Re: Visibility of data from table inherits function

2022-01-02 Thread ourdiaspora
On Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 at 3:54 PM, Francisco Olarte wrote: > > Inherits does not copy things. LIKE on creation does, but AFAIK it can > > copy nearly everything except data. > Thanks, had read that part of the documentation. So far it seems that functions 'joins' may be used to view data,

Visibility of data from table inherits function

2022-01-02 Thread ourdiaspora
Recipients, A table was created: CREATE TABLE exampletable ( name varchar(200) ); Table 'exampletable' _already_ contains data, e.g. 'Jane Bloggs' A new table was created with inheritance of 'exampletable': CREATE TABLE exampletablechild (dates DATE) INHERITS (exampletable); SET DATESTYLE TO '

create query with date values

2021-12-31 Thread ourdiaspora
Recipients, How to create a query such that when a date value is entered, the date may be associated with the result of another query. The scenario is that a date value is entered (the plan is these dates should be a separate table), then a query result is joined with the date value. Please ad

Re: csv copy error

2021-12-31 Thread ourdiaspora
On Thursday, December 30th, 2021 at 7:30 AM, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > Hi, > > Le mer. 29 déc. 2021 à 22:08, ourdiaspora a > écrit : > > > > > \copy exampletable from '/local/path/to/examplefile.csv'; > > > > You should tell the CSV

csv copy error

2021-12-29 Thread ourdiaspora
Readers, Please could anyone help with the following error produced: " ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "1,m " CONTEXT: COPY exampletable, line 1, column examplenumber: "1,m " The database commands: " CREATE TABLE exampletable (examplenumber smallint, exampletitle varchar(500) ); " "

Re: database design with temporary tables

2021-08-29 Thread ourdiaspora
On Sunday, August 29th, 2021 at 5:56 PM, Ray O'Donnell wrote: > - or do they connect only to the web server, which then > > uses its own account on the database server? Thank you; was not aware of this consideration and this option seems most appropriate for the simple sql commands envisaged.

Re: database design with temporary tables

2021-08-29 Thread ourdiaspora
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, August 29th, 2021 at 5:38 PM, Ray O'Donnell wrote: > > I'd save a timestamp with the session data, and then run a cron job > > which deletes sessions older than whatever lifetime you want. > Is it prudent in this scenario for the user to create (a)

Re: database design with temporary tables

2021-08-29 Thread ourdiaspora
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, August 29th, 2021 at 5:30 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 8/29/21 9:24 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > > Whoops, unfinished thought. What I was going to ask is: > > The above is not clear to me. Are you asking about the Postgres > > documentation? > Yes

Re: database design with temporary tables

2021-08-29 Thread ourdiaspora
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, August 29th, 2021 at 5:24 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > Presumably not. Temporary tables only live at most for the length of a > > session. It would be a really bad idea to hold sessions open for 24 > > hours. Is there an alternative scenario, such as

database design with temporary tables

2021-08-29 Thread ourdiaspora
Readers, Some advice would be appreciated about appropriate tables to store temporary data. Scenario: User copies csv file of user data, presumably into some temporary table(s); User selects data (read-only) from extant tables; Web server combines user data with read-only data to produce content

Re: use fopen unknown resource

2021-08-28 Thread ourdiaspora
On Saturday, August 28th, 2021 at 5:52 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > You are asking the user to select a file, so there should be some sort > > of file reference at that point, correct? > This is what causes confusion. If a user has a file named 'mydatafile.csv', why does the manual make refe

Re: use fopen unknown resource

2021-08-27 Thread ourdiaspora
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, August 27th, 2021 at 11:10 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > https://www.php.net/manual/en/pdo.pgsqlcopyfromfile.php > " public PDO::pgsqlCopyFromFile( string $table_name, string $filename, " Sorry but do not understand; the line does not explain

use fopen unknown resource

2021-08-27 Thread ourdiaspora
Readers, Objective, to import a csv file into postgresql database. If understood correctly, the manual section 'fopen' (https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php) shows that the file has a "known resource" extant name. Please what is the syntax to assign an unknown file name to the 'fop

Re: php connection failure

2021-08-13 Thread ourdiaspora
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, August 11th, 2021 at 3:13 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > Are you using some form of container/VM on the machine for either server? > The machine is a chromebook, GNU/Linux via 'crouton' chroot. Is this the potential cause of blockage of port 5432

Re: php connection failure

2021-08-11 Thread ourdiaspora
On Wednesday, August 11th, 2021 at 3:09 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > Is the Web server/PHP app on the same machine as the Postgres server? > All programs about this question are installed on a single computer; the intention is to test and learn first on a local machine. > If it is on the sa

Re: php connection failure

2021-08-11 Thread ourdiaspora
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, August 11th, 2021 at 2:10 PM, rob stone wrote: > > the call to pg_connect as a try . . . catch block so that the exact > Sorry but do not understand "try catch block" > > Are you sure postgres is configured to use port 5432? No, but the impres

Re: php connection failure

2021-08-11 Thread ourdiaspora
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, August 10th, 2021 at 3:44 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > 1. There is another local line with peer that you missed. > 2. You changed the wrong pg_hba.conf file. > Frow within postgresql 'psql' terminal: SHOW hba_file; /etc/postgresql/9.6/main/

Re: php connection failure

2021-08-11 Thread ourdiaspora
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, August 10th, 2021 at 2:14 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > The postgres process is listening, but this has nothing to do with > > whether the kernel will allow any packets to arrive there. > Installed 'nftables'. According to the documentation (https://wiki.de

Re: php connection failure

2021-08-10 Thread ourdiaspora
On Sunday, August 8th, 2021 at 2:15 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > ourdiaspora ourdiasp...@protonmail.com writes: > > > psql -d cpacweb -U cpaca > > > > psql: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "cpaca" > > It's a gold > > plated cer

Re: php connection failure

2021-08-10 Thread ourdiaspora
On Sunday, August 8th, 2021 at 1:51 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > 1. Get rid of the first local line . > 2. Then for the remaining local line below change peer to trust and > > restart Postgres. Thank you, but repeat error occurred: sudo sudo service postgresql restart [ ok ] Restarting P

Re: php connection failure

2021-08-07 Thread ourdiaspora
On Sunday, August 8th, 2021 at 1:02 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > What did you change listen_addresses from? > New line; same line had hash (#) to comment out. > What if you do?: > > psql -d cpacweb -U cpaca > psql -d cpacweb -U cpaca psql: FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user "cpaca"

Re: php connection failure

2021-08-07 Thread ourdiaspora
On Sunday, August 8th, 2021 at 12:50 AM, David G. Johnston wrote: > On Saturday, August 7, 2021, ourdiaspora wrote: > > > SHOW hba_file; > > > >         /etc/postgresql/9.6/main/pg_hba.conf > > Please post the contents of this file.  The one shown at the

Re: php connection failure

2021-08-07 Thread ourdiaspora
On Sunday, August 8th, 2021 at 12:26 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > > Hm --- this suggests that you've got a kernel packet filter (i.e. > > software firewall) that is not passing traffic for 5432. Don't know anything about that, so perhaps it can be assumed unchanged from whatever the default system con

Re: php connection failure

2021-08-07 Thread ourdiaspora
On Sunday, August 8th, 2021 at 12:11 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > > If php is trying to connect to something else, like say the > > machine's external IP address, that could be your issue. Excuse the ignorance, but if the instruction in the php file is: " ...$dbconn = pg_connect("dbname=cpacweb user=cp

Re: php connection failure

2021-08-07 Thread ourdiaspora
On Saturday, August 7th, 2021 at 11:20 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > 1. OS and version? Same local machine as described > 2. The contents of /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters >

Re: php connection failure

2021-08-07 Thread ourdiaspora
On Saturday, August 7th, 2021 at 10:17 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 8/7/21 1:09 PM, ourdiaspora wrote: > > > On Saturday, August 7th, 2021 at 8:23 PM, Adrian Klaver > > adrian.kla...@aklaver.com wrote: > > > Changes were made to the function 'listen_

Re: php connection failure

2021-08-07 Thread ourdiaspora
On Saturday, August 7th, 2021 at 8:23 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > Since further configuration, remain unable to connect to the php database. > > Further configuration of what? > The postgresql configuration file: SHOW hba_file; /etc/postgresql/9.6/main/pg_hba.conf SHOW config_file;

php connection failure

2021-08-07 Thread ourdiaspora
Readers, Background: http://news-web.php.net/php.general/327600 Since further configuration, remain unable to connect to the php database. Software system is debian, xfce, postgresql, php. Database created on local machine with directory of web server content in extant normal user account. The