[GENERAL] Global Variables in plpgsql

2011-04-11 Thread Nick Raj
Hi, Can anyone know how to define global variable in plpgsql? Thanks Regards, Raj

Re: [GENERAL] Global Variables in plpgsql

2011-04-11 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 04/11/2011 03:53 AM, Nick Raj wrote: Hi, Can anyone know how to define global variable in plpgsql? Thanks Global to what? Regards, Raj -- Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] Count for pagination

2011-04-11 Thread Michael C Rosenstein
Any suggestions on how to get the count of all records that could be returned We use a window function to get the total # of records within each of our paginated queries: SELECT ... ,COUNT(*) OVER() fullRowCount FROM ... WHERE ... ORDER BY ... LIMIT ... OFFSET ...; While there is a

Re: [GENERAL] Global Variables in plpgsql

2011-04-11 Thread Dmitriy Igrishin
Hey Nick, 2011/4/11 Nick Raj nickrajj...@gmail.com Hi, Can anyone know how to define global variable in plpgsql? Thanks Why if you are already inside a database system ? :-) Just use tables. Regards, Raj -- // Dmitriy.

Re: [GENERAL] what data type to store fixed size integer?

2011-04-11 Thread David Johnston
the data type does not need any arithmetic operations (as of integers). You arguably do not have a number but simply a string that looks like a number. Other examples are zip-codes and phone-numbers if you ignore symbols. Thus you should probably use an appropriately sized char/varchar.

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum issue after upgrade to 9.0.1

2011-04-11 Thread George Woodring
We are still seeing the spike in vacuums every 8 days, even after upgrading to 9.0.3. Any suggestions on how to spread them out? Thanks, George Woodring On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com wrote: Do you see this issue on 9.0.3, the current and

[GENERAL] Howto use COPY FROM with the native API?

2011-04-11 Thread Clemens Eisserer
Hi, We are working on an university project for network traffic accounting. We use ulogd-2 to log netfilter packets, however it creates for each packet a seperate transaction and also doesn't use prepared statements, which results in horrible performance. What we are looking for is a

[GENERAL] PG 9.0 32 bits bin under 64 bit arq

2011-04-11 Thread manuel antonio ochoa
Could I install pg 9.0 binary 32 bits in SO of 64 bits ? with suse 11.3 thnks

[GENERAL] CREATE RULE _copy AS ON COPY TO ...

2011-04-11 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
Hi, My ON INSERT rule won't go off when I copy into it. Is there a way to COPY into a RULE? I'm using 8.4 now. Also interested in 9. Cheers, WBL -- Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw

Re: [GENERAL] Howto use COPY FROM with the native API?

2011-04-11 Thread Andy Chambers
On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:21:16 -0400, Clemens Eisserer linuxhi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We are working on an university project for network traffic accounting. We use ulogd-2 to log netfilter packets, however it creates for each packet a seperate transaction and also doesn't use prepared

Re: [GENERAL] Howto use COPY FROM with the native API?

2011-04-11 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello 2011/4/11 Clemens Eisserer linuxhi...@gmail.com: Hi, We are working on an university project for network traffic accounting. We use ulogd-2 to log netfilter packets, however it creates for each packet a seperate transaction and also doesn't use prepared statements, which results in

Re: [GENERAL] CREATE RULE _copy AS ON COPY TO ...

2011-04-11 Thread Vibhor Kumar
On Apr 11, 2011, at 11:56 PM, Willy-Bas Loos wrote: My ON INSERT rule won't go off when I copy into it. Is there a way to COPY into a RULE? COPY Command does not respect rule on table, so please use trigger. Thanks Regards, Vibhor Kumar EnterpriseDB Corporation The Enterprise PostgreSQL

[GENERAL] Column storage (EXTERNAL/EXTENDED) settings for bytea/text column

2011-04-11 Thread Joel Stevenson
Hi all, I'm trying to do some comparisons between the EXTERNAL and the EXTENDED storage methods on a bytea column and from the outside the setting doesn't appear to affect the value stored on initial insert, but perhaps I'm looking at the wrong numbers. If I create two new tables with a

[GENERAL] Why is 8.4 and 9.0 so much slower on some queries?

2011-04-11 Thread Uwe Schroeder
Hello everyone, this is very odd, particularly because there's obviously nobody having these issues when I google for it. I have a 8.3 database and decided for various reasons to upgrade to 8.4. I also tried 9.0 - same results. On the exactly same hardware with the exactly same

Re: [GENERAL] Why is 8.4 and 9.0 so much slower on some queries?

2011-04-11 Thread Tom Lane
Uwe Schroeder u...@oss4u.com writes: I have a 8.3 database and decided for various reasons to upgrade to 8.4. I also tried 9.0 - same results. On the exactly same hardware with the exactly same configuration, some queries perform a factor of 10 slower on 8.4 and 9.0 than on 8.3 Hmm ...

Re: [GENERAL] what data type to store fixed size integer?

2011-04-11 Thread Arash pajoohande
@Dave On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:18 PM, David Johnston pol...@yahoo.com wrote: the data type does not need any arithmetic operations (as of integers). You arguably do not have a number but simply a string that looks like a number. Other examples are zip-codes and phone-numbers if you

Re: [GENERAL] Why is 8.4 and 9.0 so much slower on some queries?

2011-04-11 Thread Uwe Schroeder
Uwe Schroeder u...@oss4u.com writes: I have a 8.3 database and decided for various reasons to upgrade to 8.4. I also tried 9.0 - same results. On the exactly same hardware with the exactly same configuration, some queries perform a factor of 10 slower on 8.4 and 9.0 than on 8.3