[GENERAL] clarification about async streaming replication and replication slots

2017-04-28 Thread Tom DalPozzo
Hi, I need a clarification about async streaming replication and replication slots. I have a master and a standby both with server process running but with network disconnected between them. In my primary, I see: pg_current_xlog_location = B/48DFF790 and, through pg_replication_slots, that sta

Re: [GENERAL] clarification about standby promotion

2017-02-10 Thread Michael Paquier
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais wrote: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:27:30 + > Rakesh Kumar wrote: > >> >Sure, but when you are doing a switchover, the standby is supposed to be >> >connected to the master when you shutdown the master. So based on the doc, >> >the stand

Re: [GENERAL] clarification about standby promotion

2017-02-10 Thread Rakesh Kumar
>> Kill ? You mean "pg_ctl stop -m fast" right ? Yes. >Use timeline to resync ? Timeline is an internal mechanism in PostgreSQL, not >a tool, so I don't get this step...You mean using pg_rewind ? pg_rewind which uses timeline. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql

Re: [GENERAL] clarification about standby promotion

2017-02-10 Thread Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:27:30 + Rakesh Kumar wrote: > >Sure, but when you are doing a switchover, the standby is supposed to be > >connected to the master when you shutdown the master. So based on the doc, > >the standby should receive **everything** from the master before the master > >actuall

Re: [GENERAL] clarification about standby promotion

2017-02-09 Thread Venkata B Nagothi
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 2:42 AM, Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais wrote: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 10:41:15 +1100 > Venkata B Nagothi wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:53 AM, Benoit Lobréau > > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > I would like to clarify something about standby promotion. From th

Re: [GENERAL] clarification about standby promotion

2017-02-09 Thread Rakesh Kumar
>Sure, but when you are doing a switchover, the standby is supposed to be >connected to the master when you shutdown the master. So based on the doc, >the standby should receive **everything** from the master before the master >actually shutdown. We use 9.5 and even in that version there is no han

Re: [GENERAL] clarification about standby promotion

2017-02-09 Thread Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 10:41:15 +1100 Venkata B Nagothi wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:53 AM, Benoit Lobréau > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I would like to clarify something about standby promotion. From the > > sentence below. I understand that, during the promotion process, postgres > > will r

Re: [GENERAL] clarification about standby promotion

2017-02-08 Thread Benoit Lobréau
hi, Tank you for the confirmation ! For the second part, I understand your explanation but I fail to see how checking what we have replayed against what we have received will confirm we have received everything (unless we are in sync replication). Have a good day ! Benoit.

Re: [GENERAL] clarification about standby promotion

2017-02-08 Thread Venkata B Nagothi
On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 4:53 AM, Benoit Lobréau wrote: > Hi, > > > I would like to clarify something about standby promotion. From the > sentence below. I understand that, during the promotion process, postgres > will replay all the available wals (from the archive or pg_xlog). > Yes, that is cor

[GENERAL] clarification about standby promotion

2017-02-08 Thread Benoit Lobréau
Hi, I would like to clarify something about standby promotion. From the sentence below. I understand that, during the promotion process, postgres will replay all the available wals (from the archive or pg_xlog). https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/warm-standby.html#STREAMING-REPLICATION

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification on CONTEXT: xlog redo xid assignment

2011-12-08 Thread kc5
What were the ramifications of the bug? I don't see any details in the release notes. It is not really an option to upgrade before the move. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Clarification-on-CONTEXT-xlog-redo-xid-assignment-tp5059725p5060301.html Sent

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification on CONTEXT: xlog redo xid assignment

2011-12-08 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 6:37 PM, kc5 wrote: > Dec  7 12:40:55  postgres[28199]: [ID 748848 local2.info] [5-1] LOG:  file > "pg_subtrans/8732" doesn't exist, reading as zeroes > Dec  7 12:40:55  postgres[28199]: [ID 748848 local2.info] [5-2] CONTEXT: > xlog redo xid assignment xtop 2268215780: subx

[GENERAL] Clarification on CONTEXT: xlog redo xid assignment

2011-12-08 Thread kc5
Looking for some clarification on some log output. We are moving our databases to new physical machines. To do this we are taking zfs snapshots from the slaves copying the snapshots to the new machines and then restarting the new machines with a failover file. The database is able to start an

