[GENERAL] Process won't start in Windows

2007-01-16 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am running PostgreSQL 8.1.5 under Windows Server 2003 Standard edition. All has been running for weeks now, don't know if it has been restarted since we installed. Today we installed a program, Paradox database, which required a restart, and now the PostgreSQL Server service won't start with the

Re: [GENERAL] Process won't start in Windows

2007-01-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 20:00 -0600, Adam Rich wrote: > Robert, > Open "Computer Management" and find the postgres service. > There should be an item saying "Run As". You want that to be > a non-privledged account. Typically, postgres asks you what account > to use when you install it. Just make

Re: [GENERAL] Process won't start in Windows

2007-01-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 14:13 +, Dave Page wrote: > Raymond O'Donnell wrote: > > Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > >> Thanks, yes, I verified the services has 'postgres' as the account being > >> used under the Log On tab of the PostgreSQL service.

[GENERAL] MSSQL/ASP migration

2007-01-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a customer who is wants to migrate his MSSQL database to PostgreSQL and we'll replace his application ASP with PHP. The issues should be limited as there are no stored procedures or triggers in MSSQL, just structure and data should be all that is needed to migrate. I have never migrated from

Re: [GENERAL] MSSQL/ASP migration

2007-01-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 16:32 +, Peter Rosenthal wrote: > Wanting to do something similar I recently submitted a large patch to > the mysql2pgsql project. It will now handle conversion of a mysqldump > file complete with data for the quite large and diverse DB I was using > it with. I'm sure ther

Re: [GENERAL] MSSQL/ASP migration

2007-01-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 12:13 -0500, Ted Byers wrote: > Is the original application ASP or SP.NET? It makes a difference, > particularly if it was developed to take advantage of ASP.NET 2. It might > conceivably be ASP.NET 3, but since that is brand new I can't see anyone > paying to replace an

[GENERAL] Complex search advice?

2007-02-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I want to be able to build complex search and reporting capabilities in to our PHP5 application. We want to be able to save searches for later use. We also want to build queries from virtually any field in certain tables from our PHP app. I hope to do as much within postgresql as possible. Then I s

[GENERAL] Crosstab

2007-02-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am trying to use the crosstab function of the contrib tablefunc. Reading the README, I believe I am supposed to be using crosstab(sql, N) for my situation and wondering if the SQL can be based on a view? I have this view created that gives me each sales rep and their total number of units sold an

[GENERAL] Expanding the crosstab function to extra rows

2007-02-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Finally figured out what was wrong with my crosstab that I posted for help yesterday. I was really close, just need to set the right types. I have it working using the crosstab(text sql, int N) function. This displays a crosstab from my view below for units sold by each sales rep under each month..

[GENERAL] Querying all months even if don't exist

2007-02-26 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a query that pulls totals for the month and from there I am building a crosstab to show all months. My dilemma is that sometimes there is no data for a month and the crosstab becomes skewed. I made a table with all the 12 months in it and joined to the query in my view to get all the months

[GENERAL] Building a record in a function

2007-02-27 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Haven't done a whole lot of plsql returning records, only those based on a query. I was wondering, can I build a record from the results of the query using other values for some fields in the record? I know 'return next' requires a record and want to build my own record to include some argument val

[GENERAL] Constructing a SELECT statement in pl/pgsql

2007-05-16 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a function that returns a set of records based on one of my views. The function takes two arguments of user_id and saved search name, looks up the search values from a table previously saved and performs a SELECT query on my view to return my set of records found. However, I don't want to SE

[GENERAL] Performance tuning?

2007-05-19 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
We have a MS SQL server db that we successfully migrated to pgsql 8.2 and I am now working on some views and notice select queries being very slow. I have vacuumed last night and running the exact same query (with minor changes to syntax of course), it runs in just a few seconds compared to several

Re: [GENERAL] Performance tuning?

2007-05-19 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 17:05 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am running the following query on a linux server with comparable > > processor and memory as the windows server. > > Show us the table definitions and the EXP

Re: [GENERAL] Performance tuning?

