post, add your comments at the end as per the norm for this group. On 14/01/13 12:06, SUNDAY A. OLUTAYO wrote: Ubuntu did the marketing for linux and many more. Some people are just haters. Can you tell us about upstart? Sent from my LG Mobile Gavin Flower wrote: On 14/01/

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread SUNDAY A. OLUTAYO
Ubuntu did the marketing for linux and many more. Some people are just haters. Can you tell us about upstart? Sent from my LG Mobile Gavin Flower wrote: On 14/01/13 13:07, Chris Ernst wrote: > On 01/13/2013 03:44 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: >> I would tend use Fedora for development, but would co

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread Gavin Flower
On 14/01/13 13:07, Chris Ernst wrote: On 01/13/2013 03:44 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: I would tend use Fedora for development, but would consider CentOS (or RHEL, if we had the budget) for production - I avoid Ubuntu like the plague. I happen to be doing my own research on this matter. I tend to

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread Steve Atkins
On Jan 13, 2013, at 10:27 AM, Shaun Thomas wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm not sure the last time I saw this discussion, but I was somewhat curious: > what would be your ideal Linux distribution for a nice solid PostgreSQL > installation? We've kinda bounced back and forth between RHEL, CentOS, an

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Chris Ernst wrote: > I've seen the opinion of "avoid Ubuntu like the plague" expressed many > times, but it is never followed up with any solid reasoning. Can you (or > anyone else) give specific details on exactly why you believe Ubuntu should > be avoided? I s

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread Chris Ernst
On 01/13/2013 03:44 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: I would tend use Fedora for development, but would consider CentOS (or RHEL, if we had the budget) for production - I avoid Ubuntu like the plague. I happen to be doing my own research on this matter. I tend to lean more toward RHEL or CentOS for pr

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread SUNDAY A. OLUTAYO
I use Ubuntu for development and production, it is rock solid. Thanks, Sunday Olutayo - Original Message - From: "Gavin Flower" To: "Shaun Thomas" Cc: "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2013 11:44:42 PM Subject: Re

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread Gavin Flower
On 14/01/13 07:27, Shaun Thomas wrote: Hey guys, I'm not sure the last time I saw this discussion, but I was somewhat curious: what would be your ideal Linux distribution for a nice solid PostgreSQL installation? We've kinda bounced back and forth between RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu LTS, so I wa

[GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread Shaun Thomas
Hey guys, I'm not sure the last time I saw this discussion, but I was somewhat curious: what would be your ideal Linux distribution for a nice solid PostgreSQL installation? We've kinda bounced back and forth between RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu LTS, so I was wondering what everyone else thought.

Re: [GENERAL] Linux PowerPC 64bits issue

2012-09-27 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
On 2012-09-27 11:21:04 -0300, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > On 2012-09-27 11:02:48 -0300, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > > On 2012-09-27 06:53:57 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > > On 09/27/2012 04:46 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > > > >On 2012-09-27 11:51:46 +0800, a...@hsk.hk wrote: > > > >>Hi, > > > >> > >

Re: [GENERAL] Linux PowerPC 64bits issue

2012-09-27 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
On 2012-09-27 11:02:48 -0300, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > On 2012-09-27 06:53:57 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > On 09/27/2012 04:46 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > > >On 2012-09-27 11:51:46 +0800, a...@hsk.hk wrote: > > >>Hi, > > >> > > >>Could you provide the steps and commands you used to compile 9.

Re: [GENERAL] Linux PowerPC 64bits issue

2012-09-27 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
On 2012-09-27 06:53:57 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 09/27/2012 04:46 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > >On 2012-09-27 11:51:46 +0800, a...@hsk.hk wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>Could you provide the steps and commands you used to compile 9.1? > >> > >>I want to reproduce your case in my machine > >> > >>R

Re: [GENERAL] Linux PowerPC 64bits issue

2012-09-27 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
On 2012-09-27 06:53:57 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 09/27/2012 04:46 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > >On 2012-09-27 11:51:46 +0800, a...@hsk.hk wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>Could you provide the steps and commands you used to compile 9.1? > >> > >>I want to reproduce your case in my machine > >> > >>R

Re: [GENERAL] Linux PowerPC 64bits issue

2012-09-27 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 09/27/2012 04:46 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: On 2012-09-27 11:51:46 +0800, a...@hsk.hk wrote: Hi, Could you provide the steps and commands you used to compile 9.1? I want to reproduce your case in my machine Regards Arthur Yes, I downloaded postgresql-9.1.5.tar.gz from the PostgreSql we

Re: [GENERAL] Linux PowerPC 64bits issue

2012-09-27 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
On 2012-09-27 21:44:21 +0800, a...@hsk.hk wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried to compile it in my local machine, I could not reproduce the > issue yet. > > Does anyone else have idea what the reason would be? Would the issue come > from the config file? > > Regards > Arthur > > On 27 Sep 2012, a

