[ADMIN] risks of backup using filesystem snapshot/dump ?

2013-04-06 Thread Jim Mercer
the idea of just restoring the filesystem dump. so, the question becomes, if i restore a filesystem snapshot backup, the DB will be in a 'crashed' state. what, if any, risks are there with regards to corruption, or the inability to actually use the restored DB? -- Jim Mercer Reptilian R

[ADMIN] purpose/use of pg_start_backup() pg_stop_backup()

2013-04-06 Thread Jim Mercer
f using these functions both for a backup and a restore? -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 "He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead" -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your sub

Re: [ADMIN] Installing multiple instances of Postgred on one FreeBSD server

2013-05-01 Thread Jim Mercer
he old jail whe the next upgrade is complete. repeat as often as you want to upgrade. i'm pretty sure this can be adapted to linux, but i forget what their jail equivilent is. the overhead is minimal -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 "H

Re: [ADMIN] Installing multiple instances of Postgred on one FreeBSD server

2013-05-01 Thread Jim Mercer
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 02:21:44PM -0600, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: > So essentially we would have to run jails on this - does that affect > performance? i would say minimal impact. > > > -Original Message----- > From: Jim Mercer [mailto:j...@reptiles.org] > Sent: We

Re: [ADMIN] Installing multiple instances of Postgred on one FreeBSD server

2013-05-01 Thread Jim Mercer
d. --jim > > > > > > From: Gezeala M. Bacu?o II [mailto:geze...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 3:38 PM > To: Jim Mercer > Cc: Benjamin Krajmalnik; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Installing multiple instances of Postgred on one FreeBSD >

Re: [ADMIN] Installing multiple instances of Postgred on one FreeBSD server

2013-05-02 Thread Jim Mercer
e of users/uids is moot, since the jail is independent of the main system. assuming you configure the base system to listen only on its own IP, installing on the jail, is no different than installing on a normal system. --jim > > On ?? 01 ?? 2013 16:24:01 Jim Mercer wrote: > >

Re: [ADMIN] Problem: pg_hba.conf is automatically rewritten every day

2013-05-03 Thread Jim Mercer
ostgresql > >> received > >> a SIGHUP to reload configuration. > >> > >> > >> Sounds like some sysadmin scripted rsync gone wild. > >> > > > > -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 "He w

Re: [ADMIN] top posting?

2013-05-06 Thread Jim Mercer
s seem to think it's OK to quote five pages > of someone else's response, then add one or two sentences at the bottom ... i find that top posting is far more prevalent than bottom posting, but both are just signs of laziness. --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@re

Re: [ADMIN] top posting?

2013-05-06 Thread Jim Mercer
rritated. bottom posts, i'll generally skip because the author obviously doesn't value their own words. --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 "He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead" -- Sent via pgsql-admin m

Re: [ADMIN] top posting?

2013-05-06 Thread Jim Mercer
ad mailing lists, newsgroups, forums, RSS, etc. spending a little time to clean up your message, making it terse, but not cryptic, will go a long way to preventing people from thinking you are a dumbass. 8^) --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 "

Re: [ADMIN] top posting?

2013-05-07 Thread Jim Mercer
t on my magic email ettiquette hat, and spend significant amounts of time formatting my responses, precisely so that you feel the full brunt of my anger. yeah, that makes sense. 8^( -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 "He who dies with the most toys i

Re: [ADMIN] Installing multiple instances of Postgred on one FreeBSD server

2013-05-08 Thread Jim Mercer
ook a few tweaks and hacks to make it robust. however, that was years ago. jails have evolved into a well thought out virtual kernel environment. ah, here you go, some stuff about setting up pgsql in a FreeBSD jail: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=23114 -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Re

Re: [ADMIN] Installing multiple instances of Postgred on one FreeBSD server

2013-05-08 Thread Jim Mercer
> there have been also some rather "warm" discussions here in these very lists. i'm relatively new to the pgsql lists (although i've been using pgsql since at least the mid-90's). --jim -- Jim Mercer Reptilian Research j...@reptiles.org+1 416 410-5633 &quo