[ADMIN] [DOCUMENT] Migrating Oracle to PostgresSQL

2008-12-26 Thread Raj Mathur
Had to do some migration from Oracle to PostgreSQL and did a write-up on the complete process. Hope someone finds it useful: http://wiki.kandalaya.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/MigratingOracleToPostgreSQL Feedback welcome, Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org

[ADMIN] Transactions and HTTP

2003-01-20 Thread Raj Mathur
since that ships with PgSQL by default with Red Hat, but are there any reasons to choose one over the other? Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ It is the mind that moves ---(end of

Re: [ADMIN] Transactions and HTTP

2003-01-21 Thread Raj Mathur
Hi Thomas, >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Swan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> Raj Mathur wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Writing a web-based application using PostgreSQL as the >> back-end database. The master create functions lo

Re: [ADMIN] Users and groups

2003-02-14 Thread Raj Mathur
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> ... However, the complementary process, determining all the >> users in group administrators, isn't so clean. Tom>

[ADMIN] Users and groups

2003-02-13 Thread Raj Mathur
re whether the user is an administrator or not rather than have another table keeping that information. However, I'd change that if the structure of the pg_ tables is subject to change from time to time. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/

[ADMIN] Move passwords between databases

2003-06-16 Thread Raj Mathur
I tried an "update pg_shadow set passwd=... where usename=..." Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves --

Re: [ADMIN] Move passwords between databases

2003-06-16 Thread Raj Mathur
Erhm, the last line of the earlier mail should read: I tried an "update pg_shadow set passwd=... where usename=..." but that doesn't do the trick: Postgresql does not authenticate the user. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.

Re: [ADMIN] Move passwords between databases

2003-06-16 Thread Raj Mathur
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Using Postgresql 7.2.3 on Linux, is there an easy way to >> transfer user passwords from one database to another? Tom> You co

Re: [ADMIN] Move passwords between databases

2003-06-16 Thread Raj Mathur
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> mdu=# alter user raju with encrypted password 'raju'; ALTER >> USER mdu=# se

[ADMIN] Postgresql going to sleep?

2003-09-25 Thread Raj Mathur
ls I can use to figure out what's going on with the client/server? pgmonitor doesn't give any additional information (except ``no query is being executed''). Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F

Re: [ADMIN] Postgresql going to sleep?

2003-09-26 Thread Raj Mathur
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm consistently getting into a situation where the database >> client just goes to sleep in a query after some number of

Re: [ADMIN] Postgresql going to sleep?

2003-09-26 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm consistently getting into a situation where the database >> client just goes t