Re: [HACKERS] control pg_hba.conf via SQL

2006-03-29 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 16:20 -0500, Jonah H. Harris wrote: > Enable the alteration and persistence of postgresql.conf and > pg_hba.conf configuration parameters via SQL. Agreed. I'd also add the seemingly obvious caveat that parameters should be unique. A common problem is for one person to edit

Re: [HACKERS] Initdb on Windows 2003

2006-03-29 Thread James_Hughes
Just to let you guys know, I spoke to Microsoft and they confirmed that they have restricted access to the 'nul' device in a security update (to admin users). Not quite sure of the extact update! This is hardcoded in the Windows source, so no way to change somthing via code :( - James -Ori

Re: [HACKERS] control pg_hba.conf via SQL

2006-03-29 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > ISTM that the first requirement is for a sane API that will handle the > fact that HBA lines are ordered. Persistence in itself shouldn't be a > big problem - we already do that with some shared tables, iirc. > > so we might have some functions like: > > insert_hba_rul

Re: [HACKERS] control pg_hba.conf via SQL

2006-03-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ISTM that the first requirement is for a sane API that will handle the fact that HBA lines are ordered. Persistence in itself shouldn't be a big problem - we already do that with some shared tables, iirc. I'm a bit suspicio

Re: [HACKERS] psql \c error

2006-03-29 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 10:19:51PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Philip Yarra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi folks, I've found that CVS HEAD psql's \c doesn't quite behave as > > expected > > Yeah, there were complaints about this already. I think the problem was > introduced by this patch: I se

Re: [HACKERS] psql \c error

2006-03-29 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Yarra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks, I've found that CVS HEAD psql's \c doesn't quite behave as > expected Yeah, there were complaints about this already. I think the problem was introduced by this patch: 2006-02-11 21:54 momjian * doc/src/sgml/ref/psql-ref.sgml, src/b

Re: PostgreSQL not stsrt!:( -Re: [HACKERS] Please help, pgAdmin3

2006-03-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
-hackers is not the place for these questions. Please ask your questions in the correct forum, possibly pgsql-general. -hackers is for discussion of backend development. cheers andrew lmyho wrote: Which is good. But I've got big trouble to login to this initial db by using this auto-crea

Re: [HACKERS] control pg_hba.conf via SQL

2006-03-29 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 17:04, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ISTM that the first requirement is for a sane API that will handle the > > fact that HBA lines are ordered. Persistence in itself shouldn't be a > > big problem - we already do that with some shared

PostgreSQL not stsrt!:( -Re: [HACKERS] Please help, pgAdmin3 on Debian!

2006-03-29 Thread lmyho
>> Which is good. But I've got big trouble to login to this initial db by >> using this auto-created username "postgres" through pgAdmin:((( The first >>try failed due to "Ident authentication failed", so I follow the suggestion >>on the pop-up window of pgAdmin3, and changed the ident method in

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 sysconfig -> pg_service.conf

2006-03-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
David Fetter wrote: doesn't report anything by way of --sysconfdir, which in turn means that people have to do some fragile hackery in order even to see a pg_service.conf file. Can we put such a configuration directive into the binary builds? Is this known to work? In any case, the d

[HACKERS] psql \c error

2006-03-29 Thread Philip Yarra
Hi folks, I've found that CVS HEAD psql's \c doesn't quite behave as expected when postmaster is listening on non-default port. In this case I have postmaster listening on port 5434: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgsql]$ /usr/local/pgsql-cvs-head/bin/psql -p5434 -dpyarra Welcome to psql 8.2devel, the Postgr

Re: [HACKERS] Tablespaces oddity?

