Re: [GENERAL] Clone a database to other machine

2008-08-01 Thread Henry - Zen Search SA
On Thu, July 31, 2008 10:07 am, Chris wrote: > Garg, Manjit wrote: > Check out slony (http://slony.info/) - it's a master->multiple slave > replication system and seems to work pretty well. You can also try SkyTools (http://pgfoundry.org/projects/skytools/) - it's far simpler to use and to manage

Re: [GENERAL] [pg_gen] what was the "issue" with the 8.3.2 bundle ?

2008-07-08 Thread Henry - Zen Search SA
On Tue, July 8, 2008 3:14 am, spellberg_robert wrote: > at the risk of ridicule, i don't read release notes online. > i read them when i unpack a tarball. Consider yourself ridiculed! :)) I remember years ago (must be 6.x days) moaning about (to the pg people, either in the list, or as an email t

Re: [GENERAL] "out of balance" result on select from suspected index corruption [RESOLVED]

2008-07-01 Thread Henry - Zen Search SA
On Mon, June 30, 2008 9:45 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > "Henry - Zen Search SA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The problem was this: a silly SQL error (misuse of OR and missing >> parentheses) resulted in a massive result set which resulted in OOM - if >> the sel

Re: [GENERAL] "out of balance" result on select from suspected index corruption [RESOLVED]

2008-06-30 Thread Henry - Zen Search SA
On Mon, June 30, 2008 4:51 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > The string "out of balance" appears nowhere in the PG 8.2.x sources. > So I suppose it must have come from some add-on code, or perhaps got > inserted on the client side. What data type is that column, and what > non-core code is involved? I have n

[GENERAL] "out of balance" result on select from suspected index corruption

2008-06-30 Thread Henry - Zen Search SA
Hello, PG: 8.2.7 (then upgraded to 8.2.9 to try and resolve with same result) Linux 2.6.25 Our selects which have run normally for a very long time suddenly started: - consuming all memory. - crashing (oom) if the select was run directly. - producing "out of balance" results in one of the colum

Re: [GENERAL] replication

2008-06-24 Thread Henry - Zen Search SA
On Tue, June 24, 2008 8:41 am, Adrian Moisey wrote: > Hi > > We have a 100GB database (16GB dumped) running on 8.2. > > Since the bandwidth in South Africa isn't that freely available it is > difficult for us to get a new copy of out DB in our office (our fastest > link in the office is 4Mbps). > >

Re: [GENERAL] dblink() cursor error/issue (TopMemoryContext)

2008-06-13 Thread Henry - Zen Search SA
On Fri, June 13, 2008 7:05 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > How soon is "bang"? I'll run it again and post back. > The memory overhead per subtransaction is > not zero, though I think it's fairly small if you don't have any > triggers pending as a result of the insert. Two triggers are fired for each inser

Re: [GENERAL] dblink() cursor error/issue (TopMemoryContext)

2008-06-13 Thread Henry - Zen Search SA
On Mon, June 2, 2008 6:53 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > I don't think your problem has anything to do with dblink per se. > The repeated begin/exception blocks are apparently managing to leak > some memory per iteration. I can't tell whether this represents > a known (and perhaps already fixed) bug; it ve