Re: [ADMIN] Help With Database Backup

2009-09-30 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Hi, Hello there, I am new to PostgreSQL, succeded in running a little database on my dev. machine and now I am having problems exporting the local database to the one I want to use on my site online. I am getting errors when I try to run the SQL online with phpPgAdmin. What errors are

Re: [ADMIN] Configure pg_hba.conf

2007-08-15 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Hi Alexander, Use 0.0.0.0/0. You can of course add multiple lines to match all your ranges (e.g. 192.168.0.0/24, 10.0.0.0/8 etc.) Regards, Andy. Alexander B. wrote: Hi people, I would like to configure pg_hba for any IP. I have several network mask, some times 192..., or 10, or

Re: [ADMIN] [INTERFACES] where postgres 8.1.8 log messages go

2007-02-27 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
right? jing - Original Message From: Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jing han [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 10:57:09 AM Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] where postgres 8.1.8 log messages go Don't forget to copy back to the list

Re: [ADMIN] host name?

2007-02-26 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Igor Neyman wrote: Is there a function (or catalog view) that I can call in psql and that will tell me host name of the machine on which Postgres database is running? Igor Surely you need to know this to connect to it in the first place?

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL and VB.net

2007-02-23 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Vishal Mailinglist wrote: Hi , I have a program already working on LAMP architecture. Now since the business logic is in PostgreSQL. We were interested to build the front end on VB.net. Would like to know the readiness of PostgreSQL working with VB.net . Would appreciate If anyone can

Re: [ADMIN] [pgadmin-support] UNSUBSCRIBE

2007-02-22 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
To all who want unsubscribing, it is best to fill out this form: http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe Regards, Andy. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?

Re: [ADMIN] log_duration?

2007-02-19 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Ray Stell wrote: I toggle log_duration: wiki=# \!date Mon Feb 19 11:14:35 EST 2007 wiki=# set log_duration=off; SET wiki=# SELECT current_setting('log_duration'); current_setting - off (1 row) yet duration continues to be logged: wiki,13190,wiki,2007-02-19 11:16:00.926

Re: [ADMIN] 8.2 Admin Pack broken?

2007-02-18 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: Not particularly!! Don't know what it is but it doesn't _appear_ to be GNU. According to man make it is a FreeBSD General Command. I can tell you that ./configure make make install works and builds a working Postgres server just

[ADMIN] 8.2 Admin Pack broken?

2007-02-17 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
I'm trying to compile in the adminpack into PostgreSQL 8.2.3, but it doesn't want to build. According to the instructions, I change into contrib/adminpack and run make followed by make install. However, make fails: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ADMIN] 8.2 Admin Pack broken?

2007-02-17 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
/bin/make. Just typing make builds PostgreSQL just fine with the Unix make. However, the contrib modules *won't* build with the Unix make - I had to run /usr/local/bin/make instead of just make. HTH someone, Andy. Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: I'm trying to compile in the adminpack

Re: [ADMIN] 8.2 Admin Pack broken?

2007-02-17 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Tom Lane wrote: Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: FYI: Reports on Google are wrong - they say that you need to use gmake to build the PostgreSQL server source. You don't. I can assure you that you need GNU make to build any part of Postgres. Perhaps what you're

Re: [ADMIN] WAL files backup

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Chad Wagner wrote: On 2/15/07, *Eduardo J. Ortega* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After erasing the less than names WAL files, we add to tar the remaining WAL records (0003B, 0003C and so on on the example). The more WAL files you have after 0003B, the

Re: [ADMIN] Debug (is it PostgreSQL?)

2007-02-16 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
A quick Google search reveals it looks like PgAdmin's job scheduling queue: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgadmin-support/2006-06/msg5.php Might be worth asking on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy. Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha wrote: My Linux is reporting the following message: DEBUG: Connection

Re: [ADMIN] PgAdmin : table backup problem

2007-02-15 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Tom Lane wrote: Cassiano, Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If I understand well, PgAdmin fails in composing the correct pg_dump command. The switch combination -t collezioni -n anamat doesn't work. The manual says that the -n switch is ignored when -t is used The right (at least, working)

Re: [ADMIN] rename a cluster

2007-02-15 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
The cluster's name is only the file-system's directory path. You can easily rename this directory, as long as you pass the relevant directory name to pg_ctl's -D parameter (which tells PostgreSQL which database cluster to use.) It goes without saying, don't move the directory while

Re: [ADMIN] rename a cluster

2007-02-15 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
It comes under Server Startup: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/server-start.html Ray Stell wrote: Many thx. It that in the doc? On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:21:05PM +, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: The cluster's name is only the file-system's directory path. You

[ADMIN] Re: Θέμα: Re: [ADMIN] possi ble Bug in windows version ?

