Re: [GENERAL] [OT] Tom's/Marc's spam filters?

2004-04-20 Thread Tom Lane
Nigel J. Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Doesn't that just force the delivering system to send the spam through your secondary server? A 500-series error isn't supposed to be retried is it? But in any case, I run the same filters on my secondary server. Both the IP and the HELO checks would

Re: [GENERAL] [OT] Tom's/Marc's spam filters?

2004-04-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Joe Conway wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: Huh? I just use Spamassassin myself, with Razor/Pyzor/DCC and Bayes all enabled ... I use exactly the same setup. But recently I've noticed that the spammers are getting smarter -- I think 20% of it is slipping by the

[GENERAL] cursor questions

2004-04-20 Thread Alexander Cohen
Hi, Im not sure if this is right place to ask this question, but here goes. I have have declared a cursor with an query within a transaction. I need to get the current position of the cursor and also the number of rows it represents. Is there any way to do this? I was thinking i could do

Re: [GENERAL] Filesystem vs. Postgres for images

2004-04-20 Thread Holger Hoffstaette
On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:56:09 +0200, Holger Klawitter wrote: Oh please. Reiser is as unstable as postgres is slow - in other words, both have to suffer prejudice which used to be true lng ago. ;-) True. In cases of large directories ext2/3 perform extremely bad (as in the original post)

[GENERAL] plpgsql: cannot connect to SPI manager

2004-04-20 Thread Alan Treece
Title: Message I'm getting this when i do an insert. I have a 'c' trigger doing an SPI_connect. If i remove this it goes away, but i don't think it's my trigger generating it. The table has a lot of foreign key constraints. Could be postgres is generating code to do this. Is there a way

Re: [GENERAL] [OT] Tom's/Marc's spam filters?

2004-04-20 Thread Steve Manes
Karel Zak wrote: It must be pretty difficult maintain these header and body patterns and the others lists. I had same problem and I resolve if by spamassassin, it knows learn and it's more simple than procmailrc coding. Now I have cca 5% of all spams in my INBOX. It's not

[GENERAL] Vb databound

2004-04-20 Thread Bob Ghodsi
I am experiencing a problem when I run my visual basic database program on windows 2000. The error message states activex components can not create an object, I have installed mdac_typ 2.8 and reinstalled visual studio 2000 on my computer, but I still get he smae error message when I run the

[GENERAL] convert result to uppercase

2004-04-20 Thread Victor Spång Arthursson
Hi! How do i convert a result to upper/lowercase? I'ld like to do the following: SELECT UPPER(lang) from languages; and get for example uk as UK, dk AS DK and so on Sincerely Victor ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your

[GENERAL] Postgresql system requirements to support large databases.

2004-04-20 Thread wilbur douma
We are looking at implementing a large Postgresql database (50GB - 100GB) and are wondering if there are any limitations or problems for a database of this size running on 32-bit architecture. I have seen some older posts where it appears that Postgresql seemed to have performance problems when

[GENERAL] Basix for Data General / Basix for Sco Unix

2004-04-20 Thread Kuywan
I have a Data General server with Basix Program and i would like change for the Sco Unix server. I would like use my Basix Program on Sco Unix, but i can't find the program for run Basix on Sco Unix (or Linux, or any Unix). Thank you for help!. ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] [OT] Tom's/Marc's spam filters?

