Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-11 Thread Richard Huxton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...it will be the first time they have seen your name... ...with your first email have criticised the project... Check the archives. This poster has been active on the list for awhile. He has indeed, and even posted a news item, but it will still be the first time many

[GENERAL] New PostgreSQL RPMs are available for many platforms

2005-03-11 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - - PostgreSQL New RPM Sets 2005-03-11 Versions: 8.0.1, 7.4.7 Operating Systems: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Server 2.1 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Server 4 *

[GENERAL] Statement cancel or transaction cancel?

2005-03-11 Thread Qingqing Zhou
Pg8.0.1 backend begin; backend create table a (i int); backend insert into a values(1); 1: i (typeid = 23, len = 4, typmod = -1, byval = t) backend select * from pg_class; 1: relname (typeid = 19, len = 64, typmod = -1, byval = f) 2: relnamespace

Re: [GENERAL] partitionning

2005-03-11 Thread Karsten Hilbert
Actually I have a strong feeling what really _ought_ to happen here is that the inherited tables support in postgres, which never really worked anyways, should be deprecated and eventually removed. Hopefully not. They are useful for other things, too. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @

Re: [GENERAL] row numbering

2005-03-11 Thread Karsten Hilbert
I don't know that much about medicine, so this might be a funny question, but do you really need to know that shots 4 and 5 are missing, I want to be able to display shot 4: ... and shot 5: ... in the application but pull the data from the database, not calculate it in the

Re: [GENERAL] IO Timeout

2005-03-11 Thread Qingqing Zhou
How do you know that PG is in maintainence mode? I am not sure what PG's maintainence mode is and not aware of any configuration parameters that could control the IO reponse waiting time. Postgres just issues the ordinary file system read/write command and wait for the response. Regards,

[GENERAL] pg_restore error

2005-03-11 Thread go
Hi All! While restoring PG7.23 dump into PG 8.01 database (pg_restore -Fc -d a3 -v arz3.test.dat) i got error: pg_restore: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding UNICODE: 0xfc3535 CONTEXT: COPY mytable, line 9, column post3: 55146/23.12.04 pg_restore: [archiver (db)]

Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore error

2005-03-11 Thread Richard Huxton
go wrote: Hi All! While restoring PG7.23 dump into PG 8.01 database (pg_restore -Fc -d a3 -v arz3.test.dat) i got error: pg_restore: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding UNICODE: 0xfc3535 CONTEXT: COPY mytable, line 9, column post3: 55146/23.12.04 pg_restore: [archiver

Re: [GENERAL] Statement cancel or transaction cancel?

2005-03-11 Thread Sean Davis
On Mar 11, 2005, at 4:07 AM, Qingqing Zhou wrote: Pg8.0.1 backend begin; backend create table a (i int); backend insert into a values(1); 1: i (typeid = 23, len = 4, typmod = -1, byval = t) backend select * from pg_class; 1: relname (typeid = 19, len = 64,

[GENERAL] more execution time

2005-03-11 Thread ALÝ ÇELÝK
why this query needs more time? Its very slow thx //QUERY select coalesce(personaldetails.masterid::numeric,personaldetails.id) + (coalesce(personaldetails.id::numeric,0)/100) as sorting,

Re: [GENERAL] row numbering

2005-03-11 Thread Karsten Hilbert
You can look up our complete schema in our Wiki: http://salaam.homeunix.com/twiki/bin/view/Gnumed/WebHome Go to Deverloper Guide - Database Structure. http://salaam.homeunix.com/twiki/bin/view/Gnumed/DatabaseSchema is more convenient for you guys. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @

Re: [GENERAL] SRF, JDBC and result info

2005-03-11 Thread ntinos
Solution found! Thanks to Kris Jurka's advise I managed to pass this info using: elog(INFO,... or elog(NOTICE,... . These messages together with .getWarnings() do the job. : e.g. message returned by the SQLWarning: SNOTICEC0M#SUCCESSFUL EXECUTION. NO TUPLES FROM PEER(S):

[GENERAL] Data mining setup/hardware?

