Re: [ADMIN] Pb migrating database from Postgres 8.1 to 8.4

2013-04-19 Thread Robert Treat
schema. Also, given you're making this leap, I'd strongly encourage you to try and migrate to Postgres 9.2 instead of 8.4, which is the next version to be EOL'd. It's unlikely the pain will be significantly worse than what you are going through now. Robert Treat conjecture: xzilla.net consulting

Re: [ADMIN] allow a user to see current_query in pg_stat_activity in 8.4

2012-12-26 Thread Robert Treat
an old project that dealt with this a little more fine grained, you might want to take a look at it: https://github.com/xzilla/secure_check_postgres/tree/master/sql It certainly needs updating for 9.2, but the concepts might still be useful. Robert Treat conjecture: xzilla.net consulting

Re: [ADMIN] NEED REPLICATION SOLUTION -POSTGRES 9.1

2012-11-28 Thread Robert Treat
work. Robert Treat play: xzilla.net work: omniti.com On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Gabriel Muñoz gabriel.mu...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using WAL, I follow this tutorial: http://blog.gomiso.com/2012/02/13/adventures-in-scaling-part-3-postgresql-streaming-replication/ It's work perfect for me

Re: [ADMIN] snapshot backup with WAL files

2011-08-01 Thread Robert Treat
to do, you can use the omnipitr scripts to manage this, see https://github.com/omniti-labs/omnipitr/ for details. Robert Treat play: xzilla.net work: omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [ADMIN] Backup hot-standby database.

2011-03-21 Thread Robert Treat
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Re: [ADMIN] Backup hot-standby database.

2011-03-15 Thread Robert Treat
to look into omnipitr, it can create filesystem level backups from a slave (not the same as a logical export, but it might do). Robert Treat play: xzilla.net work: omniti.com hiring: l42.org/lg -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription

Re: [ADMIN] pg_upgrade with link option

2011-03-11 Thread Robert Treat
and pgport for the second cluster, as they will both need to run simultaneously during the upgrade process. You have shown a lot of text above, but not the error message you got. Can I see that please? Agree with Bruce, showing us any error messages would be helpful. Robert Treat play

Re: [ADMIN] long running commits

2011-03-02 Thread Robert Treat
, and then tune it *down* (change, measure, asses, repeat). Won't work for every workload, but in general that's the way to go. Robert Treat play: xzilla.net work: omniti.com hiring: l42.org/Lg -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [ADMIN] WAL log shipping + Streaming replication PG 9.0 questions

2010-10-20 Thread Robert Treat
necessarily have to break your standby; rather it can happily sit around waiting for the next xlog to show up. If you can fix connectivity to the NAS, it will happily start replaying log files and catching up again. Robert Treat play: http://www.xzilla.net work: http://omniti.com/is/hiring

Re: [ADMIN] standby shutdown

2009-05-01 Thread Robert Treat
agressivly than you should be. I'd suggest you look into the %r option for pg_standby. HTH. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [ADMIN] Problem With using PERL::DBI in plperlu function

2009-02-23 Thread Robert Treat
a way to make it work (I'm hopeful that newer versions of the software involved might work, but haven't had any luck in the combinations I've tested so far). -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin

Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] Tool to converter plsql in pgplsql

2008-12-12 Thread Robert Treat
* :-) There are still a number of shortcomings, so depending on how large and/or complicated your systems are, it may or may not work for you, but it's certainly worth a look if you're planning a migration. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-admin

Re: [ADMIN] ident authentication

2008-11-29 Thread Robert Treat
when we login to the server, we login with our LDAP username and password. Thanks and Regards, Shilpa -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription

Re: [ADMIN] Is it safe to reset relfrozenxid without using vacuum?

2008-11-20 Thread Robert Treat
mess. -- Robert Treat Conjecture: http://www.xzilla.net Consulting: http://www.omniti.com -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

Re: [ADMIN] Best practice running a shared DB hosting server

2008-08-18 Thread Robert Treat
as a reference on the topic. HTH -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

Re: [ADMIN] Duplicate records in a table inspite of a primary key

2008-08-12 Thread Robert Treat
that might need to be done somewhere in there) -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

[ADMIN] pitr standby on slave with skewed time

2008-07-11 Thread Robert Treat
anything special with the postgresql setup, or if just setting the correct date on the machine is a safe enough operation that nothing else would need to be done (like re-doing the base backup). Any thoughts? -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL -- Sent via

Re: [ADMIN] [Fwd: performance: view or function?]

