Re: [GENERAL] Wal logs

2004-07-29 Thread Bruce Momjian
Point-in-time recovery coming in 7.5. You want instructions? --- Jason Tesser wrote: > how > > > -Original Message- > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thu 7/29/2004 7:56 PM > To: Jason Tesse

Re: [GENERAL] Wal logs

2004-07-29 Thread Jason Tesser
how -Original Message- From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 7/29/2004 7:56 PM To: Jason Tesser Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [GENERAL] Wal logs Jason Tesser wrote: > This question may seem trivial but how do I rebuild a database with the > wal lo

Re: [GENERAL] Rendezvous Name?

2004-07-29 Thread Jerry LeVan
Hi, I am running postgresql 7.3.4 with rendezvous enabled on MacOSX 10.3.4. I tried changing the rendezvous_name parameter in the postgresq.conf file to 'RendezvousAtMacJerry' and SIGHUP'ed the server. However the rendezvous name did not change, it is still the rendezvous name for my computer.

Re: [GENERAL] Wal logs

2004-07-29 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jason Tesser wrote: > This question may seem trivial but how do I rebuild a database with the > wal logs? You can't, but with 7.5 you can archive those logs and use them and a recent backup for point-in-time recovery. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] mirroring data on different drives?

2004-07-29 Thread Justin Clift
Steve wrote: Someone please please help me :-( Hi Steve, How much leverage over the design of the application do you have? Depending on the data that's being accessed, it may be worth looking into materialised views for some of the data. Very application dependent on course: http://www.varl

[GENERAL]

2004-07-29 Thread George Essig
"Chris Gamache" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I reload and attempt to access the database I find this > in the logs: > > ERROR: cache lookup failed for function 75769893 You should be OK as long as you have the dump file. If you haven't modifed any of the tsearch2 pg_ts_* tables, try and

[GENERAL] Wal logs

2004-07-29 Thread Jason Tesser
This question may seem trivial but how do I rebuild a database with the wal logs? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] tablespace spec

2004-07-29 Thread Jean-Luc Lachance
http://developer.postgresql.org Bruce Momjian wrote: David Parker wrote: Is there a spec/posting somewhere that more or less reflects how tablespaces are supposed to work in 7.5? I've found a lot of info on it by searching the archives, but I haven't found the posting that describes the basic func

Re: [GENERAL] please please please PLEASE help!

2004-07-29 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 11:41 am, Steve wrote: > Currently, the postgresql installation is on a single disk and so all > the tables have their data read from a single disk. Searching on > different tables by multiple users at the same time results in very slow > searches, as it's mainly dependant on

Re: [GENERAL] Table access method not behaving like Oracle (index vs sequential scan). Examples and stats provided.

2004-07-29 Thread Greg Stark
"Kevin Macdonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > QUERY 2: select sobjid from p1_nrn_road where v = 1 > > The plan is "Seq Scan on p1_nrn_road (cost=0.00..22158.54 rows=2 width=8)" Incidentally, you should send the whole plan. In general you should send all the information you have, not just the

Re: [GENERAL] mirroring data on different drives?

2004-07-29 Thread Jim Seymour
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone please please help me :-( [snip] Relax, Steve. The people helping-out on PostgreSQL mailing lists are in 24 timezones, have real jobs (for which they actually get paid), are all volunteers (for which they don't get paid), may be going to school, t

Re: [GENERAL] tablespace spec

2004-07-29 Thread Bruce Momjian
David Parker wrote: > Is there a spec/posting somewhere that more or less reflects how > tablespaces are supposed to work in 7.5? I've found a lot of info on it > by searching the archives, but I haven't found the posting that > describes the basic functionality. Have you looked at the development

Re: [GENERAL] mirroring data on different drives?

2004-07-29 Thread Bill Moran
Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone please please help me :-( > > Steve > > Steve wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been running postgres on my server for over a year now and the > > tables have become huge. I have 3 tables that have data over 10GB each > > and these tables are read very

[GENERAL] Backup questions

2004-07-29 Thread Jason Tesser
I have 2 questions. 1. What is the best way to back up a production box running Postgres nightly? 2. I thought the best way was to create a script that would use pg_dump to create a dump every night and then use restore if I need to. I did this but I am having a problem. Apparently there were

Re: [GENERAL] Question about linux filesystem and psql

2004-07-29 Thread Doug McNaught
Marcus Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to keep data safe with linux and psql after crash? > > The short description of the scenario is: > -> writing data with psql (using transactions), store process completed > -> user hits the reset button or kernel crashes (whatever left the

[GENERAL] Backup questions

2004-07-29 Thread Jason Tesser
I have 2 questions. 1. What is the best way to back up a production box running Postgres nightly? 2. I thought the best way was to create a script that would use pg_dump to create a dump every night and then use restore if I need to. I did this but I am having a problem. Apparently th

Re: [GENERAL] installation problem...

2004-07-29 Thread David Parker
There should be a config.log file in the directory where you ran configure: output in that file around the error is the first place to look. - DAP -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Wynett Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 5:37 PM To: '[E

Re: [GENERAL] Sql injection attacks

2004-07-29 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "B. van Ouwerkerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been reading this discussion and I asked myself whether you guys > remove/replace unwanted chars from strings you get from the web or > not.. The problem is not limited to strings you get from the web. Those st

[GENERAL] installation problem...

2004-07-29 Thread Jonathan Wynett
Hi: I'm installing postgresql 7.4.3 on Solaris and during ./configure I get the following error: checking types of arguments for accept()... configure: error: could not determine argument types Any ideas? Jon Wynett Senior Java Developer Research Systems, Inc. 303-413-3985 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

[GENERAL] please please please PLEASE help!

2004-07-29 Thread Steve
Hi, I've asked this question a couple of times before on this forum but no one seems to be nice enough to point me to the right direction or help me out with any information, if possible. Please help me out with this because this is a very serious issue for me and I need to learn more about thi

[GENERAL] Table access method not behaving like Oracle (index vs sequential scan). Examples and stats provided.

2004-07-29 Thread Kevin Macdonald
I expected Postgresql to use an indexed access method, but in certain cases it is using a sequential scan. Details are below: Table: P1_NRN_ROAD ( sobjidint8 primary key, vint8 not null, ordint2 not null) * The table contains 1.1 million rows. * Column 'v' exhibits very high sele

[GENERAL] pg storage system

2004-07-29 Thread labiol
Where I can find some documents about PostgreSQL storage system ? I think that ERL-M87-06.pdf is quite old and need some details. Perheps there is some comparison between postgres and postgresql strorage system. Thanks for any information. Kris ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] mirroring data on different drives?

2004-07-29 Thread Steve
Someone please please help me :-( Steve Steve wrote: Hi, I've been running postgres on my server for over a year now and the tables have become huge. I have 3 tables that have data over 10GB each and these tables are read very very frequently. In fact, heavy searches on these tables are expe

[GENERAL] Question about linux filesystem and psql

2004-07-29 Thread Marcus Wegner
Is it possible to keep data safe with linux and psql after crash? The short description of the scenario is: -> writing data with psql (using transactions), store process completed -> user hits the reset button or kernel crashes (whatever left the filesystem unsynced) -> filesystem is xfs or reise