On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 03:00 +, Greg Stark wrote:
We already have autovacuum, which runs VACUUM and ANALYZE to a set
schedule. We could have kept that outside core, but didn't.
It's not too big a stretch to imagine we could redesign autovacuum
as a
GP scheduler, with autovacuum as
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 02:39 +, Greg Stark wrote:
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:06 PM, Simon Riggs si...@2ndquadrant.com wrote:
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 15:03 -0500, Chris Mayfield wrote:
1. Having to rewrite entire tables out to disk the first time I scan
them, for example:
CREATE
Craig, what kind of events are you thinking about? Triggers are
already pieces of code that run upon certain events, namely insert,
update or delete events. What others do you have in mind?
That's a good point, actually. I can't think of much you can't do with a
trigger (SECURITY
Gregory Stark wrote:
Steve Crawford scrawf...@pinpointresearch.com writes:
3. Date handling
Sometimes I've got data with invalid dates and it would be great if it
could replace all the bad ones with, say -00-00.
Oh dear $DEITY, no.
I think it would be best if we limited
Hello all,
i am new to postgresql, i want to create tables in this
i have followed
10 Steps to Installing PostgreSQL which is chapter two of installing
postgresql
i could follow upto step no 7
but i am getting errors from step 8
while following the steps i got message like
Hi.
I would like to create a new table where one of the field would be a
user password. Is there any data type for supporting this functionality?
Something like Password DataType. I've taken a look of the available
data types in PgAdmin Application and there is nothing similar to this.
what do you expect from such type? try to use a text field for plain
passwords or better store only hashvalues. see md5()
regards
thomas
Iñigo Barandiaran schrieb:
Hi.
I would like to create a new table where one of the field would be a
user password. Is there any data type for supporting
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 18:34, Andy Greensted ajg...@ohm.york.ac.uk wrote:
So, two questions:
- Is there anyway to run a newer version (8.3.5) of psql in some sort of
'backwards compatible' mode?
- Do you have any tips on making 7.1.3 compile on a newer system?
The last time I had to
I would like to create a new table where one of the field would be a
user password. Is there any data type for supporting this
functionality? Something like Password DataType. I've taken a look
of
the available data types in PgAdmin Application and there is nothing
similar to this.
Hello,
I am sending this email since I am hitting a snag with postgresql. I
am currently running the following version of postgresql:
Postgresql 8.3.5 on Windows XP Pro 32bits
I am getting a crash whenever I try to perform an update on some rows.
More precisely, I have recently imported a
Phoenix Kiula phoenix.ki...@gmail.com writes:
Thanks, Gregory and Simon, for the very useful posts.
I have increased the vacuum_cost_limit to 2000 for now, just to see if
that has an impact. Hopefully positive.
Note that that was offhand speculation. Conventional wisdom is that it should
Hi!
I wanna ask, that have the PGAdmin same possibility (like in SQLyog) to
copy records (from the Query, from the Table View) to clipboard in the
INSERT SQL format?
This can speed up the work, and I can insert the record to another table
that have similar (but a little different) format
On 04/02/2009 12:40, durumdara wrote:
When I want to manually assign this user to a table, I have problem in
the PGAdmin's Privilege tab.
The privileges GroupBox have a ComboBox, named Role. This ComboBox is
not containing the zx user in it's list.
By default, that combo box shows only group
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:40 PM, durumdara durumd...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi!
Please help me a little.
I used PGAdmin to administrate my databases.
I created a new user named zx.
CREATE ROLE zx LOGIN
ENCRYPTED PASSWORD '*'
NOSUPERUSER NOINHERIT NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE;
When I want to
Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us writes:
Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org writes:
Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
looks like it really has to be defined with char in double quotes. I
thought just char is enough...
They're different types.
You know, maybe we should stop holding our noses and
Hello,
1) I can perform a query on the rows that I am trying to update. I have
also successfully updated rows before in the same table and also after.
2) I have no reason to believe that the filesystem got corrupted. I have
started a scan before you asked the question wondering if it could
Andrew Gould wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Emilie Laffray
emilie.laff...@gmail.comwrote:
UPDATE gtable AS g
SET code = '00' -- 04
WHERE g.code = '04'
AND g.cc = 'TW';
What does '--' do?
It's a comment delimeter
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Thanks!
Ok. I've found http://256.com/sources/md5/ library. So the idea is to
define in the dataBase a Field of PlainText type. When I want to insert
a new user, I define a password, convert to MD5 hash with the library
and store it in the DataBase. Afterwards, any user check should get the
Emilie Laffray wrote:
3) I have an antivirus running, but again this antivirus has been
running for months and I have worked on postgresql also for months.
There has been an update yesterday to that antivirus, but I don't think
it had an impact.
I tried also in the meantime to run a vacuum,
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Merlin Moncure mmonc...@gmail.com writes:
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
You know, maybe we should stop holding our noses and do something about
this old gotcha. That type's not going away
Iñigo Barandiaran wrote:
Thanks!
Ok. I've found http://256.com/sources/md5/ library. So the idea is to
define in the dataBase a Field of PlainText type. When I want to
insert a new user, I define a password, convert to MD5 hash with the
library and store it in the DataBase. Afterwards, any
Hello,
well Ｉcouldn't turn off my antivirus since it is controlled by our IT
management team. However, since I rebuilt the indexes, the query has
been running fine. I don't understand what happpened. Before asking for
help, I made sure I could repeat the problem over several reboots.
Emilie
Emilie Laffray wrote:
Hello,
well Ｉcouldn't turn off my antivirus since it is controlled by our IT
management team. However, since I rebuilt the indexes, the query has
been running fine. I don't understand what happpened. Before asking for
help, I made sure I could repeat the problem over
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
You don't need to depend on an external library for this functionality;
it's built right into Postgres. Personally, in my own apps I write in
PHP, I use a combination of sha1 and md5 to hash user passwords,
without
On 04/02/2009 12:31, durumdara wrote:
I wanna ask, that have the PGAdmin same possibility (like in SQLyog) to
copy records (from the Query, from the Table View) to clipboard in the
INSERT SQL format?
This can speed up the work, and I can insert the record to another table
that have similar
Emilie Laffray wrote:
Hello,
I am sending this email since I am hitting a snag with postgresql. I
am currently running the following version of postgresql:
Postgresql 8.3.5 on Windows XP Pro 32bits
I am getting a crash whenever I try to perform an update on some rows.
More precisely, I
Thanks for your answers. Sorry for the questions but I'm new to Postgre :)
The problem with a plain text password is that a user can see it by
looking at the user table.
Both suggest to use MD5. How can i use it? Any link, example about this
would be very appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
It's kind of lame questions, possibly I'm missing something but my
doubts are as follow:
When planner/executor needs to sort rowsit sorts whole records (i
think so). So in the case when there are many wide columns it takes
quite a lot of memory and sort goes out to the disk because it excess
the
what about free disc space ?
aren't you running out of ?
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Hi.
From the manual I read that timestamps are stored as double but they
can also be stored as 8 byte integers. I understand the precision
problem with floats and the limited range of the integers and I feel
confident that I should not worry about the Year 294276 or Year
5874897 problems (highest
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 11:09:51AM +0100, Iñigo Barandiaran wrote:
I would like to create a new table where one of the field would be a
user password. Is there any data type for supporting this functionality?
Something like Password DataType. I've taken a look of the available
data types
On Feb 3, 2009, at 11:55 PM, Guy Rouillier wrote:
Craig Ringer wrote:
An internal job scheduler with the ability to fire jobs on certain
events as well as on a fixed schedule could be particularly handy
in conjunction with true stored procedures that could explicitly
manage transactions.
Iñigo Barandiaran wrote:
Hi.
I would like to create a new table where one of the field would be a
user password. Is there any data type for supporting this
functionality? Something like Password DataType. I've taken a look of
the available data types in PgAdmin Application and there is
In response to Iñigo Barandiaran :
Hi.
I would like to create a new table where one of the field would be a
user password. Is there any data type for supporting this functionality?
Something like Password DataType. I've taken a look of the available
data types in PgAdmin Application
Thanks!
This is great. I'm now implementing this functionality.
Thank you all.
You are great!
Best,
You should always salt your password
hashes.
