Re: [ADMIN] Indexes on RAM disk = insanity?

2005-07-29 Thread Richard_D_Levine
> RAM appears to be the bottleneck -- lots > of swaps in and out. > can we put the database indexes on a RAM disk? Can you increase the RAM in the machine? I guess I should assume you're maxed out. Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/29/2005 10:32:28 AM: > All: > > We have a postgres 7.4 server

Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] Storing database in WORM devices

2005-05-11 Thread Richard_D_Levine
Tom Lane suggested a vacuum freeze (? or something like that) for archival read only data. I got the impression the template databases are freeze dried for freshness (good to the last bit?) That feature might help as well in the transition from read-write to read-only. Rick

Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] Storing database in WORM devices

2005-05-11 Thread Richard_D_Levine
Isn't there some way to trick PostgreSQL with a RAM disk, like for the WAL? Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/11/2005 02:31:55 PM: > Why? Any specific reason that you are aware of ? > Are there any writes done to the database when read only SQL > statements are issued? > > > -Original Messa

Re: [SQL] [ADMIN] Postgres schema comparison.

2005-03-07 Thread Richard_D_Levine
Are you just synching the schemas, or do you also need to synch the data? Rick John DeSoi

Re: [ADMIN] Application gui

2005-03-01 Thread Richard_D_Levine
Note this (currently active) thread from the archives: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-03/msg00025.php Rick Scott

Re: [ADMIN] who is best for support?

2005-02-15 Thread Richard_D_Levine
I think Joel may be asking for a paid, dedicated consultant. Could be wrong, but I know you folks are out there. --Rick "Marc G. Fou

Re: [ADMIN] Cron DB Bounce causes index problems && Help rotating logs

2005-01-14 Thread Richard_D_Levine
Hi Chris, In the rotate_logs.sh I would replace the first sleep 150 with a call to fuser (in a sleeping loop) to make sure there is no file access to the log file. I don't understand the second sleep 150. Rick

Re: [ADMIN] Limiting user privileges

2005-01-11 Thread Richard_D_Levine
I do this using the following: CREATE GROUP agroup; ALTER GROUP agroup ADD USER auser; CREATE TABLE atable ...; GRANT ALL ON atable TO GROUP agroup; If you grant permissions to some set of groups on all tables at schema creation time, then you only need to alter the groups to add and remove us

Re: [ADMIN] missing schemas from template1

2004-12-16 Thread Richard_D_Levine
Did you turn on the "view system objects" thingy in pgadmin3? That's too technical%| Okay, I just checked and it's Display->System Objects.

Re: [ADMIN] NIC to NIC connection

2004-10-19 Thread Richard_D_Levine
True. I can't imagine a modern server room, even running windows, that doesn't have a gigabit or fiber backbone for the servers. Rick Andrew Sullivan

Re: [ADMIN] NIC to NIC connection

2004-10-19 Thread Richard_D_Levine
Depends on the NIC. If your running 100MBS Ether and put in 1GBS Ether or fiber, it would make a difference. Rick Andrew Sullivan