Re: [ADMIN] Question about access to db server

2012-12-08 Thread Mark Mayo
http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/index.php?/archives/27-Reading-PgAdmin-Graphical-Explain-Plans.html. Sometimes using an join instead of a subselect or indexing greatly improves a query even before trying to optimize the default postgres settings. Thanks -Mark On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 5:17 PM,

Re: [ADMIN] "Data import from Mysql to MS Sql Server"

2012-07-26 Thread Mark Lane
Wrong list, but I would look at creating SSIS packages to transform and load data into SQL Server. You can find out quite a bit about this from the technet area of the Microsoft website. Mark On Jul 26, 2012, at 3:46, Rajat Sangal wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I want to import

Re: [ADMIN] New role can connect to all dbs with no grants

2012-03-20 Thread Mark Lane
Gordon On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Gordon Shannon wrote: > Hi. I'm confused about how to restrict databases from roles. When I > create > a new database, I thought I would have to grant connect to a role in order > for that role to connect to it and see its objects. > > But... > > [admin@

Re: [ADMIN] check_postgres monitor by Bucardo - any opinions?

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Steben
Thanks Scott - do you ship the output to Nagios? On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Mark Steben > wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm evaluating the check_postgres program. We are running postgres 8.3. > > Does anybody

[ADMIN] check_postgres monitor by Bucardo - any opinions?

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Steben
anything germaine to check_postgres. Thank you, -- *Mark Steben @ @utoRevenue* * * <http://www.autorevenue.com/>

Re: [ADMIN] Trying to use binary replication - from tutorial

2011-10-17 Thread Mark Keisler
> on the master postgresql.conf I set > listen_address = '*' > wav_level = hot_standby > max_wal_senders = 3 > > I didn't change any of postgresql.conf Archiving settings. They all seem > to be commented out. Could that be the problem? > > Evan > > > O

Re: [ADMIN] Trying to use binary replication - from tutorial

2011-10-13 Thread Mark Keisler
Do not rsync the pg_xlog. Basically that error means that the restore_command in your recovery.conf is not working. You have hot_standby archiving going on the master and a recovery_command on the slave, right? On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Evan Walter wrote: > > > Hello, > I am somewhat n

Re: [ADMIN] how to tell if a replication server has stopped replicating

2011-08-26 Thread mark
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-11/msg00252.php Those two posts should cover the basics. There are other ways some people use to do it, but this seems to be the generally accepted way. I think 9.1 has some stuff in the works that should make it far easier to monitor. -Ma

Re: [ADMIN] read only error..hard reboot not work as well

2011-07-13 Thread Mark Johnson
possible cause/solution. If, for example, you are using vmware on Linux then you might want to Google for "vmware linux read only filesystem". -Mark

Re: [ADMIN] tsvector limitations

2011-06-15 Thread Mark Johnson
ase of indexing postgresql's log files, you could use parameter log_rotation_size to ensure all files are smaller than N and avoid the tsvector limits. -Mark -Original Message- From: Kevin Grittner [mailto:kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 12:39 PM To

Re: [ADMIN] tsvector limitations

2011-06-13 Thread Mark Johnson
rms of space utilization. select length(to_tsvector('the lord of the rings.txt')) "answer"; answer 2 You might find the tsvector data consumes 2x the space required by the input text. It will depend on your configuration and your input data. Test it and let us kno

Re: [ADMIN] How I do Configuration for Postgresql-oracle db link?

2011-06-07 Thread Mark Johnson
Did you configure a system DSN or user DSN? If connections fail for postgres and succeed for other users, then look in the postgres user's home for hidden file ~/.odbc.ini. Each user can have one of these hidden files. -Mark -Original Message- From: 최재원 [mailto:jwc...@modernlime

Re: [ADMIN] surprised to find bloat in insert-only table

2011-06-03 Thread Mark Stosberg
ounds like there is some bloat that I need to live with, but at least with partitioning the amount of bloat will stay relatively constant. Mark -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

[ADMIN] surprised to find bloat in insert-only table

2011-06-03 Thread Mark Stosberg
tes, wastedsize from bloat where wastedbytes > 0 order by wastedbytes DESC limit 20; And this query also shows the same amount of bloat in the table itself: select distinct(tablename), wastedbytes, wastedsize from bloat where wastedbytes > 0 order by wastedbytes DESC limit 10; Mark

Re: [ADMIN] visualizing database schema - png/jpeg?

