Re: [PERFORM] two disks - best way to use them?

2005-12-06 Thread Ron
At 12:52 AM 12/6/2005, Thomas Harold wrote: David Lang wrote: in that case you logicly have two disks, so see the post from Ron earlier in this thread. And it's a very nice performance gain. Percent spent waiting according to top is down around 10-20% instead of 80-90%. While I'm not

Re: [PERFORM] [GENERAL] need help

2005-12-06 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Jenny schrieb: I'm running PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu (Fedora Core 2). I've been dealing with Psql for over than 2 years now, but I've never had this case before. I have a table that has about 20 rows in it. Table public.s_apotik Column | Type

Re: [PERFORM] Performance degradation after successive UPDATE's

2005-12-06 Thread Assaf Yaari
Thanks Bruno, Issuing VACUUM FULL seems not to have influence on the time. I've added to my script VACUUM ANALYZE every 100 UPDATE's and run the test again (on different record) and the time still increase. Any other ideas? Thanks, Assaf. -Original Message- From: Bruno Wolff III

[PERFORM] Memory Leakage Problem

2005-12-06 Thread Kathy Lo
Hi, I setup a database server using the following configuration. Redhat 9.0 Postgresql 8.0.3 Then, I setup a client workstation to access this database server with the following configuration. Redhat 9.0 unixODBC 2.2.11 psqlodbc-08.01.0101 and write a C++ program to run database query. In

[PERFORM] LVM and Postgres

2005-12-06 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I need to slice up a web server's disk space to provide space for postgres and storing binaries such as images and sound files. I'm thinking of using logical volume management (LVM) to help manage the amount of space I use between postgres and the data volumes. The server has a 250GB RAID10 (LSI

[PERFORM] Can this query go faster???

2005-12-06 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, Is it possible to get this query run faster than it does now, by adding indexes, changing the query? SELECT customers.objectid FROM prototype.customers, prototype.addresses WHERE customers.contactaddress = addresses.objectid ORDER BY zipCode asc, housenumber asc LIMIT 1 OFFSET 283745

Re: [PERFORM] Performance degradation after successive UPDATE's

2005-12-06 Thread Pandurangan R S
Hi, You might try these steps 1. Do a vacuum full analyze 2. Reindex the index on id column 3. Cluster the table based on this index On 12/5/05, Assaf Yaari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on Linux RedHat WS 3.0. My application updates counters in DB. I left a test

Re: [PERFORM] Can this query go faster???

2005-12-06 Thread Michael Riess
Hi, Is it possible to get this query run faster than it does now, by adding indexes, changing the query? SELECT customers.objectid FROM prototype.customers, prototype.addresses WHERE customers.contactaddress = addresses.objectid ORDER BY zipCode asc, housenumber asc LIMIT 1 OFFSET 283745

Re: [PERFORM] Can this query go faster???

2005-12-06 Thread Csaba Nagy
Joost, Why do you use an offset here ? I guess you're traversing the table somehow, in this case it would be better to remember the last zipcode + housenumber and put an additional condition to get the next bigger than the last one you've got... that would go for the index on zipcode+housenumber

Re: [PERFORM] Can this query go faster???

2005-12-06 Thread Markus Wollny
Hi, -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Joost Kraaijeveld Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Dezember 2005 10:44 An: Pgsql-Performance Betreff: [PERFORM] Can this query go faster??? SELECT customers.objectid FROM prototype.customers,

Re: [PERFORM] Can this query go faster???

2005-12-06 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 10:52 +0100, Csaba Nagy wrote: Joost, Why do you use an offset here ? I guess you're traversing the table somehow, in this case it would be better to remember the last zipcode + housenumber and put an additional condition to get the next bigger than the last one you've

Re: [PERFORM] Can this query go faster???

