Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and pgpool

2004-12-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 23:12, Greg Stark wrote: Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's happening is that there are two databases behind pgpool, and each has managed to assign a different (set of) OID(s) to the table(s). So, when pg_dump asks for an OID, it gets two different ones.

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and pgpool

2004-12-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 17:30, Tom Lane wrote: Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 16:56, Tom Lane wrote: No, we'd be throwing more, and more complex, queries. Instead of a simple lookup there would be some kind of join, or at least a lookup that uses a

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and pgpool

2004-12-30 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think it's worth that price to support a fundamentally bogus approach to backup. But it's not bogus. IT allows me to compare two databases running under a pgpool synchronous cluster and KNOW if there are inconsistencies in data between them,

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and pgpool

2004-12-30 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 17:30, Tom Lane wrote: Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 16:56, Tom Lane wrote: No, we'd be throwing more, and more complex, queries. Instead of a simple lookup there would be some kind of join, or at least a lookup that uses a

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and pgpool

2004-12-30 Thread Greg Stark
Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 23:12, Greg Stark wrote: Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's happening is that there are two databases behind pgpool, and each has managed to assign a different (set of) OID(s) to the table(s). So, when

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and pgpool

2004-12-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 09:46, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 17:30, Tom Lane wrote: Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 16:56, Tom Lane wrote: No, we'd be throwing more, and more complex, queries. Instead of a simple lookup there would be some

[GENERAL] Update rule

2004-12-30 Thread Secrétariat
Hello ! I wish to create a rule towrite inrecords who and when modified them. I wrote : CREATE OR REPLACE RULE tarif_upd AS ON UPDATE TO tarifs DO ALSO UPDATE tarifs SET dmodtar = current_date, umodtar = current_userWHERE dmodtar current_date AND umodtar current_user ;But I obtain an

Re: [GENERAL] Update rule

2004-12-30 Thread Pierre-Frdric Caillaud
You get infinite recursion because your ON UPDATE rule does another UPDATE which of course calls the rule ; so no, it's not a bug ; also your UPDATE updates almost the whole table so it won't do what you had in mind in the first place. You should rather change the NEW row in your update so

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and pgpool

2004-12-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 09:20, Tom Lane wrote: Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think it's worth that price to support a fundamentally bogus approach to backup. But it's not bogus. IT allows me to compare two databases running under a pgpool synchronous cluster and KNOW if

[GENERAL] possible to DELETE CASCADE?

2004-12-30 Thread Miles Keaton
Is it possible for a query to delete a record and all of its foreign-key dependents? I see DROP CASCADE, but not a DELETE CASCADE. What I'm trying to do: I have a clients table. I have many different tables that use the clients.id as a foreign key. When I delete a client, I want it to delete all

Re: [GENERAL] possible to DELETE CASCADE?

2004-12-30 Thread Thomas Braad Toft
Miles Keaton wrote: Is it possible for a query to delete a record and all of its foreign-key dependents? I see DROP CASCADE, but not a DELETE CASCADE. What I'm trying to do: I have a clients table. I have many different tables that use the clients.id as a foreign key. When I delete a client, I

Re: [GENERAL] possible to DELETE CASCADE?

2004-12-30 Thread Miles Keaton
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:10:38 -0800, I wrote: Is it possible for a query to delete a record and all of its foreign-key dependents? Sorry - to be more clear : I like having my foreign keys RESTRICT from this kind of cascading happening automatically or accidently. So I'm looking for a query

Re: [GENERAL] possible to DELETE CASCADE?

2004-12-30 Thread Robby Russell
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 11:10 -0800, Miles Keaton wrote: Is it possible for a query to delete a record and all of its foreign-key dependents? I see DROP CASCADE, but not a DELETE CASCADE. What I'm trying to do: I have a clients table. I have many different tables that use the clients.id as

[GENERAL] syntax for inserting unicode character literal

2004-12-30 Thread Timothy Perrigo
What is the syntax for inserting a unicode character literal? I thought it would be something like '\u05D0', but that doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks, Tim ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives?

Re: [GENERAL] possible to DELETE CASCADE?

