Re: failure with pg_dump

On Mar 22, 2005, at 11:47 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote:

>> The same config on the old box with Pg 7.4.7 worked flawlessly for
>> running reports and dumps. Another issue is that the 8.0 server is
>> noticeably slower than the 7.4 with identically (translated to 8.0
>> style) configs.
>
> IS there a difference in the infrastructure for this server? Like
> firewalls and routing?
>

Nope. I actually pulled the ethernet wire from the dead box and
plugged it into this one :-) The IP number is different by 1 bit.
That's pretty much the only difference in the old and new boxes other
than the move to Pg 8.0.1.

> Also, is it vacuum / analyzed often? Poor stats will cause the server
> to run slower.
>

Yes, vacuum analyze regularly. The query plans seem identical except
the cost estimates are a bit different in number of rows returned. The
choice of plan remains the same...

>
>
> Are you getting any output from the postgresql logs that would point to
> backends dieing or anything like that? This sounds like a networking /
> client problem to me.

My only guess is that a bug in gcc when optimizing for opteron, so I'm
rebuilding the kernel and libraries of the base OS without those
optimizations to see what happens. I know the clients are not having
problems since they've been stable for a long time.

I'm guessing nobody else is seeing arbitrary connection drops in 8.0.1,
particularly on FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE :-(

Funny thing is that the pg_dump worked yesterday...

Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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