[HACKERS] pg_comparator table diff/sync

2007-05-12 Thread Erik 2.0
Is pg_comparator the only project out there that does what it does? I tried patching it, and it seems OK, but I'm not terribly confident in my patch. I'm hoping someone will tell me there's a great table- driven rsync out there that everyone uses and I just don't know about.

Re: [HACKERS] Seq scans roadmap

2007-05-12 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 22:59 +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: For comparison, here's the test results with vanilla CVS HEAD: copy-head | 00:06:21.533137 copy-head | 00:05:54.141285 I'm slightly worried that the results for COPY aren't anywhere near as good as the SELECT

Re: [HACKERS] Seq scans roadmap

2007-05-12 Thread Luke Lonergan
Hi Simon, On 5/12/07 12:35 AM, Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm slightly worried that the results for COPY aren't anywhere near as good as the SELECT and VACUUM results. It isn't clear from those numbers that the benefit really is significant. COPY is bottlenecked on datum formation

[HACKERS] Use of ActiveSnapshot

2007-05-12 Thread Jan Wieck
The use of ActiveSnapshot throughout the code appears rather dangerous to me. It is a global pointer, assumed not to be set yet in some places, assumed to be saved and restored by the caller in others. The actual (context) memory it points to is sometimes explicitly freed, sometimes just left

[HACKERS] Performance monitoring (was: [PATCHES] Logging checkpoints and other slowdown causes)

2007-05-12 Thread Jim C. Nasby
Moving to -hackers. On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:37:44PM +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: If you know when the checkpoint ended, and you know how long each of the pieces took, you can reconstruct the other times easily. The way you describe this it is true--that the summary is redundant given

Re: [HACKERS] Performance monitoring

2007-05-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Not to beat a dead horse, but do we really want to force folks to be parsing logs for performance monitoring? Especially if that log parsing is just going to result in data being inserted into a table anyway? I know there's concern about performance of the stats system and maybe that needs to

[HACKERS] I am back, catching up on email

2007-05-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
I returned on Wednesday from my trip to Australia and India. (I skipped London.) I returned early because my brother-in-law died on May 5 (for details see http://momjian.us/main/news.html). Anyway, I am slow catching up on email for that reason. I should be caught up by Tuesday/Wednesday. --

Re: [HACKERS] plperl vs. bytea

2007-05-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Added to TODO: o Allow data to be passed in native language formats, rather than only text http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-05/msg00289$ --- Andrew

Re: [HACKERS] Managing the community information stream

2007-05-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jim Nasby wrote: On May 6, 2007, at 8:18 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Oh, the answer to Bruce's question about when to create a feature item? You could well do it at the time when today you create a TODO item. However, we might even do better. For example, we might well add feature

Re: [HACKERS] Managing the community information stream

2007-05-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jim Nasby wrote: On May 6, 2007, at 8:18 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Oh, the answer to Bruce's question about when to create a feature item? You could well do it at the time when today you create a TODO item. However, we might even do better. For example, we might well add feature

Re: [HACKERS] Managing the community information stream

2007-05-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
To follow up on Andrew's idea of tracking things back to the TODO or bug number: We could have a universal developer number, something like PGD#23432 as a PostgreSQL Developer number. We could assign them for submissions to the bugs list, where we already assign a number. I could easily add

[HACKERS] Re: Performance monitoring (was: [PATCHES] Logging checkpoints and other slowdown causes)

2007-05-12 Thread Greg Smith
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Jim C. Nasby wrote: Not to beat a dead horse, but do we really want to force folks to be parsing logs for performance monitoring? All of the really interesting DBA level information about checkpoints is now sitting in pg_stat_bgwriter. There really is no reason I'd

Re: [HACKERS] Performance monitoring

2007-05-12 Thread Greg Smith
On Sat, 12 May 2007, Joshua D. Drake wrote: One thing that doesn't seemed to be being looked at it is the cost of logging. If any of this executed at something like the query level, sure, that would be real important. The majority of the logging I suggested here is of things that happen at

[HACKERS] What is happening on buildfarm member baiji?

2007-05-12 Thread Tom Lane
The last two runs on baiji have failed at the installcheck stage, with symptoms that look a heck of a lot like the most recent system catalog changes haven't taken effect (eg, it doesn't seem to know about pg_type.typarray). Given that the previous check step passed, the most likely explanation

Re: [HACKERS] Performance monitoring

2007-05-12 Thread Neil Conway
On Sat, 2007-12-05 at 14:26 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Either way, we are taking the hit, it is just a matter of where. IMO it would be better to have the information in the database where it makes sense, than pushing out to a log If performance monitoring information is provided as a

Re: [HACKERS] What is happening on buildfarm member baiji?

2007-05-12 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: The last two runs on baiji have failed at the installcheck stage, with symptoms that look a heck of a lot like the most recent system catalog changes haven't taken effect (eg, it doesn't seem to know about pg_type.typarray). Given that the previous check step passed, the most