2007-05-19 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:19 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > You're comparing fields of distinct types, which not only incurs > run-time type conversions but can interfere with the ability to > use some plan types at all. Looking at the table definitions, > you've got primary keys declared as SERIAL (ie,

[GENERAL] Permance issues with migrated db

2007-05-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I posted an issue I was having with a migration from MS SQL server to pgsql over the weekend. Tom's suggestion for the query I posted was right on, I made the appropriate updates to column types by dumping, changing and restoring the database. I then analyze'd the db and my query performance was eq

Re: [GENERAL] Permance issues with migrated db

2007-05-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 17:21 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > I have developed a view in pgsql that takes over 160K ms to execute, but > > when copied into MS SQL against the old database (with syntax mods of > > course), runs in a few seconds. >

Re: [GENERAL] Permance issues with migrated db

2007-05-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 19:04 +0200, PFC wrote: > > I thought the same thing. While I'm not a MS SQL guru, I put 'TOP 100 > > PERCENT' after SELECT in the query. The Enterprise Manager does not > > indicate how many rows come back. I save it as a VIEW in MS SQL and do a > > 'select count(*)...' and,

Re: [GENERAL] Permance issues with migrated db

2007-05-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:10 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Robert Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 17:21 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > >> Your query seems to produce 41.8 million rows. Are you sure MS-SQL is > >> returning that man

Re: [GENERAL] Permance issues with migrated db

2007-05-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 19:03 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > 4. We're still 5 x slower than MS-SQL (with the count). That might > well > be down to having to check visibility on each row with our MVCC > rather > than just going to the index. Tips? I'd love to know how to see inside MVCC. I really

Re: [GENERAL] Permance issues with migrated db

2007-05-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 14:30 -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 19:03 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > > > > Hmm... How much of your machine is PG getting to use vs. MS-SQL? What > > are your shared_buffers, work_mem, effective_cache_size (and how much

Re: [GENERAL] Permance issues with migrated db

2007-05-22 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 20:13 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > I did some googling and came up with some ideas, I have it now with > > these settings and after restarting PG, no help. > > > > work_mem = 5MB > > My last post missed yo

[GENERAL] Searching data across tables, some large

2007-05-23 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Thanks to Richard for the help earlier this week with performance questions, once I was able to get pgsql and mssql using the same resources and doing some tuning, I was able to get comparable results. The issue still though, I have this view that I designed with the thought in mind to provide all

Re: [GENERAL] Searching data across tables, some large

2007-05-23 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 18:53 -0400, Ericson Smith wrote: > Yeah, we've used Tsearch with joins and searches on other fields on > the tsearch table no problem. Tsearches are just another part of a > WHERE clause. > And can there be Tsearch fields built based on fields in different tables? Where ca

Re: [GENERAL] Searching data across tables, some large

2007-05-23 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 19:48 -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 18:53 -0400, Ericson Smith wrote: > > Yeah, we've used Tsearch with joins and searches on other fields on > > the tsearch table no problem. Tsearches are just another part of a > > WHERE

[GENERAL] Referencing any field in a trigger

2007-05-25 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
How can I reference any NEW field in an insert/update trigger function? When someone inserts or updates any field with a single asterisk (*), I need it to become '%%%'. But if they use an asterisk in any combination with other fields, then I want to TRANSLATE those asterisks to a single '%'. I was

Re: [GENERAL] Referencing any field in a trigger

2007-05-25 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 11:17 -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > But if they use an asterisk in any combination > with other fields I meant to say 'But if they use an asterisk in any combination with other *values* in the field...'. For instance, if they enter '*test*',

Re: [GENERAL] Referencing any field in a trigger

2007-05-25 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 12:00 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > How can I reference any NEW field in an insert/update trigger function? > > When someone inserts or updates any field with a single asterisk (*), I > > need it to become '%%%'.

