Re: [GENERAL] 8.4.2 - Windows Binaries

2009-12-14 Thread Dave Page
.1. Did you try a reload? -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

[GENERAL] replication dbs

2009-12-15 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: I have questions regarding replication db tech for PG. Is this the right forumn? Thanks for any direction !

Re: [GENERAL] PG Windows - Installer Error

2009-12-15 Thread Dave Page
rastructure guys responsible so they check double-check for any problems. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] PG Windows - Installer Error

2009-12-15 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Richard Broersma wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Dave Page wrote: > >>> After selecting retry, the install process completes successfully. >> >> That's not necessarily a problem, it usually means something was still >

Re: [GENERAL] replication dbs

2009-12-15 Thread Gauthier, Dave
:31 PM To: Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] replication dbs Gauthier, Dave wrote: I have questions regarding replication db tech for PG. Is this the right forumn? Sure. You can find some slightly rough documentation for help get you started at http

[GENERAL] Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project

2009-12-16 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi Everyone: Tomorrow, I will need to present to a group of managers (who know nothing about DBs) why I chose to use PG over MySQL in a project, MySQL being the more popular DB choice with other engineers, and managers fearing things that are "different" (risk). I have a few hard tecnical reas

Re: [GENERAL] Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project

2009-12-17 Thread Gauthier, Dave
nd thanks to all who have contributed. Really! -Original Message- From: Massa, Harald Armin [mailto:c...@ghum.de] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 3:14 AM To: Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project Dave,

Re: [GENERAL] Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project

2009-12-17 Thread Gauthier, Dave
- From: Erik Jones [mailto:ejo...@engineyard.com] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 4:42 AM To: Craig Ringer Cc: Gauthier, Dave; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:30 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > - If you don&#

Re: [GENERAL] Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project

2009-12-17 Thread Gauthier, Dave
How difficult is it to switch the master's hat from one DB instance to another? Let's say the master in a master-slave scenario goes down but the slave is fine. Can I designate the slave as being the new master, use it for read/write, and then just call the broken master the new slave once it

Re: [GENERAL] Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project

2009-12-17 Thread Gauthier, Dave
One concern I have about these trigger based replication systems is that I fear it may ping the slave for each and every DML statement separately in time and in a transaction. My slave will literally be 1400 miles away and all replication communications will be over the net. If I have a transa

[GENERAL] defining yuor own commands in PG ?

2009-12-18 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Can you define your own commands in PG. E.g., if users from other DBs use "describe foo" to get the metadata for foo, is there a way I can create a command "describe" to = "\d" ? Thanks in Advance

[GENERAL] pulling metadata creation strings from metadata tables?

2009-12-18 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: Are metadata creation strings, in sql form, stored anywhere in the metadata tables? So if I... create table foo (x int); I would like to pull that same string from somewhere. Thanks in Advance

Re: [GENERAL] Charset Win1250 on Windows and Ubuntu

2009-12-19 Thread Dave Page
dmin supports collation and ctype on all platforms when creating databases. If the options are disabled, it's because the OP is running a server older than 8.4. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.

Re: [GENERAL] defining yuor own commands in PG ?

2009-12-19 Thread Gauthier, Dave
kowski [mailto:plk.zu...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 7:00 AM To: Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] defining yuor own commands in PG ? 2009/12/18 Gauthier, Dave mailto:dave.gauth...@intel.com>> Can you define your own commands in PG. In

Re: [GENERAL] Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project

2009-12-20 Thread Gauthier, Dave
pop.jaring.my] Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2009 10:05 AM To: Greg Smith; Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project At 05:44 AM 12/17/2009, Greg Smith wrote: >You've probably already found >

Re: [GENERAL] postgre...@fosdem 2010 - Call for talks

2009-12-21 Thread Dave Page
e Free & Open Source world, please send in your proposal by the end of tomorrow! On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Dave Page wrote: > FOSDEM (http://www.fosdem.org/2010/) is a major Free and Open Source > event held annually in Brussels, Belgium, and attended by around 4000 > people. A

Re: [GENERAL] Justifying a PG over MySQL approach to a project

2009-12-21 Thread Gauthier, Dave
I was wondering... In head-to-head comparisons, do DBs get stree tested, not only in terms of performance, but in terms of corruptions, down time, recovery time, lost data, etc... .? I've heard it said that MySQL is superior to MySQL in this regard. But if this were stated in an article fro

[GENERAL] targetted array element modification or delete without knowing the index?

