Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum full: alternatives?

2016-06-20 Thread Chris Ernst
On 06/20/2016 03:18 AM, Job wrote: > Hello, > > we have a table with an heavy traffic of pg_bulkload and delete of records. > The size pass, in only one day, for example for 1Gb to 4Gb and then 1Gb back. > > We have important problems on size and the only way to gain free space is > issueing a v

Re: [GENERAL] Downtime-free 'alter table set tablespace'

2014-05-23 Thread Chris Ernst
On 05/23/2014 08:57 AM, Vincent de Phily wrote: > I need to reduce downtime to a minimum, so I can't afford to let "alter table > set tablespace" take an exclusive lock on the table for the 2h it'll take to > copy the data. You might look at pg_repack (https://github.com/reorg/pg_repack). The m

Re: [GENERAL] Primary Key Index Bloat?

2013-11-18 Thread Chris Ernst
On 11/17/2013 11:48 PM, David Johnston wrote: > I am guessing that it is the need for the index to point to new versions of > the physical record that the index is churning so much and causing this kind > of bloat? Bingo. > I am preparing to REINDEX the unique index and DROP the non-unique one ov

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM FULL freezes

2013-05-23 Thread Chris Ernst
On 05/22/2013 08:49 AM, RDNikeAir wrote: > I have a database that is on a RAID5 machine that is almost out of memory > (277GB of 330GB used). I have deleted some data and run the VACUUM FULL > command, but after a few hours gave me the error message "Server closed the > connection unexpectedly. Th

Re: [GENERAL] pg_Restore

2013-01-21 Thread Chris Ernst
On 01/20/2013 11:17 PM, bhanu udaya wrote: > I am trying to restore 9.5G database (1GB dumpfile) which has 500 > schemas with 1 lakh rows in each schema. Could take the data dump using > pg_dump and it takes around 40 minutes. I tried to use pg_restore to > restore this dump, but it takes hours to

Re: [GENERAL] Linux Distribution Preferences?

2013-01-13 Thread Chris Ernst
On 01/13/2013 03:44 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: I would tend use Fedora for development, but would consider CentOS (or RHEL, if we had the budget) for production - I avoid Ubuntu like the plague. I happen to be doing my own research on this matter. I tend to lean more toward RHEL or CentOS for pr

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple Cluster on same host

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Ernst
On 10/19/2012 08:06 AM, GMAIL wrote: > Il 19/10/2012 16:05, Chris Ernst ha scritto: >> On 10/19/2012 07:50 AM, GMAIL wrote: >>> Il 19/10/2012 15:40, Chris Ernst ha scritto: >>>> On 10/19/2012 07:24 AM, GMAIL wrote: >>>> What happens when you try

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple Cluster on same host

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Ernst
On 10/19/2012 07:50 AM, GMAIL wrote: > Il 19/10/2012 15:40, Chris Ernst ha scritto: >> On 10/19/2012 07:24 AM, GMAIL wrote: >> What happens when you try to connect? Any error message? Log entries? >> - Chris > now i be able to connect, after update pgAdmin, but i recei

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple Cluster on same host

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Ernst
On 10/19/2012 07:24 AM, GMAIL wrote: > Il 19/10/2012 15:24, Chris Ernst ha scritto: >> On 10/19/2012 07:02 AM, GMAIL wrote: >>> I have 2 cluster databases, running on the same host, Ubuntu. My fist >>> database port is set to default but my second database por

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple Cluster on same host

2012-10-19 Thread Chris Ernst
On 10/19/2012 07:02 AM, GMAIL wrote: > I have 2 cluster databases, running on the same host, Ubuntu. My fist > database port is set to default but my second database port is set to > 5433 in the postgresql.conf file. While everything is ok with local > connections, I cannot connect using any of my

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade not detecting version properly

2012-10-10 Thread Chris Ernst
On 10/10/2012 09:56 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Can you show me what is in the PG_VERSION file in the old cluster? It > should be "9.1". Hi Bruce, Thank you for the reply. Indeed it is "9.1": # cat /postgresql/9.1/main/PG_VERSION 9.1 And just for good measure: cat /postgresql/9.2/main/PG_VERS

[GENERAL] pg_upgrade not detecting version properly

2012-10-09 Thread Chris Ernst
Hi all, I'm trying to test using pg_upgrade to go from 9.1.6 to 9.2.1 on Ubuntu server 10.04. But when I run pg_upgrade, it tells me I can only run it on 8.3 or later. Old: postgres=# SELECT version(); version -

Re: [GENERAL] trigger and plpgsq help needed

2012-09-26 Thread Chris Ernst
On 09/26/2012 10:42 AM, SUNDAY A. OLUTAYO wrote: > This IF last_id IS NULL THEN suppose to test if last_id is NULL, that is > the select query did not found it > then execute the rest of the red sql but it always fail to insert the > *NEW.amount *into*amount*, every other things fine. I believe wh

Re: [GENERAL] Up-to-date reports database

2012-05-23 Thread Chris Ernst
On 05/23/2012 07:11 AM, Herouth Maoz wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm interested in a solution that will allow our customers to run reports - > which may involve complicated queries - on data which is as up-to-date as > possible. > > One thing I don't want to do is to let the reporting system connect

Re: [GENERAL] Replication between 64/32bit systems?

