Re: [ADMIN] postgres, syslog and freeBSD

2008-05-30 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
Στις Friday 30 May 2008 07:35:19 ο/η kevin kempter έγραψε:
 Hi list;
 
 I'm trying to get postgres  syslog to get along with no luck. I'm  
 running freeBSD7 and postgres 8.3.1
 
 Here's my postgres setup
 
 log_destination = 'syslog'
 #logging_collector = off
 syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0'
 syslog_ident = 'postgres'
 silent_mode = on
 log_min_duration_statement = 0
 
 
 Here's my /etc/syslog.conf file:
 
 
 security.*/var/log/security
 auth.info;authpriv.info   /var/log/auth.log
 mail.info /var/log/maillog
 lpr.info  /var/log/lpd-errs
 ftp.info  /var/log/xferlog
 cron.*/var/log/cron
 *.=debug  /var/log/debug.log
 *.emerg   *
 # uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/ 
 console.log
 #console.info /var/log/console.log
 # uncomment this to enable logging of all log messages to /var/log/ 
 all.log
 # touch /var/log/all.log and chmod it to mode 600 before it will work
 #*.*  /var/log/all.log
 # uncomment this to enable logging to a remote loghost named loghost
 #*.*  @loghost
 # uncomment these if you're running inn
 # news.crit   /var/log/news/news.crit
 # news.err/var/log/news/news.err
 # news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice
 !startslip
 *.*   /var/log/slip.log
 !ppp
 *.*   /var/log/ppp.log
 LOCAL0.*  /var/log/pgsql

change that to

local0.*/var/log/pgsql.log

(lowercase, also a .log suffix is more standard)
make sure the /var/log/pgsql.log file exists (create it with vi),
and then change its permissions to smth like
-rw---  1 root  wheel  109274 30 Μαϊ 09:00 /var/log/pgsql.log

This works in my FreeBSD system, although with 7.4.*, i dont have any 8.3.1 
handy at the moment.
 
 
 
 I dont see any files show up in /var/log
 
 what am I doing wrong?
 
 Thanks in advance..
 
 /Kevin
 
 



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Re: [ADMIN] postgres, syslog and freeBSD

2008-05-30 Thread Medi Montaseri
did you kill -hup syslogd after you changed syslog.conf

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Achilleas Mantzios 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Στις Friday 30 May 2008 07:35:19 ο/η kevin kempter έγραψε:
  Hi list;
 
  I'm trying to get postgres  syslog to get along with no luck. I'm
  running freeBSD7 and postgres 8.3.1
 
  Here's my postgres setup
 
  log_destination = 'syslog'
  #logging_collector = off
  syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0'
  syslog_ident = 'postgres'
  silent_mode = on
  log_min_duration_statement = 0
 
 
  Here's my /etc/syslog.conf file:
 
 
  security.*/var/log/security
  auth.info;authpriv.info   /var/log/auth.log
  mail.info /var/log/maillog
  lpr.info  /var/log/lpd-errs
  ftp.info  /var/log/xferlog
  cron.*/var/log/cron
  *.=debug  /var/log/debug.log
  *.emerg   *
  # uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/
  console.log
  #console.info /var/log/console.log
  # uncomment this to enable logging of all log messages to /var/log/
  all.log
  # touch /var/log/all.log and chmod it to mode 600 before it will work
  #*.*  /var/log/all.log
  # uncomment this to enable logging to a remote loghost named loghost
  #*.*  @loghost
  # uncomment these if you're running inn
  # news.crit   /var/log/news/news.crit
  # news.err/var/log/news/news.err
  # news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice
  !startslip
  *.*   /var/log/slip.log
  !ppp
  *.*   /var/log/ppp.log
  LOCAL0.*  /var/log/pgsql

 change that to

 local0.*/var/log/pgsql.log

 (lowercase, also a .log suffix is more standard)
 make sure the /var/log/pgsql.log file exists (create it with vi),
 and then change its permissions to smth like
 -rw---  1 root  wheel  109274 30 Μαϊ 09:00 /var/log/pgsql.log

 This works in my FreeBSD system, although with 7.4.*, i dont have any 8.3.1
 handy at the moment.
 
 
 
  I dont see any files show up in /var/log
 
  what am I doing wrong?
 
  Thanks in advance..
 
