On 01/06/10 11:05, Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
Personally I would reduce this section to
Don't.
Well, I would have avoided this mine-trap except we have this 9.0
release note item:
Allow use of productnameC++/ functions in backend code
2010/5/31 Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com:
I run my site (see my signature) on a self managed VPS. I was using
the default PGSQL RPM from the fedora repository, the site was getting
way slow. So I compiled all the stuff apache, php and postgresql with
custom gcc flags, which improved
Hi,
We want to reindex the database behind a production service without
interrupting the service.
I had an idea for creating the index with a new name then dropping the existing
index and renaming the new one - and it seems to work and would reduce the time
without an index to be minimal. I
2010/6/1 gareth.willi...@csiro.au
Hi,
We want to reindex the database behind a production service without
interrupting the service.
I had an idea for creating the index with a new name then dropping the
existing index and renaming the new one - and it seems to work and would
reduce the
On 06/01/2010 05:45 AM, Greg Smith wrote:
Two thoughts. First, build a test performance case assuming it will fail
to scale upwards, looking for problems. If you get lucky, great, but
don't assume this will work--it's proven more difficult than is obvious
in the past for others.
Second, if you
PG 8.2
I am using plpythonu to add application server functionality to my
postgresql database.
For example, I have triggers and functions that FTP files, sends email,
processes files, etc..
Is there any good reason not to include this functionality directly in
the database? (Too much parallel
2010/6/1 Sim Zacks s...@compulab.co.il
PG 8.2
I am using plpythonu to add application server functionality to my
postgresql database.
For example, I have triggers and functions that FTP files, sends email,
processes files, etc..
Is there any good reason not to include this functionality
2010/6/1 Sim Zacks s...@compulab.co.il:
PG 8.2
I am using plpythonu to add application server functionality to my
postgresql database.
For example, I have triggers and functions that FTP files, sends email,
processes files, etc..
Is there any good reason not to include this functionality
2010/6/1 gareth.willi...@csiro.au
From: Szymon Guz [mailto:mabew...@gmail.com]
-snip-
2010/6/1 gareth.willi...@csiro.au
Hi,
We want to reindex the database behind a production service without
interrupting the service.
I had an idea for creating the index with a new name then
On 6/1/2010 11:12 AM, Szymon Guz wrote:
2010/6/1 Sim Zacks s...@compulab.co.il mailto:s...@compulab.co.il
PG 8.2
I am using plpythonu to add application server functionality to my
postgresql database.
For example, I have triggers and functions that FTP files, sends
Is there any good reason not to include this functionality directly in
the database? (Too much parallel processing, engine not equipped for
that kind of processing, threading issues...)
there are some issues still
* missing integrated scheduler
* missing autonomous transaction
if
As an example of a filesystem access that is transaction dependent:
When I create a new supplier in the database, I need a set of
directories built on the file system.
If the directories are not there, it will cause a lot of problems when
dealing with this supplier.
When creating the supplier, I
Greg Smith g...@2ndquadrant.com writes:
Joachim Worringen wrote:
my Python application (http://perfbase.tigris.org) repeatedly needs to
insert lots of data into an exsting, non-empty, potentially large
table. Currently, the bottleneck is with the Python application, so I
intend to
From: Szymon Guz [mailto:mabew...@gmail.com]
-snip-
2010/6/1 gareth.willi...@csiro.au
Hi,
We want to reindex the database behind a production service without
interrupting the service.
I had an idea for creating the index with a new name then dropping the
existing index and renaming the
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:13:02PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
On 01/06/10 11:05, Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
Personally I would reduce this section to
Don't.
Well, I would have avoided this mine-trap except we have this 9.0
release note
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 08:21:46PM -0700, Richard Broersma wrote:
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:25 PM, David Fetter da...@fetter.org wrote:
I wondering if write-able CTE's will be the silver bullet that
will make rule based update-able views based multiple vertically
partitioned table robust.
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:09:22PM +0200, Janning wrote:
On Thursday 27 May 2010 16:56:28 you wrote:
Additionally c3p0 can cache java instances of
java.sql.PreparedStatement which means it is caching the java object.
