Re: Large (almost 50%!) performance drop after upgrading to 8.4.4?

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Excerpts from Tom Lane's message of jue jun 10 11:46:25 -0400 2010:
>
>> Yes, the folks at commandprompt need to be told about this.  Loudly.
>> It's a serious packaging error.
>
> Just notified Lacey, the packager (not so loudly, though); she's working
> on new packages, and apologizes for the inconvenience.
>

Hello Everyone,

New packages for 8.4.4 on CentOS 5.5 and RHEL 5.5 (all arches), have
been built, and are available in the PGDG repo.

http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/8.4/redhat/rhel-5-i386/
http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/8.4/redhat/rhel-5-x86_64/

Output from pg_config --configure --version is below.

x86_64:

'--build=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu'
'--target=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr'
'--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin'
'--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include'
'--libdir=/usr/lib64' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var'
'--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man'
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--disable-rpath' '--with-perl'
'--with-python' '--with-tcl' '--with-tclconfig=/usr/lib64'
'--with-openssl' '--with-pam' '--with-krb5' '--with-gssapi'
'--with-includes=/usr/include' '--with-libraries=/usr/lib64'
'--enable-nls' '--enable-thread-safety' '--with-libxml' '--with-libxslt'
'--with-ldap' '--with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo'
'--sysconfdir=/etc/sysconfig/pgsql' '--datadir=/usr/share/pgsql'
'--with-docdir=/usr/share/doc' 'build_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu'
'host_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu'
'target_alias=x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -I/usr/include/et'
'CPPFLAGS= -I/usr/include/et'
PostgreSQL 8.4.4

i386:

'--build=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' '--host=i686-redhat-linux-gnu'
'--target=i386-redhat-linux-gnu' '--program-prefix=' '--prefix=/usr'
'--exec-prefix=/usr' '--bindir=/usr/bin' '--sbindir=/usr/sbin'
'--sysconfdir=/etc' '--datadir=/usr/share' '--includedir=/usr/include'
'--libdir=/usr/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/libexec' '--localstatedir=/var'
'--sharedstatedir=/usr/com' '--mandir=/usr/share/man'
'--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--disable-rpath' '--with-perl'
'--with-python' '--with-tcl' '--with-tclconfig=/usr/lib'
'--with-openssl' '--with-pam' '--with-krb5' '--with-gssapi'
'--with-includes=/usr/include' '--with-libraries=/usr/lib'
'--enable-nls' '--enable-thread-safety' '--with-libxml' '--with-libxslt'
'--with-ldap' '--with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo'
'--sysconfdir=/etc/sysconfig/pgsql' '--datadir=/usr/share/pgsql'
'--with-docdir=/usr/share/doc' 'build_alias=i686-redhat-linux-gnu'
'host_alias=i686-redhat-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=i386-redhat-linux-gnu'
'CFLAGS=-O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions
-fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386
-mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -I/usr/include/et'
'CPPFLAGS= -I/usr/include/et'
PostgreSQL 8.4.4

Again, I extend deep apologies for the inconvenience.

If there is anything further we can help with, please let us know.

Regards,

Lacey

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