[HACKERS] Count backend self-sync calls

2010-11-14 Thread Greg Smith
in the future too. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant USg...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Supportwww.2ndQuadrant.us diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml index dbf966b..f701b8f 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/monitoring.sgml +++ b

[HACKERS] Spread checkpoint sync

2010-11-14 Thread Greg Smith
. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant USg...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Supportwww.2ndQuadrant.us diff --git a/src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c b/src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c index 43a149e..0ce8e2b 100644 --- a/src/backend/postmaster/bgwriter.c +++ b/src

Re: [HACKERS] pg_stat_bgwriter broken?

2010-11-14 Thread Greg Smith
have checked when I ran into my problem (that other system stats views were also working or not). -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant USg...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Supportwww.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Instrument checkpoint sync calls

2010-11-14 Thread Greg Smith
platform. The how long does it take to find out the current time on every supported PostgreSQL platform? question is one I'd like to have an answer to, but it's hard to collect properly. All I know is that I don't have any system where it's slow to properly test again here. -- Greg Smith

Re: [HACKERS] Count backend self-sync calls

2010-11-14 Thread Greg Smith
sync, but then crossed to other code that called it fsync, and made the external UI use that name. No objections to sorting that out within my patch so it's consistent. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant USg...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Supportwww

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest 2010-11: Call for Reviewers

2010-11-14 Thread Greg Smith
already have a reviewer attached to them. Many of the remaining patches are pretty approachable even if you're relatively new to reviewing PostgreSQL code. See the usual for details: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Reviewing_a_Patch http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/RRReviewers -- Greg Smith

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Revert default wal_sync_method to fdatasync on Linux 2.6.33+

2010-11-14 Thread Greg Smith
at this until now because I already had some patch development and review work to finish before the CommitFest deadline we just crossed. Now I can go back to reviewing other people's work. P.S. There is no pgsql-patch list anymore; everything goes through the hackers list now. -- Greg Smith

[HACKERS] CommitFest 2010-11: Call for Reviewers

2010-11-12 Thread Greg Smith
-rrreviewers mailing list. Whereas the pgsql-hackers list is the right destination for the actual review itself. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant USg...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Revert default wal_sync_method to fdatasync on Linux 2.6.33+

2010-11-07 Thread Greg Smith
Tom Lane wrote: I'm hoping that Greg Smith will take the lead on testing this, since he seems to have spent the most time in the area so far. It's not coincidence that the chapter of my book I convinced the publisher to release as a sample is the one that covers this area; this mess has

Re: [HACKERS] sorted writes for checkpoints

2010-11-07 Thread Greg Smith
, and what happens is completely dependent on filesystem. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant USg...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Supportwww.2ndQuadrant.us PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance: http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/books -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCH] Revert default wal_sync_method to fdatasync on Linux 2.6.33+

2010-11-05 Thread Greg Smith
trying to find time for, so I can investigate this further myself. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant USg...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] SR fails to send existing WAL file after off-line copy

2010-11-01 Thread Greg Smith
fix in it. I'll update the docs on the wiki accordingly, once I've recovered from this morning's flight out West. I forgot to credit Robert Noles here for rediscovering this bug on one of our systems and bringing it to my attention. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant USg...@2ndquadrant.com

[HACKERS] SR fails to send existing WAL file after off-line copy

2010-10-31 Thread Greg Smith
to reason out what's going wrong myself yet. Wanted to validate that Matt's report wasn't a unique one though, with a bit more detail included about the state the system gets into, and one potential fix (increasing wal_keep_segments) already tried without improvement. -- Greg Smith

Re: [HACKERS] sorted writes for checkpoints

2010-10-29 Thread Greg Smith
doubled in size. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] ask for review of MERGE

2010-10-24 Thread Greg Smith
, and I haven't heard a good reason yet why those need to coupled together. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant USg...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Supportwww.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [HACKERS] ask for review of MERGE

2010-10-24 Thread Greg Smith
described, except to say that I think it's OK for complicated situations to give up and throw a serialization error. I'm already collecting a list of pathological tests and will try to add something based on your problem case, then see what we can do with it later. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g

Re: [HACKERS] ask for review of MERGE

2010-10-23 Thread Greg Smith
at the right time to do the syntax and implementation part first as well, that's the order it's ended up happening in. We're only making the concurrency part a second priority right now in order to break the development into managable chunks. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant USg...@2ndquadrant.com

