[GENERAL] strange message from pg_dumpall

2007-10-31 Thread Joao Miguel Ferreira
Hello all, I got surprised by this message: - The program "pg_dump" is needed by pg_dumpall but was not found in the same directory as "/usr/bin/pg_dumpall". Check your installation. -- It's quite strange because I'm quite t

[GENERAL] configure password

2007-10-31 Thread João Paulo Zavanela
Hi, How I configure password to postgres user in Linux? I'm using trust, but I needing configure password in database. Thanks! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index s

Re: [GENERAL] configure password

2007-10-31 Thread T.J. Adami
On 31 out, 07:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (João Paulo Zavanela) wrote: > Hi, > > How I configure password to postgres user in Linux? > I'm using trust, but I needing configure password in database. > > Thanks! > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 9: In versio

[GENERAL] Join between tables of two or more databases

2007-10-31 Thread T.J. Adami
Hi people. I have 2 databases named as follows: 1) company_a 2) company_b These two databases do not have the same ER model. However, I want to access tables on "company_a" there are in "company_b". I want to use them as local tables (as other databases like Sybase allows, since you have opened

Re: [GENERAL] strange message from pg_dumpall

2007-10-31 Thread T.J. Adami
On 31 out, 06:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joao Miguel Ferreira) wrote: > Hello all, > > I got surprised by this message: > > - > The program "pg_dump" is needed by pg_dumpall but was not found in the > same directory as "/usr/bin/pg_dumpall". > Check your installation

Re: [GENERAL] strange message from pg_dumpall

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Lane
Joao Miguel Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is what I do: > system("su postgres -c \"pg_dumpall --clean > some_file\""); This is going to try to find pg_dumpall in whatever PATH is currently active within the script --- maybe there's something bogus about that path? Personally I'd use

Re: [GENERAL] configure password

2007-10-31 Thread João Paulo Zavanela
>> Hi, >> >> How I configure password to postgres user in Linux? >> I'm using trust, but I needing configure password in database. >> >> Thanks! >> >> ---(end of broadcast)--- >> TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to >>

Re: [GENERAL] Updated .vim file

2007-10-31 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:58:29PM -0500, Decibel! wrote: > Does anyone have a .vim file that takes dollar quoting into account? > I've tried the one mentioned at > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-04/msg01266.php , but > it doesn't appear to understand dollar quotes. The magic ap

[GENERAL] Replacing RDBMS

2007-10-31 Thread Phoenix Kiula
The Amazon Dynamo framework is going to replace RDBMS? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_dynamo.php ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/

Re: [GENERAL] Join between tables of two or more databases

2007-10-31 Thread Reg Me Please
Il Wednesday 31 October 2007 11:47:46 T.J. Adami ha scritto: > Hi people. I have 2 databases named as follows: > > 1) company_a > > 2) company_b > > > These two databases do not have the same ER model. However, I want to > access tables on "company_a" there are in "company_b". I want to use > them

[GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread mgould
We are currently migrating from Sybase's ASA 9/10 to PostGres 8.2.4. One of the features that is really nice in ASA is the ability to add the attribute hidden to a Create procedure, Create function and Create trigger. Essentially what this does is encrypt the code so that if anyone or any util

Re: [GENERAL] PG windows service issues

2007-10-31 Thread Moisan Yves
Hi Oisin, > The only similar issues I have seen was where the user was created for > the DB with the user must change password at next login option and this > caused some issues? I checked and I have the option "never change password checked". However, for the user I used for the previous 8.

Re: [GENERAL] active connections

2007-10-31 Thread João Paulo Zavanela
I don't understand, where I do it? >-- Mensagem Original -- >From: "Martin Gainty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: João Paulo Zavanela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [GENERAL] active connections >Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:51:30 -0500 > > >ps aux | grep postgres > >M-- >- Original Message - >F

Re: [GENERAL] strange message from pg_dumpall

2007-10-31 Thread Joao Miguel Ferreira
> | system("su postgres -c \"pg_dumpall --clean > some_file\""); > > I'd try "su - postgres ..."; this will use postgres' environment here. > That was a good one but still didn't work > | this is run from within a Perl module called from within a Perl script. > | > | I've tried the same

Re: [GENERAL] Updated .vim file

2007-10-31 Thread Filip Rembiałkowski
2007/10/30, Decibel! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Does anyone have a .vim file that takes dollar quoting into account? > I've tried the one mentioned at > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-04/msg01266.php , but > it doesn't appear to understand dollar quotes. dollar quoting is mostly use

Re: [GENERAL] strange message from pg_dumpall

2007-10-31 Thread Thomas Pundt
On Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2007, Joao Miguel Ferreira wrote: | I got surprised by this message: | | - | The program "pg_dump" is needed by pg_dumpall but was not found in the | same directory as "/usr/bin/pg_dumpall". | Check your installation. | --

Re: [GENERAL] configure password

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 10/31/07, João Paulo Zavanela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> How I configure password to postgres user in Linux? > >> I'm using trust, but I needing configure password in database. > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > >> ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] active connections

2007-10-31 Thread Andreas Kretschmer
João Paulo Zavanela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I don't understand, where I do it? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Please no top-posting, it's hard to re

Re: [GENERAL] configure password

2007-10-31 Thread Douglas McNaught
João Paulo Zavanela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, but I need configure password to connect to server! > Now the pg_hba.conf is trust, I need change to passwd. > Changing the file to passwd, I don't know how configure password to connect! Set pg_hba.conf to 'trust', connect and use ALTER U

[GENERAL] getting list of tables from command line

2007-10-31 Thread Craig White
I wrote a little script to individually back up table schemas, table data and then vacuum the table and it works nicely but I wanted a way to query a database and get a text file with just the table names and cannot figure out a way to do that. my script looks like this... (all I want is to get a

Re: [GENERAL] getting list of tables from command line

2007-10-31 Thread Reece Hart
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 08:01 -0700, Craig White wrote: > I wanted a way to > query a database and get a text file with just the table names and > cannot figure out a way to do that. This should do the trick: $ psql -Atc "select table_schema||'.'||table_name from information_schema.tables" -Reece

Re: [GENERAL] Join between tables of two or more databases

2007-10-31 Thread Pavel Stehule
On 31/10/2007, T.J. Adami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi people. I have 2 databases named as follows: > > 1) company_a > > 2) company_b > > hello you can access others databases via dblink look to contrib Pavel Stehule ---(end of broadcast)--- TI

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread Reg Me Please
Il Wednesday 31 October 2007 15:39:55 mgould ha scritto: > We are currently migrating from Sybase's ASA 9/10 to PostGres 8.2.4. One > of the features that is really nice in ASA is the ability to add the > attribute hidden to a Create procedure, Create function and Create trigger. > Essentially wh

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread Albe Laurenz
mgould wrote: > We are currently migrating from Sybase's ASA 9/10 to PostGres > 8.2.4. One of the features that is really nice in ASA is the > ability to add the attribute hidden to a Create procedure, > Create function and Create trigger. Essentially what this > does is encrypt the code so t

Re: [GENERAL] Join between tables of two or more databases

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 10/31/07, Reg Me Please <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Il Wednesday 31 October 2007 11:47:46 T.J. Adami ha scritto: > > The question is: can I do this using remote database servers > > (different hosts)? If does not, can I do it at least on local > > databases on the same server? > > > As far as

Re: [GENERAL] getting list of tables from command line

2007-10-31 Thread T.J. Adami
On 31 out, 12:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig White) wrote: > I wrote a little script to individually back up table schemas, table > data and then vacuum the table and it works nicely but I wanted a way to > query a database and get a text file with just the table names and > cannot figure out a way t

Re: [GENERAL] Replacing RDBMS

2007-10-31 Thread T.J. Adami
On 31 out, 11:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Phoenix Kiula") wrote: > The Amazon Dynamo framework is going to replace RDBMS? > > http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_dynamo.php > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives?

Re: [GENERAL] Join between tables of two or more databases

2007-10-31 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Wednesday 31 October 2007 T.J. Adami's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: > The question is: can I do this using remote database servers > (different hosts)? If does not, can I do it at least on local > databases on the same server? I guess the dblink module could help you. Luca ---

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread Douglas McNaught
mgould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are currently migrating from Sybase's ASA 9/10 to PostGres 8.2.4. > One of the features that is really nice in ASA is the ability to add > the attribute hidden to a Create procedure, Create function and > Create trigger. Essentially what this does is encryp

[GENERAL] Server's Locale

2007-10-31 Thread T.J. Adami
I'm testing PostgreSQL 8.3-beta 1, and still do not fix this message: "createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: encoding LATIN1 does not match server's locale Portuguese_Brazil.1252 DETAIL: The server's LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding WIN1252." On PostgreSQL 8.2.5 I'm able to create data d

Re: [GENERAL] getting list of tables from command line

2007-10-31 Thread Ron St-Pierre
Craig White wrote: I wrote a little script to individually back up table schemas, table data and then vacuum the table and it works nicely but I wanted a way to query a database and get a text file with just the table names and cannot figure out a way to do that. my script looks like this... (al

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread Reg Me Please
There's not bulletproof way, in my opinion. If they copy the whole DB structure *and* the object binaries they'll have the very same functionalities! Il Wednesday 31 October 2007 16:13:23 Douglas McNaught ha scritto: > mgould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We are currently migrating from Sybase'

Re: [GENERAL] getting list of tables from command line

2007-10-31 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:01:41AM -0700, Craig White wrote: > I wrote a little script to individually back up table schemas, table > data and then vacuum the table and it works nicely but I wanted a > way to query a database and get a text file with just the table > names and cannot figure out a w

Re: [GENERAL] Install plJava

2007-10-31 Thread João Paulo Zavanela
>João Paulo Zavanela wrote: >> >> The file pljava.dll exist in directory, why this error? >> Someone can help me? > >PL/Java has it's own mailing list here: >http://gborg.postgresql.org/mailman/listinfo/pljava-dev > >I think it is still active, but I'm not sure. Sorry, I'm short on time. > Searc

Re: [GENERAL] getting list of tables from command line

2007-10-31 Thread Filip Rembiałkowski
2007/10/31, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I wrote a little script to individually back up table schemas, table > data and then vacuum the table and it works nicely but I wanted a way to > query a database and get a text file with just the table names and > cannot figure out a way to do that.

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 10/31/07, mgould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We are currently migrating from Sybase's ASA 9/10 to PostGres 8.2.4. One of > the features that is really nice in ASA is the ability to add the attribute > hidden to a Create procedure, Create function and Create trigger. > Essentially what this

Re: [GENERAL] Automatic schema updates

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 10/29/07, Kalra, Ashwani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > In our thick client application, I want to update the schema on the > user's machine automatically as normal software update process using JNLP > etc > > We will be using Eclipser RCP. Is it possible? > Sure. IF nothing else, you

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 10/31/07, Douglas McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only bulletproof way to do this currently is to write all your > stored functions in C and load them as a shared library. Well, as I pointed out in my post, even that's not bullet-proof. As long as decompilers / debuggers etc... exis

Re: [GENERAL] Server's Locale

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Lane
"T.J. Adami" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm testing PostgreSQL 8.3-beta 1, and still do not fix this message: > "createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: encoding LATIN1 does not > match server's locale Portuguese_Brazil.1252 > DETAIL: The server's LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding WIN1252.

Re: [GENERAL] Replacing RDBMS

2007-10-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 10/31/07, T.J. Adami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31 out, 11:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Phoenix Kiula") wrote: > > The Amazon Dynamo framework is going to replace RDBMS? > > > > http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/amazon_dynamo.php > > This is another idea trying to put down RDBMS. I really thi

Re: [GENERAL] AutoVacuum Behaviour Question

2007-10-31 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > Is this item closed? > > No, it isn't. Please add a TODO item about it: > * Prevent long-lived temp tables from causing frozen-Xid advancement >starvation Thanks. Added to TODO. -- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://mo

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread mgould
Thanks all. In the open source community there seems to be more talent to "hack" than in other environments. Once I told ASA to set the "hidden" attribute, I've not had any problems with this, at least that I've heard of. I was hoping that I'd be able to keep others out of the database totally

[GENERAL] can someone please tell me how to unsubscribe from this group - thanks

2007-10-31 Thread Ian Goldsmid
Title: can someone please tell me how to unsubscribe from this group - thanks can someone please tell me how to unsubscribe from this group - thanks     Regards, Ian Ian Goldsmid www.semanticdiscoverysystems.com       ‏‏‌‎‍‍‏‎‌‌‎ ‏‏‎‎‌‌‎‎‏‍‌‌‎ ‍‎‎‍‌‎‌‏‌‌‍‏‏ ‍‏‏‌‌‎‌‍‍‎‏‌‏

[GENERAL] how can I shut off "more"?

2007-10-31 Thread Gauthier, Dave
When I run a query, and the number of lines exceeds what the screen can hold, the results seem to get piped into "more" (or "less"). How can I turn that off and just have everything stream out without stopping? I tried -echo-all, but that doesn't seem to do the trick. Thanks in Advance !

