Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading postgresql minor version

2017-05-10 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday 10 May 2017 17:13:50 Ron Ben wrote: > Not possible > https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/debian/ > > To upgrade I do: apt-get install postgresql-9.3 > There is no way to "roll back" from here. > I can not choose which version to install, it install the latest version > packed

Re: [GENERAL] Caching and Blobs in PG? Was: Can PG replace redis, amqp, s3 in the future?

2017-05-04 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday 04 May 2017 14:47:54 John R Pierce wrote: > On 5/4/2017 2:28 PM, Alan Hodgson wrote: > > On Thursday 04 May 2017 14:21:00 John R Pierce wrote: > >> or EBS, and I've heard from more than a few people that EBS can be > >> something of a sand trap. >

Re: [GENERAL] Caching and Blobs in PG? Was: Can PG replace redis, amqp, s3 in the future?

2017-05-04 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday 04 May 2017 14:21:00 John R Pierce wrote: > or EBS, and I've heard from more than a few people that EBS can be > something of a sand trap. > Sorry for following up off-topic, but EBS has actually improved considerably in the last few years. You can get guaranteed (and very high) IOPS

Re: [GENERAL] Recover PostgreSQL database folder data

2017-04-21 Thread Alan Hodgson
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Edson Lidorio > > wrote: > > Hi, > > There was a disaster in my development note. I was able to recover the > > data folder. PostgreSQL 9.6.2, was installed in Centos 7. > > > > Here are the procedures I'm trying to initialize Postgresql for me to do a > > bac

Re: [GENERAL] "Database does not exist" weirdness

2017-02-17 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Friday 17 February 2017 18:18:20 Michael Tyson wrote: > postgres=# \q > pi@raspi ~ $ sudo -u postgres psql testdb > psql: FATAL: database "testdb" does not exist > pi@raspi ~ $ sudo -u postgres createdb testdb > createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: duplicate key value violates > unique c

Re: [GENERAL] streaming replication and WAL

2016-10-25 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday 25 October 2016 17:08:26 t.dalpo...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > let's suppose I have: > - a primary server with its own local archive location, configured for > continuous archiving > - a standby server without archive. > These servers are configured for Sync streaming replication . > L

Re: [GENERAL] Help on recovering my standby

2016-06-22 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday 21 June 2016 19:34:18 Ramalingam, Sankarakumar wrote: > Hi I have my standby (streaming replication) down due to missing wal files. > You would see the same error in the logs stating "cannot find the wal file > ..." What is the best way to get it going so that when we switch between > st

Re: [GENERAL] Checkpoint Err on Startup of Rsynced System

2016-05-31 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday, May 31, 2016 10:13:14 AM Jim Longwill wrote: > I am trying to setup a 2nd, identical, db server (M2) for development > and I've run into a problem with starting up the 2nd Postgres installation. > > Here's what I've done: >1) did a 'clone' of 1st (production) machine M1 (so both ma

Re: [GENERAL] Migrate 2 DB's - v8.3

2016-05-27 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Friday, May 27, 2016 05:32:08 PM Melvin Davidson wrote: > Well, Slony certainly will do the trick. > Keep in mind you will need to do schema only first to the slave. > You set up replication from the old server with the db on the new server as > the slave. Then you initiate replication. It will

Re: [GENERAL] Any difference between commit/rollback when only temp tables and \copy are used

2016-05-16 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, May 16, 2016 03:41:23 PM David G. Johnston wrote: > I have a psql script that obtains data via the \copy command and loads it > into a temporary table. Additional work is performed possibly generating > additional temporary tables but never any "real" tables. Then the script > outputs,

Re: [GENERAL] Problem after replication switchover

2016-04-06 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, April 06, 2016 10:33:16 AM Lars Arvidson wrote: > > I'd guess it's probably more like option 3 - Glusterfs ate my database. > > Hi, thanks for your reply! > We do archive logs on a distributed Glusterfs volume in case the streaming > replication gets too far behind and the transactio

Re: [GENERAL] Problem after replication switchover

2016-04-05 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday, April 05, 2016 12:55:04 PM Lars Arvidson wrote: > Is there something I missed in the switchover or could this be a bug? > I'd guess it's probably more like option 3 - Glusterfs ate my database. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes t