2005-03-11 Thread Mike Harding
Any suggestions on how to set up a server -strictly- for data mining? This means: - I want queries to run as quickly as possible, and - I don't care if I lose data if the power goes down. A solid state disk would obviously speed things up, like the to-disk sorts that Postgres does when it runs

[GENERAL] Convert Cursor to array

2005-03-11 Thread GIROIRE Nicolas (COFRAMI)
Title: Convert Cursor to array Hi, In a procedure, I put data of Cursor in a two-dimensional array. This allows me to sort rows. The problem is this method is too slow. In fact, I translate a pl/sql procedure to a plpgsql. Under Oracle, we use bulk and I search to use equivalent of

Re: [GENERAL] more execution time

2005-03-11 Thread Richard Huxton
ALÝ ÇELÝK wrote: why this query needs more time? Its very slow Difficult to say for sure - could you provide the output of EXPLAIN ANALYSE rather than just EXPLAIN? Some other immediate observations: 1. Perhaps don't post to so many mailing lists at once. If you reply to this, maybe reduce it

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-11 Thread Dick Davies
* Jim C. Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] [0336 21:36]: With the attitude of Windows can not be made to reliably run a database, how many developers do you think will be attracted? People are entitled to an opinion, and in many cases its formed from experience. I think it's unrealistic to expect a

Re: [GENERAL] Convert Cursor to array

2005-03-11 Thread Richard Huxton
GIROIRE Nicolas (COFRAMI) wrote: Hi, In a procedure, I put data of Cursor in a two-dimensional array. This allows me to sort rows. The problem is this method is too slow. In fact, I translate a pl/sql procedure to a plpgsql. Under Oracle, we use bulk and I search to use equivalent of this under

Re: [GENERAL] Convert Cursor to array

2005-03-11 Thread GIROIRE Nicolas (COFRAMI)
Title: RE: [GENERAL] Convert Cursor to array my sort algorithm is a very particular solution. In fact, I put record in array to allow me to sort record. I sort them by using one column of my table but the column indx can have duplicate value and it's volontary. here is the order algorithm

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-11 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Richard Huxton wrote: It can also be bad - the more time spent supporting Windows, the less time is spent working on PostgreSQL itself. Unless the Windows support attracts more resources. Personally I'd be surprised if that's not the case. That's clearly a decision only you can make. Getting

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with inherited table, can you help?...

2005-03-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:16:28PM +1100, Russell Smith wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 03:39 am, Michael Fuhr wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:31:21AM -0800, Net Virtual Mailing Lists wrote: Some have suggested that PostgreSQL should use a weaker lock on the referenced key, but that hasn't

[GENERAL] Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time

2005-03-11 Thread Egyd Csaba
Hi All, I'd like to ask your opininon about how to handle DST on an 7/24 system. Where should it be handled: on the server side or on the client side? And how could I (at all could I???) make it transparent? Or we must bow to the fact that twice a year there are two unusable hours? If it cannot

Re: [GENERAL] row numbering

2005-03-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 13:22:05 +0100, Karsten Hilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also notice that we do have views that display the missing shots per schedule per patient. I just have not found a way to join the two views (that is, given and missing) because that would AFAICT require the

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-11 Thread Christopher Browne
That remains to be seen. I wouldn't consider it the least bit worthwhile to try to evaluate it now, as what is happening now is that WinFolk are getting their very first exposure to the software. It would seem surprising for new developers to emerge from the Windows(tm) population before at

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-11 Thread Christopher Browne
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim C. Nasby): With the attitude of Windows can not be made to reliably run a database, how many developers do you think will be attracted? That remains to be seen. I wouldn't consider it the least bit worthwhile to try to evaluate it now, as what is happening now is

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-11 Thread Richard_D_Levine
An idea I like, because I have entrenched windows clients also, is to run things that run best under Linux on VMWare (vmware.com) and to run good Windows things (like desktop apps) under Windows. Linux can be either the host or guest OS under VMWare, so the options of which OS is truly in control

