Re: [GENERAL] shutdown gracefully & single user mode?

1999-09-14 Thread amy cheng
Jeff, Bryan, Teodor: thank you all so much!!! one related/furthur question: >0. LOCK TABLE IN EXCLUSIVE MODE this is what I'm concerned. Now, the "shutdown" a table gracefully is solved. How about the whole postmaster (in some other situation), how can I shut it down GRACEFULLY (i.e., I know tha

Re: [GENERAL] shutdown gracefully & single user mode?

1999-09-14 Thread Teodor Cimpoesu
amy cheng wrote: > > hi, all experts there, greetings! > > Just minutes ago, my boss found out one of the attributes in a > table is too short (varchar 64 for url), we need to make > it wider to 85 A.S.A.P. Seems that alter table can not do it. > So, I used pg_dump, (how to do it gracefully?) im

Re: [GENERAL] shutdown gracefully & single user mode?

1999-09-14 Thread Bryan White
> hi, all experts there, greetings! > > Just minutes ago, my boss found out one of the attributes in a > table is too short (varchar 64 for url), we need to make > it wider to 85 A.S.A.P. Seems that alter table can not do it. > So, I used pg_dump, (how to do it gracefully?) immediately drop the ta

[GENERAL] shutdown gracefully & single user mode?

1999-09-14 Thread amy cheng
hi, all experts there, greetings! Just minutes ago, my boss found out one of the attributes in a table is too short (varchar 64 for url), we need to make it wider to 85 A.S.A.P. Seems that alter table can not do it. So, I used pg_dump, (how to do it gracefully?) immediately drop the table, shutd