Re: [ADMIN] Is regular vacuuming with autovacuum needed?

2010-08-16 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com writes: The other alternative here is to just tune autovacuum so it runs really slowly, so it won't kill responsiveness during any peak period.  While in theory that's the right thing to do,

Re: [ADMIN] postgresql and xfs filesystrem

2009-01-25 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Ezra Taylor ezra.tay...@gmail.com wrote: All: Do any of you have gripes about using XFS with the latest version of postgres? I'd not expect there to be much specific benefit to it... I did some benchmarking, now quite a while ago, which showed XFS to

Re: [ADMIN] Need Scheduling Support for Your Databases?

2007-07-05 Thread Christopher Browne
carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings All, I'm working on a specification for an Enterprise-class Open Source batch scheduler, and I really would like some expert commentary from experienced database people. Please have a look at: http://openjcs.sourceforge.net and the specification to

Re: [ADMIN] Password Policy

2007-02-10 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha) wrote: Hi list (my first post), Is there any password polity that postgresql implement ? No, that would be a serious mistake, as it would prevent people from having local policies that differed

Re: [ADMIN] Backup Strategies?

2007-02-03 Thread Christopher Browne
After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joshua Kramer) belched out: Hello All, What strategies are people using for automated, script-based backup of databases? There are a few I can think of: 1. Create a db_backup unix user and a db_backup pgsql user. Grant READ

Re: [ADMIN] pgpool

2006-07-06 Thread Christopher Browne
After a long battle with technology, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (adey), an earthling, wrote: Please could someone give me an idea of what pgpool is, and where I can research it? I have run a search on postgresql.org and found many references, but they don't explain what it is, and it doesn't appear

Re: [ADMIN] problem with installing postgresql

2006-06-10 Thread Christopher Browne
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Praveen Kumar N) transmitted: hai... i have some problem with installing postgresql. Following is the output of installation: -- [EMAIL

Re: [ADMIN] How are ppl monitoring PostgreSQL ... ? What is being

2006-06-10 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Fuhr) wrote: On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 07:29:52PM +0100, Andy Shellam wrote: I'm using a great little Linux program called monit to check that there's something listening on the 5432 port. It also monitors individual process memory and CPU usage etc. Quite good. A

Re: [ADMIN] postgres ECCN

2006-06-06 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rosario Colica \(XX/MCI\)) wrote: All, I am wondering if you can help. I need to find the ECCN coding for the DB in order to be able to export of our products with the dB included. People have asked this about Mozilla, with the following answer:

Re: [ADMIN] Show tables query

2006-04-02 Thread Christopher Browne
After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Shellam) belched out: Is there an SQL command supported by Postgres to return a list of tables in a database? Yes, it's called SELECT. There is a standard schema called INFORMATION_SCHEMA, which contains a variety of relevant

Re: [ADMIN] postgresql-R

2006-03-08 Thread Christopher Browne
Clinging to sanity, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Louis Gonzales) mumbled into her beard: Hey Jim, Thanks again for the pointer to this. I've already compiled and installed on one of the two Solaris nodes, that I needed to. Yeah upon further reading, I can't wait for Slony-II to come out - is there

Re: [ADMIN] Best filesystem

2006-02-15 Thread Christopher Browne
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arnau) wrote: Which is the best filesystem in linux for postgresql? nowadays I'm using ext3, I don't know if other filesystems like XFS, reiser... would be better from the performance point of view. Do you care more about

Re: [ADMIN] Change port number

2006-02-14 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rodrigo Sakai) wrote:   I have a question about changing the port number of Databases server. It was told to me that is a good administrative practice to change the port number of the services, like change the 5432 to 6985 or any other number.

Re: [ADMIN] autovacuum

2006-02-04 Thread Christopher Browne
i have PostgreSQL 8.1.2 i want to enable autovacuum at my PostgreSQL 8.1.2 from postgresql.conf i've got 50-60 insert and/or update queries in a second in that case tables shouldn't be locked does autovacuum locks tables while vacuuming? Of course it does; any request to access a relation

Re: [ADMIN] autovacuum

2006-02-01 Thread Christopher Browne
This seems maybe a bit overkill to me. I think what would be more useful is if autovacuum could execute more than one vacuum at a time, and you could specify tables that are high priority (or possibly just say that all tables with less than X live tuples in them are high priority). That way a

Re: [ADMIN] Unable to connect to a specific database

2006-01-13 Thread Christopher Browne
I had to kill a vacuum in the middle with -9. I shut down and restarted the postgres server several times after that but I am unable to connect to the db that I was initially running vacuum on I'm doing psql dbname and it hangs for a while. I'm still waiting. Any ideas? Kill -9 is distinctly

Re: [ADMIN] Moving a database

2005-12-16 Thread Christopher Browne
What are the correct steps to move an database and from an server running postgreslq 7.4.2 to another running 8.0.3? I'll assume there are two hosts: - db7, running 7.4.2, on port 5432, and - db8, running 8.0.3 on port 5432. The simplest method would be thus: - Stop the applications

Re: [ADMIN] how to protect root access database

2005-08-13 Thread Christopher Browne
i have database with critical data (such patient information) how can i protect my database from root access because this host in company can access with root from many person (person who manage some service application on host but must not access this patient information) The only way to be

Re: [ADMIN] some databases have not been vacuumed ...

2005-08-02 Thread Christopher Browne
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joshua D. Drake) transmitted: FM wrote: Hello after a vacuum full analyse I received this : WARNING: some databases have not been vacuumed in 1805294030 transactions HINT: Better vacuum them within 342189617

Re: [ADMIN] real time replication of pgsql database

2005-06-25 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (hellz waren) would write: we are designing a heavy duty database in pgsql that expects to grow at an average of 100 MB spread over tables of 250 tables. We require always on database (24 X 7) database. And if one fails, the other

Re: [ADMIN] DB replicators comparison; (vs. DB upgrade via pg_dump)

2005-05-15 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am about to upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.0.3, and I read that using a DB replication tool is a good way to go about it. Replication is useful for this purpose if it helps you cut down on the time the transition takes. If the

Re: [ADMIN] Incremental backup

2005-05-13 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kichanov) would write: I wish to realize incremental backup, i.e. to dump only those tables which have changed from last backup. 1q. How i can solve this task with internal postgres tools? 2q. How I can to find out timestamp

Re: [ADMIN] REMOVE

2005-05-03 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alvaro Herrera) wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:17:31PM +0200, Stephen Kennedy wrote: An ex-workmate had forwarded his mail to our group so we could deal with work-related stuff, and so we received all of his mailing list

Re: [ADMIN] PL/SQL

2005-04-25 Thread Christopher Browne
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dedy): Hiii alll, I would like to ask, does pl/sql in oracle is same with the pl/sql in postgreSQL They are similar, though are certainly not identical. -- cbbrowne,@,gmail.com http://linuxdatabases.info/info/languages.html FLORIDA: We've been Gored by the bull of

Re: [ADMIN] Killing Processes

2005-04-23 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Fuhr) wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 10:58:46AM -0500, Thomas F.O'Connell wrote: It is generally not recommended that you kill processes with anything stronger than HUP, which is (I believe) what kill sends by default. kill usually

Re: [ADMIN] High Available Software Technologies Support About Postgres

2005-04-13 Thread Christopher Browne
Oops! [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen spray-painting on a wall: I want to kown if the Postgres can support High Available(HA) in verson 8. We're running some PostgreSQL 7.4 instances on the IBM HACMP system for AIX. That being readily supportible, I can't readily conceive of a reason why PostgreSQL

Re: [ADMIN] Disk Encryption - Postgresql vs. Oracle

2005-04-02 Thread Christopher Browne
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when pgman@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian) wrote: Wow, nice analysis. Should this be in our documentation somewhere? Suggest a suitable section and I'd be more than happy to send in a patch adding this in. The only place I see pgcrypto referred to (which

Re: [ADMIN] Disk Encryption - Postgresql vs. Oracle

2005-04-01 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Brenner) wrote: I was talking to someone just recently who was saying that they were thinking about going with Oracle rather than Postgresql because Oracle has a their story in place about how to do disk encryption. So I am of course,

Re: [ADMIN] is postgresql 8 is realy mature

2005-03-28 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tsirkin Evgeny) wrote: Hi list! We are using currently postgresql 7.3.4 havily and planning an upgrade. our choices are either 7.4.x which comes with distribution (suse) or 8.0.1 . We can allow our selfs some testing time and

