Re: [PERFORM] Best OS for Postgres 8.2

2007-05-11 Thread Adam Witney
currently ZFS is only available on Solaris, parts of it have been released under GPLv2, but it doesn't look like enough of it to be ported to Linux (enough was released for grub to be able to access it read-only, but not the full filesystem). there are also patent concerns that are

Re: [PERFORM] estimating the need for VACUUM FULL and REINDEX

2007-05-11 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Guillaume Cottenceau gc 'at' mnc.ch writes: With that in mind, I've tried to estimate how much benefit would be brought by running VACUUM FULL, with the output of VACUUM VERBOSE. However, it seems that for example the removable rows reported by each VACUUM VERBOSE run is actually reused by

Re: [PERFORM] estimating the need for VACUUM FULL and REINDEX

2007-05-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: Guillaume Cottenceau gc 'at' mnc.ch writes: With that in mind, I've tried to estimate how much benefit would be brought by running VACUUM FULL, with the output of VACUUM VERBOSE. However, it seems that for example the removable rows reported by each VACUUM

Re: [PERFORM] BUG #3270: limit 16 optimizer behaviour

2007-05-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
This should have been asked on the performance list, not filed as a bug. I doubt anyone will have a complete answer to your question without EXPLAIN ANALYZE output from the query. Have you ANALYZE'd the tables recently? Poor statistics is one possible cause of the issue you are having. On Fri,

Re: [PERFORM] Best OS for Postgres 8.2

2007-05-11 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 23:31, Greg Smith wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2007, Tom Lane wrote: What Debian has done is set up an arrangement that lets you run two (or more) different PG versions in parallel. Since that's amazingly helpful during a major-PG-version upgrade, most of the other packagers