Re: [PERFORM] Postgres 8.x on Windows Server in production

2009-04-13 Thread Justin Pitts
You'll almost certainly want to use NTFS. I suspect you'll want to set the NTFS Allocation Unit Size to 8192 or some integer multiple of 8192, since I believe that is the pg page size. XP format dialog will not allow you to set it above 4096, but the command line format utility will. I do remember

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres 8.x on Windows Server in production

2009-04-13 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
2009/4/13 Ognjen Blagojevic : > It is a student database for the college which is a client of ours. The size > of the database should be around 1GB, half being binary data (images). Not > more than 100 users at the time will be working with the application. nice, if you want to store pics, I sugge

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres 8.x on Windows Server in production

2009-04-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
2009/4/13 Ognjen Blagojevic : > Hi all, > > First, thank you all for your answers. > > > Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: >> >> Give it a try, and please tell us what sort of application you want to >> put on it. > > It is a student database for the college which is a client of ours. The size > of the da

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres 8.x on Windows Server in production

2009-04-13 Thread Ognjen Blagojevic
Hi all, First, thank you all for your answers. Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: Give it a try, and please tell us what sort of application you want to put on it. It is a student database for the college which is a client of ours. The size of the database should be around 1GB, half being binary da

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres 8.x on Windows Server in production

2009-04-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Rainer Mager wrote: > We're running 8.3, but when we started this server about 2 years ago it was > an earlier 8.x, I don't remember which. Cool. PostgreSQL is one of the few projects where I've always recommended upgrading and keeping on the latest major version

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres 8.x on Windows Server in production

2009-04-12 Thread Rainer Mager
lowe > Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 8:41 AM > To: Rainer Mager > Cc: Ognjen Blagojevic; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Postgres 8.x on Windows Server in production > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Rainer Mager > wrote: > > We use Postgres 8.x

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres 8.x on Windows Server in production

2009-04-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Rainer Mager wrote: > We use Postgres 8.x in production on Windows Server 2003. We have not done a > direct head-to-head comparison against any *nix environment, so I can't > really compare them, but I can still give a few comments. Just wondering, what version ar

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres 8.x on Windows Server in production

2009-04-12 Thread Rainer Mager
difficulties with it. --Rainer > -Original Message- > From: pgsql-performance-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-performance- > ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Ognjen Blagojevic > Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 6:47 PM > To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org > Subject: [P

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres 8.x on Windows Server in production

2009-04-10 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > Yet 1000's of users are running PostgreSQL on Windows in production.  It > really depends on what kind of application you're running, and what its > demands are.  For a CMS or a contact manager or a personnel directory? No > problem.  For a cen

Re: [PERFORM] Postgres 8.x on Windows Server in production

2009-04-10 Thread Josh Berkus
Ognjen, What are your experiences with Postgres 8.x in production use on Windows Server 2003/2008? Are there any limitations, trade-offs or quirks? First of all, you need to know that the first *two* digits of a PostgreSQL version are major version numbers. So 8.3 is not the same Postgres w

[PERFORM] Postgres 8.x on Windows Server in production

2009-04-10 Thread Ognjen Blagojevic
Hi all, What are your experiences with Postgres 8.x in production use on Windows Server 2003/2008? Are there any limitations, trade-offs or quirks? My client is accustomed to Windows Server environment, but it seems hard to google good information about these types of installations. Regards