Re: [ADMIN] flex

1999-02-24 Thread Gene Selkov Jr.
> I am trying to install postgreSQL. And I have a problem with the > up-dating of flex. My old-version is 2.5.3 and I upgrade with 2.5.4a. > I did'nt find the 2.5.4 version as indicated in the admin guide. > When I run the make command, I receive thie message : > > [root@sturm flex-2.5.4]# ma

Re: [ADMIN] Troubles with user defined types

1999-02-06 Thread Gene Selkov Jr.
> I was not using Makefile on purpose because I want to know exactly what I > am doing wrong That's exactly the reason why I would avoid doing many suspicious things at a time. > (anyway - make in src/tutorial leads in the ver 6.4.2 to > errors due to inconsitency in header files - starting wit

Re: [ADMIN] respawning too fast

1998-12-01 Thread Gene Selkov Jr.
> Why i get this message in /var/log/messages > > medo init: Id "pg" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes > In order to get to the cause, try to execute the command line from /etc/innittab manually, without redirecting errors to /dev/null. It is most probably because of the lock file, .

Re: [ADMIN] Speed problem

1998-11-05 Thread Gene Selkov Jr.
> On the memory issue, I'm running PII-300's with 128MB of RAM. > while memory is always full (this machine is also running bind) > and has stuff swapped, there is actually very little swapping > there is actually very little swapping going on. Full memory does automatically mean swapping is goi

Re: [ADMIN] RE: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] 'pgsql/doc/src/sgml protocol.sgml'

1998-10-09 Thread Gene Selkov Jr.
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Jackson, DeJuan wrote: > So, has anyone tried the tutorials (with/with out success)? Let me know > what did and didn't work for you. I did not use tutorials too much since 1.0 or maybe even earlier, but those we have now do not seem different to me. Those I tried before wor

[ADMIN] Re: Copy slows down; is it normal?

1998-10-07 Thread Gene Selkov Jr.
Hi Bennett, Thanks for the heads-up, but I don't believe the multiplicity of the processors is a problem in my case. SMP is just another way of allocating virtual machines. All the time since i486, unix systems did use one VM per process, but now that you have SMP, there are chances that concu

Re: [ADMIN] COPY slows down; is it normal?

1998-10-06 Thread Gene Selkov Jr.
Bruce Momjian wrote: > What version is this? I would be interested to see if you see the same > thing in 6.4 beta. > It is 6.3.2, no patches applied. I will check it in 6.4, the latest versions I can see are postgresql.snapshot.tar.gz 4091 KbMon Oct 5 11:01:00 1998

Re: [ADMIN] COPY slows down; is it normal?

1998-10-05 Thread Gene Selkov Jr.
affinity chromatography, elution with 50(mmol/l) imidazole buffer, pH = 7.2, 10(mmol/l) 2-mercaptoethanol, 25(%) glycerol, 500(mmol/l) KCl, 2.0(mmol/l) folic acid, peak fraction --Gene Daniele Orlandi wrote: > > Gene Selkov Jr. wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am watchi

Re: [ADMIN] COPY slows down; is it normal?

1998-10-01 Thread Gene Selkov Jr.
Hi, I just complained about the slow copy operation a few hours ago. I think it came to uneventful end, at least as far as I can tell (nothing too bad in the logfile). The psql client I used to start this copy command detached at some point because of the network timeout, but the backend itself

Re: [ADMIN] List of users

1998-10-01 Thread Gene Selkov Jr.
> Dumb question, but I've been searching all day and can't find any way to > get a current list of Postgres users on my system. How do I do so? psql -d template1 -c "select * from pg_user" Gene

[ADMIN] COPY slows down; is it normal?

1998-10-01 Thread Gene Selkov Jr.
Hi, I am watching the progress of a COPY from a 2 megarow table. It seems to slow down almost exponentially. The database file grew at about 2 megabytes a minute in the beginning and now, 20 hours since started, it grows at 80 kilobytes a minute. The table has 7 columns of char and int types,

[ADMIN] Self-contained installation in a user's directory

1998-08-01 Thread Gene Selkov, Jr.
Hello, I am sorry I wasn't attentive enough when this issue was discussed a few months back. Now I can't find the right keywords to get to it in the archives. I need to automate the procedure of getting a fresh postgresql source, building and installing everything that it needs to run within a