Re: [GENERAL] (Win32 Postgres) Slow to Connect first - OK afterwards

2005-07-17 Thread Tom Lane
Scott cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running PostgreSQL 8.0 on WinXP When I try to connect psql.exe -h localhost -p 5432 template1 postgres I have to wait 30 seconds before the Password: Prompt arrives 30 seconds after the password is entered. Once I am connected access is fast. I

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-14 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-07-14 00:57:57 -0400: On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:46:01PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote: Vivek Khera wrote: The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should read So that leaves Postgres. Your problem is solved ;-) (If you are accustomed to

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Neil == Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Neil Does MySQL with InnoDB not qualify as an ACID-compliant database? Not when you can store a value that is larger than allowed, and it is silently truncated to be within range. no *I* integrity there. That's regardless of InnoDB or not. MySQL

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-14 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am Donnerstag, den 14.07.2005, 00:57 -0400 schrieb Alvaro Herrera: On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:46:01PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote: Vivek Khera wrote: The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should read So that leaves Postgres. Your problem is solved ;-) (If you are

Re: [GENERAL] Stopping Postgres

2005-07-14 Thread Richard Huxton
David Mitchell wrote: What is the best way to quickly and reliably stop postgres? We've found that pg_ctl doesn't work for us very well, frequently failing to actually stop the postmaster (it times out and reports that it has failed to stop). This is the same even if we use -m immediate.

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-14 Thread Magnus Hagander
The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should read So that leaves Postgres. Your problem is solved ;-) (If you are accustomed to Oracle, you are probably expecting an ACID database, which rules out MySQL too). Does MySQL with InnoDB not qualify as an

Re: [GENERAL] Stopping Postgres

2005-07-14 Thread Tom Lane
David Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the best way to quickly and reliably stop postgres? We've found that pg_ctl doesn't work for us very well, frequently failing to actually stop the postmaster (it times out and reports that it has failed to stop). This is the same even if we

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 23:57, Alvaro Herrera wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:46:01PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote: Vivek Khera wrote: The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should read So that leaves Postgres. Your problem is solved ;-) (If you are accustomed to

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-14 Thread Ted Slate
To everyone, Thanks very much for your replies, and if these responses are any indication of Postgres quality then I'd be in good hands. Ted _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search!

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-14 Thread Gregory Youngblood
On Jul 13, 2005, at 9:57 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:46:01PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote: Vivek Khera wrote: The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should  read "So that leaves Postgres".  Your problem is solved ;-)(If you are accustomed to Oracle, you are

Re: [GENERAL] Stopping Postgres

2005-07-14 Thread David Mitchell
I'm using PG 8.0.1 on Gentoo Linux (kernel 2.6.10 SMP) on Pentium 4 w/ HT. I run the following as root: su postgres -c pg_ctl stop -D /var/lib/postgresql/data -m fast Or with -m immediate. Some of the backends stop but others never shutdown. Even if I do a killall postmaster (just with

Re: [GENERAL] Stopping Postgres

2005-07-14 Thread Tom Lane
David Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I run the following as root: su postgres -c pg_ctl stop -D /var/lib/postgresql/data -m fast Or with -m immediate. Some of the backends stop but others never shutdown. Even if I do a killall postmaster (just with sigterm, not -9), these backends hang

[GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Ted Slate
Hello Everyone, I considering moving a product to Solaris/Linux and trying to find a good DB. Oracle is out due to cost so as far as i know the only reasonable alternatives are Postgres or Codebase or MySQL. Does anyone here have any experience using Codebase or MySql? If I stick with a

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am Dienstag, den 12.07.2005, 17:16 + schrieb Ted Slate: Hello Everyone, I considering moving a product to Solaris/Linux and trying to find a good DB. Oracle is out due to cost so as far as i know the only reasonable alternatives are Postgres or Codebase or MySQL. Does anyone here

