Re: [GENERAL] MIKE COX, EAT SHIT AND FUCK OFF YOU ASSHOLE. LEAVE us ALONE!

2004-11-10 Thread Greg Stark
This would be another forgery. In case anyone's curious, this looks like the work of the well known net.kook, Steve Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. He seems to be a well known personality on news.groups (and alt.usenet.kooks). He has a strange obsession with newsgroup charters and he's been forging v

[GENERAL] MIKE COX loves SUCKING DICKS and BALLS

2004-11-10 Thread pgman
MIKE COCKS loves SUCKING DICKS and BALLS FUCK THAT ASSHOLE MIKE COX! HE loves SUCKING COCK!!! Kevin Barnard ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROT

[GENERAL] FUCK THAT ASSHOLE MIKE COX! HE loves SUCKING COCK!!!

2004-11-10 Thread kevin . barnard
FUCK THAT ASSHOLE MIKE COX! HE loves SUCKING COCK!!! Kevin Barnard ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html

Re: [GENERAL] Lost databases

2004-11-10 Thread Liviu BURCUSEL
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 08:11:01 -0800 (PST) Jeff Eckermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Liviu BURCUSEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi ! > > > > I'm in the ultimate state of dispair. Over the night > > some of my > > databases just disapeared. But they did not dissaper > > totally. I can >

[GENERAL] pg_ctl and stderr

2004-11-10 Thread Ed L.
On 7.4.6 and earlier, we use apache's log rotation program as follows: pg_ctl start | rotatelogs ... If we have a configuration failure, say a bad parameter in postgresql.conf, we often don't quickly notice because it goes to stdout (into the log). It'd be nice if it went to stderr a

[GENERAL] Can't insert date in field with foreign key

2004-11-10 Thread Björn Platzen
Hello list, I'm a postgres-newbie with a maybe silly question. I'm working on a SuSE-Linux 9.1 with PostgreSQL 7.4.6 with PostGIS 0.9. My problem is, that I can't insert data into a table because I get the error, that there is no corresponding value in the referenced field. But when I query the r

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-10 Thread Rolf Østvik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Net Virtual Mailing Lists") wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Yeah.. I'm with you.. I don't really know what all of this is about - I > like the way the Postgres mailing list works as it is Are any of the > changes being discussed here going to change the content or how w

[GENERAL] MIKE COX, EAT SHIT AND FUCK OFF YOU ASSHOLE. LEAVE us ALONE!

2004-11-10 Thread gparuchuri
MIKE COX, EAT SHIT AND FUCK OFF YOU ASSHOLE. LEAVE us ALONE! Goutam Paruchuri ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-10 Thread Kevin Barnard
Currently the mailing list is also hosted in a newsgroup at new.postgresql.org. The news group is not "Official" so it is not carried by all news servers. There are some users who can not participate in a mailing list comfortably for one reason or another. Some of these individuals would like t

Re: [GENERAL] Proposal: GRANT cascade to implicit sequences

2004-11-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
I looked over this thread and can't see any TODO item. Having GRANT just propogate from the table to a SERIAL sequence doesn't work because an INSERT into a table is an UPDATE of the sequence. Is there a TODO here? --- Tom

Re: [GENERAL] updateString error in PostgreSQL7.4 with JDBC

2004-11-10 Thread Kris Jurka
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Suha Onay wrote: > st = conn.createStatement(ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE, > ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE); > rs = st.executeQuery("select * ..."; > > Then: > rs.updateString(20 , ...); > > The error is: > org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Cannot upd

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql future changes

2004-11-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I've blacklisted this IP ... not sure if that will help or not *shrug* On Wed, 11 Nov 2004, Mike Cox wrote: I am proposing some new changes for this list. 1) Black spook jiggaboo watermelon-eating niggers may not post 2) Penny-pinching Jewish kikes may only post if they contribute money 3) Slant-e

[GENERAL] Postgresql future changes

2004-11-10 Thread Mike Cox
I am proposing some new changes for this list. 1) Black spook jiggaboo watermelon-eating niggers may not post 2) Penny-pinching Jewish kikes may only post if they contribute money 3) Slant-eyed Asian chinks and gooks may post as much as they like 4) Hairy dago greaseball Italians may only post rec