Re: [HACKERS] ask for review of MERGE

2010-10-22 Thread Greg Smith
out looking for them now that I have some basic testing that works for doing so. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant USg...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Supportwww.2ndQuadrant.us merge-test-v1.tar Description: Unix tar archive -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] ask for review of MERGE

2010-10-21 Thread Greg Smith
and fine more unexpected behavior edge cases and general bugs. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] max_wal_senders must die

2010-10-20 Thread Greg Smith
at a decently large scale. The COPY used to populate the giant accounts table takes advantage of the WAL bypass fast path if available, and you can watch performance tank the minute one of the options that disables it is turned on. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD

Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying replication

2010-10-19 Thread Greg Smith
details that make for only a minor improvement until that's taken care of. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying replication

2010-10-19 Thread Greg Smith
about when the right time to get into that whole giant subject is and who is going to work on. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] max_wal_senders must die

2010-10-19 Thread Greg Smith
. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] max_wal_senders must die

2010-10-19 Thread Greg Smith
://suckit.blog.hu/2009/09/29/postgresql_history and the tests Jignesh did while at Sun -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] Debugging initdb breakage

2010-10-17 Thread Greg Smith
of it with a quick intro to add some context. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [HACKERS] ask for review of MERGE

2010-10-14 Thread Greg Smith
Robert Haas wrote: Greg, are you still working on a review of this patch? Yes, just had more distractions while coming to speed up on this area than I'd hoped. I'll get a second round of looking at this done by the weekend. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore

[HACKERS] Foreign Visual Studio builds

2010-10-14 Thread Greg Smith
instead. That regex seems a bit too specific. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [HACKERS] Issues with Quorum Commit

2010-10-08 Thread Greg Smith
to ship at all, and when you do the result is difficult to support. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] Issues with Quorum Commit

2010-10-08 Thread Greg Smith
if they are in or out of sync with one another based on the conversation they have when they first connect to one another, that suggests to me there needs to be improvements made in the communications protocol they use to exchange messages. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore

Re: [HACKERS] Perf regression in 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2010-10-07 Thread Greg Smith
is 11 months old at this point, which makes it still a bleeding edge kernel in my book. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-10-07 Thread Greg Smith
was trying to make to you. And the fact Oracle does this is why it's able to scale to high partition counts better than PostgreSQL can. You can read more about the work that was being done here at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Table_partitioning -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g

Re: [HACKERS] O_DSYNC broken on MacOS X?

2010-10-07 Thread Greg Smith
to. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Issues with Quorum Commit

2010-10-07 Thread Greg Smith
providers! Not nearly good enough to avoid a correlated failure. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] standby registration (was: is sync rep stalled?)

2010-10-07 Thread Greg Smith
about reaching as soon as feasible. And if takes massive cuts in the flexibility or easy of configuration to get there quickly, so long as it doesn't actually hamper the core operating set here I would consider that a good trade. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD

Re: [HACKERS] O_DSYNC broken on MacOS X?

2010-10-07 Thread Greg Smith
walkthrough of setting up and using the program, showing what a passing result looks like, and what a failing one looks like. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] Issues with Quorum Commit

2010-10-07 Thread Greg Smith
the standby. Default to -1 for forever. And if you hit the timeout, mark the standby as degraded and force them to do a proper resync when they disconnect. Once that's done, then they can re-enter sync rep mode again, via the same process a new node would have done so. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g

Re: [HACKERS] standby registration (was: is sync rep stalled?)

2010-10-06 Thread Greg Smith
. And complete faith that even trying will fail to deliver something for 9.1. The scope creep that seems to be happening here in the name of this will be hard to change so it must be right in the first version boggles my mind. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD

Re: [HACKERS] O_DSYNC broken on MacOS X?

2010-10-01 Thread Greg Smith
that something that will undo that change is likely to appears to the user that suggests the possibility is available. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us Author, PostgreSQL 9.0 High PerformancePre-ordering

Re: [HACKERS] O_DSYNC broken on MacOS X?

2010-09-30 Thread Greg Smith
, so after I get back from that conference in November I'll see what I can do about the docs too. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us Author, PostgreSQL 9.0 High PerformancePre-ordering at: https

Re: [HACKERS] O_DSYNC broken on MacOS X?

