Re: [GENERAL] Child program using parent program's transaction?

2006-09-10 Thread Sim Zacks
I would say that in certain contexts it would definitely be sane/preferable to have a "worker" process work in its boss's transaction. In the traditional bank example: Open a transfer transaction: One application goes to take money out of one account. The second application goes to put money into

Re: [GENERAL] Certificate, login & php question ?

2006-09-10 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 09:39:59PM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:32:26AM +0200, Jean-Gerard Pailloncy wrote: > > 1) Is it possible to use the SSL authentification done by apache with > > PostgreSQL ? > > I'm not aware of a way for Apache to proxy PostgreSQL's SSL > nego

Re: [GENERAL] Certificate, login & php question ?

2006-09-10 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:32:26AM +0200, Jean-Gerard Pailloncy wrote: > I have setup an apache server with SSL. > I create a CA, serker.key, server.crt. > I create a user.key and user.cert. > Now the apache server accept only the correct certificate for login > on a given directory. > > I have

[GENERAL] Certificate, login & php question ?

2006-09-10 Thread Jean-Gerard Pailloncy
Hi,I have setup an apache server with SSL.I create a CA, serker.key, server.crt.I create a user.key and user.cert.Now the apache server accept only the correct certificate for login on a given directory.I have a PHP script that query the database using the HTTP login/password as PostgreSQL user/pas

Re: [GENERAL] Database design and triggers...

2006-09-10 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
> Hi Brandon, > > Thank you for your response. > > Yes, I see what you mean when you say that I can list Qty in signed > integers and use a view. Good point. > > But I'm not sure as to using a view vs using a permanent table updated > by triggers. It seems we are dealing with the clasic tradeoff

Re: [GENERAL] execute in pl/pgsql

2006-09-10 Thread Dino Vliet
Solved:-) Thanks for your aanswer, now I can go further with exploring pl/pgsql. Looks nice. Brgds --- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dino Vliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In my pl/pgsql procedure I have the following > line: > > > execute 'copy cancella to ' || location || ' with

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and cluster

2006-09-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Angva wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question regarding pg_dump and table clustering. Each night a > job runs that basically does the following: > > 1) load large amounts of data from flat files into a schema > 2) cluster the data > 3) pg_dump that schema > 4) copy the resulting dmp to several dest

Re: [GENERAL] Is this logical?

2006-09-10 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 01:12 AM 9/10/2006 +0330, Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote: Hi, Shouldn't this create statement trigger an error? create table bar (col1 int not null default null); No. Shouldn't I be forbidden to insert null values into a non null column? Yes. Use "not null default null" when you want to f

Re: [GENERAL] Reinstall problem of PostgreSQL in Windows XP

2006-09-10 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: "maarten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" Sent: 10/09/06 12:34 Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Reinstall problem of PostgreSQL in Windows XP > PostgreSQL creates an Administrator user you can only get rid of by > booting XP in "sans echec mode", o

Re: [GENERAL] Reinstall problem of PostgreSQL in Windows XP

2006-09-10 Thread Bill Bartlett
Assuming you are logged on to the XP workstation with an administrator-level account, you should also be able to do net user postgres /delete from the XP command line to delete the postgres user account that was created by the old installation. - Bill > -Original Message- > From: [

Re: [GENERAL] Database design and triggers...

2006-09-10 Thread romantercero
Hi Brandon, Thank you for your response. Yes, I see what you mean when you say that I can list Qty in signed integers and use a view. Good point. But I'm not sure as to using a view vs using a permanent table updated by triggers. It seems we are dealing with the clasic tradeoff between speed & s

[GENERAL] Reinstall problem of PostgreSQL in Windows XP

2006-09-10 Thread askoh
I installed postgresql-8.1.4-1 once and then uninstalled it. I also cleanup the directory C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL I tried to reinstall it, but cannot get past the account creation part. The installer says that the username and/or password are bad. I have to quit installation. How can I get Post

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-09-10 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-09-07 17:26:15, schrieb Csaba Nagy: > > Or what about automatically unsubscribing at that point? (In spite > > of other ways it's awful, mailman does that rather well.) > > ... and voila, you (and now myself) could have been unsubscribed > yourself on this mail... it's not that hard to ha

[GENERAL] Rules / Triggers and Return Row Count

2006-09-10 Thread mj
I am attempting to accomplish a soft delete with a system using PostgreSQL, Hibernate, and EJB3(JBoss). I have set up tables with a column to indicate deleted state. What is the best way to accomplish this? I have looked into triggers and rules but end up with the same problem. How can I return to

[GENERAL] pg_dump and cluster

2006-09-10 Thread Angva
Hello, I have a question regarding pg_dump and table clustering. Each night a job runs that basically does the following: 1) load large amounts of data from flat files into a schema 2) cluster the data 3) pg_dump that schema 4) copy the resulting dmp to several destination databases 5) pg_restore

Re: [GENERAL] execute in pl/pgsql

2006-09-10 Thread Tom Lane
Dino Vliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my pl/pgsql procedure I have the following line: > execute 'copy cancella to ' || location || ' with > delimiter as \',\''; quote_literal(location) would work much better and more safely. regards, tom lane -

Re: [JDBC] [GENERAL] Idle in transaction state.

2006-09-10 Thread Dave Cramer
On 10-Sep-06, at 12:12 AM, Jack Orenstein wrote: Tom Lane wrote: "Peter L. Berghold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What I'm seeing is the first time my web application is being run there is a bunch of processes running around that look like: "postgres: peter peter_trialdb 127.0.0.1(46222) idl

[GENERAL] execute in pl/pgsql

2006-09-10 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi, In my pl/pgsql procedure I have the following line: execute 'copy cancella to ' || location || ' with delimiter as \',\''; Location is a string that gives the absolute pathname. It's obvious what I'm aiming for, but this still gives an error because of the two '' I'm missing around the loca

Re: [GENERAL] Reinstall problem of PostgreSQL in Windows XP

2006-09-10 Thread maarten
PostgreSQL creates an Administrator user you can only get rid of by booting XP in "sans echec mode", or whatever this is called in your language. You otherwise won't be able to see this user. You will also most likely need some register cleaning tools to get rid of it completely and or change

Re: [GENERAL] trigger speed

2006-09-10 Thread Sim Zacks
A statement level trigger is basically a notification that the table has been touched. You do not have access to the new or old tables. You can also write a DO ALSO rule on the table, which will accomplish what you want. Joseph Shraibman wrote: I have a trigger that updates a count table, based

Re: [GENERAL] Is this logical?

2006-09-10 Thread Sim Zacks
If there is no default statement, then the default (by default) is null. What you are suggesting is that every field that is not null should require a default value. Behrang Saeedzadeh wrote: Stephan, But "not null" is in contradiction with "default null" so the create statement should not pr