Re: [ADMIN] LDAP authentication question

2008-04-16 Thread rob
Well, not 100% sure why this would make a difference, but using this line in pg_hba.conf got things working as I hoped: hostall all 192.168.0.0/16 ldap "ldap://192.168.0.95/ dc=domainname,dc=company,dc=com;DOMAINNAME\" -Rob On Apr 15, 10:30 pm, rob <[EMAIL PROT

[ADMIN] LDAP authentication question

2008-04-16 Thread rob
company,DC=com" Any assistance appreciated. -Rob -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

[ADMIN] type oidvector undefined??

2000-07-06 Thread rob
I am trying to set up a pgsql server, and I don't know too much about this (or any other) database. When I try to initdb, it dumps telling my "Error: Unknown type: oidvector" and then it cleans up, dumps out. Anybody out there know what is going on? Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[ADMIN] oidvector undefined

2000-07-12 Thread rob
I am about at wits end. I have been firing off emails, getting no reply, and it has been about a week and a half. To top this off, I gotta describe why I am getting nowhere on this database to my boss! I am attaching the output of initdb, and mind you, this is a FRESH install, fresh recompile f

Re: [ADMIN] URGENT : StreamServerPort: bind() failed: Cannotassign

2004-06-04 Thread Rob
udp, tcp) but the error msg talks about a StreamServerPort bind problem but those unix domain lines won't be displayed with that set of filters and so it may be some weirdness with stream and/or lock files in your /tmp directory? Just a guess. Rob ---(end of b

Re: [ADMIN] URGENT : StreamServerPort: bind() failed: Cannotassign

2004-06-04 Thread Rob
Tom Lane wrote: "Siddharth Rath (sirath)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Surprisingly .s.PGSQL.5432 file is not getting created in /tmp directory ( I believe this should be created). No, it shouldn't, because that is associated with the creation of the Unix socket file, which happens after creation o

Re: [ADMIN] URGENT : StreamServerPort: bind() failed: Cannotassign

2004-06-04 Thread Rob
Siddharth Rath (sirath) wrote: Hi Rob, I did run the script from http://myclass.missouri.edu/~atb6x2/NETSERV/NS_serverpl.html and it didn't give any error and the O/P of netstat -plunta | grep 5432 (Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info will not be shown, you would ha

Re: [ADMIN] URGENT : StreamServerPort: bind() failed: Cannotassign

2004-06-04 Thread Rob
Siddharth Rath (sirath) wrote: Hi Rob, Please find the output of "strace -f /apps/systran/postgresql/bin/pg_ctl start -D /apps/systran/postgresql/data-linux > s.out 2> s.err" in the below provided URLs: http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/bc/40c0ea30_116c8/bc/My+Documents/s.err.err?bfd6O

[ADMIN] Multiple auth types for a connection

2007-05-02 Thread Rob Cherry
possible to overload auth types like this such that if pam fails password would be tried? Many thanks in advance, Rob Cherry ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan

[ADMIN] Suffering

2000-08-16 Thread Rob Stoddard
Got this problem: [rob@bloodyaxes bin]# su postgres -c "initdb --pgdata=/var/db --pglib=/usr/local/pgsql/lib"   We are initializing the database system with username postgres (uid=100).This user will own all the files and must also own the server process.   Creating template d

[ADMIN] best way to revert back to 7.3.3?

2004-09-28 Thread Rob Long
, configure, make, make install all succeeded. Without doing initdb, 7.3.3. data directory still in original place, I tried starting postgresql but got: IpcMemoryCreate "Function not implemented" This refers to the ipc daemon but it's verified running. Any ide

[ADMIN] postgres make fails with java option

2004-10-26 Thread Rob Long
Trying to configure --with-java but make is failing with: (see below for other details) Any ideas? Thanks, Rob -->./configure --enable-shared --with-maxbackend-connections=256 --with-perl --with-java -->make . . . make[3]: Entering directory `/home/postgres/postgresql-7.4.5/src/inte

[ADMIN] unsubscribe

2005-04-26 Thread Rob Anderson
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[ADMIN] pg_restore fails - postgres 7.3.4

2003-10-02 Thread Rob Long
_box_ops gist | gist_int4_ops gist | gist_poly_ops gist | gist_timestamp_ops The create index statement that is failing the restore: CREATE INDEX idx_disc_loc ON order_items USING gist (disc, loc); Has anyone battled this one before? Is there a problem with dumping/restoring with blobs?

