Re: [BUGS] Postgres Vacuum Password

2008-08-07 Thread John R Pierce
Chris Schroter wrote: Hi, Would you please tell me if there is a default password for the Postgres vacuum utility? there are no passwords for any programs, passwords are users to connect to databases, IF the appropriate line in pg_hba.conf specifies to use passwords. there are also no

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4458: Website slow, inaccessible

2008-10-08 Thread John R Pierce
Bill Moran wrote: A quick note that flash is still proprietary and not universally available, therefore content posted only as flash is unavailable to otherwise perfectly viable platforms. I don't think adobe's unwillingness to change that should be reason to ditch my preferred platform, so pleas

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4458: Website slow, inaccessible

2008-10-08 Thread John R Pierce
Harald Armin Massa wrote: John, indeed, I just wandered all over www.postgresql.org with a flashblocker that would have shown me a big fat "F" on any flash content, and saw zero, zilch, none. close enough not you are looking: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1013 you got me

Re: [BUGS] SHARED LIBRARY IS NOT CREATED:Postgres could not create support for plperl

2008-11-12 Thread John R Pierce
Dey, Sutapa wrote: Hi All,   I am trying to build/enable plperl support for postgres.   1. The system info is : # uname -a HP-UX unknown B.11.23 U 9000/800 1178464650 unlimited-user license   2. The steps I followed: a)  In postgres user’s .profile file I

Re: [BUGS] could not read block 77 of relation 1663/16385/388818775

2008-11-24 Thread John R Pierce
Alexandra Nitzschke wrote: BTW... how about a block checksum that is checked just before writing a block and just after reading it? I know this would degrade performance, but I think we can afford that. Would it be possible to incorporate such code without having to do too much patching? ora

Re: [BUGS] could not read block 77 of relation 1663/16385/388818775

2008-11-26 Thread John R Pierce
Gregory Stark wrote: John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: oracle has had an option for some time that uses read/only page protection for each page of the shared buffer area... when oracle knows it wants to modify a page, it un-protects it via a system call. this catches an

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4549: ecpg produces code that don't compile

2008-11-26 Thread John R Pierce
Tom Lane wrote: Whatever strchrnul is, it isn't very portable --- the buildfarm is breaking out in red too. Please change that. sigh, more gnuish code — Function: char * *strchrnul* (const char *string, int c) |strchrnul| is the same as |strchr| except that if it does not find

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4551: Implementation of the "line" type..

2008-11-28 Thread John R Pierce
Peter Eisentraut wrote: No really, the built-in geometry types are considered kind of legacy. Indeed, I was reviewing the postgres 'history' on the website the other day, and noted that stuff was put in Postgres *BEFORE* it was SQL. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresq

Re: [BUGS] Group by in DIVISION

2008-12-01 Thread John R Pierce
JOHN_MCY wrote: hai, I am new to SQL... I am trying to get the result of some mathematical calculation with group by some key. I can get the result without grouping. here with i specified my table information and the SQL i have used to get the result.. can anybody

Re: [BUGS] question/suggestion

2008-12-04 Thread John R Pierce
chris wood wrote: Apology in advance, this is not a bug, just wanted to ask if the following issue is being considered: Cloud computing seems to be quickly gaining ground as a deployment technology for web apps. From what I see this has not been good for Postgres. Google App Engine cannot

Re: [BUGS] question/suggestion Message-id: <493823b5.1030...@hogranch.com>

2008-12-06 Thread John R Pierce
chris wood wrote: At a detailed level (which is NOT the direction I want this thread to go) I do not agree with your statement that my proposal has no “hope of ACID compliance or transactional integrity”. When the “slices” are stored back to the cloud, this is the equivalent of a commit and the

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4568: sporadic error doing COUNT(*) on empty table

2008-12-14 Thread John R Pierce
Gurjeet Singh wrote: This mail landed in my Spam box... with this message: "Warning: This message may not be from whom it claims to be. Beware of following any links in it or of providing the sender with any personal information" it must have been at your end, it arrived via the [bugs] list

Re: [BUGS] Problem on Installation

2008-12-23 Thread John R Pierce
lftsang wrote: Dear Sir, I tried to install PostgreSQL 8.1.15 on Freebsd 7.0. When I extracted the .tar.gz and inputed 'make' it shows the following error: "/usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk", line 11: Could not find /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk "Makefile", line 177: Malformed conditional (${ARCH} == s

Re: [BUGS] Installation problem "...The database cluster initialization failed.."