2004-04-20 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 05:35:51AM - I heard the voice of Jim Wilson, and lo! it spake thus: Tom Lane said: 3. I have noticed that bouncing any machine that sends HELO sss.pgh.pa.us gets rid of a ton of spam and viruses. I don't know of any real clean way to do this, but I have a

[GENERAL] Problems with a Trigger Statement

2004-04-20 Thread Nathan Schile
I want the following trigger to update a related table when ever a record is inserted/updated. I have the following trigger: CREATE TRIGGER update_status AFTER INSERT OR UPDATE ON public.Bug Status FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE public.update_status(); Which Calls this function: CREATE OR

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Invalid Page Header in Block XXXXX

2004-04-20 Thread Anthony
Chris Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony) writes: Our Database is having errors. We are currently using PostgreSQL to store 2.5 Million records per day. The average addition to our primary table is 4.5 Gigs of data. We are

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql: cannot connect to SPI manager

2004-04-20 Thread Alan Treece
Title: Message I was missing SPI_finish() here. Sorry. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan TreeceSent: Friday, April 16, 2004 3:29 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [GENERAL] plpgsql: cannot connect to SPI manager I'm

[GENERAL] Can I reset the lower bound of an array.

2004-04-20 Thread Mark Gibson
Hi, I've been playing about with array's, and found the concat operator '||' quite useful, apart from the fact that prepending an element places it in a lower subscript. Is there a way of either: a) prepending an element, but shifting existing elements up a subscript, so that the lower

Re: [GENERAL] Anyone using pgreplicator?

2004-04-20 Thread Alan Graham
Replying to my own post, tch, tch... :-) Thanks to those of you who have contacted me off list. It seems that there's a fair bit of interest in replication in general at the moment. I fixed my problem with pgReplicator, so the test system is merrily replicating between Perth and Brisbane as I

[GENERAL] composite types

2004-04-20 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
I'd like to compute some row like results and return them from a function (and pass the result to PHP[*]). Well I've read about composite type but all the references I've seen are about coding in C. That's not the way I'd like to follow by now. I was expecting to declare composite types in

Re: [GENERAL] [OT] Tom's/Marc's spam filters?

2004-04-20 Thread Joe Conway
Marc G. Fournier wrote: do you force learn those spam that get through the cracks? I get about 20 or 30 messages that slip through the cracks, which I process through with sa-learn nightly ... No, I haven't been doing that, but I guess I ought to start. Thanks for the suggestion! Joe

Re: [GENERAL] plan-reading extensive tutorial?

2004-04-20 Thread scott.marlowe
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Gregory S. Williamson wrote: FWIW, this site gives: 404 - File Not Found These aren't the droids files you're looking for. Sorry, but that file could not be found. And believe you me, we looked! We checked all the likely directories, then all the unlikely

[GENERAL] I cannot view the website of postreSQL correctly

2004-04-20 Thread kostas
Hi all, I try to visit the web site of PostgreSQL but my browser doesn't show the intro page correctly. I also tried to visit the site with mozilla. The result was the same. Spesifially, I can only view the background color and a white horizontal line. Do you know what is wrong. Thank you advance

[GENERAL] upgrade postgres 7.1 to 7.4.2

2004-04-20 Thread csysi
Hello, i upgrade postgres version 7.1 to version 7.4.2 and it tell me that the databases are incompatible. Can i convert the databases ? Thank´s for the help Jorge ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL on SMB/CIFS Shares on FreeBSD 5

2004-04-20 Thread Rob Oakley
I have an embedded system running FreeBSD (5.1) that does not have any local (rotating) storage (i.e disk drives). PostgreSQL also runs on this box and (at this point) has two tables. It is an extremely simple PostgreSQL configuration with the tables having less than 20 fields each, and no

[GENERAL] Downgrading from Postgresql 7.4 to 7.1

2004-04-20 Thread Matt Adams
Hello: I have an awkward situation where I must downgrade from 7.4 to 7.1. I have two databases already in 7.4. I'm largely ignorant concerning postgresql: am I going to have any severe problems downgrading? Thanks Matt -- Matt Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice +1 (903) 939-7641 Systems

[GENERAL] Solution to Error 429

2004-04-20 Thread Bob Ghodsi
Over the weekend, I reviewed several of my database programs written in visual Basic 6.0. Discovered that all had DAO 3.51 reference in common. Aparantly this corrupted file was causing the error 429. To solve the problem, copy the DAO 3.5 or DAO 3.6.dll Located on C:\Program Files\Commons

