[ADMIN] separating data and logs

2007-10-12 Thread Peter Koczan
Hi all, I'm making a lot of changes for my eventual migration to postgres 8.3, and I was considering changing how data and logs are separated for a few of my servers. Currently, the OS and log data are on one disk system, and the actual data cluster (including configs) are on the other disk syste

[ADMIN] pg_ctl start doesn't daemonize properly

2007-10-12 Thread Dennis, Allan
I am having problems getting pg_ctl to detach from the controlling terminal so that it's a proper daemon. I am running pg_ctl start -w -s -l $logfile within a script, which is invoked from an automated test framework written in python. If the python process is stopped by Ctrl-C, postgres dies. But

Re: [ADMIN] permissions on system catalogs for non-superuser?

2007-10-12 Thread Robert Gravsjö
Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi List; we have some monitoring/alert scripts which run sql against the database (8.1.4) as a non-superuser. The problem is I get when trying to access current_query from pg_stat_activity. I ran these grant statements but still no joy: grant select on pg_stat_activity