Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives aredead)

1999-12-15 Thread Ed Loehr
> > > database server, a lot of ram will be required for fast operation. I was > > > thinking at a minimum 256 meg of ram. I also want to have the database run > > > on a RAID 5 array for speed and fault tolerance. Any suggestions here for > > > disk type, RAID scheme (software or hardware), contr

[GENERAL] indices don't make much difference

1999-12-15 Thread admin
I am trying to optimise a query which looks like: select prod_base.*, manu_base.name from prod_base, manu_base where prod_base.mid=manu_base.mid; manu_base is a table consisting of 3000 manufacturer with an id (not unique to support synonyms) and a name (declared as varchar(32)). prod_base is a t

Re: [GENERAL] How do I change port for the postmaster?

1999-12-15 Thread Ed Loehr
Syntax: postmaster -p Examples: postmaster -p 5432 postmaster -p 5433 Cheers, Ed Robert Wagner wrote: > I'm attempting to run two different postmasters on two different HP-UX > servers, servicing two different apps. The only commonality is that I'm on > one terminal. > > The firs

[GENERAL] Czech2ASCII with --mb=Latin2

1999-12-15 Thread Robert
Hi, I have a database in Latin2 encoding (Czech stuff) and Latin2/Win1250 on-the-fly recoding with 'set client_encoding' works smoothly. Now, when I set client encoding to SQL_ASCII, accented characters are converted to (hexa) codes. Is there any (simple) way to make this recoding convert accen

[GENERAL] How do I change port for the postmaster?

1999-12-15 Thread Robert Wagner
I'm attempting to run two different postmasters on two different HP-UX servers, servicing two different apps. The only commonality is that I'm on one terminal. The first starts up OK. When I attempt to start the postmaster on the other server, I get the error, FATAL: StreamServerPort: bind() f

Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives aredead)

1999-12-15 Thread Jeff Hoffmann
"Ross J. Reedstrom" wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 11:27:36AM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Jeff Hoffmann wrote: > > > > Most of my RAID tests are on Solaris+Disksuite...with good drives > > in the machine, my writes are something like 18MB/s to the drive, str

Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives aredead)

1999-12-15 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Ross J. Reedstrom wrote: > Ah, this would be a RAID 0+1 setup, then? Very different from Jeff's RAID > 5 configuration. I'd be willing to believe that software RAID 0+1 _could_ > be faster than most hardware (it's just shuffling and dupping blocks > around to different drives

Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives aredead)

1999-12-15 Thread Ross J. Reedstrom
On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 11:27:36AM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Jeff Hoffmann wrote: > > > > my preference tends to be software raid...whatever I've ever seen as far > > > as hardware raid is concerned has been quite slower then software > > > raid...and this is with hig

Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives are dead)

1999-12-15 Thread Ken Gunderson
At 08:41 AM 12/15/99 -0500, Adam Rossi wrote: >I know this question has been asked before. I have seen it in the archives. >Unfortunately the archives are dead right now (any search will yield "no >results") and I need to make some decisions. > >Can anyone give some general recommendations on hard

Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives aredead)

1999-12-15 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > What filesystem? I know (thank god) very little about Linux, but > > there have been comments here by some Linux folks (Thomas, wasn't it > > you?) that indicated that ext2fs sucks for this? Are you running with > > fsync() on or off? > > What is th

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres restart problems

1999-12-15 Thread Robert Davis
I remember having to do the same thing on a aix oracle installation. I wrote a little shell script that did it for me. bob "Differentiated Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd." wrote: > Hi, > > We have a postgres db which has been crashing about 5 times a day. It must > be failrly apparent given my oth

Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives aredead)

1999-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
> What filesystem? I know (thank god) very little about Linux, but > there have been comments here by some Linux folks (Thomas, wasn't it > you?) that indicated that ext2fs sucks for this? Are you running with > fsync() on or off? What is the problem with ext2fs? Is it just performance? or is t

Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives aredead)

1999-12-15 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Jeff Hoffmann wrote: > > my preference tends to be software raid...whatever I've ever seen as far > > as hardware raid is concerned has been quite slower then software > > raid...and this is with high-end servers... > > i kind of question this, and here's why: i just set up

Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives aredead)

1999-12-15 Thread Jeff Hoffmann
The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Adam Rossi wrote: > > > I know this question has been asked before. I have seen it in the archives. > > Unfortunately the archives are dead right now (any search will yield "no > > results") and I need to make some decisions. > > > > Can anyone g

[GENERAL] Mailing List Archives off of Web Site ...

1999-12-15 Thread The Hermit Hacker
I just fixed the script that creates the links for the mailing list archives off of each 'list' page (the 'mbox' link), so that it has the proper name... Any other problems, let us know... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub

[GENERAL] Connect from a new psql to an old 6.0 postmaster

1999-12-15 Thread Matthias Teege
Moin, I have two database servers. One running postgresql 6.0 and the new one running 6.5.1. If I run "psql -h oldone -d oldone -u" from the newer server and input username and password psql says: Connection to database 'oldone' failed. Failed to authenticate client as Postgres user 'olduser' u

Re: [GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives aredead)

1999-12-15 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Adam Rossi wrote: > I know this question has been asked before. I have seen it in the archives. > Unfortunately the archives are dead right now (any search will yield "no > results") and I need to make some decisions. > > Can anyone give some general recommendations on hardw

[GENERAL] server hardware recommendations (the archives are dead)

1999-12-15 Thread Adam Rossi
I know this question has been asked before. I have seen it in the archives. Unfortunately the archives are dead right now (any search will yield "no results") and I need to make some decisions. Can anyone give some general recommendations on hardware for a server running Linux (RH6 or 6.1) and Po

[GENERAL] Postgres with PHP

1999-12-15 Thread Catharina Paulsen
Hello, I can´t get my local Postgres database work with PHP over TCP/IP (Browser) connection. PHP 3.12 is installed as Apache-module (Apache 1.3.9) Postgres version 6.5., both came with my SuSE 6.3 The query script is running without problems at my provider´s machine (apache 1.3.9, PHP 3.0.7

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Installation problem on Suse linux 6.3

1999-12-15 Thread Wim Ceulemans
Karl Eichwalder wrote: > > Wim Ceulemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | I can't seem to install the latest postgresql opn Suse linux 6.3 (kernel > | 2.2.13, glibc 2.1.2). I always get the following message when I run > | ./configure : > | > | checking for c++... c++ > | checking whe

[GENERAL] ORDER BY Problem

1999-12-15 Thread Rodolphe QUIEDEVILLE
Hi see this : test=> select ch from test order by ch ; ch -- aa (1) bb cc -- cc --(2) dd -- vv -- www {www} (3) zz (9 rows) test=> My problem is I want the line (2) appears in first and the line (3