Re: [GENERAL] [pgadmin-support] Database has been killed after increasing memory

2013-12-23 Thread Dinesh Kumar
Hi, +Adding postgresql general list. Hope, some one will provide more information. On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 1:56 PM, kolsze...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi > > I Have problem with "postmaster" processes which unexpectedly consume very > big amount of memory, about 200MB!!!, and as a consequence whole av

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade & tablespaces

2013-12-23 Thread Joseph Kregloh
> > And /usr/local/pgsql was re-initdbed with a 9.0 cluster, because > previously it was the 9.3 cluster? > > And you are sure /usr/local/bin has the 9.3 binaries? > > Personally I would say at this point the relationships between versions > are so confused it would seem best to start from scratch

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade & tablespaces

2013-12-23 Thread Joseph Kregloh
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:42 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/20/2013 4:14 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > >> >> Personally I would say at this point the relationships between versions >> are so confused it would seem best to start from scratch. >> > > the 80 tablespaces aren't helping this one bit. >

[GENERAL] FATAL: index contains unexpected zero page at block

2013-12-23 Thread markus . holmberg
After the restart of a PostgreSQL 9.3.1 hot standby doing streaming replication, the database would not come up again and the logs show "index contains unexpected zero page at block 0" errors as shown below: LOG: entering standby mode LOG: redo starts at 6/55A16990 LOG: consistent reco

Re: [GENERAL] [pgadmin-support] Database has been killed after increasing memory

2013-12-23 Thread Dinesh Kumar
+Adding postgres general Hi, On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 9:34 PM, Krzysztof Olszewski wrote: > Hi > > thanx for your answer > > "Using EXPLAIN ANALYZE BUFFERS" > how it helps me with "How can I estimate memory needed for postgres" ? > Using this information, i believe we can estimate the memory u

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade & tablespaces

2013-12-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 12/23/2013 06:45 AM, Joseph Kregloh wrote: And /usr/local/pgsql was re-initdbed with a 9.0 cluster, because previously it was the 9.3 cluster? And you are sure /usr/local/bin has the 9.3 binaries? Personally I would say at this point the relationships between versions

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade & tablespaces

2013-12-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/23/2013 6:50 AM, Joseph Kregloh wrote: Well the original architect started out in the 80s with banking databases they just kept that model without revisiting if it works well or not, that might explain it a little bit. But also given the size of our tables we use the physical disks an

Re: [GENERAL] Multi Master Replication

2013-12-23 Thread pax
Sometime ago i was looking for something like this and because at this time XC was a little baby i tried installing bucardo but i gave up when stucked fighting with perl modules. So, after testing some other solutions i decided to make my own, just "touching" the trigger part of the pyreplica proje

Re: [GENERAL] Multi Master Replication

2013-12-23 Thread Anand Kumar, Karthik
We use symmetricDS pretty extensively, across oracle and postgres databases. It has its flaws and its strengths. It shines when there's multiple database platforms involved, when the volume of transactions is not too high, and supports multi master. Its optimized for wan topologies, so its great if

Re: [GENERAL] to_json(now()) result doesn't have 'T' separator

2013-12-23 Thread Joe Van Dyk
This has been brought up a few times in the past: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAAZKuFZF5=raA=rlncqeg_8gsj9vi4_e-fi1aomk4zp+dxc...@mail.gmail.com http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ec26f5ce-9f3b-40c9-bf23-f0c2b96e3...@gmail.com Any chance it could be fixed? I can't figure out a way to ea

Re: [GENERAL] to_json(now()) result doesn't have 'T' separator

2013-12-23 Thread Joe Van Dyk
I tried making some cast functions as follows, but it doesn't seem to work properly: create or replace function iso_timestamp(timestamptz) returns json as $$ select ('"' || substring(xmlelement(name x, $1)::text from 4 for 32) || '"' )::json $$ language sql immutable; create c

Re: [GENERAL] to_json(now()) result doesn't have 'T' separator

2013-12-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Joe Van Dyk wrote: > I tried making some cast functions as follows, but it doesn't seem to work > properly: > > create or replace function iso_timestamp(timestamptz) returns json as $$ > select ('"' || > substring(xmlelement(name x, $1)::text from 4 for

Re: [GENERAL] PG replication across DataCenters

2013-12-23 Thread Sameer Kumar
Though I will agree that slony is a nice and a great tool w.r.t. replication (specifically selective replication). But I would dis-agree on below points: * Cascading replication chains (a really big deal when you want multiple slaves in the secondary facility and don't want to hog your band

Re: [GENERAL] Some good news ([i...@arin.net: [arin-announce] ARIN Database Migration Completed])

2013-12-23 Thread Sameer Kumar
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > I thought people'd like to know about this. For those who don't know, > ARIN is the Regional Internet Registry for North America and the > Carribean. That is, if you have an IP address and you are operating > in that region, you depend o