So when using
c3p0.maxStatementsPerConnection = 100 it caches at
Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au writes:
On 01/06/10 11:05, Tom Lane wrote:
I'd be interested to see a section like this written by someone who'd
actually done a nontrivial C++ extension and lived to tell the tale.
I can't speak up there - my own C++/Pg backend stuff has been fairly
On 2010-06-01 16:07 +0300, David Fetter wrote:
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 08:21:46PM -0700, Richard Broersma wrote:
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 6:25 PM, David Fetter da...@fetter.org wrote:
I wondering if write-able CTE's will be the silver bullet that
will make rule based update-able views based
Hi Ashesh
I managed to get 8.4 running.
I had previously downloaded PGAgent and installed it with no effect.
However I just reinstalled it from the File Manager and it did the job.
Now I want to get it going on XP but that isn`t quite so important.
Thanks for all your help.
Bob
From:
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:07 AM, David Fetter da...@fetter.org wrote:
I'm not trying to be obtuse, but I am not understanding how you
connect this issue, which has to do with the way PostgreSQL's RULE
system works, with writeable CTEs, which have approximately nothing in
common with the issue
Is there is a way to connect postgres to authenticate against a windows
domain without recompiling and using gssapi. Ldap perhaps?
Thanks!
The document recommends a command as below:
archive_command = 'test ! -f /var/lib/pgsql/backup_in_progress || cp
-i %p /var/lib/pgsql/archive/%f /dev/null'
How can this be done using windows batch? I tried the following
command, but it did not work:
archive_command = 'if not exist
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Jun Wang junw2...@gmail.com wrote:
The document recommends a command as below:
archive_command = 'test ! -f /var/lib/pgsql/backup_in_progress || cp
-i %p /var/lib/pgsql/archive/%f /dev/null'
How can this be done using windows batch? I tried the following
Is anyone using NeXpose Rapid 7 to scan your PostgreSQL databases for
vulnerbilities? If so, what authentication are you using to allow it to
connect to your database? Or, how are you configuring the software to allow it
to connect to the database?
Thanks,
Sandra Arnold
Sr. Database
On 05/31/2010 01:29 AM, Michal Szymanski wrote:
Hi,
Currently we use Debian, but it chosen by our OS admnistrator. Now we
can change our OS and it is question what Linux edition will be the
best. We would like have access to new versions of Postgres as soon
as possible, for Debian sometimes we
In response to Steve Crawford scrawf...@pinpointresearch.com:
On 05/31/2010 01:29 AM, Michal Szymanski wrote:
Hi,
Currently we use Debian, but it chosen by our OS admnistrator. Now we
can change our OS and it is question what Linux edition will be the
best. We would like have access to
On 05/31/2010 03:48 AM, Jasen Betts wrote:
On 2010-05-26, John Gagejsmg...@numericable.fr wrote:
Please forgive this intrusion, and please ignore it, but how many
applications out there have 110,000,000 row tables? I recently
multiplied 85,000 by 1,400 and said now way Jose.
census
I was aware that there are, in fact, many applications such as census
data or cell phone calls that would easily surpass this number.
However these applications exist in very large companies/organizations
that can throw essentially unlimited resources at the problem. One
thinks of the
Hi friends I need to configure two PgSQl servers on AIX working with a SAN
I need to know how easy is compile PostgreSQL on AIx, some special
consideration?
is possible to run pgcluster only balnacer) or pgpool-II in aix?
thanks
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ernesto_Qui=F1ones?= ernes...@gmail.com writes:
Hi friends I need to configure two PgSQl servers on AIX working with a SAN
I need to know how easy is compile PostgreSQL on AIx, some special
consideration?
On 1 Jun 2010, at 22:03, Bill Moran wrote:
In response to Steve Crawford scrawf...@pinpointresearch.com:
On 05/31/2010 01:29 AM, Michal Szymanski wrote:
Hi,
Currently we use Debian, but it chosen by our OS admnistrator. Now we
can change our OS and it is question what Linux edition will be
Hi. I'm wondering if it is possible to disable use of \! to execute
commands in psql? I see this has come up on the list before
(http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2007-07/msg00242.php), but I
don't see anyone saying whether it is possible or not, just that it's a
bad or useless
Ken Tanzer ken.tan...@gmail.com writes:
Hi. I'm wondering if it is possible to disable use of \! to execute
commands in psql? I see this has come up on the list before
(http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2007-07/msg00242.php), but I
don't see anyone saying whether it is possible
Ken Tanzer wrote:
Hi. I'm wondering if it is possible to disable use of \! to execute
commands in psql? I see this has come up on the list before
(http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2007-07/msg00242.php), but I
don't see anyone saying whether it is possible or not, just that it's
Sure use SHELL=/usr/bin/false:
$ SHELL=/usr/bin/false psql
psql (9.0beta1)
Type help for help.
postgres= \!
postgres=
Trouble is, that doesn't stop
\! bash
On 06/01/2010 04:57 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Ken Tanzer wrote:
Hi. I'm
Hi Tom, I read the page before, thanks
maybe some friend can recommend me some load balancer solution for
AIX with PostgreSQL
thanks
2010/6/1 Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ernesto_Qui=F1ones?= ernes...@gmail.com writes:
Hi friends I need to configure two PgSQl servers on AIX
The better way to go about that is to not let them have an account on
the server machine in the first place. Just expose the postmaster port
(perhaps via ssh tunneling) and let them run psql on their own machines.
Somehow, exposing my database ports to the internet scares me more than
any
Ernesto Quiñones wrote:
Hi Tom, I read the page before, thanks
maybe some friend can recommend me some load balancer solution for
AIX with PostgreSQL
load balancing writes is problematic. load balancing reads is easy
enough, although maintaining ACID with decent performance can still be
Ken Tanzer wrote:
Sure use SHELL=/usr/bin/false:
$ SHELL=/usr/bin/false psql
psql (9.0beta1)
Type help for help.
postgres= \!
postgres=
Trouble is, that doesn't stop
\! bash
Ah, I see. libc hardcodes the SHELL executable into the system()
Ken Tanzer wrote:
The better way to go about that is to not let them have an account on
the server machine in the first place. Just expose the postmaster port
(perhaps via ssh tunneling) and let them run psql on their own machines.
Somehow, exposing my database ports to the internet
The architecture that I need to install is:
1 AIX -- 3 AIX-- 1
load servers Storage
balancerwith PostgreSQL (SAN)
the 3 AIX PostgreSQL are PPC RS64-III with 1gb RAM
the concurrence is near to 250 - 300
Ken Tanzer ken.tan...@gmail.com writes:
The better way to go about that is to not let them have an account on
the server machine in the first place.
Somehow, exposing my database ports to the internet scares me more than
any (possibly crazy) stuff I'm trying to do. :)
If you're exposing
Ernesto Quiñones wrote:
The architecture that I need to install is:
1 AIX -- 3 AIX-- 1
load servers Storage
balancerwith PostgreSQL (SAN)
the 3 AIX PostgreSQL are PPC RS64-III with 1gb RAM
the concurrence is
How many concurrence can support a server with 4 PPC Power 6 and 16GB RAM??!!
I was thinking install the load balancing in this machine but maybe I
could run PostgreSQL in this machine without problems for my
concurrence
2010/6/1 John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com:
Ernesto Quiñones wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au writes:
On 01/06/10 11:05, Tom Lane wrote:
I'd be interested to see a section like this written by someone who'd
actually done a nontrivial C++ extension and lived to tell the tale.
I can't speak up there - my own C++/Pg backend
Ken,
* Ken Tanzer (ken.tan...@gmail.com) wrote:
Hi. I'm wondering if it is possible to disable use of \! to execute
commands in psql? I see this has come up on the list before
(http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2007-07/msg00242.php), but I
don't see anyone saying whether it
On 02/06/10 08:06, Ken Tanzer wrote:
Somehow, exposing my database ports to the internet scares me more than
any (possibly crazy) stuff I'm trying to do. :)
Why? Surely it's less scary than exposing ssh+shell access (!!), even if
you think the shell is locked down to running only a crippled
Thanks for asking a bunch of good questions, that I don't have good
answers to all of... :) But I'll try:
If you're exposing the ability to run psql, what makes you think you're
not effectively exposing the database?
I could be way off base, but it seems like the exposure is limited.
Sure,
OK, hadn't seen your response (and Stephen Frost's) before sending
mine. I think I hear everybody loud and clear--bad idea!
Ken
On 06/01/2010 06:47 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:
On 02/06/10 08:06, Ken Tanzer wrote:
Somehow, exposing my database ports to the internet scares me more than
any
OK one more question on this thread. It occurs to me that for the web
app, DB username and password is read from a configuration file. (I
understand this to be a common method for web applications.) But since
apache needs to read the file, then all users can read each others'
passwords.
Ken,
* Ken Tanzer (ken.tan...@gmail.com) wrote:
I could be way off base, but it seems like the exposure is limited.
Sure, each user can access their database, providing they can
authenticate successfully. (Of course, I don't care what they do with
their database.) This essentially
Ernesto Quiñones wrote:
How many concurrence can support a server with 4 PPC Power 6 and 16GB RAM??!!
I was thinking install the load balancing in this machine but maybe I
could run PostgreSQL in this machine without problems for my
concurrence
Power 6 and Powerpc are two completely
* Ken Tanzer (ken.tan...@gmail.com) wrote:
OK one more question on this thread. It occurs to me that for the web
app, DB username and password is read from a configuration file. (I
understand this to be a common method for web applications.) But since
apache needs to read the file,
On 02/06/10 09:23, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au writes:
On 01/06/10 11:05, Tom Lane wrote:
I'd be interested to see a section like this written by someone who'd
actually done a nontrivial C++ extension and lived to tell the tale.
I can't
I had thought I was going to have
people use sftp/scp, but I can see that apparently doesn't work without
a more normal shell than psql. (Although maybe you could build that
support in?;) )
Erm, I don't believe you need a real shell to allow them sftp.. You
just have to set
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:47 AM, Jun Wang junw2...@gmail.com wrote:
The document recommends a command as below:
archive_command = 'test ! -f /var/lib/pgsql/backup_in_progress || cp
-i %p /var/lib/pgsql/archive/%f /dev/null'
How can this be done using windows batch? I tried the following
* Ken Tanzer (ken.tan...@gmail.com) wrote:
You realize that some information (like roles/users) is shared
cluster-wide and isn't limited to a specific database, right? That's
usually where web-hosting folks trip up first..
I think it's fair to say I realize it, but am perhaps not drawing
Eh, it's just that the users usually complain about seeing other
people's roles and databases and whatnot..
That makes sense. I don't think that would be a problem in this case.
Also, it means you can't grant 'create role' to anyone, so users can't create
or drop their own
roles (an admin
Ken Tanzer ken.tan...@gmail.com writes:
You will for example be making it awfully difficult for them to use
\copy, \i, \e, \g, the list goes on.
I'm not really eager to go down this path, but nonetheless it's not
obvious to me why giving psql a lobotomy (or hopefully a careful
surgical
Craig Ringer wrote:
( BTW, all in all, I agree with Tom Lane - the best answer is don't.
Sometimes you need to access functionality from C++ libraries, but
unless that's your reason I wouldn't ever consider doing it. )
Here's a rough outline of the rules I follow when mixing C/C++ code,
psql is really, really meant to be run
on the client side.
I appreciate that, but the people I'm targeting are just not going to
have psql on their systems.
No, you missed the point: those functions, as well as others, are
useless unless psql is running inside a filesystem that the user
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
I run my site (see my signature) on a self managed VPS. I was using
the default PGSQL RPM from the fedora repository, the site was getting
way slow. So I compiled all the stuff apache, php and postgresql with
custom gcc flags, which improved performance like hell
gareth.willi...@csiro.au wrote:
So the rest of the question is, if I have two indexes with identical
definitions, what happens? I've confirmed that I can create indexes with
identical definitions (except name) without postgres complaining - and without
breaking the client on my test system -
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:32:44AM -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
I run my site (see my signature) on a self managed VPS. I was using
the default PGSQL RPM from the fedora repository, the site was getting
way slow. So I compiled all the stuff apache, php and postgresql
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