Re: [ADMIN] Looking for Good and Easy-to-use Reporting Tool

2009-12-16 Thread Brian Modra
BlackBerry Wireless Handheld) - Original Message - From: Brian Modra epai...@googlemail.com To: Su, Alan Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Sent: Wed Dec 16 02:43:46 2009 Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Looking for Good and Easy-to-use Reporting Tool 2009/12/15 Su, Alan

Re: [ADMIN] Looking for Good and Easy-to-use Reporting Tool

2009-12-15 Thread Brian Modra
you need any sort of GUI front end to the application? Or is it just reporting via email? -Original Message- From: Brian Modra [mailto:epai...@googlemail.com] Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 3:09 PM To: Su, Alan Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Looking for Good

Re: [ADMIN] Looking for Good and Easy-to-use Reporting Tool

2009-12-11 Thread Brian Modra
/report_disclosure.html If your settings do not permit you to access this link directly, please use your internet browser to visit this website address. -- Brian Modra Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27 79 69 77 082 5 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930 Postal: P.O. Box 2, Prince Albert 6930 South

Re: [ADMIN] encoding shp2pgsql/ client encoding

2009-11-26 Thread Brian Modra
anybody help me? Thanks. Regards MisterX -- Brian Modra Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27 79 69 77 082 5 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930 Postal: P.O. Box 2, Prince Albert 6930 South Africa http://www.zwartberg.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org

Re: [ADMIN] Just wanted to say thanks for a great tool

2009-11-21 Thread Brian Modra
Manager/Software Architect/DBA Web Services at Public Affairs 217-333-0382 -- Brian Modra Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27 79 69 77 082 5 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930 Postal: P.O. Box 2, Prince Albert 6930 South Africa http://www.zwartberg.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-admin

Re: [ADMIN] Need help in enabling remote connection

2009-11-02 Thread Brian Modra
./pg_ctl -D data_folder reload This doesn't work.  What else should i do to make remote connection work? I'm lost!  Please help! Thanks a lot, Shruthi -- Brian Modra Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27 79 69 77 082 5 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930 Postal: P.O. Box 2, Prince

Re: [ADMIN] Urgent Help required

2009-10-17 Thread Brian Modra
and dumping just that table? What does \d {table name} tell you? What does ps -ef|grep post show? Although the log looks like it is restarting itself, have you tried shutting down the database (and restarting it)? Many Thanks Neha. -- Brian Modra Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27

[ADMIN] server disk space

2009-09-06 Thread Brian Modra
your help. Thanks Brian -- Brian Modra Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27 79 69 77 082 5 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930 Postal: P.O. Box 2, Prince Albert 6930 South Africa http://www.zwartberg.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [ADMIN] server disk space

2009-09-06 Thread Brian Modra
...@consistentstate.com: On Sunday 06 September 2009 00:05:04 Brian Modra wrote: Hi, I'm maintaining a fairly large online database, and am trying to free up disk space. Its got to 98% full. I am certain that the postgresql data files are responsible for more than 97% of this partition's usage. The WAL

Re: [ADMIN] RAID for the DB filesystem

2009-08-04 Thread Brian Modra
-10 than fewer SAS drives in a RAID-5. if someone is worried about wasting disk space tell them to worry about something else, like losing data. -- Brian Modra   Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27 79 69 77 082 5 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930 Postal: P.O. Box 2, Prince Albert 6930 South

Re: [ADMIN] RAID for the DB filesystem

2009-08-04 Thread Brian Modra
-10 than fewer SAS drives in a RAID-5. if someone is worried about wasting disk space tell them to worry about something else, like losing data. -- Brian Modra   Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27 79 69 77 082 5 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930 Postal: P.O. Box 2, Prince Albert 6930 South

[ADMIN] RAID for the DB filesystem

2009-08-03 Thread Brian Modra
Brian -- Brian Modra Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27 79 69 77 082 5 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930 Postal: P.O. Box 2, Prince Albert 6930 South Africa http://www.zwartberg.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription

[ADMIN] large cache

2009-07-01 Thread Brian Modra
considering configuring a large cache, requiring larger than 16GB, and allowing it to spill over into swap space on a single 300GB SAS drive. Is this a good idea? Thanks Brian -- Brian Modra Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27 79 69 77 082 5 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930 Postal: P.O. Box

[ADMIN] Fwd: large cache

2009-06-29 Thread Brian Modra
considering configuring a large cache, requiring larger than 16GB, and allowing it to spill over into swap space on a single 300GB SAS drive. Is this a good idea? Thanks Brian -- Brian Modra   Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27 79 69 77 082 5 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930 Postal: P.O. Box 2

Re: [ADMIN] Problem with GeomFromText('POINT(...

2008-04-28 Thread Brian Modra
solution please. Thank you. Discover the new Windows Vista Learn more! -- Brian Modra Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27 79 183 8059 5 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930 Postal: P.O. Box 2, Prince Albert 6930 South Africa -- Sent via pgsql-admin

[ADMIN] WAL backups

2008-02-18 Thread Brian Modra
want to be able to do historical recoveries to any point in time if necessary. I'm interested to hear from other's about hardware for backup. I'm thinking of a second dedicated server offsite (near me), with a large, large disk. Thanks. Brian -- Brian Modra Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27

Re: [ADMIN] how to create cluster(loadbanacing) of postgresql server

2008-01-29 Thread Brian Modra
by *MailScanner* http://www.mailscanner.info/, and is believed to be clean. -- Brian Modra Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27 79 183 8059 6 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930 Postal: P.O. Box 2, Prince Albert 6930 South Africa

Re: [ADMIN] Backup of live database

2008-01-16 Thread Brian Modra
integrity, so even a WAL restore won't help because the base files themselves are corrupt in the tar file? On 16/01/2008, Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Modra wrote: The documentation about WAL says that you can start a live backup, as long as you use WAL backup also. I'm

[ADMIN] Backup of live database

2008-01-15 Thread Brian Modra
Hi, If tar reports that a file was modified while it was being archived, does that mean that the file was archived correctly, or is it corrupted in the archive? Does tar take a snapshot of the file so that even if it is modified, at least the archive is safe? Thanks -- Brian Modra Land line

Re: [ADMIN] Backup of live database

2008-01-15 Thread Brian Modra
The documentation about WAL says that you can start a live backup, as long as you use WAL backup also. I'm concerned about the integrity of the tar file. Can someone help me with that? On 16/01/2008, Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian Modra wrote: Hi, If tar reports that a file

[ADMIN] Vacuum taking an age

2008-01-03 Thread Brian Modra
taking the service offline early on Sunday morning... thanks in advance Brian -- Brian Modra Land line: +27 23 5411 462 Mobile: +27 79 183 8059 6 Jan Louw Str, Prince Albert, 6930 Postal: P.O. Box 2, Prince Albert 6930 South Africa ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum taking an age

2008-01-03 Thread Brian Modra
really need to.) On 04/01/2008, Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 6:48 AM, Brian Modra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a pretty live table: rows being inserted and updated more than once 1 per second, though far, far more inserts than updates. There are currently