2005-12-06 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Joost Kraaijeveld schrieb: On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 10:52 +0100, Csaba Nagy wrote: Joost, Why do you use an offset here ? I guess you're traversing the table somehow, in this case it would be better to remember the last zipcode + housenumber and put an additional condition to get the next bigger

Re: [PERFORM] BLCKSZ

2005-12-06 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:40:47PM +0300, Olleg wrote: I can't undestand why bigger is better. For instance in search by index. Index point to page and I need load page to get one row. Thus I load 8kb from disk for every raw. And keep it then in cache. You recommend 64kb. With your

Re: [PERFORM] Can this query go faster???

2005-12-06 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi Tino, On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 11:32 +0100, Tino Wildenhain wrote: You can have a row number in postgres easily too. For example if you just include a serial for the row number. Not if the order of things is determined runtime and not at insert time... Cursor would work too but you would need

Re: [PERFORM] Can this query go faster???

2005-12-06 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Joost Kraaijeveld schrieb: Hi Tino, .. Cursor would work too but you would need to have a persistent connection. I just tried it: a cursor is not faster (what does not surprise me at all, as the amount of work looks the same to me) Actually no, if you scroll forward, you just ask the

Re: [PERFORM] BLCKSZ

2005-12-06 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:40:47PM +0300, Olleg wrote: I can't undestand why bigger is better. For instance in search by index. Index point to page and I need load page to get one row. Thus I load 8kb from disk for every raw. And keep it then in

Re: [PERFORM] Can this query go faster???

2005-12-06 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Joost Kraaijeveld schrieb: On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 12:36 +0100, Tino Wildenhain wrote: I just tried it: a cursor is not faster (what does not surprise me at all, as the amount of work looks the same to me) Actually no, if you scroll forward, you just ask the database for the next rows to

Re: [PERFORM] Performance degradation after successive UPDATE's

2005-12-06 Thread Jan Wieck
On 12/6/2005 4:08 AM, Assaf Yaari wrote: Thanks Bruno, Issuing VACUUM FULL seems not to have influence on the time. I've added to my script VACUUM ANALYZE every 100 UPDATE's and run the test again (on different record) and the time still increase. I think he meant - run VACUUM FULL once,

Re: [PERFORM] Can this query go faster???

2005-12-06 Thread Csaba Nagy
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 13:20, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: [snip] Ah, a misunderstanding: I only need to calculate an index if the user wants a record that is not in or adjacent to the cache (in which case I can do a select values last value in the cache. So I must always materialize all rows

Re: [PERFORM] Can this query go faster???

2005-12-06 Thread Ron
At 04:43 AM 12/6/2005, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Hi, Is it possible to get this query run faster than it does now, by adding indexes, changing the query? SELECT customers.objectid FROM prototype.customers, prototype.addresses WHERE customers.contactaddress = addresses.objectid ORDER BY zipCode

Re: [PERFORM] Can this query go faster???

2005-12-06 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 11:32 +0100, Tino Wildenhain wrote: You can have a row number in postgres easily too. For example if you just include a serial for the row number. Not if the order of things is determined runtime and not at insert time... Cursor would work too but you would need to

Re: [PERFORM] Memory Leakage Problem

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Kathy Lo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found that the memory of the databaser server nearly used up (total 2G RAM). After I stop the program, the used memory did not free. I see no particular reason to believe that you are describing an actual memory leak. More likely, you are just seeing the

Re: [PERFORM] two disks - best way to use them?

2005-12-06 Thread Thomas Harold
Ron wrote: For accuracy's sake, which exact config did you finally use? How did you choose the config you finally used? Did you test the three options or just pick one? (Note: I'm not the original poster.) I just picked the option of putting the data/pg_xlog directory (WAL) on a 2nd set

Re: [PERFORM] 8.1 count(*) distinct: IndexScan/SeqScan

2005-12-06 Thread Pailloncy Jean-Gerard
Hi, After few test, the difference is explained by the effective_cache_size parameter. with effective_cache_size=1000 (default) the planner chooses the following plan postgres=# explain select count(*) from (select distinct on (val) * from test) as foo;

[PERFORM] TSearch2 vs. Apache Lucene

2005-12-06 Thread Joshua Kramer
Greetings all, I'm going to do a performance comparison with DocMgr and PG81/TSearch2 on one end, and Apache Lucene on the other end. In order to do this, I'm going to create a derivative of the docmgr-autoimport script so that I can specify one file to import at a time. I'll then create

Re: [PERFORM] Missed index opportunity for outer join?

