Re: [PERFORM] How to revoke a password

2005-07-08 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 05:16:27PM -0700, Bailey, Larry wrote:
>
> Thanks but it is still prompting for a password. 

Let's back up a bit: what problem are you trying to solve?  Do you
want the user to be able to log in without entering a password?  If
so then see "Client Authentication" in the documentation:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/client-authentication.html

If you're trying to do something else then please elaborate, as
it's not clear what you mean by "I want to ALTER that user to exclude
the password."

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Re: [PERFORM] How to revoke a password

2005-07-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake

Bailey, Larry wrote:
Thanks but it is still prompting for a password. 



Does your pg_hba.conf require a password?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake




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Subject: Re: [PERFORM] How to revoke a password

Bailey, Larry wrote:

I created a user with a password. That newly created user now have 
tables and indexes. I want to ALTER that user to exclude the password.

How is this accomplished without dropping and recreating the users?



Never tried to go backwards before but:

alter user foo with encrypted password '';

But as I look at pg_shadow there is still a hash...

You could do:

update pg_shadow set passwd = '' where usename = 'foo';

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake




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Re: [PERFORM] How to revoke a password

2005-07-08 Thread Bailey, Larry
Thanks but it is still prompting for a password. 


Larry Bailey
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To: Bailey, Larry
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] How to revoke a password

Bailey, Larry wrote:
> I created a user with a password. That newly created user now have 
> tables and indexes. I want to ALTER that user to exclude the password.
> How is this accomplished without dropping and recreating the users?

Never tried to go backwards before but:

alter user foo with encrypted password '';

But as I look at pg_shadow there is still a hash...

You could do:

update pg_shadow set passwd = '' where usename = 'foo';

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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Re: [PERFORM] How to revoke a password

2005-07-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 05:09:48PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Bailey, Larry wrote:
> >I created a user with a password. That newly created user now have
> >tables and indexes. I want to ALTER that user to exclude the password.
> >How is this accomplished without dropping and recreating the users?
> 
> Never tried to go backwards before but:
> 
> alter user foo with encrypted password '';

I think you use NULL as password to ALTER USER.

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Re: [PERFORM] How to revoke a password

2005-07-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake

Bailey, Larry wrote:

I created a user with a password. That newly created user now have
tables and indexes. I want to ALTER that user to exclude the password.
How is this accomplished without dropping and recreating the users?


Never tried to go backwards before but:

alter user foo with encrypted password '';

But as I look at pg_shadow there is still a hash...

You could do:

update pg_shadow set passwd = '' where usename = 'foo';

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake




Larry Bailey
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[PERFORM] How to revoke a password

2005-07-08 Thread Bailey, Larry
I created a user with a password. That newly created user now have
tables and indexes. I want to ALTER that user to exclude the password.
How is this accomplished without dropping and recreating the users?

Larry Bailey
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Re: [PERFORM] Select performance vs. mssql

2005-07-08 Thread Jochem van Dieten

Enrico Weigelt wrote:

Bruno Wolff III wrote:


This gets brought up a lot. The problem is that the index doesn't include
information about whether the current transaction can see the referenced
row. Putting this information in the index will add significant overhead
to every update and the opinion of the developers is that this would be
a net loss overall.


wouldn't it work well to make this feature optionally for each 
index ? There could be some flag on the index (ie set at create 
time) which tells postgres whether to store mvcc information.


There is no reason to assume it can't work.

There is little reason to assume that it will be the best 
solution in many circumstances.


There is a big reason why people are sceptical: there is no patch.


The issue has been debated and beaten to death. People have 
formed their opinions and are unlikely to change their position. 
If you want to convince people, your best bet is to submit a 
patch and have OSDL measure the performance improvement.


Jochem


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Re: [PERFORM] Mount database on RAM disk?

2005-07-08 Thread Merlin Moncure
> Stuart,
> 
> > I'm putting together a road map on how our systems can scale as our
load
> > increases. As part of this, I need to look into setting up some fast
> > read only mirrors of our database. We should have more than enough
RAM
> > to fit everything into memory. I would like to find out if I could
> > expect better performance by mounting the database from a RAM disk,
or
> > if I would be better off keeping that RAM free and increasing the
> > effective_cache_size appropriately.
> 
> If you're accessing a dedicated, read-only system with a database
small
> enough to fit in RAM, it'll all be cached there anyway, at least on
Linux
> and BSD.   You won't be gaining anything by creating a ramdisk.


 
ditto windows.  

Files cached in memory are slower than reading straight from memory but
not nearly enough to justify reserving memory for your use.  In other
words, your O/S is a machine with years and years of engineering
designed best how to dole memory out to caching and various processes.
Why second guess it?

Merlin

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Re: [PERFORM] cost-based vacuum

2005-07-08 Thread Tom Lane
Ian Westmacott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If I make the single configuration change of setting
> vacuum_cost_delay=1000, each iteration in analyze_thread takes
> much longer, of course.  But what I also see is that the CPU
> usage of the connections for writer_thread and reader_thread
> spike up to well over 80% each (this is a dualie) and latency
> drops to 8-10s, during the ANALYZEs.

[ scratches head... ]  That doesn't make any sense at all.

> I don't understand why this would be.  I don't think there
> are any lock issues, and I don't see any obvious I/O issues.
> Am I missing something?  Is there any way to get some
> insight into what those connections are doing?

Profiling maybe?  Can you put together a self-contained test case
that replicates this behavior, so other people could look?

regards, tom lane

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Re: [PERFORM] Mount database on RAM disk?

2005-07-08 Thread Josh Berkus
Stuart,

> I'm putting together a road map on how our systems can scale as our load
> increases. As part of this, I need to look into setting up some fast
> read only mirrors of our database. We should have more than enough RAM
> to fit everything into memory. I would like to find out if I could
> expect better performance by mounting the database from a RAM disk, or
> if I would be better off keeping that RAM free and increasing the
> effective_cache_size appropriately.

If you're accessing a dedicated, read-only system with a database small 
enough to fit in RAM, it'll all be cached there anyway, at least on Linux 
and BSD.   You won't be gaining anything by creating a ramdisk.

BTW, effective_cache_size doesn't determine the amount of caching done.  It 
just informs the planner about how much db is likely to be cached.  The 
actual caching is up to the OS/filesystem.

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Re: [PERFORM] Why the planner is not using the INDEX .

2005-07-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* David Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> FOR inventoryTransaction IN
>SELECT DISTINCT IRNUM, IRAENUM, IRSTATUT, IRSENS, IRSOURCE, 
> IRDATE, IRQTE
>FROM IR
>WHERE IRNUM = ANY (requestIds) and IRYPNUM = companyId
>LOOP

hmm. you probably could create the query dynamically and 
then execute it. 


BTW: why isn't IN not usable with arrays ?


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[PERFORM] cost-based vacuum

2005-07-08 Thread Ian Westmacott
I am beginning to look at Postgres 8, and am particularly
interested in cost-based vacuum/analyze.  I'm hoping someone
can shed some light on the behavior I am seeing.

Suppose there are three threads:

writer_thread
  every 1/15 second do
BEGIN TRANSACTION
  COPY table1 FROM stdin
  ...
  COPY tableN FROM stdin
  perform several UPDATEs, DELETEs and INSERTs
COMMIT

reader_thread
  every 1/15 second do
BEGIN TRANSACTION
  SELECT FROM table1 ...
  ...
  SELECT FROM tableN ...
COMMIT

analyze_thread
  every 5 minutes do
ANALYZE table1
...
ANALYZE tableN


Now, Postgres 8.0.3 out-of-the-box (all default configs) on a
particular piece of hardware runs the Postgres connection for
writer_thread at about 15% CPU (meaningless, I know, but for
comparison) and runs the Postgres connection for reader_thread
at about 30% CPU.  Latency for reader_thread seeing updates
from writer_thread is well under 1/15s.  Impact of
analyze_thread is negligible.

If I make the single configuration change of setting
vacuum_cost_delay=1000, each iteration in analyze_thread takes
much longer, of course.  But what I also see is that the CPU
usage of the connections for writer_thread and reader_thread
spike up to well over 80% each (this is a dualie) and latency
drops to 8-10s, during the ANALYZEs.

I don't understand why this would be.  I don't think there
are any lock issues, and I don't see any obvious I/O issues.
Am I missing something?  Is there any way to get some
insight into what those connections are doing?