Re: [GENERAL] Referencing any field in a trigger

2007-05-25 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 13:45 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > But still, how would I reference all fields using the pl/perl? Can I > > specify column numbers versus names as in '$_TD->{new}{1}' for the first > > column and loop or

[GENERAL] Restoring 8.2 to 8.0

2007-06-01 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a dump from 8.2 restored to file that was pg_dump'd with format c from a production server. I want to know if it is possible for me to restore this to a 8.0 development server where I am not able to upgrade at this time. Trying to do some testing, but this is the only other server that's ava

Re: [GENERAL] Restoring 8.2 to 8.0

2007-06-01 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 19:24 +0200, RW wrote: > I've never tried this but maybe it works if you use pg_dump > from 8.0 to do the dump. > > Greetings > Robert > > Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > I have a dump from 8.2 restored to file that was pg_dump'd with for

[GENERAL] Generate random password

2007-06-07 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Can anyone suggest how one might be able to do this? I want to be able to generate an 8 character random password for users in their password field. Perhaps through the default setting of the field or a trigger function. I found the following, but is there anything that can be used on both Windows

[GENERAL] Create a pg table from CSV with header rows

2005-09-15 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Anyone know a package that can do this? Perferrably a Unix/Linux package. -- Robert ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

[GENERAL] Looping through arrays

2005-11-03 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a field with 'AA-BB-CC-DD' and I want to pull those four values into an array and then loop through the array inserting records into a table for each element. Can you someone point me to an example of this in pl/pgsql? -- Robert ---(end of broadcast)---

[GENERAL] Division

2005-11-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am having a problem gettig a percent via division. Below is the first part of my trigger function where pct returns 0.00, instead of the expected 0.50. If I try without dimensions to the numeric variable, I just get 0. What is the correct way to accomplish the percent? CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION

[GENERAL] Sorting by constant values

2005-05-03 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a column that I want to sort by certain values. The values are Unit, Exterior and Common. I want all the records with Unit first, Common second and Exterior last in the sort order. These are the only 3 possible values, is there a way to sort manually like that with the alphanumeric values?

[GENERAL] Password authentication failed for user

2005-06-07 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a database that is used every day for the past year and all of a sudden, this morning, I get a report that a user cannot login. I have doubled checked the pg_hba.conf file, which has not been changed in several months. But only this one user even after resetting the password, any other user

[GENERAL] Using COALESCE nside function

2007-07-23 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Is it possible to use COALESCE function inside a function as a cursor variable? test cursor (myvar varchar) for (coalesce(SELECT...,0)); I get a syntax error when trying this...ERROR: syntax error at or near "COALESCE"...is there a way to do this? -- Robert

[GENERAL] Left joining table to setof function

2007-09-07 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a function that returns a set of a custom type... trax=# \d client_search Composite type "public.client_search" Column | Type + clientno | bigint client | character varying(100) contactno | bigint c

[GENERAL] Getting result from EXECUTE

2007-09-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a trigger function that I want to apply to several tables, hence my use of TG_RELNAME. I just want the record to get inserted if an UPDATE comes from my view rule if the record for the client doesn't already exist. This is what I have, but I'm finding the FOUND is not returned for EXECUTE. H

[GENERAL] autovacuum

2007-09-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a large database used with our mail filter. The pg_dumpall results in about 3GB with this being the only database in the system besides templates and postgres. I do a vacuum every night after backup and it takes about an hour, is this normal for this size db? I also have autovacuum enabled

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum

2007-09-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 13:22 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Robert Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I have a large database used with our mail filter. The pg_dumpall > > results in about 3GB with this being the only database in the system > >

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum

2007-09-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 16:38 -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Robert Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why does everyone leave of the IO subsystem? It's almost as if many > people don't realize that disks exist ... > > With 2G of RAM, and a DB that's

[GENERAL] delta copies of pg_dump files

2007-09-24 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Trying to format our pg_dump files so that we can take advantage of rsync delta copies and the problem seems to be the sequences and maybe very active tables not allowing much matched data in the transfer. I have a 3GB dump file in plain text and broke off the head of two dump files into their own

