Thread: Forgotten the master password of db
Hi, unfortunately I have forgotten the mpassword of the master user of a db. Is there a way to retrieve it using the user who owns the db template1? Thx Thiemo -- Thiemo Kellner Tösstalstrasse 146 CH-8400 Winterthur http://www.toomai.ch.vu http://www.acok-project.ch.vu
thiemo <thiemo@gmx.ch> writes: > unfortunately I have forgotten the mpassword of the master user of a db. > Is there a way to retrieve it using the user who owns the db template1? No, but you can temporarily set the authorization policy (pg_hba.conf) to something other than password; log in as the superuser without any password; assign yourself a new password. regards, tom lane
>> unfortunately I have forgotten the mpassword of the master user of a >> db. >> Is there a way to retrieve it using the user who owns the db template1? > > No, but you can temporarily set the authorization policy (pg_hba.conf) > to something other than password; log in as the superuser without any > password; assign yourself a new password. I shall try so. Thanks Thiemo -- Thiemo Kellner Tösstalstrasse 146 CH-8400 Winterthur http://www.toomai.ch.vu http://www.acok-project.ch.vu
thiemo, > unfortunately I have forgotten the mpassword of the master user of a db. > Is there a way to retrieve it using the user who owns the db template1? No, you can't retrieve it. You can change it, though, as the postgres user: ALTER USER the_user WITH PASSWORD 'new_password'; -- -Josh Berkus ______AGLIO DATABASE SOLUTIONS___________________________ Josh Berkus Complete information technology josh@agliodbs.com and data management solutions (415) 565-7293 for law firms, small businesses fax 621-2533 and non-profit organizations. San Francisco
Hi guys, I got a bit of an interesting problem I'm hoping someone can help me solve. I've got a table that's got over 12000 entries in it and user's can run searches on it via the web. Now, I only ever want to return a maximum of 500 results (for speed purposes) for any search. Now, I've got that right by using the LIMIT command, but I also want to be able to tell the user how many records matched their search criteria. So I want to say something like "Your search matched 1234 items. These are the first 500" or some such thing. Is there any way, IN ONE QUERY, to do this. So I want to basically return the first 500 results and a count of the total result set in one go. Is this possible? If not, what would be the quickest way to do this? The reason I need one query is because I use dynamic SQL, which complicates stuff a bit more Thanks Rob --- He who dies with the most toys ... ... still dies
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 10:06:23 +0200, Rob <rob@jamwarehouse.com> wrote: > > Is there any way, IN ONE QUERY, to do this. So I want to basically return > the first 500 results > and a count of the total result set in one go. Is this possible? > > If not, what would be the quickest way to do this? The reason I need one > query is because I use > dynamic SQL, which complicates stuff a bit more It is certainly possible to do this, if not efficient. You can always just union two queries together using an extra column that is null for the real records and returns the full count in a special record. Order by can be used to make this record first or last.