[GENERAL] restoring one table?

2008-08-07 Thread Brian Maguire
We need to restore one table from a backup. What is the proper way to do this? Our backup command looks like this: pg_dump -C -Fc -S postgresql mydatabase today.backup.sqlc I am using PostgreSQL 8.1. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to

[GENERAL] Postgres Performance Issue

2007-07-20 Thread Brian Maguire
Hi, We're trying to figure out why we're getting poor query performance on a particular database running on a 64 bit Solaris box. The info for the poor database is: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 2) Linux vl-sfv40z-001 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Jan 5 17:11:56 EST

[GENERAL] Postgres Team: Thank You All

2006-09-20 Thread Brian Maguire
To all involved in this project, I justed wanted to let you know how impressed and pleased I have been with postgres over the past 5 years . The timeliness and quality of the releases are always robust and stable. Every release has a very nice mix of admin, performance, platform, and

[GENERAL] Dblink and connections to MySQL?

2006-08-30 Thread Brian Maguire
Does anyone have any recommendations or experiences on connecting a postgres db to a mysql db possibly through dblink or another technology? Does dblink just do postgres to postgres? There is not a lot documentation on that contrib. Thanks, Brian

Re: [GENERAL] Pgpool questions

2005-04-25 Thread Brian Maguire
weight_secondary to 0. Did you mean Set weight_master to 0. Unfortunately this would not help on a query by query basis, but the above would. -Original Message- From: Tatsuo Ishii [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 7:23 PM To: Brian Maguire Cc: pgsql-general

[GENERAL] Pgpool questions

2005-04-23 Thread Brian Maguire
I have a couple Pgpool questions regarding running pgpool as a load balancer with Sony as the replicator. Is there anyway to load balance selects to more than 2 servers? ex. 1 master with 2 slaves? Run multiple instances? Is there any way to tell a select (ex. with a function) to go only

[GENERAL] Daffodil Replicator is now available open source

2005-03-14 Thread Brian Maguire
Has anyone ever used this? They have support for Postgres as master or a slave in a heterogeneous setup. Daffodil Replicator is a powerful Open Source data synchronization tool that allows bi-directional data synchronization between heterogeneous databases supporting JDBC drivers. Its

[GENERAL] pgpool

2005-03-01 Thread Brian Maguire
Is anyone currently using pgpool with production high volume use? I am interested in your success and challenges. Brian

[GENERAL] pgpool fundamental questions

2005-02-28 Thread Brian Maguire
Pgpool is a real cool project, I really hope it keeps evolving. I have a couple basic/fundamental questions that I hoping to get some clarification on. Question 1: If pgpool is used in conjuntion with slony or a another replication it can be used only for its loadbalancing and failover. I am

[GENERAL] J2SE 1.5 Cache Rowset(JSR 114 )

2005-01-07 Thread Brian Maguire
Just as an FYI. Sun's Cache rowset which is new and part of the J2SE 1.5 is not compatable with Postgres. We have been working with Sun's JAVA development team to resolve the issues through our test cases and debugging. We hope that in a future patch update that the issues will be resolved.

Re: [GENERAL] what could cause inserts getting queued up and db locking??

2004-10-28 Thread Brian Maguire
PM To: Brian Maguire Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] what could cause inserts getting queued up and db locking?? Brian Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We though there might be locking, but noticed that there were not any queries in wait mode indicating that no statements were

[GENERAL] page locking? too many btree indexes...

2004-10-26 Thread Brian Maguire
Can too many btree indexes cause page level locking? I read this http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/locking-indexes.html The concern is the exclusive page-level locking that occurs on inserts to the index. I am experiencing locking related on two tables. Each has

Re: [GENERAL] what could cause inserts getting queued up and db locking??

2004-10-26 Thread Brian Maguire
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 4:46 AM To: Brian Maguire Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] what could cause inserts getting queued up and db locking?? Brian Maguire wrote: What could cause the database to lock up and queue up all the queries? You'll want to check

Re: [GENERAL] what could cause inserts getting queued up and db locking??

2004-10-26 Thread Brian Maguire
Thanks. We do have it set to 15 mb. I would think that 16 mb would not make a big difference. Do you have any other ideas? -Original Message- From: Kevin Barnard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 2:32 PM To: Brian Maguire Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re

[GENERAL] what could cause inserts getting queued up and db locking??

2004-10-25 Thread Brian Maguire
Background Info: I have a table with a approx 2.5 million rows. The table often gets 200-300 inserts per second. We are see that the database (7.4.1 Red Hat Enterprise ED 4 way Xeon) will periodically lock up all of a sudden and force the database to queue up hundreds of queries. The

[GENERAL] Linux Magazine/Postgres Article

2004-01-21 Thread Brian Maguire
Linux Magazine Feb 2004 published an article titled Postgresql 7.4: The Database Administrator's Database. It is a 5 page article describing in detail what and how to use the new postgres features such as Expression indexes, arrays, data type domains, polymorphic functions, and full text

[GENERAL] tablespaces a priority for 7.5?

2004-01-21 Thread Brian Maguire
Is support for tablespaces a priority feature for 7.5? I believe there has been significant development in this area and it seems that postgres' file structure opens it up nicely to support it. What are the chances this will be completed? In my opinion, it really is a critical feature to

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Porting Project

2003-12-30 Thread Brian Maguire
Bugzilla is a good example PostgreSQL support. (Bug 98304 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98304 ) http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98304 They only support mysql, want to support postgres, and are tageting it in the next release, but might need a nudge/support.

[GENERAL] tablespaces in 7.5?

2003-12-11 Thread Brian Maguire
I am curious if tablespaces are going to be seriously targeted for the next version. It really opens up new levels of scalability and is a killer feature from an administration perspective. Thanks, Brian ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9:

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL v7.4 Released

2003-11-17 Thread Brian Maguire
And all along I thought v stood for victory we launched 7.4! Seriously huge effort, great product, cheers! Another great milestone. Cheers to the veam, I mean team. -Original Message- From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon