Re: [GENERAL] Propogating conditions into a query

2005-06-23 Thread Kim Bisgaard
Hi Tom, I have now completed the move to PG8.0.3, and feel that I have confirmed that this problem is related to the problem I'm having: Formulated like this, it is not performing: SELECT station_id, timeobs,temp_grass, temp_dry_at_2m FROM temp_dry_at_2m a FULL OUTER JOIN temp_gra

[GENERAL] help about the function

2005-06-23 Thread Zlatko Matić
Hello!   I have implemented solution for enabling regular user (from group "ADMINS") to create new users in predefined groups, by your modified function:   CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "public"."alter_group" (name, boolean, name, varchar, timestamp) RETURNS boolean AS$body$DECLARE  l_group ALI

Re: [GENERAL] help about the function

2005-06-23 Thread Patrick . FICHE
Hi, Why not :   SELECT INTO l_validity "VALIDITY"."VALIDITY" FROM ( SELECT min("VALIDITY"."RV_ID") AS "RV_ID", "VALIDITY"."VALIDITY" FROM "VALIDITY" GROUP BY "VALIDITY"."RV_ID", "VALIDITY"."VALIDITY") sve;   Regards, Patrick  

Re: [GENERAL] setting up PostgreSQL on Linux RHL9 to allow ODBC connections from Windows

2005-06-23 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 22 Jun 2005 at 8:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have seen a bunch of different documentation on how to set up to > allow ODBC, but I am a little confused about how much/what has to be > set up to allow an ODBC connection from Windows (mostly 2003, some XP) > to an existing PostgreSQL (7.4.6)

Re: [GENERAL] setting up PostgreSQL on Linux RHL9 to allow ODBC connections

2005-06-23 Thread Uwe C. Schroeder
Not quite correct. TCP needs to be turned on AND an according entry in pg_hba.conf needs to be set up - otherwise the server will just decline to talk to the client. Also - if you're on XP you might want to check the "firewall" settings - which if configured wrong could potentially block connec

Re: [GENERAL] help about the function

2005-06-23 Thread Zlatko Matić
Great! It works. Thanks. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:18 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] help about the function Hi, Why not :  

[GENERAL] Changing password for the postgres user?

2005-06-23 Thread Bjørn T Johansen
I am trying to change the password for the postgres user but it doesn't work... I have tried changing it from pgAdmin, EMS PostgreSQL Manager, etc but whatever password I set, I still can log in without using password (And it seems that no sql code is run on the server) What am i missing?

Re: [GENERAL] Changing password for the postgres user?

2005-06-23 Thread Gavin Love
Bjørn T Johansen wrote: I am trying to change the password for the postgres user but it doesn't work... I have tried changing it from pgAdmin, EMS PostgreSQL Manager, etc but whatever password I set, I still can log in without using password (And it seems that no sql code is run on the ser

Re: [GENERAL] Changing password for the postgres user?

2005-06-23 Thread Douglas McNaught
Bjørn T Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to change the password for the postgres user but it > doesn't work... I have tried changing it from pgAdmin, EMS > PostgreSQL Manager, etc but whatever password I set, I still can log > in without using password (And it seems that no s

Re: [GENERAL] multiple action rules

2005-06-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 20:28, Tom Lane wrote: > Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Well, what really gets me is that basically, the syntax diagram in > > the psql environment has a syntax diagram that makes sense to me. > > > So I guess if there was a "patch" it would basically referenc

Re: [GENERAL] setting up PostgreSQL on Linux RHL9 to allow ODBC connections from Windows

2005-06-23 Thread Hugo
hi,  if the client machine is another linux ,  what is the correct way to configure ODBC thanks Hugo  Hi,All you need is the Windows ODBC driver, which you install on the client machine, and then configure it to talk to the Linux server onport 5432 (set by default).--Ray.>> Most of the documenta

[GENERAL] Performance counters?

2005-06-23 Thread Cestmir Hybl
Hello   Does psql maintain some sort of global performance counters?   We are interested mainly in following counters (cumulative, by all psql processes): - cpu time by all backends - sql queries count - fsync count - disk reads / disk bytes read- disk writes / disk bytes written - transacti

Re: [GENERAL] Changing password for the postgres user?

2005-06-23 Thread Bjørn T Johansen
Aaahh, of course I forgot about the trust settings I have there... BTJ Gavin Love wrote: > > Bjørn T Johansen wrote: > >> I am trying to change the password for the postgres user but it >> doesn't work... I >> have tried changing it from pgAdmin, EMS PostgreSQL Manager, etc but >> whatever

Re: [GENERAL] Performance counters?

2005-06-23 Thread Richard Huxton
Cestmir Hybl wrote: Hello Does psql maintain some sort of global performance counters? Chapter 23. Monitoring Database Activity You will want to combine the built-in stats with ps/logfile reading to get all the figures you want. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd --

Re: [GENERAL] multiple action rules

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I'm thinking I should make a patch for a demonstration of making a > rule with >1 action though... You're right, there are no such examples. It would be interesting to make a full-fledged demonstration of maintaining a join view (where delete from t

Re: [GENERAL] Propogating conditions into a query

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Kim Bisgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The reason the first query is not performing is because the query > optimizer does not push the conditions down into the sub-queries - right?? Well, it's not the same condition: the WHERE clause is constraining the output variable of the FULL JOIN, which

[GENERAL] plpgsql and schema

2005-06-23 Thread Roberto Pellagatti
The problem: I've two tables, both called "test" on two different schemas, let's say schema1 and schema2. I need to write a function like (just a simple example) CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo() RETURNS int4 AS $BODY$ declare num int4; begin select into num count(*) from test; return

[GENERAL] Help me urgently

2005-06-23 Thread Kapil Malhotra
Hi.. I am running postgres 8.0.3 on red hat 9 and i have installed pgadmin III 1.2 on win 2000 professional client. i want to establish a connection between win client and postgres server.. please help me with the steps kapil ---(end of broadcast)

[GENERAL] How to compare the schemas ?

2005-06-23 Thread Milorad Poluga
Hi everyone, I am looking for the best way to compare the schemas of two databases with the very similar structure. One (certainly not the best options) is to do something like this: pg_dump ... DB1 > PG_SCHEMA1 pg_dump ... DB2 > PG_SCHEMA2 diff PG_SCHEMA1 PG_SCHEMA2 > differences.txt kwri

Re: [GENERAL] Corrupted index

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Akash Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > During a vacuum, I ran into this error: > vacuumdb: vacuuming of database "friend" failed: ERROR: invalid page > header in block 41661 of relation "friend_pkey" > I've read the posts on this newsgroup and it's clear that I have to > REINDEX to fix this. T

[GENERAL] fields and foreign keys

2005-06-23 Thread mrix
Hello! I'd like to know how can i get list of fields and corresponding foreign keys (referenced table and field). Thanks! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] fields and foreign keys

2005-06-23 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:34:28AM -0700, mrix wrote: > > I'd like to know how can i get list of fields and corresponding foreign > keys (referenced table and field). For individual tables, client interfaces usually have a way to show the table definition. In psql, for example, you can use "\d t

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql and schema

2005-06-23 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:50:40PM +0200, Roberto Pellagatti wrote: > > The problem is that i get always the number of rows from the table in > the schema that was current when I created the function. PL/pgSQL caches its query plans, so subsequent calls to the function use the plan created on th

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql constraint checked data fails to restore

2005-06-23 Thread Jan Wieck
On 6/20/2005 1:23 PM, Lee Harr wrote: Some of the data required by the check function is being restored after the data being checked by the function and so it all fails the constraint. Are you saying that the check function perform queries against other data? That might not be a good idea --

[GENERAL] TX semantics backward compatibility

2005-06-23 Thread Kovács Péter
Hi, We've got a product which supposedly supports the major RDBMSs including PostgreSQL. We tested it so far only with PostgreSQL 7.2 and found no problem. Now, it turned out that it does not work with more recent versions (certainly not with 8.0). The problem is with the kind of code where w

Re: [GENERAL] Help me urgently

2005-06-23 Thread Richard Huxton
Kapil Malhotra wrote: Hi.. I am running postgres 8.0.3 on red hat 9 and i have installed pgadmin III 1.2 on win 2000 professional client. i want to establish a connection between win client and postgres server.. Make sure your server is actually listening for internet connections. http://www.p

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql constraint checked data fails to restore

2005-06-23 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:47:37AM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote: > On 6/20/2005 1:23 PM, Lee Harr wrote: > > > >You ask some great questions. Thanks. > > But not the really important one :-) Maybe that's because it didn't need asking :-) > The question I have is how exactly you manage to get the trigg

Re: [GENERAL] How to compare the schemas ?

2005-06-23 Thread DBTools Software
Hi, - Original Message - From: "Milorad Poluga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 1:36 PM Subject: [GENERAL] How to compare the schemas ? >Hi everyone, > >I am looking for the best way to compare the schemas of two databases with the very similar structure. >One (c

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql constraint checked data fails to restore

2005-06-23 Thread Jan Wieck
Added pgsql-hackers Added Bruce Momjian On 6/23/2005 12:19 PM, Michael Fuhr wrote: The question I have is how exactly you manage to get the trigger fired when restoring the dump. By default, the dump created by pg_dump will create the table, fill in the data and create the trigger(s) only afte

Re: [GENERAL] How to compare the schemas ?