Ie randomly generate a salt string,
the store this and the password hash:
insert
into auth (user_id, salt, password)
Thanks Raymond
That is something I wanted! It's Great if it is already integrated in
Postgre! Superb. This is much more easy.
Thank you All.
Best,
Iigo Barandiaran wrote:
Well, you can use the built-in md5 function for this purpose. For
instance, you could
Andrew Gould wrote:
What does '--' do?
-- Is an SQL comment
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You should always salt your password hashes.
Ie randomly generate a salt string, the store this and the password hash:
insert into auth (user_id, salt, password) values
(1,'blah',md5('blah' + 'test')) ;
then to check the password
select true from auth where user_id = 1 and
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.comwrote:
Hello,
I am sending this email since I am hitting a snag with postgresql. I
am currently running the following version of postgresql:
Postgresql 8.3.5 on Windows XP Pro 32bits
I am getting a crash whenever I try
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Kusuma Pabba kusu...@ncoretech.com wrote:
Hello all,
i am new to postgresql, i want to create tables in this
i have followed
10 Steps to Installing PostgreSQL which is chapter two of installing
postgresql
i could follow upto step no 7
but i am getting
Hi!
Please help me a little.
I used PGAdmin to administrate my databases.
I created a new user named zx.
CREATE ROLE zx LOGIN
ENCRYPTED PASSWORD '*'
NOSUPERUSER NOINHERIT NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE;
When I want to manually assign this user to a table, I have problem in
the PGAdmin's
Iñigo Barandiaran wrote:
Thanks for your answers. Sorry for the questions but I'm new to
Postgre :)
The problem with a plain text password is that a user can see it by
looking at the user table.
Both suggest to use MD5. How can i use it? Any link, example about
this would be very
Thanks Raymond
That is something I wanted! It's Great if it is already integrated in
Postgre! Superb. This is much more easy.
Thank you All.
Best,
Iigo Barandiaran wrote:
Thanks!
Ok. I've found http://256.com/sources/md5/
library. So the idea is to
define in the
Karsten Hilbert wrote:
Craig, what kind of events are you thinking about? Triggers are
already pieces of code that run upon certain events, namely insert,
update or delete events. What others do you have in mind?
That's a good point, actually. I can't think of much you can't do with a
On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
What about postgreSQL's inability to re-order columns?
Please don't point out that I shouldn't rely on things being in a
certain order when I SELECT * FROM table. I'm well aware of that, I
just generally have an aesthetic preference for a
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 12:37:31PM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote:
Karsten Hilbert wrote:
Craig, what kind of events are you thinking about? Triggers are
already pieces of code that run upon certain events, namely
insert, update or delete events. What others do you have in mind?
That's a
I dream about db wide checks on tables, without need to write
expensive triggers.
Basically, something that would run a select query after
insert/update/delete and based on result commit or rollback.
unless there's something like that already in SQL (I am not aware of
all features in sql2008
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 04:42:05PM +, chris.el...@shropshire.gov.uk wrote:
If you want to be really secure, use both a md5 and sha1 hash, snice it
has been proved you can generate hash collisions so you could use:
insert into auth (user_id, salt, password) values
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 14:09 +0900, Craig Ringer wrote:
Guy Rouillier wrote:
Craig Ringer wrote:
An internal job scheduler with the ability to fire jobs on certain
events as well as on a fixed schedule could be particularly handy in
conjunction with true stored procedures that could
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 13:16 +, Gregory Stark wrote:
I'm putting together a talk on PostgreSQL Pet Peeves for discussion at
FOSDEM 2009 this year. I have a pretty good idea what some them are of course,
but I would be interested to hear if people have any complaints from personal
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Christopher Browne cbbro...@gmail.com wrote:
- Stored procedures that can manage transactions (e.g. - contrast with
present stored functions that forcibly live *inside* a transaction
context; the point isn't functions vs procedures, but rather to have
something
I have a case sensitivity problem I dont understand.
On a Solaris 10 with pg 8.2.6 (Sun build) I get problems when I do a
CREATE DATABASE with a db name with case.
On a Kubuntu machine with pg 8.2.7 it is not a problem.
More specifically the problem arises after the CREATE DATABASE, it
occurs
I am trying to assess the db issues surrounding several constructs
allowed in PG 8.3, including ARRAY, BYTEA and large objects (LO).
We store a lot of data as encrypted XML structures (name-value pairs
mostly) that can be updated many times during its lifetime (most updates
occur over several
Hi all!!
I have a simple table with two column. The first column is a time type and
the other is a integer type. This table have datas from each minute of day.
Example : 15:00:00, 15:01:00, 15:02:00 etc...
I want a SELECT command wich return for me the datas from each five minutes
of day.
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[mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Anderson dos
Santos Donda
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 12:05 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] SELECT on a table with Time values
Hi all!!
I have a simple table with
Thomas Finneid wrote:
I have a case sensitivity problem I dont understand.
On a Solaris 10 with pg 8.2.6 (Sun build) I get problems when I do a
CREATE DATABASE with a db name with case.
On a Kubuntu machine with pg 8.2.7 it is not a problem.
More specifically the problem arises after
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 20:36:24 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote:
I dream about db wide checks on tables, without need to write
expensive triggers.
Basically, something that would run a select query after
insert/update/delete and based on result commit or rollback.
unless there's something
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 19:39:42 John DeSoi wrote:
Somewhat related, it would be nice if columns had a unique identifier
in the catalog rather than just a sequence number for the table. This
would make it possible to distinguish between altering a column versus
dropping/adding when
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 15:48:41 A B wrote:
From the manual I read that timestamps are stored as double but they
can also be stored as 8 byte integers.
The advantage of the integer storage is mainly that calculations and
comparisons have a predictable error and don't suffer from some of
Hi !
I saw previous postings about elapsed time between 2 timestamps, using SELECT
EXTRACT...
I have similar question, but it's not in a select statement, but between 2
variables in a function.
To keep it simple, I have 2 variables, let's say A and B, both TimeStamp. Now
I would like to know
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
You don't need to depend on an external library for this
functionality;
it's built right into Postgres. Personally, in my own apps I write in
PHP, I use a combination of sha1 and md5 to hash user passwords,
without
On 04/02/2009 21:59, Nico Callewaert wrote:
To keep it simple, I have 2 variables, let's say A and B, both
TimeStamp. Now I would like to know the absolute value of elapsed
seconds between the 2 timestamps. Has to be absolute value, because
can be positive or negative, depends if A B or A
Mark Roberts wrote:
- It'd be nice if the query planner was more stable - sometimes the
queries run fast, and then sometimes they randomly take 2 hours for a
delete that normally runs in a couple of minutes.
I was going to stay silent, because my pet peeves were already covered or had been
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 02:15 -0800, wstrzalka wrote:
Isn't it possible to sort only fields that order matters some row
identifier/position (don't really know what - oid/ctid are tight to
table but something temporary tight to 'resultset')? It would take
much less memory and could be processed
Hi all,
I have a few plpgsql functions to debug to see why they are slow.
They consist of a bunch of sql statements using new.* / old.* variables
(ie not using EXECUTE, the sql is being called directly).
Is there a way to capture the actual sql that's being executed with
variables
2009/2/4 Nico Callewaert callewaert.n...@telenet.be:
Hi !
I saw previous postings about elapsed time between 2 timestamps, using
SELECT EXTRACT...
I have similar question, but it's not in a select statement, but between 2
variables in a function.
To keep it simple, I have 2 variables,
Chris wrote:
Hi all,
I have a few plpgsql functions to debug to see why they are slow.
They consist of a bunch of sql statements using new.* / old.*
variables (ie not using EXECUTE, the sql is being called directly).
Is there a way to capture the actual sql that's being executed with
may this be a silly doubts but , i am new to postgres, please answer to
these::
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql test
test=#
sudo su postgres -c psql template1
template=#
what is the difference between the above two and,
why is the path different in both cases
which should i use now
how can i
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 15:35, Kusuma Pabba kusu...@ncoretech.com wrote:
may this be a silly doubts but , i am new to postgres, please answer to
these::
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql test
test=#
sudo su postgres -c psql template1
template=#
what is the difference between the above two and,
On Feb 4, 2009, at 5:23 AM, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Phoenix Kiula phoenix.ki...@gmail.com writes:
Index Scan using new_idx_testimonials_userid on testimonials
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