[ADMIN] ERROR: canceling query due to user request

2005-09-12 Thread Kevin Grittner
I started with this issue on the pgsql-jdbc list, but was assured that this could not be a bug in the JDBC driver -- it is either a bug in the configuration or runtime environment or it is a server-side bug. This list seemed like the logical next step. We have seen this behavior in 8.0.3

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: canceling query due to user request

2005-09-13 Thread Kevin Grittner
files. Is there any chance that the error/rollback path in the code is leaking open files on the server? Is there anything I should run during the test to watch for potential resource exhaustion? -Kevin Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/12/05 5:39 PM Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: canceling query due to user request

2005-09-13 Thread Kevin Grittner
PROTECTED] 09/12/05 5:39 PM Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: canceling query due to user request The only possible trigger of that message is a SIGINT sent to the backend. Now the backend will SIGINT itself if a statement timeout expires, so one

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: canceling query due to user request

2005-09-13 Thread Kevin Grittner
the problem to show. I welcome all suggestions on what to try or what to monitor. -Kevin Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/13/05 11:31 AM Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One more thought -- I keep coming back to the fact that when we turn on logging in the JDBC driver on the client side

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: canceling query due to user request

2005-09-13 Thread Kevin Grittner
the Statement.cancel, it receives the error which is the subject of this thread. -Kevin Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/13/05 1:18 PM Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm having a really hard time coming up with theories about the cause or things to check. Have you tried strace'ing the backend

Re: [JDBC] [ADMIN] ERROR: canceling query due to user request

2005-09-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
One more thought on the topic -- in the particular case where we hit this, the Statement did not have any requests active on its connection. If the driver can determine this, it could return from the cancel method without doing anything. -Kevin Oliver Jowett [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/13/05 6:00

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum Full Analyze Stalled

2005-10-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
The previous report was from the same databases -- I'm a consultant tasked with evaluating the various open source options and making one of them work with our existing framework. Jeff developed a new app (which is in beta testing) which is our first use of PostgreSQL with real production load

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum Full Analyze Stalled

2005-10-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
In my previous post I failed to mention that after we stopped the applications and found that autovacuum remained idle for several minutes, we restarted postgres before cleaning up the bloat on the problem table. Also, the log shows that autovacuum stopped kicking in after 4:43 p.m. on Friday.

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum Full Analyze Stalled

2005-10-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
We will use gdb and strace the next time we see this. I've tried to be specific about which vacuum is running in all cases. If the posts have been confusing on that issue, I apologize. I'll try to be clear on this in future posts. To summarize past events, the case involving the constraint

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum Full Analyze Stalled

2005-10-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/03/05 4:48 PM On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 04:37:17PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: We will use gdb and strace the next time we see this. I've tried to be specific about which vacuum is running in all cases. If the posts have been confusing on that issue, I apologize. I'll

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum Full Analyze Stalled

2005-10-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
the issue a few minutes ago. -Kevin Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/03/05 5:27 PM My goal is to avoid vacuum full in production. My understanding is that it is never necessary if vacuums are done aggressively enough, but I felt that while we were in beta test mode, it was worthwhile for me

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL running in the background....

2005-10-18 Thread Kevin Grittner
Hello Faeiz, When setting up our SuSE server, I found this page, and figured that I should probably comply with the recommendations I found there, even though we were setting things up by hand rather than through an RPM: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11256.html We started with the

Re: [ADMIN] how do you automate database backups?

