Re: [GENERAL] Could DBmirror be done with the mechine using RPM installation instaed of souce code [tar.gz] ?

2006-02-25 Thread chris smith
> I use the two mechines with FC3 and postgresql 8.1 RPM installation and > would like to do DBmirror or other postgresql database replication from > master to slave server . Could I do this replication using RPM or I must use > the tar.gz version ? Could anybody suggest me about replication? The

Re: [GENERAL] Could DBmirror be done with the mechine using RPM installation instaed of souce code [tar.gz] ?

2006-02-25 Thread Amrit Angsusing
I try to do it by rpm installation but the seemed to miss some file which was described by the doc. for ex. pending.so and its' path and perl /./DBmirror.pl could not run Could you suggest me the URL how to install DBmirror by the rpm mechine? Thanks Amrit  2006/2/25, chris smith <[EMAIL PROTE

[GENERAL] rotate records

2006-02-25 Thread Natasha Galkina
Hello. I’m using Postgresql 7.3 on Linux. I created sequence   CREATE SEQUENCE event_id_seq   INCREMENT 1   MINVALUE 1   MAXVALUE 5   START 1   CACHE 1   CYCLE;   And I created table which uses this sequence as primary key.   CREATE TABLE hw_messages (   event_id INT PRIMAR

Re: [GENERAL] How to specify infinity for intervals ?

2006-02-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
OK, added to TODO. --- Michael Glaesemann wrote: > > On Feb 25, 2006, at 12:09 , Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > We have this TODO: > > > > o Allow infinite dates just like infinite timestamps > > > > Do we need to add

Re: [GENERAL] rotate records

2006-02-25 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 04:31:48PM -0800, Natasha Galkina wrote: > I created sequence > > CREATE SEQUENCE event_id_seq > INCREMENT 1 > MINVALUE 1 > MAXVALUE 5 > START 1 > CACHE 1 > CYCLE; [...] > My question is how I can rotate the records in the table. I have maximum > number of reco

Re: [GENERAL] Requesting LinuxWorld East staffers

2006-02-25 Thread brew
> > I'm confused about Linux World east, though. I googled it and it looks > > like it was in Boston last month. > > > It is next month. Ah, found it. LinuxWorld at the Boston Convention and Exhibit Center on April 3-6 2006 Sorry, I'm in NYC area and was hoping it was at the Javits Center. br

Re: [GENERAL] rotate records

2006-02-25 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 10:12:38AM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote: > > If it is not correct, how can I rotate the records in the table? > > One way would be to use a trigger to delete records having the same > event_id as the record being inserted. I should mention that with the example I posted you c

Re: [GENERAL] User groups

2006-02-25 Thread Robert Treat
On Thursday 23 February 2006 20:37, Russell Denney wrote: > Any user groups in the Tampa, St. Petersburg, Florida area? Anyone > interested in starting a group? I am new to PostgreSQL and many aspects > of programming, but I would very much like to meet with those that have > the same interests, re

[GENERAL] non-btree primary key

2006-02-25 Thread Roman Neuhauser
Hello, looks like PostgreSQL (8.0/8.1) has no support for using other-than-btree indexes for primary keys. Is there a (perhaps un(der)documented) way to specify the index type? Rationale: I'm trying to have PKs on a type that defines only the = and <> operators, and would work with a hash-based P

Re: [GENERAL] How to specify infinity for intervals ?

2006-02-25 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:09:25PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > I will also stay with the hope that one day before long we > > will have "'infinite'::interval". > > We have this TODO: > > o Allow infinite dates just like infinite timestamps > > Do we need to

Re: [GENERAL] non-btree primary key

2006-02-25 Thread Tom Lane
Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > looks like PostgreSQL (8.0/8.1) has no support for using > other-than-btree indexes for primary keys. Is there a (perhaps > un(der)documented) way to specify the index type? No --- at present this is not possible because btree is the only index type th

[GENERAL] createuser permssion for group

2006-02-25 Thread Jebus
Is it possible to give a group the the createuser permission ? This way if a user in the group they can create users. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [GENERAL] upgrade PostgreSQL 8.x on production FreeBSD

2006-02-25 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you all for the valuable advices. I'll try them on a test server and will come back. Thanks again! Iv ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [GENERAL] Could DBmirror be done with the mechine using RPM installation instaed of souce code [tar.gz] ?

2006-02-25 Thread chris smith
On 2/26/06, Amrit Angsusing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I try to do it by rpm installation but the seemed to miss some file which > was described by the doc. for ex. pending.so and its' path and > perl /./DBmirror.pl > could not run If you have a problem copy the exact error message, nobody c

Re: [GENERAL] ltree + gist index performance degrades significantly over a night

2006-02-25 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:02:04AM -0800, CG wrote: > I have a search table which I use for partial-match text searches: > For a string "Hello World" the ltree is created like 'h.e.l.l.o.w.o.r.l.d' ... > If I wanted to find all rows with "orl" in them i would construct an lquery > like '*.o.r.l.*'

Re: [GENERAL] Temporal Databases

2006-02-25 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:56:58AM -0500, Brad Nicholson wrote: > Simon Riggs wrote: > > >A much easier way is to start a serialized transaction every 10 minutes > >and leave the transaction idle-in-transaction. If you decide you really > >need to you can start requesting data through that transac

[GENERAL] Postgres Win32 libpq Samples

2006-02-25 Thread sfourman
Hello, I am very new to postgreSQL I am using the win32 platform is there a website URL that has Sample Client Apps written for win32? I need Samples of very basic things like: Connect to a db on a remote server create new db create table add records drop records ect... there are some Samples he

Re: [GENERAL] createuser permssion for group

2006-02-25 Thread chris smith
On 2/26/06, Jebus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to give a group the the createuser permission ? This > way if a user in the group they can create users. Version 8.1.x does.. postgres=# \h create group ... | CREATEROLE | NOCREATEROLE | CREATEUSER | NOCREATEUS

[GENERAL] From ASCII to UTF-8

2006-02-25 Thread Clodoaldo Pinto
As part of a migration from 8.0 to 8.1 i want to convert the data from ASCII to UTF-8. I dumped the database with pg_dump (8.0) and tried to convert it with iconv, but it shows an error: $ iconv -t ASCII -t UTF-8 fahstats_data.dump -o fahstats_data_utf-8.dump iconv: illegal input sequence at posi

Re: [GENERAL] From ASCII to UTF-8

2006-02-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Clodoaldo Pinto wrote: > As part of a migration from 8.0 to 8.1 i want to convert the data > from ASCII to UTF-8. ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, so if you really wanted to do that you wouldn't need to do anything. > I dumped the database with pg_dump (8.0) and tried to convert it with > iconv, but

[GENERAL] ECPG and COPY and PQputCopyData - don't get errors

2006-02-25 Thread Wes
Since I can't use ECPG COPY, I'm trying to use libpq PQputCopyData. Not realizing I had to use CSV format to include column header names, I used: PQexec(conn, "COPY detail FROM stdin") I sent the column headers as the first line of the input. While this I now know this is wrong, the problem

[GENERAL] postgresql documentation

2006-02-25 Thread Randy Yates
Hi, I've noticed that the PDF version of the manuals for 8.0 and 8.1 are lacking bookmarks and/or TOC and document reference links. If this is generated via LaTeX, such links oculd easily be incorporated via the hyperref package. It would make the document much easier to navigate. -- % Randy Yat

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql documentation

2006-02-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Randy Yates wrote: Hi, I've noticed that the PDF version of the manuals for 8.0 and 8.1 are lacking bookmarks and/or TOC and document reference links. If this is generated via LaTeX, such links oculd easily be incorporated via the hyperref package. It would make the document much easier to navig

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql documentation

2006-02-25 Thread Randy Yates
"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Randy Yates wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've noticed that the PDF version of the manuals for 8.0 and 8.1 >> are lacking bookmarks and/or TOC and document reference links. If >> this is generated via LaTeX, such links oculd easily be incorporated >> via the h

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql documentation

2006-02-25 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Feb 26, 2006, at 12:30 , Randy Yates wrote: Can you tell me how, using FC4, I can grab the documentation build environment from the repository and download it to my machine? You can find instructions on how to build the documentation in the documentation in Appendix G: http://www.postg

Re: [GENERAL] Temporal Databases

2006-02-25 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Jim C. Nasby") wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 11:56:58AM -0500, Brad Nicholson wrote: >> Simon Riggs wrote: >> >> >A much easier way is to start a serialized transaction every 10 minutes >> >and leave the transaction idle-in-transa

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql documentation

2006-02-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Feb 26, 2006, at 12:30 , Randy Yates wrote: Can you tell me how, using FC4, I can grab the documentation build environment from the repository and download it to my machine? You can find instructions on how to build the documentation in the documentation in Appe