Re: [ADMIN] Deleting old archived WAL files

2008-10-30 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:17 -0400, Chander Ganesan wrote: > Why? If you haven't saved a backup that you made previously (using > pg_start_backup()), having archived wal files is useless. I don't see > why you just don't arbitrarily remove them immediately. > > WAL files are useful when you ha

Re: [ADMIN] Deleting old archived WAL files

2008-10-30 Thread Chander Ganesan
Jaume Sabater wrote: Chander Ganesan wrote: If you are running warm-standby, its presumable that your standby server is "consuming" these files as they are being generated. In such a case, you can set "log_restartpoints" in your recovery.conf file, and use pg_standby with the '%r' (restartw

Re: [ADMIN] Deleting old archived WAL files

2008-10-30 Thread Jaume Sabater
Chander Ganesan wrote: > If you are running warm-standby, its presumable that your standby > server is "consuming" these files as they are being generated. In > such a case, you can set "log_restartpoints" in your recovery.conf > file, and use pg_standby with the '%r' (restartwalfile) parameter s

[ADMIN] Fwd: Problems waking up from a warm standby

2008-10-30 Thread Ori Garin
Hi. I have a problem with a standby server running on Windows 2003 R2, Enterprise x64 edition. I use Postgres 8.3 (installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\ ) Everything was working fine (base backup, archiving, recovery), until I wanted to test failover. To do that I create a trigger file, the recove

Re: [ADMIN] Deleting old archived WAL files

2008-10-30 Thread Chander Ganesan
Jaume Sabater wrote: Hello everyone! I am trying to setup a warm standby cluster with pgpool-II and PostgreSQL 8.3 on Debian Etch (with backported packages), with replication and load balancing. I have enabled WAL archiving in both PostgreSQL instances as required by pgpool-II and configured

Re: [ADMIN] SSL and md5 password?

2008-10-30 Thread Peter Koczan
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Peter Koczan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Right. So in the meantime, what Peter should do is try the problem case >>> after >>> export PGSSLMODE=requ

Re: [ADMIN] system catalog views + tables

2008-10-30 Thread Alvaro Herrera
damien clochard wrote: > Here's a poster of PostgreSQL 8.3 internal catalogs > http://dalibo.org/_media/articles/catalog.png?cache=cache > > SVG version is available here : > http://svn.postgresql.fr/repos/materials/advocacy/trunk/posters/catalogs83.svg Thanks -- I've added this to the Developer

[ADMIN] Deleting old archived WAL files

2008-10-30 Thread Jaume Sabater
Hello everyone! I am trying to setup a warm standby cluster with pgpool-II and PostgreSQL 8.3 on Debian Etch (with backported packages), with replication and load balancing. I have enabled WAL archiving in both PostgreSQL instances as required by pgpool-II and configured the online recovery wit

Re: [ADMIN] system catalog views + tables

2008-10-30 Thread damien clochard
Isabella Ghiurea a écrit : > Hello, > How can I see all system catalog tables and views , I'm in potsgres db > ( using PG 8.3). > Is there a way to have /get a full list and description of system > tables and views in kind of hard copy format, same as Oracle or > RDBMS posters for system catalo

Re: [ADMIN] 8.3.4 PITR recovery questions

2008-10-30 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 15:09 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: > In both cases it seemed to take longer to apply the WAL files during > the recovery process than we're used to from 8.2 I don't have hard > numbers, but before I spent time investigating I thought I would ask > here if that is already a