2009-01-12 Thread John R Pierce
aerkain wrote: - It is Windows Vista Business. - ..\PostgreSQL\8.3\data is existing and empty. - during uninstallation postgre has reported an error: unable to stop service - I have deleted PostgreSQL directiory (after uninstall), but when I try to install it still display message that "The datab

Re: [BUGS] can not install

2009-01-16 Thread John R Pierce
r m wrote: Hello I uninstall postgresql When I try install it again I can not do it It requset password. I forgot it That is why I reinstall your software. What should I do? I delete all I can include ODBC system DNS registration wild guess says you're on a Microsoft Windows system? a

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4646: Default password is patently absurd

2009-02-12 Thread John R Pierce
Jason wrote: I let the installer pick a password for me. What it picked was 31 characters long, and included characters that I can't actually type on my keyboard. Quite possibly some can't even be displayed on my system, as several are listed as "?". One of the other characters is the section

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4646: Default password is patently absurd

2009-02-12 Thread John R Pierce
Harald Armin Massa wrote: that password is ONLY used for the Windows Service login, not anything you'd ever see again. Only when reusing the service account to do a PostgreSQL update... or when doing the not so uncommon "uninstall, reinstall" raindance fix for windows (which indeed helps i

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4646: Default password is patently absurd

2009-02-12 Thread John R Pierce
Harald Armin Massa wrote: John, the postgres windows uninstaller probably should be offering to delete the postgres user account when it deletes the service, since the installer created that account in the first place. deleting the postgres-windows-account is not really what someone s

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4667: pg_standby error on Solaris 10 SPARC 64 bin

2009-02-19 Thread John R Pierce
ash...@symcor.com wrote: I have ./postgres/8.3-community/lib/64/libpq.so.5 so how do i make it use it. assuming you're using sh/ksh/bash and not csh, in the script thats launching your application, or in your account ~/.profile ... export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/p

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4668: Windows installer package

2009-02-21 Thread John R Pierce
Harald Armin Massa wrote: Prachi, the current Version of PostgreSQL is 8.3.x; you should use that. To solve the problem with "> invalid username specified: logon failure: unknown username or bad password.", change the password of the postgres-user in windows to something you know and specify th

Re: [BUGS] Support platform of PostgresSQL 8.1.9 under IBM AIX 5.3

2009-02-26 Thread John R Pierce
Manuel G Vazquez B/Mexico/IBM wrote: Hello I have a customer who bought an IBM Power Systems, running AIX 5.3 and wants to install the PostgresSQL 8.1.9. Can you pls tell me where I can Download this version for AIX? and if youa have some documentation or FAQs about the installation you can

Re: [BUGS] MD5 checksum or RPM for PostgreSQL 8.7.3

2009-04-03 Thread John R Pierce
Dafina.Abernathy wrote: To Whom It My Concern, I am a member of a small group using PostgreSQL has a data backend and I writing to request and MD5 checksum for PostgreSQL 8.7.3. If an MD5 is not available, I would appreciate the location of an RPM for 8.7.3, if there is one available. Thank

Re: [BUGS] MD5 checksum or RPM for PostgreSQL 8.7.3

2009-04-03 Thread John R Pierce
John R Pierce wrote: Dafina.Abernathy wrote: I am a member of a small group using PostgreSQL has a data backend and I writing to request and MD5 checksum for PostgreSQL 8.7.3. If an MD5 is not available, I would appreciate the location of an RPM for 8.7.3, if there is one available. Thank

Re: [BUGS] MD5 checksum or RPM for PostgreSQL 8.7.3

2009-04-03 Thread John R Pierce
Dafina.Abernathy wrote: Hello Mr. Pierce, You are correct it is for version 8.3.7. for Redhat. My apologies for the mix-up. A member of the group has checked http://yums.postgresql.org and was unable to locate an RPM for Redhat. "Redhat" describes a dozen versions of Linux and a half dozen

