[GENERAL] virtualidx exclusive lock

2009-11-08 Thread Uwe Schroeder
I've googled, but there's 0 hits. I have an issue with a ton of "idle in transaction" backends. What I noticed is when I look at pg_locks, pretty much all of the processes being idle in transaction have an exclusive lock of locktype "virtualidx". Well, that doesn't make sense to me, but maybe s

Re: [GENERAL] I can't seem to put the right combination of magic into the pg_hba and pg_ident files.

2009-11-08 Thread John R Pierce
Tim Uckun wrote: psql -U postgres psql: FATAL: Ident authentication failed for user "postgres" Obviously I need to tell postgres to trust the user root when connected locally as postgres. How do I do that? either create a postgres user named 'root' and give it superuser privileges, or

Re: [GENERAL] I can't seem to put the right combination of magic into the pg_hba and pg_ident files.

2009-11-08 Thread Tim Uckun
> then say you're postgres in the script with the -U (if you're using psql) > > AS ROOT: > psql -U postgres -h remote_db dbname > > Note that ident doesn't work so well between machines, so you might > want to look at .pgpass > That's what I am trying to get working. In actuality I am using ruby a

Re: [GENERAL] I can't seem to put the right combination of magic into the pg_hba and pg_ident files.

2009-11-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Tim Uckun wrote: >> I suspect you are expecting that the map will cause root to be >> logged in as postgres without asking for that.  It won't. >> What it will do is allow "psql -U postgres" and similar to work. > > That's exactly what I am looking to do. In my case

Re: [GENERAL] Problem to use remote cygwin server using ssh and native psql 8.3.5

2009-11-08 Thread Jukka Inkeri
The native psql is written for Windows, not for Cygwin. You really shouldn't be using it there... If you are using Cygwin, you should be using a Cygwin psql.exe. PG pages says: use native, not cygwin version anymore. It's not problem if it's "windows" binary, you can use many native binary

Re: [GENERAL] I can't seem to put the right combination of magic into the pg_hba and pg_ident files.

2009-11-08 Thread Tim Uckun
> I suspect you are expecting that the map will cause root to be > logged in as postgres without asking for that.  It won't. > What it will do is allow "psql -U postgres" and similar to work. That's exactly what I am looking to do. In my case I have a script that runs as root. I want to log in as

Re: [GENERAL] question about using pgmemcache

2009-11-08 Thread Chris
Juan Backson wrote: Hi, I am planning to pgmemcache to act as a fast-accessible cache before my app and postgres. I have got it pgmemcache setup. The question I have is that if memcached crashes, and I need to restart memcached, since memcached is not persistent, do I need to run some scr

[GENERAL] question about using pgmemcache

2009-11-08 Thread Juan Backson
Hi, I am planning to pgmemcache to act as a fast-accessible cache before my app and postgres. I have got it pgmemcache setup. The question I have is that if memcached crashes, and I need to restart memcached, since memcached is not persistent, do I need to run some scripts to auto-recreate all t

Re: [GENERAL] I can't seem to put the right combination of magic into the pg_hba and pg_ident files.

2009-11-08 Thread Tom Lane
Tim Uckun writes: > I want to accomplish what I would think would be a simple thing. I > want the root user to be able to connect to the postgres database as > user postgres from the local machine without passwords. Since I am > doing this from a program I don't want to use the su facility. I su

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-es-ayuda] Ayuda con NOTIFY en C

2009-11-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Yadisnel Galvez Velazquez wrote: > Gracias Alvaro, mi pregunta era por si se podía implementar por uno mismo. El > problema es que necesito comunicar una librería en C de un trigger con una > aplicación que realiza réplica para que informe sobre cambios que se realizan > en las tablas, esto lo h

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-es-ayuda] Ayuda con NOTIFY en C

2009-11-08 Thread Yadisnel Galvez Velazquez
Gracias Alvaro, mi pregunta era por si se podía implementar por uno mismo. El problema es que necesito comunicar una librería en C de un trigger con una aplicación que realiza réplica para que informe sobre cambios que se realizan en las tablas, esto lo he logrado mediante una implementación de

[GENERAL] I can't seem to put the right combination of magic into the pg_hba and pg_ident files.

2009-11-08 Thread Tim Uckun
I want to accomplish what I would think would be a simple thing. I want the root user to be able to connect to the postgres database as user postgres from the local machine without passwords. Since I am doing this from a program I don't want to use the su facility. I have tried a lot of different

Re: [GENERAL] Problem granting access to a PlPython function

2009-11-08 Thread Mariano Mara
Excerpts from Sam Mason's message of Sun Nov 08 17:18:52 -0300 2009: > On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 05:07:16PM -0300, Mariano Mara wrote: > > I have this plpython function that I need to execute with a non > > superuser. I logged in the postgres account, create it and grant execute > > rights to the tar

Re: [GENERAL] Problem to use remote cygwin server using ssh and native psql 8.3.5

2009-11-08 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:35, Jukka Inkeri wrote: > > I have installed cycwin and sshd in my Windows server. > > I have Winnative psql.exe (8.3.5) > > If I use cygwin locally in this server and give command in cygwin session: >   psql -h somehost -U someuser -d somedb > it works fine > > But if i

Re: [GENERAL] Problem granting access to a PlPython function

2009-11-08 Thread Sam Mason
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 05:07:16PM -0300, Mariano Mara wrote: > I have this plpython function that I need to execute with a non > superuser. I logged in the postgres account, create it and grant execute > rights to the target user. > However I cannot execute it with this user: I'm getting a "funct

[GENERAL] Problem granting access to a PlPython function

2009-11-08 Thread Mariano Mara
Hi, I have this plpython function that I need to execute with a non superuser. I logged in the postgres account, create it and grant execute rights to the target user. However I cannot execute it with this user: I'm getting a "function ... does not exist" error and after poking it for a few hours

Re: [GENERAL] Problem to use remote cygwin server using ssh and native psql 8.3.5

2009-11-08 Thread Sam Mason
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 02:25:26PM +0200, Jukka Inkeri wrote: > Jukka Inkeri wrote: > >tested using Cygwin 1.5.x and 1.7.x > > > >Ssh tty problem using Windows native psql.exe ? > > If I use flag -f in psql, then no problem. [...] > Interactive work not. If I remember correctly it's to do with

Re: [GENERAL] adding a custom tsearch parser

2009-11-08 Thread Daniel Verite
ara.t.howard wrote: > my questions are > > 1) can the current parser be configured in any way? > > 2) if not, can someone provide and direction towards writing my own > and configuring pg to use it? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/test-parser.html Best regards, -- Daniel

[GENERAL] Getting iPhone Simulator App to compile with libpq on Snow Leopard

2009-11-08 Thread Bob Henkel
In my quest to create a simple PostgreSQL program that runs on the iPhone I have ran into some problems. The first issue I had with my build was libpq being compiled for architecture of type x86_64 by default on Snow Leopard and the Simulator being i386 so my build would fail telling me libpq was

Re: [GENERAL] Problem to use remote cygwin server using ssh and native psql 8.3.5

2009-11-08 Thread Jukka Inkeri
Jukka Inkeri wrote: I have installed cycwin and sshd in my Windows server. I have Winnative psql.exe (8.3.5) If I use cygwin locally in this server and give command in cygwin session: psql -h somehost -U someuser -d somedb it works fine But if i use via ssh same way, then no echo ... and proc

[GENERAL] Problem to use remote cygwin server using ssh and native psql 8.3.5

2009-11-08 Thread Jukka Inkeri
I have installed cycwin and sshd in my Windows server. I have Winnative psql.exe (8.3.5) If I use cygwin locally in this server and give command in cygwin session: psql -h somehost -U someuser -d somedb it works fine But if i use via ssh same way, then no echo ... and process hang. I have

Re: [GENERAL] WAL shipping to two machines (PITR)

2009-11-08 Thread Tomas Simonaitis
We are using two slaves this way: - Active server moves WAL files to local directory, doesn't care about slaves (basically archive_command = 'mv %p /some/arch_dir/%f') - Slaves pull WAL files via rsync - Slaves also do full syncs every several hours (pg_start_backup / rsync / pg_stop_backup) - Ac

Re: [GENERAL] Backups

2009-11-08 Thread Uwe Schroeder
Personally I prefer multiple stages of backups off-site. So for my production webserver database, I have slony replicating the database to a different location. In addition I run full dumps every 12 hours which in turn I replicate using rdist to a remote system. That way, whatever happens, the m

[GENERAL] Backups

2009-11-08 Thread Bret
I need to back up a production database every night on FreeBSD 7.2, running Postgresql 8.3. Any good backup tips I should be aware of. Typically, I make a backup based on the current day, and rotate the seven days in the backup file name (eg; sat_backup, sun_backup etc). Thanks for all the cha