[GENERAL] recursive queries?

2000-04-09 Thread Ron Peterson
Now and again, I find myself wanting to store data in some kind of variable-level hierarchy. To take a familiar example, let's say the directory structure on my computer. So I start to do something like: CREATE SEQUENCE directory_id_seq; CREATE TABLE directory { parent INTEGER,

[GENERAL] Permission denied while importing data from a file?

2000-04-09 Thread Felix Slager
LS, i'm trying to copy data into a table using a copy command using: COPY tabelName FROM '/somewhere/somebody/datafile.txt'; I've given everybody the right to use the datafile.txt (execute, read, write) with an incredible chmod . Still i get the message: ERROR: COPY command, running in

[GENERAL] Giving A DOG HEAD !!! Doggy blow job! 6158

2000-04-09 Thread fdpmjw
http://users2.50megs.com/loveline/dogblow.htm lcbt

Re: [GENERAL] granting permission to groups?

2000-04-09 Thread Frank P. Miles
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Frank Miles writes: I've been having problems trying to give permissions to groups, using the Debian-packaged Postgresql 6.5.3. So far my search has turned up some old messages indicating that this was broken in earlier versions of Postgresql. Can

[GENERAL] OID rollover?

2000-04-09 Thread Charles Martin
What happens to my database when the OID rolls over? If the answer is "doom", is there anything I can do about it?

Re: [GENERAL] A Haunted Database

2000-04-09 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
Thanks! Turning off the nightly vacuum script did the trick. Now . . . any idea why vacuum would be so damaging? It certainly appears, at least for me, that the routine is more trouble than it is worth. Is it a malfunction that can be overwritten or a bug or something else? Again many

Re: [GENERAL] PHP-Postgres link

2000-04-09 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
I am running PHP under APache with a link to a postgres database. It gives me a headache because it is not working. I am running Apache as nobody, and I have made a Postgres user also named nobody. I made a postgres database users (as nobody: createdb users) and with psql a database

Re: [GENERAL] OID rollover?

2000-04-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
What happens to my database when the OID rolls over? If the answer is "doom", is there anything I can do about it? Actually, no one has every reported a roll-over, so I can't say for sure. They are unsigned ints, so it should go past 2 gigs. If it goes past 4 gigs, it rolls to zero

[GENERAL] Minor hack to support LO string searches

2000-04-09 Thread Titus Brown
Hi, all, at http://www.idyll.org/~t/www-tools/ you'll find an add-on function to PostgreSQL 6.5.3 that allows one to do string searches through large objects. It's not a terribly good hack, but it works ;). I do plan on extending this add-on to support regular expressions Real Soon.

Re: [GENERAL] Selecting field names?

2000-04-09 Thread Charles Tassell
Yes, if you start psql with the -E switch (ie, psql -E -h dbserver database) then do a \d tablename it will show you the SQL query that's used to display the table definition. You can then use this to do your selects. Here is what I get when I do the above: QUERY: SELECT a.attnum,

Re: [GENERAL] Permission denied while importing data from a file?

2000-04-09 Thread Charles Tassell
Try moving the file into /tmp and seeing if that works. Sometimes you run into problems with having permissiosn on the file, but not all of the directories before it. You must have execute permissions on all parent directories in order to access a file in one of those dirs. The file will

Re: [GENERAL] A Haunted Database

2000-04-09 Thread Charles Tassell
Vacuuming is sort of necessary at the moment, because if you don't vacuum, postgres won't use your indexes. :( This is supposedly going to be fixed in the 7.x series (7.5 I think I heard) but I've never heard of a vacuum corrupting a normally working database in the 4 or 5 months I've been

Re: [GENERAL] PHP-Postgres link

2000-04-09 Thread Charles Tassell
Try replacing $connection = pg_connect("", "", "", "users"); with $connection = pg_connect("dbname=users") or you might want to try $connection = pg_connect("dbname=users user=nobody") At 11:53 AM 4/9/00, Ramses v. Pinxteren wrote: Hi, I am running PHP under APache with a link to a postgres

[GENERAL] [NOVICE] installation question

2000-04-09 Thread Vipin Samtani
hi, i am a novice user running Red Hat Linux Server 6. what files do i need to download to install PostGreSQL? vipin