[GENERAL] Movable Type 5 and Postgres

2010-10-19 Thread Matthew Hixson
I've posted a short guide on how to get Movable Type 5, Postgres 9, and Tomcat 7.0 working together. http://www.greenskagitvalley.com/blog/movable-type-5-with-tomcat-70x-and-postgres-90.html -M@ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subsc

[GENERAL] anyone have Movable Type 5 working with Postgres?

2010-10-08 Thread Matthew Hixson
Even though Movable Type 5 has dropped official support for Postgres it still comes with the drivers in order for it to work. I've gotten it setup and working with Postgres, but there is one problem that keeps me from being able to use it. That issue I've explained over on the MT forums: http

[GENERAL] anyone have Movable Type 5 working with Postgres?

2010-10-05 Thread Matthew Hixson
I've seen mention that it might be possible for MT5 to re-gain Postgres support (they dropped it in version 5) through the use of plugins. Does anyone know of such a thing and/or have an installation working themselves? Would greatly appreciate any info you can share. Thanks, -M@ -- Sen

[GENERAL] running Apple Mail on Postgres?

2007-12-17 Thread Matthew Hixson
This may be a tad off topic, but thought a PG enthusiast might have some insight on this. Apple Mail sits on top of Sqlite. I was wondering if it would be possible to substitute Postgres as the underlying database. I do know how to vacuum Sqlite to speed up Mail, but with the massive amo

[GENERAL] settings for 8.2.5 on Mac OS X 10.4.11

2007-12-14 Thread Matthew Hixson
What are good settings for shared_buffers and max_connections with the above software combo? Out of the box I'm getting the "Cannot allocate memory" message upon doing a 'make check'. Thanks, -M@ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/

Re: [GENERAL] change format of logging statements?

2007-10-26 Thread Matthew Hixson
With 8.2.4 is it possible to get Postgres to log incoming SQL statements the same as they look when written? Instead of: DEBUG: insert into foo (name) values ($1); DETAIL: parameters: $1 = 'stan' I'd like to see: DEBUG: insert into foo (name) values ('stan'); This would be extremely helpful

[GENERAL] Adjacency Lists vs Nested Sets

2007-07-10 Thread Matthew Hixson
Does Postgres have any native support for hierarchical data storage? I'm familiar with the Adjacency List technique, but am trying to determine whether or not Nested Sets would make sense for our application or not. I understand that Nested Sets might be better for high read applications,

[GENERAL] varchar as primary key

2007-05-03 Thread Matthew Hixson
I'm investigating the usage of a UUID primary key generator using Hibernate and Postgres. The reason for using a UUID is that we will have an application hosted at different sites in different databases. We will need to aggregate the data back into a single database from time to time and

[GENERAL] change format of logging statements?

2007-04-23 Thread Matthew Hixson
Postgres 8.2.0 is logging statements with variables like $1, $2, etc. and then on the next line saying: DETAIL: parameters: $1 = '100', $2 = '100', $3 = '1003' Is it possible to get statements logged with the parameters placed into the actual query statement so that its more convenient to c

[GENERAL] using Postgres with Sequoia

2007-04-23 Thread Matthew Hixson
I am investigating data replication and failover ideas for a Java web application. I would like the ability to have 2 or more Postgres databases that are kept in synch, with the ability to loose all but 1 database and have the application still function. It seems that Sequoia would work n

Re: [GENERAL] EnterpriseDB

2006-05-05 Thread Matthew Hixson
Great Gulf Homes / Ashton Woods Homes Fax: (416) 441-9085 Matthew Hixson wrote: http://www.enterprisedb.com/news_events/press_releases/04_24_06.do Was wondering if anyone had used that to import an Oracle .dmp file and then export a Postgres 8.1 dump file for import into a regular PostgreSQ

[GENERAL] EnterpriseDB

2006-05-05 Thread Matthew Hixson
http://www.enterprisedb.com/news_events/press_releases/04_24_06.do Was wondering if anyone had used that to import an Oracle .dmp file and then export a Postgres 8.1 dump file for import into a regular PostgreSQL database. -M@ ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [GENERAL] returning a cursor from a function?

2006-01-31 Thread Matthew Hixson
Thanks, Michael. Don't know how I missed those. -M@ On Jan 31, 2006, at 10:55 PM, Michael Fuhr wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:37:47PM -0800, Matthew Hixson wrote: I have a create function statement that works with Oracle 8i and I'm trying to create this function in Postgres 8.

[GENERAL] returning a cursor from a function?

2006-01-31 Thread Matthew Hixson
I have a create function statement that works with Oracle 8i and I'm trying to create this function in Postgres 8.1.2. CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pr_user( p0 CHAR ) RETURN Types.cursor_type IS rs Types.cursor_type; BEGIN OPEN rs FOR SELECT us.approval_type_code AS us_approval_type_code FROM

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 8.1.2, Java, JDO, and case sensitivity woes

2006-01-27 Thread Matthew Hixson
On Jan 27, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote: Matthew Hixson wrote on 28.01.2006 00:53: I'm trying to get a large Java application which makes use of an Oracle JDO layer to work with Postgres. Set aside for a moment the discussion of whether or not that is going to work. W

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 8.1.2, Java, JDO, and case sensitivity woes

2006-01-27 Thread Matthew Hixson
field_one --- 1 2 (2 rows) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew Hixson Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 3:53 PM To: Postgres General Subject: [GENERAL] Postgres 8.1.2, Java, JDO, and case sensitivity woes I

[GENERAL] Postgres 8.1.2, Java, JDO, and case sensitivity woes

2006-01-27 Thread Matthew Hixson
I'm trying to get a large Java application which makes use of an Oracle JDO layer to work with Postgres. Set aside for a moment the discussion of whether or not that is going to work. What I have found is that different parts of this application are referring to a table in all uppercase an

Re: [GENERAL] importing an Oracle database into Postgres

2005-12-28 Thread Matthew Hixson
On Dec 28, 2005, at 12:38 PM, Jim C. Nasby wrote: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2005-10/msg00311.php or contrib/oracle are probably your best bet. On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 12:12:06PM -0800, Matthew Hixson wrote: What's the best way to import an Oracle database into Postgres?

Re: [GENERAL] importing an Oracle database into Postgres

2005-12-28 Thread Matthew Hixson
goal? Thanks, -M@ On Dec 28, 2005, at 1:10 PM, David Fetter wrote: On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 12:12:06PM -0800, Matthew Hixson wrote: What's the best way to import an Oracle database into Postgres? I'm using Oracle 8.1 and Postgres 8.1.1. DBI-Link. http://pgfoundry.org/projects/db

[GENERAL] importing an Oracle database into Postgres

2005-12-28 Thread Matthew Hixson
What's the best way to import an Oracle database into Postgres? I'm using Oracle 8.1 and Postgres 8.1.1. Thanks, -M@ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] GCC 4.0 on Mac OS X

2005-05-20 Thread Matthew Hixson
On May 20, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Matthew Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Just wondering if the Postgres hackers have done any performance measurements on Postgres compiled with GCC 3.x against Postgres compiled with GCC 4.0. I'm wondering whether or not the auto- ve

[GENERAL] GCC 4.0 on Mac OS X

2005-05-20 Thread Matthew Hixson
Just wondering if the Postgres hackers have done any performance measurements on Postgres compiled with GCC 3.x against Postgres compiled with GCC 4.0. I'm wondering whether or not the auto- vectorization stuff in 4.0 provides any performance improvements to Postgres 8.0.x. -M@ -

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-19 Thread Matthew Hixson
I also thought I saw quite a few more warnings this time than in the past. -M@ On May 19, 2005, at 11:05 AM, Jerry LeVan wrote: For what it is worth... I have 10.4.1 (Tiger) (archived and ) installed on my old 933MHZ QuickSiver. I also have Xcode 2.0 installed. When I compiled 8.0.3 it seemed

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-19 Thread Matthew Hixson
On May 19, 2005, at 9:27 AM, Jeff Trout wrote: On May 18, 2005, at 9:27 PM, Matthew Hixson wrote: /usr/bin/libtool: for architecture: cputype (16777234) cpusubtype (0) file: -lSystem is not an object file (not allowed in a library) I had some issues with this error on a few other things on my

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-19 Thread Matthew Hixson
On May 19, 2005, at 5:42 AM, John DeSoi wrote: On May 19, 2005, at 1:34 AM, Matthew Hixson wrote: /usr/bin/libtool: for architecture: cputype (16777234) cpusubtype (0) file: -lSystem is not an object file (not allowed in a library) After upgrading to 10.4.1 and using Michael's paramete

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-18 Thread Matthew Hixson
On May 18, 2005, at 8:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Michael Glaesemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On May 19, 2005, at 10:27 AM, Matthew Hixson wrote: 8.0.3 does not build for me on Mac OS X 10.4. Anyone else seeing this error, and will it be fixed in the next release? I just built 8.0.3 on Ma

[GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-18 Thread Matthew Hixson
8.0.3 does not build for me on Mac OS X 10.4. Anyone else seeing this error, and will it be fixed in the next release? Thanks, -M@ gcc -no-cpp-precomp -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith - Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -DFRONTEND -I. -I../../../src/ include -I../../../s

[GENERAL] renaming sequences

2004-09-27 Thread Matthew Hixson
I had a bunch of tables that had v_ prepended to their names. I've renamed all of the tables so that they don't have that prefix anymore so that v_address is now addresses. The name of this table's sequence is still v_addresses_address_id_seq. This is fine except for the fact that I'm using

Re: [GENERAL] data modeler

2004-09-23 Thread Matthew Hixson
On Sep 23, 2004, at 7:19 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 07:02:26PM -0700, Matthew Hixson wrote: I'm looking for a data modeler that can look at an existing database schema and generate an ERD. A PDF of it would be nice. I'm using OS X, but a Linux or Windows too

[GENERAL] data modeler

2004-09-23 Thread Matthew Hixson
I'm looking for a data modeler that can look at an existing database schema and generate an ERD. A PDF of it would be nice. I'm using OS X, but a Linux or Windows tool would be acceptable too. I don't need any other features than that right now. Just want to generate something that new deve

Re: [GENERAL] self referencing table structure and constraints

2004-09-23 Thread Matthew Hixson
On Sep 23, 2004, at 6:36 PM, Stephan Szabo wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Matthew Hixson wrote: I have a categories table that contains a FK to another category in the same table, creating a hierarchy. At the very top is this row: category_id | name | description | parent_id

[GENERAL] self referencing table structure and constraints

2004-09-23 Thread Matthew Hixson
I have a categories table that contains a FK to another category in the same table, creating a hierarchy. At the very top is this row: category_id | name | description | parent_id -+--+-+--- 1 | ROOT | The top level category

[GENERAL] using Postgres to store many small files

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Hixson
I am currently working on a Java web application. We are making use of the JDBC driver for Postgres 7.4.1. Part of our application allows the administrators to manage a large number of small images, most of them not exceeding 5KB. There is about a gigabyte of these small files. We're curren

[GENERAL] using Postgres to store many small files

2004-03-03 Thread Matthew Hixson
I am currently working on a Java web application in which we are making use of the JDBC driver for Postgres 7.4.1. Part of our application allows the administrators to manage a large number of small images, most of them not exceeding 5KB. There is about a gigabyte of these small files. We're

Re: [GENERAL]

2001-04-25 Thread Matthew Hixson
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Ashley T. Howes wrote: > I was wondering if PostgreSQL takes advantage of multiple CPUs when > placed in a single Linux box. Or are multiple CPUs utilised as long > as the Linux kernel is compiled to take advantage of them? If you compile an SMP kernel Linux will balance

Re: [GENERAL] Client/Server Security question

2001-04-22 Thread Matthew Hixson
Hi Lonnie, This is one of the reasons we are moving to an EJB server at work (we're using Oracle there, but they wanted to accomplish the same thing you want to do with Postgres). By exposing specialized interfaces to the db we effectively limit the types of queries that can be run. That might

Re: [GENERAL] Re: versioning question

2001-04-18 Thread Matthew Hixson
your philosophy. On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Mitch Vincent wrote: > 7.1 is a release (the latest), 7.1rc4 is a *Release Candidate*. > > -Mitch > Software development : > You can have it cheap, fast or working. Choose two. > > - Original Message - > From: "Matthew Hixson&

[GENERAL] versioning question

2001-04-18 Thread Matthew Hixson
Which is the most recent version of Postgres, 7.1 or 7.1rc4 ? Thanks, -M@ -- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http:

[GENERAL] re-post

1999-08-31 Thread Matthew Hixson
edures? >I >know very little about them and need to learn everything I possibly can >about >them as soon as possible. I looked throught the Postgres docs and couldn't >find anything that goes into them in depth. > Thank you, > -M@ -- Matthew Hixson - CIO FroZenWave Communications http://www.frozenwave.com

[GENERAL] stored procedures

1999-08-30 Thread Matthew Hixson
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[GENERAL] PAM module for Postgres?

1999-03-24 Thread Matthew Hixson
Hello, I'm searching for a PAM module that is capable of authenticating users against information contained in a PostgreSQL database. Does something like this exist arleady? This is to be used on a Linux system. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -M@ -- Matthew H

[GENERAL] performance comparisons...

1998-11-19 Thread Matthew Hixson
AM. Thanks for any help, -M@ -- Matthew Hixson - CIO Linux, n; FroZenWave Communications the nouveau postmodern operating http://www.frozenwave.com system for the masses