2009-12-24 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Is there a way to modify or delete an element of an array with knowledge only of the element's value? Maybe an array index finder would help? For example create table foo (name,text, arr text[]); insert into foo (name,arr) values ('joe',ARRAY['a','b','c']); update foo set arr[indexfinder('b')

[GENERAL] Java Postgres drivers.

2009-12-28 Thread Dave Coventry
I'm not sure this is the right place to enquire... I'm trying to connect to a postgres datanbase with Java. import java.sql.*; public static void main(String[] args) { // TODO code application logic here try{ System.out.println("Starting..."); Class.fo

Re: [GENERAL] 8.5 Alpha3 - broken downloadlink

2010-01-04 Thread Dave Page
inaries.zip" to > "postgresql-8.5alpha3-windows-binaries.zip" in my browser URL, things are > working. Sorry about that - the link should be fixed now. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.

Re: [GENERAL] how do I disable automatic start on mac os x?

2010-01-04 Thread Dave Page
there is an old-fashioned way of doing things that > went out with Mac OS X 10.4, and I'm glad to say it looks like the latest > postgres doesn't install like this.. Look in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-gener

Re: [GENERAL] how do I disable automatic start on mac os x?

2010-01-04 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Chris Withers wrote: > Dave Page wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Chris Withers >> wrote: >>> >>> Naoko Reeves wrote: >>>> >>>> Try check this directory: Library: StartupItems: postgr

Re: [GENERAL] how do I disable automatic start on mac os x?

2010-01-04 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Chris Withers wrote: > Dave Page wrote: >> >> Iirc, you have to change: >> >>        RunAtLoad >>         >> >> to >> >>        RunAtLoad >>         > > I feel slightly stupid asking this, but thi

Re: [GENERAL] Shall I use PostgreSQL Array Type in The Following Case

2010-01-05 Thread Gauthier, Dave
I actually tackled a problem very much like this in the distant past with a different DB. I think one of the practical questions you have to ask is whether or not you really need all that detailed data, or would storing summarized data serve. If (for example) the components are fabricated on w

[GENERAL] interesting check constraint behavior

2010-01-06 Thread Gauthier, Dave
thedb=# create table foo (col1 text, constraint chk check (col1 in ('a','b','c',null))); CREATE TABLE thedb=# insert into foo (col1) values ('xxx'); INSERT 0 1 H... I would have thought that this would have violated the constraint because 'xxx' is not null and nit one of the allowed values.

Re: [GENERAL] interesting check constraint behavior

2010-01-07 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hertroys [mailto:dal...@solfertje.student.utwente.nl] Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 5:49 AM To: Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] interesting check constraint behavior On 7 Jan 2010, at 24:12, Gauthier, Dave wrote: > thedb=# create table foo (col1 text, con

Re: [GENERAL] Change Hard Disc Drive

2010-01-12 Thread Dave Page
right-clicking them and selecting Properties, and then choosing the new tablespace. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] FOSDEM dinner

2010-01-13 Thread Dave Page
Anyone else want to join us for dinner? Please shout even if you haven't firmed up your travel plans yet, so I have a rough idea of numbers. Thanks. On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Dave Page wrote: > As in previous years, we're looking at organising a dinner prior to > the FOSD

Re: [GENERAL] FOSDEM dinner

2010-01-13 Thread Dave Page
:33 AM, Dave Page wrote: > Anyone else want to join us for dinner? Please shout even if you > haven't firmed up your travel plans yet, so I have a rough idea of > numbers. > > Thanks. > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Dave Page wrote: >> As in previous year

Re: [GENERAL] FOSDEM dinner

2010-01-13 Thread Dave Coventry
Sounds great fun! However, I presume I'm on the wrong Continent! ;) -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] FOSDEM dinner

2010-01-13 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Dave Coventry wrote: > Sounds great fun! > > However, I presume I'm on the wrong Continent! ;) > I have no idea. I'm on the wrong landmass though, so there will be at least one person arriving by air :-) -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http:

