I'm quite sure that the schema change will not hurt nothing. However I have to
say that add come column, with default value and a check on it is no to
doable with very bigtables. Fortunately with the 8.0 you can do these tasks
in one shot.
I've got a few 30GB tables anxiously awaiting that
On 9/1/2004 9:02 PM, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
Jan Wieck wrote:
Which is another point I was about to ask. How do these people, running
those huge and horribly important databases, ever test a single
application change? Or any schema changes for that matter. Do they
really type psql -c 'alter
Jan Wieck wrote:
On 9/1/2004 9:02 PM, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
Jan Wieck wrote:
Which is another point I was about to ask. How do these people,
running those huge and horribly important databases, ever test a
single application change? Or any schema changes for that matter. Do
they really
On Aug 31, 2004, at 11:35 PM, Jan Wieck wrote:
On 8/31/2004 9:38 PM, Andrew Rawnsley wrote:
On Aug 31, 2004, at 6:23 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:
Andrew,
If I were loony enough to want to make an attempt at a version
updater
(i.e. migrate a
7.4 database to
On Aug 31, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
Huh?You can replicate onto the same server.Kicks your
performance in
the teeth but it works fine. Heck, I did it on my laptop as a demo.
Doesn't work If you have say, a 100GB db and only 50GB free space.
Not nearly enough to duplicate.
Jeff wrote:
On Aug 31, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
Huh?You can replicate onto the same server.Kicks your
performance in
the teeth but it works fine. Heck, I did it on my laptop as a demo.
Doesn't work If you have say, a 100GB db and only 50GB free space.
Not nearly enough to
On 9/1/2004 10:29 AM, Joe Conway wrote:
Jeff wrote:
On Aug 31, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
Huh?You can replicate onto the same server.Kicks your
performance in
the teeth but it works fine. Heck, I did it on my laptop as a demo.
Doesn't work If you have say, a 100GB db and only
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Jan Wieck wrote:
On 9/1/2004 10:29 AM, Joe Conway wrote:
Jeff wrote:
On Aug 31, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
Huh?You can replicate onto the same server.Kicks your performance
in
the teeth but it works fine. Heck, I did it on my laptop as a demo.
Doesn't work
On K, 2004-09-01 at 01:30, Josh Berkus wrote:
Marc,
Slony is not an upgrade utility, and falls short in one big case ..
literally .. a very large database with limited cash resources to
duplicate it (as far as hardware is concerned). In small shops, or those
with 'free budget', Slony
Folks,
Doesn't work If you have say, a 100GB db and only 50GB free space.
Not nearly enough to duplicate. But plenty of breathing room for normal
operation.
From my perspective, anyone who is running a 100GB, can't-be-down-for-a-day
database and does not have more than 100GB free and/or a
On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 09:47:02AM -0400, Jeff wrote:
On Aug 31, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
Huh? You can replicate onto the same server. Kicks your
performance in the teeth but it works fine. Heck, I did it on my
laptop as a demo.
Doesn't work If you have say, a 100GB db
On Sep 1, 2004, at 12:19 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
From my perspective, anyone who is running a 100GB,
can't-be-down-for-a-day
database and does not have more than 100GB free and/or a hot swap
server has
some *serious* priority problems.
Well, 100GB maybe excessive for this example. but I'm sure
On 9/1/2004 1:51 PM, Serguei A. Mokhov wrote:
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:35:18 -0400
On 8/31/2004 9:38 PM, Andrew Rawnsley wrote:
On Aug 31, 2004, at 6:23 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:
Andrew,
If I were loony enough to want to make an attempt at a version
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 13:50, Jan Wieck wrote:
On 9/1/2004 1:51 PM, Serguei A. Mokhov wrote:
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:35:18 -0400
On 8/31/2004 9:38 PM, Andrew Rawnsley wrote:
On Aug 31, 2004, at 6:23 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:
Andrew,
Jan Wieck wrote:
Which is another point I was about to ask. How do these people, running
those huge and horribly important databases, ever test a single
application change? Or any schema changes for that matter. Do they
really type psql -c 'alter table ...' proddb and believe they are
Andrew,
If I were loony enough to want to make an attempt at a version updater
(i.e. migrate a
7.4 database to 8.0 without an initdb), any suggestions on where to
poke first? Does a
catalog/list of system catalog changes exist anywhere? Any really gross
problems immediately
present
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:
Andrew,
If I were loony enough to want to make an attempt at a version updater
(i.e. migrate a
7.4 database to 8.0 without an initdb), any suggestions on where to
poke first? Does a
catalog/list of system catalog changes exist anywhere? Any really gross
Marc,
Slony is not an upgrade utility, and falls short in one big case ..
literally .. a very large database with limited cash resources to
duplicate it (as far as hardware is concerned). In small shops, or those
with 'free budget', Slony is perfect ... but if you are in an organization
On Aug 31, 2004, at 6:23 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:
Andrew,
If I were loony enough to want to make an attempt at a version
updater
(i.e. migrate a
7.4 database to 8.0 without an initdb), any suggestions on where to
poke first? Does a
catalog/list of system
On 8/31/2004 9:38 PM, Andrew Rawnsley wrote:
On Aug 31, 2004, at 6:23 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:
Andrew,
If I were loony enough to want to make an attempt at a version
updater
(i.e. migrate a
7.4 database to 8.0 without an initdb), any suggestions on where
Andrew Rawnsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If I were loony enough to want to make an attempt at a version updater
(i.e. migrate a 7.4 database to 8.0 without an initdb), any
suggestions on where to poke first?
pg_upgrade is the way to go IMHO. I would not try to dust off the old
shell-script
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