Re: [ADMIN] Replication with PostgreSQL

2005-03-20 Thread Christopher Browne
After a long battle with technology, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (prakash sompura), an earthling, wrote: Can any one tell me how do I replicate my PostgreSql database from one server to another server? One method involves using pg_dump to dump the state out, and load it onto the other server. Certainly

Re: [ADMIN] Best practice - Vacuum. Replication suggestions and pg vs mysql question

2005-03-17 Thread Christopher Browne
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David B) wrote: Environment. PG v8. (Opteron 2CPU. Raid 5 disks 1TB. 12GB Ram) Environment would be one master feeding 3 slaves. Similar configs. New transactions coming into master. Cust Service Reps using that box. Analysis being

Re: [ADMIN] Excessive growth of pg_attribute and other system tables

2005-03-17 Thread Christopher Browne
After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Crawford) belched out: On Thursday 17 March 2005 3:51 pm, Tom Lane wrote: Steve Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My autovacuum config is running and I do see regular periodic vacuums of these pg_ tables but still they

Re: [ADMIN] Scheduling/Automated Jobs in Postgre

2005-03-16 Thread Christopher Browne
You could add this into whatever script starts up pg_ctl, but only if you decide to use PostgreSQL rather than Postgre. Could any one tell me how can I implement this in Postgre. Is there any concept like Scheduled Jobs in Postgre. If so pls. provide me with related informations or the links

Re: [ADMIN] Scheduling/Automated Jobs in Postgre

2005-03-02 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aravindhan G.D) wrote: I need to do some user defined jobs when ever the Postgre server gets restarted. These tasks should be automated one i.e) When ever I restart the server the PL/SQL functions I have defined should be executed automatically without my intervention. This

Re: [ADMIN] Postgresql on Solaris versus Linux

2005-02-25 Thread Christopher Browne
Solaris is highly attuned to running threaded applications, and PostgreSQL is not that sort of application. So you're definitely not playing to Solaris' strengths. Solaris is one of the platforms that has been noted for suffering from context switch slowdowns when hit with a lot of concurrent

Re: [ADMIN] empty a database

2005-02-15 Thread Christopher Browne
Clinging to sanity, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dick Davies) mumbled into her beard: Is there a neat way to clean out a database via SQL commands? i.e. get rid of tables, sequences, integers, etc. At present I'm using dropdb/createdb, but thats' far from ideal and I think it's causing postgres to do

Re: [ADMIN] replication

2005-02-14 Thread Christopher Browne
The world rejoiced as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fred Blaise) wrote: Hello I am running postgres 7.4.6 on 2 BSDi boxes. One is live, the other one is a failover. I would like to implement a master-slave replication process. I believe replication has been included in the base package since 7.3.x.

Re: [ADMIN] Database Scalability

2005-01-28 Thread Christopher Browne
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M.V. Jaga Mohan) transmitted: I am using PgSQL 7.3 for my Application. My problem how can I scale my database ? I mean how many records I can have in my database. That depends mainly on how much disk space you have. If

Re: [ADMIN] Installing PostgreSQL as postgress versus root Debate!

2005-01-13 Thread Christopher Browne
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Goulet, Dick) wrote: You may well be on the development team, but you are wrong for one very important reason. If the Postgresql executables are owned by root they execute with the priviledges of root. Methinks you may not

Re: [ADMIN] Installing PostgreSQL as postgress versus root Debate!

2005-01-13 Thread Christopher Browne
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomeh, Husam) transmitted: I've seen book that prefer installing PostgreSQL as root and another one recommends otherwise by first creating a postgres account and then installing it as postgres. In the Oracle world, you

Re: [ADMIN] Install Slony-I on Postgresql 7.3.2

2004-12-28 Thread Christopher Browne
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Devi Munandar) transmitted: I want to Install Slony-I 1.0.5 on my machine i386, but my postgresql version is 7.3.2  running on OpenBSD3.4 Operating System, so does Slony-I 1.0.5 support to postgresql 7.3.2?, because i

Re: [ADMIN] Need Help in Taking Backups

2004-12-06 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gourish Singbal) wrote: Whats the Best plan to take Backups for Postgres 7.4.5 database considering the database is 24/7 and transaction based. Well, you can take a pg_dump to get the state of the system at a point in time. That's very easy,

