Re: [GENERAL] PGSQL backup options

2007-02-12 Thread Shoaib Mir
You can get the details at --> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/backup.html -- Shoaib Mir EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com) On 2/13/07, RPK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We are planning a mission-critical client/server application and want to use PGSQL as backend to VB.NET. Before des

[GENERAL] PGSQL backup options

2007-02-12 Thread RPK
We are planning a mission-critical client/server application and want to use PGSQL as backend to VB.NET. Before designing I want to test all the backup and recovery options available in PGSQL and also options with which we can recover from PGSQL service failure. Where I can find all the back/reco

Re: [GENERAL] Keyword OWNED not recognized in pg v. 8.1

2007-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
"dfx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How I can recreate (replicate) the same structure of a database originally > made with pg v. 8.2 to a server v. 8.1? pg_dump has never been intended to produce backward-compatible dump scripts; in most versions it's easy to point to cases where it'd be flat-out

[GENERAL] Keyword OWNED not recognized in pg v. 8.1

2007-02-12 Thread dfx
Dear Sirs, I am trying to create a database in postgres v. 8.1 (Fedora core 6) using a sql script created from pg version 8.2 (Windows) (using backup.text of PgAdminIII) but I get an error with the keyword OWNED. (tables uses serial type). The fields with serial type are declared differently in t

Re: [GENERAL] daylight savings patches needed?

2007-02-12 Thread Magnus Hagander
> >> So what happens if you have an old os with a new postgresql install? > >> Will CURRENT_TIMESTAMP always return the correct value even if the > >> system 'date' command is showing the wrong time? > > > Yes. > > Unless the user changes the system's clock setting (ie, its notion of > the curr

Re: [GENERAL] Dumb question - how to tell if autovacuum is doing its job in 8.2.x

2007-02-12 Thread Walter Vaughan
Shoaib Mir wrote: pg_stat_all_table view should help you: select last_autovacuum, last_autoanalyze from pg_stat_all_tables; select last_autovacuum, last_autoanalyze from pg_stat_all_tables; last_autovacuum | last_autoanalyze -+-- | ...snip lot

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2007-02-12 Thread Лохтин Константин Сергеевич
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Re: [GENERAL] Dumb question - how to tell if autovacuum is doing its job in 8.2.x

2007-02-12 Thread Shoaib Mir
pg_stat_all_table view should help you: select last_autovacuum, last_autoanalyze from pg_stat_all_tables; -- Shoaib Mir EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com) On 2/9/07, Sic Transit Gloria Mundi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I couldnt find this on google, the archives, or the manual. But wit

Re: [GENERAL] Dumb question - how to tell if autovacuum is doing its job in 8.2.x

2007-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I couldnt find this on google, the archives, or the manual. But with the > changes to what the autovacuum daemon logs, how can we verify it's doing its > thing? Is there a way to query the last time a table was vacuumed? But I > don't see

Re: [GENERAL] Still unclear about PQexecParams and "create view"

2007-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
"Phil Endecott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Can anyone offer a list of which commands are compatible with > PQexecParams and which aren't? Plannable queries can take parameters: SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE. Utility commands (which is everything else) don't do any expression evaluation and thu

Re: [GENERAL] getting postgres to emulate mysql/sqlserver bit datatype

2007-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
"Anton Melser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ERROR: operator is not unique: boolean = integer > I get this whether castcontext is 'a' or 'i'. If you make both cast directions the same priority then the system has no basis for choosing bool = bool over int = int or vice versa. Try making one dire

Re: [GENERAL] daylight savings patches needed?

2007-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joseph Shraibman wrote: >> So what happens if you have an old os with a new postgresql install? >> Will CURRENT_TIMESTAMP always return the correct value even if the >> system 'date' command is showing the wrong time? > Yes. Unless the user changes th

Re: [GENERAL] daylight savings patches needed?

2007-02-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joseph Shraibman wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > > > If you are running pre-8.0 versions you need to update your operating > > system > > (as you indicated). If you running an any 8.x version, you need to be on > > the > > most current corresponding 8.x.y release. > > > So what happens if you

Re: [GENERAL] Function to return list of all prime numbers in range

2007-02-12 Thread Adam Rich
Hi Melvin, Here is a slightly optimized version of this function It returns the exact same results, just runs about 1000x faster. I've also marked it as "immutable", that's probably what you wanted, not Volatile. select all_prime(1,11000) -- Total runtime: 2868.264 ms select all_prime

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and OpenLdap

2007-02-12 Thread Cristiano Panvel
Thanks Magnus, Now I am passing the line thus pg_hba.conf ## hostall all 10.193.4.0/24 ldap ldap://ldap.cb.sc.gov.br/dc=cb,dc=sc,dc=gov,dc=br ## However error in login is occurring % psql postgresql -h server -U scott -W psql: FATAL: LDAP authentication fa

Re: [GENERAL] daylight savings patches needed?

