Re: Storage management?????

Chris Pesko wrote:
  >Scalability -
  >
  >I'm new to Postgres and I am noticing there are no commands to create files
  >or tablespaces and manage storage of data over several disks for either
  >table partitioning or seperating tables and indexes.  How do you manage
  >scalability of the database and strategic placement of objects or files
  >over several disks?  I don't fully understand how the database is stored
  >and how it extends when it needs to.  How do you impose size limits and how
  >do can you store and manage, for example, a 100Gig database?

Without user intervention, all database files under $PGDATA.  A single table
that becomes too large is split, by default into 1Gb chunks.  However, there
is no provision for splitting a database.

You can use an alternative location when creating a database:
 CREATE DATABASE name WITH LOCATION = 'dbpath'

An alternative way of managing things is to use symbolic links; obviously
this requires direct intervention by the administrator.

  >Backup/Monitoring -
  >
  >How do you backup and recover using WAL transaction logging to roll forward
  >a database to the point in time of failure?

I don't think that this has been written yet.  WAL is quite new.

  >Does anyone have a comprehensive set of backup/recovery and database
  >monitoring scripts they can send my way for both data wharehousing and
  >transactional database so I don't have to re-invent the wheel?  Or are
  >there any scripts published or available for download anywhere?
  >
  >pg_dumpall errors -
  >
  >I am using postgres user with same password in all the databases but still
  >the pg_dumpall program tries to interactively authenticate even though I am
  >using "local trust" in pg_hba.config.  Any suggestions?


Are you perhaps connecting through TCP/IP (PGHOST set to "localhost")?  Then
the local rule would not apply.  Or is there another line earlier than
"local all trust" which matches your connection?


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