  /Kevin
 
 



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Re: [ADMIN] postgres, syslog and freeBSD

2008-05-30 Thread CZUCZY Gergely
1) syslog.conf:
!postgres
*.* /var/log/postgresql.log

2) in your root shell:
touch /var/log/postgresql.log

3) don't forget newsyslog.conf

4) don't forget man syslog.conf


On Thu, 29 May 2008 22:35:19 -0600
kevin kempter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi list;
 
 I'm trying to get postgres  syslog to get along with no luck. I'm  
 running freeBSD7 and postgres 8.3.1
 
 Here's my postgres setup
 
 log_destination = 'syslog'
 #logging_collector = off
 syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0'
 syslog_ident = 'postgres'
 silent_mode = on
 log_min_duration_statement = 0
 
 
 Here's my /etc/syslog.conf file:
 
 
 security.*/var/log/security
 auth.info;authpriv.info   /var/log/auth.log
 mail.info /var/log/maillog
 lpr.info  /var/log/lpd-errs
 ftp.info  /var/log/xferlog
 cron.*/var/log/cron
 *.=debug  /var/log/debug.log
 *.emerg   *
 # uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/ 
 console.log
 #console.info /var/log/console.log
 # uncomment this to enable logging of all log messages to /var/log/ 
 all.log
 # touch /var/log/all.log and chmod it to mode 600 before it will work
 #*.*  /var/log/all.log
 # uncomment this to enable logging to a remote loghost named loghost
 #*.*  @loghost
 # uncomment these if you're running inn
 # news.crit   /var/log/news/news.crit
 # news.err/var/log/news/news.err
 # news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice
 !startslip
 *.*   /var/log/slip.log
 !ppp
 *.*   /var/log/ppp.log
 LOCAL0.*  /var/log/pgsql
 
 
 
 I dont see any files show up in /var/log
 
 what am I doing wrong?
 
 Thanks in advance..
 
 /Kevin
 
 


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[ADMIN] Migration from ASCII to UTF8

2008-05-30 Thread Campbell, Lance
I have a database that is in ASCII character encoding.  How do I go
about migrating it to UTF8?

 

Thanks,

 

Lance Campbell

Project Manager/Software Architect

Web Services at Public Affairs

University of Illinois

217.333.0382

http://webservices.uiuc.edu

My e-mail address has changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 



[ADMIN] initdb problem - ld.so.1

2008-05-30 Thread Terence Ng
Hi,

I am using Solaris 10 5/08 x86.  I have downloaded the 8.3 binary and
install in under /usr.

When I initdb by su postgres:
$ /usr/postgres/8.3-community/bin/64/initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data

output:
ld.so.1: initdb: fatal: libxslt.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory
Killed

What's going on?  How can I solve it?

Regards,
Terence


Re: [ADMIN] Migration from ASCII to UTF8

2008-05-30 Thread Ivo Rossacher
ASCII character encoding means that the database does not care about the 
encoding. So it is the responsibility of the programs you use, to use the 
correct encoding for your application. So you need to know the used encoding 
of your applications/data in your database. Then you can convert a text 
backup by recode, iconv or anything like that to utf8. You should be able to 
restore the corrected dump  into a utf8 database. If your applications used 
different encodings you have to fix this somehow by hand first.

In chapter 22 of the manual you can find more details about encodings.

Best regards
Ivo 

Am Freitag, 30. Mai 2008 15:45:25 schrieb Campbell, Lance:
 I have a database that is in ASCII character encoding.  How do I go
 about migrating it to UTF8?



 Thanks,



 Lance Campbell

 Project Manager/Software Architect

 Web Services at Public Affairs

 University of Illinois

 217.333.0382

 http://webservices.uiuc.edu

 My e-mail address has changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]



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[ADMIN] dobc install error on Windows

2008-05-30 Thread Igor Neyman
I'm trying to install 8.3.1 (binaries) on Win2003 using windows
installer (msi).
I'm runnning silent install with:
 
ADDLOCAL=server,psql,pgadmin,psqlodbc,nls
 
and I'm getting error message saying, that psqlodbc is not included in
the package.
 
When I exclude odbc:
 
ADDLOCAL=server,psql,pgadmin,nls
 
install works fine.
 
Is it true that odbc was excluded from 8.3.1 Windows distribution
package?
Should I change my scripts to run separate odbc install?
 
I didn't have this problem with 8.2: odbc was in cluded along with
everything else.
 
Thanks in advance,
Igor
 


[ADMIN] Using psql variables in scripts

2008-05-30 Thread Corey Horton
Would like to use variables in combination with files for common psql
queries, and am using PG 8.1.4.