2004-12-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 11:40:21 -0800, Miles Keaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:10:38 -0800, I wrote: Is it possible for a query to delete a record and all of its foreign-key dependents? Sorry - to be more clear : I like having my foreign keys RESTRICT from this

[GENERAL] postgresql 8.0 rc1

2004-12-30 Thread Prasad Duggineni
I do see thefollowing error in/var/log/messages when I try to start my application. It was working fine in 7.4.6. I did upgrade from 7.4.6 to 8.0 Rc1. "ERROR:unregcongnized configuration parameter 'ksqo'" . This is happening after I execute this statement "res =

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql 8.0 rc1

2004-12-30 Thread Tom Lane
Prasad Duggineni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I do see the following error in /var/log/messages when I try to start my = application. It was working fine in 7.4.6. I did upgrade from 7.4.6 to = 8.0 Rc1. ERROR:unregcongnized configuration parameter 'ksqo' . This is happening after I execute this

Re: [GENERAL] Making a varchar bigger

2004-12-30 Thread Derik Barclay
Specificaly I am looking at executing something like this: UPDATE pg_attribute SET atttypmod = 16 where attname = 'x' AND attrelid = (select pg_class.oid from pg_class where relname = 'mytable'); On December 23, 2004 05:13 pm, Derik Barclay wrote: Hello Group, I've run into a bit of a

[GENERAL] Recursive update

2004-12-30 Thread Thomas Braad Toft
Hi, I'm doing some PL/pgSQL programming at work and today I realized a small glitch in my application design. The following recreates my problem... I have two tables with triggers on each: CREATE TABLE public.tableone ( id SERIAL, columnone VARCHAR(64),

Re: [GENERAL] possible to DELETE CASCADE?

2004-12-30 Thread Miles Keaton
Cool. Thanks for all the advice, guys. I'll just keep my script manually deleting dependencies, then. It gives me peace of mind. :-) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] ISO_8859_8 encoding

2004-12-30 Thread Sim Zacks
Here are the results of pgconfig and ldd. They both look correct. Do I need a link to libc.so.6 in my pglib/lib directory? It isn't there on my other machine and that is working fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config --pkglibdir /usr/local/pgsql/lib [EMAIL PROTECTED] ldd

[GENERAL] vaccum db fail

2004-12-30 Thread Matthew Terenzio
Trying vacuumdb eventuallydisplays this: ERROR: catalog is missing 3 attribute(s) for relid 31457 vacuumdb: vacuum databasename failed There is another thread which states this is a corrupted systems catalog. Is this definitely the case? Does it mean I need to re-build the database?

[GENERAL] Large Objects

2004-12-30 Thread Dan Boitnott
I need to do some investigation into the way Postgres handles large objects for a major project involving large objects. My questions are: * Can large objects be stored within a field value or must they be referenced by OID? * Are large objects backed up in the normal way or does special

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0 Beta3 worked, RC1 didn't!

2004-12-30 Thread Peter Lang
Yes, this is exactly the same behaviour as mine. I've also seen the exact same entries in the log file (tested this last night). Many, many of these entries spanning only a couple of seconds. Does anyone have any ideas I can try to rectify this problem? Thanks, Peter -Original

[GENERAL] looking for connection leaks

2004-12-30 Thread Wiebe de Jong
I think I am having a problem with database connection leakage between PostgreSQL 7.3.4 on a Linux box and JBoss 2.4.3 on a separate Linux box What would be a good tool for monitoring connection usage and finding leaks? Wiebe de Jong

[GENERAL] Tracking back foreign keys?

2004-12-30 Thread Benjamin Smith
In one of my apps, I have an images manager that's become unmanageable. I'd like to be able to easily track key dependencies. Let's say I have a set of tables like this: create table Customers ( id serial unique not null primary key, name varchar not null, address varchar not null image

[GENERAL] ECPG Segfaulting on EXEC SQL connect

2004-12-30 Thread John Smith
Hello, I'm trying to convert a series of C programs written originally using Informix ESQL to use Postgres' ECPG. All of my test programs written from scratch seem to work ok, and I can now precompile, compile and link without error, but when I actually run the program, I get a segfault.

[GENERAL] 8.0 Beta3 worked, RC1 didn't!

2004-12-30 Thread Nicolas COUSSEMACQ
I can't find any solution. Is it a bug or a config problem ? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

[GENERAL] win32 installer problem

2004-12-30 Thread zz74
Probably not even worth a bug report, but an entry in the install FAQ.. or a fix in the installer.. whatever. should be pretty uncommon. rc2 would not install (had not attempted to use any prior rc/beta either). last 2 lines of initdb.log showed: command C:/Program

[GENERAL] postgresql 8.0 Rc1

2004-12-30 Thread Prasad Duggineni
I do see thefollowing error in/var/log/messages when I try to start my application. It was working fine in 7.4.6. I did upgrade from 7.4.6 to 8.0 Rc1. "ERROR:unregcongnized configuration parameter 'ksqo'" . This is happening after I execute this statement "res =

[GENERAL] Postgresql website issues.

