[ADMIN] Question about multiple slaves and Master loss.

2011-12-07 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm pretty sure that the answer to this question is no, but I wanted to verify. Given the following scenario (pg 9.0): Server A (Master), Server B (A's streaming replication Slave), Server C (A's streaming replication Slave) If you lose Server A, is there anyway to promote Server B to master and

Re: [ADMIN] Questions on pg_dump

2008-07-18 Thread Chris Hoover
We understand that. The question is why is an uncompressed Fc format so much larger than a straight dump? Is the so bad it takes almost 5% extra space? On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Scott Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris, > > Sorry I'm not responding to the list, I am not allowed to

[ADMIN] Questions on pg_dump

2008-07-18 Thread Chris Hoover
We are doing some additional testing of our backup strategy with the goal of moving from the text dump to the custom format and have some questions about pg_dump -Fc. Question 1. Why would the custom format be larger? pg_dump -Fc -Z 0 this morning was 88GB while the normal pg_dump last night was

[ADMIN] More Autovacuum questions

2008-07-15 Thread Chris Hoover
Another question. When autovacuum sleeps, does it release the lock it has on the table? What we would like to have happen is for vacuum to work for a while, sleep, and while it is sleeping run an analyze on the table. We need this due to how quickly our data is changing. Currently we are runnin

Re: [ADMIN] 8.3 Autovacuum Questions

2008-07-14 Thread Chris Hoover
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Hoover escribió: > > I just have a couple of quick questions about 8.3 and Autovacuum. > > > > 1. When autovacuum chooses to vacuum a table, the entire table is > vacuumed, > >

[ADMIN] 8.3 Autovacuum Questions

2008-07-14 Thread Chris Hoover
I just have a couple of quick questions about 8.3 and Autovacuum. 1. When autovacuum chooses to vacuum a table, the entire table is vacuumed, and not just a specified percentage of the table. Correct? 2. There is no way, without turning autovacuum off, of excluding vacuum/analyze during a spec

[ADMIN] What is the difference in storage between a blank string and null?

2008-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm doing some testing on how to decrease our database size as I work on a partitioning scheme. I have found that if I have the database store all empty strings as nulls, I get a significant savings over saving them as blank strings (i.e. ''). Below is an example of savings I am seeing for the sam

[ADMIN] PG Con

2008-04-01 Thread Chris Hoover
Question for those of you who are going to PGCon 2008. Where do most attendees stay? My employer is sending me up there this year, and I would like to stay where most of the attendees stay so I can stay plugged into what is going on. So, do most people stay on campus, or at one of the 2 hotels m

Re: [ADMIN] drop database, vacuum full and disk space

2008-02-29 Thread Chris Hoover
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Antonio Grassi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list. I've searched the archives and I've seen a lot of posts related > to database size, vacuuming, etc., but I can't totally understand this. > > I've a small database of about 300Mb (when initially loaded), whose d

Re: [ADMIN] Where to find information on the new HOT tables?

2008-02-08 Thread Chris Hoover
On Feb 7, 2008 6:48 PM, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruce Momjian escribió: > > Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > > > > What about Alvaro's concern about manual vacuuming policies editing > wrt to > > > HOT? > > > > I think most people will be using autovacuum, and those who aren't will >

[ADMIN] Help calculating load values

2008-02-06 Thread Chris Hoover
I need some help calculating how much activity a query causes. If I have a table defined as: create table test_a ( col1 integer, col2 char(1), col3 varchar(35), primary key (col1,col2) ) with oids; When I do an "insert into test_a values (1,'a','test data');", does this generate 3 writes

Re: [ADMIN] Where to find information on the new HOT tables?

2008-02-05 Thread Chris Hoover
On Feb 5, 2008 2:53 PM, Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Hoover wrote: > > I have been searching through the 8.3 documentation trying to find > > information on the new HOT tables that 8.3 provides and can not seem to > find > > any. Can someon

[ADMIN] Where to find information on the new HOT tables?

