[ADMIN] Shutdown pg db

2003-12-15 Thread Ganesan Kanavathy
How to properly shutdown pg db server?   Is the below command safe to shutdown the pg db server?   #killall -9 postmaster   pg_ctl does not seems work on server?   Regards, Ganesan  

Re: [ADMIN] Shutdown pg db

2003-12-15 Thread Uwe C. Schroeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NEVER kill -9 a postmaster Althoug funny enough it pretty often tolerates that kind of killing, it will not allow the process to properly shut down the database. So you may or may not be lucky to end up with a good database. Use something like /usr

[ADMIN] Moving a database AND changing the superuser

2003-12-15 Thread Rich Cullingford
All, I did a pg_dumpall in preparation for moving one of our databases from PG7.3 to PG7.4, but I just realized I have another problem: that DB (which has served us faithfully for some time) was created for superuser 'postgres,' whilst our new DBs use a superuser name that's aligned with our pr

Re: [ADMIN] Moving a database AND changing the superuser

2003-12-15 Thread Marek Florianczyk
W liście z pon, 15-12-2003, godz. 16:30, Rich Cullingford pisze: > All, > I did a pg_dumpall in preparation for moving one of our databases from > PG7.3 to PG7.4, but I just realized I have another problem: that DB > (which has served us faithfully for some time) was created for superuser > 'po

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Re: [ADMIN] Moving a database AND changing the superuser

2003-12-15 Thread Bruno LEVEQUE
In my opinion, the only thing you need to change is the name of the superuser in your dump file. Bruno Rich Cullingford wrote: All, I did a pg_dumpall in preparation for moving one of our databases from PG7.3 to PG7.4, but I just realized I have another problem: that DB (which has served us

Re: [ADMIN] Shutdown pg db

2003-12-15 Thread Tom Lane
"Uwe C. Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > NEVER kill -9 a postmaster > Althoug funny enough it pretty often tolerates that kind of killing, it will > not allow the process to properly shut down the database. So you may or may > not be lucky to end up with a good database. The database is

Re: [ADMIN] Moving a database AND changing the superuser

2003-12-15 Thread Tom Lane
Rich Cullingford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did a pg_dumpall in preparation for moving one of our databases from > PG7.3 to PG7.4, but I just realized I have another problem: that DB > (which has served us faithfully for some time) was created for superuser > 'postgres,' whilst our new DBs

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2003-12-15 Thread cmeinhardt
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Re: [ADMIN] Moving a database AND changing the superuser

2003-12-15 Thread Rich Cullingford
Tom Lane wrote: Rich Cullingford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I did a pg_dumpall in preparation for moving one of our databases from PG7.3 to PG7.4, but I just realized I have another problem: that DB (which has served us faithfully for some time) was created for superuser 'postgres,' whilst our

Re: [ADMIN] Moving a database AND changing the superuser

2003-12-15 Thread Tom Lane
Rich Cullingford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmmm, how do you use 7.4 utilities against a 7.3 DB? pg_dump can dump from prior-release DBs (back to 7.0 at the moment). Just point it at the older DB's port. This is a bit tricky when installing from RPMs, since there's no really easy way to instal

[ADMIN] Postgresql on Windows.

2003-12-15 Thread Grzegorz Dostatni
Hello. I've had some experience with postgresql on Windows under cygwin. Is it possible to statically compile postgresql binary with the cygwin dlls so that I end up with a standalone windows executable? Internally it would still require the "unix" way of naming paths, but a few registry keys wou

Re: [ADMIN] Moving a database AND changing the superuser

2003-12-15 Thread Rich Cullingford
Tom Lane wrote: Rich Cullingford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hmmm, how do you use 7.4 utilities against a 7.3 DB? pg_dump can dump from prior-release DBs (back to 7.0 at the moment). Just point it at the older DB's port. This is a bit tricky when installing from RPMs, since there's no really eas

Re: [ADMIN] FoxPro Vs. PostgreSQL

2003-12-15 Thread Jeremy Buchmann
What I want is some support from this good community to give me some 1. Tips 2. Links 3. Advise for FoxPro and its limits (As could be told to a layman) as how to crush my competitor for M$ tools, Its time to prove The M$ Guys that they have $ Power and we the GNU people have a social pers