2010-09-30 Thread Greg Smith
nothing useful from the perspective of the database's expectations. And that's not true on Darwin unless you specify F_FULLFSYNC, which doesn't happen by default in PostgreSQL. It only does that when you switch wal_sync_method=fsync_writethrough -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres vs. intel ccNUMA on Linux

2010-09-30 Thread Greg Smith
of the system than a single cluster of twice the size. The minute disks start entering the picture though, you're likely to end up back to where processor/memory affinity is the least of your concerns. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services

Re: [HACKERS] ask for review of MERGE

2010-09-29 Thread Greg Smith
’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result common.c:251: warning: ignoring return value of ‘write’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support www.2ndQuadrant.us Author, PostgreSQL 9.0

Re: [HACKERS] ask for review of MERGE

2010-09-24 Thread Greg Smith
? I thought I saw a suggestion from you about that, but after looking through the history here all I see are the diff patches you've been sending to the list. That's fine, just trying to confirm where everything is at. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQuadrant US g...@2ndquadrant.com Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] Perf regression in 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2010-09-13 Thread Greg Smith
being on a different part of the disk if you didn't control for that. Disks are almost twice as fast at their beginning than their end nowadays. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] Perf regression in 2.6.32 (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS)

2010-09-13 Thread Greg Smith
in PostgreSQL. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Performance Farm Release

2010-08-31 Thread Greg Smith
out how to get the rest of this done, so it goes live somewhere during 9.1 development. Now that the code has been released from the Noblis fortress, I can start cleaning up some of the little details on it before then too (i.e. not working for anything but 9.0 yet). -- Greg Smith

Re: Interruptible sleeps (was Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest 2009-07: Yay, Kevin! Thanks, reviewers!)

2010-08-28 Thread Greg Smith
Tom Lane wrote: Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com writes: ... The only clear case where this is always a win is when the system it totally idle. If you'll climb down off that horse for a moment: yeah, the idle case is *exactly* what they're complaining about. I wasn't on a horse here

Re: Interruptible sleeps (was Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest 2009-07: Yay, Kevin! Thanks, reviewers!)

2010-08-27 Thread Greg Smith
to that. I'll take a look at some of the other test cases I have here to see if they can help quantify its impact on this aspect of BGW behavior. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Performance Farm Release

2010-08-27 Thread Greg Smith
Eventual design here presumed that this would reach the point where one of the sources you might want to pull from to test performance of was a different git branch than the main one. That's what I was planning to do with it. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training

Re: [HACKERS] More vacuum stats

2010-08-23 Thread Greg Smith
(last_autovacuum_start) FROM pg_stat_user_tables to diagnose the sort of problems this patch seems to aim at helping. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] CommitFest 2009-07: Yay, Kevin! Thanks, reviewers!

2010-08-18 Thread Greg Smith
by then. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Recognize functional dependency on primary keys.

2010-08-16 Thread Greg Smith
of adding this one as an example for my next MySQL vs. PostgreSQL paper update, it's a great example of the focus on correctness differences between the two databases. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us

Re: [HACKERS] Cost of AtEOXact_Buffers in --enable-cassert

2010-08-16 Thread Greg Smith
. No arguments from me if the decision is that's too much code to add for something so marginal. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] JSON Patch for PostgreSQL - BSON Support?

2010-08-16 Thread Greg Smith
popular data-text serialization format out there not yet supported. It's certainly beyond a format of the week at this point. XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it. - Chris Maden -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to show individual statement latencies in pgbench output

2010-08-12 Thread Greg Smith
useful improvement to this feature is to get per-statement data into the latency log files if requested. If this issue gets in the way there somehow, maybe it's worth squashing then. I don't think it will though. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services

Re: [HACKERS] MERGE command for inheritance

2010-08-11 Thread Greg Smith
the fundamentals even nailed down yet. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us *** /home/postgres/pgwork/repo/git/postgresql/src/test/regress/expected/merge.out 2010-08-11 12:23:50.0 -0400

Re: [HACKERS] MERGE Specification

2010-08-10 Thread Greg Smith
code is: ./configure --enable-depend --enable-cassert --enable-debug Generally the only reason to build as a developer without asserts on is to do performance testing. They will slow some portions of the code down significantly. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to show individual statement latencies in pgbench output

2010-08-10 Thread Greg Smith
. The patch hasn't had a committer assigned yet, so whoever wants to claim it should mark the CF app. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us diff --git a/contrib/pgbench/pgbench.c b/contrib/pgbench

Re: [HACKERS] Cost of AtEOXact_Buffers in --enable-cassert

2010-08-10 Thread Greg Smith
by probing to make this overhead smaller? -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [HACKERS] Using Small Size SSDs to improve performance?

