[ADMIN] psql to 7.2.3 from 7.3.1

2002-12-28 Thread Bhuvan A
Hi, I have pg7.3.1 in my PC and pg7.2.3 in another machine. While i tried psql pg7.2.3 from pg7.3.1 machine, it reports ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "." But still, it established the connection. Then it was found that i was unable to execute any of the forward slash (\) commands from t

Re: [ADMIN] psql to 7.2.3 from 7.3.1

2002-12-28 Thread Egon Reetz
You should connect with the 7.2 tools to 7.2 and with 7.3 ones to 7.3. I think this messages is caused by the introduction of schemas in 7.3, so the tables look something like public.your_table_name. psql-7.3 tries to find the public-schema on 7.2 and this doesn't work since there is none. Egon

Re: [ADMIN] psql to 7.2.3 from 7.3.1

2002-12-28 Thread Doran Barton
Not long ago, Bhuvan A proclaimed... > Then it was found that i was > unable to execute any of the forward slash (\) commands from that version > of psql. It reports similar error for every forward slash (\) commands. Sorry to be nit-picky, but those are "backslashes" not forward slashes. ;-) -=F

[ADMIN] max_fsm_pages Sanity Check

2002-12-28 Thread HT
Background: We have quite large production Postgres 7.2 DB which is out of control in terms of disk consumption. We made it thru the holiday shopping season, but it isn't over yet. We have taken the DB down once for a vacuum analyze but only vacuum'd 2 large tables which took FIVE HOURS WITH