Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-11-06 Thread Marek Florianczyk
Heck, you're already pushing the performance envelope with 3,000 users, might as well go for the faster of the two and you'll have one less scheduled upgrade ahead of you. When do you need to go live? If it's 1 month, then I'd definitely recommend 7.4. heh... ;) PostgreSQL 7.4 is so

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-11-06 Thread Jeff
On 06 Nov 2003 15:21:03 +0100 Marek Florianczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fsync = false HOLD THE BOAT THERE BATMAN! I would *STRONGLY* advise not running with fsync=false in production as PG _CANNOT_ guaruntee data consistancy in the event of a hardware failure. It would

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-11-06 Thread Marek Florianczyk
W licie z czw, 06-11-2003, godz. 15:37, Jeff pisze: On 06 Nov 2003 15:21:03 +0100 Marek Florianczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fsync = false HOLD THE BOAT THERE BATMAN! I would *STRONGLY* advise not running with fsync=false in production as PG _CANNOT_ guaruntee

Re: [ADMIN] Process Files

2003-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
Rudi Starcevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ERROR: _mdfd_getrelnfd: cannot open relation virtualusertable: Cannot allocate memory Hm, that's a rather odd error code, but I suppose it must mean that you have run out of kernel memory for file descriptor slots or inodes. I'd like to try limiting

Re: [ADMIN] Microsoft access verses postgresql

2003-11-06 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoffrey) wrote: I've got a client who is following my suggestion that they replace a set of excel spreadsheets with a database solution. They are looking at two proposals, postgresql solution or an Access solution. The

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-11-06 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Jeff wrote: On 06 Nov 2003 15:21:03 +0100 Marek Florianczyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fsync = false HOLD THE BOAT THERE BATMAN! I would *STRONGLY* advise not running with fsync=false in production as PG _CANNOT_ guaruntee data consistancy in

Re: [ADMIN] data format problem for upgrede from 7.1-7.3

2003-11-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:27:03AM +0100, Oli Sennhauser wrote: If somebody is telling me now, I have to do this several times a year (how can I sell this to a customer???)... It is not a problem handling a micky-mouse database. dump/load 100 GB I would gess it takes me more than 12 h, 2

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-11-06 Thread David Green
Marek Florianczyk wrote, on Thursday, 11/06/03: ... And my management says, that there is no good support for Open Source, heh... ;))) In my experience, there is better support for Open Source than Closed Source when it comes to development (and usually all around). David Green Sage

[ADMIN] pg_dump error

2003-11-06 Thread David C. Brown
I'm receiving an error from pg_dumpall while trying to backup my database. To explain, this database used to be 7.2.1 but we have upgraded the server and I just used pg_dumpall and then reloaded that data into the new system which runs on 7.3.3 The problem is I get an error when using

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-11-06 Thread scott.marlowe
On 6 Nov 2003, Marek Florianczyk wrote: ... And my management says, that there is no good support for Open Source, heh... ;))) That's because your support needs are different. A developer wants answers and solutions, a manager often wants someone to blame. :-)

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump error

2003-11-06 Thread David C. Brown
86 this request. I've found my problem. It seems that Dell had an old version (7.2.2) of PostgreSQL installed. It was using pg_dump from that version instead of the new version. The database dump worked great with the new version. Dave David C. Brown wrote: I'm receiving an error from

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-11-06 Thread Oli Sennhauser
David Green wrote: Marek Florianczyk wrote, on Thursday, 11/06/03: ... And my management says, that there is no good support for Open Source, heh... ;))) In my experience, there is better support for Open Source than Closed Source when it comes to development (and usually all around).

[ADMIN] Authentication Problems

2003-11-06 Thread Epps, Aaron M.
Here's my config file... pg_hba.conf local all all trust PostgreSQL Users... test=# \du List of database usersUser name | User ID | Attributes---+-+aaron | 100 | superuser, create databasepostgres | 1 | superuser, create databasetesting |

Re: [ADMIN] Authentication Problems

2003-11-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Epps, Aaron M. writes: pg_hba.conf localallalltrust why when I run the following command does authentication fail (Yes, password is correct)? You don't need a password in this setup. [EMAIL PROTECTED] aaron]$ psql test -U testing -W Password: psql: FATAL: IDENT

Re: [ADMIN] Process Files

2003-11-06 Thread Rudi Starcevic
Thanks Tom, Hm, that's a rather odd error code, but I suppose it must mean that you have run out of kernel memory for file descriptor slots or inodes. Yep, after checking with the co-location techs the limit of open file on my Virtual Server is 2479. They've upped the limit to 3718 for me. This

[ADMIN] read only connection

2003-11-06 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Already asked, I try again: 7.4 give the feature to have transaction in read only mode, is it possible give permission to an user to perform db connection in read only mode ? Regards Gaetano Mendola ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked

Re: [ADMIN] read only connection

2003-11-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 23:59:29 +0100, Gaetano Mendola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Already asked, I try again: 7.4 give the feature to have transaction in read only mode, is it possible give permission to an user to perform db connection in read only mode ? Not by connection, but if they

[ADMIN] close connection

2003-11-06 Thread Freddy ExpĆ³sito Moreno
I need to close all connections from one database and keep all connection from the other databases in my postgresql server. Can some body help me? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?

[ADMIN] vacuum full problem

2003-11-06 Thread pginfo
Hi, I am running pg 7.3.4 on linux red hat 9.0. If I try to execute vacuum full analyze verbose, the pg vacuum some tables and hang after this lines: INFO: --Relation pg_toast.pg_toast_16408-- INFO: Pages 0: Changed 0, reaped 0, Empty 0, New 0; Tup 0: Vac 0, Keep/VTL 0/0, UnUsed 0, MinLen 0,