Re: [GENERAL] Pg schema diff tools Was: [ANNOUNCE] == PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 08 2007 ==

2007-04-09 Thread Robert Treat
On Monday 09 April 2007 05:35, Markus Schiltknecht wrote: > Hi, > > David Fetter wrote in the weekly news: > > Another PostgreSQL Diff Tool 1.0.0_beta20 released. > > http://pgfoundry.org/projects/apgdiff/ > > Why is it 'another' one? What others exist? (Specifically, are there > ones, which don't

Re: [GENERAL] Errors during recovery of a postgres. Need some help understanding them...

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Lane
"Dhaval Shah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The question I have is, how far does it look behind in time? I think you only need to hang onto the immediately preceding file; it only backs up to the last applied WAL record, and that's certainly not going to span multiple segment files. The attempt t

Re: [GENERAL] Seg fault in pg_dump?

2007-04-09 Thread Michael Nolan
No, it isn't a debug-enabled build, and I don't think the debug symbols package is installed on that system. I've never used GDB, I'm more of an 'applications' programmer, I may need a 'crash' course on it, if you pardon the pun. However, if it's anything like the debugging tools I used to use w

Re: [GENERAL] backend reset of database

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Lane
Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Well, this trace doesn't prove any such thing. If it was a wild jump, >> we can surmise that it landed someplace in the first few instructions of >> FileRead (before the call to FileAccess), but there's no proof here that >> it landed on-th

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-04-09 Thread Robert Treat
On Monday 09 April 2007 11:50, Erik Jones wrote: > On Apr 9, 2007, at 9:46 AM, Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Apr 9, 2007, at 10:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> It would be a really great service to this community if you would > >> capture those issues and publish documentation (but feel free to >

[GENERAL] Errors during recovery of a postgres. Need some help understanding them...

2007-04-09 Thread Dhaval Shah
Here is the situation: I have a standby postgres which is fed a WAL File every 2 minutes. Whenever it is fed a WAL file it logs the following: --- LOG: restored log file "00010070" from archive pg_restore::copyWALFile: Moving /opt/data/mirror/00010071 to pg_xlog

Re: [GENERAL] backend reset of database

2007-04-09 Thread Geoffrey
Tom Lane wrote: Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom Lane wrote: The trace is *really* suspicious given what you say here. I'm inclined to think that what is really happening is that something is jumping to never-never land (via a clobbered function pointer or overwriting a return address

Re: [GENERAL] programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor version

2007-04-09 Thread Listmail
Here you go. Fetches versions and prints most recent minor for each major Tests all mirrors for speed and prints out the 4 fastest (takes some time) http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ Have a nice day ! #! /bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -

Re: [GENERAL] programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor version

2007-04-09 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Andrew Hammond escribió: > On 4/9/07, CAJ CAJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 9 Apr 2007 14:47:20 -0700, Andrew Hammond > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm writing a script that wants to know the latest release for a given > >> major.minor version. Is there some better way than parsing > >> htt

Re: [GENERAL] programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor version

2007-04-09 Thread Andrew Hammond
On 4/9/07, CAJ CAJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9 Apr 2007 14:47:20 -0700, Andrew Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing a script that wants to know the latest release for a given > major.minor version. Is there some better way than parsing > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/ or tr

Re: [GENERAL] programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor version

2007-04-09 Thread CAJ CAJ
On 9 Apr 2007 14:47:20 -0700, Andrew Hammond < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm writing a script that wants to know the latest release for a given major.minor version. Is there some better way than parsing http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/ or trying to connect to ftp (which is invariably timing

Re: [GENERAL] NEWBIE: How do I get the oldest date contained in 3 tables

2007-04-09 Thread Brent Wood
Lorenzo Thurman wrote: I have three tables using date fields. I want to retrieve the oldest date contained in the tables. Can someone show me an example of a query that would do that? You could write a custom function doing the same sort of thing, or (perhaps more portable) use generic sqls & v

[GENERAL] programmatic way to fetch latest release for a given major.minor version

