Re: [GENERAL] Postgres failover implementation

2000-12-13 Thread Laurentiu Drob
Peter Schmidt wrote: > > PostgreSQL v7.0.2 > > My company is looking for a way to implement failover w/Postgres. > Hi Peter, We have "fight" with this kind of stuff and found two directions: -software RAID 1 with nbd (for nbd you can search http://freshmeat.net site) -another toy named drbd (h

Re: [GENERAL] Reliability Stability of PgSQL & it's JDBC driver

2000-12-13 Thread Nikhil G. Daddikar
Nathan, Thanks for your response. It is great to know that Postgres is working out fine. However, I don't understand what "Vaccum of the DB" means nor what the "WAL" functionality is. If you could briefly explain these, that would be great. Thanks again! -ngd. > The main problem that you have

RE: [GENERAL] info please

2000-12-13 Thread Trewern, Ben
Title: RE: [GENERAL] info please For an SQL tutorial try http://sqlcourse.com/ but if you want information on PostgreSQL then look at http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/tutorial/ which is not really written for beginners but if you persist you should get there in the end ;). Hope

[GENERAL] Re: COPY doesnt work on views

2000-12-13 Thread rob
I use DBD/DBI in perl. use DBI; my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=YourDatabase;host=localhost",'username','passwor d'); my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select * from my_view"); $sth->execute; my @row; while (@ row = $sth->fetchrow_array) { print join("\t",@row); #or whatever } $sth->finish; $db

Re: [GENERAL] manuals

2000-12-13 Thread Martin A. Marques
El Mar 12 Dic 2000 11:05, Bruce Momjian escribió: > > I thought I fixed that, but it seems to have moved again. Vince, is > this the page that gets generated automatically? Sorry, but where (in which manual) can I find specific information on how TOAST works, how to use WAL, and how to make a g

RE: [GENERAL] Reliability Stability of PgSQL & it's JDBC driver

2000-12-13 Thread Nathan Barnett
Nikhil, Vacuuming the DB removes deleted entries from the database as they are not actually deleted when you use SQL to delete them, just marked as deleted. This operation clears up space and rearranges the data. If you don't perform many deletes, you may not need to run this. The only wrinkle

[GENERAL] Problem with pg_hba.conf

2000-12-13 Thread Niral Trivedi
All, I have already posted this message yesterday but didn't get any reply yet... Please help me with this..I am having trouble doing db authentication with 'pg_hba.conf' file.. I have added two users using 'CREATE USER' command for a db. And then I have created two separated password file to do

Re: [GENERAL] COPY doesnt work on views

2000-12-13 Thread Anand Raman
hi If getting the output of the query is all u want then u can spol the output of the query to a file.. I think it is done using \o .. Hope this helps Annad On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 04:36:10PM +, Steve Heaven wrote: >The COPY TO filename doesnt seem to work. >Copying a table works OK.

[GENERAL] TOAST & performance with lots of big columns in a table

2000-12-13 Thread Frank Joerdens
I've got an articles table where I want to store texts, of which several translations exist. Thanks to TOAST I can now store texts of arbitrary length directly in the table, which is already a big advantage over stuffing them into the file system and trying to keep the database and file system in

RE: [GENERAL] Problem with pg_hba.conf

2000-12-13 Thread Niral Trivedi
Tom, I have that 'local all trust' line commented out. And there is no other entry in the file at all... And what do you exactly mean by connecting via IP??? I assume that I am connecting through UNIX socket because when I commented out the local db1 crypt file1.dat local db2 crypt

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with pg_hba.conf

2000-12-13 Thread Tom Lane
Niral Trivedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, I have added separate lines in 'pg_hba.conf' file for two db as > follows: > local db1 cryptfile1.dat > local db2 cryptfile2.dat That looks correct as far as it goes. > But problem is

[GENERAL] Apache+Postgresql (mod_auth_pgsql)

2000-12-13 Thread Marcos
hi, i have an apache private directory and i would like to manage the user&pass from a postgresql database. i think there is something like mod_auth_pgsql but i do not know how can i use it. (i do not have mysql) this is the current configuration: AuthName "ZONA RESTRINGIDA" AuthType B

Re: [GENERAL] info please

2000-12-13 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, can you PLEASE send me some information on what this is all about. > I'm lost here. I'm brand new to the whole SQL language and I need all the > help I can get. > Thanks, Sounds like trolling for e-mail addresses. Sorry but I'm not an

[GENERAL] User names

2000-12-13 Thread Glen and Rosanne Eustace
Hi, I came across an anomaly yesterday which I would like clarified. I am using 6.5.3 but I don't know whether this is version specific. I created a new db user with a name that was 14 characters long, I allowed createuser to also create a dbase of the dame name. So far so good. There is no corr

[GENERAL] hebrew charset

2000-12-13 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
Hi All Any one know if Postgres have a support for the Hebrew charset. like when sorting with 'order by' -- -- Canaan Surfing Ltd. Internet Service Providers Ben-Nes Michael - Manager Tel: 972-6-6925757 Fax: 972-6-6925858 http://www.canaan.co.il --

[GENERAL] more init

2000-12-13 Thread Mike Sears
is there some sort of standard init script availiable? I know the redhat ones don't seem to work in some cases for postgres7.1beta1   Mike