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Michael Schmidt
There are a number of good, objective, and informative comparisons available on the Internet, such as http://www.databasejournal.com/sqletc/article.php/3486596. You can Google something like "Postgresql mysql firebird comparison" to access these. I am migrating an application from Paradox

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Tadej Kanizar
@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not Hello Everyone, I considering moving a product to Solaris/Linux and trying to find a good DB. Oracle is out due to cost so as far as i know the only reasonable alternatives are Postgres or Codebase or MySQL. Does anyone here have any experience

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jul 12, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Ted Slate wrote: If I stick with a true RDBMS then Codebase is out. So that leaves Postgres and MySQL. The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should read So that leaves Postgres. Your problem is solved ;-) (If you are accustomed to

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 05:16:44PM +, Ted Slate wrote: Hello Everyone, I considering moving a product to Solaris/Linux and trying to find a good DB. Oracle is out due to cost so as far as i know the only reasonable alternatives are Postgres or Codebase or MySQL. Does anyone here have

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Bob
Even though PostgreSQL is more like an Oracle which is a good thing. It's like Oracle in function not in cost and adminstration. PostgreSQL not only fits into the enterprice really well it also fits in the mom and pop shops(dentist office,corner store, you name it that may not have any IT folks.

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:24:53PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: On Jul 12, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Ted Slate wrote: If I stick with a true RDBMS then Codebase is out. So that leaves Postgres and MySQL. The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should read So that leaves

[GENERAL] Stopping Postgres

2005-07-13 Thread David Mitchell
What is the best way to quickly and reliably stop postgres? We've found that pg_ctl doesn't work for us very well, frequently failing to actually stop the postmaster (it times out and reports that it has failed to stop). This is the same even if we use -m immediate. We don't want to kill -9,

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Neil Conway
Vivek Khera wrote: The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should read So that leaves Postgres. Your problem is solved ;-) (If you are accustomed to Oracle, you are probably expecting an ACID database, which rules out MySQL too). Does MySQL with InnoDB not qualify as

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:46:01PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote: Vivek Khera wrote: The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should read So that leaves Postgres. Your problem is solved ;-) (If you are accustomed to Oracle, you are probably expecting an ACID database,

Re: [GENERAL] 8.03 postgres install error

2005-06-22 Thread Prasad Duggineni
Message - From: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Prasad Duggineni [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Devrim GUNDUZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:23 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 8.03 postgres install error Prasad Duggineni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please advice

Re: [GENERAL] 8.03 postgres install error

2005-06-22 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Prasad Duggineni wrote: I have updated the software still it is occurring whenever I reboot my computer. I don't have any references to old config file.Please advice me to fix this problem. Hrrm... Did you use rpm -Uvh while upgrading? I hope you did not... --

Re: [GENERAL] 8.03 postgres install error

2005-06-22 Thread Prasad Duggineni
11:06 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 8.03 postgres install error Hi, On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Prasad Duggineni wrote: I have updated the software still it is occurring whenever I reboot my computer. I don't have any references to old config file.Please advice me to fix this problem. Hrrm... Did you

Re: [GENERAL] 8.03 postgres install error

2005-06-21 Thread Prasad Duggineni
:41 EDT ERROR: unrecognized configuration parameter ksqo Thanks Prasad - Original Message - From: Devrim GUNDUZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Prasad Duggineni [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 8.03 postgres install

Re: [GENERAL] 8.03 postgres install error

2005-06-21 Thread Tom Lane
Prasad Duggineni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please advice me to fix this problem. Jun 20 18:38:41 lab5md9181 postgres[2552]: [2-1] 2005-06-20 18:38:41 EDT ERROR: unrecognized configuration parameter ksqo KSQO has been obsolete for nigh five years now. Update whatever software you are using

Re: [GENERAL] 8.03 postgres install error

2005-06-21 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:01:00AM -0400, Prasad Duggineni wrote: I did install successully postgres 8.03 but I am getting the following error message in the syslog eventhough /var/pgsql/data is pointing to new configuration file which is postgres 8.03. ksqo is configuration parameter for

[GENERAL] 8.03 postgres install error

2005-06-15 Thread Prasad Duggineni
I am getting the following error when i try to install the postgres 8.03 . It seems to be problem with the installing postgres libs. Plesae advice me to fix this problem. warning: postgresql-libs-8.0.3-1PGDG.i686.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 748f7d0eerror: Failed dependencies:

Re: [GENERAL] 8.03 postgres install error

2005-06-15 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Prasad Duggineni wrote: I am getting the following error when i try to install the postgres 8.03 . It seems to be problem with the installing postgres libs. Plesae advice me to fix this problem. warning:

[GENERAL] logout Postgres from MS Access (ODBC) ?

2005-06-05 Thread Zlatko Matić
Hi!In MS Access/PostgreSQL combination I have login form. After user writes all neccessary inputs and push the button, a startup procedure creates DSN-less connection string, receates all linked tables and change connection string in all pass-through queries. It works nice...But, how to

Re: [GENERAL] Automate Postgres Backup In windows

2005-06-03 Thread Richard Huxton
Shaun Clements wrote: Problem there is the pg_dump requires a password. Ah - you'll be wanting the .pgpass password file - there's a section in the manuals under Client Interfaces/libpq Not the place you'd first look, I'll admit. Oh - might be worth googling for .pgpass and windows in case

Re: [GENERAL] Automate Postgres Backup In windows - resolved

2005-06-03 Thread Shaun Clements
Title: RE: [GENERAL] Automate Postgres Backup In windows - resolved Thanks Richard. For anyone interested The link Richard was referring to can be found below. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/libpq-pgpass.Html Kind Regards, Shaun Clements -Original Message

[GENERAL] Automate Postgres Backup In windows

2005-06-02 Thread Shaun Clements
Apologies if this post is a repeat. I am trying to automate a postgres database data and schema dump through windows. Does anyone have any suggestions on best way to do so. Thanks Kind Regards,Shaun Clements

Re: [GENERAL] Automate Postgres Backup In windows

2005-06-02 Thread Richard Huxton
Shaun Clements wrote: Apologies if this post is a repeat. I am trying to automate a postgres database data and schema dump through windows. Does anyone have any suggestions on best way to do so. Thanks Call pg_dump via a batch-file and run it from the Windows scheduler? Or am I missing

[GENERAL] Automate Postgres Backup In windows

2005-06-02 Thread Shaun Clements
I am trying to automate a postgres database data and schema dump through windows. Does anyone have any suggestions on best way to do so. Thanks Kind Regards,Shaun Clements

[GENERAL] aide postgres

2005-05-09 Thread Jannelli
Bonjour, je me tourne vers vous car je n'arrive pas à solutionner mon probleme qui est le suivant : Je dois créer une Bd Postgres avec une table qui doit utiliser un champ auto incrémental d'un pas de 6. J'ai trouvé le type auto incrémental qui est SERIAL , mais je n'arrive pas à voir

Re: [GENERAL] aide postgres

2005-05-09 Thread Masse Jacques
: [GENERAL] aide postgres Bonjour, je me tourne vers vous car je n'arrive pas à solutionner mon probleme qui est le suivant : Je dois créer une Bd Postgres avec une table qui doit utiliser un champ auto incrémental d'un pas de 6. J'ai trouvé le type auto incrémental qui est SERIAL

[GENERAL] resetting postgres password

2005-04-06 Thread D A GERM
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Re: [GENERAL] resetting postgres password

2005-04-06 Thread John DeSoi
On Apr 6, 2005, at 8:22 AM, D A GERM wrote: What is the easiest way to reset the postgres user password? Using the ALTER USER command. If you don't know the password, temporarily modify the pg_hba.conf file to allow local connections without a password ('trust'). You can then login without the

[GENERAL] DNN Postgres Data Provider

2005-03-31 Thread Randy How
Our company is moving toward developing web applications in the DNN 3 (Dot Net Nuke) framework. We currently have several applications supported by Postgres/PostGIS due to the spatial requirements. To ideally bridge these two technologies together would be to develop a DNN DataProvider

Re: [GENERAL] DNN Postgres Data Provider

2005-03-31 Thread Joe Audette
There is a .NET data provider that I know of but its not specific to DNN in any way. It can be used in any .NET project http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/npgsql/projdisplay.php Best Regards, Joe AudetteRandy How [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our company is moving toward developing web

[GENERAL] does postgres supports syslog-ng package for loging rather than using standart syslog package

2005-03-02 Thread jack alex
Dear All, I facing problem in my log rotation for postgres, it is not rotation properly. I am using syslog-ng package for loging. My logs for postgres looks like this, -rw-r--r--1 root root 10M Feb 28 23:24 postgres.log.20 -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Feb 28

Re: [GENERAL] Porting Postgres on VXworks+SH4

2005-02-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I'm considering the possibility of using postgres in embededded environment with VxWorks (RTOS) Hitachi SH4 processor. Can anyone tell me if porting postgres to such a platform is possible? If yes, which version of postgres supports this? You

[GENERAL] Porting Postgres on VXworks+SH4

2005-02-22 Thread anupam.chaudhury
Hi! Im considering the possibility of using postgres in embededded environment with VxWorks (RTOS) Hitachi SH4 processor. Can anyone tell me if porting postgres to such a platform is possible? If yes, which version of postgres supports this? You may provide me some reference links

[GENERAL] Installing postgres 8 using Remote Desktop Connection

2004-12-20 Thread Rosny
Hi, Any body has successfully installing postgres 8 using Remote Desktop Connection for windows 2003 server web edition? I am keep getting rdp session instead of console. Even using command : mstsc /v:servername /console. with this command I can see several others rdp sessions. which means I

[GENERAL] Regarding Postgres installation and administration on linux suse 9.0

2004-12-11 Thread Vikas Kumawat
Dear Sir /Madam, Weare working on Linux suse 9.0 and we have installed Postgres 7.3 through yast with the privileges of "root" user. But we are not able to start / configure the postgres database, Kindly help us in configuring and starting the same database and how can we create database

Re: [GENERAL] Regarding Postgres installation and administration on linux suse 9.0

2004-12-11 Thread Timothy Perrigo
On Dec 10, 2004, at 4:26 AM, Vikas Kumawat wrote:  x-tad-biggerDear Sir /Madam,/x-tad-bigger  x-tad-biggerWe are working on Linux suse 9.0 and we have installed Postgres 7.3 through yast with the privileges of  /x-tad-biggerx-tad-biggerroot/x-tad-biggerx-tad-bigger user. But we are not able to

[GENERAL] Using Postgres with Latin1 (ISO8859-1) and Unicode (utf-8) character sets.

2004-11-08 Thread J. Michael Crawford
I am posting this to the General and JDBC groups so that it's in the archive -- I know many people have had problems with Latin1 characters, and I'd like to share what has worked for us. If anyone can add this information to a more permanent FAQ, I'd be much obliged. --- Using Postgres with

[GENERAL] Oracle / Postgres Interface

2004-09-21 Thread Shah, Sameer
Hi All, I would appreciate any input on this dilemma: I have DataBase-A which is Oracle on Server A with FunctionA (PLSQL) I have DataBase-B which is Postgress on Server B with FunctionB (PgSQL) I need to call FunctionA from FunctionB I dont mind rewriting PgSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / Postgres Interface

2004-09-21 Thread Doug McNaught
Shah, Sameer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. I have DataBase-A which is Oracle on Server A with FunctionA (PLSQL) 2. I have DataBase-B which is Postgress on Server B with FunctionB (PgSQL) 3. I need to call FunctionA from FunctionB As far as I know, the on'y way to do

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle / Postgres Interface

2004-09-21 Thread Greg Stark
Doug McNaught [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shah, Sameer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. I have DataBase-A which is Oracle on Server A with FunctionA (PLSQL) 2. I have DataBase-B which is Postgress on Server B with FunctionB (PgSQL) 3. I need to call FunctionA

[GENERAL] building postgres for windows 2000?

2004-09-10 Thread Randy Yates
Has anyone successfully done this? I've got cygwin and the very first step crashes - bash-2.05$ pwd pwd /cygdrive/e bash-2.05$ cd postgresql-7.4.5 cd postgresql-7.4.5 bash-2.05$ ./configure ./configure bash: ./configure: bad interpreter: No such file or directory bash-2.05$ -- % Randy Yates

Re: [GENERAL] PHP + Postgres: More than 1000 postmasters produce

2004-06-05 Thread scott.marlowe
Have you tested it with regular pg_connects instead of pg_pconnect? while many people expect pconnects to be faster, often, when they result in the database having lots of open idle connections, they actually make the system slower than just using plain connects. You might want to look into

[GENERAL] Using Postgres from WSAD

2004-05-05 Thread Stonebrook, Jeff
Has anyone had success loading the Postgres JDBC drivers into WSAD ? Whenever I attempt a connection I receive the following error: Jeffrey Stonebrook attachment: image001.jpg

Re: [GENERAL] Using Postgres from WSAD

2004-05-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, I am not personally a java fiend but it looks like you are trying to use the PostgreSQL JDBC driver with SSL. I am unsure if that is possible with the community version. At least it didn't used to be. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Stonebrook, Jeff wrote: -- Has anyone had success loading

Re: [GENERAL] Using Postgres from WSAD

2004-05-05 Thread Kris Jurka
On Mon, 3 May 2004, Stonebrook, Jeff wrote: Has anyone had success loading the Postgres JDBC drivers into WSAD ? Whenever I attempt a connection I receive the following error: [Reason: Problems encountered while loading the jdbc driver. Reason: javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket ] Please do not

Re: [GENERAL] FW: Postgres alongside MS SQL Server

2004-04-23 Thread Magnus Hagander
How is it possible for Postgresql to freak out and take out the machine? How easy/likely is it for a program run as a normal user to blue screen an MS server? How easy/likely is it for a program run as a normal user to do the equiv to a FreeBSD/Linux server? With *decent drivers*

Re: [GENERAL] FW: Postgres alongside MS SQL Server

2004-04-23 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 06:13 PM 4/23/2004 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: MS built-in task manager doesn't let you kill all processes. It will let you kill any processes at your own level of permissions, just as Unix will. The difference is that a local admin on the machine is not equal to root, and can still not

Re: [GENERAL] FW: Postgres alongside MS SQL Server

2004-04-22 Thread Anony Mous
: [GENERAL] FW: Postgres alongside MS SQL Server Hello, Well it of course depends on what you are doing. Traditionally I would say, Are you nuts? but it really depends on what you are doing. It is all about risk... if PostgreSQL freaks out and takes out the machine, what will happen to the MS SQL

Re: [GENERAL] FW: Postgres alongside MS SQL Server

2004-04-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, Well it of course depends on what you are doing. Traditionally I would say, Are you nuts? but it really depends on what you are doing. It is all about risk... if PostgreSQL freaks out and takes out the machine, what will happen to the MS SQL server? What about cost associated with

Re: [GENERAL] upgrade postgres 7.1 to 7.4.2

2004-04-21 Thread scott.marlowe
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 14:36:57 +0100, csysi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i upgrade postgres version 7.1 to version 7.4.2 and it tell me that the databases are incompatible. Can i convert the databases ? You need to do a dump and

[GENERAL] upgrade postgres 7.1 to 7.4.2

2004-04-20 Thread csysi
Hello, i upgrade postgres version 7.1 to version 7.4.2 and it tell me that the databases are incompatible. Can i convert the databases ? Thank´s for the help Jorge ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to

Re: [GENERAL] upgrade postgres 7.1 to 7.4.2

2004-04-20 Thread Keith C. Perry
Quoting csysi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, i upgrade postgres version 7.1 to version 7.4.2 and it tell me that the databases are incompatible. Can i convert the databases ? Thank´s for the help Jorge ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [GENERAL] upgrade postgres 7.1 to 7.4.2

