Re: [GENERAL] [INTERFACES] retrieving information about password from MS Access front-end

2005-06-12 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, On 6/13/05, Zlatko Matić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to create VBA procedure that compares value in text box with actual > password to determine if it is the same. As the password is encrypted (md5) > I can't read it from pg_shaddow system table. How to retrieve decrypted > value from

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 8.1

2005-06-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 23:03:35 +0100, Simon Windsor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has a roadmap and timescale been released for Postgres 8.1? Feature freeze will be July 1. Expect a beta about 1 month after that (based on past experience). The date of the release is highly variable, but will

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Certification

2005-06-12 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> Am Sonntag, den 12.06.2005, 17:59 +0900 schrieb Tatsuo Ishii: > > > For the contents too. I dont think the source code installation > > > should be so much in the focus of the certification. > > > > Since PostgreSQL is an open source database, I think it is important > > to understand how to ins

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] mirroring oracle database in pgsql

2005-06-12 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Check out EnterprisDB: www.enterprisedb.com Chris Edward Peschko wrote: hey all, I'm trying to convince some people here to adopt either mysql or postgresql as a relational database here.. However, we can't start from a clean slate; we have a very mature oracle database that applications poi

[GENERAL] Postgres 8.1

2005-06-12 Thread Simon Windsor
Hi   Has a roadmap and timescale been released for Postgres 8.1?   All the best   Simon   Simon Windsor Eml: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 01454 617689 Mob: 07960 321599  

[GENERAL]

2005-06-12 Thread jeremy `
I am using (or was planning on - now having second thoughts) postgres 8.0.3 for windows for a database paper I have to do at university. I tried installing it on linux and having it talk through samba / ODBC to MS Access on windows, but his was a bit beyond my knowledge. So I took my tutors advi

Re: [GENERAL] Pb with linked tables on PG8

2005-06-12 Thread jeremy `
i had the exact same thing using the same scenario but with pg 8.0.3 installed on the same win XP pro machine. The strange thing is when I closed the table and opened it again, all the fields containing #deleted then showed up with the values I actually input. So i'm thinking theres some bug in r

Re: [GENERAL] retrieving information about password from MS

2005-06-12 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am Sonntag, den 12.06.2005, 23:12 +0200 schrieb Zlatko Matić: > How could I retrieve information about actual user password, if md5 > method is set in pg_hba.conf ? > I want to create VBA procedure that compares value in text box with > actual password to determine if it is the same. As the passwo

[GENERAL] users,groups and permissions

2005-06-12 Thread Zlatko Matić
Hello.   If we have a database with defined user groups, users and permissions on database objects, what happens when we backup database (dump) and try to install on some other server ? Does information about user groups, users and permissions migrate along with database itself or I need to

[GENERAL] retrieving information about password from MS Access front-end

2005-06-12 Thread Zlatko Matić
How could I retrieve information about actual user password, if md5 method is set in pg_hba.conf ? I want to create VBA procedure that compares value in text box with actual password to determine if it is the same. As the password is encrypted (md5) I can't read it from pg_shaddow system tab

Re: [GENERAL] Postgre "idle" process using 100% CPU

2005-06-12 Thread Jernej Kos
Well I can't get any better backtraces (even with --enable-debug). The strange thing is that this just happens once in a while and the process doesn't stop until it is killed (or postgre is restarted). Any suggestions ? Regards, Jernej Kos. On Sunday 12 of June 2005 18:01, you wrote: > Jernej K

Re: [GENERAL] Version Control?

2005-06-12 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 11:31:02AM -0500, Peter Fein wrote: > Peter Fein wrote: > > As an uninformed, off-the-wall idea, could one compare snapshots of the > > system tables to generate these diffs? I know next-to-nothing about > > these, but it seems like they'd contain the info you'd need. > > H

Re: [GENERAL] Version Control?

2005-06-12 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 02:47:39PM +0100, Russ Brown wrote: > I'd be extremely happy if somebody finds such a system that is already > written! I've never seen such a system, and one is sorely needed. If someone were to write one that worked well against multiple databases and didn't cost a fortu

Re: [GENERAL] mirroring oracle database in pgsql

2005-06-12 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:52:13PM -0700, Edward Peschko wrote: > In other words, I'm looking to make a postgresql -> Oracle mirroring > tool, and syncing the databases on a nightly basis, and I was > wondering if anybody had experience with this sort of thing. You should take a look at contrib/d

Re: [GENERAL] Case sensitivity

2005-06-12 Thread Tom Lane
Howard Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has case sensitivity changed between 8.0.1 and 8.0.3 Nope. > Results on 8.0.3 windows server (UNICODE) Unicode doesn't work at all well on Windows. Consider using a different encoding. Also, you'd better check that you have matching locale and encoding

Re: [GENERAL] Use of Indexes

2005-06-12 Thread Tom Lane
"Darrell A. Sullivan, II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering if someone could answer a question about how PostgreSQL uses > indexes when performing queries. Particularly, I need to know if the query > optimizer will use more than index for a query or if it only uses one. Versions throug

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to get posgreSQL-8.0.3 up on Tiger 10.4.1

2005-06-12 Thread Tom Lane
Christopher Barbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to get my PowerBook to host a postgres > server. > I seem to be h aving troubles with the > shared-buffers. I have 1G of ram so don't know why > this is a problem... OS X has a pretty small default SHMMAX setting. Read the ins

Re: [GENERAL] Case sensitivity

2005-06-12 Thread Magnus Hagander
> create table test (val varchar(10)); > insert into test values ('A'); > insert into test values ('a'); > select * from test where val < 'a'; > > Results on 8.0.1 linux server (UNICODE) > val > - > (0 rows) > > Results on 8.0.3 windows server (UNICODE) val > - > A > (1 row) > > I am

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to get posgreSQL-8.0.3 up on Tiger 10.4.1

2005-06-12 Thread Steve Atkins
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:46:50PM -0700, Christopher Barbee wrote: > Hello there, > I am trying to get my PowerBook to host a postgres > server. > > > I seem to be h aving troubles with the > shared-buffers. I have 1G of ram so don't know why > this is a problem... > > Anyone else

[GENERAL] Cannot get PostgreSQL to work with Ruby On Rails

2005-06-12 Thread Jim McMaster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am having problems getting PostgreSQL to work with Ruby On Rails. On Windows, I cannot get ActiveRecord to recognize the pure ruby Postgres driver. On linux, it complains about a missing constant with the compiled postgres driver. I suspect some

[GENERAL] mirroring oracle database in pgsql

2005-06-12 Thread Edward Peschko
hey all, I'm trying to convince some people here to adopt either mysql or postgresql as a relational database here.. However, we can't start from a clean slate; we have a very mature oracle database that applications point to right now, and so we need a migration path. I went to the mysql folks

[GENERAL] FATAL: Sorry, too many clients already????

2005-06-12 Thread Dan Miller
I have a server under very light load -- just me doing some work in php. I am getting this error often and don't know why: postgresql max connections Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL: Sorry, too many clients already my orignal postgresql.conf had: max_connections = 8

[GENERAL] Problem in unicode sorting

2005-06-12 Thread madhu aggarwal
      We have a postgresql database in Hindi and English. The records are entered in Hindi as well as in English. The problem is in the sorting of hindi records when we give select * from table order by name the hindi sorting is not correct. For that we had intialised the initdb with en_US.UTF

Re: [GENERAL] Now() function

2005-06-12 Thread Ben Trewern
BTW in Postgresql 8.0 you can do: ALTER TABLE foo ALTER foo_timestamp TYPE timestamp(0) with timezone; It'll do the truncation for you. Regards, Ben "Michael Glaesemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Jun 10, 2005, at 11:37 AM, Michael Glaesemann wrote: > >

Re: [GENERAL] Fyracle?

2005-06-12 Thread Geraldo Lopes de Souza
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: Some comments: Firebird is a good small database (small resource footprint) that handles small databases with many users well. In the hospital I work we have a 4GB database with 50 users connected running 24/7 (her I stop it 2.5 hours per month) It doesn't s

[GENERAL] Case sensitivity

2005-06-12 Thread Howard Cole
Has case sensitivity changed between 8.0.1 and 8.0.3 or am I missing some setting somewhere? I try the following sql on two database servers and get different results: create table test (val varchar(10)); insert into test values ('A'); insert into test values ('a'); select * from test where val

[GENERAL] Trying to get posgreSQL-8.0.3 up on Tiger 10.4.1

2005-06-12 Thread Christopher Barbee
Hello there, I am trying to get my PowerBook to host a postgres server. I seem to be h aving troubles with the shared-buffers. I have 1G of ram so don't know why this is a problem... Anyone else out there using pg8 on Tiger? Any advice would be appreciated... Chris -

[GENERAL] Use of Indexes

2005-06-12 Thread Darrell A. Sullivan, II
Hello, I am trying out a few databases to determine which one would best suit a project. I was wondering if someone could answer a question about how PostgreSQL uses indexes when performing queries. Particularly, I need to know if the query optimizer will use more than index for a query or if it

Re: [GENERAL] Postgre "idle" process using 100% CPU

2005-06-12 Thread Tom Lane
Jernej Kos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well there should be no complex queries executed (there are some huge tables, > but the queries aren't huge or specially complicated). I tried attaching to > the process via gdb and the process is executing method: > HeapTupleSatisfiesSnapshot() > The bac

Re: [GENERAL] Postgre "idle" process using 100% CPU

2005-06-12 Thread Jernej Kos
Well there should be no complex queries executed (there are some huge tables, but the queries aren't huge or specially complicated). I tried attaching to the process via gdb and the process is executing method: HeapTupleSatisfiesSnapshot() The backtrace appears to be useless (too many ??s). Is

Re: [GENERAL] CVS stability

2005-06-12 Thread Tom Lane
Sean Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been noticing some very useful things that are probably already in > CVS (return_next in pl/perl, IN/OUT parameters, and probably others). > I don't have a "mission critical" production environment and was > wondering how unstable a typical 8.1 CVS

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Certification

2005-06-12 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am Sonntag, den 12.06.2005, 17:59 +0900 schrieb Tatsuo Ishii: > > For the contents too. I dont think the source code installation > > should be so much in the focus of the certification. > > Since PostgreSQL is an open source database, I think it is important > to understand how to install Postgre

[GENERAL] CVS stability

2005-06-12 Thread Sean Davis
I've been noticing some very useful things that are probably already in CVS (return_next in pl/perl, IN/OUT parameters, and probably others). I don't have a "mission critical" production environment and was wondering how unstable a typical 8.1 CVS checkout is? I'm not talking about feature-fr

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Certification

2005-06-12 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> For the contents too. I dont think the source code installation > should be so much in the focus of the certification. Since PostgreSQL is an open source database, I think it is important to understand how to install PostgreSQL from the source code. > I wonder how certifications in other langua

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Certification

2005-06-12 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am Sonntag, den 12.06.2005, 14:36 +1000 schrieb CaT: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 12:24:30PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > > Thank you for interested in PostgreSQL CE. There is a sample > > examination problems page: > > > > http://osb.sra.co.jp/postgresql-ce/sys/quiz.php?titleid=S74_en > > > > You c