[ADMIN] Altering column type causes unstable server and data loss.

2004-10-07 Thread Michael Long
Hi, If this is not the correct place report this type thing please let me know and I will post it to the correct location. I was able to successfully alter a column of type date to varchar(20). However now when I perform selects on the table I will either get the results as expected, have the p

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Re: [ADMIN] Multiple WALs for PITR ?

2004-10-07 Thread Simon Riggs
>Goulet, Dick > As an Oracle DBA primarily, moving more towards PostGreSQL as time > passes, the "alter system switch logfile" command is very often used at > the end of a hot backup to force a logfile switch and consequently > provide a full archive log set. The command causes the database engine

Re: [ADMIN] problems with pg_dump and pg_restore

2004-10-07 Thread admin
> pg_restore -U admin -C -d staging /home/postgres/staging-dump pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: database "staging" already exists -C tells it to create (and then connect to) the target DB, rather than connect to an existing DB and restore into that. So generally you

Re: [ADMIN] [Fwd: Re: Question about pgfsck]

2004-10-07 Thread Tom Lane
Dan Hrabarchuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a FAQ or a HOWTO on recovering from database corruption? If > not, then I am willing to write it. I will need help getting the > document together because as much as I google, I come up empty handed. > ... > I want to have something that can be

[ADMIN] [Fwd: Re: Question about pgfsck]

2004-10-07 Thread Dan Hrabarchuk
Is there a FAQ or a HOWTO on recovering from database corruption? If not, then I am willing to write it. I will need help getting the document together because as much as I google, I come up empty handed. What I need is something that tells you: A> You get errors in your server log like:

[ADMIN] migrating PG cidr type and operators

2004-10-07 Thread Lee Wu
Hi,   I am in the process of migrating PG cidr and network address type functions to Oracle, and am wondering if anyone has done similar work before.   Specifically, I want to know how to map cidr to Oracle type (varchar2(18)) ? How to convert operator like: inet '192.168.1.5' << i

Re: [ADMIN] problems with pg_dump and pg_restore

2004-10-07 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > pg_restore -U admin -c /home/postgres/staging-dump > Now, although tons of data is now streaming to my monitor, when it is > done, none of the new data is in the backup's staging db. The default behavior of pg_restore is to emit SQL commands onto stdout, which of cour

Re: [ADMIN] Multiple WALs for PITR ?

2004-10-07 Thread Jay A. Kreibich
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:32:04AM -0400, Goulet, Dick scratched on the wall: > Some disk array manufacturers had a problem with their writes in that > although the write the data was being stored in volatile memory instead > of on disk. The disk buffers were volatile in that if power suddenly >

Re: [ADMIN] Multiple WALs for PITR ?

2004-10-07 Thread Goulet, Dick
Some disk array manufacturers had a problem with their writes in that although the write the data was being stored in volatile memory instead of on disk. The disk buffers were volatile in that if power suddenly died all writes in memory that had not made it to disk were lost. Lately most array ma

[ADMIN] problems with pg_dump and pg_restore

2004-10-07 Thread admin
Hello list, I am having problems getting pg_dump and pg_restore to work the way they are supposed to work - or at least the way I imagine they should work! I have a primary DB server, and a backup DB server. The point is to use pg_dump every 5 minutes to have the current postgeSQL db available on

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump/pg_restore trouble on win32

2004-10-07 Thread Tore Halset
On Oct 1, 2004, at 10:12, Tore Halset wrote: I am running 8.0.0-beta3 on Mac OS X 10.3.5 and 8.0.0-beta2-dev3 (pginstaller) on windows 2000. I have two databases. The dumpfile (format c) for database 1 is 150MB and the dumpfile for database 2 is 2GB. Dumping the databases on the mac worked. I h

Re: [ADMIN] Multiple WALs for PITR ?

2004-10-07 Thread Michael Kleiser
Goulet, Dick wrote: As an Oracle DBA primarily, moving more towards PostGreSQL as time passes, the "alter system switch logfile" command is very often used at the end of a hot backup to force a logfile switch and consequently provide a full archive log set. The command causes the database engine