Re: [ADMIN] Moving the data directory

2011-02-16 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
On 2011-02-16 04:51, Greg Smith wrote: Debian and Ubuntu installations have a unique feature where you can have multiple PostgreSQL installations installed at the same time. That's pretty easy to do with any Linux distribution. -- Mail to my list address MUST be sent via the mailing list.

[ADMIN] 9.0 replication: observation

2010-12-01 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
About a month ago I upgraded five Linux (CentOS 4.4) DB boxes (for load balancing) from 8.3.0 to 9.0.1 in order to use replication, which I needed for a new web/DB application. The replication configuration went well, and all the four hot_standby servers are (streaming) replicating just fine

[ADMIN] 9.0 replication -- multiple hot_standby servers

2010-10-29 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
Previously posted in [ADMIN]: Two days ago I upgraded five DB boxes (for load balancing) from 8.3.0 to 9.0.1 in order to use replication. The replication configuration went reasonably well, and now all the four hot_standby servers are (streaming) replicating just fine from the primary DB

[ADMIN] Getting ERROR: canceling autovacuum task

2008-02-10 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
I'm getting this loading some large (1 million row) tables. Is this anything to be concerned about? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

[ADMIN] When to ANALYZE w/ auto-vacuum

2008-02-09 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
Now, that I have 8.3.0 installed running auto-vacuum, I have gotten rid of all my scripted VACUUMs, and I would like to get rid of all the scripted ANALYZEs as well. The 8.3 docs say: In the default PostgreSQL configuration, /The Auto-Vacuum Daemon/

Re: [ADMIN] 8.3.0, locales, and encodings

2008-02-07 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
On 2008-02-07 01:17, Tino Schwarze wrote: Hi Dean, On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:29:02PM -0800, Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) wrote: 2. ... Should I be running INITDB w/ -locale POSIX -E UTF8, or just -locale POSIX (implying -E SQL_ASCII)? Or does it make a difference, since I always

[ADMIN] 8.3.0, locales, and encodings

2008-02-06 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
I got a small surprise when upgrading to 8.3.0 today (CentOS 4.4). When I went to restore my database, PSQL complained that my CREATE DATABASE... ENCODING 'UTF8'; wasn't valid (the new phpBB 3.0 software enforces using UTF8). Sure enough, a bit of research showed that the supplied