Re: [NOVICE] [ADMIN] Database access problem : SOS

2003-02-03 Thread mjoseph
Hi Tom, > Did you remember to start the cygipc daemon? Yes I did. It was not that. There is something broken with cygipc or the way I used it. ;-) I did a complete uninstall and a re-install (using the user id 'postgres') and I am able to create databases! Thanks! Now I have one more hurdle

Re: [ADMIN] Database access problem : SOS

2003-02-03 Thread mjoseph
Thanks Tom! There seems to be something wrong with the cygipc package! I keep getting this shmget() failure. I am pretty sure that there is enough memory on my system. The best part is sometimes after reinstalling everything, it sometimes works. This is the failure message I get.

Re: [ADMIN] Database access problem : SOS

2003-02-03 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > There seems to be something wrong with the cygipc package! I keep getting > this shmget() failure. I am pretty sure that there is enough memory on my > system. The best part is sometimes after reinstalling everything, it > sometimes works. Did you remember to start the

[ADMIN] PostgreSQL on Red Hat 8

2003-02-03 Thread Michael Weaver
Title: PostgreSQL on Red Hat 8 I'm just about to install a new machine to run PostgreSQL, was going to run RedHat 8, Is anyone aware of any problems? , Mike Weaver Software Developer 5, 42 Ladner Street O'Connor, WA, 6163 All correspondence: PO Box Y3502 East St Georges Terrace Perth WA

Re: [ADMIN] Server access thru webmin

2003-02-03 Thread Robert Treat
Check your pg_hba.conf to make sure your allowing connections from localhost. Also you may need to modify postgresql.conf to allow tcp/ip socket connections as well. Robert Treat On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 09:42, Huub wrote: > Hi, > > I had to reinstall PostgreSQL 7.3 on my RH 8.0 server. Since I ad

Re: [ADMIN] Question about backup/restore

2003-02-03 Thread Robert Treat
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 10:39, Nigel Bishop wrote: > Could someone please advise: > > I'm new to Postgres (13 years Oracle DBA experience) and I'm trying to > understand the nature of Postgres backup/restores. > > An example: > > If I take a backup (via pg_dump) at 8pm on Wednesday and then on

Re: [ADMIN] Fwd: Postgresql

2003-02-03 Thread Tom Lane
Gary Stainburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How does Postgresql handle this? I would hope that it would notice the loss > of the IP connection and close the link gracefully, and not just leave the > connectino dangling. The backend runs the connection with TCP_KEEPALIVE set. The kernel should

Re: [ADMIN] Database access problem : SOS

2003-02-03 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ipc-daemon & > initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -U 1730 -W > psql -U 1730 template1 If this is PG 7.3.*, there are some recently-identified problems with using all-numeric usernames. Use a name instead of a number. regards, tom lane ---

[ADMIN] Question about backup/restore

2003-02-03 Thread Nigel Bishop
Title: Message Could someone please advise:   I'm new to Postgres (13 years Oracle DBA experience) and I'm trying to understand the nature of Postgres backup/restores.   An example:   If I take a backup (via pg_dump) at 8pm on Wednesday and then on Thursday at 10am I have some form of media

Re: [ADMIN] Fwd: Postgresql

2003-02-03 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Monday 03 February 2003 2:39 pm, you wrote: > > Anyone know if postgres has a connections limit by default? I see a > > connections limit in my conf file but it is commented out..Just curious > > what the default limit is, if any. > > 32, compile with --with-maxbackends=N, where N is your max.

[ADMIN] Database access problem : SOS

2003-02-03 Thread mjoseph
Hi, I am new to PostgreSQL. I am running PostgreSQL on top of Cygwin on Windows NT. I am able to initialize the database cluster and create template1. I log in and even create a 'test' table. But querying it results in the error. ERROR: pg_class_aclcheck: invalid user id 1730 Someone please hel

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum full hang => strace

2003-02-03 Thread Tom Lane
"Gaetano Mendola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > gettimeofday({1044264831, 559402}, NULL) = 0 > setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={1, 0}}, > {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 0}}) = 0 > semop(21037068, 0xbfffed00, 1) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) > --- SIGALRM (Ala

Re: [ADMIN] LWLock acquire - can't wait without a proc structure

2003-02-03 Thread Tom Lane
Alexey Dashevsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From time to time I receive the message: > "LWLockAcquire - can't wait without a proc structure. This is fixed as of 7.2.3, IIRC. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

[ADMIN] Fwd: Postgresql

2003-02-03 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi folks, This was posted to one of the redhat lists and it got me thinking. I would imagine that there is some sort of limit otherwise stale connections could be left hanging around forever. However, PHP supports persistant connections where it can go days without anyone accessing a page.

Re: [ADMIN] Database Management Setup

2003-02-03 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 04:55, Aris wendy wrote: > > You can use symbolic links, if your operating system allows them. ... > > 4. Move the relevant directories from $PGDATA/base to the desired > > locations on the other disks -- their parent directories should have the > > same ownership and permissi

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum full hang => strace

2003-02-03 Thread Gaetano Mendola
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > are u sure VACUUM FULL is hanging? > > run in verbose mode... > > VACUUM FULL VERBOSE ANALYZE I don't see nothing going on > and you are really desperate get the pid of the > backend who is doing the vacuum an

Re: [ADMIN] Fwd: Postfix SMTP server: errors from

2003-02-03 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Len Conrad wrote: > > > > Reading between the lines of the error message, it looks to me like > > > meiway.com's mail server is programmed to take the MAIL FROM address, > > > connect back to the sending server > > Wrong, but it's a fully understandable error when firing from

[ADMIN] LWLock acquire - can't wait without a proc structure

2003-02-03 Thread Alexey Dashevsky
Hi all, I'm running postgresql 7.2.1(linux kernel 2.4.20). RAID5 4 x 20G, 2G RAM, two Xeon. /proc/sysctl.conf kernel.shmall = 67108864 kernel.shmmax = 67108864 /opt/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf shared_buffers = 4096 max_lock_per_transaction = 128 effective_c