Re: [BUGS] Backup -- Feridun Türk

2009-04-07 Thread John R Pierce
feridun türk wrote: İ have two question, Backup and restore with C# (windos form) interface, or postgre scripts? thats one question, and its missing information, but as expressed, it seems a choice between two alternatives... A) use the existing pg_dump utility, or B) write your own backup p

Re: [BUGS] libpq 8.4 beta1: $PGHOST complains about missing root.crt

2009-04-10 Thread John R Pierce
Stephen Frost wrote: * Peter Eisentraut (pete...@gmx.net) wrote: The new firefox just says "invalid certificate" and nothing else, and then somewhere below there is a small link to "Add an exception" and you need a total of four clicks to proceed. So that looks a lot like that they are mov

Re: [BUGS] libpq 8.4 beta1: $PGHOST complains about missing root.crt

2009-04-10 Thread John R Pierce
John R Pierce wrote: for self-signed certs, you first create a rootca, you can import the rootca public key/cert to your browser, by offering it as the proper mime type (I forget the specifics), once accepted into your browser, the browser will trust any certs created off that root, same as if

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4772: The server is hanging

2009-04-22 Thread John R Pierce
gs wrote: The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 4772 Logged by: gs Email address: g...@freenet.am PostgreSQL version: 8.3.1 Operating system: Fedora 9 Description:The server is hanging Details: Hello, the Linux server is going down, we don't kno

Re: [BUGS]

2009-05-03 Thread John R Pierce
Oleg Kharchenko wrote: Hi! Tell me please mail support or help to solve my problem. I can not download PostgreSQL 8.0.3, not version above. How do I know the link for download? Why would you want such an old and buggy version? If you require 8.0, the current bug-fixed version is 8.0.21

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4794: server closed the connection unexpectedly

2009-05-06 Thread John R Pierce
Markus Meyer wrote: The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 4794 Logged by: Markus Meyer Email address: mar...@7val.com PostgreSQL version: 8.3.3 Operating system: Debian 2.6.22.19-vs2.2.0.7 Description:server closed the connection unexpectedly Detai

Re: [BUGS] I used postgresql

2009-05-08 Thread John R Pierce
root wrote: at rpm pachage. but , I take server Xen in www.server-linux.info and postgresql install, I couldn't initdb , at www. 'Report bugs to ' you. thats far too cryptic to answer, I cant even tell what the question is.whats www.server-linux.info, I'm getting a DNS error from that U

Re: [BUGS] Delayed Write Failed

2009-06-02 Thread John R Pierce
mcronix wrote: Hi First time poster and complete postgres noob. I basically only ever use it along side an online poker database program, Holdem manager - I've been running postgres 8.2 with HEM for ages now, with no problems, when earlier today I had a window popup from the task bar saying Delay

Re: [BUGS] PostgreSQL installation

2009-06-12 Thread John R Pierce
suylivar wrote: Dear sir/madam, I am from Cambodia. I want to use PostgreSQL. But I am poor of knowledge to install could you please help me give some guide to install PostgreSQL on Solaris 10, Thanks for your respond and value times. this isn't really a bug report, and probably shoul

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4883: tar xf fails on NFS4 mounts

2009-07-01 Thread John R Pierce
ajmcello wrote: The only downside with adding o to tar that I can see is if it isn't supported by a non-GNU version of tar. On solaris 9 and 10 at least, tar -o means set ownership of extracted files to the runner and not the uid in the tar, which I assume is what we want here. Note, this

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4996: postgres.exe memory consumption keeps going up

2009-08-26 Thread John R Pierce
Greg Stark wrote: I don't know where to find Postgres logs on Windows but it shouldn't be hard to find. $(INSTALLDIR)/data/pg_log D:\postgres\8.3\data\pg_log on mine here. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.po

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5015: MySQL migration wizard does not start

2009-08-26 Thread John R Pierce
Sam Mason wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:55:37PM +, Ken Smith wrote: I also noted that if I try to run from the commandline that you use '/' in some of the program paths causing the OS to say it cannot find the file - "C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.5.0_16/jre/bin/java.exe". I'm pre

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5029: Download Trouble

2009-09-01 Thread John R Pierce
Alan Rubin wrote: The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5029 Logged by: Alan Rubin Email address: alanrubi...@yahoo.com PostgreSQL version: unknown Operating system: Windows XP Description:Download Trouble Details: i'm trying to download postgre

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5055: Invalid page header error

2009-09-14 Thread John R Pierce
Craig Ringer wrote: [for SATA disks]: does smartctl from the smartmontools package indicate anything interesting about the disk(s)? (Ignore the "health status", it's a foul lie, and rely on the error log plus the vendor attributes: reallocated sector count, pending sector, uncorrectable sector co

Re: [BUGS] Encounter shared memory error when running createlang command!

