Re: [GENERAL] Retoring non-administrative user databases

2003-11-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Keith C. Perry writes: > What am I missing? A reproduceable test case. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] Retoring non-administrative user databases

2003-11-16 Thread Keith C. Perry
Quoting Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Keith C. Perry writes: > > > What am I missing? > > A reproduceable test case. > > -- > Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ??? Ok, lets try the question this way... What is a method of dumping and restoring a complete database cluster whe

[GENERAL] Retoring non-administrative user databases

2003-11-16 Thread Keith C. Perry
I was going a test run through of of moving my 7.1.3 databases to 7.4RC1 and I have a problem with creating databases for my users that do not have administrative accounts. By that I mean, these users are NOT allow to create databases. So the process was this: On the 7.1.3 server: pg_dumpall -c

Re: [GENERAL] vacuum from ecpg

2003-11-16 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 11:31:08PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I might be wrong on this but I think that ecpg using transactions by > > default for each query. > > Perhaps turning on autocommit? > > Yep, use: > > EXEC SQL SET AUTOCOMMIT = ON; Or use 'ecpg -t'. Michael -- Michael Mes

Re: [GENERAL] Retoring non-administrative user databases

2003-11-16 Thread Tom Lane
"Keith C. Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On the 7.1.3 server: > pg_dumpall -c > dump.db You would probably have better luck using the 7.4 installation's pg_dump and pg_dumpall to extract data from the 7.1 server; there are three releases worth of bug-fixes in those that are not in the 7.1 du

Re: [GENERAL] Retoring non-administrative user databases

2003-11-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Keith C. Perry writes: > What is a method of dumping and restoring a complete database cluster when that > cluster contains users that are NOT allowed to create databases. There is nothing special you need to do, except of course not actually restoring the dump as one of those unprivileged users.

Re: [GENERAL] how to find version?

2003-11-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
If the database is running it will tell you when you log into it with psql. bpalmer wrote: I'm trying to figure out what version of a source code I have. I know it's a 7.2 release, but how can I find out of it's 7.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, etc. FROM THE SOURCE CODE, not from compiling (it doesn't

Re: [GENERAL] Error on initdb with 7.4RC2

2003-11-16 Thread Tom Lane
Martin Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > El Vie 14 Nov 2003 12:37, Tom Lane escribió: >> Hmm. If it got that far and no farther, I'd guess you have SEMVMX >> set too small. > Is there a way of changing this value on Linux without recompiling? See sysctl. But what is the current value? I'v

Re: [GENERAL] Error on initdb with 7.4RC2

2003-11-16 Thread Martin Marques
El Vie 14 Nov 2003 12:37, Tom Lane escribió: > Martin Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1... FATAL: > > semctl(1638435, 16, SETVAL, 536) failed: Argumento inválido > > Hmm. If it got that far and no farther, I'd guess you have SEMV

Re: [GENERAL] Error on initdb with 7.4RC2

2003-11-16 Thread Martin Marques
El Dom 16 Nov 2003 15:23, Tom Lane escribió: > Martin Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > El Vie 14 Nov 2003 12:37, Tom Lane escribió: > >> Hmm. If it got that far and no farther, I'd guess you have SEMVMX > >> set too small. > > > Is there a way of changing this value on Linux without recomp

Re: [GENERAL] Conservation of OIDs

2003-11-16 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:47:22AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > >Whoa! You mean these aren't already separate database clusters or > >even separate systems? I am very shocked, you can't do a proper Dev > >--> QAT --> Prod environment if all three systems are run by the same > >postmaster, or

Re: [GENERAL] Conservation of OIDs

2003-11-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Whoa! You mean these aren't already separate database clusters or even separate systems? I am very shocked, you can't do a proper Dev --> QAT --> Prod environment if all three systems are run by the same postmaster, or on the same host imo. But maybe I'm just over cautious, or worked on systems wh

Re: [GENERAL] Retoring non-administrative user databases

2003-11-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
What am I missing? A reproduceable test case. It is reproduceable for him Peter. Keith could you provide a little more information? Who is the user doing the dump? Who is the user doing the restore? Are these users superusers? Either way, my suggestion would be to dump the schema on

Re: [GENERAL] Error on initdb with 7.4RC2

2003-11-16 Thread Martin Marques
El Dom 16 Nov 2003 16:56, escribió: > Martin Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > El Dom 16 Nov 2003 15:23, Tom Lane escribió: > >> See sysctl. But what is the current value? I've never heard of a Linux > >> installation with small SEMVMX. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/latex$ cat /proc/sys/kernel

Re: [GENERAL] Error on initdb with 7.4RC2

2003-11-16 Thread Tom Lane
Martin Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > El Dom 16 Nov 2003 15:23, Tom Lane escribió: >> See sysctl. But what is the current value? I've never heard of a Linux >> installation with small SEMVMX. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/latex$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/sem > 250 32000 32 128 > This is a