[ADMIN] to --enable-locale or not to --enable-locale?

2002-03-15 Thread Morten Sickel
Hi! I am now in the process of upgrading a couple of pg installation to 7.2. I am a little in doubt if I should or not use the --enable-locale when ./configuring. Even though I am a Norwegian, I prefer to have the messages from the data base in english as that makes it much simpler to ask

[ADMIN] backup database under cygwin

2002-03-15 Thread Jean-Christophe FABRE
Hi, I am using PostgreSQL under cygwin/win2k. which is the best way to schedule a backup? under Linux, you can cron a pg_dump job (with a su to manage the user/password), but i don't know how to handle this under cygwin? any idea? thanks JC

[ADMIN] 7.2 occupy big hard disk space

2002-03-15 Thread S.F. Lee
Hi, I use Postgresql 7.0.2 in my data logging application system, I have to vacuum data base every 8 hours because of many UPDATE requests. The data base is going well except that a big pg_log file, anyway I can accept it. Recently, I got a new computer to porting my application system. I

[ADMIN] scheduling tasks under cygwin

2002-03-15 Thread Jean-Christophe FABRE
Hi, to a larger way, what is the best way to schedule tasks such as dump, vacuum, analyze under cygwin? as I notice before, under Linux (and generic UNIX systems), you can use cron to do that, but under cygwin? JC _ Jean-Christophe

[ADMIN] config new server (problems with email server)

2002-03-15 Thread Manuel Trujillo
Hi. Sorry for that duplicated e-mail, but I think we have any problem with the e-mail server. I've a new server to put the database production. The characterictics of the new server are: 4 cpu's INTEL 1Ghz. 4 Gb. RAM My database is about 125-130 Mb of size, and I think this configuration for

Re: [ADMIN] [CYGWIN] scheduling tasks under cygwin

2002-03-15 Thread Henshall, Stuart - WCP
I use at on NT to run .bat files Example for vacuum analyse: I first use at to run va.bat va.bat: c:\cygwin\bin\bash --login -i /va.sh va.sh: vacuumdb -a -z /dev/null 21 /dev/null Hope this helps, - Stuart -Original Message- From: Jean-Christophe FABRE [mailto:[EMAIL

[ADMIN] problems with dbf-files

2002-03-15 Thread Ladislav Jirsa
Hello! I run postgreSQL-7.2 on RedHat Linux 7.2, kernel 2.4. I want to import and export dbf-tables in and from postgres. I found pg2xbase library that requires xbase library. After installation, the conversion does not work (segmentation fault, exports empty tables, distortion of numeric

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres 6.4, gmake, d: command not found

2002-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
Eric Scroger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/share/src/pgsql/postgresql-6.4.2/src/backend/bootstrap' d bootparse.y gmake[2]: d: Command not found gmake[2]: [bootparse.c] Error 127 (ignored) Looks like the configure script has chosen d instead of bison or yacc

Re: [ADMIN] to --enable-locale or not to --enable-locale?

2002-03-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Morten Sickel writes: Even though I am a Norwegian, I prefer to have the messages from the data base in english as that makes it much simpler to ask questions here or to searc for help on the web. on the other hand, I need to store character string containing letters outside the 7bit ASCII

[ADMIN] Errors on VACUUM

2002-03-15 Thread Bob Smith
I received the following error from a VACUUM ANALYZE: NOTICE: FlushRelationBuffers(place, 454): block 231 is referenced (private 0, global 4) FATAL 1: VACUUM (vc_repair_frag): FlushRelationBuffers returned -2 and psql lost the connection right after that. This was repeatable, after the

Re: [ADMIN] Errors on VACUUM

2002-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
Bob Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PostgreSQL 7.0.2 Time to update ... I'm rather surprised that restarting the postmaster didn't make the error go away, but it's unlikely that anyone will care to investigate --- unless you can reproduce the problem in 7.1.3 or later.

[ADMIN] Question ..

2002-03-15 Thread Hernan Nuñez
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Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] Btree index extension question

2002-03-15 Thread fcanedo
Hi, Don't know enough about postgresql to be sure about this, but here goes: If postgresql does bitwise operations, then you can use that instead of defining new operators. Just construct a number for all the columns that need to be true and do a bitwise 'and' with the stored value. (eg. (7

Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] Btree index extension question

2002-03-15 Thread fcanedo
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Dmitry Tkach wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If postgresql does bitwise operations, then you can use that instead of defining new operators. Just construct a number for all the columns that need to be true and do a bitwise 'and' with the stored value. (eg. (7

Re: [ADMIN] Errors on VACUUM

2002-03-15 Thread Bob Smith
On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 09:53 , Tom Lane wrote: Bob Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PostgreSQL 7.0.2 Time to update ... I know, I know... But I'm about two weeks from bringing a whole new server on-line with the latest version of Postgres, so I don't want to hassle with upgrading

Re: [ADMIN] problems with dbf-files

2002-03-15 Thread Jeremy Buchmann
I tried that program quite a while back and it didn't work at all...not even close. I export the dbf tables to tab-delimited text files and COPY them into a Pg table. --Jeremy On Wednesday, March 15, 102, at 06:46 AM, Ladislav Jirsa wrote: Hello! I run postgreSQL-7.2 on RedHat Linux 7.2,

Re: [ADMIN] Errors on VACUUM

2002-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
Bob Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm rather surprised that restarting the postmaster didn't make the error go away, but it's unlikely that anyone will care to investigate --- unless you can reproduce the problem in 7.1.3 or later. So this isn't an error that would be caused by some sort

Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] Btree index extension question

2002-03-15 Thread fcanedo
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Dmitry Tkach wrote: ... Yes, and know... (Yes, it will give th ecorrect answer, and NO it will not use the index). The thing is, that it will only use a (btree) index for one of the 'comparison' operators (=, , =, , =), that compare the value in the table with the

Re: [ADMIN] Errors on VACUUM

2002-03-15 Thread Bob Smith
On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 03:07 , Tom Lane wrote: It's not clear to me why a restart (which would naturally clear shared memory) didn't fix the problem. Er, um, (humble look), I just studied my syslog, and in fact the postmaster _didn't_ restart. I tried to restart it using the Red Hat