Re: [GENERAL] sequence in schema -- broken default

2004-01-24 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
alues(); I've a feeling that's what was meant in the original posting and that having done that the nextval on the default sequence fails because the sequence is not in the search_path. I seem to remember something like turning up sometime last year for me. I don't have a 7.4 or HEAD install to check against at the moment. -- Nigel J. Andrews ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: embedded/"serverless" (Re: [GENERAL] serverless postgresql)

2004-01-21 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:23:40AM -0700, Rick Gigger wrote: > > > > Yes but sometimes an enterprise level application may need to be put on a > > laptop and taken off-line. Having an embedded database that is compatible > > with the one on the serve

Re: embedded/"serverless" (Re: [GENERAL] serverless postgresql)

2004-01-16 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Jeff Bowden wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > >Jeff Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>Still, the main problem I, and I suspect others, would like to solve is > >>installation/configuration. For my app I don't want the user to have to > >>understand anything about

Re: [GENERAL] no space left on device

2004-01-09 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Nigel J. Andrews wrote: > And a common culprit is whatever is being used for usenet caching/serving...or > ordinary mail which is just accumulating in /var/mail (or whereever). Sheesh. Did I really put ordinary mailbox mail in the uses up inodes category? I should tak

Re: [GENERAL] no space left on device

2004-01-09 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
e usage. > > On linux, you can change the % reserved for root to 1% with tune2fs: > > tune2fs -m 1 -- Nigel J. Andrews ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] forking postmaster on my own - not as pguser

2004-01-05 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Gregory Stone wrote: > I have a need to run postgres only when my Java application is running. > Basically I want to do a Runtime.exec() from java in order to start up the > DB server. Is there any reason why this should present a problem? My > init.d script is su-ing to the pg

Re: [GENERAL] Is my MySQL Gaining ?

2003-12-30 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
Just to poke fun at MySQl: On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Bret Busby wrote: > ... > It is alright for people in this thread, to say "But they are MySQL, and > MySQL is not as powerful as PostgreSQL, so who cares what advantages > there are in MySQL", but MySQL appears to be more mature, as it has > thin

Re: [GENERAL] Manual record locking

2003-12-08 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Josué Maldonado wrote: > Hello list, > > Is there a way to manual/explicit lock a record from within a plpgsql > function? SELECT ... FOR UPDATE -- Nigel Andrews ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extens

Re: [GENERAL] uploading files

2003-11-22 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Rick Gigger wrote: > I will search the archives but does anyone know off the top of their head > which performs better? lo_* but then I forgot to turn off compression on the bytea column. -- Nigel Andrews > > - Original Message - > From: "Keith C. Perry" <[EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] Alternative cluster location

2003-11-22 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I think the original driving thought technically has something to do with > system backup, and restore or system re-install in the case of > catastrophic failure, as well as what I've alluded to in regards to > original server setup planning and how intended usage imp

Re: [GENERAL] PL/PGSQL help for getting number of rows matched.

2003-11-10 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Pavel Stehule wrote: > Hello, > > it isn't problem. You can write > > SELECT INTO > IF FOUND THEN > ... > END IF > > or > > SELECT INTO .. > GET DIAGNOSTICS variable = ROW_COUNT; > IF variable > 0 THEN > ... > END IF > > You can see on > http://developer.postgr

Re: [GENERAL] group by

2003-10-03 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
would require the sort step having retrieved all the tuples and the others would just use the index pages. It is Friday though. -- Nigel J. Andrews ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] pg_hba.conf

2003-09-30 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > "Nigel J. Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In 7.3 and less ssl connections fail if a host line matches before the hostssl > > line. At least I think that's the situation, there is definitely something > >

Re: [GENERAL] pg_hba.conf

2003-09-30 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
n, there is definitely something there that will make a ssl connection get rejected even if there is an appropiate entry in pg_hba.conf This works more sensibly in 7.4 I believe. -- Nigel J. Andrews ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL]

2003-09-26 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, [gb2312] zhuangjifeng wrote: > > hello, > i wonder how and where i can find the part of source codes about how to create > catalogs. i mean > how to create the structure of pg_class and so on,not just insert the tuple of > system attributes of > user-defined table into i

Re: [GENERAL] Client authentication

2003-09-25 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Claudio Lapidus wrote: > Hello > > We need to deny access to the database for regular users, while allowing > access to admins and a variety of application scripts. > > If we use passwords, everything is fine while interactive, but could not > devise a way for scripts to han

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with ORDER BY and random() ?

2003-09-23 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
y random() then id. *falls on floor giggling like a little school girl* > Anybody know what's going on here ? I've tried this from Zope/psycopg, > pgAdminII, and psql ... removing the limit doesn't do any good, and neither > does using ASC or DESC ! Sheesh, now all I've g

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL query failed: ERROR: pg_atoi: zero-length

2003-09-23 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
delete from aaa where id = 44 You wouldn't believe the number of times I've explained that error message to a PHP developer. -- Nigel J. Andrews ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregiste

Re: [GENERAL] About Pgdump

2003-09-19 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
kup without setting password. Or is their any > > > other > > > way to take backup. > > > >Look for the .pgpass entry in the document index. You can create a private > >file containing usernames/passwords for databases. > > > >-- > > Richard Hu

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] change of table name - any help

2003-09-19 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
[I'm not convinced this is a -hackers issue so have cross posted to -general in the expectation followups will go there] I also didn't feel there was much I could cut from the earlier posts without losing relevent info, so I didn't. Sorry. On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, chakkara rangarajan wrote: > Chris

[GENERAL] pgindented tsearch2 for 7.3.4

2003-09-18 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
runs with 7.3.4? If so please email it to me. The tar file is tsearch-v2-stable.tar.gz, just for clarity and I can supply it if someone volunteers but doesn't have it. -- Nigel J. Andrews ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched ou

Re: [GENERAL] psql and blob

2003-09-17 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Daniel Schuchardt wrote: > Hm, but lo_import/lo_export imports/exports from the local filesystem. > I want to upload/download a clientfile to/from the Server Database with > psql. I think this is a feature in psql. But i can't remember... Yes it is. You want to look up \lo_

Re: [GENERAL] State of Beta 2

2003-09-12 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
k. The odd thing is I never thought it a bug, just something to work around, until someone else has been persuing it on the list as one (it's the create schema thing). -- Nigel J. Andrews ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] library version problem, 7.3.2, php, redhat linux

2003-09-12 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
ECTED] lib]# Well not quite. The complaint is that the PHP interface to PostgreSQL isn't found. As for why it can't be found I can't really help. Could be PHP configure/build, could be it wasn't installed. A little surprising perhaps but then I know next to nothing about

Re: [GENERAL] library version problem, 7.3.2, php, redhat linux

2003-09-12 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 07:21, Nigel J. Andrews wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Richard Welty wrote: > ... > > > [Thu Sep 11 16:17:25 2003] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down > > > PHP Warning: Unable to load dynamic l

Re: [GENERAL] I need a SQL...

2003-09-11 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
case -- 11:29:20 (1 row) test=# select version(); version --- PostgreSQL 7.3.4 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.95.4 (1 row) There must be something differ

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch CVS and differences to version for 7.3.x

2003-09-07 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > "Nigel J. Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > One thing that started worrying me having found what looks like a bug in > > to_tsquery_name from the 7.3-stable version of tsearch v2 is the question of > > bug f

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch2 and unexpected exists

2003-09-04 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Teodor Sigaev wrote: > > > Nigel J. Andrews wrote: > > > > I don't seem to be able to find the mailing list thread that covered pretty > > much this exact unexpect exit fault. So, can anyone help with a fix, > > explanation or link to

[GENERAL] tsearch2 and unexpected exists

2003-09-04 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
More importantly I don't seem to be able to find the mailing list thread that covered pretty much this exact unexpect exit fault. So, can anyone help with a fix, explanation or link to the relevent thread please? Thanks, -- Nigel J. Andrews ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] Querying $libdir

2003-09-02 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
Replying to myself... On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Nigel J. Andrews wrote: > > The subject says it really. Is there a way to query the value of $libdir, and I > don't mean the dynamic_library_path GUC? > > I ask because, I have scripts to create databases and I've come to m

[GENERAL] Querying $libdir

2003-09-02 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
t the right list but seeing as I'm emailing. tsearch2 doesn't even compile outside of contrib/ I presume that is necessary? Is there any particular reason why the stop word files are installed with no permissions for 'world'? It kinda screws up installing as one user and ru

Re: [GENERAL] Commercial postgresql

2003-09-02 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
would help, regarding > this problem ? But a bugzilla tool, may also be nice :-) > > /BL There is cvsweb available for the repository. I think it's linked from somewhere on http://developers.postgresql.org/ -- Nigel J. Andrews ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [GENERAL] Restarting, ownership, and permissions