2006-03-29 Thread Philip Yarra
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:46 am, Philip Yarra wrote: > OK, how about on \d+, if the object is not on pg_default or pg_global, > print the tablespace that this object is on? That way, people not using > tablespaces won't ever see it. Tom, does this answer your objection? If so, I'll produce a patch fo

Re: [HACKERS] Index vacuum improvements

2006-03-29 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 16:49 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1. Instead of stopping on the first matching tuple, scan the whole index > > page for all matching entries at once. > > That loses the ability to reflect tuple deadness back into LP_DELETE > fl

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 sysconfig -> pg_service.conf

2006-03-29 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:53:13PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > David Fetter wrote: > >Folks, > > > >I'm trying to get pg_service.conf working on Windows so we can > >standardize on a way of doing things cross-platform, and noticed > >that > > > >pg_config.exe --configure > > why are you using t

Re: [HACKERS] control pg_hba.conf via SQL

2006-03-29 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ISTM that the first requirement is for a sane API that will handle the > fact that HBA lines are ordered. Persistence in itself shouldn't be a > big problem - we already do that with some shared tables, iirc. I'm a bit suspicious of proposals that we

Re: [HACKERS] Index vacuum improvements

2006-03-29 Thread Tom Lane
Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. Instead of stopping on the first matching tuple, scan the whole index > page for all matching entries at once. That loses the ability to reflect tuple deadness back into LP_DELETE flags, no? Which is a problem already for bitmap indexscans, but

Re: [HACKERS] control pg_hba.conf via SQL

2006-03-29 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 3/29/06, Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ISTM that the first requirement is for a sane API that will handle the > fact that HBA lines are ordered. Persistence in itself shouldn't be a > big problem - we already do that with some shared tables, iirc. I agree. -- Jonah H. Harris, Dat

Re: [HACKERS] control pg_hba.conf via SQL

2006-03-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
ISTM that the first requirement is for a sane API that will handle the fact that HBA lines are ordered. Persistence in itself shouldn't be a big problem - we already do that with some shared tables, iirc. so we might have some functions like: insert_hba_rule(at_position int, connection_type

Re: [HACKERS] control pg_hba.conf via SQL

2006-03-29 Thread Jonah H. Harris
I'd like to expand this idea with this TODO item. If this is already on the TODO, please disregard. I'm thinking something like the following: Enable the alteration and persistence of postgresql.conf and pg_hba.conf configuration parameters via SQL. On 3/29/06, BERTHOULE Emmanuel <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [HACKERS] Index vacuum improvements

2006-03-29 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 21:48 +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > As we know, index vacuum could be sped up significantly if it didn't > have > to lock every page in left to right direction because of the integrity > issue > described in nbtree/README. We could then scan the index in physical > or

[HACKERS] control pg_hba.conf via SQL

2006-03-29 Thread BERTHOULE Emmanuel
Hi all, i would like to work on control setting pg_hba.conf via SQL( cf TODO List ), and i would know if the pg_hda.conf must be replaced by pg_hba table ? Emmanuel BERTHOULE ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner

Re: [HACKERS] Win32 sysconfig -> pg_service.conf

2006-03-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
David Fetter wrote: Folks, I'm trying to get pg_service.conf working on Windows so we can standardize on a way of doing things cross-platform, and noticed that pg_config.exe --configure why are you using this flag? if you leave it off you will see everything. doesn't report anything by

[HACKERS] Win32 sysconfig -> pg_service.conf

2006-03-29 Thread David Fetter
Folks, I'm trying to get pg_service.conf working on Windows so we can standardize on a way of doing things cross-platform, and noticed that pg_config.exe --configure doesn't report anything by way of --sysconfdir, which in turn means that people have to do some fragile hackery in order even to s

Re: [HACKERS] Issue on Varchar Ordering

2006-03-29 Thread Rodrigo Hjort
Thanks all. I'm gonna try other locales and encodings.2006/3/29, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: "Rodrigo Hjort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> The fact is that I can't raise PostgreSQL with C encoding, as special> characters are used on most tables. You're confusing locale and encoding, which are two

[HACKERS] Index vacuum improvements

2006-03-29 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Hi, As we know, index vacuum could be sped up significantly if it didn't have to lock every page in left to right direction because of the integrity issue described in nbtree/README. We could then scan the index in physical order, and AFAICS combine the btbulkdelete and btvacuumcleanup logic t

