Lowell Harris lhar...@goldstandardit.com wrote:
I keep getting an error message:
An error occured executing the Microsoft VC++ runtime installer
This computer has MS Visual Studion 2005 and I also went ot
Microsoft and updated the CV++ runtimes.
What was the URL of the download you're
john syaba...@yahoo.com wrote:
PostgreSQL version: 8.4.1
If you update to the latest 8.4 bug fix release (currently 8.4.4),
you'll avoid any bugs which have already been found and fixed.
http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning
when insert using client dataset after post
Hemanth hxku...@qwest.com wrote:
role AIP does not exist
This suggests that you're trying to log in as AIP, and PostgreSQL
is not finding that role. Can you connect to PostgreSQL with the
psql command-line utility and run?:
\du
If so, please show us the results.
By the way, in the
Jeff Benjamin j...@ivertex.com wrote:
Seems one cannot use a backslash character in a LIKE condition.
By default that has special meaning as an escape character.
Try this:
select * from test where pattern like E'\\w%' escape '#';
or this:
select * from test where pattern like
Saneesh Apte s...@calccit.org wrote:
the base type of a boolean[] is java.sql.Types.BIT instead or
java.sql.Types.BOOLEAN. At the very least shouldn't these be
aliases for the same type?
And secondly the returned type from a smallint[] is an Integer[]
instead of a Short[].
Should the
Liang Giap Wee we...@sg.ibm.com wrote:
We are considering using your open source Postgres on AIX5.3 and
AIX6.1.
May i know if you have a opensource community to help with support
issues should we face problem with during installation? Thanks...
Yeah, you'll find that there's an active
Fosforo Mann fosf...@gmail.com wrote:
Tried to view the table schema without success, and them only
typing TAB TAB
If the table name contains uppercase letters, you need to type the
before trying the TAB.
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中嶋 信二sina...@jops.co.jp wrote:
postgres is duplicated.
Red Hat Cluster Suite watches a process of each service.
PGDATA shares it in strage.
There is the thing that a wait server started.
A cluster began the change disposal of servers.
Because A cluster judged a state of postgres to be
Shinji Nakajima sina...@jops.co.jp wrote:
Error message called missing chunk number occurred when I did
select of the specific column of the specific table.
I delete a record, and the system restores, but prime cause is
unknown. Will this be a bug of the databases?
Errors like this are
Curtis Stecke cste...@interlegis.com wrote:
Inserting text that starts with or ends with a dollar sign ($) is
impossible. Documentation is not clear on how to do this as well.
Works for me. Care to give an example of your problem?
test=# create table t1 (c1 text);
CREATE TABLE
test=#
Hartmut Goebel wrote:
re. 1): While this may be true for many applications it is using
hand-crafted SQL statements, it is plain wrong for all applications
using some abstraction layer. These layers need to quote column
names anyway and the application does not need to be changed here
at
Martin Edlman edl...@fortech.cz wrote:
ERROR: insert or update on table device violates foreign key
constraint device_parent_id_fkey
DETAIL: Key (parent_id)=(19947) is not present in table device.
But the record is there, it was inserted into net.computer so it's
selectable from
Farid Zidan fa...@zidsoft.com wrote:
insert into test_insert
(col1, col2)
select distinct
'b',
'2010-04-30 00:00:00'
ERROR: column col2 is of type timestamp without time zone but
expression is of type text
LINE 16: '2010-04-30 00:00:00'
^
HINT: You will need to rewrite
Farid Zidan fa...@zidsoft.com wrote:
If we were strictly complying with the SQL standard,
Considering the statement works in all the 9 DBMS systems+ that I
have tested so far as mentioned above, I would say PostgreSQL is
not compliant with SQL standard in this regard.
The SQL standard is
Farid Zidan fa...@zidsoft.com wrote:
can be eliminated by appropriately handling the distinct keyword
and does not have to occur.
Based on previous discussions around our approaching data types, I
don't think any of the regular PostgreSQL developers are likely to
agree with you; but if you
Hartmut Goebel h.goe...@goebel-consult.de wrote:
The application already quotes all column names :-) It's using a
generic framework which does not (and must not) rely on column
names being non-keywords.
