[ADMIN] Can i write a time-trigger?

2009-11-16 Thread Shruthi A
Hello, Is it possible in postgres to write a trigger that is fired at a certain pre-defined time? ie I want to write a trigger that checks if the current time is one of a certain list of dates, and if yes, it should be executed. (I want it to execute only once on a matching date.) I'm using Ent

Re: [ADMIN] Can i write a time-trigger?

2009-11-16 Thread Jaume Sabater
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Shruthi A wrote: > Is it possible in postgres to write a trigger that is fired at a certain > pre-defined time?   ie I want to write a trigger that checks if the current > time is one of a certain list of dates, and if yes, it should be executed. > (I want it to e

Re: [ADMIN] Can i write a time-trigger?

2009-11-16 Thread Milen A. Radev
Shruthi A написа: > Hello, > > Is it possible in postgres to write a trigger that is fired at a certain > pre-defined time? ie I want to write a trigger that checks if the current > time is one of a certain list of dates, and if yes, it should be executed. > (I want it to execute only once on a

[ADMIN] Failed to restore/recreate database

2009-11-16 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi everybody, I wanted to duplicate a database, but wound up with nothing, It seems. I am using 8.3.7 on redhat linux. Here's what I did (as user postgres): bash-3.00$ createdb musket bash-3.00$ bash-3.00$ df /pgsql Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/m

[ADMIN] Failed to restore/recreate database (one more piece of info)

2009-11-16 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi, I mentioned in the previous posting that the file 20091114.6.gz was made by: pg_dumpall | gzip > 20091114.6.gz At which point, there was only one databasae (named canon) and no database named musket existed. Now that I am thinking, maybe the file made by pg_dumpall has "canon" encoded and t

Re: [ADMIN] Failed to restore/recreate database (one more piece of info)

2009-11-16 Thread Tom Lane
Tena Sakai writes: > Now that I am thinking, maybe the file made by pg_dumpall has > "canon" encoded and therefore what I did logically did not copy > any canon tables into musket? Could this be the case? Yup, exactly. It would have created canon and restored into that. > If so, how would I du

[ADMIN] Differences in installing Postgres 8.3.8

2009-11-16 Thread Kasia Tuszynska
Hello Postgres Gurus, I have a feeling that I might be posting the following question to the wrong site but just in case I will ask it here first. I am comparing different postgres installation packages for Postgres 8.3.8: On windows: the msi vs. the one-click-installer On linux: the rpms vs. the

Re: [ADMIN] Differences in installing Postgres 8.3.8

2009-11-16 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 16:59 -0800, Kasia Tuszynska wrote: > > On Linux > -rpms do not install the xml type by default You need to install postgresql-contrib package. Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ, RHCE Command Prompt - http://www.CommandPrompt.com devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.g

Re: [ADMIN] Failed to restore/recreate database (one more piece of info)

2009-11-16 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Tom, Many thanks for your assistance. I am on my way. Here's what I am doing: dropdb musket createdb musket pg_dump canon > canon.dump psql -d musket -f canon.dump I am on the 4th step. But I could achieve the same with: dropdb musket createdb musket pg_dump canon | psql -d