Re: [GENERAL] the column in Update

2004-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
John Fabiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks but in the doc's it uses the term 'columnname'. The real issue is the > tablename.columnname is supported in MySQL and I'm trying to support Postgres > and MySQL with a single code routine. If you want portable code, I suggest conforming to the SQ

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-10 Thread Net Virtual Mailing Lists
Yeah.. I'm with you.. I don't really know what all of this is about - I like the way the Postgres mailing list works as it is Are any of the changes being discussed here going to change the content or how we receive the mailing lists?.. .. The only change I've noticed is that in all the time o

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-general] Daily digest v1.4794 (21 messages)

2004-11-10 Thread Net Virtual Mailing Lists
Yeah.. I'm with you.. I don't really know what all of this is about - I like the way the Postgres mailing list works as it is Are any of the changes being discussed here going to change the content or how we receive the mailing lists?.. What exactly is the problem they thing exists anyways?..

Re: [GENERAL] the column in Update

2004-11-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
John Fabiani wrote: > Thanks but in the doc's it uses the term 'columnname'. The real > issue is the tablename.columnname is supported in MySQL and I'm > trying to support Postgres and MySQL with a single code routine. Surely MySQL would also support writing a column name without a table name?

Re: [GENERAL] the column in Update

2004-11-10 Thread John Fabiani
Thanks but in the doc's it uses the term 'columnname'. The real issue is the tablename.columnname is supported in MySQL and I'm trying to support Postgres and MySQL with a single code routine. John On Wednesday 10 November 2004 03:31, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > Probably because the bit afte

Re: [GENERAL] index not always used when selecting on a date field

2004-11-10 Thread "Miquel van Smoorenburg"
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Miquel van Smoorenburg" ) writes: >> techdb2=> explain select * from lines where (removed > CURRENT_DATE >AND removed < '-01-01'); > >> With 7.3, this query used the index, while with 7.4 it doesn't. > >P

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with 7.4.1 and complicated queries

2004-11-10 Thread Jonathan Weiss
Cheers, The Problems with the database still show up. We upgraded the database to 7.4.6 >From postgresql.conf: shared_buffers = 1 # min 16, at least max_connections*2, 8KB each sort_mem = 2048 # min 64, size in KB vacuum_mem = 8192 # min 1024, size in KB # - Fre

Re: [GENERAL] Error connecting using pgadmin from different computer !!

2004-11-10 Thread Russell Smith
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 03:31 am, Goutam Paruchuri wrote: > Hello, > > I get an error in my log when connecting to postgres server on Windows. > Postgres version : 8.0.0-beta4 > > LOG TEXT > > 2004-11-10 11:22:47 LOG: invalid entry in file "C:/Program > Files/PostgreSQL/8.0.0-beta4/data/pg_hba.con

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] Where is postgresql??

2004-11-10 Thread Sídar LC
Look it at: ~/usr/local/pgsql Libs: ~/usr/libs/postgresql Francisco Jose Bernabe Pellicer wrote: Hello everybody, I have a computer with Scientific Linux. From a repository I downloaded the packages rh-postgresql-* with the command apt-get install... The thing is that after installing all the p

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-10 Thread William Yu
??? As a longstanding reader of the pgsql- mailinglists, (including via news.postgresql.org on occasion), all I see is some outsiders trying to help us "fix" a problem that does not exist. And yes, I have read most of the messages that have passed by in these threads. After all that, I still don

Re: [GENERAL] Error connecting using pgadmin from different computer

2004-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
"Goutam Paruchuri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My understanding was it means ip range of 1 to 254. You're mistaken. /n means an n-bit netmask. /254 is nonsense. What you probably want is 192.168.2.0/24, which effectively means "all of 192.168.2.*". regards, tom lane -

Re: [GENERAL] Error connecting using pgadmin from different computer

2004-11-10 Thread Goutam Paruchuri
Its works if I specify the ipaddress of each client which is being connecting to the server. Its hard to do it on a DHCP network . Any roundabouts ? - Goutam > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Goutam Paruchuri > Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [GENERAL] Modifying FK constraints