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Richard Huxton wrote: 2. This response is alarming: Tom Lane wrote in digest V1.5092: We are supporting Windows as a Postgres platform for the benefit of developers who want to do testing on their laptops (and for reasons best known to themselves feel a need to run Windows on their

[GENERAL] SSL error: decryption failed or bad record mac (pg as Samba backend)

2005-03-11 Thread Fernando Schapachnik
Hi, I'm trying to use an SSL-enabled (OpenSSL 0.9.7d) Postgres 7.3.9 as database backend to Samba 3.0.11. On startup Samba opens a connection, and passes it to every fork()ed process. On some scenarios (consistenly, when somebody tries to log into a workstation after reboot), Samba spits:

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-11 Thread Magnus Hagander
An idea I like, because I have entrenched windows clients also, is to run things that run best under Linux on VMWare (vmware.com) and to run good Windows things (like desktop apps) under Windows. Linux can be either the host or guest OS under VMWare, so the options of which OS is truly

Re: [GENERAL] Temporary tables privileges

2005-03-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alejandro D. Burne wrote: Hi, I'm new at pg. I'll be using tmp tables in others rdbms. An user can create your own tmp tables (grant temporary tables) but can't drop it (I don't want to grant drop privileges). Other way it's using on commit; but I can't make this work. Example: CREATE

Re: [GENERAL] VMWare and PostgreSQL: WAS :PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-11 Thread Richard_D_Levine
Thanks Magnus, Just the information I need. Is this the case if Linux is the host (and running PostgreSQL) and Windows is the guest running under VMWare? I care about the data in the Linux realm. I could give a rip if a PowerPoint presentation gets hosed. On the other hand, if it lost one of

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-11 Thread tony
Le vendredi 11 mars 2005 à 10:10 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : An idea I like, because I have entrenched windows clients also, is to run things that run best under Linux on VMWare (vmware.com) and to run good Windows things (like desktop apps) under Windows. Linux can be either the host

Re: [GENERAL] Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time

2005-03-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 15:25:28 +0100, Együd Csaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'd like to ask your opininon about how to handle DST on an 7/24 system. My advice would be to use GMT and not have to worry about DST while collecting data. When displaying data you might convert the

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-11 Thread tony
Le vendredi 11 mars 2005 à 16:51 +0100, Magnus Hagander a écrit : Do *not* do this with a production database. Vmware does *not* correctly handle fsync()s (or O_SYNC or any of those) thruogh to disk. If your host PC crashes, your database will almost certainly be corrupted. fsync() on the

Re: [GENERAL] Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time

2005-03-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 03:25:28PM +0100, Együd Csaba wrote: Hi All, I'd like to ask your opininon about how to handle DST on an 7/24 system. Where should it be handled: on the server side or on the client side? And how could I (at all could I???) make it transparent? Or we must bow to the

[GENERAL] Unique Indexes

2005-03-11 Thread ILove TheSpam
Hi, I'm new to Postgres and plpgsql so my sincerest apologies if the answer to my problem is common :-) I want to add entries to a table. The table has 2 fields, FieldID which is the primary key and FieldValue which is a unique field. I can add to FieldValue just fine when the unique constraint

Re: [GENERAL] VMWare and PostgreSQL: WAS :PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-11 Thread Magnus Hagander
Thanks Magnus, Just the information I need. Is this the case if Linux is the host (and running PostgreSQL) and Windows is the guest running under VMWare? I care about the data in the Linux realm. I could give a rip if a PowerPoint presentation gets hosed. On the other hand, if it

[GENERAL] Mac OS X 10.3 and SYSV shared memory settings

2005-03-11 Thread Kevin Murphy
Because I was just burned by this, I'd like to remind OS X users that OS 10.3 (Panther) may be a less desirable platform than 10.2 for running PostgreSQL and other applications that benefit from customizing SYSV shared memory settings. The problem is that in 10.3, there unbelievably seems to

[GENERAL]

2005-03-11 Thread William Shatner
subscribe-digest pgsql-general ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-11 Thread Magnus Hagander
Do *not* do this with a production database. Vmware does *not* correctly handle fsync()s (or O_SYNC or any of those) thruogh to disk. If your host PC crashes, your database will almost certainly be corrupted. fsync() on the client just puts it in the RAM cache on the host. Not

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL still for Linux only?

2005-03-11 Thread tony
Le vendredi 11 mars 2005 à 17:41 +0100, Magnus Hagander a écrit : Do *not* do this with a production database. Vmware does *not* correctly handle fsync()s (or O_SYNC or any of those) thruogh to disk. If your host PC crashes, your database will almost certainly be corrupted.

[GENERAL] speak of the devil

2005-03-11 Thread tony
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl? sid=05/03/11/130217tid=143tid=163tid=223tid=1 Tony ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your

[GENERAL] MS Access to PostgreSQL

2005-03-11 Thread William Shatner
I have recently migrated from MS Access to PostgreSQL.Previously I had a SQL command ResultSet aGroupResultSet = aGroupPathStmt.executeQuery( SELECT \groupID\,\fullpath\ FROM \groups\ WHERE \fullpath\ Like ' + aPath + '); where aPath was equal to 'folder\another

Re: [GENERAL] MS Access to PostgreSQL

2005-03-11 Thread Shelby Cain
--- William Shatner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently migrated from MS Access to PostgreSQL.Previously I had a SQL command ResultSet aGroupResultSet = aGroupPathStmt.executeQuery( SELECT \groupID\,\fullpath\ FROM \groups\ WHERE \fullpath\ Like ' + aPath

Re: [GENERAL] speak of the devil

2005-03-11 Thread Richard_D_Levine
But no Windows support yet. Needs future hardware: new Intel hardware for better support of virtualization. VMWare is drooling over the upcoming Intel support also. Rick

Re: [GENERAL] SSL error: decryption failed or bad record mac (pg as Samba backend)

2005-03-11 Thread Tom Lane
Fernando Schapachnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And the server log says: [24129] LOG: SSL error: decryption failed or bad record mac [24129] LOG: pq_recvbuf: recv() failed: Connection reset by peer I think you need to find some SSL hackers; this is below libpq's level too.

Re: [GENERAL] MS Access to PostgreSQL

2005-03-11 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 05:19:35PM +, William Shatner wrote: I have recently migrated from MS Access to PostgreSQL.Previously I had a SQL command ResultSet aGroupResultSet = aGroupPathStmt.executeQuery( SELECT \groupID\,\fullpath\ FROM \groups\ WHERE \fullpath\ Like ' +

Re: [GENERAL] Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time

2005-03-11 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Egyd Csaba) wrote: I'd like to ask your opininon about how to handle DST on an 7/24 system. Where should it be handled: on the server side or on the client side? And how could I (at all could I???) make it transparent? Don't use DST. Use GMT/UTC. That makes the issue go

Re: [GENERAL] Slony uninstall info/warning

2005-03-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 02:00:20PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote: As has been noted by others, this is an artifact of the JDBC driver holding onto a stored query plan. And it's somewhat worth noting that this is not unique to Slony-I... (Yes, I'm behind on reading mail lists.) Actually, I

Re: [GENERAL] Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time

2005-03-11 Thread Steve Crawford
On Friday 11 March 2005 6:25 am, Egyd Csaba wrote: Hi All, I'd like to ask your opininon about how to handle DST on an 7/24 system. Where should it be handled: on the server side or on the client side? And how could I (at all could I???) make it transparent? Or we must bow to the fact that

Re: [GENERAL] Unique Indexes

2005-03-11 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 04:21:49PM +, ILove TheSpam wrote: My problem is that I want to: a) Be able to detect when an error occurs and be able to read that error b) Find out the FieldID for the row which already has the value in it. So if I try to enter 'blah' into FieldValue and it's

