Re: [ADMIN] Altering column type causes unstable server and data

2004-10-08 Thread Micahael Long
pgsql-bugs is much more appropriate, especially for problem reports against a beta version. I will keep this in mind in the outside chance that I run into another issue :) I tried to reproduce this without any success. Given the inconsistency of the behavior, I'm wondering about hardware fla

Re: [ADMIN] High Availability for PostgreSQL

2004-10-08 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Sharon Schooley") would write: > We are looking for a 24/7 PostgreSQL solution. I've read some > postings and information on various solutions including Taygeta, > pgpool, and Mammoth PostgreSQL with Heartbeat.  If there are any > users o

[ADMIN] HELP -- pgfsck, pg_resetxlog not working for me.

2004-10-08 Thread akanksha kulkarni
Hi, I am trying to recover database. Earlier postmaster was not starting saying invalid primary and secondary checkpoints and a file in pg_xlog was not found. So I used pg_resetxlog. This made postmaster start. But I am not seeing most of the data and many tables. I then tried using pgfsck on my

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

2004-10-08 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If this is not the correct place report this type thing please let me > know and I will post it to the correct location. pgsql-bugs is much more appropriate, especially for problem reports against a beta version. > I was able to successfully alter a col

[ADMIN] Vacuumdb

2004-10-08 Thread Pallav Kalva
Hi Everybody, If i do vacuumdb -z daily as a part of my maintanence, do i have to still vacuum analyze each table in the database ?. The reason i am asking is that even though i do vacuumdb daily my stats are not updated properly in pg_class view and the reltuples values is much higher than

[ADMIN] High Availability for PostgreSQL

2004-10-08 Thread Sharon Schooley
Hello,   We are looking for a 24/7 PostgreSQL solution. I've read some postings and information on various solutions including Taygeta, pgpool, and Mammoth PostgreSQL with Heartbeat.  If there are any users of these or other PostgreSQL high availability solutions out there, can you respond a

Re: [DOCS] [ADMIN] windows docs?

2004-10-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
I have moved the MinGW/Win32 project page into FAQ_MINGW in CVS. I updated it to be more of an FAQ than a project page, and moved the TODO items the proper places in our official project. --- Robert Treat wrote: > On Tuesda

Re: [DOCS] [ADMIN] windows docs?

2004-10-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
I have renamed FAQ_MSWIN to FAQ_CYGWIN. --- Robert Treat wrote: > On Tuesday 21 September 2004 04:35, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > > > When starting the Windows psql client I get a warning that the > > > > "console codepage (4

Re: [ADMIN] Problems monitoring DB activity

2004-10-08 Thread Goulet, Dick
Sounds like the Oracle parameter TIMED_STATISTICS. Costs you soo little in performance, but saves you a pile in troubleshooting. Many DBA's still set it to false to "save the expense". Nice to know the same exists here. Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -Original Messa

Re: [ADMIN] Problems monitoring DB activity

2004-10-08 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 10:46:56AM -0400, Doug Y wrote: > Michael Fuhr wrote: > > > >Does postgresql.conf have stats_command_string = true? > > > Thanks, setting that did the trick whats the performance hit for > having it enabled? I haven't done any tests to determine the performance penalt

Re: [ADMIN] Problems monitoring DB activity

2004-10-08 Thread Doug Y
Michael Fuhr wrote: On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 09:54:08AM -0400, Doug Y wrote: SELECT * FROM pg_catalog.pg_stat_activity; The current_query and query_start columns are always empty. Obviously this makes it hard to monitor problems with the various admin tools, etc. Does postgresql.conf have s

Re: [ADMIN] Problems monitoring DB activity

2004-10-08 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 09:54:08AM -0400, Doug Y wrote: > > SELECT * FROM pg_catalog.pg_stat_activity; > > The current_query and query_start columns are always empty. Obviously > this makes it hard to monitor problems with the various admin tools, etc. Does postgresql.conf have stats_command_st

[ADMIN] Problems monitoring DB activity

2004-10-08 Thread Doug Y
Hello, When I do the following: SELECT * FROM pg_catalog.pg_stat_activity; The current_query and query_start columns are always empty. Obviously this makes it hard to monitor problems with the various admin tools, etc. I'm guessing there's a setting or something that needs updated, I just need a