Re: [GENERAL]

2007-10-31 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:07:36AM +0800, carter ck wrote: Hi all, I was trying to create function in postgres, but it returns error mentioning the language is NOT defined. snip ERROR: language plpgsql does not exist HINT: Use CREATE LANGUAGE to load the language into the database. I

Re: [GENERAL]

2007-10-31 Thread Reg Me Please
You can also create the language in template1 and then you'll have it in any other database you'll create (from template1). Il Wednesday 31 October 2007 08:21:08 Martijn van Oosterhout ha scritto: On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:07:36AM +0800, carter ck wrote: Hi all, I was trying to create

Re: [GENERAL]

2007-10-31 Thread Christian Rengstl
Christian Rengstl M.A. Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II Kardiologie - Forschung Universitätsklinikum Regensburg B3 1.388 Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11 93053 Regensburg Tel.: +49-941-944-7230 On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 4:07 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], carter ck [EMAIL

[GENERAL] strange message from pg_dumpall

2007-10-31 Thread Joao Miguel Ferreira
Hello all, I got surprised by this message: - The program pg_dump is needed by pg_dumpall but was not found in the same directory as /usr/bin/pg_dumpall. Check your installation. -- It's quite strange because I'm quite the

[GENERAL] configure password

2007-10-31 Thread João Paulo Zavanela
Hi, How I configure password to postgres user in Linux? I'm using trust, but I needing configure password in database. Thanks! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index

Re: [GENERAL] configure password

2007-10-31 Thread T.J. Adami
On 31 out, 07:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (João Paulo Zavanela) wrote: Hi, How I configure password to postgres user in Linux? I'm using trust, but I needing configure password in database. Thanks! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below

[GENERAL] Join between tables of two or more databases

2007-10-31 Thread T.J. Adami
Hi people. I have 2 databases named as follows: 1) company_a 2) company_b These two databases do not have the same ER model. However, I want to access tables on company_a there are in company_b. I want to use them as local tables (as other databases like Sybase allows, since you have opened a

Re: [GENERAL] strange message from pg_dumpall

2007-10-31 Thread T.J. Adami
On 31 out, 06:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joao Miguel Ferreira) wrote: Hello all, I got surprised by this message: - The program pg_dump is needed by pg_dumpall but was not found in the same directory as /usr/bin/pg_dumpall. Check your installation.

Re: [GENERAL] strange message from pg_dumpall

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Lane
Joao Miguel Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I do: system(su postgres -c \pg_dumpall --clean some_file\); This is going to try to find pg_dumpall in whatever PATH is currently active within the script --- maybe there's something bogus about that path? Personally I'd use su -

Re: [GENERAL] configure password

2007-10-31 Thread João Paulo Zavanela
Hi, How I configure password to postgres user in Linux? I'm using trust, but I needing configure password in database. Thanks! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an

Re: [GENERAL] Updated .vim file

2007-10-31 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:58:29PM -0500, Decibel! wrote: Does anyone have a .vim file that takes dollar quoting into account? I've tried the one mentioned at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-04/msg01266.php , but it doesn't appear to understand dollar quotes. The magic

[GENERAL] Replacing RDBMS

2007-10-31 Thread Phoenix Kiula
The Amazon Dynamo framework is going to replace RDBMS? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_dynamo.php ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/

Re: [GENERAL] Join between tables of two or more databases

2007-10-31 Thread Reg Me Please
Il Wednesday 31 October 2007 11:47:46 T.J. Adami ha scritto: Hi people. I have 2 databases named as follows: 1) company_a 2) company_b These two databases do not have the same ER model. However, I want to access tables on company_a there are in company_b. I want to use them as local

[GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread mgould
We are currently migrating from Sybase's ASA 9/10 to PostGres 8.2.4. One of the features that is really nice in ASA is the ability to add the attribute hidden to a Create procedure, Create function and Create trigger. Essentially what this does is encrypt the code so that if anyone or any

Re: [GENERAL] PG windows service issues

2007-10-31 Thread Moisan Yves
Hi Oisin, The only similar issues I have seen was where the user was created for the DB with the user must change password at next login option and this caused some issues? I checked and I have the option never change password checked. However, for the user I used for the previous 8.0

Re: [GENERAL] active connections

2007-10-31 Thread João Paulo Zavanela
I don't understand, where I do it? -- Mensagem Original -- From: Martin Gainty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: João Paulo Zavanela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] active connections Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:51:30 -0500 ps aux | grep postgres M-- - Original Message - From: João Paulo

