Re: [GENERAL] I resign as the promoter of the PostgreSQL groups.

2004-11-13 Thread Woodchuck Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kathy Morgan) wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yeah, I've seen these forged emails on the mailing list, plus a few >> other colorfull ones. You should see that people on the list are not >> completely against this idea, and they are not fo

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread GreyGeek
Jeff Eckermann wrote: > The "problem" that is being solved is, as presented so > far, too abstract to be convincing, at least for me. If you say so. The problem that Mark (Marc?) is trying to solve is that his ISP doesn't give access to this newsgroup because it is NOT in the Big-8. The solution

Re: [GENERAL] comp.database.postgresql.*

2004-11-13 Thread Wayne Brown
Dawid Kuroczko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And now, some time ago, PostgreSQL mailing lists were gatewayed > into Big8 namespace, to help people access them by other means. > Only it was done "unoffically", i.e. not following standard procedure > for such things. It could be thought of as "hoo

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing

2004-11-13 Thread Patrick B Kelly
Seriously, the usenet people losing interest in this "problem" might be the best case scenario. Ya know, that's kinda like when a business owner hopes the neigborhood will forget about a toxic waste spill. In this case, it's not going to be forgotten as long as someone's shoving your emails up

Re: [GENERAL] I'm about to release the next postgresql RFD. Comments wanted.

2004-11-13 Thread pvaurio
The new proposal should have all of the lists. I am amazed that an unknown interloper is trying to dictate which lists should be voted on. I am affiliated with a network of over 60 PostgreSql users/developers, and I will e-mail each one of those people a ballot. If your next proposal does not conta

Re: [GENERAL] How many secondary databases can I create?

2004-11-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Dawid Kuroczko wrote: On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:20:59 +0100, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please note, that I do not run seperatly databases. I like only to split it per $USER physicaly from the main database. I like to have this setup for my new Virtual-Webserver where I have for ea

[GENERAL] shrinking physical space used

2004-11-13 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus Jr
hello all, i've got a database that takes up 4G of space. when i run a script that deletes all rows and then vacuum, the data directory gets down to around 3-3.5G. what i'd like is to get a blank database structure that really contains no data at all, or any unused space at all. apparently tha

Re: [GENERAL] Large database

2004-11-13 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 04:10:43PM +0200, Alexander Antonakakis wrote: > I will have to make sql queries in the form "select value from > product_actions where who='someone' and where='somewhere' and maybe make > also some calculations on these results. I allready have made some > indexes on th

Re: [GENERAL] I'm about to release the next postgresql RFD. Comments wanted.

2004-11-13 Thread Klaas
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > comp.databases.postgresql.general How about just comp.databases.postgresql or (shudder) comp.databases.postgresql.misc? -Mike ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/readin

Re: [GENERAL] I'm about to release the next postgresql RFD. Comments wanted.

2004-11-13 Thread Sim Zacks
BTW, in Outlook Express if you are posting to the news.postgresql.org server it will not send a message to news.groups. So this message will not get there unless someone puts it there. If 4 are official and 16 are unofficial, why would that bother you? You can still access all of them the same way

Re: [GENERAL] I'm about to release the next postgresql RFD. Comments wanted.

2004-11-13 Thread Russ Allbery
In news.groups, Klaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mike Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> comp.databases.postgresql.general > How about just comp.databases.postgresql or (shudder) > comp.databases.postgresql.misc? In this particular situation, I think .general may actually be a better name tha

Re: [GENERAL] need simple strategy for universal extension table

2004-11-13 Thread TJ Talluto
Since nobody has mentioned any nuances about mapping these keys to system tables in this particular database, I'll assume this is a good idea for now. -- TJ Talluto torpedo51 at yahoo dot com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the post

Re: [GENERAL] Value of serial data type after insert.

2004-11-13 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:34:22PM -0500, Ernest Kim wrote: > I was wondering if there was a way to get the value of serial data > type after an insert. Use currval(): http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/functions-sequence.html Race condtions aren't a problem: "Notice that because this i

Re: [GENERAL] I'm about to release the next postgresql RFD. Comments

2004-11-13 Thread Woodchuck Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Marc G. Fournier") wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > As a side note ... if/when the CFV is called and those 4 are > approved/rejected, that will not change what is available on > news.postgresql.org, it will only improve the propogation of those 4 > specific groups so that

Re: [GENERAL] I'm about to release the next postgresql RFD. Comments wanted.

