I have been needing to upgrade the PostgreSQL servers at my work for awhile now and was finally forced to do so after needing some of the features available with PostgreSQL 8.4.X. Currently we are running PostgreSQL 8.3.10 which is super old but it is definitely not the latest stable release available. One thing I…
When working on writing some directions for someone at work I ran into a PostgreSQL command line query error. I have much more experience using MySQL so my initial Postgres commands always mimic what I would do in MySQL. Anyhow when attempting to run a SELECT statement matching contents of a specific column I received…
I don’t currently have a Mac but do get to work on them from time to time. A friend of mine recently had an issue with PostgreSQL on his Macbook Pro running OSX. In the process of helping him I needed to restart Postgres from a terminal window but wasn’t sure of where Postgres was…
You may get the following error when attempting to restore a postgreSQL database. The issue will be that you are attemping to restore a dump of a database using PostgreSQL version 8.4 and anove into a PostgreSQL database that is version 8.3 or below. ERROR: syntax error at or near “COLLATE” To resolve this issue manually edit…
PostgreSQL 8.3 changed the way the Query and Index Statistics are configured from previous versions of postgreSQL including 8.2 and below. Things are technically easier now as the stats collecting is turned on by default and there are less commands to enter into the configuration to get all of the stats you will need. I…