Re: [GENERAL] FOSDEM dinner

2010-01-13 Thread Dave Coventry
Yes, I'm in South Africa, which might make it problematic! 2010/1/14 Dave Page : > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Dave Coventry wrote: >> Sounds great fun! >> >> However, I presume I'm on the wrong Continent! ;) >> > > I have no idea. I'm o

[GENERAL] Avoid transaction abot if/when constraint violated

2010-01-14 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hello ! I have a long list of records I want to insert into a table in such a way as I can trap and report any/all constraint violations before rolling back (or opting to commit). Unfortunately, after I hit the first constraint violation, it aborts the transaction, and then reports "ERROR: cur

Re: [GENERAL] Avoid transaction abot if/when constraint violated

2010-01-14 Thread Gauthier, Dave
keep going. Nothing from the entire stream is committed until/unless they're all clean. Thanks -Original Message- From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:j...@commandprompt.com] Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:35 PM To: Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL]

[GENERAL] Read only column ?

2010-01-16 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Is there a way to set a column to be read only? I have a table with several columns with values that are determined by triggers. I want users to be able to view, but never edit them. Thanks

Re: [GENERAL] Read only column ?

2010-01-16 Thread Gauthier, Dave
osed to a trigger silently overriding whatever they may have thought they changed. -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:t...@sss.pgh.pa.us] Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 9:00 PM To: Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Read only column ? "Gauthier,

Re: [GENERAL] Read only column ?

2010-01-16 Thread Gauthier, Dave
2010 9:12 PM To: Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Read only column ? "Gauthier, Dave" writes: >> .. although, if you have triggers forcibly setting the columns, it >> hardly matters what the users try to put into them, no? > U..

Re: [GENERAL] Read only column ?

2010-01-16 Thread Gauthier, Dave
nuary 16, 2010 9:18 PM To: Tom Lane Cc: Gauthier, Dave; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Read only column ? Tom Lane wrote: > Well, you could have the triggers throw errors instead of being silent > about it. > > otoh, do you really want trigger code ch

[GENERAL] array element replace ?

2010-01-21 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Is there a clever way to replace a single element in an array with another value? E.g. x = array['a','b','c','d']; I want to replace 'b' with 'x'. Thanks for any suggestions!

[GENERAL] Recursion in triggers?

2010-01-23 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: I'm dealing with a hierarchical design where changes in one record can and should cause changes in other records lower inthe hierarchy. I'm trying to use update triggers to do this. And recursion would be a real nice way to do this. What I need to know is if, in the "after" update trigge

Re: [GENERAL] Recursion in triggers?

2010-01-24 Thread Gauthier, Dave
From: Craig Ringer [mailto:cr...@postnewspapers.com.au] Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 11:34 AM To: Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Recursion in triggers? Gauthier, Dave wrote: > What I need to know is if, in the "after" update trigger I make the &g

Re: [GENERAL] ODBC mac os

2010-01-29 Thread Dave Page
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Enrico Pirozzi wrote: > Hi, > I would like to find an odbc driver for mac os x, > where I can find it? > > Thanks to all If you're running the one-click PG installer, you can install the ODBC driver using StackBuilder. -- Dave Page E

Re: [pgsql-www] [GENERAL] Versions RSS page is missing version(s)

2010-01-29 Thread Dave Page
gt;>> >>> >>> While looking into a failed check_postgres check, I found a problem >>> with the canonical versions page here: >>> >>> http://www.postgresql.org/versions.rss >>> >>> It only goes back to 8.0, but as far as I know, 7.4 is not

Re: [pgsql-www] [GENERAL] Versions RSS page is missing version(s)

2010-01-29 Thread Dave Page
2010/1/29 Devrim GÜNDÜZ : > On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 15:08 +0000, Dave Page wrote: >> > Perhaps because you only display five releases in the "Latest >> Releases" >> > part of the front page? which means 8.0 to 8.4. >> >> Yes. iirc, that was the reas

[GENERAL] Learning more about attaches

2010-01-29 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: PG V8.3.4 running on Linux. I have a DB with a bunch of users attached as gleaned from "ps auxww | grep postgres". How can I learn more about these users, who they are if coming in via the net, what kind of resources they are using, what they are running, how I can kill them? I'm open to

Re: [GENERAL] Performance Tuning - Any easy things that I can do ?

2010-02-04 Thread Gauthier, Dave
analyze? Does the empirical data the optimizer use develop good queries get updated with/after a restore? -Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Scott Marlowe Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 1:32 PM To: Wang

[GENERAL] need clean way to copy col vals from one rec to another

2010-02-10 Thread Gauthier, Dave
create table foo (name text, company text, job text); insert into foo (name,company,job) values ('joe','ge','engineer'); insert into foo (name) values ('sue'); What I want to do is map joe's company and job over to the sue record, ending up with 'sue' 'ge' 'engineer' Is there a quick/clever

Re: [GENERAL] need clean way to copy col vals from one rec to another

2010-02-10 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Outstanding ! Thanks Alban. -Original Message- From: Alban Hertroys [mailto:dal...@solfertje.student.utwente.nl] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 11:46 AM To: Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] need clean way to copy col vals from one rec to

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Installation

2010-02-11 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 11:00 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > Please why is it that we must register at EnterpriseDB and register each > Windows installation of postgreSQL these days? There is no requirement to register to use or download PostgreSQL. -- Dave Page Enterpris

[GENERAL] "like any" in reverse?

2010-02-11 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: create table foo (lst text[]); insert into foo (lst) values (array['jack','fred','jen','sue']); I want to find all records where any element of lst like 'j%'. This does not work... select * from foo where 'j%' like any(lst); Intuitively, you'd think select * from foo where any(lst) li

Re: [GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-04 Thread Dave Page
y related to the fact that the platform API on both 32 and 64 bit platforms is known as win32 (with a more complete name of 'win32 for 64 bit Windows' on 64 bit). My understanding is that this is because the naming originally came from the transition from 16 to 32 bit which involved a

Re: [GENERAL] Enterprise DB's windows package and upgrading windows.

2010-03-08 Thread Dave Page
s > there anything I should be aware of? Its certainly not one of the many scenarios we test, but there shouldn't be any problems that I can think of. We do test and support both Vista and Windows 7, and there's no special installation steps that differ on either, and the software is the sam

[GENERAL] createdb: ... duplicate key value violates unique constraint "pg_database_datname_index"

2010-03-11 Thread Dave Vitek
ve columns). We run this test automation quite a few platforms and have never encountered this problem on any of them: - All flavors of windows NT from win2k onwards, including an older win7 box - linux: x86 + x86_64 - macos: x86_64 - solaris: sparc + x86 + x86_64 - Dave -- Sent via pgsql-

[GENERAL] Re: createdb: ... duplicate key value violates unique constraint "pg_database_datname_index"

2010-03-11 Thread Dave Vitek
Hi again, I'm going to answer my own question. I think there is a race where two database servers are being setup on the same port at the same time and two different tests end up trying to create the same DB on the same server at the same time. Let me know if you think I'm wrong

Re: [GENERAL] $libdir/plugins/plugin_debugger.dll

2010-03-15 Thread Dave Page
with this? There are suspicions the > server is quite the CPU hog. Noone has ever measured or noticed any real cost that I'm aware of. Obviously there will be some though, so if you're not using the debugger and you are concerned just remove plugin_debugger from the shared_libraries_pr

Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgresql on Windows XP embedded

2010-03-15 Thread Dave Page
supported platform for PostgreSQL. I have no idea if it will work or not. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com PG East Conference: http://www.enterprisedb.com/community/nav-pg-east-2010.do -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make change

Re: [GENERAL] "1-Click" installer problems

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Page
re rate than the one-click installer (which based on the ratio of downloads to bug reports, is down to something like 45000:1 at this point, or a 99.997% success rate). -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org)

[GENERAL] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Page
loyalty as it'll be much harder for them to change to a different, SQL-based database. That'll be pretty cool." You may also notice that without SQL, the project name is somewhat misleading. To address that, the project name will be changed to 'PostgreQUEL' with the

Re: [GENERAL] "1-Click" installer problems

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Page
ome exploration. Sachin told you how to install in a nutshell, but I guess you missed that so here are the detail walkthrough instructions: http://www.enterprisedb.com/learning/pginst_guide.do I don't think that's bad for *free* support. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterpr

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Thom Brown wrote: > I prefer to dump all my data in a big text file and grep it for the > information I need. There's no need to start showing off and get all technical y'know. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent v

Re: [GENERAL] "1-Click" installer problems

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Page
>> I do not like the installer's suggestion to put the data directory into >> c:\Program Files either, I think this should default to %APPDATA% The reasons why we do that have been discussed here before - check the archives. As a point of reference - wanna guess where Microsoft S

Re: [GENERAL] "1-Click" installer problems

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Page
your office to try to help (again, for free), who you refused to talk to. Unless you are prepared to help us understand exactly what is unique about your systems so we can figure out what is going wrong, then we cannot help you. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com --

Re: [GENERAL] "1-Click" installer problems

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Page
er place to put it. > > IIRC, that was modeled on where Microsofts own SQL Server put it's > data files by default. Does anybody know if that has changed recently? It hasn't. I checked 2008 this morning. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] "1-Click" installer problems

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > I think that the EDB one click installer for windows is a great piece > of software, and I'm very grateful to Dave and the EDB people for > maintaining it, as well as the stack builder that it comes with. Thank you Peter -

Re: [GENERAL] "1-Click" installer problems

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Page
ut isn't it > worth investigating in order to fix the installer? The old installer used entirely different technology, which is not easily comparable. It was also never tested on Windows 7. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (p

Re: [GENERAL] "1-Click" installer problems

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Massa, Harald Armin wrote: > Dave, >> >> > >> > IIRC, that was modeled on where Microsofts own SQL Server put it's >> > data files by default. Does anybody know if that has changed recently? >> >> It hasn&#x

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Page
he-Worlds-Fastest-Database.aspx Yeah, I read that earlier in my daily lunchtime jaunt over to the Daily WTF. Alex clearly spent more time on his text than I did! -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [GENERAL] "1-Click" installer problems

2010-04-02 Thread Dave Page
ctly in the face of a system secured according to the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) mandate (http://www.microsoft.com/industry/government/federal/fdccdeployment.mspx), but frankly Windows offers a million and one ways to tighten/screw up security. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.en

Re: [GENERAL] windows 7 compatiblity?

2010-04-05 Thread Dave Page
k, you HAVE to change the default dir, I went and installed to > c:\postgresql\8.4 and its alive and running. > if that were the case, there is no way the installer would have got through even basic sanity testing, never mind the barrage of tests every release does go through successfull

Re: [GENERAL] "1-Click" installer problems

2010-04-07 Thread Dave Page
s fine on all our test systems, including 64 bit versions of XP, Vista, 7, 2003 and 2008. I will be chatting with my colleagues later to try to figure out what the issue may be, though a quick Google indicates there are a number of possible causes for this issue. We'll also be looking for possible

Re: [GENERAL] Unable to uninstall postgres from Add/Remove programs

2010-04-09 Thread Dave Page
"StackBuilder" it's probably the MSI installer. The MSI installer has StackBuilder. Judging by the service name, I'd guess this was the MSI. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] [SOLVED] Error in Trigger function. How to correct?

2010-04-15 Thread Dave Page
;> So there was no actual 8.3 base release of PPAS? > > No, and I assume the version numbers will all match for future releases. That's the plan. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-g

[GENERAL] Reading PG data from MySQL stored procedure

2011-10-20 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Here's a real long shot, but what the heck... I have a user that's using a system that gives him a single MySQL DB handle to work with. He must get all his data through this handle. He wants some of my PG based data. Not only can't he open a new DB handle to my PG DB, but he cannot even run

Re: [GENERAL] Reading PG data from MySQL stored procedure

2011-10-20 Thread Gauthier, Dave
ay, October 20, 2011 3:33 PM To: Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Reading PG data from MySQL stored procedure On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Gauthier, Dave wrote: > Here's a real long shot, but what the heck... > > > > I have a user that&#

Re: [GENERAL] Reading PG data from MySQL stored procedure

2011-10-20 Thread Gauthier, Dave
, 2011 10:23 PM To: Gauthier, Dave Cc: Merlin Moncure; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Reading PG data from MySQL stored procedure On 10/21/2011 03:56 AM, Gauthier, Dave wrote: > The software system they are being forced to use gives them the ability to > send queries to a

Re: [GENERAL] force JDBC driver fetch / autocommit parameters?