2005-11-02 Thread Kevin Grittner
Since you mentioned multiple backups per day, I thought you might want to look at the the Point In Time Recovery option, as well as the pg_dump approach. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/backup.html Ferindo Middleton Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are there tools available to automate

[ADMIN] ERROR: could not read block

2005-11-14 Thread Kevin Grittner
A programmer ran a query to fix some data against two identical databases -- one on Linux and one on Windows. They are both 8.1.0, running on dual hyperthreaded Xeons, with data on RAID5. The Linux update went fine. The Windows attempt give this: dtr= UPDATE dtr- DbTranRepository dtr- SET

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: could not read block

2005-11-14 Thread Kevin Grittner
/servlet/ProductDisplay?productId=8741193langId=-1 -Kevin Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 17:20, Kevin Grittner wrote: running on dual hyperthreaded Xeons, with data on RAID5. ERROR: could not read block 649847 of relation 1663/16385/16483: Invalid argument If you were

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: could not read block

2005-11-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
It appears that the log file is not being written -- I'll start a separate thread on that issue. I reran the query. Same error, same relation, different block. dtr= UPDATE dtr- DbTranRepository dtr- SET userId = UPPER(userId) dtr- WHERE ( dtr( (userId UPPER(userId)) AND dtr(

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: could not read block

2005-11-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
Could my issue be the same problem as this thread?: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-11/msg00114.php The references to Invalid Argument caught my eye. That thread did start from a very different point, though. -Kevin Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] It appears that the log

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: could not read block

2005-11-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
The table has about 23.3 million rows, of which about 200,000 will be affected by this update. Run time is about an hour. During the first run, the table was the target of about 45,000 inserts. This rerun was done as the only task. A third run (also by itself) gave this: ERROR: could not

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: could not read block

2005-11-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
. To respond to a concern expressed earllier -- all of our database servers, including these two, use ECC memory. -Kevin Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] The table has about 23.3 million rows, of which about 200,000 will be affected by this update. Run time is about an hour. During

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: could not read block

2005-11-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
I got the error log working on Windows (with redirect_stderr). I had to stop and restart postgres to do so. I ran the query (for the fourth time), and it completed successfully. I'm not inclined to believe that changing the redirect_stderr setting would change this behavior, so I guess that

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: could not read block

2005-11-16 Thread Kevin Grittner
I will patch, build, and run similar updates to try to hit the problem. Hopefully I can have something to post later today. -Kevin Qingqing Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, Kevin Grittner wrote: Is there anything that anyone wants me to do at this point, to try to pin down

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: could not read block

2005-11-16 Thread Kevin Grittner
Is there anything you would like me to include in my build for my test runs, or any steps you would like me to take during the tests? -Kevin Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] As I said before, we really really need to find out what the Windows-level error code is --- Invalid argument isn't telling

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: could not read block

2005-11-16 Thread Kevin Grittner
) How should I proceed? -Kevin Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anything you would like me to include in my build for my test runs, or any steps you would like me to take during the tests? You might want to insert some debugging elog's into mdread

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: could not read block

2005-11-16 Thread Kevin Grittner
Ran with this change. Didn't take long to hit it. Let me know if there's anything else I can do. [2005-11-16 11:59:29.015 ] 4904 dtr dtr 165.219.88.22(60649) LOG: read failed on relation 1663/16385/1494810: -1 bytes, 1450 [2005-11-16 11:59:29.015 ] 4904 dtr dtr 165.219.88.22(60649) ERROR:

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: could not read block

2005-11-16 Thread Kevin Grittner
Our DBAs reviewed the Microsoft documentation you referenced, modified the registry, and rebooted the OS. We've been beating up on the database without seeing the error so far. We'll keep at it for a while. -Kevin Qingqing Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Kevin Grittner wrote

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] ERROR: could not read block

2005-11-17 Thread Kevin Grittner
1) We run a couple Java applications on the same box to provide middle tier access. When the box is heavily loaded, I think I've seen about 80% PostgreSQL, 20% Java load. 2) I checked that no antivirus software was running, and had the techs pare down the services running on that box to the

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] ERROR: could not read block

2005-11-17 Thread Kevin Grittner
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: None of this seems material, however. It's pretty clear that the problem was exhaustion of the Windows page pool. ... If we don't want to tell Windows users to make highly technical changes to the Windows registry in order

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] ERROR: could not read block

2005-11-17 Thread Kevin Grittner
There weren't a large number of connections -- it seemed to be that the one big update query, by itself, would do this. It seemed to get through a lot of rows before failing. This table is normally insert only -- so it would likely be getting most or all of the space for inserting the updated