 

For example

\set table_name pg_class

 

select * from pg_tables where tablename = ':table_name';

 

This returns no rows, even though the customer table exists.  It appears
to be search for a table called :table_name.

 

I can get this to work by doing the following:

 

\set table_name '\'pg_class\''

select * from pg_tables where tablename = :table_name;

 

 schemaname | tablename | tableowner | tablespace | hasindexes |
hasrules | hastriggers

+---++++
--+-

 pg_catalog | pg_class  | postgres   || t  | f
| f

 

 

Is there any way to do use variables within quotes?

 

Thanks,
Corey Horton



[ADMIN] odbc install error on Windows

2008-05-30 Thread Igor Neyman
 
I'm trying to install 8.3.1 (binaries) on Win2003 using windows
installer (msi).
I'm runnning silent install with:
 
ADDLOCAL=server,psql,pgadmin,psqlodbc,nls
 
and I'm getting error message saying, that psqlodbc is not included in
the package.
 
When I exclude odbc:
 
ADDLOCAL=server,psql,pgadmin,nls
 
install works fine.
 
Is it true that odbc was excluded from 8.3.1 Windows distribution
package?
Should I change my scripts to run separate odbc install?
 
I didn't have this problem with 8.2: odbc was in cluded along with
everything else.
 
Thanks in advance,
Igor
 


[ADMIN] End of Data test?

2008-05-30 Thread Carol Walter

Hello,

I'm backing up my databases on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays.  I'm  
writing a script to further automate this process.  Is there a way  
that I can test to make sure that pg_dump has actually backed up the  
entire system.  It seems  like there should be a return code or  
something that will tell me that there has been a normal completion.


Thanks,
Carol

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Re: [ADMIN] postgres, syslog and freeBSD

2008-05-30 Thread Alexander Vysokovskih

Hello,

kevin kempter wrote:

log_destination = 'syslog'
#logging_collector = off
syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0'
syslog_ident = 'postgres'
silent_mode = on
log_min_duration_statement = 0

Here's my /etc/syslog.conf file:

LOCAL0.*/var/log/pgsql

I dont see any files show up in /var/log

what am I doing wrong?
According to man-page of syslog.conf the name of facility is local0, 
but not LOCAL0:


  The facility describes the part of the system generating the message, 
and
   is one of the following keywords: auth, authpriv, console, cron, 
daemon,

   ftp, kern, lpr, mail, mark, news, ntp, security, syslog, user, uucp and
   local0 through local7.


Also it might be that syslog do not create this file, try to create it 
by self:

# touch /var/log/pgsql

With regards,
 Alexander Vysokovskih

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Re: [ADMIN] postgres, syslog and freeBSD

2008-05-30 Thread Alexander Vysokovskih

Hello,

kevin kempter wrote:

log_destination = 'syslog'
#logging_collector = off
syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0'
syslog_ident = 'postgres'
silent_mode = on
log_min_duration_statement = 0

Here's my /etc/syslog.conf file:

LOCAL0.*/var/log/pgsql

I dont see any files show up in /var/log

what am I doing wrong?
According to man-page of syslog.conf the name of facility is local0, 
but not LOCAL0:


   The facility describes the part of the system generating the 
message, and
is one of the following keywords: auth, authpriv, console, cron, 
daemon,

ftp, kern, lpr, mail, mark, news, ntp, security, syslog, user, uucp and
local0 through local7.


Also it might be that syslog do not create this file, try to create it 
by self:

# touch /var/log/pgsql

With regards,
  Alexander Vysokovskih


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[ADMIN] Norton 360 and missing pg_twophase, pg_tblspc

2008-05-30 Thread kevin Rowe

Hi there

I've had a serious problem at a client's site where we were called in to 
check our app based on postgres that wouldn't start.
After Norton 360 was installed, the source of the problem was located at 
the /data directory having two missing sub-directories

/pg_twophase
/pg_tblspc

how could these get removed? is it possible (or likely) for a crashing 
postmaster to trash these directories?
Assuming Norton has come down like an anvil on postgres, would it cause 
damage to the install like this?
Unfortunately, we can't say it definitely was Norton, because we got 
involved in issues there at the eleventh hour.


Any ideas guys? - We have hundreds of users running postgres on windows 
servers, if they are going to get fragged like this by Norton ,we need 
to warn them all ASAP.


Kevin

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