Re: [ADMIN] grant execute on many functions

2004-06-29 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: select 'GRANT EXECUTE ON ' || 1142::regprocedure; ERROR: array value must start with "{" or dimension information BTW, it seems like there's something pretty broken here. How did arrays get into it? A quick probe suggests that it is res

Re: [ADMIN] grant execute on many functions

2004-06-29 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Um. Sooner or later we ought to do something about the whole >> automatic-casting-to-and-from-text issue. Datatypes shouldn't have to >> supply both I/O procedures and text cast procedures. > I thought automatic (i.e. implicit) casting-

Re: [ADMIN] grant execute on many functions

2004-06-29 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Um. Sooner or later we ought to do something about the whole automatic-casting-to-and-from-text issue. Datatypes shouldn't have to supply both I/O procedures and text cast procedures. I thought automatic (i.e. implicit) casting-to-and-from-text was a no-no because it could cause

Re: [ADMIN] grant execute on many functions

2004-06-29 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >select 'GRANT EXECUTE ON ' || 1142::regprocedure; >ERROR: array value must start with "{" or dimension information BTW, it seems like there's something pretty broken here. How did arrays get into it? A quick probe suggests that it is resolving the

Re: [ADMIN] grant execute on many functions

2004-06-29 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's even better -- I tried regproc, but forgot about regprocedure. I > think the problem will be, though, that the output of the reg* datatypes > is not castable to text, and therefore cannot be used to build a dynamic > sql statement. Um. Sooner or

Re: [ADMIN] grant execute on many functions

2004-06-29 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Also, casting the function's OID to regprocedure may be useful. Random example: regression=# select 1142::regprocedure; regprocedure date_mii(date,integer) (1 row) That's even better -- I tried regproc, but forgot about regprocedure. I think the prob

Re: [ADMIN] grant execute on many functions

2004-06-29 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jean-Denis Giguere wrote: >> But, the problem is more complex for functions because you have to give >> the arguments. > Does this help? > SELECT n.nspname || '.' || p.proname || > '(' || pg_catalog.oidvectortypes(p.proargtypes) || ')' Also, cast

Re: [ADMIN] How to list what queries are running in postgres?

2004-06-29 Thread Tom Lane
Gaetano Mendola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > P.A.M. van Dam wrote: >> I'm looking for a command or method to find out what queries are >> currently being serviced by the database. > select * from pg_stat_activity; ... having first remembered to turn on stats_command_string; and thou shalt also

Re: [ADMIN] Stopping vacuum

2004-06-29 Thread Tom Lane
Werner Bohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have a very big db that was not vacuumed for a long time. We started > vacuum 3 days ago and it has not finished yet. There are some urgent > processes that have to be run against the db. > Is it safe to kill vacuum? It was started with 'vacuum full ana

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Re: [ADMIN] Stopping vacuum

2004-06-29 Thread Iain
IIRC killing vacuums can cause some minor problems - i think it may have (Bbeen something like index bloat. Tom said something about it once before. (B (BOtherwise, as I understand it, it's "safe" to kill vacuums. (B (BCheers (BIain (B (B- Original Message - (BFrom: "Werner Bohl"

Re: [ADMIN] grant execute on many functions

2004-06-29 Thread Joe Conway
Jean-Denis Giguere wrote: But, the problem is more complex for functions because you have to give the arguments. You can find the list in the pg_proc table but they are store in a array by oid. So you can resolve the type with the table pg_type. After, you have to reproduce the correct syntax (w

[ADMIN] grant execute on many functions

2004-06-29 Thread Jean-Denis Giguere
Hi, I have about 200 functions in a schema and I have to grant execute privilege on all these functions to a group. I have found on the web an interesting function for grant access on table. http://www.lerctr.org/pgnotes/pgnotes.html (http://www.lerctr.org/pgnotes/grant-all.html) But, the prob

Re: [ADMIN] How to list what queries are running in postgres?

2004-06-29 Thread Gaetano Mendola
P.A.M. van Dam wrote: Hi! I'm looking for a command or method to find out what queries are currently being serviced by the database. select * from pg_stat_activity; Regards Gaetano Mendola ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list a

Re: [ADMIN] Capacity Planning

2004-06-29 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Jeff Keller wrote: I had a typo in the first post. The Record Reads per day should be 50,000,000, not 500 Million. My mistake. One decimal place makes a huge difference. Our current app is Progress based with running on an IBM p650 with 4 processors and suspect a similar load if we were to cha

[ADMIN] PITR Error Message assistance

2004-06-29 Thread Simon Riggs
Could I ask for feedback on the error messages used with the archiver and restore functionality? Possibly those of you with a hand in the Error Message style guide? The messages need the eye of some administrators to suggest some better phrases. Some probably need some explanation, but I'll leave

Re: [ADMIN] Stopping vacuum

2004-06-29 Thread Lee Wu
To speed up, consider to increase vacuum_mem if you have free RAM. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of CHRIS HOOVER Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 10:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Stopping vacuum It is safe

[ADMIN] Help with Migration

2004-06-29 Thread Hetal Patel
hello, I am trying to migrate a database in PostgreSQL to Oracle. The version of Oracle that i currently have is Oracle 10g. Is there any open source tool or any other way of migrating my postgresql database to Oracle. Thank you. Hetal. __ Do you

Re: [ADMIN] Stopping vacuum

2004-06-29 Thread CHRIS HOOVER
It is safe to kill the vacuum (but not a favored thing to do). I have done it many times when the vacuums have run to long and have started to affect my online production performance. Be sure to just do a kill, as a kill -9 will cause the db to reset all connections to it. Since you have not vac

Re: [ADMIN] Binary/source for 7.4.3

2004-06-29 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 29 June 2004 10:55, Tom Lane wrote: > I need to re-roll those because I forgot to update the JDBC driver jars > to the latest version :-(. But they're good as far as the other > components go. Once Tom has rerolled them, those RPMs shoud be considered 'canonical' for FC2. I need to d

Asunto: Re: [ADMIN] pg_restore usage

2004-06-29 Thread juanmime
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas F. O'Connell) writes: >> I transfer this file to another server, where the database db does not >> exist. I try the following: > >> pg_restore -C -d db pg_dump20040621.pgsql >> pg_restore: [archiver (db)] connection to database "db" failed: FATAL: >> database "db" does n

[ADMIN] Stopping vacuum

2004-06-29 Thread Werner Bohl
Hi, We have a very big db that was not vacuumed for a long time. We started vacuum 3 days ago and it has not finished yet. There are some urgent processes that have to be run against the db. Is it safe to kill vacuum? It was started with 'vacuum full analyze' Is there anyway to speed it up at nex

Re: [ADMIN] Change the character encoding of a database

2004-06-29 Thread Ivo Rossacher
This did finaly work for me. I have to add that to get this working it is required to have a UTF-8 aware system on which the psql runs during import. Since the database server is not a UTF-8 system, my tries with this approche on the server only did fail. Thanks a lot. Best regards Ivo Rossac

[ADMIN] How to list what queries are running in postgres?

2004-06-29 Thread P.A.M. van Dam
Hi! I'm looking for a command or method to find out what queries are currently being serviced by the database. Once in a while a query goes berzerk and uses up all CPU. I'd like to find out which query is the culprit and want to kill it off. In Sybase you can get a list of running "processes" wi

Re: [ADMIN] Binary/source for 7.4.3

2004-06-29 Thread Tom Lane
Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Donald Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> does anyone know if binary versions or at least the source rpm are going to be >> produced for the latest release 7.4.3? > They are available for Fedora Core 2. I think they are in the development > area.

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump Error

2004-06-29 Thread Tom Lane
"Nigel Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > pg_dump: Attempt to lock table "Foo" failed. ERROR: MySchema: > permission denied Looks like you need to grant yourself usage rights on the schema "MySchema". > If I try to drop this it errors saying the table foo doesn't exist. Can't tell whether y

Re: [ADMIN] Binary/source for 7.4.3

2004-06-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 12:27:52 +0100, Donald Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > does anyone know if binary versions or at least the source rpm are going to be > produced for the latest release 7.4.3? They are available for Fedora Core 2. I think they are in the development area. I foun

Re: [ADMIN] Binary/source for 7.4.3

2004-06-29 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Donald Fraser wrote: > does anyone know if binary versions or at least the source rpm are going to be > produced for the latest release 7.4.3? I've built them: http://www.gunduz.org/postgresql/packages-7.4.3/ Regards, -

[ADMIN] Binary/source for 7.4.3

2004-06-29 Thread Donald Fraser
Hi, does anyone know if binary versions or at least the source rpm are going to be produced for the latest release 7.4.3?   Thanks in advance Donald Fraser

[ADMIN] pg_dump Error

2004-06-29 Thread Nigel Bishop
Hi I'm getting an error with pg_dump: I'm using pg_dump -v -C -U username database > ./dumpfile.dmp and it errors with: pg_dump: saving database definition pg_dump: reading namespaces pg_dump: reading user-defined types pg_dump: reading user-defined functions pg_dump: reading user-defined aggr