2009-09-23 Thread John R Pierce
Yaming Gu wrote: Hi, List, Because my previous mail contains some Chinese character, now I modified it, the whole problem is described as below: I need to create language Pl/Perl. I have checked all dependencies of plperl.dll and all is ok. have you installed perl? I believe the p

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5150: math bug

2009-10-30 Thread John R Pierce
Tom Lane wrote: There is special-purpose software out there that can compute exactly with rational numbers, but you aren't likely to find it embedded in any general-purpose tools like databases --- the use-case just isn't wide enough. One reason why not is that it'll still fall down on irrationa

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5227: please add a divide operator for intervals

2009-12-02 Thread John R Pierce
Michał Pasternak wrote: 1 month / 1 day equals 30. or 31 or 28 or 29... -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs

Re: [BUGS] Failed to run initdb - not resolved bug 5130

2010-01-02 Thread John R Pierce
Tomas Studva wrote: My case is WIN XP SP 2 and also when applied SP3. My system has only one speciality as I know, that is I have windows installed on F partition. I was installing on path F:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4 and also tried C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.4, problem is probably

Re: [BUGS] email addresses

2010-01-06 Thread John R Pierce
Mike Landis wrote: Can you please stop displaying the email addresses on bug reports? It's one thing to require an email address - it's another thing entirely to publish it for spam address harvesting bots. This is an example page... http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-12/msg00092.

Re: [BUGS] [GENERAL] Amazon EC2 CPU Utilization

2010-01-29 Thread John R Pierce
top is not the be-all and end-all of analysis tools. I'm sure you know that, but it bears repeating. More importantly, in a virtualised environment the tools on the inside of the guest don't have a full picture of what's really going on. Indeed, you have hit the nail on the head. does an

Re: [BUGS] [GENERAL] Amazon EC2 CPU Utilization

2010-01-29 Thread John R Pierce
John R Pierce wrote: top is not the be-all and end-all of analysis tools. I'm sure you know that, but it bears repeating. More importantly, in a virtualised environment the tools on the inside of the guest don't have a full picture of what's really going on. Indeed, y

Re: [BUGS] [GENERAL] weird bug in rebuilding RPMs

2010-02-07 Thread John R Pierce
zhong ming wu wrote: Would any of these rpms let me relocate to any directories I want? Can I install them as local-postgresql-1.2.4 without overwriting current package postgresql-1.2.3 ? I don't know, but the packager is on this list and can perhaps better answer than I.His rpm.spec fi

Re: [BUGS]

2010-02-27 Thread John R Pierce
Raphael Palestino Serpa wrote: Hi, I tried to install PostgreSQL Version 8.4.2-1 for Windows XP and need a password, I tried some passwords that I used in the instalation in the University but didn't work. What can I do? What is the password? what exactly is asking for this password? was the

Re: [BUGS] bug language "plpgsql" already exists

2010-03-15 Thread John R Pierce
beulah prasanthi wrote: hello I deleted existing DB and i created new DB i am getting below error how can i resolve it can any one help please "language "plpgsql" already exists" um, whats the problem? that just means someone already did the CREATE LANGUAGE "plpgsql"; possibly in template

Re: [BUGS] dividing money by money

2010-03-30 Thread John R Pierce
Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: Loading this dump into another database that happens to have a different locale than hu_HU fails. But then any operator between two money values would only work if both values have the same currency. indeed, its all a big tarpit. next, you'll want currency convers

Re: [BUGS] dividing money by money

2010-04-05 Thread John R Pierce
Chris Travers wrote: Hmm... Back to the drawing board on that helper module :-). like I said, its a big tarpit. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs

Re: [BUGS] [GENERAL] Solid State Drives with PG

2010-04-07 Thread John R Pierce
Then again, I never did have a very high opinion of big name SAN vendor hardware - I have always achieved better results at a fraction of the cost with appliances I've built myself. yeah, its so easy to slap together 1000 spindle half petabyte storage arrays with 5-nines reliability and 500K