2007-02-14 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
If you're running one of Windows XP SP2 or Windows Server 2003, the Windows Firewall will be blocking the connection. If you have the Windows Firewall option in Control Panel, check it's disabled, then try again. If that cures your problem, add an exception in for port 5432 before you turn

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres is not starting or stopping

2007-02-02 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
You will always have a postmaster binary - do a find / -name postmaster to find it. If your secondary production server hasn't gone live yet, I'd seriously consider starting it up on the 8.2 series. Manish Pillai wrote: I have installed it using rpm..So bin folder is not available inside

Re: [ADMIN] unsubscribe

2007-01-31 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
You might have more luck here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/ GURON Rawender wrote: Before printing, please consider the environment. IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachment to it are intended only to be read or used by the named addressee. It is confidential and may

Re: [ADMIN] Another way to Replicate

2007-01-19 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Chad Wagner wrote: On 1/19/07, *Alexander B.* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know if is possible to replicate in postgres applying binary logs (wal logs) like the same way is done on Oracle!! Did anybody tried to do that? You could do it, yes,

Re: [ADMIN] Another way to Replicate

2007-01-19 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: Chad Wagner wrote: On 1/19/07, *Alexander B.* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know if is possible to replicate in postgres applying binary logs (wal logs) like the same way is done on Oracle!! Did anybody

Re: [ADMIN] Incremental Backup of a particular database

2007-01-17 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
I believe the option for a warm standby (which sounds like it is what you need) was made available in 8.2.0. You'd have to look at the manual though, I haven't had time to investigate, and I'm not sure whether it's cluster-wide, or database-specific. Yogvinder Singh wrote: Hi Ppl, I have

Re: [ADMIN] Incremental Backup of a particular database

2007-01-17 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
to arrive and apply them on top of a base backup. There is a project in PgFoundry to allow for warm-standby in the 8.0 and 8.1 series, however this is reportedly built-in to 8.2 now. - Shoaib Mir EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com http://www.enterprisedb.com) On 1/17/07, *Andy Shellam

Re: [ADMIN] windows silent installer .msi file

2007-01-12 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Unzip the zip file - then you'll have the MSI package. Vasu Kamma (vakamma) wrote: Thanks Mr Radev. Instructions are given for .msi file , but the link has .zip file Could you help me how I can do the silent installation. Thanks Vasu -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ADMIN] configuring the postmaster.log

2007-01-11 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Marc Mamin wrote: Hello, I'm confused about the logging destination parameters in postgresql.conf My Problem is that the postmaster.log is getting too large and I want to roll it (once per day) Following parameters apply to optional postgresql...log. log_rotation_age = 1440

Re: [ADMIN] Database Create Date

2007-01-10 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:00:37 +0200, Achilleas Mantzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Στις Τρίτη 09 Ιανουάριος 2007 18:10, ο/η Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) έγραψε: Achilleas Mantzios wrote: I was able to find that in FreeBSD the -U in ls (1) does the job

Re: [ADMIN] Database Create Date

2007-01-10 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:00:37 +0200, Achilleas Mantzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Στις Τρίτη 09 Ιανουάριος 2007 18:10, ο/η Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) έγραψε: Achilleas Mantzios wrote: I was able to find

Re: [ADMIN] Database Create Date

2007-01-09 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Negandhi, Nishith wrote: Hi, I need to know the create date of databases on PosegreSQL. PG_DATABASE does not provide this information. Are there any other system catalogs that can provide the above information?? Thanks !DSPAM:37,45a3b385137101969839670! I'm sure there is (not known to me