2008-02-05 Thread Chris Hoover
I have been searching through the 8.3 documentation trying to find information on the new HOT tables that 8.3 provides and can not seem to find any. Can someone please point me towards some documentation on this new feature so I can better understand it, and see if I can implement it into our curr

Re: [ADMIN] 8.3 Logging Question

2008-01-24 Thread Chris Hoover
On Jan 24, 2008 5:38 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The .log file is to catch any non-csv-format data that comes down the > pipe. You can't turn it off. > >regards, tom lane What type of data would you expect this to be?

Re: [ADMIN] 8.3 Logging Question

2008-01-24 Thread Chris Hoover
> > > [...] > > log_destination = 'syslog,csvlog' # Valid values are > > combinations of > > This is kind of strange. It should be syslog or csvlog. It shouldn't be > both of them. Or am I wrong ? > > Regards. > > > -- > Guillaume. > http://www.postgresqlfr.org > http://dalibo.com >

[ADMIN] 8.3 Logging Question

2008-01-24 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm running PG 8.3rc2 to start testing it out, and really like how it is preforming for me so far. However, I have one question on the logging. I am trying to use syslog and csvlog to log all sql. This seems to work great except that for every log rotation postgres does, I get a .csv log file th

[ADMIN] All numeric database names?

2008-01-08 Thread Chris Hoover
Just wanted to check, are there any problems/gotcha's to having a cluster of all numeric database names? We are thinking of switching our database naming system to use our customer number (a 6 digit integer) for the database name. Is a negative/bad thing? Thanks, Chris PG 8.1

[ADMIN] Is there a limit to the number of partitions?

2008-01-02 Thread Chris Hoover
Is there a limit to the number of partitions a table can have in PostgreSQL? The reason I as is we are looking again at partitioning our databases with the possibility of doing the partitioning by year, month, or even day. However, we are required by HIPPA to keep 7 years of data, and we are plan

[ADMIN] Does copy increment pg_stat_user_tables.seq_scan?

2007-11-16 Thread Chris Hoover
Subject pretty much says it all. When I do my nightly dumps with pg_dump, does that copy statement on each table cause the stats collector to increment the seq_scan column? thanks, Chris pg 8.1.3 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' th

Re: [ADMIN] any way to make query use index?

2007-11-15 Thread Chris Hoover
On Nov 15, 2007 11:25 AM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here is the table definition: > > CREATE TABLE rev_code_desc > > ( > > rev_code character(4) NOT NULL, > If changing the queries seems impractical, you could add an index on > rev_code::text, or reconsider the choice of column ty

[ADMIN] any way to make query use index?

2007-11-15 Thread Chris Hoover
I am working through our application looking for ways to eliminate seq scans in our database. I am looking for some help with this query. SELECT rev_desc FROM rev_code_desc WHERE rev_code = lpad('0300', 4, '0') Is there anyway to make postgres use an index on this query? Here is the table defin

[ADMIN] Upgrading from 7.2.1 to 8.x

2007-10-31 Thread Chris Hoover
Question, I have an ancient database that is running Postgresql 7.2.1 on AIX. Is it safe to directly upgrade the database to 8.1? If not, what steps do I need to take? I have been pushing for 3 years to upgrade this database, and with some upcoming projects, I am going to do another push with m

Re: [ADMIN] Moving database install to new SAN

2007-09-20 Thread Chris Hoover
> > > 2. copy whole data directory over to new SAN > If database is big, then I think that is much faster to copy running > database > to new SAN. > Then stop postgres and rsync what was changed - but this will be probably > only a few files. I believe if you do this, you will not get a function

Re: [ADMIN] How to update from 8.1 to 8.2 ?

2007-09-20 Thread Chris Hoover
On 9/20/07, Carol Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We just did this. I did a pg_dumpall using 8.1. Then we fired up > 8.2 while 8.1 was still running. Uploaded the data to 8.2. Then > shut 8.1 down. This allowed us to have the database unavailable for > a very short time. > > Carol Car

Re: [ADMIN] How to import CSV file?