Re: [BUGS] bugs that have not been replied-to on list

2010-04-18 Thread John R Pierce
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: Bugzilla is the worst form of bug tracking out there, except for all the others. flyspray isn't half bad, especially because its really simple and fairly clean. supports pgsql too. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make chang

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5437: Production db down

2010-04-23 Thread John R Pierce
shanmugavel wrote: The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 5437 Logged by: shanmugavel Email address: shanmugave...@onwardgroup.com PostgreSQL version: 8.3 Operating system: linux RHEL 5 Description:Production db down Details: Hi, i'm shanmugavel

Re: [BUGS] BUG #5464: ecpg on 64bit system converts "long long" to "long"

2010-05-19 Thread John R Pierce
Michael Meskes wrote: On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 08:53:12AM +, Michael Enke wrote: If you run it through ecpg, in the resulting c file the variable test has type long on 64 bit system. On 32 bit system it is long long. Apparently when this code was written "long long" was 64bit, but i

Re: [BUGS] error starting service on win2k platform

2006-05-31 Thread John R Pierce
Magnus Hagander wrote: Hey, I am trying to install the Postgreql 8.1.3 on the windows 2k platform. While installing I am getting the following error : "Your local 'Power Users' group contains 'Authenticated Users' ". This Error has been previously discussed in the mailing list. ( http://arch

Re: [BUGS] BUG #2365: can't install

2006-07-11 Thread John R Pierce
mario ruggier wrote: Plus, how do I delete the DOMAIN/postgres user on the XP system? I do not see this user listed when I do Control Panel/User Accounts (i am not a windows guy, so please excuse my windows ignorance)? Should I try to install from sources, or will that not make any difference?

[BUGS] RHEL4 RPM packages

2007-03-01 Thread John R Pierce
the PGDG .rpm's for RHEL4 have a bit of an annoyance... RHEL4 ships with postgres 7.4.x, and various RHEL4 RPMs have a dependency on libpq.so.3 ... # rpm -Uvh postgresql-8.2.3-1PGDG.i686.rpm \ > postgresql-libs-8.2.3-1PGDG.i686.rpm \ > postgresql-server-8.2.3-1PGDG.i686.rpm \ > postgresql-

Re: [BUGS] RHEL4 RPM packages

2007-03-01 Thread John R Pierce
John R Pierce wrote: RHEL4 ships with postgres 7.4.x, and various RHEL4 RPMs have a dependency on libpq.so.3 ... Using the CentOS 4 base repository, I've identified these RPMs as depending on libpq.so.3, which is obsoleted and removed by the postgresql-libs-8.2.3-1PGDG RPM ...

Re: [BUGS] RHEL4 RPM packages

2007-03-02 Thread John R Pierce
Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 18:23 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: (or, there should be a compat-postgresql-libs-3 ?) Hmm. Ok, I'll upload compat-postgresql-libs-3 to our ftp server this weekend, to rhel-4 directories; so that people can find that package e

Re: [BUGS] RHEL4 RPM packages

2007-03-02 Thread John R Pierce
Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 18:23 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: (or, there should be a compat-postgresql-libs-3 ?) Hmm. Ok, I'll upload compat-postgresql-libs-3 to our ftp server this weekend, to rhel-4 directories; so that people can find that package e

Re: [BUGS] RHEL4 RPM packages

2007-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
Guillaume Smet wrote: But you only need the compat package with libpq.so.3 to install 8.1 and 8.2 on RHEL 4. but, again, I only see the compat -4 here... no -3. http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.2.3/linux/rpms/redhat/rhel-es-4/ the 8.2.1 equiv of that path has a comment thats flat wr

Re: [BUGS] RHEL4 RPM packages

2007-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 01:10 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: well, it makes it VERY hard to install 8.2.3 on a RHEL4/CentOS4 system that also has, say, RH's build of Apache + PHP + PG access, as thats linked to the -3 libraries Uh? So installing only compat-

Re: [BUGS] RHEL4 RPM packages

2007-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
Guillaume Smet wrote: On 4/11/07, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 09:17 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > looks like the RPMs for libpq.so.4 and libpq.so.3 can't coexist. Ok, I got lots of complaints about this. I will work on this today and announce ne

[BUGS] INSTALL appnote for Solaris 10...

