Re: [GENERAL] db size and VACUUM ANALYZE

2010-02-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com wrote: Amitabh Kant wrote: You need to do VACUUM FULL ANALYZE to claim the disk space, but this creates a exclusive lock on the tables. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-vacuum.html First off, you don't need

Re: [GENERAL] COPY FROM wish list

2010-02-13 Thread Greg Smith
Marc Mamin wrote: Looking at the TODO List, I feel that only some aspects of the COPY FROM command are adressed. Could a discussion trigger some activity on this topic :o) ? (Sounds only of crickets chirping)...guess not. I would love to have FEEDBACK added. The TODO list doesn't

[GENERAL] Problemas con la copia de seguridad PostgresSQL

2010-02-13 Thread sergio barrera
Buenas compañeros! Tengo un problema al cual no le encuentro la lógica. Mi idea es realizar una copia de seguridad de una base de datos PostgresSQL diaria bajo el sistema operativo Linux-Ubuntu 9. Para ello primero, he ejecutado el siguiente comando en el terminal, obteniendo una respuesta

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Usage and OpenBSD

2010-02-13 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Smith wrote: Jeff Ross wrote: I think I'm doing it right. Here's the whole script. I run it from another server on the lan. That looks basically sane--your description was wrong, not your program, which is always better than the other way around. Note that everything your script is

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Usage and OpenBSD

2010-02-13 Thread Greg Smith
Jeff Ross wrote: Hopefully if I can get it to run well under pgbench the same setup will work well with drupal. The site I was worried about when I went to this bigger server has started a little slower than originally projected so the old server is handling the load. The standard

Re: [GENERAL] could not read block 0... error followed by database does not exist

2010-02-13 Thread Janet S Jacobsen
Thanks, Tom. I will give this a try and let you know what happens. I don't see anything in the logfile prior to the first could not read block 0... error. Thanks, Janet Janet S Jacobsen jsjacob...@lbl.gov writes: Hi. What I see when I do ls on the current (corrupt) $PGDATA/global is

[GENERAL] Hosting Account with PostgreSQL and PHP?

2010-02-13 Thread Andre Lopes
Hi, I need an hosting account with PostgreSQL and PHP. I have signed an account with HostNine.com, but the PostgreSQL is the 8.1, and don't allow to create Languages and Triggers, so I can't get the website working... Please tell me if you know a good hosting with PostgreSQL that allow Triggers

Re: [GENERAL] Problemas con la copia de seguridad PostgresSQL

2010-02-13 Thread Diego Schulz
2010/2/13 sergio barrera xpbarr...@hotmail.com Buenas compañeros! Tengo un problema al cual no le encuentro la lógica. Mi idea es realizar una copia de seguridad de una base de datos PostgresSQL diaria bajo el sistema operativo Linux-Ubuntu 9. Para ello primero, he ejecutado el siguiente

Re: [GENERAL] Problemas con la copia de seguridad PostgresSQL

2010-02-13 Thread Diego Schulz
2010/2/13 sergio barrera xpbarr...@hotmail.com Buenas compañeros! Tengo un problema al cual no le encuentro la lógica. Mi idea es realizar una copia de seguridad de una base de datos PostgresSQL diaria bajo el sistema operativo Linux-Ubuntu 9. Para ello primero, he ejecutado el siguiente

Re: [GENERAL] how to create a new composite type using already existing composite types

2010-02-13 Thread Jeff Davis
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 03:46 +, Iain Barnett wrote: CREATE TYPE inventory_item2 AS ( nametext, supplier_id integer, price numeric, size integer ); but it would be handy if I could reuse inventory_item instead of having to retype the whole lot.

[GENERAL] unable to restore from a pgdump file

2010-02-13 Thread Janet S Jacobsen
Hi. I am trying to restore a database from a pgdump file, something that I've sucessfully done before. I created a new database cluster, created the database that I want to restore using create database subptf with template = template0; and then I tried to restore the database using ./psql

Re: [GENERAL] unable to restore from a pgdump file

2010-02-13 Thread Steve Atkins
On Feb 13, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Janet S Jacobsen wrote: Hi. I am trying to restore a database from a pgdump file, something that I've sucessfully done before. I created a new database cluster, created the database that I want to restore using create database subptf with template =