Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore validation?

2011-02-09 Thread u235sentinel
On 02/09/2011 07:52 AM, Vick Khera wrote: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:06 PM, u235sentinel <mailto:u235senti...@gmail.com>> wrote: Is there a way we can validate a postgers backup? (short of restoring it somewhere) Define "validate" for your purpose. Once you do that,

[GENERAL] pg_restore validation?

2011-02-08 Thread u235sentinel
Is there a way we can validate a postgers backup? (short of restoring it somewhere) Thanks! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

[GENERAL] beginners autovacuum question

2011-01-05 Thread u235sentinel
I'm tracking a problem with our tables being bloated and was curious if someone regularly kills autovacuum jobs, will autovacuum later reattempt to vacuum the table it was killed under? I've made autovacuum more aggressive and given more worker threads. Yet for some reason we're not keeping u

[GENERAL] pg_restore question

2010-12-04 Thread u235sentinel
We're backing up our database using pg_dump with compression. We're selecting each database however when we tried running a pg_restore everything cept for the roles were restored. I'm digging through the pg_restore options, Is there an option I'm forgetting to include? Also we're restorin

Re: [GENERAL] Dell Poweredge server and Postgres

2010-06-07 Thread u235sentinel
On 06/07/2010 08:08 PM, Vick Khera wrote: Our primary DB server is a Sun X4200 M2 with 20Gb RAM with a "Dual LSILogic FC7X04X 4Gb/s FC PCI-Express Adapter" fibre channel card plugged into it, directly connected to a SurfRAID Triton 16 array from Partners Data Systems. The SurfRAID does the RAID

Re: [GENERAL] Dell Poweredge server and Postgres

2010-06-07 Thread u235sentinel
On 06/07/2010 08:01 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: Where I work we use these: http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sata_enclosures/scsas16rm.asp for when we need lots of throughput (file servers). They allow four SAS connectors instead of the typical one or two. and will be using these: http://www.aberdeeni

Re: [GENERAL] Dell Poweredge server and Postgres

2010-06-07 Thread u235sentinel
On 06/07/2010 12:13 PM, Vick Khera wrote: Ditto. Of late I'm buying HPs, but I haven't yet put one into database service. Our DB servers are all currently Sun with fibre channel cards to external RAID systems. What kind of external RAID systems do you connect your Sun servers to? I've

Re: [GENERAL] Dell Poweredge server and Postgres

2010-06-06 Thread u235sentinel
On 06/06/2010 02:04 AM, Greg Smith wrote: u235sentinel wrote: A Dell system running a PERC with battery-backed write controller will be faster on database writes than your 4540. Those Sun boxes are terrible at OLTP style workloads in particular, the types of writes PostgreSQL does can'

Re: [GENERAL] Dell Poweredge server and Postgres

2010-06-06 Thread u235sentinel
On 06/05/2010 07:20 PM, John R Pierce wrote: My manager and I are looking at replacing a Sun x4540 server with a Dell server connected to a disk subsystem (or two). We're looking at the R710 servers connected to an MD1220 I believe (I'd have to look again at the quote). why are you looki

[GENERAL] Dell Poweredge server and Postgres

2010-06-05 Thread u235sentinel
I'm curious if anyone has had any experiences (good and bad) using Postgres on Dell PowerEdge servers. My manager and I are looking at replacing a Sun x4540 server with a Dell server connected to a disk subsystem (or two). We're looking at the R710 servers connected to an MD1220 I believe (I'

Re: [GENERAL] [Fwd: Put me on your white list]

2010-06-02 Thread u235sentinel
ROFL!! That's funny... We're spam but he requested and validated the email address to receive the list emails. On 06/02/2010 03:37 PM, John R Pierce wrote: hmmm. the listadmin may wanna poke this guy for using lame whitelisting. sadly, the headers give no clue who the recipient was, oth

Re: [GENERAL] postgres authentication against Windows Domain

2010-06-02 Thread u235sentinel
On 06/02/2010 08:05 AM, Stephen Frost wrote: * Joshua Tolley (eggyk...@gmail.com) wrote: On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 11:56:19AM -0600, u235sentinel wrote: I'm still trying to figure out why you wouldn't want to use GSSAPI.. It's a heck of alot better than using LD

[GENERAL] postgres authentication against Windows Domain

2010-06-01 Thread u235sentinel
Is there is a way to connect postgres to authenticate against a windows domain without recompiling and using gssapi. Ldap perhaps? Thanks!

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Triggers issue

2010-02-11 Thread u235sentinel
Adrian Klaver wrote: On Thursday 11 February 2010 1:57:39 am Albe Laurenz wrote: u235sentinel wrote: I have a strange problem we noticed the other day with triggers. We're running 8.3.3 on Solaris 10 (intel) and have a feed that comes in regularly to populate a table we're

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Triggers issue

2010-02-11 Thread u235sentinel
Adrian Klaver wrote: Well that would depend on any number of factors. Without information on how the feed is being done or more detailed logs it is hard to say for sure. At a guess though, I would say it is because the 'feed' is being done wrapped in a transaction and when the trigger errors

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Triggers issue

2010-02-11 Thread u235sentinel
Trigger function for an insert/update trigger should return "NEW", not NULL (OLD - for "on delete" trigger): It's an AFTER TRIGGER, so the RETURN-Value ignored. According the doc: The return value of a BEFORE or AFTER statement-level trigger or an AFTER row-level trigger is always

[GENERAL] Postgres Triggers issue

2010-02-10 Thread u235sentinel
I have a strange problem we noticed the other day with triggers. We're running 8.3.3 on Solaris 10 (intel) and have a feed that comes in regularly to populate a table we're working on. The feed works just fine inserting rows however the following trigger stops the feed until we remove the tri