Re: [GENERAL] %TYPE

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Aug 24, 2007, at 1:32 , Richard Huxton wrote: It's a "forgot to cc:" issue - forgot to remind, I'm afraid. Thanks for checking, Richard. Was wondering if my email service was acting up again. Michael Glaesemann grzm seespotcode net ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [GENERAL] Local authentication/security

2007-08-23 Thread Lange Marcus
Ok. But apart from the risk with having the physical access to the computer, would it be a reasonable safe solution to limit the access with a password then ? So that, assuming a user does not have the possibility to get any kind of root access, there is no way to read or copy the database unles

Re: [GENERAL] %TYPE

2007-08-23 Thread Richard Huxton
Michael Glaesemann wrote: I don't seem to have received the message Richard's responding to. The archives seem to be missing a couple as well. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-08/threads.php#01346 Anyone else besides Richard catch these messages? Any idea where they may hav

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)

2007-08-23 Thread Magnus Hagander
Shelby Cain wrote: >> - Original Message From: Magnus Hagander >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alvaro Herrera >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Terry Yapt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; >> pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 >> 3:43:32 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: could not reattach

Re: [GENERAL] How to extract a substring using Regex

2007-08-23 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 19:08 -0700, Postgres User wrote: > On 8/23/07, Michael Glaesemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Aug 23, 2007, at 20:01 , Postgres User wrote: > > > > >>> Yes, I read the manual. I think I had a problem because of the > > >>> special chars (< / >) that I'm trying to s

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)

2007-08-23 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Magnus Hagander wrote: >> 8.3 will have a new way to deal with shared mem on win32. It's the same >> underlying tech, but we're no longer trying to squeeze it into an >> emulation of sysv. With a bit of luck, that'll help :-) > So you're saying we won't

Re: [GENERAL] How to extract a substring using Regex

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Aug 23, 2007, at 21:08 , Postgres User wrote: You're right, that was a typo, I didn't copy and paste. I found the problem, I was using 2 forward slashes instead of a backslash + forward slash when pattern matching. The correct regex to extract my substring: substring(data_field from '(.+)<

Re: [GENERAL] How to extract a substring using Regex

2007-08-23 Thread Postgres User
On 8/23/07, Michael Glaesemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2007, at 20:01 , Postgres User wrote: > > >>> Yes, I read the manual. I think I had a problem because of the > >>> special chars (< / >) that I'm trying to search for... Still > >>> looking > >>> for the right syntax. > >> >

Re: [GENERAL] How to extract a substring using Regex

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Aug 23, 2007, at 20:01 , Postgres User wrote: Yes, I read the manual. I think I had a problem because of the special chars (< / >) that I'm trying to search for... Still looking for the right syntax. Why don't you show us what you've tried and the errors you're getting? That way we ca

[GENERAL] Simple Regex question, hoping for direct answer (no Socratic approach necessary)

2007-08-23 Thread Postgres User
I'm new to Regex in Postgres. Can someone give me a quick pointer on how I'd SELECT the substring between ''and '' in a field? Sample field data: address city here Rogers, Jim zip code place and I'd like the SELECT to return only: Rogers, Jim Thanks! ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Geographic High-Availability/Replication

2007-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/23/07 17:22, Bill Moran wrote: > Decibel! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Aug 22, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >>> You can not do multi master cross continent reliably. >> I'm pretty sure that credit card processors and some other co

Re: [GENERAL] How to extract a substring using Regex

2007-08-23 Thread Postgres User
> > Yes, I read the manual. I think I had a problem because of the > > special chars (< / >) that I'm trying to search for... Still looking > > for the right syntax. > > Why don't you show us what you've tried and the errors you're > getting? That way we can help you figure out what you're doing

Re: [GENERAL] How to extract a substring using Regex

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Glaesemann
[Please don't top post as it makes the discussion more difficult to follow, and please reply to the list so that others may benefit from and participate in the discussion.] On Aug 23, 2007, at 19:49 , Postgres User wrote: Yes, I read the manual. I think I had a problem because of the speci

Re: [GENERAL] How to extract a substring using Regex

2007-08-23 Thread Postgres User
Yes, I read the manual. I think I had a problem because of the special chars (< / >) that I'm trying to search for... Still looking for the right syntax. On 8/23/07, Michael Glaesemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2007, at 19:33 , Postgres User wrote: > > > I'm new to Regex in Postg

