[ADMIN] 7.4.3 initdb: could not create semaphores

2004-07-02 Thread teknet
Hello I have FreeBSD5.1, postgresql 7.4.3, when i tried to: initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data i receive: .. selecting default max_connections... 10 selecting default shared_buffers... 50 creating configuration files... ok creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data//base/1... FATAL:

Re: [ADMIN] 7.4.3 initdb: could not create semaphores

2004-07-02 Thread Corey . Brune
A really good email from Cheryl Bender near a month ago: Michael; What version of FreeBSD? What version of PostGres? On my server, running FreeBSD 5.1 and pg 7.3, the values are kern.ipc.shmmax: 33554432 kern.ipc.shmmin: 1 kern.ipc.shmmni: 192 kern.ipc.shmseg: 128 kern.ipc.shmall: 8192 kern.ip

Re: [ADMIN] 7.4.3 initdb: could not create semaphores

2004-07-02 Thread teknet
Re: i launched http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/pgsql/contrib/ipc_check/: -bash-2.05b# ./ipc_check.pl -B 64 shared memory enabled: 32768 kB available no changes to kernel required for a "-B 64" setting == and my: bash-2.05b# sysctl -a |grep shm kern.ipc.shmmax: 3

Re: [ADMIN] unable to pass variable PGDATA2 into server environment

2004-07-02 Thread Jean-Christophe Weis
Hello list, On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 01:55:19PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Jean-Christophe Weis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The variable PGDATA2 is set and marked for export in the root shell where I > > start the server, but it is not passed into the server's environment. > > No, because the s

Re: [ADMIN] Dumping partial database content

2004-07-02 Thread Bender, Cheryl
Just wondering--is it possible to dump on a temporary table? Cheryl Bender -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mike g Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 11:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Dumping partial data

Re: [ADMIN] 7.4.3 initdb: could not create semaphores

2004-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > could not create semaphores: No space left on device > DETAIL: Failed system call was semget(1, 17, 03600). > HINT: This error does *not* mean that you have run out of disk space. > It occurs when either the system limit for the maximum number of > semaphore se

Re: [ADMIN] 7.4.3 initdb: could not create semaphores

2004-07-02 Thread Corey . Brune
I have all of these on my server, but postgres does not fail when using semaphores. What happens when you 'gmake check'? Thanks, Corey [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ADMIN] SERIAL type not autoincremented

2004-07-02 Thread teknet
Hello i have: create table student( id SERIAL NOT NULL, name VARCHAR(35) NOT NULL, primary key (id) ); and when i try to insert like this: insert into student (name) values('me'); i receive error: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "student_pkey" W

Re: [ADMIN] 7.4.3 initdb: could not create semaphores

2004-07-02 Thread teknet
I restarted computer and it's working fine:) I had too small kern.ipc.semmns: 60, maybe some applications did not free semaphores (?). Thanx all for help.    

Re: [ADMIN] SERIAL type not autoincremented

2004-07-02 Thread Jim Seymour
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello > i have: > create table student( > id SERIAL NOT NULL, > name VARCHAR(35) NOT NULL, > primary key (id) > ); > > and when i try to insert like this: > insert into student (name) values('me'); > i receive error: > ERROR: duplic

Re: [ADMIN] SERIAL type not autoincremented

2004-07-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 19:22:17 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > i have: > create table student( > id SERIAL NOT NULL, > name VARCHAR(35) NOT NULL, > primary key (id) > ); > > and when i try to insert like this: > insert into student (name) values('me

Re: [ADMIN] SERIAL type not autoincremented

2004-07-02 Thread Michael A Nachbaur
The serial datatype creates a sequence in the background. So, in your example, you'll have a sequence called "student_id_seq". Your sequence was probably reset, dropped/created, or whatever, to cause it to feed IDs back that already exist in your table. On July 2, 2004 10:22 am, [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [ADMIN] Dumping partial database content