[GENERAL] clarification regarding max_standby_streaming_delay

2010-11-17 Thread Rajesh Kumar Mallah
Hi, We have a setup Streaming Replication with max_standby_streaming_delay=120s if statements are getting canceled with on the standby server with messages like below: FATAL: terminating connection due to conflict with recovery DETAIL: User query might have needed to see row versions that must

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification of the "simple" dictionary

2010-07-22 Thread John Gage
By default it has no Init options, so it doesn't check for stopwords. In the first place, this functionality is a rip-snorting home run on Postgres. I congratulate Oleg who I believe is one of the authors. In the second, I too had not read (carefully) the documentation and am very happy

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification of the "simple" dictionary

2010-07-22 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Andreas, I'd create myself copy of dictionary to be independent on system changes. Oleg On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote: On 07/22/2010 07:44 PM, Oleg Bartunov wrote: Don't guess, but read docs http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/textsearch-dictionaries.html#TEXTSEAR

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification of the "simple" dictionary

2010-07-22 Thread Andreas Joseph Krogh
On 07/22/2010 07:44 PM, Oleg Bartunov wrote: Don't guess, but read docs http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/textsearch-dictionaries.html#TEXTSEARCH-SIMPLE-DICTIONARY 12.6.2. Simple Dictionary The simple dictionary template operates by converting the input token to lower case and

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification of the "simple" dictionary

2010-07-22 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Don't guess, but read docs http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/textsearch-dictionaries.html#TEXTSEARCH-SIMPLE-DICTIONARY 12.6.2. Simple Dictionary The simple dictionary template operates by converting the input token to lower case and checking it against a file of stop words. If it i

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification of the "simple" dictionary

2010-07-22 Thread Andreas Joseph Krogh
On 07/22/2010 06:27 PM, John Gage wrote: The easiest way to look at this is to give the simple dictionary a document with to_tsvector() and see if stopwords pop out. In my experience they do. In my experience, the simple dictionary just breaks the document down into the space etc. separated w

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification of the "simple" dictionary

2010-07-22 Thread John Gage
The easiest way to look at this is to give the simple dictionary a document with to_tsvector() and see if stopwords pop out. In my experience they do. In my experience, the simple dictionary just breaks the document down into the space etc. separated words in the document. It doesn't anal

[GENERAL] Clarification of the "simple" dictionary

2010-07-22 Thread Andreas Joseph Krogh
Hi. It's not clear to me if the "simple" dictionary uses stopwords or not, does it? Can someone please post a complete description of what the "simple" dict. does? -- Andreas Joseph Krogh Senior Software Developer / CTO +-+ Off

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification regarding array columns usage?

2009-12-25 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello 2009/12/25 m. hvostinski : > Hi, > > I would appreciate if someone could clarify the aspects of using array > columns. > a) don't use array column as storage for list of foreign keys. It is one basic and significant rule. Planner and optimizer cannot work well with keys stored in arrays. So

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification regarding array columns usage?

2009-12-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "m" == m hvostinski writes: m> I would appreciate if someone could clarify the aspects of using array m> columns. In general, bad idea. m> We need to store up to ten related integer values per row and currently it m> is implemented as a varchar column that holds a string that is concatena

[GENERAL] Clarification regarding array columns usage?

2009-12-25 Thread m. hvostinski
Hi, I would appreciate if someone could clarify the aspects of using array columns. We need to store up to ten related integer values per row and currently it is implemented as a varchar column that holds a string that is concatenated by a trigger function. Something like this: FOR var IN (SELEC

[GENERAL] Clarification on documentation

2008-10-06 Thread Keaton Adams
Just wanted to clarify something in the Docs. An "index" page. If I create an index on a table for column foo character(8) would that require: Character value overhead: 4 bytes Per index page: 20 bytes Row offset per index entry: 4 bytes Row fixed-size header per index entry: 27 bytes Doe

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification Regarding Vacuum and template1

2006-02-07 Thread Christopher Browne
>So in practice, should one vacuum template1 when > vacuuming other database (Assuming one doesn't use vaccumdb > script when vacuuming database)? In practice, it shouldn't be a big deal to vacuum template1 once in a while, because, since it shouldn't have much data other than pg_catalog ta

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification Regarding Vacuum and template1