2011-05-21 Thread Turnkey Solutions (Mark Dueck)
might want to take a look at Power*Architect - http://www.sqlpower.ca/page/architect MD On 05/18/2011 01:09 PM, neubyr wrote: > Anyone knows of tools that can generate PNG/JPEG image from pgsql > database schema? > > -- > neuby.r > -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.or

Re: [ADMIN] LDAP Authentication

2011-05-20 Thread Mark Johnson
teps 1 and 2. I have not gone past this. I ran into an issue with the one-click installer on RHEL 6 that I'm stuck on. -Mark -Original Message- From: Teguh R [mailto:tag...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 08:31 AM To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: [ADMIN] LDAP Authentica

Re: [ADMIN] Re: best practice for moving millions of rows to child table when setting up partitioning?

2011-05-04 Thread Mark Stosberg
On 05/04/2011 12:54 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Mark Stosberg wrote: >> >>>> 5. Finally, I'll drop the indexes on the parent table and >>>> truncate it. >> >> Luckily I noticed the problem with TRUNCATE an

[ADMIN] Re: best practice for moving millions of rows to child table when setting up partitioning?

2011-05-04 Thread Mark Stosberg
final transaction. Mark -- 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] Can we Flush the Postgres Shared Memory ?

2011-05-03 Thread Mark Johnson
Yes, understood and agreed. My mail server adds it automatically. I can manually remove it prior to sending to the mail list. -Mark -Original Message- From: Simon Riggs [mailto:si...@2ndquadrant.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 10:33 AM To: 'Mark Johnson' Cc: 'pgsql-admin&#

Re: [ADMIN] Can we Flush the Postgres Shared Memory ?

2011-05-03 Thread Mark Johnson
write dirty pages to disk, then "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" to remove the now clean pages, and then "cat /proc/meminfo" one more time). And, if you are using SAN consider array based caching as well. Sincerely, Mark R. Johnson Owner, Remington Database Solutions, LL

[ADMIN] Re: best practice for moving millions of rows to child table when setting up partitioning?

2011-04-27 Thread Mark Stosberg
On 04/27/2011 10:48 AM, Mark Stosberg wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm working on moving a table with over 30 million to rows to be > partitioned. The table seeing several inserts per second. It's > essentially an activity log that only sees insert activity and is > l

[ADMIN] Re: best practice for moving millions of rows to child table when setting up partitioning?

2011-04-27 Thread Mark Stosberg
n s smaller chunks. I think that's the approach I'm going to consider taking. Thanks for the input! Mark -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

[ADMIN] best practice for moving millions of rows to child table when setting up partitioning?

2011-04-27 Thread Mark Stosberg
iew it instead having it rehashed here. Thanks for the help! Mark -- 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] Oracle Label Security/ Row Level Security on Postgresql

2011-03-10 Thread Mark Johnson
se Edition. (According to the OLS and Data Vault presentations I have been to, neither product alone does all of what Trusted Oracle used to do, and Trusted Oracle didn't do all of the things OLS and DV do today, so we would be incorrect to think its one-for-one swap). -Mark -Ori

[ADMIN] pg_upgrade with link option

2011-03-07 Thread Mark Johnson
ou are not opening other windows/sessions. -Mark

[ADMIN] PG 9 OpenLDAP 2.4 dependency ? (in a jam)

2011-02-12 Thread mark
that LDAP instance. Thanks Mark -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

[ADMIN] FW: PG 9 OpenLDAP 2.4 dependency ? (in a jam)

2011-02-11 Thread mark
with that LDAP instance. Thanks Mark -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

[ADMIN] pgpool authenticatin issues

2011-02-08 Thread Mark Steben
hed any light as to what I'm doing wrong? Thank you, Mark Steben Database Administrator @utoRevenue | Autobase | AVV The CRM division of Dominion Dealer Solutions # pgpool Client Authentication Configuration File # === # # The form

