Re: [ADMIN] About Postgres Db size

2003-11-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
Sure, see the section in the manual titled "Managing Disk Space". --- Ravikant Mohite wrote: > Hi > Can Anybody tell me how to check the DB Size of PostgreSQL 7.3.4 ? > > Regards > Ravikant -- Bruce Momjian

Re: [ADMIN] revoke create table from a user

2003-11-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 15:47:50 -0500, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to revoke the create table privilege from a user in a > database. > > I have revoked create on database and on the public schema, yet I can > still create table as that user. what else do I n

Re: [ADMIN] Volunteers Needed

2003-11-08 Thread Tom Lane
"John Pagakis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Once upon a time a friend of mine and I wrote a document that I believe is > still on techdocs: "Compensating for Unimplemented Features in PostgreSQL > 7.1". > Therein was included a perl script (that really *DID* work when we published > it) that was i

Re: [ADMIN] Database Error (Bogus atrribute number 24....)

2003-11-08 Thread Steven Tower
Thats the thing, I have no idea how I got into this.  I was cutting and pasting the view from one database to another.  Did a refresh, it didn't show, I pasted again, it allowed it and then all hell broke lose. This was in pg_admin III. Thanks for the fix, I will try, I can afford to lose it

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-11-08 Thread Stephen Frost
* Christopher Browne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On one of our test servers, I set "fsync=false", and a test load's > load time dropped from about 90 minutes to 3 minutes. (It was REALLY > update heavy, with huge numbers of tiny transactions.) > > Which is, yes, quite spectacularly faster. But

[ADMIN] revoke create table from a user

2003-11-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to revoke the create table privilege from a user in a database.  I have revoked create on database and on the public schema, yet I can still create table as that user.  what else do I need to do? thanks, signature Jim Bagley Database Manager Trader Electronic Media (757) 3

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] [HACKERS] retrieve statement from catalogs

2003-11-08 Thread David Busby
Can you just use the SQL logging and read that file afterwords? /djb - Original Message - From: "Jaime Casanova" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 14:59 Subject: Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] [HACKERS] retrieve s

[ADMIN] Volunteers Needed

2003-11-08 Thread John Pagakis
Once upon a time a friend of mine and I wrote a document that I believe is still on techdocs: "Compensating for Unimplemented Features in PostgreSQL 7.1". Therein was included a perl script (that really *DID* work when we published it) that was intended to script out the foreign key constraints of

Re: [ADMIN] delete postmaster.pid on windows xp home edition before startup postmaster

2003-11-08 Thread Ivaylo Mutafchiev
We have had the same problems/experiense here. What we have done to solve the problem was to write a simple application that runs as service - it runs before CygWin Ipc Daemon and checks for existing .pid file. If it exists - delete it. You should register CygWin service to be dependent on this new

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-11-08 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff) writes: > On 06 Nov 2003 15:21:03 +0100 > Marek Florianczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> fsync = false > > HOLD THE BOAT THERE BATMAN! > > I would *STRONGLY* advise not running with fsync=false in production as > PG _CANNOT_ guaruntee data consistancy

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-11-08 Thread William Yu
scott.marlowe wrote: Note that if you're on an IDE drive and you haven't disabled the write cache, you may as well turn off fsync as well, as it's just getting in the way and doing nothing, i.e. the IDE drives are already lying about fsync so why bother. What about Serial ATA? -

[ADMIN] About Postgres Db size

2003-11-08 Thread Ravikant Mohite
Hi     Can Anybody tell me how to check the DB Size of PostgreSQL 7.3.4 ?   Regards Ravikant

[ADMIN] Problems creating users

2003-11-08 Thread alvaro
Hi, I got this little problem creating users: I want to connect to my db with a new user and I must create it like if he was a superuser, otherwise I can not conncet to my database. Could some body help me Thanks a lot Alvaro ---(end of broadcast)---

[ADMIN] Problems Compiling eRserver

2003-11-08 Thread Matthew Montgomery
I'm trying to build erserver_v1.2 on a SuSE 8.2 server. I've got Sun's j2sdk1.4.2_02 and the following env variables set: LESSKEY=/etc/lesskey.bin INFODIR=/usr/local/info:/usr/share/info:/usr/info MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/opt/gnome2/man:/opt/gnome/man HOSTNAME=linux X

[ADMIN] Database Error (Bogus attribute number 24....)

2003-11-08 Thread Steven Tower
I am receiving the following error from Postgres 7.3.3 on Linux Bogus attribute number 24 for vs_actfreighservices (a view). This error is preventing me from doing a dump on the database's and I cannot delete the view that has the problem. Is there a way I can work around this?  I can access

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem - 10.000 databases

2003-11-08 Thread CoL
Hi, Christopher Browne wrote, On 11/6/2003 4:40 PM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff) writes: On 06 Nov 2003 15:21:03 +0100 Marek Florianczyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: fsync = false HOLD THE BOAT THERE BATMAN! I would *STRONGLY* advise not running with fsync=false in production as PG

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres Web Page

2003-11-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Juan Miguel wrote: > Ok, the web works fine. The problem is my Zone Alarm Pro Firewall. I can > browse the most web pages, but when I connect to www.postgresql.org, the > download stops. Shuting down the firewall, the web is already accesible. Any way of determining why? >

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres Web Page

2003-11-08 Thread Juan Miguel
Ok, the web works fine. The problem is my Zone Alarm Pro Firewall. I can browse the most web pages, but when I connect to www.postgresql.org, the download stops. Shuting down the firewall, the web is already accesible. Thanks. works fine for me from here, and they are all on the same set of ser

Re: [ADMIN] Database Error (Bogus atrribute number 24....)

2003-11-08 Thread Tom Lane
Steven Tower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am receiving the following error from Postgres 7.3.3 on Linux > Bogus attribute number 24 for vs_actfreighservices (a view). Hm, can you tell us how you got into this fix? That shouldn't happen AFAICS. As far as getting out of the problem is concerned

[ADMIN] Database Error (Bogus atrribute number 24....)

2003-11-08 Thread Steven Tower
I am receiving the following error from Postgres 7.3.3 on Linux Bogus attribute number 24 for vs_actfreighservices (a view). This error is preventing me from doing a dump on the database's and I cannot delete the view that has the problem. Is there a way I can work around this?  I can access