2007-04-09 Thread Andrew Hammond
I'm writing a script that wants to know the latest release for a given major.minor version. Is there some better way than parsing http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/ or trying to connect to ftp (which is invariably timing out on me today. Is that box getting hammered or something?) and doing the

Re: [GENERAL] How to disable duplicate columns

2007-04-09 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007, Andrus wrote: > I have tables with large number of columns some of which are duplicate. > I need to use > > SELECT t1.*, t2.* FROM t1 join t2 using (t) > > since I don't know all column names of t1 and t2 tables at design time. > > In this case PostgreSQL returns table with du

Re: [GENERAL] NEWBIE: How do I get the oldest date contained in 3 tables

2007-04-09 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 4/9/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Dann Corbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lorenzo Thurman >> I have three tables using date fields. I want to retrieve the oldest >> date contained in the tables. Can someone show me an example of a query >> that wou

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Crash Running PLPGSQL Function on 8.2.3

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Lane
"Gary Winslow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would be happy to provide a "self-contained" test case. I would have > to send to you a pg_dump of it which would be rather large to send via > email. Some of the code includes confidential business specific calc > rules that I cannot release to the

Re: [GENERAL] Can you combine text variable together to referenece a VIEW name ?

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Lane
"Raymond O'Donnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 09/04/2007 00:36, Bigjim wrote: >> I am trying to combine 2 text variable togther to form the name of a >> VIEW. example >> SELECT * FROM ( 'april'||'may') ; > I think you want to use EXECUTE from within a pl/pgsql function to > construct and

Re: [GENERAL] NEWBIE: How do I get the oldest date contained in 3 tables

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Lane
"Dann Corbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lorenzo Thurman >> I have three tables using date fields. I want to retrieve the oldest >> date contained in the tables. Can someone show me an example of a query >> that would do that? > Just do a union and return the min

Re: [GENERAL] join by char(16) or by bytea?

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Lane
"Sergei Shelukhin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Due to limitations of both pg and php I gave up on the attempts to > make bigint keys work; Which limitations would those be? > I have a choice between 16-byte character > strings or "8-byte" bytea (decode(string_from_above, "hex")) for an > index

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with copying data

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Lane
Alan Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 06 April 2007 13:17, Klaas Dellschaft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> I'm currently trying to copy two large files (1.6 GB and 3.5 GB) with a >> "COPY FROM" into my database. But I'm waiting for the completion of this >> job since more than 24h.

Re: [GENERAL] backend reset of database

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Lane
Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> The trace is *really* suspicious given what you say here. I'm inclined >> to think that what is really happening is that something is jumping to >> never-never land (via a clobbered function pointer or overwriting a >> return address on the

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 AutoVacuum not running

2007-04-09 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
OK, do you have the stats system enabled also? You require at least row_level stats for autovacuum to work. Schwenker, Stephen wrote: I'm sure. That column is null for all tables in my databases accept for the few tables that I've vacuumed manually. Any other suggestions? :) ---

Re: [GENERAL] How to disable duplicate columns

2007-04-09 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 4/8/07, Andrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have tables with large number of columns some of which are duplicate. I need to use SELECT t1.*, t2.* FROM t1 join t2 using (t) since I don't know all column names of t1 and t2 tables at design time. In this case PostgreSQL returns table with dup

Re: [GENERAL] plperl "set-valued function" problem

2007-04-09 Thread Alvaro Herrera
samı escribió: > Hi > > I am using PostgreSQL 8.2.3 on WindowsXP > > I am using the PL/Perl regression tests located here: > > > http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/pl/plperl/test/Attic/test_queries.sql The fact that these files are in the "Attic" means they were deleted.

