Re: [ADMIN] Filesystem and PG configuration

2010-06-07 Thread Andreas Schmitz
Hi, pgtune could be the thing you're looking for. http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgtune/ regards andreas RBN wrote: Can someone suggest some appropriate initial configuration parameters and shared memory settings for the following hardware? I'm running Debian on a Dell with 4x6 core

[ADMIN] Clearing locks

2010-06-07 Thread Matthew Excell
I'm on PostgreSQL 8.3.11 on Debian. I have a small piece of DDL (alter table title drop column is_target) that hangs waiting forever. (I've waited hours - it still shows as waiting in pg_top.) I have restarted the database - even tried it in single-user mode - but it still waits. When I execute

Re: [ADMIN] Clearing locks

2010-06-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Matthew Excell's message of lun jun 07 15:33:27 -0400 2010: I'm on PostgreSQL 8.3.11 on Debian. I have a small piece of DDL (alter table title drop column is_target) that hangs waiting forever. (I've waited hours - it still shows as waiting in pg_top.) I have restarted the

Re: [ADMIN] Clearing locks

2010-06-07 Thread Matthew Excell
That did it. Thanks! Matthew Excell On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.comwrote: Excerpts from Matthew Excell's message of lun jun 07 15:33:27 -0400 2010: I'm on PostgreSQL 8.3.11 on Debian. I have a small piece of DDL (alter table title drop column

Re: [ADMIN] PITR Recovery Question

2010-06-07 Thread Gnanakumar
Hi Kevin, Thanks for the clarification. ke...@kevin-desktop:~$ true ke...@kevin-desktop:~$ echo $? 0 Yes, my OS also has got this executable and is working. Regards, Gnanam -Original Message- From: Kevin Grittner [mailto:kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov] Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010

Re: [ADMIN] PITR Recovery Question

2010-06-07 Thread Gnanakumar
Hi Florian, Thanks for the clarification and a link to a post on automated script. On Jun 5, 2010, at 9:05 , Gnanakumar wrote: Thanks for your valuable suggestion and a detailed step on common way to use PITR. Things are very clear now except that I've some other question in connection to

Re: [ADMIN] PITR Recovery Question

2010-06-07 Thread Gnanakumar
Hi Sam, Thank your sharing this script. Here's a script to make your backup and rsync it to a remote destination: #!/bin/bash echo checkpoint echo CHECKPOINT; | /local/pkg/bin/psql template1 echo start backup echo SELECT pg_start_backup('cisoradr:/cis/pgsql/katana7/backup'); |