[ADMIN] psql pg_dump

2009-04-01 Thread Carol Walter
Greetings, Is there a way to build just the binaries? My users connect from another machine. The libraries are not in the same place on the machine. I don't want to add the load library path to their profiles because there are two instances of postgres they need to get to and the

Re: [ADMIN] privilege inheritance to a login role through a group role

2009-04-01 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: If there's some identifiable bit of the documentation that confused you about this, please point it out so we can improve it. ... because, apparently, lots of people are bitten by the same misunderstanding. -- Alvaro Herrera

[ADMIN] backing up a PostGRES DB

2009-04-01 Thread Richard Sickler
Hello, I'm putting together a web app that uses PostGRES as a backend and I'm looking for comments on backup strategy. The entire web app, (Tomcat and PostGRES), will be run in a virtual machine. I was thinking about quiescing the DB, then copying the files that make up the virtual machine to

Re: [ADMIN] backing up a PostGRES DB

2009-04-01 Thread Scott Whitney
Well, there are a lot of unanswered questions in your post. What VM technology are you using? Does it support clustering or some such? Do you need to backup the entire VM, or just the PG data? Generally speaking, if the machine itself (installed OS and programs, etc) are not changing, what I

Re: [ADMIN] backing up a PostGRES DB

2009-04-01 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Sickler richard.sick...@avagotech.com writes: The entire web app, (Tomcat and PostGRES), will be run in a virtual machine. I was thinking about quiescing the DB, then copying the files that make up the virtual machine to some network attached backup store. This will be done once a

[ADMIN] Without schemas

2009-04-01 Thread Félix Sánchez Rodríguez
Greetings: I'm a PHP programmer and I've had some troubles on using PostgreSQL as Database Manager. The point is that I want to know if there is anyway one can create a table without inserting inside the public schema. What would be desirable is that my tables could be outside any schema.

Re: [ADMIN] privilege inheritance to a login role through a group role

2009-04-01 Thread Jan-Peter Seifert
Hello, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Tom Lane wrote: If there's some identifiable bit of the documentation that confused you about this, please point it out so we can improve it. ... because, apparently, lots of people are bitten by the same misunderstanding. Maybe it's not the documentation

Re: [ADMIN] Without schemas

2009-04-01 Thread Chander Ganesan
Félix Sánchez Rodríguez wrote: Greetings: I'm a PHP programmer and I've had some troubles on using PostgreSQL as Database Manager. The point is that I want to know if there is anyway one can create a table without inserting inside the public schema. What would be desirable is that my tables

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum Full

2009-04-01 Thread Rafael Domiciano
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Rafael Domiciano rafael.domici...@gmail.com wrote: Hello People, I have some doubts about Vacuum Full. There We go: 1) The Only thing that Vacuum Full (Only Full, not Analyze)

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum Full

2009-04-01 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Rafael, On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 06:51:00PM -0300, Rafael Domiciano wrote: I have some doubts about Vacuum Full. There We go: 1) The Only thing that Vacuum Full (Only Full, not Analyze) is to clean dead space on the disc, and reorganize the relation at the physical level? If it's

[ADMIN] Without schemas

2009-04-01 Thread Félix Sánchez Rodríguez
I made a mistake and sent my post personally to Chander Ganesan, here it is: Have you used PHP with PostgreSQL?? (Especifically the Doctrine Framework??). Because my question arises from the fact that I've had problems when rying to use Doctrine with a PostgreSQL database and I thought that

Re: [ADMIN] Without schemas

2009-04-01 Thread Daniel J. Summers
Félix Sánchez Rodríguez wrote: Have you used PHP with PostgreSQL?? Yep - daily. :) (Especifically the Doctrine Framework??). Not familiar with that one. I don't have a framework (well, I do, but I wrote it), but I use PDO (PHP Data Objects) as the interface. Because my question arises

Re: [ADMIN] Without schemas

2009-04-01 Thread Kevin Grittner
Félix Sánchez Rodríguez fesa...@ciego.cult.cu wrote: I've figured out that it's not the same to use 'SELECT NICK FROM USUARIOS' vs. 'SELECT Nick from Usuarios' In PostgreSQL the first is interpreted the same as: SELECT nick from usuarios; Note that this is different from the ANSI ISO

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum Full

2009-04-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Tino Schwarze postgre...@tisc.de wrote: Hi Rafael, On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 06:51:00PM -0300, Rafael Domiciano wrote: I have some doubts about Vacuum Full. There We go: 1) The Only thing that Vacuum Full (Only Full, not Analyze) is to clean dead space on

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum Full

2009-04-01 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com writes: Nowadays, with many many new users, and no historical context, they do just take it for a better kind of vacuum when in fact it is really like reindex to indexes. I'd vote for rebuild [table]; as the new way to spell vacuum full; Well, no,

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum Full

2009-04-01 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 08:09:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Nowadays, with many many new users, and no historical context, they do just take it for a better kind of vacuum when in fact it is really like reindex to indexes. I'd vote for rebuild [table]; as the new way to spell vacuum full;

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum Full

2009-04-01 Thread Tom Lane
Tino Schwarze postgre...@tisc.de writes: Maybe we should remove the code and make VACUUM FULL do the table-rewrite thing. What do you mean with the table-rewrite thing, exactly? Like CLUSTER, except not bothering to sort the rows: just seqscan the table, enter all live tuples into a new

Re: [?? Probable Spam] Re: [ADMIN] Without schemas

2009-04-01 Thread Félix Sánchez Rodríguez
Thanks to all for your answers, I converted my tables and fields to lowercase and now everything works perfectly. - Original Message - From: Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov To: Félix Sánchez Rodríguez fesa...@ciego.cult.cu; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Sent: Thursday, April