[GENERAL] Broken pipe

2005-10-02 Thread Ben-Nes Yonatan
Hi all, I sent the following email to the php mailing list also but maybe this is a more appropriate mailing list. I wrote a php script which is running very long queries (hours) on a database. I seem to have a problem to run the code when there are single queries which take long times (like 5

Re: [GENERAL] installing several PostgreSQL instances on Windows

2005-10-02 Thread Zlatko Matić
thanks. - Original Message - From: Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Zlatko Matic [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 12:58 PM Subject: RE: [GENERAL] installing several PostgreSQL instances on Windows Hello. Is it possible to

[GENERAL] varchar to text

2005-10-02 Thread Zlatko Matić
Hello. There are some columns in my tables that I should change from varchar to text, in order to have enough space for long textual commentaries. Before I do that, I would like to know is there any restriction regarding text type in comparison to varchar type? Especially concerning

[GENERAL] Broken pipe

2005-10-02 Thread Ben-Nes Yonatan
Hi all, I sent the following email to the php mailing list also but maybe this is a more appropriate mailing list. I wrote a php script which is running very long queries (hours) on a database. I seem to have a problem to run the code when there are single queries which take long times (like

[GENERAL] Multiple database queries

2005-10-02 Thread Cosmopo
Hello, I was using many years ago Sybase that was able then to query several tables that could be located in more than one database... I know that Postgresql did not at the time have this capability. Does the new version 8.0.x ofter this feature? We need to create several databases based on our

[GENERAL] Pertinent to list? PostgreSQL and Dev-Cpp Dev-C++ on Windows example

2005-10-02 Thread Reid Thompson
I've written a simple getting started, 'PostgreSQL and Dev-Cpp Dev-C++ on Windows example'. I was wondering if this would be pertinent to post to pgsql-general or one of the other PG lists? reid ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked

Re: [GENERAL] How many insert + update should one transaction handle?

2005-10-02 Thread Ben-Nes Yonatan
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:34:37PM +0200, Yonatan Ben-Nes wrote: Based on http://lnk.nu/developer.postgresql.org/44b.c, line 1478 on, there's not a lot that happens during the ALTER TABLE. Likewise DROP (line 517) doesn't do much either. So basically, anything trying to

Re: [GENERAL] scoring differences between bitmasks

2005-10-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 07:12:13PM -0700, Ben wrote: I'm looking for a quick way to find the number of bits that are different between two bitmasks of the same size. I'll be doing this a lot, so speed is desirable some kind of indexing would be even better. It seems like this problem

Re: [GENERAL] varchar to text

2005-10-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 11:37:10AM +0200, Zlatko Mati? wrote: There are some columns in my tables that I should change from varchar to text, in order to have enough space for long textual commentaries. Before I do that, I would like to know is there any restriction regarding text type in

Re: [GENERAL] Broken pipe

2005-10-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 12:07:18PM +0200, Ben-Nes Yonatan wrote: I wrote a php script which is running very long queries (hours) on a database. I seem to have a problem to run the code when there are single queries which take long times (like 5 hours for an update query), from the log of the

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple database queries

2005-10-02 Thread Andreas Kretschmer
Cosmopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Does the new version 8.0.x ofter this feature? We need to create several databases based on our customer's specs... but we need our own customer, permission, history, etc database. We want to be able to query 2 database that would have share customer's ID and

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple database queries

2005-10-02 Thread William ZHANG
Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server are somewhat silimar on the concept `database'. They both support queries across multiple databases. But pgsql's database is different, I think you can use pgsql's schemas to cope with problem. Regards, William ZHANG Cosmopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Hello, I

Re: [GENERAL] 8.1 'make check' fails

2005-10-02 Thread William ZHANG
Yes, the Makefiles cannot deal with spaces correctly. Seems we should avoid use the `complicated' path. Wes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote System: Mac OS X 10.4.2 PostgreSQL: 8.1 b2 Running 'make check', I get the following failure: rm -rf ./testtablespace mkdir ./testtablespace /bin/sh

Re: [GENERAL] Broken pipe

2005-10-02 Thread Ben-Nes Yonatan
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 12:07:18PM +0200, Ben-Nes Yonatan wrote: I wrote a php script which is running very long queries (hours) on a database. I seem to have a problem to run the code when there are single queries which take long times (like 5 hours for an

[GENERAL] Maximum # of schemas

2005-10-02 Thread Steve Manes
Questions: is there a hard limit to the number of schemas you could have in a database? Are there any caveats/pitfalls/pitbulls to having a large number of duplicate schemas in a database? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your

Re: [GENERAL] Broken pipe

2005-10-02 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am Sonntag, den 02.10.2005, 16:39 +0200 schrieb Ben-Nes Yonatan: Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: ... Well this is not the case (sadly.. :)) cause the process is running at the server without any browser interface. Use the web as trigger only and a persistent long running process to read the job

[GENERAL] Postgresql 8.0 and XP

2005-10-02 Thread Hrishikesh Deshmukh
Hello All, I have a dump file using phpPgAdmin in sql format. I took this file and then using PgAdminIII ran the sql script on a Windows XP machine. Though i don't see any errors i can't see the database with tables being created!!! This approach had worked in the past for me on a Win 2000 box.