Re: [GENERAL] Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time

2005-03-11 Thread Randall Nortman
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 03:25:28PM +0100, Egy?d Csaba wrote: Hi All, I'd like to ask your opininon about how to handle DST on an 7/24 system. Where should it be handled: on the server side or on the client side? And how could I (at all could I???) make it transparent? As others have

[GENERAL] 8.0 Setup problems

2005-03-11 Thread DEV
Hello, I am trying build and install 8.0 on RedHat 9.0 the configure runs with out a problem and when I type make I get: gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing zic.o ialloc.o scheck.o localtime.o -L../../src/port

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0 Setup problems

2005-03-11 Thread Tom Lane
DEV [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: zic.o(.text+0x3c40): undefined reference to `__ctype_b' zic.o(.text+0x3c5b): undefined reference to `__ctype_tolower' Apparently your /usr/include/ctype.h file doesn't agree with your libc. Some googling on __ctype_tolower suggests that there were changes in that

Re: [GENERAL] Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time

2005-03-11 Thread Mike Benoit
Not exactly... Here is a scenario I ran in to with collecting bandwidth usage and displaying it back in graph form to customers. You can store the timestamps in GMT, but the customer wants to see when spikes happen in his localtime, which most likely has DST. So twice a year, you are either

Re: [GENERAL] Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time

2005-03-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 13:47, Mike Benoit wrote: Not exactly... Here is a scenario I ran in to with collecting bandwidth usage and displaying it back in graph form to customers. You can store the timestamps in GMT, but the customer wants to see when spikes happen in his localtime, which

Re: [GENERAL] Replication suggestions (weak multi-master)

2005-03-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:41:11AM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: I'm impressed by Slony and I could probably make it do what I want with enough trickery. But again the need to be able to connect from any server to any other. To put it in Slony terms, the origin never needs to move. If

Re: [GENERAL] Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time

2005-03-11 Thread Andrew - Supernews
On 2005-03-11, Mike Benoit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is a scenario I ran in to with collecting bandwidth usage and displaying it back in graph form to customers. You can store the timestamps in GMT, but the customer wants to see when spikes happen in his localtime, which most likely has

[GENERAL] Postgres jobs mailing list?

2005-03-11 Thread Jerry Sievers
Hello. The PG mailing lists web page contains artifacts of a jobs list but no such list appeared in the dropdown of available lists. I am referring to; http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe Is there such a resource and if so, could someone direct me to it? Thanks. --

Re: [GENERAL] Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time

2005-03-11 Thread Mike Benoit
Instead of spikes or dips, with your method customers will just be confused as to why the labels skip an hour, or have two of the same hour. It would make for a more accurate graph though, your right. 6 of 1, half a dozen of another I guess. On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 23:33 +, Andrew - Supernews

Re: [JDBC] [GENERAL] MS Access to PostgreSQL

2005-03-11 Thread Brian Gunning
Hi Shelby, I don't think the problem isn't with the backslashes. They are escaped and seem to be working fine e.g. to insert a backslash in Access I had to use one escape character ('\\') whereas in PostgreSQL four backslashes ('') are required. The line that inserts the % is as follows...

Re: [GENERAL] [PATCHES] A way to let Vacuum warn if FSM settings are low. [final?]

2005-03-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
I have applied your patch with minor modifications. Applied version attached. I think the pages message: INFO: free space map: 44 relations, 28 pages stored; 704 total pages used DETAIL: FSM size: 1000 relations + 2 pages = 182 kB shared memory. should remain

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle's Virtual Private Database functionality

2005-03-11 Thread Qingqing Zhou
Check out CREATE RULE command, Regards, Qingqing Doug Bloebaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] дÈëÓʼþ news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Sorry if this appears twice on the list: sent it via a non-subscribed email the first time around. Of course, while waiting for it to appear I figured out a workaround; see the

[GENERAL] Hash problem

2005-03-11 Thread Madison Kelly
Hi all, I am back to trying to get the forum software called 'Ikonboard' working under postgres (it's advertised as being supported but the developers confirmed their pgSQL person left a while back). At the moment I am (well, the program is) getting trying to perform this query: SELECT *