Re: [GENERAL] Import data from XML file

2009-08-26 Thread Bill Bartlett
We've used Pentaho Data Integration (aka Kettle) at http://kettle.pentaho.org to do this in the past. (Kettle is the free / open source version, although there is a bigger commercial version of PDI that does more.) It reads XML nicely and talks natively to PostgreSQL databases, so you can load dat

Re: [GENERAL] Strange "missing tables" problem

2009-08-23 Thread Bill Bartlett
Possible xid rollover problem? (We saw behavior similar to this during a recent xid rollover fiasco, where tables didn't appear in the various catalogs and psql catalog commands, but the data was still there.) What version of PostgreSQL are you on? If you try a VACUUM on the pg_catalog.pg_class

Re: [GENERAL] psql and Emacs on Windows

2009-08-07 Thread Bill Bartlett
On Friday, August 07, 2009 12:44 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 17:36 +0100, Sam Mason wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 11:11:10AM -0500, Wenjian Yang wrote: > > > We currently installed emacs 23.1 and PostgreSQL 8.4.0 for Windows on a > > > windows desktop. When issue "sql-po

Re: [GENERAL] Windows Crash

2008-06-26 Thread Bill Bartlett
MS's web site has a good summary at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/w2000Msgs/60 93.mspx?mfr=true . Their bottom line: " Faulty hardware, a buggy system service, antivirus software, and a corrupted NTFS volume can all generate this type of error." If you haven'

Re: [GENERAL] Killing a session on windows

2007-11-29 Thread Bill Bartlett
Use "select pg_cancel_backend()" instead -- we have to do this periodically when queries get timed out by the web server but Postgres doesn't notice / doesn't get notified... - Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Cole Sent: Thursda

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / "humorous" X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-08 Thread Bill Bartlett
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Glaesemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 3:25 PM > To: Bill Bartlett > Cc: 'Andreas Kretschmer'; pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / > &q

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / "humorous" X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Bartlett
; X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off > > > Bill Bartlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > A. K

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / "humorous" X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Bartlett
> -Original Message- > From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 12:30 PM > To: Bill Bartlett > Cc: A. Kretschmer; pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / > "humorous" X

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / "humorous" X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Bartlett
e-Flag headers, could we please turn them off > > > am Fri, dem 05.10.2007, um 10:05:32 -0400 mailte Bill > Bartlett folgendes: > > Quick request to the group: we have several members who > include bogus > > or "humorous" X-Message-Flag headers in their

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / "humorous" X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Bartlett
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Glaesemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:45 AM > To: Bill Bartlett > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / > "humorous" X-Message-Fla

[GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / "humorous" X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Bartlett
Quick request to the group: we have several members who include bogus or "humorous" X-Message-Flag headers in their email messages. Could I request that you _please_ turn them off? Because they come through as flagged messages in Outlook, it throws off my email rules processing and the messages

Re: [GENERAL] Building Windows fat clients

2007-09-20 Thread Bill Bartlett
ty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 11:00 AM > To: Bill Bartlett; 'johnf'; pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Building Windows fat clients > > > Glad to hear that > > I knew Novell *was* working on a port

Re: [GENERAL] Building Windows fat clients

2007-09-19 Thread Bill Bartlett
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Gainty > Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 5:58 PM > To: johnf; pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Building Windows fat clients > > > Hello Guys > > Using C# means .NET fr

Re: [GENERAL] Export data to MS Excel

2007-09-01 Thread Bill Bartlett
For quick/simple table format reports, you can just use psql to create the output in HTML format, then import that directly into Excel. For example, I use the following psql line to generate an HTML-format report of server IP information; this file can then be directly opened in Excel. (Excel 200

Re: [GENERAL] v8.2 ... command line interface on Windows

2007-08-04 Thread Bill Bartlett
We use the Cygwin version of the psql.exe program under Windows instead of the native psql.exe program, even though the rest of the PostgreSQL installation uses the standard native Windows versions of all the other PostgreSQL components (database, tools, etc.). (So before I get flamed, I want to c

Re: [GENERAL] v8.2 ... command line interface on Windows

2007-08-04 Thread Bill Bartlett
Couldn't this be offered pre-built as an alternative in the Windows installer or as a "psql2.exe" program? Seems like there might be more than a few PostgreSQL users running with US keyboard layouts under native Windows, and providing the prebuilt version along with the "normal" one might eliminat

Re: [GENERAL] Can you specify the pg_xlog location from a config file?

