Re: [ADMIN] Help: System requirements for postgresql 7.4.1

2004-01-30 Thread Thierry Missimilly
Hi, In fact it is difficult to answer to that questions as they depend of how big is your database, how many simultaneous connections you have, ... etc But, I can help you by giving you my results on a Bi-CPU Xeon 2.6 GHz , 4 Gb RAM, external 2 x RAID0 on four disks each with Redhat 9.0. 1) Co

Re: [ADMIN] commit after dead lock

2004-01-30 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Tom Lane wrote: Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: It's not really any different than other errors. The commit doesn't complain (although it also doesn't actually commit anything). People have occasionally suggested that the command tag from a COMMIT should read "ABORT" or "ROLLBACK" if

[ADMIN] Veritas Filesystem

2004-01-30 Thread Trevor Astrope
We're planning on using veritas filesystem and volume manager with linux and an hitachi disk array. I'm wondering if anyone has any experiences with veritas fs and vm on linux and hitachi both good and bad. Also, has anyone compared veritas fs with any of the other linux filesystems, like xfs a

Re: [ADMIN] hung postmaster when client machine dies?

2004-01-30 Thread Jeff
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 17:00:27 -0800 Mark Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We observed that there was postmaster connected to the ip address > of the downed machine with an "in transaction" status. Killing > that processes unblocked the other processes. > > Is this expected behavior? Was po

Re: [ADMIN] Veritas Filesystem

2004-01-30 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Friday, January 30, 2004 09:48:28 -0500 Trevor Astrope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We're planning on using veritas filesystem and volume manager with linux and an hitachi disk array. I'm wondering if anyone has any experiences with veritas fs and vm on linux and hitachi both good and bad. A

Re: [ADMIN] hung postmaster when client machine dies?

2004-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eventually PG would have found out the socket was dead. We do enable TCP keepalive on the client socket, so eventually the kernel will time out and notify us of a lost connection. Unfortunately the timeouts involved are long --- IIRC the relevant RFCs specify at

Re: [ADMIN] hung postmaster when client machine dies?

2004-01-30 Thread Goulet, Dick
Hope you don't mind if I disagree. Most OS's that have a tcp/ip layer also have a parameter therein called tcp_keep_alive. They also set this parameter to infinity. The purpose of tcp_keep_alive is to have the OS kernel periodically verify that all tcp/ip connections it is managing are still

[ADMIN] Files in pg_xlog

2004-01-30 Thread Daniel Henrique Debonzi
Hi everybody! Does anybody knows how can I change the size (something about 4Mb) of the files inside the pg_xlog directory and how can I have no more than one file inside it. Would be nice a quick explanation about the efects of it. Thanks for all -- Daniel Henrique Debonzi Linux user number

[ADMIN] Error during installation

2004-01-30 Thread supiah
Hi there, I'm trying to install tsearch2 and got an error : Makefile:5: ../../src/Makefile.global: No such file or directory Makefile:47: /contrib/contrib-global.mk: No such file or directory gmake: *** No rule to make target `/contrib/contrib-global.mk'. Stop. For your information, firstly, I'm

[ADMIN] Dump and Reload process

2004-01-30 Thread Chris Gamache
I'm having some issues dumping a database from 7.2, reloading it to 7.4. I'm using the 7.4 pg_dump. The problem I'm having is an issue of internal object dependancies. For instance I have a_function that uses b_function. The a_function gets dumped in first, and errors out because b_function hsan't

[ADMIN] Test Suite

2004-01-30 Thread rep34
I am migrating a database from SQLServer to PostgreSQL and I want to know if exists some tool to execute tests to see if the functionality of the triggers and stored procedures still the same?   Thanks, and sorry for the terrible english...

[ADMIN] Alternative to "Money" ...

2004-01-30 Thread Chris Gamache
Well, after living with the (depreciated) Money datatype for 5 years, I think its finally time to say goodbye (and now that we have DROP COLUMN it'll be MUCH easier transition). What's the preferred monetary datatype? numeric(10,2)? float4? float8? We're dealing only with US Dollars. CG _

[ADMIN] pg_dumpall errors

2004-01-30 Thread Luke Clutter
We recently had an unexpected san outage which caused our postgresql to stop pg_dumpall'ing properly. As a unix admin, not a db person, i'm short on ideas for what I should try next. some base info: RHAS2.1 box postgresql-libs-7.1.3-4bp.2 postgresql-jdbc-7.1.3-4bp.2 postgresql-tk-7.1.3-4bp.2 pos

[ADMIN] pg_dumpall errors.

2004-01-30 Thread Luke Clutter
We recently had an unexpected san outage which caused our postgresql to stop pg_dumpall'ing properly. As a unix admin, not a db person, i'm short on ideas for what I should try next. some base info: RHAS2.1 box postgresql-libs-7.1.3-4bp.2 postgresql-jdbc-7.1.3-4bp.2 postgresql-tk-7.1.3-4bp.2 pos

Re: [ADMIN] Alternative to "Money" ...

2004-01-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:55:13 -0800, Chris Gamache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, after living with the (depreciated) Money datatype for 5 years, I think > its finally time to say goodbye (and now that we have DROP COLUMN it'll be MUCH > easier transition). What's the preferred monetary da

Re: [ADMIN] Alternative to "Money" ...

2004-01-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:55:13 -0800, Chris Gamache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, after living with the (depreciated) Money datatype for 5 years, I think its finally time to say goodbye (and now that we have DROP COLUMN it'll be MUCH easier transition). What's the pref

Re: [ADMIN] Files in pg_xlog

2004-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
Daniel Henrique Debonzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody knows how can I change the size (something about 4Mb) of > the files inside the pg_xlog directory You can't, short of hacking the source code (and I'm not sure it's a one-line change if you do...) > and how can I have no more than

Re: [ADMIN] Dump and Reload process

2004-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Gamache <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having some issues dumping a database from 7.2, reloading it to 7.4. > I'm using the 7.4 pg_dump. The problem I'm having is an issue of internal > object dependancies. > ... > There must be a better way! Thoughts? This is (at long last) fixed in deve