Re: [ADMIN] Failover of the Primary database and starting the standby database in Postgresql in PITR configuraiton?

2008-03-25 Thread Michael Monnerie
On Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2008 salman wrote: > archive_command = 'gzip %p; rsync -av %p.gz -e \"ssh -p portNum -i > /home/postgres/.ssh/id_dsa\" > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/postgresql/archives/recovery/%f.gz && > rm -f %p.gz' This works as long as there are no transmission errors. What can be do

Re: [ADMIN] Deferred Constraints Issues

2008-03-25 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, kevin kempter wrote: > I've placed this sql in a script: > > psql my_db < begin; > SET CONSTRAINTS ALL DEFERRED ; > delete from account where 1 = 1; > delete from cust where 1 = 1; > delete from cust_type where 1 = 1; > delete from cust_orders where 1 = 1; > commit; > ! > > Th

[ADMIN] Deferred Constraints Issues

2008-03-25 Thread kevin kempter
Hi List; I've placed this sql in a script: psql my_db

[ADMIN] restore message . . . cascade

2008-03-25 Thread Marc Fromm
I am backing up my databases with pgdump -c command to prevent duplicate records during a restore. When I restore the database with this command: psql -U postgres infoserv < /tmp/infoserv-03-25-2008_12-10 I get the message to use cascade to drop dependent objects. DROP TABLE ERROR: cann

Re: [ADMIN] it refuses to go down...

2008-03-25 Thread Tena Sakai
Hello Peter, Thanks for your post. I appreciate your concern. > I had to deal with this recently where the > status was "notify interrupt" Is this a response from "pg_ctl status" command? At the moment, I see nothing alarming via ps: $ ps ax | grep post 11807 ?Ss 0:00 sshd: po

Re: [ADMIN] it refuses to go down...

2008-03-25 Thread Peter Koczan
> > did you try pg_ctl -m immediate stop ??? > > I just did, and it worked. > >$ pg_ctl stop -m immediate >waiting for server to shut down done >server stopped I'd be careful about shutting down using "immediate" mode. It forces the database into recovery mode. Your problem co

Re: [ADMIN] postgresql is slow with larger table even it is in RAM

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe C. Schroeder
Can you provide the output of explain analyze select count(id) from table; ? Uwe On Tuesday 25 March 2008, sathiya psql wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:11 PM, CZUCZY Gergely > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > May I ask, do you have any indeces or a primary key on that table? > > yes, i

Re: [ADMIN] Tuning

2008-03-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Jack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is there a Postgres equivalent of tkprofs for tuning? you might want to provide an explanation of what tkprofs is and which parts you're interested in emulating in pgsql. Have you read up on explain, explain analyze, and t

[ADMIN] Tuning

2008-03-25 Thread Jack
Is there a Postgres equivalent of tkprofs for tuning?

Re: [ADMIN] what is the maximum number of rows in a table in postgresql 8.1

2008-03-25 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 05:42:46PM +0530, sathiya psql wrote: > i need what will be the maximum number of rows *to have good performance* in > postgres 8.1 any. just accept the fact that count(*) is *always* slow. use triggers to store counts if you are using them all of the time. also, i have t

Re: [ADMIN] what is the maximum number of rows in a table in postgresql 8.1

2008-03-25 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 17:42 +0530, sathiya psql wrote: > > > I am not sure I understand your question. maybe this link > answers > your question: > http://www.postgresql.org/about/ > this i know. > > this is the documentation limitations... >

Re: [ADMIN] what is the maximum number of rows in a table in postgresql 8.1

2008-03-25 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 05:42:46PM +0530, sathiya psql wrote: > > I am not sure I understand your question. maybe this link answers > > your question: > > http://www.postgresql.org/about/ > > > this i know. > > this is the documentation limitations... > > i need what will be the maximum num

Re: [ADMIN] what is the maximum number of rows in a table in postgresql 8.1

2008-03-25 Thread Richard Broersma
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:12 AM, sathiya psql <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i need what will be the maximum number of rows to have good performance in > postgres 8.1 This article give you the options that you have with postgresql. http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs/joshua_drake/2007/08/how_many_ro

Re: [ADMIN] what is the maximum number of rows in a table in postgresql 8.1

2008-03-25 Thread sathiya psql
> > > I am not sure I understand your question. maybe this link answers > your question: > http://www.postgresql.org/about/ > this i know. this is the documentation limitations... i need what will be the maximum number of rows *to have good performance* in postgres 8.1 Regards Sathiya

Re: [ADMIN] what is the maximum number of rows in a table in postgresql 8.1

2008-03-25 Thread Richard Broersma
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:42 AM, sathiya psql <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, finally am changing my question. > Do get quick response from postgresql what is the maximum number of records > i can have in a table in postgresql 8.1 ??? I am not sure I understand your question. maybe this link a

[ADMIN] what is the maximum number of rows in a table in postgresql 8.1

2008-03-25 Thread sathiya psql
Ok, finally am changing my question. Do get quick response from postgresql what is the maximum number of records i can have in a table in postgresql 8.1 ???

Re: [ADMIN] postgresql is slow with larger table even it is in RAM

2008-03-25 Thread sathiya psql
some more info */proc/cpuinfo* processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz stepping: 1 cpu MHz : 2667.031 cache size : 256 KB fdiv_bug: no hlt_bug : no f00f_bu

Re: [ADMIN] postgresql is slow with larger table even it is in RAM

2008-03-25 Thread sathiya psql
> > I can't really say anything about your RAM issue, but count(*) is always a > bad > idea if it can be avoided. Assuming you have a primary key on the table, > do a > count(pk). In my experience that alone cuts down up to 30% of execution > time. > > i want exact count so am doing this... But as

Re: [ADMIN] postgresql is slow with larger table even it is in RAM

2008-03-25 Thread sathiya psql
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:11 PM, CZUCZY Gergely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > May I ask, do you have any indeces or a primary key on that table? > yes, i have both the index and primary key on a column "id", and am doing the SELECT count(id) from TABLE; this is taking 3 seconds

Re: [ADMIN] postgresql is slow with larger table even it is in RAM

2008-03-25 Thread Uwe C. Schroeder
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, sathiya psql wrote: > Dear Friends, > I have a table with 32 lakh record in it. Table size is nearly 700 MB, > and my machine had a 1 GB + 256 MB RAM, i had created the table space in > RAM, and then created this table in this RAM. > > So now everything is in RAM

[ADMIN] postgresql is slow with larger table even it is in RAM

2008-03-25 Thread sathiya psql
Dear Friends, I have a table with 32 lakh record in it. Table size is nearly 700 MB, and my machine had a 1 GB + 256 MB RAM, i had created the table space in RAM, and then created this table in this RAM. So now everything is in RAM, if i do a count(*) on this table it returns 327600 in 3