2007-05-10 Thread John R Pierce
I just built a version of postgres 8.2.4 on Solaris 10 x86 ... a few things that could be mentioned in INSTALL, and or in the Solaris notes There is a Sun supplied version of gnu readline is on the Solaris "Companion" DVD as package SFWrline ... cd /mnt/Solaris_Software_Companion/Solar

Re: [BUGS] Bug in all version with encryption

2008-01-17 Thread John R Pierce
Suresh Gupta VG wrote: I had recently upgraded my pgsql 7.4.2 to pgsql 8.2.5 on Solaris 9 Sparc machine. All the installation went normally as per install documents of Postgresql. In between the installation, I got the following error. But at the end I could create database and can use the D

Re: [BUGS] Bug in all version with encryption

2008-01-17 Thread John R Pierce
Suresh Gupta VG wrote: Thanks for your reply. As per your suggestion, if we remove “CREATE FUNCTION” statement, we cannot use that function. Actually, we need this feature. Can you pls suggest some url or docs to help us in developing the c-language code to rectify this as we had done earl

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4047: case preserve for columns

2008-03-21 Thread John R Pierce
Eugen Konkov wrote: Is there any workaround other then quoting to get working 1) and 2) as expected? The SQL standard actually says everything not quoted should be upshifted to upper case. PostgreSQL opted for lower case a long time ago and has stuck with this for legacy. If your "100K

Re: [PATCHES] Re: [BUGS] BUG #4070: Join more then ~15 tables let postgreSQL produces wrong data

2008-04-03 Thread John R Pierce
Tom Lane wrote: That's what I meant. Heikki is quoting himself from a message that hasn't appeared anywhere public, and he must have had at least one message from the OP that hasn't appeared either. So the rest of us are still mostly in the dark about the problem. I got this one, which app

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4104: Uninstall/remove not working correctly

2008-04-11 Thread John R Pierce
alex wrote: I recently uninstalled 8.3.1 and I deleted the remaining files not removed from the uninstaller. I then proceed to install 8.3.1 again using same user info as before. The installer proceeded to install until the creation of the user and it says "user postgres already exists" and then

Re: [BUGS] problem in installing pgsql-8.3.1

2008-05-15 Thread John R Pierce
shohorab hossain wrote: Dear sir/madam, This is to inform you that I am an oracle database user/administrator. But I am going to join in a company where I have to administrate postgresql database. I am new to this database system. For few days I am trying to install postgresql-8.3.1 in RHEL4

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4172: postgres stops working after restart

2008-05-15 Thread John R Pierce
Heikki Linnakangas wrote: The log folder doesn't show any error problems. When I run the psql.exe on the command line i get: "psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x274D/10061) Is the server running on host "???" and accepting TCP/IP connections on port

Re: [BUGS] [ADMIN] problem in installing pgsql-8.3.1

2008-05-15 Thread John R Pierce
Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 04:21 -0700, shohorab hossain wrote: For few days I am trying to install postgresql-8.3.1 in RHEL4. My machine configuration is Intel Pentium IV. I have followed the installation document of postgresql that was included with source distribution.

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4176: process

2008-05-16 Thread John R Pierce
claudio furukawa wrote: PostgreSQL is in many process. There are 6 process equal. Using ~42Mega Ram of memory. I already called and turned off/on the service and continues with the same processes. This is normal? yes.there is the master process, then a writer process, a logger process

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4219: fseeko test failure in configure script

2008-06-04 Thread John R Pierce
Nathan Reed wrote: The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 4219 Logged by: Nathan Reed Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.3.1 Operating system: Sparc Solaris 10 - 08/07 release Description:fseeko test failure in configure script D

Re: [BUGS] BUG #1232: Singapore Timezone missing

2004-08-25 Thread John R Pierce
The following bug has been logged online: ... The timezone designation SGT is not recognized on inserts to "timestamp with time zone" fields. ... fyi, I am on this list, if anyone wants to tell me I'm way off base here or whatever :) something tells me I'm going to hit this problem again when ou

