Re: [ADMIN] iconv -c ?

2013-07-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 7/22/13 5:06 AM, Jan-Peter Seifert wrote: Gesendet: Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013 um 16:03 Uhr Von: Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 16:55 +0200, Jan-Peter Seifert wrote: it seems ( for quite some time now ) that PostgreSQL is using the -c option of iconv when exporting

Re: [ADMIN] Starting psql without connection

2013-07-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Sun, 2013-07-07 at 10:11 +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote: is it possible to start psql in interactive mode without connecting to a database (similar to sqlplus /nolog for Oracle databases)? No, that's not possible. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [ADMIN] Upgrading 9.0.5 to 9.0.13 on ubuntu 10.4

2013-06-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 6/6/13 8:01 PM, Kasia Tuszynska wrote: dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/postgresql-9.0_9.0.13-1.pgdg10.4+1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/plpython-9.0.mo', which is also in package postgresql-plpython-9.0 0:9.0.5-1~lucid

Re: [ADMIN] UNIX vs Windows LC CTYPE and UPPER mu

2012-04-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2012-04-19 at 10:02 +0200, Albe Laurenz wrote: After looking at the UNICODE character list I tend to agree that code point 0xB5 (MICRO SIGN) should not be converted to 0x39C (GREEK CAPITAL LETTER MU). There's 0x3BC for GREEK SMALL LETTER MU.

Re: [ADMIN] re-create information_schema

2012-03-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2012-02-29 at 16:25 -0500, Ray Stell wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 03:55:13PM -0500, Ray Stell wrote: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-2.html This must be repeated in each database to be fixed. including postgres, template0, and template1? Yes, if you want

Re: [ADMIN] unix domain sockets on Windows.

2012-01-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On lör, 2011-12-31 at 17:06 -0800, Jeff Rule wrote: Does the postgres server support listening on unix domain sockets on windows? No. It seems to me that they do not, but this is not called out directly in the documentation. Listen_address in postgresql.conf listen_addresses = ''

Re: [ADMIN] check_postgres monitor by Bucardo - any opinions?

2011-10-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2011-10-20 at 14:16 -0400, Mark Steben wrote: Hi all, I'm evaluating the check_postgres program. We are running postgres 8.3. Does anybody have any experience with this monitoring software they would like to share? I'm specifically interested in the 'postgres_bloat' program but

Re: [ADMIN] Problem of LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2011-09-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On sön, 2011-09-18 at 14:56 +0800, Rural Hunter wrote: This is my env: postgres@backup:~$ env MANPATH=:/opt/PostgreSQL/9.1/share/man SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=linux USER=postgres LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/PostgreSQL/9.1/lib/ PGPORT=3500

Re: [ADMIN] Problem of LD_LIBRARY_PATH

2011-09-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
9月18日 21:58:17,Peter Eisentraut写到: On sön, 2011-09-18 at 14:56 +0800, Rural Hunter wrote: This is my env: postgres@backup:~$ env MANPATH=:/opt/PostgreSQL/9.1/share/man SHELL=/bin/bash TERM=linux USER=postgres LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/PostgreSQL/9.1/lib/ PGPORT=3500 LS_COLORS=rs=0:di

Re: [ADMIN] LC_COLLATE and pg_upgrade

2011-02-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2011-02-14 at 14:18 +0100, Bernhard Schrader wrote: As far as I read right now, LC_COLLATE is a read_only variable which is used while initdb. But why does the pg_upgrade script doesn't see that utf8 and UTF-8 are the same? Is it just a string compare? Why don't you just reinitialize

Re: [ADMIN] Logging questions

2010-12-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On fre, 2010-12-10 at 10:01 -0800, Wells Oliver wrote: Hello- a quick question about logging. I'm trying to set logging to the most minimal level possible. e.g. I really don't want to see the following kind of thing: 2010-12-10 09:59:40 PST FATAL: database woliver does not exist

Re: [ADMIN] failing to compile v. 9.0.1 on debian squeeze with readline

2010-12-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2010-12-06 at 00:29 +0200, Imre Oolberg wrote: 4. compile $ make ... gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes ... ... postmaster/postmaster.o: In function `PostmasterMain': postmaster.c:(.text+0x420c): undefined reference to `optreset' tcop/postgres.o: In function

