Re: [ADMIN] read only user

2005-11-11 Thread Tomeh, Husam
As a workaround, you can run this in psql :   select 'grant select on ' || tablename || ' to ' || 'smith ;'  from pg_tables where schemaname='public';   The above SQL will generate the DDL for all the tables in the schema "public" for instance.   You may want to direct your output

Re: [ADMIN] autovacuum on updated rows

2005-11-11 Thread Stephen Byers
Sorry for noise.  It turns out that little pound sign in front bit me !! #autovacuum = onTom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stephen Byers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>writes:> Will autovacuum eventually run on this tableUm ... is autovacuum actually turned on? (It's not by default.)Check the pg_stat_ vi

Re: [ADMIN] Could not create unique index, table contains duplicated values

2005-11-11 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
On Nov 8, 2005, at 3:07 AM, Martin Schievink wrote: We’re having problems restoring a database, we dumped and tried to restore on the same databaseserver., and used the command: pg_dump -Ft -b {dbname} > {filename} to dump the database and  pg_restore -d {dbname}  {filename} to restore the database

Re: [ADMIN] autovacuum on updated rows

2005-11-11 Thread Jaime Casanova
On 11/11/05, Stephen Byers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using new postgres 8.1 and also trying out the integrated autovacuum. > I have a concern. > > I have a table where I perform an update on a row every 10 seconds. The > table is VERY small. Hardly any INSERTS, no DELETES, and a ton of UP

Re: [ADMIN] autovacuum on updated rows

2005-11-11 Thread Tom Lane
Stephen Byers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will autovacuum eventually run on this table Um ... is autovacuum actually turned on? (It's not by default.) Check the pg_stat_ views to see if the updates are getting counted in the statistics for the table. regards, tom l

[ADMIN] autovacuum on updated rows

2005-11-11 Thread Stephen Byers
I am using new postgres 8.1 and also trying out the integrated autovacuum.  I have a concern.   I have a table where I perform an update on a row every 10 seconds.  The table is VERY small.  Hardly any INSERTS, no DELETES, and a ton of UPDATES.   adbs_db=# select count(*) from volumes; count --

Re: [ADMIN] Xeon vs Opteron - second revision - tests and questions

2005-11-11 Thread Marcin Giedz
Tom Lane napisał(a): Marcin Giedz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: However I still can see 'spikey' performance but not as much as before changes. What can I do more to eliminate or smooth these spikes? The spikes are certainly caused by checkpoints. You can fool with the checkpoint

Re: [ADMIN] Xeon vs Opteron - second revision - tests and questions

2005-11-11 Thread Tom Lane
Marcin Giedz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However I still can see 'spikey' performance but not as much as before > changes. What can I do more to eliminate or smooth these spikes? The spikes are certainly caused by checkpoints. You can fool with the checkpoint timing via checkpoint_segment

Re: [ADMIN] Xeon vs Opteron - second revision - tests and questions

2005-11-11 Thread Marcin Giedz
Hello, First of all: many thanks Tom for pointed me out what I made wrong and Jim for 'spikes'. I made some new tests: available at http://85.128.68.44 What have changed since last time: - database engine - now it's 8.1.0 - number of clients - "-c 20 " - number of transactions - "-t

Re: [ADMIN] upgrade

2005-11-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Josh O'Brien wrote: Hello all I was just wondering if anyone could tell me if there is any seamless way to upgrade from 7.4 to 8.1 without performing a full dump/restore. Slony-I or Mammoth Replicator Thanks Joshua O'Brien DBA Zedx Inc. --

Re: [ADMIN] upgrade

2005-11-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 11:08:58 -0500, Josh O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all > > I was just wondering if anyone could tell me if there is any seamless > way to upgrade from 7.4 to 8.1 without performing a full dump/restore. If you need to minimize down time, there are ways to us

[ADMIN] upgrade

2005-11-11 Thread Josh O'Brien
Hello all I was just wondering if anyone could tell me if there is any seamless way to upgrade from 7.4 to 8.1 without performing a full dump/restore. Thanks Joshua O'Brien DBA Zedx Inc. begin:vcard fn:Joshua O'Brien n:O'Brien;Joshua org:Zedx Inc. title:Database Administrator version:2.1 end:v

Re: [ADMIN] Reg: Records Size

2005-11-11 Thread John Barham
> I am using C. Lucky you. I use Python. ;) > Yes i mean to allocate memory of each tuple resulting from a query. > Is there any function which gives the size of a tuple? > If so...Please tell me/Tell me how to proceed to do that? From the manual: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/

Re: [ADMIN] Reg: Records Size

2005-11-11 Thread sandhya
Hi John , Thank you. I am using C. Yes i mean to allocate memory of each tuple resulting from a query. Is there any function which gives the size of a tuple? If so...Please tell me/Tell me how to proceed to do that? Thanks&Regards, Sandhya R - Original Message - From: "John Barham" <[

Re: [ADMIN] Reg: Records Size

2005-11-11 Thread John Barham
On 11/11/05, sandhya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > please...tell me if there is possibility of finding out the size of a > record in the specified table. > Is there any built in function to know the size of each record by passing a > query? > I need this Inorder to allocate the memory after retriev

[ADMIN] Reg: Records Size

2005-11-11 Thread sandhya
    please...tell me if there is possibility of finding  out the size of a record in the specified table. Is there any built in function to know the size of each record by passing a query? I need this Inorder to allocate the memory after retrieving the records. Pls suggest me.   Thanks&Regard

[ADMIN] SSL Query

2005-11-11 Thread nilesh khode
Hello   I have configured the postgresql with SSL support enabled. Now from pg_hba.conf file I cofigured some host with SSL support using 'hostssl' and some host with out ssl i.e using 'host'.  How do I come to know that a particular host is connected with SSL support or regularaly connected ? Tha