2007-08-28 Thread Chris Hoover
DBI to insert it into the PG. Which is basically an ETL > (Extract, Transform, Load). I know insert is slower, but the point was to > show a general way that will always for. > > Cheers > Medi Montaseri > > On 8/28/07, Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

[ADMIN] How to import CSV file?

2007-08-28 Thread Chris Hoover
I need some help importing a csv file. I have been given a csv file full of data that is delimited by a comma, and the strings are delimited by a single quote. How do you write the copy statement to use a single quote delimiter? I have tried several things, but so far, no joy. Thanks for any he

Re: [ADMIN] How to export query results

2007-08-21 Thread Chris Hoover
On 8/21/07, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yes. you need to use the copy command inside a function and use > security definer to say that the function runs as a superuser. > Ok, I thought from the documentation that copy could only extract entire table or a specific column. If I

[ADMIN] How to export query results

2007-08-21 Thread Chris Hoover
I need some guidance. I need to have an after insert trigger execute on a specific table and export the results of query to a file on the database file system. Is this possible to do from a trigger? If so, how can I accomplish this? I am drawing a blank on how to export the results of the query

[ADMIN] help with query

2007-08-17 Thread Chris Hoover
I need a little bit of help. I need to use sql to pull any tables that have the a foreign key referencing a given tables primary key. So far I have come up with the listed query. It works great for single column primary keys, but if a table has a multi column primary key, it is returning to many

Re: [ADMIN] Easy way to change table schema?

2007-08-10 Thread Chris Hoover
On 8/10/07, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris Hoover wrote: > > I have accidentally created some tables in the wrong schema. Since my > > testers have begun to use them and put data in them, I

[ADMIN] Easy way to change table schema?

2007-08-10 Thread Chris Hoover
I have accidentally created some tables in the wrong schema. Since my testers have begun to use them and put data in them, I was hoping for an easy way to move the existing tables. Is there a way to move tables between schema's w/o having to drop and recreate? Thanks, Chris

Re: [ADMIN] Joining tables in two different databases?

2007-08-09 Thread Chris Hoover
On 8/8/07, Michael Goldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to access tables in two different databases, running on > the > same server, from within psql? > Take a look at dblink in the contrib area. I think it will give you what you are looking for. Chris

[ADMIN] Help with High value unicode characters

2007-08-07 Thread Chris Hoover
We need some help, we have some what we believe are high value unicode characters (Unicode 0x2). How can you search and replace for these? We are storing this data in a text field, and having the data contain this unicode value is violating our xml rules the application uses and causing abends in

Re: [ADMIN] my postgres is dead. need help!

2007-07-27 Thread Chris Hoover
On 7/27/07, Tena Sakai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > My postgres (v 7.1.4, I think) did not come up upon reboot. > I have tried to use startup script called postgresql in > /etc/rc.d/init.d directory, but it reports FATAL when I > try to stop postmaster. > > The most recent log file

[ADMIN] How to move a tablespace?

2007-06-22 Thread Chris Hoover
How do you correctly move a tablespace? I am thinking this would be the process: 1. Cleanly shutdown Postgres 2. Move tablespace directory and all contents to new location 3. Create a symlink from the new location back to the old location 4. Restart Postgres Would that be correct? Or is the

Re: [ADMIN] 8.2.4 Won't Build 8.1 Functional Indexes

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Hoover
Well, the one index: CREATE INDEX acceptedbilling_to_date_accepted_billing_dt_idx ON acceptedbilling USING btree (to_date(accepted_billing_dt::text, 'mmdd'::text));. Reject: ERROR: functions in index expression must be marked IMMUTABLE SQL state: 42P17 Is actually a date stored in a varch

[ADMIN] How to tell how long server has been up?

