[GENERAL] trying to track down postgres deaths

2007-06-11 Thread Geoffrey
of the process, is this an indicator that the backend process was trying to shutdown? I'm assuming that if it's trying to 'close ports' then it would be shuting down the process. Are there multiple scenarios where this routine would be called? -- Until later, Geoffrey

Re: [GENERAL] trying to track down postgres deaths

2007-06-11 Thread Geoffrey
Tom Lane wrote: Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Question is, when I see: #17 0x08151bc5 in ClosePostmasterPorts () in the stack trace of the process, is this an indicator that the backend process was trying to shutdown? No; that's a function that's executed immediately

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] [ADMIN] Postgres VS Oracle

2007-06-19 Thread Geoffrey
amewar-starting question? As a nudist, I think I have to answer, "About every 9 weeks, it would seem". Jeese! You could have warned us to shield our eyes! -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Li

Re: [GENERAL] Mugs 'n stuff

2007-07-04 Thread Geoffrey
ding such items at http://www.cafepress.com/ Here's the tinyurl to a search for postgresql, which found a few items as well as some semi-related: http://tinyurl.com/27onuq I found all kinds of clothing as well as coffee cups, license plate frames and clocks. -- Until later, Geoffrey Tho

[GENERAL] upgrade to 8.2.? or implement Slony, which first?

2007-07-25 Thread Geoffrey
changes that would require the least amount of additional work? That is, would it be more efficient to move to 8.2.? and then implement our Slony replication, or would there be less effort in implementing the Slony solution and then upgrading to 8.2.? ? -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who

Re: [GENERAL] upgrade to 8.2.? or implement Slony, which first?

2007-07-26 Thread Geoffrey
acceptable. Thanks for the response. Geoffrey wrote: We plan to upgrade from our current 7.4.17 Postgresql to 8.2.? in the near future. We also plan to implement a replication solution, most likely Slony. We know that the upgrade to 8.2.? will require some code changes. Question is,

[GENERAL] plperl syntax highlighting for vi

2007-07-30 Thread Geoffrey
Has anyone taken a stab at adding plperl syntax highlighting for vi? -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin ---(end of broadcast

Re: [GENERAL] backend process terminates

2007-08-04 Thread Geoffrey
Tom Lane wrote: Geoffrey Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The output from the gdb batch process may be found here: http://www.serioustechnology.com/gdbbatch.txt gdb isn't telling you the whole truth, evidently --- how'd control get from line 781 to 912 with nothing in betwe

Re: [GENERAL] backend process terminates

2007-08-07 Thread Geoffrey
Tom Lane wrote: Geoffrey Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The output from the gdb batch process may be found here: http://www.serioustechnology.com/gdbbatch.txt gdb isn't telling you the whole truth, evidently --- how'd control get from line 781 to 912 with nothing in betwe

Re: [GENERAL] backend process terminates

2007-08-08 Thread Geoffrey
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 07:46:45AM -0400, Geoffrey wrote: I don't know all the idiosyncrasies of how this works, so bear with me on this. The developer at the vendor indicated that he's narrowed down the problem to a set of wrapper routines in their c

[GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-22 Thread Geoffrey
We are looking for a reporting tool that will enable users to generate their own reports. Something like Crystal Reports. Anyone using something like this with Postgresql? -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-22 Thread Geoffrey
Joshua D. Drake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Geoffrey wrote: We are looking for a reporting tool that will enable users to generate their own reports. Something like Crystal Reports. Anyone using something like this with Postgresql? Why not Crystal Reports? My

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-23 Thread Geoffrey
Joshua D. Drake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John DeSoi wrote: On Aug 22, 2007, at 7:21 PM, Geoffrey wrote: We are looking for an open source reporting tool that will enable users to generate their own reports. Something like Crystal Reports. ;) I was looking at a

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-23 Thread Geoffrey
Thanks for the various responses, I'll check them out and post my research results and our decision. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Fra

Re: [GENERAL] Recall: August Monthly techdata split fi

2007-09-18 Thread Geoffrey
soft' creation. I really don't understand the purpose, because by the time you consider 'recalling' the email message, it's already sitting in 1000s of inboxes... -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safet

