Re: [GENERAL] Need to Reload a Dump File - Need to Delete the PGDATA directory Again?

2010-03-03 Thread John R Pierce
Wang, Mary Y wrote: Hi All, I'm in the processing of migrating to Postgres 8.3.8. I did : (1) initdb (2) psql -e template1 -f 21.bak &>/tmp/out21.bak Now, I've decided that I want to reload the same file again, do I just delete the PGDATA directory and then perform the same steps again? (1)

[GENERAL] Need to Reload a Dump File - Need to Delete the PGDATA directory Again?

2010-03-03 Thread Wang, Mary Y
Hi All, I'm in the processing of migrating to Postgres 8.3.8. I did : (1) initdb (2) psql -e template1 -f 21.bak &>/tmp/out21.bak Now, I've decided that I want to reload the same file again, do I just delete the PGDATA directory and then perform the same steps again? (1) initdb (2) psql -e tem

Re: [GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-03 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:54 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: >> >> Wow. If I even had the slightest regret about my move to abandon Windows >> years ago, this would have pretty much squashed it. Magnus et. al., I don't >> know how you do it. :) >> > > yeah, (l)unix systems/use

Re: [GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-03 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > >> It's way crazier than you'd ever expect. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit >> versions are called "odbcad32.exe" but are in different (but not >> distinctively named) locations. >> >

Re: [GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-03 Thread John R Pierce
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: Wow. If I even had the slightest regret about my move to abandon Windows years ago, this would have pretty much squashed it. Magnus et. al., I don't know how you do it. :) yeah, (l)unix systems/users/apps never get ./lib and ./lib64 mixed up, oh no. -- Sen

Re: [GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-03 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 > It's way crazier than you'd ever expect. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit > versions are called "odbcad32.exe" but are in different (but not > distinctively named) locations. > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942976/en-us Wow. If I even had the s

Re: [GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-03 Thread Craig Ringer
Argh - a follow-up re ODBC 32 and 64 bit-ness: http://blog.danovich.com.au/2010/02/02/odbc-settings-on-64-bit-servers/ It's way crazier than you'd ever expect. Both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions are called "odbcad32.exe" but are in different (but not distinctively named) locations. http://suppo

Re: [GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-03 Thread Craig Ringer
Michael Gould wrote: > Does anyone have any idea on what is going on here and how to fix the > problem? I've logged in as the domain adminstrator and the system > administrator for our domain and I've turned UAC off also, but as of yet > no luck. I'm wondering if you should post to the pgsql-odb

[GENERAL] Failed to run initdb: 128

2010-03-03 Thread Niranjan Maturi (nmaturi)
Hi I am trying to install Postgres 8.2 on a virtual machine that has Windown 2003 SP2. The installation fails with the error "Failed to run initdb: 128". I searched the archives and looks like it is a catch-all error. But is there anything specific that we can do to resolve this issue? I am log

[GENERAL] Failed to run initdb: 128

2010-03-03 Thread Niranjan Maturi (nmaturi)
Hi I am trying to install Postgres 8.2 on a virtual machine that has Windown 2003 SP2. The installation fails with the error "Failed to run initdb: 128". I searched the archives and looks like it is a catch-all error. But is there anything specific that we can do to resolve this issue? I am log

Re: [GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-03 Thread Michael Gould
Is there anyone out there using Windows 7 64 bit with Postgres 8.4.2 and the psqlodbc driver?  I've tried to install using the one that is available with the standard windows installer.  I've also tried to install with the one from EDB.   It appears that the installer finishes the install but when

[GENERAL] ArgoUML SQL code generator for PostgreSQL

2010-03-03 Thread John Gage
Is there an SQL "code" generator for ArgoUML for Postgres? I have not been able to find it, which does not mean it is not there. Thanking you, John

Re: [GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-03 Thread Justin Graf
On 3/3/2010 5:16 PM, Michael Gould wrote: > One thing I've noticed is that on my machines, when I install the odbc > driver I get no error messages but when I look in the ODBC administrator I > do not see any entry for PostGres in the drivers list. > > I do know that it somehow is working because t

Re: [GENERAL] The REAL cost of joins

2010-03-03 Thread Peter Hunsberger
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Marcin Krol wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I have inadvertently set off a furball on an unrelated ng on what is the > actual cost of SQL joins. But there's no reliable conclusion. I would like to > actually know that, that is, are JOINs truly expensive? > > As the

Re: [GENERAL] PQntuples returns an int.

