Re: [GENERAL] ora2pg and DBD::Pg

2009-11-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 17:57 +0100, Alexandra Roy wrote: Hi all, I see in the ora2pg documentation on http://www.darold.net/projects/ora2pg/ that DBD::Pg is optional and needed only for 'on the fly' migration. I need to clarify this... Does someone can explain me that is under 'on the

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a tool used to display statement times from postgres logs

2009-11-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 12:59 -0500, Chris Barnes wrote: Would someone have a tool that displays statement execution times/stats from the standard output from postgres logs? I have attempted pgfouine but not had sucess with the log format. Does anyone use pgfouine or have something that

Re: [GENERAL] Books

2009-11-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-theory.co.uk/ Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering If the world pushes look it in the eye and GRR. Then push back harder. - Salamander

Re: [GENERAL] Issues with Redhat 4 Postgresql 8.4 and support of libxml

2009-11-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:05 -0800, ar...@esri.com wrote: What are the issues with Redhat 4 in terms of supporting libxml? I build PostgreSQL 8.4 with --with-libxml option but still getting the following error. You probably need to tell postgresql to compile against the specific new version

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby instructions

2009-11-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
solution. Check out: https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pitrtools Its BSD licensed. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering If the world pushes

Re: [GENERAL] createdb errors and more

2009-11-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
xubuntu and postgres from source installed. Don't use source unless you have to. Joshua D. Drake Thanks, reno ** This email and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged

Re: [GENERAL] [pgeu-general] pgday.eu

2009-11-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
into a LOT of trouble :P Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering If the world pushes look it in the eye and GRR. Then push back harder. - Salamander

Re: [GENERAL] Why does pg_dump set default_with_oids to true?

2009-10-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
not involve any explicit setting of this parameter. The documentation deprecates setting this variable to true. Why does pg_dump do it? It is picking up objects that have OIDS. Joshua D. Drake TIA! Kynn -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http

Re: [GENERAL] [ANNOUNCE] [pgeu-general] PGDay.EU 2009 - approaching fast!

2009-10-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 21:36 +, Peter Geoghegan wrote: Sure ? You *have to* ask for the ParisTech rooms (there were still 10 rooms available on friday, only for Paristech) Else the hotel is full. I called on Saturday afternoon. I was sure to specify that I was a Paristech member, but

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL Conference West, registration closing

2009-10-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. There is a community after-party being worked on here: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/After-Thing And rumblings of other events. As always we look forward to seeing you there! Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564

Re: [GENERAL] interface for non-SQL people

2009-10-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 19:16 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Merlin Moncure mmonc...@gmail.com wrote: The #1 tool you have at your disposal is the human brain. I personally think GUI database tools are counter productive and huge time wasters. SQL requires

Re: [GENERAL] interface for non-SQL people

2009-10-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
across the network and then filters out the results only displyaing the results you want to see. I've seen this happen a lot at my company, but it may be related to the type of queries being run, so you may experience different results. You solve that with pass through queries. Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] interface for non-SQL people

2009-10-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
the offending weed down). If you would like flowery prose, sorry. It isn't my talent. Other than that... welcome to Open Source. We speak our minds, in plain site. I hope you stay and help us with the best opens source database on the planet. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump with 1100 schemas being a bit slow

2009-10-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
in this thread that it makes more sense for you to use -Fc but your speed isn't going to change all that much overall. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall asking for password for each database

2009-10-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 22:59 +0200, Krzysztof Barlik wrote: Hi, is it possible to force pg_dumpall to ask for password only once (connecting as superuser 'postgres') ? Entering it for every database is a bit annoying. take a look at .pgpass documentation Thanks, Krzysztof --

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for interest in an Irish PUG

2009-10-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
in such a group, so I'm like to see if there are enough people interested to make it viable. Please contact me off-list if you'd like to be involved. You may want to check with pgeu-general. Joshua D. Drake Many thanks, Ray O'Donnell

Re: [GENERAL] Understanding 'could not read block'

2009-10-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
hitting this error. I've turned off virus scan it seems to have no effect. It means the permissions on the physical file are such that your postgres service user can't read them. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com

Re: [GENERAL] Procedure for feature requests?

2009-10-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
:-). There is not a specific format but a good thing to do is: Request Feature Provide Use Case Provide Example syntax (if applicable) Joshua D. Drake Tim -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development

[GENERAL] Pg West in two weeks!

