[ADMIN] Can WE modify column of a table in postgres 7.3

2005-03-31 Thread sharma;G.S.
I want to rename and modify the data type of a column in postgres 7.3 can any body help me ...that it is possible to do the above in postgres and if yes pls provide me the syntax thanx in advance Disclaimer :- This e-mail message including any attachment may contain confidential, prop

Re: [ADMIN] Online Backups with 8.0 -- Confused

2005-03-31 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 01:29 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: > I'm considering options for the next release, since major change seems > to be required to the basic xlog handling mechanisms. Hmmm. I've thought about what to do here, I'll detail a proposal on HACKERS over next few days. If I'm right it wil

Re: [ADMIN] Online Backups with 8.0 -- Confused

2005-03-31 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 23:46 -0500, Jason DiCioccio wrote: > Simon, > > On Mar 31, 2005 7:29 PM, Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In retrospect, there is a slight timing error between end backup and > > archival of next WAL log. The first-release design for PITR didn't fully > > cove

Re: [ADMIN] Online Backups with 8.0 -- Confused

2005-03-31 Thread Jason DiCioccio
Simon, On Mar 31, 2005 7:29 PM, Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In retrospect, there is a slight timing error between end backup and > archival of next WAL log. The first-release design for PITR didn't fully > cover lower traffic situations, so in those cases the timing error > becomes

Re: [ADMIN] initdb.exe error while installing postgres 8.0

2005-03-31 Thread Shashi Gireddy
I donno why, but it is libpq.dll which hampered the installation, I copied libpq.dll into system32 folder when I installed mapserver, now I just renamed it to a different name and the installation was successful and postgres installed a new libpq.dll file, I donno if this causes any problems to map

Re: [ADMIN] Online Backups with 8.0 -- Confused

2005-03-31 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 18:41 -0500, Jason DiCioccio wrote: > Now, realize that ..0022 was not in the archive directory, and > actually is still not. However, it seems to be requiring it. Do I > have to wait for this log to be archived? Yes. > Is there a way that I can > force the archival o

[ADMIN] How to associate locks with a Postgres object

2005-03-31 Thread Adrian Engelbrecht
I have written the following query that ties together locks with databases and users, but I cannot determine from the columns in each of the views used how to associate this data with objects (tables, views, rows) in the Postgres database:- select relation, transaction, pid, mode, granted, datname

[ADMIN] Online Backups with 8.0 -- Confused

2005-03-31 Thread Jason DiCioccio
Greetings, I am having some trouble figuring out exactly what I'm supposed to be doing to successfully recover from an online backup. I am not in a critical situation or anything, simply doing some testing to make sure that my backup system would work. Here's the problem: I do a 'SELECT pg_s

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2005-03-31 Thread Alexánder Cadavid Giraldo
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Re: [ADMIN] Excessive growth of pg_attribute and other system tables

2005-03-31 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Steve Crawford wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 11:40 am, Tom Lane wrote: "Matthew T. O'Connor" writes: I believe this discrepancy has to do with the fact that ANALYZE can return some very bogus values for reltuples, where as vacuum always returns an accurate count. I'm not sure how to best

Re: [ADMIN] initdb.exe error while installing postgres 8.0

2005-03-31 Thread Shashi Gireddy
HI Martin, Thanks for your response. I tried installing from postgresql user account, it didn't worked for me. It was giving a different error (Access Denied), I gave all security permissions to that user still it didn't worked. This user is not a power user (only limited user) but i didn't see any

Re: [ADMIN] connectivity to database been an issue for me.

2005-03-31 Thread Joel Fradkin
I just spent some time with Verizon and we will see if they can fix, or if I have to find a new provider. I will try that prior to point to point (although the point to point may be a good option too if all else fails). Thanks everyone for the ideas and helping get a clear perspective on the issue.