[GENERAL] Outliers of data

2004-10-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a project where it is necessary to determine Outliers of lab results and looking for some pointers on the best way to handle this type of calculation with PostgreSQL. Possibly an operator? I have no experience with that. I found some info on the web for calculating Outliers, here is one of t

[GENERAL] COPY command with PHP

2004-10-23 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a PHP script that was having problems using the COPY command with files around 1500 lines in size. The script will build the copy data from incoming CSV file into a temp file, then start a COPY command and loop through the copy data using pg_put_line to insert and then pg_end_copy after post

[GENERAL] Sorting street addresses

2004-10-28 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Thanks to some help here on the list, I've been able to get addresses sorting pretty well, but now I have a issue with same addresses on different streets not grouping the streets. This is what I'm using a substring search in the ORDER BY statement now like in this view: SELECT tblhudsimilargroups

[GENERAL] Converting number to words

2004-11-05 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I searched through the net quickly and the list archives, but could not find anything doing this. Is it possible? There is a Perl module for doing this, but I guess cannot use modules for security reasons. -- Robert ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2:

Re: [GENERAL] Copy command and import - MS SQL Server to Postgres

2004-11-05 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 16:48, Allen Landsidel wrote: > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:31:21 -0500, Goutam Paruchuri > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Iam trying to import data from ms-sql server to postgres. I export the data > > which has datetime columns in sql server using BCP. I use the following to

[GENERAL] DROP DATABASE, but still there

2004-11-11 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
What does it mean when you drop a database and then recreate with the same name and all the objects are still there. I want to wipe out the db and put back from pg_restore. After I re-create the db, all the old tables are back before I run pg_restore. -- Robert ---(end o

Re: [GENERAL] DROP DATABASE, but still there

2004-11-11 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 14:03, Doug McNaught wrote: > Robert Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What does it mean when you drop a database and then recreate with the > > same name and all the objects are still there. I want to wipe out the db > > and put ba

[GENERAL] Rules WHERE condition

2004-11-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a view that used union all to merge three tables together. I was hoping to create a rule, one for each table using the WHERE condition of the rule to determine which table gets updated. Is this possible? This is what I have, assume the view here is a merge of three tables using union all:

Re: [GENERAL] Rules WHERE condition

2004-11-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 11:49, Michael Fuhr wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:20:41AM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > I have a view that used union all to merge three tables together. I was > > hoping to create a rule, one for each table using the WHERE condition

Re: [GENERAL] Rules WHERE condition

2004-11-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 12:49, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 11:49, Michael Fuhr wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:20:41AM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > > > I have a view that used union all to merge three tables together. I was > >

[GENERAL] Posting COPY data with shared sequences

2004-11-19 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I share the same sequences across 3 tables and have a COPY that send data to one of those tables. That table has a before insert trigger function that looks for a condition and redirect records to the other two depending on that condition result. Sharing the sequence is needed to act as a primary k

[GENERAL] Dropping sequences

2004-11-30 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have changed the default sequence on a primary key integer (created as SERIAL) field in a table, but it will not let me drop the old sequence and continues to tell me that the sequence is required by the table. Can someone tell me what is required to get this dropped? I am just paranoid that it c

[GENERAL] Creating indexes

2007-12-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a PHP 5 app using pgsql 8.2 and a HTML table of clients now grown to almost 10,000 loading 25 per page. There is a filter feature atop all seven columns in the table listing (all varchar except one date column). Also, sorting can be done by clicking any column header. Some complain of speed

[GENERAL] Getting all tables into memory

2008-01-24 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a couple of servers running Postfix with amavisd-maia+SA+clamav on FreeBSD 6.2 which use a central db server running PgSQL 8.2.4. My issue is the bayes database causing SA TIMED OUT in the logs and want to make sure I am getting everything into memory. The disk activity is high on the db ser