Re: [GENERAL] Broken pipe

2005-10-02 Thread Tom Lane
Ben-Nes Yonatan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I seem to have a problem to run the code when there are single queries which take long times (like 5 hours for an update query), from the log of the database I received the following code: 2005-09-30 17:12:13 IDT postgres : LOG: 08006: could not send

Re: [GENERAL] scoring differences between bitmasks

2005-10-02 Thread Ben
Yes, that's the straightforward way to do it. But given that my vectors are 256 bits in length, and that I'm going to eventually have about 4 million of them to search through, I was hoping greater minds than mine had figured out how to do it faster, or how compute some kind of

Re: [GENERAL] Maximum # of schemas

2005-10-02 Thread Tom Lane
Steve Manes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Questions: is there a hard limit to the number of schemas you could have in a database? No. Are there any caveats/pitfalls/pitbulls to having a large number of duplicate schemas in a database? If that also implies a large number of tables, you might

Re: [GENERAL] Pertinent to list? PostgreSQL and Dev-Cpp Dev-C++ on Windows example

2005-10-02 Thread Shelby Cain
--- Reid Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've written a simple getting started, 'PostgreSQL and Dev-Cpp Dev-C++ on Windows example'. I was wondering if this would be pertinent to post to pgsql-general or one of the other PG lists? If you are asking because of the existence of

[GENERAL] Portable PostgreSQL

2005-10-02 Thread Samik Raychaudhuri
Hello Group: Is there any 'portable' version of PostgreSQL for Windows? By 'portable' I mean, I can just unzip files, run the initdb and then run the postmaster and I get a temporary database server running on port 5432 and accepting connections? Thanks. -Samik

Re: [GENERAL] scoring differences between bitmasks

2005-10-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:28:53AM -0700, Ben wrote: Yes, that's the straightforward way to do it. But given that my vectors are 256 bits in length, and that I'm going to eventually have about 4 million of them to search through, I was hoping greater minds than mine had figured out how

Re: [GENERAL] Broken pipe

2005-10-02 Thread Nirmalya Lahiri
Hi all, I am not expert in PHP, so my assumption may not correct Can we solve this problem by increasing the max_execution_time value at php.ini file? --Nirmalya --- Ben-Nes Yonatan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I sent the following email to the php mailing list also but maybe

Re: [GENERAL] scoring differences between bitmasks

2005-10-02 Thread Ben
Hrm, I'll think about it. Thanks! On Oct 2, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 10:17:10AM -0700, Ben wrote: Yeah, I thought about this, but damn my 3-dimensional mind, I just can't convince myself this will work for 256 dimensions. :) Or rather, I can

Re: [GENERAL] 8.1 'make check' fails

2005-10-02 Thread Wes
On 10/2/05 7:48 AM, William ZHANG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the Makefiles cannot deal with spaces correctly. Seems we should avoid use the `complicated' path. Such paths are normal on systems with a GUI interface. They are not out of the ordinary nor complicated. Wes

Re: [GENERAL] scoring differences between bitmasks

2005-10-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 10:17:10AM -0700, Ben wrote: Yeah, I thought about this, but damn my 3-dimensional mind, I just can't convince myself this will work for 256 dimensions. :) Or rather, I can see how it could, *given* good placements of the grid points to snap each vector to.

Re: [GENERAL] Portable PostgreSQL

2005-10-02 Thread Samik Raychaudhuri
I found the binary-no-install for 8.0.3 sometime back. Will test it out. Thanks for your help. -Samik On 10/2/2005 3:31 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote: Hello Group: Is there any 'portable' version of PostgreSQL for Windows? By 'portable' I mean, I can just unzip files, run the initdb and then

Re: [GENERAL] scoring differences between bitmasks

2005-10-02 Thread Ben
Sure, but unless I can figure out some way to choose a small number of vectors, I'm left with computing the full N^2 set. Given that I'm shooting for N to be 4 million or larger, that's a lot of data to store. On Oct 2, 2005, at 12:14 PM, Todd A. Cook wrote: Ben wrote: Just the

Re: [GENERAL] scoring differences between bitmasks

2005-10-02 Thread Ben
Yeah, I thought about this, but damn my 3-dimensional mind, I just can't convince myself this will work for 256 dimensions. :) Or rather, I can see how it could, *given* good placements of the grid points to snap each vector to. Unfortunately, I don't know enough theory to know what good