2004-04-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 14:36:57 +0100, csysi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i upgrade postgres version 7.1 to version 7.4.2 and it tell me that the databases are incompatible. Can i convert the databases ? You need to do a dump and reload to go between major releases (e.g. from 7.1.x to

[GENERAL] Hacking postgres backend process

2004-03-28 Thread Carl E. McMillin
Hi, Ive been working with Postgres for about a year, so Im little better than a newbie with Postgres internal architecture or its means of getting tricksy things done. Ive experience in Linux working with PostgreSQL 7.3, stored procedures in PL/pgSQL, and writing specialized shared

[GENERAL] using Postgres to store many small files

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Hixson
I am currently working on a Java web application. We are making use of the JDBC driver for Postgres 7.4.1. Part of our application allows the administrators to manage a large number of small images, most of them not exceeding 5KB. There is about a gigabyte of these small files. We're

Re: [GENERAL] using Postgres to store many small files

2004-03-04 Thread Richard Huxton
On Thursday 04 March 2004 01:03, Matthew Hixson wrote: [snip] I recently discovered the Hibernate project and was pleasantly surprised how simple it was to store an image in Postgres as a bytea using Hibernate's BLOB support. I'm wondering if Postgres would have any problem handling all of

[GENERAL] Are Postgres 7.4.1 RPMs available for SuSE 9.0 ?

2004-03-04 Thread Gellert, Andre
Hi everybody, currenty we use Suse Linux 9 and the rpms with 7.4.0 downloaded from ftp://ftp.gmd.de/mirrors2/suse/ftp.suse.com/people/max/postgresql-7.4/ . I don't know how to contact the person who build this rpms , and i cannot find other resources on the web, so does anyone know a place to

[GENERAL] using Postgres to store many small files

2004-03-03 Thread Matthew Hixson
I am currently working on a Java web application in which we are making use of the JDBC driver for Postgres 7.4.1. Part of our application allows the administrators to manage a large number of small images, most of them not exceeding 5KB. There is about a gigabyte of these small files.

Re: [GENERAL] PHP + Postgres: More than 1000 postmasters produce

2004-02-24 Thread Gellert, Andre
Hi to all, those helped or enjoyedmy english. I waited over the day to give a summary. your pgsql backend must be able to accommodate the max persistent connections * the max number of apache daemons. the php pgsql.max_persistent setting is per apache daemon. All of your answers where

Re: [GENERAL] Fw: postgres DB duplication

2004-01-28 Thread Thierry Missimilly
Cheer, If you want to make a cold backup, be carreful if you have distributed your database on different disks with symbolic links or by using the initloaction command as a tar or cpio won't save the symbolic tree . Otherwise you can save all your $PGDATA directory and copy it on your new

[GENERAL] Fw: postgres DB duplication

2004-01-27 Thread Colm De Barra
(B (B (BHi (BI've built up 30 gig database on a performance test (Bmachine which (Bnow needs to be transferred over onto the (Bproduction hardware (Bwhich will be going live. (BThe documentation suggests using pg_dump or a file (Bsystem level backup (B- does anyone have any

Re: [GENERAL] Fw: postgres DB duplication

2004-01-27 Thread Uwe C. Schroeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- (BHash: SHA1 (B (B (BIf the test and productive machine are the same type (i.e. intel) and the (Bpostgresql version is the same then I would try to do a filesystem copy. (BJust make sure both machines have the postmaster shut down and then copy over

[GENERAL] Compiling postgres-7.4.1

2004-01-21 Thread Sathiamoorthy Balasubramaniyan (ext_TCS)
hello, Iam trying to install postgres-7.4.1 on my tru64 (O.S version 5.1A) box without the shared library support. Here's my list of commands: ./configure --with-includes=/opt/gcc-33/include --prefix=/tools/postgres-741 --disable-shared gmake gmake install The gmake successfully compiles the

[GENERAL] about postgres odbc on wondows

2004-01-18 Thread LitelWang
After I installed the driver I found three DLL files from windows(2000) ODBC manager : psqlodbc.dll psqlodbc25.dll psqlodbc30w.dll What's the difference ? Thanks . ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the

[GENERAL] serverless postgres, embedded firebird, etc.

2004-01-16 Thread Ann Harrison
Tom, Actually, I've never had a corrupted firebird database. There were two bugs in an older version of InterBase that produced income for me. The first was a failure to realize that a file had just gone over 4Gb and therefore the word holding the offset had rolled over and the system had

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle - Postgres live translation?

2004-01-15 Thread Jan Wieck
Eric wrote: Hi, I would like to know if a daemon exist to intercept Oracle queries and translate to postgresql query... I have a windows app (AccPac) that connect to an Oracle server via ODBC. I would like to replace the Oracle server with a postgresql. Accpac support only Oracle, DB2,

Re: [GENERAL] about postgres odbc on wondows

2004-01-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
LitelWang wrote: After I installed the driver I found three DLL files from windows(2000) ODBC manager : psqlodbc.dll psqlodbc25.dll psqlodbc30w.dll What's the difference ? The different versions of the ODBC protocol they support. Thanks . ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] about postgres odbc on wondows

2004-01-14 Thread LitelWang
Can you give the details ? Or some Web links .Thanks. === LitelWang wrote: After I installed the driver I found three DLL files from windows(2000) ODBC manager : psqlodbc.dll psqlodbc25.dll psqlodbc30w.dll What's the difference ? The different versions of

[GENERAL] Installing Postgres w/RH9

2003-12-24 Thread Lynn . Tilby
I just installed RH9 on a new machine and installed postgres in the installation process. I got the following error when trying to start the postmaster so... I tried removing the postgres software then reinstalling. rpm first said the software was not installed then when I tried to reinstall

Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgres w/RH9

2003-12-24 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed RH9 on a new machine and installed postgres in the installation process. I got the following error when trying to start the postmaster so... I tried removing the postgres software then reinstalling. rpm first said the software

[GENERAL] Uninstall postgres 7.4

2003-12-12 Thread Josué Maldonado
Hello list, What's the right way to uninstall postgres 7.4 in Linux (RH 8)?. Thanks in advance -- Josué Maldonado ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes

Re: [GENERAL] Uninstall postgres 7.4

2003-12-12 Thread Josué Maldonado
Hello Scott, I forgot to mention that, it was installed from source. Thanks for anwsering. scott.marlowe wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Josué Maldonado wrote: Hello list, What's the right way to uninstall postgres 7.4 in Linux (RH 8)?. That really depends on how it was installed. If

Re: [GENERAL] Uninstall postgres 7.4

2003-12-12 Thread scott.marlowe
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Josué Maldonado wrote: Hello list, What's the right way to uninstall postgres 7.4 in Linux (RH 8)?. That really depends on how it was installed. If installed via RPM, then you do 'rpm -e postgrespackagenameshere'. If it was installed from source, 'make uninstall'. or

[GENERAL] FW: Postgres 7.4 runing on BSD

2003-12-05 Thread Gregory S. Williamson
If anyone has any advice on building Postgres 7.4 for a freeBSD box it sure would be welcome. TIA, Greg Williamson DBA GlobeXplorer LLC -- well, it takes gmake to build Postgres.. having trouble installing 'gmake' on the BSD box; it started to do its BSD autoinstall

Re: [GENERAL] FW: Postgres 7.4 runing on BSD

2003-12-05 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Friday, December 05, 2003 12:43:24 -0800 Gregory S. Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone has any advice on building Postgres 7.4 for a freeBSD box it sure would be welcome. cvsup your ports tree, cd /usr/ports/databases/postgresql7; make; make install TIA, Greg Williamson DBA

Re: [GENERAL] FW: Postgres 7.4 runing on BSD

2003-12-05 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Friday, December 05, 2003 17:29:06 -0500 Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LR == Larry Rosenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LR --On Friday, December 05, 2003 12:43:24 -0800 Gregory S. Williamson LR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone has any advice on building Postgres 7.4 for a freeBSD

Re: [GENERAL] FW: Postgres 7.4 runing on BSD

2003-12-05 Thread Vivek Khera
LR == Larry Rosenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LR --On Friday, December 05, 2003 12:43:24 -0800 Gregory S. Williamson LR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If anyone has any advice on building Postgres 7.4 for a freeBSD box it sure would be welcome. LR cvsup your ports tree, cd

Re: [GENERAL] FW: Postgres 7.4 runing on BSD

2003-12-05 Thread Vivek Khera
LR == Larry Rosenman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LR PORTNAME?= postgresql LR PORTVERSION?= 7.4 LR PORTREVISION?= 0 LR I did :-0) I stand outdated ;-) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index

[GENERAL] XML Postgres Functions

2003-12-01 Thread zerobearing2
Hi all- I'm migrating to postgres from the MS SQL Server land, as I can see a great potential with postgres, I was wondering if anyone has experimented or started a project with XML inside user defined functions? I've seen the contrib/xml shipped with the distro, as I see it's usefulness, it's

Re: [GENERAL] optimum postgres server configuration

2003-08-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
* Disk speed 4 drives... 7200 RPM... as big as you can get. Get 8 Meg cache drives so you have a 3 year warranty. * Hardware RAID 3Ware IDE controller (or SATA) running RAID 10 * Memory 2 gig * Processor speed 1800+ * Processor type Athlon MP * Multiple processors 2 We are able to run

Re: [GENERAL] Can postgres supports Chinese GB18030?

2003-07-28 Thread Weiping He
LitelWang wrote: It is useful for me to use Chinese tone sort order . Any version on Cygwin? Thanks for any advice . I never try GB18030 in Cygwin, but in Linux or other Unix system, you may use gb18030 as client side encoding and use UNICODE as backend encoding, and it's pretty good.

[GENERAL] optimum postgres server configuration

2003-07-24 Thread tom dyson
We're about to buy a new server for dedicated Postgres serving. It'll be serving 4 - 10 databases (average dump size 20Gb) for various web applications. What is the list's advice on optimum configuration of hardware and software, given a smallish fixed budget (around $US 2000)? In particular,

Re: [GENERAL] optimum postgres server configuration

2003-07-24 Thread nolan
We're about to buy a new server for dedicated Postgres serving. It'll be serving 4 - 10 databases (average dump size 20Gb) for various web applications. What is the list's advice on optimum configuration of hardware and software, given a smallish fixed budget (around $US 2000)? In particular,

Re: [GENERAL] optimum postgres server configuration

2003-07-24 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, tom dyson wrote: We're about to buy a new server for dedicated Postgres serving. It'll be serving 4 - 10 databases (average dump size 20Gb) for various web applications. What is the list's advice on optimum configuration of hardware and software, given a smallish fixed

Re: [GENERAL] Couple Postgres View Questions

2003-07-16 Thread Doug McNaught
Brian Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a couple questions about Postgres and Views. I am curious about what Postgres actually does in regards to views and the internal steps that it takes. Are these the steps that it takes for each query that includes a view? 1. Dynamically

Re: [GENERAL] Couple Postgres View Questions

2003-07-16 Thread Darko Prenosil
- Original Message - From: Brian Maguire [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Postgresql General Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 6:44 PM Subject: [GENERAL] Couple Postgres View Questions I have a couple questions about Postgres and Views. I am curious about what Postgres

[GENERAL] Is Postgres broken in Red Hat 9?

2003-07-08 Thread Dragan Matic
Hi, there is a small problem here I have, I would appreciate any suggestion. We were using Postgres 7.2.x and later 7.3.x under Red Hat 8, and everything worked fine. Clients are working under windows and are communicating to Postgres via ODBC. This weekend we tried to upgrade to Red Hat

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