Re: [GENERAL] RHEL

2003-11-11 Thread Adam Haberlach
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 04:03:44PM -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Adam Haberlach wrote: > > > On that note, does anyone have suggestions for which version of the > > server I should run? I see that there are seperate binary RPMS for > > diffe

Re: [GENERAL] RHEL

2003-11-11 Thread Adam Haberlach
and contributing one, or is this not necessary? -- Adam Haberlach | "We spent the 90's all trying to figure out [EMAIL PROTECTED] | how to get email and the 00's trying to http://mediariffic.com | figure out how to not get email." |

[GENERAL] python Backend message type 0x44 arrived while idle

2001-10-17 Thread Adam Haberlach
init__ self.handle() File "./zipcode.py", line 197, in handle messages = self.selected_folder.fetch_by_uids(begin, end) File "./datastore.py", line 18, in fetch_by_uids res = self.db.query(q) _pg.error: pqReadData() -- read() failed: errno=2 No such file or directory

Re: [GENERAL] 7.1 on Solaris 8 run failure?

2001-04-15 Thread Adam Haberlach
at PostgreSQL could emit a URL like this when it fails for what I would expect to be a common reason for those of us that are used to out-of-the-box Linux installs and are becoming more and more frustrated with Sun's silly defaults? -- Adam Haberlach| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http

Re: [GENERAL] Convert Filemaker Pro db to Postgresql db

2001-04-07 Thread Adam Haberlach
pent an afternoon dealing with the breakage (we had some greater-then-8k tuples that I had to sort out). Other options, as people have mentioned, would be ODBC, but we found that this worked better. And that FileMaker sucks. -- Adam Haberlach| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http:/

Re: [GENERAL] quota's ?

2001-04-07 Thread Adam Haberlach
as I should, but as of the first betas of 7.1, it would corrupt your database horribly if you ran out of space. I think this has been fixed, but you might wanna check with hackers or release nots. -- Adam Haberlach| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://youlook.org http://www.ne

[GENERAL] Out of date security docs

2001-03-27 Thread Adam Haberlach
lly=> grant insert on foo to group posthackers; CHANGE jolly=> /***/ -- Adam Haberlach| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://youlook.org http://www.newsnipple.com | '88 EX500'00 >^< | ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[GENERAL] Max username/password length

2001-03-26 Thread Adam Haberlach
Anyone know the max username/password length for Postgres? -- Adam Haberlach| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://youlook.org http://www.newsnipple.com | '88 EX500'00 >^< | ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] ...lame use of casting, looking for workaround...

2001-02-24 Thread Adam Haberlach
On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 11:16:49AM +, Richard Huxton wrote: > Adam Haberlach wrote: > > > > One of the rocket scientests working on this project has > > created a system in which /either/ a description or a build > > number is stored in a text field.

Re: [GENERAL] Foreign Keys

2001-02-05 Thread Adam Haberlach
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:59:16PM -0500, wrote: > I have PostgreSQL 6.5, and I can't get foreign keys to work! What seems to > be the problem? Your database is too purple. -- Adam Haberlach|A cat spends her life conflicted between a [EMAIL PROTECTED] |deep, pass

Re: [GENERAL] php as stored procedures

2001-02-01 Thread Adam Haberlach
Perl. Well, they are both turing complete and extensible enough to be able to execute arbitrary functions via plug-ins. I studied computer engineering and not computer science, but I'm pretty sure this makes them functionally equivalent, so you are both right. -- Adam Haberlach

Re: [GENERAL] trying to back up a database

2001-02-01 Thread Adam Haberlach
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:27:18PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Adam Haberlach wrote: > >I'm trying to back up a database, including the user records. If > >I use pg_dump, I can get the table, but I cannot seem to be the user > >information. >

Re: [GENERAL] php as stored procedures

2001-01-31 Thread Adam Haberlach
the interpreter engine upon which PHP is based, and it seems pretty well done. If anything, it might be interesting to adopt some of the ideas of PHP and create our own language or sub-PHP. I am, however, in no way volunteering for such a project. -- Adam Haberlach|A cat

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2001-01-31 Thread Adam Haberlach
wrong?) -- Adam Haberlach|A cat spends her life conflicted between a [EMAIL PROTECTED] |deep, passionate, and profound desire for http://www.newsnipple.com |fish and an equally deep, passionate, and '88 EX500 |profound desire to avoid getting wet.

Re: [GENERAL] Wild Cards

2001-01-26 Thread Adam Haberlach
KE '%marley'; -- Adam Haberlach|A cat spends her life conflicted between a [EMAIL PROTECTED] |deep, passionate, and profound desire for http://www.newsnipple.com |fish and an equally deep, passionate, and '88 EX500 |profound desire to avoid getting wet.

[GENERAL] Backing up large objects

2001-01-23 Thread Adam Haberlach
p dbs with lobjs, or should I write my own dang script? -- Adam Haberlach|A cat spends her life conflicted between a [EMAIL PROTECTED] |deep, passionate, and profound desire for http://www.newsnipple.com |fish and an equally deep, passionate, and '88 EX500

Re: [GENERAL] Spot the error in my plpgsql...

2001-01-17 Thread Adam Haberlach
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:03:05PM +0100, Mirko Zeibig wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:22:28PM -0800, Adam Haberlach wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:58:41PM +0100, Mirko Zeibig wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:54:26PM -0800, Adam Haberlach wrote: > > &g

Re: [GENERAL] Spot the error in my plpgsql...

2001-01-16 Thread Adam Haberlach
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:58:41PM +0100, Mirko Zeibig wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:54:26PM -0800, Adam Haberlach wrote: > > I've got the following procedure... > > > > DROP FUNCTION "blank_referring_devices" (); > > CREATE FUNCTION &quo

[GENERAL] Dangling large objects

2001-01-08 Thread Adam Haberlach
that those unlinks never happened. Is there any simple way for me to get a list of all large objects in a database, so I can see if there are actually rows referring to them and delete the ones that were not unlinked earlier? -- Adam Haberlach|A cat spends her life conflicted betwee

Re: [GENERAL] PHP and PostgreSQL

2001-01-05 Thread Adam Haberlach
ssword ." )"; echo $data->client_id.">"; } You can blame the PHP people for having wildly dissimilar systems for iterating through result sets... > In mysql there was no need to count rows. Let's not start the MySQL vs. Postgre

[GENERAL] void UPDATE function?

2000-12-28 Thread Adam Haberlach
;t seem to work. -- Adam Haberlach|A cat spends her life conflicted between a [EMAIL PROTECTED] |deep, passionate, and profound desire for http://www.newsnipple.com |fish and an equally deep, passionate, and '88 EX500 |profound desire to avoid getting wet.

Re: [GENERAL] How I can join between the other database's tables?

2000-12-27 Thread Adam Haberlach
; > > >--- > >Now, I want to join table a of database a and table a of database b. > >How? > According to my knowledge this cant yet be achieved in postgresql.. > I sincerly hope i am wrong.. I'm pretty sure you are right. If your data is related enough

Re: [GENERAL] Schema

2000-12-19 Thread Adam Haberlach
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 12:51:26PM -0500, gerardo tagliani wrote: > Somebody knows how to get a sql "schema" of a Postgresql database?? pg_dump -s -d -- Adam Haberlach|A cat spends her life conflicted between a [EMAIL PROTECTED] |deep, passionate, and profou

Re: [GENERAL] UNION within VIEW workarounds?

2000-12-07 Thread Adam Haberlach
in 7.1. Beta Real Soon Now. Out of curiosity, what is the advantage, other then simplification of the query itself, of using a view over a straight select? -- Adam Haberlach |A cat spends her life conflicted between a [EMAIL PROTECTED] |deep, passionate, and

Re: [GENERAL] OID and joins

2000-10-18 Thread Adam Haberlach
t hard to migrate to a different database system should you need to do that for some reason... -- Adam Haberlach|ASCII /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Ribbon \ / Against http://www.newsnipple.com | CampaignX HTML '88 EX500 |/ \ E-mail

Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] My new job

2000-10-10 Thread Adam Haberlach
this whinging about "corperate direction" is really meaningless unless you are prepared to jump ship or split off in a clone of the original one. The code is what you do with it. We are all lucky that it is as good and useful as it is right now. -- Adam Haberlach| A bil

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to use PGSql with PHP

2000-10-08 Thread Adam Haberlach
lps avoid a few problems: Red Hat may suddenly upgrade to a newly incompatible version, or may just change a configuration. At a guess, I would say that you are probably missing an .rpm for the postgres-client or pgsql-client, but that is based on my view dealings with Red Hat. -- Adam Haberl

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump's over 2GB

2000-09-29 Thread Adam Haberlach
We have had some problems with tar silently truncated some > 2Gb files during a backup. We also had to move the perforce server from Linux to BSD because some checkpoint files were truncating at 2Gb (not a perforce problem, but a Linux one). Be careful, test frequently, etc... -- Adam

Re: Fw: [GENERAL] Talking with other Dbases.

2000-09-28 Thread Adam Haberlach
converted much of his stuff to use Postgres, but there are some semi-remote machines using MySQL. With PHP, even though there is almost no consistency between database interfaces, it isn't too hard to use both systems. I still reccommend going with one database solution, though. Muc

Re: [GENERAL] one more word about rules

2000-09-22 Thread Adam Haberlach
t during backdate inserts or with later updates... -- Adam Haberlach| A billion hours ago, human life appeared on [EMAIL PROTECTED] | earth. A billion minutes ago, Christianity http://www.newsnipple.com | emerged. A billion Coca-Colas ago was '88 EX500 | yesterday morning. -1996 Coca-Cola Ann. Rpt.

[GENERAL] Public Database of zip code information

2000-09-20 Thread Adam Haberlach
Sometime in the past year, someone mentioned a database that contained zipcode, lat/long, and city information--does anyone else remember this, or should I check into a drug clinic? I'm pretty much looking for a way to correlate zip, city, and/or geographic locations. --

www.postgresql.org web master

2000-03-14 Thread Adam Haberlach
lem is (I'm not a web hacker, I just play one for QA database purposes), but it would be nice, for image purposes, if the page rendered correctly on at least Opera 4.0 if not NetPositive 2.0 -- Adam Haberlach |"Your stdio isn't very std. [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Your

Re: [GENERAL] What does this mean ?

1999-06-26 Thread Adam Haberlach
On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 05:01:29PM +0100, Mario Jorge Nunes Filipe wrote: > Thomas Reinke wrote: > > > > You have already started a transaction and haven't yet > > finished it. > > > > E.g. > > > > psql template; > > BEGIN; > > BEGIN; > > Not that i don't believe you but i think that in

[GENERAL] Indexing of text fields

1999-02-24 Thread Adam Haberlach
I am going to be working with a database with a lot of rather large text fields in it. To do some profiling, I have hacked up an IRC bot to submit messages into a database. I cannot seem to get any of my queries to use the indexes I create on the msg field--is there something specific I

[GENERAL] Importing to Postgres from Filemaker Pro

1999-01-31 Thread Adam Haberlach
Has anyone out there done any work getting data from a FileMaker database into postgres? I have about 16000 fairly large records that I need to move from a crufty MacOS machine to a Linux box. I also have Filemaker for NT handy, as well as Lasso. At least four of the fields in the datab

Re: [GENERAL] Question about Linux, threads, and Postgres

1999-01-31 Thread Adam Haberlach
On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 09:08:14PM -0800, Felix Morley Finch wrote: > Q 1: Does anyone have experience with Postgres in a threaded program? I have done a bit of this under BeOS (where each window gets its own event loop and thread). My first program turned out to have problems in my ini