[ADMIN] Error Installing

2001-07-16 Thread Matt
#x27; make: *** [all] Error 2 Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Matt PS, I'm on Windows 2000 and the binaries didn't seem to work. If I'm doing something wrong, let me know how to do it right. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Ha

Re: [ADMIN] LVM snapshots

2003-03-15 Thread Matt
Murthy Kambhampaty wrote: Backup restore has been tested so far by restoring a table and comparing the contents; they were identical. Thanks to rsync performance is fantastic compared to pgdump to a file (my past e-mail to the list will give some idea of the problems we've had with that). I'd be i

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL calibration

2003-06-18 Thread matt
and, a way of empirically deriving some 'correct' optimizer parameters for a given machine would be very nice :-) Matt On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 18:07, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sure, it would be great if we could do it. > >

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL calibration

2003-06-18 Thread matt
ns. > > On 18 Jun 2003, matt wrote: > > > Are there really any performance settings of much interest beyond the > > shared and non-shared memory settings? Beyond those the interactions > > get so complex that automation is probably impossible anyway, and > > certai

Re: [ADMIN] YOUR SITES SEARCH FEATURE DOES NOT WORK!

2003-09-03 Thread matt
This is not facetious, honestly, but what about google? site:archives.postgresql.org +"OS X" +terminal returns just a couple of pages... Of course there's no date ordering as such, although "+2003" works fairly well, as does +"[ADMIN]". Not a panacea I know, but it's quick, and it does have the

Re: [ADMIN] hanging for 30sec when checkpointing

2004-02-09 Thread matt
> > If you're gonna accuse me of lying, you damned well better have the balls > AND evidence to back it up. > Wow. Scott, all traffic to the admin list has ceased since you posted this, we are shocked! You put a lot of effort into finding the root of the 'mysteriously good IDE performance' issue

Re: [ADMIN] hanging for 30sec when checkpointing

2004-02-09 Thread matt
>> If he doesn't have the wit to respond then he's just a troll anyway. > > Well, I still feel I should apologize for my harshness on a public list. > I could have at least taken that one private. But you are right, I did > spend a lot of my time chasing down the IDE issues, so to be so flippantly

Re: [ADMIN] pgcrypto and database encryption

2004-03-07 Thread matt
> Does the law require protection from a determined DBA, or just casual > viewing by the DBA? *If* it's the latter, you could do something like > this: The EU directive (and therefore the laws of indiviual countries) requires that if someone gets access to your *DATABASE* they cannot get personal

Re: [ADMIN] PLEASE GOD HELP US!

2004-10-01 Thread Matt Clark
Got any suggestions now?!? I was sort of looking for more information / insight on my postgresql.conf file... but it seems we had to get the "IS HE A MORON" question answered :P Anyhow, again thank you for any help you can lend... Well, try not to SHOUT is a good suggestion. Also, how about p

Re: [ADMIN] NIC to NIC connection

2004-10-19 Thread Matt Clark
Title: Message You would assign a different subnet to the connection, and then tell the servers to connect to the PG server's address on that subnet.  No other changes required.  Very odd setup though.  If you want a 'private' connection then use a switch, rather than needing umpty NICs in t

Re: [ADMIN] NIC to NIC connection

2004-10-19 Thread Matt Clark
Switches are not security devices. While it is harder to sniff packets on switches, you can't count on them to prevent hostile machines on the switch from playing games with the arp protocol. Also I believe that if a switch doesn't remember where a particular mac address is it will send the packet

Re: [ADMIN] NIC to NIC connection

2004-10-19 Thread Matt Clark
If you have 6 app servers it's just daft to stick 6 NICs in your DB server. While there might be some cases where that makes sense most likely it isn't something you would want to do. I believe the original motivation was to solve bandwidth congestion rather than security.

Re: [ADMIN] Installing PostgreSQL as "postgress" versus "root" Debate!

2005-01-13 Thread Matt Clark
Put all your eggs in one basket, and WATCH THAT BASKET. Better yet, pay someone more reliable than oneself to watch it. Preferably a well-paid and happy fox. Or _maybe_ put your eggs in an invisible super-basket? Not trolling, just checking the analogy integrity field. M --

[ADMIN] db restore

2002-11-22 Thread Matt L.
Hi guys   I had just recreate database that deleted some useful data in one of teh table. There's no backup dump badly. But as i know there a transaction log taht will log everything from beginning, anyone know how to do a rollback or roll forward?