2007-02-12 Thread Joseph Shraibman
Robert Treat wrote: If you are running pre-8.0 versions you need to update your operating system (as you indicated). If you running an any 8.x version, you need to be on the most current corresponding 8.x.y release. So what happens if you have an old os with a new postgresql install? Will C

Re: [GENERAL] Adjacency List or Nested Sets to model file system hierarchy?

2007-02-12 Thread Ian Harding
On 2/12/07, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:53:53AM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On 2/12/07, Richard Broersma Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Can you describe in a little bit more detail about what you mean by > >> 'Adjaceny LIst'? > > > >Adjaceny list is t

[GENERAL] Still unclear about PQexecParams and "create view"

2007-02-12 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear All, I'm still unsure about whether I am allowed to use PQexecParams to execute a create view command with $n parameters; reading between the lines of Peter Eisentraut's message I get the impression that this isn't going to work. So: - Can anyone offer a list of which commands are comp

Re: [GENERAL] getting postgres to emulate mysql/sqlserver bit datatype

2007-02-12 Thread Anton Melser
On 12/02/07, Anton Melser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think actually what he needs is what Peter suggested upthread, namely > to weaken the context-restriction on the int-to-bool cast. Indeed... Peter's suggestion seems to have solved all my problems. So even though it probably shows just how

Re: [GENERAL] Testing embedded SQL in C

2007-02-12 Thread Reid Thompson
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 15:16 -0500, HT NB wrote: > Hi, > > How are you doing? > > First, I am testing if this email address is valid. It is the first > time that I am using this account. I have a question about how to > start write embedded SQL in C programming code. What are the basic > requireme

Re: [GENERAL] getting postgres to emulate mysql/sqlserver bit datatype

2007-02-12 Thread Anton Melser
I think actually what he needs is what Peter suggested upthread, namely to weaken the context-restriction on the int-to-bool cast. Indeed... Peter's suggestion seems to have solved all my problems. So even though it probably shows just how embarrassingly bad my sql is... update pg_cast set cast

[GENERAL] Testing embedded SQL in C

2007-02-12 Thread HT NB
Hi, How are you doing? First, I am testing if this email address is valid. It is the first time that I am using this account. I have a question about how to start write embedded SQL in C programming code. What are the basic requirements in the .pgc file to have the embedded SQL running. This is my

[GENERAL] Function to return list of all prime numbers in range

2007-02-12 Thread Melvin Davidson
My apologies if this is the wrong mailing list. I've created a function that returns a list of all prime numbers in a range. eg: SELECT public.all_prime(190, 223); 191,193,197,199,211,223 I'd like to submit this the the contrib lib, but I could not find the correct email list. Use as you wish.

Re: [GENERAL] getting postgres to emulate mysql/sqlserver bit datatype

2007-02-12 Thread Jeff Davis
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 09:09 +0100, Anton Melser wrote: > In my searching I did turn up a comment (maybe from you even!) about > how it wouldn't work (before at least). I guess my problem is that > there is a body of sql that can't be changed, or at least the other > devs aren't interested enough in

Re: [GENERAL] Adjacency List or Nested Sets to model file system hierarchy?

2007-02-12 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:53:53AM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On 2/12/07, Richard Broersma Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Can you describe in a little bit more detail about what you mean by > >> 'Adjaceny LIst'? > > > >Adjaceny list is the term used in the celko book to refer to a table tha

Re: [GENERAL] Service startup - troubleshooting

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew J. Kopciuch
> I imagine the configuration was mangled somewhere down the line. > Perhaps I need to reinstall Ubuntu, though it's not something I look > forward to (I already tried uninstalling Postgres and wiping away all > references to it prior to my last install). > > Thanks for taking a look! > > -

Re: [GENERAL] how to store whole XML file in database

2007-02-12 Thread Richard Huxton
Brandon Aiken wrote: You'll have to escape any quotation marks or your SQL will not parse your strings correctly. And you have to do this for all your data, not just XML. Otherwise the first Mr. O'Malley you have a record for will break your application. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd

Re: [GENERAL] Adjacency List or Nested Sets to model file system hierarchy?

2007-02-12 Thread Bill Moseley
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:36:37PM +, Ian Harding wrote: > You don't mention the ltree contrib module, have you looked at it? It > can easily meet your requirements without having to reinvent anything. > It may be what you're referring to as Nested Sets, I don't know. I > use it and like it a

Re: [GENERAL] how to store whole XML file in database

2007-02-12 Thread Brandon Aiken
You'll have to escape any quotation marks or your SQL will not parse your strings correctly. -- Brandon Aiken CS/IT Systems Engineer From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of deepak pal Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 4:07 AM To: Postgre

Re: [GENERAL] how to store whole XML file in database

2007-02-12 Thread Tommy Gildseth
deepak pal wrote: hi,, i have to insert whole xml file in database ,there is a text field for that.but it shows error parse error where there are attribute ..plz help me out. I'm guessing you have a quoting problem. Try escaping the XML-data before inserting it into the database, so

Re: [GENERAL] Client connection: Port 5432 / Postgres

2007-02-12 Thread Nicolas Gignac
Thanks. Finally, I discovered one line not uncomment, stupid typos error. Nicolas 2007/2/7, Nicolas Gignac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I have installed Postgres 8.2 on a internal server having Windows Server 2003 (IIS 6) up and running. - I have configure the hp_config file to: host all

Re: [GENERAL] Service startup - troubleshooting

2007-02-12 Thread Mike
Hi Richard, Thanks for your response. Below is a console session (again, this is on Ubuntu). I attempt to run the init script but can't start Postgres and don't see any error messages in the console or output in the log directory. I then switch to the 'postgres' user and can run pg_ctl to start

[GENERAL] Dumb question - how to tell if autovacuum is doing its job in 8.2.x

2007-02-12 Thread Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
Hi, I couldnt find this on google, the archives, or the manual. But with the changes to what the autovacuum daemon logs, how can we verify it's doing its thing? Is there a way to query the last time a table was vacuumed? But I don't see that in the system catalog. Thanks! -

[GENERAL] flaky hardware?

2007-02-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Saw this in the postgres 8.2.3 server log today: 2007-02-10 00:27:12 PST PANIC: XX001: corrupted item pointer: offset = 0, size = 0 2007-02-10 00:27:12 PST LOCATION: PageIndexMultiDelete, bufpage.c:624 2007-02-10 00:27:56 PST LOG: 0: autovacuum process (PID 25471) was terminated by si

[GENERAL] Help with install postgres 8.2 win32 version

2007-02-12 Thread marcelo Cortez
folks I can't install postgresql on winxp profesional Installer fail ( creating cluster) Installer with out cluster . ok creating cluster on hand .fail initdb The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres". This user must also own the server process. The

[GENERAL] Headache with a plpgsql function

2007-02-12 Thread Dean Grubb
I use pgmanager from EMS to code, and have a fucntion that is always returning a NULL value, when I run it in debug mode it works fine, I've traced the problem down to this line tag := substring(s, '<\s*?[^>]+\s*?>'); are there issues the regexps? I am using - PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i686-pc-lin

Re: [GENERAL] Client connection: Port 5432 / Postgres

2007-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
"Nicolas Gignac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have installed Postgres 8.2 on a internal server having Windows Server > 2003 (IIS 6) up and running. > - I have configure the hp_config file to: host > all 0.0.0.0./0 > md5 > - I have change the listening address to '*' i

[GENERAL] how to store whole XML file in database

2007-02-12 Thread deepak pal
hi,, i have to insert whole xml file in database ,there is a text field for that.but it shows error parse error where there are attribute ..plz help me out.

Re: [GENERAL] Adjacency List or Nested Sets to model file system hierarchy?

2007-02-12 Thread Ian Harding
On 2/12/07, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm looking for a little guidance in representing a file system -- well just the file and directory structure of a file system. Often articles on representing a hierarchy discuss the advantages of using Nested Sets (or nested intervals) it seem

Re: [GENERAL] Adjacency List or Nested Sets to model file system hierarchy?

2007-02-12 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 2/12/07, Richard Broersma Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you describe in a little bit more detail about what you mean by > 'Adjaceny LIst'? Adjaceny list is the term used in the celko book to refer to a table that is recurively related to itself. create table foo ( idinteger p

Re: [GENERAL] Adjacency List or Nested Sets to model file system hierarchy?