Re: [ADMIN] problems with user rights

2005-03-31 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:06:11PM +0200, Zouari Fourat wrote: > > anyone can help me with a sample of pg_hba.conf See the "Client Authentication" chapter in the documentation. Here's a link to the latest version (use a different link if you're using an older version of PostgreSQL): http://www.p

Re: [ADMIN] Excessive growth of pg_attribute and other system tables

2005-03-31 Thread Steve Crawford
On Monday 21 March 2005 11:40 am, Tom Lane wrote: > "Matthew T. O'Connor" writes: > > I believe this discrepancy has to do with the fact that ANALYZE > > can return some very bogus values for reltuples, where as vacuum > > always returns an accurate count. I'm not sure how to best > > handle this

Re: [ADMIN] connectivity to database been an issue for me.

2005-03-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:11:53 +0200, Morus Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What comes in my mind regarding DSL is that a common error is to use > a too large MTU. Since there is some repackaging of network packets in > the ppp over ethernet protocol, one needs to make sure that the raw

Re: [ADMIN] locale and character set

2005-03-31 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Donnerstag, 31. März 2005 16:12 schrieb Tsirkin Evgeny: > The question is how it will behave will this eraise an error or it will > just not sork correctly? That depends entirely on your operating system's C library. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ --

Re: [ADMIN] connectivity to database been an issue for me.

2005-03-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 08:00, Joel Fradkin wrote: > Well the issue seems to occur for any traffic not limited to any one > machine. > > Pinging Yahoo for instance the ping is timing out when the line gets full > load. > I spoke to Verizon and they admitted they sold more bandwidth then the hard > w

Re: [ADMIN] Many persistant client connections

2005-03-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 02:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Zitat von Chris Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > i would like to know if there is something like the Oracle "shared > > > server" possible with PostgreSQL. I have searched the archives but > > > have not found

Re: [ADMIN] locale and character set

2005-03-31 Thread Tsirkin Evgeny
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Am Donnerstag, 31. März 2005 15:49 schrieb Tsirkin Evgeny: Is there any relation between the locale and character set? Every locale expects a certain character set to be used. You can find that out using $ LC_ALL=foo locale charmap If you want things to function c

Re: [ADMIN] connectivity to database been an issue for me.

2005-03-31 Thread Joel Fradkin
Well the issue seems to occur for any traffic not limited to any one machine. Pinging Yahoo for instance the ping is timing out when the line gets full load. I spoke to Verizon and they admitted they sold more bandwidth then the hard wires in the area support. I am going to see if we can slow dow

Re: [ADMIN] locale and character set

2005-03-31 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Donnerstag, 31. März 2005 15:49 schrieb Tsirkin Evgeny: > Is there any relation between the locale and character set? Every locale expects a certain character set to be used. You can find that out using $ LC_ALL=foo locale charmap If you want things to function correctly, you have to use a

[ADMIN] locale and character set

2005-03-31 Thread Tsirkin Evgeny
Hi list! Is there any relation between the locale and character set? For example if i store the data as sql_ascii can i still use the locale as utf-8? In my case i have the data stored as ascii but i just know it is actually utf-8 and i am doing upgrade , So i would like to leave the ascii as int

Re: [ADMIN] problems with user rights

2005-03-31 Thread Zouari Fourat
anyone can help me with a sample of pg_hba.conf On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:47:31 -0700, Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:14:38AM -0500, John DeSoi wrote: > > On Mar 30, 2005, at 10:17 AM, Zouari Fourat wrote: > > > > >is it really secure in a shared hosting environ

Re: [ADMIN] Many persistant client connections

2005-03-31 Thread lst_hoe01
Zitat von Chris Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > i would like to know if there is something like the Oracle "shared > > server" possible with PostgreSQL. I have searched the archives but > > have not found any real discussion regarding this. > > > > We have two CTI appli

Re: [ADMIN] connectivity to database been an issue for me.

2005-03-31 Thread Morus Walter
Joel Fradkin writes: > Hi, > > > > We are in development stage of implementing postgres. > > Our data center is in Tampa and we are in Bardenton and I am using DSL at my > office (384 up, 1.5 down). > > Data center is 2 meg ea way. > > When I use pgadmin to connect it is ok, but as soon as I