Re: [ADMIN] Something like pg_dump for 7.4

2006-02-16 Thread Artur Pietruk
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:11:13PM -0800, Gregory S. Williamson wrote: > See that double space after "Media" ? That's actually a single space, a dash, > and another space: "XYZ Media - AB&E", but every export turns it into: > XYZ Media <96> AB&E I'm not sure if I got your problem correctl

Re: [ADMIN] Something like pg_dump for 7.4

2006-02-16 Thread Tom Lane
"Gregory S. Williamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to migrate a modest sized database (the unload file is just under > a gigabyte) which is moderately complex, using schemas and the like from 7.4 > to 8.1 > Alas, pg_dump appears to incompatable with my needs as it keeps introducing

[ADMIN] Something like pg_dump for 7.4

2006-02-16 Thread Gregory S. Williamson
I am trying to migrate a modest sized database (the unload file is just under a gigabyte) which is moderately complex, using schemas and the like from 7.4 to 8.1 Alas, pg_dump appears to incompatable with my needs as it keeps introducing invalid UTF-8 characters. I have gone back and changed

Re: [ADMIN] Postgresql performance and tuning questions

2006-02-16 Thread Ang Chin Han
On 2/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SuSE always only do backports of fixes and never increase the version > number. They only appended a self made "build" number which increases. > So it is really possible that all the fixes are in while the version > stays the same. Not tr

Re: [ADMIN] Postgresql performance and tuning questions

2006-02-16 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 10:39, Tomeh, Husam wrote: > I do understand your school of thinking. But let me say this, from just > a user point of view who had used 7.4.x, 8.0, and 8.1, I'd highly > recommend to start off with 8.1. I can comment on performance in > particular among other great stuff suc

Re: [ADMIN] Trouble starting server

2006-02-16 Thread Barry Moore
Thanks. I wasn't sure that I should do that since I didn't change those permissions since I hadn't done anything with it. There is a new user who is taking over admin of this machine, so I'll have to ask if the did anything to affect this. Barry On Feb 16, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Jeff Frost w

Re: [ADMIN] Switch log (WAL)

2006-02-16 Thread RW
Hi, maybe a bit late but how about DRBD (http://www.drbd.org)? BTW: Very nice that this feature is on the TODO :-)) Cheers, Robert Simon Riggs wrote: On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 11:47 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How Can I do that ? This is on my todo list for 8.2, but not yet at the

Re: [ADMIN] Trouble starting server

2006-02-16 Thread Jeff Frost
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Barry Moore wrote: So with my minimal system admin skills I'm guessing that '/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432' is lock file where the system puts a lock on port 5432 for postmaster to listen, but the pg_ctl and postmaster commands can't create that file because /tmp is writeable only by

[ADMIN] Trouble starting server

2006-02-16 Thread Barry Moore
I have a PostgreSQL 7.4.8 installation running on RedHat Enterprise 4 that I've been using for some time now, and haven't had any trouble with. Recently the system went down, and now I can't seem to restart it. I've tried running these commands as postgres user: nohup postmaster -D /var/l

Re: [ADMIN] hba conf ident sameuser not working

2006-02-16 Thread David Bear
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 09:00:41PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > David Bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > now, back on teancum that has the tunnel on port , I do this: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> psql -p -h localhost -U tlhowell > > psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "tlhowell

Re: [ADMIN] Dropping of indexes with cached PL query plans

2006-02-16 Thread Jerry Sievers
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jerry Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Any of these connections that may have previously executed PL > > functions which planned an index lookup are now going to fault if same > > index goes away. > > > Had wondered if a postmaster 'reload' would elic

Re: [ADMIN] Postgresql performance and tuning questions

2006-02-16 Thread Tomeh, Husam
I do understand your school of thinking. But let me say this, from just a user point of view who had used 7.4.x, 8.0, and 8.1, I'd highly recommend to start off with 8.1. I can comment on performance in particular among other great stuff such as scalability, robustness etc. The performance in 8.1

Re: [ADMIN] Dropping of indexes with cached PL query plans

2006-02-16 Thread Tom Lane
Jerry Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any of these connections that may have previously executed PL > functions which planned an index lookup are now going to fault if same > index goes away. > Had wondered if a postmaster 'reload' would elicit a recompiling of > func query plans (did *not*

[ADMIN] Dropping of indexes with cached PL query plans

2006-02-16 Thread Jerry Sievers
Hello. I am curious what (if any) reliable solution/workaround there is in cases where objects that are a part of a currently cached query plan disappear unexpectedly. Using JDBC and pooled connections, our production system has at any time 120 or so live connections, most in an idle state. They