Re: [GENERAL] Does PostgreSQL support to write glusterfs by Libgfapi

2015-12-16 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday, December 15, 2015 11:26:40 PM zh1029 wrote: > Hi, > It seems low performance PostgreSQL(9.3.6) while writing data to glusterFS > distributed file system. libgfapi is provide since GlusterFS version 3.4 to > avoid kernel visits/data copy which can improve its performance. But I > didn'

Re: [GENERAL] HELP!!! The WAL Archive is taking up all space

2015-12-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, December 09, 2015 07:55:09 AM FattahRozzaq wrote: > archive_mode = on > archive_command = 'cp -i %p /home/postgres/archive/master/%f' > > > The WAL archive folder is at /home/postgres/archive/master/, right? > This directory consumes around 750GB of Disk-1. > Each segment in the /ho

Re: [GENERAL] Most effective settings for deleting lots of data?

2015-08-26 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, August 26, 2015 08:25:02 PM Cory Tucker wrote: > What settings would you recommend? Also, it just occurred to me that I > should try to disable/drop all indexes (especially since they will be > recreated) later so that those are not updated in the process. Don't drop the indexes you

Re: [GENERAL] Storing Video's or vedio file in DB.

2014-12-17 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, December 17, 2014 01:55:46 PM Thomas Kellerer wrote: > Albe Laurenz schrieb am 17.12.2014 um 11:07: > > and the performance will be worse than reading files from the file system. > > There is a Microsoft research [1] (from 2006) which tested this "myth" using > SQL Server. It showed

Re: [GENERAL] Processor usage/tuning question

2014-10-03 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Friday, October 03, 2014 11:24:31 AM Israel Brewster wrote: > I have a Postgresql 9.3.5 server running on CentOS 6.5. In looking at some > stats today, I saw that it was handling about 4-5 transactions/second > (according to the SELECT sum(xact_commit+xact_rollback) FROM > pg_stat_database; quer

Re: [GENERAL] Where art thou, plpython2.dll? (EDB installer)

2014-09-23 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 02:05:48 PM Nick Guenther wrote: > I uninstalled all the postgres subpackages and rebuilt them from > ports, and ended up with an identical plpython2.so, which has these > checksums: > SHA256 (/usr/local/lib/postgresql/plpython2.so) = > 8c7ff6358d9bf0db342e3aca1762cd7

Re: [GENERAL] large table

2014-09-22 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, September 22, 2014 11:17:05 AM Luke Coldiron wrote: > The actual size of the table is around 33 MB. > The myFunc function is called every 2.5 seconds and the wasUpdated function > every 2 seconds by separate processes. I realize that running a FULL VACUUM > or CLUSTER command on the tabl

Re: [GENERAL] Help related to Postgresql for RHEL 6.5

2014-08-28 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Friday, August 29, 2014 04:14:35 AM Yogesh. Sharma wrote: > Dear David, > > > Are you currently using PostgreSQL? > > Currently we are using PostgreSQL 8.1.18 version on RHEL 5.8. > Now we plan to update this to PostgreSQL 9.0 version with RHEL6.5. As in > verion 9.0 I found least Compatibili

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade to 9.3

2014-07-21 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, July 21, 2014 09:05:18 PM Karthik Iyer wrote: > Hello, > > We are planning to upgrade Postgres from 9.0 to 9.3. Was wondering > if there are any serious changes that I have to look out for > (syntax/datatypes changes) so that my code does not break. > http://www.postgresql.org/do

Re: [GENERAL] How to store fixed size images?

2014-06-19 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday, June 19, 2014 10:21:56 AM Andy Colson wrote: > On 06/16/2014 08:10 PM, sunpeng wrote: > > We have many small size(most fixed size) images, how to store them? There > > are two options: 1. Store images in folders, managed by os file system, > > only store path in postgresql 2. Store ima

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, June 09, 2014 08:05:41 PM Khangelani Gama wrote: > Hi All > > I would like to re-post the problem we have. The secondary server ran out > the disc space due the replication problem (Connection Time out). The secondary server would not (could not) run out of drive space due to a proble

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby replication problem

2014-06-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, June 09, 2014 04:28:53 PM Khangelani Gama wrote: > Please help me with this, my secondary server shows a replication problem. > It stopped at the file called *00054BAF00AF …*then from here > primary server kept on sending walfiles, until the walfiles used up the > disc space

Re: [GENERAL] bytea Issue - Reg

2014-06-06 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, June 04, 2014 10:49:18 PM sramay wrote: > relation "public.file_attachments" does not exist .. is almost certainly not a size problem. What does your PostgreSQL log say? I suspect your app is connecting to the wrong database. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@