Re: [GENERAL] Linux PowerPC 64bits issue

2012-09-27 Thread a...@hsk.hk
Hi, I have tried to compile it in my local machine, I could not reproduce the issue yet. Does anyone else have idea what the reason would be? Would the issue come from the config file? Regards Arthur On 27 Sep 2012, at 7:46 PM, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > On 2012-09-27 11:51:46 +0800, a...@

Re: [GENERAL] Linux PowerPC 64bits issue

2012-09-27 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
On 2012-09-27 11:51:46 +0800, a...@hsk.hk wrote: > Hi, > > Could you provide the steps and commands you used to compile 9.1? > > I want to reproduce your case in my machine > > Regards > Arthur > Yes, I downloaded postgresql-9.1.5.tar.gz from the PostgreSql web site, then did this: tar xvfz p

Re: [GENERAL] Linux PowerPC 64bits issue

2012-09-26 Thread a...@hsk.hk
Hi, Could you provide the steps and commands you used to compile 9.1? I want to reproduce your case in my machine Regards Arthur On 27 Sep 2012, at 7:46 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > Hi, I compiled PostgreSql 9.1 from sources in a OpenSuse 10.1 PowerPC > machine. While trying to test one appli

[GENERAL] Linux PowerPC 64bits issue

2012-09-26 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Hi, I compiled PostgreSql 9.1 from sources in a OpenSuse 10.1 PowerPC machine. While trying to test one application, I've got errors just before connecting to the database, and found my app is loading linux-vdso64.so.1 while libpq.so uses linux-vdso32.so.1 This means the PostgreSql libraries where

Re: [GENERAL] Linux, Hungarian charset (Win1250) is supports the hungarian collation?

2011-03-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2011-03-21 at 11:22 +0100, Durumdara wrote: > The language is Windows 1250 (ISO-8859-2). > > I remembered that when I tried in 8.1 to create database as same in Windows: > > CharSet: Win1250 > Collation: - (disabled, and it is handled as HUN - iso-8859-2) > > then I failed. > > Because

[GENERAL] Linux, Hungarian charset (Win1250) is supports the hungarian collation?

2011-03-21 Thread Durumdara
Dear Everybody! We need to choice a DB for our new project. Two of the databases are possible to choose. 1.) PGSQL 9.x 2.) FireBird 2.x We needs to serve 75/80 users in a time. The client platform is Windows, Delphi based applications with [Zeos/PGDAC] or [IBX/ZEOS]. The server is may Windows,

Re: [GENERAL] linux server configuration

2011-01-06 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Sim Zacks wrote: > We are about to build a new database server, our plan is to use Debian. > > Is there documentation of recommended server configurations for Linux, such > as kernel parameters, preferred file system, etc that work best with > postgresql? > > I'm no

Re: [GENERAL] linux server configuration

2011-01-06 Thread Vick Khera
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > As a followup, I'd like to point out that you can probably get more > performance wise from hardware upgrades than from tuning your OS. > Something as simple as an $800 caching RAID controller can make a > Totally agree here. Throwing hardwa

Re: [GENERAL] linux server configuration

2011-01-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
As a followup, I'd like to point out that you can probably get more performance wise from hardware upgrades than from tuning your OS. Something as simple as an $800 caching RAID controller can make a workstation class machine into a monster performer, going from 250 tps to 3000 tps with one simple

Re: [GENERAL] linux server configuration

2011-01-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 4:20 AM, Sim Zacks wrote: > We are about to build a new database server, our plan is to use Debian. > > Is there documentation of recommended server configurations for Linux, such > as kernel parameters, preferred file system, etc that work best with > postgresql? This real

Re: [GENERAL] linux server configuration

2011-01-06 Thread Peter Geoghegan
I don't think that it makes sense to look at PG tuning and server tuning as two separate tasks. XFS was recently benchmarked using bonnie++ by Greg Smith, with interesting results: http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/en/2010/04/the-return-of-xfs-on-linux.html That said, my guess is that the majority of l

[GENERAL] linux server configuration

2011-01-06 Thread Sim Zacks
We are about to build a new database server, our plan is to use Debian. Is there documentation of recommended server configurations for Linux, such as kernel parameters, preferred file system, etc that work best with postgresql? I'm not talking about the pg configuration, which I have seen a

Re: [GENERAL] Linux: PAE or x64

2010-12-15 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 17:34, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Peter Geoghegan > wrote: >> Actually, there is a 64-bit port for windows now. I don't think I >> misrepresented Magnus - the post suggested that the then-lack of a >> 64-bit windows port wasn't a pressing issue

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