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Tom Lane wrote: (Note to self: it is a bit odd that fac_id=261 is pushed down to become an indexqual in one case but not the other ...) I speculate that the seq_scan wasn't really the slow part compared to not using using both parts of the index

Re: [PERFORM] TSearch2 vs. Apache Lucene

2005-12-06 Thread Michael Riess
Has anyone ever compared TSearch2 to Lucene, as far as performance is concerned? I'll stay away from TSearch2 until it is fully integrated in the postgres core (like create index foo_text on foo (texta, textb) USING TSearch2). Because a full integration is unlikely to happen in the near

Re: [PERFORM] TSearch2 vs. Apache Lucene

2005-12-06 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Folks, tsearch2 and Lucene are very different search engines, so it'd be unfair comparison. If you need full access to metadata and instant indexing you, probably, find tsearch2 is more suitable then Lucene. But, if you could live without that features and need to search read only archives you

Re: [PERFORM] TSearch2 vs. Apache Lucene

2005-12-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Oleg Bartunov wrote: Folks, tsearch2 and Lucene are very different search engines, so it'd be unfair comparison. If you need full access to metadata and instant indexing you, probably, find tsearch2 is more suitable then Lucene. But, if you could live without that features and need to

[PERFORM] postgresql performance tuning

2005-12-06 Thread Ameet Kini
This didn't get through the first time around, so resending it again. Sorry for any duplicate entries. Hello, I have a question on postgres's performance tuning, in particular, the vacuum and reindex commands. Currently I do a vacuum (without full) on all of my tables. However, its noted in

Re: [PERFORM] Memory Leakage Problem

2005-12-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 03:22, Kathy Lo wrote: Hi, In this program, it will access this database server using simple and complex (joining tables) SQL Select statement and retrieve the matched rows. For each access, it will connect the database and disconnect it. I found that the memory of

Re: [PERFORM] TSearch2 vs. Apache Lucene

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes: Oleg Bartunov wrote: Tsearch2 integration into pgsql would be cool, but, I see no problem to use tsearch2 as an official extension module. Agreed. There isn't anything magical about a plug-in vs something integrated, as least in PostgreSQL. The

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql performance tuning

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Ameet Kini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a question on postgres's performance tuning, in particular, the vacuum and reindex commands. Currently I do a vacuum (without full) on all of my tables. However, its noted in the docs (e.g.

Re: [PERFORM] TSearch2 vs. Apache Lucene

2005-12-06 Thread Michael Riess
Bruce Momjian schrieb: Oleg Bartunov wrote: Folks, tsearch2 and Lucene are very different search engines, so it'd be unfair comparison. If you need full access to metadata and instant indexing you, probably, find tsearch2 is more suitable then Lucene. But, if you could live without that

Re: [PERFORM] TSearch2 vs. Apache Lucene

2005-12-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Michael Riess wrote: Bruce Momjian schrieb: Oleg Bartunov wrote: Folks, tsearch2 and Lucene are very different search engines, so it'd be unfair comparison. If you need full access to metadata and instant indexing you, probably, find tsearch2 is more suitable then Lucene. But, if

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql performance tuning

2005-12-06 Thread Vivek Khera
On Dec 6, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Ameet Kini wrote: I have a question on postgres's performance tuning, in particular, the vacuum and reindex commands. Currently I do a vacuum (without full) on all of my tables. However, its noted in the docs (e.g.

