Re: [GENERAL] How to know the password for the user 'postgres'

2008-10-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Shashank Sahni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Tony Caduto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edit the pg_hba.conf file and add a entry for the PC you are doing your admin from and set it to Trust. When set to trust you won't need a

Re: [GENERAL] Replication with slony-I

2008-10-28 Thread Ivano Luberti
Can you please publicly share a link to this document ? Abdul Rahman ha scritto: Thanks a lot Ray! I have found the document and going to follow this. If I face any difficulty then will prompt to archive. Regards, Abdul. --- On *Mon, 10/27/08, Raymond O'Donnell /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/*

Re: [GENERAL] How to know the password for the user 'postgres'

2008-10-28 Thread Tony Caduto
Shashank Sahni wrote: when i posted the question on dspace mailing list..one of the guy replied me with this solution.. createuser -h localhost -U postgres -d -A -P dspace but he said that to execute the above command i must know the password for the user postgres.. Edit the pg_hba.conf

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.3.3 chooses wrong query plan when LIMIT 1 added?

2008-10-28 Thread Gregory Stark
This looks like another form of the cross-column dependency problem. Postgres is assuming that the revisions for all files will be evenly spread throughout the date range and apparently there's a larger variety of dates than files so it expects to find the last revision for that file fairly

Re: [GENERAL] How to know the password for the user 'postgres'

2008-10-28 Thread Thomas
An easy trick I have found to set postgres password: $ sudo passwd postgres, and now you can type a new password. So now you can switch user with: $ su postgres, and then connect to the DB with psql. Beware of pg_hba.conf, it is a bit tricky to understand how the mechanism of authentification

[GENERAL] Archiving WAL for 7.4.21

2008-10-28 Thread Mohd Alkhaldi
Dear All, I've postgres 7.4.21 , is there is any way to archive WAL , I've tried to run =# select pg_switch_xlog(); ERROR: function pg_switch_xlog() does not exist HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You may need to add explicit type casts. * What I know 7.4 is

Re: [GENERAL] Replication with slony-I

2008-10-28 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 28/10/2008 07:52, Ivano Luberti wrote: Can you please publicly share a link to this document ? Surely - the docs are here: http://www.slony.info/documentation/ and the one you want ought to be listed in the table of contents. Ray.

[GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Kamau
Hi all, I am trying to copy data (results of a SELECT * FROM abc WHERE ...) to a remote PC (on my network). If I execute the COPY abc2 FROM abc.txt CSV WITH HEADER on psql connected to the remote PC, PostgreSQL will expect the file to be resident on the (remote) server's file system (or

[GENERAL] [Help] Config Failure on Mac OSX: psqlodbc-08.03.0300

2008-10-28 Thread Brent Austin
Trying to install psqlodbc-08.03.0300 on Mac gets me this while I configure: client-6X-XXX-17-X14:~ brent1a$ cd /psqlodbc-08.03.0300 client-6X-XXX-17-X14:psqlodbc-08.03.0300 brent1a$ sudo ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment

Re: [GENERAL] Execute Shell script after insert

2008-10-28 Thread Sam Mason
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 04:16:16PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Sam Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when something goes wrong (as code inevitably does) the database will continue doing things automatically for you (like touching the filesystem) when you're fighting against it trying to fix

Re: [GENERAL] Archiving WAL for 7.4.21

2008-10-28 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 02:25:05PM +0400, Mohd Alkhaldi wrote: I've postgres 7.4.21 , is there is any way to archive WAL , I've tried No. A -- Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 503 667 4564 x104 http://www.commandprompt.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] How to know the password for the user 'postgres'

2008-10-28 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:42:47AM +0100, Thomas wrote: An easy trick I have found to set postgres password: $ sudo passwd postgres, and now you can type a new password. So now you can switch user with: $ su postgres, and then connect to the DB with psql. Won't that allow logins to the

Re: [GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN

2008-10-28 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:25:00PM +0200, Allan Kamau wrote: The alternative I am attempting is to use COPY abc FROM STDIN WITH HEADER. I pipe the contents of the CSV file on my PC to the psql command (that connects to the remote PC) while issuing this copy command. This does seems not to