[ADMIN] failed import

2002-12-16 Thread Matt Doughty
e Anyone, with any clue here please let me know. I will be eternally grateful. :) --Matt ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html

[ADMIN] replication recommendations

2003-01-14 Thread Matt Doughty
comes back on lines. I'm looking for recommendations of the best solution to use. Is there any sort of concensus? thanks, --Matt ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-n

[ADMIN] Failed to compile 7.3.1 under Sol7 - can't find libz.so (I think)

2003-01-22 Thread Matt Mello
y (I am compiling without readline 'cause it wouldn't compile with it, even after installing it!) Does anybody have a suggestion? Thanks! -- Matt ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister c

Re: [ADMIN] Failed to compile 7.3.1 under Sol7 - can't find libz.so

2003-01-22 Thread Matt Mello
I just found the solution in the docs (DOH!): LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/ssl/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 12:27:40PM -0600, Matt Mello wrote: I'm having trouble compiling pg7.3.1 for Sol7. The configure command I use

Re: [ADMIN] LVM snapshots

2003-03-14 Thread Matt Clark
nt: 14 March 2003 17:55To: 'Matt Clark'Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [ADMIN] LVM snapshots Try - [GENERAL] A few questions to real pgsql gurus Ben

Re: [ADMIN] LVM snapshots

2003-04-04 Thread Matt Clark
Thanks Murthy, that's exceptionally helpful! Does anyone know what (in general) would cause the notices that Murthy spotted in the logs as per the snippet below? > The postmaster is started and stopped on the backup server, so that any > problems can be identified right away. (Notice the "ReadR

[ADMIN] When is postmaster ready?

2003-04-12 Thread Matt Mello
there some unknown amount of time that will pass before it will be ready? The postmater docs didn't seem to indicate that once you run it, it is absolutely ready for connections. Thanks! -- Matt Mello ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe

Re: [ADMIN] Postgresql slow on XEON 2.4ghz/1gb ram

2003-08-06 Thread Matt Clark
A P3 1GHz is probably roughly equivalent to a P4 1.5GHz, so going from dual P3 1GHz to single P4 2.4GHz would likely be slower in any case.  Don't forget that unless you're talking about the "Xeon MP" then the whole "Xeon" tag is pretty meaningless for the P4 range.   If you moved to a *dua

Re: [ADMIN] Cost estimates consistently too high - does it matter?

2003-08-09 Thread Matt Clark
Well, I usually am under a misapprehension! Thanks for the explanation about LIMIT too. In that case then, I shall stop worrying and learn to love the planner. M > -Original Message- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 08 August 2003 16:15 > To: Matt Clark

[ADMIN] Cost estimates consistently too high - does it matter?

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Clark
.0025effective_cache_size = 262144 # 2GB of FS cacherandom_page_cost = 2   For now the planner seems to be making the right choices, but my concern is that at some point the planner might start making some bad decisions, especially on more complex queries.  Should I bother tweaking the planner costs

[ADMIN] Transactions, tuples, and VACUUM

2003-08-14 Thread Matt Clark
27;; Does the first case generate any more dead tuples that will need vacuuming than the second case, or are the two updates 'merged' when the transaction is committed? Or is the answer 'sometimes' (I would guess depending on checkpoints)? Cheers Matt

Re: [ADMIN] pg 7.3.4 and linux box crash

2003-09-14 Thread Matt Clark
> > It is crashing the linux box. Not rebooting, not kernel panic, > but only stop > > to respond.On the console if I type reboot it will not to > reboot and so on. > > But it crash only if I start intensive operations on pg. If you can type 'reboot' then surely it hasn't stopped responding? --

Re: [ADMIN] Report Generator Proposal

2003-09-15 Thread Matt Clark
I rather like it actually. Cisco equipment has a 'show tech-support' command that does exactly that, dumps all the config, HW/SW versions, current state, you name it. If you have a problem you run that, attach the output to yr support email, and 99% of the time there's enough info there to solv

Re: [ADMIN] Partial indexes ... any good theoretical discussion?

