[GENERAL] Error while database creation

2007-10-05 Thread Ashish Karalkar
Hello All, I am getting following error when trying to create new database. createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: could not create directory base/1923827: No space left on device can anybody please tell me what is going wrong. Thanks in advance. With regards Ashish

Re: [GENERAL] Error while database creation

2007-10-05 Thread Christian Rengstl
I guess that No space left on device explains a lot, i.e. there is no space left on your hard drive/partition. Christian Rengstl M.A. Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II Kardiologie - Forschung Universitätsklinikum Regensburg B3 1.388 Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11 93053 Regensburg Tel.:

Re: [GENERAL] Error while database creation

2007-10-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Fri, dem 05.10.2007, um 11:43:09 +0530 mailte Ashish Karalkar folgendes: Hello All, I am getting following error when trying to create new database. createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: could not create directory base/ 1923827: No space left on device can anybody please

[GENERAL] How to convert rows into HTML columns?

2007-10-05 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Hi there, I feel like a brain-washed person being slowly re-socialized. After changing from an Excel-like database design to a central table one (see here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-10/ msg00132.php ) I am struggling with multiple problems... One is now the HTML

Re: [GENERAL] How to convert rows into HTML columns?

2007-10-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Fri, dem 05.10.2007, um 8:20:32 +0200 mailte Stefan Schwarzer folgendes: Before I was used that the yearly values were all to be found in a single SQL row; now for each year of each country I have a separate row. How do I convert that into a single (HTML) row again? You can use

Re: [GENERAL] How to convert rows into HTML columns?

2007-10-05 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
And the next question coming up is: How should my query look like so that I can sort the (HTML) table by a specific year in ascending or descending order? So, that it doesn't display it by the country names alphabetical order, but by, say 1998? If you have only one row, how would you sort this

Re: [GENERAL] How to convert rows into HTML columns?

2007-10-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Fri, dem 05.10.2007, um 9:13:10 +0200 mailte Stefan Schwarzer folgendes: And the next question coming up is: How should my query look like so that I can sort the (HTML) table by a specific year in ascending or descending order? So, that it doesn't display it by the country names

[GENERAL] Slow TSearch2 performance for table with 1 million documents.

2007-10-05 Thread Benjamin Arai
Hi, I have very slow performance for a TSearch2 table. I have pasted the EXPLAIN ANALYZE queries below. 12 seconds is slow for almost any purpose. Is there any way to speed this up? # explain analyze select * FROM fulltext_article, to_tsquery ('simple','dog') AS q WHERE idxfti @@ q

[GENERAL] Q: migrating from serverA(gentoo) to serverB(centos) 8.2.4

2007-10-05 Thread Ow Mun Heng
What's the best method for migrating data from my laptop to the final server DB? The data currently in my laptop is using SQL_ASCII encoding and the deployment target is defaulted to using UTF-8. (should not be a concern as the encoding should be handled via the dump right?) However a concern

Re: [GENERAL] Find min year and min value

2007-10-05 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Alternately, you could have a gdp table and a fish_catch table which would be easily joined to give the same result. Expanding on this: create table fish_catches (country text not null, data_year date not null, primary key (country,

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: variable not found in subplan target lists

2007-10-05 Thread Miroslav Šulc
Thank you for the fix. -- Miroslav Tom Lane napsal(a): I wrote: Bottom line seems to be that we should run through the in_info_list and force Vars mentioned therein to be propagated up at least to the righthand join level, ensuring they're available if we decide to unique-ify above that

[GENERAL] Privileges on information_schema

2007-10-05 Thread Christian Rengstl
Hi list, whenever I execute the following query as admin I get all results, but as soon as I execute it as a less-privileged user the result is empty. SELECT * FROM information_schema.schemata Strange enough, when I query information_schema.tables I can see everything both as a normal user and

Re: [GENERAL] Slow TSearch2 performance for table with 1 million documents.

2007-10-05 Thread Alban Hertroys
Benjamin Arai wrote: Hi, I have very slow performance for a TSearch2 table. I have pasted the EXPLAIN ANALYZE queries below. 12 seconds is slow for almost any purpose. Is there any way to speed this up? # explain analyze select * FROM fulltext_article, to_tsquery('simple','dog') AS q

Re: [GENERAL] Find min year and min value

2007-10-05 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Hmmm. Don't really get that query working. My SQL looks like this now: SELECT id_country, year, value FROM internet_users NATURAL JOIN gdp WHERE id_country = 8 ORDER BY year LIMIT 1 Ok, got it working with another proposed SQL SELECT. This is a solution (comes out

Re: [GENERAL] How to convert rows into HTML columns?

