Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 20:27:04 +0200 (CEST)
From: Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
cc: Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>,
	Andreas Kretschmer <akretschmer@spamfence.net>,
	pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Major performance problem after upgrade from 8.3 to
 8.4
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On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Tom Lane wrote:

> Gerhard Wiesinger <lists@wiesinger.com> writes:
>> On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Doh.  I hadn't looked closely at that.  Probably you want
>>> /usr/share/zoneinfo --- at least that's what the Red Hat RPMs use.
>
>> I tried even before I wrote to the mailinglist without success:
>> ./configure
>
> I'd definitely suggest leaving out the --with-system-tzdata option
> altogether if you're not certain it works.

OK.

>
>> With last one I also get:
>> 2010-09-03 19:51:29.079 CEST [27916] @/: FATAL:  invalid value for parameter "timezone_abbreviations": "Default"
>
> This is a different problem; the --with-system-tzdata option wouldn't
> affect that.
>
> 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

cd /bin
ln -s /usr/share/pgsql/timezonesets share
cd tarballdir
./configure
make
cp ./src/backend/postgres /bin/postgres-8.3.11

2010-09-03 18:24:53.936 GMT [11753] @/: LOG:  could not open directory "/share/timezone": No such file or directory
2010-09-03 18:24:53.936 GMT [11753] @/: LOG:  could not open directory "/share/timezone": No such file or directory
2010-09-03 18:24:53.936 GMT [11753] @/: LOG:  could not open directory "/share/timezone": No such file or directory
2010-09-03 18:24:53.936 GMT [11753] @/: LOG:  could not open directory "/share/timezone": No such file or directory
2010-09-03 18:24:53.936 GMT [11753] @/: LOG:  could not open directory "/share/timezone": No such file or directory
2010-09-03 20:24:53.936 CEST [11753] @/: FATAL:  invalid value for parameter "timezone_abbreviations": "Default"

I previously made the strace and therefore I added the option to configure 
to get the right directory.

Any further idea where I should copy the binary or any option or any file 
copy for the time zone files?

Thnx.

Ciao,
Gerhard

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