Re: [GENERAL] CentOS 6 and Postgresql 9.3.4 from PGDG

2014-04-14 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, April 14, 2014 09:13:51 AM Steve Clark wrote: > How did you deal with binaries and libraries, as well as third party apps > like perl modules or php/apache modules? The 8.4 library package usually ends up installed to satisfy other package requirements. Binaries get handled through th

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, April 09, 2014 09:02:02 PM Brent Wood wrote: > Given the likely respective numbers of each OS actually out there, I'd > suggests BSD is very over-represented in the high uptime list which is > suggestive. Suggestive of ... sysadmins who don't do kernel updates? -- Sent via pgsql-

Re: [GENERAL] Is it safe to stop postgres in between pg_start_backup and pg_stop_backup?

2014-04-03 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday, April 03, 2014 02:48:03 PM Steven Schlansker wrote: > On Apr 2, 2014, at 3:08 PM, Jacob Scott wrote: > • pg_start_backup > • Take a filesystem snapshot (of a volume containing postgres data but > not > pg_xlog) • pg_stop_backup > • pg_ctl stop > • Bring a new

Re: [GENERAL] Is it possible to "pip" pg_dump output into new db ?

2014-03-25 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 02:56:48 PM Frank Foerster wrote: > Hi, > > we are currently in the process of upgrading a production/live 1 TB > database from 9.2 to 9.3 via pg_dump, which is quite a lengthy process. > > Fortunately we have a capable spare-server so we can restore into a clean, > fre

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Point In Time Recovery

2013-10-25 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday, October 24, 2013 11:13:34 PM Jayadevan wrote: > Alan Hodgson wrote > > > That's basically what warm standby's do, isn't it? As long as they keep > > recovery open it should work. > > A warn standby will be almost in sync with the primary, righ

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Point In Time Recovery

2013-10-24 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday, October 24, 2013 11:31:38 AM John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/24/2013 9:47 AM, Jeff Janes wrote: > > I restore from my base backup plus WAL quite often. It is how I get a > > fresh dev or test instance when I want one. (It is also how I have > > confidence that everything is working well

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres DB crashing

2013-06-20 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday, June 20, 2013 07:52:21 AM Merlin Moncure wrote: > OP needs to explore use of connection pooler, in particular pgbouncer. > Anyways none of this explains why the server is actually crashing. It might be hitting file descriptor limits. I didn't dig into the earlier part of this thread

Re: [GENERAL] Trouble with Postgresql RPM

2013-01-23 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 09:10:40 AM Ian Harding wrote: > The System: > > Linux beta 2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Dec 19 07:05:20 UTC 2012 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > That looks like a CentOS 6 system. Go to http://yum.postgresql.org/repopackages.php Find the repo appropr

Re: [GENERAL] pg_Restore

2013-01-21 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, January 21, 2013 08:40:05 PM bhanu udaya wrote: > Hello,Thanks alot for all your replies. I tried all settings suggested, it > did not work. pg_restore is very slow. It does not come out less than 1 1/2 > hour. Can you please let me know the procedure for Template. Will it > restore the

Re: [GENERAL] Table with million rows - and PostgreSQL 9.1 is not using the index

2012-12-04 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, December 05, 2012 02:44:39 AM Edson Richter wrote: > Sort (cost=11938.72..11938.74 rows=91 width=93) >Sort Key: t0.nome >-> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..11938.42 rows=91 width=93) > -> Nested Loop (cost=0.00..11935.19 rows=91 width=85) >-> Seq Scan on

Re: [GENERAL] lock database share

2012-11-05 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, November 05, 2012 05:15:41 AM salah jubeh wrote: > Hello, > > I have the following scenario, I would like to upgrade a database server > from 8.3 to 9.1. The upgrade includes also a hardware upgrade. > > > I would like to have the following > > 1. Make sure that the upgraded server a

Re: [GENERAL] 9.1 to 9.2 requires a dump/reload?

2012-10-22 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, October 22, 2012 05:55:07 PM Nikolas Everett wrote: > I was just looking at > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/release-9-2.html and it > mentioned that a dump/reload cycle was required to upgrade from a previous > release. I just got done telling some of my coworkers that PG

Re: [GENERAL] allow servers to access to the same data

2012-10-17 Thread Alan Hodgson
> is it that you want? > I've come across a few mentions of Heartbeat being used for PostgreSQL > failover, do have any links to more information about this? If you're going to use Heartbeat on a 2-server setup, you should use DRBD for the replication, not the PostgreSQL replication. DRBD basical

Re: [GENERAL] Securing .pgpass File?

