Re: [GENERAL] Problem with data corruption and psql memory usage

2009-09-26 Thread Gerhard Wiesinger
Hello Tom, Late answer, but answer :-) : Finally, it was a very strange hardware problem, where a very small part of RAM was defect but kernel never crashed. I had also a very strange behavior when verifying rpm packages with rpm -V. First I had the harddisk under suspicion. But then I flushe

Re: [GENERAL] Sum of multiplied deltas

2009-09-26 Thread Gerhard Wiesinger
Hello, Finally I used a function below which works well. Only one problem is left: It polutes the buffer cache because of the cursor. Any idea to get rid of this behavior? BTW: WINDOWING FUNCTION of 8.4 should help but noone could provide an examples how this could work. Any further comments

Re: [GENERAL] Idle processes chewing up CPU?

2009-09-26 Thread Tom Lane
"Brendan Hill" writes: > Makes sense to me. Seems to be happening rarely now. > I'm not all that familiar with the open source process, is this likely to be > included in the next release version? Can you confirm that that change actually fixes the problem you're seeing? I'm happy to apply it i

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] libpq port number handling

2009-09-26 Thread Tom Lane
Sam Mason writes: > Hum, why is PG doing an (unchecked) atoi on the user specified port > rather than leaving it up to getaddrinfo to resolve the port? It would > seem to require changing UNIXSOCK_PATH to accept a string as the "port > number", which is probably a bit much of a change. > The inc

Re: [GENERAL] psql: FATAL: role "postgres" does not exist

2009-09-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Martin Gainty wrote: > i prefer cygwin as all the unix commands are available but mkuser and > groupadd arent up yet..ugh You might be happier with VMs running BSD or some linux flavor. If you have enough memory and 64 bit windows it should run well enough. Being

Re: [GENERAL] psql: FATAL: role "postgres" does not exist

2009-09-26 Thread John R Pierce
Martin Gainty wrote: whats *supposed to* happen is RUNAS will run any command (the question is are we working with Windows Native Binaries or cygwin?) with regards to cygwin i can build postmaster.exe postgres.exe initdb.exe, libpgport_srv.dll and all the binaries using gcc and ld cygwin co

Re: [GENERAL] psql: FATAL: role "postgres" does not exist

2009-09-26 Thread Martin Gainty
i prefer cygwin as all the unix commands are available but mkuser and groupadd arent up yet..ugh i have a bunch of apps already running..webapp servers..tomcat..glassfish..weblogic and 2 other databases running and because I need god access (I cant run any of these as postgres user) here is t

Re: [GENERAL] psql: FATAL: role "postgres" does not exist

2009-09-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Martin Gainty wrote: > partial victory but > im baffled i started all commands with RUNAS /user:postgres > cd /postgres/pgctl/bin > RUNAS /user:postgres "initdb.exe -D /data" > RUNAS /user:postgres ""pg_ctl.exe" -D "/data" -l logfile start" > RUNAS /user:postgres "

Re: [GENERAL] psql: FATAL: role "postgres" does not exist

2009-09-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
So, did you delete the postgres user? Go here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/app-postgres.html and look for single user mode. It's likely what you need. Not surprised you can't get in with psql, you seem to not have a super user account (or possibly any account) 2009/9/26 Martin Gai

Re: [GENERAL] psql: FATAL: role "postgres" does not exist

2009-09-26 Thread Martin Gainty
cant get in at all with psql netstat shows the listener is up on 5432 trying with pgAdmin3 Martin Gainty __ Verzicht und Vertraulichkeitanmerkung/Note de déni et de confidentialité Diese Nachricht ist vertraulich. Sollten Sie nicht der vorgesehene E

Re: [GENERAL] psql: FATAL: role "postgres" does not exist

2009-09-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
So, did you delete the postgres user? What happens if you bring up a backend in single user mode? Can you see the users then with \du? 2009/9/26 Martin Gainty : > postgres > ? > Martin Gainty > __ > Verzicht und Vertraulichkeitanmerkung/Note de déni et

Re: [GENERAL] psql: FATAL: role "postgres" does not exist

2009-09-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
2009/9/26 Martin Gainty : > All- > > when starting postgres what does this error mean exactly? > psql: FATAL:  role "postgres" does not exist > > what is the exact solution for psql: FATAL:  role "postgres" does not exist > error? That's not an error starting postgresql, it's an error starting psq

