Re: [GENERAL] Get next OID

2010-09-30 Thread Dianne Yumul
On Sep 29, 2010, at 7:56 PM, Tom Lane wrote: pg_controldata would tell you approximately where the OID counter is. Just what I needed. Thank you so much Tom. Dianne -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

[GENERAL] Get next OID

2010-09-29 Thread Dianne Yumul
Hello everyone, We have PostgreSQL 8.1.21 on CentOS 5.5 and some of our older programs still use OIDs to identify a row. I'm planning on adding a serial column to the tables and modifying the code to use the serial column instead. But I am curious to find out how close we are before the OID

Re: [GENERAL] Stroring html form settings

2008-09-26 Thread Dianne Yumul
First, I want to thank you for your help. You have made great points and I just want to respond to some of your questions. My first thought is that if you use a combined info field, you'll lose the ability to easily do any kind of meaningful data analysis based on which boxes are checked. If

Re: [GENERAL] Stroring html form settings

2008-09-26 Thread Dianne Yumul
which webserver does your client want to implement? Apache, sorry I forgot to mention. If JSLibrary = Dojo I would look at JSON (JavaScript Object Notation language) I would serialize to JSON instead of XML. http://www.aurore.net/projects/php-json/ A simple json_encode($_POST) might do

Re: [GENERAL] Stroring html form settings

2008-09-26 Thread Dianne Yumul
Would an EAV model work? I'm thinking something like form,field,value. For example: formA,ckbox1,true formA,input1,initial value formB,textarea1,enter your long comment here You could easily extend this to user,form,field,value, or normalize it as you see fit. This would work great too. If

[GENERAL] Stroring html form settings

2008-09-25 Thread Dianne Yumul
Hello, I have some html forms that I save the settings into the database, things like which item was selected in the menu and if a checkbox was checked. The table looks like this: user_id | report_id | info

[GENERAL] Postgresql 8.0.10 on FC4

2007-01-19 Thread Dianne Yumul
Hello list, I downloaded the 8.0.10 rpms for FC4 yesterday and after installing it, postgresql won't start. I get the following error: An old version of the database format was found My previous postgresql version was 8.0.8 and I read nothing on the release notes about a

Re: [GENERAL] Restoring from filesystem backup

2005-11-11 Thread Dianne Yumul
this: pg_dump -Ft -b -v the_db_name the_output_file.tar pg_restore restores the database. i.e.: pg_restore -d the_db_name the_output_file.tar Hope this helps - Scott On Nov 10, 2005, at 2:41 PM, Dianne Yumul wrote: Hello to everybody. I just have a couple of newbie questions. I'm trying

Re: [GENERAL] Restoring from filesystem backup

2005-11-11 Thread Dianne Yumul
Thanks for the response. does the global directory exist on the drive you are syncing from? If so ... then it's a problem with your rsync. check the options you are using with the rsync command. check the rsync configurations in /etc/rsyncd.conf on the drive. what user are you running the

[GENERAL] Restoring from filesystem backup

2005-11-10 Thread Dianne Yumul
Hello to everybody. I just have a couple of newbie questions. I'm trying to restore our databases from a file system backup. The backups are done with rsync, the postgresql service is stopped before backups are done on the server. The system is Fedora Core 4 with Postgresql 8.0.3. Now back

Re: [GENERAL] Arrrr... date formatting.

2005-09-19 Thread Dianne Yumul
May be you want the FM prefix, i.e. to_char(current_timestamp, 'FMMonth'). See the docs for more info: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions- formatting.html#FUNCTIONS-FORMATTING-EXAMPLES-TABLE On Sep 19, 2005, at 8:20 AM, Alex Turner wrote: Shiver me timbers, whats up

Re: [GENERAL] Start up script for Fedora Core 3

2005-08-24 Thread Dianne Yumul
Hello, We have Fedora Core 4, but I'm pretty sure it's the same. To start the service we use /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql start Now if you want postgresql to start automatically on boot you do: chkconfig postgresql on Read the man pages for chkconfig for more details. Hope this helps. On

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres for Fedora Core 2 OS ****************

2005-07-15 Thread Dianne Yumul
Here: http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.0.3/linux/rpms/fedora/fedora-core-2/ If you go to www.postgresql.org, under Downloads, you'll find directions and a link to the FTP mirrors. On Jul 15, 2005, at 7:38 AM, Dinesh Pandey wrote: x-tad-biggerFrom where can I download?/x-tad-bigger

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres for Fedora Core 2 OS ****************

2005-07-15 Thread Dianne Yumul
oh, and for installation instructions, please check out the very fine documentation at: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/index.html : ) On Jul 15, 2005, at 7:38 AM, Dinesh Pandey wrote: x-tad-biggerFrom where can I download?/x-tad-bigger x-tad-bigger /x-tad-bigger

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql fails to start? (Update)

2005-06-09 Thread Dianne Yumul
Just an update . . . I tried upgrading kernel to 2.6.11.11 (kernel.org) but was unsuccessful (due to i2c and gcc 4.0 issue). So I settled for the one on the fedora development repository. But that didn't help, upgraded other stuff too like selinux-policy-targeted and initscripts. Beginning to pull

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql fails to start?

2005-06-07 Thread Dianne Yumul
used to have 8.0.2 installed but I upgraded to 8.0.3, hoping that would fix it but it didn't. Thank you. Dianne On Jun 6, 2005, at 8:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Dianne Yumul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have Fedora Core 4 Test 3 installed on a development box and just recently installed Postgresql

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql fails to start?

2005-06-07 Thread Dianne Yumul
-D /var/lib/pgsql/data Many thanks for the help. Dianne On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:02 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Dianne Yumul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Um, exactly which Postgres RPMs do you have installed? Thanks for the response. I have the following installed: postgresql-server-8.0.3-1 postgresql

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql fails to start?

2005-06-07 Thread Dianne Yumul
policy will disallow the postgres daemon from writing anywhere under /home. I really should take the time and learn SELinux but I'm crunched right now and will disable it for now. Thank you soo much for the all the help. Dianne On Jun 7, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Dianne Yumul

[GENERAL] Postgresql fails to start?

2005-06-06 Thread Dianne Yumul
Hello list, We have Fedora Core 4 Test 3 installed on a development box and just recently installed Postgresql 8.0.3. Sometimes, when starting postgresql with the /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql script, it gives me the following: /usr/bin/chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file

Re: [GENERAL] Install error at rpm package + Fedora Core3

2005-03-18 Thread Dianne Yumul
Why don't you try yum, it will install the dependencies for you ; ) http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/ On Mar 18, 2005, at 11:32 AM, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Edgar Amorim wrote: I'm a kind new bye with linux related stuffs. I'm

Re: [GENERAL] Install error at rpm package + Fedora Core3

2005-03-18 Thread Dianne Yumul
Yup, I didn't see your email off-list till after I re-sent the other email. But thanks for the info. On Mar 18, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Dianne Yumul wrote: Why don't you try yum, it will install

Re: [GENERAL] Install error at rpm package + Fedora Core3

2005-03-18 Thread Dianne Yumul
Sorry, I did not see your email off-list until after I sent the other one. On Mar 18, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Dianne Yumul wrote: Why don't you try yum, it will install the dependencies for you ; ) http

Re: [GENERAL] Newbie question about casting literals - oracle/postgres

2004-10-27 Thread Dianne Yumul
hi, I think it works for me. what version of postgres do you have? maybe you just need to upgrade : ) test=# select cust_id, 'TEST' as test, cust_address from customers; cust_id | test | cust_address +--+-- 11 | TEST | 200 Maple Lane