Re: [GENERAL] How to extract a substring using Regex

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Aug 23, 2007, at 19:33 , Postgres User wrote: I'm new to Regex in Postgres. Can someone give me a quick pointer on how I'd SELECT the substring between ''and '' in a field? Check out regexp_replace: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/functions- matching.html#FUNCTION

[GENERAL] How to extract a substring using Regex

2007-08-23 Thread Postgres User
Hi, I'm new to Regex in Postgres. Can someone give me a quick pointer on how I'd SELECT the substring between ''and '' in a field? Sample field data: address city here Rogers, Jim zip code place and I'd like the SELECT to return only: Rogers, Jim Thanks! ---(en

Re: [GENERAL] %TYPE

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Aug 23, 2007, at 7:57 , Richard Huxton wrote: Ged wrote: Ty for those comments. Hmm, I did try it out before posting of course, and I've just tried it again to make sure I hadn't boobed with a typo. It seems my ISP is running 8.0.8 and it's definitely not working on that. It *is* in the

Re: [GENERAL] Seeking datacenter PITR backup procedures [RESENDING]

2007-08-23 Thread Bill Moran
Decibel! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 19, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > >> Assumptions: > >> a. After pg_stop_backup(), Pg immediately recycles log files and > >> hence wal > >> logs can be copied to backup. This is a clean start. > > > > I don't believe so. ARAIK, all pg_stop_b

Re: [GENERAL] Apache + PHP + Postgres Interaction

2007-08-23 Thread Hannes Dorbath
Bill Moran wrote: > I guess I just feel that "broken" is a bit of a harsh term. If > your expectations are for full-blown connection management from > pconnect(), then you will be disappointed. If you take it for > what it is: persistent connections, then those limitations would > be expected. I

Re: [GENERAL] Geographic High-Availability/Replication

2007-08-23 Thread Bill Moran
Decibel! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 22, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > You can not do multi master cross continent reliably. > > I'm pretty sure that credit card processors and some other companies > do it... it just costs a LOT to actually do it well. Isn't this sort o

Re: [GENERAL] Enterprise Wide Deployment

2007-08-23 Thread Decibel!
On Aug 17, 2007, at 5:37 PM, Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote: On 8/14/07, john_sm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey guys, for an enterprise wide deployment, what will you suggest and why among - Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux and Ubuntu Linux, also, do you think, we can negotiate the support pricing down? For

Re: [GENERAL] Seeking datacenter PITR backup suggestions

2007-08-23 Thread Decibel!
On Aug 17, 2007, at 5:48 PM, Joey K. wrote: We have several web applications with Pg 8.2.x running on isolated servers (~25). The database size on each machines (du -h pgdata) is ~2 GB. We have been using nightly filesystem backup (stop pg, tar backup to ftp, start pg) and it worked well.

Re: [GENERAL] Seeking datacenter PITR backup procedures [RESENDING]

2007-08-23 Thread Decibel!
On Aug 19, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Bill Moran wrote: Assumptions: a. After pg_stop_backup(), Pg immediately recycles log files and hence wal logs can be copied to backup. This is a clean start. I don't believe so. ARAIK, all pg_stop_backup() does is remove the marker that pg_start_backup() put in

Re: [GENERAL] Geographic High-Availability/Replication

2007-08-23 Thread Decibel!
On Aug 22, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: You can not do multi master cross continent reliably. I'm pretty sure that credit card processors and some other companies do it... it just costs a LOT to actually do it well. -- Decibel!, aka Jim Nasby[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [GENERAL] Searching for Duplicates and Hosed the System

2007-08-23 Thread Decibel!
On Aug 21, 2007, at 12:04 AM, Tom Lane wrote: If you need to deal with very large result sets, the standard advice is to use a cursor so you can pull a few hundred or thousand rows at a time via FETCH. In case it's not obvious... in this case you might want to dump the output of that query in

Re: [GENERAL] Automating logins for mundane chores

2007-08-23 Thread Decibel!
On Aug 18, 2007, at 5:20 AM, Phoenix Kiula wrote: I am writing some simple batch scripts to login to the DB and do a pg_dump. Also, when I login to do my own SQL tinkering, I'd like not to be asked for a password every time (which, for silly corporate reasons, is quite a convoluted one). So I re

Re: [GENERAL] Local authentication/security

2007-08-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Lange Marcus wrote: > I would like to be able to restrict the access to a database so that > only a specific program running on the same machine can access it, In postgresql.conf, set unix_socket_permissions = 770 unix_socket_group = postgres and make your program setgid postgres. Or some varia

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)

2007-08-23 Thread Shelby Cain
>- Original Message >From: Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: Terry Yapt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; pgsql-general@postgresql.org >Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 3:43:32 PM >Subject: Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32) >

Re: [GENERAL] Adapter update.

