Re: [GENERAL] readline install questions

2004-10-01 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Frankel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am attempting to install postgresql7.4.5 on OSX 10.3.5 and have questions about readline. FWIW, on my OSX machines I always pull down the source distribution of readline and build/install it per defaults (configure; make; sudo make install or nearly

[GENERAL] Repeated VACUUM reports same number of deleted rows

2004-10-01 Thread Russell Smith
Postgresql 7.4.5 The following VACUUMs were run within a couple of minutes of each other completing. This table concerned is a table that has not been changed in a long time. (a month) There were open transactions at the time the vacuum was run. These were created by having PHP running with

[GENERAL] i'm really desperate: invalid memory alloc request size 0

2004-10-01 Thread Janning Vygen
Hi, tonight my database got corruppted. before it worked fine. since two days i do the following tasks every night psql -c 'CLUSTER;' $DBNAME psql -c 'VACUUM FULL ANALYZE;' $DBNAME before these opertaions i stop all web access. The last months i only did a VACUUM ANALYZE each night and didn't

Re: [GENERAL] i'm really desperate: invalid memory alloc request size 0

2004-10-01 Thread Janning Vygen
Am Freitag, 1. Oktober 2004 09:49 schrieben Sie: Hi, tonight my database got corruppted. before it worked fine. since two days i do the following tasks every night psql -c 'CLUSTER;' $DBNAME psql -c 'VACUUM FULL ANALYZE;' $DBNAME before these opertaions i stop all web access. The last

Re: [GENERAL] i'm really desperate: invalid memory alloc request

2004-10-01 Thread Richard Huxton
Janning Vygen wrote: Hi, tonight my database got corruppted. before it worked fine. since two days i do the following tasks every night psql -c 'CLUSTER;' $DBNAME psql -c 'VACUUM FULL ANALYZE;' $DBNAME before these opertaions i stop all web access. The last months i only did a VACUUM ANALYZE each

[GENERAL] newby question

2004-10-01 Thread Bernd Buldt
Howdy! I'd like to set up a database (mostly a bibliography), which I'd like to connect to a webpage such that simple queries to the database can be made by visitors of my homepage. I seem to remember that FileMaker allows for this, but I'd prefer a UNIX-based solution (under MacOS X).

Re: [GENERAL] i'm really desperate: invalid memory alloc request size 0

2004-10-01 Thread Janning Vygen
Hi Richard, i feared all db gurus are asleep at the moment. Am Freitag, 1. Oktober 2004 10:56 schrieb Richard Huxton: PS - your next mail mentions sig11 which usually implies hardware problems, so don't forget to test the machine thoroughly once this is over. You saved my life!! Nothing

Re: [GENERAL] i'm really desperate: invalid memory alloc request

2004-10-01 Thread Richard Huxton
Janning Vygen wrote: Hi Richard, i feared all db gurus are asleep at the moment. They are, that's why you've got me :-) Am Freitag, 1. Oktober 2004 10:56 schrieb Richard Huxton: PS - your next mail mentions sig11 which usually implies hardware problems, so don't forget to test the machine

Re: [GENERAL] newby question

2004-10-01 Thread Richard Huxton
Bernd Buldt wrote: Howdy! I'd like to set up a database (mostly a bibliography), which I'd like to connect to a webpage such that simple queries to the database can be made by visitors of my homepage. I seem to remember that FileMaker allows for this, but I'd prefer a UNIX-based solution

[GENERAL] Bug with updateable Views and inherited tables?

2004-10-01 Thread Sebastian Böck
Hello all, i have a view defined as a simple select of a table. This table is inherited by a couple of others. All entries belong to the child-tables. I also have an unconditional update rule on the view. If i do an update to the view, the update is rewritten to update the father-table. And now a

[GENERAL] How to debug pl/pgSQL -script?

2004-10-01 Thread Henriksen, Jonas F
Hi, I'm writing some simple triggers and functions for a postgres database, and I'm wondering how to go about to debug a pl/pgSQL-script. Is there a way to echo variable-content to screen, or to file? Or is there other, more advanced ways of debugging such scripts? regards Jonas:))

Re: [GENERAL] How to debug pl/pgSQL -script?

2004-10-01 Thread ra
Hi, http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/plpgsql-errors-and-messages.html Albert ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] How to debug pl/pgSQL -script?