2008-05-08 Thread Robert Treat
, all of this is pretty minimal anyway, so I'd probably recommend just doing it in whichever way you find most comfortable, and worry about optimizing things later if you find it's too slow. -- Robert Treat http://www.omniti.com Internet Scalability Consulting -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing

Re: [ADMIN] migration of 7.4 to 8.1

2008-03-12 Thread Robert Treat
going stright to 8.3. 8.1 is a few years old, and 8.3 provides a number of features and improvement you'll benefit from. Unless you have a strong reason to do otherwise, go to 8.3. HTH. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL -- Sent via pgsql-admin

Re: [ADMIN] Encoding problems with migration from 8.0.14 to 8.3.0 on Windows

2008-03-12 Thread Robert Treat
client_encoding=WIN1250; SET pagila=# insert into x (r) values ('Daniel Brühl'); INSERT 0 1 pagila=# insert into x (r) values ('Daniel Bruehl'); INSERT 0 1 pagila=# select * from x; r --- Daniel Brühl Daniel Bruehl (2 rows) -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware

Re: [ADMIN] how is pitr replay interruption time determined?

2007-08-29 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 28 August 2007 18:44, Simon Riggs wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 17:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some way to force checkpoints on a db doing wal replay? No, it's hardwired to do it when it sees a checkpoint record in the WAL stream

Re: [ADMIN] how is pitr replay interruption time determined?

2007-08-28 Thread Robert Treat
On Monday 27 August 2007 19:17, Tom Lane wrote: Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LOG: database system was interrupted while in recovery at log time 2007-07-30 19:17:37 EDT I am curious how this date is determined by postgres/pitr? It's the update timestamp in pg_control, which

[ADMIN] how is pitr replay interruption time determined?

2007-08-27 Thread Robert Treat
to catch up 5 hours later :-).But it would be good to be able to predetermine that kind of thing. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free

Re: [ADMIN] vacuum questions

2007-08-22 Thread Robert Treat
approach, rather than the bazooka method your using now) The downside is that 7.4's pg_autovacuum is a little more complex than what you'll find in more recent versions of postgres, but if you're having trouble getting a handle on a good vacuum scheme, it might be worth it. -- Robert Treat

Re: [ADMIN] How to move a tablespace?

2007-06-22 Thread Robert Treat
the disk systems out underneath, but maintain the same mountpoint, and not let the db care about the difference. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL Training?

2007-05-31 Thread Robert Treat
be nice to end up with a cert to show for all the monies spent. :) SRA created a program back in the 7.4 days (I'm certified woohoo!), though I'm not sure it is still activly offered in the USA (I believe it is in Japan though). HTH -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache

Re: [ADMIN] Finding time in WAL logs

2007-04-26 Thread Robert Treat
... http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/runtime-config-logging.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-LOGGING-WHAT -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free

Re: [ADMIN] Postgresql Help

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Treat
that you keep a copy of your 7.1 databases running until your done testing, and make sure to test your applications thoroughly. Also don't forget that any applications /drivers/ libraries that are built against 7.1 should be updated / recompiled against newer versions as well. HTH. -- Robert

Re: [ADMIN] Checking a size of a given database

2007-04-22 Thread Robert Treat
database size, or match things up manually on disk with select oid,datname from pg_database. -- Robert Treat Database Architect http://www.omniti.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [ADMIN] Return data from function

2007-04-22 Thread Robert Treat
, but if you're sure a function is the way to go, see the docs on set returning functions: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/xfunc-sql.html#XFUNC-SQL-TABLE-FUNCTIONS -- Robert Treat Database Architect http://www.omniti.com/ ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] Auto vacuum

2007-04-22 Thread Robert Treat
of the config files since these were changed? Try doing a select * from pg_settings where name ~ 'autovacuum' to see what your db is currently using. -- Robert Treat Database Architect http://www.omniti.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain

Re: [ADMIN] Where are aliases stored?

2007-04-11 Thread Robert Treat
pg_catalog.pg_views.definition. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [ADMIN] Restoring single database from an export dump of a cluster

2007-04-11 Thread Robert Treat
(and do with our servers @ omniti) is to have a script that does a pg_dumpall -g for the global objects and then individual pg_dump -Fc's for each database in the cluster. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] Advice on migration without down-time

2007-04-11 Thread Robert Treat
a slave DBMS could limit the down-time. Using slony is another option, though if your unfamiliar it certainly comes with more complexity than the first solution. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] Finding out free space?

2006-11-14 Thread Robert Treat
? http://archives.postgresql.org !DSPAM:37,4559da5e40419901994390! -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [ADMIN] Any tools to compare db's

2006-01-11 Thread Robert Treat
between two databases. As I recall, if you have different schema it just blows up. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [ADMIN] [DOCS] technical papers

2006-01-07 Thread Robert Treat
(; http://www.postgresql.org/about/history). those should bring back some relevant ideas though the code is probably written from that time. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5

Re: [ADMIN] how do you automate database backups?

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Treat
but are there built-in features of the database itself that can implement automated backups? It's not built into the database, you need some function of the os to run a script that makes use of pg_dump. In 'nix you can use cron, in winders I believe you can use 'task scheduler'. Robert Treat

Re: [ADMIN] Starten Server / SCO OpenServer6 / PostgreSQL 8.0.3

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Treat
google the relevant keywords if you want to learn more. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum Verbose output

2005-11-02 Thread Robert Treat
will still help a lot since growing the files will be in your 1 process connection timeline. taken from an interesting post at http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jkshah?anchor=postgres_what_needs_to_be -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

Re: [ADMIN] Preventing database access (including valid users in

2005-09-27 Thread Robert Treat
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Re: [ADMIN] Is pgdump_all == pg_dumpall -g + pg_dump of individual databases ?

2005-09-23 Thread Robert Treat
sufficient to recreate the entire database ? Assuming your version of pg_dump dumps binary data with an -Fc dump, then yes. (Check the docs if you want to verify) -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] Disk Access Question

2005-09-21 Thread Robert Treat
try and resolve some i/o issues. AFAIK unless your actually doing something,it wont access your data files at all. Note that something is pretty wide here, insert/update/vacuum/analyze and even select will cause file access but otherwise it wont. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp

Re: [ADMIN] Stupid question about triggers

2005-09-10 Thread Robert Treat
referential integrity your database once had with this data. If you really are going to be deleting data that has a bunch of related data in other tables, istm that that should be handled by some foriegn keys, so I'm a bit suspicious of your db schema based on this email. Just my .02. -- Robert

Re: [ADMIN] VACUMM problem

2005-09-03 Thread Robert Treat
. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [ADMIN] Change auto-commit?

2005-05-11 Thread Robert Treat
something from scratch, just issue begins at the start of each connection. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http

Re: [ADMIN] FW: Admin Tool to Send Me Email

2005-04-19 Thread Robert Treat
the second option, if you want something fancier you could look at http://nagios.sourceforge.net. HTH. Robert Treat On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 17:51, Garris, Nicole wrote: Yes, I looked at pgMail, thinking I could put a trigger on some system table(s). PgMail is a function which produces an e-mail

Re: [ADMIN] about uppercase

2004-12-28 Thread Robert Treat
On Monday 27 December 2004 22:14, Leo Liou wrote: (B Hello, I'm a newbie at using Postgresql. (B I have a huge problem at using uppercase and lowercase. (B (B My question is if there is any possible way to set (B my Postgresql7.4.3 to uppercase? (B I mean if it's possible to set the DB

Re: [ADMIN] Any tools to compare db's

2004-12-21 Thread Robert Treat
between two databases. As I recall, if you have different schema it just blows up. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [ADMIN] indexes are not working for

2004-10-22 Thread Robert Treat
retrieving 323 rows from at best 1323 rows in the table, so the database figures it can grab all of the records much faster by just doing a seq scan on the table. Try adding some more data to the table and/or selecting a specific value and you'll see your index get used. -- Robert Treat

Re: [ADMIN] How to drop a database cluster?