Re: [ADMIN] pg_restore fails - postgres 7.3.4

2003-10-02 Thread Rob Long
Attached. The previously posted index failure stated: CREATE INDEX idx_disc_loc ON order_items USING gist (disc, loc); However in this list it is: CREATE INDEX idx_item_loc ON content_items USING gist (disclosuer, loc); Rob Tom Lane wrote: > "Rob Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [ADMIN] pg_restore fails - postgres 7.3.4

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Long
Tom, Will this be fixed in 7.4? Thanks for the support. Rob - Original Message - From: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, October 2, 2003 6:28 pm Subject: Re: [ADMIN] pg_restore fails - postgres 7.3.4 > "Rob Long" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > &g

[ADMIN] pg_restore fails postgres 7.3.4

2003-10-03 Thread Rob Long
_box_ops gist | gist_int4_ops gist | gist_poly_ops gist | gist_timestamp_ops The create index statement that is failing the restore: CREATE INDEX idx_disc_loc ON order_items USING gist (disc, loc); Has anyone battled this one before? Is there a problem with dumping/restoring with blobs?

[ADMIN] PGSQL Mailing List Reply-To field

2003-11-04 Thread Rob Fielding
wondering if anyone else thought it might be a good idea (or not) to use this ? Cheers, Rob ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

[ADMIN] ERROR: pltcl: Cache lookup for attribute

2003-11-25 Thread Rob Fielding
n and replacing it with a freshly pg_dumped version. Is it possible to 'fix' any of the pg_ tables by hand to solve this cache lookup error? The master DB is 7.3.4, the version on my workstation is 7.3.2. If it's not possible, I'll have to do a dump and restore, which is a

[ADMIN] Testing for existence of a record before insert

2004-03-23 Thread Rob Anderson
I am trying to find a way of performing something similar to the SQL-Server SQL of   IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT id FROM a_table WHERE id='akey') THEN INSERT INTO a_table (id, name) values ('akey', 'adetails');    

[ADMIN] PG 7.2.4 and waiting backends

2004-03-30 Thread Rob Fielding
ORM] WAL Optimisation - configuration and usage"). I'm still experiementing with good settings for checkpoint_seg and timeout however the significance of recycling and checkpoint_segments worries me slightly. I shall try lower values in the mean time. Best regards, -- Rob Fielding

Re: [ADMIN] please please please PLEASE help!

2004-07-29 Thread Rob Bamber
Another thought - We had a similar issue recently. Our support guys dropped the database and then rebuilt it from a dump file. The size of the data directory went down from 12GB to less than 2GB. According to the sys ad that did the work postgres is not very good a reclaiming disk space

[ADMIN] autovacuum and transaction ID wraparound

2009-01-21 Thread Rob Newton
1206742658 (4 rows) So, is autovacuum doing it's job? Many thanks, Rob Newton -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

Re: [ADMIN] XID wraparound in 8.4

2009-08-12 Thread Rob Newton
rning. - Rob -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

[ADMIN] BackupExec stops PostgreSQL service

2010-06-10 Thread Rob Richardson
Greetings! In an attempt to satisfy our client's requirements for redundancy, we ended up with an unusual (at least to my inexperienced eyes) system configuration. Our client has two buildings that use our application. Each building has an application server and a storage server. All are runnni

[ADMIN] PgsqlODBC 8.1 and 8.4 side-by-side installation

2010-07-07 Thread Rob Richardson
I have a customer who is running PostgreSQL 8.1. I recently updated an application there, and it is running extremely slowly. The previous version of the application runs fine, and the new version runs fine on my machine, which runs PostgresQL 8.4. The problem is that a query for a single record

Re: [ADMIN] High Availability: Hot Standby vs. Warm Standby

2010-07-09 Thread Rob Wultsch
is highly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance > Thomas > > > -- > Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin > -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

Re: [ADMIN] postgres data permission

2010-07-16 Thread Rob Wultsch
s of disk but not much ram or cpu. #2: lots of ram and cpu but not much disk. Could it make sense to have box #2 run pg while mounting the fs of box #1? -- Rob Wultsch wult...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://w

