[ADMIN] WAL rotation question version 8.3.0

2008-05-15 Thread Evan Rempel
does it do this? Can I control it? Can I turn it off? -- Evan Rempel, Senior Systems Administrator University of Victoria -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

Re: [ADMIN] WAL rotation question version 8.3.0

2008-05-15 Thread Evan Rempel
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Evan Rempel wrote: Now to the question. Once the archive_command starts lying about its success, postgresql deletes a number of the xlog files that it has been told have been successfuly archived. Why does it do this? Can I control it? Can I turn it off? Because

Re: [ADMIN] WAL rotation question version 8.3.0

2008-05-15 Thread Evan Rempel
cycling is a function of checkpoint_segments.) So it looks like postgresql will try to keep 2.5 * checkpoint_segments files, and if it has more that have been reported as archived, then it will start removing them. Does this sound correct? -- Evan Rempel -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (p

[ADMIN] LDAP authentication

2008-10-08 Thread Evan Rempel
142.104.0.0/24MD5 hostall all 142.104.0.0/24ldap... in hopes that if the account can be authenticated by MD5 local postgresql accounts, then it is, otherwise it will be authenticated by ldap. Is this type of setup possible? Evan Rempel. -- Sent via

Re: [ADMIN] LDAP authentication

2008-10-10 Thread Evan Rempel
Well, the list became very quiet on this question. Can anyone chime in with suggestions to have some accounts authenticated by ldap and the remainder by MD5 Evan. Evan Rempel wrote: I would like to use password authentication for most users, but LDAP authentication for the remaining ones

Re: [ADMIN] Upgrade in same major version

2008-10-14 Thread Evan Rempel
t is more explicit than what I quoted above. Thanks so much, Carol -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin -- Evan Rempel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Progra

Re: [ADMIN] Upgrade in same major version

2008-10-14 Thread Evan Rempel
t is more explicit than what I quoted above. Thanks so much, Carol -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin -- Evan Rempel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Progra

Re: [ADMIN] Upgrade in same major version

2008-10-14 Thread Evan Rempel
is some that is more explicit than what I quoted above. Thanks so much, Carol -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin -- Evan Rempel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Progra

[ADMIN] Internal fragmentations statistics Was: VACUUM FULL memory requirements

2009-12-14 Thread Evan Rempel
result is a mostly static footprint with regards to disk space used, but I would like to know how much room is usable inside the tables as well as the OS file system (that part is easy). -- Evan Rempel -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [ADMIN] more 10K disks or less 15K disks

2010-04-28 Thread Evan Rempel
Our experience shows that the 2.5 inch 10K disks have about the same I/O rate as the 3.5 inch 15K disks. Ideal would be 15K 2.5 inch. To answer you bigger question, it depends on how many threads are running to perform the inserts. If you have lots (2-3 times as many threads as disks) then your I

[ADMIN] PgPool-II - does it do re-connect?

2010-05-10 Thread Evan Rempel
comment on this functionality of PgPool-II or on this approach to failover in general? Evan Rempel. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

[ADMIN] Syslog line wrapping

2010-09-23 Thread Evan Rempel
, although not impossible, to get a program to do this. Evan Rempel. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

Re: [ADMIN] Using Postgresql as application server

2011-08-16 Thread Evan Rempel
Technically it can be done, but just because we can do something does not mean we should do something. Having said that... We have been using a middleware product that shall remain nameless, that goes against a large commercial database that shall also remain nameless. The middleware has been mig

Re: [ADMIN] Question about multiple slaves and Master loss.

2011-12-07 Thread Evan Rempel
. There is of course a small window though where you are not protected. Brad. -- Evan Rempel erem...@uvic.ca Senior Systems Administrator 250.721.7691 Unix Services, University Systems, University of Victoria -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing