-
+
Server Configuration
Sets the planner's estimate of the cost of a disk page fetch
that is part of a series of sequential fetches. The default is 1.0.
- This value can be overriden for a particular tablespace by setting
+ This value can be overridd en for a particular tablespace by setting
the tablespace parameter of the same name
(see ).
Sets the planner's estimate of the cost of a
non-sequentially-fetched disk page. The default is 4.0.
- This value can be overriden for a particular tablespace by setting
+ This value can be overridd en for a particular tablespace by setting
the tablespace parameter of the same name
(see ).
-
+
Data Types
represented as an ASCII character into special escape sequences.
If, from the point of view of the application, representing bytes
as characters makes sense, then this representation can be
- convenient. But in practice it is usually confusing becauses it
+ convenient. But in practice it is usually confusing because it
fuzzes up the distinction between binary strings and character
strings, and also the particular escape mechanism that was chosen is
somewhat unwieldy. So this format should probably be avoided
-
+
Installation from Source Code on Windows
There are several different ways of building PostgreSQL on
Windows . The simplest way to build with
- Microsoft tools is to intall a modern version of the
+ Microsoft tools is to ins tall a modern version of the
Microsoft Platform SDK and use use the included
compiler. It is also possible to build with the full
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 or 2008 . In some cases
-
+
PostgreSQL>]]>
-bash-3.00$ createlang plperl template1
createlang: language installation failed: ERROR: could not load library "/opt/dbs/pgsql748/lib/plperl.so": A memory address is not in the address space for the process.
- Running as a non-owner in the group posessing the PostgreSQL
+ Running as a non-owner in the group poss essing the PostgreSQL
installation:
-bash-3.00$ createlang plperl template1
-
+
to be text strings.
- Values passed in binary format require knowlege of
+ Values passed in binary format require knowled ge of
the internal representation expected by the backend.
For example, integers must be passed in network byte
order. Passing numeric> values requires
-
+
Release 9.0
Monitoring
With increased use of PostgreSQL in high-end production systems,
- users need increased monitoring. Postgres SQL 9.0 continues to add
+ users need increased monitoring. PostgreSQL 9.0 continues to add
more ways to monitor PostgreSQL applications.
Add
linkend="monitoring-stats-funcs-table">pg_stat_reset_shared('bgwriter')>
to reset the cluster-wide shared statistics of the
- bg writer (Greg Smith)
+ background writer (Greg Smith)
Add
linkend="monitoring-stats-funcs-table">pg_stat_reset_single_table_counters()>
and pg_stat_reset_single_function_counters()>
- to allow the reseting of statistics counters for individual
+ to allow the resett ing of statistics counters for individual
tables and indexes (Magnus Hagander)
-
+
Reliability and the Write-Ahead Log
Many file systems that use write barriers (e.g.
ZFS>,
ext4>) internally use FLUSH CACHE EXT> or
- SYNCHRONIZE CACHE> commands to flush data to the platers on
+ SYNCHRONIZE CACHE> commands to flush data to the platt ers on
write-back-enabled drives. Unfortunately, such write barrier file
systems behave suboptimally when combined with battery-backed unit
(
BBU>) disk controllers. In such setups, the synchronize
-
+
xml2
- This function appp lies the XSL stylesheet to the document and returns
+ This function applies the XSL stylesheet to the document and returns
the transformed result. The paramlist is a list of parameter
assignments to be used in the transformation, specified in the form
a=1,b=2>. Note that the