Re: Why so long between archive calls?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Chris Hoover <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why so long between archive calls?
Date: 2006-09-02 01:40:10
Message-ID: 20060902014010.GA14288@alvh.no-ip.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Chris Hoover" <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I just ran this for several minutes and have about an 11MB trace file. Is
> > there anything particular you want to see?
>
> > Also, is the data in the file deciferable or have actual database data in
> > it? The reason I ask, is that I work under HIPPA regulations, so I can't
> > release anything if it has potential personal/patient data in it.
>
> Yeah, you probably want to strip out the data portion of any read() or
> write() calls shown in the trace.
>
> BTW, I forgot to ask for timestamp information in the trace --- if you
> didn't use -t please do it over. It might be possible to get strace
> to skip the read/write data by itself so you don't have to do it
> manually, but I don't see anything obvious in its help output.

strace -s0

That'll cut any strings though, not only for read/writes. You'll still
get file names.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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