Re: [GENERAL] Getting all tables into memory

2008-01-24 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 10:46 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Robert Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > How can I tell if PgSQL is using memory or not and > > how much? > > Well, top is helpful. Also, consider installing the pg_buffercache addon >

[GENERAL] Test text value as interval

2008-02-07 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Been searching for a way to do this, but haven't found what I was hoping to find. Is there any way in pl/pgsql to test a text value to see if it would be a valid interval without having to try and store in a field? In a trigger, I'd like to test a NEW text type field. Right now, I have just the fol

Re: [GENERAL] Test text value as interval

2008-02-07 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 16:58 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 19:37 -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Been searching for a way to do this, but haven't found what I was hoping > > to find. Is there any way in pl/pgsql to test a text value to see if it > >

[GENERAL] Installing debugger

2008-05-16 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have built posgresql 8.3.1 on a FreeBSD 6.1 via the ports system WITH_DEBUG=true and also on a Windows machine with the debugger selected. I see the plugin_debugger.dll under the lib/plugins folder on the Windows machine as well. But when I look for the procs, they are not there template1=#

Re: [GENERAL] Installing debugger

2008-05-16 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 14:27 +0100, Dave Page wrote: > There is a README with the plugin which tells you how to modify > postgresql.conf to preload the libraries at server start (which you > must do). Once you've done that, just run the pldbgapi.sql script > that's also included to load the api fun

[GENERAL] Error code 1063

2006-07-11 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
We have PostgreSQL 8.1 running on Windows 2000 for a few weeks now, when we try to start the service, it could not start claiming no error returned. So, I go to the command prompt and run the following: "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\bin\pg_ctl.exe" runservice -N "pgsql-8.1" -D "C:\Program Files

[GENERAL] Error code 1063

2006-07-11 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
We have PostgreSQL 8.1 running on Windows 2000 for a few weeks now. Don't know what happened, the users reported a connection issue to the database and I found the service will not start. When we try to start the service, it could not start claiming no error returned. So, I go to the command prom

[GENERAL] key=value imports

2011-01-19 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I was wondering if someone could help with my new task of trying to import from an API into PostgreSQL 9.0. An example query would respond like this... transactid=164d8355b0f4fc2eb051344d3b6b0b5f status=SUCCESS domaincount=3 domain_0_name=example1.com domain_0_expiration=2011/06/16 domain_0_status

[GENERAL] plperl.dll on windows with postgresql 9.0

2011-02-04 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am upgrading a Windows install for a client of mine from 8.2.x to 9.0.3 and understand the pginstaller does not provide plperl for this version. ActivePerl 5.8 was already installed and after uninstalling 8.2 and installing 9.0.3, there is no plperl.dll in the lib folder. I thought this was due t

[GENERAL] plperl.dll on windows with postgresql 9.0

2011-02-06 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am upgrading a Windows install for a client of mine from 8.2.x to 9.0.3 and understand the pginstaller does not provide plperl for this version. ActivePerl 5.8 was already installed and after uninstalling 8.2 and installing 9.0.3, there is no plperl.dll in the lib folder. I thought this was due t

[GENERAL] plperl.dll on windows with postgresql 9.0.3

2011-02-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am upgrading a Windows install from 8.2.x to 9.0.3. ActivePerl 5.8 was already installed, but when I run the createlang command to install into my database, I get... could not load library “C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/lib/plperl.dll”: The specified module could not be found. SQL state: 58P01

Re: [GENERAL] plperl.dll on windows with postgresql 9.0.3

2011-02-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 2/8/2011 11:58 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > could not load library “C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/lib/plperl.dll”: > The specified module could not be found. SQL state: 58P01 Sorry the correct error I am getting is... could not load library “C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/9.0/lib/plpe

Re: [GENERAL] plperl.dll on windows with postgresql 9.0.3

2011-02-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 2/8/2011 12:03 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > On 2/8/2011 11:58 AM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: >> could not load library “C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/lib/plperl.dll”: >> The specified module could not be found. SQL state: 58P01 > > Sorry the correct error I am getting

