Re: [HACKERS] Per database users/admins, handy for database virtual hosting...

2004-03-26 Thread Karel Zak
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 08:24:59PM -0800, Sean Chittenden wrote: You can't think that allowing the same name to appear globally and locally is a good idea. Actually, I do think it is a good idea. If I say GRANT TO foo, who am I granting privileges to? SET username_precedence TO

Re: [HACKERS] Per database users/admins, handy for database virtual hosting...

2004-03-26 Thread Tom Lane
Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can't think that allowing the same name to appear globally and locally is a good idea. Actually, I do think it is a good idea. If I say GRANT TO foo, who am I granting privileges to? SET username_precedence TO LOCAL,GLOBAL; -- I like GLOBAL

Re: [HACKERS] Nested transaction proposal - take N (N 2)

2004-03-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Heikki Linnakangas wrote: I haven't seen your patch yet, but the proposal looks good to me. On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Let the currently unused fourth state in pg_clog indicate a committed subtransaction. In pg_clog there are two bits per transaction,

[HACKERS] Bad timestamp external representation

2004-03-26 Thread Denis Khabas
Hi everyone: I am using Postgresql 7.3.4 and found a problem inserting "Timestamp" objects throughJDBC Prepared Statements when the time zone is set to Canada/Newfoundland (3 hours and30 minutes from MGT). I am trying to insert "new Timestamp(0L)" into one of the fields.The database

Re: [HACKERS] pg_advisor schema proof of concept

2004-03-26 Thread Fabien COELHO
Hello, Both phpPgAdmin (me) and the pgAdmin team have added or have thought about adding some 'schema analysis' features to our products. If pg_advisor is available, I certainly won't bother and I will just recommend to people that they install it. Ok. A more precise question is: on the

Re: [HACKERS] subversion vs cvs

2004-03-26 Thread Christopher Browne
After a long battle with technology, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc G. Fournier), an earthling, wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Sailesh Krishnamurthy wrote: Which brings me to another question .. has anybody considered using subversion instead of CVS ? Why? not that I'm for a chance from something

Re: [HACKERS] Delphi

2004-03-26 Thread Daniel Schuchardt
a wrote: Hi, Is it have any tools or control let delphi can direct connet to postgresql not only use odbc? Thank!! Gary take a look at www.zeoslib.net www.microolap.com/dac/postgresdac.htm dbexpress : www.vitavoom.com Daniel ---(end of

[HACKERS] A student research project on triggers

2004-03-26 Thread Grace Mou
I'm currently working on a student research project that is supervised by a professor from my university. This project duration is 2 semesters. The topic is to implement the two missing SQL3 standard triggers functionalities in Postgresql, ¡®triggers on columns¡¯ and ¡®referencing old or new

Re: [HACKERS] Syntax error reporting (was Re: [PATCHES] syntax error

2004-03-26 Thread Fabien COELHO
Maybe I missed something, but it seemed to me that strings are appended on to the other, and there is no way back. But the string list is not constructed until the error actually occurs. You don't need a pop at that point --- the call stack is what it is. I think you are imagining that

Re: [HACKERS] Per database users/admins, handy for database virtual hosting...

2004-03-26 Thread Sean Chittenden
You can't think that allowing the same name to appear globally and locally is a good idea. Actually, I do think it is a good idea. If I say GRANT TO foo, who am I granting privileges to? SET username_precedence TO LOCAL,GLOBAL; -- I like GLOBAL more than CLUSTER GRANT TO foo; SET

Re: [HACKERS] Per database users/admins, handy for database virtual hosting...

2004-03-26 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Huxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe it's me being slow, but are we not being over-complicated here? What's wrong with saying database D1 looks up users in local table, D2 in the global table. If you are connected to D1, then no-one can see the global userlist. Hmm. That would

Re: [HACKERS] Per database users/admins, handy for database virtual hosting...

2004-03-26 Thread Richard Huxton
On Friday 26 March 2004 15:09, Tom Lane wrote: Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Agreed, but if a cluster is using LOCAL USERs, I doubt highly that CLUSTER/GLOBAL users would be in use much beyond super users. -sc Exactly my point. I think that it might be possible for a

Re: [HACKERS] Per database users/admins, handy for database virtual hosting...

