Re: [GENERAL] Strange result using transactions

2007-03-27 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On 3/27/07, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthijs Melissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am executing the following queries (id has a unique key): 1) begin; 1) delete from forum where id = 20; 1) insert into forum (id, name) values (20, 'test'); 2) delete from forum where id = 20; 1)

Re: [GENERAL] Temporarily disable all table indices

2007-03-27 Thread Dmitry Koterov
Thanks! *pg_indexes.indexdef* is exactly what I was looking for! On 3/27/07, Erik Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 26, 2007, at 5:24 PM, Dmitry Koterov wrote: Hello. I need to perform a mass operation (UPDATE) on each table row. E.g. - modify one table column: UPDATE tbl SET tbl_text

Re: [GENERAL] Strange result using transactions

2007-03-27 Thread Alban Hertroys
Pavan Deolasee wrote: On 3/27/07, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthijs Melissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am executing the following queries (id has a unique key): 1) begin; 1) delete from forum where id = 20; 1) insert into forum (id, name) values (20, 'test'); 2) delete from

Re: [GENERAL] Strange result using transactions

2007-03-27 Thread Matthijs Melissen
Alban Hertroys wrote: Pavan Deolasee wrote: On 3/27/07, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthijs Melissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am executing the following queries (id has a unique key): 1) begin; 1) delete from forum where id = 20; 1) insert into forum (id, name) values (20, 'test');

[GENERAL] Query that does not use indexes

2007-03-27 Thread Denis Gasparin
I have a query that performs a multiple join between four tables and that doesn't use the defined indexes. If I set enable_seqscan to off, the query obviously uses the indexes and it is considerable faster than normal planned execution with enable_seqscan=true. Can you give me a reason why

Re: [GENERAL] Strange result using transactions

2007-03-27 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:41:53PM +0200, Matthijs Melissen wrote: I get DELETE 0 even if a record with id=20 already exists before both transactions. Transaction 2 (T2) is deleting the version of the row with id = 20 that was visible to T2 when it executed its DELETE. Since T1 deleted that

Re: [GENERAL] cutting out the middleperl

2007-03-27 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 22 Mar 2007 14:58:15 -0700, Kev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm still in the design phase of a project. I was just wondering if anyone has any thoughts or experience on the idea of cutting the P out of the LAMP (or in my case, WAMP for now) stack. What I mean is having everything

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: out of shared memory

2007-03-27 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 3/26/07, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorin N. Ciolofan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have to manage an application written in java which call another module written in java which uses Postgre DBMS in a Linux environment. I'm new to Postgres. The problem is that for large amounts of

Re: [GENERAL][OT] cutting out the middleperl

2007-03-27 Thread Peter Childs
On 27/03/07, Merlin Moncure [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Mar 2007 14:58:15 -0700, Kev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm still in the design phase of a project. I was just wondering if anyone has any thoughts or experience on the idea of cutting the P out of the LAMP (or in my

Re: [GENERAL] Could not create relation: File exists error

2007-03-27 Thread Jesse Cleary
Tom Lane wrote: Jesse Cleary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This script has been running successfully for several months (70-90 min each night). Out of the blue I'm now getting the following error message after each psql command, except the last vacuum full analyze command: ERROR:

[GENERAL] Constraint and Index with same name? (chicken and egg probelm)

2007-03-27 Thread David Brain
Hi, This could well be a recurrence of this issue: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-01/msg01801.php for which there doesn't seem to have been a resolution. I am running: PostgreSQL 8.1.5 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 (Gentoo

Re: [GENERAL] cutting out the middleperl

2007-03-27 Thread Kenneth Downs
Kev, we have a GPL'd product targeting Postgres that has significant overlap with what you want, though in other areas we went in another direction. The site is www.andromeda-project.org, and I've put some comments below: Kev wrote: Hi everyone, I'm still in the design phase of a project.