Same here. I suspect that this is much more commonn than many
PostgreSQL developers
David Fetter da...@fetter.org wrote:
It seems like something that's doable by pg_dump as a default
off option. TODO for 9.1?
Sounds good to me.
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Farid Zidan fa...@zidsoft.com wrote:
but when it gets to use the resultset of the subquery in the
insert it forgets how to convert '2010-04-30 00:00:00' to
timestamp value
Not really. In versions prior to 8.3 it did automagically convert
like that. PostgreSQL has some pretty fancy
Hartmut Goebel h.goe...@goebel-consult.de wrote:
Description:pg_dump does not quote column names -
pg_restore may fail when upgrading
If a 8.3 table contains a column named window, the dump can not
be restored into a 8.4 database. Reasons: a) window is a new
Hartmut Goebel h.goe...@goebel-consult.de wrote:
I dumped with the executable form 8.3.
That's not expected to work for an upgrade to 8.4.
8.4 did not allow accessing the 8.3 database
What do you mean? (What did you try and what happened?)
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Hartmut Goebel h.goe...@goebel-consult.de wrote:
If upgraded the rpm-packages from 8.3 to 8.4. Then postgres failed
starting (something like Database version mismatch).
You need to be running the old server using 8.3 software and while
using pg_dump from 8.4 software. Does your packager
Claudio Freire clau...@livra.com wrote:
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 13:42 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Claudio Freire clau...@livra.com writes:
What I did do is analyze server load during the events, and as
I suspected, disk activity during the deadlocks seems to
suggest a vacuuming taking place.
Spangler, Todd toddspang...@comsys.com wrote:
canceling statement due to user request
I cannot seem to fix.
Your application is canceling queries, probably because they're not
completing as quickly as it wants them to; that's not a PostgreSQL
bug. You should probably gather a bit more
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:24 AM, viras vi...@yandex.ru wrote:
What type of the data is better for using? Numbers up to 10
and accuracy of 2 fractional signs.
numeric is a good choice to avoid loss of precision, but can be a
bit slower.
You
Tom Lane wrote:
NOT NULL constraints at the domain level suck. Don't use 'em.
+1
As someone who uses domains very heavily, I can attest that the
semantics of that are very weak. Whether a domain is nullable
depends almost entirely on the context of its use, which you can't
(and shouldn't
Nelson da Silva ndsfantas...@hotmail.com wrote:
PostgreSQL version: 8.0.2.1
Operating system: Windows XP
That's not a supported combination:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Release_Support_Policy
You should look at upgrading as soon as practicable.
An error ocurred
Francis fmark...@gmail.com wrote:
psql \set does not terminate if a variable is referenced
recursively. For example, the following will hang the psql client
in a nasty way:
db=# \set n 1
db=# \set n (:n + 1)
It seem to me that the above doesn't hang the psql client, but a
subsequent
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
I think we need to add an explicit recursion test and suppress
further expansion of the variable when we see it
We can definitely print a message
Sounds perfect to me.
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Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote:
This is not a deadlock.
Agreed.
It's just two locks on the same table
Not as I read it.
(and maybe a bit more readable formatting).
Eliminating null columns and mangling column headers for length, I
get this:
locktype| tranid |
Claudio Freire clau...@livra.com wrote:
I know it doesn't look like a deadlock from where you're standing,
but it does so from where I am.
It's possible that you're filtering out the information which would
be most useful to diagnosing the problem. Next time it happens,
please send the
sibal si...@sibal.com wrote:
Description:Why Not?
Why Not Download PG8.4?
It's not clear what bug you think you've seen. If the problem is
that you're having trouble downloading a file, we'd need a lot more
information (like the URL from which you're trying to download)
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
We'd probably not want to apply this as-is, but should first
tighten up what characters URLPath allows, per Kevin's spec
research.
