Re: [GENERAL] Raw Newbie: Can't start PGSQL

2000-10-29 Thread Stephan Szabo
What did the postmaster give you when you tried to start it? BTW: You'll probably be alot happier if you just upgraded to 7.0.x (6.3.2 is basically three versions out of date) or waited for 7.1. Stephan Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Conrad Richter wrote: > I am trying to get po

[GENERAL] begin work failed

2000-10-29 Thread Gangi Chen
hi, I'm using ecpg to compail my esqlc program. it failed at "EXEC SQL BEGIN WORK"(core dump). I wandered whether can i use it in esqlc program? thanks. sam

[GENERAL] pgsql-general should be live again ...

2000-10-29 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: [EMAIL PROTECTED] secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org

[GENERAL] Raw Newbie: Can't start PGSQL

2000-10-29 Thread Conrad Richter
I am trying to get postgresql working on a Redhat 5.2 system. Postgresql was loaded when the OS was installed on this machine last year, but not until now are we trying to use Postgresql. I think the version is 6.3.2. After creating a database using the initdb command, I am unable to create any

[GENERAL] making sure ...

2000-10-29 Thread The Hermit Hacker
... this one works as expected too ... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: [EMAIL PROTECTED] secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org

RE: [GENERAL] ok after months of freedom I'm suddenly back on the damn list again

2000-10-29 Thread Rob S.
Hi Phil, I think the recent upgrade to MJ2 caused us to be suscribed again. I sent two messages, since the "howto" documentation on the PGSQL site isn't clear, IMHO. 1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] both had no subject, the body being one word "unsubscribe". I then got this: +++ >

Re: [GENERAL] Conversion MySql -> PostgresSQL

2000-10-29 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, William H. Geiger III wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to PostgreSQL and I am trying to convert a MySQL database over. > There are a couple of basics I need to clear up: > > On the numeric INT types can they be set to unsigned? I have 32-bit & > 64bit unsigned integers that I need

[GENERAL] Optimization

2000-10-29 Thread Rodrigo Castro
Where can I find documentation about the best compiler for Postgres that runned in Sun Ultra 5 with Mandrake Linux 7.X ? thanx Rodrigo Castro Hdz

[GENERAL] READ THIS: changes in mailing list ...

2000-10-29 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Morning all ... Today, we are moving the mailing lists over to the new mail server. There *might* be a brief period where any mail sent to the lists will be returned with a 'user unknown' error, as there will be a brief period where the aliases will be disabled on the old server and the

Re: [GENERAL] Fwd: Postgres update

2000-10-29 Thread Tom Lane
Denis Perchine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PostgreSQL 7.0.2 > psql:/home/www/www.webmailstation.com/sql/vacuum.limits.sql:1: ERROR: > Parent tuple was not found This could be related to the VACUUM problem Alfred Perlstein was seeing; it's coming out of the same bit of code, anyway. Can you