Re: [ADMIN] Failover question

2013-04-22 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:06:52 -0600, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: I currently have 2 servers running PostgreSQL 9.0 under FreeBSD configured with streaming replication. DB1 is the primary server, and DB2 is the replicated server, which is used for all of the read only queries. I am having

Re: [ADMIN] Possible database corruption - urgent

2013-01-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:35:48 -0700, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: snip What do you think you will gain by adding urgent to your subject line? What do you think you will gain by posting in HTML? -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [ADMIN] Possible database corruption - urgent

2013-01-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:35:48 -0700, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: snip What do you think you will gain by adding urgent to your subject line? What do you think you will gain by posting in HTML? -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [ADMIN] Migración

2013-01-03 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 16:24:17 +, Alcívar Arcos wrote: (Quoted in full) Postgres gentlemen good day, my question is very timely, I need to migrate a system from Informix, PostgreSQL, what are the advantages Postgres, and is there any tool to perform this migration? thanks Alcivar

Re: [ADMIN] Question about access to db server

2012-12-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:01:06 +, 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

Re: [ADMIN] migrate from PostgreSQL to Oracle

2012-10-25 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:29:29 +0200, jo wrote: Hi all, I'm working with same db schema in PostgreSQL and Oracle, We mainly work in PostgreSQL but sometimes we need to copy schema and data from pg to oracle because some our customers want to use oracle instead of pg. Thus I'm looking for

Re: [ADMIN] Pg 8.3.x on RHEL 6.3?

2012-10-10 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:15:15 -0700, Rosser Schwarz wrote: Fellow Pg Admins, At $work, we're preparing to move one of our Pg instances to new hardware, and considering an OS upgrade at the same time. The instance in question is running an older version of 8.3, which we'd like to upgrade to

Re: [ADMIN] Windows Services and Postgresql 9.1.3

2012-09-21 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:33:25 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Vincent Dautremont vinc...@searidgetech.com wrote: Hi, I'm using Postgresql 9.1.3 x64 on Windows 2008, I'm doing reliability tests and effects and consequences of a server power failure. If you're

Re: [ADMIN] Canot access PostgreSQL via psql -h (Vmware Fusion)

2012-08-24 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:35:54 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: No route to host doesn't have anything to do with whether there's anything listening on the target port ... what's more likely is that the OP mistyped the IP address, or else there's something wrong with his network layout, interface netmask

Re: [ADMIN] Unending DB migration

2012-04-20 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:27:38 -0700, ЇЯЅHAÐ wrote: Hi, We are trying to migrate from Postgres to Oracle, although our DB is gigantic but we started on Mar 14th 2012 its still running with an average of 40 records per day 400,000? That's pathetic. Why didn't you just use Postgres's copy

[ADMIN] Re: Update actions (with user name) inside PostgreSQL DB - any version on postgreSQL

2012-03-14 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:24:36 +0200, Khangelani Gama wrote: thanks, the issue we have is that we have many Linux users having root access into the system. So they're able to access the DB by just going in as su - superusername. If this user is able to make any updates inside the database it

Re: [ADMIN] table names seem identical

2012-03-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:39:48 -0500, Ray Stell wrote: how I can differentiate these: oamp=# \z public.c3* Access privileges Schema | Name | Type | Access privileges | Column access privileges

Re: [ADMIN] postgres backup ( logical using pg_dump) using AMANDA

2012-02-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:57:39 -0800, Dinesh Bhandary wrote: Hello, Has anyone done postgres logical backup (pg_dump) using Amanda ( Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver). So far I have seen plugin for wall logging method, but have not found any information on pg_dump. Is it

Re: [ADMIN] Is it possible to create a CHECK constraint for my use case?

2012-01-31 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:41:00 +0530, Gnanakumar wrote: Hi, Our Production server is running PostgreSQL v8.2.22 on CentOS5.2. We want to enable a specific CHECK constraint for our application table as explained below: There are 2 columns in the table: managertype numeric(1) and managerid

Re: [ADMIN] apt installation postgresql 8.3

2012-01-17 Thread Walter Hurry
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:24:41 +0300, David M. Gullever wrote: Question - user postgres If the admin is creating various postgresql users to work on different databases - is it advisable to create these as LINUX users so that they have a home directory for saving their scripts - and while we

Re: [ADMIN] Drop Schema from Postgres

2012-01-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:22:59 -0600, Kevin Grittner wrote: Tripura k_trip...@hotmail.com wrote: I am trying to drop a schema by writing the following line DROP SCHEMA xxx IF EXISTS The syntax requires: DROP SCHEMA IF EXISTS xxx; I have two issues here - 1 I am not sure how to

[ADMIN] Re: Convert / Migrate From Oracle 11gR2 To PostgreSQL ? On CentOS 5.7 x86_64

2011-12-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:13:10 -0500, Gene Poole wrote: This has to do with my personal home environment. I'm running Oracle 11gR2 DBMS with 4 instances using a single home directory. For each of the instances I'm using LVM file systems with 10 logical volumes defined (/dbmsu00 used for the

Re: [ADMIN] bad block problem

2011-12-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 21:22:05 +, jkells wrote: I do not have a recent backup of this database/table Any help would be appreciated. Here's some help: Next time you establish a database, set up and test the backup regime. We hear this tale of woe time and time again. I have *no* sympathy.

Re: [ADMIN] bad block problem

2011-12-07 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:20:30 +, jkells wrote: I am relying on identifying and correcting a bad block. Well, good luck with that. Most of the time you can't. Just check your disk, replace it if necessary, restore from your backup and roll forward. Oh, you can't do that, since you didn't

Re: [ADMIN] transaction error handling

2011-11-29 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 09:57:24 -0800, Kasia Tuszynska wrote: Hi Everybody, This is an architectural question. I am testing on Postgres 9.0.2 on windows and linux(suse, rhel, ubuntu) I want to make sure that I have the correct understanding of the Postgres architecture and would like to