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres failover implementation

2000-12-13 Thread Tom Lane
"Schmidt, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Seems like this still means a single point of failure, ie the NFS box. So >> what's the point? > The idea is to have a failover for postmaster itself. I realize you stated > that postmaster crashes are rare, but if the primary machine goes down we

[GENERAL] Help!Can't connect Postgresql JDBC driver

2000-12-13 Thread Cheung Yip San
Could anyone tell me how can I write the applet to connect the PostgreSQL? I have installed the Postgresql 7.0.3 RPM on RedHat 6.2 server and try to write the applet program to access the database. But the following error make me confuse : java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: java.io.FileNotFoundE

RE: [GENERAL] Postgres failover implementation

2000-12-13 Thread Schmidt, Peter
Title: RE: [GENERAL] Postgres failover implementation -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 10:10 AM >Performance across an NFS mount will doubtless suck badly. It's a fact of life at this point. I'm hoping performance won't

[GENERAL] ERD on the cheap?

2000-12-13 Thread Phil Glatz
I putting together a small (10 tables) postgresgl database for a non-profit organization, and would like to use an entity relationship diagram tool. They would like to be maintain it in the future, using a tool that preferably runs on a Windows client. Are there any decent tools available th

[GENERAL] Re: ERD on the cheap?

2000-12-13 Thread Philip Hallstrom
http://www.heraut.demon.nl/ I've only played with it and stopped because the SQL it generated was a little odd (but maybe I'm just not thinking straight). It's the only one I've ever found that supports mysql/postgresql though. -philip On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Phil Glatz wrote: > I putting toget

Re: [GENERAL] ERD on the cheap?

2000-12-13 Thread Jonathan Ellis
> I putting together a small (10 tables) postgresgl database for a non-profit > organization, and would like to use an entity relationship diagram > tool. They would like to be maintain it in the future, using a tool that > preferably runs on a Windows client. Are there any decent tools availabl

Re: [GENERAL] TOAST & performance with lots of big columns in a table

2000-12-13 Thread Frank Joerdens
Uh, I think I was wired rather the wrong way up, this question is confused. What a little fresh air can do. Cycling home from the office cleared the confusion in my head: It is of course nonsense to store all translations in a single row, also to have different tables for different languages. You

[GENERAL] RI and restoring dumps

2000-12-13 Thread Robert B. Easter
Has anyone experienced referential integrity (RI) problems while restoring data from a dump? Like, if the dump doesn't restore the data in the right order, then primary keys might not be in place before the foreign keys are restored. I want to know this from people who have experience before

Re: [GENERAL] RI and restoring dumps

2000-12-13 Thread Robert B. Easter
On Wednesday 13 December 2000 17:04, Robert B. Easter wrote: > Has anyone experienced referential integrity (RI) problems while restoring > data from a dump? Like, if the dump doesn't restore the data in the right > order, then primary keys might not be in place before the foreign keys are > rest

Re: [GENERAL] RI and restoring dumps

2000-12-13 Thread Matt Beauregard
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 05:30:49PM -0500, Robert B. Easter wrote: > On Wednesday 13 December 2000 17:04, Robert B. Easter wrote: > > Has anyone experienced referential integrity (RI) problems while restoring > > data from a dump? Like, if the dump doesn't restore the data in the right > > order,

[GENERAL] Re: Help!Can't connect Postgresql JDBC driver

2000-12-13 Thread brlspam
One problem: use "org.postgresql.Driver", not "postgresql.Driver". I don't write applets. Can they have jars in the classpath or do you have to extract all the .class files? -- Bruce R. Lewis http://brl.sourceforge.net/

[GENERAL] How to import/export data from/to an ASCII file?

2000-12-13 Thread Raymond Chui
For example create table testTable ( id integer, name char(20) ); an ASCII file format with field separator "|" is 1|Hello| 2|Again| .. There is a way to do this in Oracle, Sybase, Informix and MySQL. But I want to know how to do this in PostgreSQL. Please don't tell me use pg_dump, becau

Re: [GENERAL] RI and restoring dumps

2000-12-13 Thread Robert B. Easter
On Wednesday 13 December 2000 17:45, Matt Beauregard wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 05:30:49PM -0500, Robert B. Easter wrote: > > On Wednesday 13 December 2000 17:04, Robert B. Easter wrote: > > > Has anyone experienced referential integrity (RI) problems while > > > restoring data from a dump?

[GENERAL] Re: Help!Can't connect Postgresql JDBC driver

2000-12-13 Thread George Johnson
I'm not sure if this helps, but for some reason, Class.forName("postgresql.Driver") is listed but probably should be Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver") ... the driver is actually beneath the org directory. I'm not familar with linux variants of the PostgreSQL stuff. Sometimes when in doubt,

[GENERAL] commit log search broken.

2000-12-13 Thread Alfred Perlstein
http://www.postgresql.org/mhonarc/pgsql-committers/ errors out with: 'Cant load template [search.htm]! ' -- -Alfred Perlstein - [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."

[GENERAL] Re: Daily Digest V1 #108

2000-12-13 Thread rob
Why is pg_dump not correct? You need to elaborate on the parameters of the situation. --rob - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 6:26 PM Subject: Daily Digest V1 #108 > Daily Digest (mime) - Volume 1 : Issue 108