Re: [GENERAL] What's the correct way to use FunctionCallInvoke()?

2007-06-07 Thread Tom Lane
Zoltan Boszormenyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FmgrInfo flinfo1; > MemSet(&flinfo1, 0, sizeof(flinfo1)); This is certainly not the approved way to set up an FmgrInfo. Use fmgr_info(). regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: Creditcard Number Security was Re: [GENERAL] Encrypted column

2007-06-07 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Guy Rouillier wrote: Richard P. Welty wrote: Guy Fraser wrote: Paypal has a perception issue - they are perceived as being tightly linked with eBay. That's a problem in the corporate arena. If my stock broker were to tell me they do all their financial transactions

[GENERAL] What's the correct way to use FunctionCallInvoke()?

2007-06-07 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
Hi, I have a problem calling a C function from another C function - DirectFunctionCall* cannot be used since some parameters may be NULL. This dies: FunctionCallInfoData fcinfo1; InitFunctionCallInfoData(fcinfo1, NULL, 7, NULL, NULL); /* arg[] and arnull[] are filled with correct values */

Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] subtract a day from the NOW function

2007-06-07 Thread John Meyer
Tom Lane wrote: > Kevin Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> At 5:57p -0400 on 07 Jun 2007, Michael Glaesemann wrote: >> >>> It is a bit tricky. Datetime math is inherently so. >>> > > >> So one wonders why the whole world doesn't migrate to a single timezone. >> > > Or at

Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] subtract a day from the NOW function

2007-06-07 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 5:57p -0400 on 07 Jun 2007, Michael Glaesemann wrote: >> It is a bit tricky. Datetime math is inherently so. > So one wonders why the whole world doesn't migrate to a single timezone. Or at least get rid of daylight savings, which has to be one of the

Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] subtract a day from the NOW function

2007-06-07 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 5:57p -0400 on 07 Jun 2007, Michael Glaesemann wrote: > It is a bit tricky. Datetime math is inherently so. So one wonders why the whole world doesn't migrate to a single timezone. There would be no more confusion between EST, CEST, GMT, +1100, etc. The trade off, of course, would be that now

Re: [GENERAL] list all columns in db

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:36:07PM -0400, Jon Sime wrote: > select n.nspname as table_schema, c.relname as table_name, > a.attname as column_name > from pg_catalog.pg_attribute a > join pg_catalog.pg_class c on (a.attrelid = c.oid) > join pg_catalog.pg_namespace n on

Re: Creditcard Number Security was Re: [GENERAL] Encrypted column

2007-06-07 Thread Guy Rouillier
Alvaro Herrera wrote: My "bank" is also "not a bank" (they say they are not "FDIC insured" which I think is the actual problem at hand). Do I have to be worried? Depends what you use it for. If this is an online bank that you use only for online transactions and you maintain a balance of sa

Re: [GENERAL] query log corrupted-looking entries

2007-06-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: > "George Pavlov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I tried the patch and it has no effect whatsoever -- even with the > > patch, under the correct load the corrupted entries are coming fast and > > furious (I found a load profile on my app that reproduces these very > > clearly). >

Re: Creditcard Number Security was Re: [GENERAL] Encrypted column

2007-06-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Guy Rouillier wrote: > >Richard P. Welty wrote: > >>Guy Fraser wrote: > > >Paypal has a perception issue - they are perceived as being tightly > >linked with eBay. That's a problem in the corporate arena. If my stock > >broker were to tell me they do all their financia

Re: [GENERAL] query log corrupted-looking entries

2007-06-07 Thread Tom Lane
"George Pavlov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried the patch and it has no effect whatsoever -- even with the > patch, under the correct load the corrupted entries are coming fast and > furious (I found a load profile on my app that reproduces these very > clearly). What are the total lengths o

Re: Creditcard Number Security was Re: [GENERAL] Encrypted column

2007-06-07 Thread Richard P. Welty
John DeSoi wrote: On Jun 7, 2007, at 4:03 PM, Richard P. Welty wrote: at the day job, when we switched from paypal (who we found very undependable) to authorize.net, we were very pleased to discover that authorize.net would take care of the credit card numbers for us, so we didn't have to try

