Re: [ADMIN] indexes separate from data

2002-04-03 Thread Marin Dimitrov
- Original Message - From: "Jean-Luc Lachance" > Interesting... What happens when you drop and recreate the index??? > repeat the whole procedure again hth, Marin "...what you brought from your past, is of no use in your present. When you must choose a new path, do no

Re: [ADMIN] help on to_date conversion please....

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Pesko
Thanks. That seems a better way to go. At 03:47 PM 4/3/02 -0800, Stephan Szabo wrote: >On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Chris Pesko wrote: > > > Never mind. Just figured it out. Need to grab the substring from 2 for 8 > > from the to_char result because it holds character number 1 reserv ed for + > > or -

Re: [ADMIN] help on to_date conversion please....

2002-04-03 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Chris Pesko wrote: > Never mind. Just figured it out. Need to grab the substring from 2 for 8 > from the to_char result because it holds character number 1 reserv ed for + > or - signs. + is default or white space. I think that is the reason. Any > other input? You

Re: [ADMIN] help on to_date conversion please....

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Pesko
Never mind. Just figured it out. Need to grab the substring from 2 for 8 from the to_char result because it holds character number 1 reserv ed for + or - signs. + is default or white space. I think that is the reason. Any other input? hwds=# select to_date(substring(to_char(20020101,

[ADMIN] help on to_date conversion please....

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Pesko
I am converting an 8 digit number to a date. I don't see a postgres function to do it direct, but two functions seems like I'm on the right track, to_char and to_date. Individually I get them to work, but when I combine them I get the wrong answer. see below. Can anyone help in getting the

Re: [ADMIN] How to create a user with password

2002-04-03 Thread Srinivasa R Chava
login using trust authentication method. Then change the password for postgresql user with 'alter user command. I think this will work . Thanks chava -- Srinivasa R Chava (Chava) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Boss: Sean T Laduderdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> vnet4603575 Application Developer Corporate Intr

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum returns error

2002-04-03 Thread Tom Lane
"William Meloney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Developer dropped ~30+ tables from 4 different DBs on the same > server. Queiries began to fail: unable to locate file; > /var/lib/pgsql/pg_clog/0006. >> >> Hmm. What files do you actually have in /var/lib/pgsql/pg_clog? > [ info snipped ] Okay

[ADMIN] How to create a user with password

2002-04-03 Thread Web Administrator
Title: How to create a user with password Hi, all:    In the file of pg_hba.conf, I give the following parameter:    TYPE   DATABASE    IP_ADDRESS      MASK         AUTH_TYPE      AUTH_ARGUMENT  Local  all                          

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum returns error

2002-04-03 Thread William Meloney
On 2 Apr 2002 at 2:09, Tom Lane wrote: > "William Meloney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PG 7.2 and RH 7.2 > > Developer dropped ~30+ tables from 4 different DBs on the same > > server. Queiries began to fail: unable to locate file; > > /var/lib/pgsql/pg_clog/0006. > > Hmm. What files do y

Re: [ADMIN] Backup pg_shadow

2002-04-03 Thread Tom Lane
"Gaetano Mendola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I easily backup the table pg_shadow > or at least how can I backup the data about the users of > the DB? See pg_dumpall. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TI

Re: [ADMIN] indexes separate from data

2002-04-03 Thread Jean-Luc Lachance
Interesting... What happens when you drop and recreate the index??? Marin Dimitrov wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Judy Jecelin" > > > > > Hi, > > > > A relatively novice user of PostgreSQL but not > > of other databases... I'm trying to understand the > > use of initlocation.

Re: [ADMIN] Request for comment...

2002-04-03 Thread Jean-Marc Pigeon
Bonjour William Meloney > > > My request for comment is comprised of three parts... > > 1.) What hardware should I consider when looking at Linux? I know this is a broad > question but the answer is simple. What hardware are you using to run you Linux > implementation? Dual Process

[ADMIN] Request for comment...

2002-04-03 Thread William Meloney
My previous post was a knee jerk reaction to a crash of Postmaster. I did not list it but Postmaster was named in the crash dump. The top of the message is repeated here... Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0073 *pde = Oo

Re: [ADMIN] Thing(s) that went bump in the night...

2002-04-03 Thread Jeremy Buchmann
William Meloney wrote: > The beginning of the BSOD (Yes Virginia, Linux gets Black Screens Of Death!!!)... > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address > 0073 > *pde = > Oops = 0002 > cpu = 0 > eip = 0010:[] > eflags = 0

Re: [ADMIN] Data Loss After Restore?

2002-04-03 Thread Jeremy Buchmann
Trevor Astrope wrote: > I didn't see any errors when restoring the database, so I'm confused why > the restored database takes up so much less space... Is there any reason > why this would happen? Is there any easy way to see where I may have lost > data? You could also (if you have the disk spa

[ADMIN] Backup pg_shadow

2002-04-03 Thread Gaetano Mendola
How can I easily backup the table pg_shadow or at least how can I backup the data about the users of the DB? Ciao Gaetano -- #exclude #include printf("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b");. printf("\t\t\b\b\b\b\b\b"); ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'ki

Re: [ADMIN] Data Loss After Restore?

2002-04-03 Thread Tom Lane
Trevor Astrope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I restored a 7.1.3 database to another machine which seems to have went > fine. However, the data on the disk is less than the original machine... > There is only 6.5GB in pgsql/dta/base on my test machine and the same > directory on the production mach

Re: [ADMIN] Data Loss After Restore?

2002-04-03 Thread Dan Langille
On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Trevor Astrope wrote: > I restored a 7.1.3 database to another machine which seems to have went > fine. However, the data on the disk is less than the original machine... > There is only 6.5GB in pgsql/dta/base on my test machine and the same > directory on the production mach

Re: [ADMIN] INDEX issues

2002-04-03 Thread Tom Lane
"Nicholay P. Chuprynin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I switched enable_seqscan to 'false', restarted server and EXPLAINed the > same query again: > ... > Now it uses index scan, but query takes MUCH more time than before (about > an hour, and it's not finished yet). > It seems very strange for m

[ADMIN] Data Loss After Restore?

2002-04-03 Thread Trevor Astrope
I restored a 7.1.3 database to another machine which seems to have went fine. However, the data on the disk is less than the original machine... There is only 6.5GB in pgsql/dta/base on my test machine and the same directory on the production machine was at 8.4GB at the time of the dump. This was

[ADMIN] Thing(s) that went bump in the night...

2002-04-03 Thread William Meloney
The beginning of the BSOD (Yes Virginia, Linux gets Black Screens Of Death!!!)... Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0073 *pde = Oops = 0002 cpu = 0 eip = 0010:[] eflags = 00010206 ... .

[ADMIN] INDEX issues

2002-04-03 Thread Nicholay P. Chuprynin
Hello, All! Today I tried the following query on a large table (11543179 rows). SELECT sum(raw_bytes) FROM raw_acct WHERE raw_date > '2001-12-31' AND ts_client_id = 93 AND ts_server_id IS NOT NULL; It took about 4 minutes to complete so I EXPLAINed it: NOTICE: QUERY PLAN: Aggregate (cost=3

Re: [ADMIN] Log rotation

2002-04-03 Thread Gaetano Mendola
"Andre Schubert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can use multilog on linux. Hi, I don't know what's multilog but I resolved my problem in this way (general suggestions for all): #File postgresql.conf syslog = 2 syslog_facility = 'LOCAL0' syslog_ident = 'postgres' #File /etc/logrotate.d/post