2004-11-13 Thread Klaas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Bell) wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Klaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Mike Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> comp.databases.postgresql.general > > > >How about just comp.databases.postgresql or (shudder) > >comp.data

Re: [GENERAL] I'm about to release the next postgresql RFD. Comments wanted.

2004-11-13 Thread Rolf Østvik
Mike Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] berlin.de: > Obviously, there cannot be 21 postgresql groups in the comp.* hierarchy. I agree > I did a check on news.postgresql.org to see which newsgroups are the most > popular and also the ones which cover the relevant postgresql

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Rolf Østvik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Eckermann) wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > --- "Gary L. Burnore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Please. We're trying to help you fix something >> that's broken. > > ??? As a longstanding reader of the pgsql- > mailinglists, (including via news.postgresql.org on > occa

[GENERAL] ask a question

2004-11-13 Thread suon
pgsql-general I am a new user for pgsql.I has a question is, does pgsql(7.5 for win32) has a jdbc or a odbc ? If have ,how can i take it ? thank for your replying. suon [EMAIL PROTECTED]   2004-11-10 ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] These Lists Are Being Cut To FOUR

2004-11-13 Thread Wayne Brown
Michael Glaesemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe these posts are spoofs. Mike has not posted anything along > these lines before, and the headers are different from his usual posts. I'm sure you're right. There's been some idiot trolling news.groups for the past several weeks, impers

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Kenneth Downs
Joseph Daniel Zukiger wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message > news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >> The lists are not bogus and your suggestion is not acceptable. Many of >> the list subscribers have no connection to Usenet. They will be mailed >> the ballots, regardless of what you or anyone else

Re: [GENERAL] I'm about to release the next postgresql RFD. Comments wanted.

2004-11-13 Thread Arthur L. Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is my last post to news.groups about this. Good. With any luck, Marc will block you from the mailing lists for spamming those lists. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] These Lists Are Being Cut To FOUR

2004-11-13 Thread Sim Zacks
I think this is disgusting. I feel that if someone does not like what Mike is doing the appropriate way of dealing with it would be to post a rational argument. Not to send an obviously forged email with his name on the from line. ""Mike Cox"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROT

[GENERAL] Value of serial data type after insert.

2004-11-13 Thread Ernest Kim
I was wondering if there was a way to get the value of serial data type after an insert. For example, you have the following table: create table my_names ( id serial unique, name varchar(10) ); And then you do the following: insert into my_names values ('Ernie'); How

Re: [GENERAL] I'm about to release the next postgresql RFD. Comments wanted.

2004-11-13 Thread Jon Bell
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Klaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Mike Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> comp.databases.postgresql.general > >How about just comp.databases.postgresql or (shudder) >comp.databases.postgresql.misc? The whole point of this proposa

Re: [GENERAL] I'm about to release the next postgresql RFD. Comments wanted.

2004-11-13 Thread Brian Mailman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am affiliated with a network of over 60 PostgreSql users/developers, and I will e-mail each one of those people a ballot... You should not do that. Those ballots will be invalidated since only the official ballots that are posted or obtained directly from the votetaker a

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Joseph Daniel Zukiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > The lists are not bogus and your suggestion is not acceptable. Many of > the list subscribers have no connection to Usenet. They will be mailed > the ballots, regardless of what you or anyone else say. They are the > people who will b

Re: [GENERAL] I'm about to release the next postgresql RFD. Comments wanted.

2004-11-13 Thread Kenneth Downs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The new proposal should have all of the lists. I am amazed that an > unknown interloper is trying to dictate which lists should be voted on. > I am affiliated with a network of over 60 PostgreSql users/developers, > and I will e-mail each one of those people a ballot. If

[GENERAL] Large database

2004-11-13 Thread Alexander Antonakakis
I would like to ask the more experienced users on Postgres database a couple of questions I have on a db I manage with a lot of data. A lot of data means something like 15.000.000 rows in a table. I will try to describe the tables and what I will have to do on them :) There is a table that has p

[GENERAL] How the function written on pl/pgsql can be called by the function written on plperl.

2004-11-13 Thread Anatoly Okishev
How the function written on pl/pgsql can be called by the function written on plperl.   Error is:   error from function: Undefined subroutine &Safe::Root2::get_national_code called.

