Re: [ADMIN] transactoin id wraparound problem

2006-09-06 Thread alex.cotarlan
What exactly permissions are required to vacuum every table including system catalogs ? Thanks , -alex -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Lane Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 9:41 AM To: Sriram Dandapani Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org

Re: [ADMIN] Dump size bigger than pgdata size?

2006-06-21 Thread alex.cotarlan
It might happen because of the type of data you have ( binary images). The compression for binary files is notorious horrible since there is a small chance of occurrence of  same chars In other words it is possible since during compression there are additional chars added for checksums and

Re: [ADMIN] Backing up large databases

2006-04-28 Thread alex.cotarlan
You could archive the data as you perform the dump pg_dump  | bzip2  > filename.bz2   bzip2 offers an excellent compression and you could end up with an archive with less than 10GB   Later you can reload that into another db on a different server   -Original Message- From: