[ADMIN] Scripts Importing and Authentication

2004-02-06 Thread Enio Schutt Junior
The Postgresql I use is configured to authenticate users via md5 (trust option in pg_hba.conf file) These days, after pg_dump'ing a database, and then reimporting it, Postgresql asks for the password of every user which is described by the \connect command in the script. I have used the

[ADMIN] Backup procedure

2003-08-14 Thread Enio Schutt Junior
Hi, According to some answers about the consistency of a database in a snapshot of a whole HD (excluding proc, tmp, and dev, of course)and without stopping the postmaster service, it is said it should work because it's like if the system has crashed, so restoring files from the HD and

[ADMIN] Backup routine

2003-08-10 Thread Enio Schutt Junior
Hi Here, where I work, the backups of the postgresql databases are being done the following way: There is a daily copy of nearly all the hd (excluding /tmp, /proc, /dev and so on) in which databases are and besides this there is also one script which makes the pg_dump of each one of the