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Hoover
Maybe I'm blind (wouldn't be the first time), but I can't see a way to find out how long postgres has been running. Is there a way to tell this from a query? I am working with some of the stat views and would like to correlate them to how long the server has been running. Thanks, Chris

[ADMIN] 8.2.4 Won't Build 8.1 Functional Indexes

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Hoover
I am testing upgrades to 8.2.4 from 8.1.3 and am having problems with 8.2.4balking at the functional indexes I have created. These indexes exist and work fine in 8.1.3, so why is 8.2.4 rejecting them? Index 1: CREATE INDEX acceptedbilling_to_date_accepted_billing_dt_idx ON acceptedbilling USIN

[ADMIN] Help with database change

2007-06-05 Thread Chris Hoover
I am doing some research into partitioning my postgres database. While doing this, I am trying to take the opportunity to improve the over all database.design. One of the things I am thinking of implementing would be the use of nullif/coalesce. Our application tends to send a lot of strings tha

Re: [ADMIN] Deletes hurt

2007-05-31 Thread Chris Hoover
Just curious, what sort of field do they use to mark the rows? I'm assuming a timestamp since it would half to be part of the primary key, or am I way off? This has really gotten me thinking about how I might implement this in my database. Thanks, Chris On 5/31/07, Jim Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ADMIN] Fwd: Out of Memory on Reindex

2007-05-31 Thread Chris Hoover
AIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Chris Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > maintenance_work_mem = 1048576 (I have 9GB ram on this server). You might have that much RAM, but I wonder how much of it the kernel will give to any one process. Did you check the ulimit settings the postmaster

Re: [ADMIN] Fwd: Out of Memory on Reindex

2007-05-31 Thread Chris Hoover
maintenance_work_mem = 1048576 (I have 9GB ram on this server). Chris On 5/30/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Chris Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am getting the following error when trying to run a reindex on one of my > databases. > reindex

[ADMIN] Fwd: Out of Memory on Reindex

2007-05-30 Thread Chris Hoover
Any ideas? -- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: May 29, 2007 11:36 AM Subject: Out of Memory on Reindex To: "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" I am getting the following error when trying to run a reindex on one of my databases. reind

[ADMIN] Out of Memory on Reindex

2007-05-29 Thread Chris Hoover
I am getting the following error when trying to run a reindex on one of my databases. reindexdb: reindexing of database "xxx" failed: ERROR: out of memory DETAIL: Failed on request of size 268435456. Can someone advise on what memory parameter was violated? Are we looking at work_mem, shmmax,

Re: [ADMIN] What happens on a commit?

2007-05-23 Thread Chris Hoover
Ok, we are looking more into this. In the mean time, can someone please explain to me (or point me to the correct documentation) what happens in PostgreSQL when a commit is issued. What exactly does the database do? Thanks, Chris On 5/22/07, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [ADMIN] What happens on a commit?

2007-05-22 Thread Chris Hoover
I found an e-mail showing how to strace and here is what I have found. Does it help/mean anything to those who can decode this? We are installing PostgreSQL from the official rpms. Chris time strace -c -p 2690 Process 2690 attached - interrupt to quit Process 2690 detached % time seconds

[ADMIN] What happens on a commit?

2007-05-22 Thread Chris Hoover
I am trying to diagnose a slowness issue in some of my databases. I think the issue is due to a hardware/network upgrade over the weekend, but like all dba's, I have to prove it. Right now, I have almost all commits being issues taking between 1 and 5 seconds to complete. The can take as long a

[ADMIN] PostgreSQL Training?

2007-05-18 Thread Chris Hoover
Hello, I am looking for any advice about PostgreSQL training courses that might be available. I have been a PostgreSQL DBA for the past 3+ years and have over 7 years experience as a DBA and am wanting to improve and hone my skills. I would like to learn more about PostgreSQL and learn tips, tr

Re: [ADMIN] Where are aliases stored?

2007-04-12 Thread Chris Hoover
/11/07, Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 11 April 2007 16:14, Chris Hoover wrote: > I'm trying to pull a listing of views with the columns and column aliases. > However, I must be blind, and can't find what system view has the alias for > the columns of

Re: [ADMIN] Best compressed archive_command on Linux?

2007-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
I am running my system with the logs going into a dated directory. Then each night, I have a cron job that tars up the previous days directory. Here is my script for the archive_command: #!/bin/bash echo "start" >> ~/archive_log_timings date >> ~/archive_log_timings source /home/postgres/etc/po

[ADMIN] Where are aliases stored?