Re: [HACKERS] [ADMIN] ERROR: could not read block

2005-11-17 Thread Kevin Grittner
A couple clarifications: There were only a few network sockets open. I'm told that the eventlog was reviewed for any events which mgiht be related to the failures before it was cleared. They found none, so that makes it fairly certain there was no 2020 event. -Kevin Kevin Grittner [EMAIL

[ADMIN] Wisconsin Circuit Court Access (WCCA) on PostgreSQL

2006-03-13 Thread Kevin Grittner
The Consolidated Court Automation Programs (CCAP) of the Wisconsin Court System has migrated to PostgreSQL for all of its Circuit Court web operations. Eight production databases have been converted, six of them around 180 GB each, holding statewide information replicated real-time from 72 county

Re: [ADMIN] [pgsql-advocacy] Wisconsin Circuit Court Access (WCCA) on

2006-03-14 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 2:08 am, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006- 03- 13 at 13:27 - 0600, Kevin Grittner wrote: Even more important is the fast response we have had when posting problems to the lists. We have normally had a fix within 24 hours

Re: [ADMIN] reg:FilePath error

2006-03-18 Thread Kevin Grittner
If you can't easily use the PostgreSQL extension to SQL, but need to have string literal behavior conform to the ANSI and ISO standards, I have submitted a patch for the 8.2 TODO item to support this. Since we needed it in production mode now, the patch I submitted was relative to the 8.1 stable

Re: [ADMIN] pg_stat_activity showing non-existent processes

2006-04-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 8:40 pm, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry Sievers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At any rate; I'm wondering what possible causes might be responsible for pg_stat_activity's underlying functions to lose track of the valid process list?

Re: [ADMIN] pg_stat_activity showing non-existent processes

2006-04-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Mon, Apr 3, 2006 at 11:52 am, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way to tweak this in favor of more accurate information, even if has a performance cost? We're finding that during normal operations we're

[ADMIN] Explained by known hardware failures, or keep looking?

2007-06-18 Thread Kevin Grittner
Linux version 2.6.5-7.252-bigsmp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #1 SMP Tue Feb 14 11:11:04 UTC 2006 PostgreSQL 8.2.4 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux) Database 212GB on RAID 5. 4 x Intel(R) XEON(TM) MP CPU 2.00GHz total

Re: [ADMIN] Explained by known hardware failures, or keep looking?

2007-06-19 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 8:07 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chander Ganesan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Grittner wrote: weekly maintenance process which builds a new version of a table based on records retention rules. It is built under a temporary name; then the previous

Re: [ADMIN] archive_command does not execute

2007-06-19 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:16 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Arthurs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like you are expecting the archive command to run when you shut down the data base. It won't. It only runs when the xlog gets full and the system needs to recycle to a new logfile.

Re: [ADMIN] RESOLVED: Explained by known hardware failures, or keep looking?

2007-06-20 Thread Kevin Grittner
Thanks, all. Just an FYI to wrap up the thread. On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 3:25 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm suspicious that either the controller didn't persist dirty pages in the June 14th failure That's

Re: [ADMIN] aborting startup due to startup process failure

2007-06-28 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 2:55 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], George Wilk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FATAL: could not restore file 0001003A from archive: return code 34048 LOG: startup process (PID 13994) exited with exit code 1 LOG: aborting startup due to startup

Re: [ADMIN] replicating postgresql database to ms-sql database

2007-07-06 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Fri, Jul 6, 2007 at 12:48 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mary Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been asked if it is possible to asynchronously replicate a postgresql database to ms-sql. My answer is yes, provided postgresql ORM features aren't used in the design of the

Re: [ADMIN] Checking database version

2007-07-27 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 9:49 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], George Wilk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a reliable way of verifying version of the database by looking at the PGDATA directory? Could you use the first couple lines of output from pg_controldata? -Kevin

