[PERFORM] Tuning PostgreSQL

2003-07-21 Thread Alexander Priem
Hi guys, I am new to PostgreSQL and have done some "extensive" research already. If you could give me some advice/confirmation, I would be really grateful. I am going to build a PostgreSQL database server for a client. This database will contain many tables (over 100, maybemore), with

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning PostgreSQL

2003-07-21 Thread Alexander Priem
Thanks, I will look at the site you sent me and purchase some hardware. Then I will run some benchmarks. Kind regards, Alexander. - Original Message - From: Shridhar Daithankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alexander Priem [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:33

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning PostgreSQL

2003-07-21 Thread Alexander Priem
at 13:45, Alexander Priem wrote: So where can I set the noatime data=writeback variables? They are not PostgreSQL settings, but rather Linux settings, right? Where can I find these? These are typicaly set in /etc/fstab.conf. These are mount settings. man mount for more details. The second

Re: [PERFORM] Tuning PostgreSQL

2003-07-22 Thread Alexander Priem
, but a server like this will cost about 4750 euros, and that is including an Intel Xeon 2.4GHz cpu, redundant power supply, WITHOUT the UPS. Seems very reasonable to me... Kind regards, Alexander Priem. - Original Message - From: Vincent van Leeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PERFORM] Indexing question

2003-08-29 Thread Alexander Priem
Priem. - Original Message - From: Tomasz Myrta [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alexander Priem [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 9:03 AM Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Indexing question Hi all, I have some tables (which can get pretty large) in which I want

Re: [PERFORM] Indexing question

2003-08-29 Thread Alexander Priem
. If a record gets 'updated', a new record is made containing the new data, and the old record is marked as 'deleted'. So the percentage of 'deleted' records will grow with time, if you understand what I mean. - Original Message - From: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alexander Priem

[PERFORM] Many fields in one table or many tables?

2003-09-18 Thread Alexander Priem
, PackagingInfo tables would map one to one to records in the Product table. Do any of you know if and how PostgreSQL would prefer one approach over the other? Thanks in advance, Alexander Priem. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our

[PERFORM] PostgreSQL data on a NAS device ?

2003-10-20 Thread Alexander Priem
? It would be much cheaper... Any advice on this would be appreciated :) Kind regards, Alexander Priem. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL data on a NAS device ?

2003-10-20 Thread Alexander Priem
to maintain... About clustering: I know this can't be done by hooking multiple postmasters to one and the same NAS. This would result in data corruption, i've read... Kind regards, Alexander. - Original Message - From: Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Alexander Priem [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL data on a NAS device ?

2003-10-20 Thread Alexander Priem
Even better than the four-disk NAS I mentioned earlier is the following: Promise UltraTrak RM8000. This is a so-called SCSI-to-IDE RAID system. Basically it's a RAID setup of eight IDE disks, using a hardware RAID engine, that's connected to (in this case) the PostgreSQL server via a SCSI

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL data on a NAS device ?

2003-10-21 Thread Alexander Priem
? Thanks for your help so far :) Kind regards, Alexander Priem. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [PERFORM] PostgreSQL data on a NAS device ?

2003-10-21 Thread Alexander Priem
I have considered Opteron, yes. But I think there are too many uncertainties, like : * It's a new CPU that has not proven itself yet. * I don't think I can buy directly from IBM (according to their site), so how about support (24x7) ? This will be very important to our client. * I need to install

Re: [PERFORM] RAID controllers etc... was: PostgreSQL data on a NAS device ?

2003-10-22 Thread Alexander Priem
So I guess the PERC4/Di RAID controller is pretty good. It seems that RedHat9 supports it out-of-the-box (driver 1.18f), but I gather from the sites mentioned before that upgrading this driver to 1.18i would be better... ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [PERFORM] RAID controllers etc... was: PostgreSQL data on aNAS device ?

2003-10-23 Thread Alexander Priem
I have been searching (www.lsil.com) for this megaraid_2 driver you mentioned. What kind of MegaRaid card does the Perc4/Di match? Elite1600? Elite1650? I picked Elite1600 and the latest driver I found was version 2.05.00. Is this one OK for RedHat 9? The README file present only mentions

[PERFORM] RedHat Enterprise Linux ES 3 ?!?!

2003-10-23 Thread Alexander Priem
regards, Alexander Priem. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]