Re: [GENERAL] strange message from pg_dumpall

2007-10-31 Thread Joao Miguel Ferreira
| system(su postgres -c \pg_dumpall --clean some_file\); I'd try su - postgres ...; this will use postgres' environment here. That was a good one but still didn't work | this is run from within a Perl module called from within a Perl script. | | I've tried the same command

Re: [GENERAL] Updated .vim file

2007-10-31 Thread Filip Rembiałkowski
2007/10/30, Decibel! [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone have a .vim file that takes dollar quoting into account? I've tried the one mentioned at http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-04/msg01266.php , but it doesn't appear to understand dollar quotes. dollar quoting is mostly used for

Re: [GENERAL] strange message from pg_dumpall

2007-10-31 Thread Thomas Pundt
On Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2007, Joao Miguel Ferreira wrote: | I got surprised by this message: | | - | The program pg_dump is needed by pg_dumpall but was not found in the | same directory as /usr/bin/pg_dumpall. | Check your installation. |

Re: [GENERAL] configure password

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 10/31/07, João Paulo Zavanela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How I configure password to postgres user in Linux? I'm using trust, but I needing configure password in database. Thanks! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions

Re: [GENERAL] active connections

2007-10-31 Thread Andreas Kretschmer
João Paulo Zavanela [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I don't understand, where I do it? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Please no top-posting, it's hard to

Re: [GENERAL] configure password

2007-10-31 Thread Douglas McNaught
João Paulo Zavanela [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks, but I need configure password to connect to server! Now the pg_hba.conf is trust, I need change to passwd. Changing the file to passwd, I don't know how configure password to connect! Set pg_hba.conf to 'trust', connect and use ALTER USER

[GENERAL] getting list of tables from command line

2007-10-31 Thread Craig White
I wrote a little script to individually back up table schemas, table data and then vacuum the table and it works nicely but I wanted a way to query a database and get a text file with just the table names and cannot figure out a way to do that. my script looks like this... (all I want is to get a

Re: [GENERAL] getting list of tables from command line

2007-10-31 Thread Reece Hart
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 08:01 -0700, Craig White wrote: I wanted a way to query a database and get a text file with just the table names and cannot figure out a way to do that. This should do the trick: $ psql -Atc select table_schema||'.'||table_name from information_schema.tables -Reece --

Re: [GENERAL] Join between tables of two or more databases

2007-10-31 Thread Pavel Stehule
On 31/10/2007, T.J. Adami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi people. I have 2 databases named as follows: 1) company_a 2) company_b hello you can access others databases via dblink look to contrib Pavel Stehule ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5:

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread Reg Me Please
Il Wednesday 31 October 2007 15:39:55 mgould ha scritto: We are currently migrating from Sybase's ASA 9/10 to PostGres 8.2.4. One of the features that is really nice in ASA is the ability to add the attribute hidden to a Create procedure, Create function and Create trigger. Essentially what

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread Albe Laurenz
mgould wrote: We are currently migrating from Sybase's ASA 9/10 to PostGres 8.2.4. One of the features that is really nice in ASA is the ability to add the attribute hidden to a Create procedure, Create function and Create trigger. Essentially what this does is encrypt the code so that

Re: [GENERAL] Join between tables of two or more databases

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 10/31/07, Reg Me Please [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il Wednesday 31 October 2007 11:47:46 T.J. Adami ha scritto: The question is: can I do this using remote database servers (different hosts)? If does not, can I do it at least on local databases on the same server? As far as they are

Re: [GENERAL] getting list of tables from command line

2007-10-31 Thread T.J. Adami
On 31 out, 12:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig White) wrote: I wrote a little script to individually back up table schemas, table data and then vacuum the table and it works nicely but I wanted a way to query a database and get a text file with just the table names and cannot figure out a way to

Re: [GENERAL] Replacing RDBMS

2007-10-31 Thread T.J. Adami
On 31 out, 11:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phoenix Kiula) wrote: The Amazon Dynamo framework is going to replace RDBMS? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_dynamo.php ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives?

