Re: [GENERAL] Problem with null timestamp fields

2001-06-27 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Yes, that was it. It should have been more obvious had I looked closer. A second pair of eyes are always helpful. Still, I am a bit amazed that the database allows this (trailing or leading spaces in the column names). Thanks for you help! Tom Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Messa

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Philip Molter
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 06:58:18PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: : My guess on this one is that Solaris is slower for PostgreSQL because : process switching is _much_ heavier on Solaris than other OS's. This is : because of the way they implemented processes in SVr4. They got quite : heavy, almost

[GENERAL] Problem with null timestamp fields

2001-06-27 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Here is the table I have. CREATE TABLE "user_history" ( "id" integer DEFAULT nextval('"user_history_id_seq"'::text) NOT NULL, "userid" integer NOT NULL, "ipaddr" character(15) NOT NULL, "login_ts " timestamp with time zone, "logout_ts " timestamp with time

Re: [GENERAL] Blobs in PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Richard Church
Any examples available, please? On all of creating, insertion, updateing, setting it to null? >From: Alex Pilosov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Richard Church <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Blobs in PostgreSQL >Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 08:43:33 -0400 (EDT) > >SQL sy

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
"Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Previous to version 7.1, RHL wasn't very secure by default. This is one > of > > the most common complaints I hear. 7.1 can be made quite secure out of > the > > box without any special config -- just leave the firewall config at the > > default of

RE: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Tim Mickol
To all who are fanning the flames -- this is not the place for prolonged discussion on operating systems (nor sarcasm and zealous diatribes), is it? -- please take it offline (please?) thanks in advance tjm "Imensis laboribus comparatur emditio: ac post moriendum est." -Original Message---

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Wolfe
> None of them. Run FreeBSD. It's better. Or, it will be, once the SMP code is improved. : ) steve ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Even though it may appear that your server is doing a lot, it's not facing > > > the load of a highly scaled enterprise level e-commerce site, where RedHat > > > just doesn't cut it. > > > > That claim is bogus. Red Hat Linux is the number one linu

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Wolfe
> > 1) Distribution of Linux to have the largest number of "out of the box" > > security holes. Check back and look at the security reports. Count them if > > you insist. > > And check for the number of them being Red Hat specific. I consider things like the portmapper being enabled by default

RE: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Tim Mickol
As long as it's a robust, managable, and open arhcitecture, I'm generally agnostic as to technoliogies. That said, my red hat experience: ran multiple java application servers and multiple oracle 8i db instances on red hat 6.n (medium size 100-200 tables) with a moderately high computationally a

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Wolfe
> > Even though it may appear that your server is doing a lot, it's not facing > > the load of a highly scaled enterprise level e-commerce site, where RedHat > > just doesn't cut it. > > That claim is bogus. Red Hat Linux is the number one linux by far in > enterprise deployments. Well, Microso

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Wolfe
> Previous to version 7.1, RHL wasn't very secure by default. This is one of > the most common complaints I hear. 7.1 can be made quite secure out of the > box without any special config -- just leave the firewall config at the > default of 'HIGH' -- of course, I've now heard complaints that it

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Philip Molter
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:03:33PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: : I think most people that say they'd not run RHL either simply don't like : Linux or just don't like Red Hat. Nothing different in this than the : attitude of MySQL users who just simply don't like PostgreSQL. Or they've : heard tha

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Alex Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) Distribution of Linux to have the largest number of "out of the box" > security holes. Check back and look at the security reports. Count them if > you insist. And check for the number of them being Red Hat specific. > > 2) Most commercial software

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Tim Barnard
Wow, I didn't realize I was going to open such a big can of worms :-)   Thanks to everyone for putting in their "two-cents worth." All of the responses have definitely been helpful. And I agree with Adam, et al, this really doesn't belong on this list so lets end this thread and move on.  

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Alex Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Lamar Owen wrote: > > > On Wednesday 27 June 2001 16:15, Alex Knight wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Lamar Owen wrote: > > > > Disagreed over here, with 4+ years of experience 24x7 on RHL since RHL > > > > 4.1. > > > > > This 4+ ye

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Steve Wolfe
> ...This is not the same in my book, since I don't care > to run RHL in any kind of production environment... > > > What is it about RHL that various people wouldn't > recommend running it in a production envornment? > I don't have a contrary view, so much as I'd like to > know what's specifical

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Tim Barnard wrote: > > ...This is not the same in my book, since I don't care > to run RHL in any kind of production environment... > > > What is it about RHL that various people wouldn't > recommend running it in a production envornment? > I don't have a contrary view, so

[GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Tim Barnard
...This is not the same in my book, since I don't care to run RHL in any kind of production environment... What is it about RHL that various people wouldn't recommend running it in a production envornment? I don't have a contrary view, so much as I'd like to know what's specifically wrong with

Re: [GENERAL] Books on PostgreSQL?

2001-06-27 Thread Tony Grant
Ian Harding wrote: > I just got my copy of the programmers guide yesterday. > It is a printed copy of the document of the same name available online. > It is worth the money because you can read it in the bathroom, and because > hopefully Thomas Lochart (sic) gets some money. I found mysel

Re: [GENERAL] Perl-module: Pg

2001-06-27 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Ludwig Meyerhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Remember to actually read the README file ! > please set environment variables POSTGRES_INCLUDE and POSTGRES_LIB ! > Running make test > Make had some problems, maybe interrupted? Won't test > Running

Re: [GENERAL] DBD::Pg - BYTEA - fails for range outside chr(0)-chr(127)

2001-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: > $insert->execute(pack "C*", 128); # BOMB, core dump Core dump where? A stack backtrace might help ... regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked

[GENERAL] Data migration problems with Upgrade from Version 6.5.2 to 7.1.2

2001-06-27 Thread Tom.Bakken
This is my first posting to the list, so I hope this is the right place for this question. I'm currently running postgres 6.5.2 on a Red Hat LINUX 6.2 web server. I've installed postgres 7.1.2 on a Red Hat LINUX 7.0 platform. Reading the README.rpm-dist has been confusing to say the least. I ha

[GENERAL] SHMMAX value

2001-06-27 Thread Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos
This was asked repeatedly the past 2 weeks. With regard to "what is a sane value for shmmax in the kernel?" Oracle's recommendation is to go for 0.5*physical_memory. So I gues that 0.25*physical_memory for Pg should be fine. cheers, thalis ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [GENERAL] Weird error

2001-06-27 Thread Philip Molter
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:30:54AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: : Philip Molter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > I am using 7.1.2. : : Don't suppose you want to dig in there with a debugger when it happens? : You must be seeing some hard-to-replicate problem in VACUUM's : tuple-chain-moving logic. That

Re: [GENERAL] A way of storing variables - will this work?

2001-06-27 Thread Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Edmund von der Burg wrote: > Hello, > > For a project I am working on I needed some way of storing a variable for > the duration of a session and cooked this up, based on some previous posts > to this list: > > > create sequence variable_id_seq; > > create table variables

Re: [GENERAL] Weird error

2001-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Molter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using 7.1.2. Drat. Don't suppose you want to dig in there with a debugger when it happens? You must be seeing some hard-to-replicate problem in VACUUM's tuple-chain-moving logic. That stuff is pretty hairy, and I doubt anyone will be able to intu

[GENERAL] Re: MS SQL to PostgreSQL

2001-06-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Ryan C. Bonham wrote: > Here is how I successfully converted out SQL 7.0 Database to PostgreSQL.. > Hope someone finds it useful, it needs to be rewritten, it was basically a > bunch of notes I put in a very poor outline.. If anyone wants to rewrite it > feel free, if not I w