2004-10-01 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 03:05:14PM +0200, Henriksen, Jonas F wrote: I'm writing some simple triggers and functions for a postgres database, and I'm wondering how to go about to debug a pl/pgSQL-script. Is there a way to echo variable-content to screen, or to file? Or is there other, more

Re: [GENERAL] newby question

2004-10-01 Thread Kevin Barnard
Apache/PHP are already prebuilt on Mac OS X. All you need to do is donwload the postgres tarball config and compile. Small notte on the compile. When you compile postgres either turn off readline support or download readline from GNU and compile the static lib. I don't remember off hand but I

Re: [GENERAL] Repeated VACUUM reports same number of deleted rows

2004-10-01 Thread Tom Lane
Russell Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should VACUUM report the rows as deleted or say they could not be deleted? Why does it report the same information for three runs in a row? I see no pending deletions in that vacuum output: DETAIL: 0 dead row versions cannot be removed yet. so I'm not

Re: [GENERAL] Bug with updateable Views and inherited tables?

2004-10-01 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sebastian_B=F6ck?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this a known limitation with views, rules and inherited tables i haven't heard of? Or is it a bug? When you haven't shown us any details, it's impossible to tell. Let's see the actual table, view, and rule definitions. (pg_dump -s

Re: [GENERAL] newby question

2004-10-01 Thread Scott Frankel
Additional note: configure warned of an old version of bison when I attempted an install of postgresql7.4.5 the other day. Seems the version that comes with OSX 10.3.x is too old for postgres. Only trick I encountered in installing bison from tarball was locating the install product in

Re: [GENERAL] porting a full Ms Sql Server to postgres

2004-10-01 Thread Shachar Shemesh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking for details, or tools about porting a full Ms Sql Server 2000 database to Postgres on Linux. Is this possible? We have the whole nine yards, stored procedures, triggers, and all. Is there a way to automate this process? Thanks Totally automate - no.

[GENERAL] Free Unix-Like ODBC Driver Manager For Win32?

2004-10-01 Thread Randy Yates
Hi, I want to do develop some C++ to interface with a remote postgresql database via ODBC on a win32 platform (windows 2000) via unix style. For example, I like using the mingw (minimum gnus for windows) distribution, gnumake, xemacs, cygwin, and non-IDE building. Will the iODBC driver manager

Re: [GENERAL] newby question

2004-10-01 Thread Doug McNaught
Scott Frankel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Additional note: configure warned of an old version of bison when I attempted an install of postgresql7.4.5 the other day. Seems the version that comes with OSX 10.3.x is too old for postgres. You only actually need Bison if you are building from

Re: [GENERAL] Free Unix-Like ODBC Driver Manager For Win32?

2004-10-01 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Randy Yates wrote on 27.09.2004 01:35: Hi, I want to do develop some C++ to interface with a remote postgresql database via ODBC on a win32 platform (windows 2000) via unix style. For example, I like using the mingw (minimum gnus for windows) distribution, gnumake, xemacs, cygwin, and non-IDE

[GENERAL] is it Distributed Database

2004-10-01 Thread Rahat Ali
Hi, I want to develop my project in postgresql database but my project requirement is Distributed Database so please guide me that postgresql can sport Distributed Database system and Centralized Database System, if yes then please inform me that which postgresql version should i used and also

[GENERAL] Postgresql commands to display all functions and process/connections based on a database.

2004-10-01 Thread ying_lu
Hello, Could someone help tell the commands of the following operation under postgreSQL please? . List all functions have been defined (e.g., defined through pg/sql) within a database . Display all process/connections (similar to show processlist under MySQL) Thanks in advance, Ly

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware recommendations

2004-10-01 Thread Barry S
Gentoo, in my opinion, makes a poor production platform. Others have had success with it, but I would recommend 1 of the big 3 'stable' linux platforms out there: * RHES * SUSE * Debian As far as hardware goes, IBM has some nice x86 intro servers that fit into that price catagory. -Barry John

Re: [GENERAL] checksum

2004-10-01 Thread Henriksen, Jonas F
Hi, not sure I quite understand, but could you not just concatenate all the fields and test on that? like: select test1, test2, test3 from testtable where test1 || test2 || test3 = 'whateveryouwanttotest' you might have to do some typecasting/conversion on data types other than strings...

