[ADMIN] Re: upgrading RPM query

2001-08-14 Thread Alan Gutierrez
Gary Stainburn wrote: > At the risk of starting to stray OT for this list, how do you go about > installing SRPMS - I've never done anything like that before. An easier way to do this would be to download the postgresql tarball. Download the following: http://www.postgresql.org/ftpsite/v7.1.2

[ADMIN] ever growing pkey files

2001-08-14 Thread matthew . copeland
I have a database that has two tables. One of the tables gets changed very often. (like every 5 minutes). The values that where in the table are replaced with a new set of values with new unique keys. Now, I vacuum these tables fairly often, but the pkey files for these tables never seem to g

[ADMIN] Can someone please send me an original

2001-08-14 Thread Pascal . Briner
pg_hba.confg? My Postgresql is unable to read the one which i have. Many thanks ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html

[ADMIN] Creating Users

2001-08-14 Thread iafmgc
dear all, I am developing a client application with C++ Builder 3 to access a Database designed with PostgreSQL 7.0.4 using a BDE alias through the ODBC driver. I would like to have a form where I can add users to my users table of my database and also create the corresponding entry to the pos

Re: [ADMIN] Re: upgrading RPM query

2001-08-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday 13 August 2001 22:28, Alan Gutierrez wrote: > Gary Stainburn wrote: > > At the risk of starting to stray OT for this list, how do you go about > > installing SRPMS - I've never done anything like that before. > An easier way to do this would be to download the postgresql tarball. Nop

Re: [ADMIN] upgrading RPM query

2001-08-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday 08 August 2001 12:15, Gary Stainburn wrote: > I downloaded the postgresql-7.1.2 rpms and tried to install them - I had 20 > lines of failed dependancies. I downloaded the RPMS for those, and ended > up with 70+ lines of failed dependancies. The current PGDG RPMset will work just fi

[ADMIN] Postgress Unicode Support

2001-08-14 Thread Crowe, Simon
Dear All, I'm having some problems using embedded SQL with Unicode. My client and server both are UNICODE. I have a bit of code which is :- wchar_t * name; How do I express name such that it will work with the embedded SQL preprocessor, BTW I'm on the latest postgres builds ? S

Re: [ADMIN] ever growing pkey files

2001-08-14 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a database that has two tables. One of the tables gets changed > very often. (like every 5 minutes). The values that where in the table > are replaced with a new set of values with new unique keys. Now, I vacuum > these tables fairly often, but the pkey files

[ADMIN] Re: Find a broken table

2001-08-14 Thread Allan Engelhardt
It's probably beyond me, but other than the obvious (stopping and restarting postmaster) have you tried a database dump and restore? Did that fix the problem? It should, at least, re-create all the indexes... --- Allan. Ariunbold Gerelt-Od wrote: > Hi guys, > Suddenly, the processes for

Re: [ADMIN] Re: upgrading RPM query

2001-08-14 Thread Gary Stainburn
Thanks for that Alan, However, as the box I was putting it onto is a new one, I am making an effort to stick to RPM's this time, as much as an academic exerciser as anything else. I actually found it quite easy to download the SRPM and build all the binary RPMs from it. It also means that if

Re: [ADMIN] ever growing pkey files

2001-08-14 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I tried switching > to PostgreSQL 7.1 when it first came out, but it now handles ansynchronous > notification differently to the point where my old code doesn't work > anymore. Uh ... what? I don't recall that we changed NOTIFY behavior in 7.1. There's certainly no o

Re: [ADMIN] ever growing pkey files

2001-08-14 Thread matthew . copeland
> Yeah, VACUUM doesn't shrink indexes presently (it's on the TODO > list...). > > > PostgreSQL version 7.0.3 running under Linux. > > You could try REINDEX to rebuild the indexes, but I'd recommend updating > to 7.1.2 (or soon, 7.1.3) first. I don't recall whether REINDEX is > available/trustwo

[ADMIN] SNMP MIB for PostgreSQL?

2001-08-14 Thread Chris Hardie
Greetings. I'm looking into to doing some detailed performance monitoring of a Postgres instance (as a general project, not for a specific setup). I was inspired to research it after spending some time setting up the same for Oracle, which has some built-in handling for MIBs (generic and Oracle-