Re: [ADMIN] mssql and postgres

2004-06-20 Thread Grega Bremec
...and on Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 08:16:36PM -0300, Elielson Fontanezi used the keyboard: > Hi folks! > > I would like to know if there is someway to > interface mssqlserver with pgsql such that > sqlserver can understand the pgsql encoding. > > Thanx a lot! Hi Elielson, I know of no pro

Re: [ADMIN] cygwin installation problem (windows platform)

2004-06-20 Thread mike g
What version of postgres did you install? If it is 7.4.2 or later then you must install the cygserver package and start that. ipc-daemon2 is not being used anymore. Mike On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 08:00, Harry wrote: > Hi all, >I install cygwin in my windows2000 so as to install postgresql. When

Re: [ADMIN] Is this a "Stupid Question" ?

2004-06-20 Thread Grega Bremec
...and on Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 07:50:53PM -0700, Adam Smith used the keyboard: > I have posted this and similar questions repeatedly and can't even raise > a single response. I am being led to believe that this then 'Must be a > stupid question' although people say that there is no stupid questio

Re: [ADMIN] Is this a "Stupid Question" ?

2004-06-20 Thread CaT
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 07:50:53PM -0700, Adam Smith wrote: > I am attempting an install of 7.4.3 on FreeBSD O/S 4.9, apparently > remnants of 7.3.x are scattered around on the disk from (a) previous > ports installation, causing mutex_lock/unlock, libpq.so and other > installation problems. I w

Re: [ADMIN] Is this a "Stupid Question" ?

2004-06-20 Thread mike g
Do you know how it was originally installed? RPM or compiled source? Are you also transferring data from 7.3 to 7.4? Mike > > RPM can be > On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 21:50, Adam Smith wrote: > > I have posted this and similar questions repeatedly and can't even raise > > a single response. I am be

[ADMIN] Is this a "Stupid Question" ?

2004-06-20 Thread Adam Smith
I have posted this and similar questions repeatedly and can't even raise a single response. I am being led to believe that this then 'Must be a stupid question' although people say that there is no stupid question. Is that another for political correctness I am attempting an install of 7.4.3 on

Re: [ADMIN] Database Schemas generator

2004-06-20 Thread Reto
Frederic, since I had the need for something anywhere available I've written a tiny Perl script which I put online: http://www.infocopter.com/know-how/postgres-tool.htm For more complex needs I recommend the following GUI tool: http://www.pgadmin.org/ pgAdmin III is a powerful administration a

Re: [ADMIN] VARCHAR -vs- CHAR: huge performance difference?

2004-06-20 Thread Iain
There is some information on www.varlena.com I think it may have been Scott who wrote the article that I'm thinking about. There is other information about, your best bet may be google. Regards Iain - Original Message - From: "C. Bensend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: [ADMIN] Database Schemas generator

2004-06-20 Thread Marius Andreiana
On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 11:27 -0400, Frederic Medery wrote: > Hello, > > Do you know a good postgresql database schema generator ? dia+tedia2sql google for URLs -- Marius Andreiana Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania http://www.galuna.ro ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [ADMIN] hi.

2004-06-20 Thread V i s h a l Kashyap @ [Sai Hertz And Control Systems]
Dear Janio , checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files! Check your system clock "Check your system clock" check this Or your bison tarball is older than the alre

Re: [ADMIN] hi.

2004-06-20 Thread V i s h a l Kashyap @ [Sai Hertz And Control Systems]
Dear Janio , checking for tar... /bin/tar checking for strip... strip checking whether it is possible to strip libraries... yes checking for bison... bison -y *** The installed version of Bison is too old. PostgreSQL needs *** Bison version 1.875 or later. Upgrade your Bison and make Packages Ho

[ADMIN] hi.