Re: [PERFORM] High context switches occurring

2005-12-06 Thread Anjan Dave
I ran a bit exhaustive pgbench on 2 test machines I have (quad dual core Intel and Opteron). Ofcourse the Opteron was much faster, but interestingly, it was experiencing 3x more context switches than the Intel box (upto 100k, versus ~30k avg on Dell). Both are RH4.0 64bit/PG8.1 64bit. Sun (v40z):

[PERFORM] postgresql performance tuning

2005-12-06 Thread Ameet Kini
Hello, I have a question on postgres's performance tuning, in particular, the vacuum and reindex commands. Currently I do a vacuum (without full) on all of my tables. However, its noted in the docs (e.g. http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/routine-reindex.html) and on the lists here

Re: [PERFORM] High context switches occurring

2005-12-06 Thread Vivek Khera
On Dec 6, 2005, at 2:04 PM, Anjan Dave wrote: interestingly, it was experiencing 3x more context switches than the Intel box (upto 100k, versus ~30k avg on Dell). Both are RH4.0 I'll assume that's context switches per second... so for the opteron that's 6540 cs's and for the Dell

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql performance tuning

2005-12-06 Thread Vivek Khera
On Dec 6, 2005, at 11:14 AM, Ameet Kini wrote: need for vacuums. However, it'd be great if there was a similar automatic reindex utility, like say, a pg_autoreindex daemon. Are there any plans for this feature? If not, then would cron scripts be the next best what evidence do you have

Re: [PERFORM] Missed index opportunity for outer join?

2005-12-06 Thread Ron Mayer
Tom Lane wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Tom Lane wrote: I speculate that the seq_scan wasn't really the slow part compared to not using using both parts of the index in the second part of the plan. The table point_features is tens of thousands of rows, while the

Re: [PERFORM] LVM and Postgres

2005-12-06 Thread August Zajonc
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: The server has a 250GB RAID10 (LSI 320-I + BBU) volume which I am thinking of slicing up in the following way (Linux 2.6 kernel): / : ext3 : 47GB (root, home etc) /boot : ext3 : 1GB /tmp : ext2 : 2GB /usr : ext3 : 4GB

Re: [PERFORM] Missed index opportunity for outer join?

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Ron Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The point_features table is pretty dynamic and it's possible that the data changed between my 'explain analyze' statement in the first post in this thread. However since both of them show an estimate of rows=948 and returned an actual of 917 I don't think

Re: [PERFORM] TSearch2 vs. Apache Lucene

2005-12-06 Thread Russell Garrett
On 6 Dec 2005, at 16:47, Joshua Kramer wrote: Has anyone ever compared TSearch2 to Lucene, as far as performance is concerned? In our experience (small often-updated documents) Lucene leaves tsearch2 in the dust. This probably has a lot to do with our usage pattern though. For our usage

Re: [PERFORM] Can this query go faster???

2005-12-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:52:57 +0100, Csaba Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joost, Why do you use an offset here ? I guess you're traversing the table somehow, in this case it would be better to remember the last zipcode + housenumber and put an additional condition to get the next bigger

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql performance tuning

2005-12-06 Thread Alan Stange
Vivek Khera wrote: On Dec 6, 2005, at 11:14 AM, Ameet Kini wrote: need for vacuums. However, it'd be great if there was a similar automatic reindex utility, like say, a pg_autoreindex daemon. Are there any plans for this feature? If not, then would cron scripts be the next best what

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql performance tuning

2005-12-06 Thread Michael Riess
Ameet Kini schrieb: This didn't get through the first time around, so resending it again. Sorry for any duplicate entries. Hello, I have a question on postgres's performance tuning, in particular, the vacuum and reindex commands. Currently I do a vacuum (without full) on all of my tables.

Re: [PERFORM] Missed index opportunity for outer join?

2005-12-06 Thread Ron Mayer
Tom Lane wrote: ...planner is actually going to choose based on the ultimate join cost, not on the subplan costs... In this explanation, the reason for the change in plans over time could be a change in the statistics for the other table. Is facets more dynamic than point_features? In total

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql performance tuning

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Alan Stange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vivek Khera wrote: what evidence do you have that you are suffering index bloat? The files for the two indices on a single table used 7.8GB of space before a reindex, and 4.4GB after. That's not bloat ... that's pretty nearly in line with the normal

[PERFORM] Context switching and Xeon processors

2005-12-06 Thread Brandon Metcalf
We're running a dual Xeon machine with hyperthreading enabled and PostgreSQL 8.0.3. Below is the type of CPUs: processor : 3 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz stepping: 1 cpu MHz

Re: [PERFORM] Missed index opportunity for outer join?

