Re: [ADMIN] YOUR SITES SEARCH FEATURE DOES NOT WORK!

2003-11-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
What URL are you using? I just went to archives.postgresql.org, typed in 'mvcc' for a search and it came back in <10 seconds ... On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Nick Fankhauser wrote: > Can't help with the search engine, but the answer to your question is: psql > . > > I'd recommend starting with the tuto

[ADMIN] RH-PostgreSQL version 7.3.4 is included RHEL 3

2003-11-14 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, I think there is some confusion about which PostgreSQL is included in RHEL3. I just checked and the following packages are in RHN channel Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 3 for x86): postgresql-odbc-7.3-3 PostgreSQL ODBC driver. rh-postgresql-7.3.4-8 PostgreSQL client programs

Re: [ADMIN] ER diagram tool for PostgresSQL7.3

2003-11-14 Thread Oli Sennhauser
Hello Gautam I was reading something about Eclipse and the Plugin "Clay Datamodel". What about this. I was just downloading (70MB) it. Installation is very easy. But is a little late now an cannot concentrate anymore... Regards Oli --- Oli S

Re: [ADMIN] Which hardware/filesystem for postgresql?

2003-11-14 Thread James Rogers
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 10:54, ow wrote: > --- James Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just received the okay to purchase maxed out SMP Opteron servers > > with Fiber Channel storage arrays to run Postgres, and those will be > > Linux with XFS file systems as well. > > Any particular brand

Re: [ADMIN] Trying to pg_restore a 7.1.3 db into 7.3.4 - stalling at 100%

2003-11-14 Thread Shane Wright
Hi, I've used this command to dump just the table concerned, and I get a zero length file!?! No errors or anything, just a silent exit. pg_dump -U xx-S xx -F t -a -t tablename mydatabase > ~/backup/mytable Any ideas? I'm thinking the zero-sized file could be what was causing the read()s to f

Re: [ADMIN] YOUR SITES SEARCH FEATURE DOES NOT WORK!

2003-11-14 Thread Glenn Wiorek
These links might also be of help. Found then on the Postgres Techdoc Site - http://techdocs.postgresql.org/ http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/postgres.html http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/06/07/postgresql.html - Original Message - From: "Nick Fankhauser" <[EMAIL PR

Re: [ADMIN] YOUR SITES SEARCH FEATURE DOES NOT WORK!

2003-11-14 Thread Nick Fankhauser
Can't help with the search engine, but the answer to your question is: psql . I'd recommend starting with the tutorial in the docs for questions like this. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/tutorial-start.html I can also confirm that the search engine in the docs area (http://www.postgres

Re: [ADMIN] Modify a database user

2003-11-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Ajay Prabhakar writes: > I want to modify an existing database user. This user doesnot have > postgres super user rights(rights to create another user) and I want > to update its rights without dropping and creating it again. Help me > out. ALTER USER -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [ADMIN] Which hardware/filesystem for postgresql?

2003-11-14 Thread ow
--- James Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just received the okay to purchase maxed out SMP Opteron servers > with Fiber Channel storage arrays to run Postgres, and those will be > Linux with XFS file systems as well. Any particular brand of the storage array you'd recommend? Thanks

[ADMIN] Solution to createlang plpgsql Failing on Mandrake 9.1

2003-11-14 Thread CLIFFORD ILKAY
Hi, I am running PostgreSQL 7.3.2 on Mandrake 9.1. When I attempted to install the PL/PGSQL language for the first time, I got the following error: ERROR: stat failed on file '$libdir/plpgsql': No such file or directory createlang: language installation failed I had the following packages insta

Re: [ADMIN] Which hardware/filesystem for postgresql?

2003-11-14 Thread James Rogers
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 07:59, Cris Carampa wrote: > Christopher Browne wrote: > > > The best performance results I have seen on Linux systems have > > involved the use of JFS. I found XFS to be a little slower, and it > > has the distinct demerit that it is not in the 'official' kernel tree > > ye

Re: [ADMIN] Question On 7.4RC2

2003-11-14 Thread Glenn Wiorek
Thanks for the ideas I will also check them out and first try RC1 to see if I get the same results. This was also reported by someone else as per Tom Lane reply below. -- Glenn >>t means the stats collector is failing, probably because it's unable to >>set up the self-connected UDP port that the

[ADMIN] PG_CONTROL_VERSION ERROR

2003-11-14 Thread Piyush Agarwal
Hi, I was working with pg7.1 on RedHat 7.1. But, unfortunately, while updating RedHat9 I forgot to pg_dump my data files written with pg7.1. pg7.1 doesnt seem to compile on redhat 9. so i installed pg7.3.4 on RedHat 9, copied my earlier files into the new data directory under pgsql and tried to o

Re: [ADMIN] can't connect to PostgreSQL Database using pgAdminII

2003-11-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just went through this same thing today.  You will also need to go into your postgresql.conf file and set tcpip_socket=true and yes spaces matter (tcpip_socket = true will not work).  jim Telecontrol Networking wrote: did you started your database using the -i parameter ? send-me the

Re: [ADMIN] Which hardware/filesystem for postgresql?

2003-11-14 Thread Christopher Browne
Cris Carampa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christopher Browne wrote: > >> The best performance results I have seen on Linux systems have >> involved the use of JFS. I found XFS to be a little slower, and it >> has the distinct demerit that it is not in the 'official' kernel tree >> yet, thereby me

[ADMIN] Which hardware/filesystem for postgresql?

2003-11-14 Thread Cristian Veronesi
Hello, my company is starting to propose postgresql-based solutions to our clients. Our recommended operating system is SuSE Linux. Which disk architecture should we recommend for postgresql servers? I was thinking about RAID10. Also, what Linux filesystem should we use? I was thinking about XFS. W

Re: [ADMIN] Which hardware/filesystem for postgresql?

2003-11-14 Thread Cris Carampa
Christopher Browne wrote: The best performance results I have seen on Linux systems have involved the use of JFS. I found XFS to be a little slower, and it has the distinct demerit that it is not in the 'official' kernel tree yet, thereby meaning that you have to get into the pain of managing hea

[ADMIN] Modify a database user

2003-11-14 Thread Ajay Prabhakar
I want to modify an existing database user. This user doesnot have postgres super user rights(rights to create another user) and I want to update its rights without dropping and creating it again. Help me out. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can

Re: [ADMIN] Which hardware/filesystem for postgresql?

2003-11-14 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, Cristian Veronesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, my company is starting to propose postgresql-based solutions > to our clients. Our recommended operating system is SuSE > Linux. Which disk architecture should we recommend for postgresql > servers? I was thinking a

Re: [ADMIN] Question On 7.4RC2

2003-11-14 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Glenn Wiorek") writes: > I just finished compiling 7.4RC2 on Solaris 8 and ran the regression > tests (make check).  The last test out of 93 (stats) failed.  Is > this of concern?  I haven't "regressed" 7.4RC2 on Solaris, though I did do RC1, without any problems. Let's see...

Re: [ADMIN] Oracle and PostgreSQL servers incompatibility

2003-11-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > "Jouneau Luc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We plan to install on a same Solaris server an Oracle8i and a PostgreSQL > > 7.3.4 database. > > During our impact tests, we encountered a situation where no more semaphore > > was available for Oracle server (while we where bulk loadi

Re: [ADMIN] Problem with compilation 7.3.4

2003-11-14 Thread jacek
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:42:02 +0100 (CET) Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jacek writes: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] postgresql-7.3.4]$ ./configure --infodir=/usr/share/info > > configure: error: unrecognized option: --infodir=/usr/share/info > > Try `./configure --help' for more informat

Re: [ADMIN] pg_restore and FK constraints with large dbs

2003-11-14 Thread ow
--- Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you you pg_dump and dump schema and data together, then there is some > magic to temporarily disable foreign key constraints. Try it out. > Perhaps you can adopt the statements to your particular restoration method > as well, if it turns out ne

Re: [ADMIN] Oracle and PostgreSQL servers incompatibility

2003-11-14 Thread Tom Lane
"Jouneau Luc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We plan to install on a same Solaris server an Oracle8i and a PostgreSQL > 7.3.4 database. > During our impact tests, we encountered a situation where no more semaphore > was available for Oracle server (while we where bulk loading on postgreSQL > using c

Re: [ADMIN] Logging: statements and users

2003-11-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:10:09PM -0800, ow wrote: > Hi, > > It appears that pgSql can be configured to log the executed statements. > However, the log does not appear to contain any info about who's running the > statement. Any way to change this? You can log the pid and log connections, and th

Re: [ADMIN] Oracle and PostgreSQL servers incompatibility

2003-11-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:07:40PM +0100, Jouneau Luc wrote: > During our impact tests, we encountered a situation where no more semaphore > was available for Oracle server (while we where bulk loading on postgreSQL > using copy statement. There was only one PG connection while there were many > o

Re: [ADMIN] Problem with compilation 7.3.4

2003-11-14 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > jacek writes: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] postgresql-7.3.4]$ ./configure --infodir=/usr/share/info >> configure: error: unrecognized option: --infodir=/usr/share/info >> Try `./configure --help' for more information. > There is no info documentation, so you

Re: [ADMIN] pg_atoi: zero-length string

2003-11-14 Thread Dani Oderbolz
Larry Rosenman wrote: Upgrade phpgroupware. This started with 7.3, and the PHPGroupware folks fixed it based on a bug report I filed. LER Hmm, my phpgroupware come right out of their CVS! Which version was this fixed in? Regards, Dani ---(end of broadcast)

[ADMIN] Oracle and PostgreSQL servers incompatibility

2003-11-14 Thread Jouneau Luc
Hello everybody, We plan to install on a same Solaris server an Oracle8i and a PostgreSQL 7.3.4 database. During our impact tests, we encountered a situation where no more semaphore was available for Oracle server (while we where bulk loading on postgreSQL using copy statement. There was only one

Re: [ADMIN] Problem with compilation 7.3.4

2003-11-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
jacek writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] postgresql-7.3.4]$ ./configure --infodir=/usr/share/info > configure: error: unrecognized option: --infodir=/usr/share/info > Try `./configure --help' for more information. There is no info documentation, so you don't need this option. -- Peter Eisentraut [EM

[ADMIN] Problem with compilation 7.3.4

2003-11-14 Thread jacek
When i try to configure postgres before compilation returned errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] postgresql-7.3.4]$ ./configure --infodir=/usr/share/info configure: error: unrecognized option: --infodir=/usr/share/info Try `./configure --help' for more information. The infodir option is present in ./config