[GENERAL] worker took too long to start; cancelled

2008-11-05 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a FreeBSD server with Postfix that filters mail using amavisd-maia+SA+ClamAV. It crashed when we received an SMTP attack that traced back to a compromised user login and a flood a messages were sent to this smarthost. After getting it back up, I find this in the logs... Nov 4 08:09:50 esmt

[GENERAL] Post to another db using pl/pgsql

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I've worked with pgsql for a while, but never needed to post from a database trigger to another db. Is this possible? And if so, can someone offer a pointer to the docs on how to refer to other db's in my script, etc? -- Robert -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.o

Re: [GENERAL] Post to another db using pl/pgsql

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 18:02 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've worked with pgsql for a while, but never needed to post from a > > database trigger to another db. Is this possible? And if so, can someone > > offer a pointer to the docs on how to refer to other db's in my script, > > etc? > >

[GENERAL] Using dblink to connect as non-superuser

2008-11-12 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I try to use dblink_connect while logged into the database as the superuser and it returns OK, but if I disconnect and use the same command as follows, it give and error, password is required. Even if I try to use the superuser login in the connect string below while connected as a non-superuser, I

[GENERAL] pgcrypto contrib

2008-11-13 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am trying to develop a trigger that will post a new account into a table in another db sing dblink that is part of the egroupware web app that uses tripledes as the algorithm. I can't seem to find a combination for gen_salt that produces the correct crypt password, however, my knowledge in this a

[GENERAL] Setting NEW in AFTER trigger

2008-12-15 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Is it not possible to set the value of a field by reference of NEW.field in an AFTER trigger? I have a trigger where I set NEW.field := myfunction and NEW.field shows the resulting value in my RAISE NOTICE as shown here... CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "public"."registrants_tr_test_func" () RETURNS

[GENERAL] Invalid byte sequence

2010-12-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am getting the following error when trying to migrate a db from 8.4.0/FreeBSD 7.1 to 9.0.1/FreeBSD 8.1, both are VMware virtual machines with FreeBSD amd64... data1# psql -U pgsql template1 < /data/maia.sql template1 < /data/incoming.sql ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x

[GENERAL] Test for cascade delete in plpgsql

2011-10-13 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
My contacts table has a FK with cascade delete to foreign table companies using the company_id column. I have a DELETE AFTER trigger on my contacts table that checks to see if there are any contacts left with an email address or it won't allow you to delete the record for a company. However, if th

Re: [GENERAL] Test for cascade delete in plpgsql

2011-10-14 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 10/13/2011 5:45 PM, David Johnston wrote: > the company record should not be visible > if you execute a SELECT against the companies table using the given > company_id value. The previous is not tested and I am not totally sure > about the visibility rules in this situation (mainly whether the

[GENERAL] Upgrade from 7.3.4 to 7.4.2 went wrong

2004-05-16 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I get this error after doing the upgrade on FreeBSD 5.2.1: The data directory was initialized by PostgreSQL version 7.3, which is not compatible with this version 7.4.2 Should I just re-initdb and the import my dump file? -- Robert ---(end of broadcast)

[GENERAL] Intalling PHP 4.3.7 with PGSQL support and Heimdal

2004-06-06 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Trying to portupgrade my PHP 4.3.6 package with PostgreSQL 7.4.2 support and getting this error below. Trying to setup postgresql with Heimdal Kerberos 5 support, believe I have, but not tried anything with it, yet.   /usr/local/lib/libpq.so: undefined reference to `krb5_cc_get_principal'/us

[GENERAL] Database accesss using plperl

2004-06-16 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have plperl installed my PostgreSQL 7.4.2 server, but from what I understand in chapter 39.3 of the docs, you cannot access the databases without DBD::PgSPI. According to the readme for that module, it will only run on the untrusted plperlu. Is this the only way to run queries (SELECT, INSERT, U