Re: [GENERAL] upgrade postgres 7.1 to 7.4.2

2004-04-20 Thread Keith C. Perry
Quoting csysi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, i upgrade postgres version 7.1 to version 7.4.2 and it tell me that the databases are incompatible. Can i convert the databases ? Thank´s for the help Jorge ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql system requirements to support large

2004-04-20 Thread Bob . Henkel
I just want a general idea of what Postgresql can handle. I know the guru's will say it depends on many different things, but in general what can this bad boy handle? 50gb to 100gb is by no means small. But how does Postgresql 7.4 handle database of 900G, or 1 Terabyte or greater? How

Re: [GENERAL] convert result to uppercase

2004-04-20 Thread Janning Vygen
Am Dienstag, 13. April 2004 14:17 schrieb Victor Spng Arthursson: Hi! How do i convert a result to upper/lowercase? This is a question SELECT UPPER(lang) from languages; and this is the answer. It works exactly like this: SELECT UPPER('dk'); results in 'DK' kind regards, Janning

Re: [GENERAL] upgrade postgres 7.1 to 7.4.2

2004-04-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 14:36:57 +0100, csysi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i upgrade postgres version 7.1 to version 7.4.2 and it tell me that the databases are incompatible. Can i convert the databases ? You need to do a dump and reload to go between major releases (e.g. from 7.1.x to

Re: [GENERAL] Downgrading from Postgresql 7.4 to 7.1

2004-04-20 Thread Dann Corbit
-Original Message- From: Matt Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 2:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [GENERAL] Downgrading from Postgresql 7.4 to 7.1 Hello: I have an awkward situation where I must downgrade from 7.4 to 7.1. I have two

Re: [GENERAL] [OT] Tom's/Marc's spam filters?

2004-04-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Joe Conway wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: do you force learn those spam that get through the cracks? I get about 20 or 30 messages that slip through the cracks, which I process through with sa-learn nightly ... No, I haven't been doing that, but I guess I ought to

[GENERAL] PL/SQL question

2004-04-20 Thread Froggy / Froggy Corp.
Hello everyone, I try to see if i can make a recursive function with a trigger set on INSERT and doing an insert under my trigger function. So i wrote a test function : CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION testfunc() RETURNS SETOF RECORD AS ' DECLARE use_t RECORD; BEGIN

Re: [GENERAL] convert result to uppercase

2004-04-20 Thread Lee Harr
How do i convert a result to upper/lowercase? I'ld like to do the following: SELECT UPPER(lang) from languages; and get for example uk as UK, dk AS DK and so on? That looks right to me. Are you getting an error? lee=# select version(); version

Re: [GENERAL] [OT] Tom's/Marc's spam filters?

2004-04-20 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Seymour) writes: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But in any case, I run the same filters on my secondary server. Both the IP and the HELO checks would be quite useless if I used an MX that wouldn't support 'em. Yup. If you can't employ the same anti-UCE checks on a

[GENERAL] staggered query?

2004-04-20 Thread Vincent Ladlad
hi! im new to SQL, and i need to find a solution to this problem: i have a table with two columns, the first column is of type timestamp. the table contains hundreds of thousands of records. i need to get all the entries/records at every 10 seconds interval. example, given a table: hh/mm/ss |

[GENERAL] Slony-I heading for release

2004-04-20 Thread Jan Wieck
The Slony-I project is currently heading for release. The plan is to start BETA around May 12 with a target release date end of June. Nightly CVS exports can be downloaded from here: http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/slony1/projdisplay.php I would like to encourage everyone who intends

[GENERAL] TPC H data

2004-04-20 Thread Shalu Gupta
Hello, We are trying to import the TPC-H data into postgresql using the COPY command and for the larger files we get an error due to insufficient memory space. We are using a linux system with Postgresql-7.3.4 Is it that Postgresql cannot handle such large files or is there some other possible