Re: [GENERAL] Recall: August Monthly techdata split fi

2007-09-18 Thread Geoffrey
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 06:52 -0400, Geoffrey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Wickert would like to recall the message, "August Monthly techdata split file printers for France and Denmark ". In my experience, attempting to 'recall' an email me

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-10-03 Thread Geoffrey
Andrus wrote: Use www.fyireporting.com Open source, uses excellent PostgreSQL npgsql drivers. Use standard RDL format I guess I should have noted that we will need to run this on Linux clients. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little

[GENERAL] good sql tutorial

2007-10-04 Thread Geoffrey
later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] good sql tutorial

2007-10-04 Thread Geoffrey
Rodrigo De León wrote: On 10/4/07, Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone have a recommendation for a good sql tutorial? Looking for a book, but online would be useful as well. This is for a financial user who will need to have an understanding of sql in order to generate reports

Re: [GENERAL] good sql tutorial

2007-10-04 Thread Geoffrey
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/07 10:28, Geoffrey wrote: Anyone have a recommendation for a good sql tutorial? Looking for a book, but online would be useful as well. This is for a financial user who will need to have an understanding of sql in

Re: [GENERAL] good sql tutorial

2007-10-04 Thread Geoffrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Marlowe wrote: On 10/4/07, Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone have a recommendation for a good sql tutorial? Looking for a book, but online would be useful as well. I'd recommend The Art of SQL and Joel Celko's books. None are onlin

Re: [GENERAL] good sql tutorial

2007-10-04 Thread Geoffrey
Rodrigo De León wrote: On 10/4/07, Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know how to use google, I'm looking for recommendations. What an ass. If you found my reply to be lacking, you can say so without being rude... Stating the obvious google search to me is just as rude. I

Re: [GENERAL] good sql tutorial

2007-10-04 Thread Geoffrey
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/04/07 11:06, Geoffrey wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/04/07 10:28, Geoffrey wrote: Anyone have a recommendation for a good sql tutorial? Looking for a book, but online would be useful as well. This is for a financial

Re: [GENERAL] good sql tutorial

2007-10-04 Thread Geoffrey
Scott Marlowe wrote: On 10/4/07, Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone have a recommendation for a good sql tutorial? Looking for a book, but online would be useful as well. I'd recommend The Art of SQL and Joel Celko's books. None are online that I know of, but they&#

Re: [GENERAL] good sql tutorial

2007-10-04 Thread Geoffrey
Rodrigo De León wrote: On 10/4/07, Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stating the obvious google search to me is just as rude. I was looking for recommendations based on others' experiences. That was not my intention, so I'm sorry if you felt that way. My apologies then.

Re: [GENERAL] good sql tutorial

2007-10-05 Thread Geoffrey
$119. abebooks.com shows one used %96, three used at $549.05. :) Thanks the pointer though. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-10-14 Thread Geoffrey
Andrus wrote: I guess I should have noted that we will need to run this on Linux clients. Geoffrey, You can run FYIReporting engine in Linux using MONO ( www.go-mono.com ) Thanks, we're looking for something that will run natively on Linux. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would gi

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-10-14 Thread Geoffrey
Bill Moran wrote: Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrus wrote: I guess I should have noted that we will need to run this on Linux clients. Geoffrey, You can run FYIReporting engine in Linux using MONO ( www.go-mono.com ) Thanks, we're looking for something that will run

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-10-15 Thread Geoffrey
Ned Lilly wrote: On 10/14/2007 6:41 PM Geoffrey wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrus wrote: I guess I should have noted that we will need to run this on Linux clients. Geoffrey, You can run FYIReporting engine in Linux using MONO ( www.go-mono.com )

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-10-16 Thread Geoffrey
reports which a gui that requires no more then sql knowledge. On 10/15/07, Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ned Lilly wrote: On 10/14/2007 6:41 PM Geoffrey wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrus wrote: I guess I should have noted that we will need to

Re: [GENERAL] 1 cluster on several servers

2007-11-29 Thread Geoffrey
can't help you with that scenario as I don't have any experience with it and postgresql. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin ---(end

Re: [GENERAL] Slony replication

2007-12-08 Thread Geoffrey
suspect Slony is not a solution for your effort. See: http://slony.info/documentation/slonyintro.html#INTRODUCTION -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin --

Re: [GENERAL] slony question

2007-12-10 Thread Geoffrey
3.3 or newer to be able to build and use Slony-I. It says the same thing in the Slony 1.2.12 docs rpm. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin ---

Re: [GENERAL] Hijack!

2007-12-11 Thread Geoffrey
html email conversations. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our ext

Re: [GENERAL] top posting

2007-12-11 Thread Geoffrey
imply is not the way it's done on this list. Get use to it. Now who's doing the 4 year old crying?? -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin --

Re: [GENERAL] top posting

2007-12-11 Thread Geoffrey
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Geoffrey wrote: Collin Kidder wrote: I have to suffer through dealing with people like the two of you quoted above. You can deal with people who'd like to top post. Anything else is just being a spoiled baby who can't deal with minor issues. If all the en

Re: [GENERAL] to realise the dark side of Microsoft SQL Server...?

2007-12-19 Thread Geoffrey
OOXML debacle? The list continues, but I suspect you get my point. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [GENERAL] to realise the dark side of Microsoft SQL Server...?

2007-12-19 Thread Geoffrey
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Geoffrey wrote: Johan van Zyl wrote: Please elaborate! (Many a true word spoken in jest) "That is until I can convince my new employer to realise the dark side of Microsoft SQL Server." It's the product of an evil company? Let's see: 1. they are

Re: [GENERAL] [OT] Slony (initial) Replication - Slow

2008-01-03 Thread Geoffrey
g (on the fly) index creation) This is correct. You want an empty replication database. When you start replication slony will bring the master and slave into sync. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neithe

Re: [GENERAL] Memory on 32bit machine

2008-01-07 Thread Geoffrey
ql? I just want to use 64bit if it as stable as 32bit. I'm curious as to why you would run iptables on a database server. My expectation would be that your database machine would be behind a dedicated firewall. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to pu

[GENERAL] shouldn't all tables have Object Descriptions?

2008-01-25 Thread Geoffrey
me | Object | Description +--++-- public | carr | table | Carrier File (1 row) mwv=# \dd avlds; Object descriptions Schema | Name | Object | Description +--++- (0 rows) Question is, why does the avlds table not have an entry in the Object descriptions?

[GENERAL] what is it that \d actually does

2008-01-25 Thread Geoffrey
It seems that I recall there is a way to display the actual select statement that is executed when you execute the \d command. Anyone? -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin

Re: [GENERAL] OT - pg perl DBI question

2008-01-29 Thread Geoffrey
very* long time. Are you speaking from personal experience, or just of the lack of maintenance? -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin ---(end of

[GENERAL] ERROR: relation with OID 1322527 does not exist

2008-02-19 Thread Geoffrey
ion of the data was complete. That is, once the replication server 'caught up' with the production server. I posted to the slony list about this issue, but didn't get any bites. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary

[GENERAL] is a unique key on null field bad?

2008-02-20 Thread Geoffrey
with slony seems to be related to a table that has just such a key, so we are trying to figure out if this is causing the problem. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Re: [GENERAL] is a unique key on null field bad?

2008-02-20 Thread Geoffrey
Peter Childs wrote: On 20/02/2008, Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, we are trying to track down some problems we're having with an implementation of slony on our database. I've posted to the slony list about this issue, but I wanted to get a more generic response from th

Re: [GENERAL] Disable Triggers

2008-02-21 Thread Geoffrey
ich, but I'm afraid 7.4 is too old). How might we find out which release it was fixed in? Back patching 7.4.19 with the fix might be easier then trying to move up to the fixed version. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Saf

[GENERAL] disabling triggers, constaints and so on

2008-02-25 Thread Geoffrey
, thus, it's our understanding that using tgenabled is not going to be a solution. Making our triggers smarter doesn't get us all the way there. Suggestions? -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither L

Re: [GENERAL] Survey: renaming/removing script binaries (createdb, createuser...)

