Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] Oracle and Postgresql Play Nice Together on Same Computer?

2005-01-20 Thread Ian Barwick
Oracle is positively minuscule (at least as far as its "installation footprint" goes). I've run PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2 and Oracle on the same development machine without any issues. Of course if another application is in constant use on a production server Postg

Re: [ADMIN] table permissions

2001-11-26 Thread Ian Barwick
umn relacl. See: http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?catalog-pg-class.html HTH Ian Barwick ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ADMIN] Primary Key Problems

2001-12-07 Thread Ian Barwick
y are both VARCHARs they could contain differing amounts of trailing spaces or other 'invisible' characters which would not be obvious from the console, but would represent valid and unique values to the constraint checker. These could result from unfiltered input

Re: [ADMIN] pgdumpall_file is bigger than 2 Gigabyte

2001-12-07 Thread Ian Barwick
dumpfiles? This: http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?backup.html#BACKUP-DUMP-LARGE may be of some use to you Ian Barwick ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [ADMIN] table permissions

2001-11-26 Thread Ian Barwick
, column relacl. See: http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?catalog-pg-class.html HTH Ian Barwick ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ADMIN] configure --with-pam

2002-02-26 Thread Ian Barwick
ary containing fdatasync... (cached) none required > checking for pam_start in -lpam... no > configure: error: library 'pam' is required for PAM The message is in the error... Maybe your system (you don't say what flavour) doesn't have the pam libraries ins

Re: [ADMIN] Linux Distributions

2002-03-06 Thread Ian Barwick
distributors don't know very much about your particular production environment). Ian Barwick ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html

Re: [ADMIN] Linux Distributions

2002-03-06 Thread Ian Barwick
y much depends on you and your hardware. HTH Ian Barwick ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [ADMIN] column name length

2002-03-10 Thread Ian Barwick
ng is 32, which gives a maximum length of 31 characters). Changing NAMEDATALEN to a greater value is on the todo-list, see: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2002-01/msg00941.php Ian Barwick ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [ADMIN] Print line?

2002-10-23 Thread Ian Barwick
atting functions; those are provided by individual client applications. In psql you can use \echo to print a line to standard output. \? shows other available options. Ian Barwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [ADMIN] Need Help on Japanese language

2002-11-25 Thread Ian Barwick
On Monday 25 November 2002 10:48, Somasekhar wrote: > Hi, > > I have a postgres database running on a english linux box.what settings > need to be done , so that i can insert japanese characters into the > database. Insertion of Japanese text should work regardless of however

Re: [ADMIN] 7.2.x -> 7.3 upgrade docs?

2002-12-11 Thread Ian Barwick
files before restoring. Maybe someone more knowledgable will come up with a more qualified answer. > 4. are there other important considerations i might be overlooking? I would recommend thorough testing before you commit to an upgrade ;-) Ian Barwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ADMIN] client for solaris

2002-12-13 Thread Ian Barwick
entire PostgreSQL source; the smallest available package is "postgresql-base-x.x.tar.gz" which doesn't include the docs. etc. This page: http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.3/postgres/install-procedure.html contains info on installing the standard client apps without th

Re: [ADMIN] client for solaris

2002-12-16 Thread Ian Barwick
remote database? What didn't work, and how? > BTW, I run RedHat Linux 8..does that make a difference? Only if you give some more details ;-) Ian Barwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Ian Barwick wrote: > >> On Friday 13 December 2002 00:52, Aravind Vinnakota wrote: > >>

Re: [ADMIN] Length of Varchar

2003-01-24 Thread Ian Barwick
d in atttypmod. > Is it possible to change the value of atttypmod and is it safe to change > this value? Possible but probably not safe. No doubt someone will be along shortly with a more accurate opinion ;-). Ian Barwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [ADMIN] Length of Varchar

2003-01-24 Thread Ian Barwick
On Friday 24 January 2003 09:26, Ian Barwick wrote: > On Friday 24 January 2003 07:37, Andre Schubert wrote: > > i have a little question on changing the length of a varchar field. > > Is there another way than dump and reload if i want to change the length > > of a varch

Re: [ADMIN] system indices growing huge

2003-02-09 Thread Ian Barwick
mail: does your test database ever get VACUUMed? Ian Barwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can ge

Re: FW: [ADMIN] pgsql function doesn't work

2003-06-23 Thread Ian Barwick
hand ;-) "urlopie" means "holiday". I would contact Adam Wojtkiewicz if you have any more detailed questions ;-) Ian Barwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 11:51 PM > T

Re: [ADMIN] Advantages and disadvantages of more than one dbserver on one server

2003-07-02 Thread Ian Barwick
m user. This can be done e.g. by passing the appropriate parameters to pg_ctl along these lines: /usr/local/pgsql-733/bin/pg_ctl -D /db/pgsql-1 -l /db/pgsql-1.log -o '-i -p 5431' start /usr/local/pgsql-733/bin/pg_ctl -D /db/pgsql-2 -l /db/pgsql-2.log -o '-i -p 5432' start etc.

Re: [ADMIN] How can I set a default schema for a session

2003-07-22 Thread Ian Barwick
r > I do not specify a schema name? SET search_path TO ... http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/ddl-schemas.html You can also use ALTER USER user_name SET search_path to ...; to make the setting permanent. Ian Barwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(e

Re: [ADMIN] YOUR SITES SEARCH FEATURE DOES NOT WORK!

2003-09-03 Thread Ian Barwick
ick search. Unfortunately index seems to be about a month behind. Ian Barwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [ADMIN] YOUR SITES SEARCH FEATURE DOES NOT WORK!

2003-09-03 Thread Ian Barwick
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 09:42, Ian Barwick wrote: > On Wednesday 03 September 2003 00:26, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > okay, first off ... what URL? I've been working on, and testing, > > archives all week, and altho getting things down below a 2min search > > app

Re: [ADMIN] Casting varchar to bytea

2003-09-12 Thread Ian Barwick
o insert the value of the varchar column > in the bytea column, but the conversion won't work. > > Something like the following: > > update webuser set ccnum = ccnumstring::bytea where userid=userid; > > Any ideas how to do this? Does update webuser set ccnum = decode(c