Re: [ADMIN] Postgresql 9.0.2 explain analyze very slow (10x), compared to actual query time

2011-01-12 Thread Mark Felder
erent kern.timecounter.hardware option? kern.timecounter.choice: TSC(800) HPET(900) ACPI-fast(1000) i8254(0) dummy(-100) kern.timecounter.hardware: ACPI-fast Or does the kernel timer stuff have nothing to do with gettimeofday()? Regards, Mark -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (

Re: [ADMIN] pgadmin user access control features

2011-01-04 Thread Mark Felder
modified using regular postgres tools, which is a a security risk of sorts. Perhaps it might be best for you to setup certain functions or stored procedures that their database user only has access to? I assume this is possible, anyway. Regards, Mark -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list

Re: [ADMIN] Client_encoding

2010-12-23 Thread Mark Watson
g = 'UTF8'; select * from test; The correct results are displayed. Is there a way, in PgAdmin, to to display the results when client_encoding is set to WIN1252 ? - Mark -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make

[ADMIN] Client_encoding

2010-12-23 Thread Mark Watson
: --- col_descr -- -- (1 row with nothing displayed, but the length of col_descr = 2) 6. If I execute the query: set client_encoding = 'UTF8'; select * from test; The correct results are displayed. Is there a way, in PgAdmin, to to display the results when cl

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] locales and encodings Oh MY!

2010-11-12 Thread mark
> "put a C-locale index on the column", but text_pattern_ops is the way to > do it today. > >                        regards, tom lane > Ok I hear you loud and clear.I am going to eat the overhead until I get to 9.0.1, currently on 8.3.X in some places. I will either

Re: [ADMIN] GUI ERD/ERM tools?

2010-11-12 Thread Mark Felder
half as good as their support for Oracle I think you would find it to be an amazing tool for visualizing the database, building queries, etc. Good luck! Regards, Mark -- 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] locales and encodings Oh MY!

2010-11-12 Thread mark
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Gabriele Bartolini wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Il 12/11/10 03:31, mark ha scritto: >> >> I have listed what I think I will be doing with regards to initdb. if >> anyone >> sees problems with the following mixture during my dump ->  i

[ADMIN] locales and encodings Oh MY!

2010-11-11 Thread mark
TF8 -E UTF8 Thank you, Mark -- 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] large database: problems with pg_dump and pg_restore

2010-10-26 Thread mark
hings when reloading. Just my thoughts, ~mark -Original Message- From: pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 4:22 PM To: Martin Povolny Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org S

Re: [ADMIN] xid wraparound

2010-09-26 Thread Mark Rostron
> No, it is not. The XID space is continuous and circular. For any given XID, > there are 2^31-1 possible XIDs that are "before" it and 2^31-1 that are > "after" it (plus the special > FrozenXID value, which is always before everything else). There's no > absolute comparisons possible, only

Re: [ADMIN] xid wraparound

2010-09-26 Thread Mark Rostron
> >> When the XID wraps, at the moment it does so, unless you set >> vacuum_freeze_min_age to 0 and a vacuum has just been performed, is >> there not a chance that there will be some data loss? > >No. XID comparisons are modulo 2^31. > Thanks - I'm still trying to wrap my mind around this (s

[ADMIN] xid wraparound

2010-09-25 Thread Mark Rostron
When the XID wraps, at the moment it does so, unless you set vacuum_freeze_min_age to 0 and a vacuum has just been performed, is there not a chance that there will be some data loss? If it changes value from (2^32 -1) to (0), it's value is going to be less than SOME rows - the ones which have no

Re: [ADMIN] long-running autovacuum tasks

2010-09-24 Thread Mark Rostron
From: pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Brad Nicholson Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 5:53 AM To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] long-running autovacuum tasks On 10-09-22 06:18 PM, Mark Rostron wrote: Version of pg

[ADMIN] long-running autovacuum tasks

2010-09-22 Thread Mark Rostron
Version of pg server is 8.3.10 We have some very large tables (78 gb/ 60m rows, 132 gb/90m rows). Storage is mounted NFS on a netapp 3160 (pretty fast I/O). However, the tables have been autovacuuming for over 3 days (from querying pg-stat-activity). The current_query column value is : "autovacuum

[ADMIN] management of pg-schemas: pg_temp_n and pg_toast_n ?