[GENERAL] psql: FATAL: role "postgres" does not exist

2009-09-26 Thread Martin Gainty
All- when starting postgres what does this error mean exactly? psql: FATAL: role "postgres" does not exist what is the exact solution for psql: FATAL: role "postgres" does not exist error? thank you Martin Gainty __ Verzicht und Vertraulichkeitan

Re: [GENERAL] Column names in rowsets returned from function

2009-09-26 Thread Krzysztof Barlik
> Just to make things clear, is this the same question and situation that > Jerzy Bialas brought up in another post? > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2009-09/msg00922.php Yes, I didn't know he posted it earlier. Sorry for the confusion and thanks for response. Regards, Krzysztof

Re: [GENERAL] stored procedure: RETURNS record

2009-09-26 Thread Rob Marjot
Thank you for your response; I understand the information provided was somewhat limited; I am happy to provide a bit more though: I notice you guys have quite experience modeling data... What I am trying to do is: building views on a base table, extended by one or more columns, extracted (hence the

Re: [GENERAL] pg_buffercache - A lot of "unnamed" relfilenodes?

2009-09-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: > On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Gerhard Wiesinger writes: >>> >>> Research on the pg_bufferache showed that a lot of pages don't have any >>> assigned relfilenodesin pg_class, even when they are dirty (in this case >>> inserts

Re: [GENERAL] stored procedure: RETURNS record

2009-09-26 Thread InterRob
Thank you for your response; I understand the information provided was somewhat limited; I am happy to provide a bit more though: I notice you guys have quite experience modeling data... What I am trying to do is: building views on a base table, extended by one or more columns, extracted (hence the

Re: [GENERAL] pg_buffercache - A lot of "unnamed" relfilenodes?

2009-09-26 Thread Greg Smith
What I ended up doing to work around not seeing anything besides your active database for my own tests was write a simple shell script that connected to all of the database in succession, saving everything in the catalog that pg_buffercache needs to join against to a table. Then I joined again

Re: [GENERAL] Column names in rowsets returned from function

2009-09-26 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Saturday 26 September 2009 12:49:03 pm Krzysztof Barlik wrote: > Hi Tom, > > > If that's not what you are talking about, you need to be more > > specific about what you are talking about. > > you are right, I was not specific enough. > > I meant a situation where returned rowset > may have diffe

Re: [GENERAL]

2009-09-26 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Saturday 26 September 2009 1:10:20 pm Pavel Stehule wrote: > Hello > > 2009/9/26 Adrian Klaver : > > On Friday 25 September 2009 9:52:09 am Pavel Stehule wrote: > >> Hello > >> > >> this isn't possible now. All what you want are limited by SELECT > >> statement in PostgreSQL. Simply PL knows onl

Re: [GENERAL] generic modelling of data models; enforcing constraints dynamically...

2009-09-26 Thread David Fetter
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 06:28:28PM +0200, InterRob wrote: > Dear List, > I am trying to implement the following: > > In a database I wish to implement a GENERIC datamodel, thus on a > meta-level. That's not a very bright idea, even though it seems so when you first think of it. Relational databa

Re: [GENERAL] Column names in rowsets returned from function

2009-09-26 Thread Pavel Stehule
2009/9/26 Krzysztof Barlik : > Hi Tom, > >> If that's not what you are talking about, you need to be more >> specific about what you are talking about. > > you are right, I was not specific enough. > > I meant a situation where returned rowset > may have different set of column names depending > on

Re: [GENERAL]

2009-09-26 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello 2009/9/26 Adrian Klaver : > On Friday 25 September 2009 9:52:09 am Pavel Stehule wrote: >> Hello >> >> this isn't possible now. All what you want are limited by SELECT >> statement in PostgreSQL. Simply PL knows only  SELECT statement and >> structure of result have to be strongly static - b

Re: [GENERAL] INSERT... RETURNING with a function

2009-09-26 Thread Iain Barnett
On 26 Sep 2009, at 19:57, Tom Lane wrote: I think you want INSERT ... RETURNING ... INTO some-plpgsql-variable; regards, tom lane On 26 Sep 2009, at 19:56, Adrian Klaver wrote: See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/plpgsql- statements.html#PLPGSQL-S

Re: [GENERAL]