Re: [BUGS] BUG #1232: Singapore Timezone missing

2004-08-25 Thread John R Pierce
so all of china uses CST, which is *NOT* CST as we know it here in North America ;-/ Yeah, it's going to be difficult to do much about this stuff with the current approach of a hardwired table of zone names. There are other unresolved conflicts (IST is one I think). Yeah, its a maze of twisty litt

Re: [BUGS] Change Request

2004-09-01 Thread John R Pierce
(1) I can install PostgreSQL as a service without having to create a new Account Name & Password why not? Its *VERY* standard procedure on all sorts of systems to run RDBMS servers as a dedicated user. there are all kinda system accounts already in XP used by various system services, whats one

[BUGS] vacuum problem

2004-09-10 Thread John R Pierce
Got something really odd happening here. Simple test program, in java, with jdbc, postgres 7.4.5, on a redhat linux system... app does a heavy loop of a prepared UPDATE, then Commit, 1s of times. the table has a few columns, nothing fancy at all.On our Redhat Enterprise 2.1 server (d

Re: [BUGS] vacuum problem

2004-09-10 Thread John R Pierce
"John R Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Got something really odd happening here. Simple test program, in java, with jdbc, postgres 7.4.5, on a redhat linux system... app does a heavy loop of a prepared UPDATE, then Commit, 1s of times. the table has a few columns,

Re: [BUGS] vacuum problem

2004-09-11 Thread John R Pierce
About an hour after mailing that, I realized that the buggy RHEL2.1 system was running with Intel Hyperthreading enabled (so it appeared as 4 CPUs) while the no-problems RH8.0 system had hyperthreading enabled (we'd previously been benchmarking some multithreaded stuff both ways). So, its *ju

Re: [BUGS] vacuum problem

2004-09-13 Thread John R Pierce
there are no background programs. I've done all the usual checking of `ps' outputs looking for such. in the test case I mailed to this list, I had created a standalone database with one table, and run the test program directly against it. That sounds suspiciously like you think that only backgr

Re: [BUGS] BUG #1258: backend memory leak after massive 'CREATE/DROP USER'

2004-09-17 Thread John R Pierce
Description:backend memory leak after massive 'CREATE/DROP USER' wild guess says that its not really neccessarily a memory leak unless all the shared_buffers are getting consumed and its *still* growing... CREATE USER adds a row to a system table, and DROP USER deletes that row, the tabl

Re: [BUGS] psql missing feature: show permissions for functions

2004-09-20 Thread John R Pierce
I was trying to check some permissions on functions and then I noticed that there's no command in psql to show that information. I've tried using "\z", "\df" and "\df+" without success on PostgreSQL 7.4.5. It would be an interesting addition to have that, as we do have the commands to show permiss

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [BUGS] More SSL questions..

2005-01-04 Thread John R Pierce
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I think CSIDL_APPDDATA is probably the way to go, but one of the heavy Windows hitters will know better than I do. Now that I look at it, there are several places that are depending on getenv("HOME") or getenv("USERPROFILE") (on Windows)

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [BUGS] More SSL questions..

2005-01-04 Thread John R Pierce
Actually, the server doesn't depend on home directories in any way shape or form. The places that we are concerned about are on the client side, either in libpq or in psql. So what we have to think about is the environment that libpq might see. libpq could be called from a service, such as ineti

Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] [BUGS] More SSL questions..

2005-01-04 Thread John R Pierce
win2000 Pro system (using www.sysinternals.com's excellent Process Explorer tool, btw). HOME is not set. USERPROFILE is set to "C:\Documents and Settings\postgres"... For services that are running as 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM', the profile is "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User" (and the USER

Re: [BUGS] psql: no chance to enter password in certain situations

2005-01-12 Thread John R Pierce
Christoph Becker wrote: OS ist Windows XP Prof, PgSQL version is rc5 via windowsinstaller When trying to restore a db, psql does not ask for the password but responds imediately with an erromessage as in the following example: F:\doka\bak>psql -U postgres template1 < pg_dump_all_2005-01-11.txt Pa

Re: [BUGS] PGPASSWORD

2005-02-25 Thread John R Pierce
postgresbugs wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Agreed, which is why we invented .pgpass. But that argument scales up to beyond one invocation of this hypothetical script, does it not? regards, tom lane I guarantee you that his process which includes binaries and scripts is not hypothetical.

