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Syntax error when trying to import database from two PostgreSQL databases

Following on from this prior question, I'm trying to export a database from one server and put it on another using phpPgAdmin. My process is like this: select the database in server 1 and hit the ...
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How to allow a user to create databases only with a certain prefix?

We're having a multi-user Linux server. I'd like to give each user the ability to create and manage databases at will, but to keep things sane, force them that each database name they create must ...
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Upgrade production database during software development lifecycle

Background Using Oracle, there are a number of tools that help with migrating and applying development changes into the production environment (such as Embarcadero Change Manager). These tools can be ...
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How to determine if there are [idle connections with] uncommitted transactions in PostgreSQL?

According to a comment on this question I asked about idle connections in PostgreSQL 9.2, some uncommitted transactions (possibly related to some of those idle connections) might cause some ...
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Could too many idle connections affect PostgreSQL 9.2 performance?

Some queries on my database server seem to take a long time to respond, and I believe the CPU usage is high. When running ps aux, I see ~250 "idle" connections (which I believe to be too many). I ...
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How to execute a non-table-locking update operation on PostgreSQL? [closed]

Looking for a good way to update the value on a column for all the rows in a database (not huge, but big enough - about 10M records), without locking the whole table, so operations can continue while ...
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Create database on new partition

I use postgresql 9.1, on ubuntu 12.04. I had installed the depot package. I have added a new partition to my system, and I would like to create a postgresql database on this partition ( which will be ...
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Does avg_query for PgBouncer include update and inserts?

Trying to tune our application and would like to know if the stats data that pgBouncer shows as avg_query, according to the PgBouncer docs on usage: avg_query Average query duration in ...
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What is a good way to determine the performance I should expect from a PostgreSQL server?

Trying to figure out how I should expect my database to perform. Basically, I need to determine when the server I have set up is reaching its performance limits - which would help me plan server ...
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After Rackspace server creation, PostgreSQL query planner doesn't work as expected

We created an image of one of our database servers in Rackspace. Then, we created a new server using that image, expecting things to work. However, the index performance we have seen seems to be ...
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Does PgBouncer create a separate pool for every database config entry?

If I set up a pgbouncer.ini config file with several database entries, does pgBouncer create a separate pool for each one? I would think so, but have not been able to confirm this. For example, ...
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How to properly configure PostgreSQL RAM usage?

Using PostgreSQL, we have several hundred concurrent processes doing regular database access. We have our data spread out through several database servers, each of which houses a connection pool with ...
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How to properly configure pgBouncer transaction level pooling?

What is a good way to determine the number of available transaction connections when using pgBouncer to pool database connections? Also, how should I determine the number of max_connections and ...
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ERROR: database “dbname” does not exist

According to the documentation, so long as I'm not connected to a database, I can either delete a database in the console using: DROP DATABASE dbname; Or I can drop it using the wrapper tool ...
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PostgresSQL: Cannot get to console under different user name

I normally get to the console in UBUNTU by typing: sudo -u postgres psql But I need to delete a database owned by a different user. When I type: sudo -u username psql It tells me "database ...
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Moving postgresql data to different drive

I am using AWS as my cloud environment. I installed PostgreSQL on the same drive as my root instance volume. I have attached and mounted the second drive to my instance. Now I want to move all my ...
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Are there any good and free tools for managing a PostgreSQL database?

Before, I have used phpmyadmin to manage an MySQL database, but now I would like to manage a PostgreSQL database. The PostgreSQL database is on a server, but not a webserver, so I don't use PHP. Are ...
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WorkAround for PHP PDO(with libpq V 9.1.4) binding for use of CITEXT?

The scenario Two systems(not server) running PHP and PostgreSQL with the following versions Fedora 15: PHP PHP 5.3.13 (cli) (built: May 9 2012 14:38:35) Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The ...
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Is there data visualisation tool for postgresql which is capable of displaying inter schema relations as well?

Operating system used is linux. I have tried Navicat and SQL Power Architect. They did display relations between tables in the same schema. I have some foreign key constraints which reference tables ...
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What is going wrong with postgresql initdb? Why is the `UTF-8` encoding not getting enforced?

I am using PostgreSQL 9.1. Trying to enforce UTF8 encoding as default. This is what I am doing. service postgresql initdb -E 'UTF-8' \ --lc-collate='en_US.UTF-8' \ ...
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PostgreSQL : Is this because of locks(row level)?

I have a table with approximately 2.1 million tuples. Which has latitude and longitude columns. I am trying to convert this into a geographic type (point with SRID). The function(procedure) I have ...
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Pgpool-II: sequences advanced by 1 after PITR recovery

I have tested pgpool-II 3.0.1 and pgpool 3.0.4, PostgreSQL 8.4 In both cases I'm getting the same result: after online recovery on primary and target nodes all 'serial' values got "+1". Other nodes ...
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PostgreSQL archive_command on Windows

What is the best method for WAL log transfer on Windows? I have two servers with Windows Server 2008, PostgreSQL 9.0 64bit. Servers do not have any shared SAN disk, they are on different hosts, ...
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VACUUM and VACUUM FULL do not return space to OS

I'm running Postgres 8.3.3. I have a postgres database on a Linux filesystem that is quite full. I've run VACUUM and VACUUM FULL, yet none of the space has been returned to the OS. When I observe ...