Re: [GENERAL] Starting postmaster at boot

2000-09-14 Thread Adam Lang
OH! I get it. Whereas I have the environment variables in postgres's .bash_profile, you have it set where those variables are loaded for all users, correct? But the part that I don't get is that (typing it at console) I can start postgresql (while logged in as postgres) with the command: postmas

Re: [GENERAL] Starting postmaster at boot

2000-09-14 Thread Mitch Vincent
The reason I didn't have to use the -l is that I have everything PostgreSQL needs (as far as environment variables) already set, because this machine is a dedicated PostgreSQL server. Sorry, should have thought about that before I replied but it seems you have it running now, that's great.. Good

Re: [GENERAL] Starting postmaster at boot

2000-09-14 Thread Adam Lang
oh... so since I did a su -l, I could have just used the command, postmaster -i >>postgres.log 2>>1 & ? Since I had the appropriate variables in postgres's .bash_profile? Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company - Original Message - From: "Dale Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Fw: [GENERAL] Starting postmaster at boot

2000-09-14 Thread Adam Lang
From: "Adam Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alfred Perlstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:28 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Starting postmaster at boot > I did, and that is why I don't understand. > > Adam Lang > Systems Engineer > Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company > ---

Re: [GENERAL] Starting postmaster at boot

2000-09-14 Thread Dale Walker
Adam Lang wrote: > > I didn't directly use your method, but you nonetheless solved my problem. > >From the beginning everyone was telling me to put this into my rc.local: > su postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -i > /usr/local/pgsql/postgres.log 2>&1 &" > > It

Re: [GENERAL] Starting postmaster at boot

2000-09-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Adam Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [000914 13:21] wrote: > I didn't directly use your method, but you nonetheless solved my problem. > >From the beginning everyone was telling me to put this into my rc.local: > su postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -i > /usr/local/p

[GENERAL] vacuum taking long time

2000-09-14 Thread Dale Walker
I have a machine inadvertently reboot on me this morning, and I have been running a vacuumdb command to try and check it. The vacuum command has processed the indexes OK, but it hasn't returned to a prompt as yet (3hrs) The table has only taken about 5min to do a vacuum on in the past... any su

[GENERAL] starting at boot up

2000-09-14 Thread Adam Lang
Also... how difficult would it be to start postgres in the rc3.d directory? Would a file like this work? (not writing actual code since I don't know the syntax): Case $i start) su -l postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -i /usr/local/pgsql/postgres.lo

Re: [GENERAL] Starting postmaster at boot

2000-09-14 Thread Adam Lang
I didn't directly use your method, but you nonetheless solved my problem. >From the beginning everyone was telling me to put this into my rc.local: su postgres -c "/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data -i /usr/local/pgsql/postgres.log 2>&1 &" It was never working. I noticed yo

Re: [GENERAL] OR working strangely.

2000-09-14 Thread Tom Lane
=?iso-8859-1?Q?B=F6rkur_Sigurbj=F6rnsson?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are seeing very strange behaviour in our OR statements: > SELECT l.list AS list, l.locked AS usr > FROM svr_lists_questions lq, svr_lists l > WHERE ( l.locked != '{a7372de3-92b7-408b-8874-373b883b19a6}' ) > OR >

[GENERAL] Cache lookup for language failed 17533070

2000-09-14 Thread mikeo
hi, can anyone help me on this? tig3prod=# update cust set agt_id = 'DEFAULT'; sorry to resend this but with the mail-list problems i haven't seen it and don't know if anyone else has either... ERROR: fmgr_info: Cache lookup for language failed 17533070 tig3prod=# my guess is something's mis

Re: [GENERAL] Starting postmaster at boot

2000-09-14 Thread David Veatch
At 03:31 PM 9/14/00 -0400, Adam Lang wrote: >Does it work the same for linux? It's basic sh, so I can only assume that it does, though I should stress that I don't run Linux, and haven't sat at a Linux command prompt in over a year... so I can't say it does with 100% certainty. The sh syntax

Re: [GENERAL] Starting postmaster at boot

2000-09-14 Thread Adam Lang
Does it work the same for linux? Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company - Original Message - From: "David Veatch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Adam Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PGSQL General" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [GE

Re: [GENERAL] Starting postmaster at boot

2000-09-14 Thread David Veatch
At 03:20 PM 9/14/00 -0400, Adam Lang wrote: >I'm still having difficulties getting postgres to start on boot. > >Any chance someone can give me an example of how they have it on their >system? > > >(Seemed to have been lost in the list being down). > >Adam Lang >Systems Engineer >Rutger

[GENERAL] Starting postmaster at boot

2000-09-14 Thread Adam Lang
I'm still having difficulties getting postgres to start on boot. Any chance someone can give me an example of how they have it on their system? (Seemed to have been lost in the list being down). Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company

Re: [GENERAL] Corrupt Table

2000-09-14 Thread Tom Lane
"Bryan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I found a core file. I am not all that familiar with gdb but the backtrace > looks useless: > #0 0x8064fb4 in ?? () > #1 0x809da10 in ?? () Looks like you are running a stripped executable :-(. You might want to consider recompiling with debug symbo

RE: [GENERAL] Upgrading from 6.3.2 to 7.0.2

2000-09-14 Thread Matthew
I wouldn't recommend pg_upgrade as 6.3 is quite old, pg_dump should be a better option. Since you are having trouble with pg_dump also, we would probably need some actual errors to be able to help. One suggestion is to dump everything out with proper inserts ( use the -d or -D option for this)

[GENERAL] OR working strangely.