2004-10-21 Thread Robert Treat
databases from a system? If so, remove whatever directory PGDATA is set to and then run initdb on the new PGDATA directory. Be aware that this is basically like starting from scratch, you will lose all of your information. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

Re: [ADMIN] data not getting inserted into table

2004-10-21 Thread Robert Treat
message and version information. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ADMIN] replication using WAL archives

2004-10-21 Thread Robert Treat
to produce SQL would that be feasible? Presumably pg does something like this internally for rollforward recovery, so I guess it would be possible. If you want real SQL, you'll need to turn on SQL logging in postgresql.conf. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres setup question

2004-09-21 Thread Robert Treat
the template1 database? I want to make sure the normal users cannot edit the template1 database. I usually hate posts like this, but I am pretty sure phppgadmin will do what you want. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end

Re: [ADMIN] The link for the Beta 2 Windows version of 8.0 is not working

2004-09-21 Thread Robert Treat
the latest build. Question: is this a real windows version? Not cygwin? it is a native version for windows, not cygwin. (they are both real, since they both exist, but i suspect this is just a language barrier issue). -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

Re: [ADMIN] adduser postgres

2004-09-21 Thread Robert Treat
not enter any password while adding the user. Could some body help me with this? You should be able to su to the postgres user from root. Otherwise I'd have to point you to man adduser since that's an OS problem you have. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware

Re: [ADMIN] windows docs?

2004-09-21 Thread Robert Treat
a single question in the main postgresql pointing to both of the other faqs... anyone have a preference? -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire

Re: [ADMIN] windows docs?

2004-09-21 Thread Robert Treat
, with a section on general stuff, cygwiun stuff, and native stuff. Both projects could then just link to that faq. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase

Re: [ADMIN] Pseudo-Off-topic-survey: Opinions about future of

2004-08-17 Thread Robert Treat
that they are actually making worse by porting all their apps to ingres). Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate

Re: [ADMIN] users connected

2004-07-19 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 10:42, Cardoso Patrick wrote: Hi, Is it possible to know the number of users connected to a database ? Regards select * from pg_stat_activity; Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

Re: [ADMIN] Slony NG

2004-07-15 Thread Robert Treat
that there is a slony mailing list at http://gborg.postgresql.org/mailman/listinfo/slony1-general right? Does that not serve your purposes? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1

Re: [ADMIN] table not shown

2004-06-15 Thread Robert Treat
do a vacuum full on template1 and see if it reappears. Robert Treat On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 13:10, Lee Wu wrote: Hi Duane, It seems it is not: mxl=# show search_path; search_path -- $user,public (1 row) mxl=# select current_schema(), current_user

Re: [ADMIN] Corrupted or deleted pg_tables

2004-06-11 Thread Robert Treat
anyway to extract data and reconstruct a new database? We tried pg_dump but had a host of errors. My guess is that you have hit xid wrap around. Try vacuuming full template1 and see if your info starts to reappear. Also watch to see if it tells you some other db's need vacuum. Robert Treat

Re: [ADMIN] no ftp

2004-06-03 Thread Robert Treat
at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pgsql/ which has the main packages on it. Robert Treat On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 15:35, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 16:44:30 -0700, Mark Espinoza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To whom it may concern, I really had no idea who to send my email

Re: [ADMIN] Clustering Postgres

2004-05-26 Thread Robert Treat
benchmarks on the system, check the archives or the osdl site for more info on getting these up and running. Robert Treat On Monday 24 May 2004 09:59, Greg Spiegelberg wrote: Robert, I am currently evaluating PolyServe Matrix Server which is a clustering solution including a clustered file

Re: [ADMIN] database design tools.

