[GENERAL] Projects Database Online ...

1999-11-16 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Okay, after procrastinating for too long, I've just redone the Projects Database so that it follows similar formats to the Application Database that I built the other day... I'm slowly going through the old database (600+ records) and migrating them over to the new one, cleaning it out as I go a

Re: [GENERAL] CREATE OPERATOR error

1999-11-16 Thread Mike Mascari
--- Brandon Ibach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting ^chewie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Brandon Ibach wrote: > > > > BI>Can anybody explain what might be happening here? > > BI> > > BI> abc=> create operator =* ( leftarg = varchar, rightarg = varchar, > > BI> abc->pr

Re: [GENERAL] Re: replication

1999-11-16 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
hi... > Is it possible to log the transactions ( as complete statements ) on one > database then process the logged transactions on the second database at > intervals to keep it up to date? > transaction logging is already done on disk in pg_log, however you can't count on it being correct (es

Re: [GENERAL] CREATE OPERATOR error

1999-11-16 Thread Brandon Ibach
Quoting ^chewie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Brandon Ibach wrote: > > BI>Can anybody explain what might be happening here? > BI> > BI> abc=> create operator =* ( leftarg = varchar, rightarg = varchar, > BI> abc->procedure = vciceq, commutator = =* ); > BI> ERROR: parser:

Re: [GENERAL] CREATE OPERATOR error

1999-11-16 Thread ^chewie
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Brandon Ibach wrote: BI>Can anybody explain what might be happening here? BI> BI> abc=> create operator =* ( leftarg = varchar, rightarg = varchar, BI> abc->procedure = vciceq, commutator = =* ); BI> ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "varchar" BI> BI>The fu

[GENERAL] Problems installing on FreeBSD 3.3 (PG_VERSION/pg_user missing)6.5.3

1999-11-16 Thread Christopher Petrilli
Ok, I've done this three times on 3 different machines, and get it wrong each time... I go through the INSTALL docs, compile, install, run initdb and then get: """... File '/usr/local/pgsql/data/PG_VERSION' does not exist or no read permission.""" It's not the latter, it's missing... it's not i

[GENERAL] concurrency

1999-11-16 Thread Boris Goldowsky
It seems that whenever we are doing a large operation -- eg, CREATE INDEX on a sizable table, or VACUUM on a big database -- all other postgres operations on that server stop dead. Attempts to do simple operations on completely separate databases (but on the same server) will hang (or perhaps th

Re: [GENERAL] Re: replication

1999-11-16 Thread Richard Welsh
Is it possible to log the transactions ( as complete statements ) on one database then process the logged transactions on the second database at intervals to keep it up to date? RDW. -Original Message- From: Jeff Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] Re: replication

1999-11-16 Thread Jeff Hoffmann
"Aaron J. Seigo" wrote: > this needs to be in the back end... otherwise, if you have multiple people > performing updates on different replicated servers, how can you guarentee > concurancy? how do you manage the differences between read-only and updateable > replicants? (this can be done using y

Re: [GENERAL] Re: replication

1999-11-16 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
hi... > my favorite hack is to wrap the c/c++ api so you can set up a group of > mirror database connections and then calling the wrapped functions will > call the original function on each of the mirror database connections. > i've really never thought of it as something that should be part of

[GENERAL] CREATE OPERATOR error

1999-11-16 Thread Brandon Ibach
Can anybody explain what might be happening here? abc=> create operator =* ( leftarg = varchar, rightarg = varchar, abc->procedure = vciceq, commutator = =* ); ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "varchar" The function "vciceq" already exists, and works. I've tried a number of vari