[ADMIN] slower every day

2004-09-01 Thread G u i d o B a r o s i o
Dear all, I am currently experiencing troubles with the performance of my critical's database. The problem is the time that the postgres takes to perform/return a query. For example, trying the \d command takes between 4 or 5 seconds. This table is very big, but I am not asking for the row

Re: [ADMIN] slower every day

2004-09-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Mittwoch, 1. September 2004 12:06 schrieb G u i d o B a r o s i o: > The problem is the time that the postgres takes to perform/return a > query. For example, trying the \d command takes between 4 or 5 > seconds. This table is very big, but I am not asking for the rows, only > asking the tabl

Re: [ADMIN] slower every day

2004-09-01 Thread G u i d o B a r o s i o
The solution appeared as something I didn't know On the .conf file Previous situation: #log_something=false log_something=true Worst situation #log_something=false #log_something=true Nice situation log_something=false #log_something=true Ok, the problem was that I assumed that commentin

[ADMIN] Applicationl Crash - Connection reset by peer !!!

2004-09-01 Thread Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10)
Hi, I am using Postgresql 7.4.3 running on RedHat Linux 2.4.7. My Application is coded in C. I am using libpq functions inorder to connect to the database. I am using PQsetdbLogin() to connect and PQfinish() to release the database connection. In my application I have around 15-20 C functions. I

Re: [ADMIN] slower every day

2004-09-01 Thread G u i d o B a r o s i o
Again me, To make it easier. Situation A: log_something = true Situation B: # log_something = Situation C: log_something = false After the pg_ctl reload: Situation B = Situation A Situation C <> (Situation A || Situation B) Is this the expected behavior? Conclusion: If you comment a

[ADMIN] Create Linux Script for PostgreSQL database backup

2004-09-01 Thread Lawrence C
Hi All, Anyone good in writing Linux scripting for backup PostgreSQL. I just required a simple scripts only. Normally we do the manual ways as following: In root root# su – postgres bash# pgdumpall > backup.sql bash# exit root# I’m planning to write script.sh for cronjob but not too sure ab

Re: [ADMIN] [NOVICE] Applicationl Crash - Connection reset by peer !!!

2004-09-01 Thread Tom Lane
"Pradeepkumar, Pyatalo (IE10)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using Postgresql 7.4.3 running on RedHat Linux 2.4.7. My Application is > coded in C. I am using libpq functions inorder to connect to the database. > I am using PQsetdbLogin() to connect and PQfinish() to release the database > con

Re: [ADMIN] slower every day

2004-09-01 Thread Michael Paesold
This issue was resently discussed on hackers. It is a known issue, not very convinient for the user. Nevertheless it is not fixed in 8.0, but will perhaps be addressed in the next major release. (Remembering, it was a non-trivial thing to change.) Best Regards, Michael Paesold G u i d o B a r o s

Re: [ADMIN] slower every day

2004-09-01 Thread G u i d o B a r o s i o
Thanks for the reply, Been reading hackers of Aug 2004 and found the threads. It's a common habit to create two lines on the configuration files, in order to maintain the copy of the default conf file. I guess this should be the worst scenery for a freshly incoming DBA trying to put things in

[ADMIN] Help understanding locale

2004-09-01 Thread Chris Hoover
I need some help understanding locales and what the impact upon my database/application would be. I am currently running 7.3.4 and have a database with tons of varchar fields. However, when we query on one of the fields with a like, it does not use an index. Apparently from the documentation,

Re: [ADMIN] Help understanding locale

2004-09-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Chris Hoover wrote: > with the locale specifically set to C (initdb --locale=C ...). This > has fixed the index usage problem, but I don't understand what > ramifications if any it has on my database. Please help me > understand what this means to me as the dba. The sort order will be different.

Re: [ADMIN] Help understanding locale

2004-09-01 Thread Chris Hoover
Would you please be so kind to provide a bit more explanation? How will the sort differ? Are the any good pages out there that would help me understand the ramifications? Thanks, Chris Peter Eisentraut wrote: Chris Hoover wrote: with the locale specifically set to C (initdb --locale=C ...).