Re: [GENERAL] query log corrupted-looking entries

2007-06-07 Thread George Pavlov
I tried the patch and it has no effect whatsoever -- even with the patch, under the correct load the corrupted entries are coming fast and furious (I found a load profile on my app that reproduces these very clearly). Here are a few other observations for what they are worth: The problem seems ve

[GENERAL] cube problem

2007-06-07 Thread ABHANG RANE
Hi, I have a table with one column as real[]. Now if I want to make cubes out of each of these arrays, is there a way in postgre I can do it. I guess cube operator is not defined for real[] but can I create cubes if the column was integer[]. If yes please may I know how. Actually I would pass

Re: Creditcard Number Security was Re: [GENERAL] Encrypted column

2007-06-07 Thread John DeSoi
On Jun 7, 2007, at 4:03 PM, Richard P. Welty wrote: at the day job, when we switched from paypal (who we found very undependable) to authorize.net, we were very pleased to discover that authorize.net would take care of the credit card numbers for us, so we didn't have to try to secure them

Re: Creditcard Number Security was Re: [GENERAL] Encrypted column

2007-06-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Guy Rouillier wrote: Richard P. Welty wrote: Guy Fraser wrote: Paypal has a perception issue - they are perceived as being tightly linked with eBay. That's a problem in the corporate arena. If my stock broker were to tell me they do all their financial transactions through Paypal, I'd pro

Re: Creditcard Number Security was Re: [GENERAL] Encrypted column

2007-06-07 Thread Guy Rouillier
Richard P. Welty wrote: Guy Fraser wrote: Have you thought about setting up an account with PayPal, and having people pay through PayPal? Let PayPal deal with the security, and credit card info, after all it's what they do. at the day job, when we switched from paypal (who we found very und

Re: [GENERAL] [ANNOUNCE] Advisory on possibly insecure security definer functions

2007-06-07 Thread Coffin, Ronald
Thanks for the info Ron Coffin, Lab Manager School of Computer and Engineering Technologies Miami Dade College, North Campus 11380 N.W. 27th Avenue Miami, Florida 33167 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 305 237-1054 Fax: 305 237-1531 Please Note: Due to Florida's very broad public records law, mos

Re: [GENERAL] index vs. seq scan choice?

2007-06-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
George Pavlov wrote: From: Tom Lane "George Pavlov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In those rare cases wouldn't it make more sense to just set enable_seqscan to off; run query; set enable_seqscan to on; 1. these cases are not that rare (to me); It s

Re: [GENERAL] index vs. seq scan choice?

2007-06-07 Thread George Pavlov
> From: Tom Lane > "George Pavlov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> In those rare cases wouldn't it make more sense to just set > >> enable_seqscan to off; run query; set enable_seqscan to on; > > > 1. these cases are not that rare (to me); > >

Re: [GENERAL] list all columns in db

2007-06-07 Thread Jon Sime
Jonathan Vanasco wrote: Does anyone have a trick to list all columns in a db ? No trickery, just exploit the availability of the SQL standard information_schema views: select table_schema, table_name, column_name from information_schema.columns where table_schema not in ('pg_cat

Re: [GENERAL] index vs. seq scan choice?

2007-06-07 Thread Tom Lane
"George Pavlov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> In those rare cases wouldn't it make more sense to just set >> enable_seqscan to off; run query; set enable_seqscan to on; > 1. these cases are not that rare (to me); It strikes me that you probably

Re: [GENERAL] list all columns in db

2007-06-07 Thread Rodrigo De León
Jonathan Vanasco ha escrito: > Does anyone have a trick to list all columns in a db ? SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan

Re: [GENERAL] index vs. seq scan choice?

