[ADMIN] PITR Recovery settings

2011-03-23 Thread Selva manickaraja
Hi, We have successfully implemented a Backup and Recovery process in our organization and currently testing it out. We took a previous day backup and tried to restore it to a point in time. The database is able to start applying the recovery settings. But it recovered records past the recovery

[ADMIN] Wal archives building up in slave pg_xlog dir

2011-03-23 Thread Simon Luijk
I have a master slave setup that is on the most part working smoothly. The logs are getting shipped to the slave, the slave is requesting them and then applying them. The problem is that the logs are building up in the pg_xlog dir and not overwriting. I do have archive_mode on in postgresql.conf

[ADMIN] What does error "psql: Kerberos 5 authentication not supported" means?

2011-03-23 Thread Yandong.Yao
Hi Guys, I tried to setup kerberos authentication with postgresql 8.4.7 on Ubuntu 10.10. When I use: $ psql –h ubuntu.server –U gavin dbname I get following error: psql: Kerberos 5 authentication not supported. And from the server side of postgresql, I could see following log: 2011-03-23 09:1

Re: [ADMIN] psql causing a error

2011-03-23 Thread Bill Teluk
Hi Raghu and thanks!, This fix helped me too. My installation is an OpenSCG PostgreSQL 9.0.3 build with PostGIS 1.5.2 installed; and as per Sandra - the installation worked fine for several days then failed - I got mine going again the first time by multiple restarts and some port config changes, b

Re: [ADMIN] Memory limits and PostgreSQL 8.4 - Over 63 GB of memory for DB?

2011-03-23 Thread Tapio Pitkäranta
Hello Brad, Thank you for this information. We have database tables that are around 50-100 GB each (table). While processing such tables, it seems to be crucial that the table fits into memory (especially if the database table is not on a SSD drive). Until now we have thought "shared_buffers"

[ADMIN] Restarting recovery mode with pg_standby after failure

2011-03-23 Thread Paul Gross
We are using pg_standby to consume WAL files from another postgres server. Both servers are running 8.4 on ubuntu lucid. One of the WAL files had incorrect permissions: running restore :cp: cannot open `/some/path/ 000100E70081' for reading: Permission denied It looks like pg_

Re: [ADMIN] Hot-standby/Reporting database.

2011-03-23 Thread Vibhor Kumar
On Mar 19, 2011, at 2:55 AM, John P Weatherman wrote: > I have recently upgraded to Postgres9 and am building a hot standby for > reporting. Unfortunately, my end users are providing requirements for > 1) real time data replication (which the hot standby does) and 2) the > ability to create temp