Re: [ADMIN] Restoring database

1999-02-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
See the pgupgrade utility in 6.4.*. > Hi > > My guess would be to totally delete the data directory (~postgres/data) > and put your old one in its place. As opposed to copying over it, which > may leave the old (new old) stuff in the way. > > Terry > > On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, G. Anthony Reina wro

Re: [ADMIN] Restoring database

1999-02-08 Thread Terry Mackintosh
Hi My guess would be to totally delete the data directory (~postgres/data) and put your old one in its place. As opposed to copying over it, which may leave the old (new old) stuff in the way. Terry On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, G. Anthony Reina wrote: > I recently updated my OS to RedHat 5.2 with the

[ADMIN] Restoring database

1999-02-08 Thread G. Anthony Reina
I recently updated my OS to RedHat 5.2 with the 2.2 Kernel. I was last using Postgres 6.4.2 with my database. I re-installed Postgres 6.4.2 into the new operating system and tried to copy the contents of the database directory over to the newly installed directory. I am able to select and update

Re: [ADMIN] 8K limit

1999-02-08 Thread Terry Mackintosh
Hi Ken As I recall it is a compile time option that can be changed to what ever you need it to be. Terry On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Ken Mort wrote: > I was reading in the hackers list threads regarding workarounds > to the 8k block limit. > I have a number of polygon objects that are bigger than 8k.

[ADMIN] 8K limit

1999-02-08 Thread Ken Mort
I was reading in the hackers list threads regarding workarounds to the 8k block limit. I have a number of polygon objects that are bigger than 8k. Has a workaround been done? The hackers thread seemed to indicate that it would be in 6.3.2 but was delayed. Is there a fix in 6.4.x? Regards, Kenne

[ADMIN] [pgsql-ayuda] Copiar tablas (fwd)

1999-02-08 Thread Peter
Hi, I have a table with 100 registers in Postgres with Linux RH5.1 and I want to copy it to other Linux machine with Postgres, my question is may be a little dummy: is there a command in Postgres that allows this copy or I have to re-do the tables and write again the registers that I have in the o

RE: [ADMIN] changing user passwd ...

1999-02-08 Thread Jackson, DeJuan
Wow, Marc is asking for help? Try: ALTER USER user_name WITH PASSWORD new_password; Never tried it myself, -DEJ > create user allows you to set a password for someone...how to > you change > that password after? > > update doesn't appear to work...