[ADMIN] VACUUM warning message.

2003-01-24 Thread Rajesh Kumar Mallah.
I get the following messages while vacuuming is there anything alarming? regds mallah. On Saturday 25 January 2003 07:11 am, you wrote: > SET autocommit TO 'on';VACUUM ANALYZE > WARNING: Rel site_search: Uninitialized page 1 - fixing > WARNING: Rel site_search: Uninitialized page 2 - fixing

Re: [ADMIN] Length of Varchar

2003-01-24 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a "gamblers lunch", for those willing to risk total system > failure and the lives of there first born child. Aw, it's not that dangerous ;-). You can improve your odds considerably if you issue BEGIN; before you start dorking with the system ta

Re: [ADMIN] Length of Varchar

2003-01-24 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 05:33, Ian Barwick wrote: > On Friday 24 January 2003 09:26, Ian Barwick wrote: > > On Friday 24 January 2003 07:37, Andre Schubert wrote: > > > i have a little question on changing the length of a varchar field. > > > Is there another way than dump and reload if i want to cha

[ADMIN] PostgreSQL 7.2.3 and RedHat Advanced Server

2003-01-24 Thread Hosen, John
Dear All, We are considering moving our existing PostgreSQL installation from a single server hosting both live and test DBs and backend processing, to a dual node RedHat Advanced server cluster. We envisage the live DB on one node and test DB and backend processing on the other with external sha

Re: [ADMIN] Length of Varchar

2003-01-24 Thread Ian Barwick
On Friday 24 January 2003 09:26, Ian Barwick wrote: > On Friday 24 January 2003 07:37, Andre Schubert wrote: > > i have a little question on changing the length of a varchar field. > > Is there another way than dump and reload if i want to change the length > > of a varchar field ? > > in 7.3: > >

Re: [ADMIN] Length of Varchar

2003-01-24 Thread Ian Barwick
On Friday 24 January 2003 07:37, Andre Schubert wrote: > i have a little question on changing the length of a varchar field. > Is there another way than dump and reload if i want to change the length > of a varchar field ? in 7.3: BEGIN; ALTER TABLE foo RENAME your_field TO your_field_old; ALTER