Re: [ADMIN] Syslog line wrapping

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2010-09-23 at 20:55 -0700, Evan Rempel wrote: I am running Postgresql 8.3 and would like to get postgres to NOT wrap the syslog lines. Is ther any configuration to do this. Perhaps I can wrap them at a very large line number? PostgreSQL 8.4 increased the line length. -- Sent via

Re: [ADMIN] Issues with LC_COLLATE, across 8.3/8.4 on various platforms

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tis, 2010-02-02 at 17:28 +0200, Achilleas Mantzios wrote: It seems that libc's behaviour regarding LC_COLLATE in Linux/FreeBSD are two different stories, hence the seen results. The UTF-8 locales on FreeBSD and Mac OS X are pretty much broken. This is becoming a FAQ ... -- Sent via

Re: [ADMIN] Issues with LC_COLLATE, across 8.3/8.4 on various platforms

2010-02-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2010-02-03 at 17:05 +0200, Achilleas Mantzios wrote: Στις Wednesday 03 February 2010 16:53:20 ο/η Peter Eisentraut έγραψε: On tis, 2010-02-02 at 17:28 +0200, Achilleas Mantzios wrote: It seems that libc's behaviour regarding LC_COLLATE in Linux/FreeBSD are two different stories

Re: [ADMIN] recovery is stuck when children are not processing SIGQUIT from previous crash

2009-11-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On lör, 2009-09-26 at 12:19 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: strace on the backend processes all showed them waiting at futex(0x7f1ee5e21c90, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 2, NULL Notably, the first argument was the same for all of them. Probably means

Re: [ADMIN] recovery is stuck when children are not processing SIGQUIT from previous crash

2009-11-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2009-11-12 at 10:45 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: In practice the code path isn't sufficiently used or critical enough to be worth trying to make that bulletproof. Well, the subject line is recovery is stuck. Not critical enough? -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list

Re: [ADMIN] recovery is stuck when children are not processing SIGQUIT from previous crash

2009-09-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 10:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: I'd prefer not to go there, at least not without a demonstration that this will solve a bug that's unsolvable otherwise. If a child is really stuck in a state that doesn't accept SIGQUIT, it probably won't accept SIGKILL either (eg,

[ADMIN] recovery is stuck when children are not processing SIGQUIT from previous crash

2009-09-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
I have observed the following situation a few times now (weeks or months apart), most recently with 8.3.7. Some postgres child process crashes. The postmaster notices and sends SIGQUIT to all other children. Once all other children have exited, it would enter recovery. But for some reason, some

Re: [ADMIN] General queries regarding backup

2009-07-29 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 22 July 2009 08:25:36 Deepak Bala wrote: Hi everyone, I have some queries regarding the PITR backup procedure on Postgres 8.3. Here are the steps I follow for backup 1. I set up WAL archiving and checked that this is working. 2. Execute SELECT pg_start_backup('label') 3. Zip

Re: [ADMIN] Make the primary key a multilingual value

2009-07-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Saturday 04 July 2009 20:44:11 Ransika de Silva wrote: I have a requirement of storing multilingual words and hence planing to utilize the Unicode support of the database tables. The question that I have is, will there be a problem if I make the primary key of a table multilingual, Not

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres user with a shell of /bin/false

2009-05-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Friday 22 May 2009 06:51:42 Cliff Pratt wrote: I've browsed my history of the list, and the Internet for information regarding giving the unix 'postgres' user a shell of /bin/false, so that it cannot be logged into directly. It seems from my research that if I set the user's shell to

Re: [ADMIN] Audit Log Destination

2009-05-20 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 20 May 2009 23:51:53 Arnold, Sandra wrote: One of my security controls is to audit events. I don't have a problem on how to do that. However, another control is for all functionality of the PostgreSQL database to cease or stall if the directory that contains the audit logs is

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump formatting

2009-03-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Sunday 22 March 2009 06:26:02 Caleb Cushing wrote: COPY blarg (blah, bleh, blerg) FROM stdin; 1 random character data djfa;djjf;sdjl;afkjeoiuoiejk,cxjueiojiojeef98hkjdyf98y92hvniay8syfkdnf38932 hrhf9e83uifnskjj3h9r83hhjnnn2iyfhkjsndfi7y938hnksu879hf089h3n299ssdjfh92 3 the above