If we're headed that way, I figured I should double-check. The RFC
I referenced was later obsoleted by:
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov writes:
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
We'd probably not want to apply this as-is, but should first
tighten up what characters URLPath allows, per Kevin's spec
research.
If we're headed that way, I figured I
Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov wrote:
I'll read this RFC closely and follow up later today.
For anyone not clear on what a URI is compared to a URL, every URL
is also a URI (but not the other way around):
A URI can be further classified as a locator, a name, or both.
The term
Stefan Kirchev stefan.kirc...@gmail.com wrote:
PostgreSQL version: 8.3.3
Description:Table crash after CLUSTER command
I order to keep good performance on tables CLUSTER is done
regularly on each table every Sunday. Almost every time we loose a
table which must be recreated
Christoph Zwerschke c...@online.de wrote:
Am 26.04.2010 12:11, schrieb Takahiro Itagaki:
Do you know how the SQL standard mention the behavior? IMHO,
postgres' behavior is more reasonable because
length(' '::char(1)) is 0.
Just found http://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/ which claims that this
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
ie the critical point seems to be that url_path is willing to soak
up a string containing and , so the span tags don't get
recognized as separate lexemes. While that's obviously the
wrong thing in this particular example, I'm not sure if it's the
wrong
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Hmm, thanks for the reference, but I'm not sure this is specifying
quite what we want to get at. In particular I note that it
excludes '%' on the grounds that that ought to be escaped, so I
guess this is specifying the characters allowed in an underlying
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
there's a potential compatibility issue here, so my thought is to
apply this only in HEAD.
Agreed.
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shanmugavel shanmugave...@onwardgroup.com wrote:
Description:Production db down
now i face the problem
how can i resolve that the problem
[cut and paste from an archive post from three years ago
about a non-production version under development]
You've actually given no
Abhishek Maurya abhi.cse@gmail.com wrote:
while connecting php with database created in postgres,we r facing
one error ..errror is that its demanding a password of
postgres..but while installing or using postgres we hadnt gave any
password.. so hw cn we solve this problem..
You haven't
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
IME many of the bugs that go unanswered are non-bugs (eg #5316)
or inadequately described (eg #5429)
Agreed.
If the goal is make sure nothing important slips through the
cracks, a tracker could help. If the goal is 100% response rate
to pgsql-bugs
cool shower coolshower2...@yahoo.co.jp wrote:
PostgreSQL version: 8.1.8
Q2:Does anything have repair patches ?
You may want to review the fixes between 8.1.8 and the latest 8.1
bug fix release, which is 8.1.20:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/release.html
Perhaps one of these
omar omarar...@hotmail.com wrote:
PostgreSQL version: 8.0.0
Operating system: XP Professional SV2
The earliest version of PostgreSQL supported on Windows is 8.2. You
should be running a recent version of any release -- the 8.0 major
release is up to a 8.0.24 bug patch release, which fixes
manohar cr manohar...@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to install pgadmin on Suse Linux Enterprise version
10.3.
I've never heard of that. I've heard of openSUSE 10.3 and I've
heard of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10 SP3. They're not at
all the same thing. Which do you have?
-Kevin
John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
Chris Travers wrote:
Hmm... Back to the drawing board on that helper module :-).
like I said, its a big tarpit.
If you start up on this again, you might want to start a new thread
with a more descriptive subject. Those who weren't interested in
Andy Balholm a...@balholm.com wrote:
That's hardly an improvement if you're concerned about lack of
exactness.
I know; I lose a couple of digits by using float8 instead of
numeric, but it's much simpler and faster
It also has the advantage of being symmetrical with the other
operators.
Andy Balholm a...@balholm.com wrote:
OK. Here is the whole thing in C
Cool! I'll take it for a spin when I get a little time.
I guess there's not much point adding that TODO item now. ;-)
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Chris Travers ch...@metatrontech.com wrote:
Just thinking about the more general problem and how things could
be handled more gracefully...
Sure, but in the meantime, consider:
test=# select '12'::money * '2'::numeric;
?column?
