Re: [GENERAL] Migrating from MySQL

2010-06-30 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Heyho! On Sunday 27 June 2010 08.22:09 RP Khare wrote: I downloaded PostgreSQL plus advanced server from EnterpriseDB website. Should I go with the original community PGSQL edition or EnterpriseDB edition? If you work on a Linux/BSD/... OS distribution with a sane package manager, I always

Re: [GENERAL] Scheduling backup

2010-06-30 Thread Sim Zacks
use cron? On 6/30/2010 10:37 AM, RP Khare wrote: Is there any way to schedule PGSQL databases backups? I want to take hourly dumps of my production database. . Rohit Prakash Build a bright career through

Re: [GENERAL] Scheduling backup

2010-06-30 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to RP Khare : Is there any way to schedule PGSQL databases backups? I want to take hourly dumps of my production database. You can use the OS-scheduler, for instance, CRON for UNIX-like systems. Regards, Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1:

Re: [GENERAL] Scheduling backup

2010-06-30 Thread Vibhor Kumar
On 30/06/10 8:37 AM, RP Khare wrote: Is there any way to schedule PGSQL databases backups? I want to take hourly dumps of my production database. . Rohit Prakash Build a bright career through MSN Education

Fwd: [GENERAL] Scheduling backup

2010-06-30 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
Rohit, yes, there is. - Click on the Start-Icon (XP) or Windows-Icon(W7) to bring up your ProgrammsMenu - click on Control Panel - click on administration icon - DOUBLE-CLICK on planned tasks - click on new planned tasks, in the add planned task wizzard you can add the commands for running

Re: [GENERAL] Scheduling backup

2010-06-30 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/30/10 12:37 AM, RP Khare wrote: Is there any way to schedule PGSQL databases backups? I want to take hourly dumps of my production database. if those are your backup requirements, you should take a look at PITR, Point In Time Recovery, where you take just an occasional full database

[GENERAL] pgpool2 + slony 1 in master/slave mode with no load balance and no select replication - slaves handle all reads

2010-06-30 Thread stanimir petrov
In my current configuration all queries are sent to the master, i want write queries to be sent to master, and reads to slave. I have 1 pgpool setuped with 2 postgres servers in master/slave replication with slony1 Can this be done with 1 pgpool or i must use 2 pgpools for writes and reads.

[GENERAL] Problem with temporary tables

2010-06-30 Thread Andrea Lombardoni
Hello. I am trying to use temporary tables inside a stored procedure, but I get a rather puzzling error. I am currently using PostgreSQL 8.2.7 and this is my stored procedure: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test() RETURNS bigint AS $$ DECLARE v_oid bigint; BEGIN -- create tmp-table used to

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with temporary tables

2010-06-30 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to Andrea Lombardoni : Hello. The strange part is that the second time, the OID of the idmap is the same as the one in the first invocation! Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? The plan is cached, to avoid this problem, use dynamic SQL. In your case: EXECUTE

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with temporary tables

2010-06-30 Thread Andrea Lombardoni
Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? The plan is cached, to avoid this problem, use dynamic SQL. In your case: EXECUTE 'CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE idmap ...' Nice idea, but the problem persists, see log below. I am beginning to mentally place this into the 'bug' area :) CREATE OR

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with temporary tables

2010-06-30 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 6:21:44 am Andrea Lombardoni wrote: Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? The plan is cached, to avoid this problem, use dynamic SQL. In your case: EXECUTE 'CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE idmap ...' Nice idea, but the problem persists, see log below. I am

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with temporary tables

2010-06-30 Thread Andrea Lombardoni
You need to use EXECUTE for the INSERT statement as well per error: CONTEXT:  SQL statement INSERT INTO idmap (oldid, type, newid) VALUES(1,  1, 1) PL/pgSQL function test line 16 at SQL statement Thanks, this works and solves my problem. Still, I find this behaviour to be rather quirky.