2009-10-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
schedule is up: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/2009/west/schedule And our registration is up: http://www.postgresql.us/purchase Remember folks, all proceeds are a donation to United States (PgUS) PostgreSQL. A United States 501c3. Joshua D. Drake -- -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] PLJava not installed for PostgreSQL 8.4 on Solaris 10 x86 64

2009-09-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
is not part of the core distribution. http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pljava/?downloads Joshua D. Drake Thanks, Sandra Arnold Sr. DBA DOE/OSTI Oak Ridge, TN -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support

Re: [GENERAL] PLJava not installed for PostgreSQL 8.4 on Solaris 10 x86 64

2009-09-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
the installation process? pljava is a mess. you either use GCJ which is only-sorta-java, or you drag the whole JVM in with every instance of postgres, ugh! If you check the archives there were very specific reasons for that. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc

Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore -j

2009-09-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 11:48 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: I'm trying to do a parallel restore with pg_restore -j but I'm only seeing one CPU being used really. The file is custom format, but was made by pg_dump for pgsql 8.3. Is that a problem? Do I need a backup made with 8.4 to run parallel

Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore -j

2009-09-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 12:05 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 11:48 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: I'm trying to do a parallel restore with pg_restore -j but I'm only seeing one CPU being used

Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore -j

2009-09-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 12:15 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 12:05 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Thu, 2009

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with leaking connections

2009-09-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
this (maybe statement_timeout)? statement_timeout will terminate a query not a connection. Are there any other possibilities? Fix your code. Not to sound harsh but this is blatant code issues. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com

Re: [GENERAL] install postgis in linux server without desktop

2009-09-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Then there will likely be something to the affect of: psql -U user db /usr/share/postgresql/8.3/contrib/postgis.sql (or something like that) Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom

Re: [GENERAL] export a schema / import as new schema

2009-08-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 11:56 -0700, David Kerr wrote: Is there an easy way, that I'm missing, where I can export a schema from database A and then rename it on load into database B? pg_dump -s foo|psql bar I use similar functionality in oracle all the time and it's great for development

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL for Firefox Bookmarks?

2009-08-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
notice much difference. However, as I recall FF just uses SQLite, so if you want an interface to that it would be easy enough. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com

Re: [GENERAL] psql and Emacs on Windows

2009-08-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 17:36 +0100, Sam Mason wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 11:11:10AM -0500, Wenjian Yang wrote: We currently installed emacs 23.1 and PostgreSQL 8.4.0 for Windows on a windows desktop. When issue sql-postgres in emacs, after providing User/Password/Database/Server, nothing

[GENERAL] 2nd call for papers (PostgreSQL West)

2009-08-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hey folks, West is upon us shortly. Get those talks in: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/2009/west Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company

Re: [GENERAL] Line Number

2009-08-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 09:30 -0700, Bob Pawley wrote: I haven''t required line numbers on my query pages before now. I'm using PGAdmin version 1.8.4. Is this something that can be turned on? Maybe but it should be asked here: http://www.pgadmin.org/support/list.php Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres and multiple updates in one statement

2009-07-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-repeated in the updates. If they're all exactly the same pattern like that, it might be worth the trouble to set up a prepared statement. Seems like an opportunity for the use of a function. Joshua D. Drake regards, tom lane -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr

Re: [GENERAL] For production: 8.4 or 8.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
(because of --integer-datetimes). So, yeah if you are running Debian/Ubuntu but if you are running Cent/RH with the defaults, pg_migrator isn't going to work unless you compile Pg from source. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support

Re: [GENERAL] For production: 8.4 or 8.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 19:16 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com writes: It depends, 8.3 and 8.4 are not compatible by default (because of --integer-datetimes). So, yeah if you are running Debian/Ubuntu but if you are running Cent/RH with the defaults, pg_migrator

Re: [GENERAL] For production: 8.4 or 8.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
that will disappear in a practical sense. You know this is true. My response is not nonsense. The data is still there but it is floating point based and thus, inexact. The where clause that you expect to retrieve the data, may not. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] Replication from Postgres to EDB

2009-07-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 11:31 +0100, Jazz Johal wrote: Hi Is it possible to setup replication from EDB to Postgres? Probably. Using Slony. As I understand it they explicitly keep backward compatibility. Joshua D. Drake Thanks -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr

Re: [GENERAL] suggestion: log_statement = sample

2009-07-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
systems take a huge hit by full logging due to transactional velocity. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] suggestion: log_statement = sample