Re: [GENERAL][OT] cutting out the middleperl

2007-03-27 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 3/27/07, Peter Childs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strangely the in-house application is often still the better way to go. The web can make everything 3 times more complicated than it needs to be. Toolkits like GWT help this but you still need to write middleware even when you can trust the trust

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: out of shared memory

2007-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
Sorin N. Ciolofan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that the legacy application creates tables dynamically and the number of the created tables depends on the size of the input of the application. For the specific input which generated that error I've estimated a number of created tables of

Re: [GENERAL][OT] cutting out the middleperl

2007-03-27 Thread Csaba Nagy
I agree with everything you said except the point about the GWT. Using a framework like this you can have your query in the javascript, and pass it through directly the database and pass the data back using extremely simple (think 10 line) php or perl rpc that renders query result back in

Re: [GENERAL] cutting out the middleperl

2007-03-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Kenneth == Kenneth Downs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth This in effect makes the web server a proxy to the database, which Kenneth sounds like what you are after. The P portion for us is PHP, not Kenneth Perl, and it is small though non-zero. It has only two jobs really. Kenneth In the one

Re: [GENERAL] COPY losing information

2007-03-27 Thread Jaime Silvela
Just bringing back to life a message I sent last July. The problem I was having was that when importing very large data sets, COPY seemed to drop some data. I built a script to use INSERTs, and same problem. My server runs 8.1.3 on Linux. Several people investigated, Reece Hart was unable to

Re: [GENERAL] Every user has own database - how?

2007-03-27 Thread Filip Rembiałkowski
22 Mar 2007 17:01:20 -0700, Jaro [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello How create something like this: UserName: user1 (he's root db_user1) DatabaseName db_user1 UserName: user2 (he's root db_user2) DatabaseName db_user2 I'd like create several users and several databases, ever user should be root only

Re: [GENERAL] COPY losing information

2007-03-27 Thread Jaime Silvela
Correction: my sever is running 8.1.3 Jaime Silvela wrote: Just bringing back to life a message I sent last July. The problem I was having was that when importing very large data sets, COPY seemed to drop some data. I built a script to use INSERTs, and same problem. My server runs 8.1.3 on

[GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Marc Evans
Hello - Over the past couple of years I have made use of postgresql as my database of choice when developing new software. During that time, my clients have in multiple cases eventually come back to me and requested a re-targeting to Any database that we (my client) can find skilled ops staff

Re: [GENERAL] cutting out the middleperl

2007-03-27 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 3/27/07, Randal L. Schwartz merlyn@stonehenge.com wrote: Kenneth == Kenneth Downs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth This in effect makes the web server a proxy to the database, which Kenneth sounds like what you are after. The P portion for us is PHP, not Kenneth Perl, and it is small

Re: [GENERAL][OT] cutting out the middleperl

2007-03-27 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 3/27/07, Csaba Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with everything you said except the point about the GWT. Using a framework like this you can have your query in the javascript, and pass it through directly the database and pass the data back using extremely simple (think 10 line) php

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 3/27/07, Marc Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello - Over the past couple of years I have made use of postgresql as my database of choice when developing new software. During that time, my clients have in multiple cases eventually come back to me and requested a re-targeting to Any database

Re: [GENERAL] cutting out the middleperl

2007-03-27 Thread Kenneth Downs
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Kenneth == Kenneth Downs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth This in effect makes the web server a proxy to the database, which Kenneth sounds like what you are after. The P portion for us is PHP, not Kenneth Perl, and it is small though non-zero. It has

Re: [GENERAL] Constraint and Index with same name? (chicken and egg probelm)

2007-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
David Brain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This could well be a recurrence of this issue: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-01/msg01801.php for which there doesn't seem to have been a resolution. I never got a reproduceable case out of the other reporter ... can you provide one?

Re: [GENERAL] cutting out the middleperl

2007-03-27 Thread Kenneth Downs
Merlin Moncure wrote: On 3/27/07, Randal L. Schwartz merlyn@stonehenge.com wrote: Kenneth == Kenneth Downs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth This in effect makes the web server a proxy to the database, which Kenneth sounds like what you are after. The P portion for us is PHP, not Kenneth

Re: [GENERAL] cutting out the middleperl

2007-03-27 Thread Kevin Field
On 22 Mar 2007 14:58:15 -0700, Kev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm still in the design phase of a project. I was just wondering if anyone has any thoughts or experience on the idea of cutting the P out of the LAMP (or in my case, WAMP for now) stack. What I mean is having

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Erik Jones
On Mar 27, 2007, at 9:37 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: On 3/27/07, Marc Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello - Over the past couple of years I have made use of postgresql as my database of choice when developing new software. During that time, my clients have in multiple cases eventually

Re: [GENERAL] cutting out the middleperl

2007-03-27 Thread Kevin Field
Hi Kenneth, This is wonderful news. I will definitely be checking into it as soon as I have a moment. Thanks! Kev Kev, we have a GPL'd product targeting Postgres that has significant overlap with what you want, though in other areas we went in another direction. The site is

Re: [GENERAL] Constraint and Index with same name? (chicken and egg probelm)

