[ADMIN] Locks

2003-10-15 Thread Greg Spiegelberg
Is there a good all-inclusive resource out there that documents LOCK in PostgreSQL, any side-effects when used, and how UPDATE, DELETE, cursors, transactions, and so on use them? Thanks, Greg -- Greg Spiegelberg Sr. Product Development Engineer Cranel, Incorporated. Phone: 614.318.4314 Fax:

[ADMIN] ERserver patch question

2003-10-15 Thread Kris Kiger
Has anyone installed the ant_buildfile_upgrade for ERServer? I haven't been able to find install instructions or figure it out since, for some reason, the patch appears to be in XML. Any ideas? Thanks for the help Kris ---(end of

[ADMIN] working with users

2003-10-15 Thread Sam Carleton
Ok, I am a newbie, but I simply cannot find anything in the documentation so I hope you all are kind to me... I have installed Postgres 7.3.4 (will reinstall once I get OpenSLL compiled into it). I created the postgres user, and the first database. As the postgress user, I am able to run psql

Re: [ADMIN] working with users

2003-10-15 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 02:10, Sam Carleton wrote: Ok, I am a newbie, but I simply cannot find anything in the documentation so I hope you all are kind to me... Read through the Administrator's Manual - client authentication section. I have installed Postgres 7.3.4 (will reinstall once I get

Re: [ADMIN] Lock!

2003-10-15 Thread Tom Lane
Ang Chin Han [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just remember to reset STATEMENT_TIMEOUT to zero or your default before any slow queries in that transaction. Also, you can use SET LOCAL ... to constrain the effects of the SET command; this is probably safer than trying to remember to reset the variable

Re: [ADMIN] 7.3.2 to 7.3.4 upgrade

2003-10-15 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Naomi Walker wrote: When upgrading to a minor release (only third digit changing), specifically, 7.3.2 to 7.3.4, do I have to pg_dump and reload everything? Exactly: No. Only major upgrades needs a dump/reload.

Re: [ADMIN] 7.3.2 to 7.3.4 upgrade

2003-10-15 Thread Tom Lane
Naomi Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When upgrading to a minor release (only third digit changing), specifically, 7.3.2 to 7.3.4, do I have to pg_dump and reload everything? No. Minor releases are always data-compatible. Just stop postmaster, install new software, restart postmaster.

Re: [ADMIN] 7.3.2 to 7.3.4 upgrade

2003-10-15 Thread Larry Rosenman
No. --On Wednesday, October 15, 2003 09:24:47 -0700 Naomi Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When upgrading to a minor release (only third digit changing), specifically, 7.3.2 to 7.3.4, do I have to pg_dump and reload everything? Naomi -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE -- This message is intended for

Re: [ADMIN] 7.3.2 to 7.3.4 upgrade

2003-10-15 Thread Naomi Walker
Thank you. I was just double-checking.. At 09:32 AM 10/15/2003, Tom Lane wrote: Naomi Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When upgrading to a minor release (only third digit changing), specifically, 7.3.2 to 7.3.4, do I have to pg_dump and reload everything? No. Minor releases are always

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Re: [ADMIN] ERserver patch question

2003-10-15 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:14:09AM -0500, Kris Kiger wrote: Has anyone installed the ant_buildfile_upgrade for ERServer? I haven't been able to find install instructions or figure it out since, for some reason, the patch appears to be in XML. Any ideas? Thanks for the help I haven't had

[ADMIN] understanding postgres stats

2003-10-15 Thread Ryan Chambers
Hi I've recently enabled statistics gathering on our large ( 50GB) postgres database because of a recent significant decrease in performance, believed to be related to changes in the application running on top of it. I'm trying to make sense of these statistics in my investigation of this.

[ADMIN] pg_dump.. auto backup

2003-10-15 Thread Ganesan Kanavathy
I am doing a cronjob to dump pg database everyday. Below is my script for cronjob. #!/bin/sh /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump -U ganesh --no-owner -d mq /backupdb/mq.dump cd / cd /backupdb/ tar -czf /backupdb/mq-`date '+%d-%m-%Y'`.tar.gz -R * This cronjob is schedule to run

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump.. auto backup

2003-10-15 Thread Rudi Starcevic
Ganesan Kanavathy wrote: I am doing a cronjob to dump pg database everyday. Below is my script for cronjob. #!/bin/sh */usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump -U ganesh --no-owner -d mq /backupdb/mq.dump* cd / cd /backupdb/ tar -czf /backupdb/mq-`date '+%d-%m-%Y'`.tar.gz -R * This cronjob is