Re: [GENERAL] Best Practices - Securing an Enterprise application using JBOSS Postgres

2011-06-09 Thread Isak Hansen
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:46 AM, Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au wrote: On 09/06/11 03:07, Isak Hansen wrote: While MD5 is considered broken for certain applications, it's still perfectly valid for auth purposes. MD5 rainbow tables can be calculated quickly using services easily

Re: [GENERAL] Best Practices - Securing an Enterprise application using JBOSS Postgres

2011-06-08 Thread Isak Hansen
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Radosław Smogura rsmog...@softperience.eu wrote: You should actually only consider safty of storing of such passwords in database. If with md5 the password isn't digested like in DIGEST HTTP auth, and only md5 shortcut is transfferd it has no meaning if you

Re: [GENERAL] MSSQL to PostgreSQL

2009-08-01 Thread Isak Hansen
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Thom Brownthombr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, We're migrating the contents of an old MSSQL server to PostgreSQL 8.3.7, so a full conversion is required.  Does anyone know of any guides which highlight common gotchas and other userful information? As for other

Re: [GENERAL] How can I manually alter the statistics for a column?

2009-06-02 Thread Isak Hansen
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Douglas Alan darkwate...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to manually alter the statistics for a column, as for the column in question the statistics are causing Postgres to do the wrong thing for my purposes. (I.e., a Seq Scan, rather than an Index Scan.)  If someone

Re: [GENERAL] FreeBSD 7 needing to allocate lots of shared memory

2008-11-17 Thread Isak Hansen
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Isak Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Christiaan Willemsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still would like to allocate a bit more than 1 Gb of shared_memory on FreeBSD. So if anyone has any pointers what settings I do need to make

Re: [GENERAL] FreeBSD 7 needing to allocate lots of shared memory

2008-11-17 Thread Isak Hansen
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Christiaan Willemsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still would like to allocate a bit more than 1 Gb of shared_memory on FreeBSD. So if anyone has any pointers what settings I do need to make, please let me know. Did you already try changing shmall as Martijn

Re: [GENERAL] How to reduce impact of a query.

2008-11-17 Thread Isak Hansen
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Howard Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running multiple 8.2 databases on a not-so-powerful W2K3 server - and it runs great - for the majority of time. However I have some monster tsearch queries which take a lot of processing and hog system resources -

Re: [GENERAL] FreeBSD 7 needing to allocate lots of shared memory

2008-11-17 Thread Isak Hansen
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Christiaan Willemsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I did ;) Still the same error, i.e. unable to allocate shared memory? What does sysctl -a | grep shm say? Isak -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [GENERAL] Optimizing IN queries

2008-11-10 Thread Isak Hansen
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: explain analyze select count(*)::INTEGER as cnt from dok WHERE dokumnr IN (869906,869907,869910,869911,869914,869915,869916,869917,869918,869921 ) and dokumnr NOT IN (SELECT dokumnr FROM bilkaib WHERE alusdok='LY')

Re: [GENERAL] Slow query performance

2008-10-31 Thread Isak Hansen
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Kevin Galligan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm approaching the end of my rope here. I have a large database. 250 million rows (ish). Each row has potentially about 500 pieces of data, although most of the columns are sparsely populated. *snip* So, went the

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-10-29 Thread Isak Hansen
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using macports but got into a cluster-F on versions and multiple installs. After a spell I had all four versions 8.0 - 8.3 installed in order to use postgres, ruby, perl, and rails together. I use apple's ruby, but

Re: [GENERAL] Chart of Accounts

2008-10-14 Thread Isak Hansen
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:57 AM, justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Also you want to split out the debit and credits instead of using one column. Example one column accounting table to track values entered how do you handle Crediting a Credit Account Type. is it a negative or positive

Re: [GENERAL] Chart of Accounts

2008-10-14 Thread Isak Hansen
with accountants all day, and this is what they expect. Of course either approach works, but I've come to prefer the single-column one. Isak Hansen wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:57 AM, justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Also you want to split out the debit and credits instead of using one

Re: [GENERAL] Prepared Statements

2008-01-10 Thread Isak Hansen
On 1/10/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not found anything about preparing unnamed statements. What does it mean? Unnamed statements are what the driver uses before it hits the prepareThreshold limit. Once it has determined the statement will be reused many

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Isak Hansen
On 1/10/08, Sim Zacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded my database server from 8.0.1 to 8.2.4 Most things went very well, but I have a couple of queries that really slowed down with the new server. On 8.0.1 the query took less then 3 seconds to complete. On 8.2.4 the same query (I

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Isak Hansen
is picked due to configuration issues, e.g. memory constraints? Could you post your postgresql.conf as well? Kind regards, Isak Sim Isak Hansen wrote: On 1/10/08, Sim Zacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded my database server from 8.0.1 to 8.2.4 Most things went very well, but I

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Isak Hansen
On 1/10/08, Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 10, 2008 12:33 PM, Sim Zacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps a suboptimal plan is picked due to configuration issues, e.g. memory constraints? Could you post your postgresql.conf as well? Below is the postgresql.conf file for

Re: [GENERAL] index organized tables use case

2007-12-12 Thread Isak Hansen
On 12/12/07, Enrico Sirola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Isak, Isak Hansen ha scritto: Have a look at the cluster operation; http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/sql-cluster.html. AFAIK it does lock duplicate the whole table during reordering, which may or may not be an issue

Re: [GENERAL] shmget fails on OS X with proper settings

2007-05-07 Thread Isak Hansen
Bah, evil google interface. My reply was ment for the list. On 5/7/07, Isak Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/7/07, Christopher S Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sysctl -a reveals the following: kern.sysv.shmmax: 12582912 Maximum size of shared memory segment (afaik bytes - needs

Re: [GENERAL] Slow query and indexes...

2007-05-07 Thread Isak Hansen
On 5/7/07, Andrew Kroeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonas Henriksen wrote: explain analyze SELECT max(date_time) FROM data_values; Goes fast and returns: In prior postgres versions, the planner could not take advantage of indexes with max() (nor min()) calculations. A workaround to this was

Re: [GENERAL] Assistance with Query Optimisation?

2007-03-01 Thread Isak Hansen
On 3/1/07, Shaun Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Apologies in advance for the verbosity of my explanation for this problem, but I think it's all pertinent. I have a fairly simple query which postgresql's query planner seems to be interpreting / optimising in interesting ways: Query:

[GENERAL] 'Indirect' clustering?

2006-12-21 Thread Isak Hansen
We have a multi-tenant db with a lot of DDL along these lines: journal_entry ( id serial, tenant_id integer not null, entry_date datetime not null, description varchar(255), primary key (id), foreign key (tenant_id) references tenant (id) ); tx ( id serial, journal_entry_id integer not

Re: [GENERAL] Separation of clients' data within a database

2006-12-01 Thread Isak Hansen
On 11/30/06, John McCawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am faced with a very new problem for me, which is that my app is going to be used directly by several companies utilizing one server. (i.e. these companies will be able to go under the hood quite a bit more than we typically allow with this

[GENERAL] Constraint on an aggregate? (need help writing trigger, i think..)

2006-07-26 Thread Isak Hansen
I have the following two tables: create table a ( id serial primary key, ); create table b ( id serial primary key, a_id int4 references a (id), amount decimal(16, 2) ); and would like a constraint to guarantee that sum(b.amount) = 0 group by b.a_id. From my testing so far, and this