Re: [GENERAL] Join between tables of two or more databases

2007-10-31 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 T.J. Adami's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: The question is: can I do this using remote database servers (different hosts)? If does not, can I do it at least on local databases on the same server? I guess the dblink module could help you. Luca

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread Douglas McNaught
mgould [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are currently migrating from Sybase's ASA 9/10 to PostGres 8.2.4. One of the features that is really nice in ASA is the ability to add the attribute hidden to a Create procedure, Create function and Create trigger. Essentially what this does is encrypt the

[GENERAL] Server's Locale

2007-10-31 Thread T.J. Adami
I'm testing PostgreSQL 8.3-beta 1, and still do not fix this message: createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: encoding LATIN1 does not match server's locale Portuguese_Brazil.1252 DETAIL: The server's LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding WIN1252. On PostgreSQL 8.2.5 I'm able to create data

Re: [GENERAL] getting list of tables from command line

2007-10-31 Thread Ron St-Pierre
Craig White wrote: I wrote a little script to individually back up table schemas, table data and then vacuum the table and it works nicely but I wanted a way to query a database and get a text file with just the table names and cannot figure out a way to do that. my script looks like this...

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread Reg Me Please
There's not bulletproof way, in my opinion. If they copy the whole DB structure *and* the object binaries they'll have the very same functionalities! Il Wednesday 31 October 2007 16:13:23 Douglas McNaught ha scritto: mgould [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are currently migrating from Sybase's

Re: [GENERAL] getting list of tables from command line

2007-10-31 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:01:41AM -0700, Craig White wrote: I wrote a little script to individually back up table schemas, table data and then vacuum the table and it works nicely but I wanted a way to query a database and get a text file with just the table names and cannot figure out a way

Re: [GENERAL] Install plJava

2007-10-31 Thread João Paulo Zavanela
João Paulo Zavanela wrote: The file pljava.dll exist in directory, why this error? Someone can help me? PL/Java has it's own mailing list here: http://gborg.postgresql.org/mailman/listinfo/pljava-dev I think it is still active, but I'm not sure. Sorry, I'm short on time. Search the

Re: [GENERAL] getting list of tables from command line

2007-10-31 Thread Filip Rembiałkowski
2007/10/31, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wrote a little script to individually back up table schemas, table data and then vacuum the table and it works nicely but I wanted a way to query a database and get a text file with just the table names and cannot figure out a way to do that. for

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 10/31/07, mgould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are currently migrating from Sybase's ASA 9/10 to PostGres 8.2.4. One of the features that is really nice in ASA is the ability to add the attribute hidden to a Create procedure, Create function and Create trigger. Essentially what this does

Re: [GENERAL] Automatic schema updates

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 10/29/07, Kalra, Ashwani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In our thick client application, I want to update the schema on the user's machine automatically as normal software update process using JNLP etc We will be using Eclipser RCP. Is it possible? Sure. IF nothing else, you can just

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 10/31/07, Douglas McNaught [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only bulletproof way to do this currently is to write all your stored functions in C and load them as a shared library. Well, as I pointed out in my post, even that's not bullet-proof. As long as decompilers / debuggers etc... exist,

Re: [GENERAL] Server's Locale

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Lane
T.J. Adami [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm testing PostgreSQL 8.3-beta 1, and still do not fix this message: createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: encoding LATIN1 does not match server's locale Portuguese_Brazil.1252 DETAIL: The server's LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding WIN1252. That's

Re: [GENERAL] Replacing RDBMS

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 10/31/07, T.J. Adami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31 out, 11:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phoenix Kiula) wrote: The Amazon Dynamo framework is going to replace RDBMS? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_dynamo.php This is another idea trying to put down RDBMS. I really think SQL and

Re: [GENERAL] AutoVacuum Behaviour Question

2007-10-31 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Is this item closed? No, it isn't. Please add a TODO item about it: * Prevent long-lived temp tables from causing frozen-Xid advancement starvation Thanks. Added to TODO. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://momjian.us

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread mgould
Thanks all. In the open source community there seems to be more talent to hack than in other environments. Once I told ASA to set the hidden attribute, I've not had any problems with this, at least that I've heard of. I was hoping that I'd be able to keep others out of the database totally

[GENERAL] can someone please tell me how to unsubscribe from this group - thanks

2007-10-31 Thread Ian Goldsmid
Title: can someone please tell me how to unsubscribe from this group - thanks can someone please tell me how to unsubscribe from this group - thanks Regards, Ian Ian Goldsmid www.semanticdiscoverysystems.com can someone please tell me how

[GENERAL] how can I shut off more?

2007-10-31 Thread Gauthier, Dave
When I run a query, and the number of lines exceeds what the screen can hold, the results seem to get piped into more (or less). How can I turn that off and just have everything stream out without stopping? I tried -echo-all, but that doesn't seem to do the trick. Thanks in Advance !