2009-07-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 13:46 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com: It depends on the system. I have seen even big systems take a huge hit by full logging due to transactional velocity. Perhaps I'm just in a foul mood today, but I feel like people

Re: [GENERAL] initdb failure on Windows XP

2009-07-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
already exists. Meaning you had a postgres file or directory already. Initdb will bail out if that is the case. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company

Re: [GENERAL] PgDay Athens 2009: Call for Presentations

2009-06-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
an account on the PostgreSQL Conference site to submit a talk. Joshua d. Drake ---Michael Brewer mbre...@gmail.com -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving

Re: [GENERAL] Replication

2009-06-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
for the cost of RAC. Joshua d. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Replication

2009-06-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
as good as MySQL Replication. Both statement-based and row-based replication. And support for Master-Master and full cyclic replication setups. Postgresql is just a toy database without this as far as I am concerned. Funny. Joshua D. Drake Regards, Gerry -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr

Re: [GENERAL] Replication

2009-06-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. There is no real replication available for postgresql. Postgresql needs to develop a real replication offering for postgresql. Builtin or a separate module. Well this certainly isn't true but what do I know. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting

Re: [GENERAL] Replication

2009-06-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 18:35 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: It is true. Otherwise show me a viable replication offering for postgresql that I can put into production and obtain support for it. Well, you can get support for Slony (known to to be a bit complicated but stable

Re: [sfpug] [GENERAL] Rails and PostgreSQL now up on media.postgresql.org

2009-06-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
... there is the streaming page. That needs to stay somewhere we have raw HTML because of the widget embedding. Should that be somewhere else? Why not embed it into the pugs SFPUG page? Joshua D. Drake -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. www.pgexperts.com -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr

Re: [sfpug] [GENERAL] Rails and PostgreSQL now up on media.postgresql.org

2009-06-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Drupal-foo is good enough. Will seek help You just create a new page and set the input type to full html. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Pg_connect PHP

2009-06-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
also understand that it's a pg_connect limitation to not accept the \copy variant which would solve me issues. Help me Rhonda, help help me.. http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-copy-from.php ? Joshua D. Drake Thanks Tory -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] How to automatically propagate new/changed database functions from one database to another

2009-06-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
pg_proc are not allowed. Is there any way in postgres to do this, by some other way? This is the wrong away to go about it. You should put this into your development process not within the database itself. There are a number of utilities that would allow you to do such a thing. Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
solutions that are already used by others such as walmgr or pitrtools Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 15:07 -0400, Geoffrey wrote: You are still going to need to either: A. Reinvent the wheel, by scripting it all yourself B. Use solutions that are already used by others such as walmgr or pitrtools My assumption was that since pg_standby does not have the

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
from the central storage device. This is why we were thinking about changing pg_standby. PITRTools 1.2 has queuing which can deal with this problem. I don't know if walmgr does. Joshua D. Drake Thanks for all the help... -- Work: 1-336-372-6812 Cell: 1-336-404-6987 email: te

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
for warm standby. It is a component thereof. Also don't use SCP. Use rsync. Take a look at walmgr or PITRTools it will make your life easier. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
will have what you want. It appears the PITRTools use pg_standby binary, thus I'm still confused as to how these files are processed. Yes it does use pg_standby. It just wraps everything that is missing for warm standby into a single utility. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr

Re: [GENERAL] question about SSIS

2009-05-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
a protocol change, and it doesn't seem worth it to me. The idea that the client gets to choose seems like a bad idea from a security standpoint anyhow... Wouldn't this be solved just by having fall through authentication? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] running postgresql on a private machine accessing it from public web pages

2009-05-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
are using proper host control then yes you can make it so that the PHP user is only able to access the public data in the private database. See here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/client-authentication.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/user-manag.html Sincerely, Joshua D

Re: [GENERAL] running postgresql on a private machine accessing it from public web pages

2009-05-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
the postmaster is running from a (different) private machine? A postmaster must be running on whatever database you are trying to access. You could use replication such as Slony to mirror the linux database to the solaris one. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] migrating from MSSQL

2009-05-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-linpro.com/ 2nd Quandrant : http://www.2ndquandrant.com/ Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] Remote access

2009-05-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 10:45 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to George Weaver gwea...@shaw.ca: proved you a static IP and rent you rack space for ~$150/month. That kind of thing will provide you with the professional reliability that most people expect but will never get from consumer DSL