2004-06-20 Thread Janio Rosa da Silva
Hi,   I am trying install the postgresql-7.4.3 simple installation. I did ./configure command at the postgresql directory source. While the configuring proccess I receiving the follow message:   checking for tar... /bin/tarchecking for strip... stripchecking whether it is possible to strip li

[ADMIN] Database Schemas generator

2004-06-20 Thread Frederic Medery
Hello, Do you know a good postgresql database schema generator ? Does not have to be free or open source. Thanks !!! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [ADMIN] restoring a database from a file copy

2004-06-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 16:42:18 -0700, Chris Fjell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can a database system be restored just from the data under the > installation directory? Only if the postmaster has been shut down. For live backups you should be using pg_dumpall. ---(end

Re: [ADMIN] Missing or erroneus pg_hba.conf file

2004-06-20 Thread Tom Lane
Sandro Ribeiro - Claro RS - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My server is working with pgsql 7.4.2 and Unix Solaris 8. > [ this pg_hba.conf line doesn't work: ] > hostall all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust We've seen some reports suggesting that Solaris has a problem wi

Re: [ADMIN] Debugging SQL Statements from *any* client(s)

2004-06-20 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reto) writes: > I've run postmaster with the highest > possible debug level but the SQL statements are not being logged yet You need to turn on log_statement ... regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [ADMIN] Missing or erroneus pg_hba.conf file

2004-06-20 Thread Jim Seymour
Sandro Ribeiro - Claro RS - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello! > > My server is working with pgsql 7.4.2 and Unix Solaris 8. Well, when a try a > connection from my PC to the server, using pgAdminIII, I get the message > above. This is my pg_hba.conf file: > > local all all

Re: [ADMIN] problem with 7.4.2 for RH-9

2004-06-20 Thread Peter Eisentraut
frank wrote: > Dear Sir: > > After complied my postgresql-7.4.2 with the RH-linux9 operation > system, > > there showed a problem on my configure.log as the file below with > bold type word, . > . > . > configure: failed program was: > #ifndef __cplusplus > choke me > #endif As long as PostgreSQ

Re: [ADMIN] initdb problem (Win2K Pro, cygwin)

2004-06-20 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Harry wrote: > creating template1 database in > /usr/local/postgresql7.4.1/data/base/1... DEBUG: > invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=1081344) > FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Function not > implemented DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=1, > size=1081344, 03600). DEBUG: proc_

[ADMIN] Debugging SQL Statements from *any* client(s)

2004-06-20 Thread Reto
DEBUG5 is not enough to log SQL statements -- I've set up a courier-imap POP server authenticating against a PostgreSQL table through authdaemond/authpgsqlrc. I can verify courier-imap sends its SELECT statement to make a login attempt but the POP login fail

[ADMIN] initdb fails on hpux

2004-06-20 Thread Mathew, Anitha
Hi, We are trying to install PostgreSql-7.4.2 on HPUX 11.23i. after installation initdb fails with the following error message. dome % ./bin/initdb -D /xxx/postgresql-7.4.2/data ./bin/initdb[127]: 1588 Killed ./bin/initdb[131]: 1589 Killed ./bin/initdb[136]: 1590 Killed The program /xxx/post

[ADMIN] Missing or erroneus pg_hba.conf file

2004-06-20 Thread Sandro Ribeiro - Claro RS -
Title: Missing or erroneus pg_hba.conf file Hello! My server is working with pgsql 7.4.2 and Unix Solaris 8. Well, when a try a connection from my PC to the server, using pgAdminIII, I get the message above. This is my pg_hba.conf file: local   all all   

[ADMIN] Error reporting

2004-06-20 Thread dDave
Hi, I use PG 7.4 and adoDB library with PHP to develop. Recently I noticed errors were being logged in my /var/log/messages for Postgresql errors, however, my transactions were not bombing out as expected. A simple example: $sql = "SELECT my_pgsql_function($x,$y)"; $db->BeginTrans(); $rs=$db->E

[ADMIN] cygwin installation problem (windows platform)

2004-06-20 Thread Harry
Hi all, I install cygwin in my windows2000 so as to install postgresql. When I use the postgresql installed together with cygwin, I came into this problem: First, I run ipc-daemon2 & Second, when I try to initialize the database by running the following command, initdb -D /usr/

[ADMIN] problem with 7.4.2 for RH-9

2004-06-20 Thread frank
Dear Sir:   After complied my postgresql-7.4.2 with the RH-linux9 operation system,   there showed a problem on my configure.log as the file below with bold type word, . . . configure: failed program was:#ifndef __cplusplus  choke me#endif. . . configure: failed program was:#line 2642 "confi

Re: [ADMIN] Installation problem - mutex_lock/unlock or libpq.so ?