Thanks,

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Re: [PERFORM] Need help to decide Mysql vs Postgres

2005-07-08 Thread Moises Alberto Lindo Gutarra
Linux(Debian) + Java + PostgreSQL = Fastest

2005/7/8, Mark Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 16:43 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > * PFC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > > For Python it's the reverse : the MySQL driver is slow and dumb,
> > > and the  postgres driver (psycopg 2) is super fast, handles all 
> > > quoting,
> > > and knows  about type conversions, it will automatically convert a
> > > Python List into a  postgres Array and do the right thing with quoting,
> > > and it works both ways  (ie you select a TEXT[] you get a list of
> > > strings all parsed for you). It  knows about all the postgres types (yes
> > > even numeric <=> python Decimal)  and you can even add your own types.
> > > That's really cool, plus the  developer is a friendly guy.
> >
> > Is there anything similar for java ?
> >
> 
> The postgres JDBC driver is very good-- refer to pgsql-jdbc mailing list
> or look at jdbc.postgresql.org.  I've had only limited experience with
> the mysql jdbc driver, but it seemed servicable enough, if you can live
> with their licensing and feature set.
> 
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Re: [PERFORM] Need help to decide Mysql vs Postgres

2005-07-08 Thread Mark Lewis
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 16:43 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * PFC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> > For Python it's the reverse : the MySQL driver is slow and dumb, 
> > and the  postgres driver (psycopg 2) is super fast, handles all 
> > quoting, 
> > and knows  about type conversions, it will automatically convert a 
> > Python List into a  postgres Array and do the right thing with quoting, 
> > and it works both ways  (ie you select a TEXT[] you get a list of 
> > strings all parsed for you). It  knows about all the postgres types (yes 
> > even numeric <=> python Decimal)  and you can even add your own types. 
> > That's really cool, plus the  developer is a friendly guy.
> 
> Is there anything similar for java ?
> 

The postgres JDBC driver is very good-- refer to pgsql-jdbc mailing list
or look at jdbc.postgresql.org.  I've had only limited experience with
the mysql jdbc driver, but it seemed servicable enough, if you can live
with their licensing and feature set.




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Re: [PERFORM] Need help to decide Mysql vs Postgres

2005-07-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* PFC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


>   For Python it's the reverse : the MySQL driver is slow and dumb, 
>   and the  postgres driver (psycopg 2) is super fast, handles all 
> quoting, 
> and knows  about type conversions, it will automatically convert a 
> Python List into a  postgres Array and do the right thing with quoting, 
> and it works both ways  (ie you select a TEXT[] you get a list of 
> strings all parsed for you). It  knows about all the postgres types (yes 
> even numeric <=> python Decimal)  and you can even add your own types. 
> That's really cool, plus the  developer is a friendly guy.

Is there anything similar for java ?


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Re: [PERFORM] Select performance vs. mssql

2005-07-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



> This gets brought up a lot. The problem is that the index doesn't include
> information about whether the current transaction can see the referenced
> row. Putting this information in the index will add significant overhead
> to every update and the opinion of the developers is that this would be
> a net loss overall.

wouldn't it work well to make this feature optionally for each 
index ? There could be some flag on the index (ie set at create 
time) which tells postgres whether to store mvcc information.


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Re: [PERFORM] plain inserts and deletes very slow

2005-07-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Klint Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



> Turn on statement logging.  I've seen delphi interfaces do extra queries
> on system tables to find some structure information.

I'm already using statement logging of all queries taking longer
than 200ms. It seems that only the INSERT takes such a time. 

The client is in fact written in delphi, and it sometimes seems 
to do strange things. For example we had the effect, that some
new fields in some table were regularily NULL'ed. None of the 
triggers and rules inside the DB could do that (since there's 
no dynamic query stuff) and the delphi application is the only 
one writing directly to this table.


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Re: [PERFORM] Mount database on RAM disk?

2005-07-08 Thread Rod Taylor
> If I could get and deploy some SSD (Solid State Disk) devices that
> would make this sort of thing *actually safe,* I'd expect that to be a
> pretty fabulous improvement, at least for write-heavy database
> activity.

Not nearly as much as you would expect. For the price of the SSD and a
SCSI controller capable of keeping up to the SSD along with your regular
storage with enough throughput to keep up to structure IO, you can
purchase a pretty good mid-range SAN which will be just as capable and
much more versatile.

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