Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] Postgres for Fedora Core 2 OS ****************

2005-07-18 Thread Richard Huxton
Dinesh Pandey wrote: From where can I download? Postgres 8.x + required packages and installation instruction of Postgres for Fedora Core 2 OS. Umm - did you try the website: http://www.postgresql.org/ Click Downloads, click FTP Browser, look in v8.03, linux, rpms, fedora,

[GENERAL] PG based wiki engine

2005-07-18 Thread Hannes Dorbath
Is there such a thing? PHP would be preferable, I don't want to maintain a MySQL-Server for such a small thing.. Thanks in advance ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate

Re: [GENERAL] PG based wiki engine

2005-07-18 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On 7/18/05, Hannes Dorbath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there such a thing? PHP would be preferable, I don't want to maintain a MySQL-Server for such a small thing.. Thanks in advance I have used phpwiki (http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/) with it. It's not really a full blown wiki system, but

[GENERAL] How to find the number of rows deleted

2005-07-18 Thread Andrus
I ran DELETE command from my ODBC client application. I want to get the number of rows deleted by this DELETE command. I read the DELETE command docs but havent found any function. Any idea ? Andrus. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you

[GENERAL] Changes to not deferred FK in 8.0.3 to 7.4?

2005-07-18 Thread Janning Vygen
Hi, in the release docs it says: Non-deferred AFTER triggers are now fired immediately after completion of the triggering query, rather than upon finishing the current interactive command. This makes a difference when the triggering query occurred within a function: the trigger is invoked

Re: [GENERAL] How to find the number of rows deleted

2005-07-18 Thread Ropel
At least, you can do a select count(*) from ... just before the delete, better if inside a transaction, if the query itself is not too much expensive Andrus wrote: I ran DELETE command from my ODBC client application. I want to get the number of rows deleted by this DELETE command. I read

Re: [GENERAL] index bloat

2005-07-18 Thread David Esposito
This week is looking busy for me but hopefully I'll be able to play around with various vacuuming frequencies for this table ... Thanks for all of your help; I'll report on my progress -Dave -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Re: [GENERAL] (Win32 Postgres) Slow to Connect first - OK afterwards

2005-07-18 Thread Andrus
Use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost In this case DNS is not used. Andrus. Scott cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I am running PostgreSQL 8.0 on WinXP When I try to connect psql.exe -h localhost -p 5432 template1 postgres I have to wait 30 seconds before the

Re: [GENERAL] How to create unique constraint on NULL columns

2005-07-18 Thread Andrus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/15/2005 02:49:09 PM: On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 20:08:32 +0300, Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I'll think still continuing to use null as unrestricted department access. Is it reasonable to

Re: [GENERAL] How to create unique constraint on NULL columns

2005-07-18 Thread Andrus
I was faced with a similar issue. One suggestion I got from the Internet was to create a shadow column that contains the values used in the Index, with a dummy entry (in my case, the string NULL) for those records in which the primary column is NULL. It works well for my app. Michael,

Re: [GENERAL] How to create unique constraint on NULL columns

2005-07-18 Thread Andrus
if department _id is NULL, user has access to all departments data. This is your problem. You've assigned meaning to the value NULL. CREATE TABLE permission ( id serial, user_id CHAR(10) NOT NULL REFERENCES user, permission_id CHAR(10) NOT NULL REFERENCES privilege, UNIQUE (user_id,

Re: [GENERAL] How to find the number of rows deleted

2005-07-18 Thread Andrus
Ropel, thank you. I'm looking for a better solution because 1. Some deletes take big amount of time. This increases run time a LOT 2. This requires the use of transaction if somebody changes data between SELECT COUNT(*) and DELETE commands. When transaction isolation level I must set for this

Re: [GENERAL] How to create unique constraint on NULL columns

2005-07-18 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On 7/18/05, Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a lot of overhead for doing something very simple, like defining a department key that means ALL and a row in the foreign table for it to point to. Maintaining indices is a nontrivial performance trade-off. Yes, adding department ALL may