2004-07-02 Thread Bender, Cheryl
Never mind--answered my own question. You can dump from a temporary table, which provides Hanan another way to dump a subset of data. Use CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE as select Cheryl Bender -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bender, Ch

Re: [ADMIN] SERIAL type not autoincremented

2004-07-02 Thread teknet
i found the problem:   sys=> create table test2( sys(> id serial, sys(> name varchar(10), sys(> primary key(id) sys(> ); NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "test2_id_seq" for "serial" column "test2.id" NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index "test2_pkey" fo

Re: [ADMIN] Dumping partial database content

2004-07-02 Thread Christopher Browne
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Bender, Cheryl") wrote: > Just wondering--is it possible to dump on a temporary table? The temp table is only visible inside the context of the transaction under which it was created. A pg_dump session will create an independent tra

Re: [ADMIN] SERIAL type not autoincremented

2004-07-02 Thread Radu-Adrian Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i found the problem: sys=> insert into test2 values(1,'myname'); INSERT 18765 1 sys=> insert into test2 (name) values('myname2'); ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint "test2_pkey" sys=> Why is it so ? Because you explicitly put in 1: values(1,'myname') and t

Re: [ADMIN] SERIAL type not autoincremented

2004-07-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 21:40:02 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i found the problem: > >   > > sys=> create table test2( > sys(> id serial, > sys(> name varchar(10), > sys(> primary key(id) > sys(> ); > NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "test2_id_seq" for > "serial" column

Re: [ADMIN] SERIAL type not autoincremented

2004-07-02 Thread Larry Rosenman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i found the problem: > > > > sys=> create table test2( > sys(> id serial, > sys(> name varchar(10), > sys(> primary key(id) > sys(> ); > NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "test2_id_seq" > for "serial" column "test2.id" > NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMA

[ADMIN] [admin] 32mb box 1gb

2004-07-02 Thread Paul Gimpelj
hi, Is it possible to run postgreql on redhat 7.3/9.0  32mb 1gb scsi system? without x of course.   thanks  

[ADMIN] [admin] 32mb scsi system

2004-07-02 Thread Paul Gimpelj
hi, Is it possible to run postgreql on redhat 7.3/9.0 32mb 1gb scsi system? without x of course. thanks ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [ADMIN] Dumping partial database content

2004-07-02 Thread Bender, Cheryl
I see what you're saying. I thought it had worked, but when I looked at the dump file there was no data. Thanks. Cheryl Bender -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Browne Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 2:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ADMIN] SERIAL type not autoincremented

2004-07-02 Thread Christopher Browne
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > i have: > create table student( > id SERIAL NOT NULL, > name VARCHAR(35) NOT NULL, > primary key (id) > ); > > and when i try to insert like this: > insert into student (name) values('me

Re: [ADMIN] 32mb scsi system

2004-07-02 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-07-02 17:00:09, schrieb Paul Gimpelj: >hi, >Is it possible to run postgreql on redhat 7.3/9.0 32mb 1gb scsi system? >without x of course. > >thanks I think, with RedHat a little bit to much for the memory... Exept you know, how to strip down this pig. I use Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 with a

[ADMIN] table column with special characters

2004-07-02 Thread Rahul k
Hi, I need to query a table with column name having special characters ":", "@", "/", for example: ab:cde12n/[EMAIL PROTECTED] When performing a select on this column I get this error: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near ":" Any suggestions how to escape these special characters? thanks rk

Re: [ADMIN] table column with special characters

2004-07-02 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Rahul k wrote: > I need to query a table with column name having > special characters ":", "@", "/", for example: > ab:cde12n/[EMAIL PROTECTED] You'd need to double quote the name on creation and on any usage of the name (for example in a select list or expression) in SQL stat

Re: [ADMIN] [admin] 32mb scsi system

2004-07-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 17:00:09 -0400, Paul Gimpelj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > Is it possible to run postgreql on redhat 7.3/9.0 32mb 1gb scsi system? > without x of course. I have run Postgres on Redhat 6.x with only 32MB of memory. It was awfully slow though. Your main problem is goi