Re: [ADMIN] newbie qs; examining databases and tables

2002-10-21 Thread Rusty Wright
Ok, thanks. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ADMIN] newbie qs; fixing and checking databases

2002-10-16 Thread Rusty Wright
m: Vincent Janelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Rusty Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ADMIN] newbie qs; fixing and checking databases The rest of us read the documentation.. On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:12:07 -0700 (PDT) Rusty Wright <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [ADMIN] newbie qs; fixing and checking databases

2002-10-16 Thread Rusty Wright
Some of us are just paranoid and like to be prepared when there really is a fire. From: "ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rusty Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL

Re: [ADMIN] newbie qs; fixing and checking databases

2002-10-16 Thread Rusty Wright
It seems to me that if the machine crashes in the middle of a transaction that there will be or is a very high chance of database corruption. I don't know if and how postgresql would detect and handle that after the system reboots. We are running mysql here and haven't had any data integrity pro

[ADMIN] newbie qs; fixing and checking databases

2002-10-15 Thread Rusty Wright
Are there commands provided with postgresql for checking the databases and also for repairing them? I'd like to be able to run something to check the databases before our nightly backups. Thanks ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our

Re: [ADMIN] newbie qs; examining databases and tables

2002-10-15 Thread Rusty Wright
Sorry, nevermind; I discovered \? and figured it out. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

[ADMIN] newbie qs; examining databases and tables

2002-10-15 Thread Rusty Wright
I'm someone with some mysql experience and need to set up postgres for a product we're evaluating. In mysql I can use SHOW DATABASES to list all of the databases on the system, USE DB1 to switch to one of the databases, SHOW TABLES to list all of the table names in the database I'm USEing, and DE