2007-10-05 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Oct 5, 2007, at 1:20 , Stefan Schwarzer wrote: Before I was used that the yearly values were all to be found in a single SQL row; now for each year of each country I have a separate row. How do I convert that into a single (HTML) row again? Take a look at the crosstab functions in

Re: [GENERAL] Find min year and min value

2007-10-05 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Oct 5, 2007, at 4:11 , Stefan Schwarzer wrote: Alternately, you could have a gdp table and a fish_catch table which would be easily joined to give the same result. Expanding on this: create table fish_catches (country text not null, data_year date not null,

Re: [GENERAL] time penalties on triggers?

2007-10-05 Thread Kenneth Downs
Jan Theodore Galkowski wrote: Does anyone know, or can anyone point to information about how much triggers penalize inserts in PG tables? I'm getting a report that it is substantial, and before I investigate more. The triggers in question look like: I use triggers everywhere. About a

[GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / humorous X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Bartlett
Quick request to the group: we have several members who include bogus or humorous X-Message-Flag headers in their email messages. Could I request that you _please_ turn them off? Because they come through as flagged messages in Outlook, it throws off my email rules processing and the messages

Re: [GENERAL] Partitioned tables, rules, triggers

2007-10-05 Thread Josh Tolley
On 10/3/07, Goboxe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have two questions on the above: 1. I found in some postings recommended to use triggers instead of rules. Is this documented somewhere? A howto is available at http://images.omniti.net/omniti.com/talks/partitions-public.pdf - Josh/eggyknap

Re: [GENERAL] Design Question (Time Series Data)

2007-10-05 Thread Josh Tolley
On 10/4/07, Ted Byers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Michael Glaesemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 4, 2007, at 9:30 , Ted Byers wrote: I do not know if PostgreSQL, or any other RDBMS, includes the ability to call on software such as R See PL/R:

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / humorous X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Oct 5, 2007, at 9:05 , Bill Bartlett wrote: Quick request to the group: we have several members who include bogus or humorous X-Message-Flag headers in their email messages. Could I request that you _please_ turn them off? In all practicality, a request like this is futile: * Given the

Re: [GENERAL] good sql tutorial

2007-10-05 Thread Scott Ribe
I think it's out of print, unfortunately, but by far the best quick intro I've ever seen is: The Essence of SQL: A Guide to Learning Most of SQL in the Least Amount of Time by David Rozenshtein. -- Scott Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice

Re: [GENERAL] Slow TSearch2 performance for table with 1 million documents.

2007-10-05 Thread Tom Lane
Benjamin Arai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # explain analyze select * FROM fulltext_article, to_tsquery ('simple','dog') AS q WHERE idxfti @@ q ORDER BY rank(idxfti, q) DESC; QUERY PLAN

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: variable not found in subplan target lists

2007-10-05 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: such a hokey query (how many applications really write WHERE false?), Granted this isn't WHERE FALSE, but I certainly see WHERE TRUE all the time in similar scenarios and I have seen WHERE FALSE.

Re: [GENERAL] Privileges on information_schema

2007-10-05 Thread Tom Lane
Christian Rengstl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: whenever I execute the following query as admin I get all results, but as soon as I execute it as a less-privileged user the result is empty. SELECT * FROM information_schema.schemata The SQL standard specifies that information_schema.schemata shows

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / humorous X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 10/5/07, Michael Glaesemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 5, 2007, at 9:05 , Bill Bartlett wrote: * Given it's an X- header, doesn't that mean the meaning of the value is implementation dependent? What's bogus wrt Outlook may not be wrt another mail system or client * Doesn't this

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / humorous X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Fri, dem 05.10.2007, um 10:05:32 -0400 mailte Bill Bartlett folgendes: Quick request to the group: we have several members who include bogus or humorous X-Message-Flag headers in their email messages. Could I request that you _please_ turn them off? Because they come through as Do you

Re: [PERFORM] [GENERAL] Slow TSearch2 performance for table with 1 million documents.

2007-10-05 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Tom Lane wrote: Benjamin Arai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # explain analyze select * FROM fulltext_article, to_tsquery ('simple','dog') AS q WHERE idxfti @@ q ORDER BY rank(idxfti, q) DESC; QUERY PLAN

Re: [GENERAL] good sql tutorial

2007-10-05 Thread Geoffrey
Scott Ribe wrote: I think it's out of print, unfortunately, but by far the best quick intro I've ever seen is: The Essence of SQL: A Guide to Learning Most of SQL in the Least Amount of Time by David Rozenshtein. Must be a pretty good book. Amazon has one used copy for $119. abebooks.com

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / humorous X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Oct 5, 2007, at 10:56 , Bill Bartlett wrote: * Given it's an X- header, doesn't that mean the meaning of the value is implementation dependent? What's bogus wrt Outlook may not be wrt another mail system or client * Doesn't this indicate that Outlook is broken (for some values of broken)?