Re: [GENERAL] How to create unique constraint on NULL columns

2005-07-18 Thread Andrus
If I add ALL to department table, I must restrict all other tables of having ALL department. This is a big work and cannot be done nicely in Postgres. Not true. :) You simply need to add CHECK (departament_id 0) (assuming 0 is the ID of ALL departaments. You can even CREATE DOMAIN with

Re: [GENERAL] (Win32 Postgres) Slow to Connect first - OK afterwards

2005-07-18 Thread Scott cox
Andrus, Is correct. There is no DNS involved because I am using 127.0.0.1 in my config and when connecting. But there is still a ~60second delay connecting and more delays to return the select * query. I have other servers using 127.0.0.1 like Apache,MySql and none have this delay connecting

[GENERAL] TRUNCATE locking problem

2005-07-18 Thread Joe Maldonado
Hello all, We am running PostgreSQL 7.4.5 and recently we have noticed some strange behaviour with regards to the TRUNCATE statement. I think it would help to provide a quick overview of what we are doing with the table in question in order to properly explain this. The application which

Re: [GENERAL] How to create unique constraint on NULL columns

2005-07-18 Thread Marco Colombo
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 13:46 +0300, Andrus wrote: I have table CREATE TABLE test( col1 CHAR NOT NULL, col2 CHAR, UNIQUE (col1, col2) ); This table allows to insert duplicate rows if col2 is NULL: INSERT INTO test VALUES ( '1', NULL ); INSERT INTO test VALUES ( '1', NULL ); does NOT

Re: [GENERAL] Changes to not deferred FK in 8.0.3 to 7.4?

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
Janning Vygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have lots of tables with mutli-column PK and multi-column FK. All FK are cascading, so updating a PK should trigger through the whole database. This worked earlier in 7.4: UPDATE tipprunden SET tr_kurzname = 'schwarze2' where tr_kurzname =

Re: [GENERAL] How to find the number of rows deleted

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I ran DELETE command from my ODBC client application. I want to get the number of rows deleted by this DELETE command. I'm sure ODBC provides a way to do that, but you're asking the wrong list about what it is ... try pgsql-odbc.

Re: [GENERAL] How to find the number of rows deleted

2005-07-18 Thread John DeSoi
On Jul 18, 2005, at 7:00 AM, Andrus wrote: I ran DELETE command from my ODBC client application. I want to get the number of rows deleted by this DELETE command. I read the DELETE command docs but havent found any function. Any idea ? I don't use ODBC, but you should get that directly back

Re: [GENERAL] TRUNCATE locking problem

2005-07-18 Thread Stephen Frost
* Joe Maldonado ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: It seems that TRUNCATE is first posting a lock on the table and then waiting for other transactions to finish before truncating the table thus blocking all other operations. Is this what is actually going on or am I missing something else? and is

Re: [GENERAL] TRUNCATE locking problem

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Maldonado [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that TRUNCATE is first posting a lock on the table and then waiting for other transactions to finish before truncating the table thus blocking all other operations. That's what it's supposed to do. If you have a problem with the length of the

Re: [GENERAL] Changes to not deferred FK in 8.0.3 to 7.4?

2005-07-18 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Tom Lane wrote: Janning Vygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have lots of tables with mutli-column PK and multi-column FK. All FK are cascading, so updating a PK should trigger through the whole database. This worked earlier in 7.4: UPDATE tipprunden SET tr_kurzname =

Re: [GENERAL] How to create unique constraint on NULL columns

2005-07-18 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On 7/18/05, Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I add ALL to department table, I must restrict all other tables of having ALL department. This is a big work and cannot be done nicely in Postgres. Not true. :) You simply need to add CHECK (departament_id 0) (assuming 0 is the ID of ALL

Re: [GENERAL] How to find the number of rows deleted

2005-07-18 Thread Greg Patnude
After an application updates, deletes, or inserts rows, it can call SQLRowCount to determine how many rows were affected. SQLRowCount returns this value whether or not the rows were updated, deleted, or inserted by executing an UPDATE, DELETE, or INSERT statement, by executing a positioned

Re: [GENERAL] Changes to not deferred FK in 8.0.3 to 7.4?

2005-07-18 Thread Janning Vygen
Am Montag, 18. Juli 2005 16:28 schrieb Stephan Szabo: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Tom Lane wrote: Janning Vygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have lots of tables with mutli-column PK and multi-column FK. All FK are cascading, so updating a PK should trigger through the whole database.

Re: [GENERAL] Changes to not deferred FK in 8.0.3 to 7.4?

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
Stephan Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Tom Lane wrote: AFAICS, if it worked for you in 7.4 it was only by pure chance. There was not then, and is not now, any logic that would prevent the FK checks from being applied in an order you don't want. True, although I think

Re: [GENERAL] Changes to not deferred FK in 8.0.3 to 7.4?

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
Janning Vygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But why doesn't it work if i make alle FK deferrable initially deferred? You didn't do it right --- I don't believe the code actually looks at pg_constraint, it looks at pg_trigger. And if you are going to hack pg_trigger directly, be careful to only

Re: [GENERAL] How to create unique constraint on NULL columns

2005-07-18 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On 7/18/05, Dawid Kuroczko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/18/05, Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have meaningful primary key in department table (department code used inside enterptise), not a surrogate number (I use meaningful primary keys whenever possible). OK, so then just define

Re: [GENERAL] TRUNCATE locking problem

2005-07-18 Thread Joe Maldonado
Thanks...I just wanted to verify that it was the intended behaviour prior to going in and changing code :) - Joe Maldonado Tom Lane wrote: Joe Maldonado [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that TRUNCATE is first posting a lock on the table and then waiting for other transactions to finish

Re: [GENERAL] Changes to not deferred FK in 8.0.3 to 7.4?

2005-07-18 Thread Janning Vygen
Am Montag, 18. Juli 2005 16:56 schrieb Tom Lane: Janning Vygen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But why doesn't it work if i make alle FK deferrable initially deferred? You didn't do it right --- I don't believe the code actually looks at pg_constraint, it looks at pg_trigger. And if you are going

Re: [GENERAL] Changes to not deferred FK in 8.0.3 to 7.4?

2005-07-18 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Tom Lane wrote: Stephan Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Tom Lane wrote: AFAICS, if it worked for you in 7.4 it was only by pure chance. There was not then, and is not now, any logic that would prevent the FK checks from being applied in an order

Re: [GENERAL] Changes to not deferred FK in 8.0.3 to 7.4?

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
Stephan Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Tom Lane wrote: I don't see why. Except that before I think the order would have looked like (for 1 row) Originating Action Trigger A on originating table that does update Trigger B on originating table that does update Trigger

Re: [GENERAL] Seg fault in postgres 7.4.7?

2005-07-18 Thread Akash Garg
I looked in the data directory of postgres -- where else should I look for it? Akash On 7/6/05, Michael Fuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:55:09PM -0700, Akash Garg wrote: This is Suse Enterprise 9.0 running on a quad Opteron Newisys machine. It has 32 gb of RAM. We

[GENERAL] Error while vacuuming

2005-07-18 Thread Akash Garg
I get this error when I run a VACUUM: INFO: vacuuming pg_toast.pg_toast_100194 vacuumdb: vacuuming of database friend failed: ERROR: could not open segment 1 of relation pg_toast_100194_index (target block 1226167840): No such file or directory I'm assuming I can just delete and recreate the

[GENERAL] ODBC

2005-07-18 Thread Bob Pawley
In the Postgre documentation I could find ODBC references only to Postgre 7.2 and older. Can anyone point me to ODBC documentation for version 8? Bob Pawley

Re: [GENERAL] How to find the number of rows deleted

2005-07-18 Thread Andrus
I ran DELETE command from my ODBC client application. I want to get the number of rows deleted by this DELETE command. I'm sure ODBC provides a way to do that, but you're asking the wrong list about what it is ... try pgsql-odbc. Tom, pgsql.odbc newsgroup has only 5 messages in the whole

Re: [GENERAL] Error while vacuuming

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
Akash Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get this error when I run a VACUUM: INFO: vacuuming pg_toast.pg_toast_100194 vacuumdb: vacuuming of database friend failed: ERROR: could not open segment 1 of relation pg_toast_100194_index (target block 1226167840): No such file or directory I'm

Re: [GENERAL] How to find the number of rows deleted

2005-07-18 Thread Andrus
My ODBC client is Microsoft Visual FoxPro I ran delete command using its sqlexec() function like: SQLEXEC(nConnhandle, DELETE FROM mytable) sqlexec() function returns the result from ordinary select table in a cursor SQLRESULT Unfortunately, no result is returned if DELETE command is

Re: [GENERAL] How to create unique constraint on NULL columns

2005-07-18 Thread Andrus
Or better: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX permission_unique_key (user_id,permission_id,department_id); CREATE UNIQUE INDEX permission_uninull_key (user_id,permission_id) WHERE department_id IS NULL; ...you may want to add WHERE department_id IS NOT NULL to the first query (or not). Anyway -- this

Re: [GENERAL] index row size exceeds btree maximum, 2713 - Solutions?

2005-07-18 Thread Dan Armbrust
Nevermind this question... Where is the documentation on tsearch2? Google first, ask second, I remind myself again... I knew I hadn't seen it mentioned in the official postgresql manual.. didn't think about it being an extension. Dan Dan Armbrust wrote: Hmm, well, I don't know if it

Re: [GENERAL] Error while vacuuming

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
Akash Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sounds good -- I will try that. Will this REINDEX lock any queries that are currently running on the database? And is there anway to find out what table this toast table is related to? IIRC, 100194 is the OID of the owning table.

Re: [GENERAL] Error while vacuuming

2005-07-18 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
I believe the correct way is the following. 1. get the oid from pg_class for relname='pg_toast_100194' 2. lookup up the relname from pg_class where reltoastrelid = the oid from the first query. so on my system select oid from pg_class where relname='pg_toast_17070'; oid --- 17072 (1

Re: [GENERAL] index row size exceeds btree maximum, 2713 -

2005-07-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 15:17, Dan Armbrust wrote: We have built a Model for terminologies that we call The Lexical Grid (more info http://informatics.mayo.edu/LexGrid/index.php) LexGrid has multiple backend data storage mechanisms, including LDAP and SQL. We do our best to remain

[GENERAL] About retrieving objects' priviledge info such as grantee its privileges for a specific object (view, table, function, etc.)

2005-07-18 Thread Ying Lu
Hello, May I know the commands to retrieve objects' privileges info please? Something like: Object Type, Object name,creator,grantee,privilege, is_creatable === table T1user1 user2

Re: [GENERAL] index row size exceeds btree maximum, 2713 - Solutions?

2005-07-18 Thread Dan Armbrust
We have built a Model for terminologies that we call The Lexical Grid (more info http://informatics.mayo.edu/LexGrid/index.php) LexGrid has multiple backend data storage mechanisms, including LDAP and SQL. We do our best to remain implementation independent - our SQL implementations, for

Re: [GENERAL] index row size exceeds btree maximum, 2713 -

2005-07-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 16:01, Dan Armbrust wrote: Hmm, well, I don't know if it is actually building an index properly on this column, I just assumed that it was. It doesn't fail on every insert, only on the one that has a really long text value. I know it doesn't use the index when I do

Re: [GENERAL] index row size exceeds btree maximum, 2713 - Solutions?