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread Douglas McNaught
Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10/31/07, Douglas McNaught [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only bulletproof way to do this currently is to write all your stored functions in C and load them as a shared library. Well, as I pointed out in my post, even that's not bullet-proof. As

Re: [GENERAL] strange message from pg_dumpall

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Lane
Joao Miguel Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is what I do: system(su postgres -c \pg_dumpall --clean some_file\); this is run from within a Perl module called from within a Perl script. I've tried the same command directlly on the shell and it works fine. But from the perl script

Re: [GENERAL] (Never?) Kill Postmaster?

2007-10-31 Thread Christian Schröder
Tom Lane wrote: Michael Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The tip is ''kill -9' the postmaster', which has two important differences to the scenario I just described: 1) kill -9 means the OS kills the process without allowing it to clean up after itself 2) The postmaster is the master

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007 wrap up

2007-10-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, We had a great time at the conference and subsequent party. If you are ever in PDX and want some great food and interesting accommodations I strongly suggest the Paramount Hotel and Dragon Fish cafe. They treated all of us very well and had great food! The conference did well above

Re: [GENERAL] (Never?) Kill Postmaster?

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_Schr=F6der?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But then, when I tried to reconnect to the database, I received the following message: 2007-10-31 22:50:01 CET - chschroe FATAL: the database system is in recovery mode Ok, you wrote Postgres will recover automatically, but

Re: [GENERAL] (Never?) Kill Postmaster?

2007-10-31 Thread Christian Schröder
Tom Lane wrote: Ok, you wrote Postgres will recover automatically, but could this take several minutes? Yeah, potentially. I don't suppose you have any idea how long it'd been since your last checkpoint, but what do you have checkpoint_timeout and checkpoint_segments set to? I did

Re: [GENERAL] Fragments in tsearch2 headline

2007-10-31 Thread Catalin Marinas
On 30/10/2007, Oleg Bartunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, then you have to formalize many things - how long should be excerpts, how much excerpts to show, etc. In tsearch2 we have get_covers() function, which produces all excerpts like: =# select get_covers(to_tsvector('1 2 3 4 5 3 4 abc x y

[GENERAL] current_user changes immediately after login

2007-10-31 Thread Christian Schröder
Hi list, I have a strange problem: When I connect to one of my databases, the current_user immediatly changes without any interaction from my side. This is what I do: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ psql -h db2 testdb Welcome to psql 8.2.5, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. Type: \copyright for

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread Sam Mason
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 05:18:58PM -0400, mgould wrote: Thanks all. In the open source community there seems to be more talent to hack than in other environments. I think we're just much more honest about what the technology is really capable of. None of us is likely to actually bother

Re: [GENERAL] current_user changes immediately after login

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_Schr=F6der?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a strange problem: When I connect to one of my databases, the current_user immediatly changes without any interaction from my side. That's bizarre. Do you have anything in ~/.psqlrc? I'm also wondering (though too lazy

[GENERAL] Search path in group_roles not honered for logins

2007-10-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
CREATE ROLE db_users NOSUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE; ALTER ROLE db_users SET search_path=mydb, public; When I create a login, CREATE ROLE oli LOGIN ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'mXXX' NOSUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE; ALTER ROLE oliver SET search_path=xmms; I have to set

Re: [GENERAL] Search path in group_roles not honered for logins

2007-10-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 00:02 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why is this such or is this an intended feature? No, there is no intention that ALTER ROLE SET values be inherited --- what you get is just what is attached to the role you logged in as. What would

Re: [GENERAL] Search path in group_roles not honered for logins

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Lane
Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why is this such or is this an intended feature? No, there is no intention that ALTER ROLE SET values be inherited --- what you get is just what is attached to the role you logged in as. What would you do with conflicting sets from different inherited roles,

Re: [GENERAL] current_user changes immediately after login

2007-10-31 Thread Christian Schröder
Tom Lane wrote: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_Schr=F6der?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a strange problem: When I connect to one of my databases, the current_user immediatly changes without any interaction from my side. That's bizarre. Do you have anything in ~/.psqlrc? I'm also

Re: [GENERAL] how can I shut off more?

2007-10-31 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 31.10.2007, um 17:14:02 -0400 mailte Gauthier, Dave folgendes: When I run a query, and the number of lines exceeds what the screen can hold, the results seem to get piped into ?more? (or ?less?). How can I turn that off and just have everything stream out without stopping? I