Re: [ADMIN] Should autovacuum do a database wide vacuum near transaction limit?

2011-01-21 Thread John Lister
"John Lister" writes: On another bizarre note, A database wide vacuum has just finished, but I'm still getting the warnings: GMT WARNING: database "backend" must be vacuumed within 10205310 transactions Did you do that vacuum as a superuser? yes John -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing

Re: [ADMIN] Should autovacuum do a database wide vacuum near transaction limit?

2011-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
"John Lister" writes: > On another bizarre note, A database wide vacuum has just finished, but I'm > still getting the warnings: > GMT WARNING: database "backend" must be vacuumed within 10205310 > transactions Did you do that vacuum as a superuser? regards, tom lane

Re: [ADMIN] Should autovacuum do a database wide vacuum near transaction limit?

2011-01-21 Thread John Lister
Hi, I'm running 8.3.9 on ubuntu with autovacuum enabled and seemingly working properly., however I've started getting messages saying that I'm near the transaction limit and I need to do a database wide vacuum, which I've started. From reading the docs, though I thought that autovacuum would do

Re: [ADMIN] Should autovacuum do a database wide vacuum near transaction limit?

2011-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
"John Lister" writes: > Hi, I'm running 8.3.9 on ubuntu with autovacuum enabled and seemingly > working properly., however I've started getting messages saying that I'm near > the transaction limit and I need to do a database wide vacuum, which I've > started. > From reading the docs, though I

[ADMIN] Should autovacuum do a database wide vacuum near transaction limit?

2011-01-21 Thread John Lister
Hi, I'm running 8.3.9 on ubuntu with autovacuum enabled and seemingly working properly., however I've started getting messages saying that I'm near the transaction limit and I need to do a database wide vacuum, which I've started. >From reading the docs, though I thought that autovacuum would d

Re: [ADMIN] postgresql question

2011-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Kevin Grittner" writes: > Dennis Hoffman wrote: >> What can I do? > I'd be tempted to write a script which was owned by root which > calculated the size as desired, and grant sudo rights to merlin to > execute that particular script as the user with rights. Seems like a postgres-owned script

Re: [ADMIN] postgresql question

2011-01-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
Dennis Hoffman wrote: > If I do nothing other than remove the file permissions ( change > back to 700 from 750 ), the Postmaster starts just as it should. > Why does the Postmaster not start with the group permissions > changed? That's intentional, as a security measure. > Is this a bug?

[ADMIN] postgresql question

2011-01-21 Thread Dennis Hoffman
Hello: I am running Postgres version 7.4.13 on a Linux CentOS box with kernel version 2.6.9-67.0.7 I have a process running under a user ( "merlin" ) that needs access to the data base ( to calculate the DB size ). I have added the "merlin" user as a member of the postgres group, and changed

[ADMIN] problem connecting via ODBC when unicode.

2011-01-21 Thread Kim Mortensen
Hi, I have have a question that annoys me incredibly. I have a "Login Roles" that include special chars like "ÆØÅ" (same in password) that accesses a view. however this is not possible, as the connector does not recognize the user. --- FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry