Re: [ADMIN] defined max length

2003-06-08 Thread Andrew Biagioni
I recommend you look at chapter 5, "Data Types", of the PostgreSQL User's Guide. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello ALL. Where can I find (and set if need) all defined max length restrictions of PostgreSQL server. for example, max lenght of VARCHAR, or any variable-length array, or max query len

[ADMIN] Uninitialized page - fixing

2003-06-08 Thread Björn Metzdorf
Hi, recently we are suffering from repeated WARNING: Rel pg_toast_77798203: Uninitialized page 25489 - fixing entries in the logfile. We had this problem 2 weeks ago (especially on some read often write often tables), along with some more severe problems (pg_clog not found etc..). We assumed h

Re: [ADMIN] Backup and Restore

2003-06-08 Thread David A. Leedom
But I have blobs in my data so I am using -F c At 01:22 PM 6/5/2003 -0700, Jonathan Gardner wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 05 June 2003 04:56, David A. Leedom wrote: > I am using 7.2.x. When I run pg_dump on a database the objects are not > loaded in the correct

Re: [ADMIN] Urgent: Restoring many schemas in a database

2003-06-08 Thread Jonathan Gardner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 05 June 2003 03:49, Stephen J. Thompson wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to restore a 7.3 database with many schemas and schema users in > it. The issue I am having is that there are many \connect statements in the > backup file and it k

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Re: [ADMIN] Backup and Restore

2003-06-08 Thread Jonathan Gardner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 05 June 2003 04:56, David A. Leedom wrote: > I am using 7.2.x. When I run pg_dump on a database the objects are not > loaded in the correct dependency order. > > S when I run pg_restore it fails because objects that are needed > hav

Re: [ADMIN] Urgent Help Needed !!!!!!!

2003-06-08 Thread Robert Treat
IIRC correctly this happened in 7.3, though I believe libpqxx is backward compatible, Robert Treat On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 01:51, Anagha Joshi wrote: > Hi, > Pls. let me know immediately from which version of Postgres ... > C++ interfaces are moved to the libpqxx PostgreSQL Projects. > Libpqxx is

Re: [ADMIN] interpret vacuum verbose output

2003-06-08 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 04:54, Peter Childs wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Shankar K wrote: > > > hi all, > > > > I'm trying to evaluate the frequecy to run vacuum > > analyze on key tables. so if anyone could help me to > > interpret the output of vacuum analyze verbose output > > that would be gre

[ADMIN] possible data loss.

2003-06-08 Thread mallah
I did an vacuum full on a particular table of pgsql 7.2.3 database as a non superuser. and i feel i have lost considerable data in this text feild in this table. I think it was a known bug with this version. btw there was a # sign in the prompt does it not mean the connected user was a super use

Re: [ADMIN] Backup and Restore

2003-06-08 Thread Nick Fankhauser
Dave- I ran into this recently & made a similar inquiry of the list. Apparently the pg_restore dependency problems are known issues, but not fixed in 7.2. I haven't looked to see if it is fixed in 7.3 yet. In our case, space was not an issue and backups run quickly enough that I just do two backu

[ADMIN] White Paper

2003-06-08 Thread Terry Hampton
All, My CEO has asked for a PostgreSQL White Paper to give to a Client.Before I start typing - anyone have one or can point me to one ? Many thanks ( and thanks for the info this group provides ), Terry Hampton

[ADMIN] Diagnose Database Corruption

2003-06-08 Thread Alex . H . Pollock
Does PostgreSQL have a tool to diagnose and fix database corruption? Is there any kind of database consistency checker? I couldn't find anything in the doc... Thanks! Alex Pollock WFSC Data Services District Database Administration MAC A0186-032 ( 415) 243-5931 ---(en

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres and Access

2003-06-08 Thread Robert Treat
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 09:26, Nathalie Boulos wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I was able to open postgresql tables on linux from MS-access on windows > using the ODBC found on postgresql.org website. > > I was wondering if there is a way that a postgres database on linux sees and > modifies access

Re: [ADMIN] Starting postmaster as a service (newbie)

2003-06-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 10:12:25AM -0400, Vinay wrote: > figured that it is because I have to do the init db everytime this I don't know anything about the Cyg Win installation, but you _don't_ need to do initdb every time: that creates a new data area. A Andrew Sullivan

Re: [ADMIN] No acceptable C compiler found

2003-06-08 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:41:27AM -0700, Marvin wrote: > When I issue the command ./configure when installing > POSTGRESQL I encounter the error > "configure: error: No acceptable C compiler found in > PATH " > Can someone advice me on what to do with this error. Sounds like you don't have a C

Re: [ADMIN] Fw: Starting postmaster as a service (newbie)

2003-06-08 Thread Robert Treat
You should not have to run initdb after each restart, check out the following link on setting up cygwin as a service: http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/postgresql/postgresql-7.3.2.README future questions should be posted to pgsql-cygwin Robert Treat On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 10:27, Vinay wrote:

[ADMIN] Problem with tcp/ip connection, postgresql.conf

2003-06-08 Thread Nick Fankhauser
Hi- I'm posting this summary for a person that I've been corresponding with off-list: He is trying to use JDBC, so he wants to turn on the TCP/IP socket. The platform is Postgresql 7.2 on SuSe 8.0 If he starts the postmaster with the -i flag, he can get a connection. If he sets tcpip_socket =

Re: [ADMIN] number of opened files

2003-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is it normal that when we do a vacuumdb, the number of open files > decrease ? Doesn't surprise me --- that'd be a likely result of the relcache flushes that vacuum will trigger. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--

[ADMIN] Problem with tcp/ip connection, postgresql.conf

2003-06-08 Thread Nick Fankhauser - Doxpop
Hi- I'm posting this summary for a person that I've been corresponding with off-list: He is trying to use JDBC, so he wants to turn on the TCP/IP socket. The platform is Postgresql 7.2 on SuSe 8.0 If he starts the postmaster with the -i flag, he can get a connection. If he sets tcpip_socket =

Re: [ADMIN] PG 7.1.2 Crash: cannot read xlog dir

2003-06-08 Thread kay
Tom, Thanks for the advice. I realize your concern, but it turns out there was a simple solution. I'd like to share that solution with the list, since the solution I received was not posted on the list. Since "VDS" servers are becoming more popular by the day, this might be useful to some other a

[ADMIN] Uninitialized page - fixing

2003-06-08 Thread Björn Metzdorf
this is a repost, first one didn't pass moderator ?! --- Hi, recently we are suffering from repeated WARNING: Rel pg_toast_77798203: Uninitialized page 25489 - fixing entries in the logfile. We had this problem 2 weeks ago (especially on some read often write often tables, which are often va

Re: [ADMIN] Disk I/O Monitoring

2003-06-08 Thread postgres timeless
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 09:42, Kris Kiger wrote: > I'm looking for a good way to monitor disk I/O on a linux > system. Specifically, I would like to know when postgres is making > page-ins and page-outs. If anyone knows of a good utility, please let > me know! Thank you for the help vmstat. -

Re: [ADMIN] No acceptable C compiler found

2003-06-08 Thread Sean Chittenden
> When I issue the command ./configure when installing > POSTGRESQL I encounter the error > "configure: error: No acceptable C compiler found in > PATH " > Can someone advice me on what to do with this error. ... I had this problem on Solaris... I can't remember which cc it found first in my pa

Re: [ADMIN] possible data loss.

2003-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did an vacuum full on a particular table of > pgsql 7.2.3 database as a non superuser. > and i feel i have lost considerable data in this > text feild in this table. I think it was a known bug with > this version. The vacuum output shows 91902 live tuples during th

[ADMIN] Need help with this trouble.

2003-06-08 Thread Rafael Mauricio González Palacios
Hello. We had a very serious trouble last week with our databases in Postgres and we wanna know if maybe someone can help us to find the problem. The trouble was that a day some databases in Postgres appear without any row of information; some other, doesn't led us describe the tables (\d),

Re: [ADMIN] Backup and Restore

2003-06-08 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"Jonathan Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is also a cheap way to "vacuum" the database: > > # pg_dump | gzip > dump.gz > # dropdb > # createdb > # gunzip -c dump.gz > psql Yes specially when you have a dump of about 1 GB and you manage a service 24/24 7/7!! The only cheap way to v

[ADMIN] DUMPall PG7.1.3 restore to PG7.3.2

2003-06-08 Thread Eko Pranoto
I have error when restoring file DUMPall PG7.1.3 to PG7.3.2 with error message "function varchar(integer) does not exist" any one can help ? thanks before it === "TELKOMNet Instan memberikan diskon 40% unt

[ADMIN] What could be the problem?

2003-06-08 Thread Rafael Mauricio González Palacios
Hello. We had a very serious trouble last week with our databases in Postgres and we wanna know if maybe someone can help us to find the problem. The trouble was that a day some databases in Postgres appear without any row of information; some other, doesn't led us describe the tables (\d), o