[ADMIN] How to GRANT...WITH GRANT OPTION?

2000-05-16 Thread R D
Hi, how can I grant privileges with grant option since PostgreSQL does not support statement: GRANT WITH GRANT OPTION; if this is done by default then how can I grant privileges without grant option? Rumen __ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messag

[ADMIN] few securiry questions

2000-05-29 Thread R D
hi there,I'm migrating from MySQL to PgSQL and I have few questions on PgSQL securiry: 1. How can I forbid to some users to create tables in some databases which they can acccess. 2. How can I GRANT/REJECT some privileges on all objects in a database TO/FROM some users, since i can't type "GRA

[ADMIN] few more securiry questions :-)

2000-05-31 Thread R D
ot integrated in the system databases of pgSQL,like in MySQL for example? 3.Are there any plans in making security system more flexible? regards: Rumen --- Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > R D writes: > > > 1. How can I forbid to some users to create > ta

Re: [ADMIN] Re: few more securiry questions :-)

2000-06-01 Thread R D
Hi, > > 2.Why the authentication system is not integrated > in > > the system databases of pgSQL,like in MySQL for > > example? > > Because there's a bootstrapping problem: You would > have to connect to the > database to change the authentication settings, but > in order to connect > you have

Re: [ADMIN] Re: few more securiry questions :-)

2000-06-02 Thread R D
--- Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Albertson writes: > > > > > 2.Why the authentication system is not > integrated in > > > > the system databases of pgSQL,like in MySQL > for > > > > example? > > > > > > Because there's a bootstrapping problem: You > would have to connect

[ADMIN] pg_dump and OID in 7.0.1

2000-06-07 Thread R D
Hi everybody! I saw in the pgSQL 7.0.1 release notes that pg_dump handles OID indexes, does it mean that new pg_dump is able to dump large objects? regards, Rumen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! http://photos.yahoo.com

[ADMIN] users & groups

2000-06-16 Thread R D
Hi there, i have few questions in users and droups in pgSQL that i can't check in the next few days and this is inportant in my choice of database: 1. If I'm using different password files for each database can I grant or revoke privileges to this users without creating the same users in pg_user

Re: [ADMIN] users & groups

2000-06-19 Thread R D
--- Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > R D writes: > > > 1. If I'm using different password files for > each > > database can I grant or revoke privileges to this > > users without creating the same users in pg_user > > table? > &g

Re: [ADMIN] users & groups

2000-06-19 Thread R D
--- Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, R D wrote: > > > Hi,I need a secondary passwd files because I do > not > > know another way to manage user access to DBs. > > That's what I thought. > > > If there was a pg

Re: [ADMIN] Preventing users from creating tables in certain dbs.

2000-06-21 Thread R D
--- Stefan Muehlebach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there > > How can I prevent a user from creating a table in a > database that she is > not owner of? > You can't. But as far as I know it's worked on the problem. Rumen p.s. Sorry if message is doubled but there was no responce from pgsql-

Re: [ADMIN] users and passwords problem

2000-07-13 Thread R D
--- Denis Pugnere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PG 7.0.2, RH Linux 6.2 > > I'm trying to secure access to pgsql databases. > the politic I use is to only allow access databases > with passwords. > > for this, I use in pg_hba.conf : > local all password > host

[ADMIN] control on table creation

2000-10-12 Thread R D
Hi, In the TODO list is mentioned that in PG-7.1 you will have "More access control over who can create tables and use locks". Does anybody know what concept will be used? Will it be done via GRANT and REVOKE? regards, Rumen __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Y

[ADMIN] Index usage ?

2000-12-12 Thread R D
Hi, I'm making a database with table of over 50 000 000 i created index on some columns but they are used only in range search (e.g. WHERE column<100 AND column>10) and point rearch (e.g. WHERE column=100). When I try to execute some queries using only <,>,<= or >= index is not used. So is the

[ADMIN] Is that a bug?

2000-12-21 Thread R D
Hi, I have some problems with postgresql 7.0.3 running on Slackware linux 7.1. I have a table with about 25 milion records: create table gsc_act(reg_id int2,id int2,ra int4, de int4,mag int2); i created 2 indexes: create index gsc_act_de on gsc_act(de); create index gsc_act_rd on gsc_act(de,r

[ADMIN] Disk full and table empty

2000-12-21 Thread R D
Hi, I run postgresql 7.0.3. I have a large table and i started to create an index on it. Unfortunately the diak space was not enough and got a message that the device was full. From this moment the table i tried to index has 0 rows. what is wrong? I tried ipcclean, postgres reboot, system reboot a

Re: [ADMIN] Is that a bug?

2000-12-21 Thread R D
No, plain select also does not work. --- Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, does a plain select * from gsc_act work? > Also, what does explain show for the queries? > > Stephan Szabo > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, R D wrote: >

Re: [ADMIN] Is that a bug?

2000-12-26 Thread R D
--- Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does dropping and recreating the index help? 10x! It worked! Rumen __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/

Re: [ADMIN] Permissions on Stored Procedures

2000-12-27 Thread R D
I hoped to see that and per database allow/deny ctreation of tables to groups/users in PostgreSQL 7.1 but as far as I know it will not be done. Rumen --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been searching the lists and found a similar > question but there have no > replies. > > What I would like t

Re: [ADMIN] Granting Permissions to User To Access Database

2001-01-08 Thread R D
--- Kevin Schachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently installed Postgres on my server to rid of > the horrible > limitations of Mysql. However I am having some > trouble setting up > permissions as they are in MySQL. > > In MySQL you can grant a user select permissions to > all tables in a

Re: [ADMIN] Granting Permissions to User To Access Database

2001-01-10 Thread R D
--- Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > R D writes: > > > This is one of the features of PgSQL that I do not > > like. It is much nicer to type: > > "grant all on database.table to ." > > And I asked the developers to do that but they

Re: [ADMIN] Row size limitation

2001-01-14 Thread R D
Hi, yes it's true, but it's not so serious. Me and many other people are working with postgreSQL and never felt this limit. So if you want to insert some large data in a row, for example picture, you should use Large Objects (See the manuals). And now the good news: the upcomming PostgreSQL 7.1

Re: [ADMIN] Database Privileges

2001-01-17 Thread R D
I would like to see some restrictions on who can or who can not create things in a database too. Hoping too see this soon Rumen --- Markus Wigge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi PG-Admins, > > I think this question is asked more often than > you'd like it to be > so excuse me ... > Is

[ADMIN] GRANT odd behaviour - Bug or feature?

2001-01-19 Thread R D
Hi, I discivered some strange behaviour in GRANT. When I CREATE a table and GRANT some privilege to some user this privilege is REVOKEd from me ?!? So I have to GRANT the same to me afterwards. Once I have GRANTed this privilege to myself I can GRANT it to whoever I want without REVOKE-ing it from

Re: [ADMIN] postgres limitation

2001-01-27 Thread R D
Hi, The FAQ says: _ 4.6) What is the maximum size for a row, table, database? These are the limits: Maximum size for a database? unlimited (60GB databases exist) Maximum size for a table?

Re: [ADMIN] Tuple problem

2001-01-29 Thread R D
Hi, PostgreSQL has this limitation. The max row size is 8K. You can recompile Postgres with max row size of 32K (not more). This limitation is removed in PgSQL 7.1 which is not released yet. It's in beta phase. regards, Rumen --- Bogdan Paduraru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > I h

Re: [ADMIN] Performance

2001-02-05 Thread R D
I think it will do. I'm developing a web system based on PgSQL. My test server is Cyrix 166MHz 16MB of RAM. My database has few tables with over 1 milion rows and one of them has almost 25 milions. With good indexes I can fetch data form this table for less than 8-10 seconds. But it depends on the

[ADMIN] Indexes & Cluster - more information.

2001-02-05 Thread R D
Hi guys, I would like to know somethimg more specific for indexes and clusters as far as I do not know very much of R-TREES. I have this situation: create table gsc_act( reg_id int2, id int2, ra int4, de int4, mag int2 ); This is a huge table approx 2GB cont

[ADMIN] Indexes and Views

2001-02-24 Thread R D
Hi PostgreSQL folks, I would like to know is there any way to use indexes with the views or rules in this situation: cteate table test1(col1 int,col2 int,col3 int); insert into test1 .; .. insert into test1 .; create index test1_col1_col2 on test1(col1,col2); create view t

Re: [ADMIN] Indexes and Views

2001-02-26 Thread R D
--- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > R D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > i'm storing col1 to col3 as integers to save > storage > > space(infact they are fixed point).I have many > tables > > ctrated using this template only the view devidor >

Re: [ADMIN] Denying CREATE TABLE capability

2001-03-12 Thread R D
Unfortunately There is no way atleast i do not know of such since you can not REVOKE this from users. I do not know why The developers consider this as not so inportant. This capability was in the todo list for 7.1 but was removed. I would like to see this feature in postgres because I'm tyred dro

[ADMIN] CREATE TABLE (allow/deny)

2001-05-11 Thread R D
Hi, I'have been waiting for a long time for control on who can and who can not create tables. I'm plannig to migrate all my DBs from MySQL to PostgreSQL (I have already done this where possible) but it's inpossibe now since now it's inpossible to deny table creation to some users. I hoped that 7.