Re: [ADMIN] Postgressql backup/restore question

2009-03-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
samana srikanth wrote: Can we do a point-in-time restore of a single database out of n databases??. In principle no. But you could invent workarounds such as recovering to the point where you are happy with your restored one database, and then restore the other n-1 databases from an

Re: [ADMIN] postgres block_size problem

2008-12-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bhujbal, Santosh wrote: Hi All, We were getting the following error on executing a COPY command on postgres8.2.0. SQL execution failed, Internal error. SQL Statement: (COPY command failed with error: ERROR: row is too big: size 8200, maximum size 8136) So, in order to fix the error we

Re: [ADMIN] initdb locale discrepancy

2008-10-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Subbiah Stalin-XCGF84 wrote: The following is the message we had got while setting up postgres database. This message was overlooked when we setup but now we have found the discrepancies. For now the database are created with encode type as UTF8 but the locale settings are ISO8859-1 in

Re: [ADMIN] 8.3.4 rpms for Opensuse10.3 64bit

2008-09-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Gerd König wrote: a few months ago we started using Postgres on Opensuse10.3-64bit. We installed Postgres 8.3.1 with the (at that time) latest available rpm's. But now Postgres' current version is 8.3.4 and I'm wondering why there are no new rpm's for Opensuse ?!?! The answer is quite simply

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] 8.3.4 rpms for Opensuse10.3 64bit

2008-09-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Dave Page wrote: 2008/9/23 Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gerd König wrote: a few months ago we started using Postgres on Opensuse10.3-64bit. We installed Postgres 8.3.1 with the (at that time) latest available rpm's. But now Postgres' current version is 8.3.4 and I'm wondering why

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] 8.3.4 rpms for Opensuse10.3 64bit

2008-09-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 09:49 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: I'll look at doing that. We need the SUSE builds also. I actually built 8.3.4 on SLES 10.2 on..err..Friday, while building Fedora/RH RPMs. 8.3.1 spec of SLES is broken IMHO, and it requires special attention from

Re: [ADMIN] server/db encoding (mix) issues

2008-09-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well - I did setup two instances of 8.3.3 on an Ubuntu 7.10 system last week - both under a different user account. I set the locale for each account in the .bashrcs (export LANG=de_DE and export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 respectively). After that I ran initdb (initdb

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump etc. versions

2008-09-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Jan-Peter Seifert wrote: I'm wondering if there's a compatibility list of the tools supplied with PostgreSQL - e.g. psql seems to be very server version specific (only major or also minor versions?). For pg_dump I'd say users should use the version of the target server if it's already

Re: [ADMIN] server/db encoding (mix) issues

2008-09-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Jan-Peter Seifert wrote: we have a mix of older software still using LATIN1 as db encoding and the psqlODBC-drivers (ANSI) and newer software using UTF8 as db encoding. As running two server instances would use up more resources(?) than just one we'd like to have all dbs in one cluster. Which

Re: [ADMIN] Changing encoding

2008-07-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Dienstag, 15. Juli 2008 schrieb Carol Walter: I have some databases that use SQL ASCII or Latin1 encoding that need to be UTF8. When I have drop the database and recreated it with the correct encoding I get errors in restoring the data. How is this done? What is your PostgreSQL version?

Re: [ADMIN] What is the difference between Logical link and Foreign Key link in Postgresql

2008-06-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Montag, 16. Juni 2008 schrieb Suresh Gupta VG: Can any one explain me what is the difference between logical link and foreign key link between the tables in postgresql. PostgreSQL has no concept by the name of logical link. What are you refering to? -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list

Re: [ADMIN] UUID generation functions

2008-06-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb Hyatt, Gordon: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/uuid-ossp.html My bad - just realised the OP most probably needs a Windows-compatible solution and uuid-ossp is not. Actually, I'm developing on Windows, but deploying on Linux (both the

Re: [ADMIN] howto restore from pg_dumpall

2008-03-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marc Fromm wrote: When I restore from a pg_dumpall file, I am required to peform the following steps or else all the records in the databses are duplicated. If I only empty the data/base folder I get al sorts of errors. You may find the pg_dumpall --clean option useful, so the dump file is

Re: [ADMIN] Backup of live database

2008-01-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/tar_149.html#SEC149 -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [ADMIN] get PGDATA as non-postgres user

2008-01-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Donnerstag, 3. Januar 2008 schrieb Sofer, Yuval: I need to get PGDATA location when I logged in as non-postgres user. Consider writing a security-definer function that retrieves the information. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end

Re: [ADMIN] reconfiguring diskspace while upgrading to 8.2.5

2007-12-28 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Freitag, 28. Dezember 2007 schrieb Mark Steben: As we go.  I am investigating using the new tablespace facility to move our biggest and most accessed I didn't see anything in your description about having the WAL on a separate disk. You should include that in your plans. -- Peter

Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf is driving me nuts

2007-12-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Julio Leyva wrote: also make sure you started postgesql with -i option, so you can connect from the lan He said he had set listen_addresses to '*', which is equivalent. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast

[ADMIN] pg_start_backup without WAL archiving

2007-11-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Why is it not allowed to call pg_start_backup when WAL archiving is off? Wouldn't this be useful as a discrete file system backup without PITR capability? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [ADMIN] pg_start_backup without WAL archiving

2007-11-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Jeff Larsen wrote: On Nov 25, 2007 8:24 AM, Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is it not allowed to call pg_start_backup when WAL archiving is off? Wouldn't this be useful as a discrete file system backup without PITR capability? Because a file system level backup is no good

Re: [ADMIN] Error while compiling PostgreSQL with Java

2007-11-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
driver. If so, see http://jdbc.postgresql.org/. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [ADMIN] configure using libxml

2007-11-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
-functions. the running configuration is: Note that the configuration doesn't mention the libxml switch, so you forgot something somewhere. Did you do a make distclean before rebuilding, and did you install the new build? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere

Re: [ADMIN] tar, but not gnu tar

2007-08-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
), and only if some files were truncated while being archived. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [ADMIN] Yet Another Socket .s.PGSQL.5432 Problem

2007-08-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
to the libpq of your choice. There are a few ways to get this wrong. On Debian the socket location is usually the first indicator, but you ought to be careful in general if you mix installations like that. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere

Re: [ADMIN] Migration Between Releases

2007-08-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Mittwoch, 15. August 2007 16:20 schrieb George Wilk: I thought that the major release was the first number in the versioning schema, the second represented minor release, and the third would be the maintenance release or revision number (i.e. 8.2.4). You thought wrong then. -- Peter

Re: [ADMIN] Migration Between Releases

2007-08-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
it. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [ADMIN] postmaster.pid file

2007-08-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
. In my case it is /usr/local/pgsql/data. That should be your -D argument then. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose

Re: [ADMIN] varchar vs text columns

2007-07-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Jessica Richard wrote: What is the difference between varchar and text for a string column? Nothing, if you don't use a limit for varchar. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting

Re: [ADMIN] building from source requires postgres user account

2007-07-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
into file permission issues after the build is done. My build.log shows: Nothing in the build process requires a special user account or writes a file named build.log or writes messages of that kind. So please be more specific. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere

Re: [ADMIN] Size of logfiles

2007-05-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump not enough space to create a backup FreeBSD 6.1?

2007-05-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Can I somehow use another partition to store the temporaray files without changing my /tmp mount? Set the environment variable TMPDIR. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] Moving data directory

2007-05-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
be confusing something. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate

Re: [ADMIN] Adding a port to postgresql.conf

2007-05-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2007 15:11 schrieb Carol Walter: Can I add a port in postgresql.conf and still maintain 5432? No. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL

Re: [ADMIN] Help me to decrypt password

2007-04-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
sufian khan wrote:   How I decrypt any password that is store in our database table app_users. That would seem to strongly depend on how you encrypted it in the first place. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] REINDEX using only 1 CPU (of 2)

2007-04-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got PG 8.2.3 running on a dual-core P4, and I noticed that, at least during reindexing, postgreSQL REINDEX process is using only 1 of those 2 cores. One process, one CPU (core) -- you can't do anything about that. -- Peter Eisentraut http

Re: [ADMIN] Where are aliases stored?