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing

2004-11-13 Thread Gary L. Burnore
At 07:30 PM 11/13/2004, you wrote: If the process drags on for too long, people will start to get annoyed with the process and lose interest. I speak from experience. This hasn't dragged on too long? Not at all. People aren't already annoyed? Not those that matter. Seriously, the usenet people lo

Re: [GENERAL] need simple strategy for universal extension table

2004-11-13 Thread Mike Rylander
On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:20:20 GMT, TJ Talluto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This new table would act as a universal extension table. Instead of having > FKs back to any particular table, it would contain regular keys that point > back to whatever table::record is its source. > > I was thinking of u

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-13 Thread Patrick B Kelly
If the process drags on for too long, people will start to get annoyed with the process and lose interest. I speak from experience. This hasn't dragged on too long? People aren't already annoyed? Seriously, the usenet people losing interest in this "problem" might be the best case scenario. P

Re: [GENERAL] Mysterious Death of postmaster (-9)

2004-11-13 Thread Gregory S. Williamson
Thanks Alvaro and Steven -- this may in fact be what happened as the monitor showed that at about that time memory definitely was taxed and showed oddnesses. I'll read up on this -- thanks very much for the (promising) clue! Greg W. -Original Message- From: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:[E

Re: [GENERAL] RFD: comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:28:57PM +, Woodchuck Bill wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Marc G. Fournier") wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Unless its spam, it goes through ... I don't (nor have I ever) refused a > > post based on content other then spam ... even if its anti-PostgreSQL >

Re: [GENERAL] Mysterious Death of postmaster (-9)

2004-11-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:39:38PM -0800, Gregory S. Williamson wrote: Gregory, > We had an oddness today with one of of postgres servers (Dell 2 CPU box > running linux) and postgres 7.4. The server was under heavy load (50+ for a 1 > minutes spike; about 20 for the 15 minute average) with about

Re: [GENERAL] Mysterious Death of postmaster (-9)

2004-11-13 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Gregory S. Williamson wrote: > Looking in the logs I see: > 2004-11-13 13:30:28 LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection > 2004-11-13 13:30:40 LOG: unexpected EOF on client connection > 2004-11-13 13:38:28 LOG: could not send data to client: Broken pipe > 2004-11-13 13:42:1

[GENERAL] Mysterious Death of postmaster (-9)

2004-11-13 Thread Gregory S. Williamson
Dear peoples, We had an oddness today with one of of postgres servers (Dell 2 CPU box running linux) and postgres 7.4. The server was under heavy load (50+ for a 1 minutes spike; about 20 for the 15 minute average) with about 250 connections (we still don't understand the heavy load itself). L

Re: [GENERAL] PostGreSQL to Access Updatable recordset

2004-11-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 01:53:18PM +0200, Sim Zacks wrote: > I have a postgresql backend with an access front end and I am trying to > redefine the recordset of the form to use an ADO recordset. The problem is > that the CursorType always changes to AdOpenStatic, even if I choose > adOpenDynamic. I

Re: [GENERAL] The classic "NEW used in query that is not in a rule" problem again

2004-11-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 11:00:57PM -, John White wrote: > It seems I'm not the first to ask this question but there seem to be > very few answers. I am implementing an audit log facility where INSERT's > or UPDATE's to a number tables get logged to a single table. Each row in > the logging tabl

Re: [GENERAL] List of postgresql rogue groups (was Re: Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general)

2004-11-13 Thread Max
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > >>The other issue is that I would like to add the other postgresql > >>groups for consideration to be included into the big 8. However there > >>are quite a few of them, and I don't know if all of them deserve to be > >>there. They are all

Re: [GENERAL] How many secondary databases can I create?

2004-11-13 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:20:59 +0100, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please note, that I do not run seperatly databases. > I like only to split it per $USER physicaly from the main database. > > I like to have this setup for my new Virtual-Webserver where I have > for each VHost a loc

[GENERAL] need simple strategy for universal extension table

2004-11-13 Thread TJ Talluto
Instead of putting the same 12 columns on every table (these 12 columns contain info about who created the record and when, for example)... It may be more efficient to make a new table to hold that data. This new table would act as a universal extension table. Instead of having FKs back to any pa

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Arthur L. Rubin
Joseph Daniel Zukiger wrote: > > "Arthur L. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>... > > Rebecca Ore wrote: > > > > > Since they have traffic and are bidirectional, and since he doesn't have > > > any objections, it looks like creating the groups by fiat would wor

Re: [GENERAL] RFD: comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Woodchuck Bill
Polarhound <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:kM2dnd_0xq99yw3cRVn- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> (BTW, since the person responsible for setting up the rogue groups >> appears to be aware of the discussion to legitimize the groups, why >> isn't he taking part in it?) >> > > That's my whole point.. He's re

Re: [GENERAL] Functions in postgres

2004-11-13 Thread Sim Zacks
It would seem that trying to hide code while using an open source system is just wrong. 8-)   That being said -- You would grant the user/group execute rights on the function, but no read rights on the system table that contains the function definition, pg_proc. How is this user supposed to

Re: [GENERAL] Visual Designer in linux?