--
$24.00
(1 row)
test=# select '24'::money /
Andy Balholm a...@balholm.com wrote:
quotient = (float8)dividend / (float8)divisor;
PG_RETURN_FLOAT8(quotient);
That was my first inclination, but the fact that two different
people talked about using division by '1'::money as a way to convert
money to another type has me nervous about
John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote:
Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
But then any operator between two money values would
only work if both values have the same currency.
That sounds like a sane limitation.
and, are there still any currenccies like old style UK where
the subunits aren't
Chris Travers ch...@metatrontech.com wrote:
With due respect, this sort of thing is rather difficult to get
right all at once.
The existing type is fixed point and we know how to add and subtract
two of them. I don't think it's all that difficult to add division,
yielding some non-money
I wrote:
yielding some non-money numeric type (like perhaps float8).
Hmmm... Given that we've already had a couple posts on the idea
that dividing by '1'::money could convert money to something more
general, I guess it would be safer to stick to numeric.
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Andy Balholm wrote:
The ability to divide money by money would be useful for finding
what percent one money value is of another.
That certainly sounds useful and natural to me. I don't think it
rises to the level of a *bug*, but it's a reasonable request for
enhancement. If there are no
michel rosa mr...@geomatic.ch wrote:
I get extras rows for 2010-03-02
I'm not sure I understand your concern.
Is it that the result set includes these rows?:
to_char | cost | count
+--+---
2010-03-02 | 2.0 | 7
2010-03-02 | 3.0 | 3
What do you get
vladislav DONCHEV vladui...@abv.bg wrote:
Hello guys , i have a problem :( I had a postgreSQL before some
days but i delete it , and now i cant install it , cause there are
2 message at the end of install when it making account or
something like that
You haven't told us what operating
terry 94487...@qq.com wrote:
In one command, why can we update the same tuple for twice?
TEST=# update t1 set a = t2.d from t2 where a=t2.c;
UPDATE 1
It says it updated it once. Why do you think otherwise?
And the result is not predicated!!
When you select multiple rows without
Bhavin rahul_bhav...@yahoo.com wrote:
PostgreSQL version: postgresSQL 8.4
Operating system: windows xp
Description:Crash at the first time system bootup
My postgreSQL 8.4 crashes everytime at the first bootup of my
system. It works fine after first system bootup.
What could
Robert Haas wrote:
Vitali wrote:
When I select from the table, the timetz has the correct time
zone, the timestamptz has -6 as a time zone, which is my server
default.
I'm not sure what you think the bug is, but timestamptz definitely
doesn't store the time zone in which the value is
Shilpa.R shilpar1...@gmail.com wrote:
PostgreSQL version: PostgreSQL Data
That's not very informative; what do you get from running?:
select version();
I found an error stating syntax error near or at sets in the
following query
select agegrp, cartype, risk, count(*) as count
from
Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote:
I think you should just edit the TODO wiki and list all the things
we agree need fixing:
Done, although with the wealth of opinions and dearth of agreement I
referenced much material and said that more discussion was needed
before starting development.
Kris Jurka bo...@ejurka.com wrote:
You need to pass an instance of java.sql.Array, not a Collection
or something else that is array like.
Ah, right. After extracting an array from the java.util.ArrayList,
it needs to be turned into a java.sql.Array using the
Connection.createArrayOf method.
Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote:
Was this ever addressed?
It should probably be on the TODO list. I was going to try to do
this along with other items which came out of generating an LSB
conforming init script, but have been pulled in different directions
for now. When I get the time
Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote:
I think you should just edit the TODO wiki and list all the things
we agree need fixing
Will do. It may take me a while to chase down all the issues from
the LSB script work.
If I recall correctly, some of what I was looking at seems necessary
for a
Chris Travers ch...@metatrontech.com wrote:
It is probably understandable that some people
would miss it (I did, a moment ago, until you mentioned it).
That seems like pretty good evidence that a footnote or
qualification of the initial statement would occasionally save some
confusion.
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Key words and unquoted identifiers are case insensitive...
FWIW, that is the *exact* rewording that came to mind for me as a
possible solution.