[ADMIN] PITR backup to Novell Netware file server

2007-08-07 Thread Kevin Grittner
We have a database in each Wisconsin county which is part of the official court record for the circuit courts in that county. We are required to keep a backup in each county, such that we could recover a lost or corrupted database with what is in the county (as well as keeping at least four

Re: [ADMIN] PITR backup to Novell Netware file server

2007-08-07 Thread Kevin Grittner
Decibel! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/07/07 1:28 PM On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 06:29:35AM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: We have a database in each Wisconsin county which is part of the official court record for the circuit courts in that county. We are required to keep a backup in each county

Re: [ADMIN] PITR backup to Novell Netware file server

2007-08-07 Thread Kevin Grittner
Decibel! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/07/07 4:51 PM On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:12:29PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote: Copying a 16MB file that's already in memory isn't exactly an intensive operation... That's true for the WAL files. The base backups are another story. We will normally

Re: [ADMIN] PITR backup to Novell Netware file server

2007-08-08 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Tue, Aug 7, 2007 at 10:31 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Kroeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Grittner wrote: The Netware server supports ssh, scp, and an rsync daemon. I don't see how the ssh implementation is helpful, though, since it just gets you to the Netware console

Re: [ADMIN] entries in serverlog file

2007-08-09 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Thu, Aug 9, 2007 at 4:37 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tena Sakai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have, by default, on a linux machine, a file called serverlog in the data directory, whose entries often prove to be very useful. What would be even more useful would be a timestamp along

Re: [ADMIN] Audit Trail

2007-08-13 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 12:24 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Khan, Mahmood Ahram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To enable the auditing I need to create this function which I am unable to the error below. Add a line like this after you include the PostgreSQL .h files: PG_MODULE_MAGIC; I was

Re: [ADMIN] except command

2007-08-13 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 12:50 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], olivier boissard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to use the except command in postgresql 8.1 I don't understand as it works When I read doc , I understand that it was like a difference betwwen two queries That isn't how I

Re: [ADMIN] Downloading PostgreSQL source code version 7.1 through CVS

2007-08-14 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 6:29 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kuriakose, Cinu Cheriyamoozhiyil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone please tell me how to download the PostgreSQL-7.1 source code through CVS, i use the following set of commands to get the source code of postgreSQL. Did you

Re: [ADMIN] adding a user with the permission to create trimmed users

2007-08-17 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 4:50 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Elmers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to know whether there exist the possibility to create a user who has the permission to create users with preset limited permissions. In detail: I do not want that the admin user

Re: [ADMIN] Dump Load a database???

2007-08-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 9:50 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], smiley2211 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I have to DROP \ recreate and load the target database (this is what I currently do)? is there a way to just do an IN PLACE load like in other RDBMS environments??? pg_dump proddb |

Re: [ADMIN] 8.2.4 pg_restore on WinXP and pipes

2007-08-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 7:23 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using cygwin on WinXP gunzip -c backup81.gz | pg_restore -v -O -d mydb This returned an error: pg_restore: [archiver] did not find magic string in file header Out of curiosity,

Re: [ADMIN] tar, but not gnu tar

2007-08-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 7:28 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tena Sakai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my linux machine, gnu tar is the tar. Does anybody have a suggestion as to where I can go to get a tar that is not gnu? Have you considered using cpio instead?

[ADMIN] Stand-in server recovery techniques

2007-08-22 Thread Kevin Grittner
I'm looking for advice on how to best switch from warm standby processing to stand-in production use in our (rather unusual) environment. THE ENVIRONMENT We have 72 counties spread around the state, each with their own database, which contains the official data for that county's court system.

Re: [ADMIN] Stand-in server recovery techniques

2007-08-23 Thread Kevin Grittner
Thanks for the reply, Scott. On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 5:04 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/22/07, Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do we create the PostgreSQL instance on the stand-in box? (1) Restore the latest base backup

Re: [ADMIN] Fw: pop-up multiselection array and where condition

2007-08-29 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 1:53 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've to perform a where condition which includes the output from a multiselectio pop-up: ie user can choose one or more item from a pop-up munu, let's say (item1,item3,item10), then I want to send this

Re: [ADMIN] how is pitr replay interruption time determined?

