Re: [ADMIN] [pgadmin-support] Overloading functions that are used by operators.

2003-07-18 Thread Dave Page
> -Original Message- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 July 2003 17:07 > To: Dave Page > Cc: Donald Fraser; [ADMIN]; [pgADMIN] > Subject: Re: [ADMIN] [pgadmin-support] Overloading functions > that are used by operators. > > > "Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL 7.3.3 on Windows 2000

2003-07-18 Thread Thomas Sattler
A man walks ito a doctor's office, and he says, "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." The doctor says, "Don't do that." "T.J. Hoo" wrote: > Hi! > > I don't want to use PostgreSQL "the Unix way" on Windows and so I did not > install the Cygwin and tried to compile using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0.

Re: [ADMIN] News server

2003-07-18 Thread The Hermit Hacker
news.us.postgresql.org is up right now, and gatewaying ... news.postgresql.org will come back online as soon as I'm able to get some more hardware online handle it, which we're just getting ready to ship out ... message pointesr will be out of sync, unfortunately, so altho we are adding redundancy

Re: [ADMIN] Read-Only Views?

2003-07-18 Thread Arguile
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 13:26, Naomi Walker wrote: > I noticed in some (older) documentation that views were read-only? Is this > still the case? Yes, views are read-only unless you define rules for how they can be inserted/updated/deleted from. See these for how to create those rules: http://dev

Re: [ADMIN] Read-Only Views?

2003-07-18 Thread scott.marlowe
Yep. by default views are not updateable in postgresql. However, they can be made updateable by triggers. Note that not all views are inherently updateable, just the simplest. for instance how would you update: create view bigview as select g1.id, t1.f1*t2.f2, t1.f3/t3.f4 from tabl1 t1, ta

[ADMIN] Restore "data/base/myDB/" raw data files

2003-07-18 Thread Jeff Ward
Title: Message So I have a  "data/base/myDB/" directory with a database that I need to restore from Postgres 7.0.2 on a Cobalt RaQ4 that went down. All I have is the directory to work with, and I see these files that I need are in there. I opened up one of the table files with a text editor

[ADMIN] Read-Only Views?

2003-07-18 Thread Naomi Walker
I noticed in some (older) documentation that views were read-only? Is this still the case? Naomi - Naomi Walker Chief Information Officer

Re: [ADMIN] UltraSQL problem.

2003-07-18 Thread Bruce Momjian
All PostgreSQL can be run under Cygwin. --- Marvin wrote: > > Ok Thank you, > I will try to install it on my machine. > Do you know what version of Postgres is using this Cygwin? > > Regards, > > Mago > > ---Mensaje

Re: [ADMIN] UltraSQL problem.

2003-07-18 Thread Marvin
Ok Thank you, I will try to install it on my machine. Do you know what version of Postgres is using this Cygwin?   Regards,   Mago   ---Mensaje original---   De: Bruce Momjian Fecha: Viernes, 18 de Julio de 2003 09:03:52 a.m. A: Marvin CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: [ADMIN] UltraS

Re: [ADMIN] UltraSQL problem.

2003-07-18 Thread Bruce Momjian
No more recent version of UltraSQL, but you can use Cygwin with PostgreSQL. We are working on a native Win32, but that is a few months away. --- Marvin wrote: > I'm currently using "PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on i686-pc-winnt-msdev,

[ADMIN] Upgrade Tips 7.3

2003-07-18 Thread Sergio Pili
Hello, The link http://www.ca.postgresql.org/docs/momjian/upgrade_tips_7.3 is no longer valid. Where i can found this tips? Thanks, Sergio Pili ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your

Re: [ADMIN] Database growth problem

2003-07-18 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, mlaks wrote: > Hi, > > I have about 15 different PC's running RedHat 7.3 Linux, each running the > same database backed application (I use Postgresql 7.2.1 for the database) > on each machine. Upgrade to 7.2.4 as soon as possible. There are bugs in 7.2.3 and before th

Re: [ADMIN] Using temp tables

2003-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
Andreas Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did a vacuum full and analyze but this pg_temp namespaces are still there. > Any ideas about that phenomena ? They're supposed to be there; we recycle the pg_namespace entry across successive backend sessions. I see no point in deleting it only to

[ADMIN] UltraSQL problem.

2003-07-18 Thread Marvin
I'm currently using "PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on i686-pc-winnt-msdev, compiled by msdev 6.0" version that I found in postgresql site. This is the PeerDirect UltraSQL version for Windows. However I would like to know if there is a more recent version because I need to use the 7.4.   Any suggestions?  

Re: [ADMIN] Database growth problem

2003-07-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:32:24PM -0400, mlaks wrote: > Hi, > > I have about 15 different PC's running RedHat 7.3 Linux, each running the > same database backed application (I use Postgresql 7.2.1 for the database) Upgrade that to 7.2.4, at least. Noo need to dump and restore, but you get s

[ADMIN] Using temp tables

2003-07-18 Thread Andreas Schmitz
Hello *, we started the use of temporary tables for evaluating data. create temp table xxx drop temp table xxx; We encountered some strange errors about relation exists or even does not exist from server and application site. I started to look after orphan temp tables. No orphans wer

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump: dumpBlobs(): error reading large object: ERROR:

2003-07-18 Thread Dani Oderbolz
Tom Lane wrote: Sergio Pili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pg_dump abort with this error: pg_dump: dumpBlobs(): error reading large object: ERROR: cannot read block 6389 of pg_largeobject_loid_pn_index: Input/output error This error is caused by bad block on my hard drive? Looks lik

Re: [ADMIN] Database growth problem

2003-07-18 Thread Mendola Gaetano
"mlaks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I run vaccuum analyze at the same frequency as on the PC's? How is it that > deleting and saving and vacuum analyze doesnt keep it at a normal svelte <1Gb > in size? > > What should I do to shrink it back down to its normal svelte shape? Did you try to vac