Re: [ADMIN] High Availability: Hot Standby vs. Warm Standby

2010-07-13 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Greg Smith, 12.07.2010 18:11: Yes, but if you try you'll discover that actually getting any shared disk or file system replication solution setup so that you really do achieve less failover loss than the file shipping approach will be expensive, complicated, fragile in its own way, and just

[ADMIN] upgrade postgres 8.1.21 to version 8.3.6

2010-07-13 Thread Silvio Brandani
We need to upgrade the postgres running on our production system under Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 from version 8.1.21 to version 8.3.6. we could have a stop/maintenance window of 3/4 our the sum of size of databases is around 1G . Which is the best practice to execute such

[ADMIN] postgresql failover

2010-07-13 Thread Vasiliy G Tolstov
Hello. I need failover postgresql installation. Two servers work's together. If one server fail - another server doing queries. In MySQL i'm use two server (mysql-ndb and two mysql api server (getting queries) with mysql-proxy. If one server fail mysql-proxy route all queries to another. How

Re: [ADMIN] postgresql failover

2010-07-13 Thread Ian Lea
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/high-availability.html would be a good place to start research. And the archives of this thread would be another - there are recent messages about this sort of thing. And google postgres high availability or equivalent. I use slony but there are plenty

Re: [ADMIN] postgresql failover

2010-07-13 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 13:33 +0400, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote: I need failover postgresql installation. Two servers work's together. If one server fail - another server doing queries. snip How can i do this in postgresql? If you don't {have/want to use} shared storage, you can use WAL

Re: [ADMIN] upgrade postgres 8.1.21 to version 8.3.6

2010-07-13 Thread Jens Wilke
Am Dienstag 13 Juli 2010 11:30:20 schrieb Silvio Brandani: We need to upgrade the postgres running on our production system under Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 from version 8.1.21 to version 8.3.6. Have a look here:

[ADMIN] Partitioned Tables

2010-07-13 Thread Plugge, Joe R.
If I create a parent table that lives in a specific tablespace, when I create child tables that inherit the parent and then subsequently index and create a PK on the child, will all of the index objects default to the tablespace that the parent is built in? Regards, Joe Plugge

Re: [ADMIN] upgrade postgres 8.1.21 to version 8.3.6

2010-07-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
2010/7/13 Silvio Brandani silvio.brand...@tech.sdb.it: We need to upgrade the postgres running on our production system under Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1  from version 8.1.21 to version 8.3.6. we could have a stop/maintenance window of 3/4 our the sum of size of databases is

[ADMIN] cache lookup for operator ...

2010-07-13 Thread Deron
Hello, I am trying to determine what might cause an issue like this. This was a large (several hundred GB) data warehouse server with PG 8.2.4. I can't really determine what caused this issue. We ended up restoring the data from a backup. Here are some of the errors in the log:

Re: [ADMIN] cache lookup for operator ...

2010-07-13 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:29:42AM -0700, Deron wrote: Hello, I am trying to determine what might cause an issue like this. This was a large (several hundred GB) data warehouse server with PG 8.2.4. I can't really determine what caused this issue. We ended up restoring the data from a

Re: [ADMIN] cache lookup for operator ...

2010-07-13 Thread Tom Lane
Deron fecas...@gmail.com writes: I am trying to determine what might cause an issue like this. This was a large (several hundred GB) data warehouse server with PG 8.2.4. I can't really determine what caused this issue. We ended up restoring the data from a backup. Here are some of the

Re: [ADMIN] upgrade postgres 8.1.21 to version 8.3.6

2010-07-13 Thread Iñigo Martinez Lasala
With a 1GB database you should have no problem to perform upgrade in three quarters of hour. You should script database migration process in order to make it faster. Upgrading binaries is really simple. A yum upgrade should be enough. However, prior upgrading binaries, you should perform a