Re: [GENERAL] copy data from one db into another via copy & psql

2010-05-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Can I copy from one db (via COPY) and pipe the results to a psql/COPY stmt so > I can load the data into a table in the second db 'inline' without writing to > & reading from a flat file? That's pretty much what pg_dump -t tablename -d dbn

Re: [GENERAL] copy data from one db into another via copy & psql

2010-05-20 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to Kevin Kempter : > Can I copy from one db (via COPY) and pipe the results to a psql/COPY stmt so > I can load the data into a table in the second db 'inline' without writing to > & reading from a flat file? Yes, but keep in mind, COPY cant create the table on the destination. If th

[GENERAL] copy data from one db into another via copy & psql

2010-05-20 Thread Kevin Kempter
Can I copy from one db (via COPY) and pipe the results to a psql/COPY stmt so I can load the data into a table in the second db 'inline' without writing to & reading from a flat file? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: htt

Re: [GENERAL] How to lose transaction history (xmin values, WAL, etc.)?

2010-05-20 Thread Peter Hunsberger
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Richard Walker wrote: > > If I understand your scheme, this works in a scenario > where the row being updated is in some sense "owned" by a > particular user, who must provide some other data (a "password") > not otherwise stored in the database in order > to decr

Re: [GENERAL] How to lose transaction history (xmin values, WAL, etc.)?

2010-05-20 Thread Richard Walker
Peter Hunsberger wrote: Can you use an external key store? If not, I can't see this as being a serious attempt at security, but playing along, you could try something like the following: 1) Symmetrically encrypt a randomly generated string with something based on the users credentials (user nam

Re: [GENERAL] How to lose transaction history (xmin values, WAL, etc.)?

2010-05-20 Thread Peter Hunsberger
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Richard Walker wrote: > Peter Hunsberger wrote: >> >> If you really need security of some form at the physical database >> level then don't screw around with convoluted hacks.  Encrypt the >> critical data in the database and be done with it. > > If the hacker gets

[GENERAL] How feasible is this?

2010-05-20 Thread Chris Smith
I'm writing in desperate hope that something like this exists... because if so, it would make my life a lot easier. I want to be able to: a) Roll back a transaction b) Receive a notification when retrying the exact same transaction might cause different data to be returned from something that wa

Re: [GENERAL] How to lose transaction history (xmin values, WAL, etc.)?

2010-05-20 Thread Richard Walker
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Excerpts from Richard Walker's message of jue may 20 02:19:17 -0400 2010: (a) (ii) It seems a breach is possible via the xmin values. In that case, what about doing updates inside a transaction that does a trivial update of all rows, e.g.: begin transaction; update m

Re: [GENERAL] How to lose transaction history (xmin values, WAL, etc.)?

2010-05-20 Thread Richard Walker
Peter Hunsberger wrote: If you really need security of some form at the physical database level then don't screw around with convoluted hacks. Encrypt the critical data in the database and be done with it. If the hacker gets root access so they can read the raw database files, they most likely

Re: [GENERAL] [PHP] Some undefined function errors

2010-05-20 Thread Ketema Harris
you might want to also check your architecture flags for your compiler. i ran into this problem on a mac when I was compiling php and by default it tries to make a 32 bit and 64 bit binary, but pg was compiled as 64 bit only. I found that the php compile did not fail, but i was "missing" some f

Re: [GENERAL] postgres startup failure

2010-05-20 Thread Matt Bartolome
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Matt Bartolome writes: > > Setting the breakpoint (b exit) got me a little farther... > > > DEBUG: invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=32595968) > > DEBUG: max_safe_fds = 980, usable_fds = 1000, already_open = 10 > > Detaching after fork from child

Re: [GENERAL] postgres startup failure

2010-05-20 Thread Tom Lane
Matt Bartolome writes: > Setting the breakpoint (b exit) got me a little farther... > DEBUG: invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=32595968) > DEBUG: max_safe_fds = 980, usable_fds = 1000, already_open = 10 > Detaching after fork from child process 19066. > Detaching after fork from child process 19067

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres stats collector showing high disk I/O

