RE: [GENERAL] Starting postgresql on startup

2001-03-30 Thread Trewern, Ben
Title: RE: [GENERAL] Starting postgresql on startup 'linuxconf' on Mandrake 7.1 should be able to set postgres to run at boot time as long as you set Postgresql up from an rpm.  If you got to 'Control Panel' -> 'Control service activity' -> 'postgresql'.  Set Startup to automatic and select th

Re[2]: [GENERAL] Pgsql-7.1RC1: SET SEED =

2001-03-30 Thread Alexey Borzov
Greetings, Tom! At 29.03.2001, 12:52, you wrote: TL> Alexey Borzov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The development docs state that one can use SET SEED to seed the >> random number generator TL> Where? I see no such claim. Right here: http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/postgres/sql-se

[GENERAL] stability problems

2001-03-30 Thread Lars Maschke
Hello Newsgroup I have stability problems with my Postgres 6.4 database. I am using PHP4.0.4 and get access to the db. Sometimes when about 10-20 clients are using the website the postgres deamon shuts down and the message "no backend cache" appears. The processor ist at 60%-80% and about 10-15 p

[GENERAL] Memory Tuning

2001-03-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
I am looking for information on tuning memory usage for Postgres on Linux (2.2 kernel). In particular I have a lot of memory relative to the size of my database and am looking to reduce latency in queries. Searching goegle turned up a few other cases of people asking about memory tuning, but I di

[GENERAL] PostGreSql 7.1

2001-03-30 Thread Jack
Hi, All   Where can I get a PostGreSQL 7.1 lattest beta version with RPM installation?   JACK

[GENERAL] function to create a table

2001-03-30 Thread diana
Good day, I have a problem with plpgsql, whitch is really strange for me. I wanna create a table, with a function like this : CREATE FUNCTION domenii(text,text,text) RETURNS boolean AS 'DECLARE legi ALIAS FOR $2; BEGIN CREATE TABLE legi(idc serial, idp char(10), nume char(50), PRI

Re: [GENERAL] enable pl/pgsql in postgres from postgres-server-7.0.3-2 RPM

2001-03-30 Thread Vilson farias
My RPM install didn't set pl/pgsql too... I needed to write this code : Execute psql template1 After this, type these 2 lines : CREATE FUNCTION plpgsql_call_handler () RETURNS opaque AS '/usr/lib/pgsql/plpgsql.so' LANGUAGE 'C'; CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' HANDLER plpgsql_call_ha

[GENERAL] Postinstall: libxcurses not found

2001-03-30 Thread Peter Coppens
Hi, I'm trying to set up a PostgreSQL server on our UNIX machine (HP 9000 800/F10 - HPUX 10.01) Installation was OK, but when I try to start the postmaster I get an error saying that libxcurses can't be found. Any idea how to solve this? Do I need to instaal an extra fileset form HP-UX? Whichone?

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL JDBC drive does not fully support JDK1.3

2001-03-30 Thread Raymond Chui
I am using PostgreSQL JDBC drive jdbc7.0-1.2.jar on Redhat Linux 6.5 with PostgreSQL 7.0.3-2 When I ResultSet result = statement.executeQuery(sqlStatement); int fromRow = 10; int toRow = 20; // my SQL statement returns few thousand rows to ResultSet // I only want to display result.next() from

Re: [GENERAL] database dirs very stange on solaris

2001-03-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Martín Marqués writes: > check this: > > On Solaris SPARC: > > postgres@bugs:/space/local/pgsql > ls -l data/base/ > total 15 > drwx-- 2 postgres staff1536 Mar 29 10:57 1 > drwx-- 2 postgres staff1536 Mar 29 10:10 18719 > drwx-- 2 postgres staff1536 Mar 2

[GENERAL] Strange problems with phpPgAdmin

2001-03-30 Thread Geoff Caplan
Hi folks My installation of phpPgAdmin has suddenly stopped working. I am not very experienced in this area and have run out of ideas. Any pointers would be much appreciated. THE SYMPTOMS: - To summarise, I get all the forms primed with the initial data from the default DB, but it won't run a

[GENERAL] storing "small binary objects"

2001-03-30 Thread Swaminathan Natarajan
hi, I am relatively new to postgresql. Sorry if this is a rather naive question. I am trying to store a fixed sized c++ class into the database and retreive it. What is the simplest (dirtiest?!) way to do it? I couldnt find any example on the web or in the pgsql/src directories that I could get

[GENERAL] Data access permission?

2001-03-30 Thread Pluto
Dear all Can PostgreSQL, MySQL or other database programs can allow some user to access some specific data while other data is prohibited to them in a same database? If so, how to implement that? For instance, a client can print last month's statement through the Internet by providing a password

Re[2]: [GENERAL] Unexplained behaviour

2001-03-30 Thread Jean-Christophe Boggio
Hi Tom, Ref : Thursday, March 29, 2001 1:41:49 AM TL> Your trigger will obviously fail to generate unique keys if two TL> transactions are running concurrently, since any two transactions TL> started in the same minute will generate the same initial key, TL> and if they are running concurrently

[GENERAL] Re: stability problems

2001-03-30 Thread Mitch Vincent
Upgrade to 7.1 as soon as it's out (shouldn't be long now).. I successfully migrated a 6.4 database to a 7.1 database while 7.1 was in the early beta stages, a few minor problems but the entire process only took half an hour to complete.. Good luck! -Mitch Software development : You can have it

[GENERAL] Strange problems with phpPgAdmin

2001-03-30 Thread Geoff Caplan
Hi folks My installation of phpPgAdmin has suddenly stopped working. I am not very experienced in this area and have run out of ideas. Any pointers would be much appreciated. THE SYMPTOMS: - To summarise, I get all the forms primed with the initial data from the default DB, but it won't run a

[GENERAL] Temporary table

2001-03-30 Thread Mihai Gheorghiu
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE table (... Where is the table created? On HD (what dir), in memory,... Thanks, Mihai Gheorghiu ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

[GENERAL] Re: Memory Tuning

2001-03-30 Thread Mitch Vincent
If you could post the schema of your tables that you do the query against and an EXPLAIN of the queries you're doing, perhaps we could further tune your queries in addition to beefing up the memory usage of the backend.. Check this link out too. http://postgresql.readysetnet.com/devel-corner/docs

[GENERAL] What is faster?

2001-03-30 Thread Mihai Gheorghiu
I have a short table (10 records) with a primary key column. What primary key column data type will make search faster: int2 or char? What about char(n) n=2,3...? I'm looking for speed, as that search is very frequent. Thanks, Mihai Gheorghiu ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [GENERAL] PostGreSql 7.1

2001-03-30 Thread Marek Pętlicki
On Friday, March, 2001-03-30 at 13:13:56, Jack wrote: > Hi, All > > Where can I get a PostGreSQL 7.1 lattest beta version with RPM installation? maybe ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/dev/test-rpms/ I don't know, I've never tried them (using RH I prefer own compilation). regards -- Marek Pętlick

RE: [GENERAL] PostGreSql 7.1

2001-03-30 Thread Trewern, Ben
Title: RE: [GENERAL] PostGreSql 7.1 http://www.postgresql.org/sites.html has a list of mirrors try one of them near you and the RPMs should be in directory dev/test-rpms Regards Ben > -Original Message- > From: Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 30 March 2001 04:14 > To: [EM

Re: [GENERAL] Temporary table

2001-03-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE table (... > Where is the table created? On HD (what dir), in memory,... On disk, deleted when session exits. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610

[GENERAL] Performance-Problem

2001-03-30 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, I had the following problem: I have a table with around 5Mio entries. I joined this table with a table with about 50 entries. Doing a insert into another_table . I am sure the select-statement might be optimized but after 6 days of running I had to reboot the machine for other reasons. The Ma

[GENERAL] Re: [JDBC] Logging Queries

2001-03-30 Thread Eric Frazier
Hi, Peter, is that new? I have used SetLogStream with your 7.1 beta 5 driver and 7.03 Postgress but didn't see any output from queries that I didn't put there? Or could it have to do with my server config that I didn't see anything? I mean no query info, I did see info on the driver and on the c

RE: [GENERAL] dynamic field names in a function.