2005-06-23 Thread Peter Fein
See also the recent thread 'Version Control?' for some tools and a discussion of some of the difficulties in doing this robustly. Milorad Poluga wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am looking for the best way to compare the schemas of two databases with > the very similar structure. > One (certainly not

Re: [GENERAL] TX semantics backward compatibility

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kov=E1cs_P=E9ter?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is with the kind of code > where we test the existence of a table in a transaction with: > select count(*) from doesitexist where 1 = 2; AFAIK the behavior of that has not changed since forever: if doesitexist doesn't ex

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Removing Kerberos 4

2005-06-23 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 04:39:15PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > "Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yeah. But it has been declared dead by the Kerberos folks > > (http://www.faqs.org/faqs/kerberos-faq/general/section-7.html. And this > > document is from 2000, an dit was declared already

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql constraint checked data fails to restore

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think pg_dump should add the check constraints in the same manner as > it does triggers. > Bruce, do we have a TODO item for this? No, because that idea has been proposed and rejected before --- it adds overhead (extra table scans) and reduces readability

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] [PATCHES] Removing Kerberos 4

2005-06-23 Thread Magnus Hagander
> Has Kerb4 been marked as depricated in the docs at all? If > not it might be best to just do that and then yank it later. Yes, since 7.4. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/auth-methods.html#KERBEROS-AUT H http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/auth-methods.html#KERBEROS-AUT H "Ker

Re: [GENERAL] TX semantics backward compatibility

2005-06-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 12:12, Tom Lane wrote: > =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kov=E1cs_P=E9ter?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The problem is with the kind of code > > where we test the existence of a table in a transaction with: > > > select count(*) from doesitexist where 1 = 2; > > AFAIK the behavior of th

Re: [GENERAL] TX semantics backward compatibility

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What versions of postgresql supported the abortive non-autocommit mode > that caused so many problems, could it be that 7.2 did, and it was on > for this fellow? If memory serves, that mistake was only in 7.3. In any case, it would not have had the effe

[GENERAL] multi-languages in a table

2005-06-23 Thread YL
I'm migrating from mysql to postgresql. I've several (mysql)tables with multi-language columns:   descript, descript_gb, descript_b5, descript_sp   they store the record's description in English, SimplifiedChinese, TraditionalChinese and Spanish respectively.   I don't know if this will wo

Re: [GENERAL] Corrupted index

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Akash Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'll try running the od command -- I'm just a little confused on where > I run it. I tried running od -x 41661 but that doesn't yield any > results. I'm assuming I have to run this command on the actual index > file itself -- how do I do this? See contrib

Re: [GENERAL] Corrupted index

2005-06-23 Thread Akash Garg
Tom, I'll try running the od command -- I'm just a little confused on where I run it. I tried running od -x 41661 but that doesn't yield any results. I'm assuming I have to run this command on the actual index file itself -- how do I do this? Thanks, Akash On 6/23/05, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [GENERAL] Corrupted index

2005-06-23 Thread Akash Garg
I used oid2name to find the index files: 168807081 168807081.1 168807081.2 168807081.3 168807081.4 Now how do I run the od command to find the block in question? Thanks, Akash On 6/23/05, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Akash Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'll try running th

[GENERAL] Loopback IDENT authentication broken in FC4

2005-06-23 Thread Ian Pilcher
Just a friendly warning that FC4's targeted SELinux policy breaks PostgreSQL IDENT authentication across the loopback interface. Details at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161383 -- Ian Pilcher

Re: [GENERAL] How to compare the schemas ?

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Amiel
I paid $69 and purchased the EMS PostgreSQL DB Comparer tool. Works great for me.. They have a trial version you can play with... They even have a command line version.. http://www.sqlmanager.net/en/products/postgresql/dbcomparer Peter Fein wrote: See also the recent thread 'Version Co

Re: [GENERAL] Corrupted index

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Akash Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used oid2name to find the index files: > 168807081 > 168807081.1 > 168807081.2 > 168807081.3 > 168807081.4 > Now how do I run the od command to find the block in question? Rather than doing the math by hand, let dd do it: dd bs=8k skip=41661 cou

Re: [GENERAL] multi-languages in a table

2005-06-23 Thread Douglas McNaught
"YL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm migrating from mysql to postgresql. > I've several (mysql)tables with multi-language columns: > > descript, descript_gb, descript_b5, descript_sp > > they store the record's description in > English, SimplifiedChinese, TraditionalChinese and Spanish respe

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql and schema

2005-06-23 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 09:33:27AM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN > > Note what the documentation says about not being able to get the > result of an EXECUTE query directly. A couple of workarounds

[GENERAL] Version 1.43 of DBD::Pg released

2005-06-23 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Version 1.43 of DBD::Pg, the Perl DBI interface to PostgreSQL, has just been released. This version mostly fixes some bugs that appeared in 1.41 and 1.42, as well as introducing a new file, README.dev, to help developers of this module. The module c