2005-07-18 Thread Dan Armbrust
Hmm, well, I don't know if it is actually building an index properly on this column, I just assumed that it was. It doesn't fail on every insert, only on the one that has a really long text value. I know it doesn't use the index when I do "ILIKE" queries, resulting in poor performance... but I

[GENERAL] Composite type within a composite type?

2005-07-18 Thread Juan Miguel Paredes
Hi, folks! Reading previous posts on returning composite types in pl/pgsql, I still haven't found a good answer for this issue: Let's say we create this table: /*/ CREATE TABLE tbl_estadosoporte ( id CHAR(1)

Re: [GENERAL] index row size exceeds btree maximum, 2713 - Solutions?

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
Dan Armbrust [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All of my other limitations on changing things aside - given a query like this: Select * from conceptproperty where codingSchemeName='foo' AND property='anotherfoo' and propertyValue ILIKE 'valu%' What indexe(s) would be recommended? I'd index on

Re: [GENERAL] Composite type within a composite type?

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
Juan Miguel Paredes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DECLARE res helpdesk.tp_res_conestadosdisponiblessoporte; BEGIN IF estadoactual = 'Abierto' THEN SELECT INTO res.filas * FROM tbl_estadosoporte Without having looked at the code, I suspect that plpgsql just assumes res.filas is of

Re: [GENERAL] How to create unique constraint on NULL columns

2005-07-18 Thread Andrus
Although others have suggested that you're going to need an additional table, I've not seen anyone explicitly state why this is causing you problems. Clearly, NULL should not be used to mean Any. However, the only reason you're doing this is because you want a FK to the department table.

Re: [GENERAL] point(lseg,lseg) does not exist

2005-07-18 Thread Don Isgitt
Shane wrote: Hi, I am attempting a query using lseg values to find the point of intersection. The following query taken from the PG manual isn't working over here. select point(lseg '((-1,0),(1,0))', lseg '((-2,-2),(2,2))') ERROR: function point(lseg, lseg) does not exist HINT: No

[GENERAL] index row size exceeds btree maximum, 2713 - Solutions?

2005-07-18 Thread Dan Armbrust
I'm trying to load some data into PostgreSQL 8.0.3, and I got the error message index row size 2904 exceeds btree maximum, 2713. After a bunch of searching, I believe that I am getting this error because a value that I am indexing is longer than ~ 1/3 of the block size - or the BLCKSZ

Re: [GENERAL] How to find the number of rows deleted

2005-07-18 Thread Andrus
Unfortunately, no result is returned if DELETE command is executed. There is no SQLRowCount function in FoxPro. That's probably a feature of the language and will be so regardless of the database used. I expect it wraps the ODBC APIs up in a more managable form. Paul, If Microsoft SQL

Re: [GENERAL] How to find the number of rows deleted

2005-07-18 Thread Andrus
pgsql.odbc newsgroup has only 5 messages in the whole this year. None of them has got any replies. I think you're making the classic mistake of equating the usenet news versions of a list with the actual mailing list. Take a look here:

Re: [GENERAL] Error while vacuuming

2005-07-18 Thread Akash Garg
Sounds good -- I will try that. Will this REINDEX lock any queries that are currently running on the database? And is there anway to find out what table this toast table is related to? Thanks, Akash On 7/18/05, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Akash Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get

Re: [GENERAL] How to find the number of rows deleted

2005-07-18 Thread Paul Thomas
On 18/07/2005 17:47 Andrus wrote: Unfortunately, no result is returned if DELETE command is executed. There is no SQLRowCount function in FoxPro. That's probably a feature of the language and will be so regardless of the database used. I expect it wraps the ODBC APIs up in a more managable

Re: [GENERAL] How to find the number of rows deleted

2005-07-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 11:53, Andrus wrote: I ran DELETE command from my ODBC client application. I want to get the number of rows deleted by this DELETE command. I'm sure ODBC provides a way to do that, but you're asking the wrong list about what it is ... try pgsql-odbc. Tom,

Re: [GENERAL] point(lseg,lseg) does not exist

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am attempting a query using lseg values to find the point of intersection. The following query taken from the PG manual isn't working over here. select point(lseg '((-1,0),(1,0))', lseg '((-2,-2),(2,2))') ERROR: function point(lseg, lseg) does not exist

Re: [GENERAL] index row size exceeds btree maximum, 2713 - Solutions?

2005-07-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 14:44:26 -0500, Dan Armbrust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to load some data into PostgreSQL 8.0.3, and I got the error message index row size 2904 exceeds btree maximum, 2713. After a bunch of searching, I believe that I am getting this error because a

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[GENERAL] free space map settings

2005-07-18 Thread Joseph Shraibman
INFO: free space map: 195 relations, 96448 pages stored; 417104 total pages needed DETAIL: Allocated FSM size: 1000 relations + 9 pages = 588 kB shared memory. I'm confused, do I need to set my fsm settings to 96448 or 417104 based on this output? Are fsm settings updated during a

Re: [GENERAL] Converting MySQL tinyint to PostgreSQL

2005-07-18 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
I believe that one should leave such on-the-fly disk compression to the O/S. Postgresql already does compression for TOAST. However, maybe padding for alignment is a waste on the disk - disks being so much slower than CPUs (not sure about that once the data is in memory ). Maybe there should

Re: [GENERAL] How to create unique constraint on NULL columns

2005-07-18 Thread Richard Huxton
Andrus wrote: I was faced with a similar issue. One suggestion I got from the Internet was to create a shadow column that contains the values used in the Index, with a dummy entry (in my case, the string NULL) for those records in which the primary column is NULL. It works well for my app.

Re: [GENERAL] Converting MySQL tinyint to PostgreSQL

2005-07-18 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On 7/18/05, Lincoln Yeoh lyeoh@pop.jaring.my wrote: However, maybe padding for alignment is a waste on the disk - disks being so much slower than CPUs (not sure about that once the data is in memory ). Maybe there should be an option to reorder columns so that less space is wasted. Out of

Re: [GENERAL] index row size exceeds btree maximum, 2713 - Solutions?

2005-07-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Dan Armbrust wrote: Hmm, well, I don't know if it is actually building an index properly on this column, I just assumed that it was. It doesn't fail on every insert, only on the one that has a really long text value. I know it doesn't use the index when I do ILIKE queries, resulting in poor

Re: [GENERAL] How to find the number of rows deleted

2005-07-18 Thread Guy Rouillier
Andrus wrote: How I can read and reply to all messages without receiving them all to my e-mail mailbox ? From the Mailing Lists page of the PostgreSQL site http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/: The mailing lists are also available at the PostgreSQL news server. However, in order to

Re: [GENERAL] index row size exceeds btree maximum, 2713 - Solutions?

2005-07-18 Thread Tom Lane
Dan Armbrust [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The index that is failing is CREATE INDEX i1 ON conceptproperty USING btree (codingschemename, property, propertyvalue).br br Usually, the 'propertyValue' field is fairly short - 100 chars or less.nbsp; And in those cases, I need to be able to do an

Re: [GENERAL] index row size exceeds btree maximum, 2713 - Solutions?

2005-07-18 Thread Jaime Casanova
I'm trying to load some data into PostgreSQL 8.0.3, and I got the error message index row size 2904 exceeds btree maximum, 2713. After a bunch of searching, I believe that I am getting this error because a value that I am indexing is longer than ~ 1/3 of the block size - or the BLCKSZ

Re: [GENERAL] index row size exceeds btree maximum, 2713 - Solutions?

2005-07-18 Thread Jaime Casanova
The index that is failing is CREATE INDEX i1 ON conceptproperty USING btree (codingschemename, property, propertyvalue). I don't think you could create indexes on text fields... there are other type of indexes for that... tsearch2 for example -- Atentamente, Jaime Casanova (DBA: DataBase

[GENERAL] off topic

2005-07-18 Thread Jamie Deppeler
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