2004-03-26 Thread Tom Lane
Sean Chittenden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another solution would be to have CREATE USER done by a local admin create users in the form of '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. This prevents duplicate usernames and allows us to use the current hack of local database users. Yeah, I think it would be

[HACKERS] PostgreSQL block size vs. LVM2 stripe width

2004-03-26 Thread markw
I have some results from DBT-2 testing PostgreSQL with difference block sizes against different lvm stripe widths on Linux. I've found that iostat appears to report more erratic numbers as the block size of the database increases but I'm not able to see any reason for it. I have pg_xlog on a

Re: [HACKERS] Per database users/admins,

2004-03-26 Thread Richard Huxton
Richard Huxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe it's me being slow, but are we not being over-complicated here? What's wrong with saying database D1 looks up users in local table, D2 in the global table. If you are connected to D1, then no-one can see the global userlist. Hmm. That would

[HACKERS] GIST code doesn't build on strict 64-bit machines

2004-03-26 Thread Tom Lane
I've just found out the hard way that Postgres doesn't even build on recent gcc releases for 64-bit HPPA. The reason is that the compiler now notices and complains about alignment errors that will lead to core dump at runtime, and GIST has got some. The particular code that fails to compile is

Re: [HACKERS] Bad timestamp external representation

2004-03-26 Thread Kris Jurka
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Denis Khabas wrote: Hi everyone: I am using Postgresql 7.3.4 and found a problem inserting Timestamp objects through JDBC Prepared Statements when the time zone is set to Canada/Newfoundland (3 hours and 30 minutes from MGT). I am trying to insert new Timestamp(0L)

[HACKERS] database is shutting down

2004-03-26 Thread Michael Brusser
We have a customer who reports a weird problem. Too often the App. Server fails to connect to the database. Sometimes the scheduled vacuum fails as well. The error message is always the same: FATAL: The database system is shutting down But from what I see no one is trying to shut down the

Re: [HACKERS] Bad timestamp external representation

2004-03-26 Thread Barry Lind
Denis, This is more appropriate for the jdbc mail list. --Barry Denis Khabas wrote: Hi everyone: I am using Postgresql 7.3.4 and found a problem inserting Timestamp objects through JDBC Prepared Statements when the time zone is set to Canada/Newfoundland (3 hours and 30 minutes from MGT). I

Re: [HACKERS] database is shutting down

2004-03-26 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Brusser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The error message is always the same: FATAL: The database system is shutting down But from what I see no one is trying to shut down the database at this time. *Something* has sent the postmaster a shutdown signal --- either SIGINT or SIGTERM. Look

[HACKERS] Timeline for 7.4.3?

2004-03-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hey, We have many machines that run Solaris. I know that there are patches out there for some of the bugs in 7.4.2 for Solaris but I was wondering what the timeline for an official 7.4.3 was? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC

Re: [HACKERS] Timeline for 7.4.3?

2004-03-26 Thread Tom Lane
Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have many machines that run Solaris. I know that there are patches out there for some of the bugs in 7.4.2 for Solaris but I was wondering what the timeline for an official 7.4.3 was? Don't hold your breath ... 7.4.2 was only a couple weeks ago, and

Re: [HACKERS] Per database users/admins, handy for database virtual hosting...

2004-03-26 Thread Sean Chittenden
Another solution would be to have CREATE USER done by a local admin create users in the form of '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. This prevents duplicate usernames and allows us to use the current hack of local database users. Yeah, I think it would be reasonable to leave that facility as-is and invent a

Re: [PERFORM] [HACKERS] fsync method checking

2004-03-26 Thread markw
On 26 Mar, Bruce Momjian wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Mar, Manfred Spraul wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compare file sync methods with one 8k write: (o_dsync unavailable) open o_sync, write 6.270724 write, fdatasync13.275225

Re: [PERFORM] [HACKERS] fsync method checking

2004-03-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Mar, Manfred Spraul wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compare file sync methods with one 8k write: (o_dsync unavailable) open o_sync, write 6.270724 write, fdatasync13.275225 write, fsync, 13.359847

Re: [PERFORM] [HACKERS] fsync method checking

2004-03-26 Thread markw
On 26 Mar, Manfred Spraul wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compare file sync methods with one 8k write: (o_dsync unavailable) open o_sync, write 6.270724 write, fdatasync13.275225 write, fsync, 13.359847 Odd. Which filesystem, which

Re: [PERFORM] [HACKERS] fsync method checking

2004-03-26 Thread Steve Atkins
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:25:53AM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote: Compare file sync methods with one 8k write: (o_dsync unavailable) open o_sync, write 6.270724 write, fdatasync13.275225 write, fsync, 13.359847 Odd. Which filesystem,