2007-01-26 Thread Bill Bartlett
The Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit and WinXP Resource Kit (both free to download) both also provide the LINKD utility -- we use LINKD to create junctions on most of our Windows servers (to mimic the equivalent hard links we use on our Linux servers). - Bill > -Original Message- > From:

[GENERAL] Any issues w/PostgreSQL 8.0.4 on Win2K3 x64?

2006-11-30 Thread Bill Bartlett
Is anyone aware of any issues with running PostgreSQL 8.0.4 on a Windows 2003 Server x64 system? (I know it's an old DB version that we will eventually upgrade to 8.1.x or 8.2.x, but it's running on a production system where for the immediate future I don't have the time to test on any of the late

Re: [GENERAL] Reinstall problem of PostgreSQL in Windows XP

2006-09-10 Thread Bill Bartlett
Assuming you are logged on to the XP workstation with an administrator-level account, you should also be able to do net user postgres /delete from the XP command line to delete the postgres user account that was created by the old installation. - Bill > -Original Message- > From: [

Re: [GENERAL] postgres and emacs on windows os

2006-09-07 Thread Bill Bartlett
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:46 AM > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: [GENERAL] postgres and emacs on windows os > > hi all, > > has anybody experience using psql with emacs (M-x sql-postgres) o

Re: [GENERAL] Migrating PostgreSQL database to MySQL/MS Access

2006-08-13 Thread Bill Bartlett
> On 8/12/2006 Merlin Moncure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the .net 'way' of database application development is to keep > all the logic in the .net middleware. please note that I am > completely opposed to this because it obfuscates good data > management practices. however based on the op's

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PosygreSQL 8.1 on Windows2003 server in terminal session (remote desktop)

2006-03-02 Thread Bill Bartlett
Are you connecting to the "console" session on your Win2K3 server or to one of the other two available remote desktop sessions? (To connect to the console session using the RDP client from XP, you need to inclde "/console" at the _end_ of your command line: ie: "mstsc /v:MyRemoteServerName /consol

[GENERAL] Permissions required for service user account _after_ installation

2005-11-15 Thread Bill Bartlett
The "Silent install of PostgreSQL on Windows" document states that "The service user needs Log on as a service, Log on locally and Access this computer from the network." If the PostgreSQL database will only be accessed via localhost, are these permissions still required after the installation has

Re: [GENERAL] Using native win32 psql.exe using alternative cygwin - psql 8.0.0 beta 3 question

2005-11-11 Thread Bill Bartlett
> > Bill Bartlett wrote: > > >I hit this exact same problem, and my initial reaction was > the same as > >yours -- psql was "hanging". After much head-banging, I discovered > >that it is not in fact hanging, but is instead getting confused by >

Re: [GENERAL] Using native win32 psql.exe using alternative cygwin terminal

2005-11-06 Thread Bill Bartlett
Cygwin is v7.4.5. There is v8.x code available in CVS, but you'll have to compile it yourself. I'm also planning on doing this too, but I haven't had the time. - Bill Bill Bartlett meridianEMR, Inc. http://www.meridianemr.com/ > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle 10g Express - any danger for Postgres?

2005-11-01 Thread Bill Bartlett
Given both the naming of Oracle 10g Express and the timing of Oracle's announcement, I think Oracle Express is more of a reaction to pressure by Microsoft's SQL Server 2005 Express, due to be released Nov 7 but actually shipped to developers this past Thursday. I've been a DBA for _many_ years on

Re: [GENERAL] Limitations of PostgreSQL

2005-10-13 Thread Bill Bartlett
[snipped] > May not be the best choice on Windows for production use, though for > development, it should be adequate. Are there known issues with the Windows version for production use, or is this simply because of the relative newness of the Windows-native version? - Bill -