2010-09-18 Thread Mark Rostron
This is occurring In an 8.4.2 pg database, and I have noticed it in 8.3.10 as well. We do a lot of work with temp tables here, and over time a lot of pg_temp_[n] schemas have appeared. Similarly, we notice build-up of pg_toast_[n] schemas. Is it ok to drop these if they contain no tables? Or is

[ADMIN] can you change pg_hba.conf and restart the listener on the fly?

2010-09-15 Thread Mark Rostron
Hi We are running an 8.3.10 instance. I need to make a change to pg_hba.conf on the fly. Is it possible to restart just the listener for the database without cycling the postmaster? Mr

Re: [ADMIN] plpgsql syntax question

2010-08-30 Thread Mark Rostron
> That syntax is fine ... in 8.4 and up. I think you are trying to use some > older server version, and not reading the right version of the manual. Thanks Mr Lane Yes - I was testing it on 8.3.10, but the manual was 8.4.2 :( -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org)

[ADMIN] plpgsql syntax question

2010-08-30 Thread Mark Rostron
Ok guys - there is something here that I am not seeing Can someone please set me straight. I am trying to create a cursor loop with an "update where current of " statement, but my syntax is wrong. Would one of you be able to tell me what I'm doing. Also: adding "for update" to the curs1 curs

[ADMIN] how do i query the type of an object?

2010-08-11 Thread Mark Rostron
Is there some way to query the data-type of ''?

[ADMIN] password administration

2010-08-05 Thread Mark Steben
like to use The 'rolvaliduntil' column in pg_roles. I'm wondering if there is an app inside or outside of postgres that I can use or do I have to design from scratch. Thanks for your time, Mark Steben | Database Administrator  @utoRevenue® - "Keeping Customers Close"  95

[ADMIN] optimizer behavior in the case of highly updated tables

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Rostron
I am looking for some specific information regarding optimizer behavior. We recently experienced a situation where a query that was previously using a btree lookup (efficient) SWITCHED to using seqscan/hash lookup. My questions would be: - Under what circumstances is the optimizer like

[ADMIN] upgrade 8.3.7 to 8.3.10 combined with ownership change

2010-03-22 Thread Mark Rostron
Hi Further to David Jantzen's post of 3/16/2010. We have decided to try to upgrade the database software from our old custom 8.3.7 instance to the std upstream 8.3.10 version. We have no hash indexes on interval types; we therefore anticipate that the migration will be a shutdown of the old ins

[ADMIN] ctrl-c - is it safe to kill a query?

2010-02-08 Thread Mark Steben
ransaction did roll back. Good to know for future reference. Thank you. Mark Steben | Database Administrator <http://www.autorevenue.com> @utoRevenueR - "Keeping Customers Close" 95D Ashley Ave, West Springfield, MA 01089 413.243.4800 x1512 (Phone) |413.732-1824 (Fax)

Re: [ADMIN] Using pg_migrator to upgrade 8.3->8.4

2010-02-02 Thread Mark Corner
Yep, O will go down that road if I am not duplicating any work. In my experience building RPMS from SRPMS rarely just "works" :) -Mark On Feb 2, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Mark Corner wrote: >> >> So are the RPMs for postgres with non-integer dat

Re: [ADMIN] Using pg_migrator to upgrade 8.3->8.4

2010-02-02 Thread Mark Corner
So are the RPMs for postgres with non-integer datetimes available? :) For centos? :) On Feb 2, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: > -- Start of PGP signed section. >> On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 11:12 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: >>> >>> >>> No idea if anyone is building

Re: [ADMIN] Using pg_migrator to upgrade 8.3->8.4

2010-02-01 Thread Mark Corner
Excuse by noobness, but where can I find the source RPMs for Centos? I searched for a while without luck. And which svn repository are you referring to? I assume not the postgres CVS repo. Thanks! -Mark On Feb 1, 2010, at 12:06 PM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2010-02

