Re: [ADMIN] bizarre AGE behaviour

2004-03-04 Thread DHS Webmaster
You are both right. Your explanation, Steve, was the light that got me going on a simpler solution along the lines of what Tom suggested. I didn't really need AGE, and upon digging in, couldn't even remember why I had chosen that in the first place. Postgres is the bomb! Thanks guys. Steve Crawfor

[ADMIN] bizarre AGE behaviour

2004-03-03 Thread DHS Webmaster
Hello all, Many thanks for this fine product. We began encountering some unexpected date related errors this week and after further investigation found the following. We use the postgres AGE function in a custom function. The AGE function has begun to throw some unanticipated results back. This has

[ADMIN] dropped users appear as numbers in ACL

2003-11-13 Thread DHS Webmaster
I have experienced this in the past with members of groups, but now with relation ACLs. It goes like this: Certain users are given specific permissions of different tables and such. The users are later dropped but reference to them remains in the ACL as their former ID number. When trying to revoke

Re: [ADMIN] pg_clog & vacuum oddness

2003-10-29 Thread DHS Webmaster
DHS Club Jeff wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 11:53:38 -0500 > DHS Webmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We vacuum our working database nightly. Although this is not a 'full', > > we don't exclude any tables. We don't do anything with template1

Re: [ADMIN] pg_clog & vacuum oddness

2003-10-29 Thread DHS Webmaster
This thread caught my eye and I decided to look at our pg_clog directory. Sure enough we have got every clog file since we upgraded back in April, - 02F8. We vacuum our working database nightly. Although this is not a 'full', we don't exclude any tables. We don't do anything with template1 (kn

Re: [ADMIN] How do I select the last Id in a column???

2003-06-26 Thread DHS Webmaster
What we do since 2 queries are necessary anyway, is to select the NEXTVAL which gives us our 'record id' up front. Then when we do our insert, we include that field with the value we just selected from our sequence and we're all set. Of course if the insert fails for some reason, then you will have

[ADMIN] best OS suggestions / ease my doubts

2003-03-31 Thread DHS Webmaster
Hello, Just a quickie. We are planning an upgrade from 7.1.3 to 7.3. Since we have to bring down our production server to do it we are planning on killing all the birds with one shot. We are running RH 7.1 and were planning on using RH 8. After reading a little bit recently here and there and insta