Re: FW: [ADMIN] Setting up of PITR system.

2006-03-30 Thread Grega Bremec
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote: | | OK i am posting my full script [ its not heavy programming i guess :) ] | shall be grateful if you/someone could review it . (its well commented i think) | script also carries sample data. | | it does following |

[ADMIN] Creation date of postgres database

2006-03-30 Thread Pradeep Sharma
Hi, Is there any way to get the date of creation of a database in Postgres? Does postgres store this information in any system table. If anybody have any idea about this please let me know. I need to find out the creation date of one of my database. Thanks, Pradeep

Re: [ADMIN] Creation date of postgres database

2006-03-30 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 02:05:24PM +0530, Pradeep Sharma wrote: Is there any way to get the date of creation of a database in Postgres? Does postgres store this information in any system table. I'm not aware that the creation time is stored anywhere (except perhaps in query logs) but you might

Re: [ADMIN] Creation date of postgres database

2006-03-30 Thread Pradeep Sharma
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Michael Fuhr wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 02:05:24PM +0530, Pradeep Sharma wrote: Is there any way to get the date of creation of a database in Postgres? Does postgres store this information in any system table. I'm not aware that the creation time is stored

Re: [ADMIN] Creation date of postgres database

2006-03-30 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 05:20:00PM +0530, Pradeep Sharma wrote: Thanks for the reply. But I guess there is some communication gap between me and you regarding this topic. As I understood from your reply is, you are talking about the date of Postgres setup/installation/upgrade. No, I was

Re: [ADMIN] Creation date of postgres database

2006-03-30 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 05:27:12AM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote: Try a command like the following: % ls -lt $PGDATA/base/*/PG_VERSION You should see that each database has a copy of this file and that each file has a different modification time (some might be within a few seconds of each

Re: [ADMIN] Creation date of postgres database

2006-03-30 Thread Pradeep Sharma
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Michael Fuhr wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 05:20:00PM +0530, Pradeep Sharma wrote: Thanks for the reply. But I guess there is some communication gap between me and you regarding this topic. As I understood from your reply is, you are talking about the date of

Re: [ADMIN] postgres and persistant connections (using Apache::DBI)

2006-03-30 Thread Salem Berhanu
Thanks anyways From: Rajesh Kumar Mallah [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Salem Berhanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] postgres and persistant connections (using Apache::DBI) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:29:35 +0530 since it is not a postgresql issue i think we

Re: Postgresql server does not start!:( -Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQl newbie! -PLease help, pgAdmin3 on Debian!

2006-03-30 Thread Tom Lane
lmyho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In more detail, the logs looks like: ... imcomplete startup packet received fast shutdown request shuttingdown database system is shut down logger shutting down Something like this, each has a little different, but ends the same way. This is not a server

[ADMIN] can't get connection during pg_dump

2006-03-30 Thread Steve Linabery
Hi, I'm running 8.1.x on FC2 with smp. The docs claim that pg_dump should allow normal operation of the db with the exception of things like 'VACUUM FULL'. Last night during backup, I noticed that I could not get a connection, either remotely via jdbc or locally via psql. Well perhaps that is

Re: [ADMIN] can't get connection during pg_dump

2006-03-30 Thread Tom Lane
Steve Linabery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Last night during backup, I noticed that I could not get a connection, either remotely via jdbc or locally via psql. Well perhaps that is inaccurate: 'ps -ef' showed several processes with a status message of waiting to startup (or something similar;

Re: [ADMIN] can't get connection during pg_dump

2006-03-30 Thread Steve Linabery
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:14:37AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Steve Linabery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Last night during backup, I noticed that I could not get a connection, either remotely via jdbc or locally via psql. Well perhaps that is inaccurate: 'ps -ef' showed several processes with a

Re: Postgresql server does not start!:( -Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQl newbie! -PLease help, pgAdmin3 on Debian!

2006-03-30 Thread lmyho
lmyho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In more detail, the logs looks like: ... imcomplete startup packet received fast shutdown request shuttingdown database system is shut down logger shutting down Something like this, each has a little different, but ends the same way. This is

Re: Postgresql server does not start!:( -Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQl newbie!

2006-03-30 Thread Chris Travers
lmyho wrote: The last one (successful bootup and shutdown): pg_log# more postgresql-2006-03-30_103237.log 2006-03-30 10:32:37 CSTLOG: database system was shut down at 2006-03-30 10:32:20 CST 2006-03-30 10:32:37 CSTLOG: checkpoint record is at 0/33B96C 2006-03-30 10:32:37 CSTLOG: redo

Re: Postgresql server does not start!:( -Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQl

2006-03-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:10, Chris Travers wrote: lmyho wrote: The last one (successful bootup and shutdown): pg_log# more postgresql-2006-03-30_103237.log 2006-03-30 10:32:37 CSTLOG: database system was shut down at 2006-03-30 10:32:20 CST 2006-03-30 10:32:37 CSTLOG: checkpoint

Re: [ADMIN] can't get connection during pg_dump

2006-03-30 Thread Tom Lane
Steve Linabery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just replicated the problem, see below for explanation, but here is ps output: postgres 25817 3201 55 10:20 ?00:02:54 postgres: postgres db_being_dumped [local] COPY postgres 27956 3201 46 10:24 ?00:00:36 postgres:

Re: Postgresql server does not start!:( -Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQl newbie!

2006-03-30 Thread lmyho
--- Chris Travers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lmyho wrote: The last one (successful bootup and shutdown): pg_log# more postgresql-2006-03-30_103237.log 2006-03-30 10:32:37 CSTLOG: database system was shut down at 2006-03-30 10:32:20 CST 2006-03-30 10:32:37 CSTLOG: checkpoint record

[ADMIN] export of schema only

2006-03-30 Thread Sriram Dandapani
Hi This is the scenario: Export schema only On a different postgres box, drop the existing database, recreate the database and run psql with the exported schema file. One of the views did not import. I get an error saying relation view-name does not exist I

more- Re: Postgresql server does not start!:( -Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQl newbie! -PLease help, pgAdmin3 on Debian!

2006-03-30 Thread lmyho
If you su postgres, can you run pg_ctl and get the database up by itself? By the way, I can run pg_ctl to start the db server only after I links to the data directory. Debian's auto startup doesn't go this way but by the it's own scripts. leo

Re: Postgresql server does not start!:( -Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQl newbie!

2006-03-30 Thread lmyho
Interesting Database starts up at 10:32:37 and processes all databases through autovacuum. Then exactly a minute later, it processes the postgres database. 5 seconds later, you get a SIGINT. Is there something wrong with autovacuum? Normally I would doubt it but the

Re: Postgresql server does not start!:( -Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQl

2006-03-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:38, lmyho wrote: If I remember correctly, this is a problem with the debian startup script requiring trust for the postgres superuser, and was discussed sometime last year. I'll wander through the archives in a free moment and see if I can find it. Great

Re: Postgresql server does not start!:( -Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQl

2006-03-30 Thread lmyho
Great Scott!! Thank you!! This system was just installed on Debian (2 days), and the original pg_hba.conf file authen method was ident sameuser and appears not allow it to be changed! Look forward to your information!! Thanks a lot!! Can't find the thread right now (my

Re: Postgresql server does not start!:( -Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQl

2006-03-30 Thread Jason Minion
If by broken connection you are referring to the invalid startup packet lines - that has been known to be caused by pretty much anything other than a postgresql client connecting to the pg server port, ie portscanner, someone telnetting, net bot, etc. Jason Minion -Original Message-

Re: Postgresql server does not start!:( -Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQl

2006-03-30 Thread lmyho
If by broken connection you are referring to the invalid startup packet lines - that has been known to be caused by pretty much anything other than a postgresql client connecting to the pg server port, ie portscanner, someone telnetting, net bot, etc. Do you actually mean the incomplete

Re: [ADMIN] export of schema only

2006-03-30 Thread Jim Nasby
Can you provide exact error messages here? You're not giving us a lot of detail to go on... On Mar 30, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Sriram Dandapani wrote: Hi This is the scenario: Export schema only On a different postgres box, drop the existing database, recreate the database and run psql