2007-08-29 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 9:48 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking at last checkpoint location in pg_control, I see: Latest checkpoint location: 1C/8001E848 How does one translate that into an xlog file name? Unless you've gotten fancy

Re: [ADMIN] default port number

2007-09-04 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Tue, Sep 4, 2007 at 11:59 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tena Sakai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my configuration file both lines #listen_addresses = 'localhost' and #port = 5432 are commented out. What does this mean? Is postgress listening on port 5432? Yes. Lines in

Re: [ADMIN] default port number

2007-09-04 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Tue, Sep 4, 2007 at 1:18 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tena Sakai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: '*' is a bit too wide for my taste. I wonder if it is possible to specify something like network mask (or range)? This is not the IP list you will listen *to*, but the IP list you will listen

Re: [ADMIN] log entries are not getting into log file

2007-09-19 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 1:45 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tena Sakai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reason why I used restart (instead of reload) is I read in the manual that after I edit pg_hba.conf (section after # Put your actual configuration here line), I needed to restart, not

Re: [ADMIN] Schedules Running Problem

2007-09-20 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 7:43 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to create a schedule in the Postgres to insert some data in the table. But before creating this schedule, i create schedule that create the table in the Database specified. But, the

Re: [ADMIN] Schedules Running Problem

2007-09-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
Please respond to the list as well as any individuals. This helps make the archive message thread useful for others who may have a similar problem, and it may draw advice from others who can help. On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:01 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yogesh Arora [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ADMIN] Is there a way to kill a connection from the pg_stat_activitly list?

2007-10-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 12:34 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonah H. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There used to be a pg_terminate_backend, but it was #ifdef'd out due to corruption concerns. Basically, all it did was: kill -TERM pid I'm not sure whether anyone has completed the

Re: [ADMIN] Drop Not Null

2007-10-18 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 1:01 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], yogesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the Command to drop the Not Null Constraint from a Column http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/sql-altertable.html ---(end of

Re: [ADMIN] Continuous archiving and wal generation

2007-10-19 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 1:40 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mikko Partio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To make use of the backup, you will need to keep around all the WAL segment files generated during and after the file system backup. To aid you in doing this, the pg_stop_backup function

Re: [ADMIN] Installing PostgreSQL as Admin

2007-10-30 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 7:57 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nandakumar Tantry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does any-ne know how to install PostgreSQL with Administrator account? If not how will I do it? That is a very bad idea from a security standpoint, which is why PostgreSQL

Re: [ADMIN] postgres bogged down beyond tolerance

2007-11-14 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 3:16 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 14, 2007 2:26 PM, Tena Sakai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: INFO: vacuuming public.allele INFO: allele: found 2518282 removable, 1257262 nonremovable row versions in 31511 pages

Re: [ADMIN] help to Brazil

2007-11-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 4:08 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Cristiano Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have necessity of integrate a data base Sybase and data base Postgresql. The propose is migration data of approximate 7000 tables. I like make cluster of two bases. Is

Re: [ADMIN] Encrypting a single column

2007-12-14 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 10:30 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Glyn Astill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need to encrypt an individual column in a table. I've noticed that pgcrypto can do this. However we have one problem, our software runs through a closed source connectivity kit that

Re: [ADMIN] Warm-standby robustness question

2007-12-28 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:55 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David F. Skoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My question is this: If the master database is fairly busy, gets VACUUMed once a day, etc. can we expect the warm standby server to work correctly after

Re: [ADMIN] update performance 8.1.4

2008-01-18 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 3:33 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas Markus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: update tablename set datecol=null ~ 2.3 mio rows After 6 hours, this was still not finished. selects and inserts are ok. System is a dual xeon, 8gb ram, debian 64bit, pg 8.1.4 You

Re: [ADMIN] connection from connection pool uses too much memory during the time

2008-01-30 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 3:53 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Honza Novak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that it looks like, that once the open connection takes some memory, it never gives that memory back, which ends up with our server swapping large amounts of memory.