Re: [BUGS] We are not following the spec for HAVING without GROUP

2005-03-10 Thread John R Pierce
select 1 from tab having 1=1; returns 2 rows I'm curious whats in those two rows... {{1} {1}} ? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [BUGS] float conversion / presentation problem ?

2005-04-06 Thread John R Pierce
Tom Lane wrote: Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: i've noticed an problem with conversion from real to float - this produces ugly values. (in fact it seems to be real->float8) You do realize that float4/real is only good to six decimal places on most platforms? You can take the issue up

Re: [BUGS] request

2005-05-06 Thread John R Pierce
I would really like postgres to model the alter syntax of mysql, which is really easy to modify table schema especially to include the AFTER col_name part. A) why does the order of the columns in a particular table matter at all? B) is this any sort of SQL standard? ---(e

Re: [BUGS] Missing tables in postgresql 7.2.4

2005-05-11 Thread John R Pierce
P.S.:A TODO for me: CRON Script for weekly VACUUM ;) on heavy use databases, mine generally does a light vacuum every 4 hours, and a once a day full on everything. also, a weekly full reindex on a really really heavy use systems like this one message board server I ad-mangle something like...

Re: [BUGS] BUG #1756: PQexec eats huge amounts of memory

2005-07-07 Thread John R Pierce
Neil Conway wrote: Denis Vlasenko wrote: The same php script but done against Oracle does not have this behaviour. Perhaps; presumably Oracle is essentially creating a cursor for you behind the scenes. libpq does not attempt to do this automatically; if you need a cursor, you can create on

Re: [BUGS] Sun inline assembler ...

2005-07-07 Thread John R Pierce
Tom Lane wrote: Here's what I see in REL8_0_STABLE and in HEAD (s_lock.c 1.35): 244 #ifdef SUNOS4_CC 245 asm(".seg \"data\""); 246 asm(".seg \"text\""); 247 #else 248 asm(".section \"data\""); 249 asm(".section \"text\""); 250 #endif I see that template/sunos4 adds -DSUNOS4_CC

Re: [BUGS] postmaster graceful shutdown time !!!

2005-07-31 Thread John R Pierce
Sivaraman K.G wrote: Hi, Has any one have the statistics that how long the postmaster takes for graceful shutdown (when SIGTERM is send) ? that would be EXTREMELY dependent on a large number of variables. an idle instance with no pending writes on a reasonably fast modern 'nix system shoul

Re: [BUGS] BUG #1819: COPY filename rejects Windows format path

2005-08-11 Thread John R Pierce
Steve Peterson wrote: Running COPY FROM on a Windows server; using a Windows-format fully qualified path with backslashes results in the backslashes being interpreted as escapes. Windows APIs are perfectly happy with regular / forward slashes in pathnames, in fact, I use them everywhere BUT i

Re: [BUGS] Help

2005-08-23 Thread John R Pierce
Stephan Szabo wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Paul Bramble wrote: Is there an easy way to get started so I can quickly install Postgress and load my schema? You didn't say what kind of system you're running, but getting a packaged version of PostgreSQL (RPM, DEB, Windows Installer) will probabl

Re: [BUGS] bug on starting postgres

2005-09-14 Thread John R Pierce
Puvi Subramanian wrote: Hi, we installed postgres 8.0.3 in fedora core 4 successfully. We created the super user named as postgres to start postgres. When i execute the command "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -i -D data" in my terminal it gives bur that postmaster cannot access the s

Re: [BUGS] BUG #1993: Adding/subtracting negative time intervals

2005-10-25 Thread John R Pierce
test=> select test-> ('2005-10-30 13:22:00-05'::timestamptz - test(> '2005-10-29 13:22:00-04'::timestamptz); ?column? -- 25:00:00 (1 row) Is that actually the correct answer? Disregarding daylight savings, there is 25hrs betwee

Re: [HACKERS] [BUGS] BUG #2052: Federal Agency Tech Hub Refuses to

2005-11-25 Thread John R Pierce
Bruce Momjian wrote: If someone wants to create a separate web page to track fixes related to CVE number, that is fine. My guess is that most people reading the release notes don't care about the CVE numbers themselves (just that each release has all known security bugs fixed), and most bugs tha

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