Re: [GENERAL] Help me urgently

2005-06-23 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 06/23/2005 10:28:49 AM, Richard Huxton wrote: Kapil Malhotra wrote: Hi.. I am running postgres 8.0.3 on red hat 9 and i have installed pgadmin III 1.2 on win 2000 professional client. i want to establish a connection between win client and postgres server.. Make sure your server is actual

Re: [GENERAL] Perl DBI issue

2005-06-23 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I just installed a new machine with Fedora Core 4 with PostgreSQL 8.0.3. I > also installed DBI::Pg 1.41. When I try to use a query with a placeholder > in it I get the error: "DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: syntax error at > or near "$1" at

Re: [GENERAL] Corrupted index

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Akash Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I ran that command on the index files -- they are attached. I'm a bit confused --- you mean you extracted block 41661 from each of the index's segments? If so, only the first one is actually relevant here. > I notice that in file2, file2 and file3, I

Re: [GENERAL] setting up PostgreSQL on Linux RHL9 to allow ODBC

2005-06-23 Thread SCassidy
Thanks to William and everyone else who answered this. It works like a charm!! PostgreSQL rules! Susan William Yu

Re: [GENERAL] Postfix/Maildrop and too many connections issues

2005-06-23 Thread Sven Willenberger
On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 03:39 +, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 06/22/2005 08:23:43 AM, Sven Willenberger wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 01:30 +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-06-21 15:00:12 -0400: > > > > We have a system set up whereby postfix and maildrop gather user

Re: [GENERAL] Perl DBI issue

2005-06-23 Thread Peter Darley
Greg, Switching to 1.42 didn't help, but 1.43 did the trick. I didn't realize that there were newer versions of DBD::Pg. The CPAN install tool kept telling me that DBD::Pg was up to date. Thanks for the help! Peter Darley -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAI

[GENERAL] Vacuum causing crashes

2005-06-23 Thread David Mitchell
Hi, We're running a Postgres 8.0.1 database and have a maintenance process that runs vacuum on selected tables every 10 minutes. Each table takes around 2-3 seconds to vacuum. Since we've started this process we've seen a lot of postmaster crashes (it says it received signal 9). It appears th

[GENERAL] Is there a standard database model for poker?

2005-06-23 Thread Greg Stark
I know poker is just ludicrously popular these days. So surely somebody has thought of storing hands in a relational database already? Has anyone here done so in Postgres? -- greg ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum causing crashes

2005-06-23 Thread Douglas McNaught
David Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > We're running a Postgres 8.0.1 database and have a maintenance process > that runs vacuum on selected tables every 10 minutes. Each table takes > around 2-3 seconds to vacuum. Since we've started this process we've > seen a lot of postmaster cra

[GENERAL] Postmaster Out of Memory

2005-06-23 Thread Jeff Gold
Joe Maldonado and I have a vexing problem with PostgreSQL 7.4.5 (we are using the PGDG RPMs on a RedHat 9 system). He posted about this briefly with the subject "info on strange error messages on postgresql" on this list, but I'll start from the beginning. About once per week the database ent

Re: [GENERAL] Postmaster Out of Memory

2005-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Jeff Gold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > About once per week the > database enters some pathological state where the parent postmaster -- > NOT one of the child connections -- appears to run out of memory. I can absolutely, positively say that that dump is not from the parent postmaster. It's a

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum causing crashes

2005-06-23 Thread David Mitchell
If you're running Linux, it's possible that your system is overcommitted and low on memory and the kernel is picking random processes to kill. There should be entries in the syslogs related to this, if that's what's happening. There are ways to tell (some versions of) Linux not to overcommit mem

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum causing crashes

2005-06-23 Thread Douglas McNaught
David Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If you're running Linux, it's possible that your system is >> overcommitted and low on memory and the kernel is picking random >> processes to kill. There should be entries in the syslogs related to >> this, if that's what's happening. There are ways

[GENERAL] Postgres 8.0 windows processes, field testing, and Hibernate

2005-06-23 Thread Scott Goldstein
I had a couple of questions about Postgres 8.0 on Windows platforms:   1.  Has Postgres 8.0 seen many field deployments yet?  What have been the results? 2.  When running a test against Postgress, I noticed in the Windows task manager that several postgres.exe processes we're created.  What contro

[GENERAL] Win32 users?

2005-06-23 Thread Joe
I see there's a pgsql-cygwin list and a pgsql-hackers-win32 list, but no pgsql-win32 list. I browsed through the pgsql-novice and pgsql-general archives and only saw a few Windows-related posts. Which of those two lists is most appropriate for asking newbie-type questions about the Windows por