Re: [ADMIN] Identifying object from file on disk

2006-07-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I would like to identify the objects which all of a sudden are frowing at the high growth rate by using the filename (which I assune is the OID). I have looked at the pg_catalog schema to see if I could see an obvious way to do this, but to no avail. Furthermore, I hate to keep bothering the n

[ADMIN] Identifying object from file on disk

2006-07-12 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
I have a very strange situation where all of a sudden my database growth has increased dramatically. I made some schema changes, bit these were made to some tables which do not have the massive insertion rate (a few fields were changed from varchar to inet data types. The tables which have the mass

[ADMIN] Where are the temporary work / sort files please

2006-07-12 Thread adey
The postgresql parameter explanation for work_mem say :-   "Another way to set this value is to monitor the Postgres temp files(in PGDATA/base/DB_OID/pgsql_tmp) and adjust sort_memupward if you see a lot of queries swapping from these temp files."   ...but I can't find pgsql_tmp in my v8.1.4 instal

Re: [ADMIN] PG slowdown

2006-07-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
adey wrote: If you turn WAL logging off (via fsynch parameter in .conf), it is my understanding that you will no longer log database updates, and will therefore not be able to recover any uncommitted transactions in the event of failure, (which seems contradictory to database practice). You

Re: [ADMIN] PG slowdown

2006-07-12 Thread adey
If you turn WAL logging off (via fsynch parameter in .conf), it is my understanding that you will no longer log database updates, and will therefore not be able to recover any uncommitted transactions in the event of failure, (which seems contradictory to database practice).   Gut feel to me says

Re: [ADMIN] Restore Database

2006-07-12 Thread Aaron Bono
On 7/11/06, Burbello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to test and create a procedure to restoredatabases.Why not just use pg_dump?See http://manual.intl.indoglobal.com/ch06s07.html - it's really easy.  This is how we copy from production to testing and development and how we do nightly backups. =

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