2007-03-27 Thread David Brain
Not sure I can provide one either I'm afraid, I don't think I did anything unusual. But I can provide you with some background as to how this DB was created so if you can see any steps that may have been problematic. This db was created as part of an upgrade to new hardware, using Slony to

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Marc, I forwarded your message to pgsql-advocacy list. The same situation in Russia ! I think, that the major problem here is lack of official training courses on PostgreSQL and certificates. Official mean something that was accepted by the PostgreSQL community. This is a real pity, since we

Re: [GENERAL] Constraint and Index with same name? (chicken and egg probelm)

2007-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
David Brain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The db is now semi production, but I'll happily provide whatever info I can short of needing a restart (and even a restart could be scheduled if necessary). Let me know if I can provide any more info. Can you send me the output of pg_dump -s (ie, no

[GENERAL] Populate a calendar table

2007-03-27 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
'Lo all, I've created a calendar table based on an article I found on the web, but I can't figure out what's wrong with the query I've written to populate it. Here's the table - CREATE TABLE aux_dates ( the_date date NOT NULL, the_year smallint NOT NULL, the_month smallint NOT NULL,

Re: [GENERAL] Priorities for users or queries?

2007-03-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Added to TODO: * Allow configuration of backend priorities via the operating system Though backend priorities make priority inversion during lock waits possible, research shows that this is not a huge problem. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-02/msg00493.php

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Federico
On 3/27/07, Oleg Bartunov oleg@sai.msu.su wrote: Marc, I forwarded your message to pgsql-advocacy list. The same situation in Russia ! I think, that the major problem here is lack of official training courses on PostgreSQL and certificates. Official mean something that was accepted by the

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Oleg Bartunov wrote: Probably, it's time to sponsor our book-writers and other enthusiasts to write PostgreSQL Administration handbook, which we (community) will accept, support and translate to different languages. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/admin.html -- Peter Eisentraut

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Oleg Bartunov wrote: Probably, it's time to sponsor our book-writers and other enthusiasts to write PostgreSQL Administration handbook, which we (community) will accept, support and translate to different languages.

Re: [GENERAL] Populate a calendar table

2007-03-27 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Raymond O'Donnell wrote:      to_char(extract (month from d.dates), 'FMmonth') as month_name,      to_char(extract (day from d.dates), 'FMday') as day_name These formatting patterns are invalid. Check the documentation for the real ones. -- Peter Eisentraut

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Oleg Bartunov wrote: Probably, it's time to sponsor our book-writers and other enthusiasts to write PostgreSQL Administration handbook, which we (community) will accept, support and translate to different languages.

Re: [GENERAL] Populate a calendar table

2007-03-27 Thread Osvaldo Rosario Kussama
Raymond O'Donnell escreveu: 'Lo all, I've created a calendar table based on an article I found on the web, but I can't figure out what's wrong with the query I've written to populate it. Here's the table - CREATE TABLE aux_dates ( the_date date NOT NULL, the_year smallint NOT NULL,

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Oleg Bartunov wrote: Probably, it's time to sponsor our book-writers and other enthusiasts to write PostgreSQL Administration handbook, which we (community) will accept, support and translate to different languages.

Re: [GENERAL] Could not create relation: File exists error

2007-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
Jesse Cleary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One exception is notable - $PGDATA/base/835021/4294967264 - this file has a size of 0 and a timestamp that coincides with the date and time range of the nightly run when these errors first appeared. This seems like a good clue, but not sure what I

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with transactions

2007-03-27 Thread Richard Huxton
Matthijs Melissen wrote: I want two users to execute the following queries: 1) delete from forum where id = 'A'; 1) insert into forum (id, name) values ('A', 'testa'); 2) delete from forum where id = 'A'; 2) insert into forum (id, name) values ('A', 'testb'); id is a unique key. The numbers

Re: [GENERAL] Temporarily disable all table indices

2007-03-27 Thread George Pavlov
a (possibly slightly more user-friendly) alternative to the catalog table is pg_dump, e.g.: pg_dump -d your_db_name -t your_table -s | grep 'CREATE INDEX' -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dmitry Koterov Sent: Tuesday, March 27,

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Bruce Momjian wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Oleg Bartunov wrote: Probably, it's time to sponsor our book-writers and other enthusiasts to write PostgreSQL Administration handbook, which we (community) will accept, support and translate to