2004-11-13 Thread Gary G. Taylor
Eric wrote: > Is there a visual designer (open source) in linux for database? I would > like to developp my data model on the computer... > > I see "dia" with uml library but... it won't export to SQL. GerWin: http://es.gnu.org/~jemarch/cgi-bin/index.pl?Site=GerWin Design your database as t

[GENERAL] PostGreSQL to Access Updatable recordset

2004-11-13 Thread Sim Zacks
I have a postgresql backend with an access front end and I am trying to redefine the recordset of the form to use an ADO recordset. The problem is that the CursorType always changes to AdOpenStatic, even if I choose adOpenDynamic. If anyone has any thoughts, please let me know. The form works great

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Joseph Daniel Zukiger
"Arthur L. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Rebecca Ore wrote: > > > Since they have traffic and are bidirectional, and since he doesn't have > > any objections, it looks like creating the groups by fiat would work > > just fine and avoid a lot of misinfor

Re: [GENERAL] subselect, order by and left join

2004-11-13 Thread Karim Nassar
On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 05:54, Stephan Szabo wrote: > > If I have a subselect with an ORDER BY, and I LEFT JOIN the result with the > > other table, is the order maintained? Or is PostgreSQL free to return the > > rows > > in any order, after the join? > > AFAIK, you have no guarantees as to the ou

Re: [GENERAL] how to edit a function from psql?

2004-11-13 Thread Karim Nassar
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 20:36, Thomas F.O'Connell wrote: > What version of postgres are you using? In postgresql-7.4.6, I get an > empty query buffer when I try what you describe here. 7.4.5 I got it. Apparently the query buffer is the last run query (good or bad). So, to get my function into the

[GENERAL] The classic "NEW used in query that is not in a rule" problem again

2004-11-13 Thread John White
It seems I'm not the first to ask this question but there seem to be very few answers. I am implementing an audit log facility where INSERT's or UPDATE's to a number tables get logged to a single table. Each row in the logging table stores data on one field change in the tables being logged. My fun

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread ru . igarashi
Woodchuck Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> That's his perogative. His server, his rules (or whoever's he set the >> groups up on). We don't have the right to dictate what groups he puts >> on his news server. If someone else decides to take

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Brian Edmonds
Woodchuck Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the NAN team announces a reversal of the rec.woodworking.all-ages > result in the next few days, would you have any problem with the > proponents sending out a control message anyway? The proponents are entirely welcome to do so, so long as they send

Antw: Re: [GENERAL] trouble with rpmbuild on WBEL3.0/x86_64

2004-11-13 Thread Marcel Gsteiger
thanks for your reply. My distutils was in /usr/lib64/python2.2 . I installed python.i386 (so I had distutils in /usr/lib thereafter). No change. I applied the patch, again no change. My error still persists. I would be happy if I could build postgresql without python support. Is there an easy w

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Marcel Beaudoin
Woodchuck Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > OK, so you think it is acceptable for anyone to create as many Big-8 > rogue groups as they like? Some servers will carry the groups, others > will not. There should be no accountability for someone doing this. > There is nothi

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Devin L. Ganger
On 9 Nov 2004 20:36:47 GMT, Woodchuck Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, so you think it is acceptable for anyone to create as many Big-8 rogue > groups as they like? Some servers will carry the groups, others will not. > There should be no accountability for someone doing this. There is n

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Woodchuck Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Who's being abused here? Russ & Co.? By their own admission, no. > The Big-8? No, the groups don't exist in the Big-8? The existing > readers? No, they can read the group. The rest of the world? No > more so than those that don't have gro

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread ru . igarashi
Woodchuck Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>> The UDP would be aimed at the news server(s) at which the mailing list >>> is being improperly gated. It is their responsibility to reject >>> improper traffic. As these same server

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Woodchuck Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > That's his perogative. His server, his rules (or whoever's he set the > groups up on). We don't have the right to dictate what groups he puts > on his news server. If someone else decides to take a feed from him > and allow the group on thei

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Woodchuck Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Stanley) wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Obviously there is nothing wrong with it. As I seem to recall, one of > the admins who (routinely?) created bogus groups is now part of the NAN > moderating team. Who would that be? -- Bill ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Woodchuck Bill
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> The UDP would be aimed at the news server(s) at which the mailing list >> is being improperly gated. It is their responsibility to reject >> improper traffic. As these same servers would also likely carry the >> group in quest

Re: [GENERAL] RFD: comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Woodchuck Bill
Andrew - Supernews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> Marc, please stop removing news.groups from your replies. > > He's posting to the mailing list; he probably can't avoid dropping the > crosspost. > He can make a nominal effort and post *something* to news.groups. --

Re: [GENERAL] Postresql RFD version 2.0 Help Wanted.

2004-11-13 Thread Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
On Saturday, in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Mike Cox" wrote: > Woodchuck Bill wrote: > > > Mike Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > >> I cannot handle the volume of email that a mailing list would place > >> on my > >> inbox. > > > > Ever

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-13 Thread ru . igarashi
Mike Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I also offered to let him take over the process as he understands gatewaying >and the details better than I. I also offered to let him create the next >RFD, and hopefully he will agree to do it if he has the time. He is the >most connected member of the postg

[GENERAL] Change encoding of SQL_ASCII database with multibyte chars?

2004-11-13 Thread leon-postgres
Hello, there! I recently migrated a medium-sized db from SQL Server to postgres. A couple months after the migration, I noticed I was having some problems retrieving some data via the JDBC driver. The problem turned out to be multi-byte characters (smart quotes, etc) in the SQL_ASCII database.

Re: [GENERAL] 24x7x365 high-volume ops ideas

2004-11-13 Thread Karim Nassar
On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 21:16, Christopher Browne wrote: > None of these systems _directly_ address how apps would get pointed to > the shifting servers. > Something needs to be "smart enough" to point apps to the right place; > that's something to think about... Seems like it would be pretty easy

Re: [GENERAL] RFD: comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Woodchuck Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Marc G. Fournier") wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Unless its spam, it goes through ... I don't (nor have I ever) refused a > post based on content other then spam ... even if its anti-PostgreSQL > *shrug* The problem with the system is that the spam *all* gets posted to

Re: [GENERAL] RFD: comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-13 Thread Jim Riley
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 17:29:28 -0400 (AST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Marc G. Fournier") wrote: >On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Gary L. Burnore wrote: > >> The groups aren't listed as moderated. Anyone who wants to post is >> able to. Those not on the mailing list don't go through. That's the >> problem. > >As long

Re: [GENERAL] The Big 9?

2004-11-13 Thread Woodchuck Bill
Mike Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Wouldn't a good solution to the "bogus" and rogue groups be a creation > of a new domain in the big 8? Suppose there was a rogue.* domain. > All the groups that were rogue would be placed there by the usenet > providers. Therefore

[GENERAL] List of postgresql rogue groups (was Re: Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general)

2004-11-13 Thread Woodchuck Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>The other issue is that I would like to add the other postgresql >>groups for consideration to be included into the big 8. However there >>are quite a few of them, and I don't know if all of them deserve to be >>there. They are all under comp.d

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-13 Thread Klaas
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian {Hamilton Kelly}) wrote: > newsgroups from ONE server, that of their university/employer/ISP. Since > that capability appeared in Netscape, and other browser/newsreaders, > there has been a proliferation of *really* private newsgroups, suc

[GENERAL] Spam notice

2004-11-13 Thread Brian
Just a heads up folks, someone has harvested emails out of this list, or one of the windows users has a virus. Be on the lookout Full header below. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Nov 13 13:16:34 2004 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from [62.213.193.131] (HELO alibi.mail) by genium.com (Stal

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-13 Thread Richard_D_Levine
I'm getting more spam also, though not an inordinate amount. A couple a week. The guy from UAE who wants to send me millions, and the v drug. Didn't happen when I signed on months ago.

[SPAM] Re: [GENERAL] PostGresql USENET Vote

2004-11-13 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Nov 13, 2004, at 7:47 PM, BARD ROCK wrote: It is now time to cast your vote as to whether you would like these mailing lists to become legal USENET newsgroups. Don't bother. Nothing to see here. Not Usenet site. Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com ---(end of broadcast)

[GENERAL] PostGresql USENET Vote

2004-11-13 Thread BARD ROCK
It is now time to cast your vote as to whether you would like these mailing lists to become legal USENET newsgroups. To vote, visit this web page: http://party.to/bardrock Fill out the ballot and email it to the address provided. Thanks. BARD ROCK ---(end of broadcast)