Re: [ADMIN] Very busy 24x7 databases and VACUUM

2004-12-05 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David F. Skoll) wrote: Does anyone run a very busy PostgreSQL datatabase, with lots of read and write operations that run 24x7? (We're talking on the neighbourhood of 40 to 60 queries/second, with probably 5% to 10% of them being INSERT or

Re: [ADMIN] pgsql database .1 .2 .3 file names

2004-10-19 Thread Christopher Browne
The world rejoiced as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan Biggers) wrote: Can anyone tell me what the data file names with the .1 .2 .3 etc. extensions are? Are these undo versions of my tables or something? I need to recover some disk space and I'm wondering if I need them. Here is an example...

Re: [ADMIN] High Availability for PostgreSQL

2004-10-08 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sharon Schooley) would write: We are looking for a 24/7 PostgreSQL solution. I've read some postings and information on various solutions including Taygeta, pgpool, and Mammoth PostgreSQL with Heartbeat.  If there are any users of

Re: [ADMIN] Does PostgreSQL Stores its database in multiple disks?

2004-10-01 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Igor Maciel Macaubas) would write: Heather, I might be able to do it. Let me check .. I can buy a cheap RAID IDE controller and try to mount everything as one. You'd be about as well off, if you're running Linux, to use the md RAID

Re: [ADMIN] replication between mysql 3.23 and postgresql 7.2.4?

2004-09-08 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (k b) wrote: Hello. I have a slightly off topic question. Is it possible to set up replication between a mysql 3.23.56 server and a postgresql 7.2.4 server without any extra software in between? i am primarily interested in

Re: [ADMIN] When will my database crash?

2004-09-08 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Riggs) wrote: Proactive, planned maintenance is more manageable than sudden, grinding failure when you're at home in bed. Make sure your manager is part of the call-out plan, thats usually a good way to make them care about maintenance. And regular maintenance allows

Re: [ADMIN] When will my database crash?

2004-09-07 Thread Christopher Browne
After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (S. C.) belched out: We have a postgres 7.4 database which never vacuum for 4 months. I try to vacuum one time. But my manager can't bear the low performance of website. So I had to kill the vacuum before it finished. Is it ok for a

Re: [ADMIN] Create Linux Script for PostgreSQL database backup

2004-09-03 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Naomi Walker) would write: Anything would plain text would be a problem.  Isnt .pgpass plain text? Yes, it's plain text. How do you propose to improve on that? At _some_ point, there has GOT to be a password in plain text form that

Re: [ADMIN] Create Linux Script for PostgreSQL database backup

2004-09-02 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sandro Garoffolo) wrote: One question , if you set access to server with password in pg_hba.conf how can you pass the apssword in the script? You don't have to if you put it in $HOME/.pgpass; see the documentation for the format of

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL Migration of databases 7.2 to 7.4

2004-08-24 Thread Christopher Browne
Quoth Mario Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We have a server in our datacentre running PostgreSQL 7.2 with about 50 databases set up (for different customers). We have just commissioned a much better specified server which is running PostgreSQL 7.4. We need to migrate the databases from 7.2 to 7.4.

Re: [ADMIN] Pseudo-Off-topic-survey: Opinions about future of Postgresql(MySQL)?

2004-08-13 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Enrique Arizón) commented: Now that CA has open sourced Ingres what future do you guess to Postgresql and MySQL? Don't missunderstand me, I have been using Postgresql for more than 3 years and developing apps against it and all I got is possitive impressions, but

Re: [ADMIN] PG 7.2 varchar change

2004-08-12 Thread Christopher Browne
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (slane): Hello all: I am upgrading a web application from postgres 7.1.2 to 7.4.3 (too long in coming to that point, I know). I have sifted through the history files and identified a restricted number of changes that potentially impact the app, a few of which I don¹t

Re: [ADMIN] Replication

2004-08-10 Thread Christopher Browne
The world rejoiced as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rodrigo Botana) wrote: There is any way to have a replication (master - slave) whithout install anything on the slave computer. I ask this because i would like to have my website (that don't have any replication service avaliable) with the same

Re: [ADMIN] Slony NG

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher Browne
Oops! [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gaetano Mendola) was seen spray-painting on a wall: | You are aware that there is a slony mailing list at | http://gborg.postgresql.org/mailman/listinfo/slony1-general right? Does | that not serve your purposes? I knew it, some times I'm in IRC too, but I feel better