Re: [HACKERS] Issue on Varchar Ordering

2006-03-29 Thread Tom Lane
"Rodrigo Hjort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The fact is that I can't raise PostgreSQL with C encoding, as special > characters are used on most tables. You're confusing locale and encoding, which are two different (though interrelated) things. I suspect the right choice for you will be to use C

Re: [HACKERS] Issue on Varchar Ordering

2006-03-29 Thread Rodrigo Hjort
Yeah, I think there's a problem on Linux locales.Using the C locale, it works as expected:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export LC_ALL=C && cat test.txt | sortGABRIEL ALCIDES KLIM PERONDIGABRIEL ALEXANDRE DA SILVA MANICA GABRIELA HELEDA DE SOUZAGABRIELA JACOBY NOSGABRIELA LETICIA BATISTA NUNESBut when using

Re: [HACKERS] Issue on Varchar Ordering

2006-03-29 Thread Jonah H. Harris
I don't think PostgreSQL's sorting it wrong... here's the output of Linux's sort utility: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cat test.txt GABRIEL ALEXANDRE DA SILVA MANICA GABRIELA LETICIA BATISTA NUNES GABRIEL ALCIDES KLIM PERONDI GABRIELA JACOBY NOS GABRIELA HELEDA DE SOUZA [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cat test.txt

Re: [HACKERS] Issue in Mapping varchar datatype of Postgre to Oracle

2006-03-29 Thread Jonah H. Harris
Here's my configuration which works just fine (using unixODBC). The postgres database was created UTF-8. Software: - SuSE 10 - PostgreSQL 8.1.3 - Oracle10g XE - psqlODBC 07.03.0260 (make sure to compile --with-unixODBC) - unixODBC 2.2.11 My /etc/unixODBC/odbcinst.ini: [PostgreSQL] Description =

Re: [HACKERS] [ODBC] Unable to Query the datatype varchar of PostgreSQL Server

2006-03-29 Thread Ludek Finstrle
> Thansk you very much for the inforamtion. We tried Postgres ODBC Driver > (ANSI. Now we can view the datatype varchar/text. > > But since there is a limitation of Ascii character set, we are unable to > view Latvian Specific characters. > > If you have any idea about this, please let me know

[HACKERS] Issue on Varchar Ordering

2006-03-29 Thread Rodrigo Hjort
Pg-Hackers,I'm having the following issue:create table aluno (id serial, nome varchar(60));rodrigo=# select * from aluno order by nome offset 35 limit 5; id |   nome+---  36 | GABRIELA HELEDA DE SOUZA 37 | GABRIELA JACOBY NOS 38 | GABRIEL ALCIDES KLIM

Re: [HACKERS] [ODBC] Unable to Query the datatype varchar of PostgreSQL Server

2006-03-29 Thread Ludek Finstrle
> Thansk you very much for the inforamtion. We tried Postgres ODBC Driver > (ANSI. Now we can view the datatype varchar/text. > > But since there is a limitation of Ascii character set, we are unable to > view Latvian Specific characters. > > If you have any idea about this, please let me know

Re: [HACKERS] [ODBC] Unable to Query the datatype varchar of PostgreSQL Server

2006-03-29 Thread vidisha . shah
Hi Thansk you very much for the inforamtion. We tried  Postgres ODBC Driver (ANSI. Now we can view the datatype varchar/text. But since there is a limitation of Ascii character set, we are unable to view Latvian Specific characters. If you have any idea about this, please let me know. Thanks &

Re: [HACKERS] Issue in Mapping varchar datatype of Postgre to

2006-03-29 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 11:02 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > CAUSE DETERMINATION > > VARCHAR datatype from PostgreSQL is translated by your ODBC driver in > an unsupported datatype for HSODBC. > > > CAUSE JUSTIFICATION > > In the trace file, you ge

Re: [HACKERS] Issue in Mapping varchar datatype of Postgre to Oracle

2006-03-29 Thread Joerg Hessdoerfer
Hi, On Wednesday 29 March 2006 07:32, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > We are trying to fetch records from Postgre Tables. > > We are successfully able to build connectivity. We are Using Postgre ODBC > Driver (Unicode). > > But when I query the tables of Postgre it is unable to map the datatype