On Tuesday 04 March 2008, libra dba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How else can i replicate the wal_files? ( i don't want to user common
file system ,,, NFS,,, etc.)?
scp
Another thing which i want to ask is that if we are generating archives
every 1 minute. then what happens to the data which
On Thursday 28 February 2008, John Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've heard that upgrading to 8.2 or 8.3 will allow me to setup a
timeout value for WAL log creation, but upgrading at this time is not an
option for various reasons.
Any insight that you can provide will be greatly
On Thursday 28 February 2008, Erik Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or, even simpler:
SELECT pg_switch_xlog();
The original poster is using 8.1.
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On Friday 08 February 2008, Hua-Ying Ling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to install postgresql in a custom directory. when I run rpm
--prefix I'm getting a package is not relocatable error. Suggestions on
how do I get around this?
Build your own package, or install from source.
On Thursday 24 January 2008, Nathan Wilhelmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello - Typically case of a software guy needing to spec hardware for a
new DB server. Further typified case of not knowing exact amount of data
and I/O patterns. So if you were to spec a disk system for a new general
On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Marten Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to automate some postgresql scripts, but I cannot find a way
to pass a password directly to commands like pg_dump psql and so on.
Even a
echo password | psql
doesn't work, the password prompt of psql
On Thursday 08 November 2007, Albe Laurenz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Can you give me a good reason why?
Try re-reading the instructions on backup in the manual.
I know them well. That is why I ask if this questionable procedure
could lead to damage.
You cannot backup a live database with a
On Sunday 21 October 2007, Kevin Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heh. And as Tom points out downthread, that shortcut probably doesn't
gain anything in the long run.
Considering how expensive updates are in PostgreSQL, I suspect that isn't
true.
However, the current behaviour does seem to be
On Thursday 18 October 2007, Laurent ROCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am quite surprised I could not find a way to automatically reset the
value of a sequence for all my tables.
Of course, I can write:
SELECT setval('serial', max(id)) FROM distributorsBut if I reload data
into all my
On Tuesday 16 October 2007, ctorres [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I doing a simple insert into a table re Perl/DBI
INSERT INTO party (party_id, party_type_id, description, status_id)
VALUES ($partyId, 'PERSON', 'Initial
Import','PARTY_ENABLED')
and I'm
On Friday 12 October 2007, wido [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi! but what happens when somebody sent you a dump file and you can't
convert the tables? all i have is a 116MB sql file, and i won't
convert it by hand :P
Restore it into MySQL and then extract it in whatever form you like. Free
On Friday 12 October 2007, Akash Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We had a crash of one of our db systems last night. After doing a fsck
of he file system and getting the db backup, we're getting a lot of these
messages in our logs. The DB will also occasionally crash now.
Oct 12 07:40:16
On Thursday 11 October 2007, Carlos H. Reimer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don´t know but apparently the problem is not an issue in the client, as
I´m able to connect and do the select * in other 8.2.4 servers.
Don´t know what kind of tests I should do to help fixing this problem.
Any
On Monday 01 October 2007, Mike Charnoky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is strange... count(*) operations over a period of one day's worth
of data now take ~1-2 minutes to run or ~40 minutes. It seems that the
first time the data is queried it takes about 40 minutes. If I try the
query again,
On Monday 01 October 2007, Gauthier, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm going to move from v7.4.13 to v8.2.0 (suse-64). I have 2
pre-existing DBs. Do I need to convert or port them to v8 in any way
after I start up with a v8 postmaster?
All major version upgrades require a dump and reload.
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 10:30, Ken Logan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When we try to drop the table we get the error:
ERROR: member_pkey is an index
You have to remove the table from it's Slony set before you can drop it.
Slony does some hackish things to subscriber tables that make them
On Friday 14 September 2007, Ketema Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
as expected I can do select * from states and get everything out of
the child table as well. What I can't do is create a FK to the
states table and have it look in the child table as well. Is this on
purpose? Is it possible
On Monday 27 August 2007 05:21, Sanjay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wondering why it is not using the index, which would have
been
automatically created for the primary key.
Because you not only have just one row in the whole table, 100% of them will
match the query. In short, one page fetch for a
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 14:29, Roderick A. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
In the mean time if the script gets triggered again and the first
instance isn't finished the second needs to not be able to select those
records already being handled.
select for update won't do that. It will sit
On Thursday 24 May 2007 11:31, bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Oliver.
Thanks for the reply.
I was hoping that there was/is a single cmd that I could use at the
beginning of the sql file, that would allow all the tables that are
created to be created using the OID. Kind of a
set
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 10:57, Michael Nolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can WAL files be used to create/update a warm standby on a different
minor version of PostgreSQL (eg, using files from a server running 8.2.3
on an 8.2.4 server, or vice-versa?)
I suspect this is a FAQ, but I didn't see
On Friday 06 April 2007 13:17, Klaas Dellschaft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
I'm currently trying to copy two large files (1.6 GB and 3.5 GB) with a
COPY FROM into my database. But I'm waiting for the completion of this
job since more than 24h. I'm working under Linux and with top I can
see
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 04:17, Fuzzygoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I've searched the forums and found people with similar problems but
not much
on a way to remedy it. I did try using iconv which was suggested in a
thread
but it returned an error saying even the 22GB file was too large to
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 14:23, Dhaval Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On the reverse, can I indicate to a db in recovery mode to start
consuming WAL Files from a particular number?
The recovery process is documented at
On Thursday 08 March 2007 08:15, Ted Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They would have satisfied the terms of their contract
if, after a few years, and hundreds of man-years, they walked away
without delivering anything. That tragedy cost Canada hundreds of
millions, if not billions, of dollars
Does anyone have anything specifically good or bad to say about the LSI
MegaRaid 8480e, in particular RAID-10 performance, and performance and
stability under Linux or any problems with the battery-backed cache option?
I'm building a new database server and planning to hook one of these up to
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 08:12, Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ psql -h localhost -U postgres aesi
Welcome to psql 8.1.4, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help
On Thursday 15 February 2007 10:30, RPK [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Rollback will just rollback to last step (if I am right), but is there a
way to bring the table to a certain TimeStamp.
You can use a PITR backup to restore a fresh cluster to a time just before
your update. If you are not
On Thursday 15 February 2007 11:29, Shelby Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
===
2. What is compared here - Apples and Oranges
The setups are as standard as can be. The only principle guiding the
installation of all the software is simplicity. No
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 11:35, Laura McCord
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is a question that I am stumped on:
Does postgres even recognize last_inserted() as mysql does? I notice
that the function fails on that line.
Not, that's just a MySQL function. You could, however, look for the
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 09:32, Jeff Amiel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
We just switched from 'pg_dumpall to pg_dump -format=c for our nightly
backups. I wanted to experiment with restoring a single table (if the
need should ever arise) from the dump file.
I also notice that the indexes are
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 09:38, John McCawley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have a table with a few million rows which has inserts performed on it
roughly 50 or so times a minute. It contains a heavily-queried column
that I would like to add an index to, but I am concerned about a
deadlock
Is there some (easy !) way to install just the minimum parts of
PostgreSQL I need on the web server?
In a sane distribution, you would just do something like yum install
php php-pgsql, and that would pull in whatever bits of PostgreSQL are
required (shared libraries).
--
It's not a war on
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 20:57, bala [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
'script.sh' contains
PGUSER=postgres pg_dumpall /path/to/backup_date.sql
Running the script using crond creates the 0 byte files.
But , If i run the script in console , it creates the file with
content.
Any suggestion
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 13:08, Rich Shepard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK. I'll go back there (which is where I started this journey). I
don't know how to run ldd on a perl script.
It'll be whatever version the DBD::Pg module is compiled to use. Just
rebuilding and installing an
On Monday 22 January 2007 07:04, Michael Fuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can pass literal string arguments to a trigger function. See
the CREATE TRIGGER documentation and, for PL/pgSQL, TG_ARGV and
TG_NARGS. For C see Writing Trigger Functions in C; search for
tgnargs and tgargs.
On Sunday 21 January 2007 15:56, gustavo halperin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First, thank you for your answers about my problem with the function
'CREATE TRIGGER',
I have another question about triggers, how can I pass arguments ?? I
read about some struct TriggerData *CurrentTriggerData, but I
On Thursday 18 January 2007 15:54, Steve Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone else get spam from EnterpriseDB today, talking about
Postgresql Support Services?
yep. You really would think that even the marketing weenies might know
better by now.
Hopefully whoever is responsible is
On Thursday 18 January 2007 16:44, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Harsh, aren't we?
Rich and Garland weren't peddling pr0n or a pump-and-dump stock
scam. The fact that they've lost some (a lot of?) respect from
potential customers will be pain enough.
Spam is spam. I don't care what
On Tuesday 16 January 2007 10:10, Lenorovitz, Joel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings,
I am trying to work with a TEMP TABLE within a plpgsql function and I
was wondering if anyone can explain why the function below, which is
fine syntactically, will work as expected the first time it is
On Thursday 07 December 2006 08:38, Angva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
three commands. For instance I have a hunch that creating the indexes
first (as I do now) could slow down the clustering - perhaps the row
locations in the indexes all have to be updated as the cluster command
shifts their
On Friday 10 November 2006 08:37, Alex Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sure thing, I hope it's as simple as user error!
#!/bin/sh
export DATE=`date +%Y%m%d`
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump -Upostgres -hlocalhost trend
/backup/trend.dump.$DATE
Thats pretty much it repeated for each database.
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 22:59, surabhi.ahuja
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am using postgresql 8.0.0
i have 4 tables a, b, c, d.
with foreign key constraints.
between table b and a
between c and b
and between d and c
I am doing delete from a
delete from a is taking so long . So i just
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 11:48, Merlin Moncure [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
you are talking about the gigabyte i-ram. in the database world, you
can achieve same thing (actually better) by sticking those ram sticks
directly on the motherboard assuming you are in a 64 bit environment
and the
On Monday 30 October 2006 17:17, Hakka Ville [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Sirs,
I have to setup shared web-hosting and I think of limiting connections to
PostgreSQL cluster on database/user basis.
Any idea how to do that ?
I simply don't want situation when single user (on of hundreds)
On Thursday 26 October 2006 12:51, Glen Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why would very large text values effect the speed of a seq scan that
does not actually evaluate those values?
Seq scan reads the whole table. The limiting factor is the size of the
table on disk.
--
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On Thursday 26 October 2006 14:04, km [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
so that when the user logis in and accesses a database via psql he should
be able to land into his schema. how do i do that ? any tips ?
alter role rolename set search_path=path1[,path2...];
--
Ginsberg's Theorem:
1) You can't
On Thursday 28 September 2006 14:58, Jack Orenstein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How does versioning work for the index?
- The update above does not update the index key. Does the index get
updated at all?
Yes, it does.
- If not, then how can an index lookup return the correct version of
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 14:49, Dennis Reaves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any suggestion on trying to resolve this? I can't seem to find anything
that helps.
a) install an operating system that isn't 5 years old.
or b) try rebuilding packages from the source RPM.
or c) install from source.
On Saturday 01 July 2006 09:08, Alain Roger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it works but i get all fields from my accounts table.
So how can i get only login and status ?
Define a composite type that includes only those fields and return SETOF
that_new_type instead of SETOF accounts.
Or select
On Thursday 29 June 2006 09:08, Jasbinder Bali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in my bash script where and how do i specify the database connection
parameters
man psql
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On Wednesday 14 June 2006 13:24, Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One way it would be unequal is if you can do your DELETE as a single
query and the insert operation as using a single large COPY FROM.
This is definitely the fastest way to update tens of thousands of rows if
you know they
On Saturday 10 June 2006 13:30, Pat Maddox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a table with that has 5 fields. Nearly every query I make to
this table is of the form
SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE field1='foo' AND field2=7;
It's always those two exact fields. How should I index this to get
the
On June 6, 2006 07:59 am, Carlos Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are conducting a simple test to asses if the optimizer ever uses the
index. The table has several columns and the select statement is as
follows: select * from ord0007 order by prtnbr, ordschdte desc. The
index that we added
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 09:39, Philippe Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
I have to install PGSQL 7.4.13 under RH Linux Entreprise Server 4, and I
can apparently use either the rpm postgresql--7.4.13-1PGDG.i686.rpm
from the Postgresql Development Group, or use the rpm
On May 9, 2006 01:03 pm, jef peeraer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
well i recently struggled with the same problem. After a lot of trial
and error and reading, it seems that an ascii encoded database can't use
its client encoding capabilities ( set client_encoding to utf8 ).
i think the easist
On April 26, 2006 02:35 pm, Bert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
CREATE TRIGGER trigger_sum
AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE
ON test
FOR EACH ROW
EXECUTE PROCEDURE trigger_test();
The inserting and updating is doing well, but its not summing up the a
and b and save it to the c
On April 10, 2006 09:28 am, Just Someone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I implemented wal archiving and it seems to be working. The segments
are being copied by the shell script, and in the pg_log file I see
this line:
LOG: archived transaction log file 0001001D0096
But the file is
On April 4, 2006 03:52 pm, patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi,
just found about recovery.conf ? should i use it or in my case not having
data/global doesn't help.
recovery.conf is used to recover from a PITR backup. If you haven't been
making PITR backups (which is only possible as of
On March 31, 2006 10:39 pm, Brendan Duddridge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Thanks Tom,
I just didn't know if that was normal or not. I actually saw 4 WAL
files / minute today. I set checkpoint_segments = 128, so maybe that
will help.
That's normal, if your database is busy. I get up to 6 a
On March 23, 2006 01:32 pm, Brian Kitzberger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve,
Okay, not only am I new to PostgreSQL but I am new to Linux with a
little experience years ago with Unix. So I didn't know about rpm nor
does any one else here. But anyway, the result of running rpm is:
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