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres port bindings changed after box restart

2008-03-05 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:07 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Punton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our redhat server was restarted and postgres is showing different databases on different ports? Could someone explain how this might happen and where this information comes from (what conf

Re: [ADMIN] optimizating postgresql

2008-03-05 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:32 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], sathiya psql [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: any documents or URL to do the optimizations of the postgres http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/performance-tips.html

Re: [ADMIN] two methods to start postmaster

2008-03-06 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:20 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc Fromm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And both are the same thing? According to the documentation, postmaster is a deprecated alias for the postgres executable. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/app-postmaster.html

Re: [ADMIN] Database update problem from crontab on ubuntu server

2008-04-17 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:21 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Jorjoliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have daily cron jobs for database update, which where working fine on Fedore Core 6. No I move it on Ubuntu Server 7.10 and postgres gives error: unexpected EOF on client connection

Re: [ADMIN] Can't connect remotely

2008-05-07 Thread Kevin Grittner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: listen_addresses = 'localhost,marlon,loaner-mikec' # what IP address(es) to listen on; # comma-separated list of addresses; # defaults to 'localhost', '*' = all # (change requires restart) You probably want this set to '*'. It is not the

Re: [ADMIN] UUID generation functions

2008-06-02 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:52 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hyatt, Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone know if there are any internal UUID generation functions in pg? I took a quick look at the 8.2 docs and didn't find anything related. Any chance of going to 8.3?

[ADMIN] tsearch2 dictionary for statute cites

2008-06-04 Thread Kevin Grittner
Has anyone dealt with the issue of using tsearch2 with statute cites yet? Do you have a sample dictionary or any tips? We need to confirm with the users, but I think desired behavior is that a statute cite of '813.12(1)(am)' should be found on any leading portions -- that is, any of the

Re: [ADMIN] Is it possible to convert WAL's between architectures?

2008-06-05 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:18 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcin Kasperski wrote: As in the title - is it possible to convert WAL for another architecture? (source database

Re: [ADMIN] Advice on running two database clusters on one server machine

2008-06-18 Thread Kevin Grittner
Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are wondering about the advisability to distribute the databases between the two server machines, both machines acting as active production systems for one application each, and as warm standby servers for

Re: [ADMIN] Revoke for a new role

2008-06-19 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:06 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rafael Domiciano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, there is no manner to define that the user can't do create or drop objects, but can create temp tables? What we normally do is something like this. create user dbowner password

Re: [ADMIN] Warm-standby in 8.2

2008-06-20 Thread Kevin Grittner
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 6:31 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bhella Paramjeet-PFCW67 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we need to monitor the standby database to check that it is up, it is getting synced every 10 minutes, and that it is not out of sync with primary database. What would be the

Re: [ADMIN] Change a character in a text field

2008-07-01 Thread Kevin Grittner
Naomi Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way with a SQL state to interrogate a text field, and replace characters. For example, we would like all |'s to be changed to something else, on a regular basis... It sounds like you might want to look at the regexp_replace function:

Re: [ADMIN] Change a character in a text field

2008-07-02 Thread Kevin Grittner
Karen Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some way with a SQL state to interrogate a text field, and replace characters. For example, we would like all |'s to be changed to something else, on a regular basis... It sounds like you might want to look at the regexp_replace

Re: [ADMIN] Best way to limit database sizes

2008-07-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
Dev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a single Postgres server which will be hosting multiple databases belonging to different users. What would be the recommendation to limit the size of each of the databases? Have you considered running a different cluster for each user? Each

Re: [ADMIN] Best way to limit database sizes

2008-07-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
Dev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Thu, 7/3/08, Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you considered running a different cluster for each user? Doesn't it get difficult to manage so many instances of servers ? We haven't found it to be so. xargs is your friend, fed by find or cat

Re: [ADMIN] Who's attached to the database?

