[ADMIN] Postgres on Windows

2011-01-26 Thread Ammar Fallaha
Anyone knows of a group to support Postgres on Windows? Obviously your group main concern is Postgres on Linux/UNIX. Searching on the internet is not resolving anything SPECIDIC to Postgres for Windows. Ammar

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres on Windows

2011-01-26 Thread Oliveiros d'Azevedo Cristina
I just run PG on Windows. And everytime I needed help I've always got it from the group. AFAIK , the group main concern is PostGreSQL, regardless of the OS. I might be wrong though... Best, Oliver - Original Message - From: Ammar Fallaha To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Sent: W

[ADMIN] pg_upgrade 8.3 to 9.0, shutdown is to slow

2011-01-26 Thread Bernhard Schrader
Hi all, I try to inplace migrate our postgresql databases from 8.3 to 9.0. So far, it worked by the testdbs I set up, it was really quick and I looked forward to migrate the live dbs. But here were some issues I didn't had in the test environment. If I start this command: """ su postgres -c "c

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres on Windows

2011-01-26 Thread Lou Picciano
Ammar, To be fair to the group, what I think you might be seeing is a 'tendency' toward using PG on *NIX servers. Though I don't think it's explicitly stated anywhere, I believe many would tell you that using Windows as the PG Server is the least attractive option, in terms of performance. Th

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres on Windows

2011-01-26 Thread Chris Browne
ammar.fall...@automata4.com ("Ammar Fallaha") writes: > Anyone knows of a group to support Postgres on Windows? > > Obviously your group main concern is Postgres on Linux/UNIX. > > Searching on the internet is not resolving anything SPECIDIC to > Postgres for Windows. It's quite possible that most

Re: [ADMIN] pg_upgrade 8.3 to 9.0, shutdown is to slow

2011-01-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Wow, that is odd. Good thing you were only running in check mode. What happens if you run that pg_ctl command manually? Is /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 stop running pg_ctl or something different? --- Bernhard Schrader wrote