Re: [ADMIN] Using pg_migrator to upgrade 8.3->8.4

2010-02-01 Thread Mark Corner
All good info... With respect to RPMs, I was actually referring to postgres84 rpms with non-integer datetime prebuilt. On Feb 1, 2010, at 11:12 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Mark Corner wrote: >> We are looking to upgrade out 8.3 db to 8.4. The full dump and >> restore is not very

[ADMIN] Using pg_migrator to upgrade 8.3->8.4

2010-02-01 Thread Mark Corner
We are looking to upgrade out 8.3 db to 8.4. The full dump and restore is not very attractive due to the downtime involved. pg_migrator is an attractive option, but we have butted up again the integer datetime timestamp problem: "Old and new pg_controldata date/time storage types do not match.

[ADMIN] postgres on Windows

2009-12-28 Thread Mark Steben
inted to would be most appreciated. Thank you, Mark Steben│Database Administrator @utoRevenueR-"Join the Revenue-tion" 95 Ashley Ave., West Springfield, Ma 413-243-4800 x1512 (Phone) │ 413.732-1824 (Fax) @utoRevenue is a registered trademark and a division of Dominion Enterprises

[ADMIN] encoding error in new Postgres version

2009-12-15 Thread Mark Steben
erence. Any help appreciated. Thank you, Mark Steben│Database Administrator @utoRevenueR-"Join the Revenue-tion" 95 Ashley Ave., West Springfield, Ma 413-243-4800 x1512 (Phone) │ 413.732-1824 (Fax) @utoRevenue is a registered trademark and a division of Dominion Enterprises

Re: [ADMIN] Replication solution

2009-12-05 Thread Mark Guadalupe
We are currently using Slony for our client's database that has million of rows on some tables and 12GB of raw data. So far so good, we set it up as a service and using a watchdog script to monitor and notify us in case the service fails. On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:

Re: [ADMIN] encoding shp2pgsql/ client encoding

2009-12-05 Thread Mark Guadalupe
; > What can I do? > > Can 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 Alb

[ADMIN] Question on start server using PG_CTL

2009-08-03 Thread Mark Steben
fter start command - perhaps I need to sleep for 5 seconds before the test). Thanks for your time, Mark Steben│Database Administrator @utoRevenueR-"Join the Revenue-tion" 95 Ashley Ave., West Springfield, Ma 413-243-4800 x1512 (Phone) │ 413.732-1824 (Fax) @utoRevenue is a registered tradema

Re: [ADMIN] Concurrency question

2009-07-08 Thread Mark Steben
closed and when we push this out, everything will once again Be right with the world. Thanks to all for the help. Mark Steben│Database Administrator│ @utoRevenue-R- "Join the Revenue-tion" 95 Ashley Ave. West Springfield, MA., 01089 413-243-4800 x1512 (Phone) │ 413-732-1824 (Fax) @uto

[ADMIN] Concurrency question

2009-07-07 Thread Mark Steben
that it hung because it was A transaction? Even so I thought those lock types were compatible. As always thanks for your time. Mark Steben│Database Administrator│ @utoRevenueR "Join the Revenue-tion" 95 Ashley Ave. West Springfield, MA., 01089  413-243-4800 x1512 (Phone) │ 413-732

[ADMIN] pg_check_queries.pl: an ineffective way to check for slow queries?

2009-07-03 Thread Mark Stosberg
own plugin to check that no more than 10 of the last 100 searches took more than 10 seconds to execute. If that is ever true, we definitely have a situation we want to look into. What luck have others of you had with devising a way to monitor if your PostgreSQL server is "slow" ?

