Re: [ADMIN] Duplicating a large database.

2004-10-05 Thread Robert Creager
When grilled further on (Tue, 05 Oct 2004 17:26:16 -0700), Dan Hrabarchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> confessed: > I need to move a large database to new machine. I'd also like to upgrade > my postgres server from 7.3 to 7.4 (at least). > I think Slony (http://www.slony.org) will do exactly what you des

Re: [ADMIN] fedora core 2 postgresql regression tests fail

2004-10-05 Thread John McBride
Lamar Owen wrote: On Thursday 30 September 2004 00:07, John McBride wrote: As user postgres I try and run the tests: $ pwd /usr/lib/pgsql/test/regress $ time ./pg_regress.sh --schedule=parallel_schedule [snip] === Now, if you'll look very carefully the create_funtion_1 failure is due t

[ADMIN] Duplicating a large database.

2004-10-05 Thread Dan Hrabarchuk
I need to move a large database to new machine. I'd also like to upgrade my postgres server from 7.3 to 7.4 (at least). My plan is to set up a query log on my current postgres server. Then I will make a copy of the database using pg_dump. When the dump is done I will to shut down the original serv

Re: [ADMIN] Enabling --log-update

2004-10-05 Thread Simon Riggs
Whoever wrote the Arkeia pages was very confused. I've communicated with them previously, but no one was home. My understanding is that those are MySQL flag settings, not PostgreSQL. Whatever, they certainly don't work with PostgreSQL. "Tracking changes" while you do a dump is exactly what PITR

Re: [ADMIN] Migrating Data Between PG Tables

2004-10-05 Thread Mike Darretta
banghe wrote: One sql statement can solve this: sql> isnert into table_b (id, name, summary) select id, name, desc from table_a; Banghe Mike Darretta wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion on the best way to migrate data between two slightly different tables? For example: Table A id : in

Re: [ADMIN] Migrating Data Between PG Tables

2004-10-05 Thread banghe
One sql statement can solve this: sql> isnert into table_b (id, name, summary) select id, name, desc from table_a; Banghe Mike Darretta wrote: Does anyone have a suggestion on the best way to migrate data between two slightly different tables? For example: Table A id : integer name : s

[ADMIN] Migrating Data Between PG Tables

2004-10-05 Thread Mike Darretta
Does anyone have a suggestion on the best way to migrate data between two slightly different tables? For example: Table A id : integer name : string desc : string Table B id : integer name : string date : date summary : string In this example, I would like to copy all the data f

[ADMIN] Building pgadmin3 from source

2004-10-05 Thread Dirk J. Botha
Hi everyone, Have any of you successfully compiled pgadmin3 on SuSE 9.1. I've tried googleing for answers but I've yet to find someone that can tell my why my build keeps falling over at the final link stage. Right now it seems that the wx libraries are not found for some reason, as I keep get

Re: [ADMIN] Failover Solution for Postgres

2004-10-05 Thread John Allgood
Hello I am thinking about using the Redhat Cluster software. Could you tell me a about the hardware requirements and what type of configuration you are running. Thanks Gaetano Mendola wrote: John Allgood wrote: Hello All I am looking for information on postgres failover solutions. I have r