Re: [GENERAL] lc_collate issue

2007-08-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Cody Pisto wrote: I'm just looking for the correct workaround. The canonically correct workaround it to define your own locale. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0,

[GENERAL]

2007-08-25 Thread Thobiyas
Dear sir how can get the log file in postgres sql -- ** P.Maria Antony Thobiyas Bosco InfoTech Pvt Ltd Mobile: 09486144070 (Personal) **

[GENERAL] Bigtime scaling of Postgresql (cluster and stuff I suppose)

2007-08-25 Thread Phoenix Kiula
We're moving from MySQL to PG, a move I am rather enjoying, but we're currently running both databases. As we web-enable our financial services in fifteen countries, I would like to recommend the team that we move entirely to PG. In doing research on big installations of the two databases, I read

[GENERAL] Varchar - Integer[] conversion

2007-08-25 Thread Gustavo Tonini
Someone have a function that converts a string literal (a varchar argument) to an integer array? Thanks, Gustavo. PS: Please CC to me. I'm not subscribed at list. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map

Re: [GENERAL]

2007-08-25 Thread Sibte Abbas
On 8/25/07, Thobiyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear sir how can get the log file in postgres sql -- ** P.Maria Antony Thobiyas Bosco InfoTech Pvt Ltd Mobile: 09486144070 (Personal) **

Re: [GENERAL] lc_collate issue

2007-08-25 Thread Karsten Hilbert
would postgres convert data on the fly from UTF-8(storage) to ASCII for sorting That ain't possible, it seems, or else we wouldn't need UTF-8. Karsten -- GMX FreeMail: 1 GB Postfach, 5 E-Mail-Adressen, 10 Free SMS. Alle Infos und kostenlose Anmeldung: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/freemail

Re: [GENERAL] Bigtime scaling of Postgresql (cluster and stuff I suppose)

2007-08-25 Thread Bill Moran
Phoenix Kiula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're moving from MySQL to PG, a move I am rather enjoying, but we're currently running both databases. As we web-enable our financial services in fifteen countries, I would like to recommend the team that we move entirely to PG. In doing research on

[GENERAL] Can someone else verify if this is a bug?

2007-08-25 Thread Tony Caduto
Hi, I think there might be a bug in the built in function pg_get_viewdef. Basically if you have a function in your view SQL like this: replace(address1, '\r', '') pg_get_viewdef is returning the view definition with the \r replaced by it's ASCII code which causes this: replace(address1, '

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

2007-08-25 Thread Tony Caduto
Hi, Someone mentioned we should put this in the PostgreSQL wiki. Do you guys think that would be beneficial? If so, I don't mind the work on the list I have done so far going on the wiki. It would make it a lot easier to add other DBs to the mix. Later, Tony ---(end

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

2007-08-25 Thread Tony Caduto
Greg Smith wrote: This is a really good comparision, focusing on features that I think people understand rather than so much on technical trivia. Someone else mentioned moving it onto the Wiki. Questions that pop into my head: -Tony, would be you be comfortable with your work being

Re: [GENERAL] Bigtime scaling of Postgresql (cluster and stuff I suppose)

2007-08-25 Thread Tom Lane
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First off, clustering is a word that is too vague to be useful, so I'll stop using it. Right. MySQL Cluster, on the other hand, is a very specific technology. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysql-cluster.html It's interesting but far from an

Re: [GENERAL] Can someone else verify if this is a bug?

2007-08-25 Thread Tom Lane
Tony Caduto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Basically if you have a function in your view SQL like this: replace(address1, '\r', '') pg_get_viewdef is returning the view definition with the \r replaced by it's ASCII code which causes this: replace(address1, ' ','') This is not incorrect, if

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Partioning tsearch2 a table into chunks and accessing via views

2007-08-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Arai wrote: This kind of disappointing, I was hoping there was more that could be done. There has to be another way to do incremental indexing without loosing that much performance. What makes you think you are loosing performance by

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished

2007-08-25 Thread Dave Page
--- Original Message --- From: Tony Caduto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25/08/07, 15:36:15 Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Firebird feature comparison finished Hi, Someone mentioned we should put this in the PostgreSQL wiki. Do you guys

Re: [GENERAL] Varchar - Integer[] conversion

2007-08-25 Thread Joe Conway
Gustavo Tonini wrote: Someone have a function that converts a string literal (a varchar argument) to an integer array? It isn't clear from your question if you want this: select string_to_array('1,2,3'::varchar,',')::int[]; string_to_array - {1,2,3} (1 row) or this: select

Re: [GENERAL] Add Column BEFORE/AFTER another column

2007-08-25 Thread Robert Treat
On Saturday 25 August 2007 01:40, Jaime Casanova wrote: On 8/24/07, Robert Treat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 August 2007 17:18, Matthew wrote: Hey Bill, It does not. Bummer. To get your columns in a specific order, specify the column names in that

[GENERAL] LDAP service lookup

2007-08-25 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
Hello! I've just accidently stumbled upon http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/libpq-ldap.html and thought hey, this is what my friend, a huge BigRDBMS fan, was telling me about. Now that I've read it, I think it could be very useful in an enterpisish sort of way (addressing databases as

Re: [GENERAL] Bigtime scaling of Postgresql (cluster and stuff I suppose)

2007-08-25 Thread Shane Ambler
Bill Moran wrote: BTW: does anyone know of a link that describes these high-level concepts? If not, I think I'll write this up formally and post it. Chapter 24 - http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/high-availability.html is a recent addition to the manual that starts to explain

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Partioning tsearch2 a table into chunks and accessing via views

2007-08-25 Thread Benjamin Arai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As stated in the previous email if I use partitioning then queries will be executed sequentially - i.e., instead of log(n) it would be (# partitions) * log(n). Right? Benjamin On Aug 25, 2007, at 9:18 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: -BEGIN

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Partioning tsearch2 a table into chunks and accessing via views

2007-08-25 Thread Brandon Shalton
As stated in the previous email if I use partitioning then queries will be executed sequentially - i.e., instead of log(n) it would be (# partitions) * log(n). Right? depends.. since indexes would be hit for each child table, the time for query is dependent on the amount of data that

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Partioning tsearch2 a table into chunks and accessing via views

2007-08-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin Arai wrote: As stated in the previous email if I use partitioning then queries will be executed sequentially - i.e., instead of log(n) it would be (# partitions) * log(n). Right? The planner will consider every relevant partition during

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Partioning tsearch2 a table into chunks and accessing via views

2007-08-25 Thread Benjamin Arai
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since I am using tsearch2 on the table I think there is going to be a significant performance hit - e.g., I partition by batch (batches are not separated by date, they are essentially random subsets of a much larger data-set). I am querying

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Partioning tsearch2 a table into chunks and accessing via views

2007-08-25 Thread Erik Jones
On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:41 PM, Benjamin Arai wrote: Hi, I have an application which loads millions of NEW documents each month into a PostgreSQL tsearch2 table. I have the initial version completed and searching performance is great but my problem is that each time a new month rolls around

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Partioning tsearch2 a table into chunks and accessing via views

2007-08-25 Thread Erik Jones
On Aug 25, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Erik Jones wrote: On Aug 24, 2007, at 7:41 PM, Benjamin Arai wrote: Hi, I have an application which loads millions of NEW documents each month into a PostgreSQL tsearch2 table. I have the initial version completed and searching performance is great but my

[GENERAL] Shared memory usage

2007-08-25 Thread Max Zorloff
Hello. I have a postgres 8.0 and ~400mb database with lots of simple selects using indexes. I've installed pgpool on the system. I've set num_init_children to 5 and here is the top output. One of postmasters is my demon running some insert/update tasks. I see that they all use cpu heavily,

Re: [GENERAL] Shared memory usage

2007-08-25 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 01:22:58AM +0400, Max Zorloff wrote: Hello. I have a postgres 8.0 and ~400mb database with lots of simple selects using indexes. I've installed pgpool on the system. I've set num_init_children to 5 and here is the top output. One of postmasters is my demon

Re: [GENERAL] Shared memory usage

2007-08-25 Thread Max Zorloff
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:39:52 +0400, Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 01:22:58AM +0400, Max Zorloff wrote: Hello. I have a postgres 8.0 and ~400mb database with lots of simple selects using indexes. I've installed pgpool on the system. I've set

Re: [GENERAL] Shared memory usage

2007-08-25 Thread Max Zorloff
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:39:52 +0400, Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 01:22:58AM +0400, Max Zorloff wrote: Hello. shared_memory is used for caching. It is filled as stuff is used. If you're not using all of it that means it isn't needed. Remember, it

[GENERAL] SQL Diff ?

2007-08-25 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi List; I have a very large table (52million rows) - I'm creating a copy of it to rid it of 35G worth of dead space, then I'll do a sync, drop the original table and rename table2. Once I have the table2 as a copy of table1 what's the best way to select all rows that have been changed,

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Diff ?

2007-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/25/07 21:51, Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi List; I have a very large table (52million rows) - I'm creating a copy of it to rid it of 35G worth of dead space, then I'll do a sync, drop the original table and rename table2. What is your

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Diff ?

2007-08-25 Thread Kevin Kempter
On Saturday 25 August 2007 21:10:19 Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/25/07 21:51, Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi List; I have a very large table (52million rows) - I'm creating a copy of it to rid it of 35G worth of dead space, then I'll do a sync, drop the original table and rename table2. What is

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Diff ?

2007-08-25 Thread brian
Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi List; I have a very large table (52million rows) - I'm creating a copy of it to rid it of 35G worth of dead space, then I'll do a sync, drop the original table and rename table2. Once I have the table2 as a copy of table1 what's the best way to select all rows that

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Diff ?

2007-08-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/25/07 22:21, Kevin Kempter wrote: On Saturday 25 August 2007 21:10:19 Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/25/07 21:51, Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi List; I have a very large table (52million rows) - I'm creating a copy of it to rid it of 35G worth of dead