2007-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm trying to pull a listing of views with the columns and column aliases. However, I must be blind, and can't find what system view has the alias for the columns of the view. Would someone please enlighten me. Thanks, Chris

Re: [ADMIN] Bytea question

2007-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
hope this makes sense. Chris On 4/11/07, Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No, I need to store the entire file as received into the database. Chris On 4/11/07, Alvaro Herrera < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris Hoover escribió: > > Hopefully a quick question.

Re: [ADMIN] Bytea question

2007-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
No, I need to store the entire file as received into the database. Chris On 4/11/07, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris Hoover escribió: > Hopefully a quick question. > > If I store a file into a bytea field, is there anyway for postgres to read > the contents

[ADMIN] Bytea question

2007-04-11 Thread Chris Hoover
Hopefully a quick question. If I store a file into a bytea field, is there anyway for postgres to read the contents of the file? Here is my scenario: Receive text file insert file into bytea field insert trigger fires - read file contents - post contents into production tables Is this at all

[ADMIN] Setting sqlstate in plpgsql function

2007-04-06 Thread Chris Hoover
Is where anyway to set the sqlstate to a custom value when inside a plpgsql function? I am still working on converting from Sybase ASA to Postgres and some of the triggers and stored procedures in Sybase are setting the variable to specific custom values. Thanks, Chris

[ADMIN] 8.1.3 Problem

2007-01-31 Thread Chris Hoover
I am starting to have some significant problems with one of my 8.1.3databases. I am getting more and more of these errors: wbd,20552,dholton,2007-01-31 15:32:27.137 EST,45c0fcb4.5048,16,2007-01-31 15:31:48 EST,342126177,UPDATE,ERROR: could not access status of transaction 253762136 wbd,20552,dho

[ADMIN] 8.1.3 Crash/Corruption Problem

2007-01-08 Thread Chris Hoover
Over the weekend, I suffered from major database corruption on my 8.1.3database. Fortunetly, this was my development/non-production box so I did not have to spend my entire weekend getting it back online, but I did spend a major portion of it. I ended up having to do a pitr recovery of the syste

Re: [ADMIN] Suggestions needed about how to dump/restore a database

2006-12-19 Thread Chris Hoover
One other option is to shut the database down competely, and then do a copy of the file system the new server. I have done this when I need to move a very large database to a new server. I can copy 500GB's in a couple of hours, where restoring my large databases backups would take 10+ hours. Jus

Re: [ADMIN] Upgrading from 7.4 to 8.2

2006-12-19 Thread Chris Hoover
Very easy, Install the new version of PostgreSQL on your new machine. Then use the new machine's install to pg_dump the old machine's database and load it into the new machine (obviously, the machines must be table to talk to each other over the network). Very easy. That is how I upgraded all

Re: [ADMIN] Database size

2006-11-06 Thread Chris Hoover
select pg_database_size('')/1024/1024;http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-admin.html On 11/6/06, Nikola Radakovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear community,I would be very grateful if someone could answer me,where to find instructions how to set the size ( in megabytes ) forpar

[ADMIN] Sql Anywhere to PostgreSQL?

2006-10-24 Thread Chris Hoover
Has anyone ever done a conversion from Sql Anywhere to PostgreSQL?  I have a task to investigate what this would take.Also, the Sql Anywhere database stores image files in the database as long binary types.  What would be the best format to store these in PostgreSQL? Also, while all of my current P

[ADMIN] anyway to get a transaction count?

2006-10-06 Thread Chris Hoover
Is there an easy way to get a count on the number of transactions postgres is processing a min/hour/day/etc.?  If so, can it be broken down by the individual databases in the cluster?Thanks,Chris

[ADMIN] Table Truncate and Locks

2006-09-28 Thread Chris Hoover
What sort of lock does truncate require?  If it is not an access exclusive lock, what locks would block the truncate?Thanks,Chris

[ADMIN] best way to choose index to cluster on?