2004-05-26 Thread Robert Treat
start here: http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/GUITools Robert Treat On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 22:18, Paul Gimpelj wrote: hi, I was wondering if someone can give me some advice. I presently use pgaccess tcl based. But I would prefer a c or c++ client server admin , somewhat like

Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf

2004-05-25 Thread Robert Treat
I am thinking that the entry for this ip has an issue with the username and/or database specified in the line (or maybe conflicting entries?) Would you mind posting your complete pg_hba.conf to the list? Robert Treat On Tuesday 25 May 2004 10:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes sir, did

Re: [ADMIN] pgplsql cookbook

2004-05-22 Thread Robert Treat
or available as a pdf? Unfortunately neither. I've tried to get in contact with the sites owner since I would be happy to add the content to techdocs, but haven't been successful... anyone know how to get in contact with him? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware

Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf

2004-05-21 Thread Robert Treat
connecting from) HTH Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [ADMIN] Clustering Postgres

2004-05-21 Thread Robert Treat
not heard of any reports on these lists of how well it works. If you (or anyone else) gives it a spin please try to post an account to the list and/or if you send me the info it could probably make its way on to techdocs. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware

Re: [ADMIN] My connection only - Disable Trigger

2004-05-21 Thread Robert Treat
the trigger function check for the CURRENT_USER setting and then act accordingly. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf

2004-05-21 Thread Robert Treat
reported in the logs of type FATAL, can you send us that? Robert Treat On Friday 21 May 2004 17:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Robert! I did that as well and still didn't work. Any other ideas? -Original Message- From: Robert Treat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 21

Re: [ADMIN] To instal phpPgAdmin

2004-05-20 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 00:44, darshan patel wrote: I had instal postgresql on suse Linux,now i want to Instal phpPgAdmin so what is the procedure Go to http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/?page=download unpack the source code and read the INSTALL file. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter

Re: [ADMIN] Tool to compare db schemas?

2004-05-05 Thread Robert Treat
/projdisplay.php If you run across any others please lmk, I think I'm going to need this for a project in the next few days. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you

Re: [ADMIN] Maximum Number Tables

2004-04-15 Thread Robert Treat
you plan on using them that makes the difference. And even then it's dependent on your hardware more than PostgreSQL itself. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill

Re: [ADMIN] Postgresql Backup Dump

2004-04-15 Thread Robert Treat
with problem dumps (though it will be slower) Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's

Re: [ADMIN] Location of a new column

2004-04-12 Thread Robert Treat
is available in 7.5. At least I seem to remember some (Chris K-L) posting a patch and it getting committed. You could check the developers docs to verify I suppose. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] Problem

2004-04-06 Thread Robert Treat
like this is not what you want, you need to modify your pg_hba.conf file and change the settings as appropriate. (See comments in the file or docs for specifics on the different options) Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end

Re: [ADMIN] License for PostgreSQL for commercial purpose

2004-03-29 Thread Robert Treat
/Makefile?rev=1.65content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup Yep. IMHO this is more do to a political agenda they are trying to push than any true basis in legal fact, as again, they could easily contact this project for a letter of clarification if their goal was to protect themselves legally. Robert Treat

Re: [ADMIN] Upgrading 7.2.4 to 7.4.1

2004-02-21 Thread Robert Treat
You might get better results using 7.4's pg_dump against the 7.2 database... worth a try anyway. Robert Treat On Monday 16 February 2004 07:59, Jarmo Järvenpää wrote: Dear all, I've got an old 7.2.4 DB which I hoped to upgrade to 7.4.1. The old syntax used for creating tables had lines like

Re: [ADMIN] Panic involving a LC_COLLATE issue

2004-02-21 Thread Robert Treat
case, but still a pretty serious one. You should talk to your webhost about getting on 7.3.5 asap. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [ADMIN] PL/pgSQL instalLation problem ??

2004-02-21 Thread Robert Treat
the shell, not from inside the database, Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes

Re: [ADMIN] Selects query inside function must read commited data

2004-01-26 Thread Robert Treat
the core developers to change this behavior. Robert Treat On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 13:09, Andrew Biagioni wrote: In the v7.3 docs: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/transaction-iso.html#XACT -READ-COMMITTED http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/transaction-iso.html#XAC T

Re: [ADMIN] Can't connect to phppgadmin

2004-01-26 Thread Robert Treat
(follow-ups should go to pgsql-php which is at least slightly on topic) You need to either find an rpm for suse that gives postgresql support to php (on red-hat systems the rpm is php-pgsql iirc), or recompile your php from source with postgresql support. Robert Treat On Sun, 2004-01-25

Re: [ADMIN] Migration from M$ SQL

2004-01-05 Thread Robert Treat
terribly compatible, and I think there are quirks in how the two implementations actually work, so you'll want to test this as well. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't

Re: [ADMIN] Auto commit Off how will it effect us ?

2003-12-08 Thread Robert Treat
for folks to do a test installation and test there apps out just to be on the safe side. Robert Treat On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 03:54, Sai Hertz And Control Systems wrote: Dear all , Permit me to gain some of your most valuable knowledge ... Our intrAnet server has the following spec

Re: [ADMIN] Backup/Recovery (BR) question

2003-11-21 Thread Robert Treat
should really either shut down the database or get LVM going. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your

Re: [ADMIN] Backup/Recovery (BR) question

2003-11-20 Thread Robert Treat
do // drop database DB1 // the first database will drop, though you might want to verify if it is really damaged. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our

Re: [ADMIN] Access with a management tool

2003-10-24 Thread Robert Treat
if it's a pg_hba issue, he should get a FATAL authentication failed-ish message. I'd check for tcpip_socket=true in postgresql.conf first. Robert Treat On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 11:00, Oliver Scheit wrote: edit your pg_hba.conf regards, Oli -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Per

Re: [ADMIN] Oracle takes the wraps off SME database

2003-10-10 Thread Robert Treat
://theregister.co.uk/content/53/33299.html Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [ADMIN] Question about DB VACUUM

2003-10-02 Thread Robert Treat
be seeing how many pages are used up after each add/delete/vacuum cycle. One other thing to check on is if you have an indexes involved in the process, you may get some index growth issues that will require periodic indexing. HTH, Robert Treat * I'm pretty sure those aren't the exact names

Re: [ADMIN] steps to ensure referential integrity

2003-09-24 Thread Robert Treat
by id having count(*) 1; and actually just running that would allow you to skip the check from above. HTH Robert Treat psql database -Uuser -c 'select id,count(*) from table gropu by id' | grep -v '1$'; Alex Turner -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

Re: [ADMIN] initdb problem

2003-09-19 Thread Robert Treat
application so I really do not know what am I doing and this could be a really stupid mistake, please be gentle Many thanks for your assistance. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/creating-cluster.html Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware

Re: [ADMIN] YOUR SITES SEARCH FEATURE DOES NOT WORK!

2003-09-05 Thread Robert Treat
Personally I'd like to see effort go into getting fts.postgresql.org back up and going; I've always had better results searching their. Robert Treat On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 14:38, Marc G. Fournier wrote: k, try the search engine now ... I just found a 'missing index' on one of the critical

Re: [ADMIN] Query to slow

2003-08-25 Thread Robert Treat
.estado_cliente , ftcofi00.grupo_faturamento ) and it still taking almost 4 min to return. Does anyone have a hint to give me to make it faster ? Make sure you have run vacuum analyze on your database, if it is still slow post explain analyze query to pgsql-performance mailing list Robert Treat -- Build

Re: [ADMIN] postgres hab modification without restarting

2003-08-25 Thread Robert Treat
://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/interactive/runtime-config.html Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister

Re: [ADMIN] a problem

2003-08-25 Thread Robert Treat
a postgres database can grow? I have huge data to store. real big, most likely limited by your OS. i think the largest reported is like 4TB Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1

Re: [ADMIN] pg_autovacuum ?

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Treat
. It's on the 7.4 branch, not on the 7.3 branch, but the authors mentioned that at least initially it would run against 7.3. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9

Re: [ADMIN] 7.3.4 RPM ready for RH 7.1 and RH 7.2

2003-07-31 Thread Robert Treat
Hey guys, one of my servers is running Red Hat 7.3, what's my best bet for upgrading? Rebuild from postgresql-7.3.4-1PGDG.src.rpm? Rebuild from postgresql-7.3.4-1PGDG.rh73.src.rpm in the aurora directory? Will someone be submitting a 73 rpm for redhat 7.3 / i386 ? THanks in advance, Robert Treat

Re: [ADMIN] translate referential integrity violation

2003-07-29 Thread Robert Treat
language. though i didn't notice any in the source code, it is possible that someone has already done this, check out http://pgsqlbr.querencialivre.rs.gov.br/ for more info. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast

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