Re: [ADMIN] postgres data permission

2010-07-16 Thread Rob Wultsch
subscribe from these mailing list via the like at the bottom of every message. I think this would be a good idea. I would like to take this one step further and suggest you unsubscribe from this plane of existence. Nothing personal but you are dragging down the species, Rob Wultsch -- Sent via pg

Re: [ADMIN] fail-safe sql update triggers

2010-09-03 Thread Rob Richardson
I thought I sent this earlier, but it's not in my Sent box, so I'll try again. Your solution maintains an exact copy of two tables. Whenever a record is updated in the first, it is updated in the second, and you have lost information about the previous value. Whenever I do anything like this,

[ADMIN] Do I need to run pgagent_upgrade.sql? If so, when?

2011-01-10 Thread Rob Richardson
Greetings! I am putting together a formal installation package for a customer who is not happy if he doesn't have one, even though he's got primary and backup servers both running as expected. I am writing instructions on how to install PGAgent. The download package for PGAgent includes

[ADMIN] Postgres ODBC driver 8.04 installation recovery path

2011-03-25 Thread Rob Richardson
Greetings! I want to install the Postgres ODBC driver version 8.04 for a customer that is currently using 8.01. However, I cannot make any change to the customer's computer without being able to undo the change in case something goes wrong. The customer has a spare computer that we have been

[ADMIN] database size much bigger than tablespaces on filesystem

2011-09-14 Thread Rob Audenaerde
I have a Postgresql 8.3 instance with tablespaces totalling on about 74G. This is fine. But if I ask Postgresql how big my database is, I get a (unexpected) large answer: 595 GB. This seems very strange. Disk I/O tests on the system are in the 'normal' range, but queries are slower than they u

Re: [ADMIN] database size much bigger than tablespaces on filesystem

2011-09-14 Thread Rob Audenaerde
>On Wed, 2011-09-14 at 04:03 -0700, Rob Audenaerde wrote: >> I have a Postgresql 8.3 instance with tablespaces totalling on about 74G. >> This is fine. >> >> But if I ask Postgresql how big my database is, I get a (unexpected) large >> answer: 595 GB. >&g

Re: [ADMIN] database size much bigger than tablespaces on filesystem

2011-09-14 Thread Rob Audenaerde
size(tablename) ) as disksize , pg_total_relation_size(tablename) from pg_tables where schemaname <> 'information_schema' order by 2 desc And all the tables report a 'disksize' larger than the 'relsize', which seems natural. The biggest table (relsize) is around

[ADMIN] migrating statistics without data?

2011-11-14 Thread Rob Audenaerde
r the statistics of the old database to the new one, so we can reuse the statistics? Or is there a better alternative to achieve the same? Kind regards, -Rob

[ADMIN] Question on implementing ident auth correctly.

2011-11-21 Thread Rob Cherry
ident" auth for local connections such that all users can log in as themselves based on their OS authenticated username, but I would further like to allow for named admin users to log in as the privileged account. In the following example there is only 1 user defined in postgres - the "postg

Re: [ADMIN] transaction error handling

2011-11-30 Thread Rob Richardson
Very naïve question here: Why would you want to save the data from the first insert? I thought the purpose of a transaction was to make sure that all steps in the transaction executed, or none of them executed. If Oracle saves half of the data between the beginning and ending of the transact

[ADMIN] Where do I get pgAgent now?

2011-12-02 Thread Rob Richardson
I've seen lots of questions about this on the Internet, but no answers. I've got PostgreSQL 8.4 and 9.1 both installed on my computer. I am trying to set up a scheduled database job to support application testing. The problem is that I do not seem to have any of the files required to install p

[ADMIN] replication recovery/startup question

2012-06-25 Thread Rob Cowell
Does the output from 'ps' mean the master/slave are in sync, or is the slave really still playing catchup (based on the names of the logfiles in pg_xlog) ? Cheers, Rob.

Re: [ADMIN] DBLink

2013-04-25 Thread Rob Richardson
Isn't that basically what replication is supposed to do? RobR, quite possibly revealing his ignorance about replication. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin

[ADMIN] REMOVE PLEASE

2006-10-09 Thread Rob Van Dell
PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

[ADMIN] VACUUM (vc_rpfheap): BlowawayRelationBuffers returned -2

1998-07-15 Thread Rob den Boer
: ERROR: can't create lock file -- another vacuum cleaner running? Should I get worried and keep my backup close at hand? Rob den Boer-HRS

RE: [ADMIN] VACUUM (vc_rpfheap): BlowawayRelationBuffers returned -2

1998-07-15 Thread Rob den Boer
m is ran from a background process that collects data all day, and around midnight it does a dump_all and after that a vacuum. > Also, I don't know is this in FAQ or not: after getting FATAL > you should restart postmaster. Thanks for mentioning it, it didn't see/found this one. regards, Rob den Boer

[ADMIN] SSL Mode

2002-12-23 Thread Rob Abernethy IV
I cannot get the postmaster to start up in SSL mode. I receive the following error: bad permissions on private key file (/var/lib/pgsql/data/server.key) I've checked the permissions and everything seems to be fine. ls -al total 56 drwx--6 postgres postgres 4096 Dec 18 17:17 . drwxr-

Re: [ADMIN] SSL Mode

2002-12-23 Thread Rob Abernethy IV
buf.st_uid != getuid()) > { > postmaster_error("bad permissions on private key file > (%s)", fnbuf);ExitPostmaster(1); > > so my guess is that you have to remove group/other permissions on the > file. > > -------

[ADMIN] pg_group view

2002-12-30 Thread Rob Abernethy IV
Does anyone have a good recipe for a view that will display users/gruops in a way that can be used with Tomcat's JDBCRelam configuration? In other words, instead of seeing a *list* of users in a group (grolist), I'd like to see a separate row for every group/user combination. group | user ---

[ADMIN] pg_hba

2002-12-31 Thread Rob Abernethy IV
Is there any problem with this line from my pg_hba.conf file: # TYPE DATABASE USER IP-ADDRESS IP-MASK METHOD local all all 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 md5 I get this error when I try to connect: LOG: parse_hba: invalid syntax in pg_hba.conf file at line 90, token "0.0.0.0" FATAL: Mis

[ADMIN] Encrypted Passwords

2003-01-10 Thread Rob Abernethy IV
How does postgres calculate the MD5 version of a password to store in the database during user creation? I am trying to set up a postgres JDBCRealm to work with Tomcat. The problem is that the resulting digest from Java is different then the digest stored in the database for the same word. cl

Re: [ADMIN] Encrypted Passwords

2003-01-10 Thread Rob Abernethy IV
Perl also came up with the same digest as Java. -- Robert Abernethy IV Dynamic Edge, Inc. 734.975.0460 > How does postgres calculate the MD5 version of a password to store > in the database during user creation? I am trying to set up a > postgres JDBCRealm to work with Tomcat. The problem is

Re: [ADMIN] Encrypted Passwords

2003-01-13 Thread Rob Abernethy IV
Can you tell postgres *NOT* to use a salt when calculating the MD5 digest? I found that it prepends the username to the password before making the calculation. -- Robert Abernethy IV Dynamic Edge, Inc. 734.975.0460 > Perl also came up with the same digest as Java. > > -- > Robert Abernethy IV >

Re: [ADMIN] Encrypted Passwords

2003-01-13 Thread Rob Abernethy IV
, Inc. 734.975.0460 > "Rob Abernethy IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Can you tell postgres *NOT* to use a salt when calculating the MD5 > > digest? > > No, and you wouldn't want to. The salt is an essential security > feature.

Re: [ADMIN] MD5 Passwords and user administratio

2003-02-10 Thread Rob Abernethy IV
The username is the salt. -- Robert Abernethy IV Dynamic Edge, Inc. 734.975.0460 > I am trying to figure out exactly how to set someone's password when > using MD5 passwords in postgres. I am trying to automate some > features, and still can't figure out what I am doing wrong. MD5 of > the

[ADMIN] pg_hba.conf stuff

2007-02-28 Thread Rob van der Linde
nections: hostall all ::1/128 md5 # Internal network hostall all 192.168.0.0/24md5 Now I have a client PC 192.168.0.10, it's also running Linux and the unix account name on this machine is rob. I have the postgres client installed

Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf stuff

2007-03-01 Thread Rob van der Linde
gt; On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Rob van der Linde wrote: > > > On that server I have a user account, called "ynui", and I also have a > > postgres user called "ynui", they have the same password. Now the > > server's IP is 192.168.0.1 > > > >