Re: [GENERAL] Partitioned tables, rules, triggers

2007-10-05 Thread Erik Jones
On Oct 5, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: On 10/5/07, Josh Tolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/3/07, Goboxe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have two questions on the above: 1. I found in some postings recommended to use triggers instead of rules. Is this documented somewhere? A

Re: [GENERAL] Partitioned tables, rules, triggers

2007-10-05 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 10/5/07, Josh Tolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/3/07, Goboxe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have two questions on the above: 1. I found in some postings recommended to use triggers instead of rules. Is this documented somewhere? A howto is available at

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / humorous X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Bartlett
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A. Kretschmer Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:57 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / humorous X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / humorous X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Bartlett
-Original Message- From: Michael Glaesemann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:45 AM To: Bill Bartlett Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / humorous X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / humorous X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Bartlett
-Original Message- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 12:30 PM To: Bill Bartlett Cc: A. Kretschmer; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / humorous X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / humorous X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread Andreas Kretschmer
Bill Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A. Kretschmer Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:57 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus /

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / humorous X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 10/5/07, Bill Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm ... I still use Pine on some of my really old Linux boxes -- does this count? (Useful for reading CRON output...) If you need / want the familiar interface of pine on a modern linux box, look for cone. Note that there's also an open

Re: [GENERAL] Partitioned tables, rules, triggers

2007-10-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik Jones wrote: On Oct 5, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: On 10/5/07, Josh Tolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/3/07, Goboxe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have two questions on the above: 1. I found in some postings recommended

[GENERAL] timer script from SAMS book or equivalent?

2007-10-05 Thread John Wells
Guys, In the book PostgreSQL (2nd ed) the author mentions a timer script he wrote to analyze various performance bits about PostgreSQL. I've looked everywhere and can't find it. Does anyone know where I can find a copy, or find an equivalent tool? Thanks! John ---(end

Re: [GENERAL] timer script from SAMS book or equivalent?

2007-10-05 Thread Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo
May be can help you \timing in psql El vie, 05-10-2007 a las 21:32 +0400, John Wells escribió: Guys, In the book PostgreSQL (2nd ed) the author mentions a timer script he wrote to analyze various performance bits about PostgreSQL. I've looked everywhere and can't find it. Does anyone

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / humorous X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread Bill Bartlett
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Kretschmer Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 12:55 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / humorous X-Message-Flag headers, could we please

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / humorous X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread Michael Glaesemann
(Makes me have to think twice about raising any _real_ issues though, like why my VACUUMs periodically keep getting into lock contentions with my JDBC connections and ultimately causing me to have to shut down Postgres w/ pg_ctl stop -m immediate, or how to properly handle postmaster errors

Re: [GENERAL] timer script from SAMS book or equivalent?

2007-10-05 Thread John Wells
- Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May be can help you \timing in psql El vie, 05-10-2007 a las 21:32 +0400, John Wells escribió: Guys, In the book PostgreSQL (2nd ed) the author mentions a timer script he wrote to analyze various performance bits about

[GENERAL] valid query runs forever?

2007-10-05 Thread Aroon Pahwa
I'm having a strange issue with postgres...I think. I have the following query: GRANT SELECT ON 'tablename' TO 'username'; As far as I can tell, thats a valid query. It works fine when I run it under the psql command line interface and executed against a remote db. When I try and run the

Re: [PERFORM] [GENERAL] Slow TSearch2 performance for table with 1 million documents.

2007-10-05 Thread Benjamin Arai
On Oct 5, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Tom Lane wrote: Benjamin Arai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # explain analyze select * FROM fulltext_article, to_tsquery ('simple','dog') AS q WHERE idxfti @@ q ORDER BY rank(idxfti, q) DESC; QUERY PLAN

[GENERAL] Very asynchrnous replication system

2007-10-05 Thread Laurent ROCHE
Hello, I must replicate (or synchronise) data between disconnected postgreSQL databases ... hence a replication very asynchronous! Application description This an application to manage sales forces with a central application (and postgreSQL server) where everybody in the office can connect

Re: [GENERAL] Very asynchrnous replication system

2007-10-05 Thread Ben
The MusicBrainz project replicates in a way that sounds like it could fit your needs. It depends on a lot of perl, but if that's not a showstopper, then maybe adapting their replication scheme would work for you. On Oct 5, 2007, at 5:25 PM, Laurent ROCHE wrote: Hello, I must replicate