[GENERAL] Spam mails from my hotmail id

2011-10-22 Thread Sanjaya Kumar Patel
Hi All, I saw a few days back some spam mails have been sent from this account (was possibly hacked?). Am taking care of this to my best. I never send any link in my mails without sufficient contextual information so if you happen to get such mails from my ids in future please delete it witho

Re: [GENERAL] MVCC feature of postgresql

2011-10-22 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 9:31 PM, AI Rumman wrote: > Is there any tools by which I can test out the MVCC feature of postgresql? The best tool is psql. Just open up two or more sessions and experiment with transactions, transaction isolation levels and update / insert / delete / select and see how

Re: [GENERAL] MVCC feature of postgresql

2011-10-22 Thread Raghavendra
Good way to understand MVCC feature is XID(transaction-id) and with the help of hidden columns prefixed for each row in a table. You need to test with doing DML(update/Delete/Insert) statements by opening multiple sessions to know about MVCC feature. Eg:- select xmin,xmax,cmin,cmax,ctid, * from ;

[GENERAL] MVCC feature of postgresql

2011-10-22 Thread AI Rumman
Is there any tools by which I can test out the MVCC feature of postgresql?

Re: [GENERAL] archive_timeout runtime change

2011-10-22 Thread raghu ram
2011/10/20 Birta Levente > Hi > > I use postgrsql 9.1.1 and I want to change archive_timeout on a running > server. My default archive_timeout is 1800s, and nightly I want to change to > 3600s or more, but I get the following error message: > > set archive_timeout='3600'; > ERROR: parameter "arc

Re: [GENERAL] Temporally disabled foreign key constraint check?

2011-10-22 Thread raghu ram
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:19 PM, Emi Lu wrote: > Thank you first. > > I believe that upate pg_class can only be done by superuser, right? > Yes,it's requires superuser privileges. > > Besides, if I need the whole schema's foreign keys to be disabled and then > enabled later. > > Is there a sim

Re: [GENERAL] copying few fields into an existing table

2011-10-22 Thread Joe Abbate
On 10/22/2011 04:31 PM, Alexander Farber wrote: > Hello, > > sadly I have to ban few users from my game web > site daily and so I'm trying to write a procedure for > first copying their id, name, city, IP into a pref_ban table > and then erasing their comments and statistics: > > create o

[GENERAL] copying few fields into an existing table

2011-10-22 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, sadly I have to ban few users from my game web site daily and so I'm trying to write a procedure for first copying their id, name, city, IP into a pref_ban table and then erasing their comments and statistics: create or replace function pref_delete_user(_id varchar, _re

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0: plpgsql eror when restoring a database as a non superuser

2011-10-22 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Saturday, October 22, 2011 12:06:25 pm stefan wrote: > >> Therefore the only solution I see is to drop plpgsql from template1, or > >> writing a wrapper script that exploits the -l and -L options of > >> pg_restore. > > > > Yes. Though I could see an option to create a template database without

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0: plpgsql eror when restoring a database as a non superuser

2011-10-22 Thread stefan
On 22-10-11 18:21, Tom Lane wrote: Or just ignore the error during restore. Hi Tom, for a manual restore I could just live with that, but this is a semi automated setup and we feel very strongly about acting on pg_restore's exit code. Cheers, Stefan. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0: plpgsql eror when restoring a database as a non superuser

2011-10-22 Thread stefan
Therefore the only solution I see is to drop plpgsql from template1, or writing a wrapper script that exploits the -l and -L options of pg_restore. Yes. Though I could see an option to create a template database without plpgsql in it for use by non-superuser users and leave template1 as is. A

Re: [GENERAL] Are file system level differential/incremental backups possible?

2011-10-22 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 >> Is it possible to do a full file system level backup of the data >> directory, say once a week, and differentials or incrementals daily? ... > taken, so a trigger-based or WAL-based system is necessary. ... > SQL-level differentials would be

Re: [GENERAL] is there a function in postgresql that can be used for retrieving deleted rows

2011-10-22 Thread Steve Atkins
On Oct 21, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Charles Waweru wrote: > I am looking for a tool in the PostgreSQL database that can help to audit > fraudulent activities on a PostgreSQL database. Of particular interest is how > to retrieve say from a PostgreSQL sales database all the deleted rows. > > Any sugg

Re: [GENERAL] is there a function in postgresql that can be used for retrieving deleted rows

2011-10-22 Thread David Johnston
On Oct 22, 2011, at 1:23, "Charles Waweru" wrote: > I am looking for a tool in the PostgreSQL database that can help to audit > fraudulent activities on a PostgreSQL database. Of particular interest is how > to retrieve say from a PostgreSQL sales database all the deleted rows. > > > > Any

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0: plpgsql eror when restoring a database as a non superuser

2011-10-22 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:33:01 am stefan wrote: > > Thank you, Adrian for your response. > > I have checked your suggestion: in pg_pltemplate, tmpldbacreate is set > to true. As you state above, this allows a non superuser to create the > language in any database that does not yet has tha

Re: [GENERAL] is there a function in postgresql that can be used for retrieving deleted rows

2011-10-22 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello 2011/10/22 Charles Waweru : > I am looking for a tool in the PostgreSQL database that can help to audit > fraudulent activities on a PostgreSQL database. Of particular interest is > how to retrieve say from a PostgreSQL sales database all the deleted rows. > you can use triggers PostgreSQL

[GENERAL] is there a function in postgresql that can be used for retrieving deleted rows

2011-10-22 Thread Charles Waweru
I am looking for a tool in the PostgreSQL database that can help to audit fraudulent activities on a PostgreSQL database. Of particular interest is how to retrieve say from a PostgreSQL sales database all the deleted rows. Any suggestion please would be appreciated. Charles

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0: plpgsql eror when restoring a database as a non superuser

2011-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
stefan writes: > However, due to the fact that in 9.0, the language is in template1 and > owned by postgres, a non superuser database owner will not have the > right to create or replace this language in any newly created database > owned by himself. True. > Therefore the only solution I see

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0: plpgsql eror when restoring a database as a non superuser

2011-10-22 Thread stefan
On 22-10-11 16:12, Adrian Klaver wrote: On Saturday, October 22, 2011 2:12:14 am stefan wrote: pg_restore: [archiver (db)] could not execute query: ERROR: must be owner of language plpgsql Command was: CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE plpgsql; Is there a way that this error can be

Re: [GENERAL] Understanding the output of make check

2011-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
miesi writes: > Maybe I'm blind, but where is the difference diff sees? PST vs PDT. Apparently you're using a system-provided timezone database that lacks support for wider-than-32-bit time_t, so that dates beyond 2038 aren't handled correctly. regards, tom lane -- Sen

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0: plpgsql eror when restoring a database as a non superuser

2011-10-22 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Saturday, October 22, 2011 2:12:14 am stefan wrote: > Hi, > > we run a setup with multiple non superusers who have the option of > restoring their databases in a semi-automated fashion. > > In 9.0, we run into the following error: > > pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC: >

[GENERAL] Understanding the output of make check

2011-10-22 Thread miesi
Hi, I've just compiled 9.1.1 in 32bit on Solaris snv_134 ("OpenSolaris 2010.11") with the Solaris Studio Compilers 12.2. The following Problem is displayed Maybe I'm blind, but where is the difference diff sees? Thomas *** /tmp/postgresql-9.1.1/src/test/regress/expected/timestamptz.out Thu

Re: [GENERAL] adding a column takes FOREVER!

2011-10-22 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Tom Lane wrote on 22.10.2011 05:24: I'm thinking there is something you haven't told us about that creates a great deal of overhead for updates on this table. Lots and lots o' indexes? Lots and lots o' foreign key references? Why would an add column need to check foreign key references? --

[GENERAL] Building pgRouting against PostgreSQL 9.1.1 with MinGW

2011-10-22 Thread Alexander Bruy
Hi all, I have some problems with building pgRouting for PostgreSQL 9.1.1 on Windows XP SP3 with MinGW. PostgreSQL was compiled successfully, all necessary dependencies too. But when I try to build pgRouting with TSP and DD features enabled I get next errors: Scanning dependencies of target rout

Re: [GENERAL] Anyone using the solaris 11 precompiled binaries on opensolaris snv_134

2011-10-22 Thread miesi
I've just started a virtual box with the Solaris 11 Early Access DVD ISO and it showed that snv_173 libsocket has the SUNW_1.7 interface. Could you please modify the Read-me on the download page. It should tell that the binaries were compiled on Solaris 11 Early Access. Thanks Thomas On 22.1

Re: [GENERAL] Anyone using the solaris 11 precompiled binaries on opensolaris snv_134

2011-10-22 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, Adding the Solaris package maintainer, Bjorn. On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 22:45 +0200, Thomas Mieslinger wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to run the precomplied binaries form postgresql.org for > solaris 11 intel. The Readme says it has been compiled on opensolaris > 2010.11 which is (to the best of

[GENERAL] 9.0: plpgsql eror when restoring a database as a non superuser

2011-10-22 Thread stefan
Hi, we run a setup with multiple non superusers who have the option of restoring their databases in a semi-automated fashion. In 9.0, we run into the following error: pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC: pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 1038; 2612 11574