2008-03-27 Thread Geoffrey
+20 if need be, I'd go with - (dash) over _ (underbar) -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] Disable Triggers

2008-04-09 Thread Geoffrey
role to control how it acts in a particular transaction. The issue at hand (I work with the OP), is that our current application disables all triggers quite often. Enter Slony, we want to replicate. So, what we need to do is, disable ALL triggers EXCEPT slony triggers. -- Until later, Geoff

Re: [GENERAL] Disable Triggers

2008-04-09 Thread Geoffrey
? Any ideas? Version: PostgreSQL 7.4.19 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9) Me thinks you forgot to mention that you are working on implementing this on Postgresql 8.3.1. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Libert

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL on a networked drive with multiple users

2008-04-17 Thread Geoffrey
J Ottery wrote: Thanks Craig for making me look like an idiot. I feel bad now. You don't look like an idiot, you look like someone who has just learned something. If we don't learn from our mistakes, then we are idiots... ;) -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up

Re: [GENERAL] In the belly of the beast (MySQLCon)

2008-04-17 Thread Geoffrey
your presentation... -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription

Re: [GENERAL] In the belly of the beast (MySQLCon)

2008-04-18 Thread Geoffrey
I'm still running 8.1 What about the: 8.1 -> slony -> 8.3 switch users to 8.3 databases solution. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin -- Sent via pgsql-gen

Re: [GENERAL] In the belly of the beast (MySQLCon)

2008-04-18 Thread Geoffrey
Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:54:52 -0400 Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What about the: 8.1 -> slony -> 8.3 switch users to 8.3 databases solution. Is it? What is your transactional velocity? How long will the initial sync transaction have to run? You

Re: [GENERAL] In the belly of the beast (MySQLCon)

2008-04-18 Thread Geoffrey
Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:30:18 -0400 Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know that slony is the answer. It was more of a question then an answer. We are hoping to use that solution to migrate from 7.4.19 to 8.3.1. The primary reason is to reduce downt

Re: [GENERAL] In the belly of the beast (MySQLCon)

2008-04-18 Thread Geoffrey
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Geoffrey wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:30:18 -0400 Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know that slony is the answer. It was more of a question then an answer. We are hoping to use that solution to migrate from 7.4.19 to

Re: [GENERAL] In the belly of the beast (MySQLCon)

2008-04-18 Thread Geoffrey
he electrons are traveling pretty close to the speed of light. ;) -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.or

Re: [GENERAL] In the belly of the beast (MySQLCon)

2008-04-18 Thread Geoffrey
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Geoffrey wrote: I'm really not altogether sure what you mean by transaction velocity. I'm pretty sure the electrons are traveling pretty close to the speed of light. ;) Actually, electrons themselves flow rather slowly -- millimeters per second according to

Re: [GENERAL] Advice for "hot-swapping" databases

2008-06-16 Thread Geoffrey
ree to shoot holes in this solution if it is not viable. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.or

Re: [GENERAL] Losing data

2008-06-19 Thread Geoffrey
on this server in the past 6 weeks. The problem seems to have started last friday, when reports started to go missing. What has changed prior to Friday? -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

Re: [GENERAL] Please remove me from the list!

2009-05-28 Thread Geoffrey
Marcelo Giovane wrote: Please, remove me from the list! Generally, when you find your way into a location, you are expected to find your way out... -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety

Re: [GENERAL] Please remove me from the list!

2009-05-29 Thread Geoffrey
I was poised to say the same as you until I realised this. :-) They have come through on every other post, however. I don't really want to drag this out into a discussion, but the instructions are provided to you when you subscribe. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up e

[GENERAL] pg_usleep() location

2009-05-29 Thread Geoffrey
I'm trying to build a customized pg_standby.c and I can not locate pg_usleep(). Can anyone point me to the source file that contains this library? (or even better,the associated Red Hat rpm?) -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temp

Re: [GENERAL] pg_usleep() location

2009-05-29 Thread Geoffrey
Richard Huxton wrote: Geoffrey wrote: I'm trying to build a customized pg_standby.c and I can not locate pg_usleep(). Can anyone point me to the source file that contains this library? (or even better,the associated Red Hat rpm?) port/pgsleep.c If you're a perl guy might be worth

Re: [GENERAL] pg_usleep() location

2009-05-29 Thread Geoffrey
Richard Huxton wrote: Geoffrey wrote: Richard Huxton wrote: Geoffrey wrote: I'm trying to build a customized pg_standby.c and I can not locate pg_usleep(). Can anyone point me to the source file that contains this library? (or even better,the associated Red Hat rpm?) port/pgsleep.

[GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-02 Thread Geoffrey
he archive server, but I don't see a *.history file. What am I missing? -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-02 Thread Geoffrey
Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 15:21 -0400, Geoffrey wrote: My problem is, I never see a *.history file, thus my script sits in a loop looking for it. I see the WAL files showing up on the archive server, but I don't see a *.history file. What am I missing? pg_stand

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-02 Thread Geoffrey
Geoffrey wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 15:21 -0400, Geoffrey wrote: My problem is, I never see a *.history file, thus my script sits in a loop looking for it. I see the WAL files showing up on the archive server, but I don't see a *.history file. What am I mi

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-02 Thread Geoffrey
Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 15:21 -0400, Geoffrey wrote: My problem is, I never see a *.history file, thus my script sits in a loop looking for it. I see the WAL files showing up on the archive server, but I don't see a *.history file. What am I missing? pg_stand

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-02 Thread Geoffrey
Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 15:21 -0400, Geoffrey wrote: My problem is, I never see a *.history file, thus my script sits in a loop looking for it. I see the WAL files showing up on the archive server, but I don't see a *.history file. What am I missing? pg_stand

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-03 Thread Geoffrey
Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 19:44 -0400, Geoffrey wrote: pg_standby it self isn't a solution for warm standby. It is a component thereof. Also don't use SCP. Use rsync. Take a look at walmgr or PITRTools it will make your life easier. I still don't und

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-03 Thread Geoffrey
shell). I'm certainly looking at rsync rather then scp, which really makes more sense. Greg Smith wrote: On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Geoffrey wrote: The problem with my current process is as noted, my script keeps looking for the *.history file, but never sees it. From the restore_command sect

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-03 Thread Geoffrey
Erik Jones wrote: On Jun 3, 2009, at 5:13 AM, Geoffrey wrote: Thank you Greg for taking the time to explain this as throughly as you have. I have found a logic problem in my code. I still don't know if we will use pg_standby as the wrapper code in PITRTools is python and we are

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-03 Thread Geoffrey
Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 14:43 -0400, Geoffrey wrote: pg_standby is in no way dependent on PITRTools. PITRTools is, however, dependent on pg_standby. Put another way: you do not need to use PITRTools to use pg_standby. In fact, you also don't need any perl or

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-04 Thread Geoffrey
Greg Smith wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Geoffrey wrote: My assumption was that since pg_standby does not have the scp/rsync functionality, I would have to either modify it, change the way we do things, or 'reinvent' a little different wheel. There are three things to setu

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-04 Thread Geoffrey
Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 15:07 -0400, Geoffrey wrote: You are still going to need to either: A. Reinvent the wheel, by scripting it all yourself B. Use solutions that are already used by others such as walmgr or pitrtools My assumption was that since pg_standby does not

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby with WAL shipping

2009-06-04 Thread Geoffrey
Greg Smith wrote: On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Geoffrey wrote: For now, I'm still looking at the other tools as well as attempting to verify that my current solution doesn't miss any 'little issues.' The main thing you want to test out are that it acts sanely when the netwo

Re: [GENERAL] Replication

2009-06-24 Thread Geoffrey
ql-general -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www

[GENERAL] adding another node to our pitr config

2009-10-06 Thread Geoffrey
cation, thus the network reliability is less. Thanks for any insights. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgre

[GENERAL] using between with dates

2010-04-29 Thread Geoffrey
I'm trying the following: ship_date between '04/30/2010' AND '04/30/2010' + 14 But this returns: ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "04/30/2010" Can I use between with dates? -- Until later, Geoffrey "I predict future happiness for America

Re: [GENERAL] using between with dates

2010-04-29 Thread Geoffrey
Geoffrey wrote: I'm trying the following: ship_date between '04/30/2010' AND '04/30/2010' + 14 But this returns: ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "04/30/2010" Can I use between with dates? Got it: ship_date between '04/30/2010' a

Re: [GENERAL] using between with dates

2010-04-29 Thread Geoffrey
Tom Lane wrote: Geoffrey writes: ship_date between '04/30/2010' AND '04/30/2010' + 14 ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "04/30/2010" Can I use between with dates? The problem with that is the parser has no reason to treat the strings as dates,

[GENERAL] temp tables

2010-04-30 Thread Geoffrey
Do temp tables need to be explicitly dropped, or do the go away when the process that created them leaves? -- Until later, Geoffrey "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-10 Thread Geoffrey
ever asked for that. There must be some tool that will dump an HTML tree as a single text file. Or maybe convert the PDF file to text. On Linux: /usr/bin/pdftotext -- Until later, Geoffrey "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent the government from wasting the labo

[GENERAL] calculating distance between longitude and latitude

2010-06-09 Thread Geoffrey
Does postgresql have functions to calculate the distance between two sets of longitude and latitude. -- Until later, Geoffrey "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."

[GENERAL] pgpool

2010-06-21 Thread Geoffrey
n not find this piece of info in the docs? -- Until later, Geoffrey "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool

2010-06-21 Thread Geoffrey
Gerd Koenig wrote: Hi Geoffrey, you do not need to connect to your database directly, just connect to pgpool itself. e.g.: your database runs on port 5434, pgpool runs on port 5432 => * pgpool has to be configured in that way that it connects to the database on port 5434 * you/your ap

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool

2010-06-21 Thread Geoffrey
Gerd Koenig wrote: Hi Geoffrey, you do not need to connect to your database directly, just connect to pgpool itself. e.g.: your database runs on port 5434, pgpool runs on port 5432 => * pgpool has to be configured in that way that it connects to the database on port 5434 What parameter

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool

2010-06-21 Thread Geoffrey
Geoffrey wrote: Gerd Koenig wrote: Hi Geoffrey, you do not need to connect to your database directly, just connect to pgpool itself. e.g.: your database runs on port 5434, pgpool runs on port 5432 => * pgpool has to be configured in that way that it connects to the database on port 5

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool

2010-06-21 Thread Geoffrey
rectory1 = '/data/pgsql/mwv' In my pgpool.conf file and I've restarted the pgpool processes. I can connect to the first entry as follows: psql -p master But if I attempt to connect to the second postmaster as follows: psql -p mwv I can not connect. What am I missing? -- Unti

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool

2010-06-21 Thread Geoffrey
Guillaume Lelarge wrote: Le 21/06/2010 15:52, Geoffrey a écrit : So I've got the following: port = . . backend_hostname0 = 'localhost' backend_port0 = 5434 backend_weight0 = 1 backend_data_directory0 = '/data/pgsql/master' backend_hostname1 = 'l

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool

2010-06-21 Thread Geoffrey
tions are used, what happens to the 21st connection attempt? Is it rejected or put into a queue to wait for the next available connection? -- Until later, Geoffrey "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under th

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool

2010-06-21 Thread Geoffrey
John R Pierce wrote: On 06/21/10 5:37 AM, Geoffrey wrote: So I've got 13 different databases on 13 different postmasters, now does pgpool know which databases I'm trying to connect to? you would need 13 different connection pools. Can this be done? -- Until later, Geoffrey

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool

2010-06-21 Thread Geoffrey
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Geoffrey wrote: John R Pierce wrote: On 06/21/10 5:37 AM, Geoffrey wrote: So I've got 13 different databases on 13 different postmasters, now does pgpool know which databases I'm trying to connect to? you would need 13

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool

2010-06-21 Thread Geoffrey
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Geoffrey wrote: Scott Marlowe wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Geoffrey wrote: John R Pierce wrote: On 06/21/10 5:37 AM, Geoffrey wrote: So I've got 13 different databases on 13 different postmasters, now does pgpool know

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool

2010-06-22 Thread Geoffrey
priority users have a larger connection pool. Is there a problem with using connection pooling and traditional connections to connect to the same database? -- Until later, Geoffrey "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the p

[GENERAL] weird initdb output

2010-06-28 Thread Geoffrey
ostgres". This user must also own the server process. . . Why is it trying to change directory to /root??? Running as the postgres user. Any assistance would be appreciated. -- Until later, Geoffrey "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent the government from

Re: [GENERAL] weird initdb output

2010-06-28 Thread Geoffrey
Tom Lane wrote: Geoffrey writes: I wrote a script that creates a new database from an existing backup. Works great on my machine. Another user tries to use it and sees the following output from initdb: could not change directory to "/root" The files belonging to this database s

[GENERAL] dropdb weirdness

2010-06-29 Thread Geoffrey
stgres?? -- Until later, Geoffrey "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make

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