2012-10-01 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, October 01, 2012 03:10:43 PM Shaun Thomas wrote: > I can't remember about Puppet since I haven't used it in so long, but > bcfg2 is basically just a giant directory structure, and we put ours in > GIT for safekeeping and to track changes. Implementing ACLs in GIT is a > bit of a PITA, so

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple indexes, huge table

2012-09-06 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday, September 06, 2012 05:06:27 PM Jeff Janes wrote: > For updating 20 million out of 500 million rows, wouldn't a full table > scan generally be preferable to an index scan anyway? > Not one table scan for each row updated ... -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@po

Re: [GENERAL] Tigger after delete with plpgsql

2012-08-31 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Friday, August 31, 2012 12:41:42 PM fellipeh wrote: > Here is error msg: > http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/file/n5722180/erro_PG.png > > sorry, but in portuguese.. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Tigger-after-delete-with-plpgsql-tp

Re: [GENERAL] Tigger after delete with plpgsql

2012-08-31 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Friday, August 31, 2012 12:12:32 PM fellipeh wrote: > Yes, the error appears when I delete "nfentrada_item" row > View this message in context: > http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Tigger-after-delete-with-plpgsql-tp > 5722154p5722173.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list arc

Re: [GENERAL] Tigger after delete with plpgsql

2012-08-31 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Friday, August 31, 2012 03:14:15 PM Fellipe Henrique wrote: > CREATE TRIGGER nfentrada_item_tr1 > BEFORE DELETE > ON public.nfentrada_item FOR EACH ROW > EXECUTE PROCEDURE public.nfentrada_item_ad0(); > > here is my nfentrada_item_ad0(); > > delete > from MOVIMENTO > wher

Re: [GENERAL] Tigger after delete with plpgsql

2012-08-31 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Friday, August 31, 2012 02:10:47 PM Fellipe Henrique wrote: > Hello, I`m try to use this code for my After Delete trigger: > > delete > from MOVIMENTO > where (IDEMPRESA = OLD.idempresa) and > (upper(TABELA) = 'NFENTRADA_ITEM') and > (CODIGO = OLD.idempresa_item); > > But

Re: [GENERAL] psql & unix env variables

2012-08-29 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 12:35:32 PM Little, Douglas wrote: > Is there a method for having unix env variables incorporated into a psql sql > statement? Ie > Export var='dev' > Psql =c 'select count(*) from $var.customer;' > Use double-quotes, not single-quotes. Bash won't interpolate variabl

Re: [GENERAL] Which postgresql should i choose to migrate from 8.3 ? 8.4 or 9.1?

2012-08-28 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 11:52:26 AM Ing.Edmundo.Robles.Lopez wrote: > Please, could you help to give peace of mind to my boss and make sure > that the version we choose to be as smooth as possible compatible with > version 8.3? > All compatibility changes are indicated in the upgrade notes fr

Re: [GENERAL] Migrating from 8.3 to 9.1 - date/time storage types do not match

2012-08-22 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 02:43:05 PM Alan Hodgson wrote: > The most likely way to get this done is with Slony. Setup a Slony slave, > upgrade the slave to 9.1 with a dump/reload, run it and let Slony catch it > up, and then promote it to be the Slony cluster master and switch your

Re: [GENERAL] Migrating from 8.3 to 9.1 - date/time storage types do not match

2012-08-22 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 05:17:10 PM Scott Briggs wrote: > So we have a large TB database that we need to migrate to 9.1 and I'm > wondering if there's a way to do this process in stages. > > Since the date/time storage types changes between 8.3 and 8.4, I > realize we'll have to dump the dat

Re: [GENERAL] Amazon High I/O instances

2012-08-22 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 04:10:01 PM Andrew Hannon wrote: > Just looking into High IO instances for a DB deployment. In order to get > past 1TB, we are looking at RAID-0. I have heard > (http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4266119) there might be a problem if TRIM isn't > supported. Does anyone know if

Re: [GENERAL] REINDEX and COPY is wainting since Jun 21!

2012-07-27 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Friday, July 27, 2012 11:59:49 AM Ing.Edmundo.Robles.Lopez wrote: > Hi, i have postgres 8.3 running in SCO Openserver 5.0.7 > > today, i had problems to start psql, the error mesage was: 'FATAL > Memory out, Detail: Failed on resqueted size ...' , and after i checked > the process i notic

Re: [GENERAL] Trouble with NEW

2012-07-18 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 12:28:00 PM Bob Pawley wrote: > It's an insert after trigger function. > > The table has a column named fluid_id. > > Bob Could you post the whole function? And a \d on the table? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make change

Re: [GENERAL] Trouble with NEW

2012-07-18 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:07:34 AM Bob Pawley wrote: > Hi > > I would appreciate some fresh eyes on this expression - > > update p_id.fluids > set fluid_short = > (select shape.text > from shape, num_search > where (select st_within(shape.wkb_geometry, > st_geometryn(num_sea

Re: [GENERAL] efficiency of wildcards at both ends

2012-06-20 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 01:10:03 PM Sam Z J wrote: > Hi all > > I'm curious how is wildcards at both ends implemented, e.g. LIKE '%str%' > How efficient is it if that's the only search criteria against a large > table? how much does indexing the column help and roughly how much more > space is

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres no longer starts

2012-05-30 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 08:22:58 PM Bart Lateur wrote: > Luckily this is a development machine, but as we don't know what causes > the problem we fear we might one day face the exact same problem where > it does matter: on a production machine. So we'd like to know exactly > what went wrong.. C

Re: [GENERAL] Reasons for postgres processes beeing killed by SIGNAL 9?

2012-05-22 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Saturday, May 19, 2012 04:42:16 PM Clemens Eisserer wrote: > Hi again, > > We are still constantly getting postgresql processes killed by signal > 9 from time to time, without any idea why or how. > Syslog seems completly clean. > > In case a postgresql process would exceed some restricted res

Re: [GENERAL] where to find initdb log file?

2012-03-30 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Saturday, March 31, 2012 01:52:37 AM clover white wrote: > HI, i have a problem when using pg, thanks for help. :) > > I used command initdb, but nothing was created in my pgdata directory. > however, I used command ps to list all the processes, and I found inidb > process kept running all t

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xc325

2012-03-30 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Friday, March 30, 2012 10:00:31 AM Prashant Bharucha wrote: > Hello All > > Could you help me to automatically convert all db request into UTF8 encode ? > Set your session client_encoding to match your data. That's about as close as you can get to automatic. http://www.postgresql.org/docs

Re: [GENERAL] Facing error while restoring the database

2012-03-27 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 08:20:23 PM Akshay Joshi wrote: > In my case I won't allow anyone to insert/modify the rows of sample_one > table. I have already inserted some rows in sample_one table where I > want one constraint is number of array elements of sample_one.param_names > and sample.pa

Re: [GENERAL] How to recover data from cluster

2012-02-16 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday, February 16, 2012 09:18:34 PM Andrus wrote: > PostgreSql 8.4 in windows crashes. After that Windows disk repairing was > used to repair hard drive. After that Data/base directory from crashed > server contains lot of files, all files are readable. > > PostgreSql 8.4 was reinstalled in

Re: [GENERAL] initdb $PGDATA not working

2012-02-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:25:51 PM Daniel Vázquez wrote: > Hi! > > I've set my PGDATA variable in profile > export PGDATA=/home/mydata/pgsql/data > > Testing variable for correct set in enviroment > $ echo $PGDATA > /home/mydata/pgsql/data > > but when execute: > $ sudo /etc/init.d/postg

Re: [GENERAL] Puzzling full database lock

2012-02-01 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wednesday, February 01, 2012 05:13:15 PM Christopher Opena wrote: > Do you mean 6-12% of total iowait, or per cpu? Our average iowait in the > last week is 34.31% of a total 1600% with an average idle of 1451.76%. Our > iowait *does* spike occasionally (today it went up to 148.01%) but it > do

Re: [GENERAL] Puzzling full database lock

2012-02-01 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Christopher Opena wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > We've been running into some very strange issues of late with our > > PostgreSQL database(s). We have an issue where a couple of queries > > push high CPU on a few of our processors and the entire database locks

Re: [GENERAL] PG 9.0 EBS Snapshot Backups on Slave

2012-01-23 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, January 23, 2012 07:54:16 PM Andrew Hannon wrote: > It is worth noting that, the slave (seemingly) catches up eventually, > recovering later log files with streaming replication current. Can I trust > this state? > Should be able to. The master will also actually retry the logs and eve

