Re: Major performance problem after upgrade from 8.3 to 8.4

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gerhard Wiesinger <lists(at)wiesinger(dot)com>
Cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer(at)spamfence(dot)net>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Major performance problem after upgrade from 8.3 to 8.4
Date: 2010-09-03 18:44:28
Message-ID: 27253.1283539468@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Gerhard Wiesinger <lists(at)wiesinger(dot)com> writes:
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I think what may be happening here is that a postgres executable expects
>> to find itself in a full installation tree, ie if it's in /someplace/bin
>> then the timezone files are in /someplace/share, etc. Did you do a full
>> "make install" after building, or did you just copy the postgres
>> executable?

> I just copied it as discussed in the original mail to avoid that make
> install kills the 8.4 production RPM version:
> cp ./src/backend/postgres /bin/postgres-8.3.11

Definitely not going to work. Instead, configure with --prefix set
to /someplace/harmless, make, make install, execute from
/someplace/harmless/bin/.

regards, tom lane

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