Re: [GENERAL] auto fill serial id field with default value in copy operation

2010-10-22 Thread karsten vennemann
en > -Original Message- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:t...@sss.pgh.pa.us] > Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 14:31 > To: karsten vennemann > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] auto fill serial id field with default > value in copy operation > >

[GENERAL] auto fill serial id field with default value in copy operation

2010-10-22 Thread karsten vennemann
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Re: [GENERAL] dump of 700 GB database

2010-02-17 Thread karsten vennemann
> Note that cluster on a randomly ordered large table can be > prohibitively slow, and it might be better to schedule a > short downtime to do the following (pseudo code) > alter table tablename rename to old_tablename; create table > tablename like old_tablename; insert into tablename select *

Re: [GENERAL] dump of 700 GB database

2010-02-17 Thread karsten vennemann
ected in an IRC session with some gurus some weeks ago. Main question now is why is my dump /restore not working what am I doing wrong ? Thanks Karsten _ From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Pavel Stehule Sent: Tuesday,

[GENERAL] dump of 700 GB database

2010-02-09 Thread karsten vennemann
I have to write a 700 GB large database to a dump to clean out a lot of dead records on an Ubuntu server with postgres 8.3.8. What is the proper procedure to succeed with this - last time the dump stopped at 3.8 GB size I guess. Should I combine the -Fc option of pg_dump and and the spli

[GENERAL] dump of 700 GB database

2010-02-09 Thread karsten vennemann
I have to write a 700 GB large database to a dump to clean out a lot of dead records on an Ubuntu server with postgres 8.3.8. What is the proper procedure to succeed with this - last time the dump stopped at 3.8 GB size I guess. Should I combine the -Fc option of pg_dump and and the split comman