[ADMIN] user connection properties

2009-07-14 Thread Isabella Ghiurea
Hello Gurus, From which internal tables/views I can get the user connection application/job name ? (pg_stat _activity has the client ip address only) Thank you Isabella- --- Isabella A. Ghiurea isabella.ghiu...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Re: [ADMIN] user connection properties

2009-07-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Isabella Ghiurea wrote: Hello Gurus, From which internal tables/views I can get the user connection application/job name ? (pg_stat _activity has the client ip address only) I don't think that information is stored anywhere within Postgres. -- Alvaro Herrera

Re: [ADMIN] user connection properties

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Mead
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Isabella Ghiurea isabella.ghiu...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca wrote: Hello Gurus, From which internal tables/views I can get the user connection application/job name ? (pg_stat _activity has the client ip address only) Unlike Oracle, PG doesn't give you the

[ADMIN] ezSQL postgres connection string...

2009-07-14 Thread Carol Walter
Hello, I've got a web site that broke when we experience some system problems. The site was built using ezSQL. I need to specify a port for the connection string. Does anyone know what the argument is called in ezSQL? Thanks, in advance. Carol -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list

Re: [ADMIN] Hard link / rsync backup strategy successful

2009-07-14 Thread Chander Ganesan
Kevin, Kevin Grittner wrote: As a follow-up to this: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2009-03/msg00233.php I just read this post. What exactly does doing the hard link buy you here? Since it's just another inode pointer to the same file, I fail to see what the purpose of it

Re: [ADMIN] Hard link / rsync backup strategy successful

2009-07-14 Thread Greg Spiegelberg
I'm in agreement. That is a recipe for a failed recovery. If you must use some file system / volume trickery to get an initial backup then I would suggest looking into LVM or some similar volume manager. For beginners, take a look at the link below.

[ADMIN] Networking request

2009-07-14 Thread Dirk E Zondag Jr
Hello- I am looking for a great postgreSQL DBA and we offer a 1K referral fee for a successful hire. Who do you know that might be a good fit for this? Thanks! Year Founded: 2006 # of employees: 22ish people Location: San Mateo, CA Current Co. revenue/funding: 25 million in funding,

Re: [ADMIN] Setting Shared-Buffers

2009-07-14 Thread sriram.dandapani
2G per process is plenty ...and useful if you have large data warehouse style queries which are long running (especially multiple of those) We do benefit from the Linux memory caching model regardless of what Postgres uses right ? On a machine which we upgraded from 4G to 16G on a 32 bit PAE