Re: [GENERAL] Database accesss using plperl

2004-06-17 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 19:05, Paul Thomas wrote: > On 16/06/2004 21:27 Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > I have plperl installed my PostgreSQL 7.4.2 server, but from what I > > understand in chapter 39.3 of the docs, you cannot access the databases > > without DBD::PgSPI. Accord

[GENERAL] Trigger to update records out of memory

2004-06-18 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 7.4.2 I have a trigger that I want to update any existing boolean values to false if a new one in that group is declare true by inserting a new record or updating an existing record: ohc=# CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "public"."clear_common_groups" () RETURNS trigger AS' ohc'# BEGIN ohc'# IF NE

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger to update records out of memory

2004-06-18 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 13:17, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > ohc=# CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "public"."clear_common_groups" () > RETURNS trigger AS' > ohc'# BEGIN > ohc'# IF NEW.common_area = ''t'' THEN > ohc&#x

[GENERAL] SELECT based on function result

2004-07-15 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a function that tells me if a record is positive and negative based on several field values. I use it in select statements: ohc=> SELECT sample_id, is_wipe_positive(tblleadwipe.sample_id) AS positive FROM tblleadwipe WHERE hud_building_id IS NOT NULL; sample_id | positive ---+-

[GENERAL] Using SELECT inside a COPY transaction with PHP

2004-07-21 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I tried posting this to PHP-DB list, but no answers since yesterday. I'm thinking it is not possible, but just trying to confirm. I am using pg_exec($dbh, "COPY sometable FROM stdin USING DELIMITERS"). Once this the connectino is made and this line has been issued, my script begins analyzing each l

[GENERAL] tracking down foreign key constraint violation error

2004-08-08 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a function that does varous things, I can post it if necessary. Basically, it deletes any related similar_group_id in tblhud74b, sets sort_order field in tblhudunits to NULL and then proceeds to re-populate tblhud74b based on certain calculations. The function runs fine through all loops to

[GENERAL] DELETE and UPDATE in same function with foriegn keys

2004-08-09 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have tblhud74b that has a foreign key to tblhudunits with Restrict Updates. I have a function that DELETEs corresponding records before doing an UPDATE right after the DELETE statement and receive the following error: ERROR: update or delete on "tblhudunits" violates foreign key constraint "tbl

[GENERAL] Sorting varchar w/single digits

2004-08-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have varchar column with both numbers and letters, like 1 thru 10 and 5A thru 5G, they are unit numbers for apartments. If I have 1 thru 100, since it is a varchar field, it sorts like 1,10,11... instead of 1,2,3... Is there any way to handle this without having to make a sort order column? --

[GENERAL] postmaster does not shut down

2004-08-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am getting 'postmaster does not shut down' when trying to stop the database with '.../pg_ctl -D /path/to/datadir stop -m fast. How should I proceed to get the database shut down and restarted? Are there other options besides immediate shutdown flag? I dont' want to lose everything I've worked on

[GENERAL] Updating another table using a trigger

2004-09-15 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am running PostgreSQL 7.4.5 and have a trigger on a table called tblriskassessors which inserts, updates or delete a corresponding record in tblinspectors by lookup of a contact id and license number match. The INSERT and DELETE work fine. The UPDATE works good unless I update the license number.

[GENERAL] Returning recordsets with functions

2004-09-23 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Can someone point me to some more information or perhaps show an example of returning a recordset from a plpgsql function. I'd like to send an argument or arguments to the function, do some queries to return a set of records. I've done several functions that return one value of one type, but nothin

Re: [GENERAL] Returning recordsets with functions

2004-09-23 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 18:28, Tim Penhey wrote: > Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > >Can someone point me to some more information or perhaps show an example > >of returning a recordset from a plpgsql function. I'd like to send an > >argument or arguments to the function

[GENERAL] Returning a list of fields in a composite type

2004-09-24 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
Is it possible to return the field names of a composite type using a function? Any examples or pointers? -- Robert ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddress