[GENERAL] Why does app fail?

2004-02-24 Thread Paul Simpson
Hi, Like many here, I am fairly new to PostgreSQL having been forced to cut my teeth on M$ SQLServer. My apologies if this is the wrong forum for this question, please advise if so! We use a third party application to manage our student population. Part of the reason we purchased it is

Re: [GENERAL] Why does app fail?

2004-02-24 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 16:51, Paul Simpson wrote: 1) If there is a log somewhere showing failed requests, I might be able to see what the application is trying to do and then figure out a way around it. You can log in every query server is executing. You need to enable the corresponding

Re: [GENERAL] Why does app fail?

2004-02-24 Thread Paul Simpson
Thanks for that! I'll have a look... Paul Shridhar Daithankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] 24/02/2004 12:02:30 On Tuesday 24 February 2004 16:51, Paul Simpson wrote: 1) If there is a log somewhere showing failed requests, I might be able to see what the application is trying to do and then figure out

[GENERAL] ON DELETE RULE problem

2004-02-24 Thread Nagib Abi Fadel
Hi, I need torun the following delete command ona view table1_v : " delete from table1_v where table1_var1=$table1_var1 and table1_var2 not in (select t2.id fromtable2_v t2,table3_vt3 where t3.vers_id=t2.vers_id and t3.var3=$var3); " I have not been able to figure out how to create the

[GENERAL] dynamic views

2004-02-24 Thread sferriol
hello is it possible with postgres 7.2 or more, to define a dynamic view. For example, i have a table with a column 'user' and i want to define a view which gives infomrations from different tables but the user has to specifie the 'user' parameter when using a select to the view sylvain

Re: [GENERAL] Why does app fail?

2004-02-24 Thread Paul Simpson
Ok, I've done that and it would appear to be a table naming issue... When I look at the logfile at the point where a table is creates, I get the following lines (for each table, as far as I can tell, although the third line only appears for some):- select relname, nspname, relkind from

Re: [GENERAL] dynamic views

2004-02-24 Thread Richard Huxton
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 16:29, sferriol wrote: hello is it possible with postgres 7.2 or more, to define a dynamic view. For example, i have a table with a column 'user' and i want to define a view which gives infomrations from different tables but the user has to specifie the 'user'

Re: [GENERAL] Found this in the server log on MAC OSX

2004-02-24 Thread Sean Shanny
To all, It looks like it is the fault of the shutdown script said Sean with sheepish look on my face We have to take a look a the scripts, found them on the web, to figure out what they are doing to cause this. Sorry for the clutter in your mailboxes. --sean waiting for postmaster to shut

Re: [GENERAL] PHP + Postgres: More than 1000 postmasters produce

2004-02-24 Thread Gellert, Andre
Hi to all, those helped or enjoyedmy english. I waited over the day to give a summary. your pgsql backend must be able to accommodate the max persistent connections * the max number of apache daemons. the php pgsql.max_persistent setting is per apache daemon. All of your answers where

[GENERAL] postgresql-7.4.1: configure: error: Python Makefile not found

2004-02-24 Thread Martin Gansser
Hi, I tried to compile postgresql-7.4.1 on fedora core1, but this fails with the following error message: checking for python... /usr/bin/python checking Python installation directories... /usr/lib/python23.zip checking how to link an embedded Python application... no configure: error: Python

Re: [GENERAL] Found this in the server log on MAC OSX

2004-02-24 Thread Sean Shanny
Tom, Let me clarify I was meant shutdown in the context of issuing a stop against postgres not shutting down the OS. Sorry if I am confusing things. The scripts we are using to issue start, stop etc for postgres seem to be causing the issue. I changed the config to use timestamps in the

[GENERAL] Rows to columns

2004-02-24 Thread Josué Maldonado
Hello List, I have a table that look like this: create table estad (nprodfk int, cmes char(6), hmes char(5), nqty numeric(12,2), nsold numeric(12,5), ncost numeric(12,2)); It contains this data: insert into estad values (25,'200402','FEB04',500,5000,2300); insert into estad values