Re: [GENERAL] Controlling psql output

2009-05-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
record. This is what I’m trying... psql –P tuples_only=on,footer=off,border=0 mydb psql -A -t j...@jd-laptop:~$ psql -A -t -U postgres -c select * from bool_test f j...@jd-laptop:~$ Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting

Re: [GENERAL] PgUS 501c3 Public Charity

2009-05-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
with that will continue to help support them. In all I believe we need to be pushing hard to help any community that is reasonably organized to get official (/me hints at Brazil). Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support

Re: [GENERAL] PgUS 501c3 Public Charity

2009-05-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 12:15 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Andrew Gould escribió: Hey, but I forgot -- congratulations on the 501(c)3 status! First, thanks! I think we are getting a bit off topic here. If we want to continue this let's move it to -advocacy. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] Yahoo Everest MPP - open source release?

2009-05-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
including mine, http://www.pgexperts.com/, that will be happy to work with you. Or others: OmniTI, http://www.omniti.com/ Keving Kempter LLC: http://www.kevinkempterllc.com/ Command Prompt: http://www.commandprompt.com/ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com/ Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake

[GENERAL] PgUS 501c3 Public Charity

2009-05-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to everyone who helped! Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] Online Backups PostGre

2009-05-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
with your own implementation. I would also note that Win32 8.1 is deprecated and unsupported. You need to update to at least 8.2. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http

Re: [GENERAL] Online Backups PostGre

2009-05-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
/articles on how to do the backup would be appreciated very much. The postgres manual tends to be a great source of information. See, for example: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/backup.html Not for Windows it isn't. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr

Re: [GENERAL] Welcome to the pgsql-bugs list!

2009-04-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/app-pgrestore.html Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Christine At 09:08 AM 22/04/2009, you wrote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary Content-Description: Welcome to the pgsql-bugs list

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] Best way to install postgres? RPM/Source Code Build

2009-04-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
/local/bin and by using RPM only. They are wrong. Redhat standard is /usr/bin for binaries /var/lib/pgsql/data for the data directory. Use www.pgsqlrpms.org and make your life easy. Joshua D. Drake Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Object-Oriented Database?

2009-04-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to use specific array functions to work with the array versus just a nice join. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997

Re: [GENERAL] status of pl/php

2009-04-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 13:33 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: It looks like pl/php is still on a beta release. Is the previous non-beta release preferred, or the beta1 tested against 8.3beta1? Better question for the pl/php list. Copying Alexey because he would know better. Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] need help for PostgreSQL consistency check mechanism

2009-04-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
sense at all. Chen, are you talking about an unclean shutdown where you have to fsck a file system? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company

Re: [GENERAL] need help for PostgreSQL consistency check mechanism

2009-04-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Thank you so much! B.R. ChenDongdong -Original Message- From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:alvhe...@commandprompt.com] Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 8:22 AM To: Chen, Dongdong (GE Healthcare) Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] need help

Re: [GENERAL] standard_conforming_strings and pg_escape_string()

2009-04-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
sure it is always on if going through your layer. That way none of this is an issue. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving

Re: [GENERAL] From 8.1 to 8.3

2009-04-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
for inputs to the concatenation (||) operator, so long as least one input is a character-string type. However Alvaro is right. You should read the entire incompatibilities section, and of course test. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr

Re: [GENERAL] Error installing Postgres

2009-04-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
is about whether or not the server was compiled with integer datetime support. There may also be an upgrade error here as well if she is trying to use 8.4Beta because 8.4 finally fixes the long standing mistake of not using integer datetime support by default. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP

Re: [GENERAL] Error installing Postgres

2009-04-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. Uninstall 8.3.4 5. Reinstall 8.3.7 in a new location 6. Restore backup 7. Test/Verify 7a. If o.k. remove 8.3.4 location 7b. If not o.k. check back Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http

Re: [GENERAL] Error installing Postgres

2009-04-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
and floating based packages (for compatibility). Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] pgadmin 1.8.4 gives error while backing up

2009-04-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to proceed. If anybody knows what going on please email me or reply on this post. Thanks in advance. You have a version of pg_dump that is installed that isn't the same as the server. Joshua D. Drake -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/pgadmin-1.8.4-gives-error-while

Re: [GENERAL] Migration/Upgrade Problems

2009-04-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
of queries. Joshua D. Drake Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Migration-Upgrade-Problems-tp23100921p23100921.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdrake(at)jabber(dot)postgresql(dot)org Consulting

Re: [GENERAL] need information

2009-04-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. It disqualifies it as proprietary. I can make money providing consulting for Npgsql, that makes it commercial or at least the opportunity for it to be commercial. Not to be pedantic but let's be accurate with our data. We are database people after all :) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL in the cloud now up on media.postgresql.org

2009-04-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 14:55 -0700, Christophe wrote: On Apr 13, 2009, at 2:54 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Yes Vimeo can download and I will have it up soon. Thank you! My work here is done. :) And it is now up on vimeo. http://www.vimeo.com/4144396 Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Move databases from Pg 7.2.1 to 8.3.x

2009-04-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. Alternatively you can try to cleanse the data with something like iconv. Joshua D. Drake \\||/ Rod -- -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL in the cloud now up on media.postgresql.org

2009-04-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 23:48 +0200, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: was just thinking about a public official place for everybody. I'm going to sleep so I'm not going to miss the bandwidth required for downloading the full stuff ;) but still then it will have to find it's way back to a public

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL in the cloud now up on media.postgresql.org

2009-04-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
lower limit before the video quality reaches the point that we might as well just post the audio :) ). We really don't want anything that is less than about 700MB. After that it is just youtube crap. At least with 700MB we get SVCD quality. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr

Re: [GENERAL] database corruption

2009-04-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 22:14 -0400, Jeff Brenton wrote: There are no filesystem level content size restrictions that I am aware of on this system. The user pgsql should have full access to the filesystems indicated except for the root filesystem. Inodes? Where is the temporary location?

[GENERAL] Pg Conference East: Registration closing

2009-03-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
/purchase And get your registration in! Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing

Re: [GENERAL] PITRTools: Bring up warm standby - unexpected pageaddr

2009-03-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Be happy to help you over there. As a note we are going to immediately as: post your ini files what exactly steps did you follow to fail over (did you just F999) what version for pitrtools are you running. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting

Re: [GENERAL] 8.3.7 Windows Update Error

2009-03-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
default from the previous floating point data type? In 8.4 yes. Not sure why the windows installer does that now. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Question about hosting and server grade

2009-03-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
type of IO are you using now? (This is also assumes an actual decent RAID controller). Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997

Re: [GENERAL] Maximum transaction rate

2009-03-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
kind of elastic hosting? Given the craze in 'cloud' technology, its an important question to ask (and research). Cheers, --Tim Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL technical Videos: Proteomic mining and Procedural language development

2009-03-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
/unison-ucsf-sfpug Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSql with or without Plus?

2009-03-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
know). Meaning, it doesn't use RPM or DEB. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 - Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL versus MySQL for GPS Data

2009-03-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
is only large when the size is measured in terrabytes :) So really, really large would mean something like 100 petabytes My personal opinion is that a large database has more than ~10 million rows in more than ~10 tables. It entirely depends on workload and hardware. Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSql with or without Plus?

2009-03-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
packaging. As far as I know Postgres Plus does not do this on Linux. If you are running windows, use what you want :) Joshua D. Drake Jen -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com

[GENERAL] Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Video from the 2009-03-11 SFPUG talk on Unison, by Reese Hart

2009-03-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 15:27 -0700, Christophe wrote: Hi, The video is now available for download! You can find it at: http://blog.thebuild.com/sfpug/sfpug-unison-20090311.mov It is also on Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/3732938 Joshua D. Drake Thanks, -- Christophe

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 8.2.x support on Windows 2008

2009-03-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
of supported platforms in the manual - have a rummage there. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/supported-platforms.html Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland r

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 8.2.x support on Windows 2008

2009-03-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
support for 8.2 Win32 to Windows 2008. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 8.2.x support on Windows 2008

2009-03-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
D. Drake regards, tom lane -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] deployment query

2009-03-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
are running Linux DRBD is a common solution as well. There is also Slony-I, and Mammoth Replicator. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since

Re: [GENERAL] Maximum transaction rate

2009-03-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. If this applies to raid based cache as well then performance is going to completely tank. For users of Linux + PostgreSQL using LVM. Joshua D. Drake .TM. -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http

Re: [GENERAL] Maximum transaction rate

2009-03-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 01:48 +0100, Marco Colombo wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 05:25 +0100, Marco Colombo wrote: Scott Marlowe wrote: Also see: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/26/41 but it seems to me that all this discussion is under the assuption that disks have

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