2010-08-04 Thread Greg Smith
, and then you're back to solving the non-SSD problem again. That's the problem with these things that keeps them from being magic bullets; if you have a database large enough that you can't fit the working set in RAM nowadays, you probably can't fit whole thing on SSD either. -- Greg Smith

Re: [HACKERS] Using Small Size SSDs to improve performance?

2010-08-04 Thread Greg Smith
are the thing I've seen the most actual improvement on like this. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to show individual statement latencies in pgbench output

2010-08-03 Thread Greg Smith
you submit. Presuming that's going to be the only version is optimistic for all but the smallest of patches, and sometimes not even them... -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] merge command - GSoC progress

2010-08-03 Thread Greg Smith
? The tests you've put in there are the right general sort of things to try out. The one example you gave does show an UPSERT being emulated by MERGE, which is the #1 thing people are looking for initially. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres as Historian

2010-08-03 Thread Greg Smith
about the best way to implement aggregates and the like are on the pgsql-performance list. You'd be more likely to get detailed responses if you asked this question there. That group loves to talk about how to design things for other people. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD

Re: [HACKERS] merge command - GSoC progress

2010-07-30 Thread Greg Smith
could start looking out for them more as you continue to work on it. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [HACKERS] On Scalability

2010-07-30 Thread Greg Smith
seen anyone analyze them via benchmarks. I'm sure you could get help here (probably the performance list is a better spot though) with getting your test case right if you wanted to try and nail that down. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to show individual statement latencies in pgbench output

2010-07-28 Thread Greg Smith
if people want to see it. Can always layer that on top later. I'll continue testing and try to get a firmer opinion. Please take a look at the problem I pointed out and produce a new patch when you get a chance that fixes that part, so at least we don't get stuck on that detail. -- Greg Smith

Re: [HACKERS] dynamically allocating chunks from shared memory

2010-07-22 Thread Greg Smith
.html ; that mentions an earlier paper by the author of the technique Markus is using, but this was from before that one was written. It looks like Sun has a large portion of the patent portfolio in this area, which is particularly troublesome now. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD

Re: [HACKERS] Disk caching

2010-07-21 Thread Greg Smith
. The right list for this discussion if you want to talk about it more is pgsql-performance. This one is focused at things involving PostgreSQL development, not questions related to using the database. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g

Re: [HACKERS] gSoC - ADD MERGE COMMAND - code patch submission

2010-07-12 Thread Greg Smith
is a very bad idea; please don't do that again. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [HACKERS] 64-bit pgbench V2

2010-07-12 Thread Greg Smith
. Style/functional suggestions appreciated. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us diff --git a/configure b/configure index f6b891e..a5371ba 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -21624,7 +21624,8 @@ fi

Re: [HACKERS] gSoC - ADD MERGE COMMAND - code patch submission

2010-07-12 Thread Greg Smith
becoming commit quality code. Far as I'm concerned, a day spent working with the patch review checklist on someone else's patch pays for itself tenfold when it comes time to produce patches that others will be able to review. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training

Re: [HACKERS] gSoC - ADD MERGE COMMAND - code patch submission

2010-07-12 Thread Greg Smith
for each student to start chewing on during that period would usefully settle them into list interaction and community development process much more gradually than starting that with their code drops. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix log_temp_files docs and comments to say bytes not kilobytes.

2010-07-06 Thread Greg Smith
don't think people have enough scripts built on this yet to make this break anything. We should backport to 8.4. log_temp_files was introduced in 8.3, so we'll need to backpatch this to 8.3, not just 8.4. Greg Smith tells me Simon has been busy with other things, so I'm going to pick

Re: [HACKERS] 64-bit pgbench V2

2010-07-06 Thread Greg Smith
a stab at that. I'm not exactly sure where the integer parsing code in the server that would be appropriate is to break out is at though. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix log_temp_files docs and comments to say bytes not kilobytes.

2010-07-06 Thread Greg Smith
releases. This change is something worth mentioning in the release notes for 9.0 too. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Fix log_temp_files docs and comments to say bytes not kilobytes.

2010-07-06 Thread Greg Smith
sorted out fully. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] Table partitioning - is anything coming?