Re: [ADMIN] Replication in main PostgreSQL codebase

2004-07-06 Thread Christopher Browne
After a long battle with technology, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Browne), an earthling, wrote: I apologise in advance if any of my questions are in a FAQ somewhere - I haven't seen them... Does anyone know when (if ever) replication support will be added to the main PostgreSQL codebase? Is there

Re: [ADMIN] Dumping partial database content

2004-07-02 Thread Christopher Browne
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bender, Cheryl) wrote: Just wondering--is it possible to dump on a temporary table? The temp table is only visible inside the context of the transaction under which it was created. A pg_dump session will create an independent

Re: [ADMIN] SERIAL type not autoincremented

2004-07-02 Thread Christopher Browne
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello i have: create table student( id SERIAL NOT NULL, name VARCHAR(35) NOT NULL, primary key (id) ); and when i try to insert like this: insert into student (name) values('me'); i

Re: [ADMIN] Replication/Mirror Help

2004-06-04 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mr. Darshan Patel) wrote: I had install postgresql server on two different port : default(5432) and other(5545), now I have to setup replication/mirror between them So what are the steps/setup procedure. That presumably depends on which

Re: [ADMIN] Postgresql on a shared storage

2004-05-30 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vasil Kolev) wrote: I'm working on a system that has 2 servers with postgresql, and a FC shared storage between them, where the database is stored. After some weeks of using google and reading lists, I've come to the conclusion, that there is no way (using F(L)OSS tools) to

Re: [ADMIN] Performance Problem

2004-05-30 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Smith) would write: Hi ID:7 I am running PostgreSQL 7.2.2 on Red Hat 9 and I am suffering a growing performance problem. The problem shows through a slowing of queries and an increase in the system CPU usage. Queries that

Re: [ADMIN] two versions on same linux

2004-05-21 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Gimpelj) wrote: I have redhat 7.3 and postgres 7.2 Is there a way to have 7.4 installed together with postgres 7.2 ? and both running at the same time, with of course different data directories. should i use the generic

Re: [ADMIN] Missing or errooneous pg_hba.conf file

2004-05-19 Thread Christopher Browne
After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) belched out: Bill Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LOG: invalid entry in pg_hba.conf file at line 60, token 255.255.255.255 I have found that if I change this value to anything other than 255.255.255.255 (e.g.

Re: [ADMIN] postgresql not using enough memory?

2004-05-19 Thread Christopher Browne
Oops! [EMAIL PROTECTED] was seen spray-painting on a wall: Hello list, I know this is a complicated issue, but I'll throw it out there... Our DB box has 3GB of ram - which is supposed to be used by postgres. Whenever I use top, it only shows about 800MB being used with 2.2GB free. What can

Re: [ADMIN] Real time replication of PG DBs accross two servers - any experiences?

2004-04-13 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Eisentraut) wrote: Bradley Kieser wrote: I desperately need to set up a real time replication of several databases (for failover) between two servers. Last time I looked at the PG replication it wasn't yet production level. I

Re: [ADMIN] [PERFORM] Raw devices vs. Filesystems

2004-04-09 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Josh Berkus) wrote: Well, as I said, that's why I was asking - I'm willing to give it a go if nobody can prove me wrong. :) Why not? If you have time? True enough. I thought you knew - OCFS, OCFS-Tools and OCFSv2 have not only been open- source for quite a while now -

Re: [ADMIN] Raw vs Filesystem

2004-04-05 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaime Casanova) asked: so, the real question is what is the best filesystem for optimal speed in postgresql? The smart-alec answer would be... Veritas, of course! But seriously, it depends on many factors you have not provided information about. - Different operating

Re: [ADMIN] Raw devices vs. Filesystems

2004-04-05 Thread Christopher Browne
After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaime Casanova) belched out: Can you tell me (or at least guide me to a palce where i can find the answer) what are the benefits of filesystems over raw devices? For PostgreSQL, filesystems have the merit that you can actually use

Re: [ADMIN] plpgsql editor(s)?

2004-04-05 Thread Christopher Browne
After a long battle with technology, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Biagioni), an earthling, wrote: Can anyone recommend an editor (windows OR linux) for writing plpgsql code, that might be friendlier than a standard text editor? Nice features I can think of might be: - smart tabbing (1 tab = N

Re: [ADMIN] Do Petabyte storage solutions exist?

