Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL crashing

2005-12-21 Thread Richard Huxton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PostgreSQL runs for a while but always eventually (30min - 2hrs) crashes. I thought it was memory initially but Memtest had no errors after running for a day. I don't think it is a hardware issues because I can run other applications without error. I have ran both vers

Fw: [ADMIN] How to get OID return value(pls help me)

2005-12-21 Thread sandhya
- Original Message - From: "sandhya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Fuhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [ADMIN] How to get OID return value(pls help me) > What function is that? What does it do with the oid? > > It is normal C function ...

[ADMIN] Running with fsync=off

2005-12-21 Thread Benjamin Arai
I want to be able to do large updates on an existing backed up database with fsync=off but at the end of the updates how do I ensure that the data gets synced? Somebody said running "sync ; sync; sync" from the console. This seems reasonable but why not just "sync" or is there another command

[ADMIN] Pgstat.tmp file activity

2005-12-21 Thread Dan Austin
Hi, Have a major reliability problem with out postgres installation here. Basically the backends seem to "hang" when the server is under non-trivial load. It can cope with ~200 concurrent connections (max is 1024) but anything over that and all the backends start to hang. By hang I mean they answe

Re: [ADMIN] How to get OID return value(pls help me)

2005-12-21 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 11:05:22AM +0530, sandhya wrote: > My table consists of oid and varchar datatypes. > I want to get the oid type from the table and i need to pass it to > a function which accepts only the oid data type. What function is that? What does it do with the oid? > But my problem

[ADMIN] How to get OID return value(pls help me)

2005-12-21 Thread sandhya
Hi..     My table consists of oid and varchar datatypes. I want to get the oid type from the table and i need to pass it to a function which accepts only the oid data type. But my problem is the return value of the datatype i am getting from the query result is char*. Is there any funct

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Re: [ADMIN] Users + Groups = Roles, duplicate name issue

2005-12-21 Thread ljb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which version of pg_dump did you use to dump the old database? The > recommended procedure is to use the newer version of pg_dump (ie: > pg_dump from 8.1.1) to dump the old database. It's possible that the > newer version of pg_dump has facilities in place to deal with th

Re: [ADMIN] file in posgres

2005-12-21 Thread Alain Rodriguez Arias
What do you mean with this???  binary data in XML needs to be uuencoded afaik,   On 12/19/05, Jim Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Including -admin back in the discussion...Well, binary data in XML needs to be uuencoded afaik, and of course you'll want to put it in a CDATA block. PostgreSQL doe

Re: [ADMIN] WITH SYSID feature dropped

2005-12-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "ALTER USER is now an alias for ALTER ROLE, which see for more > information." > Someone want to commit a quick grammar fix to that? Maybe "which you > should see for more..."? It's perfectly good English as-is. regards, tom la

Re: [ADMIN] WAL and pg_dump

2005-12-21 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 11:18 +1300, Mike C wrote: > All the documentation I've seen for PITR points to having to do a file > system copy of sorts. Yes. There's no other way, but why would you want another way? > Is it possible to have a weekly pg_dump and restore the database up to > the last arc

Re: [ADMIN] backup and wal files

2005-12-21 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 14:40 -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > I haven't played with PITR, but I believe that if PostgreSQL doesn't get > the right return code from the archive_command it will keep the WAL > files around; maybe that's the problem. > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:57:38AM +0100, [EMAIL PRO

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL crashing

2005-12-21 Thread Qingqing Zhou
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > PostgreSQL runs for a while but always eventually (30min - 2hrs) crashes. > I thought it was memory initially but Memtest had no errors after running > for a day. I don't think it is a hardware issues because I can run other > applications without error. I have ran

Re: [ADMIN] WITH SYSID feature dropped

2005-12-21 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 04:35:00PM -, Donald Fraser wrote: > Roles are a great improvement to postgresql, but we also talking security > issues here: > Our module controls things like: > 1) how long before a user must change their password (daily, weekly, monthly > etc) > 2) password rotation -

Re: [ADMIN] WITH SYSID feature dropped

2005-12-21 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 04:15:35PM -, Donald Fraser wrote: > Our "user" table holds security privilege and access rights > information which can change at the drop of a hat. Our approach to > managing the mapping of our privileges to PostgreSQL GROUPS > etc has been one of brute force. It is mu

Re: [ADMIN] Help Me !

2005-12-21 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 02:11:18PM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 14:02, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:44:44PM +0800, zhuge xiao wrote: > > > Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain > > > socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"? > > > >

Re: [ADMIN] Users + Groups = Roles, duplicate name issue

2005-12-21 Thread Jim C. Nasby
Which version of pg_dump did you use to dump the old database? The recommended procedure is to use the newer version of pg_dump (ie: pg_dump from 8.1.1) to dump the old database. It's possible that the newer version of pg_dump has facilities in place to deal with this. Those facilities would obviou

[ADMIN] PostgreSQL crashing

2005-12-21 Thread barai
PostgreSQL runs for a while but always eventually (30min - 2hrs) crashes. I thought it was memory initially but Memtest had no errors after running for a day. I don't think it is a hardware issues because I can run other applications without error. I have ran both version 8.0.3 and 8.1.1 with th

Re: [ADMIN] Help Me !

2005-12-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 14:02, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:44:44PM +0800, zhuge xiao wrote: > > Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain > > socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"? > > So what are the permissions on /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432? Can apache write to > i

Re: [ADMIN] Help Me !

2005-12-21 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 05:44:44PM +0800, zhuge xiao wrote: > Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain > socket "/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432"? So what are the permissions on /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432? Can apache write to it? Actually, I think apache normally chroot's to ServerRoot

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL 7.4.10 hanging on delete

2005-12-21 Thread Jonathan Parkin
> Given the stack traces, I no longer think it's a data corruption issue > --- somehow libc is screwing up. Backends are single-threaded and there > is *no* reason for pthread_mutex_lock to block, ever. > > I have a vague recollection that we saw something similar reported once > before, but it w

Re: [ADMIN] cache lookup failed for type

2005-12-21 Thread Jaime Casanova
> ERROR: cache lookup failed for type 12345 > > I thing that maybe there is(are) parameter(s) that need to be configure to > give more cache to prevent this error > > can you help me ? > this is not about memory... it's a bug... can you provide info about the version that you have? -- regards, Ja

Re: [ADMIN] WITH SYSID feature dropped

2005-12-21 Thread Donald Fraser
- Original Message - From: "Alvaro Herrera" > Donald Fraser wrote: > > > We developed and have been using since 7.1, and currently running 7.4, > > bespoke client / database software. The ability to manage users and security > > was of high priority and we therefore developed a much more

Re: [ADMIN] WITH SYSID feature dropped

2005-12-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Donald Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From: "Tom Lane" >> keeping the currently assigned OID in the aux table, setting the >> field to null or zero if the user doesn't currently exist in pg_authid. > Our "user" table stores information about the user before, during and > after the user is

Re: [ADMIN] WITH SYSID feature dropped

2005-12-21 Thread Donald Fraser
- Original Message - From: "Tom Lane" > It's not apparent to me why you have to control the userID in order to > have an auxiliary table defining a user. You could do something like When ever a postgresql user does anything to a record in a table we have a trigger function to check at

Re: [ADMIN] Changing locale

2005-12-21 Thread Tom Lane
Ulrich Wisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > after Tom's last hint I checked the locale of my installation. With a > test installation with locale C all my problem scripts worked. Now I > wonder what will happen if I dump my whole database, reinitialize with > locale C and reload my data. Will th

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL 7.4.10 hanging on delete

2005-12-21 Thread Tom Lane
Jonathan Parkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 16:37, Tom Lane wrote: >> If this is a specific row causing the issue, then I'd wonder about >> data corruption of some sort. It might be worth looking at the >> table with pg_filedump (from http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/). > Ou

[ADMIN] Query Tool new/change connection

2005-12-21 Thread KJ
Hi all, according to the documentation I tried to open a new connection selecting the entry in the toolbar combobox in a single Query Tool instance. But no dialogbox appears. If I select and run the query it's run on the instance I'm already connected to. Does someone know how to establish a ne

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL 7.4.10 hanging on delete

2005-12-21 Thread Andrea
Hi, I dont´t know if i understand exactly your problem, but ... When i tried to delete all of the rows of a table , it seems to never end. So i created an index to each foreing key and the command works very fast. Good Luck! Andréa Pereira Brasil-Recife - Original Message - From: "Jonatha

[ADMIN] Changing locale

2005-12-21 Thread Ulrich Wisser
Hello, after Tom's last hint I checked the locale of my installation. With a test installation with locale C all my problem scripts worked. Now I wonder what will happen if I dump my whole database, reinitialize with locale C and reload my data. Will this have some impact on my character data

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL 7.4.10 hanging on delete

2005-12-21 Thread Jonathan Parkin
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 16:37, Tom Lane wrote: > Jonathan Parkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a reasonably large, live, system-critical database. A perl > > script on another machine connects and issues a sequence of commands in > > a transaction, the last of which is a delete. The delete

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL 7.4.10 hanging on delete

2005-12-21 Thread Jonathan Parkin
There are no conflicting locks; this occurs both concurrently with other processes (dealing with other rows) and when the only two processes with locks on the database are the one that hangs and the one I'm using to examine pg_locks. On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 08:02, Pandurangan R S wrote: > When the d

Re: [ADMIN] Custom types for a Windows server

2005-12-21 Thread Armel HERVE
Armel HERVE wrote: Magnus Hagander wrote: we made some custom types (written in C) for PostgreSQL onto a Linux server. We need to deploy a Windows server... The documentation does not talk about a shared library for Windows (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive

Re: [ADMIN] Custom types for a Windows server

2005-12-21 Thread Armel HERVE
Magnus Hagander wrote: we made some custom types (written in C) for PostgreSQL onto a Linux server. We need to deploy a Windows server... The documentation does not talk about a shared library for Windows (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/xfunc-c.html#DFUNC) I tried to

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL 7.4.10 hanging on delete

2005-12-21 Thread Pandurangan R S
When the delete statements hangs, look into the pg_locks table, to check if the delete statement is waiting because it has conflict with rows locked by other transactions. On 20 Dec 2005 16:21:53 +, Jonathan Parkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a reasonably large, live, system-critical d