Re: [ADMIN] Validade dump file

2010-10-05 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Le 05/10/2010 05:28, Fábio Gibon - Comex System a écrit : [...] are there some tool or internal program that read a dump file (created by pg_dump) and list all tables and number of tuples (without restore) in this file? That command should give you the number of tables in your plain dump:

[ADMIN] Indexing error

2010-10-05 Thread Johann Spies
I have used EnterpriseDB's MigrationWizard to migrate a mysql database. Everything went well except for: Error Creating Index fltx_all: ERROR: index row size 2816 exceeds maximum 2712 for index fltx_all Creating Index: fltx_adr Error Creating Index fltx_adr: ERROR: index row size 2768 exceeds

[ADMIN] Data Not replicating

2010-10-05 Thread Vishnu S.
Hi, I am using Slony-I for replicating a database.I have a master database and two slave databases in another server on the same host. I have done all steps mentioned in http://www.testdriveinteractive.com/files/Tutorial_All_PP_Slony_Replicat ion.pdf, and started the Slony-I service. But the

Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] Data Not replicating

2010-10-05 Thread Vishnu S.
Hi, Yes. I have written a script file like the following. include preamble.sk; init cluster (id=1, comment='hostname=10.2.26.53 port=5432'); Thanks Regards, Vishnu S -Original Message- From: Devrim GÜNDÜZ [mailto:dev...@gunduz.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 10:59 AM To:

Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] Data Not replicating

2010-10-05 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 11:03 +0530, Vishnu S. wrote: Yes. I have written a script file like the following. include preamble.sk; init cluster (id=1, comment='hostname=10.2.26.53 port=5432'); It does not give me the $CLUSTER_NAME information. -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant,

Re: [ADMIN] Validade dump file

2010-10-05 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
cool actually. any idea for the number of tuples? count all lines after COPY .* ) FROM stdin; until \. (but how?) on a side note: what's the difference between the admin list and the general list? -- Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born

[ADMIN] vacuum full table - internals in 8.3

2010-10-05 Thread Kieren Scott
Hi, I'm trying to understand what is going on internally when doing a VACUUM FULL on a table in 8.3. I have a table that is 1GB in size, 500M is used, and 500M is free space. When I do a vacuum full on this table, will it either: - 1) Compact all of the used tuples into free space within the

Re: [ADMIN] vacuum full table - internals in 8.3

2010-10-05 Thread Kevin Grittner
Kieren Scott kierensc...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm trying to understand what is going on internally when doing a VACUUM FULL on a table in 8.3. I have a table that is 1GB in size, 500M is used, and 500M is free space. When I do a vacuum full on this table, will it either: - 1) Compact all

Re: [ADMIN] Validade dump file

2010-10-05 Thread Kevin Grittner
Willy-Bas Loos willy...@gmail.com wrote: any idea for the number of tuples? Your best bet would be to use whatever scripting language you like which has decent support for regular expressions. Expect to tweak your expressions a bit as you discover the corner cases where you're not getting

Re: [ADMIN] vacuum full table - internals in 8.3

2010-10-05 Thread Kieren Scott
Thanks Kevin. That confirms what I've seen on 8.3. Could you explain what causes index bloat when running vacuum full? I've read that index bloat can occur, but no quite sure what is going on internally. Kieren Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:24:26 -0500 From: kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov To:

Re: [ADMIN] vacuum full table - internals in 8.3

2010-10-05 Thread Kevin Grittner
Kieren Scott kierensc...@hotmail.com wrote: Could you explain what causes index bloat when running vacuum full? To collapse the space, it copies tuples to locations closer to the front of the table. The index needs to contain references to the old and new tuple copies until the VACUUM FULL

Re: [ADMIN] ECPG: AUTOCOMMIT and CURSORs

2010-10-05 Thread A J
That would explain it. I was neither in a transaction nor did any explicit HOLD. Thanks Kevin. From: Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; A J s5...@yahoo.com Sent: Mon, October 4, 2010 5:20:14 PM Subject: Re: [ADMIN] ECPG:

[ADMIN] restore

2010-10-05 Thread Dinesh Bhandary
Hi All, Is there an easy way to restore to a new table where the column name have been changed but data remains the same? For example I am trying to restore from existing system, table1(col1) to table1(col2) and it is erroring out on the new column name even though it is a data only

Re: [ADMIN] restore

2010-10-05 Thread Kevin Grittner
Dinesh Bhandary dbhand...@iii.com wrote: Is there an easy way to restore to a new table where the column name have been changed but data remains the same? Restore to the old name and then rename the column? Access the backup file and change the COPY statement to the new column name? If

Re: [ADMIN] restore

2010-10-05 Thread Scott Whitney
There are a couple of ways. Assuming that it's the same database, and it's up and running, you could do this: Assuming: table foo (col1 text, col2 int); table bar (col2 text, col3 int); insert into bar (select * from foo); would stick everything from foo.col1 and foo.col2 into bar.col2

Re: [ADMIN] restore

2010-10-05 Thread Dinesh Bhandary
Awesome, this will work. It won't retain the column name in insert into statement. I was not sure if this will work with postgres 8.2.5 but it does. Thanks. Dinesh On 10/5/2010 11:15 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote: Dinesh Bhandarydbhand...@iii.com wrote: Is there an easy way to restore to a

[ADMIN] query execution time

2010-10-05 Thread Julius T
Hello, everybody recently I have found that queries on our customer database take longer to execute than normally. First thing we did was to log long queries. This led to nothing as queries logged are usually executed fast. On the other hand sometimes they take considerable amount of time...

Re: [ADMIN] restore

2010-10-05 Thread Craig James
On 10/5/10 11:08 AM, Dinesh Bhandary wrote: Hi All, Is there an easy way to restore to a new table where the column name have been changed but data remains the same? For example I am trying to restore from existing system, table1(col1) to table1(col2) and it is erroring out on the new column

Re: [ADMIN] query execution time

2010-10-05 Thread Kevin Grittner
Julius T jul...@nsoft.lt wrote: The question is why the difference of value provided by EXPLAIN ANALYZE and observed one is so big? There can be a number of reasons. The time to transmit the query results to the client is one that jumps to mind, if the query generates a large result set.

Re: [ADMIN] query execution time

2010-10-05 Thread Lukasz Brodziak
Hello, I would try reindexing it is not said that it will be the case but sometimes it may be helpful. Regards Luke 2010/10/5, Julius T jul...@nsoft.lt: Hello, everybody recently I have found that queries on our customer database take longer to execute than normally. First thing we did was

[ADMIN] Question about the IO on full table scan operation

2010-10-05 Thread hsienwen chu
Dear all the situation is that: I have a table, and the size is about 10M, I run the database on Redhat Linux platform. for OS, a IO can hand 1M data, the file system block is 4k, database block is 8k, my question is that: when do the full table scan on the table, how many IO will be done?

Re: [ADMIN] vacuum full table - internals in 8.3

2010-10-05 Thread Greg Smith
Kieren Scott wrote: I'm trying to understand what is going on internally when doing a VACUUM FULL on a table in 8.3. The info you've gotten from Kevin is all correct, but you may find some of the additional trivia in this area collected at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/VACUUM_FULL

Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] Data Not replicating

2010-10-05 Thread Vishnu S.
Hi, The cluster name is defined in the preamble.sk file like, cluster name=TestCLuster; node 1 admin conninfo = 'service=MasterSlonik host=10.2.26.53 port=5432 user=postgres password=* dbname=master11'; node 2 admin conninfo = 'service=SlaveSlonik1 host=10.2.26.54 port=5433