2009-09-26 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Friday 25 September 2009 9:52:09 am Pavel Stehule wrote: > Hello > > this isn't possible now. All what you want are limited by SELECT > statement in PostgreSQL. Simply PL knows only SELECT statement and > structure of result have to be strongly static - because it is based > on static execution

Re: [GENERAL] Column names in rowsets returned from function

2009-09-26 Thread Krzysztof Barlik
Hi Tom, > If that's not what you are talking about, you need to be more > specific about what you are talking about. you are right, I was not specific enough. I meant a situation where returned rowset may have different set of column names depending on data in the database, not on explicit user

[GENERAL] Column names in rowsets returned from function

2009-09-26 Thread Krzysztof Barlik
Hi, I have a question - is it possible to rename columns in rowset returned from plpgsql function delared as 'returns table(...)' ? It seems it's not possible, even using 'as "column_name"' in internal query and column names are always the same as in 'table(...)' definition. If not, could it be

Re: [GENERAL] pg_buffercache - A lot of "unnamed" relfilenodes?

2009-09-26 Thread Gerhard Wiesinger
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Tom Lane wrote: Gerhard Wiesinger writes: Research on the pg_bufferache showed that a lot of pages don't have any assigned relfilenodesin pg_class, even when they are dirty (in this case inserts are done). There should never be any buffered pages for nonexistent tables.

[GENERAL] How should the first step of PostgreSQL implementation should be?

2009-09-26 Thread Ricky Tompu Breaky
Dear my friends... I've installed postgresql-server on OpenSuSE11.1 successfully but I can't connect to it from psql. I did these steps: " 1. I created a new opensuse11.1-linux login account + its password (username: ivia) with YaST2; 2. i...@sussy:~> su postgres -c psql postgres Passwort: Dies

Re: [GENERAL] PQgetvalue() question

2009-09-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Can anyone help me with this? > > In what encoding the function PQgetvalue() return? > ASCII? UTF8? It returns in whatever client encoding you are using: test=> SHOW client_encoding; client_encoding - SQL_ASCII (1 row) -- Bruce Momj

Re: [GENERAL] INSERT... RETURNING with a function

2009-09-26 Thread Tom Lane
Iain Barnett writes: > I've written a straightforward insert function, but using the > RETURNING keyword for the first time. If I try running the test case > I get the error: > ERROR: query has no destination for result data > CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function "nonauth_users_insert_new_udf" line 7

Re: [GENERAL] INSERT... RETURNING with a function

2009-09-26 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Saturday 26 September 2009 11:04:42 am Iain Barnett wrote: > I've written a straightforward insert function, but using the > RETURNING keyword for the first time. If I try running the test case > I get the error: > > ERROR: query has no destination for result data > CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function

Re: [GENERAL] pg_buffercache - A lot of "unnamed" relfilenodes?

2009-09-26 Thread Tom Lane
Gerhard Wiesinger writes: > Research on the pg_bufferache showed that a lot of pages don't have any > assigned relfilenodesin pg_class, even when they are dirty (in this case > inserts are done). There should never be any buffered pages for nonexistent tables. The method you are using will onl

Re: [GENERAL] Limiting a user to a single or subset of databases in a cluster?

2009-09-26 Thread Christophe Pettus
On Sep 26, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Christophe Pettus wrote: Of course, one can create a user that has no useful privileges on a particular database, but is there a way of limiting a user to being able to log into only a single one of, or a subset of, the databases in a cluster? Like, say GRAN

[GENERAL] Limiting a user to a single or subset of databases in a cluster?

2009-09-26 Thread Christophe Pettus
Of course, one can create a user that has no useful privileges on a particular database, but is there a way of limiting a user to being able to log into only a single one of, or a subset of, the databases in a cluster? -- -- Christophe Pettus x...@thebuild.com -- Sent via pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Solaris Postgres

2009-09-26 Thread Zdenek Kotala
John R Pierce píše v so 26. 09. 2009 v 10:57 -0700: > Zdenek Kotala wrote: > >> I asked because we're working on an inhouse app using postgres, the team > >> wants to use 8.4... I had previously packaged 8.3.7 in solaris package > >> format only to have it come out as a patch a month or two la

[GENERAL] INSERT... RETURNING with a function

2009-09-26 Thread Iain Barnett
I've written a straightforward insert function, but using the RETURNING keyword for the first time. If I try running the test case I get the error: ERROR: query has no destination for result data CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function "nonauth_users_insert_new_udf" line 7 at SQL statement I'm not s

Re: [GENERAL] Solaris Postgres

2009-09-26 Thread John R Pierce
Zdenek Kotala wrote: I asked because we're working on an inhouse app using postgres, the team wants to use 8.4... I had previously packaged 8.3.7 in solaris package format only to have it come out as a patch a month or two later, so I was hoping to save myself the redundant effort. You

[GENERAL] pg_buffercache - A lot of "unnamed" relfilenodes?

2009-09-26 Thread Gerhard Wiesinger
Hello, Research on the pg_bufferache showed that a lot of pages don't have any assigned relfilenodesin pg_class, even when they are dirty (in this case inserts are done). SELECT relname IS NULL AS relame_is_null, isdirty, COUNT(*) AS count FROM pg_buffercache b LEFT OUTER JOIN pg_clas

Re: [GENERAL] Solaris Postgres

2009-09-26 Thread Zdenek Kotala
John R Pierce píše v so 26. 09. 2009 v 09:44 -0700: > >> I'm curious if anyone has a clue how long before Sun releases PG 8.4.x > >> in Solaris 'patch' format ... > >> > > > > Currently S10 is shipped with three version (8.1, 8.2, 8.3) of > > PostgreSQL. There is no plan to integrate PG8.4

Re: [GENERAL] Solaris Postgres

2009-09-26 Thread Zdenek Kotala
John R Pierce píše v út 15. 09. 2009 v 19:53 -0700: > anyone on the PG team privvy to Sun Solaris patches for postgres? like > patch 138826-04 is Postgres 8.3.7 for Solaris10 Sparc... 138827-04 is > the same for Sol10 x86... What is wrong on this? It is standard Solaris way how to deliver

Re: [GENERAL] Solaris 9 upgrade to Solaris 10

2009-09-26 Thread Zdenek Kotala
VANOLE, MICHAEL J (ATTSI) píše v pá 11. 09. 2009 v 11:58 -0500: > Hi, > > We are running Pg 8.2.6 on sparc-sun-solaris2.9 compiled by gcc 3.4.6. > > We are planning a server software upgrade to Solaris 10 (binaries and > kernel, etc). > > Has anyone done this, and were there problems when tryi

Re: [GENERAL] Column names in rowsets returned from function

2009-09-26 Thread Tom Lane
Krzysztof Barlik writes: > I have a question - is it possible to rename > columns in rowset returned from plpgsql function > delared as 'returns table(...)' ? Sure ... regression=# create function foo() returns table (a int, b text) as regression-# $$ values (1,'one'), (2,'two') $$ language sql;

Re: [GENERAL] Solaris Postgres

2009-09-26 Thread John R Pierce
Zdenek Kotala wrote: John R Pierce píše v út 15. 09. 2009 v 19:53 -0700: anyone on the PG team privvy to Sun Solaris patches for postgres? like patch 138826-04 is Postgres 8.3.7 for Solaris10 Sparc... 138827-04 is the same for Sol10 x86... What is wrong on this? It is standard S

Re: [GENERAL] Newbie's question: How can I connect to my postgresql-server?

2009-09-26 Thread Ricky Tompu Breaky
Dear Sam. Thank you very much for your help. You've solved my several problem. But now I'm stucked on another problem which I know easy to anybody else but difficult as a postgres starter like me. I did these steps: " 1. I created a new opensuse11.1-linux login account + its password (username:

[GENERAL] Re: The password specified does not meet the local or domain policy during install.

2009-09-26 Thread Thomas Kellerer
David Chell wrote on 26.09.2009 06:31: This is a clean install, I’ve never installed postgresql on the is machine before, I have successfully installed it on another machine which is a Windows Server 2008 x64, but whenever I try to install it in the Windows XP (32) laptop I get the following

Re: [GENERAL] How should the first step of PostgreSQL implementation should be?

2009-09-26 Thread Bill Moran
Ricky Tompu Breaky wrote: > > Dear my friends... > > I've installed postgresql-server on OpenSuSE11.1 successfully but I > can't connect to it from psql. > > I did these steps: > " > 1. I created a new opensuse11.1-linux login account + its password > (username: ivia) with YaST2; > 2. i...@sussy