2006-02-07 Thread Ludwig Isaac Lim
> > Yes: the wraparound limit is for transactions > cluster-wide, not per > database. If you make 1 change in template1 and then 2 > billion > changes in some other databases, template1 is broken > unless it's > been vacuumed meanwhile. > > regards, tom lane > So in pr

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification Regarding Vacuum and template1

2006-02-07 Thread Tom Lane
Ludwig Isaac Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Under normal circumstances, there's no need to vacuum > template1 right? Only if it hasn't been modified. > Its quite difficult to imagine XID > wraparound problems occuring in template1. I can't think > how can 4 billion transactions occur in temp

[GENERAL] Clarification Regarding Vacuum and template1

2006-02-07 Thread Ludwig Isaac Lim
Hi : Saw this post on BUGS mailing list : "Olleg Samoylov" writes: >> Opps, template1 must not be vacuumed. >Says who? >If we didn't vacuum template1 then it would be subject to >XID wraparound >problems, unless it had never been modified, which is >something vacuumdb >can't count on. > rega

[GENERAL] Clarification

2005-04-28 Thread ElayaRaja S
Hi, I am using Redhat linux 9 with postgreSQL 7.4.5. It contain 3 database such as postgres, template0 template1. If i want to create mydb where i have to create. Either i have to login as us postgres , and create mydb or under psql template1 and create mydb or under psql template0 and c

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification

2005-04-19 Thread Tom Lane
ElayaRaja S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > bash-2.05b$ pg_ctl stop > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl: line 274: kill: (19859) - No such process > waiting for postmaster to shut > down > failed > pg_ctl: postmaster does not shut down Is the

[GENERAL] Clarification

2005-04-19 Thread ElayaRaja S
Hi, I am using postgreSQL 7.4.5 in Redhat Linux 9. Whenever i faced power failure , i am unable to stop the postgres. bash-2.05b$ pg_ctl stop /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl: line 274: kill: (19859) - No such process waiting for postmaster to shut down...

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification

2000-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
ashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wish to run postgresql on a Linux (Slackware) server over a LAN. > The client must reside on Apple MacIntosh (12 of them) What are you planning to write the client in? If you haven't decided yet, one possibility is Tcl. It runs fine on Macs. I'm not sure

RE: [GENERAL] Clarification

2000-12-06 Thread Roger Wernersson
] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Clarification > > that too is an option but it would hurt me to have to insert 20K record > > or > > something like that with a web browser. > > H How ODBC driver is supposed to help with that? Upload a CSV or > FF file and run bulk i

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification

2000-12-05 Thread Alain Toussaint
> > that too is an option but it would hurt me to have to insert 20K record > > or > > something like that with a web browser. > > H How ODBC driver is supposed to help with that? Upload a CSV or > FF file and run bulk insert with COPY. with ODBC: user load the database client app (

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification

2000-12-05 Thread KuroiNeko
> that too is an option but it would hurt me to have to insert 20K record > or > something like that with a web browser. H How ODBC driver is supposed to help with that? Upload a CSV or FF file and run bulk insert with COPY. > maybe because it is/was a deal between Apple and HK to b

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification

2000-12-05 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Not actually necessary. After all, make client part do what it's supposed > to- get user input and display server responses. Browser on Macs and > HTTP/CGI + PGSQL on the server will do in most cases. that too is an option but it would hurt me to have to insert 20K record or something

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification

2000-12-05 Thread KuroiNeko
> the only thing remaining to know is if > there's PostgreSQL ODBC-like drivers for MacOS and/or applications able > to > work with PostgreSQL. Not actually necessary. After all, make client part do what it's supposed to- get user input and display server responses. Browser on Macs and

Re: [GENERAL] Clarification

2000-12-05 Thread Alain Toussaint
> As I've recieved some "interesting" emails to clarify: > > I wish to run postgresql on a Linux (Slackware) server over a LAN. > > The client must reside on Apple MacIntosh (12 of them) > > I am not familair with any client that will allow this. I have no > problem with Linux or mac, I have very

[GENERAL] Clarification

2000-12-05 Thread ashley
As I've recieved some "interesting" emails to clarify: I wish to run postgresql on a Linux (Slackware) server over a LAN. The client must reside on Apple MacIntosh (12 of them) I am not familair with any client that will allow this. I have no problem with Linux or mac, I have very limited exper