[ADMIN] Database backup

2003-02-12 Thread Panchal, Ritesh
Hi, I am trying to automate my backups using pg_dump. However, I am not able to pass the password to the command. Has anybody sucessfully done automated backup thru scripts? Thank you for your comments and suggestions. Ritesh. ---(end of

[ADMIN] help me!!

2003-02-12 Thread XIE, Rong
Hello, My name is rong xie. I am a Student at TU-Munich. I have a question to Postgresql an Linux. e.g: for IBM DB2: I can write a test.sql file. --test.sql connect to database1; set schema xie; select * from table1; insert table1 value('rong','xie',22); select * from table1; terminate;

[ADMIN] upgrade requires dump/restore?

2003-02-12 Thread Stephane Charette
While reading FAQ at http://www.ca.postgresql.org/docs/faq-english.html#3.10, the following advice is given: The PostgreSQL team makes only small changes between minor releases, so upgrading from 7.2 to 7.2.1 does not require a dump and restore. However, major releases (e.g. from 7.2 to 7.3)

[ADMIN] Problem compiling with readline

2003-02-12 Thread Rui Vilela
Hello.I'm trying to compile pgsql 7.3.2 on Mandrake 9I got the libreadline and libreadline-devel RPMS installed.On compile it gives me an error, it cannot find readlinereadline is on /usr/lib, and i writed on ld.so.confAnyone got a clue to solution ?thanks on advance.Rui Vilela

[ADMIN] comparation !!!

2003-02-12 Thread Sidar Lopez Cruz
have compare some body PostgreSQL against ms-sql server

[ADMIN] postgre and mysql max connections

2003-02-12 Thread Jose Antonio Martinez
In mysql there are two configuration parameters for limiting connections: max_user_connections max_connections the first limits the number of concurrent connexions from a same user, is there an equivalent in postgresql? Postgresql seems to limit only the total number of

[ADMIN] How to extend database to another disk space

2003-02-12 Thread Kevin Tsang
Hi, I am running:Intel P4, 512Mb Memory,60Gb Hard DriveWindows2000 Pro, Service Pack 2PostgreSQL 7.3 cygwin dll 1.3.12-2ipc 1.11-1 Can anyone tell me how to extend the database and logsto another disk space in case of a disk filled up? Many Thanks Kevin

[ADMIN] Migrating database from v 7.3 - 7.2

2003-02-12 Thread Ret Martin
I'm having difficulties to restore backup made on postgresql7.3 on machine running 7.2. Is there any way how to accomplish this? Thanx Martin

Re: [ADMIN] Problem compiling with readline

2003-02-12 Thread Steve Crawford
See if ncurses/ncurses-devel are installed. I've had compilation with readline support fail when these are missing. Cheers, Steve On Tuesday 11 February 2003 1:08 pm, Rui Vilela wrote: Hello. I'm trying to compile pgsql 7.3.2 on Mandrake 9 I got the libreadline and libreadline-devel RPMS

Re: [ADMIN] server won't shutdown

2003-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
Laurette Cisneros [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I do a shutdown: $pgpath/bin/pg_ctl -D $datadir -m fast stop the server will not completely shutdown. Hm. -m fast tells the postmaster to send SIGTERM to all the existing backends, and then quit when all the backends have quit. So your

[ADMIN] ERROR: deadlock detected

2003-02-12 Thread Andreas Schmitz
Hi *, I am still working on the newspaper archive project. I started indexing the articles with tsearch. Along the long text parts I get a ERROR: deadlock detected when I try to build the index update dpa_text set titleidx=txt2txtidx(volltext);. The table has a count of 356437 datarows. I

Re: [ADMIN] Connection refused

2003-02-12 Thread Robert Treat
find your postgresql.conf file, look in there to make sure tcpip_socket = true. the directory that file is in should be the same as the $PGDATA that your getting asked for, so you'll be able to do pg_ctl -D /path/to/database status Robert Treat On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 09:30, vivek K. wrote:

Re: [ADMIN] server won't shutdown

2003-02-12 Thread Laurette Cisneros
Sure. I will attempt this on our development server which only occasionally has this problem. If that won't reproduce it, I will attempt this on our production server but that must be scheduled at a slow time - maybe Monday. I'll send this info. once I've collected it. Thanks for the help, L.

[ADMIN] postgresql mysql max connections

2003-02-12 Thread Jose Antonio Martinez
In mysql there are two configuration parameters for limiting connections: max_user_connections max_connections the first limits the number of concurrent connexions from a same user, is there an equivalent in postgresql? Postgresql seems to limit only the total number of

Re: [ADMIN] upgrade requires dump/restore?

2003-02-12 Thread Antti Haapala
On 10 Feb 2003, Stephane Charette wrote: The PostgreSQL team makes only small changes between minor releases, so upgrading from 7.2 to 7.2.1 does not require a dump and restore. This says that you don't need to dump/restore when you are just upgrading 7.2 = 7.2.4, or 7.3.1 = 7.3.2. Minor