Re: [GENERAL] Rows to columns

2004-02-24 Thread Joe Conway
Josué Maldonado wrote: The problem is I need show the data in this way: TIPOOCT03NOV03DIC03ENE04FEB04 NQTY 490 360 950 700 500 NSOLD46003900710062005000 NCOST18501760

Re: [GENERAL] Found this in the server log on MAC OSX

2004-02-24 Thread Tom Lane
Sean Shanny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: StopService() { ConsoleMessage Stopping PostgreSQL database services /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl stop -D /usr/local/pgsql/data x=`/bin/ps axc | /usr/bin/grep postgres` if /bin/test $x then set $x

[GENERAL] Sequence Permissions.

2004-02-24 Thread Daniel Baughman
Argh! This is what my log files look like in pgsql. How canI grant sequence permissions? I did a grant all to the user and it still does this. ERROR: permission denied for sequence radacct_radacctid_seqERROR: permission denied for sequence radacct_radacctid_seqERROR: permission denied

[GENERAL] select statement against pg_stats returns inconsistent data

2004-02-24 Thread Shelby Cain
The select statements return different data for most_commons_vals depending on whether n_distinct is included in the select clause or not. I only seem to get the behavior below against int8 columns - but I haven't interated through every conceivable data type either. Is this expected behavior or

Re: [GENERAL] DBD::Pg 1.32 ready for testing

2004-02-24 Thread Vivek Khera
g == greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: g A new version of DBD::Pg is about to be released (1.32), and we need g your help to test it out. If you use DBD::Pg, please download g and test the latest release candidate. At the very least, running Has my recent bug report on rt.cpan.org been addressed?

[GENERAL] Inheritance and column references problem

2004-02-24 Thread Scott Goodwin
The following SQL: create table toinherit ( id integer primary key ); create table leftside ( leftname varchar(64) not null unique ) inherits (toinherit); create table rightside ( rightname varchar(64) not null unique ) inherits (toinherit); create table linkthem ( left_id

Re: [GENERAL] DBD::Pg 1.32 ready for testing

2004-02-24 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has my recent bug report on rt.cpan.org been addressed? I never got any ack that it was. See I tried but could not duplicate that bug when it first came out. I don't know if others have tried it out or not, but if you could test with 1.32_2

Re: [GENERAL] Inheritance and column references problem

2004-02-24 Thread Stephan Szabo
Is this a bug, or a feature? It seems I can't make a column reference work directly with the table that gets inherited by the others. Neither can I make a column reference work with a table that *inherits* the toinherit table. If I can't get this to work, I'll have to revert back to not using

Re: [GENERAL] System tuning

2004-02-24 Thread Jeff Holle
Will somebody on this list, hopefully the list manager, tell me how to unsubscribe to this list? In attempting to sent a request for this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] , I got this response: unregister [EMAIL PROTECTED] The unregister command did not succeed. The request

Re: [GENERAL] select statement against pg_stats returns inconsistent data

2004-02-24 Thread Tom Lane
Shelby Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The select statements return different data for most_commons_vals depending on whether n_distinct is included in the select clause or not. I only seem to get the behavior below against int8 columns - but I haven't interated through every conceivable data

Re: [GENERAL] select statement against pg_stats returns inconsistent

2004-02-24 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: Hoo, I'm surprised no one noticed this during 7.4 development/testing. The problem applies for any datatype that requires double alignment, which includes int8, float8, and timestamp as well as most of the geometric types. pg_statistic is declared as using type anyarray, and this

Re: [GENERAL] select statement against pg_stats returns inconsistent data

2004-02-24 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anyarray has been defined this way since 7.3 -- any concerns there? I don't think so --- we weren't trying to use it as an actual column datatype back then. 7.4 has a problem though :-( ... this is one of the damn I wish we'd caught that before release ones,

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] select statement against pg_stats returns inconsistent data

2004-02-24 Thread Tom Lane
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone given any thought as to whether dumping and restoring pg_statistic is worthwhile? Why? You can reconstruct it with a simple ANALYZE command. Dumping and restoring would mean nailing down cross-version assumptions about what it