[ADMIN] Hot standby

2009-07-01 Thread Mark Steben
Great to see the announcement of the 8.4 rollout. Quick question - is hot standby available or still being worked on? I see mention of it in the pgsql admin archives but I don't see it in the documentation. Thanks, Mark Steben│Database Administrator│ @utoRevenueR "Join the Revenu

Re: [ADMIN] Optimal Flexible Architecture or Optimal Configuration Layout for Postgres

2009-06-26 Thread Mark Lehmann
I'm up to the challenge.  I'll be adding a wiki page and slowly adding to it.   Thanks for the suggestion. -- Sent from my Palm Pre512 689-7705Emanuel Calvo Franco wrote: 2009/6/25 Mark Lehmann : > I have been looking for a best practices layout for Postgres. > > The Centos

[ADMIN] Optimal Flexible Architecture or Optimal Configuration Layout for Postgres

2009-06-25 Thread Mark Lehmann
created a best practice for placing pg_xlogs, regular logs, data, indexes, binary code, and configuration files onto the filesystem? I would rather use a widely accepted standard than invent one based on one competitors of Postgres. -- Mark Lehmann 512 689-7705 M

[ADMIN] Postgres Equivalent of Oracle Optimal Flexible Architecture (OOFA) or MySQL Optimal Configuration Architecture (MOCA)

2009-06-08 Thread Mark Lehmann
ing exists exactly matching that for which I am looking. Anything close or even not so close would be helpful. I'm willing to create one for PostgreSQL for review by the community if it would be helpful. -- Mark Lehmann 512 689-7705 M

[ADMIN] case insensitive like searches

2009-04-15 Thread Mark Dueck
a new character encoding that will be case insensitive? Thanks, Mark -- 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] recovery question

2009-02-25 Thread Mark Steben
00010C2800B1 came into xlog as 16777216, just like the others. Thanks for the response. Mark Steben│Database Administrator│ @utoRevenue-R- "Join the Revenue-tion" 95 Ashley Ave. West Springfield, MA., 01089 413-243-4800 x1512 (Phone) │ 413-732-1824 (Fax) @utoRevenue is a

[ADMIN] recovery question

2009-02-25 Thread Mark Steben
28/B1FFEC5C Feb 25 10:08:12 ar-db3 postgres[32538]: [9-1] @: LOG: invalid secondary checkpoint record Feb 25 10:08:12 ar-db3 postgres[32538]: [10-1] @: PANIC: could not locate a valid checkpoint record Feb 25 10:08:12 ar-db3 postgres[32537]: [1-1] @: LOG: startup process (PID 32538) was termin

Re: [ADMIN] pg_xlog volume question

2009-02-06 Thread Mark Steben
ly availability And then to place back in 'recovery mode' for the next nights set of Logs But it doesn't lend itself to this type of application. Mark Steben│Database Administrator│ @utoRevenue-R- "Join the Revenue-tion" 95 Ashley Ave. West Springfield, MA., 01089 413-24

[ADMIN] pg_xlog volume question

2009-02-06 Thread Mark Steben
ut 2GB of logs every hour. Is there a config parameter to reduce the amount that Xlog takes up? At this rate I'm looking at close to 400GB to restore the database at the end of the week. Any help appreciated. Mark Steben│Database Administrator│ @utoRevenue-R- "Join the Revenue-tion&q

[ADMIN] FW: Warm Standby - log shipping

2008-12-26 Thread Mark Steben
81 log? Thanks, Mark Steben│Database Administrator│ @utoRevenue-R- "Join the Revenue-tion" COME SEE US AT NADA BOOTH #1021, HALL B, IN NEW ORLEANS! 95 Ashley Ave. West Springfield, MA., 01089 413-243-4800 x1512 (Phone) │ 413-732-1824 (Fax) @utoRevenue is a registered tradema

Re: [ADMIN] Warm Standby - log shipping

2008-12-19 Thread Mark Steben
Thanks for the clarifications Kevin, Josh, Simon I am trying out Kevin's suggestion to create a second standby copy now. I know I have to create the base copy and send it over, at least For the first time to start recovery. I will look at rsync to do that. Thanks for all the help -- Mark

Re: [ADMIN] Warm Standby - log shipping

2008-12-19 Thread Mark Steben
then we will. I just want to make sure I'm understanding your advice. Thanks Mark Steben│Database Administrator│ @utoRevenue-R- "Join the Revenue-tion" COME SEE US AT NADA BOOTH #1021, HALL B, IN NEW ORLEANS! 95 Ashley Ave. West Springfield, MA., 01089 413-243-4800 x1512 (Phone)

