Re: [GENERAL] could not open process token: error code 5

2009-10-15 Thread Richard Huxton
el dorado wrote: > Hello. > I had such an error but rather long ago. Unfortunately I don't remember all > the details but you could try to do the followig: > - check if the directory 'data' has read/write rights for your OS account > (account under which you try to start postgres). > - check if y

Re: [GENERAL] could not open process token: error code 5

2009-10-15 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Andale wrote: > > Hi > > We have an Postgresql 8.2.5 installation on a Windows server 2003 that have > worked perfectly for our Mediawiki until we tried to update to 8.4. Before > the update we took a backup, stopped the service and took a copy of the > entire dat

[GENERAL] Too easy to log in as the "postgres" user?

2009-10-15 Thread Thom Brown
I've noticed that if I just log in to my server, I don't su to root, or become the postgres user, I can get straight into the database as the postgres user merely with "psql -U postgres -h localhost".  My user account isn't a member of the postgres group. It appears I've not applied my security se

Re: [GENERAL] how to Export ALL plpgsql functions/triggers to file

2009-10-15 Thread Albe Laurenz
Naoko Reeves wrote: > Could you tell me how to Export ALL plpgsql > functions/triggers to file? I'd do it as follows: - Perform a pg_dump of the database object definitions: pg_dump -F c -s -f database.dmp database - Create a listing, delete everything except triggers and functions: pg_rest

Re: [GENERAL] Too easy to log in as the "postgres" user?

2009-10-15 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to Thom Brown : > I've noticed that if I just log in to my server, I don't su to root, > or become the postgres user, I can get straight into the database as > the postgres user merely with "psql -U postgres -h localhost".  My > user account isn't a member of the postgres group. > > It

Re: [GENERAL] Too easy to log in as the "postgres" user?

2009-10-15 Thread Glyn Astill
> From: Thom Brown > Subject: [GENERAL] Too easy to log in as the "postgres" user? > To: "PGSQL Mailing List" > Date: Thursday, 15 October, 2009, 11:38 AM > I've noticed that if I just log in to > my server, I don't su to root, > or become the postgres user, I can get straight into the > database

Re: [GENERAL] Too easy to log in as the "postgres" user?

2009-10-15 Thread Thom Brown
2009/10/15 A. Kretschmer : >> >> The pg_hba.conf is probably relevant here, so this is the setup: >> >> # TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD >> >> # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only >> local   all         all                               trust >> # IPv4 lo

Re: [GENERAL] Too easy to log in as the "postgres" user?

2009-10-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Thom Brown (thombr...@gmail.com) wrote: > 2009/10/15 A. Kretschmer : > >> > >> The pg_hba.conf is probably relevant here, so this is the setup: > >> > >> # TYPE  DATABASE    USER        CIDR-ADDRESS          METHOD > >> > >> # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only > >> local   all  

Re: [GENERAL] Too easy to log in as the "postgres" user?

2009-10-15 Thread Thom Brown
2009/10/15 Stephen Frost : > * Thom Brown (thombr...@gmail.com) wrote: >> >> I've made that change, but now PostgreSQL won't start, and outputs the >> following error in the log: >> >> 2009-10-15 11:52:41 BST [18720]: [2-1] CONTEXT:  line 74 of >> configuration file "/var/lib/postgresql/8.4/data/pg

[GENERAL] Can't find documentation for ~=~ operator

2009-10-15 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi, I can't find the documentation of the ~=~ operator anywhere on the PostgreSQL homepage. I'm quite certain that I saw it there a while ago, though. FYI, I use ~=~ for equality checks, so I can use the same index for equality and regexp pattern matching on a varchar field. The index is built

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start the postgres service

2009-10-15 Thread Mitesh51
Let me clarify bit more so I can do thing in proper manner... I take base backup(full). at fixed interval I need to take incremental backup and for that... I use following commands. psql -U postgres -c "select pg_switch_xlog()" psql -U postgres -c "SELECT pg_stop_backup()" after that the WAL

Re: [GENERAL] SFPUG: Video from "Statistics and Postgres -- How the Planner Sees Your Data" Now on Vimeo

2009-10-15 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 15 Oct 2009, at 24:53, Christophe Pettus wrote: Hi, The video from "Statistics and Postgres — How the Planner Sees Your Data," the September 8, 2009 meeting of the SFPUG, is now available on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/7051082 I watched this with interest. There is reference to s

Re: [GENERAL] SFPUG: Video from "Statistics and Postgres -- How the Planner Sees Your Data" Now on Vimeo

2009-10-15 Thread Thom Brown
2009/10/15 Alban Hertroys : > On 15 Oct 2009, at 24:53, Christophe Pettus wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> The video from "Statistics and Postgres — How the Planner Sees Your Data," >> the September 8, 2009 meeting of the SFPUG, is now available on Vimeo: >> >>        http://vimeo.com/7051082 > > I watched th

Re: [GENERAL] Too easy to log in as the "postgres" user?

2009-10-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Thom Brown (thombr...@gmail.com) wrote: > Okay, I've just ended up commenting out the host lines and it's > effective enough as far as logging in is concerned. However, the > websites which use the database are no longer able to connect. I > should point out that they are connecting to pgbounce

Re: [GENERAL] Too easy to log in as the "postgres" user?

2009-10-15 Thread Andrew Bailey
Thom, You appear to be trusting all connections what I think you want is the following: local all all ident sameuser # IPv4 local connections: host all all 127.0.0.1/32 ident sameuser # IPv6 local connections: host all all ::1/128 ident sameuser Remember that you need to get postgres to reread t

Re: [GENERAL] Too easy to log in as the "postgres" user?

2009-10-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Andrew Bailey (hazloreali...@gmail.com) wrote: > You appear to be trusting all connections what I think you want is the > following: > > local all all ident sameuser > # IPv4 local connections: > host all all 127.0.0.1/32 ident sameuser > # IPv6 local connections: > host all all ::1/128 ident sa

Re: [GENERAL] Can't find documentation for ~=~ operator

2009-10-15 Thread Tom Lane
Viktor Rosenfeld writes: > I can't find the documentation of the ~=~ operator anywhere on the > PostgreSQL homepage. Which version's documentation are you reading? It's gone as of 8.4. > FYI, I use ~=~ for equality checks, so I can use the same index for > equality and regexp pattern matching o

Re: [GENERAL] SFPUG: Video from "Statistics and Postgres -- How the Planner Sees Your Data" Now on Vimeo

2009-10-15 Thread Nathan Boley
> > There is reference to slides with some > frequency though, are they available somewhere? > Ya. http://encodestatistics.org/publications/statistics_and_postgres.pdf Is there a better place for this? -Nathan -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make chang

Re: [GENERAL] SFPUG: Video from "Statistics and Postgres -- How the Planner Sees Your Data" Now on Vimeo

2009-10-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Nathan Boley escribió: > > > > There is reference to slides with some > > frequency though, are they available somewhere? > > > > Ya. > > http://encodestatistics.org/publications/statistics_and_postgres.pdf > > Is there a better place for this? I don't know how they do it but the pgcon 2009 pag

Re: [GENERAL] SFPUG: Video from "Statistics and Postgres -- How the Planner Sees Your Data" Now on Vimeo

2009-10-15 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera writes: > Nathan Boley escribió: >> http://encodestatistics.org/publications/statistics_and_postgres.pdf >> Is there a better place for this? > I don't know how they do it but the pgcon 2009 page has links to videos > of the presentations that have the slides changing in coordinati

Re: [GENERAL] SFPUG: Video from "Statistics and Postgres -- How the Planner Sees Your Data" Now on Vimeo

2009-10-15 Thread Christophe Pettus
On Oct 15, 2009, at 8:20 AM, Nathan Boley wrote: http://encodestatistics.org/publications/statistics_and_postgres.pdf Is there a better place for this? For now, I'll add it to the Vimeo page. -- -- Christophe Pettus x...@thebuild.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general

[GENERAL] timestamp without time zone and datetime

2009-10-15 Thread danclemson
Hi, I have a stored procedure in db that takes a 'timestamp without time zone' as its parameter. The application uses c# and npgsql to access database. When I call the stored procedure from c#, I got an exception says that the stored procedure with 'timestamp with time zone' is unknown. It seems

[GENERAL] Many instances of postgres.exe

2009-10-15 Thread Bob Pawley
Hi While looking at an error message for iexplore.exe, I noticed, on Task Manager, that there are 5 or more instances of postgres.exe running. Each instance is consuming between 7 to 10 megs of resources, for a total of almost 50 megs. Is this normal behavour? If so, could someone enlighten me

Re: [GENERAL] Many instances of postgres.exe

2009-10-15 Thread Brian Modra
2009/10/15 Bob Pawley : > Hi > > While looking at an error message for iexplore.exe, I noticed, on Task > Manager, that there are 5 or more instances of postgres.exe running. Each > instance is consuming between 7 to 10 megs of resources, for a total of > almost 50 megs. > > Is this normal behavour

Re: [GENERAL] Many instances of postgres.exe

2009-10-15 Thread John R Pierce
Bob Pawley wrote: Hi While looking at an error message for iexplore.exe, I noticed, on Task Manager, that there are 5 or more instances of postgres.exe running. Each instance is consuming between 7 to 10 megs of resources, for a total of almost 50 megs. Is this normal behavour? If so, co

Re: [GENERAL] Many instances of postgres.exe

2009-10-15 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
Bob, > > > While looking at an error message for iexplore.exe, I noticed, on Task > Manager, that there are 5 or more instances of postgres.exe running. Each > instance is consuming between 7 to 10 megs of resources, for a total of > almost 50 megs. > > Is this normal behavour? > > 5 instances is t

Re: [GENERAL] Many instances of postgres.exe

2009-10-15 Thread Scott Mead
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Brian Modra wrote: > 2009/10/15 Bob Pawley : > > Hi > > > > While looking at an error message for iexplore.exe, I noticed, on Task > > Manager, that there are 5 or more instances of postgres.exe running. Each > > instance is consuming between 7 to 10 megs of reso

[GENERAL] npgsql and postgres enum type

2009-10-15 Thread danclemson
Hi, As postgres now has enum type, does npgsql driver support the enum type? I use c# and npgsql as databse driver. One of the database stored procedure takes enum as its parameter. What will be the DbType for postgres enum type? Thanks /dan -- View this message in context: http://www.nabb

Re: [GENERAL] npgsql and postgres enum type

2009-10-15 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:31 PM, danclemson wrote: > > Hi, > > As postgres now has enum type, does npgsql driver support the enum type? > > I use c# and npgsql as databse driver.  One of the database stored procedure > takes enum as its parameter. > > What will be the DbType for postgres enum typ

Re: [GENERAL] npgsql and postgres enum type

2009-10-15 Thread William Temperley
2009/10/15 Merlin Moncure : > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:31 PM, danclemson wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> As postgres now has enum type, does npgsql driver support the enum type? >> >> I use c# and npgsql as databse driver.  One of the database stored procedure >> takes enum as its parameter. >> >> What w

Re: [GENERAL] npgsql and postgres enum type

2009-10-15 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:52 PM, William Temperley > I recently stopped using enums after reading this: > http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs/joshua_drake/2009/01/fk_check_enum_or_domain_that_is_the_question/ > Using a foreign key to a single column table is pretty much as fast as > an enum, is supp

Re: [GENERAL] npgsql and postgres enum type

2009-10-15 Thread danclemson
Thanks for the information. I did try the approach, but it failed due to any other issue with npgsql. The stored procedure returns a setof refcursor. If I use "select * from test('e1':testEnum)", the command.ExecuteReader does not return the datareader properly. The code errored out when I use t

Re: [GENERAL] npgsql and postgres enum type

2009-10-15 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:14 PM, danclemson wrote: > > Thanks for the information. > > I did try the approach, but it failed due to any other issue with npgsql. > > The stored procedure returns a setof refcursor. > If I use "select * from test('e1':testEnum)", the command.ExecuteReader does > not

[GENERAL] Craeteing sparse arrays

2009-10-15 Thread Peter Hunsberger
Is there any easy way to create sparse arrays with Postres? Specifically, when I construct, add or aggregate data to an array, I want to be able to specify the position within the array where the data is placed and have any intervening positions that have not yet been populated just marked as nulls

Re: [GENERAL] Craeteing sparse arrays

2009-10-15 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Hunsberger writes: > Is there any easy way to create sparse arrays with Postres? Have you tried it? regression=# create table foo (bar text[]); CREATE TABLE regression=# insert into foo (bar[3],bar[7]) values ( 'a', 'b'); INSERT 0 1 regression=# select * from foo; bar

Re: [GENERAL] Craeteing sparse arrays

2009-10-15 Thread Scott Bailey
Peter Hunsberger writes: Is there any easy way to create sparse arrays with Postres? Have you tried it? regression=# create table foo (bar text[]); CREATE TABLE regression=# insert into foo (bar[3],bar[7]) values ( 'a', 'b'); INSERT 0 1 regression=# select * from foo; bar

Re: [GENERAL] adding another node to our pitr config

2009-10-15 Thread Yaroslav Tykhiy
On 06/10/2009, at 11:51 PM, Geoffrey wrote: We are currently using WAL shipping to have a hot spare of our databases. We want to add another node to this configuration. The question is, what is the best way to go about this? Currently, our script checks to see if the WAL file already exis

[GENERAL] PGCluster vs CyberCluster

2009-10-15 Thread Yadira Lizama Mue
Hi. Can anyone tell me, which are the differences between PGCluster and CyberCluster? I need a multi-master, synchronous replication solution based on PostgreSQl and I have founded these tools. But I think they are almost ident and I'd like to see your opinions about... Regards, Y. --

Re: [GENERAL] could not open process token: error code 5

2009-10-15 Thread Andale
Hi all Thanks for all your responses. I have not yet been able to try your suggestions as I have access to the system only on tuesday and wednesday. I will come back and report how it goes. /Anders -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/could-not-open-process-token%3A-error-cod