Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL 8.1.4 - INITDB - database postgres ?

2006-08-22 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: RE: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL 8.1.4 - INITDB - database postgres ? I agree with Michael, I would leave the postgres DB in place.  I currently run 8.0.1 which does not create the postgres DB automatically and make a point to create it to use as my "maintenance" DB for such things as pgAdmin con

Re: [ADMIN] Start-up script for Solaris

2006-08-09 Thread mcelroy, tim
8.0.1, I keep trying to push the vendor but as of yet to no avail. Thanks again to Thomas and Jim for your replies. Tim  -Original Message- From:   Jim Nasby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:   Tuesday, August 08, 2006 1:05 PM To: mcelroy, tim Cc: 'Thomas Mack'; &#x

Re: [ADMIN] Start-up script for Solaris

2006-08-08 Thread mcelroy, tim
hanks, Tim  -Original Message- From:   [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]  On Behalf Of Thomas Mack Sent:   Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:54 AM To: 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org' Subject:    Re: [ADMIN] Start-up script for Solaris Am Dienstag, 8. August 2006 13:27 schrieb

[ADMIN] Start-up script for Solaris

2006-08-08 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: Start-up script for Solaris Good morning, Curious if anyone out there has a start-up script for Solaris?  A version of the Linux /etc/init.d/postgresql one.  I recently installed postgres on a Solaris 9 box and although I can start up postgres it fails to log to the log file as directe

Re: [ADMIN] growth of a postgresql database

2006-06-07 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: RE: [ADMIN] growth of a postgresql database The contrib/dbsize module will accomplish what you want.  I use release 8.0.1 and it works for me.  It provides the size of the DB, you could cron a job to take readings at various times and calculate the growth that way. Tim  -Orig

Re: [ADMIN] Restore of pg_dump taking a long time...

2006-05-24 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: RE: [ADMIN] Restore of pg_dump taking a long time... I have found that the following steps have increased the speed of my restores: 1. dropdb 2. createdb 3. Increase maintenance_work_mem as Tom mentioned.  I do this at restore/runtime 4. Increase work_mem as Tom mentioned.  I do this

Re: [ADMIN] Fatal: 2149478 (UNCLASSIFIED)

2006-05-11 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: Fatal: 2149478 (UNCLASSIFIED) Not sure what type of system you are running postgres on but that error may mean that you have to bump up the SHMMAX setting in the kernel.  In Linux it is set in the file /etc/sysctl.conf and in UNIX it is set in the file /etc/system. I know in Linux y

Re: [ADMIN] backups

2006-05-10 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: RE: [ADMIN] backups Thanks Scott, great idea.  Does one use pg_restore to restore the files that pg_dumpall creates?  -Original Message- From:   Scott Marlowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:   Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:35 PM To: mcelroy, tim Cc: 'Bruno Wolf

Re: [ADMIN] backups

2006-05-10 Thread mcelroy, tim
:   Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:12 PM To: mcelroy, tim Cc: 'Scott Marlowe'; 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org' Subject:    Re: backups On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:56:20 -0400,   "mcelroy, tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the quick answer Sc

Re: [ADMIN] backups

2006-05-10 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: RE: [ADMIN] backups Great, exactly the answer I was looking for.  Thank you again Scott. Tim  -Original Message- From:   Scott Marlowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:   Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:12 PM To: mcelroy, tim Cc: 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org

Re: [ADMIN] backups

2006-05-10 Thread mcelroy, tim
ng that to tape enough?  I just don't want to get bit in the butt if I tell him to not back something up that should be backed up. Tim -Original Message- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:57 AM To: mcelroy, tim Cc: 'pgsql-admin@postgre

[ADMIN] backups

2006-05-10 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: dbsize & pg_dump Greetings,   Does the pg_dump command ‘backup’ the pg_xlog files?   Thank you, Tim  

Re: [ADMIN] Regarding start postgresql startservice

2006-04-28 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: RE: [ADMIN] Regarding start postgresql startservice I use the /etc/init.d/postgresql  {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|condstop|reload|force-reload} command on my Linux boxes and it works great.  I recently installed PG on a couple Solaris boxes and found that the install did no

Re: [ADMIN] dbsize & pg_dump

2006-04-25 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: dbsize & pg_dump Please disregard this question.  I’m using pg_dump –F c which compresses the data a it backs it up.   Tim     -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of mcelroy, tim Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 4:40 PM To: &#

[ADMIN] dbsize & pg_dump

2006-04-25 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: dbsize & pg_dump Good afternoon, Probably an easy question but why are the file sizes differ so much between these two tools? For example:  A backup using pg_dump of our largest DB creates a file 384MB in size Using the following SQL code utilizing dbsize I get the following: FIX

Re: [ADMIN] Postmaster errors

2006-02-02 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: RE: [ADMIN] Postmaster errors Great, thank you for the additional info. Tim  -Original Message- From:   Michael Fuhr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:   Thursday, February 02, 2006 1:05 PM To: mcelroy, tim Cc: 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org' Subject:   

Re: [ADMIN] Postmaster errors

2006-02-02 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: RE: [ADMIN] Postmaster errors That was it, a fellow admin is watching the postmaster with OpenNMS Thanks for the tip! Tim  -Original Message- From:   Michael Fuhr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:   Thursday, February 02, 2006 11:10 AM To: mcelroy, tim Cc

[ADMIN] Postmaster errors

2006-02-02 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: Postmaster errors Good morning, Has anyone encountered these errors?  They repeat every five (5) minutes in my log file.  Is there something I may have set incorrectly in my postgresql.conf file?  Odd as I find them in my DEV & QA logs but not Production 2006-02-02 10:52:33 EST US

Re: [ADMIN] Kerberos 5 build error

2006-01-27 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: RE: [ADMIN] Kerberos 5 build error Ok, thank you.  -Original Message- From:   Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:   Friday, January 27, 2006 3:39 PM To: mcelroy, tim Cc: 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org' Subject:    Re: [ADMIN] Kerberos 5 b

Re: [ADMIN] Kerberos 5 build error

2006-01-27 Thread mcelroy, tim
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Re: [ADMIN] Kerberos 5 build error

2006-01-27 Thread mcelroy, tim
ibdir path set correctly. Tim  -Original Message- From:   Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:   Friday, January 27, 2006 2:17 PM To: mcelroy, tim Cc: 'pgsql-admin@postgresql.org' Subject:    Re: [ADMIN] Kerberos 5 build error "mcelroy, tim" <[

[ADMIN] Kerberos 5 build error

2006-01-27 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: Kerberos 5 build error Greetings, Has anyone run into this issue? I'm trying to configure PostgreSQL 8.01 in order to retrofit the pgAdmin3 admin module. In my configure script I use --with-krb5 and have also added the following upon reading other suggestions: --with-libs=/usr/kerberos

[ADMIN] krb5_encrypt error

2006-01-18 Thread mcelroy, tim
Title: krb5_encrypt error Greetings, Has anyone run into this issue?  I'm trying to configure PostgreSQL 8.01 in order to retrofit the pgAdmin3 admin module.  In my configure script I use --with-krb5 and have also added the following upon reading other suggestions:  --with-libs=/usr/kerberos/