Re: [ADMIN] Trying to pg_restore a 7.1.3 db into 7.3.4 - stalling

2003-11-12 Thread Shane Wright
Hi, fd 0 is usually stdin, unless the program disconnects stdin. Maybe pg_restore is waiting for input, perhaps a password? certainly shouldn't be - the table where the problem happens is no different to any of the others, but I will try doing just that table later today and see if that makes

Re: [ADMIN] RHEL

2003-11-12 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, Im currently on red hat 7.3 running postgres. Everything is running fine. Obviously, Im going to have to upgrade to RHEL 3 in order to receive updates, etc. Does anyone know of any problems with postgres running on RHEL 2.1 or RHEL 3? We run PostgreSQL on a RHEL 2.1

Re: [ADMIN] RHEL

2003-11-12 Thread Sander Steffann
Apologies for sending HTML mail to the list. Here is a decent version of my message: Hi, Im currently on red hat 7.3 running postgres. Everything is running fine. Obviously, Im going to have to upgrade

[ADMIN] pg_dump still requires password

2003-11-12 Thread Ganesan Kanavathy
I want to do auto backup for pg with cronjob. The problem is it equesting for password. I have tried with pgpass but still it does not work. I created the pgpass as per below: echo your_host:5432:your_user:your_db:your_pass ~/.pgpass bash$ chmod 600 ~/.pgpass My cronjob entry is

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump still requires password

2003-11-12 Thread Daniel Rubio
When I issue the command it is asking for passwd which I cannot used for cronjob to run at midnight. Execute the task as user postgres (crontab for postgres, not root) and modify pg_hba.conf to permit access in trust mode (without asking for password) e.g : local all postgres

[ADMIN] [pg 7.1.rc2] pg_restore and large tables

2003-11-12 Thread ow
Hi, Trying to restore a table that has about 80 million records. The database was dumped and restored according to the following procedure: 1) dump the db, data only time /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump -abf ./pgsql.7.4.rc1.pgdump.Z --format=c --compress=6 -U postgres testdb 2) create db schema

Re: [ADMIN] [pg 7.4.rc2] pg_restore and large tables

2003-11-12 Thread ow
--- ow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Trying to restore a table that has about 80 million records. The database was [...] I meant pg7.4.rc2, of course. Thanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard

Re: [ADMIN] [pg 7.1.rc2] pg_restore and large tables

2003-11-12 Thread Shane Wright
Hi, I have found, on 7.3.4, a _massive_ performance difference on restoring without indices - on a 25million row table from 8 hours down to 1 hour! I've found the best way is to do this... (there may be a script somewhere that automates this) - do a --schema-only restore to create the tables

Re: [ADMIN] Upgrading to Solaris 9

2003-11-12 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:29:42PM +0100, Gaetano Mendola wrote: Seems that solaris is the worst choice for run Postgres. Am I completely wrong ? Windows is worse ;-) A -- Andrew Sullivan 204-4141 Yonge Street Afilias CanadaToronto,

Re: [ADMIN] Upgrading to Solaris 9

2003-11-12 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:52:26PM -0700, scott.marlowe wrote: I thought .org and .info were being run on postgresql/solaris? They are. I'd happily dump the Solaris use overboard, however, if it weren't for all the nifty hardware support it give us. It is dog-slow for handling large numbers

Re: [ADMIN] Upgrading to Solaris 9

2003-11-12 Thread William Yu
Danielle Cossette wrote: Good morning, Could you please let me know if Postgres 7.1.3 will run on Solaris 9. If it does, are you aware of any issues. I've run 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 on Solaris 8 x86 and Solaris 9 x86. 7.1 install, config, run was nearly 100% hands-off. 7.3 takes setting

Re: [ADMIN] vacuum full problem

2003-11-12 Thread pginfo
Stephan Szabo wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, pginfo wrote: It is possible to be one not closed transaction, but in this case nobody will be able to modify this table (tables) and the system will stop to respond. The paradox is that the system works well without Not

[ADMIN] broken pipe

2003-11-12 Thread Denis Dahsulja
Hi all, Please help, I keep receiving this error message, see below, and I don't know how to go around this problem,can anyone help. Regards Denis tar: Removing leading `/' from member names tar (child): /dev/st0: Wrote only 0 of 10240 bytes tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Re: [ADMIN] [pg 7.1.rc2] pg_restore and large tables

2003-11-12 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shane Wright) writes: I have found, on 7.3.4, a _massive_ performance difference on restoring without indices - on a 25million row table from 8 hours down to 1 hour! I've found the best way is to do this... (there may be a script somewhere that automates this) - do a

[ADMIN] Taking database offline

2003-11-12 Thread ow
Hi, Is there a way to take the database offline to keep users out? Is there a way to take the database offline but still allowing pg_restore to run against it? Thanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard

Re: [ADMIN] Taking database offline

2003-11-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:07:23 -0800, ow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a way to take the database offline to keep users out? Is there a way to take the database offline but still allowing pg_restore to run against it? You could shut the database down, change pg_hba.conf to only

Re: [ADMIN] Taking database offline

2003-11-12 Thread scott.marlowe
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, ow wrote: Hi, Is there a way to take the database offline to keep users out? Is there a way to take the database offline but still allowing pg_restore to run against it? Yes, as of 7.3 you can create entries in pg_hba.conf that control who can connect to what

Re: [ADMIN] Question On 7.4RC2

2003-11-12 Thread Tom Lane
Glenn Wiorek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just finished compiling 7.4RC2 on Solaris 8 and ran the regression tests = (make check). The last test out of 93 (stats) failed. Is this of concern?= It means the stats collector is failing, probably because it's unable to set up the self-connected UDP

[ADMIN] 7.4RC2: pg_crypto not working?

2003-11-12 Thread Murthy Kambhampaty
After having initdb'd and started the server (gmake check said it passed all 93 tests), and doing a make; make install in pgcrypto, I tried creating the pgcrytpo functions with # psql -d template1 -f pgcrypto.sql This produced a series of errors as follows: 2003-11-12 16:56:14.287480500 [9781]

Re: [ADMIN] 7.4RC2: pg_crypto not working?

2003-11-12 Thread Tom Lane
Murthy Kambhampaty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # psql -d template1 -f pgcrypto.sql 2003-11-12 16:56:14.293247500 [9781] ERROR: could not load library /usr/local/pgsql-7.4/lib/pgcrypto.so: /usr/local/pgsql-7.4/lib/pgcrypto.so: undefined symbol: px_find_digest Works for me (at least, the

Re: [ADMIN] 7.4RC2: pg_crypto not working?

2003-11-12 Thread Reece Hart
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 14:14, Murthy Kambhampaty wrote: Is this from user error or is pgcrypto not working yet in RC2? It works for me (x86, redhat 7.3, linux 2.4.18). I did make install in pgcrypto/, then: CREATE FUNCTION digest (text, text) RETURNS bytea AS 'pgcrypto', 'pg_digest'

[ADMIN] easy way to copy all DBs and users on a server

2003-11-12 Thread exciteworks hosting
Is there an easy way to copy all DBs and users on a server to another server? I need to get an exact duplicate. Thanks in avance! --- Josh Trefethen Exciteworks, Inc http://exciteworks.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump still requires password

2003-11-12 Thread A.Bhuvaneswaran
I have tried with pgpass but still it do es not work. I created the pgpass as per below: Version? ~/.pgpass is supported since 7.3. Two more solutions are: 1) Set PGPASSWORD variable to avoid pg_dump asking for password 2) Set connection as trust in pg_hba.conf regards, bhuvaneswaran

Re: [ADMIN] easy way to copy all DBs and users on a server

2003-11-12 Thread A.Bhuvaneswaran
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 07:47, exciteworks hosting wrote: Is there an easy way to copy all DBs and users on a server to another server? pg_dumpall is a good partner. If i am correct, you can also copy the entire data directory, provided if both versions are same. regards, bhuvaneswaran

Re: [ADMIN] Taking database offline

2003-11-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
scott.marlowe wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, ow wrote: Hi, Is there a way to take the database offline to keep users out? Is there a way to take the database offline but still allowing pg_restore to run against it? Yes, as of 7.3 you can create entries in pg_hba.conf that control who