2007-04-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Donnerstag, 12. April 2007 16:46 schrieb Chris Hoover: Is there not a way to query the pg_ catalog views and get a listing of views with columns (by alias name)? The column names (what you call alias names) are in pg_attribute, the views are in pg_class. -- Peter Eisentraut http

Re: [ADMIN] question on plpgsql block

2007-04-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Karthikeyan Sundaram wrote: I tried a plpgsql block from the php. plpgsql blocks only work in a plpgsql function. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [ADMIN] How to compile with different MAXALIGN?

2007-04-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
with everything else on your system in ways that are hard to define in brief, so interfacing with other libraries or modules will possibly be broken, as will your next PostgreSQL upgrade. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] host name?

2007-02-26 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Igor Neyman wrote: But besides having ip address (instead of machine name), it doesn't have clent program name connected to PG. That information is not available to the server. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf multiple auth_metods question

2007-02-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Gémes Géza wrote: I have successfully deployed krb5 or pam (with pam_krb5) authentication with my clients. My question is: Can I use both in a failover fashion? Not in PostgreSQL, but you could probably hook Kerberos into PAM. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere

Re: [ADMIN] 8.2 Admin Pack broken?

2007-02-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
usually refered to the GNU make program as gmake, but I see an increasing number of systems, including my own, that no longer installs GNU make as gmake but only as make. So basically you just need to be careful what you call. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere

Re: [ADMIN] rename a cluster

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Ray Stell wrote: Is there a method to rename a cluster? Clusters don't have names in the first place. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map

Re: [ADMIN] rename a cluster

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Ray Stell wrote: What I was trying to get at is, is mv of the dir ok or is there something else that needs to be considered? Thx. Renaming the directory is OK. Just make sure your init script or whatever finds it. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere

Re: [ADMIN] Question to safe way for minor update

2007-02-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
building with anything less than -O2 for anything but debugging purposes or coping with buggy compilers on rare architectures. In other words, there isn't any good reason not to do it. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] Question to safe way for minor update

2007-02-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
this, but anecdotal evidence suggests that this combination will not work. In general, the data file compatibility is determined by some combination of architecture and compiler settings. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] Question to safe way for minor update

2007-02-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Thomas Papke wrote: Right now our 8.1.4 is running without any compiler options. Any possible problem if i will compile the 8.1.8 with CLAGS -O2 -march=Opteron -- will the datafiles of the 8.1.4 non optimized postgres make any problems? No. -- Peter Eisentraut http

Re: [ADMIN] Question on Fragmentations

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Moiz Kothari wrote: What are the reasons of data getting fragmented in postgres? What do you mean by that? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project

Re: [ADMIN] Install Tsearch2

2007-02-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
to make target `/contrib/contrib-global.mk'. Stop. analise3:/postgres/share/contrib/tsearch2 # Run configure first. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dumpall failure - could not access status of transaction

2007-02-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
that contains 3183024 as a four-byte integer. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres encyrption export

2007-01-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
you are distributing I'm not sure. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres encyrption export

2007-01-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
or residents are certainly significant enought to make this true for the purpose of export or embargo control. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [ADMIN] Install XML on Postgres 8.1

2007-01-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
, not sure), but so far no one has proposed to define any operators whatsoever on the XML type, so I don't see where any indexing mechanism would come from at the moment. What does Oracle offer? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end

Re: [ADMIN] Postgresql Upgrade 7.4 to 8.2

2007-01-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Radhika Sambamurti wrote: 1. How is the backup and recovery using WAL logging in 8.2 It's great! -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [ADMIN] server process (PID xxx) was terminated by signal

2007-01-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian wrote: Is there no API to return the name of signals? There is, but it's not portable. If someone wants to perform an exercise in writing configure code, look for strsignal() and sys_siglist[]. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere

Re: [ADMIN] Install XML on Postgres 8.1

2007-01-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
the SQL standard says in matters of XML. Whether either of these are equally powerful as what Oracle offers, I can't say, but since we're currently working on enhanced XML functionality in 8.3, I invite comments on that. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere

Re: [ADMIN] Install XML on Postgres 8.1

2007-01-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Joshua D. Drake wrote: PeterE do you have a specific TODO I can line item for the pending 8.3 release? http://developer.postgresql.org/index.php/XML_Todo -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [ADMIN] Migration problems with encoding.