Re: [ADMIN] Database Create Date

2007-01-09 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Achilleas Mantzios wrote: I was able to find that in FreeBSD the -U in ls (1) does the job. However i could not find any inode creation time related info for linux (ext3). Anyone has any clue on that? I believe ls -l by default shows the created time, you can switch to show the last

[ADMIN] Recovering a deleted database problem

2007-01-05 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Earlier this evening I made the usual mistake someone makes at some point in their lives - and dropped a database thinking I didn't need it, then realised later I did. So, because I have DDL statement logging turned on, I could find the exact time/date it happened, and attempted to restore from

Re: [ADMIN] Connectionstring

2007-01-05 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Doing a quick Google search, it appears to be, you add *Encoding*=UNICODE or whatever you want your encoding to be, in your connection string. Try the pgsql-interfaces list - that's more appropriate for this sort of thing. Sistemas C.M.P. wrote: How can I specify the Encoding in the

Re: [ADMIN] Connectionstring

2007-01-05 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Excuse the asterisks - they were added in by my mail client - it should be Encoding=UNICODE Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: Doing a quick Google search, it appears to be, you add *Encoding*=UNICODE or whatever you want your encoding to be, in your connection string. Try the pgsql

Re: [ADMIN] Connectionstring

2007-01-05 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Hmm OK was worth a shot - probably best bet would be to ask on pgsql-interfaces. Andy. Sistemas C.M.P. wrote: With or without asterisks it doesn't work. This string work on ODBC but not with pgOLEDB - Original Message - From: Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pgsql

Re: [ADMIN] Recovering a deleted database problem

2007-01-05 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
dropping a complete database? Many thanks, Andy. Tom Lane wrote: Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (Note, after writing this, I tried restoring to a minute earlier (ie. 18:57:40) and still have the same problem. The PITR recovery process in effect rolls forward until

Re: [ADMIN] Can't See Data - Plz Help!

2007-01-05 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Hi Jeanna, Does pgAdmin give you back any error, like permission denied, or anything like that? Can you see all the properties of the table, such as indexes, tables etc before you open it? As it's happening on various PCs and versions of pgAdmin, I'd hazard a guess that it's server-side, but

Re: [ADMIN] Can't See Data - Plz Help!

2007-01-05 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
One other thing I've just thought of, if you issue a manual query from within pgAdmin - does this succeed? Also roughly how big are the tables (i.e. number of rows) - does it help if you set a LIMIT in the SQL clause (by default I think it's 1000 rows but try setting a LIMIT of 1 row and see if

Re: [ADMIN] Windows Dependency Issue

2007-01-04 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Hello Pete, There is certainly a Windows command you can run that will alter the command used to start a service - it's sc (which can also be used to start/stop a service programmatically.) The command syntax to modify the EXE path is: sc config service name binpath= path to EXE (eg.) sc

Re: [ADMIN] How do you upgrade for production servers?

2006-12-29 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
If upgrading between minor versions in the same series (e.g. 8.1.3 - 8.1.5) you can simply use the same data directory. However, if the major version changes (e.g. 8.1.x - 8.2.x), you must: 1. Dump the databases from your old server (preferably using the new version client, I believe) while

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres and Firewall

2006-12-29 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Chetan Parekh wrote: We have Postgress Database running on machine with ip address 192.168.0.1 on port no 5432. We want to access this database from outside the firewall. Hence we need to open port no 5432 of 192.168.01 in firewall for outside users. But in firewall configuration we

Re: [ADMIN] Frustrating LO problem

2006-12-29 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Hi Sean, I'm certainly not a PostgreSQL expert when it comes to large objects etc, but there's one thing that jumps out at me here (perhaps someone else can see the same line of thought and into more depth as I can't think of much else to suggest?) The logfile lines when it doesn't: {

Re: [ADMIN] Dump and Query

2006-12-27 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Hi Enrico, The following command will get you a text file of your result-set: # echo SELECT customer_id, first_name, sur_name FROM users;|/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql -U [username] -d [database] myfile.txt # cat myfile.txt customer_id | first_name | sur_name