2004-04-05 Thread Christopher Browne
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bradley Kieser) transmitted: I think as far as PG storage goes you're really on a losing streak here because PG clustering really isn't going to support this across multiple servers. We're not even close to the mark as

Re: [ADMIN] [PHP] upgrading to 7.4.2

2004-03-25 Thread Christopher Browne
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Goulet, Dick): Comparing a MySql upgrade to anything else is comparing apples to eggplants. Their not even in the same group. mySql likes to leave their datafiles alone making all of their changes in the binaries. Now while that is good from an upgrade standpoint,

Re: [ADMIN] constraints and performance

2004-02-12 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jodi Kanter) wrote: Do constraints effect performance significantly? They would be expected to provide a significant enhancement to performance over: a) Firing triggers, b) Firing rules, and c) Forcing the application to validate

Re: [ADMIN] reduce downtime when upgrading 7.3 - 7.4

2004-02-12 Thread Christopher Browne
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Palle Girgensohn) wrote: We use postgresql for rather large databases. For a typical installation, a pg_restore takes a couple of hours, at least (the dumpfiles are usually 2-4 gigabytes or so, including BLOBs). The machines are

Re: [ADMIN] book for postgresql

2004-02-10 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Wong) wrote: I am an oracle dba and new to postgresql. Could you tell me what is the best postgres book out there to start with? I am looking for a book which is sort of a complete reference including some dba chapters as

Re: [ADMIN] R: R: slow seqscan after vacuum analize

2004-02-05 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edoardo Ceccarelli) wrote: Yes, you are right but it wasn't the case this time, I have run the explain plenty of times with same results. I think that the reason was that I made a simple VACUUM, after a VACUUM FULL ANALYZE (1h!!) things are ok

Re: [ADMIN] R: slow seqscan after vacuum analize

2004-02-05 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Iain) would write: I'd like to know more about the possibility of plain vacuums harming performance. This is the first I've heard of it. Vacuum full is not always an option in a production environment. There certainly are known cases

Re: [ADMIN] postgresql crushed with XLogWrite error

2004-01-08 Thread Christopher Browne
... other files omitted ... That can diminish how much is in the everything that needs to be backed up... -- let name=cbbrowne and tld=libertyrms.info in String.concat @ [name;tld];; http://dev6.int.libertyrms.com/ Christopher Browne (416) 646 3304 x124 (land) ---(end

Re: [ADMIN] Incremental clustering?

2004-01-05 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Siracusa) wrote: The docs say: Clustering is a one-time operation: when the table is subsequently updated, the changes are not clustered. That is, no attempt is made to store new or updated rows according to their index

Re: [ADMIN] 2CPU 4GBRAM

2003-12-11 Thread Christopher Browne
a 'clone,' now called MSMQ. Apparently pretty good stuff, where applicable... -- let name=cbbrowne and tld=libertyrms.info in String.concat @ [name;tld];; http://dev6.int.libertyrms.com/ Christopher Browne (416) 646 3304 x124 (land) ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] 2CPU 4GBRAM

2003-12-11 Thread Christopher Browne
see that... -- let name=cbbrowne and tld=libertyrms.info in String.concat @ [name;tld];; http://dev6.int.libertyrms.com/ Christopher Browne (416) 646 3304 x124 (land) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ

Re: [ADMIN] PGSQL and DNCL

2003-12-04 Thread Christopher Browne
After a long battle with technology, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Renney Thomas), an earthling, wrote: Has anyone any experience with PGSQL 7.x and implenting the FTC do-not-call list - which is about 50 million 10 digit N. American phone numbers? If so what structures have you used and what have you

Re: [ADMIN] eRserver

2003-12-04 Thread Christopher Browne
];; http://dev6.int.libertyrms.com/ Christopher Browne (416) 646 3304 x124 (land) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [ADMIN] pg_restore and transaction id wraparound

2003-12-01 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ow) wrote: --- Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually you can only have 4 billion SQL commands per xid, because the CommandId datatype is also just 32 bits. I've never heard of anyone running into that limit, though. Perhaps

Re: [ADMIN] Question On 7.4RC2

2003-11-14 Thread Christopher Browne
: posix gcc version 3.2 -- (format nil [EMAIL PROTECTED] cbbrowne libertyrms.info) http://dev6.int.libertyrms.com/ Christopher Browne (416) 646 3304 x124 (land) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [ADMIN] Which hardware/filesystem for postgresql?