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with temporary tables

2010-06-30 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Andrea Lombardoni and...@lombardoni.ch wrote: You need to use EXECUTE for the INSERT statement as well per error: CONTEXT:  SQL statement INSERT INTO idmap (oldid, type, newid) VALUES(1,  1, 1) PL/pgSQL function test line 16 at SQL statement Thanks, this

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with temporary tables

2010-06-30 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello in PostgreSQL 8.2 and older you have to respect one rule - newer to drop temp table. You don't must do it. After session end, all temp tables are removed. you can execute some initialisation part like CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION check_tab() RETURNS void AS $$ BEGIN BEGIN TRUNCATE

[GENERAL] Postgres table contents versioning

2010-06-30 Thread John Gage
Is there an equivalent of svn/git etc. for the data in a database's tables? Can I set something up so that I can see what was in the table two days/months etc. ago? I realize that in the case of rapidly changing hundred million row tables this presents an impossible problem. The best

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with temporary tables

2010-06-30 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 6:41:18 am Andrea Lombardoni wrote: You need to use EXECUTE for the INSERT statement as well per error: CONTEXT:  SQL statement INSERT INTO idmap (oldid, type, newid) VALUES(1,  1, 1) PL/pgSQL function test line 16 at SQL statement Thanks, this works and solves

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres table contents versioning

2010-06-30 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to John Gage : Is there an equivalent of svn/git etc. for the data in a database's tables? Can I set something up so that I can see what was in the table two days/months etc. ago? You can use tablelog: 15:53 akretschmer ??tablelog 15:53 pg_docbot_adz For information about

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres table contents versioning

2010-06-30 Thread Tim Landscheidt
John Gage jsmg...@numericable.fr wrote: Is there an equivalent of svn/git etc. for the data in a database's tables? Can I set something up so that I can see what was in the table two days/months etc. ago? I realize that in the case of rapidly changing hundred million row tables this

Re: [GENERAL] alter table schema, default sequences stay the same

2010-06-30 Thread Tom Lane
Sim Zacks s...@compulab.co.il writes: I haven't consumed enough caffeine today to recall the details, but I think you could have ended up with default expressions like the above if the database had been dumped and reloaded from 8.0 or earlier. nextval(regclass) was introduced in 8.1 precisely

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with temporary tables

2010-06-30 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 30 June 2010 6:41:18 am Andrea Lombardoni wrote: You need to use EXECUTE for the INSERT statement as well per error: CONTEXT:  SQL statement INSERT INTO idmap (oldid, type, newid) VALUES(1,  1, 1)

Re: [GENERAL] Backend Crash v8.4.2

2010-06-30 Thread Kelly Burkhart
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Kelly Burkhart kelly.burkh...@gmail.com writes: The crash left a core file, does the stack trace indicate anything crucial? (gdb) where #0  0x0068d884 in SearchCatCacheList () #1  0x0001 in ?? () #2  

Re: [GENERAL] Filtering by tags

2010-06-30 Thread Anders Steinlein
No one with any response on this? -- a. Anders Steinlein wrote: What's the recommended way of storing tags in a database, and then filtering based on the existence, or *non*-existence, of those tags on some entities? Our application stores contacts, where each contact may have any number of

Re: [GENERAL] Backend Crash v8.4.2

2010-06-30 Thread Tom Lane
Kelly Burkhart kelly.burkh...@gmail.com writes: I had our system people install the debug symbols and I get the same stack trace. I believe the symbols are indeed installed, yesterday when I started gdb I saw a bunch of lines like this: Missing separate debuginfo for

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql partitioning - single hot table or distributed

2010-06-30 Thread sam mulube
Hi Vick, Currently we aren't deleting anything due to business requirements though at some point we will have to start deleting out some data. I suspect when we do it won't be as simple as just dropping the oldest data; some customers will have data that we want to keep permanently, while others

Re: [GENERAL] Filtering by tags

2010-06-30 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Anders Steinlein and...@steinlein.no wrote: No one with any response on this? [...] Insert a LEFT JOIN in the first subquery? Tim (too lazy to test :-)) -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] Backend Crash v8.4.2

2010-06-30 Thread Kelly Burkhart
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Best guess from here is that you managed to run into some sort of cache-reload bug; those are very sensitive to concurrent operations since you only see them when a shared cache inval event happens at just the wrong time.  I

Re: [GENERAL] Filtering by tags

2010-06-30 Thread Sam Mason
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 05:54:51PM +0200, Anders Steinlein wrote: No one with any response on this? Fun problem, how about: SELECT x.email, x.segmentid FROM ( SELECT c.email, t.segmentid, t.tagname, t.tagtype FROM contacts c, segments_tags t) x LEFT JOIN contacts_tags t

Re: [GENERAL] dropdb weirdness

2010-06-30 Thread Steve Grey
Silly ideas, but is dropdb confusing the postgres user on the host and a database named postgres? (does the 1st database the command was run on still exist?) Does it do it right if the -U and -W switches are used? Steve On 29 June 2010 22:38, Geoffrey li...@serioustechnology.com wrote: Tom

Re: [GENERAL] Backend Crash v8.4.2

2010-06-30 Thread Tom Lane
Kelly Burkhart kelly.burkh...@gmail.com writes: RE: stripped symbols, I assume you mean configuring with --enable-debug specified, I see from my config.log that I did not specify that flag. Ah, if you built it yourself, that explains why your sysadmins' installation of symbol packages didn't

[GENERAL] reloading dump produces errors

2010-06-30 Thread Geoffrey
I thought you could use 8.3.* tools against any 8.3.* database, is this not correct? I'm getting the following errors: pg_dumpall -g -p 5436 -h matrix server version: 8.3.7; pg_dumpall version: 8.3.6 aborting because of version mismatch (Use the -i option to proceed anyway.) Would using the

Re: [GENERAL] reloading dump produces errors

2010-06-30 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Geoffrey li...@serioustechnology.com wrote: I thought you could use 8.3.* tools against any 8.3.* database, is this not correct?  I'm getting the following errors: pg_dumpall -g -p 5436 -h matrix server version: 8.3.7; pg_dumpall version: 8.3.6 aborting

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql partitioning - single hot table or distributed

2010-06-30 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:20 AM, sam mulube sam.mul...@gmail.com wrote: Inserting directly into the specific partition is interesting, but if you're going to go down that route then aren't you starting to implement the partitioning yourself in application code. In that case what benefit does

[GENERAL] php and connection

2010-06-30 Thread Szymon Guz
Hi, in a PHP application working on Postgres normally the new connection to the database is made per request. This can potentially cause too big overhead, so I've got some questions: - is the overhead really noticeable? - could this be solved using persistent connections, or the persistent

Re: [GENERAL] php and connection

2010-06-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 20:42 +0200, Szymon Guz wrote: Hi, in a PHP application working on Postgres normally the new connection to the database is made per request. This can potentially cause too big overhead, so I've got some questions: - is the overhead really noticeable? It can

[GENERAL] LINE 1: IDENTIFY_SYSTEM error infinitum

2010-06-30 Thread Zoid
Can anyone see why I keep getting the below IDENTIFY_SYSTEM error in my logs when I start my replication database? I use postgres primary as my prefix in the syslog and postgres replication as the replication one. Jun 30 14:10:25 postgres primary[19617]: [2-1] LOG: connection received:

Re: [GENERAL] php and connection

2010-06-30 Thread Thom Brown
On 30 June 2010 19:43, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 20:42 +0200, Szymon Guz wrote: Hi, in a PHP application working on Postgres normally the new connection to the database is made per request. This can potentially cause too big overhead, so I've got