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Ron Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: In this explanation, the reason for the change in plans over time could be a change in the statistics for the other table. Is facets more dynamic than point_features? Facets is a big table with rather odd distributions of values. Many of

Re: [PERFORM] Missed index opportunity for outer join?

2005-12-06 Thread Ron Mayer
Tom Lane wrote: If you have background tasks doing ANALYZEs then this explanation seems plausible enough. I'm willing to accept it anyway ... Yup, there are such tasks. I could dig through logs to try to confirm or reject it; but I think it's reasonably likely that this happened. Basically,

Re: [PERFORM] LVM and Postgres

2005-12-06 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Hi August. Thanks very much for your mail. On 06/12/05, August Zajonc ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: The server has a 250GB RAID10 (LSI 320-I + BBU) volume which I am thinking of slicing up in the following way (Linux 2.6 kernel): / : ext3 : 47GB (root,

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql performance tuning

2005-12-06 Thread Alan Stange
Tom Lane wrote: Alan Stange [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Vivek Khera wrote: what evidence do you have that you are suffering index bloat? The files for the two indices on a single table used 7.8GB of space before a reindex, and 4.4GB after. That's not bloat ... that's

Re: [PERFORM] Context switching and Xeon processors

2005-12-06 Thread Brandon Metcalf
t == [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: t Brandon Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: t We've been tuning the kernel (2.4 SMP flavor) and have improved t performance quite a bit. I'm now wondering if turning off HT will t improve performance even more. Based on the vmstat output below, is t the

Re: [PERFORM] Context switching and Xeon processors

2005-12-06 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 03:01:02PM -0600, Brandon Metcalf wrote: We're running a dual Xeon machine with hyperthreading enabled and PostgreSQL 8.0.3. The two single most important things that will help you with high rates of context switching: - Turn off hyperthreading. - Upgrade to 8.1.

Re: [PERFORM] two disks - best way to use them?

2005-12-06 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Thomas Harold wrote: Ron wrote: For accuracy's sake, which exact config did you finally use? How did you choose the config you finally used? Did you test the three options or just pick one? (Note: I'm not the original poster.) I just picked the option of putting the

Re: [PERFORM] High context switches occurring

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Anjan Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -bash-3.00$ time pgbench -c 1000 -t 30 pgbench starting vacuum...end. transaction type: TPC-B (sort of) scaling factor: 1 number of clients: 1000 number of transactions per client: 30 number of transactions actually processed: 3/3 tps =

Re: [PERFORM] postgresql performance tuning

2005-12-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 04:03:22PM -0600, Ameet Kini wrote: I'm running postgresql v8.0 and my problem is that running vacuum on my indices are blazing fast (upto 10x faster) AFTER running reindex. For a table with only 1 index, the time to do a vacuum (without full) went down from 45 minutes to

Re: [PERFORM] LVM and Postgres

2005-12-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:36:23PM +, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Yes, we don't have any spare disks unfortunately. We have enabled the BBU write, so we are hoping for good performance. Even if you don't use seperate disks you'll probably get better performance by putting the WAL on a

Re: [PERFORM] LVM and Postgres

2005-12-06 Thread Alex Turner
I would argue that almost certainly won't by doing that as you will create a new place even further away for the disk head to seek to instead of just another file on the same FS that is probably closer to the current head position. Alex On 12/6/05, Michael Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue,

Re: [PERFORM] LVM and Postgres

2005-12-06 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:52:25PM -0500, Alex Turner wrote: I would argue that almost certainly won't by doing that as you will create a new place even further away for the disk head to seek to instead of just another file on the same FS that is probably closer to the current head position. I

Re: [PERFORM] TSearch2 vs. Apache Lucene

2005-12-06 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
... So you'll avoid a non-core product and instead only use another non-core product...? Chris Michael Riess wrote: Has anyone ever compared TSearch2 to Lucene, as far as performance is concerned? I'll stay away from TSearch2 until it is fully integrated in the postgres core (like

Re: [PERFORM] Faster db architecture for a twisted table.

