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PyKota - Print Quotas for CUPS and LPRng

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Documentation for the pykota-postgresql.sql script :
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This script is to be used to create an empty Quota Storage
DataBase using PostgreSQL as a backend.

If you have already installed PyKota, and have datas in your
Quota Storage DataBase, you may prefer to skip this section
and read the next one.

        - edit the pykota-postgresql.sql file and modify the passwords on
          the 'CREATE USER' lines.
          
        - Launch the psql frontend and connect to the
          database template1 as a PostgreSQL administrator
          (i.e. the postgres user) :
          
          as user 'root' :
          
            # su - postgres
            
          you're now user 'postgres', then continue with :   
          
            $ psql -f pykota-postgresql.sql template1
            
          or depending on your settings you may prefer :  
          
            $ psql -h localhost -U postgres -f pykota-postgresql.sql template1
          
        - If no error message appears, your PostgreSQL PyKota storage 
          is now ready for use. NB : a lot of NOTICE messages might appear,
          this is perfectly normal.
          
        - In ~pykota/pykota.conf, ensure that the following lines
          are present and unique inside the [global] section :
        
            storagebackend : pgstorage
            storageserver : localhost
            storagename : pykota
            storageuser : pykotauser
            storageuserpw : readonlypw
            
            NB : replace 'readonlypw' with the password you chose
            for user 'pykotauser' when you modified pykota-postgresql.sql
            
        - In ~pykota/pykotadmin.conf ensure that the following lines
          are present and unique inside the [global] section :
        
            storageadmin : pykotaadmin
            storageadminpw : readwritepw
            
            NB : replace 'readwritepw' with the password you chose
            for user 'pykotaadmin' when you modified pykota-postgresql.sql
        
        - IMPORTANT : if your database is not located on the print server, 
          replace 'localhost' in the lines above with your database server's 
          hostname or IP address. If your database server doesn't listen on
          its standard port, add the port number at the end of the hostname
          with a colon to separate the hostname from the port.
          See pykota/conf/pykota.conf.sample for examples.
          
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Upgrade scripts :

  DON'T DO ANYTHING IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST INSTALLATION
  OF PYKOTA.

  Some scripts to upgrade old PyKota databases to the new
  database schema are included. You may have to run all
  of them or only some of them, depending on your 
  version of PyKota. Usually running them several times, for
  example if you used several different development versions
  of PyKota, won't do any harm.
  
  If you're connected as user 'root', you have to be user 'postgres'
  instead :
          
            # su - postgres
            
  You're now user 'postgres', then continue the upgrade by following
  the instructions below, depending on the version you actually use :
  
  * An SQL script to upgrade a 1.22 PyKota Storage DataBase to
    1.23 is included. Launch it this way on the Quota Storage Server :
    
        $ psql -U postgres pykota
        pykota=# \i upgrade-to-1.23.sql
        pykota=# \q
        $
        
    This script adds many fields to existing tables, and a table to
    manage billing codes.
    
  * An SQL script to upgrade a 1.20 PyKota Storage DataBase to
    1.21 is included. Launch it this way on the Quota Storage Server :
    
        $ psql -U postgres pykota
        pykota=# \i upgrade-to-1.21.sql
        pykota=# \q
        $
        
    This script adds many fields to existing tables, and also adds
    some tables in indexes.
    
  * An SQL script to upgrade a 1.18 PyKota Storage DataBase to
    1.19 is included. Launch it this way on the Quota Storage Server :
    
        $ psql -U postgres pykota
        pykota=# \i upgrade-to-1.19.sql
        pykota=# \q
        $
        
    This script adds a field to the print job history. The field that
    is added is : hostname
    
  * An SQL script to upgrade a pre-1.16 PyKota Storage DataBase to
    1.16 is included. Launch it this way on the Quota Storage Server :
    
        $ psql -U postgres pykota
        pykota=# \i upgrade-to-1.16.sql
        pykota=# \q
        $
        
    This script adds some fields to the print job history, so that
    more complete information will be known. The fields that
    are added are : jobprice, filename, title, copies and print 
    command options. Also some indexes are created to speed things up.
  
What is below is for historical reasons only, real people don't use  
such old beasts, and YOU SHOULDN'T EITHER !

  * An SQL script to upgrade a pre-1.14 PyKota Storage DataBase to
    1.14 is included. Launch it this way on the Quota Storage Server :
    
        $ psql -U postgres pykota
        pykota=# \i upgrade-to-1.14.sql
        pykota=# \q
        $
        
    This script adds an "email" field for each user. This field, if not    
    NULL, is used as the email address of the user when sending warning
    messages in case he is over quota.
    
  * An sql script to upgrade a pre-1.01 PyKota Quota Storage DataBase to 
    1.01 is still included for historical reasons. PLEASE DON'T USE IT ! 
  
  * If you are already running an old version of PyKota (<1.03) and 
    want to upgrade to 1.03, YOU HAVE TO RUN the 
    upgrade-from-before-1.03.py shell script. NOT LAUNCHING THIS SCRIPT 
    WILL CAUSE PYKOTA TO STOP WORKING ! PLEASE NEVER RUN THIS SCRIPT IF 
    YOUR EXISTING VERSION OF PYKOTA IS ALREADY 1.03 OR HIGHER.