2008-07-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
Carol Walter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to drop a database and I'm getting an error that says that the database is being accessed by other users. Is there a way I can find out who these users are or if there really is a user accessing it? select * from pg_stat_activity where

Re: [ADMIN] Who's attached to the database?

2008-07-03 Thread Kevin Grittner
Bricklen Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a command to disconnect this user? select pg_cancel_backend(procpid of connection); I thought that just canceled the currently active statement (if any). Don't you need to use pg_ctl kill (or the OS kill command) to actually close the

Re: [ADMIN] How do i compare 2 postgresql instanses ?

2008-07-08 Thread Kevin Grittner
Michael Nacos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what if you actually want to look at the data? I have been thinking about row checksums, would you say this would be a reasonable way of verifying two databases are equivalent? Our home-grown replication technique does synchronization checks during

Re: [ADMIN] Backup and failover process

2008-07-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
Campbell, Lance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PostgreSQL: 8.2 I am about to change my backup and failover procedure from dumping a full file SQL dump of our data every so many minutes You're currently running pg_dump every so many minutes? to using WAL files. Be sure you have read (and

Re: [ADMIN] Backup and failover process

2008-07-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
Campbell, Lance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read this documentation. I wanted to check if there was some type of timestamp My previous email omitted the URL I meant to paste: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/continuous-archiving.html#RECOVERY-CONFIG-SETTINGS -Kevin

Re: [ADMIN] Backup and failover process

2008-07-15 Thread Kevin Grittner
Campbell, Lance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if you take an SQL snapshot of a database while creating WAL archives then later restore from that SQL snapshot and apply those WAL files? What do you mean by an SQL snapshot of a database? WAL files only come into play for backup

Re: [ADMIN] Stop connections to a specific database

2008-07-18 Thread Kevin Grittner
Scott Whitney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just want to stop connections to this one particular database. Is there a simple, preferred method for doing so? It sounds like pg_hba.conf might be your ticket: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/auth-pg-hba-conf.html -Kevin --

Re: [ADMIN] Welcome to the pgsql-admin list!

2008-07-23 Thread Kevin Grittner
Gibson Chimhamhiwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a simple table below and I want to be able to traverse it using SQL. Can somebody please advise me how I can do this in postgreSQL. CREATE TABLE grouping SELECT * FROM grouping; If that isn't what you're looking for, we need more

Re: [ADMIN] Maximum number of concurrent users

2008-08-04 Thread Kevin Grittner
Kesavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In specific, can Postgres handle 1000 concurrent queries? It can. We are using normal Pentium Quad core processor, 3GHZ system with 2GB RAM as Database Server. With four processors, depending on your drive array configuration, you are likely to get

Re: [ADMIN] Regarding access to a user

2008-08-20 Thread Kevin Grittner
Shashwat_Nigam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now what I want is to set privilege that whenever the user log in as Us he can only see database Y, none other than that. The user Us could have all rights for database Y but can't go for any other database (X or Z). The first thing you need to

Re: [ADMIN] privilege shedding

2008-08-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
dkeeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to non-reversibly shed privilige within a PostgreSQL session? I would like the role change to persist through the life of the session, without the option of restoring the superuser role. We could use this in certain circumstances. How

Re: [ADMIN] Multi-processors

2008-09-19 Thread Kevin Grittner
c k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does PG uses multiple processors/cores if available by default on various OSes? A separate process is created to handle each connection. You don't get much benefit from multiple processors if only one connection at a time is running a query, but in a normal

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres client Configuration

2008-09-24 Thread Kevin Grittner
Napolean Periathambi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any ways to include wildcard in pg_hba.conf file to accept all postgres clients on the network rather than specifying specific IP addresses on this file? # CIDR-ADDRESS specifies the set of hosts the record matches. # It is made up

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