Re: [ADMIN] Moving a database AND changing the superuser

2003-12-15 Thread Tom Lane
Rich Cullingford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, I was gonna use pg_dumpall to avoid the tedium of individual > dumps, but (gotcha!) pg_dumpall doesn't accept > --use-set-session-authorization (tho' it does run pg_dump!). If I use > pg_dumpall, will pg_restore (with --use-set-session-authori

Re: [ADMIN] Running Postgres Daemons with same data files

2003-12-15 Thread Patrick Spinler
Just to add a tidbit on top of this, there are commercial RDBMS's that do, or at least say they do, clustered database servers. (cough cough oracle, cough cough ingres) The products are expensives as all get out, a bastard to set up, and require truely kickass SAN storage and clustered hardwar

[ADMIN] postgres Rules

2003-12-15 Thread Arun Gananathan
Could any one let me know is there a way to findout the rules previously created in the database . thanks ganesh  

[ADMIN] unexpected EOF on client connection + createdb

2003-12-15 Thread Daniel García
When I tried to create a database with createdb I receive this message: "unexpected EOF on client connection". I need your help! Thanks, Daniel ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command

[ADMIN] How to synchronize two pg databases

2003-12-15 Thread sreekant kodela
Hi guys I have a postgresql server process each running in my desktop and the laptop. Both servers have a database called MG with exactly same scheme/layout. Now I enter the data in to similar tables but at differing times. I generally keep the primary keys seperate so that they don't clash with

Re: [ADMIN] Running Postgres Daemons with same data files

2003-12-15 Thread Glenn Wiorek
He might also want to take a look at SUN's grid - the developement kit and most of the components are free. Is also supports Linux. I bet with two Postgres servers in sync via replication and the GRID setup to do the switch over should one fail it would be as low cost HA he could get. - O

[ADMIN] Postgresql on Windows.

2003-12-15 Thread Grzegorz Dostatni
Hello. I've had some experience with postgresql on Windows under cygwin. Is it possible to statically compile postgresql binary with the cygwin dlls so that I end up with a standalone windows executable? Internally it would still require the "unix" way of naming paths, but a few registry keys wou

Re: [ADMIN] FoxPro Vs. PostgreSQL

2003-12-15 Thread Kent L. Nasveschuk
You should check in on the OpenOffice.org website discussion group. There are a great deal of people that follow the politics of M$ there, especially global trends. They would like to keep to the topic, OpenOffice but the topics they cover are trends with Linux that affect many applications includi

Re: [ADMIN] Mis-interpreted extended character

2003-12-15 Thread Andrew Biagioni
Chris, Thanks -- your answer is 90% of what I need!  As for the other 10%: Chris wrote: Our database ( (PostgreSQL) 7.3.5 ) uses Unicode encoding: [...] For some reason, If I try to use an extended character (ASCII code > 127) in a string, I get this peculiar res

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2003-12-15 Thread Rhaoni Chiu Pereira
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Re: [ADMIN] [PERFORM] Tables Without OIDS and its effect

2003-12-15 Thread Neil Conway
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't believe anyone has proposed removing the facility > altogether. There's a big difference between making the default > behavior be not to have OIDs and removing the ability to have OIDs. Right, that's what I had meant to say. Sorry for the inaccuracy.

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2003-12-15 Thread Jeremy Hefner
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[ADMIN] comparing with oracle

2003-12-15 Thread sachdev
Hi, I was able to migrate the Oracle database to Postgres, including functions, procedures. Thanks to ora2pg script and postgres documentation on porting from oracle to Postgres. I have now two tuff task. We are running Oracle in stadby mode and apply archive logs at remote place to maintain ou

Re: [ADMIN] comparing with oracle

2003-12-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 20:03:54 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > I was able to migrate the Oracle database to Postgres, including > functions, procedures. Thanks to ora2pg script and postgres documentation > on porting from oracle to Postgres. > > I have now two tuff task. We are runni

[ADMIN] WITH OIDS tables gives problem

2003-12-15 Thread Sai Hertz And Control Systems
Dear all , This may be considered an information : If you have created your table as WITHOUT OIDS; Then your data would not be retrieved into 1. OOo 1.1 < versions SpreadSheet 2. StarOffice 7.0 < version SpreadSheet 3. Excel Office XP Yes pgsqlODBC is used for interface . For full details please