2000-09-14 Thread Börkur Sigurbjörnsson
We are seeing very strange behaviour in our OR statements: > SELECT l.list AS list, l.locked AS usr FROM svr_lists_questions lq, svr_lists l WHERE ( l.locked != '{a7372de3-92b7-408b-8874-373b883b19a6}' ) OR ( 1=0 ) ++--

Re: [GENERAL] Corrupt Table

2000-09-14 Thread Bryan White
> > Server process (pid 2864) exited with status 139 at Thu Sep 14 10:13:11 2000 > > That should produce a coredump --- can you get a backtrace? I found a core file. I am not all that familiar with gdb but the backtrace looks useless: #0 0x8064fb4 in ?? () #1 0x809da10 in ?? () #2 0x809e538 i

[GENERAL] Unable to install DBD module

2000-09-14 Thread James Hall
Hello, I am trying to install the DBD module and having some problems... -When trying to install 'DBD-Pg-0.95.tar.gz' I receive the following error after running 'perl Makefile.PL': "... Please set environment variables POSTGRES_INCLUDE and POSTGRES_LIB !" -When trying to install 'DBD-Pg-0.73-

Re: [GENERAL] Corrupt Table

2000-09-14 Thread Tom Lane
"Bryan White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is what a failure looks like in the log file: > > Server process (pid 2864) exited with status 139 at Thu Sep 14 10:13:11 2000 That should produce a coredump --- can you get a backtrace? > I have written a small utility progra

Re: [GENERAL] recovery of db after system crash- part II

2000-09-14 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Karl Schmid wrote: > Here is a follow-up to my previous question > > I just looked up the other tables in the directory > /hdb/psql/data/base/atha_snp (atha_snp being the name of the database). The > content of the tables in this directory reflects the state before the cra

[GENERAL] Upgrading from 6.3.2 to 7.0.2

2000-09-14 Thread Chris Sterling
I've got a database I would like to upgrade from 6.3.2+phpfi 2.0 to 7.0.2+php 4.0. I've found the changes needed to be made to the php code, and that should not be a problem. The real issue I'm having at this point is getting the data into 7.0.2, or any newer release of PostgreSQL. I've tried th

Re: [GENERAL] Corrupt Table

2000-09-14 Thread Bryan White
Here is a follow up. I did a hex/ascii dump of the 3 bad tuples. In the dump I could pick out an email address. This is an indexed field. I did a select on each of them in the live database. The 1st and 3rd were not found. The second worked ok if I only selected the customer id (an int4 and

RE: [GENERAL] Error in servlet

2000-09-14 Thread chris markiewicz
could this be a servlet/thread issue? i cannot tell from the code snippet, but remember that variables in a servlet with class scope are essentially static. (i am guessing that query, rs, stmt, etc are all class scope. this is very dangerous, in the programming sense of the word...) i've had s

[GENERAL] "initdb -t" ate my baby

2000-09-14 Thread Richard Poole
Apologies to anyone who has already seen this once; I sent it about the time that many of us seemingly stopped receiving mail from the list, so I don't know whether most people got it or not. I've found what may be a bug in initdb, a bug in its documentation, a misunderstanding on my part, or a c

Re: [GENERAL] Show triggers in psql?

2000-09-14 Thread Stephan Szabo
You can get a list of all triggers in the system as select * from pg_trigger; You can get the source for a PL function a trigger calls with: select prosrc from pg_trigger,pg_proc where pg_proc.oid=pg_trigger.tgfoid and pg_trigger.tgname = '' [Note, in the case of C functions, I think this r

[GENERAL] Corrupt Table

2000-09-14 Thread Bryan White
I have apparently picked up a corrupt record in a table. What happend: Yesterday at one point the database seems to hang. There were three backend processes consuming large amounts of CPU time. I stopped the server and rebooted (3 months since last reboot). The database restarted and seemed to

[GENERAL] Error in servlet

2000-09-14 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, is there any known reason for the following behaviour: I wrote a servlet with several database accesses via stored functions and select statements. On a certain point of my servlet I get the following: [14/09/2000 16:31:51:216 CEST] Runtime.log: org.postgresql.jdbc1.ResultSet@80ab4ff [1

[GENERAL] testing...(ignore)

2000-09-14 Thread Hernan
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[GENERAL] Show triggers in psql?

2000-09-14 Thread Bryan Field-Elliot
Forgive me if I am missing the obvious, but can someone please tell me how to show a list of triggers, or the code in a specific trigger, via the pgsql utility? Thank you, Bryan

[GENERAL] Recursive queries

2000-09-14 Thread Rob Hoopman
Hi all, I have a question that probably is more apropriate for pgsql-dummies but since I use postgres and don't know what list would be more apropriate... here goes: I have some data that I want to be able to search by geographic location. The geographic locations are stored in a table with a r

[GENERAL] RE: [HACKERS] List funnies ?

2000-09-14 Thread Zeljko Trogrlic
Me too, and I'm getting some stuff two times, like I'm double subscribed (which I shouldn't be). Sometimes it takes few days for messages to appear on list etc. At 10:12 14.9.2000 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I was just about to ask the same question... > >med vänlig hälsning >/Dana > >-Origin