[ADMIN] Warm Standby - log shipping

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Steben
a log got partially copied and postgres cannot find a valid checkpoint to restart. What is the best way to remedy this situation? Pg_resetxlog perhaps? Thanks for your help Mark Steben│Database Administrator│ @utoRevenue-R- "Join the Revenue-tion" COME SEE US AT NADA BOOTH #1021, HALL B

[ADMIN] warm standby

2008-11-28 Thread Mark Steben
ng @utoEnthusiasts. Please provide us with your feedback. _ Mark Steben│Database Administrator│ <http://www.autorevenue.com/> @utoRevenueT 95 Ashley Ave. West Springfield, MA., 01089 413-243-4800 x1512 (Phone) │ 413-732-1824 (Fax) A Division of Dominion Enterprises

Re: [ADMIN] question on warm standby

2008-11-14 Thread Mark Steben
-Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:06 PM To: Mark Steben Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] question on warm standby "Mark Steben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am running postg

[ADMIN] question on warm standby

2008-11-13 Thread Mark Steben
ast this, then I can play around with pg_standby and get Real warm_standby started. Thanks for your help, Committed to Creating @utoEnthusiasts. Please provide us with your feedback. ____ Mark Steben│Database Administrator│ @utoRevenueT 95 Ashley Ave. West Springfield,

[ADMIN] backup server - how to disconnect

2008-10-15 Thread Mark Steben
specific PIDs. Not something I want to do manually at 1 am every morning. We are at postgres 8.2.5. Thanks for your help <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Committed to Creating @utoEnthusiasts. Please provide us with your feedback. _____ Mark Steben│Database Administrator│

[ADMIN] transaction status error

2008-06-03 Thread Mark Steben
meantime, any ideas on how To fix this? Thank you, Mark Steben Senior Database Administrator @utoRevenueT A Dominion Enterprises Company 480 Pleasant Street Suite B200 Lee, MA 01238 413-243-4800 Home Office 413-243-4809 Corporate Fax msteben mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @autorevenue.

Re: [ADMIN] error message in PITR restore:

2008-05-16 Thread Mark Steben
Mark Steben Senior Database Administrator @utoRevenueT A Dominion Enterprises Company 480 Pleasant Street Suite B200 Lee, MA 01238 413-243-4800 Home Office 413-243-4809 Corporate Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our new website at www.autorevenue.com IMPORTANT: The information contained in this

[ADMIN] error message in PITR restore:

2008-05-16 Thread Mark Steben
t the checkpoint request failed. Is there any way replay the restore to get out of this pickle, or do I start from scratch? Fortunately this is a development server so I have the luxury of recopying production. Mark Steben Senior Database Administrator @utoRevenueT A Dominion Enterp

Re: [ADMIN] auto_vacuum question

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Steben
Thanks Alvaro - did as you suggested and looks to be working better Mark Steben Senior Database Administrator @utoRevenueT A Dominion Enterprises Company 480 Pleasant Street Suite B200 Lee, MA 01238 413-243-4800 Home Office 413-243-4809 Corporate Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit our new website at

[ADMIN] auto_vacuum question

2008-03-17 Thread Mark Steben
s vacuumed manually during the day do have this LAST_VACUUM column updated. The autovacuum does populate the LAST_AUTOVACUUM column For these tables. Any insights? Thanks Mark Steben Senior Database Administrator @utoRevenueT A Dominion Enterprises Company 480 Pleasant Street Suite B200 Lee

[ADMIN] Newly converted to 8.2.5 and getting this error

2008-03-10 Thread Mark Steben
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Mark Steben Senior Database Administrator @utoRevenueT A Dominion Enterprises Company 480 Pleasant Street Suite B200 Lee, MA 01238 413-243-4800 Home Office 413-243-4809 Corporate Fax msteben mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @autorevenue.com Visit ou

Re: [ADMIN] Error on CLUSTER command

2008-02-08 Thread Mark Steben
The doc says to do an initdb and reload the data whenever you run pg_resetxlog. Do you concur with that even if we are only resetting the OID counter? -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 11:36 AM To: Mark Steben Cc: pgsql-admin

