Re: [ADMIN] Memory management

2000-07-06 Thread Prasanth A. Kumar
=?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9my_Dufour?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Recently, I've installed postgres 6.5 on a P3 450 396 megs of RAM. I'm > running Linux RedHat 6.2. I got a few db on it and one has around 2 million= > s records. When I boot my server, I do a 'free' and it tells me that I got = > around

Re: [ADMIN] how do I set DateStyle = European in postmaster ?

2000-07-06 Thread Anthony E. Greene
Michael Holopainen wrote: > > How do I set datestyle to European in server end ? > > I tried running postmaster with "-oe" as instructed in one email, but it > resulted as error it did not accept -oe. > for moment I all connections set datestyle = European, but it's not > enough. This can be se

RE: [ADMIN] Firewall setup

2000-07-06 Thread Neil Toronto
No religious war happening here. Linux is what I've got set up at work and at home, and it's where I've got most of my Unix experience from. I'm thinking of putting OpenBSD or FreeBSD on one of my boxes at home, though, just to try it out. The thing I like about having a firewall that does port

Re: [ADMIN] Postmaster crashes

2000-07-06 Thread Mathieu Arnold
i figured out in launching strace postmaster :) and seeing some open failing, causing the master postmaster to crash and with it all it's sons. It was with a PG 6.5.3, and I haven't seen it happen again since a added an echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max in my rc.local. Mike Field wrote: > > Th

Re: [ADMIN] Postmaster crashes

2000-07-06 Thread Joshua Leshan
Here, we have a similar problem. When there are about 34 psql processes running and one more gets added, all turn to zombies. The only way to get Postgres running again is to restart it. Postgres version 6.4 Linux version 2.0.36 J.D. On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Mike Field wrote: > > Hi- > >

Re: [ADMIN] Postmaster crashes

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Field
Thanks for the tips. A few questions: how does the lack of filehandles relate to the postmaster crashing? Filehandles to what files? How did you figure it out? (ie. did you look at logs? If so, which and how?) Thanks in advance for the help. Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message

RE: [ADMIN] how do I set DateStyle = European in postmaster ?

2000-07-06 Thread Gary Stainburn
-Original Message- From: Michael Holopainen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 7:46 AM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[ADMIN] how do I set DateStyle = European in postmaster ? >How do I set datestyle to European in server end ? > >I tried running post

Re: [ADMIN] Postmaster crashes

2000-07-06 Thread Mathieu Arnold
I've had quite the same thing on a busy server, it was due to a lack of filehandles. Mike Field wrote: > > Hi- > > My php website interacts with a postrgres database, and every now and then, > postgres just seems to crash. A simple restart of postmaster fixes the > problem, until it crashe

Re: [ADMIN] Postmaster crashes

2000-07-06 Thread Daryl Herzmann
Just to let Mike know that he is not alone, I have the exact same problem. It is sooo annonying that postmaster will just crash about once a week at various times. My question is how can the pg_log file be viewed? I have a good idea at what time the postmaster crashed, but do not know what post

[ADMIN] Postmaster crashes

2000-07-06 Thread Mike Field
Hi- My php website interacts with a postrgres database, and every now and then, postgres just seems to crash. A simple restart of postmaster fixes the problem, until it crashes again. However, I have no idea EXACTLY when it crashes (what the website users are doing at the time, if anything

Re: [ADMIN] No such function 'to_char' with the specified attributes

2000-07-06 Thread Karel Zak
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Yadira M. Rodriguez wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting this error: "No such function 'to_char' with the specified > attributes" when trying to select a timestamp type field. For example: > "select to_char(col_name, 'MM-DD-') from table_name". Is there > somebody that can he

[ADMIN] type oidvector undefined??

2000-07-06 Thread rob
I am trying to set up a pgsql server, and I don't know too much about this (or any other) database. When I try to initdb, it dumps telling my "Error: Unknown type: oidvector" and then it cleans up, dumps out. Anybody out there know what is going on? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ADMIN] Memory management

2000-07-06 Thread Rémy Dufour
Hi there,   Recently, I've installed postgres 6.5 on a P3 450 396 megs of RAM. I'mrunning Linux RedHat 6.2. I got a few db on it and one has around 2 millions records. When I boot my server, I do a 'free' and it tells me that I got around 300 megs of RAM free.   After I do a couple of request

[ADMIN] No such function 'to_char' with the specified attributes

2000-07-06 Thread Yadira M. Rodriguez
Hi, I'm getting this error: "No such function 'to_char' with the specified attributes" when trying to select a timestamp type field. For example: "select to_char(col_name, 'MM-DD-') from table_name". Is there somebody that can help me with this? Thanks, Yadira

[ADMIN] how do I set DateStyle = European in postmaster ?

2000-07-06 Thread Michael Holopainen
How do I set datestyle to European in server end ? I tried running postmaster with "-oe" as instructed in one email, but it resulted as error it did not accept -oe. for moment I all connections set datestyle = European, but it's not enough. please, help1 -michael (A) Len Morgan wrote:

[ADMIN] ODBC & Log

2000-07-06 Thread XWorkers
Hellow everyone, At this moment I am developing a website with PostgreSQL 7.01 as database engine. I like to create a front-end with MS Access/Visual Basic to do some administrative jobs. At this moment, i have some questions. 1. How much stable postgres is in case of unstable tcp/ip connecti