2010-03-03 Thread Guillaume Yziquel
Greg Sabino Mullane a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I'm asking this because I'm wondering whether you could have more tuples in the result of a query than could be indexed by the 'int' type. May this happen? Yes, but it's a low concern as many other things would

Re: [GENERAL] Cacti + PostgreSQL Graphing

2010-03-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Found it ... spine (the new poller for cacti) doesnt' seem to report errors very well ... switched to cmd.php and it turns out that, low and behold, it can't find psql since /usr/local/bin isn't part of the path ... fixed that in check_postgres.pl and all works well now ... On Wed, 3 Mar 2

Re: [GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-03 Thread Michael Gould
One thing I've noticed is that on my machines, when I install the odbc driver I get no error messages but when I look in the ODBC administrator I do not see any entry for PostGres in the drivers list. I do know that it somehow is working because the DMC conversion tool only uses ODBC and builds it

[GENERAL] The REAL cost of joins

2010-03-03 Thread Marcin Krol
Hello everyone, I have inadvertently set off a furball on an unrelated ng on what is the actual cost of SQL joins. But there's no reliable conclusion. I would like to actually know that, that is, are JOINs truly expensive? As they say, one measurement is worth a thousand opinions, so I've don

Re: [GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-03 Thread Michael Gould
"Justin Graf" wrote: > On 3/3/2010 3:40 PM, Michael Gould wrote: >> On my machine the UUID that is returned is 16 bytes and I cannot make >> out any relevant numbers from the UUID key in the citystateinfo >> table. I've tried this in a Windows XP machine and a Windows 7 64 bit. >> >> Now here i

Re: [GENERAL] Cacti + PostgreSQL Graphing

2010-03-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Greg (or anyone out there) ... have you had any experience with using check_postgres.pl --action=dbstats with Cacti? I'm getting, in my cacti.log, a result of: SPINE: Poller[0] Host[124] DS[2619] SCRIPT: /usr/local/bin/check_postgres.pl --action=dbstats --host=192.0.2.23 --dbuser=monitor -

Re: [GENERAL] Auto VACUUM

2010-03-03 Thread Igor Neyman
What's the complete error message? Vacuum is using maintenance_work_mem. What is your setting maintenance_work_mem compared to your RAM size. Igor Neyman > -Original Message- > From: akp geek [mailto:akpg...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 1:10 PM > To: Joao Ferreira gmai

Re: [GENERAL] Larger volumes of chronologically ordered data and the planner

2010-03-03 Thread Greg Smith
John Moran wrote: Is postgreSQL intelligent enough to discern that since the most frequently accessed data is invariably recent data, that it should store only that in memory, and efficiently store less relevant, older data on disk When you ask for a database block from disk, it increments a us

Re: [GENERAL] Raid 10 settings for optimal postgres performance?

2010-03-03 Thread Greg Smith
Chris Barnes wrote: What is the preferred setup for postgres concerning cache settings on the controller and disks and the preferred block size allocated for the disks when postgres uses block size 8192? Controller settings Read-cache mode - Enabled Write-cache mode - Enabled (write-back) Wr

Re: [GENERAL] PQntuples returns an int.

2010-03-03 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 > I'm asking this because I'm wondering whether you could have more tuples > in the result of a query than could be indexed by the 'int' type. May > this happen? Yes, but it's a low concern as many other things would break before you got to

Re: [GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-03 Thread Justin Graf
On 3/3/2010 3:40 PM, Michael Gould wrote: > On my machine the UUID that is returned is 16 bytes and I cannot make > out any relevant numbers from the UUID key in the citystateinfo > table. I've tried this in a Windows XP machine and a Windows 7 64 bit. > > Now here is the weird thing. I did a c

[GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-03 Thread Michael Gould
I have several tables in a SQL Anywhere 10 database that I'm converting to PostgreSQL 8.4.2.  In ASA we did not use any GUID columns but we are in Postgres. I have one table that is citystateinfo and the primary key is a UUID and it is automatically generated using the contrib module oosp-uuid. 

Re: [GENERAL] PQntuples returns an int.

2010-03-03 Thread Steve Atkins
On Mar 3, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Guillaume Yziquel wrote: > Hello. > > I've been looking at the PQntuples function, in section 29.3.2. 'Retrieving > query result information' of > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/libpq-exec.html > > The declaration is: > >> int PQntuples(co

Re: [GENERAL] Larger volumes of chronologically ordered data and the planner

2010-03-03 Thread Tom Lane
John Moran writes: > What is PostgreSQL's likely behaviour when it encounters a large > volume of data that is chronologically ordered (there's a btree index > on a date column)? Is postgreSQL intelligent enough to discern that > since the most frequently accessed data is invariably recent data, >

Re: [GENERAL] stopping processes, preventing connections

2010-03-03 Thread Josh Kupershmidt
> > >> Second, and the more complicated one - what do I do about rogue queries >> that are running when my process starts? Today we had a query that ran since >> yesterday. I called pg_cancel_backend() on it several times and waited for >> almost two hours - to no avail. Eventually I had to ask our

[GENERAL] Larger volumes of chronologically ordered data and the planner

2010-03-03 Thread John Moran
Hello, What is PostgreSQL's likely behaviour when it encounters a large volume of data that is chronologically ordered (there's a btree index on a date column)? Is postgreSQL intelligent enough to discern that since the most frequently accessed data is invariably recent data, that it should store

[GENERAL] PQntuples returns an int.

2010-03-03 Thread Guillaume Yziquel
Hello. I've been looking at the PQntuples function, in section 29.3.2. 'Retrieving query result information' of http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/libpq-exec.html The declaration is: int PQntuples(const PGresult *res); I'm wondering: why the 'int'? why not a 'long int'

Re: [GENERAL] Auto VACUUM

2010-03-03 Thread akp geek
thank you . I changed the value to 1M and I started seeing the autovacuum being triggered. But I am getting the following message ERROR: canceling autovacuum task, is it because the table are getting updated and the vacuum process in place and vacuum happens at a later point of time Regards

Re: [GENERAL] Auto VACUUM

2010-03-03 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 12:46 -0500, akp geek wrote: > Hi All - > > I need some help from you. this question is in follow up > with my earlier questions. I turned the autovacuum and restarted the > db and the settings I have as follows. It seems the autovacuum process > has not been turne

Re: [GENERAL] Massive table bloat

2010-03-03 Thread Markus Wollny
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Thom Brown [mailto:thombr...@gmail.com] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 3. März 2010 16:56 > An: Markus Wollny > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Betreff: Re: [GENERAL] Massive table bloat > If you update rows, it actually creates a new version of it. > The ol

[GENERAL] Auto VACUUM

2010-03-03 Thread akp geek
Hi All - I need some help from you. this question is in follow up with my earlier questions. I turned the autovacuum and restarted the db and the settings I have as follows. It seems the autovacuum process has not been turned on. It's almost more than 3 hours I have restarted my DB with

Re: [GENERAL] How to grant a user read-only access to a database?

