[ADMIN] Postgres/Postmaster logging and log rotation

2001-03-07 Thread William L James
Hi there: We are running PostgreSQL 7.0.2 on RedHat Linux 6.2 and have encountered a few strange problems that continue to elude us - namely INSERT and DELETE functions that end abnormally, but do not include any information as to why (the JDBC connection just seems to have gone away). Trying

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres/Postmaster logging and log rotation

2001-03-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
William L James writes: script - su -l postgresql -c "/usr/bin/pg_ctl -D $PGDATA -p /usr/bin/postmaster start /var/log/postgresql 21"), but when the weekly logrotate.d function kicks in, Postgres logging stops. The logging probably continues to go to the rotated-away file. The typical log

[ADMIN] Postgresql \z grant question

2001-03-07 Thread hicham bouzdad
Hello everyone, in Postgresql RDBMS , how can i get informations aboutacces permissions on existing objects ? I alredy know that ( psql \z )do this ; but 'w' meansupdate OR delete ! (it's not the same thing) can someone , please, tell me if it is

[ADMIN] Auto commit off ?

2001-03-07 Thread Björn Lundin
Hi! Is there a way of setting autocommit off in psql? Being used to oracle's SQL*Plus, I fell kind of nervous every time i find out that I forgot to start a transaction by myself. Running PostgreSQL 7.0.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc 2.95.3 on Mandrake 7.2 preinstalled. when booting,

Re: [ADMIN] Postgresql \z grant question

2001-03-07 Thread bangh
What do you mean 'w' meansupdate OR delete ! (it's not the same thing) ? Do you want to know if somebody only could access (select)? If he has "r", he has select access on that object. Access information certaintly includes all (select, alter, update, insert, delete). ---

Re: [ADMIN] Postgresql \z grant question

2001-03-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
hicham bouzdad wrote: Hello everyone, in Postgresql RDBMS , how can i get informations aboutacces permissions on existing obje cts ? I alredy know that ( psql \z )do this ; but 'w' meansupdate OR delete ! (it's not the same

[ADMIN] Is vacuuming while inserting/updating bad?

2001-03-07 Thread G. Anthony Reina
If I have a process which is inserting/updating tuples and run a vacuum while that process is going, will the vacuum wait for the process to finish? Or, will I have a problem with the db? How about the other way: doing a insert/update while a vacuum is running? Thanks. -Tony

[ADMIN] Postgresql, DB2, replication

2001-03-07 Thread pgsql-admin
Hello All! Somebody told me that DB2 has replication. Does PostgreSQL has it also? Anyway, does anybody here know the difference between PostgreSQL and DB2? Thanks. Sherwin ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with