2006-09-25 Thread Chris Hoover
I am looking to squeeze a bit more speed out of my database by clustering most of my tables.  However, on tables with multiple indexes, how is the best way to choose the index.  I am thinking I want to use the index with the largest pg_stat_user_indexes.idx_tup_read.  Would this be correct?  If not

Re: [ADMIN] Why so long between archive calls?

2006-09-07 Thread Chris Hoover
or = 0.001  autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor = 0.0005    autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay = -1   autovacuum_vacuum_cost_limit = -1   statement_timeout = 0 lc_messages = 'C'  lc_monetary = 'C'    lc_numeric = 'C'  lc_time = 'C'   

Re: [ADMIN] Why so long between archive calls?

2006-09-06 Thread Chris Hoover
ittle bit of lattitude on what I do with it.ChrisOn 9/6/06, Tom Lane < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:"Chris Hoover" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> Right now, I have 510 log files waiting to be archived totaling 8GB.> ...> Why is the server so far behind?Good question.  T

Re: [ADMIN] Why so long between archive calls?

2006-09-06 Thread Chris Hoover
Tom,Did you get my reply to this message with my data?  I have not seen it come onto the list.  I sent it out yesterday.ChrisOn 9/1/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Alvaro Herrera < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> strace -s0> That'll cut any strings though, not only for read/writes.  You'll stil

Re: [ADMIN] Why so long between archive calls?

2006-09-01 Thread Chris Hoover
t has potential personal/patient data in it. ChrisOn 8/31/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Chris Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> Any other ideas?  I am still 508 archive log files behind.Try "strace -f -p " on the archiver subprocess to see what it&#

Re: [ADMIN] Why so long between archive calls?

2006-08-30 Thread Chris Hoover
lc_monetary = 'C'    lc_numeric = 'C'  lc_time = 'C'    add_missing_from = on On 8/29/06, Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The oldest log file that is not archived is: -rw---  1 postgres postgres 16777216 Aug 28 15:24 00010193005AThe

Re: [ADMIN] How to convert a string to bytea?

2006-08-30 Thread Chris Hoover
Sorry, this was supposed to go to the -general list.On 8/30/06, Chris Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am in need of some help.  I need to use the encode function against a text string in one of my pg/plsql functions.  However, the encode function expects a bytea field to be passed to it

[ADMIN] How to convert a string to bytea?

2006-08-30 Thread Chris Hoover
I am in need of some help.  I need to use the encode function against a text string in one of my pg/plsql functions.  However, the encode function expects a bytea field to be passed to it.  How do I convert my text string into a bytea? Thanks,Chris

Re: [ADMIN] Why so long between archive calls?

2006-08-29 Thread Chris Hoover
file.)Perhaps try running it manually with an early log file as the PostgreSQLuser account?When you say you're 500 files behind, how old is the earliest log?Andy. Chris Hoover wrote:> I am working on getting my development system working with archive> logging so I can use the pitr features of

Re: [ADMIN] dbsize.so for PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0

2006-08-29 Thread Chris Hoover
Mr. VanIngen,There are native PostgreSQL dbsize commands in 8.1.  Check out http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/functions-admin.html for more details.  Hopefully these will meet your needs if you don't get a better answer.ChrisOn 8/29/06, Lane Van Ingen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: G

[ADMIN] Why so long between archive calls?

2006-08-29 Thread Chris Hoover
I am working on getting my development system working with archive logging so I can use the pitr features of Postgres.  However, I am finding that the actual archiving is not keeping up with the generation of the logs.  I am now over 500 wal archive files behind (8+ GB). What controls how often the

[ADMIN] create table problems

2006-07-26 Thread Chris Hoover
  I am trying to create a table in my production system that has a foreign key into an existing table.  However, this action is being blocked by transactions on that table, and is blocking any additional selects on that table. Why is this?  The table is empty (being a create), so I don't understand

[ADMIN] log entries after pitr recovery

2006-07-21 Thread Chris Hoover
I have been testing pitr with my development system.  After the system rolled forward, I recieve a ton of errors right after it come on line.  I'm assuming these are fine and just the system cleaning up, but I wanted to make sure. Thanks,Chris,11962,,2006-07-13 16:11:16.281 EDT,,360LOG:  invali

[ADMIN] 8.1 Unique Index Issue/Bug???

2006-07-13 Thread Chris Hoover
I am having what appears to be a bug with unique indexes on 8.1.3.I have created a new table. create table payer_835 (    payer_id         int8 not null default nextval('payer_835_payer_id_seq'::regclass) primary key,     payer_name        varchar(50) not null,    payer_trn03        varchar(10) not

Re: [ADMIN] Querying database size

2006-07-07 Thread Chris Hoover
On 7/7/06, Benjamin Krajmalnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a query which can be issued which will return the size of adatabase?I see that in pgadmin you can get the values on a per table manner.I have looced at the pg_catalog schema, but to be truthful I cannot figure out how to get that in

[ADMIN] Request for RPM's

2006-06-29 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm not sure where to post requests for rpms so I'm posting here.  Can the PostgreSQL rpm team please release rpms for 8.1.3/8.1.4 for RHEL 2.1?Thanks,Chris

Re: [ADMIN] 8.1.3 - autovacuum question

2006-06-28 Thread Chris Hoover
:25PM -0400, Chris Hoover wrote:> Are there any plans to fix this so we can see atleast the table activity (> i.e. vacuuming table x) any time soon? >> Thanks,>> Chris>> On 6/26/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> >> >"Chris Hoover" < [EMAIL PR

Re: [ADMIN] 8.1.3 - autovacuum question

2006-06-27 Thread Chris Hoover
Are there any plans to fix this so we can see atleast the table activity (i.e. vacuuming table x) any time soon?Thanks,ChrisOn 6/26/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:"Chris Hoover" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> I turned on autovacuum on one of my database servers o

[ADMIN] 8.1.3 - autovacuum question

2006-06-26 Thread Chris Hoover
I turned on autovacuum on one of my database servers over the weekend.  I have been looking at the logs trying to see what it is doing.  However, all I see are lines like this:,7674,,2006-06-26 16:31:37.650 EDT,,1LOG:  autovacuum: processing database "postgres" Is there a way to tell if autovac

[ADMIN] 8.x Vaccum/Autovacuum settings

2006-06-24 Thread Chris Hoover
Just curious,What are most of you setting your vacuum and autovacuum parameters to for your 8.x databases.  I just turned on autovacuuming on one of my db servers and went with a very conservative vacuum_cost_delay of 200 and vacuum_cost_limit of 50.  I am wondering if anyone else has tested to fin

Re: [ADMIN] 2,2gb of pg_xlog ??

2006-06-22 Thread Chris Hoover
None of this will work since he is using PG 7.2.  To start off with, and urgent upgrade is needed to a newer version since there are serious bugs and data loss issues in these earlier versions.  As far as having the 2.2 GB of xlogs, someone more knowledgeable of this would need to answer that.On 6

[ADMIN] Question on failure during cluster operation

2006-06-22 Thread Chris Hoover
Question,I am wanting to run a cluster on the main table in all of our 200+ databases.  However, my manager wants to know what would happen if we suffer a major failure while the cluster is running.  If I am running a "cluster chosen_index on main_table", and the server crashes,  would the database

[ADMIN] Question on vacuum output

2006-06-20 Thread Chris Hoover
I am having some performance issues on some of my larger databases (50-100+GB).  I just ran a vacuum analyze on our key table, and saw this at the end.DETAIL:  562499 dead row versions cannot be removed yet.There were 15117 unused item pointers. 0 pages are entirely empty.CPU 8.32s/2.59u sec elapse

[ADMIN] free space map

2006-06-20 Thread Chris Hoover
Is there anyway to query the free space map and see  how many entries there are for a specific table?  We are starting to have some performance issues since our upgrade to 8.1 (running 8.1.3).  However I can vacuum one table and the issues are temporarily solved.  I am trying to do some research an

Re: [ADMIN] Question about postgre sql dll

2006-06-12 Thread Chris Hoover
This question would be better suited for the pgsql-odbc list.  You will probably also get more answers there.However, I believe you can download the windoze ODBC files from any of the standard postgresql.org mirror sites. ChrisOn 6/12/06, rock well <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, i have a quest