2010-03-03 Thread Kevin Kempter
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 08:19:46 am Tom Lane wrote: > Kevin Kempter writes: > > I believe all you have to do is this to create a read only user: > > create user ro_user with password 'passwd'; > > alter user ro_user set default_transaction_read_only = true; > > You do realize the user can just

Re: [GENERAL] Work Mem Allocation Questions

2010-03-03 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Brad Nicholson : > 1: Is the default work_mem pre-allocated to the Postgres processes - or > does it get allocated when needed? Say I have work_mem at 30MB - will > Postgres allocate that 30MB on connection, or only when it needed by a > query? It's allocated on demand and freed w

Re: [GENERAL] finding duplicate numbers in a select distinct statement

2010-03-03 Thread Terry
2010/3/3 Terry : > 2010/3/3 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz : >> select count(*) AS count, error, ev_text FROM clients_event_log GROUP BY >> error, ev_text; >> >> you can add 'HAVING count(*) > X'; , if you want to see only those with >> count above X, etc. >> >> >> -- >> GJ >> > > I was just about to reply to

[GENERAL] Work Mem Allocation Questions

2010-03-03 Thread Brad Nicholson
1: Is the default work_mem pre-allocated to the Postgres processes - or does it get allocated when needed? Say I have work_mem at 30MB - will Postgres allocate that 30MB on connection, or only when it needed by a query? 2: If work_mem is, say, 30MB, and my query needs 10MB - will Postgres alloca

[GENERAL] Raid 10 settings for optimal postgres performance?

2010-03-03 Thread Chris Barnes
I have just configured our disks to raid10 from raid5. The raid 10 is now 6 drives giving us 750G use by OS and postgres. What is the preferred setup for postgres concerning cache settings on the controller and disks and the preferred block size allocated for the disks when postgres uses bl

Re: [GENERAL] stopping processes, preventing connections

2010-03-03 Thread Herouth Maoz
On Mar 3, 2010, at 18:01 , Josh Kupershmidt wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Herouth Maoz wrote: > > First, the easy part - regarding allowing/disallowing queries. Is it possible > to GRANT or REVOKE access to tables based on the originating IP? > > I'd suggest separating out acces

Re: [GENERAL] stopping processes, preventing connections

2010-03-03 Thread Josh Kupershmidt
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Herouth Maoz wrote: > > > First, the easy part - regarding allowing/disallowing queries. Is it > possible to GRANT or REVOKE access to tables based on the originating IP? > I'd suggest separating out access to your tables by roles, and then restricting those roles

Re: [GENERAL] Massive table bloat

2010-03-03 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
do a vacuum analyze verbose on it, and see if it complains about FSM (free space map) setting. Which it probably will be.

Re: [GENERAL] Massive table bloat

2010-03-03 Thread Thom Brown
On 3 March 2010 15:33, Markus Wollny wrote: > Hi! > > I've set up some system to track slow page executions in one of our (as > yet not live) web apps. The tracking itself is handled completely within > the database using a function. Within a very short time (approx. 1 week) > and although we have

[GENERAL] Massive table bloat

2010-03-03 Thread Markus Wollny
Hi! I've set up some system to track slow page executions in one of our (as yet not live) web apps. The tracking itself is handled completely within the database using a function. Within a very short time (approx. 1 week) and although we haven't got that much traffic on our testpages, the table in

Re: [GENERAL] disable triggers isolated to transaction only?

2010-03-03 Thread Richard Huxton
On 03/03/10 15:46, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: ALTER TABLE will lock and block, but I'd be remiss if I didn't point out the use of session_replication_role as a much better solution to this particular class of problem. (Even if your version does not support it, Vick, it should be noted here for th

Re: [GENERAL] disable triggers isolated to transaction only?

2010-03-03 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 > My question is this: will ALTER TABLE ONLY $subtable DISABLE TRIGGER > ALL within a transaction only affect my transaction, or will it affect > anyone inserting into this subtable. If it blocks external inserts > that's ok since my transactio

Re: [GENERAL] bug in function arguments "recognition"

2010-03-03 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:22:31 -0500 Tom Lane wrote: > Ivan Sergio Borgonovo writes: > > I've a function defined as: > > create or replace function catalog_relateditems(__itemid bigint, > > families int[]... > > If you want any useful comments, you're going to have to show a > complete example,

Re: [GENERAL] bug in function arguments "recognition"

2010-03-03 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:05:29 +0100 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > I've a function defined as: > > create or replace function catalog_relateditems(__itemid bigint, > families int[]... Forget about it... there was a typo (missed out) that mixed in/out parameters. Sorry for the noise. -- Ivan

Re: [GENERAL] LDAP Login Problem

2010-03-03 Thread Tom Robst
Thanks Magnus. I should have mentioned I'm using OpenLDAP 2.2. I guess I'll just have to wait for Postgres 9 and workaround it in the meantime. It's not an insurmountable issue... Regards, Tom Robst -- On 03/03/10 15:18, Magnus Hagander wrote: 2010/3/3 Tom Robst: Hi, I am having a problem w

Re: [GENERAL] bug in function arguments "recognition"

2010-03-03 Thread Tom Lane
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo writes: > I've a function defined as: > create or replace function catalog_relateditems(__itemid bigint, > families int[]... If you want any useful comments, you're going to have to show a complete example, rather than selectively editing out what you think is irrelevant (

Re: [GENERAL] How to grant a user read-only access to a database?

2010-03-03 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin Kempter writes: > I believe all you have to do is this to create a read only user: > create user ro_user with password 'passwd'; > alter user ro_user set default_transaction_read_only = true; You do realize the user can just unset that again? regards, tom lane --

Re: [GENERAL] LDAP Login Problem

2010-03-03 Thread Magnus Hagander
2010/3/3 Tom Robst : > Hi, > > I am having a problem with authentication using LDAP on PostgreSQL 8.4.2. > > The problem seems to be limited to which attribute is specified in the > ldapprefix. If I specify "uid=" and then try login using the username > "trobst" (which is the value in the ldap db

Re: [GENERAL] How to grant a user read-only access to a database?

2010-03-03 Thread Thom Brown
On 3 March 2010 14:51, Kevin Kempter wrote: > On Wednesday 03 March 2010 07:29:21 am Merlin Moncure wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Thom Brown wrote: >> > As far as I'm aware.  It's only in the upcoming version 9.0 that you >> > can do things like: >> > >> > GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES I

[GENERAL] LDAP Login Problem

2010-03-03 Thread Tom Robst
Hi, I am having a problem with authentication using LDAP on PostgreSQL 8.4.2. The problem seems to be limited to which attribute is specified in the ldapprefix. If I specify "uid=" and then try login using the username "trobst" (which is the value in the ldap db) I get an error: hostall

[GENERAL] bug in function arguments "recognition"

2010-03-03 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
I've a function defined as: create or replace function catalog_relateditems(__itemid bigint, families int[]... I call it with select * from catalog_relateditems(6538::bigint, ARRAY[1,2,3,4,5]); and I get: HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You might need to add expl

Re: [GENERAL] finding duplicate numbers in a select distinct statement

2010-03-03 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
just try if it does what you want it to do ;)

Re: [GENERAL] finding duplicate numbers in a select distinct statement

2010-03-03 Thread Terry
2010/3/3 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz : > select count(*) AS count, error, ev_text FROM clients_event_log GROUP BY > error, ev_text; > > you can add 'HAVING count(*) > X'; , if you want to see only those with > count above X, etc. > > > -- > GJ > I was just about to reply to the group. Would this work too

Re: [GENERAL] finding duplicate numbers in a select distinct statement

2010-03-03 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
select count(*) AS count, error, ev_text FROM clients_event_log GROUP BY error, ev_text; you can add 'HAVING count(*) > X'; , if you want to see only those with count above X, etc. -- GJ

Re: [GENERAL] How to grant a user read-only access to a database?

2010-03-03 Thread Kevin Kempter
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 07:29:21 am Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Thom Brown wrote: > > As far as I'm aware. It's only in the upcoming version 9.0 that you > > can do things like: > > > > GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO readonly; > > > > Other folk on

[GENERAL] finding duplicate numbers in a select distinct statement

2010-03-03 Thread Terry
Hello all, I am trying to do the following query but I would like to know how many rows were deduplicated in the process: psql -d foo -c 'SELECT DISTINCT ON (error) error,ev_text FROM clients_event_log' -o fullfoo For example, I would want the output to be the following where count is the numbe

Re: [GENERAL] FSM and VM file

2010-03-03 Thread akp geek
I just made changes to postgresql.conf to make sure the autovacuum is turned on and I will update you.. Again thanks for your time Regards 2010/3/3 Devrim GÜNDÜZ > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 08:32 -0500, akp geek wrote: > > Thank you all for the suggestions. I did a vacuum and the size has > > gone

Re: [GENERAL] How to grant a user read-only access to a database?

2010-03-03 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Thom Brown wrote: > As far as I'm aware.  It's only in the upcoming version 9.0 that you > can do things like: > > GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO readonly; > > Other folk on here may have some alternative suggestions though. 9.0 will also have the h

Re: [GENERAL] FSM and VM file

2010-03-03 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 08:32 -0500, akp geek wrote: > Thank you all for the suggestions. I did a vacuum and the size has > gone down drastically. But still it is not the same size as my master. > I am looking into it Plain vacuum does not file system size of relations. It just marks dead spaces ar

[GENERAL] stopping processes, preventing connections

2010-03-03 Thread Herouth Maoz
Hi. I'm continuing on with the problems I have in our reports/data warehouse system. Basically, the system brings in tables from our various production systems (sybase, postgresql, mssql, different servers) every night. Some tables are brought in whole, and some are brought in based on a date f

Re: [GENERAL] FSM and VM file

2010-03-03 Thread Richard Huxton
On 03/03/10 13:32, akp geek wrote: Thank you all for the suggestions. I did a vacuum and the size has gone down drastically. But still it is not the same size as my master. I am looking into it Check your autovacuum settings and you should be able to keep things stable at least. You might ne

Re: [GENERAL] FSM and VM file

2010-03-03 Thread akp geek
Thank you all for the suggestions. I did a vacuum and the size has gone down drastically. But still it is not the same size as my master. I am looking into it Appreicate your help On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Richard Huxton wrote: > On 02/03/10 21:47, akp geek wrote: > >> I am doing a replic

Re: [GENERAL] How to grant a user read-only access to a database?

2010-03-03 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Thom Brown wrote: > On 2 March 2010 14:49, Antonio Goméz Soto > wrote: > > Op 02-03-10 13:00, Thom Brown schreef: > >> > >> On 2 March 2010 11:46, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > >>> > >>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Thom Brown > wrote: > > On 2 March

Re: [GENERAL] createdb but revoke dropdb

2010-03-03 Thread Ben Eliott
Hi, Thank-you for coming back and your advice. I understand what you mean. However, in order to run the script without additional user input, .pgpass is always needed. One way or another, which ever way i try and twist this, something has to give on security. Perhaps it would be just abo

Re: [GENERAL] FSM and VM file

2010-03-03 Thread Richard Huxton
On 02/03/10 21:47, akp geek wrote: I am doing a replication of one of the database and the size of the slave database is growing exponentially . Right now the size of master db is 849M and the slave is 7GB. my master is 8.3 and slave is 8.4 I'm guessing your slave isn't being vacuumed. Or, p

Re: [GENERAL] createdb but revoke dropdb

2010-03-03 Thread Richard Huxton
On 02/03/10 18:22, Ben Eliott wrote: I have two roles, 'adminuser' with createdb permission, and 'dbuser' a user with CRUD privileges. adminuser is a member of the dbuser role, this seems to allow adminuser to createdb databases for dbuser with: createdb -U adminuser -O dbuser new_database_name

[GENERAL] Fwd: createdb but revoke dropdb

2010-03-03 Thread Ben Eliott
Sleep often seems a better problem solver than thinking. Create databases ahead of time and assign at the appropriate time. Begin forwarded message: From: Ben Eliott Date: 2 March 2010 18:22:17 GMT To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: createdb but revoke dropdb Hi, In using 8.3. I'm tr