2003-10-03 Thread Matt Clark
It won't work. You could instead have a separate boolean attribute called 'expired' for each row. Set this to true whenever you expire the row, and create the partial index using that attr. Matt > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-10-31 Thread Matt Clark
> I could made persistent connection, but with 10.000 clients it will kill > the server. But if they're virtual domains, why would you need one connection per domain? You should only need one connection per apache process... ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-10-31 Thread Matt Clark
Ooh, I see. That's a tricky one. Do you really need that level of separation? > Because every virtual domain has its own database, username and > password. So one client domain1.com with db: domain1db user: domain1user > cannot access to second client database domain2.com db: domain2db user: >

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-10-31 Thread Matt Clark
> W liście z pią, 31-10-2003, godz. 12:25, Matt Clark pisze: > > Ooh, I see. That's a tricky one. Do you really need that level of separation? > > Well, if you talk with the clients, and they promise, that they will not > access to other databasess, and specially

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-10-31 Thread Matt Clark
more constructive ;-) M > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marek Florianczyk > Sent: 31 October 2003 13:20 > To: Jamie Lawrence > Cc: Matt Clark; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases > >

Re: [ADMIN] Need your help (frustrating issue)

2003-11-20 Thread Matt Davies
. Yet one more solution, and I don't know if it is possible or not, is to wrap your application with a small script that will set the environment for you such as: #!/bin/sh export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. /usr/local/apache/cgi/asd.cgi (or the like) HTH's Matt Quoting "Siddhar

Re: [ADMIN] Running Postgres Daemons with same data files

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Clark
> I got all your points, thanks for such a great discussion, Now the last > thing I want is how can I close the data files and flush the cache into > the data files. How can I do this in postgresql pg_ctl stop ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [ADMIN] Running Postgres Daemons with same data files

2003-12-11 Thread Matt Clark
ho knows whether the files have _really_ been written to disk after an fsync. Postgres just has to believe what the operating system tells it... Matt > Don't joke, this for stopping the Postgres Server. I want close the > files in between the database operations. I am looking for s

Re: [ADMIN] Snapshot as Backup

2004-01-13 Thread Matt Clark
  PG will believe it has 'crashed' when you start it from a restored snapshot, and PG is designed to recover perfectly well from crashes.  If you stop the postmaster before the snapshot is taken then it will definitely work fine.   Matt -Original Message-From: [EMAIL P

Re: [ADMIN] Alternative to "Money" ...

2004-02-03 Thread Matt Clark
> .. I can't _quite_ tell if you're serious or not ... :) > > If you are serious, are you saying to do something like: > > CREATE TABLE new_money (product text, dollars int4, cents int4); Ha :-) That would not be serious. I'm pretty sure he meant to just store the product cost in cents instea

Re: [ADMIN] "DELETE FROM" protection

2004-02-20 Thread Matt Clark
BEGIN; DELETE FROM mytable; !!! OOOPS ROLLBACK; > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeremy Smith > Sent: 20 February 2004 06:06 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [ADMIN] "DELETE FROM" protection > > > > This may be an all-time idio

Re: [ADMIN] Database Encryption (now required by law in Italy)

2004-03-05 Thread Matt Clark
manipulate the data. Matt [1] There are ways of avoiding having to enter the info manually, but they're very tricky to implement securely. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister comma

Re: [ADMIN] Database Encryption (now required by law in Italy)

2004-03-05 Thread Matt Davies
And how does one account for key information? If one encrypts any information deemed worthy to be a key then you have to decrypt the entire database to find particular information. Of course, you could keep keys unencrypted for use, but then again, why encrypt it at all? Quoting Mitch Pirtl

Re: [ADMIN] Database Encryption (now required by law in Italy)

2004-03-05 Thread Matt Davies
Quoting Mitch Pirtle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Matt Davies wrote: > > > And how does one account for key information? If one encrypts any > information > > deemed worthy to be a key then you have to decrypt the entire database to > find > > particular informa

Re: [ADMIN] Frequent 'deadlock detected' in 7.4 ... or just my bad

2004-04-05 Thread Matt Clark
ut of keys(%hash) is NOT ordered! Try: foreach $company_id ( sort keys %traffic ) { foreach $ip_id ( sort keys %{$traffic{$company_id}} ) { foreach $port ( sort keys %{$traffic{$company_id}{$ip_id}} ) { Matt ---(end of broadcast)---

[ADMIN] PGfs Codebase? even old version????

