[HACKERS] Notification when freespaces empty

2005-05-19 Thread ITAGAKI Takahiro
Hello all, I think that this patch is useful to decide when to vacuum. It notifies when freespace empties as follows: $ ./pgbench -i $ ./pgbench -n -t 1000 LOG: FreeSpace for "public.accounts" becomes empty. (stored=1, avg=159, min=128) LOG: FreeSpace for "public.tellers" becomes empty. (store

[HACKERS] Inherited constraints and search paths (was Re: [GENERAL] Preserving data after updates)

2005-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
Berend Tober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now what, oh most wise one? OK, now I finally get the point: you are creating child tables in different schemas than their parents live in. This creates a problem because reverse-listing of the constraints varies depending on what the search path is. An

Re: [HACKERS] understanding bitmap index benefit

2005-05-19 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Tom Lane wrote: Oleg Bartunov writes: I tried to see io statistics, but it was weird in 8.0X and in 8.1dev I still don't understand it :) We aren't yet updating the io statistics for bitmap scans properly. There was a thread about this but it petered out without any resolutio

[HACKERS] C array from SQL array?

2005-05-19 Thread Juan Pablo Espino
Hello hackers At the moment I need to pass from a SQL array to a C array. I have the following table: CREATE TABLE emps ( name text, array int4[] ) For example, array have this values: {4000,1,0,0} I wrote this function for test in order to see something that could help me: extern Datum

Re: [HACKERS] Two-phase commit issues

2005-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As Alvaro pointed out elsewhere, the multixacts are harder because a > backend doesn't know which multixactids it belongs to. AFAICS, the most > straightforward solution is to xlog every CreateMultixact call, so that > the multixact slru files can

Re: [HACKERS] understanding bitmap index benefit

2005-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
Oleg Bartunov writes: > I tried to see io statistics, but it was weird in 8.0X and in 8.1dev I still > don't understand it :) We aren't yet updating the io statistics for bitmap scans properly. There was a thread about this but it petered out without any resolution about what we should do ...

Re: [HACKERS] Contributing

2005-05-19 Thread Josh Berkus
Andrej, > I was wondering whether there's still need for people doing translations > English <-> German ... I'd like to contribute but am not too fit in C > programming, didn't do anything in ages... We can always use translators.I lead a translator crew for PR materials, and Peter (who is o

Re: [HACKERS] 8.02 rpm error

2005-05-19 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, On 5/19/05, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 8.0.2 and up should provide/require libpq.so.4 and so on. Apparently > there is something broken with this set of RPMs. For futher of the discussion: http://lists.pgfoundry.org/pipermail/pgsqlrpms-hackers/2005-April/000197.html -

Re: [HACKERS] 8.02 rpm error

2005-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a customer with the following error. > rpm -Uvh *.rpm > warning: postgresql-8.0.2-1PGDG.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key > ID 748f7d0e > error: Failed dependencies: >libpq.so.3 is needed by postgresql-contrib-8.0.2-1PGDG >libec

Re: [HACKERS] Learning curves and such

2005-05-19 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Frost) writes: > * Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> I think most of the real advantages of bug trackers that have been >> mentioned in this thread have to do with history and searchability. >> We have the raw info for that, in the pgsql-bugs and >> pgsql-commmitters

[HACKERS] 8.02 rpm error

2005-05-19 Thread Dave Cramer
I have a customer with the following error. rpm -Uvh *.rpm warning: postgresql-8.0.2-1PGDG.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 748f7d0e error: Failed dependencies: libpq.so.3 is needed by postgresql-contrib-8.0.2-1PGDG libecpg.so.4 is needed by postgresql-libs-8.0.2-1PGDG l

Re: [HACKERS] Bitmap scan cost model (was Re: bitmap scans, btree scans, and tid order)

2005-05-19 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas DAZ SD
> But to get the estimated cost ratio to match up with the actual cost > ratio, we'd have to raise random_page_cost to nearly 70, which is a bit > hard to credit. What was the platform being tested here? Why ? Numbers for modern single disks are 1-2Mb/s 8k random and 50-120 Mb/s sequential. An

Re: [HACKERS] Bitmap scan cost model (was Re: bitmap scans, btree scans, and tid order)

2005-05-19 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas DAZ SD
> >Incrementing random_page_cost from 4 (the default) to 5 causes the > >planner to make a better decision. > > We have such a low default random_page_cost primarily to mask other > problems in the optimizer, two of which are > > . multi-column index correlation > > . interpolation between min_

Re: [HACKERS] understanding bitmap index benefit

2005-05-19 Thread Oleg Bartunov
yOn Thu, 19 May 2005, Oleg Bartunov wrote: Tom, I noticed that along with many improvements in join operations bitmap index speed up execution of first time query. It's known complain about slow full text searching when query runs for the first time. But in CVS version I see very nice behaviour I'd

[HACKERS] understanding bitmap index benefit

2005-05-19 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Tom, I noticed that along with many improvements in join operations bitmap index speed up execution of first time query. It's known complain about slow full text searching when query runs for the first time. But in CVS version I see very nice behaviour I'd like to understand. Query below is full te

[HACKERS] Contributing

2005-05-19 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
Hi Guys, I was wondering whether there's still need for people doing translations English <-> German ... I'd like to contribute but am not too fit in C programming, didn't do anything in ages... If this is the wrong place to ask, disregard this message :) I couldn't find any more suitable refer