2003-11-14 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, Cristian Veronesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, my company is starting to propose postgresql-based solutions to our clients. Our recommended operating system is SuSE Linux. Which disk architecture should we recommend for postgresql servers? I was thinking about

Re: [ADMIN] Which hardware/filesystem for postgresql?

2003-11-14 Thread Christopher Browne
Cris Carampa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christopher Browne wrote: The best performance results I have seen on Linux systems have involved the use of JFS. I found XFS to be a little slower, and it has the distinct demerit that it is not in the 'official' kernel tree yet, thereby meaning

Re: [ADMIN] Upgrading to Solaris 9

2003-11-13 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Sullivan) wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:52:26PM -0700, scott.marlowe wrote: I thought .org and .info were being run on postgresql/solaris? They are. I'd happily dump the Solaris use overboard, however, if it weren't for all the

Re: [ADMIN] easy way to copy all DBs and users on a server

2003-11-13 Thread Christopher Browne
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (exciteworks hosting) transmitted: Is there an easy way to copy all DBs and users on a server to another server? I need to get an exact duplicate. How exact is exact? One notion of exact would involve stopping the

Re: [ADMIN] [pg 7.1.rc2] pg_restore and large tables

2003-11-12 Thread Christopher Browne
is described in the documentation tree thus: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.2/interactive/populate.html -- output = reverse(ofni.smrytrebil @ enworbbc) http://dev6.int.libertyrms.com/ Christopher Browne (416) 646 3304 x124 (land) ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-11-09 Thread Christopher Browne
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Frost): * Christopher Browne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On one of our test servers, I set fsync=false, and a test load's load time dropped from about 90 minutes to 3 minutes. (It was REALLY update heavy, with huge numbers of tiny transactions.) Which

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-11-08 Thread Christopher Browne
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Re: [ADMIN] Microsoft access verses postgresql

2003-11-06 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoffrey) wrote: I've got a client who is following my suggestion that they replace a set of excel spreadsheets with a database solution. They are looking at two proposals, postgresql solution or an Access solution. The

Re: [ADMIN] pg_clog vacuum oddness

2003-10-31 Thread Christopher Browne
is not quite the same as never. -- output = (cbbrowne @ libertyrms.info) http://dev6.int.libertyrms.com/ Christopher Browne (416) 646 3304 x124 (land) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [ADMIN] Lock!

2003-10-14 Thread Christopher Browne
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oliver Elphick) transmitted: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:30, Szabó Péter wrote: Hi! I have a lock problem. If i lock a record with SELECT FOR UPDATE, than i try to lock again, the process just wait until the record free.

Re: [ADMIN] Question about DB VACUUM

2003-10-08 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris White (cjwhite)) wrote: BTW, the connection I shutdown, had not read, written or deleted any large objects. It had read and written to other tables. This is causing me concern as I am using a thread pool to provide access to the data in

Re: [ADMIN] Partial indexes ... any good theoretical discussion?

2003-10-03 Thread Christopher Browne
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, Jeff Boes [EMAIL PROTECTED] transmitted: I've only just now noticed that CREATE INDEX accepts a 'WHERE' clause. This is used to create something called a partial index. Hmm, ever being one who sees the world as made of nails when first

Re: [ADMIN] File Sytems Types and Os Recomendations

2003-09-17 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Allgood) writes:     I am looking for information on what operating systems and filesystems people are running postgresql on. I have read so much on this I decided to get some input from other people. I at first was leaning toward FreeBSD and using its filesystem.

Re: [ADMIN] Does VACUUM ever free up any disk space?

2003-09-13 Thread Christopher Browne
ofni.smrytrebil @ enworbbc)) http://dev6.int.libertyrms.com/ Christopher Browne (416) 646 3304 x124 (land) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [ADMIN] Performance Issues

2003-09-09 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ravi T Ramachandra) wrote: I recently setup postgres on a Linux box with 4GB Ram and 2.5 GHz processor.   We have created a database with 1.5 million rows in a table.  When we try to select rows from the table, it is taking

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