Re: [HACKERS] Problem with authentication in psql.

2001-07-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Vitalino writes: I have some problem with the Postgres user authentication. A user with password was created by me, but when I tried to enter in psql using that user I received a fail mesage. $ psql -W template1 pagano Password: psql: Peer authentication failed for user 'pagano'

[HACKERS] Rule action ordering

2001-07-06 Thread Tom Lane
Jan Wieck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fire rule actions ON INSERT after original statement (if not INSTEAD). It seems to me that this change of ordering should apply to qual_products (ie, original statement with negation of a conditional INSTEAD rule's condition) as well as to the

Re: [HACKERS] FE/BE protocol oddity

2001-07-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: I think you can use the conn-status field; you shouldn't need a new flag, just test whether status is CONNECTION_OK or not. You're right. I was confused by the comment /* Non-blocking mode only below here */ in the definition of ConnStatusType, thinking that the

[HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum and Transactions

2001-07-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In 7.2, VACUUM will not require an exclusive lock. Care to elaborate on that? How are you going to do it? Uh, have you not been paying attention to pg-hackers for the last two months? I am assuming here that concurrent VACUUM will become the

RE: [HACKERS] New SQL Datatype RECURRINGCHAR

2001-07-06 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, David Bennett wrote: rest snipped In either model you would: update master_table set status='OPEN_PENDING_SOMETHING' where status='OPEN' This would not change, in fact, even in a normalized design you wouldn't change the lookup table (parent) key. Perhaps you

[HACKERS] Async PQgetResult() question.

2001-07-06 Thread Matthew Hagerty
Greetings, I'm working with pqlib in asynchronous mode and I have a question about PQgetResult. I have this situation: submit a query via PQsendQuery() flush to the backend with PQflush() set my read descriptor on the socket and enter a select() select returns read_ready on the socket, so

Re: [HACKERS] 2 gig file size limit

2001-07-06 Thread Larry Rosenman
* Naomi Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010706 17:57]: If PostgreSQL is run on a system that has a file size limit (2 gig?), where might cause us to hit the limit? PostgreSQL is smart, and breaks the table files up at ~1GB per each, so it's transparent to you. You shouldn't have to worry about it.