2007-08-23 Thread Richard Huxton
Joshua D. Drake wrote: I have added transaction to my code and it took about 2 and half hours to process around 48,000 records. Again all this time is taken by update method on the adapter. I don't know Perl to setup the database link to SQL Server 2005 and also I don't have permission to write

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)

2007-08-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Magnus Hagander wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > No resolution seems to have been found. > > 8.3 will have a new way to deal with shared mem on win32. It's the same > underlying tech, but we're no longer trying to squeeze it into an > emulation of sysv. With a bit of luck, that'll help :-) So

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)

2007-08-23 Thread Magnus Hagander
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Terry Yapt wrote: > >> This is the main error: >> * FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (key=5432001, addr=01D8): >> Invalid argument >> >> It is always followed by this another system-app error: >> * LOG: unrecognized win32 error code: 487 > > FWIW, > http:/

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)

2007-08-23 Thread Terry Yapt
Alvaro Herrera escribió: Terry Yapt wrote: This is the main error: * FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (key=5432001, addr=01D8): Invalid argument It is always followed by this another system-app error: * LOG: unrecognized win32 error code: 487 This problem has been r

Re: [GENERAL] Argument type list

2007-08-23 Thread Gustavo Tonini
Ok. It works well, but my argument type must be varchar (because java conversions in my application). Then I want to convert varchar in format "{int, int, ...}" to an integer array. Is there a function that converts varchar -> integer [] ? I tried with casts and got no success. Tanks, Gustavo. On

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

2007-08-23 Thread David Fetter
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 03:30:30PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Tony Caduto wrote: > > >If there is any interest I could also add MySQL 5.0 to the mix as the > >third column. > > As already mentioned, MyISAM and InnoDB should get their own columns. Yes. > This is a really go

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)

2007-08-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Terry Yapt wrote: > This is the main error: > * FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (key=5432001, addr=01D8): > Invalid argument > > It is always followed by this another system-app error: > * LOG: unrecognized win32 error code: 487 FWIW, http://help.netop.com/support/errorcodes/win

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)

2007-08-23 Thread Terry Yapt
Sorry, I have not be able to execute "ipcs" on windows. it doesn't exists. I have tried to find some utility that gives me the same information or any ipcs porting to win32, but I haven't had any luck. If I can do something more to get help, please tell me. Greetings. Alvaro Herrera escrib

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

2007-08-23 Thread Greg Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Tony Caduto wrote: If there is any interest I could also add MySQL 5.0 to the mix as the third column. As already mentioned, MyISAM and InnoDB should get their own columns. This is a really good comparision, focusing on features that I think people understand rather than

Re: [GENERAL] problem Linking a TTable component to a pgsql view using BCB5

2007-08-23 Thread Rodrigo De León
On 8/21/07, JLoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not been able to find a workaround for this? Does the table have a unique index/primary key? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

2007-08-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Caduto wrote: > Dave Page wrote: >> Couple of corrections Tony: >> >> - You don't necessarily need to stop the postmaster to take a filesystem >> backup - >> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-BASE-BACK

Re: [GENERAL] Argument type list

2007-08-23 Thread Erik Jones
On Aug 23, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Aug 23, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Gustavo Tonini wrote: I want to create a function that receive a list argument and filter data with IN operator. Example: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.ffoo(list sometype[])

Re: [GENERAL] Apache + PHP + Postgres Interaction

2007-08-23 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Josh Trutwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:29:46 -0400 > Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well you haven't given us any indication of data set or what you > > > are trying to do. However, I can tell you, don't use pconnect, > > > its broke ;) > > > > B

Re: [GENERAL] "out of memory" error

2007-08-23 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 08:30:46PM +0200, Christian Schröder wrote: >Thanks for your tips! I have changed the "shared_buffers" setting back >to 2 GB. It was set to 2 GB before, but we also had "out of memory" >errors with this setting, so I raised it to 3 GB. You've got it completely w

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

2007-08-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lewis Cunningham wrote: > If anyone is interested, I could answer the questions for Oracle and > you could add those, too. Be interesting to see a chart like that > (that stays updated after releases) for a large assortment of > databases. > > If we

Re: [GENERAL] "out of memory" error

2007-08-23 Thread Christian Schröder
Tom Lane wrote: Ok, I can do this, but why can more memory be harmful? Because you've left no room for anything else? The kernel, the various other daemons, the Postgres code itself, and the local memory for each Postgres process all require more than zero space. So doe

Re: [GENERAL] Argument type list

2007-08-23 Thread Tom Lane
Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Aug 23, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Gustavo Tonini wrote: >> I want to create a function that receive a list argument and filter >> data with IN operator. Example: > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.ffoo(list sometype[]) RETURNS VOID this is right ... > ex

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

2007-08-23 Thread Lewis Cunningham
If anyone is interested, I could answer the questions for Oracle and you could add those, too. Be interesting to see a chart like that (that stays updated after releases) for a large assortment of databases. If we add a bunch of different databases, it might be easier to manipulate if it was stor

Re: [GENERAL] Apache + PHP + Postgres Interaction

2007-08-23 Thread Max Zorloff
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:29:46 +0400, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In response to "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Max Zorloff wrote: > Hello. > > I have a subject setup and a few questions. > > The first one is this. PHP establishe

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

2007-08-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 8/23/07, Tony Caduto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check it out here: > > http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com/pg_vs_fb > If there is any interest I could also add MySQL 5.0 to the mix as the > third column. If you do, you should really do it as MySQL-isam and MySQL-innodb. the limitations of each t

Re: [GENERAL] Apache + PHP + Postgres Interaction

2007-08-23 Thread Max Zorloff
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:16:48 +0400, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Max Zorloff wrote: Hello. I have a subject setup and a few questions. The first one is this. PHP establishes a connection to the Postgres database through pg_pconnec

Re: [GENERAL] Adapter update.

2007-08-23 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 01:30 AM 8/24/2007, Murali Maddali wrote: options like a different driver I can use or through stored procedures. I have to compare each column in each row before doing the update. Do you have to compare with all rows, or just one? Can your comparison make use of an index? Link. --

Re: [GENERAL] Apache + PHP + Postgres Interaction

2007-08-23 Thread Josh Trutwin
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:29:46 -0400 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well you haven't given us any indication of data set or what you > > are trying to do. However, I can tell you, don't use pconnect, > > its broke ;) > > Broke? How do you figure? I asked that question earlier this mont

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres, fsync and RAID controller with 100M of internal cache & dedicated battery

2007-08-23 Thread Greg Smith
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Lincoln Yeoh wrote: BTW, what happens if someone replaced a faulty battery backed controller card on a "live" system with one from a "don't care test system" (identical hardware tho) that was powered down abruptly because people didn't care? Would the new card proceed to t

Re: [GENERAL] Apache + PHP + Postgres Interaction

2007-08-23 Thread Erik Jones
On Aug 23, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Bill Moran wrote: In response to "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Max Zorloff wrote: Hello. I have a subject setup and a few questions. The first one is this. PHP establishes a connection to the Postgres data

Re: [GENERAL] Adapter update.

2007-08-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Murali Maddali wrote: > Richard, > > I have added transaction to my code and it took about 2 and half hours to > process around 48,000 records. Again all this time is taken by update method > on the adapter. > > I don't know Perl to setup the databas

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres, fsync and RAID controller with 100M of internal cache & dedicated battery

2007-08-23 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 11:28 PM 8/22/2007, Dmitry Koterov wrote: Hello. We are trying to use HP CISS contoller (Smart Array E200i) with internal cache memory (100M for write caching, built-in power battery) together with Postgres. Typically under a heavy load Postgres runs checkpoint fsync very slow: checkpoin

Re: [GENERAL] Adapter update.

2007-08-23 Thread Murali Maddali
Richard, I have added transaction to my code and it took about 2 and half hours to process around 48,000 records. Again all this time is taken by update method on the adapter. I don't know Perl to setup the database link to SQL Server 2005 and also I don't have permission to write the data to fil

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

2007-08-23 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
--- Tony Caduto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Check it out here: > > http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com/pg_vs_fb One row that you could elaborate on is: CHECK CONSTRAINTS support for correlated sub-queries. PostgreSQL doesn't official support this kink of constraint unless it is rolled up in a func

Re: [GENERAL] Apache + PHP + Postgres Interaction

2007-08-23 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Max Zorloff wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I have a subject setup and a few questions. > > > > The first one is this. PHP establishes a connection to the Postgres > > database through pg_pconn

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-23 Thread Gauthier, Dave
If query development is an important part of what you need to do, consider dbQwikEdit. It's not open or free. But you can get a minimal config for free (I think) and it's pretty cheap copnsidering what it can do. It uses ODBC and can read any DB that ODBC points to (Oracle, MySQL, Postgres, SQLS

[GENERAL] 64 bit PG on OSX, FATAL: could not create shared memory segment

2007-08-23 Thread Kasper Frederiksen
A while ago Kevin Murphy reported that PG built for 64 bit archetecture cant start on a OSX: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-04/msg00788.php The problem was eventually traced to a compatability problem with OSX: http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-kernel/2007/Apr/msg00021.h

Re: [GENERAL] CPU load high

2007-08-23 Thread Patrick
Hi Max, To find out what is causing the big load you could also try to use 'ATOP' which can be found at http://www.atcomputing.nl/atop. This tool shows more (accurate) information than the regular TOP. There are also some kernel patches available which, when applied to your kernel, even show more

[GENERAL] problem Linking a TTable component to a pgsql view using BCB5

2007-08-23 Thread JLoz
Hello, I am writing an application in Borland C++ builder 5 that connects to a postgresql database (8.2.4). I am trying to link a TDBListBox to a view by using a TTable and a TDataSource component but when I send the TTable->Refresh() I get the following error: "Table does not support this opera

[GENERAL] Adapter update.

2007-08-23 Thread Murali Maddali
Hello Group, I have asked this question already on the NpgSql forum, but didn't get a response so far. Sorry for cross posting, but want to check if any one had any suggestions for my problem. I am trying to do my updates through NpgsqlDataAdapter (I also tried with Odbc driver with no luck) by

Re: [GENERAL] Apache + PHP + Postgres Interaction

2007-08-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Max Zorloff wrote: > Hello. > > I have a subject setup and a few questions. > > The first one is this. PHP establishes a connection to the Postgres > database through pg_pconnect(). Don't use pconnect. Use pgbouncer or pgpool. > Then it > runs som

Re: [GENERAL] Argument type list

2007-08-23 Thread Erik Jones
On Aug 23, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Gustavo Tonini wrote: I want to create a function that receive a list argument and filter data with IN operator. Example: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "public"."ffoo" (list ???) RETURNS VOID AS $body$ BEGIN select * from foo where foo_column in list; END; $body$ LA

[GENERAL] Apache + PHP + Postgres Interaction

2007-08-23 Thread Max Zorloff
Hello. I have a subject setup and a few questions. The first one is this. PHP establishes a connection to the Postgres database through pg_pconnect(). Then it runs some query, then the script returns, leaving the persistent connection hanging. But the trouble is that in this case any query t

Re: [GENERAL] Undetected corruption of table files

2007-08-23 Thread Tom Lane
"Albe Laurenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - Shouldn't there be an error, some kind of 'missing magic > number' or similar, when a table file consists of only > zeros? The particular case of an all-zeroes page is specifically allowed, and has to be because it's a valid transient state in var

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-23 Thread Ned Lilly
On 8/23/2007 10:07 AM Thomas Kellerer wrote: Ned Lilly wrote on 23.08.2007 15:44: This is specifically why we released OpenRPT as open source - it's very lightweight, no Java required. http://sf.net/projects/openrpt I am a Java developer and thus I have no problems in using Java based tool

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

2007-08-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Caduto wrote: > Dave Page wrote: >> Tony Caduto wrote: >> >>> Other than that I would say PG kicks butt. >>> >> >> You're just realising that? :-) >> >> > > Ah, I new that around 2004 :-) I just have to convince Delphi users of > that

[GENERAL] Argument type list

2007-08-23 Thread Gustavo Tonini
I want to create a function that receive a list argument and filter data with IN operator. Example: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "public"."ffoo" (list ???) RETURNS VOID AS $body$ BEGIN select * from foo where foo_column in list; END; $body$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' ; I played with arrays but I got no s

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

2007-08-23 Thread Tony Caduto
Dave Page wrote: Tony Caduto wrote: Other than that I would say PG kicks butt. You're just realising that? :-) Ah, I new that around 2004 :-) I just have to convince Delphi users of that :-) Later, Tony ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

2007-08-23 Thread Tony Caduto
Dave Page wrote: Couple of corrections Tony: - You don't necessarily need to stop the postmaster to take a filesystem backup - http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-BASE-BACKUP. Obviously that assumes logs will be replayed during recovery. - The native

[GENERAL] Error Installing postgres 8.2.4 on Windows Server 2003 64bit

2007-08-23 Thread Peck, Brian
Hey all, When I try and install form the msi installer for version 8.2.4 I get the following error. Failed to run initdb: 128! And when it tells me to see the logfile for details, there is no log file in the tmp directory. Anyone know why it's doing this? It crashes furring the

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

2007-08-23 Thread Erik Jones
On Aug 23, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Tony Caduto wrote: Check it out here: http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com/pg_vs_fb When comparing in the grid the only major advantage FB has is probably BLOB support. PG only suppports 1 gb while FB supports 32gb. Bytea is pretty slow as well when compared to

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Schmidt
I looked at BIRT - it is part of Eclipse. It is pretty new and I found the documentation to be pretty limited. Also, it has few output options. These factors caused me to decide against it. Settled on JasperReports and like it a lot. It integrated easily with my Java (Eclipse RCP) GUI. Cre

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump causes postgres crash

2007-08-23 Thread Tom Lane
Jeff Amiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would a good stack trace (assuming I want to crash my > database again) help here? Well, it'd be more information than we have now ... regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)

2007-08-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Terry Yapt wrote: > I am looking for system errors and nothing is there. But I have a lot of > messages on system APP errors. The error is the same every ten seconds or > so. > > This is the main error: > * FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (key=5432001, addr=01D8): > Invalid ar

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-23 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Ned Lilly wrote on 23.08.2007 15:44: This is specifically why we released OpenRPT as open source - it's very lightweight, no Java required. http://sf.net/projects/openrpt I am a Java developer and thus I have no problems in using Java based tools. Especially because I ususally only have a JDB

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with UPDATE and UNIQUE

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Aug 23, 2007, at 8:59 , Frank Millman wrote: It certainly does. Thanks again for all the valuable advice. Glad you found it helpful. Good luck! Michael Glaesemann grzm seespotcode net ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the po

Re: [GENERAL] Local authentication/security

2007-08-23 Thread Richard Huxton
Lange Marcus wrote: Hi, I guess the answer to the 2 questions would be, yes the user will probably have physical access to the machine, but will not have superuser access. The OS is, atleast for now, windows. I have been looking and searching manuals and so on for different methods but I still

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with UPDATE and UNIQUE

2007-08-23 Thread Frank Millman
Michael Glaesemann wrote: > > On Aug 22, 2007, at 1:02 , Frank Millman wrote: > > > I want to store data in a 'tree' form, with a fixed number > of levels, > > so that each level has a defined role. > Thanks very much for the in-depth response, Michael. Plenty for the little grey cells to wor

Re : [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-23 Thread Laurent ROCHE
Hi, For my projet (J2EE application), I have been using Jasper and iReport. That works quite well although so far we have not done stuff really complicated. I am hoping that the "Power" end users will be able to write the reports themselves. "Power" users because although iReports is wysiwyg too

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-23 Thread Ned Lilly
On 8/23/2007 5:16 AM Thomas Kellerer wrote: Phoenix Kiula wrote on 23.08.2007 10:42: On 23/08/07, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of CR, but it's worked with PostgreSQL for quite some time now. We had it hitting a pg7.2 db back in the day, when hip kids r

[GENERAL] Undetected corruption of table files

2007-08-23 Thread Albe Laurenz
I am slightly worried that corruption of data files may remain undetected in PostgreSQL. As an experiment, I created a simple table with a primary key index and inserted a couple of rows. The corresponding data file is 1 page = 8K long. Now when I stop the server, zero out the data file with dd i

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-23 Thread Reid Thompson
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 18:57 -0400, Geoffrey wrote: > We are looking for a reporting tool that will enable users to generate > their own reports. Something like Crystal Reports. > > Anyone using something like this with Postgresql? > agata, datavision, jasper reports, birt, openRPT -- google s

Re: [GENERAL] Converting non-null unique idx to pkey

2007-08-23 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Aug 23, 2007, at 7:44 , Kristo Kaiv wrote: On 23.08.2007, at 11:23, Alban Hertroys wrote: Since you're setting up replication to another database, you might as well try replicating to a newer release and swap them around once it's done. I've seen that method of upgrading mentioned on th

Re: [GENERAL] How to switch off Snowball stemmer for tsearch2?

2007-08-23 Thread Dmitry Koterov
> > write your own dictionary, which implements any logic you need. In your > case it's just a wrapper around ispell, which will returns original string > not stem. See example > http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/fts/doc/fts-intdict-xmp.html > and russian article > http://www.sai.msu.su/~meger

Re: [GENERAL] %TYPE

2007-08-23 Thread Richard Huxton
Ged wrote: Ty for those comments. Hmm, I did try it out before posting of course, and I've just tried it again to make sure I hadn't boobed with a typo. It seems my ISP is running 8.0.8 and it's definitely not working on that. It *is* in the 8.0.13 documentation also though... So now I'm off to

Re: [GENERAL] Converting non-null unique idx to pkey

2007-08-23 Thread Kristo Kaiv
On 23.08.2007, at 11:23, Alban Hertroys wrote: Ed L. wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2007 1:45 pm, Scott Marlowe wrote: If you have a large db in 7.4.6, you should do two things. 1: Update to 7.4.19 or whatever the latest flavor of 7.4 is, right now. There are a few known data eating bugs in 7.

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-23 Thread Andrew Kelly
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 06:20 -0400, Geoffrey wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > John DeSoi wrote: > >> On Aug 22, 2007, at 7:21 PM, Geoffrey wrote: > >> > >>> We are looking for an open source reporting tool that will enable > >>> users to

Re: [GENERAL] How to switch off Snowball stemmer for tsearch2?

2007-08-23 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Dmitry Koterov wrote: Now select lexize('ru_ispell_cp1251', 'Дмитриев') -> "Дмитрий" select lexize('ru_ispell_cp1251', 'Иванов') -> "Иван" - it is completely wrong! I have a database with all Russian name, is it possible to use it (how?) to if you have such database wh

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump causes postgres crash

2007-08-23 Thread Jeff Amiel
--- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't help thinking you are looking at generalized > system > instability. Maybe someone knocked a few cables > loose while > installing new network hardware? Database server/storage instability or network instability? There is no doubt that there

[GENERAL] FATAL: could not reattach to shared memory (Win32)

2007-08-23 Thread Terry Yapt
Hello all, I am having problems with the next postgresql version: pg version: 8.2.4 OS: Win32 (windows xp sp2) FS: NTFS It is a production server, but suddenly the DB stop answering to any sql command. It seems dead. After restart server all starts to works again. I am looking for system e

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-23 Thread Geoffrey
Thanks for the various responses, I'll check them out and post my research results and our decision. -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin ---(e

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-23 Thread Geoffrey
Joshua D. Drake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John DeSoi wrote: On Aug 22, 2007, at 7:21 PM, Geoffrey wrote: We are looking for an open source reporting tool that will enable users to generate their own reports. Something like Crystal Reports. ;) I was looking at a co

Re: [GENERAL] How to switch off Snowball stemmer for tsearch2?

2007-08-23 Thread Dmitry Koterov
> > > Now > > > > select lexize('ru_ispell_cp1251', 'Дмитриев') -> "Дмитрий" > > select lexize('ru_ispell_cp1251', 'Иванов') -> "Иван" > > - it is completely wrong! > > > > I have a database with all Russian name, is it possible to use it (how?) > to > > if you have such database why just don't wri

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-23 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Phoenix Kiula wrote on 23.08.2007 10:42: On 23/08/07, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of CR, but it's worked with PostgreSQL for quite some time now. We had it hitting a pg7.2 db back in the day, when hip kids road around in rag top roadsters and wore tshi

Re: [GENERAL] CPU load high

2007-08-23 Thread Max Zorloff
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:24:32 +0400, Hannes Dorbath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 23.08.2007 11:04, Max Zorloff wrote: When one postgres process waits for lock to release does it use any cpu? And also, when apache waits for query to finish, does it use cpu? No, but are you sure what you see

Re: [GENERAL] reporting tools

2007-08-23 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 16:42 +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote: > On 23/08/07, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yeah, I'm not the biggest fan of CR, but it's worked with PostgreSQL > > for quite some time now. We had it hitting a pg7.2 db back in the > > day, when hip kids road around in r

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

2007-08-23 Thread Dave Page
Tony Caduto wrote: > Check it out here: > > http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com/pg_vs_fb Couple of corrections Tony: - You don't necessarily need to stop the postmaster to take a filesystem backup - http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-BASE-BACKUP. Obviousl

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