Re: [ADMIN] Major Problems with PostgreSQL Logs (8.1.3)

2006-06-09 Thread Chris Hoover
Is there an easy way to see if this is the problem?  How can I verify the size of PIPEBUF, and additionally, how do you tell the exact size of the statement being logged?On 6/9/06, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:"Chris Hoover" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> ---I am ha

[ADMIN] Major Problems with PostgreSQL Logs (8.1.3)

2006-06-09 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm not sure what is going on, but this is the third try to get this to the list.---I am having a major problem with the PostgreSQL log files.  We have sql logging turned on for recovery purposes, and have discovered a problem.  We have lines of sql being interrupted by the next log line before the

[ADMIN] Best way to index large text/varchar fields

2006-06-09 Thread Chris Hoover
In 8.1, what is the best way to index large text/varchar fields for wild card searches?I am getting good number of queries being submitted for reporting purposes that are doing the following - where like '%some phrase%' and Is there a good way to index these fields so that the db engine will

Re: [ADMIN] Database port changing issue

2006-06-09 Thread Chris Hoover
sounds like you might have a firewall blocking the new port.  Make sure you can connect locally the the database, and then get a hole poked in your iptables firewall (assuming this is a linux server)HTH,Chris On 6/9/06, Mohamed Fazil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi to all,   I am facing an issue wh

Re: [ADMIN] autovacuum

2006-06-01 Thread Chris Hoover
Autovacuum does not release space back to the OS.  It only marks the tuples avaiable for reuse.  To give the space back to the OS, you would have to run a vacuum full on the table.Chris On 6/1/06, Sriram Dandapani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi   I have a table about 17G in size. I di

[ADMIN] Figuring autovacuum settings

2006-05-17 Thread Chris Hoover
Ok, I'm still working on the possibility of turning autovacuum on.Question, I have a tables that are multi GB.  When I run the threshold calculations using "normal" values, it seems that my large important tables would almost never be vacuumed.  Here is an example, in my largest database, my most i

[ADMIN] More Autovacuum Questions

2006-05-16 Thread Chris Hoover
Thanks to those who answered my first question.  I am looking at implementing autovacuuming on our new production 8.1.3 systems.  I am reading the documentation on the various configuration parameters.  The autovacuum_analyze_threshold and autovacuum_vacuum_threshold talk about the number of update

[ADMIN] Autovacuum Question

2006-05-16 Thread Chris Hoover
PostgreSQL 8.1.3Question on autovacuum.autovacuum_naptime (integer) Specifies the delay between activity rounds for the autovacuum subprocess. In each round the subprocess examines one database and issues VACUUM and ANALYZE commands as needed for tables in that database. The delay is measured in se

[ADMIN] PG 8.1 log rotation

2006-05-11 Thread Chris Hoover
Question,  Can you set both the log_rotation_age and log_rotation_size?  If so, does either one have presidence over the other?  I would like to have both on and am hoping that you will tell me that they work together. So, if log_rotation_age = 1440, and log_rotation_size = 1048576 then my log will

[ADMIN] Terminating Idle Connections

2006-05-09 Thread Chris Hoover
Is there a way inside of Postgresql to automatically terminate idle connections?  I would like to terminate any connection to my database that has not has any activity for a specified period of time.  I would like to be able to do this despite the state of the connection (the majority of my truly i

[ADMIN] Where to get column length

2006-05-05 Thread Chris Hoover
I know it is in the docs, but right now I can't see it. How do I pull the length of a specific varchar column?  I have just found a problem with our schema being out of sync on one specific column, and need to find out how many of our 200+ databases need to be fixed. Here is what I have so far:sele

Re: [ADMIN] waring from pg_restore

2006-04-26 Thread Chris Hoover
you should use the PG 8.1 pg_dump to dump the 7.4.3 database and then import it into the new server.  It is not recommended to do it the way you have done it.On 4/25/06, Uwe Maiwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,i get the following warning from pg_restore and would like to know if i cansafely igno

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