Re: [GENERAL] HA options

2012-01-17 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:34:54 AM Tim Uckun wrote: > http://www.drbd.org/ ?? > Built in hot standby and hand rolled scripts. > I have a few clusters running on EC2 using DRBD to replicate between availability zones. It's not fast, but it works. If your write load is under 30MB/sec it's d

Re: [GENERAL] HA options

2012-01-16 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:34:54 AM Tim Uckun wrote: > Hey Guys. > > It's been a while since I looked into this and it seems like new > options have cropped up for postgres HA and scalability. Is there a > consensus on the "best" way to achieve HA. My primary concern is HA > but of course a

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql allow connections without password

2012-01-12 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday, January 12, 2012 02:16:04 AM debian nick wrote: > Any help will be really appreciate. Check your pg_hba.conf file for any entries with "trust" or "ident". Remove them and restart the server. Also look for .pgpass files in the home directories of any user seeing this. -- Sent via p

Re: [GENERAL] indexes and tables

2011-12-19 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Sunday, December 18, 2011 04:00:14 PM amit sehas wrote: > Yes i was trying to determine how to make a View work in this situation. > From reading the details on PostgreSQL Views are not persistent, ie they > are just a SQL query short hand rather than actually creating any physical > entity back

Re: [GENERAL] CPU move

2011-11-26 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Saturday, November 26, 2011 10:18:56 AM Carlos Henrique Reimer wrote: > Hi, > > We're planning to move our postgreSQL database from one CPU box to another > box. > > I'm considering an alternative procedure for the move as the standard one > (pg_dump from the old, copy dump to the new box, psq

Re: [GENERAL] can I show number of records returned by a query in a log?

2011-11-16 Thread Alan Hodgson
On November 16, 2011 05:07:05 PM hyelluas wrote: > I see 900 queries sent by 1 client in 7 min with 1 click on the screen - > does the log show the real thing? The logs show the real thing. Gotta love ORMs. > > > Is it possible to log the number of records returned by that query? I doubt the

Re: [GENERAL] Regarding the shared disk fail over cluster configuration

2011-11-02 Thread Alan Hodgson
On November 2, 2011 08:55:39 AM Debasis Mishra wrote: > My doubt is - Whether cluster should start the postgres service in > secondary node during failover or postgress will be running always. My > undersatnding was in both the node postgress will be running and pointing > to shared dbdata. And if

Re: [GENERAL] Server move using rsync

2011-11-01 Thread Alan Hodgson
On October 31, 2011 03:01:19 PM Stephen Denne wrote: > I'm wondering whether it's worth doing anyway, simply to check that it > doesn't do something completely unexpected, which would presumably alert > us to something we hadn't considered. > Testing is always worthwhile, if only to ensure that P

Re: [GENERAL] Server hitting 100% CPU usage, system comes to a crawl.

2011-10-27 Thread Alan Hodgson
On October 27, 2011 01:09:51 PM Brian Fehrle wrote: > We've restarted the postgresql cluster, so the issue is not happening at > this moment. but running a vmstat 10 had my 'cs' average at 3K and 'in' > averaging around 9.5K. Random thought, is there any chance the server is physically overheating

Re: [GENERAL] Are file system level differential/incremental backups possible?

2011-10-12 Thread Alan Hodgson
On October 12, 2011 03:04:30 PM Bob Hatfield wrote: > > Anyway, a better way for you would be to do a regular backup (with > > pg_start_backup, copy and pg_stop_backup) and then use wal > > archive_command to keep the xlogs between 2 full backups. > > Thanks Julien. Can pg_start/stop_backup() be

Re: [GENERAL] : PostgreSQL Online Backup

2011-10-04 Thread Alan Hodgson
> > rsync works fine. Why exactly can't the recovery find the backed up copy > > of 000105390076? Please post your archive_command settings, > > the contents of any script(s) called by that, and the recovery.conf file > > you're using that's having problems, as well as the complete proc

Re: [GENERAL] : PostgreSQL Online Backup

2011-10-03 Thread Alan Hodgson
On October 3, 2011 05:33:35 AM Venkat Balaji wrote: > Did anyone observe this behavior ?? Please help ! > > This is critical for us. I want to recommend not to use "rsync" (use cp or > scp instead) for production backup. > rsync works fine. Why exactly can't the recovery find the backed up copy

Re: [GENERAL] Searching through trigger functions

2011-09-26 Thread Alan Hodgson
On September 26, 2011 10:47:20 AM Bob Pawley wrote: > Hi > > I have an error somewhere in one of the trigger functions in my database. > The error message only told me it was a ‘Select * From (table name). > > Is there a global method of finding where this expression resides other > than searchin

Re: [GENERAL] : PostgreSQL Online Backup

2011-09-26 Thread Alan Hodgson
On September 26, 2011 05:49:50 AM Venkat Balaji wrote: > I tried restoring the backup, after taking the full backup. > > Below is what i see in the "archive destination". > > Postgres was asking for "00010193006F" and i tried to find the > same and below is what i find... > > -rw

Re: [GENERAL] Replication between 64/32bit systems?