2005-12-06 Thread Mitchell Skinner
On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 23:00 +, Rodrigo Madera wrote: CREATE TABLE person( id bigint PRIMARY KEY, first_name TEXT, age INT, mother bigint REFERENCES person, father biging REFERENCES person, siblings array of bigints (don't remember the syntax, but you get the point)

[PERFORM] need help

2005-12-06 Thread Jenny
I'm running PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu (Fedora Core 2). I've been dealing with Psql for over than 2 years now, but I've never had this case before. I have a table that has about 20 rows in it. Table public.s_apotik Column | Type|

[PERFORM] need help (not anymore)

2005-12-06 Thread Jenny
I run the VACUUM as you suggested, but still no response from the server. So, I decided to DROP the database. I got a message that the database is being used. I closed every application that accessing it. But, the message remains. I checked the server processes (ps -ax). There were lots of

[PERFORM] Join the same row

2005-12-06 Thread Edison Azzi
Hi, I´m trying to optimize some selects between 2 tables and the best way I found was alter the first table and add the fields of the 2nd table. I adjusted the contents and now a have only one table with all info that I need. Now resides my problem, because of legacy queries I decided to

[PERFORM] Query Fails with error calloc - Cannot alocate memory

2005-12-06 Thread Howard Oblowitz
Title: Query Fails with error calloc - Cannot alocate memory Hi I am trying to run a query that selects 26 million rows from a table with 68 byte rows. When run on the Server via psql the following error occurs: calloc : Cannot allocate memory When run via ODBC from Cognos Framework

Re: [PERFORM] LVM and Postgres

2005-12-06 Thread Kevin Brown
Michael Stone wrote: Note that the WAL will wander around the disk as files are created and deleted, whereas tables are basically updated in place. Huh? I was rather under the impression that the WAL files (in pg_xlog, right?) were reused once they'd been created, so their locations on the

Re: [PERFORM] Query Fails with error calloc - Cannot alocate memory

2005-12-06 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
If you're trying to retrieve 26 million rows into RAM in one go of course it'll be trouble. Just use a cursor. (DECLARE/FETCH/MOVE) Chris Howard Oblowitz wrote: Hi … I am trying to run a query that selects 26 million rows from a table with 68 byte rows. When run on the Server via psql

Re: [PERFORM] High context switches occurring

2005-12-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Anjan Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -bash-3.00$ time pgbench -c 1000 -t 30 pgbench starting vacuum...end. transaction type: TPC-B (sort of) scaling factor: 1 number of clients: 1000 number of transactions per client: 30 number of transactions actually processed:

Re: [PERFORM] High context switches occurring

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian pgman@candle.pha.pa.us writes: Tom Lane wrote: 1. You don't want number of clients (-c) much higher than scaling factor (-s in the initialization step). Should we throw a warning when someone runs the test this way? Not a bad idea (though of course only for the standard

Re: [PERFORM] Query Fails with error calloc - Cannot alocate memory

2005-12-06 Thread Neil Conway
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 09:42 +0200, Howard Oblowitz wrote: I am trying to run a query that selects 26 million rows from a table with 68 byte rows. When run on the Server via psql the following error occurs: calloc : Cannot allocate memory That's precisely what I'd expect: the backend will

Re: [PERFORM] TSearch2 vs. Apache Lucene

2005-12-06 Thread Michael Riess
No, my problem is that using TSearch2 interferes with other core components of postgres like (auto)vacuum or dump/restore. ... So you'll avoid a non-core product and instead only use another non-core product...? Chris Michael Riess wrote: Has anyone ever compared TSearch2 to Lucene, as