Re: [GENERAL] Limit on number of queries from CGI or PHP (security)

2000-10-18 Thread Charles Tassell
I noticed a lot of people gave some good advice, but one thing they forgot to mention is the AddSlashes command of php. It basically does all the necessary special-character escaping for you, so the worst thing someone can do by enterring bad data in your forms is bring up a page with bad res

[GENERAL] How to back up large objects?

2000-10-18 Thread Chris Carbaugh
I can't seem to figure out how to back up the large ogjects I have in my DB. Here's the situation: I insert a large object (via PHP) into my DB. I also insert a record into a table that uses the OID of the LO I inserted. I later expect to pull the record out of the table, get the OID I stored

[GENERAL] Open Source Database Summit

2000-10-18 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane and I will be speaking at the Open Source Database Summit, October 30 and 31, in San Jose, California. There will be representatives there from the other open-source databases too. The URL is: http://www.osdn.com/conf/osd/conf_index.shtml -- Bruce Momjian

Re: [GENERAL] Is this a bug or a feature?

2000-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
"Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But I cannot seem to get two selects in the same rule. > So the question becomes: is this a bug or a feature? The writer of the grammar seemed to think it was a feature, because the productions for CREATE RULE go out of their way to prevent it. I do

Re: [GENERAL] rules *very* slow?

2000-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would expect the rule it cause a bit of overhead (maybe > taking twice or three times as long as w/o the rule), but > it's taking ~52x longer. Ouch. > I've tried creating an index on messages.poster, but it has > no effect (performance is the same). I

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] pg_connect error

2000-10-18 Thread Brian Edginton
Travis Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you compiles php, did you ./configure with --with-pgsql? If you did > not compile php explicitly telling it to includ pgsql support, it probably > didn't. Yes I did, and postgresql is installed in the default location. Notice that the pg_connect fr

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] pg_connect error

2000-10-18 Thread Brian Edginton
Larry Rosenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, is the postmaster started with -i? Yup.

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] pg_connect error

2000-10-18 Thread Brian Edginton
Larry Rosenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, is the postmaster started with -i? Yup

[GENERAL] Is this a bug or a feature?

2000-10-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm trying to understand rules, because I'm about to use them heavily in some research I'm doing on query optimization. It seems a natural. I've notices what looks like an anomaly. I can define a rule with two delete commands like this: > CREATE RULE rule1 AS ON delete TO dummy DO INSTEAD >

Re: [GENERAL] Any risk in increasing BLCKSZ to get larger tuples?

2000-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > larger than the builtin limit for tuples. Is there anything I should be > aware of before changing the below value and recompiling? Only that it will force an initdb. Note the 32k limit, too. A trick you can use in 7.0.* to squeeze out a little mo

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql - cache lookup error 18977

2000-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
Tom Walta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "ERROR: fmgr_info: Cache lookup for language failed 18977" Did you perchance drop and recreate the plpgsql language when you already had functions defined in the language? The system will let you do that :-(, but then the old functions refer to a language

Re: [GENERAL] Hash Indexes Causing Deadlock Notices

2000-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I noticed that a large number of log notice messages announcing a > deadlock being detected together with transactions being aborted > The tables impacted in the benchmark had HASH indexes. ( only = scans > were being performed, it seemed a good idea at the tim

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] pg_connect error

2000-10-18 Thread Larry Rosenman
And, is the postmaster started with -i? * Travis Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001018 13:49]: > > When you compiles php, did you ./configure with --with-pgsql? If you did > not compile php explicitly telling it to includ pgsql support, it probably > didn't. > > Travis > > Brian Edginton ([EMAIL P

[GENERAL] Hash Indexes Causing Deadlock Notices

2000-10-18 Thread mark
Hi, I have been experimenting with the Apache Benchmarking Tool ( ab ) to give my demo web site a bit of a hiding. The database backend is Postgresql 7.1 ( dev from 25/09/00) . I noticed that a large number of log notice messages announcing a deadlock being detected together with transactions b

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL PASSWORD('x') function workalike

2000-10-18 Thread Neil Conway
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 03:11:12PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: > In MySQL, I can get a hash of a VARCHAR by using the PASSWORD('') call. I > know for DB admin there is pg_passwd, but is there a function interface so > that I can get password hashes of arbitrary strings in SQL? (Note that I > mean c

[GENERAL] to_char function

2000-10-18 Thread Yohans Mendoza
hi all, where can I find info about the function to_char TIA --Yohans ~~~ Yohans Mendoza System Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sirius Images Inc. http://www.sir

[GENERAL] MySQL PASSWORD('x') function workalike

2000-10-18 Thread Nate Lawson
In MySQL, I can get a hash of a VARCHAR by using the PASSWORD('') call. I know for DB admin there is pg_passwd, but is there a function interface so that I can get password hashes of arbitrary strings in SQL? (Note that I mean crypto hashes like MD5 and hopefully compatible with the hashes used f

Re: [GENERAL] Any risk in increasing BLCKSZ to get larger tuples?

2000-10-18 Thread Neil Conway
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:46:36PM -0700, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > I'm thinking about using postgres for an app that will store > various email messages which might (although probably not likely) be > larger than the builtin limit for tuples. Is there anything I should be > aware of before

[GENERAL] Any risk in increasing BLCKSZ to get larger tuples?

2000-10-18 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi - I'm thinking about using postgres for an app that will store various email messages which might (although probably not likely) be larger than the builtin limit for tuples. Is there anything I should be aware of before changing the below value and recompiling? Also, it looks like the

[GENERAL] rules *very* slow?

2000-10-18 Thread Neil Conway
In testing my database, I've encountered what appears to be a concerning performance problem using a rule (ON INSERT). Here's the situation: Every time a row is inserted into a table (called 'messages'), I want to increment a counter in a different table (called 'users'). The best way I could thi

[GENERAL] plpgsql - cache lookup error 18977

2000-10-18 Thread Tom Walta
I entered the following to load plpgsql: "$createlang -L/usr/lib/pgsql plpgsql testdb" postgresql appeared to have no problem with it. A subsequent "$createlang -l -dtestdb" showed plpgsql as being a trusted procedural language. But whenever I attempt to use it in a function I get the following e

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] pg_connect error

2000-10-18 Thread Adam Lang
I don't think that is it. It has been a while, but I thought if you didn't compile php with psql, it returned an "undefined function" error. By the way... I just found out a little bit ago that the pgsql-php list is still alive. :) Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company -

[GENERAL] Need info on 7.1 and synchronization for big project

2000-10-18 Thread Rob Hutton
Guys - We are about to start a large for us project that has some pretty complicated requirements. First of all, we have to have real time synchronization/replication. Second of all, we are in a hub and spoke setup where each spoke will need to replicate everything it knows about to the hub, b

Re: [GENERAL] 7.1 Release Date

2000-10-18 Thread A farmer using BSD, eh!
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Let me ask. Could people who need to be up all the time dump their > data, install PostgreSQL on another machine, load that in, then quickly > copy the new version to the live machine and restart. Seems like > downtime would be minimal. > Rsync to mirror a node first a

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] pg_connect error

2000-10-18 Thread Travis Bauer
When you compiles php, did you ./configure with --with-pgsql? If you did not compile php explicitly telling it to includ pgsql support, it probably didn't. Travis Brian Edginton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I'm trying to use the php/postgresql interface via my apache server. > When I tr

Re: [GENERAL] C function and NULL result

2000-10-18 Thread Victor Ivanov
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:58:50AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Victor Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm using PostgreSQL 7.0.2 and I'm trying to create my own types with > > input and output functions in C. Everything works fine, but when the input > > is invalid and the function returns NUL

Re: [GENERAL] A couple of pgsql questions

2000-10-18 Thread Stephan Szabo
You need to use the createlang script to enable the procedural languages you wish to use. I believe it's createlang > db'# physionetdb'# physionetdb'# ERROR: Unrecognized language specified in > a CREATE FUNCTION: 'pltcl'. Recognized languages are sql, C, internal > and the created p

Re: [GENERAL] OID and joins

2000-10-18 Thread Adam Haberlach
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 06:18:07PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > - Any other limitation I don't achieve to view?. > > Nope, this is really a relatively standard thing. The oid column isn't > special as compared to other columns, aside from the fact that it is > automatically created.

[GENERAL] A couple of pgsql questions

2000-10-18 Thread Jack V Chung
Hello, I want to apologize in advance if I sent this to the wrong mailing list. I'm was trying out the example functions using TCL, but for function was not created. Here's the error: db=# CREATE FUNCTION tcl_max (int4, int4) RETURNS int4 AS ' if {$1 > $2} {return $1} return $2 ' LANG

Re: [GENERAL] OID and joins

2000-10-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
DaVinci writes: > Can I use OIDs for joins between tables without losing functionality? Sure. > The problems I am afraid of are: > > - pg_dump/psql: Can I recover OIDs from security copies?. pg_dump -o > - Indexes: joins between tables linked with OIDs use indexes from >

Re: [GENERAL] too many clients?

2000-10-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
chris markiewicz writes: > Sorry, too many clients already > > hello. i am getting the above message when i try to connect. where do i > find documentation about connection management? man postmaster, -N option > i want to be able to see all current connections and kill some of > them. how

Re: SV: [GENERAL] 7.1 devel and initdb core dumps

2000-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
"Jarmo Paavilainen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well thats the point. Why do I need to allocate one extra space for the > string (the first one allready allocate space for the NULL). While the > second example allocates one char too much. The given fragment of code clearly isn't overwriting any

[GENERAL] too many clients?

2000-10-18 Thread chris markiewicz
Sorry, too many clients already hello. i am getting the above message when i try to connect. where do i find documentation about connection management? i want to be able to see all current connections and kill some of them. how do i do that? thanks chris