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Savita savita.ha...@gmail.com wrote:
I have installed postgres. When I check the status of postgres
service I get it is not running. But when I start pg_ctl start it
says server starting. But server is actually not started. How do
we get debug information for pg_ctl start?
This doesn't
Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais iog...@free.fr wrote:
and here is another test case where 8.3 is inconsistent with
*himself* this time:
Sounds like an argument that the behavior *should* have changed in
8.4. We don't like to introduce behavioral changes which might
break something in a
yua **azun...@hotmail.com wrote:
PostgreSQL 8.3.3 on i386-portbld-freebsd7.0, compiled by GCC cc
(GCC)
4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD]
postgres[681]: [506-1] WARNING: worker took too long to start;
cancelled
Nov 12 11:15:12 kddi-nwmgr01 postgres[681]:
[507-1] WARNING: worker took too long
. Uszkodzony means corrupted.
Dnia 20 stycznia 2010 16:21 Kevin Grittner
kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov
napisa*(a):
Adam Rakowski foo-scr...@o2.pl wrote:
Both one-click installer and zip archive from postgresql.org
are corrupted.
Where did you get them (e.g., a URL)?
Any chance
beulah prasanthi wrote:
Can i insert all the data into all the tables(multiple tables) with
a single trip to the database,by creating rules/triggers
This is not a bug. Please repost to another list; perhaps
pgsql-general.
When you re-post, you may want to provide more detail about the
Richard Neill rn...@cam.ac.uk wrote:
date_trunc('day', timestamp '2010-01-20 10:16:55')
What happens with a timestamp with time zone literal?
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Adam Rakowski foo-scr...@o2.pl wrote:
Both one-click installer and zip archive from postgresql.org are
corrupted.
Where did you get them (e.g., a URL)?
Any chance of download problems?
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Richard Neill rn...@cam.ac.uk wrote:
#fast
WHERE column '2010-010-20 00:00:00'
#fast
WHERE column date_trunc('day', timestamp with time zone
'2010-01-20 10:16:55')
#slow
WHERE column date_trunc('day', timestamp
yua **azun...@hotmail.com wrote:
What kind of information shall, I geve you
There are some good guidelines here:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SlowQueryQuestions
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Murali Mohan Nareddy nmmredd...@hotmail.com wrote:
Do any of the problems I am facing are fixed in a recent release
so that I can upgrade to that release?
You're taking a big risk if you don't update, even though your
immediate problems seem to be caused by the AV software. To view
the bugs
Jodi Escalante jescala...@assistgroup.com wrote:
INSERT INTO assessment (id, created, taken, current_weight, note,
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cond_chf, cond_pulm_heart, cond_endocrine_other, cond_skin_temp,
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Murali nmmredd...@hotmail.com wrote:
PostgreSQL version: 8.0.6
Operating system: Windows Server 2003 Standard 32 Bit
Description:Postgres hangs / crashes every day
You do realize that Windows is not a supported platform for any
release less than 8.2?
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
What's the data type of the value being compared to? I get, for
instance,
postgres=# select substr('ab '::char(4), 1, 4) = 'ab '::char(4);
?column?
--
t
(1 row)
This looks like another situation where we're running into trouble
because
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov writes:
This looks like another situation where we're running into
trouble because of non-standard behavior when people might be
expecting something consistent with other products and the
explicit language
Craig Ringer wrote:
Greg Stark wrote:
Ankit Kumar wrote:
Thanks for your response. Hibernate works well when I change the
DB to SQL server but somehow the moment I point to Postgresql it
start generating OutOfMemory. Is there some configuration at DB
end to ensure it starts using the
Chris Travers chris.trav...@gmail.com wrote:
I am noticing that that a failed database connection results in an
unusable SQLSTATE in libpq, and a very different SQLSTATE than the
backend registers.
Well, if the client fails to connect to the server, I'm not sure how
the server could
postgres bee postgres_...@live.com wrote:
insertion time is increasing as the data in the table is growing.