Re: [ADMIN] Error on CLUSTER command

2008-02-08 Thread Mark Steben
] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 11:19 AM To: Mark Steben Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Error on CLUSTER command "Mark Steben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am getting the following error when I attempt to CLUSTER on a table: > mavmail=# cluster mailer_

[ADMIN] Error on CLUSTER command

2008-02-08 Thread Mark Steben
eduled for implementation later this month or early March. Mark Steben Senior Database Administrator @utoRevenueT A Dominion Enterprises Company 480 Pleasant Street Suite B200 Lee, MA 01238 413-243-4800 Home Office 413-243-4809 Corporate Fax msteben mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @autorevenue.c

[ADMIN] production error

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Steben
Hi folks, getting this error in production: unexpected chunk number 0 (expected 1) for toast value 34761 Any ideas on how to approach this? Two of the tables in the query have toast tables, one does not. Thanks, Mark Steben Senior Database Administrator @utoRevenueT A

Re: [ADMIN] no entry on pg_database for a live database

2008-01-23 Thread Mark Steben
Thanks Tom - that did the trick We will be upgrading to 8.2 within the next couple weeks. -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 12:20 PM To: Mark Steben Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] no entry on pg_database for a

[ADMIN] no entry on pg_database for a live database

2008-01-22 Thread Mark Steben
this? Any ideas would be appreciated Mark Steben Senior Database Administrator @utoRevenueT A Dominion Enterprises Company 480 Pleasant Street Suite B200 Lee, MA 01238 413-243-4800 Home Office 413-243-4809 Corporate Fax msteben mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @autorevenue.com Vis

Re: [ADMIN] reconfiguring diskspace while upgrading to 8.2.5

2008-01-02 Thread Mark Steben
All feedback would be appreciated. Thank you, Mark Steben _ From: Mark Steben [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 10:09 AM To: 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'David Parks'; 'Craig Brothers' Sub

[ADMIN] reconfiguring diskspace while upgrading to 8.2.5

2007-12-28 Thread Mark Steben
massive growth over the Next 2 - 3 years. Any thoughts / comments would be appreciated. Also are there tools out there that monitor disk I/O and disk speed? Thanks for your time, Mark Steben Senior Database Administrator @utoRevenueT A Dominion Enterprises Company 480

[ADMIN] Looking for an E/R tool for Postgres

2007-12-17 Thread Mark Steben
Does anybody have suggestions as to what Entity_Relationship diagram tool Is out there that'll work for Postgres? Thank you, Mark Steben Senior Database Administrator @utoRevenueT A Dominion Enterprises Company 480 Pleasant Street Suite B200 Lee, MA 01238 413-243-4800 Home Office

[ADMIN] where can I find doc for pg_buffercache?

2007-11-13 Thread Mark Steben
n to be 8.2.5 per Scott M.) Thanks, Mark Steben Senior Database Administrator @utoRevenueT A Dominion Enterprises Company 480 Pleasant Street Suite B200 Lee, MA 01238 413-243-4800 Home Office 413-243-4809 Corporate Fax msteben mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @autorevenue.com Vis

[ADMIN] Maintenance_work_mem question

2007-11-07 Thread Mark Steben
ffers. I know this is Very large for 7.4.5 but may be more appropriate for 8.2.4. Any thoughts? Thank you, Mark Steben Senior Database Administrator @utoRevenueT A Dominion Enterprises Company 480 Pleasant Street Suite B200 Lee, MA 01238 413-243-4800 Home Office 413-243-4809 Corporat

Re: [ADMIN] bgwriter update question

2007-10-22 Thread Mark Steben
Thanks Tom, every piece of new information adds to my education. I'm going to put to bed this effort of trying to verify BGWRITER, knowing that it works in 8.2 and move on. Regards, Mark Steben -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2

[ADMIN] bgwriter update question

2007-10-22 Thread Mark Steben
emain in memory until syncpoint in pre-8.0. Am I missing somethng? Thanks for your time Mark Steben Senior Database Administrator @utoRevenueT A Dominion Enterprises Company 480 Pleasant Street Suite B200 Lee, MA 01238 413-243-4800 Home Office 413-243-4809 Corporate Fax msteben mailto:[

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