[ADMIN] vacuum - verbose

2002-07-11 Thread Marcos Garcia
Hi, What's the meaning of the following line when I make # vacuumdb -v -d dbname NOTICE: Pages 58094: Changed 319, Empty 0; Tup 77163: Vac 4428, Keep 0, UnUsed 2455413. Total CPU 8.84s/1.17u sec elapsed 108.12 sec. I'm specially focused on "UnUsed -> 2455413". Thanks in advance, M.P.Garcia

[ADMIN] Controlling performance impact of multiple users

2002-07-11 Thread John Moore
This is an issue that I have never seen we;; ved with other databases I have used: We have an on-line application that is PSQL based. Users want to be able to get reports from this database - both canned reports that we might write for them, and ad-hoc reports where they use an odbc-based repo

[ADMIN] unsubscribe

2002-07-11 Thread Judy Jecelin
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Re: [ADMIN] Forcing Disconnection

2002-07-11 Thread Chad R. Larson
At 09:17 AM 7/11/02 , Stephane Schildknecht wrote: >Is it possible to force people disconnect before shutting down the >postmaster ? >I don't have time enough to wait 'til eveybody leaves the connection. Check the fast/smart/immediate options to "pg_ctl stop" and "pg_ctl restart" commands.

Re: [ADMIN] Forcing Disconnection

2002-07-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Stephane Schildknecht wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to force people disconnect before shutting down the > postmaster ? > I don't have time enough to wait 'til eveybody leaves the connection. Yes, there is a pg_ctl flag to force them all to exit. -- Bruce Momjian

Re: FW: [ADMIN] FW: Linking databases.

2002-07-11 Thread Joe Conway
Geoff wrote: > I don't think either COPY or PG_DUMP will help in this case... > > I have a users table in database ADMIN with a primary key user_id. I have a > users_access table in database LIVE which I was hoping to have a foreign key > user_id reference the user_id column in the ADMIN database

[ADMIN] Forcing Disconnection

2002-07-11 Thread Stephane Schildknecht
Hi, Is it possible to force people disconnect before shutting down the postmaster ? I don't have time enough to wait 'til eveybody leaves the connection. Thanks S@S -- _Stéphane SCHILDKNECHT___ | AurorA-SAS 69-71, Av. Pierre Grenier 92100 BOULOGNE

Re: [ADMIN] Vaccuming on 7.1.3

2002-07-11 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Auri Mason wrote: > Good, but the documentation reports: > - Beginning in PostgreSQL 7.2, the standard form of VACUUM can run in > parallel with normal database operations. If my DB is a 7.1.3 what > happens? IIRC, it grabs an exclusive lock on the table it's working on, so

Re: FW: [ADMIN] FW: Linking databases.

2002-07-11 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Geoff wrote: > I don't think either COPY or PG_DUMP will help in this case... > > I have a users table in database ADMIN with a primary key user_id. I have a > users_access table in database LIVE which I was hoping to have a foreign key > user_id reference the user_id column

Re: [ADMIN] redhat 7.3 problem

2002-07-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 22:58, Edgar Castanedo wrote: > I just installed redhat linux 7.3. During the initial installation, I had it > install postgresql. After I su as postgres, I then run the command 'psql > template1'. At the psql command prompt, I try to run various command, but > none of them w

[ADMIN] redhat 7.3 problem

2002-07-11 Thread Edgar Castanedo
I just installed redhat linux 7.3. During the initial installation, I had it install postgresql. After I su as postgres, I then run the command 'psql template1'. At the psql command prompt, I try to run various command, but none of them work. When I hit enter, the command line just opens up anothe

[ADMIN] Case sensitive

2002-07-11 Thread Luis Felipe Acevedo
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FW: [ADMIN] FW: Linking databases.

2002-07-11 Thread Geoff
I don't think either COPY or PG_DUMP will help in this case... I have a users table in database ADMIN with a primary key user_id. I have a users_access table in database LIVE which I was hoping to have a foreign key user_id reference the user_id column in the ADMIN database, so If I deleted a use

[ADMIN] Vaccuming on 7.1.3

2002-07-11 Thread Auri Mason
Hi group! I've seen the page http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?routine-vacuuming.html where is explained the benefit offered by the vaccum. I've made a test with my software: before vaccuming: 478 "operations" after vaccuming: 1378 "operations" Good, but the documentation reports: - Be

[ADMIN] FW: Linking databases.

2002-07-11 Thread Geoff
Sorry if this seems a little trivial, but I can't find any thing in the docs about using references in seperate db's. I need to reference columns in databaseA with columns in databaseB... is this possible? I've tried the usual way link "column integer references databaseb.column", but just can'