You have given no indication that there is a bug. Please re-post to
the performance list, but first you should read these pages (both
referenced in the description of the performance
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Sorry about that --- I had confused this case with that of a bare
NULL literal, which Postgres treats the same as an unadorned
string literal for type determination purposes. You're right that
the spec treats them differently. This is feasible for the
Wagner, Kurt kurt.wagnerext...@leoni.com wrote:
when writing a character constant elsewhere
then at first it is interpreted as character constant - right?
then it is casted to the desired type
No. It was confusing for me, too; but the PostgreSQL behavior is to
treat what the standard
Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov wrote:
There is an understandable tendency of those who work deep in the
guts of the PostgreSQL software, making all this custom type code
work,
I mangled that sentence worse than usual. The tendency is to see
the PostgreSQL behavior as natural
Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au wrote:
On 3/12/2009 12:35 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
You really ought to cast the 'I' to some specific type.
It's usually neatest to do this by just explicitly identifying
the intended type in the first place, eg:
SELECT firmnr,
Amaya Gamarra amaya.gama...@gtd.es wrote:
PostgreSQL version: 8.1.11
We've got a Slony-I cluster over 2 postgres 8.1.11 servers.
I join the pgsql.conf file.
logging_collector = on
That option (and others) are not present in 8.1.
Either that's not your version or it's not your
tak...@gmail.com wrote:
If PostgreSQL server is restarted, old Connection pooled in
Application server's ConnectionPool cannot connect to DB.
That's OK.
But, I can call rollback() on old Connection and it throws no
exception.
Hmmm What problem are you having? The transaction would
takiguchi tak...@gmail.com wrote:
This is a problem of connection pooling, not of transaction.
public void testConnection() {
Connection con = dataSource.getConnection(); // get a connection
from pool (If DB server restarted, invalid connection will be
returned)
boolean valid =
takiguchi tak...@gmail.com wrote:
public void testConnection() {
Connection con = dataSource.getConnection(); // get a connection
from pool (If DB server restarted, invalid connection will be
returned)
boolean valid = true;
try {
// execute some DMLs...
Pedro Gimeno pgsql-...@personal.formauri.es wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
This could be addressed by having the postmaster report its $PGDATA
value in the pg_ping response, but I would be against that on
security grounds. We don't let nonprivileged users know where
PGDATA is, why would we make
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, then Tom's idea of using a random number seems pretty solid no
matter how you slice it. Maybe a UUID.
A random number is looking like the best option. I'm not sure why I'd
want to generate a perfectly good 128 bit random number and then throw
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
I was envisioning just using PostmasterRandom() (after initializing
the seed from time(NULL) as we do now). I don't think we need a
super-wide random number.
Fine with me. Just that and CanAcceptConnections in the response?
It seems like pg_ping
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Alternatively, do the postmaster support and make the
presumably-minor pg_ctl mods to use it, and then a standalone
pg_ping utility could come later. I'm not sure how big the utility
would be, but surely bigger than the delta in pg_ctl.
Bigger than the
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote:
UUIDs throw away 6 bits?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_Unique_Identifier#Version_4_.28random.29
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Sean Hsien umph...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/10/15 Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov:
what are the OS and Java versions on the client side?
I'm using CentOS 5.2 64-bits with postgres 8.1.11 + java 6u16, and
Windows Vista 32-bits with postgres 8.4.1 + java 6u13.
So the Java code
Gerhard Leykam gel...@sealsystems.de wrote:
I am using a start script to set up my PostgreSQL database: it runs
initdb, if not done yet, starts the instance with pg_ctl start and
checks everything is fine by pg_ctl status.
If there is another PostgreSQL database on the same machine
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Well, it's arguably a start-script bug
OK.
While mulling that it occurred to me that some additional output
from the postmaster would help to solve another thing that's an
acknowledged shortcoming of pg_ctl, namely that it can't parse
postgresql.conf
Kevin Grittner kevin.gritt...@wicourts.gov wrote:
I neglected that point in my recently proposed LSB conforming script
Hmmm... On review, I see that I assumed that the -w switch on pg_ctl
start would cover this. I see that the problem is that this uses psql
to connect to the specified port
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