2004-11-10 Thread Oleg Lebedev
In order to find all FK declared on a table I query tg_trigger view. The query lists all FKs declared on the table as well as all the ones referencing the table. I noticed that FKs that are declared on the table have pgtype equal to 21, and FKs referencing the table have pgtype 9 or 17. The foll

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Mike Nolan wrote: Perhaps in parallel with the Usenet community voting whether they want to receive posts from the mailing lists, we can have the mailing list subscribers vote on whether they want to receive messages from the Usenet or want to have their messages forwarded to t

Re: [GENERAL] Error connecting using pgadmin from different computer

2004-11-10 Thread Goutam Paruchuri
My understanding was it means ip range of 1 to 254. 192.168.2.1 to 192.168.1.254 > -Original Message- > From: Wilson, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 12:05 PM > To: Goutam Paruchuri > Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Error connecting using pgadmin from > diff

Re: [GENERAL] Analyse - max_locks_per_transaction - why?

2004-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
Phil Endecott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Naively I imagined that ANALYSE looks at each table in turn, > independently. So why does it need more locks when there are more > tables? 7.4 runs a database-wide ANALYZE as a single transaction, so the locks accumulate. This was recognized to be a

Re: [GENERAL] Modifying FK constraints

2004-11-10 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Oleg Lebedev wrote: > Is it possible to modify a foreign key constraint and force it to > cascade on update? If there is no such SQL command, then is it possible > to update some system tables to accomplish this? > > The problem is that I have a bunch of tables with FK constra

Re: [GENERAL] Modifying FK constraints

2004-11-10 Thread Oleg Lebedev
Thanks, but the problem here is that I have multiple replicated databases with the same schema and each of them contains numerous tables. So, dropping and re-creating FK constraints manualy is not feasible, and I am trying to automate this process. Each table contains a primary key column "object

Re: [GENERAL] Modifying FK constraints

2004-11-10 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:00:02AM -0700, Oleg Lebedev wrote: > Is it possible to modify a foreign key constraint and force it to > cascade on update? If there is no such SQL command, then is it possible > to update some system tables to accomplish this? You can drop and add constraints with ALTE

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-10 Thread Mike Nolan
> Perhaps in parallel with the Usenet community voting whether they want > to receive posts from the mailing lists, we can have the mailing list > subscribers vote on whether they want to receive messages from the > Usenet or want to have their messages forwarded to the Usenet. That > might be

Re: [GENERAL] Modifying FK constraints

2004-11-10 Thread Richard Huxton
Oleg Lebedev wrote: Greetings. Is it possible to modify a foreign key constraint and force it to cascade on update? If there is no such SQL command, then is it possible to update some system tables to accomplish this? BEGIN; ALTER TABLE t1 DROP CONSTRAINT ... ALTER TABLE t1 ADD CONSTRAINT ... COM

[GENERAL] Modifying FK constraints

2004-11-10 Thread Oleg Lebedev
Title: Message Greetings.   Is it possible to modify a foreign key constraint and force it to cascade on update? If there is no such SQL command, then is it possible to update some system tables to accomplish this?   The problem is that I have a bunch of tables with FK constraints and I need

[GENERAL] Error connecting using pgadmin from different computer !!

2004-11-10 Thread Goutam Paruchuri
Hello, I get an error in my log when connecting to postgres server on Windows. Postgres version : 8.0.0-beta4 LOG TEXT 2004-11-10 11:22:47 LOG: invalid entry in file "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.0.0-beta4/data/pg_hba.conf" at line 64, token "192.168.2.1/254" 2004-11-10 11:22:47 FATAL: missi

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Jeff Eckermann wrote: > ??? As a longstanding reader of the pgsql- > mailinglists, (including via news.postgresql.org on > occasion), all I see is some outsiders trying to help > us "fix" a problem that does not exist. And yes, I > have read most of the messages that have passed by in > these thr

Re: [GENERAL] Lost databases

2004-11-10 Thread Jeff Eckermann
--- Liviu BURCUSEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ! > > I'm in the ultimate state of dispair. Over the night > some of my > databases just disapeared. But they did not dissaper > totally. I can > still connect to them but I cannot dump them. When > doing a "select * > from pg_database" I see onl

Re: [GENERAL] Important Info on comp.databases.postgresql.general

2004-11-10 Thread Jeff Eckermann
--- "Gary L. Burnore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9 Nov 2004 15:51:24 -0800, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >This is a very unfair limitation. > > Stop top posting. > > >If there is a ballot, it should be posted to each > of the individual mailing lists. > > That's not how it works. > >

Re: [GENERAL] Rolling back an update

2004-11-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
mike wrote: > Is it possible to undo a transaction after it has completed (using 8 > beta1) Using the new point-in-time recovery feature, but you need to set that up first. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [GENERAL] I have had enough

2004-11-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Oliver Elphick wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 13:56 +, Mike Cox wrote: I've had it up to my... I presume this is another forged mail; the headers show that it came through mail3.lidya.net, not yahoo.com. Marc, if we are to be subjected to offensive forgeries like this, do you

Re: [GENERAL] These Lists Are Being Cut To FOUR

2004-11-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Nov 10, 2004, at 6:23 PM, Joel wrote: Hello. My name is Mike Cox. I am in charge of the changing of these postgresql lists. ... (That was a mock diatribe, correct?) Joel, I believe these posts are spoofs. Mike has not posted anything along these li

[GENERAL] Analyse - max_locks_per_transaction - why?

2004-11-10 Thread Phil Endecott
Dear PostgreSQL experts, This is with version 7.4.2. My database has grown a bit recently, mostly in number of tables but also their size, and I started to see ANALYSE failing with this message: WARNING: out of shared memory ERROR: out of shared memory HINT: You may need to increase max_locks_

Re: [GENERAL] FW: Proper nesting of hierarchical objects

2004-11-10 Thread Robert Treat
I missed the original post, but I think you both might want to do some googling on nested set. Robert Treat On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 11:40, Garris, Nicole wrote: > We've actually implemented this kind of thing in a different DBMS. The > physical design consists of a single "organization" table that

[GENERAL] Rolling back an update

2004-11-10 Thread mike
Is it possible to undo a transaction after it has completed (using 8 beta1) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] Ping Mike Cox

2004-11-10 Thread Holger Klawitter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, is someone under way to tar-and-feather the originator of that nuisance? Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards Holger Klawitter - -- lists klawitter de -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBki281Xd

Re: [GENERAL] Ping Mike Cox

2004-11-10 Thread Stephen Frost
* Oliver Elphick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Twits like you make me proud to be a Brit. Gee, I wonder if it was forged...? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yup. Stephen signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] I'm about to release the next postgresql RFD.

2004-11-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 16:37 -0800, Mike Cox wrote: > The ones not on the list to be made into the big 8 will always be accessible > from the news.postgresql.org server. > > Also, please, if I've missed an important group you think SHOULD be in the > big 8, please let me know in this thread. pgsq

[GENERAL] Ping Mike Cox

2004-11-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
Hey Mike Cocks!!! Kiss my bullocks you bloody wanker! Go bugger off and take your yank arse to Burger King, you uncultured American cretin. Twits like you make me proud to be a Brit. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

[SPOOFED] Nothing to see here (was:Re: [GENERAL] I have had enough)

2004-11-10 Thread Lamar Owen
[all content snipped] Spoofed again. Nothing to see here. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you che

Re: [GENERAL] I have had enough

2004-11-10 Thread Andrew Kelly
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 14:56, Mike Cox wrote (or didn't write): I guess that pretty much firmly identifies this list as an unmoderated list, non? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] I have had enough

2004-11-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 13:56 +, Mike Cox wrote: > I've had it up to my... I presume this is another forged mail; the headers show that it came through mail3.lidya.net, not yahoo.com. Marc, if we are to be subjected to offensive forgeries like this, do you need to put something in the automatic

[GENERAL] I have had enough

2004-11-10 Thread Mike Cox
I've had it up to my testicles with this fucking RFD. I can't take it no more. Somebody really needs to take over for me. God damn that cum-swallowing nigger-loving faggot-ass cocksucker Marc for creating such a fucking mess. Let him clean it up, that cocky son of a cunt that his mother was. I quit

Re: [GENERAL] updateString error in PostgreSQL7.4 with JDBC

2004-11-10 Thread Suha Onay
It is ok. I fetch the row with no problem. The error is only in update types like updateString , updateRow, updateInt... ps.You are right JDBC list is appropriate. Richard Huxton wrote: Suha Onay wrote: Hi, I have a problem with PostgreSQL 7.4. (With the old one 7.3 no probllem.) You might get

Re: [GENERAL] These Lists Are Being Cut To FOUR

2004-11-10 Thread Joel
Richard Huxton wrote > Joel wrote: > > > > But we probably do need someone from the mail list to go co-proponent > > with Mike. > > > > Unless, of course, the majority of the list would prefer to keep the > > status quo. > > I must admit I'm not clear what difference this makes to those of us

Re: [GENERAL] Lost databases

2004-11-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Let's start with the version of postgresql you're using. Next, were you running VACUUM FULL regularly? It sounds like XID wraparound to me, no idea how to solve that. Got backups? On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:56:33PM +0200, Liviu BURCUSEL wrote: > Hi ! > > I'm in the ultimate state of dispair. Ove

[GENERAL] updateString error in PostgreSQL7.4 with JDBC

2004-11-10 Thread Suha Onay
Hi, I have a problem with PostgreSQL 7.4. (With the old one 7.3 no probllem.) I create a connection and a statement : Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver"); conn = DriverManager.getConnection( O_Constants.DB_CONNECTION_URL, O_Constants.DB

Re: [GENERAL] the column in Update

2004-11-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Probably because the bit after the SET is a "column-name" not a reference to a column. There's no point qualifying it in any way since the tablename is given as part of the UPDATE statement. On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:33:55PM -0800, John Fabiani wrote: > From the 7.4 docs: > A column can be refer

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to get postgres to use an index

2004-11-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Firstly, check that all your columns are actually of the same type and the indexes are where you say they are. Using \d will show this. Secondly, if you do the EXPLAIN ANALYZE with "set enable_seqscan=off", what is the output? Hope this helps, On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:02:01PM -0800, Mike Werthe

[GENERAL] Lost databases

2004-11-10 Thread Liviu BURCUSEL
Hi ! I'm in the ultimate state of dispair. Over the night some of my databases just disapeared. But they did not dissaper totally. I can still connect to them but I cannot dump them. When doing a "select * from pg_database" I see only 2 databases I hardly ever use (they are used once in a couple o

Re: [GENERAL] These Lists Are Being Cut To FOUR

2004-11-10 Thread Joel
> ... > I believe these posts are spoofs. Mike has not posted anything along > these lines before, and the headers are different from his usual posts. Hmm. >>> X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER Non-encoded 8-bit data (char DD hex) in message >>> header 'X-Mailer' X-Mailer: B\335ANet.org\n

Re: [GENERAL] These Lists Are Being Cut To FOUR

2004-11-10 Thread Csaba Nagy
I'm pretty sure the real poster was not Mike. It's very easy to forge the mail headers, including the From, and comparing this mail with other posts from Mike it's pretty obvious they were written from different places. Cheers, Csaba. On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 10:23, Joel wrote: > > Hello. My name is

Re: [GENERAL] These Lists Are Being Cut To FOUR

2004-11-10 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Nov 10, 2004, at 6:23 PM, Joel wrote: Hello. My name is Mike Cox. I am in charge of the changing of these postgresql lists. ... (That was a mock diatribe, correct?) Joel, I believe these posts are spoofs. Mike has not posted anything along these lines before, and the headers are different from

Re: [GENERAL] These Lists Are Being Cut To FOUR

2004-11-10 Thread Joel
> Hello. My name is Mike Cox. I am in charge of the changing of these > postgresql lists. ... (That was a mock diatribe, correct?) Mike, you are not in charge, you are just leading the point on the RFD since Marc has other priorities. (And believe me, he does.) Take a break from the process for

Re: [pgsql-www] [GENERAL] FTP mirror problems

2004-11-10 Thread Dave Page
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Treat > Sent: 09 November 2004 21:14 > To: Marc G. Fournier > Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] [GENERAL] FTP mirror problems > > >