2007-06-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
George Pavlov wrote: From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In those rare cases wouldn't it make more sense to just set enable_seqscan to off; run query; set enable_seqscan to on; 1. these cases are not that rare (to me); I find that surprising. 2. setting enable_seqscan (in JDB

Re: [GENERAL] index vs. seq scan choice?

2007-06-07 Thread George Pavlov
> From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > In those rare cases wouldn't it make more sense to just set > enable_seqscan to off; run query; set enable_seqscan to on; 1. these cases are not that rare (to me); 2. setting enable_seqscan (in JDBC, say) from the application makes the whole

Re: [GENERAL] index vs. seq scan choice?

2007-06-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
George Pavlov wrote: From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "George Pavlov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: to 977ms! If I go the other way and SET STATISTICS 1 (or 0) I can bring down the list to one entry (setting to 0 seems equivalent and still keeps the one most common entry!?) and I will ge

Re: [GENERAL] index vs. seq scan choice?

2007-06-07 Thread George Pavlov
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > "George Pavlov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am curious what could make the PA query to ignore the > index. What are > > the specific stats that are being used to make this decision? > > you don't have the column's statistics target set high enou

[GENERAL] list all columns in db

2007-06-07 Thread Jonathan Vanasco
Does anyone have a trick to list all columns in a db ? I need to audit a few dbs to make sure column & table names are adhering to our standard semantic syntax. i figure there has to be an old pg-admin trick out there to display a db like %(tname)s . %(cname) or some similar fo

Re: [GENERAL] Suppress checking of chmod 700 on data-dir?

2007-06-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Johannes Konert wrote: Ragnar wrote: are you planning a filesystem-level backup? As war as I understood the docu of psql 8.2.4 (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/continuous-archiving.html section 23.3.2) you can copy the files while postgres is running (respecting pg_start_backup

Re: [GENERAL] Suppress checking of chmod 700 on data-dir?

2007-06-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 12:57 +0200, Johannes Konert wrote: > > use sudo in your backup scenario, or run you backup as postgres > > > Thanks for your quick reply. > Unfortunaltelly runing backup via sudo is not an option due to sercurity > issues and using postgres-user is not feasable because ot

Re: [GENERAL] Inheritance and shared sequence

2007-06-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 09:44 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > Sebastjan Trepca wrote: > > Hi, > > > > as I understood, when you create a table which inherits some other > > table, the constraints and indexes do not go to the child table hence > > you have to create a separate ones in there. That mean

Re: [GENERAL] Join field values

2007-06-07 Thread Jerry Sievers
veejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello! > > I have such field in my table: > > field1 > --- > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > > > I want to get such result from select: > '1,2,3,4,5' - join all values in field1 with ',' > // result must be varchar. No sense in writing your own func for this; the

Re: Creditcard Number Security was Re: [GENERAL] Encrypted column

2007-06-07 Thread Richard P. Welty
Guy Fraser wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 16:51 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Yes. I agree, in principle, that "don't store them" is the best advice -- this is standard _Translucent Databases_ advice, too. For the least-stealable data is the data you don't have. But if there is a business ca

Re: [GENERAL] querying the age of a row

2007-06-07 Thread John D. Burger
Lonni J Friedman wrote: I have a need to determine which rows in a specific table are less than 24 hours old. I've tried (and failed) to do this with the age() function. And on the suggestion of a timestamp column with DEFAULT NOW(): Unfortunately, its too late now. The database (and its ta

Re: [GENERAL] querying the age of a row

2007-06-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Lonni J Friedman escribió: > Unfortunately, its too late now. The database (and its tables) have > been around for a while, so even if I added this column, it wouldn't > help me for the thousands of pre-existing rows. Thanks though. The answer to your original question is "you can't". That info

Re: Creditcard Number Security was Re: [GENERAL] Encrypted column

2007-06-07 Thread Guy Fraser
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 16:51 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 07:29:02PM +0100, Peter Childs wrote: > > Unfortunately you still need to store them somewhere, and all systems can > > be hacked. > > Yes. I agree, in principle, that "don't store them" is the best > advice --

Re: [GENERAL] querying the age of a row

2007-06-07 Thread brian
Lonni J Friedman wrote: Unfortunately, its too late now. The database (and its tables) have been around for a while, so even if I added this column, it wouldn't help me for the thousands of pre-existing rows. Thanks though. Please don't top-post. Assuming that the majority of the pre-existi

Re: [GENERAL] Generate random password

2007-06-07 Thread Jeff Ross
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Can anyone suggest how one might be able to do this? I want to be able to generate an 8 character random password for users in their password field. Perhaps through the default setting of the field or a trigger function. I found the following, but is there anything that

Re: [GENERAL] Generate random password

2007-06-07 Thread Magnus Hagander
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > Can anyone suggest how one might be able to do this? I want to be able > to generate an 8 character random password for users in their password > field. Perhaps through the default setting of the field or a trigger > function. I found the following, but is there anything

[GENERAL] Generate random password

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Can anyone suggest how one might be able to do this? I want to be able to generate an 8 character random password for users in their password field. Perhaps through the default setting of the field or a trigger function. I found the following, but is there anything that can be used on both Windows

Re: [GENERAL] querying the age of a row

2007-06-07 Thread Lonni J Friedman
Unfortunately, its too late now. The database (and its tables) have been around for a while, so even if I added this column, it wouldn't help me for the thousands of pre-existing rows. Thanks though. On 6/7/07, codeWarrior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Interesting issue -- I have usually solved

Re: [GENERAL] should the postgres user have a password?

2007-06-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
Anton Melser wrote: Hi, I have never given postgres a password before, but one of my clients put one on his postgres user - I suppose so he could use the postgres user from phppgadmin (not my choice !). But now I can't see how to get my backup scripts to work... can I put the password for tools l

Re: [GENERAL] querying the age of a row

2007-06-07 Thread codeWarrior
Interesting issue -- I have usually solved this by adding a specific field to each table with a default timestamp of NOW()... When you: CREATE TABLE tbl ( blah... blah create_dt TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW() ); each and every record now has a timestamp of exactly when th

Re: [GENERAL] should the postgres user have a password?

2007-06-07 Thread Anton Melser
Sorry .pgpass :-( Anton ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

[GENERAL] should the postgres user have a password?

2007-06-07 Thread Anton Melser
Hi, I have never given postgres a password before, but one of my clients put one on his postgres user - I suppose so he could use the postgres user from phppgadmin (not my choice !). But now I can't see how to get my backup scripts to work... can I put the password for tools like pg_dumpall (or ps

[GENERAL] querying the age of a row

2007-06-07 Thread Lonni J Friedman
Greetings, I've got a PostgreSQL-8.1.x database on a Linux box. I have a need to determine which rows in a specific table are less than 24 hours old. I've tried (and failed) to do this with the age() function. From what I can tell, age() only has granularity down to days, and seems to assume tha

[GENERAL] the perfect mail archival system

2007-06-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Hi, Check this out: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.postgresql.bugs/14175 It's a thread that started on pgsql-bugs and that I later moved to pgsql-patches and later pgsql-hackers (and pgsql-bugs wasn't copied). The cool thing is that it kept the link properly, so you can see the whole thre

Re: [GENERAL] cube for real[]

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jun 7, 2007, at 10:27 , ABHANG RANE wrote: I have a table with one column as real[]. Now if I want to make cubes out of each of these arrays, is there a way in postgre I can do it. I guess cube operator is not defined for real[] but can I create cubes if the column was integer[]. If yes

Re: [GENERAL] Limitations on 7.0.3?

2007-06-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:40:08PM -0500, ARTEAGA Jose wrote: > I have been using postgres 7.0.3 (Solaris 2.9) for the past 4 years > without any major problems, until about a month ago. We are now > experiencing crashes on the backend (connection lost to backend) while > running queries (inserts,

Re: [GENERAL] Auto Vacuum question?

2007-06-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 04:15:12AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > after i executed the command " vaccumdb -f -z testdb", but the size > just decreased 1 or 2MB... > what's the problem? vacuumdb -f does a FULL vacuum, which is blocking and compacts the tables. If it only compacted 1 or 2 M, the

Re: [GENERAL] Jumping Weekends

2007-06-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:11:01PM -0300, Ranieri Mazili wrote: > Hello, > (sorry for my poor english) > > It's my first post here, and my doubt is very simple (I guess). I have a > function to populate a table, into "WHILE" I have the follow piece of code: To get a proper answer I think you're

[GENERAL] cube for real[]

2007-06-07 Thread ABHANG RANE
Hi, I have a table with one column as real[]. Now if I want to make cubes out of each of these arrays, is there a way in postgre I can do it. I guess cube operator is not defined for real[] but can I create cubes if the column was integer[]. If yes please may I know how. Thanks Abhang -

Re: [GENERAL] insane index scan times

2007-06-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:29:07PM -0700, Sergei Shelukhin wrote: > I wonder what exactly makes index perform 100+ times slower than > seqscan - I mean even if it's perfromed on the HD which it should not > be given the index size, index and table are on the same HD and index > is smaller and also

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Looking for Graphical people for PostgreSQL tradeshow signage

2007-06-07 Thread Josh Berkus
Alexander, I tried to find the original vector graphics for the PostgreSQL elephant logo, but couldn't find it anywhere. I think that's a prerequisite. I would not mind having a stab at it. www.pgfoundry.org/projects/graphics look under "docs", there are AI files. --Josh

Re: [GENERAL] setting login database

2007-06-07 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 03:38:15PM +0200, Samatha Kottha wrote: > We are trying to access a postgres database using a data integration > tool. This data integration tool have options to specify the hostname, > port, userid, and passwd of a database. But there is no way to supply > the database name

Re: [GENERAL] NULLS and User Input WAS Re: multimaster

2007-06-07 Thread Gregory Stark
"Lew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where NULL differs is that (NULL = NULL) is FALSE, and (NULL != NULL) is > FALSE. No, that's not true. NULL=NULL is NULL. And NULL!=NULL is NULL as well. Ie, it's exactly as your table describes. The confusion comes because WHERE clauses treat NULL the same a

[GENERAL] setting login database

2007-06-07 Thread Samatha Kottha
Hi, I am very new to postgres. So, if I am asking stupid question please forgive me. I installed the postgres, imported the required databases and created the necessary users. When users login using psql, they are required to supply the database name. We are trying to access a postgres database u

Re: [GENERAL] Limitations on 7.0.3?

2007-06-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Richard Huxton wrote: > ARTEAGA Jose wrote: > >I have been using postgres 7.0.3 (Solaris 2.9) for the past 4 years > >without any major problems, until about a month ago. We are now > >experiencing crashes on the backend (connection lost to backend) while > >running queries (inserts, etc). Anyway I

Re: [GENERAL] Limitations on 7.0.3?

2007-06-07 Thread Richard Huxton
ARTEAGA Jose wrote: I have been using postgres 7.0.3 (Solaris 2.9) for the past 4 years without any major problems, until about a month ago. We are now experiencing crashes on the backend (connection lost to backend) while running queries (inserts, etc). Anyway I don't want to make this too techn

Re: [GENERAL] Record Types Structure in PL/pgSQL

2007-06-07 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello it isn't possible in plpgsql. Try other plperl or plpython Regards Pavel Stehule 2007/6/6, Diego Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi there. Is there any way of determining the actual structure of a record variable? E. g. I've written a small script to do some calculations over some fi

Re: [GENERAL] failing to start posgresql.

2007-06-07 Thread Ray Stell
take a look inside the rpm and see what it installed: rpm -ql On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:51:59AM +0200, phillip wrote: > hie i am a newbie to Postgresql. I installed Postgresql using an rpm. my > problem is that when i issue the service postgresql start command the > database is failing to

Re: [GENERAL] using subselects

2007-06-07 Thread Alban Hertroys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm creating a select list on a web form for adding a new user to a > project. I want to select users from the user table, who aren't > already listed in the join table under that project. > > Here's my select: > SELECT * FROM users > WHERE user_id <> $current_user_id >

Re: [GENERAL] failing to start posgresql.

2007-06-07 Thread Ashish Karalkar
check under $PGHOME/data/pg_log directory. Usually $PGHOME=/usr/local/pgsql if u have not changed this path during installation With Reagrds Ashish... - Original Message - From: phillip To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 2:21 PM Subject: [GENE

[GENERAL] Record Types Structure in PL/pgSQL

2007-06-07 Thread Diego Sanchez
Hi there. Is there any way of determining the actual structure of a record variable? E. g. I've written a small script to do some calculations over some fields with a dinamically generated query. It looks like this: create function foo(text) returns void as $$ declare a_record record; my_que

[GENERAL] last analyze time in 8.1?

2007-06-07 Thread Julian Scarfe
Is there any way of getting at the last time a table was analyzed (by autovacuum) in 8.1 or is that only recorded (in pg_stat_*_tables) since 8.2? TIA Julian ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? h

[GENERAL] using subselects

2007-06-07 Thread lawpoop
Hello everyone - I'm moving from MySQL to Postgres and I am in a situation where I am trying to use subselects properly. I have a table of projects, users, and user_projects. The table user_projects creates a many-to-many relationship between users and projects. I'm creating a select list on a w

[GENERAL] Postgresql 7.4.3/8.2.4 out of memory

2007-06-07 Thread Christophe Combet [PBIL/IBCP/CNRS]
Dear all, With the below transaction we got an out of memory error. BEGIN; ANALYZE referenceAuthorLnkTemp; INSERT INTO referenceAuthor (author) SELECT DISTINCT ON (author) author FROM referenceAuthorLnkTemp; ANALYZE referenceAuthor; UPDATE referenceAuthorLnkTemp SET

[GENERAL] Limitations on 7.0.3?

2007-06-07 Thread ARTEAGA Jose
I have been using postgres 7.0.3 (Solaris 2.9) for the past 4 years without any major problems, until about a month ago. We are now experiencing crashes on the backend (connection lost to backend) while running queries (inserts, etc). Anyway I don't want to make this too technical but I'd just like

[GENERAL] failing to start posgresql.

2007-06-07 Thread phillip
hie i am a newbie to Postgresql. I installed Postgresql using an rpm. my problem is that when i issue the service postgresql start command the database is failing to start. Where can i get the error logs for the database so that i can see what is the problem. Is there a another way of starting it

Re: [GENERAL] NULLS and User Input WAS Re: multimaster

2007-06-07 Thread Lew
Richard Huxton wrote: PFC wrote: NULL usually means "unknown" or "not applicable" Andrew Sullivan wrote: Aaaargh! No, it doesn't. It means NULL. Nothing else. If it meant unknown or not applicable or anything else, then SELECT * FROM nulltbl a, othernulltbl b WHERE a.nullcol =

[GENERAL] Auto Vacuum question?

2007-06-07 Thread ivan . hou
i set the auto vacuum option to enable. but my database size(hard-disk space) still increased from 420MB to 440MB in 8 hours. most of the operations in this database are the "Select" query command, just few of "Update or Insert". why it can be increased so strongly? after i executed the command " v

Re: [GENERAL] Suppress checking of chmod 700 on data-dir?

2007-06-07 Thread Johannes Konert
Ragnar wrote: are you planning a filesystem-level backup? are you aware that you cannot just backup the postgres data directories fro under a running server, and expect the backup to be usable? gnari As war as I understood the docu of psql 8.2.4 (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/intera

Re: [GENERAL] insane index scan times

2007-06-07 Thread Sergei Shelukhin
This is just an example isolating the problem. Actual queries contain more tables and more joins and return reasonable amount of data. Performance of big indices however is appalling, with planner always reverting to seqscan with default settings. I tried to pre-filter the data as much as possible

[GENERAL] Jumping Weekends

2007-06-07 Thread Ranieri Mazili
Hello, (sorry for my poor english) It's my first post here, and my doubt is very simple (I guess). I have a function to populate a table, into "WHILE" I have the follow piece of code: --Jump Weekend IF (SELECT TO_CHAR(CAST(PRODUCTION_DATE as date),'Day')) = 'Saturday' THEN PRODUCTIO

Re: [GENERAL] Large Database \d: ERROR: cache lookup failed for relation ...

2007-06-07 Thread Erik Jones
"Thomas F. O'Connell" writes: I'm dealing with a database where there are ~150,000 rows in information_schema.tables. I just tried to do a \d, and it came back with this: ERROR: cache lookup failed for relation [oid] Is this indicative of corruption, or is it possibly a resource issue?

Re: [GENERAL] plperl and/or insert trigger problem

2007-06-07 Thread Bart Degryse
Richard Huxton wrote: > I'm no guru myself... Don't underestimate yourself, after all you found the code where it goes wrong > Looks OK to me, except you'll not get any error message on the last row > - the insert will be called after the fetch. I do get an error message on the last row (assumin

Re: [GENERAL] Suppress checking of chmod 700 on data-dir?

2007-06-07 Thread Johannes Konert
use sudo in your backup scenario, or run you backup as postgres Thanks for your quick reply. Unfortunaltelly runing backup via sudo is not an option due to sercurity issues and using postgres-user is not feasable because other data as well is backuped where postgres-user should not have ac

Re: [GENERAL] Suppress checking of chmod 700 on data-dir?

2007-06-07 Thread Ragnar
On fim, 2007-06-07 at 10:38 +0200, Johannes Konert wrote: > Hi postgresql-listmembers, > for a backup-scenario I need to have access to the pgdata-directory as a > different shell-user, but postgresqul refuses to start if chmod is not > 700 on the directory. > > Is there a way to prevent postgr

[GENERAL] Suppress checking of chmod 700 on data-dir?

2007-06-07 Thread Johannes Konert
Hi postgresql-listmembers, for a backup-scenario I need to have access to the pgdata-directory as a different shell-user, but postgresqul refuses to start if chmod is not 700 on the directory. Is there a way to prevent postgres to check the data-dirs chmod 700 on startup (and while running) ?

Re: [GENERAL] Inheritance and shared sequence

2007-06-07 Thread Richard Huxton
Sebastjan Trepca wrote: Hi, as I understood, when you create a table which inherits some other table, the constraints and indexes do not go to the child table hence you have to create a separate ones in there. That means you cannot depend that you won't have duplicate IDs in both tables. Right?

Re: pl/pgsql debuging, was Re: [GENERAL] debugging C functions

2007-06-07 Thread Dave Page
David Gardner wrote: As someone who would greatly benefit from this feature, is there something I can do to help out in development/testing of this feature? I have a test server I could install a cvs release of pgsql and know my way around a makefile. Hi David, At the moment it's just a case o

[GENERAL] Inheritance and shared sequence

2007-06-07 Thread Sebastjan Trepca
Hi, as I understood, when you create a table which inherits some other table, the constraints and indexes do not go to the child table hence you have to create a separate ones in there. That means you cannot depend that you won't have duplicate IDs in both tables. Right? BUT...what if child tabl

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for Graphical people for PostgreSQL tradeshow signage

2007-06-07 Thread Alexander Staubo
On 6/7/07, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Hello, Is anyone going to try for this? If not I can have our designer do it, but I would prefer it be a community deal. > > We are looking to have new signage for the shows that PostgreSQL > attends. The signage tha

Re: [GENERAL] formatting the output of a function

2007-06-07 Thread Richard Huxton
Islam Hegazy wrote: Hi all I created a function that returns a set of records. This function returns an integer and a float as the record fields. I have a problem in this function, it truncates the output. e.g. 1342 is displayed as 134, 456.46 is displayed as 456. In other words, it displays