2010-07-05 Thread Greg Smith
of writing text out will annoy some contributors here, that's not something you want to get into the habit of on any of the mailing lists here. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql

[HACKERS] 64-bit pgbench V2

2010-07-05 Thread Greg Smith
as there's documentation explaining the potential limitations. I'll write those if necessary, but I think that some testing on known tricky platforms that I don't have setup here is the best next step, so I'm looking for feedback on that. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL

Re: [HACKERS] to enable O_DIRECT within postgresql

2010-06-17 Thread Greg Smith
in this area, can't seem to find it at the moment but I remember the results were not positive in any way. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers

Re: ANNOUNCE list (was Re: [HACKERS] New PGXN Extension site)

2010-06-17 Thread Greg Smith
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Anyone volunteering ... ? Adding is simple enough ... I can help with moderating announce, having now gotten used to doing the similar chore for things submitted to the web site for a few months. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training

Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for 9.1: WAL streaming from WAL buffers

2010-06-13 Thread Greg Smith
on the database side. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] 9.0beta2 - server crash when using HS + SR

2010-06-13 Thread Greg Smith
see value in here, to cut down on other people running into what you did and being as confused by it. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Patch to show individual statement latencies in pgbench output

2010-06-13 Thread Greg Smith
. If you submit a new patch with a command line option to enable this alternate logging format and add the result to https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view?id=6 , you can put my name down as a reviewer and I'll take a deeper look at it as part of that. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant

Re: [HACKERS] GSoC - Materialized Views - is stale or fresh?

2010-06-13 Thread Greg Smith
into that existing message with minimal overhead. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [HACKERS] fix use of posix_fadvise in xlog.c

2010-06-10 Thread Greg Smith
operating systems. Whereas a more generic preallocation improvement would help everywhere. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] Invalid YAML output from EXPLAIN

2010-06-07 Thread Greg Smith
+ Startup Cost: 0.00 + Total Cost: 726.00 + Plan Rows: 19000 + Plan Width: 268+ Filter: (customerid 1000) -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] Invalid YAML output from EXPLAIN

2010-06-07 Thread Greg Smith
+ /explain -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] Idea for getting rid of VACUUM FREEZE on cold pages

2010-06-07 Thread Greg Smith
could end up being a much richer source for historical analysis of how the system got into the bad state than is available right now. Typically those can have longer histories available than you'll find on a primary that's recycling segments all the time. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US

Re: [HACKERS] Synchronization levels in SR

2010-06-02 Thread Greg Smith
using simple SQL, rather than having to write a new Replication Description Language or something so ambitious. This data about what's been replicated to where looks an awful lot like a set of rows you can operate on using features already in the database to me. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US

Re: [HACKERS] Synchronization levels in SR

2010-06-02 Thread Greg Smith
was didn't remember is to include some timestamp information to allow rules based on that information too. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers

Re: [HACKERS] Open Item: pg_controldata - machine readable?

2010-05-31 Thread Greg Smith
/browser/trunk/contrib/control -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] GUCs that need restart

2010-05-17 Thread Greg Smith
pool of people who feel comfortable working on this code. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription

Re: [HACKERS] List traffic

2010-05-14 Thread Greg Smith
to that, too, and in reality it will probably increase the amount of messages I read, because people will ask stuff there that's already been covered on other lists, and vice-versa. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www

Re: [HACKERS] no universally correct setting for fsync

2010-05-10 Thread Greg Smith
relative to total load times. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] no universally correct setting for fsync

2010-05-10 Thread Greg Smith
, we should have the info needed to really nail this down accurately. I can make my own proofreading pass of what Josh has already been doing that also reflects the new data, and then we can commit something that's good and well reviewed for 9.0 here. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD

Re: [HACKERS] max_standby_delay considered harmful

2010-05-08 Thread Greg Smith
to PostgreSQL is far more likely to come with a dose of argument and frustration rather than reward, and this discussion is a perfect example of such. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [HACKERS] max_standby_delay considered harmful

2010-05-08 Thread Greg Smith
the PostgreSQL community, but we do need to deliver what our customers want too. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes

Re: [HACKERS] testing HS/SR - 1 vs 2 performance

2010-05-07 Thread Greg Smith
/pgbench-intro.pdf on pages 36,37. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] max_standby_delay considered harmful

2010-05-06 Thread Greg Smith
of HS is aimed at and suitable for. -- Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US Baltimore, MD PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support g...@2ndquadrant.com www.2ndQuadrant.us -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

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