Re: [GENERAL] cutting out the middleperl

2007-03-27 Thread Aidan Van Dyk
Kev wrote: Hi everyone, I'm still in the design phase of a project. I was just wondering if anyone has any thoughts or experience on the idea of cutting the P out of the LAMP (or in my case, WAMP for now) stack. What I mean is having everything encapsulated into sql (or plpgsql or

[GENERAL] Strange behaviour under heavy load

2007-03-27 Thread Dmitry Koterov
Hello. I have found that sometimes heavy loaded PostgreSQL begins to run all the queries slower than usual, sometimes - 5 and more times slower. I cannot reprocude that, but symptoms are the following: queries work very fast for 5-10 minutes, and after that - significant slowdown (every query,

Re: [GENERAL] Could not create relation: File exists error

2007-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
Jesse Cleary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This script has been running successfully for several months (70-90 min each night). Out of the blue I'm now getting the following error message after each psql command, except the last vacuum full analyze command: ERROR: could not create relation

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 08:54, Marc Evans wrote: Hello - Over the past couple of years I have made use of postgresql as my database of choice when developing new software. During that time, my clients have in multiple cases eventually come back to me and requested a re-targeting to Any

Re: [GENERAL] cutting out the middleperl

2007-03-27 Thread Steve Atkins
On Mar 27, 2007, at 7:34 AM, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: Kev wrote: Hi everyone, I'm still in the design phase of a project. I was just wondering if anyone has any thoughts or experience on the idea of cutting the P out of the LAMP (or in my case, WAMP for now) stack. What I mean is having

Re: [GENERAL] Strange behaviour under heavy load

2007-03-27 Thread Oleg Bartunov
hmm, looks like checkpoint ? Check checkpoint settings in postgresql.conf. Oleg On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Dmitry Koterov wrote: Hello. I have found that sometimes heavy loaded PostgreSQL begins to run all the queries slower than usual, sometimes - 5 and more times slower. I cannot reprocude

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Bruce Momjian
Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Bruce Momjian wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: Oleg Bartunov wrote: Probably, it's time to sponsor our book-writers and other enthusiasts to write PostgreSQL Administration handbook, which we (community) will accept,

Re: [GENERAL] Constraint and Index with same name? (chicken and egg probelm)

2007-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
David Brain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: Hm, I don't see fk_cdrsummary_cdrimportsession in there anywhere? That is _very_ odd - I can see it in pgadmin, and also in pg_constraint, but it's not showing up in pg_dump or on a '\d' in psql. Oh really? (looks at code...) Hah, I

Re: [GENERAL] Populate a calendar table

2007-03-27 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 27/03/2007 17:00, Tom Lane wrote: I think you want just to_char(d.dates, 'FMmonth') and so on. What you're invoking above is to_char(numeric) which has entirely different format codes... Duh! Of course.I didn't spot that. Thanks to all who replied. Ray.

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 3/27/07, Erik Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not having looked myself, this is as much a question as a suggestion, but are there not postgres dba training seminars/courses you could recommend they send their dba's to? There are some classes out there but in my opinion your best bet (from

Re: [GENERAL] cutting out the middleperl

2007-03-27 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 3/27/07, Steve Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or SQL-on-rails http://www.sqlonrails.org/ LOL! merlin ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] Could not create relation: File exists error

2007-03-27 Thread Jesse Cleary
Tom Lane wrote: Jesse Cleary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This script has been running successfully for several months (70-90 min each night). Out of the blue I'm now getting the following error message after each psql command, except the last vacuum full analyze command: ERROR: could not

[GENERAL] redhat debug info

2007-03-27 Thread Joseph S
Fedora/Redhat has debuginfo packages that drop files with debug symbols in /usr/src/debug/, and gdb can use them. Does anyone know how this works and how I can get those files from the pg tarball? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Tony Caduto
The sad reality from what I have observed is that unless more people gain those skills and want to work in ops, it's becoming very hard for me to justify recommending postgresql for enterprise (or larger) scale projects. What do others do and/or experience? I think there are

Re: [GENERAL] Priorities for users or queries?

2007-03-27 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 12:07 -0800, Ron Mayer wrote: Jim Nasby wrote: The problem with using simple OS priority settings is you leave yourself wide open to priority inversion. Which is why you either (a) note that papers studying priority inversion on RDBMS's find that it's a non

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 15:09, Tony Caduto wrote: The sad reality from what I have observed is that unless more people gain those skills and want to work in ops, it's becoming very hard for me to justify recommending postgresql for enterprise (or larger) scale projects. What do others

Re: [GENERAL] redhat debug info

2007-03-27 Thread Peter Wiersig
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:57:49PM -0400, Joseph S wrote: Does anyone know how this works and how I can get those files from the pg tarball? My guess: strip -o Peter ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Jorge Godoy
Merlin Moncure [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 3/27/07, Erik Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not having looked myself, this is as much a question as a suggestion, but are there not postgres dba training seminars/courses you could recommend they send their dba's to? There are some classes out

Re: [GENERAL] redhat debug info

2007-03-27 Thread Geoffrey
Joseph S wrote: Fedora/Redhat has debuginfo packages that drop files with debug symbols in /usr/src/debug/, and gdb can use them. Does anyone know how this works and how I can get those files from the pg tarball? Where have you found these packages? Is this an rpm you have located? --

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 15:58, Jorge Godoy wrote: I have the same opinion. Just look around and see how many certified something are there and how many of them *really* know the product, its details, how to work with it. Certifications don't even certify the minimum knowledge. They are like

[GENERAL] custom type for storing a HTML color

2007-03-27 Thread Justin Dearing
Hello, I currently store html color codes in that database with the following DOMAIN: CREATE DOMAIN html_color AS char(7) CHECK (VALUE ~ '^#[A-Fa-f0-9]{6}$'); Has anyone created a custom type that has additional functionality (eg format the input or output to other formats, retrieve red, green

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Caduto) writes: Another thing is this, how hard could it possibly be for a MS SQL DBA or Oracle DBA to pick up using PostgreSQL? I don't think it would take a decent admin of any database to come up to speed in a very short time as long as they were interested in doing

Re: [GENERAL] redhat debug info

2007-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
Joseph S jks@selectacast.net writes: Fedora/Redhat has debuginfo packages that drop files with debug symbols in /usr/src/debug/, and gdb can use them. Does anyone know how this works and how I can get those files from the pg tarball? You download and install the postgresql-debuginfo RPM

Re: [GENERAL] redhat debug info

2007-03-27 Thread Joseph S
Tom Lane wrote: Joseph S jks@selectacast.net writes: Fedora/Redhat has debuginfo packages that drop files with debug symbols in /usr/src/debug/, and gdb can use them. Does anyone know how this works and how I can get those files from the pg tarball? You download and install the

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-03-27 Thread Erik Jones
On Mar 27, 2007, at 3:58 PM, Jorge Godoy wrote: Merlin Moncure [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 3/27/07, Erik Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not having looked myself, this is as much a question as a suggestion, but are there not postgres dba training seminars/courses you could recommend

Re: [GENERAL] redhat debug info

2007-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
Joseph S jks@selectacast.net writes: Tom Lane wrote: You download and install the postgresql-debuginfo RPM that exactly matches your other postgresql RPM(s). I don't use rpms, I build from the tarballs, hence my question. You'd have to dig into the RPM code enough to figure out how it

Re: [GENERAL] redhat debug info

2007-03-27 Thread Geoffrey
Tom Lane wrote: Joseph S jks@selectacast.net writes: Fedora/Redhat has debuginfo packages that drop files with debug symbols in /usr/src/debug/, and gdb can use them. Does anyone know how this works and how I can get those files from the pg tarball? You download and install the

Re: [GENERAL] redhat debug info

2007-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: You download and install the postgresql-debuginfo RPM that exactly matches your other postgresql RPM(s). I just downloaded 8.2.3 for RHWS 5 but did not see a debuginfo rpm. Also looked for them same for 7.4.16 but didn't find a debuginfo

Re: [GENERAL] redhat debug info

2007-03-27 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 22:04 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Red Hat makes their debuginfo RPMs available in the normal course of things (they're usually in a debug/ subdirectory of wherever you find the RPMs) Fedora and Red Hat 5 users can download debuginfo packages via yum. Fedora users need to

Re: [GENERAL] redhat debug info

2007-03-27 Thread Joseph S
Geoffrey wrote: Joseph S wrote: Fedora/Redhat has debuginfo packages that drop files with debug symbols in /usr/src/debug/, and gdb can use them. Does anyone know how this works and how I can get those files from the pg tarball? Where have you found these packages? Is this an rpm you have

Re: [GENERAL] custom type for storing a HTML color

2007-03-27 Thread Kevin Hunter
On 27 Mar 2007 05:10p -0400, Justin Dearing wrote: Hello, I currently store html color codes in that database with the following DOMAIN: CREATE DOMAIN html_color AS char(7) CHECK (VALUE ~ '^#[A-Fa-f0-9]{6}$'); Has anyone created a custom type that has additional functionality (eg format