[GENERAL] Random not so random

2004-10-01 Thread Arnau Rebassa
Hi everybody, I'm doing the following query: select * from messages order by random() limit 1; in the table messages I have more than 200 messages and a lot of times, the message retrieved is the same. Anybody knows how I could do a more random random? Thank you very much -- Arnau

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql commands to display all functions and process/connections based on a database.

2004-10-01 Thread sklassen
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-09-28 17:28:25 -0400]: . List all functions have been defined (e.g., defined through pg/sql) within a database SELECT proname FROM pg_proc JOIN pg_language ON (pg_proc.prolang = pg_language.oid) WHERE pg_language.lanname = 'plpgsql'; -- Steven

[GENERAL] Arjunt......

2004-10-01 Thread Ashok......
hi! Everybody. I have written a code to connec to postgre sql databse.But i am geting some error. import java.sql.*; import java.util.*; import java.lang.*; public class LoginPage { public static void main(String[] args) { Connection conn; try {

Re: [GENERAL] Random not so random

2004-10-01 Thread Jean-Luc Lachance
Use a SERIAL id on messages, then Select * from messages where id = int8( random() * currval({sequence_name})); Arnau Rebassa wrote: Hi everybody, I'm doing the following query: select * from messages order by random() limit 1; in the table messages I have more than 200 messages and a lot of

[GENERAL] Pgsql installer beta2 dev2 / dev3 freeze

2004-10-01 Thread bartkoedith
Hello folks, I am having a hard time installing PgSQL on WinXP - when installing from source it tells me I have an incompatible time zone - PgSQL does not support leap seconds (Europe - Bratislava, Budapest, Berlin, etc.), when installing via installer dev2 and/or dev3 freezes. ver says:

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Beta 3 Uploaded

2004-10-01 Thread Marian POPESCU
Are there also SRPMs? I'm interested on Fedora Core 2 ones. I have rebuilt from SRPMs the Beta2 and it works OK - I only had to change the init script - the version provided was 7.4. Marian ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading

Re: [GENERAL] Aggregates ?? Datamart (to whatever it has implemented a DataMart using Postgres)

2004-10-01 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 07:04:50PM -0400, Esteban Kemp wrote: Esteban, I'm building a Large DataMart with a big table and I want to improve the performace using aggregates I mean a set of table that store some specific aggregacion of the main table, like materialized views, I know

[GENERAL] Pgadmin III Qustion

2004-10-01 Thread Laurent Duperval
HI, I'm using pgadmin III 1.2.0 Post Beta 1 (Sept 17 2004). I used it to execute a SQL script that creates tables and inserts data. At the end, I get a message saying that everything went through correctly. However, when I try to view the data in the pgadmin window, nothing shows up. My

[GENERAL] error connecting to database

2004-10-01 Thread Alexander Cohen
Im trying to connect locally to a database on a running postgres cluster. If i connect with psql, everything is fine and i can transact. I i try and connect in my own app, i get this error: Could not connect to server: permission denied. Is the server running locally and accepting connections

Re: [GENERAL] error connecting to database

2004-10-01 Thread sklassen
* Alexander Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-10-01 14:42:07 -0400]: Im trying to connect locally to a database on a running postgres cluster. If i connect with psql, everything is fine and i can transact. I i try and connect in my own app, i get this error: Could not connect to server:

Re: [GENERAL] Random not so random

2004-10-01 Thread Greg Stark
Arnau Rebassa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: select * from messages order by random() limit 1; in the table messages I have more than 200 messages and a lot of times, the message retrieved is the same. Anybody knows how I could do a more random random? What OS is this? Postgres is just

Re: [GENERAL] newby question

2004-10-01 Thread Scott Frankel
Good to know ... Scott On Oct 1, 2004, at 9:08 AM, Doug McNaught wrote: Scott Frankel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Additional note: configure warned of an old version of bison when I attempted an install of postgresql7.4.5 the other day. Seems the version that comes with OSX 10.3.x is too old for

Re: [GENERAL] error connecting to database

2004-10-01 Thread Tom Lane
Alexander Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could not connect to server: permission denied. Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432 What exctly does this error message mean? What permissions is this error talking about? The permissions

Re: [GENERAL] error connecting to database

2004-10-01 Thread Alexander Cohen
On 1-Oct-04, at 3:06 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Alexander Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could not connect to server: permission denied. Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432 What exctly does this error message mean? What permissions is this