Re: [GENERAL] How to know the password for the user 'postgres'

2008-10-28 Thread Thomas
Yes this allows to login remotely through ssh for instance. But it doesn't offer a bigger backdoor than having a weak password on a sudo account. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] [Help] Config Failure on Mac OSX: psqlodbc-08.03.0300

2008-10-28 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Brent Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to install psqlodbc-08.03.0300 on Mac gets me this while I configure: client-6X-XXX-17-X14:~ brent1a$ cd /psqlodbc-08.03.0300 client-6X-XXX-17-X14:psqlodbc-08.03.0300 brent1a$ sudo ./configure checking for a

Re: [GENERAL] How to know the password for the user 'postgres'

2008-10-28 Thread Tom Lane
Sam Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:42:47AM +0100, Thomas wrote: An easy trick I have found to set postgres password: $ sudo passwd postgres, and now you can type a new password. So now you can switch user with: $ su postgres, and then connect to the DB with psql.

Re: [GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Kamau
Sam, I have been unable to understand your shell script well enough to use it. Seems am slow this afternoon :-) On this list I saw a message detailing using copy as illustrated below (see code/)when I run this command I get the following output (see output/) output COPY abc FROM STDIN WITH

Re: [GENERAL] [Help] Config Failure on Mac OSX: psqlodbc-08.03.0300

2008-10-28 Thread Brent Austin
I've tried updating the path but it doesn't do anything. I'm not super savvy with unix bashhow might I run pg-config by hand? -thanks From: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brent Austin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent:

Re: [GENERAL] [Help] Config Failure on Mac OSX: psqlodbc-08.03.0300

2008-10-28 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
just type in 'pg_config' ,without quotes in terminal and see if it runs. if not, you gotta find it. For instance by using: find /usr -name pg_config than if it does come up with whereabouts of it - stick it into PG_CONFIG env variable: export PG_CONFIG=/path/path/pg_config and rerun configure in

Re: [GENERAL] How to know the password for the user 'postgres'

2008-10-28 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:43:08PM +0100, Thomas wrote: Yes this allows to login remotely through ssh for instance. But it doesn't offer a bigger backdoor than having a weak password on a sudo account. In my eyes, the you've just increased the attack surface available for getting the

Re: [GENERAL] [Help] Config Failure on Mac OSX: psqlodbc-08.03.0300

2008-10-28 Thread John DeSoi
On Oct 28, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Brent Austin wrote: configure: error: pg_config not found (set PG_CONFIG environment variable) How did you do your PostgreSQL install? In the normal install from source, pg_config is in the bin folder with the rest of the usual PostgreSQL executables.

Re: [GENERAL] How to know the password for the user 'postgres'

2008-10-28 Thread Tim Bruce - Postgres
On Tue, October 28, 2008 05:57, Tom Lane wrote: Sam Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:42:47AM +0100, Thomas wrote: An easy trick I have found to set postgres password: $ sudo passwd postgres, and now you can type a new password. So now you can switch user with: $ su

[GENERAL] getting our bearings on out of memory. failed on request of size...

2008-10-28 Thread Tom Darci
Hi All, Our PG server is serving up 50 databases or so (with identical schemas), and the largest one of those has started giving us out of memory. failed on request of size n errors in many places. This is a 9 GB database with 100+ tables, the largest of which have 4 million or so

Re: [GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN

2008-10-28 Thread Allan Kamau
Reid Thompson wrote: Allan Kamau wrote: Sam, I have been unable to understand your shell script well enough to use it. Seems am slow this afternoon :-) On this list I saw a message detailing using copy as illustrated below (see code/)when I run this command I get the following output (see

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres optimizer choosing wrong index

2008-10-28 Thread Jack Orenstein
Tom Lane wrote: Jack Orenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: EXPLAIN says that the correct index is being used -- it didn't used to. However, pg_stat* says otherwise. In my test, I have exactly one dh value. Running EXPLAIN with this value produces a plan using idx_dh (the correct index), but

Re: [GENERAL] getting our bearings on out of memory. failed on request of size...

2008-10-28 Thread Tom Lane
Tom Darci [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Our PG server is serving up 50 databases or so (with identical schemas), and the largest one of those has started giving us out of memory. failed on request of size n errors in many places. This is a 9 GB database with 100+ tables, the largest of

[GENERAL] regexp_replace - replace non-numbers

2008-10-28 Thread Vincas Dargis
Hello everyone, I have problem with regexp_replace ( PostgreSQL 8.3.1). Please try this crappy string replacement: select regexp_replace('[EMAIL PROTECTED]^*()[]-=', '[^0-9]*' ,'') ..and I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]^*()[]-= So only thirst assurance where removed, while documentation states that

Re: [GENERAL] regexp_replace - replace non-numbers

2008-10-28 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Vincas Dargis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I have problem with regexp_replace ( PostgreSQL 8.3.1). Please try this crappy string replacement: select regexp_replace('[EMAIL PROTECTED]^*()[]-=', '[^0-9]*' ,'') ..and I get: [EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN

2008-10-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Allan Kamau wrote: Sam, I have been unable to understand your shell script well enough to use it. Seems am slow this afternoon :-) On this list I saw a message detailing using copy as illustrated below (see code/)when I run this command I get the following output (see output/) output COPY

Re: [GENERAL] regexp_replace - replace non-numbers

2008-10-28 Thread Vincas Dargis
Merlin Moncure wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Vincas Dargis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I have problem with regexp_replace ( PostgreSQL 8.3.1). Please try this crappy string replacement: select regexp_replace('[EMAIL PROTECTED]^*()[]-=', '[^0-9]*' ,'') ..and I get:

Re: [GENERAL] nearest neighbor search from xyz coordinates

2008-10-28 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Andreas Jochem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a table containing x y z coordinates. But I have no geometry column? Is it possible to find the k nearest neighbors of any point. Is there something like a kd-tree Index in postgres??? cubes:

Re: [GENERAL] [Help] Config Failure on Mac OSX: psqlodbc-08.03.0300

2008-10-28 Thread Albe Laurenz
Brent Austin wrote: Trying to install psqlodbc-08.03.0300 on Mac gets me this while I configure: client-6X-XXX-17-X14:~ brent1a$ cd /psqlodbc-08.03.0300 client-6X-XXX-17-X14:psqlodbc-08.03.0300 brent1a$ sudo ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

Re: [GENERAL] Archiving WAL for 7.4.21

2008-10-28 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Mohd Alkhaldi escribió: Dear All, I've postgres 7.4.21 , is there is any way to archive WAL , No. And even if you were to copy WAL logs by hand, it wouldn't work to restore them. You need to upgrade at least past 8.0. -- Alvaro Herrera

Re: [GENERAL] How to know the password for the user 'postgres'

2008-10-28 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 08:57:30AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Sam Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:42:47AM +0100, Thomas wrote: An easy trick I have found to set postgres password: $ sudo passwd postgres, and now you can type a new password. So now you can switch

Re: [GENERAL] getting our bearings on out of memory. failed on request of size...

2008-10-28 Thread Tom Darci
Thanks Tom, The n has always been small, like 20, or 4 or 32 (these numbers are from memory, not written down), but the one we ran into today was large: 67108864. I will head to the EXPLAIN, as well as to getting the memory dump from the log. Regards, -Tom

Re: [GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN

2008-10-28 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 03:11:05PM +0200, Allan Kamau wrote: Sam, I have been unable to understand your shell script well enough to use it. Seems am slow this afternoon :-) Don't worry, I've just spent an hour going through three computers trying to figure out why they didn't work. In the end

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL talk at CASCON

2008-10-28 Thread Chris Browne
https://www-927.ibm.com/ibm/cas/cascon/papers/papers.shtml#1 Tuesday, October 28 paper presentations Session 1: Databases DBMS Workload Control Using Throttling: Experimental Insights Best Paper Wendy Powley and Pat Martin, Queen's University; Paul Bird, IBM Toronto Lab Today's Database

Re: [GENERAL] Piping CSV data to psql when executing COPY .. FROM STDIN

2008-10-28 Thread Reid Thompson
Allan Kamau wrote: Reid Thompson wrote: Allan Kamau wrote: Sam, I have been unable to understand your shell script well enough to use it. Seems am slow this afternoon :-) On this list I saw a message detailing using copy as illustrated below (see code/)when I run this command I get the

[GENERAL] Quiet CONTEXT?

2008-10-28 Thread Mike Toews
Hi all, I'm in the process of debugging some PL/pgSQL functions. I have function A which calls function B (e.g. on Line 22). The debugging info I'm interested in is in function B, but I call function A (since there are other C, D, F functions called from A). However, what I see is really

Re: [GENERAL] Quiet CONTEXT?

2008-10-28 Thread Tom Lane
Mike Toews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My question is if there is any way to quiet the context messages (i.e., reduce the verbosity)? Could this be done by setting a parameter? In psql, \set VERBOSITY terse might approximate what you want. regards, tom lane -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] psql screen size

2008-10-28 Thread wstrzalka
On 27 Paź, 13:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam Mason) wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 01:59:42AM -0700, wstrzalka wrote: I'm using psql mainly in putty window. it's pretty much always just worked with me.  I'm using a very old version of putty, but it all hangs together as well as anything else

Re: [GENERAL] Quiet CONTEXT?

2008-10-28 Thread Mike Toews
Tom Lane wrote: In psql, \set VERBOSITY terse might approximate what you want. This works perfectly in psql (exactly what I wanted). However, I'm most comfortable using PgAdminIII, and I've tried adding SET VERBOSITY TO terse; to either the first command or within the PL/pgSQL function

Re: [GENERAL] Quiet CONTEXT?

2008-10-28 Thread Tom Lane
Mike Toews [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: In psql, \set VERBOSITY terse might approximate what you want. Is the feature described above unique only to psql? In that form it's psql-specific. I dunno whether pgAdmin has something comparable ... you might try asking on their mailing

Re: [GENERAL] Quiet CONTEXT?

2008-10-28 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Mike Toews wrote: This works perfectly in psql (exactly what I wanted). However, I'm most comfortable using PgAdminIII, and I've tried adding SET VERBOSITY TO terse; to either the first command or within the PL/pgSQL function and get the same error: unrecognized configuration

[GENERAL] Username and Password authentication using pqxx library.

2008-10-28 Thread aravind chandu
Hello, I am using pqxx API for postgresql.The following is the part of my code.The problem is in the query I am selecting the number of rows from the table since there is only one user name and password row it should return 1 and if there is no match then it should return 0.But

[GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-28 Thread Tom Allison
Relatively simple question that I hope doesn't start too much Flame. I have recently had the opportunity to reformat my macbook hard drive, many thanks to suggestions from the actual Apple support team. That's not why I'm writing to the postgres group... But it's related. I have a fresh

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-28 Thread Steve Atkins
On Oct 28, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Tom Allison wrote: Relatively simple question that I hope doesn't start too much Flame. I have recently had the opportunity to reformat my macbook hard drive, many thanks to suggestions from the actual Apple support team. That's not why I'm writing to the

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-28 Thread Niklas Johansson
On 28 okt 2008, at 23.41, Tom Allison wrote: I can get postgresql installed in three flavors: EnterpriseDB has a dmg package for Mac. macports has their own package. fink also has their own package. You also have the fourth, most delicious flavor: build it yourself; PostgreSQL compiles

[GENERAL] UUID-OSSP Contrib Module Compilation Issue

2008-10-28 Thread Bruce McAlister
Hi All, I am trying to build the uuid-ossp contrib module for PostgreSQL 8.3.4. I am building on Solaris x86 with Sun Studio 12. I built the ossp-uuid version 1.6.2 libraries and installed them, however, whenever I attempt to build the contrib module I always end up with the following error:

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-28 Thread Christophe
On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Steve Atkins wrote: Installing from source means I can avoid the fragility of macports or fink, and know that I've built it in much the same way as the postgresql or solaris installation I'd be using for production. +1 It means I can easily pick the contrib

Re: [GENERAL] Username and Password authentication using pqxx library.