2010-05-20 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera writes: > Excerpts from Justin Pasher's message of jue may 20 16:10:53 -0400 2010: >> Whenever I clear out the stats for all of the databases, the file >> shrinks down to <1MB. However, it only takes about a day for it to get >> back up to ~18MB and then the stats collector proces

Re: [GENERAL] postgres startup failure

2010-05-20 Thread Matt Bartolome
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Matt Bartolome writes: > > gdb output... > > > DEBUG: - > > DEBUG: invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=32595968) > > DEBUG: max_safe_fds = 980, usable_fds = 1000, already_open = 10 > > Detaching after fork fr

Re: [GENERAL] postgres startup failure

2010-05-20 Thread Tom Lane
Matt Bartolome writes: > gdb output... > DEBUG: - > DEBUG: invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=32595968) > DEBUG: max_safe_fds = 980, usable_fds = 1000, already_open = 10 > Detaching after fork from child process 18310. > Detaching after fork from child proces

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres stats collector showing high disk I/O

2010-05-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Justin Pasher's message of jue may 20 16:10:53 -0400 2010: > Whenever I clear out the stats for all of the databases, the file > shrinks down to <1MB. However, it only takes about a day for it to get > back up to ~18MB and then the stats collector process start the heavy > disk wr

Re: [GENERAL] postgres startup failure

2010-05-20 Thread Matt Bartolome
Hi Tom, On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Matt Bartolome writes: > > I'm attempting to start postgres on a standby machine from a backup. Both > > the primary and standby are running postgres 8.4, fedora 12. > > 8.4.what exactly? > I'm running 8.4.2 on the primary and 8.4.4 o

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL database and other daemons crashing

2010-05-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Vick Khera writes: >> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Joshua D. Drake >> wrote: >>> I wonder if the oom killer is acting up. > >> that'd be my guess.  postfix *never* dies.  something external is >> killing your processes. > > Either that or h

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL database and other daemons crashing

2010-05-20 Thread Tom Lane
Vick Khera writes: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Joshua D. Drake > wrote: >> I wonder if the oom killer is acting up. > that'd be my guess. postfix *never* dies. something external is > killing your processes. Either that or his hardware is failing, eg RAM dropping critical bits in the

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL database and other daemons crashing

2010-05-20 Thread Spencer Anderson
That may in fact be the cause. I ran, free -lm -s 0.5, to watch my memory use and saw the output below. My processes didn't die this time when it hit zero bytes free, but it only lasted for 1 second. Some process must be occasionally using very excessive memory, and every once in a while, I get

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL database and other daemons crashing

2010-05-20 Thread Vick Khera
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > I wonder if the oom killer is acting up. > that'd be my guess. postfix *never* dies. something external is killing your processes. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscripti

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL database and other daemons crashing

2010-05-20 Thread Spencer Anderson
/var/log/messages doesn't really show anything (see below). Just my repeated manual restarts because of the daemon crashing. Yes, all three crash each time, I can't figure out why rsyslog and postfix die because of a database issue. I'm not familiar with the oom killer. I'll google around. Do y

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL database and other daemons crashing

2010-05-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 15:10 -0500, Spencer Anderson wrote: > I have a Ruby on Rails web site that is running on a CentOS 5 server > using Apache 2 with Passenger and PostgreSQL 8.4. Over the past two > weeks I am seeing my PostgreSQL daemon, postfix, and rsyslog daemons > all die at the same time,

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL database and other daemons crashing

2010-05-20 Thread Spencer Anderson
I have a Ruby on Rails web site that is running on a CentOS 5 server using Apache 2 with Passenger and PostgreSQL 8.4. Over the past two weeks I am seeing my PostgreSQL daemon, postfix, and rsyslog daemons all die at the same time, this happens at least 5 times per day at random times. Apache how

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres stats collector showing high disk I/O

2010-05-20 Thread Justin Pasher
- Original Message - From: Justin Pasher Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:46:16 -0500 Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres stats collector showing high disk I/O To: Alvaro Herrera CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org - Original Message - From: Alvaro Herrera Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:28:03 -0

Re: [GENERAL] Connection lost

2010-05-20 Thread dennis jenkins
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Hernan Danielan wrote: > The server and the client are running in the same machine.That is why a > network connection problem is almost imposible. I do not know if i am doing > something wrong, my code is in my fist message. It is a extrange thing > because with fi

Re: [GENERAL] postgres startup failure

2010-05-20 Thread Tom Lane
Matt Bartolome writes: > I'm attempting to start postgres on a standby machine from a backup. Both > the primary and standby are running postgres 8.4, fedora 12. 8.4.what exactly? > DEBUG: invoking IpcMemoryCreate(size=32595968) > DEBUG: max_safe_fds = 984, usable_fds = 1000, already_open = 6

Re: [GENERAL] How to insert wchar_t type string to PostgreSQL

2010-05-20 Thread John R Pierce
Yan Cheng CHEOK wrote: Hello all, I am programming in Windows environment. Previously, we are using MBCs (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5z097dxa%28VS.71%29.aspx), in order to support language other than English. The following function still can be used, as long as we are setting the

[GENERAL] postgres startup failure

2010-05-20 Thread Matt Bartolome
Hi, I'm attempting to start postgres on a standby machine from a backup. Both the primary and standby are running postgres 8.4, fedora 12. The backup on the primary is done nightly using the following commands: # psql -d operations -U postgres -c "SELECT pg_start_backup('/data/postgres')"; # tar

Re: [GENERAL] [PHP] Some undefined function errors

2010-05-20 Thread Jim Lucas
Giancarlo Boaron wrote: > Hi all. > > Recently, I wrote an email about the problem I was having with some Postgres > functions that when those functions were called, I received the following > error: "Call to undefined function ". > > After some answers, I decided to rebuild a brand new linux v

Re: [GENERAL] [PHP] Some undefined function errors

2010-05-20 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 09:21 -0700, Giancarlo Boaron wrote: > Hi Jim. > > I think it depends on each server configuration but I checked in my server > and I don't have the 'pgsql.so' and 'psql.ini' files and neither the 'www' > directory. > > My Apache version is 2.2.15 and my root directory is

Re: [GENERAL] How to lose transaction history (xmin values, WAL, etc.)?

2010-05-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Excerpts from Richard Walker's message of jue may 20 02:19:17 -0400 2010: > (a) (ii) It seems a breach is possible via the xmin values. > In that case, what about doing updates inside a transaction > that does a trivial update of all rows, e.g.: >begin transaction; >update mytable ; --

Re: [GENERAL] [PHP] Some undefined function errors

2010-05-20 Thread Giancarlo Boaron
Hi Jim. I think it depends on each server configuration but I checked in my server and I don't have the 'pgsql.so' and 'psql.ini' files and neither the 'www' directory. My Apache version is 2.2.15 and my root directory is /usr/local/apache2/htdocs. Thank you. --- Em qui, 20/5/10, Jim Lucas

Re: [GENERAL] [PHP] Some undefined function errors

2010-05-20 Thread Giancarlo Boaron
Yes. Phpinfo() tells me it's ok: pgsql PostgreSQL Support enabled PostgreSQL(libpq) Version 8.4.4 Multibyte character support disabled SSL support enabled Active Persistent Links 0 Active Links 0 Directive Local Value Master Value pgsql.allow_persistent On On pgsql.auto_reset_pe

Re: [GENERAL] setting contrib lo visible to all schemas

2010-05-20 Thread Gurjeet Singh
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Teddy Limousin wrote: > thanks tom, aparently your rigth in the sql dump file there are some > set search_path changes > I tried the set search_path command and use the same query that generate > the error and it works on my pgadmin editor. > > My question is how

[GENERAL] SRF crash when calling SRF_RETURN_DONE

2010-05-20 Thread Jorge Arevalo
Hello, I have a problem with a SRF. In the first call, another external function is called. This function returns some allocated memory, and allocate/free more memory during its execution (I think there's no memory leaks in it...). Before calling the function, I change to a memory context appropia

Re: [GENERAL] setting contrib lo visible to all schemas

2010-05-20 Thread Teddy Limousin
thanks tom, aparently your rigth in the sql dump file there are some set search_path changes I tried the set search_path command and use the same query that generate the error and it works on my pgadmin editor. My question is how can I set the search_path for all users or all conections so my app