[ADMIN] DROPped database doesn't go away Postgres7.4

2004-09-01 Thread Joseph Sadove
Hello All, I cannot “re-create” a database properly. I did a dump all of one database that runs on production. I copied the dmp file to dev environment, DROPped the existing database, CREATEd the database anew and then ran the dump in psql to recreate the database. The database (and/or db serv

[ADMIN] Runtime config of PGSQL

2004-09-01 Thread Akshay Mathur
Hello!   Is there any way to see that a postmaster is running with what configuration? I want to verify if it picked up all the values from postgresql.conf or not. Also I want to know what values it has taken for the parameters which are commented in my conf file.   Regards,   akshay

[ADMIN] initdb - (InitPostgres) - FATAL: database "postgres" does not exist

2004-09-01 Thread Seamus Ryan
hi, I am having trying to install Postgres 7.4.5, I have gmake 3.76.1 installed. I have completed following steps: ./configure --prefix=/opt/local --enable-multibyte --enable-unicode --with-java --without-readline make su rootr make install adduser postgres mkdir /opt/local/pgsql

Re: [ADMIN] DROPped database doesn't go away Postgres7.4

2004-09-01 Thread Tom Lane
Joseph Sadove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I DROP it again and just re- CREATE it, without doing anything, all the > schemas and objects are there as if I never dropped it. It sounds to me like you have put a bunch of junk into the template1 database. This was a bad move :-(. What you can

Re: [ADMIN] Runtime config of PGSQL

2004-09-01 Thread Tom Lane
"Akshay Mathur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way to see that a postmaster is running with what > configuration? I want to verify if it picked up all the values from > postgresql.conf or not. Also I want to know what values it has taken for > the parameters which are commented in my co

Re: [ADMIN] initdb - (InitPostgres) - FATAL: database "postgres" does not exist

2004-09-01 Thread Tom Lane
Seamus Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note in the initdb script I altered the call to postgres to turn on debug: Hmmm > Any hints on why InitPostgres is not finding database "postgres"? Because there isn't one --- at that point in the process, only database template1 will exist. The po

[ADMIN] Information about psqlODBC parameters

2004-09-01 Thread Richard Harris
Hi, I'm running PostgreSQL 7.4.2, UnixODBC Driver Manager: 03.51.0002.0224 and psqlODBC 7.3.2 on a Red Hat Linux system. I need to understand what the parameters in the odbc.ini do. In particular what these parameters do. Trace TraceFile Debug DebugFile CommLog I looked in the 'Notes on the vari

[ADMIN] Dump/Restore vs Vacuum Full

2004-09-01 Thread Adi Alurkar
Greetings, Are there any differences, advantages of running a dump/restore vs running the following:1)REINDEX all the tables in all the databases, 2)VACUUM FULL ANALYZE on all the databases Assuming the following 1) the system can be offline. 2) PG version 7.4.x 3) pg_autovacuum running as a dae

Re: [ADMIN] Create Linux Script for PostgreSQL database backup

2004-09-01 Thread tim hall
Lawrence C, On Wednesday 01 September 2004 14:20, you went: > Anyone good in writing Linux scripting for backup > PostgreSQL. I just required a simple scripts only. > > Normally we do the manual ways as following: > > In root > > root# su - postgres > bash# pgdumpall >  backup.sql > bash# exit > ro

Re: [ADMIN] Create Linux Script for PostgreSQL database backup

2004-09-01 Thread Kaolin Fire
For that matter: echo "1 3 * * * postgres /usr/local/bin/pg_dumpall > ~/backup.sql" >> /etc/crontab note to remember the two >>'s so you don't obliterate your crontab like I just did. :ulp: -kaolin tim hall wrote: Lawrence C, On Wednesday 01 September 2004 14:20, you went: Anyone