2007-02-12 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
> Can you describe in a little bit more detail about what you mean by > 'Adjaceny LIst'? Adjaceny list is the term used in the celko book to refer to a table that is recurively related to itself. create table foo ( idinteger primary key, parentid integer references foo (id), name

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 initdb fails - invalid value for parameter "timezone_abbreviations": "Default"

2007-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
"Markus Wollny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just tried to initdb a fresh install of PostgreSQL 8.3.2 on Debian > Etch (testing). My configure settings were > ./configure --prefix=/opt/pgsql --datadir=/var/lib/pgsql/data/base > --enable-locale --with-perl --enable-odbc --with-java I don't t

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump: [tar archiver] write error appending to tar archive

2007-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
"MG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now we got the following error: > pg_dump: [tar archiver] write error appending to tar archive (wrote = > 28186, attempted 32767) > There is enough space on the hard disk. How big is the dump file? I seem to recall that tar format has a limit on the size of indi

Re: [GENERAL] getting postgres to emulate mysql/sqlserver bit datatype

2007-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
Shane Ambler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you look at the bool type you will find it calls a function called > boolout(bool) which returns a cstring to return the data for the boolean > - you could replace this with your own function that returns a 1 or 0 > instead of true or false. Similarl

Re: [GENERAL] Adjacency List or Nested Sets to model file system hierarchy?

2007-02-12 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 2/11/07, Bill Moseley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm looking for a little guidance in representing a file system -- well just the file and directory structure of a file system. Often articles on representing a hierarchy discuss the advantages of using Nested Sets (or nested intervals) it seem

Re: [GENERAL] getting postgres to emulate mysql/sqlserver bit datatype

2007-02-12 Thread Shane Ambler
Anton Melser wrote: On 12/02/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anton Melser wrote: >> Is there any way >> to force pg to accept 1 and 0 for boolean? > postgres=# insert into bool_test values(1::boolean); > INSERT 166968558 1 > postgres=# ins

Re: [GENERAL] How to avoid using sequential scan

2007-02-12 Thread Richard Huxton
Victor Adolfsson wrote: Hi My query is using a sequential scan and not an index scan even though that I have indexes defined on the foreign keys. This cases my query to take a long long time (10750.687 ms) when it should have been completed in less than 1 second. Any ideas on what may be the c

[GENERAL] How to avoid using sequential scan

2007-02-12 Thread Victor Adolfsson
Hi My query is using a sequential scan and not an index scan even though that I have indexes defined on the foreign keys. This cases my query to take a long long time (10750.687 ms) when it should have been completed in less than 1 second. Any ideas on what may be the cause of this? I have done a

[GENERAL] 8.2.3 initdb fails - invalid value for parameter "timezone_abbreviations": "Default"

2007-02-12 Thread Markus Wollny
Hello! I've just tried to initdb a fresh install of PostgreSQL 8.3.2 on Debian Etch (testing). My configure settings were ./configure --prefix=/opt/pgsql --datadir=/var/lib/pgsql/data/base --enable-locale --with-perl --enable-odbc --with-java This is what happens: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /opt/pgsq

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] Priorities for users or queries?

2007-02-12 Thread Edwin Eyan Moragas
On 2/11/07, Benjamin Arai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Edwin, Which connection parameters effect system resources? i remembered wrong. the connection parameters i was thinking of is here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/libpq-envars.html however, looking more closely to the config

[GENERAL] pg_dump: [tar archiver] write error appending to tar archive

2007-02-12 Thread MG
Hello, we have a shell-script, which executes the pg_dump once a day. This script ran already for about 6 months successfully. Now we got the following error: pg_dump: [tar archiver] write error appending to tar archive (wrote 28186, attempted 32767) There is enough space on the hard disk. A

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and OpenLdap

2007-02-12 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 08:54:56PM -0200, Cristiano Panvel wrote: > Hi Friends, > > This is my first post in the list. > > I am not obtaining authentication my users of PostgreSQL in OpenLdap. > > 1) PostgreSQL was compiled with the support to ldap in a FreeBSD System. > "option --with-ldap for

Re: [GENERAL] How to set UTF8 to query browser of PgAdmin III

2007-02-12 Thread Rafael Martinez, Guerrero
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 08:17 +0100, dfx wrote: > Dear Sirs, > > I am workink on Windows 2000 with PgAdmin III v. 1.6.2 > > If I open an sql file created with UTF8 encoding the characters with accent > are not reproduced correctly. > If I open the same file with MS Word or JEdit or also PgAdmin III

Re: [GENERAL] getting postgres to emulate mysql/sqlserver bit datatype

2007-02-12 Thread Anton Melser
On 12/02/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anton Melser wrote: >> Is there any way >> to force pg to accept 1 and 0 for boolean? > postgres=# insert into bool_test values(1::boolean); > INSERT 166968558 1 > postgres=# insert into bool_test va