Re: [HACKERS] What X86/X64 OS's do we need coverage for?

2007-04-06 Thread Matthew O'Connor
Devrim Gündüz wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 01:23 -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: The other thing to consider is that CentOS 5 has Xen built right in, so you should be able run VMs without VMWare on it. ... if the kernel of the OS has Xen support, there will be no performance penalty

Re: [HACKERS] Autovacuum versus rolled-back transactions

2007-05-26 Thread Matthew O'Connor
Tom Lane wrote: This means that a table could easily be full of dead tuples from failed transactions, and yet autovacuum won't do a thing because it doesn't know there are any. Perhaps this explains some of the reports we've heard of tables bloating despite having autovac on. I think this is

Re: [HACKERS] Autovacuum launcher doesn't notice death of postmaster immediately

2007-06-08 Thread Matthew O'Connor
Michael Paesold wrote: Matthew T. O'Connor schrieb: Do we need a configurable autovacuum naptime at all? I know I put it in the original contrib autovacuum because I had no idea what knobs might be needed. I can't see a good reason to ever have a naptime longer than the default 60 seconds,

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] smartvacuum() instead of autovacuum

2006-10-23 Thread Matthew O'Connor
Tom Lane wrote: Jim C. Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only case I can think of where autovac might not work as well as smartvacuum would be if you had a lot of databases in the cluster, since autovacuum will only vacuum one database at a time. It's conceivable that it'd make sense to

Re: [HACKERS] Vaccuming dead rows on busy databases

2006-12-18 Thread Matthew O'Connor
Tom Lane wrote: Greg Sabino Mullane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to see something like VACUUM FULL WAIT. :) Sounds like a deadlock waiting to happen :-( AFAIK the general practice is to just accept the fact that vacuum can't remove recently-dead tuples. You should look into whether

Re: [HACKERS] Interface for pg_autovacuum

2006-12-21 Thread Matthew O'Connor
Russell Smith wrote: I thought the plan was to change the ALTER TABLE command to allow vacuum settings to be set. That is my understanding too. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Tuning single row operations

2006-12-21 Thread Matthew O'Connor
Richard Huxton wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: - improve RI check perf by caching small, static tables in each backend - apply index filter conditions on index scan to avoid heap lookup For fkey checks against a basically static table could you get away with just checking the index and not the