[ADMIN] Installation problems RH5 PostgreSQL 8.3.1

2008-06-17 Thread Cliff Pratt
I'm trying to install PostgreSQL and the PostgreSQL libs on RHEL5 using rpms. I'm getting dependency problems: ># rpm --test -ivh postgresql-8.3.1-1PGDG.rhel4.x86_64.rpm >postgresql-libs-8.3.1-1PGDG.rhel4.x86_64.rpm warning: postgresql-8.3.1-1PGDG.rhel4.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature

Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] Encoding problem using pg_dumpall

2009-01-31 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Michael Monnerie wrote: > On Freitag 30 Januar 2009 Tom Lane wrote: >> The -Fc (and -Ft) formats are only designed to hold the contents of a >> single database; and pg_restore only knows how to restore into a >> single database. >> >> If you feel like fixing that,

[ADMIN] Postgres user with a shell of /bin/false

2009-05-21 Thread Cliff Pratt
I've browsed my history of the list, and the Internet for information regarding giving the unix 'postgres' user a shell of /bin/false, so that it cannot be logged into directly. It seems from my research that if I set the user's shell to /bin/false it will not prevent the running of postgres itself

[ADMIN] Tuning knobs

2010-06-24 Thread Cliff Pratt
I'm looking at tuning a PostgreSQL installation and I'm finding the documentation confusing. (I'll also add that tuning in general is a mystery to me!) What are the main 'knobs' that can be used to tune PostgreSQL? If someone can tell me that I can concentrate on learning about those those initial

Re: [ADMIN] Contents of WAL files

2011-10-15 Thread Cliff Pratt
I think that you misunderstand the basics of this list. There is not a bunch of people designated and waiting to answer your questions. It is a self-help list. People come here to ask questions and *hope* that someone, somewhere has an answer. Some people come here to help out by answering peoples'

Re: [ADMIN] Multiple servers with Postgresql

2012-09-23 Thread Cliff Pratt
e to 9.1 > from 8.4 and deactivate the older 32 bit machines. > > Is that better? > > I am willing to hire an expert who can advise us on performance and other > postgres fine tuning as we use this for mission critical operations. > > Thanks in advance. > > -John Coryat &

Fwd: [ADMIN] Postgre Eating Up Too Much RAM

2012-11-17 Thread Cliff Pratt
Sorry, I forgot to mail to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: Aaron Bono Date: Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:24 AM Subject: Fwd: [ADMIN] Postgre Eating Up Too Much RAM To: Postgres I replied to this a few days ago but forgot to include the group. It appears that increasing our s

Re: [ADMIN] Question about access to db server

2012-12-08 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 7:01 AM, T.T Le wrote: > Hello, > > We are running PostgresPlus 8.4AS on a linux system. I don't need to edit > the config files or to restart the clusters (the DBA will do that for us). I > only need access to help troubleshoot performance issues with the databases. > My qu

Re: [ADMIN] accidentally deleted data directory

2013-09-23 Thread Cliff Pratt
If pgstartup.log is empty that points at an issue with the configuration file. From memory, when you do an initdb it recreates the configuration files in the /var/lib/pg... directory. I would look at the main control file and the pg_hba.conf and try to start the database passing it the name of the