[PERFORM] Advice on Controller card for SAS disks

2012-03-12 Thread See Sing Lau
We are looking for advice on the RAID controller cards with battery back cache for 10K SAS disks with RAID 10. Any suggestion for the best card and settings to use for heavy write transactions. See Sing Whitepages.com

[PERFORM] count on transaction ID

2012-03-12 Thread ddgs
It is a discussion about the transaction ID wraparound in PostgreSQL. However, what is the fundamental definition if transaction ID. select * from table where ID=1:1 it is consider as one transaction or 1 transactions. -- View this message in context:

[PERFORM] Tuning wizard

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Kopljan
I just upgraded to 9.1 and downloaded EnterpriseDB Tuning wizard, but the list of servers in ComboBox support only 8.2, 8.3 i 8.4 version and x86 build. How can I tune 9.1, 64 bit version? Is there any workaround, other version for download... ? Any help? Michael.

[PERFORM] Feature Request: No pg_dump lock on unlogged tables

2012-03-12 Thread McGehee, Robert
Hello, Due to a large database size, my weekend database backup (pg_dumpall) takes about 12 hours to complete. Additionally, I add the --no-unlogged-table-data option to skip any volatile tables. One UNLOGGED table in the database is completely regenerated every day with a TRUNCATE TABLE/INSERT

Re: [PERFORM] count on transaction ID

2012-03-12 Thread Kevin Grittner
ddgs gsma...@gmail.com wrote: It is a discussion about the transaction ID wraparound in PostgreSQL. Hopefully you've seen this: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-WRAPAROUND However, what is the fundamental definition if transaction ID. As

Re: [PERFORM] count on transaction ID

2012-03-12 Thread ddgs
It is just a simple idea syntax, not the exact one. Anyway, I am wonder how to get the 2^31 transaction IDs to cause the failure But I get the wraparound error warning when I delete a large no. of rows. So the wraparound failure is due to what reason, that I still have no idea (at least not the

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning wizard

2012-03-12 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 9 Březen 2012, 16:07, Michael Kopljan wrote: I just upgraded to 9.1 and downloaded EnterpriseDB Tuning wizard, but the list of servers in ComboBox support only 8.2, 8.3 i 8.4 version and x86 build. How can I tune 9.1, 64 bit version? Is there any workaround, other version for download...

Re: [PERFORM] count on transaction ID

2012-03-12 Thread Kevin Grittner
ddgs gsma...@gmail.com wrote: It is just a simple idea syntax, not the exact one. Then it doesn't seem possible to give an exact answer as to what it will do. The effect on transaction IDs will depend on whether you're talking about one DELETE statement with a range of values in the WHERE

Re: [PERFORM] Advice on Controller card for SAS disks

2012-03-12 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 7 Březen 2012, 18:49, See Sing Lau wrote: We are looking for advice on the RAID controller cards with battery back cache for 10K SAS disks with RAID 10. Any suggestion for the best card and settings to use for heavy write transactions. It's hard to give you advices when we know nothing

Re: [PERFORM] count on transaction ID

2012-03-12 Thread ddgs
Is it a good starting point to the basic reason of doing vacuum? from the manual, PostgreSQL's VACUUM command must be run on a regular basis for several reasons: To recover disk space occupied by updated or deleted rows. To update data statistics used by the PostgreSQL query planner. To protect

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning wizard

2012-03-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Tomas Vondra t...@fuzzy.cz wrote: On 9 Březen 2012, 16:07, Michael Kopljan wrote: I just upgraded to 9.1 and downloaded EnterpriseDB Tuning wizard, but the list of servers in ComboBox support only 8.2, 8.3 i 8.4 version and x86 build. How can I  tune 9.1, 64

Re: [PERFORM] Advice on Controller card for SAS disks

2012-03-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Tomas Vondra t...@fuzzy.cz wrote: On 7 Březen 2012, 18:49, See Sing Lau wrote: We are looking for advice on the RAID controller cards with battery back cache for 10K SAS disks with RAID 10.  Any suggestion for the best card and settings to use for heavy write

Re: [PERFORM] count on transaction ID

2012-03-12 Thread Kevin Grittner
ddgs gsma...@gmail.com wrote: Is it a good starting point to the basic reason of doing vacuum? from the manual, PostgreSQL's VACUUM command must be run on a regular basis for several reasons: To recover disk space occupied by updated or deleted rows. To update data statistics used by the

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning wizard

2012-03-12 Thread Raghavendra
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Tomas Vondra t...@fuzzy.cz wrote: On 9 Březen 2012, 16:07, Michael Kopljan wrote: I just upgraded to 9.1 and downloaded EnterpriseDB Tuning wizard, but the list of servers in

[PERFORM] Gin index insert performance issue

2012-03-12 Thread Rural Hunter
I'm using gin index for my full text search engine in production. These days the gin index size grows to 20-30G and the system started to suffer with periodical insert hanging. This is same as described in the 2 posts: