Re: [ADMIN] postgresql 8 - DNS server

2004-08-19 Thread Jim Seymour
Van den bosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unable to install postgreSQL 8 on a DNS-server, because during the installation postgreSQL searches after \\servername\user, but the servername differs from the DNS name. Is there a workaround for this problem? Reconcile the NETBIOS and DNS

Re: [ADMIN] tunneling through ssh

2004-08-18 Thread Jim Seymour
David Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to run pgsql through a tunnel. [snip] Through an ssh tunnel, using port-forwarding, I'm guessing? Am I missing something obvious? Can you psql -p 5432 on the machine on which the server is running? Here's what I just did successfully:

Re: [ADMIN] psql won't stayed connected

2004-08-10 Thread Jim Seymour
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle) wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have strace or ktrace or similar on the Solaris machine, tracing psql's kernel calls might be revealing. What you want to watch for is whether psql is exiting with the connection

Re: [ADMIN] Slony NG

2004-07-13 Thread Jim Seymour
Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:54:29 +0200, Gaetano Mendola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, why don't you create comp.database.postgresql.slony NG ? It isn't that simple. For big 8 newsgroups you have to make a proposal and people vote on it.

Re: [ADMIN] Slony NG

2004-07-13 Thread Jim Seymour
Gaetano Mendola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I was believing that the NGs news.XX.postgresql.org were managed by postgresql developer group and the vote could be easily done trough a poll in the postgresql web site. For postgresql.org's own news servers, maybe. I really don't know. But

Re: [ADMIN] SERIAL type not autoincremented

2004-07-02 Thread Jim Seymour
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello i have: create table student( id SERIAL NOT NULL, name VARCHAR(35) NOT NULL, primary key (id) ); and when i try to insert like this: insert into student (name) values('me'); i receive error: ERROR: duplicate key

Re: [ADMIN] pg_ctl question

2004-06-28 Thread Jim Seymour
Jeff Stout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using the /contrib/start-scripts/linux file to set up postgres to automatically restart upon reboot. I set it up /etc/init.d/postgres which calls pg_ctl pg_ctl invokes postmaster where do I set the -i option to allow tcp connection? [snip] Set

Re: [ADMIN] Problem saving some characters

2004-06-21 Thread Jim Seymour
=?iso-8859-1?q?Eduardo=20S.=20Fontanetti?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to save a directory name on the Postgres, but it is cutting some characters, and the result is being diferent, and then, my app don't work properly. Example: I am trying to save S:\directory\app to

Re: [ADMIN] Missing or erroneus pg_hba.conf file

2004-06-20 Thread Jim Seymour
Sandro Ribeiro - Claro RS - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! My server is working with pgsql 7.4.2 and Unix Solaris 8. Well, when a try a connection from my PC to the server, using pgAdminIII, I get the message above. This is my pg_hba.conf file: local all all

Re: [ADMIN] problem compiling 7.4.3

2004-06-16 Thread Jim Seymour
Renney Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While compiling 7.4.3 on Solaris 8 (sparc) I got: [snip] Any patch files for this? Yes. Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted a patch for this to the [GENERAL] mailing list earlier today. I've saved a copy, for your convenience, to:

Re: [ADMIN] Syntax question

2004-06-07 Thread Jim Seymour
Jeff Stout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am fairly new to postgres, I need to know how to switch databases once I'm in a psql session. I can't seem to find the command for \h , maybe I just blind |-; \? is your friend... $ psql Password: Welcome to psql 7.4.2, the PostgreSQL interactive

Re: [ADMIN] Howto/wherefrom win98 install [ref:ppg]

2004-06-05 Thread Jim Seymour
Paul Gimpelj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I searched the postgresql.org site but I don't understand how to get a postmaster running on windows 98/2000. Can someone please give some pointers here. [snip] Did you find http://www.postgresql.org Docs PostgreSQL 7.4 - Static

Re: [ADMIN] Error running initdb

2004-06-01 Thread Jim Seymour
David Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm new to postgresql, first of all, and I'm not sure if this is the correct list I have built 7.4.2 on Solaris 8/SPARC. I *think* make install generated all the expected artifacts. When I run initdb, I get the following output: % initdb

Re: [ADMIN] Error running initdb

2004-06-01 Thread Jim Seymour
David Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I am not running this under a separate username, so the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set in my own .cshrc should apply, I would think. Does /etc/init.d/postgresql still need to be modified, even if there is no special postgresql user? [snip]

Re: [ADMIN] Compiling problems with 7.4.2

2004-05-28 Thread Jim Seymour
I ran into a problem compiling 7.4.2 on Sun Solaris. The details are as follows. Thanks SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-29 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1 [snip] gcc -O3 -pthreads -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declaration s -fPIC -I. -I../../../src/include

Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf

2004-05-28 Thread Jim Seymour
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim said: Try changing the 10.29.15.0255.255.255.0 to 10.29.15.0/24, if you have a 7.4-series pgsql server, and see if that doesn't work. IT WORKED! Thanks so much Jim! I'm happily connected from home today... :) It was a long shot, but it worked. Very

Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf

2004-05-27 Thread Jim Seymour
(Note: Please do not copy me individually on posts to the mailing list. I do read the list and don't need two copies. Thanks.) (Note2: I did Cc: this to LSanchez as she's yet to respond to any of my prior comments, so I begin to suspect she's not getting/reading the mailing list traffic?)

Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf

2004-05-26 Thread Jim Seymour
Note: Please do NOT Cc: me on replies to the mailing list. I read the mailing list. One copy of your comments is sufficient. Thank you. Thanks Mike! Do you know if pgSQL will be supporting higher level of encryption in the near future? Most of us here at Ameritrade work from home via

Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf

2004-05-25 Thread Jim Seymour
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Mike! I already specified the IP address that was specified by my VPN connection. I read through the docs and found nothing about anything special with VPN connections. Which address? The address at your end of the connection may not be the same as the

Re: [ADMIN] Shared memory error using initdb on Solaris 8

2004-05-21 Thread Jim Seymour
Hello, I'm trying to install PostgreSQL 7.4.2 on a brand new SunFire 120 with 2GB of RAM but when I run initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data I get the following error: [snip] creating template1 database in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/1... FATAL: could not create shared memory segment:

Re: [ADMIN] Shared memory error using initdb on Solaris 8

2004-05-21 Thread Jim Seymour
There we go. For reference, what page did you get that info and what did you search for to get it? Like I said: I derived it all from Google'ing on various search terms, IIRC. Probably things like postgresql+Solaris+shmmax and the like. I didn't save any URL references. Jim

Re: [ADMIN] Query

2004-05-16 Thread Jim Seymour
=?iso-8859-15?Q?J=F8rgen_Lie_Pettersen?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir or Madam! I am a student at a university in Norway, and I'm working on a project where I shall be a seller for PostgreSQL. I was just wondering, why the name PostgreSQL? Is it a shortening for something?

Re: [ADMIN] download problems

2004-05-11 Thread Jim Seymour
Thomas Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm having a really stupid problem -- it seems to be impossible to download postgre. Postgres, PostgreSQL, psql, pgsql, but not postgre, please :). All of the US mirrors timeout. Is this normal? There are no apparent

Re: [ADMIN] FW: Help installing pgSQL 7.4.2 on Solaris 9

2004-05-07 Thread Jim Seymour
/init.d/postgresql and created a .profile in its home directory with that in it. Solved all those problems :). You can also solve such problems by using the -R switch during build (man ld) and with Solaris 8/9's new crle utility. -- Jim Seymour| Spammers sue anti-spammers: [EMAIL

Re: [ADMIN] Limiting user access to a view only

2004-05-05 Thread Jim Seymour
I am a novice in this area. How would I set up a new user on PostgreSQL so that the new user is limited to reading a particular view, and can do nothing else. Help greatly appreciated. You will find these handy, no doubt... http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/tutorial.html

Re: [ADMIN] initdb error

2004-05-04 Thread Jim Seymour
by using the -R switch during build (man ld) and with Solaris 8/9's new crle utility. -- Jim Seymour | PGP Public Key available at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.uk.pgp.net/pgpnet/pks-commands.html http://jimsun.LinxNet.com| ---(end of broadcast

Re: [ADMIN] installation of postgresql-7.2.3-2PGDG

2004-05-03 Thread Jim Seymour
kandiah ratnavale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded postgresql (client, server and libs) but cannot complete installation for want of the libraries listed below libcrypto.so.2 is needed by postgresql-7.2.3-2PGDG libssl.so.2 is needed by postgresql-7.2.3-2PGDG

Re: [ADMIN] Recover data

2004-04-27 Thread Jim Seymour
. Providing the server version hasn't changed, all should be well. -- Jim Seymour| Spammers sue anti-spammers: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.LinxNet.com/misc/spam/slapp.php http://jimsun.LinxNet.com | Please donate to the SpamCon Legal Fund

Re: [ADMIN] sequence value of the record just inserted.

2004-04-09 Thread Jim Seymour
Ben Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear admins, I have a table whose primary key is a record_id with serial type. I would like to know, when I insert a new row, what was the value of the record_id that I just inserted. Since this is a multi user application, I cannot simply select max

Re: [ADMIN] Frequent 'deadlock detected' in 7.4 ... or just my bad

2004-04-05 Thread Jim Seymour
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Tom Lane wrote: Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D'oh ... just tested my assumption, it was wrong ... *sigh* okay, back to the drawing board on the code ... Can't you just change foreach $company_id (

Re: [ADMIN] Problem after RH9 Install of 7.4.2

2004-04-05 Thread Jim Seymour
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bud Curtis) wrote: [snip] When I attempt to start the server, ie.: -bash-2.05b$ postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data FATAL: /usr/local/pgsql/data is not a valid data directory DETAIL: File /usr/local/pgsql/data/PG_VERSION is missing. -bash-2.05b$ [snip]

Re: [ADMIN] Accessing Linux Postgre Server from windows client

2004-03-30 Thread Jim Seymour
Eduardo Sachwek Fontanetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I do it? I really can't, something is not working and when I try to connect to the postgreSQL server Linux machine from the PgAdmin III, it says me that cant connect, and say me to check the port (5432). What may be wrong?