Re: [GENERAL] [PHP] Some undefined function errors

2010-05-20 Thread Fernando
Sorry I miss read the question. It does seem that php is not picking up the pg module and cannot find the functions. I assume Postgresql is in fact installed at /usr/local/pgsql. If you run phpinfo(); can you see that PG is installed? On 20/05/2010 10:46, Giancarlo Boaron wrote: ** I make

Re: [GENERAL] [PHP] Some undefined function errors

2010-05-20 Thread Giancarlo Boaron
I make the function call in a php file. I'm not using stored procedures.   If I create an empty php file and put only some of these functions, Apache reports de 'call to undefined function XXX'. --- Em qui, 20/5/10, Fernando escreveu: De: Fernando Assunto: Re: [GENERAL] [PHP] Some undefine

Re: [GENERAL] [PHP] Some undefined function errors

2010-05-20 Thread Fernando
Are you calling store procedures that return cursors? I had this problem with cursors because the transaction gets committed and the cursor closed after they return. Mind you I had the problem on .NET using npgsql, so I might be way off. Cheers On 20/05/2010 10:05, Giancarlo Boaron wrote:

Re: [GENERAL] How to lose transaction history (xmin values, WAL, etc.)?

2010-05-20 Thread Peter Hunsberger
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Richard Walker wrote: > > I have an application in which I want it > _not_ to be possible to work out which > rows of a table are being/have been updated. > Why? If you really need security of some form at the physical database level then don't screw around with

Re: [GENERAL] setting contrib lo visible to all schemas

2010-05-20 Thread Tom Lane
Teddy Limousin writes: > I guess this is because when executing the sql command to install lo, it > makes it visible from the public schema only > not from the schema I`m using. So my question is how can I make lo type to > be visible from all schemas > by visible I mean accesible: not need to us

Re: [GENERAL] default ordering of query result - are they always guarantee

2010-05-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Igor Neyman wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marl...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 4:15 AM >> To: A. Kretschmer >> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org >> Subject: Re: default ordering of query result - are the

Re: [GENERAL] default ordering of query result - are they always guarantee

2010-05-20 Thread Igor Neyman
> -Original Message- > From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marl...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 4:15 AM > To: A. Kretschmer > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: default ordering of query result - are they > always guarantee > >

[GENERAL] Some undefined function errors

2010-05-20 Thread Giancarlo Boaron
Hi all. Recently, I wrote an email about the problem I was having with some Postgres functions that when those functions were called, I received the following error: "Call to undefined function ". After some answers, I decided to rebuild a brand new linux virtual machine with Apache + PHP + Po

[GENERAL] setting contrib lo visible to all schemas

2010-05-20 Thread Teddy Limousin
hello I`m trying to restore a database that uses contrib type lo. The database uses one schema where the relations are created before restoring the schema I execute the command psql -d dbname -f path-to-contrib/lo.sql after this I restore the schema and then the data of the database the problems

Re: [GENERAL] Connection lost

2010-05-20 Thread Tom Lane
Joshua Tolley writes: > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Hernan Danielan > wrote: >> Yes, the most interesting thing is that the log says >> unexpected EOF on client connection or  could not send data to client: >> Broken pipe > That log mostly just says something disconnected uncleanly, but > d

Re: [GENERAL] How to insert wchar_t type string to PostgreSQL

2010-05-20 Thread Tom Lane
Yan Cheng CHEOK writes: > May I know, how I can store wchar_t * typed string into PostgreSQl, using C > library? You can't; you have to convert to whatever the client_encoding is. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) T

Re: [GENERAL] Connection lost

2010-05-20 Thread Hernan Danielan
The server and the client are running in the same machine.That is why a network connection problem is almost imposible. I do not know if i am doing something wrong, my code is in my fist message. It is a extrange thing because with files less than 500KB works great. However with a file of 1.4MB it

Re: [GENERAL] CIDR data type query help

2010-05-20 Thread Scot Kreienkamp
Thanks Steve, that works nicely in the testing I've done so far. I'll keep in mind about the pgfoundry project. I don't see this growing overly large, but you never know. I didn't realize the CIDR type couldn't be indexed. Scot Kreienkamp skre...@la-z-boy.com -Original Message- Fr