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread Douglas McNaught
"Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10/31/07, Douglas McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The only bulletproof way to do this currently is to write all your >> stored functions in C and load them as a shared library. > > Well, as I pointed out in my post, even that's not bullet-p

Re: [GENERAL] strange message from pg_dumpall

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Lane
Joao Miguel Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is what I do: > system("su postgres -c \"pg_dumpall --clean > some_file\""); > this is run from within a Perl module called from within a Perl script. > I've tried the same command directlly on the shell and it works fine. > But from the pe

Re: [GENERAL] (Never?) Kill Postmaster?

2007-10-31 Thread Christian Schröder
Tom Lane wrote: "Michael Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The tip is ''kill -9' the postmaster', which has two important differences to the scenario I just described: 1) kill -9 means the OS kills the process without allowing it to clean up after itself 2) The postmaster is the master post

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007 wrap up

2007-10-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, We had a great time at the conference and subsequent party. If you are ever in PDX and want some great food and interesting accommodations I strongly suggest the Paramount Hotel and Dragon Fish cafe. They treated all of us very well and had great food! The conference did well above expecta

Re: [GENERAL] (Never?) Kill Postmaster?

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_Schr=F6der?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But then, when I tried to reconnect to the database, I received the > following message: > <2007-10-31 22:50:01 CET - chschroe> FATAL: the database system is in > recovery mode > Ok, you wrote "Postgres will recover automaticall

Re: [GENERAL] (Never?) Kill Postmaster?

2007-10-31 Thread Christian Schröder
Tom Lane wrote: Ok, you wrote "Postgres will recover automatically", but could this take several minutes? Yeah, potentially. I don't suppose you have any idea how long it'd been since your last checkpoint, but what do you have checkpoint_timeout and checkpoint_segments set to? I did

Re: [GENERAL] Fragments in tsearch2 headline

2007-10-31 Thread Catalin Marinas
On 30/10/2007, Oleg Bartunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, then you have to formalize many things - how long should be excerpts, > how much excerpts to show, etc. In tsearch2 we have get_covers() function, > which produces all excerpts like: > > =# select get_covers(to_tsvector('1 2 3 4 5 3 4 ab

[GENERAL] current_user changes immediately after login

2007-10-31 Thread Christian Schröder
Hi list, I have a strange problem: When I connect to one of my databases, the current_user immediatly changes without any interaction from my side. This is what I do: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> psql -h db2 testdb Welcome to psql 8.2.5, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. Type: \copyright for dist

Re: [GENERAL] Securing stored procedures and triggers

2007-10-31 Thread Sam Mason
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 05:18:58PM -0400, mgould wrote: > Thanks all. In the open source community there seems to be more > talent to "hack" than in other environments. I think we're just much more honest about what the technology is really capable of. None of us is likely to actually bother bre

Re: [GENERAL] current_user changes immediately after login

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_Schr=F6der?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a strange problem: When I connect to one of my databases, the > current_user immediatly changes without any interaction from my side. That's bizarre. Do you have anything in ~/.psqlrc? I'm also wondering (though too laz

[GENERAL] Search path in group_roles not honered for logins

2007-10-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
CREATE ROLE db_users NOSUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE; ALTER ROLE db_users SET search_path=mydb, public; When I create a login, CREATE ROLE oli LOGIN ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'mXXX' NOSUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE; ALTER ROLE oliver SET search_path=xmms; < I have to set

Re: [GENERAL] Search path in group_roles not honered for logins

2007-10-31 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 00:02 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Why is this such or is this an intended feature? > > No, there is no intention that ALTER ROLE SET values be inherited --- > what you get is just what is attached to the role you logged in as. > What

Re: [GENERAL] Search path in group_roles not honered for logins

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Lane
Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why is this such or is this an intended feature? No, there is no intention that ALTER ROLE SET values be inherited --- what you get is just what is attached to the role you logged in as. What would you do with conflicting sets from different inherited role

Re: [GENERAL] current_user changes immediately after login

2007-10-31 Thread Christian Schröder
Tom Lane wrote: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_Schr=F6der?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a strange problem: When I connect to one of my databases, the current_user immediatly changes without any interaction from my side. That's bizarre. Do you have anything in ~/.psqlrc? I'm also wo

Re: [GENERAL] how can I shut off "more"?

2007-10-31 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 31.10.2007, um 17:14:02 -0400 mailte Gauthier, Dave folgendes: > When I run a query, and the number of lines exceeds what the screen can hold, > the results seem to get piped into ?more? (or ?less?). How can I turn that > off > and just have everything stream out without stopping?