Re: [ADMIN] cp1250 problem

2011-02-16 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
Στις Wednesday 16 February 2011 00:00:10 ο/η Jan-Peter Seifert έγραψε: Hello, Am 15.02.2011 12:26, schrieb Achilleas Mantzios: Στις Tuesday 15 February 2011 12:44:31 ο/η Lukasz Brodziak έγραψε: Hello, How can I set PostgreSQL locale and encoding to be pl_PL.cp1250 all I can do is

Re: [ADMIN] LC_COLLATE and pg_upgrade

2011-02-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2011-02-14 at 14:18 +0100, Bernhard Schrader wrote: As far as I read right now, LC_COLLATE is a read_only variable which is used while initdb. But why does the pg_upgrade script doesn't see that utf8 and UTF-8 are the same? Is it just a string compare? Why don't you just reinitialize

Re: [ADMIN] LC_COLLATE and pg_upgrade

2011-02-16 Thread Bernhard Schrader
If i reinitialize the database cluster, won't i have to pg_dump restore my data? In this case the downtime would be to big. Therefore I'm searching for a faster way. utf8 and UTF-8, should be the same in my opinion, so i think there must be a way to just change this value, so that pg_upgrade can

Re: [ADMIN] Moving the data directory

2011-02-16 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
On 2011-02-16 04:51, Greg Smith wrote: Debian and Ubuntu installations have a unique feature where you can have multiple PostgreSQL installations installed at the same time. That's pretty easy to do with any Linux distribution. -- Mail to my list address MUST be sent via the mailing list.

[ADMIN] Replication by schema

2011-02-16 Thread Armin Resch
Hi there, what options do exist to replicate from a master by schema? What I'm really after is this scenario: Say, I have 100 databases out in the field. All of them have the same schema and are autonomous masters. Now, at a central location, I want to replicate from all masters to a central

Re: [ADMIN] Replication by schema

2011-02-16 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Armin Resch ar...@reschab.net wrote: Hi there, what options do exist to replicate from a master by schema? What I'm really after is this scenario: Say, I have 100 databases out

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres on NAS/NFS

2011-02-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Bryan Keller wrote: I am considering running a Postgres with the database hosted on a NAS via NFS. I have read a few things on the Web saying this is not recommended, as it will be slow and could potentially cause data corruption. My goal is to have the database on a shared filesystem so in

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres on NAS/NFS

2011-02-16 Thread Greg Smith
Bryan Keller wrote: It sounds like NFS is a viable solution nowadays. I a still going to shoot for using iSCSI, given it is a block-level protocol rather than file-level, it seems to me it would be better suited to database I/O. Please digest carefully where Joe Conway pointed out that it

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres on NAS/NFS

2011-02-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 15:56 -0500, Greg Smith wrote: Bryan Keller wrote: It sounds like NFS is a viable solution nowadays. I a still going to shoot for using iSCSI, given it is a block-level protocol rather than file-level, it seems to me it would be better suited to database I/O.

Re: [ADMIN] LC_COLLATE and pg_upgrade

2011-02-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Bernhard Schrader wrote: Doesn't anyone know if I could override this settings? LC_COLLATE should be interesting for sort order, and while both is utf8, it should work or am I totally wrong? As far as I read right now, LC_COLLATE is a read_only variable which is used while initdb. But why

[ADMIN] Timeline Issue

2011-02-16 Thread Selva manickaraja
Dear All, We have a primary running continous archiving to a secondary. We managed to test fail-over to the secondary by stopping the database in the primary. Then some transactions were tested in the secondary. It was acting well as a primary to accept both read and write. Now we want to revert

Re: [ADMIN] Timeline Issue

2011-02-16 Thread Scott Mead
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Selva manickaraja mavle...@gmail.comwrote: Dear All, We have a primary running continous archiving to a secondary. We managed to test fail-over to the secondary by stopping the database in the primary. Then some transactions were tested in the secondary. It

Re: [ADMIN] Timeline Issue

2011-02-16 Thread Scott Mead
(Added list back to keep me honest :-) On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Selva manickaraja mavle...@gmail.comwrote: So what would be the best option for there on? Should the standby be converted to primary and the initial primary now nominated as standby? Once you convert to a primary, you're

[ADMIN] Trigger File Behaviour

2011-02-16 Thread Selva manickaraja
Hi, We tried setting the trigger file for fail-over purpose. But we just can't understand how it works. Each time the secondary is started the trigger file is removed. How can we introduce auto fail-over is this happens? Thank you. Regards, Selvam

[ADMIN] Fwd: Trigger File Behaviour

2011-02-16 Thread Selva manickaraja
Any assistance available on this topic? -- Forwarded message -- From: Selva manickaraja mavle...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:10 AM Subject: Trigger File Behaviour To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Hi, We tried setting the trigger file for fail-over purpose. But we just