2008-10-28 Thread Klint Gore
aravind chandu wrote: I am using pqxx API for postgresql.The following is the part of my code.The problem is in the query I am selecting the number of rows from the table since there is only one user name and password row it should return 1 and if there is no match then it should

Re: [GENERAL] UUID-OSSP Contrib Module Compilation Issue

2008-10-28 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce McAlister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to build the uuid-ossp contrib module for PostgreSQL 8.3.4. I am building on Solaris x86 with Sun Studio 12. I built the ossp-uuid version 1.6.2 libraries and installed them, however, whenever I attempt to build the contrib module I always

Re: [GENERAL] UUID-OSSP Contrib Module Compilation Issue

2008-10-28 Thread Bruce McAlister
Um ... did you run PG's configure script with --with-ossp-uuid? It looks like either you didn't do that, or configure doesn't know to look in the place where you put the ossp-uuid header files. Doh, I missed that, however, I have now included that option but it still does not find the

Re: [GENERAL] UUID-OSSP Contrib Module Compilation Issue

2008-10-28 Thread Hiroshi Saito
Hi. Um, you are reconfigure of postgresql then. It is necessary to specify with-ossp-uuid. Regards, Hiroshi Saito - Original Message - From: Bruce McAlister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pgsql pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 8:01 AM Subject: [GENERAL]

Re: [GENERAL] UUID-OSSP Contrib Module Compilation Issue

2008-10-28 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce McAlister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I run configure with the above options, I end up with the following configure error: checking for uuid_export in -lossp-uuid... no checking for uuid_export in -luuid... no configure: error: library 'ossp-uuid' or 'uuid' is required for OSSP-UUID

Re: [GENERAL] UUID-OSSP Contrib Module Compilation Issue

2008-10-28 Thread Hiroshi Saito
Do I need to use a specific version of the ossp-uuid libraries for this module? The 1.6.2 stable version which you use is right. Regards, Hiroshi Saito -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] UUID-OSSP Contrib Module Compilation Issue

2008-10-28 Thread Bruce McAlister
Huh. Nothing obvious in your info about why it wouldn't work. I think you'll need to dig through the config.log output to see why these link tests are failing. (They'll be a few hundred lines above the end of the log, because the last part of the log is always a dump of configure's

Re: [GENERAL] UUID-OSSP Contrib Module Compilation Issue

2008-10-28 Thread Bruce McAlister
The 1.6.2 stable version which you use is right. Thanks, we managed to get it working now. Thanks for the pointers. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] UUID-OSSP Contrib Module Compilation Issue

2008-10-28 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce McAlister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In addition to the missing configure option, it turned out to be missing LDFLAGS parameters, I just added -L/usr/lib to LDFLAGS and it all built successfully now. Bizarre ... I've never heard of a Unix system that didn't consider that a default place

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-28 Thread Tom Allison
Niklas Johansson wrote: On 28 okt 2008, at 23.41, Tom Allison wrote: I was using macports but got into a cluster-F on versions and multiple installs. After a spell I had all four versions 8.0 - 8.3 installed in order to use postgres, ruby, perl, and rails together. Do you mean that

[GENERAL] Decreasing WAL size effects

2008-10-28 Thread Jason Long
I am planning on setting up PITR for my application. It does not see much traffic and it looks like the 16 MB log files switch about every 4 hours or so during business hours. I am also about to roll out functionality to store documents in a bytea column. This should make the logs roll

[GENERAL] Problem with sql

2008-10-28 Thread x asasaxax
Hi everyone, I have two tables: table_1: product_code, atualization_date table_2: id, date, value I need to get the value of table 2 that has the greatest date that is minor that atualization_date. The select should return something like that: unique product_code´s, with their

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-28 Thread David Wilson
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Christophe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 28, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Steve Atkins wrote: Installing from source means I can avoid the fragility of macports or fink, and know that I've built it in much the same way as the postgresql or solaris installation I'd be

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with sql

2008-10-28 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:36:12PM -0300, x asasaxax wrote: table_1: product_code, atualization_date table_2: id, date, value I need to get the value of table 2 that has the greatest date that is minor that atualization_date. The select should return something like that: unique