Re: [GENERAL] Problem. createdb: could not connect to database postgres: could not connect to server: No such file or directory

2008-04-11 Thread Craig Ringer
Jaisen N.D. wrote: Hai, I use Debian Etch. I have a problem with postgresql 8.1. I have uninstalled the postgresql-8.3, which I was took from debian back ports, removed its configuration files, and the user postgres also. It sounds like you didn't remove the data directory, /var/lib/postgresql/d

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2008-04-11 Thread Andrea
Hi all, i'm trying to setup PITR on my postgresql ( i run version 1.8.11 ); Following the docs and tips from the list this is what i made: 1) set up a crontab which copys the last-created WAL file in /home/postgres/WAL 2) set up a shell-script as a the archive_command: it copyes WAL files from

Re: [GENERAL] How does psql actually implement the \d commands

2008-04-11 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Apr 11, 5:45 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Albe Laurenz") wrote: > > Format the output. > > For example, the "17408" in the query above is a result from the > first query. > > If you had triggers, constraints, rules or indexes associated > with the table or the table would INHERIT another table, you'd

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2008-04-11 Thread Andrea
Hi all, i'm trying to setup PITR on my postgresql ( i run version 1.8.11 ); Following the docs and tips from the list this is what i made: 1) set up a crontab which copys the last-created WAL file in /home/postgres/WAL 2) set up a shell-script as a the archive_command: it copyes WAL files from

[GENERAL] Problem. createdb: could not connect to database postgres: could not connect to server: No such file or directory

2008-04-11 Thread Jaisen N.D.
Hai, I use Debian Etch. I have a problem with postgresql 8.1. I have uninstalled the postgresql-8.3, which I was took from debian back ports, removed its configuration files, and the user postgres also. Then installed postgresql-8.1. But when I started to create a database, it shows some message li

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch2 and hyphenated terms

2008-04-11 Thread Reece Hart
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 22:07 +0400, Oleg Bartunov wrote: > We have the same problem with names in astronomy, so we implemented > dict_regex http://vo.astronet.ru/arxiv/dict_regex.html > Check it out ! Oleg- This gets me a lot closer. Thank you. I have two remaining problems. The first problem

Re: [GENERAL] Deleting row in 7.4 takes for ever

2008-04-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Bharat Patel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a table that has 5.4 million rows of data in it. 4.6 million of > these rows are just administrative messages and not necessary so I'd like to > delete them. If I try and delete them, it takes 69 minutes to delete ~650K > rows. I'm betting on a

[GENERAL] Deleting row in 7.4 takes for ever

2008-04-11 Thread Bharat Patel
Hello, I'm new to postgres and the work of DB's. I'm running postres 7.4 on RHLinux 3. I have a table that has 5.4 million rows of data in it. 4.6 million of these rows are just administrative messages and not necessary so I'd like to delete them. If I try and delete them, it takes 69 minut

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Processes on a linux box

2008-04-11 Thread Erik Jones
On Apr 11, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Stefan Sturm wrote: Hello, Am 11.04.2008 um 18:41 schrieb Andrew Sullivan: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:09:43PM +0200, Stefan Sturm wrote: DBVisualizer stoped working and no I have two processes on my server: postgres 30873 0.0 0.7 46552 7124 ?Ss 12:

Re: [GENERAL] SQL injection, php and queueing multiple statement

2008-04-11 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:27:09 -0500 "Adam Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a switch (php side or pg side) to avoid things like: > > > > pg_query("select id from table1 where a=$i"); > > > > into becoming > > > > pg_query("select id from table1 where a=1 and 1=1; do something > > nas

Re: [GENERAL] SQL injection, php and queueing multiple statement

2008-04-11 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ivan Sergio Borgonovo) writes: > Is there a switch (php side or pg side) to avoid things like: > > pg_query("select id from table1 where a=$i"); > > into becoming > > pg_query("select id from table1 where a=1 and 1=1; do something > nasty; -- "); > > So that every > pg_query(...)

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Processes on a linux box

2008-04-11 Thread Stefan Sturm
Hello, Am 11.04.2008 um 18:41 schrieb Andrew Sullivan: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:09:43PM +0200, Stefan Sturm wrote: DBVisualizer stoped working and no I have two processes on my server: postgres 30873 0.0 0.7 46552 7124 ?Ss 12:33 0:01 postgres: postgres dbName 10.0.1.198(53658

Re: [GENERAL] SQL injection, php and queueing multiple statement

2008-04-11 Thread Adam Rich
> Is there a switch (php side or pg side) to avoid things like: > > pg_query("select id from table1 where a=$i"); > > into becoming > > pg_query("select id from table1 where a=1 and 1=1; do something > nasty; -- "); Ideally, you'd use this: pg_query_params('select id from table1 where a=$1', a

[GENERAL] SQL injection, php and queueing multiple statement

2008-04-11 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
Is there a switch (php side or pg side) to avoid things like: pg_query("select id from table1 where a=$i"); into becoming pg_query("select id from table1 where a=1 and 1=1; do something nasty; -- "); So that every pg_query(...) can contain no more than one statement? thanks -- Ivan Sergio Bo

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch2 and hyphenated terms

2008-04-11 Thread Oleg Bartunov
We have the same problem with names in astronomy, so we implemented dict_regex http://vo.astronet.ru/arxiv/dict_regex.html Check it out ! Oleg On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Reece Hart wrote: I'd like to use tsearch2 to index protein and gene names. Unfortunately, such names are written inconsistently a

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch2 and hyphenated terms

2008-04-11 Thread Tom Lane
Reece Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For the purposes of indexing these names, I suspect I'd get the majority > of cases by removing a hyphen when it's followed by 1 or 2 chars from > [a-zA-Z0-9]. Does that require a custom parser? Yeah, looks like it: regression=# select * from ts_debug('MCL

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Processes on a linux box

2008-04-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Stefan Sturm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > altered a database using DBVisualizer. When I hit execute, DBVisualizer > stoped working and no I have two processes on my server: > postgres 30873 0.0 0.7 46552 7124 ?Ss 12:33 0:01 postgres: > p

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Processes on a linux box

2008-04-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 03:09:43PM +0200, Stefan Sturm wrote: > DBVisualizer stoped working and no I have two processes on my server: > postgres 30873 0.0 0.7 46552 7124 ?Ss 12:33 0:01 > postgres: postgres dbName 10.0.1.198(53658) ALTER TABLE waiting > postgres 31007 0.0 0.6 46

[GENERAL] tsearch2 and hyphenated terms

2008-04-11 Thread Reece Hart
I'd like to use tsearch2 to index protein and gene names. Unfortunately, such names are written inconsistently and sometimes with hyphens. For example, MCL-1 and MCL1 are semantically equivalent but with the default parser and to_tsvector, I see this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> select to_tsvector(

Re: [GENERAL] Operator COMMUTATOR - how does postgresql use this information

2008-04-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Obe, Regina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does PostgreSQL use the COMMUTATOR property of an operator to determine > if flip-flopped arguments can be collapsed. No. In recent releases we don't even bother to look for simple duplicate clauses (it's seldom worth the cycles), let alone clauses that

Re: [GENERAL] createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: encoding LATIN1 does not match server's locale en_GB.UTF-8

2008-04-11 Thread Glyn Astill
This is sorted now chaps, I was missing a system locale. ta Glyn - Original Message > From: Glyn Astill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Sent: Friday, 11 April, 2008 2:59:56 PM > Subject: [GENERAL] createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: encoding > LATIN1 doe

Re: [GENERAL] Date / interval question

2008-04-11 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Thu, dem 10.04.2008, um 21:26:14 -0600 mailte kevin kempter folgendes: > I can get the number of days since the start of the fiscal year like > this: > > # select date '01/01/2007' - date '09/01/2006' as interval; > interval > -- > 122 > (1 row) > > However I'm stumped [er h

Re: [GENERAL] Problem after VACUUM ANALYZE

2008-04-11 Thread mljv
Hi all, dear Richard, your mail about my configuration parameter were the right hint, but i am still struggling with the problem. i will appreciate if you or somebody else can help me even further. After some investigation i got some new results to my problem. The following query is not workin

Re: [GENERAL] BD removed

2008-04-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Miguel A. Lopera Tejero escribió: > I need some help. We have a Web application connecting to a postgresql > 8.2 database on Windows Server 2003. According to the log, we logged on > the server using a remote control desktop, after uninstalling Tomcat we > installed a new Tomcat version. After tha

[GENERAL] createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: encoding LATIN1 does not match server's locale en_GB.UTF-8

2008-04-11 Thread Glyn Astill
When trying to specify an encoding to initdb I get: createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: encoding LATIN1 does not match server's locale en_GB.UTF-8 8.2 Used to let us create any encoding in initdb. I see that it was in the todo to make this change, but how do I create my database in LATI

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL Processes on a linux box

2008-04-11 Thread Stefan Sturm
Hello, altered a database using DBVisualizer. When I hit execute, DBVisualizer stoped working and no I have two processes on my server: postgres 30873 0.0 0.7 46552 7124 ?Ss 12:33 0:01 postgres: postgres dbName 10.0.1.198(53658) ALTER TABLE waiting postgres 31007 0.0 0.6 46

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres on shared network drive

2008-04-11 Thread Craig Ringer
Pavan Deolasee wrote: I wonder if it would make sense to add support to mount database in *read-only* mode from multiple servers though. I am thinking about data warehouse kind of operations where multiple servers can be used answer read-only queries. Is there a use case for such applications in

[GENERAL] Operator COMMUTATOR - how does postgresql use this information

2008-04-11 Thread Obe, Regina
Does PostgreSQL use the COMMUTATOR property of an operator to determine if flip-flopped arguments can be collapsed. I used to think it did until someone pointed it doesn't - For example in the below SELECT b.* FROM boszip b INNER JOIN landparcels l ON (b.the_geom && l.the_geom AND l.the_geom

Re: [GENERAL] Date / interval question

2008-04-11 Thread Rodrigo E. De León Plicet
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:26 PM, kevin kempter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However I'm stumped [er how to get the number of months from 09/01/2007 > thru 01/01/2007 select extract(month from (age(date '2007-1-1', date '2006-9-1'))); -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgr

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL on a networked drive with multiple users

2008-04-11 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 11/04/2008 09:58, J Ottery wrote: Thanks Craig for making me look like an idiot. I feel bad now. When I posted I suspected that what you have just replied with was the case. I'm sure that wasn't Craig's intent. I'd hazard a guess that you've been using Access or a similar single-file-based

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres on shared network drive

2008-04-11 Thread J Ottery
On Apr 11, 5:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("A. Kretschmer") wrote: > am Thu, dem 10.04.2008, um 23:53:18 -0700 mailte J Ottery folgendes: > > > Using windows XP and TCP/IP network. > > > I install PostgreSQL on a client PC and put the data files on a > > networked drive (instead of the local drive).

Re: [GENERAL] begin transaction locks out other connections

2008-04-11 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Dennis Brakhane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe it does. See > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/sql-set-constraints.html > and the DEFERRABLE keyword in CREATE TABLE. > > Or am I missing something here? > Only foreign key contrains chec

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres on shared network drive

2008-04-11 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:04 PM, A. Kretschmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You idea is complete ill. PostgreSQL is a Server-Client-database, with > one Server and multiple Clients. You can't access to the same > database-files with multiple database-servers. > I wonder if it would make sen

Re: [GENERAL] How does psql actually implement the \d commands

2008-04-11 Thread Albe Laurenz
Andrew Falanga wrote: > > > I know about the -E option to psql and did that to get the following, > > > which is what psql does for a \d : > > [...] > > > > > Now, I tried to execute these queries one at a time and they failed, > > > somewhat miserably. In what order does PostgreSQL actually execu

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres on shared network drive

2008-04-11 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Thu, dem 10.04.2008, um 23:53:18 -0700 mailte J Ottery folgendes: > Using windows XP and TCP/IP network. > > I install PostgreSQL on a client PC and put the data files on a > networked drive (instead of the local drive). Postgres as user and > localport. This works well. > > Now I install po

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres on shared network drive

2008-04-11 Thread Magnus Hagander
Tomasz Ostrowski wrote: > On 2008-04-11 08:53, J Ottery wrote: > > > I install PostgreSQL on a client PC and put the data files on a > > networked drive (instead of the local drive). Postgres as user and > > localport. This works well. > > This is not the way it is meant to work, and it can eat

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL on a networked drive with multiple users

2008-04-11 Thread Craig Ringer
J Ottery wrote: Thanks Craig for making me look like an idiot. I feel bad now. That wasn't my intent, so I'm sorry for making you feel bad about it. I was just trying to stress the importance of only ever having one pg instance using a data directory. If you're used to shared-access systems

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres on shared network drive

2008-04-11 Thread Craig Ringer
J Ottery wrote: Thanks so much Craig. I have decided to migrate to Postgres and most of my applications are single computer based but I need to plan for future needs. Some research is in order for me. All you should need to do is allow the user / administrator to configure the connection sett

[GENERAL] PostgresSQL on a networked drive with multiple users

2008-04-11 Thread J Ottery
Thanks Craig for making me look like an idiot. I feel bad now. When I posted I suspected that what you have just replied with was the case. I have some leaning to do on this. Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http:/

Re: [GENERAL] how to use transaction isolation

2008-04-11 Thread Gong
On 4/11/08, Jan de Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Your commit at (2) ends the transaction, and the second select runs in >a new one. >jan -- I got it. I didn't notice it is the *TRANSACTION* isolation. Thanks a lot! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) T

Re: [GENERAL] begin transaction locks out other connections

2008-04-11 Thread Craig Ringer
Dennis Brakhane wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Pavan Deolasee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Ivano Luberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think that's because Postgres does not have deferred constraint checks. I believe it does. See http://www.post

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres on shared network drive

2008-04-11 Thread Craig Ringer
J Ottery wrote: Using windows XP and TCP/IP network. I install PostgreSQL on a client PC and put the data files on a networked drive (instead of the local drive). Postgres as user and localport. This works well. I wouldn't personally trust this setup. Now I install postgresSQL on another cl

Re: [GENERAL] How does psql actually implement the \d commands

2008-04-11 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Apr 9, 5:51 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Albe Laurenz") wrote: > Andrew Falanga wrote: > > > I know about the -E option to psql and did that to get the following, > > which is what psql does for a \d : > > > * QUERY ** > > SELECT c.oid, > > n.nspname, > > c.relname > > FROM pg_cat

[GENERAL] PG 8.3 review in Linux Mag

2008-04-11 Thread Brent Wood
You can't read the online article without an account, but the headlines might still be of interest (or you can buy the magazine :-) http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5679 Cheers, Brent Wood -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscriptio

Re: [GENERAL] begin transaction locks out other connections

2008-04-11 Thread Dennis Brakhane
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Pavan Deolasee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Ivano Luberti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that's because Postgres does not have deferred constraint checks. I believe it does. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactiv

Re: [GENERAL] how to use transaction isolation

2008-04-11 Thread Jan de Visser
On 4/10/08, Gong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In the java code below, I set the transaction isolation to serialization. > > public class IsolationTest { > > private static String select = "select * from tmp where url = 'aaa'"; > > public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres on shared network drive

2008-04-11 Thread Tomasz Ostrowski
On 2008-04-11 08:53, J Ottery wrote: > I install PostgreSQL on a client PC and put the data files on a > networked drive (instead of the local drive). Postgres as user and > localport. This works well. This is not the way it is meant to work, and it can eat your data. > Now I install postgresSQ

[GENERAL] Postgres on shared network drive

2008-04-11 Thread J Ottery
Using windows XP and TCP/IP network. I install PostgreSQL on a client PC and put the data files on a networked drive (instead of the local drive). Postgres as user and localport. This works well. Now I install postgresSQL on another client machine and point it to the same data directory on the n