2006-12-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Manuel Trujillo wrote: The problem: Encoding incompatibilities between the postgresql version. In detail? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ

Re: [ADMIN] Recovery plan for DRDB setup - recovery tool

2006-12-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
you trust DRDB and Postgresql completely. If you don't trust PostgreSQL, why would you trust its offline recovery tools? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0

Re: [ADMIN] dump from 8.x restore to 7.3.x

2006-11-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
because it dumps users as roles, but roles don't exist in 8.0. 8.0 dump won't install into 7.4 because it dumps tablespaces, which don't exist in 7.4. etc. etc. Obviously you can see that getting pretty bad if you want to go from 8.1 all the way to 7.3. -- Peter Eisentraut http

Re: [ADMIN] Version 7.3.8 Upgrade

2006-10-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Craig W wrote: I am sure that there will be benefits of upgrading, but are there any known problems with upgrading ? Please also let me know if it is a painless transition. RTFM? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] Need to repair Database

2006-10-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
backup and all my new data is lost, the problem begin when some user close the program improperly. Closing the program improperly would not cause database corruption. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] Missing Earth Distance Functions Under Debian

2006-10-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
=earthdistance.sqlsearchmode=searchfilescase=insensitiveversion=stablearch=i386 -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [ADMIN] Logfile permission

2006-10-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Cassiano, Marco wrote: Is there a way to modify the UMASK used by postmaster to create the logfiles ? No. You should use syslog if you have extraordinary log file management requirements. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end

Re: [ADMIN] Inserting bit-type value into integer-type column

2006-08-29 Thread Peter Eisentraut
or stick with 7.2 (not recommended, because 7.2 is not maintained anymore). -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe

Re: [ADMIN] Problem with PostgreSQL 8.1.4 Install (using RPMs)

2006-08-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
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Re: [ADMIN] 7.4 - data recovery

2006-08-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
data appears to be in the future. You can just commit dummy transactions until it appears again. This is obvious not an official and approved way, but it's at least a shot before you're forced to get out your hex editor. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere

Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] How to detect Postgres deadlocks?

2006-08-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
have special requirements like that, you need to patch the source. The other option is to decorate your server log lines with pids and such that you can link from the deadlock error message to the logged statements. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere

Re: [ADMIN] Migration from 7.4.2 to 8.1.4

2006-08-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
being restored before other objects would exists. You should have more success if you use the pg_dump(all) program from 8.1.4 to create the dump. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you

Re: [ADMIN] Issue on Varchar Ordering

2006-08-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
. That is, for practical purposes, correct. May I suggest that you properly normalize your tables, by putting given name and family name into separate columns. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1

Re: RES: [ADMIN] Issue on Varchar Ordering

2006-08-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
scheme of things, first normal form will cooperate better with established sorting rules (for any data type), and vice versa. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list

Re: [ADMIN] Monitoring error messages

2006-08-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
, for example, alter the logging settings in your .psqlrc file. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: RES: RES: [ADMIN] Issue on Varchar Ordering

2006-08-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
, and the output of SHOW lc_collate. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so

Re: [ADMIN] localization problem

2006-08-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
command from the shell. If that doesn't help, show us the data. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail

[ADMIN] Background writer memory bloat?

2006-08-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
of memory bloat on the background writer process? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [ADMIN] Background writer memory bloat?

2006-08-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Freitag, 4. August 2006 17:00 schrieb Tom Lane: Are you sure it's bloat, and not just a reflection of the fact that it's touched every page of the shared buffers over its lifespan? That seems to be the explanation. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere

Re: [ADMIN] installing on user account

2006-08-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
passwords. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [ADMIN] Circular Dependency in Tables and Deletion of Data

2006-07-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Montag, 24. Juli 2006 14:53 schrieb Mans: Isnt it a crazy thing?? Yes, but with deferrable constraints and transactions blocks, it should be no problem to manage the data. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast

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