[ADMIN] Different results when specifying DEFAULT values through ALTER TABLE

2006-04-19 Thread Thusitha Kodikara
Hi, I observed the following on PostgreSQL 8.1.3 (on Windows 2000). (1) alter table invoice add column active boolean default true; This will add a new column "active" with a default clause as "true" and also sets the value "true" to all existing rows of the table. BUT (2) ALTER TABLE invoice

[ADMIN] Migration from oracle

2006-04-19 Thread koji osada
I'm planning to migrate database from Oracle to PostgreSQL. I think there are some challenges in migrating Pro*C/COBOL, binary data(especially move to different endian platform), stored procedures. I think that I can apply swissql to PL/SQL, but I don't have any idea to migrate Pro*C/COBOL wit

Re: [ADMIN] Migration from oracle

2006-04-19 Thread Shoaib Mir
ECPG can be a good replcement for Pro*C You can see the detailed documentation for that at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/ecpg.html Hope this helps.../ShoaibOn 4/19/06, koji osada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm planning to migrate database from Oracle to PostgreSQL.I think there are

[ADMIN] IDLE IN TRANSACTION

2006-04-19 Thread Rodrigo Sakai
  Hi,     I have an app developed with Delphi, and when I just start tha app it start a process (a connection) on the db server and the status stay 'IDLE IN TRANSACTION' until the end of the application. The app is developed by other people and I don't know much about how it was programmed!

Re: [ADMIN] IDLE IN TRANSACTION

2006-04-19 Thread Andy Shellam
No problem really, all it means is the application has issued a start of transaction command, it just isn’t doing anything at the moment. Transactions allow any data added during the application’s running to be rolled back should, for example, the application crash – it’ll prevent half-wr

Re: [ADMIN] IDLE IN TRANSACTION

2006-04-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Rodrigo Sakai wrote: > But I want to know if this kind of connection (idle in > transaction) can cause locks and deadlocks on the db? Certainly. Make sure the application is closing the transactions quickly. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

Re: [ADMIN] Different results when specifying DEFAULT values through

2006-04-19 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Thusitha Kodikara wrote: > Hi, > > I observed the following on PostgreSQL 8.1.3 (on Windows 2000). > > (1) alter table invoice add column active boolean default true; > > This will add a new column "active" with a default clause as "true" and > also sets the value "true" to al

[ADMIN] track alter table history

2006-04-19 Thread Ma, Yi
  We’re in the process of development between model updating and database implementation, and It’s been done by 2 different groups. I am wondering how I could find out what’s the last time The table structure has been updated (such as rename column name , add new columns…) I looked the

Re: [ADMIN] IDLE IN TRANSACTION

2006-04-19 Thread Chandra Sekhar Surapaneni
The Idle-in transaction process will prevent VACUUM from removing dead rows. I think you should have them fix the client such that they dont issue a begin unless they need to do something on the database. Also have the client commit as early as it can. It is safe to leave the database connec

[ADMIN] Schema synchronization

2006-04-19 Thread Arnau
Hi all, I have several databases that I have to synchronize their schemas. I have been testing several programs like EMS PostgreSQL Comparer and Navicat PostgreSQL but none of them does all I need. Any advise about what is the best way to sync the schemas? Thanks -- Arnau

Re: [ADMIN] IDLE IN TRANSACTION

2006-04-19 Thread Rodrigo Sakai
>No problem really, all it means is the application has issued a start of transaction command, it just isn’t doing anything at the moment. >Transactions allow any data added during the application’s running to be rolled back should, for example, the application crash – it’ll prevent half-wr

Re: [ADMIN] IDLE IN TRANSACTION

2006-04-19 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 13:51, Rodrigo Sakai wrote: > >No problem really, all it means is the application has issued a start > of transaction command, it just isn’t doing anything at the moment. > > > >Transactions allow any data added during the application’s running to > be rolled back should, fo

[ADMIN] dblink not working in FC5

2006-04-19 Thread Manish Gupta
Recently, I upgraded one of my server from FC4 to FC5. This also upgraded postgresql to 8.1.3. The upgrade was flawless. Unfortunately, I cannot get dblink to work in this version of postgresql. I created two fresh databases and tried... still no luck. I keep getting the following error: bulb

Re: [ADMIN] Invalid Page Headers

2006-04-19 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Tom Lane wrote: "Thomas F. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I would've expected the RAID to protect postgres from the possibility of data corruption, but I guess not. Ooops :-(. It might be interesting to get pg_filedump dumps of the corrupted pages, just to se

Re: [ADMIN] dblink not working in FC5

2006-04-19 Thread Tom Lane
"Manish Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > bulbulbo=# select dblink_connect('hostaddr=127.0.0.1 dbname=bulbulfo > user=bulbul password=password'); > ERROR: could not establish connection > DETAIL: could not connect to server: Permission denied >Is the server running on host "127.0.0.1"

Re: [ADMIN] dblink not working in FC5 (Solved)

2006-04-19 Thread Manish Gupta
I was able to solve this issue by disabling SELinux. Still, there has got to be a way to use dblink with SELinux. Thanks Manish "An informed citizenry is the bulwark of a democracy" http://www.SUNITI.org : Self-governance for an informed citizen From: "Manish Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Re: [ADMIN] Invalid Page Headers

2006-04-19 Thread Tom Lane
"Thomas F. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any tips on turning "ERROR: invalid page header in block 34 of > relation" into a pg_filedump command that would yield something useful > or interesting? If so, I'll post the results of all three relations > known to be corrupt so far. For me, t

Re: [ADMIN] dblink not working in FC5 (Solved)

2006-04-19 Thread Tom Lane
"Manish Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was able to solve this issue by disabling SELinux. > Still, there has got to be a way to use dblink with SELinux. Please file a bugzilla entry at bugzilla.redhat.com against the selinux-policy-targeted component (or whichever policy you're using) (NOT

Re: [ADMIN] Schema synchronization

2006-04-19 Thread John DeSoi
On Apr 19, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Arnau wrote: I have several databases that I have to synchronize their schemas. I have been testing several programs like EMS PostgreSQL Comparer and Navicat PostgreSQL but none of them does all I need. Any advise about what is the best way to sync the schema