2011-10-21 Thread Dave Cramer
Can you be more specific as to what you are looking for ? I presume there is something between you and the connection so when you turn autocommit on it doesn't work ? Dave Cramer dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca http://www.credativ.ca On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:34 PM, S. Balch

[GENERAL] matching against a list of regexp?

2011-10-27 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: I need to be able to select all records with a col value that matches any of a list of regexp. Sort of like... select a,b,c from foo where d ~ ('^xyz','blah','shrug$'); Does anyone know the right syntax for this? Thanks!

[GENERAL] does reindex need exclusive table access?

2011-10-31 Thread Gauthier, Dave
v8.3.4 on linux. Does "reindex table foo" require no other users accessing the foo table? Trying to understand why this seems to be stalled when I attempt this on a live DB (if runs fine/fast on a copy of the DB that no one uses). Should I run this inside a transaction? Thanks in Advance !

[GENERAL] Can I track DB connections through a generic acct on the basis of linux idsid

2011-10-31 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: PG v8.3.4 on linux. Server is at one corporate site, half the DB users are at that site, the other half are at a different site 2 time zones away. Users from both sites access the DB through the same, generic postgres user accout that has select/insert/update/delete only. And almost all

Re: [GENERAL] adding a column takes FOREVER!

2011-11-01 Thread Gauthier, Dave
I think you need exclusive access to the table in order to add columns (I'll stand/sit corrected if the more experienced responders say different). I've found that you have to either wait for them to get off or kill them first (as in pg_ctl kill ABRT). From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.or

[GENERAL] connections and cpu consumption

2011-11-09 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: PG v4.8.3 on Linux I'm using "selcet procpid,current_query from pg_stat_activity" to monitor activity during times when "top" is showing many PG procs with very high cpu usage numbers (all cores at or above 90%). Some of these are procs that map to PG connections with current_query = . W

Re: [GENERAL] connections and cpu consumption

2011-11-09 Thread Gauthier, Dave
, Gauthier, Dave wrote: > > I'm using "selcet procpid,current_query from pg_stat_activity" to > monitor activity during times when "top" is showing many PG procs with > very high cpu usage numbers (all cores at or above 90%). Some of > these are p

Re: [GENERAL] connections and cpu consumption

2011-11-09 Thread Gauthier, Dave
11 2:58 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] connections and cpu consumption On 11/09/11 11:35 AM, Gauthier, Dave wrote: > A... so if the script that has the connection open would only terminate > the transaction, then vacuum wouldn't get behind? > > I act

[GENERAL] SIGNALNAME in "pg_ctl kill"

2011-11-09 Thread Gauthier, Dave
pg_ctl --help lists the various SIGNALNAME options to use with "pg_ctk kill"... Allowed signal names for kill: HUP INT QUIT ABRT TERM USR1 USR2 I can't find a description of what each does. I'd like to abort just the procpid I enter, but using ABRT has a tendancy to kill lots of other stuff t

[GENERAL] How to use like with a list

2011-11-18 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: How can I search on a csv list of values using "like" where each value is to be appended with a wildcarded string? Example: list = 'jo,mo,do,fo' I want to pull all names from a table with name like.. 'jol%' or 'mol%' or'dol%' or 'sol%' would match "jolly, molly, moleman,dollface, solarboy

Re: [GENERAL] How to use like with a list

2011-11-18 Thread Gauthier, Dave
The example was a general case. It won't be jo and mo and fo. In fact, the values will be stored in a csv perl scalar. If you know perl... $str = "jo,mo,do,fo"; Using DBI, I need to "prepare" a query that will accept a string like the one above. So... select name,age,weight from people_ta

Re: [GENERAL] How to use like with a list

2011-11-18 Thread Gauthier, Dave
12:37 PM, Gauthier, Dave wrote: > bi_dev=# select name from test where name ~ '^(' || replace('jo,mo,do,fo', > ',', '|') || ')l'; > ERROR: argument of WHERE must be type boolean, not type text ah, needs () around the right side of the ~

[GENERAL] pg_dump of a v8.3.4 -> v9.0.1

2011-11-23 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: I have a pg_dump pf a v8.3.4 DB that I would like to bring into a v9.0.1 PG instance. What is the best way to do this? Note, the dump file is too big to fit into an editor, but I could sed it if need be. Thanks.

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump of a v8.3.4 -> v9.0.1

2011-11-23 Thread Gauthier, Dave
: Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump of a v8.3.4 -> v9.0.1 On 11/23/2011 08:08 AM, Gauthier, Dave wrote: > Hi: > > I have a pg_dump pf a v8.3.4 DB that I would like to bring into a v9.0.1 > PG instance. What is the best way to do this? Note, t

Re: [GENERAL] recursive inner trigger call

2011-12-01 Thread Gauthier, Dave
You set the trigger to fire off whenever ed_expore.bv is inserted or updated. Then the trigger updates ed_explore.bv, which fires the update trigger again, etc... . Infinite loop. No? Maybe you just want to use a before trigger to set that value before the insert, then you wouldn't need the

[GENERAL] \dT+ does not give elements ?

2011-12-02 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: SImple/quick (hopefully) thedb=# \dT+ List of data types Schema | Name| Internal name | Size | Elements | Description +---+---+---+--+- public | one_string_rec| one_string_rec

[GENERAL] FATAL: the database system is starting up

2011-12-05 Thread Dave Cramer
mum columns in an index: 32 Maximum size of a TOAST chunk:1996 Date/time type storage: 64-bit integers Float4 argument passing: by value Float8 argument passing: by value Dave Cramer dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca http://www.credati

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: the database system is starting up

2011-12-05 Thread Dave Cramer
Answering my own question hot_standby = off by default.. Dave Cramer dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca http://www.credativ.ca On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Dave Cramer wrote: > This is the second hot_standby server that I have setup for this > particular master server. The log

[GENERAL] plpgsql question

2011-12-05 Thread Gauthier, Dave
v8.3.4 on linux Is there a way to set the query used in a "for rec in (query) loop -> end loop" be a variable? Example if (foo = 'whatever') then sqlstmt := "select x,y,z ..."; else sqlstmt := "select a,b,c ..."; end if ; for therec in sqlstmt loop ... end loop; Thanks in Advance f

[GENERAL] making "\pset pager off" the default

2011-12-07 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: How can I make "pager off" the default when running psql ? v8.3.4 and v9.0.1 on linux.

Re: [GENERAL] making "\pset pager off" the default

2011-12-07 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Like a charm. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:adrian.kla...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 9:57 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Cc: Gauthier, Dave Subject: Re: [GENERAL] making "\pset pager off" the default On Wednesday, December 07,

Re: [GENERAL] WAL file accumulation on log shipping primary node

2011-12-12 Thread Dave Cramer
Dong, How are you copying the wal logs over to the secondary ? Since this is loosely coupled I am wondering how the master would be effected by load. Dave Cramer dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca http://www.credativ.ca On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Dong Han wrote: > Dear all, > &g

Re: [GENERAL] WAL file accumulation on log shipping primary node

2011-12-13 Thread Dave Cramer
Dong, Once the wal_copy command completes the primary is free to handle the wal logs as it sees fit. Is it possible that rsync is getting behind ? Dave Cramer dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca http://www.credativ.ca On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Dong Han wrote: > Dave, > > The

[GENERAL] add constraint deferrable, syntax error

2012-01-11 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Why am I getting this? xdb=# alter table templates add constraint manager_uid_is_invalid check ((constraint_checker('manager',manager,null,null)) = 'OK') DEFERRABLE ; ERROR: syntax error at or near "DEFERRABLE" LINE 1: ...int_checker('manager',manager,null,null)) = 'OK') DEFERRABLE... v8.3.4 on

[GENERAL] Preventing access temporarily.

2012-01-26 Thread Gauthier, Dave
PG V9.0.1 on Linux I want to temporarily prevent users from connecting to a DB, let the existing connections finish, , re-enable connections. What's the best way to do that? Thanks in Advance

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