Re: [GENERAL] php and connection

2010-06-30 Thread Szymon Guz
2010/6/30 Thom Brown thombr...@gmail.com On 30 June 2010 19:43, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 20:42 +0200, Szymon Guz wrote: Hi, in a PHP application working on Postgres normally the new connection to the database is made per request. This can

[GENERAL] LINE 1: IDENTIFY_SYSTEM error infinitum

2010-06-30 Thread Zoid
Can anyone see why I keep getting the below IDENTIFY_SYSTEM error in my logs when I start my replication database process? I use postgres primary as my prefix in the syslog and postgres replication as the replication one so their outputs are distinguishable. Jun 30 14:10:25 postgres

[GENERAL] Find users that have ALL categories

2010-06-30 Thread Nick
Is this the most efficient way to write this query? Id like to get a list of users that have the categories 1, 2, and 3? SELECT user_id FROM user_categories WHERE category_id IN (1,2,3) GROUP BY user_id HAVING COUNT(*) = 3 users_categories (user_id, category_id) 1 | 1 1 | 2 1 | 3 2 | 1 2 | 2 3 |

[GENERAL] Looking for multithreaded build of libpq for Windows

2010-06-30 Thread MD
I found out the libpq.lib come with Postgres installer (8.4.4) is not thread-safe. Where can I find a thread-safe build? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for multithreaded build of libpq for Windows

2010-06-30 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:28 PM, MD mingdeng2...@gmail.com wrote: I found out the libpq.lib come with Postgres installer (8.4.4) is not thread-safe. Where can I find a thread-safe build? It's always thread-safe on Windows. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The

Re: [GENERAL] DBI::Oracle problems

2010-06-30 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:10:02AM +1000, Howard Rogers wrote: I am stumped, despite working on this for a week! I am trying to create a 64-bit postgresql 8.4 database server which can retrieve data from various 64-bit Oracle 10gR2 and 11gR2 databases. Try downloading the latest version of

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for multithreaded build of libpq for Windows

2010-06-30 Thread MD
On Jun 29, 3:28 pm, MD mingdeng2...@gmail.com wrote: I found out the libpq.lib come with Postgres installer (8.4.4) is not thread-safe. Where can I find a thread-safe build? Anyone knows? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [GENERAL] LINE 1: IDENTIFY_SYSTEM error infinitum

2010-06-30 Thread Tom Lane
Zoid z...@the-lounge.us writes: Can anyone see why I keep getting the below IDENTIFY_SYSTEM error in my logs when I start my replication database process? Are you sure the primary is 9.0? It sure looks like you're getting a plain backend connection instead of a walsender, which is what I'd

Re: [GENERAL] LINE 1: IDENTIFY_SYSTEM error infinitum

2010-06-30 Thread Zoid
Tom, Actually, I'm using postgresql beta2 and my replication process is connectiong to my primary (or backend) at 5432 via the connect_info line of the recovery.conf file. I had already saw that the error is identical if I merely connect directly to the primary and issue the command

[GENERAL] Execute permission for functions

2010-06-30 Thread mirthcyy
Hi there, I'm a newbie to postgresql and I have some problems working with its permissions. For security purpose, I want that my application service account only has execution permissions to the functions I created. so what I did is: Create a group testgroup (not super user) Create a user

Re: [GENERAL] Execute permission for functions

2010-06-30 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 06/30/2010 02:09 PM, mirthcyy wrote: Hi there, I'm a newbie to postgresql and I have some problems working with its permissions. For security purpose, I want that my application service account only has execution permissions to the functions I created. so what I did is: Create a group

Re: [GENERAL] LINE 1: IDENTIFY_SYSTEM error infinitum

2010-06-30 Thread Tom Lane
Zoid z...@the-lounge.us writes: Actually, I'm using postgresql beta2 and my replication process is connectiong to my primary (or backend) at 5432 via the connect_info line of the recovery.conf file. I had already saw that the error is identical if I merely connect directly to the primary

[GENERAL] Cannot open table in new database

2010-06-30 Thread Phil Jackson
We've set up a Sql database for the first time and get an error reported back to our application from the ODBC session object when we try to open one of the tables. [42p01][7]ERROR Relation SqlAnal does not exist; table not found! Here is my database outline in the Admin tool Servers(1)

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot open table in new database

2010-06-30 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 07/01/2010 09:46 AM, Phil Jackson wrote: We've set up a Sql database for the first time and get an error reported back to our application from the ODBC session object when we try to open one of the tables. [42p01][7]ERROR Relation SqlAnal does not exist; table not found! Here is my database

[GENERAL] loading many queries from a file

2010-06-30 Thread Szymon Guz
Hi, I've got a file with many SQL queries, also some function definitions and so on. I'd like to load it to database, but using some library like JDBC/ODBC/DBI, not using the obvious psql. Do you know how I could load those many queries? Usually there could be loaded only one query, I saw that

[GENERAL] Problems building from source

2010-06-30 Thread Bidski
Hi all, I recently had some problems with a pre-built version of PostgreSQL and so I decided to try and build my own copy from source, but have run into even more problems. I downloaded a copy of the source, unpacked it into a directory and had a quick look at the possible configure options

[GENERAL] Can't EXTRACT number of months from an INTERVAL

2010-06-30 Thread Eliot, Christopher
I need to read a timestamp from the database and turn that into an integer describing how many months ago the event happened, rounding downward. The events are guaranteed to be in the past. To start with, I tried subtracting a sample timestamp as would be found in the DB from my benchmark

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot open table in new database

2010-06-30 Thread Phil Jackson
Hi Adrian The link says that; Identifier and key word names are case insensitive. But I have renamed the source table in lowercase and this gets me one step further. I'll carry on and see what happens next. Cheers Phil Jackson On 6/30/2010 3:18 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/01/2010

[GENERAL] left outer join fails because column .. does not exist in left table?

2010-06-30 Thread Rick . Casey
I have a JOIN error that is rather opaque...at least to me. I've using other JOIN queries on this project, which seem very similar to this one, which looks like: SELECT S.subjectid,STY.studyabrv,labID,boxnumber,wellrow,wellcolumn FROM DNASample D, IBG_Studies STY, Subjects S, ibg_projects P

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres table contents versioning

2010-06-30 Thread Chris Browne
jsmg...@numericable.fr (John Gage) writes: Is there an equivalent of svn/git etc. for the data in a database's tables? Can I set something up so that I can see what was in the table two days/months etc. ago? I realize that in the case of rapidly changing hundred million row tables this

Re: [GENERAL] left outer join fails because column .. does not exist in left table?

2010-06-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:01 PM, rick.ca...@colorado.edu wrote: I have a JOIN error that is rather opaque...at least to me. I've using other JOIN queries on this project, which seem very similar to this one, which looks like: SELECT

Re: [GENERAL] Can't EXTRACT number of months from an INTERVAL

2010-06-30 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jun 30, 2010, at 18:45 , Eliot, Christopher wrote: I need to read a timestamp from the database and turn that into an integer describing how many months ago the event happened, rounding downward. The events are guaranteed to be in the past. =# select timestamp '2010-06-26 00:00:00' -

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot open table in new database

2010-06-30 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday 01 July 2010 11:11:29 am Phil Jackson wrote: Hi Adrian The link says that; Identifier and key word names are case insensitive. But I have renamed the source table in lowercase and this gets me one step further. I'll carry on and see what happens next. Cheers Phil Jackson

Re: [GENERAL] left outer join fails because column .. does not exist in left table?