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 AutoVacuum not running

2007-04-09 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Schwenker, Stephen wrote: > Hey, > > I've also notice one difference between my 8.1 instance and my 8.2 > instance. I run a ps and on the 8.1 instance there is a 'stats buffer > process' and in the 8.2 instance there is no 'stats buffer instance' > > Does that give you anymore reasons as to wh

Re: [GENERAL] NEWBIE: How do I get the oldest date contained in 3 tables

2007-04-09 Thread Dann Corbit
Just do a union and return the min > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-general- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lorenzo Thurman > Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 7:32 AM > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: [GENERAL] NEWBIE: How do I get the oldest date cont

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-04-09 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Alexander Staubo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Apr 9, 2007, at 18:10 , Gerard Seibert wrote: > > > On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:34:22 -0500 > > Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hmmm... I didn't have anything HTML set anywhere. I did however > >> have message formatting set to

Re: [GENERAL] Can you combine text variable together to referenece a VIEW name ?

2007-04-09 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 09/04/2007 00:36, Bigjim wrote: I am trying to combine 2 text variable togther to form the name of a VIEW. example > SELECT * FROM ( 'april'||'may') ; I think you want to use EXECUTE from within a pl/pgsql function to construct and execute a query dynamically - have a look at this:

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with copying data

2007-04-09 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Klaas Dellschaft wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently trying to copy two large files (1.6 GB and 3.5 GB) with a > "COPY FROM" into my database. But I'm waiting for the completion of this > job since more than 24h. I'm working under Linux and with "top" I can > see the two processes which should copy

[GENERAL] How to disable duplicate columns

2007-04-09 Thread Andrus
I have tables with large number of columns some of which are duplicate. I need to use SELECT t1.*, t2.* FROM t1 join t2 using (t) since I don't know all column names of t1 and t2 tables at design time. In this case PostgreSQL returns table with duplicate columns. How to force Postgres to return

[GENERAL] Re: Can you combine text variable together to referenece a VIEW name ?

2007-04-09 Thread Lew
Bigjim wrote: Hi there, I am trying to combine 2 text variable togther to form the name of a VIEW. example SELECT * FROM ( 'april'||'may') ; The table (or view) part is not a character string but an identifier. -- Lew ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [GENERAL] backend reset of database

2007-04-09 Thread Geoffrey
Tom Lane wrote: Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Geoffrey wrote: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pcm_getmiles_s(text,text,integer) RETURNS float8 AS '/esc/pgrnd/prog/libpcmiler' LANGUAGE 'c' WITH (isStrict); Is this function actually a PostgreSQL callable function? Or is it just a gene

Re: [GENERAL] perl DBI: problems searching text strings with ' symbol (es d'ambrose)

2007-04-09 Thread filippo
On 7 Apr, 10:13, "filippo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: solved, it is a DBD::PgPP bug. I changed to DBD::Pg, now it works fine. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 AutoVacuum not running

2007-04-09 Thread Schwenker, Stephen
Hey, I've just found something else. When I compiled postgresql, I assumed that because it compiled then it was a supported system. This was on the first line of the configure output. checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu I've looked at the supported systems list and the x

[GENERAL] NEWBIE: How do I get the oldest date contained in 3 tables

2007-04-09 Thread Lorenzo Thurman
I have three tables using date fields. I want to retrieve the oldest date contained in the tables. Can someone show me an example of a query that would do that? TIA ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Crash Running PLPGSQL Function on 8.2.3

2007-04-09 Thread Gary Winslow
Tom Lane, I would be happy to provide a "self-contained" test case. I would have to send to you a pg_dump of it which would be rather large to send via email. Some of the code includes confidential business specific calc rules that I cannot release to the general public. How can I pr

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with copying data

2007-04-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Friday 06 April 2007 13:17, Klaas Dellschaft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently trying to copy two large files (1.6 GB and 3.5 GB) with a > "COPY FROM" into my database. But I'm waiting for the completion of this > job since more than 24h. I'm working under Linux and with "top"

Re: [GENERAL] Documenting PGSQL database.

2007-04-09 Thread Stefan Berglund
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 12:07:44 -0700 (PDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (RPK) wrote: in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I am using PGSQL 8.2.3 on Windows XP. I want to know whether there is any way >of documenting the schema of PGSQL database so that I can get a printed copy >of the same. Björn's tool looks like you

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 AutoVacuum not running

2007-04-09 Thread Schwenker, Stephen
I'm sure. That column is null for all tables in my databases accept for the few tables that I've vacuumed manually. Any other suggestions? :) From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 06/04/2007 1:21 PM To: Schwenker, Stephen Cc: pgsql-general@postgr

Re: [GENERAL] pg_live

2007-04-09 Thread Kev
> 1) If I use the 'check CD' option, it tests everything and then > reports two failed checks. This is strange...I tried the same CD at work this weekend on an IBM workstation, and although the check also fails at two spots, if I try it anyway, it appears to work flawlessly. I can jump on a neigh

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 AutoVacuum not running

2007-04-09 Thread Schwenker, Stephen
Hey, I've also notice one difference between my 8.1 instance and my 8.2 instance. I run a ps and on the 8.1 instance there is a 'stats buffer process' and in the 8.2 instance there is no 'stats buffer instance' Does that give you anymore reasons as to why the autovacuum is not working? :)

[GENERAL] plperl "set-valued function" problem

2007-04-09 Thread samı
Hi I am using PostgreSQL 8.2.3 on WindowsXP I am using the PL/Perl regression tests located here: http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/pl/plperl/test/Attic/test_queries.sql and comparing them to the expected output located here: http://developer.postgresql.org/cvswe

Re: [GENERAL] newid() in postgres

2007-04-09 Thread marcel.beutner
Thanks, I'll try to implement it. Marcel ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/

Re: [GENERAL] backend reset of database

2007-04-09 Thread Geoffrey
Tom Lane wrote: Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom Lane wrote: Is pcmiler a Postgres-specific backend extension? No. It's a standalone application that provides an api to build calls into there product from other applications. What we've done is created functions that are called fro

[GENERAL] Can you combine text variable together to referenece a VIEW name ?

2007-04-09 Thread Bigjim
Hi there, I am trying to combine 2 text variable togther to form the name of a VIEW. example SELECT * FROM ( 'april'||'may') ; I have a 12 different views and I want to be able to select a different view depending on the contents of 2 fields in a database. Has anyone done this before or hav

[GENERAL] join by char(16) or by bytea?

2007-04-09 Thread Sergei Shelukhin
One more newbie question. Due to limitations of both pg and php I gave up on the attempts to make bigint keys work; I have a choice between 16-byte character strings or "8-byte" bytea (decode(string_from_above, "hex")) for an index column for a table. Which one will be faster for exact matches and

[GENERAL] Problem with copying data

2007-04-09 Thread Klaas Dellschaft
Hi, I'm currently trying to copy two large files (1.6 GB and 3.5 GB) with a "COPY FROM" into my database. But I'm waiting for the completion of this job since more than 24h. I'm working under Linux and with "top" I can see the two processes which should copy the data but most of the time they are

[GENERAL] Index "misbehavior" in PostgreSQL 8.2.2?

2007-04-09 Thread Tonnerre LOMBARD
Salut, I have four tables, two of which are relevant for this: searchengine=# \d websites Table "public.websites" Column | Type | Modifiers +--+--

Re: [GENERAL] YTA Time Zone Question

2007-04-09 Thread Danny E. Armstrong
Thanks very much, my issue was addressed exactly. My implicit assumption that inserts of timestamps are not formatted by local time (db time zone setting) in the absence of an explicit time zone identifier was incorrect. Ok, it seems obvious now. TIMESTAMPTZ is your friend. The solution is to rew

Re: [GENERAL] perl DBI: problems searching text strings with ' symbol (es d'ambrose)

2007-04-09 Thread filippo
On 7 Apr, 01:26, "filippo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > > if I try to insert text like > > $dbh->quote(qq/d'ambrose/); > > when I try to search names with character lile ', I get this error I forgot to say that I need LIKE and %. I tried to use placeholders but nothing changes.

[GENERAL] Problem with copying data

2007-04-09 Thread Klaas Dellschaft
Hi, I'm currently trying to copy two large files (1.6 GB and 3.5 GB) with a "COPY FROM" into my database. But I'm waiting for the completion of this job since more than 24h. I'm working under Linux and with "top" I can see the two processes which should copy the data but most of the time they

[GENERAL] PlPg/SQL mulit-array as a parameter?

2007-04-09 Thread Simon István
How can i use multi-array parameter in PlPg/SQL? This array want to put in parameter. [[0, 1, 3, 0, 3, 4], [7, 12, 1, 9, 1, 2], [12, 24, 20, 42, 43, 44], [24, 103, 65, 113, 72, 25], [179, 357, 335, 348, 309, 138], [3901, 3491, 4326, 878, 3785, 450]] ---(end of broadcast)-

[GENERAL] perl DBI: problems searching text strings with ' symbol (es d'ambrose)

2007-04-09 Thread filippo
hello, if I try to insert text like $dbh->quote(qq/d'ambrose/); when I try to search names with character lile ', I get this error DBD::PgPP::st execute failed: Unknown message type: '­' at C:/Perl/ site/lib/DBD/ PgPP.pm line 730 I really need to store and select names with ' character, how ca

Re: [GENERAL] perl DBI: problems searching text strings with ' symbol (es d'ambrose)

2007-04-09 Thread filippo
On 7 Apr, 01:47, "filippo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7 Apr, 01:26, "filippo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: just to clarify: I can insert text into database. My problem are the SELECT query like this WHERE name LIKE $name $name = $dbh->quote(qq/ d'am% / ) ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] backend reset of database

2007-04-09 Thread Magnus Hagander
Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Geoffrey wrote: >>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pcm_getmiles_s(text,text,integer) >>> RETURNS float8 AS '/esc/pgrnd/prog/libpcmiler' >>> LANGUAGE 'c' WITH (isStrict); > >> Is this function actually a PostgreSQL callable function? Or i

Re: [GENERAL] backend reset of database

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Geoffrey wrote: >> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pcm_getmiles_s(text,text,integer) >> RETURNS float8 AS '/esc/pgrnd/prog/libpcmiler' >> LANGUAGE 'c' WITH (isStrict); > Is this function actually a PostgreSQL callable function? Or is it just > a general C f

Re: [GENERAL] backend reset of database

2007-04-09 Thread Magnus Hagander
Geoffrey wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> A backtrace against this process produces: >> >>> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. >>> 0x0814acc9 in FileAccess (file=168481968) at fd.c:717 >>> 717 if (FileIsNotOpen(file)) >>> (gdb) bt >>

Re: [GENERAL] backend reset of database

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Lane
Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (gdb) bt > #0 0x0814acc9 in FileAccess (file=168481968) at fd.c:717 > #1 0x0814b2e7 in FileRead (file=168481968, buffer=0xbff816ce "", amount=2) > at fd.c:972 > #2 0x00203ecc in ?? () > #3 0x0a0ad4b0 in ?? () > #4 0xbff816ce in ?? () > #5 0x0002

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-04-09 Thread Alexander Staubo
On Apr 9, 2007, at 18:10 , Gerard Seibert wrote: On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:34:22 -0500 Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmmm... I didn't have anything HTML set anywhere. I did however have message formatting set to Rich-Text (although I was unaware) and have switched that to plaintext. Thi

Re: [GENERAL] backend reset of database

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Lane
Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Is pcmiler a Postgres-specific backend extension? > No. It's a standalone application that provides an api to build calls > into there product from other applications. What we've done is created > functions that are called from the data

Re: [GENERAL] backend reset of database

2007-04-09 Thread Geoffrey
Tom Lane wrote: Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: A backtrace against this process produces: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x0814acc9 in FileAccess (file=168481968) at fd.c:717 717 if (FileIsNotOpen(file)) (gdb) bt #0 0x0814acc9 in FileAccess (file=16848

Re: [GENERAL] backend reset of database

2007-04-09 Thread Tom Lane
Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A backtrace against this process produces: > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x0814acc9 in FileAccess (file=168481968) at fd.c:717 > 717 if (FileIsNotOpen(file)) > (gdb) bt > #0 0x0814acc9 in FileAccess (file=168481968) at

[GENERAL] backend reset of database

2007-04-09 Thread Geoffrey
We have built into the backend of the database a third party application called pcmiler that produces mileage between two locations. This has been working in the past, but after upgrading to RHEL 4, Postgresql 7.4.16 and pcmiler 20 (from pcmiler 17), the server process is terminated with a sig

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-04-09 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:34:22 -0500 Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm... I didn't have anything HTML set anywhere. I did however > have message formatting set to Rich-Text (although I was unaware) > and have switched that to plaintext. This look better? Yes, much better. I believe t

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-04-09 Thread Erik Jones
On Apr 9, 2007, at 9:46 AM, Vivek Khera wrote: On Apr 9, 2007, at 10:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be a really great service to this community if you would capture those issues and publish documentation (but feel free to change or omit the names to protect the incompetent^w inn

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-04-09 Thread Erik Jones
On Apr 9, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Gerard wrote: On Monday April 09, 2007 at 10:19:53 (AM) Erik Jones wrote: On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Vivek Khera wrote: On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Tony Caduto wrote: Another thing is this, how hard could it possibly be for a MS SQL DBA or Oracle DBA to pic

[GENERAL] Tom Kiel/UGW/DE ist außer Haus.

2007-04-09 Thread t . kiel
Ich werde ab 02.04.2007 nicht im Büro sein. Ich kehre zurück am 10.04.2007. Ich werde Ihre Nachricht gern nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten. In dringenden Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an Stephan Luxenburger. Herr Luxenburger ist unter der Mailadresse [EMAIL PROTECTED] oder telefonisch unter der

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-04-09 Thread Vivek Khera
On Apr 9, 2007, at 10:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be a really great service to this community if you would capture those issues and publish documentation (but feel free to change or omit the names to protect the incompetent^w innocent!). There's no incompetence involved... the

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-04-09 Thread Gerard
On Monday April 09, 2007 at 10:19:53 (AM) Erik Jones wrote: > On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Vivek Khera wrote: > > > > > On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Tony Caduto wrote: > > > >> Another thing is this, how hard could it possibly be for a MS SQL > >> DBA or Oracle DBA to pick up using PostgreSQL?

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-04-09 Thread Erik Jones
On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Vivek Khera wrote: On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Tony Caduto wrote: Another thing is this, how hard could it possibly be for a MS SQL DBA or Oracle DBA to pick up using PostgreSQL? I don't think it would take a decent admin of any database to come up to speed in

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-04-09 Thread btober
Vivek Khera wrote: On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Tony Caduto wrote: Another thing is this, how hard could it possibly be for a MS SQL DBA or Oracle DBA to pick up using PostgreSQL? I don't think it would take a decent admin of any database to come up to speed in a very short time as long as th

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-04-09 Thread Vivek Khera
On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Tony Caduto wrote: Another thing is this, how hard could it possibly be for a MS SQL DBA or Oracle DBA to pick up using PostgreSQL? I don't think it would take a decent admin of any database to come up to speed in a very short time as long as they were interested

Re: [GENERAL] Documenting PGSQL database.

2007-04-09 Thread Ashish Karalkar
Hello All, here are many tools available to create the attractive documentation of PostgreSQL Database in different formats. With Reagrds Ashish... Björn Lundin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 7 apr 2007 kl. 21.07 skrev RPK: I am using PGSQL 8.2.3 on Windows XP. I want

[GENERAL] Pg schema diff tools Was: [ANNOUNCE] == PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 08 2007 ==

2007-04-09 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hi, David Fetter wrote in the weekly news: Another PostgreSQL Diff Tool 1.0.0_beta20 released. http://pgfoundry.org/projects/apgdiff/ Why is it 'another' one? What others exist? (Specifically, are there ones, which don't depend on java?) Regards Markus ---(end of b