2003-09-02 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
can administer users. So create a new user, say postgres2. Initialise a data directory: $ initdb -D ~postgres2/data as that new user. Then when you need to you can at least start the db manually by logging in as postgres2, which you are able to do since you have control over that user. -- Nigel J. Andrews ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Mail server load

2003-08-20 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
; > > > Here's a normal day: > > > > neptune# cat /var/log/amavisd.o | grep "Aug 17" | awk '{print $7}' | sort > > | uniq -c > > 332 BAD > > 13 BANNED > > 938 INFECTED > > 3792 Passed, > > > > > > > &

[GENERAL] Mail server load

2003-08-20 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
Marc, I'd be interested in seeing the updated stats for this bought of virus transmission we're going through. Yesterday you had almost 1 for 1 valid email. By then I think I was getting about 3-4 per valid email but since then it's sky rocketed and it looks more like 30+ per 1 valid message. I

Re: [GENERAL] Incomprehensible behaviour of a foreign key.

2003-07-21 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
le; ERROR (possibly) and then there is the search path: set search_path to second, first; select * from atable; Gives: value == 'this is second schema' Hope that helps. -- Nigel J. Andrews ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you ca

Re: [GENERAL] selects during vacuum

2003-07-15 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
significant wrong than slow/blocked queries. -- Nigel J. Andrews ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] Datatypes and performance

2003-07-04 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
a search of the archive. Of course, someone like Tom, Bruce etc. while no doubt pop up with the specifics. -- Nigel J. Andrews On Fri, 4 Jul 2003, Maksim Likharev wrote: > Ok, what I see here tells me that text is slower then fixed len varchar, > due to stored in separate table

Re: [GENERAL] Making pgsql error messages more developers' friendly.

2003-06-27 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
extened to other kind of > exceptions? I was just looking at that fkey violation message yesterday and thinking how much better it would be to be able to see the offending value in the message. Is that what 7.4 shows? -- Nigel J. Andrews ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [GENERAL] Eliminating start error message: "unary operator

2003-06-23 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
e installed a v7.3.2 and PostgreSQL seems to be running very well but we > want to get rid of this message. > > Thanks in advance for your response > > You should ask your system admin to take a look. That init script should be pretty straight forward unless your admin has rolled his/h

Re: [GENERAL] LAST_INSERT_ID equivalent

2003-06-21 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
's JDBC-driver. > If you're looking to actually have a suitable method in your jdbc objects why not simply code up your requirements in derived class and use that instead? I'd have thought that was a near perfect example of object orientation. -- Nigel J. Andrews [rest of mes

Re: [GENERAL] Getting one row for each subquery row...?

2003-06-20 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
would give you six rows the same from that query? BTW, the above query while the same as my version (I haven't inspected it so I take your word for it) is not so good. That is forcing postgresql to join in the tables in the specified order. Using the join constraints in the where clause as mi

Re: [GENERAL] Incremental backups, and backup history

2003-06-20 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Matthew Nuzum wrote: > Regarding backup history: > > I have an application designed for novices. Apparently it's easy to hit the > "Delete" button, and then say yes to the "Are you sure you want to delete > this?" question even when they don't want to. Therefore I simply mar

Re: [GENERAL] Getting one row for each subquery row...?

2003-06-19 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
re t_stockchanges.productid = t_prod_in_pgr.productid and t_productgroups.id = t_prod_in_pgr.productgroupid ; Without the foreign keys and other constraints though that could get very wrong as you pointed out Dennis. -- Nigel J. Andrews ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] why are my SELECTs in transaction?

2003-06-19 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Nigel J. Andrews wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > Travis Hume writes: > > > > > So at this point all selects are screwed unless I issue a ROLLBACK; > > > Why? Is there a way for SELECTs (or all SQL) statem

Re: [GENERAL] attisdropped, * expansion and tg_trigtuple

2003-06-19 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > "Nigel J. Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If in a trigger one does a select * from the table the trigger is on > > is it safe to assume that tg_trigtuple (and so tg_newtuple) will use > > the same TupleDesc as

Re: [GENERAL] why are my SELECTs in transaction?

2003-06-19 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
first example is in a script I will be running again and it turned up pretty consistently before, I'm sure that that will be reproducable. That is unless the '\q' sequences I've added to the end don't make it work. -- Nigel J. Andrews ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster