[ADMIN] Newbie Admin.

2009-07-23 Thread Scott Holmes
I have recently inherited a Linux server running pgsql and need to lock someone out but have so far been unsuccessful. I have changed the Linux passwords I have changed the passwords on the 3 users listed on the Database Now the problem is the person (server) I need to block access can sti

Re: [ADMIN] newbie Administrator

2009-07-23 Thread Lacey Powers
Hello Scott, Hm. Having no pg_hba.conf file definitely sounds odd. I'd try this command while logged in via psql: SHOW hba_file; The output should show you the path to the pg_hba.conf file, which you can then edit to limit the connections to the database. Hope that helps. =) Lacey I have

Re: [ADMIN] newbie Administrator

2009-07-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 19:30 -0400, Scott Holmes wrote: > I have recently inherited a Linux server running pgsql and need to > lock someone out but have so far been unsuccessful. > > > > I have changed the Linux passwords > > I have changed the passwords on the 3 users listed on the Database >

[ADMIN] newbie Administrator

2009-07-23 Thread Scott Holmes
I have recently inherited a Linux server running pgsql and need to lock someone out but have so far been unsuccessful. I have changed the Linux passwords I have changed the passwords on the 3 users listed on the Database Now the problem is the person (server) I need to block access can sti

[ADMIN] autovacuum configuration

2009-07-23 Thread Lee, Mija
Hello: I have been trying to improve the performance of my 8.3.3 postgres database, running on solaris 10. I have been playing around with a few configuration settings, including the shared_buffers because I have sluggish performance when accessing some very large tables, and the maintence_work_mem

[ADMIN] pg_stat_activity reporting of VACUUM in 8.1

2009-07-23 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi all; looking at a system running 8.1.15 via a select from pg_stat_activity I see a row where the vcurrent_query = 'VACUUM' I see also that autovacuum is on. Would autovacuum be running a vacuum on the entire db? I didn't think autovacuum did that. If not, how do I know in version 8.1 what t