Re: [ADMIN] postmaster dies with ssl lib error

2001-10-06 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Randall, It looks like one of the Solaris patches has changed the behaviour of ld, and this is causing it to not find the openssl 0.9.6 libraries when PostgreSQL tries to load. You'll probably have to take some time and read the info in each patch to try and determine which patch caused the c

[ADMIN] Mac OS X installation web page

2001-10-06 Thread Russ McBride
Hi, I've put up a web page, "Installing PostgreSQL on Mac OS X", intended to be a more thorough set of instructions for getting PostgreSQL up and running on the OS X platform, one that will help encourage new OS X users (even users new to Unix) to consider PostgreSQL as a feasible option. h

[ADMIN] delete/vacuum not freeing disk space

2001-10-06 Thread Joshua Franklin
I've got a large database that's getting too big. I checked with the users and deleted approximately 1/6th of the records (we have archived backups) and then ran a VACUUM, which took a really long time to complete (several days). But, the disk space usage doesn't seem to have changed. Do I need to