2011-09-20 Thread Chris Ernst
Hi Hannes, You can't use streaming replication, but you can use slony to replicate between different architectures. - Chris On 09/20/2011 02:26 PM, Hannes Erven wrote: > Hi folks, > > > I'm planning to set up streaming replication from one master to one > slave. I've read at > http://www.pos

Re: [GENERAL] "IS LATER THAN" filter for date column

2011-05-01 Thread Chris Ernst
On 05/01/2011 07:37 PM, gvim wrote: > I've been looking through the Date/Time functions and operators on the > docs and can't find anything obvious to do this simple task - filter a > date column for entries which are later than a specified date. > > gvim > Try "WHERE date > '2011-04-01'" replaci

Re: [GENERAL] Learning more about attaches

2010-01-29 Thread Chris Ernst
Well.. the "quick and dirty" start would be: SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity; As for a good management tool, I would recommend pgAdmin3: http://www.pgadmin.org/ - Chris On 01/29/2010 12:34 PM, Gauthier, Dave wrote: > Hi: > > > > PG V8.3.4 running on Linux. > > > > I have a D

Re: [GENERAL] PG Index

2010-01-07 Thread Chris Ernst
SELECT * from pg_stat_user_indexes; On 01/07/2010 02:23 PM, akp geek wrote: > Hi All - > > Is there way to the list of indexes created for all the tables > in postgres? can you please help > > > Regards > Venkat -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org)

Re: [GENERAL] incomplete startup packet

2010-01-06 Thread Chris Ernst
Ahmad, Do you have something monitoring PostgreSQL by connecting to port 5432 (or whatever you have it listening on) such as Nagios or Zenoss? - Chris Ahmad Rumman wrote: > I am getting WARNING at log file: > > Jan 6 11:19:54 dev04 postgres[14624]: [1622-1] DEBUG: name: unnamed; > blo

Re: [GENERAL] Not finding RPMs for 8.4.2!

2009-12-22 Thread Chris Ernst
Easy mistake to make The repo RPM version is 8.4-1 <-- note the hyphen. This is the repo for all 8.4 versions, including 8.4.2. Install the proper repo RPM for your platform and then you can just yum install (or upgrade) PostgreSQL 8.4.2. To browse the files in the 8.4 repo, try: http://yu

Re: [GENERAL] Extracting SQL from logs in a usable format

2009-12-21 Thread Chris Ernst
Dimitri Fontaine wrote: > Le 19 déc. 2009 à 16:20, Chris Ernst a écrit : > >> Hmm.. That does look very interesting. The only thing that concerns me >> is where it says it supports "Basic Queries (Extended queries not yet >> supported)". I'm not sure wh

Re: [GENERAL] Extracting SQL from logs in a usable format

2009-12-19 Thread Chris Ernst
t out. - Chris Filip Rembiałkowski wrote: > > Tsung [http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/] has a nice pg proxy module. It > records your "query stream" and is able to replay it later. > > > > 2009/12/18 Chris Ernst mailto:cer...@esoft.com>> > >

Re: [GENERAL] Extracting SQL from logs in a usable format

2009-12-19 Thread Chris Ernst
Greg Smith wrote: > Chris Ernst wrote: >> I started writing my own log parser to pull the statements from the >> postgres logs, but as I get in to the details, it's not quite as >> straight forward as I had thought. Keeping track of which client >> connections ha

Re: [GENERAL] Extracting SQL from logs in a usable format

2009-12-18 Thread Chris Ernst
Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > On 18/12/09, Chris Ernst (cer...@esoft.com) wrote: >> I have a project where I need to be able to capture every query from a >> production system into a file such that I can "replay" them on a staging >> system. Does such a thing

[GENERAL] Extracting SQL from logs in a usable format

2009-12-18 Thread Chris Ernst
Hi all, I have a project where I need to be able to capture every query from a production system into a file such that I can "replay" them on a staging system. Does such a thing already exist or should I start writing my own log parser? Thank you for your help. Chris Ernst