2010-06-30 Thread Tom Lane
rick.ca...@colorado.edu writes: SELECT S.subjectid,STY.studyabrv,labID,boxnumber,wellrow,wellcolumn FROM DNASample D, IBG_Studies STY, Subjects S, ibg_projects P LEFT OUTER JOIN ibg_ps_join IPJ USING (dnasampleid) WHERE D.subjectidkey=S.id AND STY.studyindex=D.studyindex

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot open table in new database

2010-06-30 Thread Tom Lane
Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com writes: On Thursday 01 July 2010 11:11:29 am Phil Jackson wrote: The link says that; Identifier and key word names are case insensitive. But I have renamed the source table in lowercase and this gets me one step further. You need to go to bottom of

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot open table in new database

2010-06-30 Thread Phil Jackson
Hi Adrian I had missed that bit. That makes sense now. Cheers Phil Jackson On 6/30/2010 5:04 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2010 11:11:29 am Phil Jackson wrote: Hi Adrian The link says that; Identifier and key word names are case insensitive. But I have renamed the

Re: [GENERAL] left outer join fails because column .. does not exist in left table?

2010-06-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: rick.ca...@colorado.edu writes: SELECT S.subjectid,STY.studyabrv,labID,boxnumber,wellrow,wellcolumn FROM DNASample D, IBG_Studies STY, Subjects S, ibg_projects P   LEFT OUTER JOIN ibg_ps_join IPJ USING (dnasampleid) WHERE    

Re: [GENERAL] loading many queries from a file

2010-06-30 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Szymon Guz mabew...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a file with many SQL queries, also some function definitions and so on. I'd like to load it to database, but using some library like JDBC/ODBC/DBI, not using the obvious psql. Do you know how I could load those many queries? Usually there could be

Re: [GENERAL] DBI::Oracle problems

2010-06-30 Thread Howard Rogers
Thank you David. I must say, I find mailing lists extremely confusing, and wish there was a proper forum type place to go to! My apologies for mailing to the wrong place: I am now not sure whether to keep it here or not! I only wrote here after noting that previous questions about DBI-Link (some

Re: [GENERAL] LINE 1: IDENTIFY_SYSTEM error infinitum

2010-06-30 Thread Zoid
Hmm. I tried the replication=1 switch but I was prompted with the below but I noticed the local requirement assumes a UNIX socket which i'm not using. And both databases are actually on the same box (just different ports). psql: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for replication connection

Re: [GENERAL] LINE 1: IDENTIFY_SYSTEM error infinitum

2010-06-30 Thread Fujii Masao
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Zoid z...@the-lounge.us wrote: Hmm.  I tried the replication=1 switch but I was prompted with the below but I noticed the local requirement assumes a UNIX socket which i'm not using.  And both databases are actually on the same box (just different ports).  

Re: [GENERAL] LINE 1: IDENTIFY_SYSTEM error infinitum

2010-06-30 Thread Tom Lane
Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com writes: Hmm... you'd like to get the system identifier from the postgres server via SQL rather than starting replication? If so, you can do that by adding replication entry into pg_hba.conf and performing the following $ psql replication=1 -c

Re: [GENERAL] LINE 1: IDENTIFY_SYSTEM error infinitum

2010-06-30 Thread Fujii Masao
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Fujii Masao masao.fu...@gmail.com writes: Hmm... you'd like to get the system identifier from the postgres server via SQL rather than starting replication? If so, you can do that by adding replication entry into pg_hba.conf and

Re: [GENERAL] Problems building from source

2010-06-30 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 00:30, Bidski bid...@bigpond.net.au wrote: Hi all, I recently had some problems with a pre-built version of PostgreSQL and so I decided to try and build my own copy from source, but have run into even more problems. I downloaded a copy of the source, unpacked it into

Re: [GENERAL] Problems building from source

2010-06-30 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 00:30, Bidski bid...@bigpond.net.au wrote: configure: error: zlib version is too old Use --without-zlib to disable zlib support. How can the latest version be too old?? More likely, it's not finding the right one.

Re: [GENERAL] Problems building from source

2010-06-30 Thread Bidski
Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net writes: More likely, it's not finding the right one. Probably it's picking up some completely different version of it because it's earlier in the search path. Here is the start of my PATH environment variable.