Re: Vacuum Questions

2025-05-05 Thread Craig Jackson
One additional point about reindexing I should have mentioned, make sure you have adequate disk space to complete the reindexing. Craig On Mon, May 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM Craig Jackson wrote: > For the two indexes that take 12 hours to vacuum: If you can drop and > rebuild them in less than

Re: Vacuum Questions

2025-05-05 Thread Craig Jackson
needed for your delete statements, dropping the indexes before your start the deletion work would allow you to avoid the overhead of maintaining the indexes, possibly speeding up the delete statements. Craig Jackson On Sat, May 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM wrote: > Hi > > > > It is not y

Re: Database Stalls

2023-02-03 Thread Craig Jackson
Consider creating a pg_stat_activity history table. This would allow you to look back at the time of incident and verify if any unusual activity was occurring in the database. Something like: CREATE TABLE pg_stat_activity_hist ASSELECT now() AS sample_time, a.*FROM pg_stat_activity a W

Re: High COMMIT times

2021-01-11 Thread Craig Jackson
How far apart are the min/max connection settings on your application connection pool? We had a similar issue with connection storms in the past on Oracle. One thing we did to minimize the storms was make sure there was not a wide gap between the min/max, say no more than a 5-10 connection differen

Re: High COMMIT times

2021-01-08 Thread Craig Jackson
Yes, these were deferrable foreign key constraints. On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 2:05 AM Laurenz Albe wrote: > On Thu, 2021-01-07 at 10:49 -0700, Craig Jackson wrote: > > We had a similar situation recently and saw high commit times that were > caused > > by having unindexed foreig

Re: High COMMIT times

2021-01-07 Thread Craig Jackson
We had a similar situation recently and saw high commit times that were caused by having unindexed foreign key columns when deleting data with large tables involved. You might check to see if any new foreign key constraints have been added recently or if any foreign key indexes may have inadverten

Re: good book or any other resources for Postgresql

2020-05-04 Thread Craig Jackson
We are currently engaged in an Oracle to Postgres migration. Our DBA team has been going through this book and we have learned a lot from it. PostgreSQL 12 High Availability Cookbook - Third Edition https://www.packtpub.com/data/postgresql-12-high-availability-cookbook-third-edition On Mon, May 4

Re: Postgres backup tool recommendations for multi-terabyte database in Google Cloud

2019-12-05 Thread Craig Jackson
Thanks, I'll check it out. On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 12:51 PM Craig James wrote: > On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 9:48 AM Craig Jackson > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We are in the process of migrating an oracle database to postgres in >> Google Cloud and are investigating

Postgres backup tool recommendations for multi-terabyte database in Google Cloud

2019-12-05 Thread Craig Jackson
ing pgbackreset, barman, and GCP snapshots but wanted to see if there are any other recommendations we should consider. *Desirable features* - Parallel backup/recovery - Incremental backups - Backup directly to a GCP bucket - Deduplication/Compression Any suggestions would be appreciated. Craig Jackson