[GENERAL] Upgrade 7.3.3 to 7.4.5

2004-10-01 Thread Igor Kryltsov
Hi, I upgraded recently DB and found that some columns with type timestamp changed default values from now() to: receipt_date | timestamp with time zone | not null default '2004-09-29 09:58:03.010678+10'::timestamp with time zone ,where time is a time when psql -U postgres template1

[GENERAL] zero-length delimited identifier in pg_dumpall file

2004-10-01 Thread Randall Smith
Got this error on a pg_dumpall file dumped from a postgresql-7.4-0.3PGDG database and imported into 7.4.5-3 database. ERROR: zero-length delimited identifier at or near at character 37 From looking at the output, I think maybe this is the line that caused the error. CREATE SCHEMA MSV80

[GENERAL] initdb on Debian

2004-10-01 Thread Randall Smith
I would like to be able to initdb to get a clean database to test backups. Reading the Debian version of the Postgresql README, I see that I should use the --debian-conffile option with initdb. Problem though. I have to run initdb as user postgres, but I need to be root to edit the stuff in

[GENERAL] problem getting started with PostgreSQL 8 beta 3 on XP

2004-10-01 Thread Steve Gollery
I installed Postgres 8 beta 3 on an XP box, with Postgres running as a service. TaskManager tells me that postgres and postmaster are both running. Using pgAdmin III, I can connect to the server and create users, databases, tables, etc. But at the command line, on the same machine where the

Re: [GENERAL] Undefined symbols: _poll

2004-10-01 Thread David Helgason
On 30. sep 2004, at 21:35, Joe Lester wrote: I'm just moved my Postgres client project from Mac 10.2.8 to 10.3.5. It's an Objective-C program that links to libpq.a (the header file is libpq-fe.h). However, when I try to compile now I get the following linking error: ld: Undefined symbols:

[GENERAL] about pg_dump without pompt password

2004-10-01 Thread Ying Lu
Hello all, Is it possible that we setup the password in the pg_dump command line instead of let users input it through prompt command. E.g., pg_dump test -c -d --host=localhost -U testUser1 --file='a.dmp' --no-privileges Thanks a lot! Ly ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] error connecting to database

2004-10-01 Thread Tom Lane
Alexander Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What kind of permissions does /tmp need? Generally it's 777 (ie, wide open), plus stickybit if your system supports that (so people can't delete each others' temp files). regards, tom lane ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade 7.3.3 to 7.4.5

2004-10-01 Thread Tom Lane
Igor Kryltsov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I upgraded recently DB and found that some columns with type timestamp changed default values from now() to: receipt_date | timestamp with time zone | not null default '2004-09-29 09:58:03.010678+10'::timestamp with time zone Those were not

Re: [GENERAL] problem getting started with PostgreSQL 8 beta 3 on XP

2004-10-01 Thread Tom Lane
Steve Gollery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed Postgres 8 beta 3 on an XP box, with Postgres running as a service. TaskManager tells me that postgres and postmaster are both running. Using pgAdmin III, I can connect to the server and create users, databases, tables, etc. But at the

Re: [GENERAL] problem getting started with PostgreSQL 8 beta 3 on

2004-10-01 Thread Steve Gollery
Tom, False alarm -- I just realized that I was picking up the createdb from an earlier failed attempt to install 7.4.5. Removing that got me to the right command and all is well. Thanks for the help. Steve Tom Lane wrote: Steve Gollery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed Postgres 8 beta 3 on

[GENERAL] ODBC for PostgreSQL 7.4

2004-10-01 Thread Astha Raj
Hi All, I want to connect to PostgreSQL 7.4 from my Windows machine. What ODBC version is needed? Is there any other important settings required? I am very new to this database. Thanks, Astha ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all

Re: [GENERAL] Repeated VACUUM reports same number of deleted rows

2004-10-01 Thread Russell Smith
On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 12:42 am, Tom Lane wrote: Russell Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Should VACUUM report the rows as deleted or say they could not be deleted? Why does it report the same information for three runs in a row? I see no pending deletions in that vacuum output: DETAIL: 0

[GENERAL] Large update operations and performance

2004-10-01 Thread Jon Asher
I'm running some very large table update operations (on 2 mil + records) and the queries are taking 5 + hours to complete. Is there a way to turn off row-level indexupdates or something else to make it run more quickly? Jon