2001-03-30 Thread Jeff Eckermann
In my experience, the best way to find out answers like this is to try it out and see. Usually I find that I need to fiddle around with the syntax a bit (I believe it's called debugging) before getting something to work. Postgresql is very powerful; the capability to utilize that power comes at a

RE: [GENERAL] dynamic field names in a function.

2001-03-30 Thread Soma Interesting
At 11:30 AM 3/30/2001 -0600, you wrote: >In my experience, the best way to find out answers like this is to try it >out and see. Usually I find that I need to fiddle around with the syntax a >bit (I believe it's called debugging) before getting something to work. >Postgresql is very powerful; the

Re: [GENERAL] What is faster?

2001-03-30 Thread ADBAAMD
Mihai Gheorghiu wrote: > I have a short table (10 records) with a primary key column. > > What primary key column data type will make search faster: int2 or char? > What about char(n) n=2,3...? > I'm looking for speed, as that search is very frequent. With such a short table, won't a in

[GENERAL] Globally Unique IDs?

2001-03-30 Thread Rose, Keith
I am new to the mailing list, but not new to postgres. I did search through the mail-list archives, and didn't find an answer to this question. Oracle has a concept of a "globally unique ID" which can be gotten from their function call SYS_GUID(). Is there any plan to implement this (or somethi

[GENERAL] Re: Memory Tuning

2001-03-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:18:56AM -0500, Mitch Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you could post the schema of your tables that you do the query against > and an EXPLAIN of the queries you're doing, perhaps we could further tune > your queries in addition to beefing up the memory usage of

Re: [GENERAL] dynamic field names in a function.

2001-03-30 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:57:42AM -0800, Soma Interesting wrote: > In the following, is there something I can do so that postgres will > evaluate NEW.qty to NEW.name, treating qty as a variable and evaluating it > before evaluating the field reference? At this time it errors on an INSERT > wit

Re: [GENERAL] function to operate on same fields, different records?

2001-03-30 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 06:05:04PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:17:29PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > is this kind of thing possible---? > > > > select gpa(student) from student where id=7121; > > select gpa(course) from course where id=29931; > > select

Re: [GENERAL] dynamic field names in a function.

2001-03-30 Thread Soma Interesting
At 05:47 PM 3/30/2001 -0600, you wrote: >HOWEVER -- we do have arrays, don't forget... sometimes they can >be bent to do more than intended (but usually not!) > > create table mailing( > person_id serial, > sent int4[], > prefs varchar[], >

Re: [GENERAL] Re: function to operate on same fields, different records?

2001-03-30 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:27:39AM -0500, Gregory Wood wrote: > > SELECT sum(grade) / count(grade) As GPA FROM grades; > > (bad juju if 0) > > No kidding... that kid totally failed ALL his classes! And before someone > points it out, yes I saw the DBZ. dbz? -- does a

[GENERAL] plperl -- postgresql married to perl

2001-03-30 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 04:39:21PM -0800, Soma Interesting wrote: > At 05:47 PM 3/30/2001 -0600, you wrote: > >HOWEVER -- we do have arrays, don't forget... sometimes they can > >be bent to do more than intended (but usually not!) > > > > create table mailing( > > person_id

Re: Re[2]: [GENERAL] Pgsql-7.1RC1: SET SEED =

2001-03-30 Thread Tom Lane
Alexey Borzov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe the whole matter was clarified enough, so now you seem to > have two options: either change everything back, or update the docs > (add BIG BOLD letters that SET SEED is now obsolete) ;] We changed it back, so the docs are still okay ;-)

Re: [GENERAL] plperl -- postgresql married to perl

2001-03-30 Thread Soma Interesting
At 06:47 PM 3/30/2001 -0600, you wrote: > > I may be able to use array's if postgres will allow using variables to > > reference points in the array. OK, so how do I reference a specific element of an array in a record within pl/pgsql. I've tried: NEW.name[1] NEW.name.1

Re: [GENERAL] storing "small binary objects"

2001-03-30 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 07:41:36PM -0500, Swaminathan Natarajan wrote: > hi, > > I am relatively new to postgresql. Sorry if this is a rather naive > question. > > I am trying to store a fixed sized c++ class into the database and > retreive it. What is the simplest (dirtiest?!) way to do it? I

Re: [GENERAL] function to operate on same fields, different records?

2001-03-30 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:40:13PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > I'm not sure why you have a separate column for each grade... Probably > > missing something... > > also want to keep statistics on /how many/ F's, A's, etc. > one F, one A give the same GPA as two C's. I see. > select * f

Re: [GENERAL] Re: function to operate on same fields, different records?

2001-03-30 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:49:51PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:27:39AM -0500, Gregory Wood wrote: > > > SELECT sum(grade) / count(grade) As GPA FROM grades; > > > (bad juju if 0) > > > > No kidding... that kid totally failed ALL his classes! A

Re: [GENERAL] dynamic field names in a function.

2001-03-30 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:38:31PM -0800, Soma Interesting wrote: > > I want to be able to reference NEW.field_0 though NEW.field_x where x is > coming from NEW.qty in a FOR loop of pl/pgsql function. Is this possible? > > In other words: > > FOR j IN 0..NEW.str LOOP >

Re: [GENERAL] Consistent pg_dump's

2001-03-30 Thread Tom Lane
Alexey Rodriguez Yakushev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Let me rephrase the question, i have a web-based application which uses > postgres as its backend. It must be operating 24 hours 7 days. If i want to > make a backup of the database using pg_dump, wouldn't it be possible that a > transacti

Re: [GENERAL] dynamic field names in a function.

2001-03-30 Thread Tom Lane
Soma Interesting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the following, is there something I can do so that postgres will > evaluate NEW.qty to NEW.name, treating qty as a variable and evaluating it > before evaluating the field reference? Plain PLSQL will not do this --- it wants to know field names

Re: [GENERAL] Stupid Access-Question

2001-03-30 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konstantinos Agouros) writes: > is there a way to tell the postmaster to listen to a specific ip-address > on a multihomed host? Not in 7.0, but 7.1 has a postmaster command line switch for this. regards, tom lane ---(end of bro

Re: [GENERAL] dynamic field names in a function.

2001-03-30 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 12:42:29AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Soma Interesting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In the following, is there something I can do so that postgres will > > evaluate NEW.qty to NEW.name, treating qty as a variable and evaluating it > > before evaluating the field referenc

Re: [GENERAL] plperl -- postgresql married to perl

2001-03-30 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:02:27PM -0800, Soma Interesting wrote: > At 06:47 PM 3/30/2001 -0600, you wrote: > > > I may be able to use array's if postgres will allow using variables to > > > reference points in the array. > > > OK, so how do I reference a specific element of an array in a record

Re: [GENERAL] function to operate on same fields, different records?

2001-03-30 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:34:45PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:40:13PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > even using PLPGSQL, is it possible to send VARYING relation > > tuples to a procedure/function -- so long as the attributes > > (fields) munged within the function a

Re: [GENERAL] pg_hba.conf and crypt/password

2001-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
Jim Mercer wrote: > >i seem to recall setting this up before, but now i can't seem to >get passwords working the way i want. > >i'm running 7.0.3 on FreeBSD 4.3-RC. > >i've set the entry in pg_hba.conf to both "crypt" and "password". > >i've used "ALTER USER pgsql WITH PASSWORD '