2004-12-30 Thread Mike Cox
Am I the only one who has trouble reading the website? Some of the fonts are way too small, especially the Mirrors | Donate | Contact set. The other problem is that it is too light. My eyes strain to read the text as the background is white, and the text is also a light color. Also, on the

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0 Beta3 worked, RC1 didn't!

2004-12-30 Thread Edgars Diebelis
First I had install PostgreSQL 8.0 RC2 on Windows 2003 server. Remote clients connect to databese, so I have to set listen_addresses = '*' in the posrgresql.conf file. After this change I have error message: "could not receive server response to SSL negotiation packet; connection reset by

[GENERAL] using pg_config to get LDFLAGS?

2004-12-30 Thread girgen
Hi! I'm maintaining a bunch of FreeBSD ports for postgresql stuff. I get problems when building postgresql with Kerberos, because packages like libpqxx does not automatically understand that it will also need to link with libkrb.so. Is there any default way to get gnu configure for such

Re: [GENERAL] vaccum db fail

2004-12-30 Thread Lonni J Friedman
I honestly have no idea what that error means, however I'd imagine that you should be able to dump the DB, and reimport it as a last resort to fixing this. On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 18:33:24 -0500, Matthew Terenzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying vacuumdb eventuallydisplays this: ERROR: catalog

[GENERAL] pgodbc error

2004-12-30 Thread Jason Tesser
In my postgresql.conf I set it to log the query durations and this seems to goof up odbc. I know this sounds stupid but I did a search and actually found taht others have had the problem though I found no solution. I am running 7.4 on a suse 9.2 box. I have noticed that it appears to work on

Re: [GENERAL] Making a varchar bigger

2004-12-30 Thread Tom Lane
Derik Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Specificaly I am looking at executing something like this: UPDATE pg_attribute SET atttypmod = 16 where attname = 'x' AND attrelid = (select pg_class.oid from pg_class where relname = 'mytable'); If you have any indexes or views referencing this column,

Re: [GENERAL] ISO_8859_8 encoding

2004-12-30 Thread Tom Lane
Sim Zacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here are the results of pgconfig and ldd. They both look correct. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config --pkglibdir /usr/local/pgsql/lib [EMAIL PROTECTED] ldd /usr/local/pgsql/lib/utf8_and_iso8859.so libc.so.6 - /lib/i686/libc.so.6

Re: [GENERAL] vaccum db fail

2004-12-30 Thread Tom Lane
Matthew Terenzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Trying vacuumdb eventuallydisplays this: ERROR: catalog is missing 3 attribute(s) for relid 31457 vacuumdb: vacuum databasename failed There is another thread which states this is a corrupted systems catalog. Is this definitely the case? Does it

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql website issues.

2004-12-30 Thread Robby Russell
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 13:19 -0800, Mike Cox wrote: Am I the only one who has trouble reading the website? Some of the fonts are way too small, especially the Mirrors | Donate | Contact set. The other problem is that it is too light. My eyes strain to read the text as the background is

Re: [GENERAL] looking for connection leaks

2004-12-30 Thread Guy Rouillier
Wiebe de Jong wrote: I think I am having a problem with database connection leakage between PostgreSQL 7.3.4 on a Linux box and JBoss 2.4.3 on a separate Linux box What would be a good tool for monitoring connection usage and finding leaks? Plain text formatting is encouraged. I've

Re: [GENERAL] [PATCHES] reqd patch

2004-12-30 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 09:26:48PM -0800, ramesh phule wrote: Subject: [PATCHES] reqd patch To: pgsql-patches@postgresql.org I'm not sure what reqd patch has to do with your question -- a subject with the word cursor would be more appropriate since that's the topic. Also, pgsql-patches is

Re: [GENERAL] Tracking back foreign keys?

2004-12-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:43:59 -0800, Benjamin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something like Select pg_table.name from pg_table where pg_field references images.id ? How else do I put it? The output I'd like would be something like images.id / tablename / table.primary key 11

Re: [GENERAL] Large Objects

2004-12-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 10:39:48 -0600, Dan Boitnott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to do some investigation into the way Postgres handles large objects for a major project involving large objects. My questions are: I don't know the answer to all of your questions. * Is it

Re: [GENERAL] [PATCHES] reqd patch

2004-12-30 Thread Jaime Casanova
--- ramesh phule [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Dear Sir, I am working as Teacher in college. I am teaching PostgreSQL to student. I am facing problem in running CURSOR. version of postgresql is 7.3.2 An old version, maybe you want to update to 7.4.6. In the next days/weeks??

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and pgpool

2004-12-30 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 09:20, Tom Lane wrote: Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think it's worth that price to support a fundamentally bogus approach to backup. But it's not bogus. IT allows me to compare two databases running under a pgpool synchronous cluster and