[ADMIN] Migration from 8.0.2 to 8.1.0

2005-12-12 Thread Helbling Julien
Postgres 8.0.2 for Windows is install on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 system. The installation was made with all the default values.   We made a backup of one of our database with the following instruction :  pg_dump –i –h serverName –p 5432 –U userName –W password –F c backupFileName da

[ADMIN] pg_restore fails with postgis

2005-12-12 Thread Josh O'Brien
Hello all I'm trying to restore in a cluster using pg_restore and i'm receiving an error from my recoverylog saying that there is no last checkpoint for my backend. How can I alter pg_restore to make it work or do i have any other options. Tahnk you in advance. begin:vcard fn:Joshua O'Brien

[ADMIN] separate WAL

2005-12-12 Thread jose fuenmayor
How can I install pg_xlog (WAL) in another partition, i mean separate the data directory from WAL, i have a single scsi disk with four partitions /, /boot, /data(data for postgresql), /WAL(pg_xlog), i ve heard that by doing this occurs a boost in postgreSQL performance, thanks in advance anyone tha

Re: [ADMIN] separate WAL

2005-12-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 10:08, jose fuenmayor wrote: > How can I install pg_xlog (WAL) in another partition, i mean separate > the data directory from WAL, i have a single scsi disk with four > partitions > /, /boot, /data(data for postgresql), /WAL(pg_xlog), i ve heard that > by doing this occurs a

Re: [ADMIN] separate WAL

2005-12-12 Thread Tom Lane
jose fuenmayor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I install pg_xlog (WAL) in another partition, i mean separate the > data directory from WAL, i have a single scsi disk with four partitions > /, /boot, /data(data for postgresql), /WAL(pg_xlog), i ve heard that by > doing this occurs a boost in p

Re: [ADMIN] pg_restore fails with postgis

2005-12-12 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:23:09AM -0500, Josh O'Brien wrote: > I'm trying to restore in a cluster using pg_restore and i'm receiving an > error from my recoverylog saying that there is no last checkpoint for my > backend. How can I alter pg_restore to make it work or do i have any > other opti

Re: [ADMIN] pg_restore fails with postgis

2005-12-12 Thread Michael Fuhr
[Please copy the mailing list on replies.] On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 11:57:06AM -0500, Josh O'Brien wrote: > this is the command --create --format=c -d template1 > /home/postgres/dumps/test_dump test_db. That's not a complete command; I assume those are the options and arguments to pg_restore. As

[ADMIN] WAL and pg_dump

2005-12-12 Thread Mike C
All the documentation I've seen for PITR points to having to do a file system copy of sorts. Is it possible to have a weekly pg_dump and restore the database up to the last archived WAL file if the db server fails? If so, how? Is it just a matter of restoring the database then copying the archive

Re: [ADMIN] pg_autovacuum log size in postgres v8.0

2005-12-12 Thread Ameet Kini
Any plans of incorporating it into a future release? How do people currently deal with this problem? I wonder if this is fixed in the pg_autovacuum distributed with v8.1 On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: > Unfortunately, you are correct, there is no way to tell > contrib/autovacu

Re: [ADMIN] pg_autovacuum log size in postgres v8.0

2005-12-12 Thread Jeff Frost
Most people running Linux would add it to their logrotate.conf or other log management methods. On Mon, 12 Dec 2005, Ameet Kini wrote: Any plans of incorporating it into a future release? How do people currently deal with this problem? I wonder if this is fixed in the pg_autovacuum distribut

Re: [ADMIN] pg_autovacuum log size in postgres v8.0

2005-12-12 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Ameet Kini wrote: > > Any plans of incorporating it into a future release? How do people > currently deal with this problem? I wonder if this is fixed in the > pg_autovacuum distributed with v8.1 8.1 does not have this problem, because autovacuum got integrated into the server proper and no longe