2011-09-20 Thread Alan Hodgson
On September 20, 2011 01:26:06 PM Hannes Erven wrote: > So I'd like to ask if there is anything I could do by e.g. changing > compile-time options at the slave to get things going? > No. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby - apply wal archives

2011-09-05 Thread Alan Hodgson
On September 5, 2011, MirrorX wrote: > thx a lot for your answer. > > actually DRBD is the solution i am trying to avoid, since i think the > performance is degrading a lot (i ve used it in the past). and also i > have serious doubts if the data is corrupted in case of the master's > failure, if

Re: [GENERAL] heavy swapping, not sure why

2011-08-29 Thread Alan Hodgson
On August 29, 2011 02:34:26 PM you wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Alan Hodgson wrote: > > On August 29, 2011 01:36:07 PM Lonni J Friedman wrote: > >> I have several Linux-x68_64 based dedicated PostgreSQL servers where > >> I'm experiencing signifi

Re: [GENERAL] heavy swapping, not sure why

2011-08-29 Thread Alan Hodgson
On August 29, 2011 01:36:07 PM Lonni J Friedman wrote: > I have several Linux-x68_64 based dedicated PostgreSQL servers where > I'm experiencing significant swap usage growth over time. It's the Linux kernel that does it, not PostgreSQL. Set vm.swappiness=0 (usually in /etc/sysctl.conf) and put t

Re: [GENERAL] Streaming Replication: Observations, Questions and Comments

2011-08-24 Thread Alan Hodgson
On August 24, 2011 08:33:17 AM Samba wrote: > One strange thing I noticed is that the pg_xlogs on the master have > outsized the actual data stored in the database by at least 3-4 times, > which was quite surprising. I'm not sure if 'restore_command' has anything > to do with it. I did not understa

Re: [GENERAL] Need linux uid in pg-psql

2011-08-19 Thread Alan Hodgson
On August 19, 2011 07:01:33 AM Gauthier, Dave wrote: > Is there a way to get the linux idsid of a user, even for a remote network > connection? > > I could write a pg-perlu to get this, but I suspect it won't give me the > original user when there's a remote connect. > > Thanks for any suggestion

Re: [GENERAL] Add Foreign Keys To Table

2011-07-07 Thread Alan Hodgson
On July 7, 2011 12:30:35 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Alan Hodgson wrote: > > It implies the composite is unique. Not sta_type. > >OK. Now I understand. How, then, do I add a unique constraint to each > component of the composite key so I can add them as f

Re: [GENERAL] Add Foreign Keys To Table

2011-07-07 Thread Alan Hodgson
On July 7, 2011 11:55:25 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Alan Hodgson wrote: > > You need a unique index on station_type.sta_type > > Alan, > >station_type(sta_type) is part of a composite primary key. Doesn't > primary key automatically imply uni

Re: [GENERAL] Add Foreign Keys To Table

2011-07-07 Thread Alan Hodgson
On July 7, 2011 10:40:11 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > alter table station_information add column sta_type varchar(50) > unique not null references station_type(sta_type); > NOTICE: ALTER TABLE / ADD UNIQUE will create implicit index > "station_information_sta_type_key" for table "station_information"

Re: [GENERAL] Invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xedbebf

2011-06-15 Thread Alan Hodgson
On June 15, 2011 01:18:27 PM BRUSSER Michael wrote: > Unless there's no other options I don't want to use sed or break file into > pieces, if possible, iconv loads everything into RAM. You can use "split", convert the pieces, and then recombine, I did that when converting a large database to utf-

Re: [GENERAL] Write performance on a large database

2011-06-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On June 9, 2011 05:15:26 AM Håvard Wahl Kongsgård wrote: > Hi, I have performance issues on very large database(100GB). Reading from > the database is no problem, but writing(or heavy writing) is a nightmare. > I have tried tuning postgresql, but that does not seem to improving the > writing perfor

Re: [GENERAL] replication problems 9.0

2011-06-07 Thread Alan Hodgson
On June 7, 2011 04:38:16 PM owen marinas wrote: > Thx, Merci, Gracias Rodrigo > it worked indeed, Im wondering why replication is not included in "All" > Probably because it gives access to all the data being written to the database. -- Obama has now fired more cruise missiles than all other N

Re: [GENERAL] Locale and UTF8 for template1 in 8.4.4

2011-05-06 Thread Alan Hodgson
On May 6, 2011, Iain Barnett wrote: > Would anyone be able to point out to me how I can get the template1 > database to be utf8 and en_GB? (or US, I'm not *that* fussed) Use the --encoding and --locale options to initdb.

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql 9.0.1 table corruption

2011-04-14 Thread Alan Hodgson
On April 14, 2011 08:10:47 am Dan Biagini wrote: > I suspect that it may have occurred during a filesystem level backup > (ie pg_start_backup(), tar -czf..., pg_stop_backup()), as I performed > a backup and moved the database to a different system. After > restoring the files and starting postgre

Re: [GENERAL] upgrade

2011-02-03 Thread Alan Hodgson
On February 2, 2011, "William Bruton" wrote: > How do I know which version to upgrade to from 8.1.4? > Well, 8.1 is no longer supported, it seems. So an upgrade to any supported version will likely require application changes, or at least thorough testing. You might as well go right to 9.0.3 t

Re: [GENERAL] HA solution

2011-01-14 Thread Alan Hodgson
On January 14, 2011, "Jaiswal Dhaval Sudhirkumar" wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for active-active clustering solution. > > I have one SAN box and two separate NODES, where I need to create > active-active cluster. My data directory would be one and mounted to the > SAN box for both the nodes. (

Re: [GENERAL] Backup and restore sequences

2011-01-07 Thread Alan Hodgson
On January 7, 2011, gvim wrote: > PostgreSQL 9.0.1/pgAdminIII 1.12.1 > > I want to copy selected tables from one database to another and maintain > the sequences which I originally setup with: > > CREATE SEQUENCE venues_id_seq START WITH 1122; > ALTER TABLE venues ALTER COLUMN id SET DEFAULT nex

Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem

2010-12-28 Thread Alan Hodgson
On December 28, 2010, "Bob Pawley" wrote: > It's often a good idea to maintain function definitions outside the > database, > under version control, and apply them to the database from there. > > I would appreciate a more detailed explanation of this. Treat them like source code. > > Bob > >

Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem

2010-12-28 Thread Alan Hodgson
On December 28, 2010, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 12/28/2010 07:40 PM, Bob Pawley wrote: > >> Open the file in Wordpad and see if it looks better. > >> > >> I downloaded an sql editor and it looks the same in it as well. > >> > >> At least the editor will make it easier to fix the problem. However

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0 replication -- multiple hot_standby servers

2010-10-29 Thread Alan Hodgson
On October 29, 2010, "Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" wrote: > On 2010-10-29 11:17, Alan Hodgson wrote: > > I'm curious about this too. It seems that currently I'd have to > > rebuild any additional slaves basically from scratch to use the new > > mas

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0 replication -- multiple hot_standby servers

2010-10-29 Thread Alan Hodgson
On October 29, 2010, "Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" wrote: > My question is, how do I configure the other three (still) hot_standby > boxes to now use the new primary? Clearly I can change the > "recovery.conf" file on each standby box, but that seems like an > unnecessary nuisance. I'm curio

Re: [GENERAL] Why Select Count(*) from table - took over 20 minutes?

2010-10-26 Thread Alan Hodgson
On October 26, 2010 10:18:41 am Ozz Nixon wrote: > I have hung off indexes for each column, to resolve my previous > "performance" issue from 3+ weeks ago. However, COUNT() is still dog slow > - this table is a write once, read many... *never* update, nor delete. > > Any suggestions? If you need

Re: [GENERAL] Restore/dump from "/usr/local/pgsql/data" directory

2010-09-23 Thread Alan Hodgson
On September 23, 2010 01:49:50 pm kongs...@stud.ntnu.no wrote: > Hi, > I have a copy of "/usr/local/pgsql/data" from old server. Is it > possible to do a dump of the sql databases in this directory, so that > I can easily migrate them to my current system? > You should be able to launch a postmas

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