Re: [ADMIN] DB problem

2006-12-26 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Vinayak, Please don't post twice to two different lists (four of the same posts to both pgsql-admin and pgadmin-support.) This clearly isn't a problem with PG Admin - so don't clutter that list up, and don't multiple-post - it won't change anything posting twice, and if anything you'll only

Re: [ADMIN] pgAdmin crashes

2006-12-26 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Hi Bobby, I'd ask on the pgadmin-support list - PgAdmin's developers live there more-so than here. Regards, Andy Bobby Gontarski wrote: I am experiencing pgAdmin (windows xp) crash whenever I try to connect to the postgresql server (type password and hit enter). It started after

Re: [ADMIN] pgAdmin crashes

2006-12-26 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
them more to go on and they'll be more likely to answer you. Thanks, Andy. Iannsp wrote: Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) escreveu: Hi Bobby, I'd ask on the pgadmin-support list - PgAdmin's developers live there more-so than here. Regards, Andy Bobby Gontarski wrote: I am experiencing

Re: [ADMIN] Backup

2006-12-13 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
This could be implemented as a fairly simple script that does: - Specify a base backup name (e.g. with date/time) - Connect to postgres database - Issue pg_start_backup('base backup name') - Tar the data cluster directory, excluding pg_xlog - Issue pg_stop_backup - Compress the created archive -

Re: [ADMIN] pgadmin firewall configuration

2006-12-12 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
No, Pg Admin connects to 5432 as that is PostgreSQL's server port. One popular misconfiguration I've seen is that the connection/traffic is *to* port 5432 on the server, not from port 5432 on the client. So, depending on your firewall you need rule 1 on it's own (if it supports keeping

Re: [ADMIN] how to recover database back from /data folder [ Possibly

2006-12-11 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
I think the above messages support the fact that the database was shutdown properly before the filesystem level backup. Can anyone kindly confirm it ? LOG: database system is ready Says it all - if it hadn't been, you'd have gotten LOG: database system was not shut-down cleanly, recovering

Re: [ADMIN] .bat file to access postgreSQL command line from C:\

2006-12-08 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
For a long time, I did not know how to use notepad to save something with a suffix other than .txt and then someone showed me that if you psql.bat , and choose allfiles type, then it will save with the .bat ending. Or,

Re: [ADMIN] Lost password to user postgres

2006-12-03 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Regarding point 1, Scott, the user is on Windows. Windows binaries are available at www.postgresql.org and a lot has changed in the last 2 years, so if you do go down the re-install route, I'd recommend upgrading, although you'll have to dump your old data out of the server first, then

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres at startup

2006-11-16 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
I'm guessing by the postmaster.exe that this is on Windows. In that case, find PostgreSQL X.Y in Control PanelAdministrative ToolsServices (where X.Y is your major.minor version number of Postgres.) Change the services' start-up type to Manual (so you can start it yourself when needed.)

Re: [ADMIN] Checkpoint Location Format

2006-11-15 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
to run a restore test, but the backup and automatic archive clearout is working nicely. I'm not too worried about the SQL function to find the current WAL file, although I can see this could be useful too. Thanks, Andy. Simon Riggs wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 13:12 +, Andy Shellam

Re: [ADMIN] Checkpoint Location Format

2006-11-09 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
and after the /, which works. Andy. Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 01:12:53PM +, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: Hi, I'm writing an automated file-system level backup application for use with WAL archiving, that will issue the pg_start_backup call, tar and gzip

[ADMIN] Checkpoint Location Format

2006-11-07 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Hi, I'm writing an automated file-system level backup application for use with WAL archiving, that will issue the pg_start_backup call, tar and gzip the cluster data directory, issue the pg_stop_backup call, and remove all previous un-needed WAL files from the archive. I need to write a

[ADMIN] [Fwd: Checkpoint Location Format]

2006-11-07 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
). Can someone confirm this is the correct case? Thanks, Andy. Original Message Subject:Checkpoint Location Format Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:12:53 + From: Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Hi, I'm writing

Re: [ADMIN] installation into virtual server

2006-11-02 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
On a standard Windows client connecting to a 2003 server, you can run mstsc /console to force Windows to re-direct the console to you. Andy. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, hope to not be OT. I'm trying to install PostGresql into a virtual sever, I've set the ConnectionName = Console as