[ADMIN] Autovacuum: found orphan tenp table

2009-08-07 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
I recently built a test server running 8.4/FreeBSD 7.2/amd64, built from the ports. I am seeing the following message in the logs: "autovacuum: found orphan table "pg_temp_1""."pga_tmp_zombies" in database "postgres" "autovacuum: found orphan table "pg_temp_2""."pga_tmp_zombies" in databas

Re: [ADMIN] Sharing /etc/passwd with PostgreSQL

2009-08-07 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera writes: > BTW I notice that this does not work unless the client supplies the > password the first time around; psql does not retry. It only works if I > do "psql -W". Huh, that sounds like a bug someplace. Care to trace through it? regards, tom lane --

Re: [ADMIN] Sharing /etc/passwd with PostgreSQL

2009-08-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera writes: > > You can authenticate users with PAM, which amounts more or less to the > > same thing. > > I believe though that using PAM against /etc/shadow would require the > postmaster to run as root. You need some external authentication > server; PAM by itself

Re: [ADMIN] Sharing /etc/passwd with PostgreSQL

2009-08-07 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera writes: > You can authenticate users with PAM, which amounts more or less to the > same thing. I believe though that using PAM against /etc/shadow would require the postmaster to run as root. You need some external authentication server; PAM by itself isn't going to solve it. May

Re: [ADMIN] Sharing /etc/passwd with PostgreSQL

2009-08-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Eamonn Martin wrote: > > Hi, > > Could someone confirm that the ability to share the Linux system > /etc/passwd (or shadow) file with PostgreSQL is definitely defunct? > > I've searched the archives and, as far as I can tell, this > functionality was removed after version 7.2 as "few were using

Re: [ADMIN] Sharing /etc/passwd with PostgreSQL

2009-08-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Eamonn Martin wrote: > > Hi, > > Could someone confirm that the ability to share the Linux system /etc/passwd > (or shadow) file with PostgreSQL is definitely defunct? > > I've searched the archives and, as far as I can tell, this functionality was > removed after ve

[ADMIN] Sharing /etc/passwd with PostgreSQL

2009-08-07 Thread Eamonn Martin
Hi, Could someone confirm that the ability to share the Linux system /etc/passwd (or shadow) file with PostgreSQL is definitely defunct? I've searched the archives and, as far as I can tell, this functionality was removed after version 7.2 as "few were using it". Well we were using it and

Re: [ADMIN] Used ports

2009-08-07 Thread Kevin Grittner
Frank Broniewski wrote: > when I do "netstat -an" I get the following lines: > > tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:5432 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN > tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:5432 127.0.0.1:57647 > ESTABLISHED > tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:41572 127.0

[ADMIN] Used ports

2009-08-07 Thread Frank Broniewski
Hello all, when I do "netstat -an" I get the following lines: tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:5432 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:5432 127.0.0.1:57647 ESTABLISHED tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:41572 127.0.0.1:5432 ESTABLISH