2004-06-20 Thread Adam Smith
BTW: Forgot to mention FreeBSD 4.9 O?S Adam Smith wrote: Installation of 7.4.2, even with just ./configure : gmake step ==> _ gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/smith/Temp_holding/staging-area/postgresql/postgresql-7.4.2/src/backend/parser' gcc

Re: [ADMIN] VARCHAR -vs- CHAR: huge performance difference?

2004-06-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 09:57, C. Bensend wrote: > > The problem here isn't pg_autovacuum, but too small of settings for > > fsm. I've run multi-day tests where autovacuum kept the size of the > > database pretty much the same with 200+ updates a second going on. > > Hi Scott, > >Could you exp

[ADMIN] Truncation of krb5 principals

2004-06-20 Thread Enrico Scholz
Hello, I am using krb5 authorization and have a problem with the mangling of krb5 principal names. E.g. on authentication, the principals 'foo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and 'foo/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' will be both rewritten to the local username 'foo', which is completely unwanted and might be a security pro

[ADMIN] mssql and postgres

2004-06-20 Thread Elielson Fontanezi
Hi folks!       I would like to know if there is someway to interface mssqlserver with pgsql such that sqlserver can understand the pgsql encoding.       Thanx a lot!       >\\\!/<   55 11 5080 9258    !_"""_!   Elielson Fontanezi 

[ADMIN] PostgresSQL 7.3.x removal

2004-06-20 Thread Adam Smith
Attempting a FreeBSD install of 7.4.3, apparently remnants of 7.3.x are scattered around on the disk from (a) previous ports installation, causing mutex_lock/unlock, libpq.so and other installation problems. How do I know what, & where all these fragments are located or how do I uninstall all o

[ADMIN] How do I clean up a site from an old version to install anew

2004-06-20 Thread Adam Smith
I am attempting an install of 7.4.3 on FreeBSD O/S 4.9, apparently remnants of 7.3.x are scattered around on the disk from (a) previous ports installation, causing mutex_lock/unlock, libpq.so and other installation problems. I want to reconfigure and reinstall. How do I know what, & where all t

[ADMIN] initdb problem (Win2K Pro, cygwin)

2004-06-20 Thread Harry
Hi all, When I try to run 'initdb' in a cygwin environment, I got this output: $ /usr/local/postgresql7.4.1/bin/initdb -d -D /usr/local/postgresql7.4.1/data Running in debug mode. initdb: internal variables: PGDATA=/usr/local/postgresql7.4.1/data datadir=/usr/local/postgresql7.4.1/share

Re: [ADMIN] [Support i5GKDLjR008723] PGRES_FATAL_ERROR: out of

2004-06-20 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Tom, David, thanks for the hints. Following you, I have upgraded to 7.3.4 (the last version for which an RPM by Red Hat is provided) and the problem seems gone now. Regards, Jochen On Fr, 2004-06-18 at 17:22, Tom Lane wrote: > "David F. Skoll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, Jochen. > >>

[ADMIN] PGRES_FATAL_ERROR: out of free buffers: time to abort!

2004-06-20 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
Hi, we are running the CanIt mailscanner on some machine. (See http://www.canit.ca .) This application is based on postgresql. However, we frequently observe the following message in the log files: PGRES\_FATAL_ERROR : ERROR: out of free buffers: time to abort! Any hints what's going on? S

[ADMIN] restoring a database from a file copy

2004-06-20 Thread Chris Fjell
Can a database system be restored just from the data under the installation directory? I backed-up my database using "rsync /var/lib/pgsql " Then I upgraded my rpms from 7.3.4 to 7.4. Then I tried to start the server as usual and it complained about version conflict (of course). I removed the 7

[ADMIN] Installation problem - mutex_lock/unlock or libpq.so ?

2004-06-20 Thread Adam Smith
Installation of 7.4.2, even with just ./configure : gmake step ==> _ gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/home/smith/Temp_holding/staging-area/postgresql/postgresql-7.4.2/src/backend/parser' gcc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmi