Re: [GENERAL] Visualize database schema

2012-08-16 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 01:48:45PM +0200, Wolfgang Keller wrote: Can anyone advice about a tool to visualize a database schema? SQLalchemy, a Python module, can produce dot (Graphviz) output which you can load into your favourite diagramming application such as e.g. Omnigraffle, yEd

Re: [GENERAL] success with postgresql on beaglebone

2012-08-16 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 16/08/12 04:05, Tomas Hlavaty wrote: Hi all, I managed to compile postgresql on BeagleBone. [snip] Hi Tomas, If you install Ubuntu, you can just install postgresql with the package management software. $ apt-get install postgresql -Toby -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

[GENERAL] You cannot do PITR with streaming replication - true?

2012-08-16 Thread sayeed
I want to have a master-slave setup mainly for backups (but a hot read replica would be an added bonus). I have been using WAL replication earlier using Skytools walmgr utility. After upgrading to 9.1, I have explored streaming replication and it works nicely. However, here are some points which

Re: [GENERAL] You cannot do PITR with streaming replication - true?

2012-08-16 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:11 AM, sayeed sayeed.an...@gmail.com wrote: I want to have a master-slave setup mainly for backups (but a hot read replica would be an added bonus). I have been using WAL replication earlier using Skytools walmgr utility. After upgrading to 9.1, I have explored

[GENERAL] Problem with connection spikes, and slow, very slow, io access

2012-08-16 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
( i sent this mail yesterday, but it vanished, this time, I'm making it smaller by extracting some info and putting it on webserver, maybe it will be accepted this time ) hi i have 9.1.4 pg on linux on ext3 system with dedicated disks. xlogs are on different disks than data directory. every so

Re: [GENERAL] You cannot do PITR with streaming replication - true?

2012-08-16 Thread sayeed
Thanks Magnus for the really fast response. Your inputs have helped removed my doubts. I now went back and checked my slave server and the WALs files are being shipped and the streaming replication is also working. I will try a PITR test this weekend... I have set wal_keep_segments to 3 but

Re: [GENERAL] More probs with BLOBs

2012-08-16 Thread Albe Laurenz
Neanderthelle Jones wrote: We are getting a strange thing happening if the lo_export(attr, path) destination is a fifo. First, in the normal case, there is output to the file but also feedback to stdout (or somewhere, appearing on the VT screen) of the number 1. --- 1

Re: [GENERAL] PG Installer - Licensing Issues

2012-08-16 Thread Craig Ringer
On 08/15/2012 06:45 PM, Andrew Hastie wrote: As I understand it, I am allowed to redistribute Postgres so long as I include the copyright notice plus paragraphs as detailed on http://www.postgresql.org/about/licence/. What I want to confirm is that the one-click installer (which I understand

Re: [GENERAL] PG Installer - Licensing Issues

2012-08-16 Thread Andrew Hastie
Thanks for your thoughts Craig, the issue with users having an existing PG installation is a definite concern. It sounds like you're recommending using the ZIP Binaries, at least for MS Win installs, and configuring things manually rather than using the one-click installer. If so, are there

Re: [GENERAL] Field size

2012-08-16 Thread aliosa
Hello I am using libpq to find information about fileds of table ( type and size). I have a problem with getting the sizeof varchar fields. If a table has a fiels varchar[35] and want to obtain 35. I used PQgetlength or PQfsize but is not good for my work. Can someone tell me what function shall

Re: [GENERAL] Visualize database schema

2012-08-16 Thread Wolfgang Keller
I could not get the script sqlalchemy_schemadisplay3.py to work with sqlalchemy 0.7.8-1 (on Debian). Have you asked on the SQLalchemy mailing list? http://www.sqlalchemy.org/support.html#mailinglist Sincerely, Wolfgang -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] PG Installer - Licensing Issues

2012-08-16 Thread Craig Ringer
On 08/16/2012 06:46 PM, Andrew Hastie wrote: Thanks for your thoughts Craig, the issue with users having an existing PG installation is a definite concern. It sounds like you're recommending using the ZIP Binaries, at least for MS Win installs I wouldn't go as far as recommending. At this

Re: [GENERAL] Field size

2012-08-16 Thread Dmitriy Igrishin
Hey aliosa 2012/8/16 aliosa constantinica_a...@yahoo.com Hello I am using libpq to find information about fileds of table ( type and size). I have a problem with getting the sizeof varchar fields. If a table has a fiels varchar[35] and want to obtain 35. I used PQgetlength or PQfsize but

[GENERAL] checkpoint_timeout and archive_timeout

2012-08-16 Thread Jeff Janes
I have a database that only receives updates maybe a few times a week. It is the storage for some web content where the content is not changed very often. I set archive_timeout to 5 minutes, because when an update is made I would like the log that contains that change to get archived fairly

Re: [GENERAL] checkpoint_timeout and archive_timeout

2012-08-16 Thread Kevin Grittner
Jeff Janes jeff.ja...@gmail.com wrote: archive_timeout and checkpoint_timeout have a pernicious interaction. Each one individually suppresses needless operations, i.e. not checkpointing if no WAL was written since last checkpoint, and not log-switching if no WAL was written since the last

Re: [GENERAL] Automatic checkpoints not running on streaming slave

2012-08-16 Thread Mike Roest
Since the streaming slave has come back up it appears that we've now hit the same issue again. With the checkpoint logging on I now have some more information. Everything was working as expected for the first 2 days (with a 5 minute auto checkpoint time the log contains the expected 288 restart

Re: [GENERAL] You cannot do PITR with streaming replication - true?

2012-08-16 Thread Steve Crawford
On 08/16/2012 02:45 AM, sayeed wrote: Thanks Magnus for the really fast response. Given the nature of your questions, you may want to take a look at http://www.pgbarman.org/ Cheers, Steve -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

[GENERAL] Alternatives to very large tables with many performance-killing indicies?

2012-08-16 Thread Wells Oliver
Hey folks, a question. We have a table that's getting large (6 million rows right now, but hey, no end in sight). It's wide-ish, too, 98 columns. The problem is that each of these columns needs to be searchable quickly at an application level, and I'm far too responsible an individual to put 98

Re: [GENERAL] Alternatives to very large tables with many performance-killing indicies?

2012-08-16 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Wells Oliver wellsoli...@gmail.com wrote: Hey folks, a question. We have a table that's getting large (6 million rows right now, but hey, no end in sight). It's wide-ish, too, 98 columns. The problem is that each of these columns needs to be searchable quickly

Re: [GENERAL] success with postgresql on beaglebone

2012-08-16 Thread Tomas Hlavaty
Hi Toby, If you install Ubuntu, you can just install postgresql with the package management software. $ apt-get install postgresql thanks for your reply. I should have mentioned that I was using the Ångström Distribution where postgresql is not provided via package manager. I wonder how did

Re: [GENERAL] success with postgresql on beaglebone

2012-08-16 Thread Ondrej Ivanič
Hi, On 17 August 2012 07:14, Tomas Hlavaty t...@logand.com wrote: thanks for your reply. I should have mentioned that I was using the Ångström Distribution where postgresql is not provided via package manager. I wonder how did the Ubuntu guys managed to overcome the insufficient memory