2004-04-17 Thread Matt Dent
an explanation as to why it's no longer available ANYWHERE! Anybody know of a similar project out there -- or why this fell off the face of the earth? (Patents maybe?) Matt D. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your des

[ADMIN] Reposted - large object storage

2004-05-10 Thread Matt Clark
bunch of zero-length files and symlink them in advance, but that's perhaps _too_ kludgey... I'm having a rummage around in the code at the moment, and it seems like it might be possible to get PG to put each table in its own directory. Anybody seen that tried before? Cheers Matt

[ADMIN] Postgres & large objects

2004-05-06 Thread Matt Clark
s and symlink them in advance...   Cheers   Matt    

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres & large objects

2004-05-06 Thread Matt Clark
s basically, as comparing the price of a terabyte of ATA mirrored disks and the same TB on SCSI hardware raid is enlightening. M -Original Message- From: Bradley Kieser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 May 2004 11:03 To: Matt Clark Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [

[ADMIN] Replication in main PostgreSQL codebase

2004-07-06 Thread Matt Browne
Hello all! I apologise in advance if any of my questions are in a FAQ somewhere - I haven't seen them... Does anyone know when (if ever) replication support will be added to the main PostgreSQL codebase? Is there any chance it'll be included in the upcoming 7.5 release? I've taken a look at the

Re: [ADMIN] Replication in main PostgreSQL codebase

2004-07-06 Thread Matt Browne
On 06 July 2004 16:41, Christopher Browne wrote: > > I've taken a look at the replication solutions already available, > > including the sterling effort made on Slony-I, but we're really > > looking for integrated, base-level support rather than an add-in. > > The problem is that "replication" d

[ADMIN] help with lost pghoster website

2004-07-16 Thread Matt Wong
omers-- both legally and ethically-- more than we got (which was nothing-- no notice, no explanation, no refund, no data, no contact info, no nuthin). Thank you, -Matt ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose

[ADMIN] pg_dump / pg_restore with Large Objects from 32-bit to 64-bit

2010-03-15 Thread Matt Janssen
When migrating our Postgres databases from 32 to 64-bit systems, including large binary objects, how well will this work? 32-bit server) pg_dump --format=c --blobs --file=backup.pg mydb 64-bit server) pg_restore -d mydb backup.pg I'm hoping that PG's compressed custom archive format is

Re: [ADMIN] Migrate postgres to newer hardware

2010-03-30 Thread Matt Janssen
Matt -Original Message- From: pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-admin-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tino Schwarze Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2010 9:39 AM To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Migrate postgres to newer hardware Hi Renato, dump/restore is

[ADMIN] Problem with Streaming Replication/Hot Standby

2010-10-29 Thread Matt Chesler
I'm trying to get started with Streaming Replication and Hot Standby using PostgreSQL 9.0 (9.0.0-1PGDG.el5 installed from PGDG). I've followed the instructions at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Binary_Replication_Tutorial#Binary_Replication_in_6_Steps using two fresh databases, but I'm not hav

[ADMIN] utf8 database not dumping utf8 characters

2012-04-06 Thread Matt Williams
oughts? Thanks, -- Matt Williams Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig)

Re: [ADMIN] utf8 database not dumping utf8 characters

2012-04-06 Thread Matt Williams
version 9.1 -- Matt Williams Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Friday, April 6, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Scott Whitney wrote: > What version, Matt? I had that problem back in 8.1x > > > I have a database that is utf8 and displays utf8 values correctly in psq

Re: [ADMIN] utf8 database not dumping utf8 characters

2012-04-06 Thread Matt Williams
With that same dump file that is displaying incorrectly open in vim, I can paste in the utf8 character I provided as an example and it displays correctly. -- Matt Williams Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On Friday, April 6, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Steve Crawford wrote

Re: [ADMIN] utf8 database not dumping utf8 characters

2012-04-06 Thread Matt Williams
I ran it through xxd and the hex-bytes are different than those of the proper utf8 character: 03300a0: 7472 c383 c2b6 6d65 7209 3009 5c4e 0931 trmer.0.\N.1 (from the dump file) ö : c3b6 ö : c383 c2b6 -- Matt Williams Sent with Sparrow (http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/?sig) On