Re: [GENERAL] scoring differences between bitmasks

2005-10-02 Thread Todd A. Cook
Ben wrote: Just the number of bits, not which ones. Basically, the hamming distance. I see. Could you pre-compute the bit counts for the vectors in the table? You could count the bits in the search vector as Martijn suggested, and then do a lookup based on the count. -- todd

Re: [GENERAL] Portable PostgreSQL

2005-10-02 Thread Andreas Kretschmer
Samik Raychaudhuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hello Group: Is there any 'portable' version of PostgreSQL for Windows? By 'portable' I mean, I can just unzip files, run the initdb and then run the postmaster and I get a temporary database server running on port 5432 and accepting

Re: [GENERAL] Portable PostgreSQL

2005-10-02 Thread Magnus Hagander
Hello Group: Is there any 'portable' version of PostgreSQL for Windows? By 'portable' I mean, I can just unzip files, run the initdb and then run the postmaster and I get a temporary database server running on port 5432 and accepting connections? Um, yes, this should go with any

Re: [GENERAL] scoring differences between bitmasks

2005-10-02 Thread Ben
Just the number of bits, not which ones. Basically, the hamming distance. On Oct 2, 2005, at 11:44 AM, Todd A. Cook wrote: Hi, It may be that I don't understand your problem. :) Are you searching the table for the closest vector? If so, is closeness defined only as the number of bits that

Re: [GENERAL] scoring differences between bitmasks

2005-10-02 Thread Todd A. Cook
Hi, It may be that I don't understand your problem. :) Are you searching the table for the closest vector? If so, is closeness defined only as the number of bits that are different? Or, do you need to know which bits as well? -- todd Ben wrote: Hrm, I don't understand. Can you give me an

Re: [GENERAL] 8.1 'make check' fails

2005-10-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 12:15:05PM -0500, Wes wrote: On 10/2/05 7:48 AM, William ZHANG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the Makefiles cannot deal with spaces correctly. Seems we should avoid use the `complicated' path. Such paths are normal on systems with a GUI interface. They are not out

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple database queries

2005-10-02 Thread David Fetter
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 09:37:49PM -0700, Cosmopo wrote: Hello, I was using many years ago Sybase that was able then to query several tables that could be located in more than one database... I know that Postgresql did not at the time have this capability. Does the new version 8.0.x ofter

Re: [GENERAL] Portable PostgreSQL

2005-10-02 Thread Samik Raychaudhuri
Thanks for your reply Marc. Yes I am looking at Windows and I was looking at pginstaller project before emailing. If my understanding is correct, the project aims developing a Win installer for normal windows program installation, with registry entries for future uninstallation etc. What I

Re: [GENERAL] scoring differences between bitmasks

2005-10-02 Thread Ben
Hrm, I don't understand. Can you give me an example with some reasonably sized vectors? On Oct 2, 2005, at 10:59 AM, Todd A. Cook wrote: Hi, Try breaking the vector into 4 bigint columns and building a multi- column index, with index columns going from the most evenly distributed to the

Re: [GENERAL] Portable PostgreSQL

2005-10-02 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Any one of the binary packages should allow that ... if you are looking at Windows, check out the pginstaller project on http://www.pgfoundry.org ... On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Samik Raychaudhuri wrote: Hello Group: Is there any 'portable' version of PostgreSQL for Windows? By 'portable' I mean,

Re: [GENERAL] scoring differences between bitmasks

2005-10-02 Thread Todd A. Cook
Hi, Try breaking the vector into 4 bigint columns and building a multi-column index, with index columns going from the most evenly distributed to the least. Depending on the distribution of your data, you may only need 2 or 3 columns in the index. If you can cluster the table in that order, it

Re: [GENERAL] 8.1 'make check' fails

2005-10-02 Thread Tom Lane
Wes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10/2/05 7:48 AM, William ZHANG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the Makefiles cannot deal with spaces correctly. Seems we should avoid use the `complicated' path. Such paths are normal on systems with a GUI interface. They are not out of the ordinary nor

Re: [GENERAL] 8.1 'make check' fails

2005-10-02 Thread Wes
On 10/2/05 4:13 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org wrote: Problem is, the space is also the word seperator. So if you have a space seperated list of words (ie normal for make), names with spaces are a pain. It occurred to me that you might be able to replace the spaces in the

Re: [GENERAL] scoring differences between bitmasks

2005-10-02 Thread Todd A. Cook
Hi, Sorry for being so abtuse; my 9 year old has been helping me with my work today. :) The hamming distance between two bit vectors can also be found as the sum of distances between sub-vectors. Let's assume you're looking for all vectors less than d bits away from a search vector, and we'll

[GENERAL] Compiling contrib module - intarray

2005-10-02 Thread Jonathan Tse
Hi list, I just downloaded 8.03 source and try to compile the contrib module intarray by following the instruction in readme. However, I got the following error: $ gmake Makefile:15: ../../src/Makefile.global: No such file or directory Makefile:16: /contrib/contrib-global.mk: No such file

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple database queries

2005-10-02 Thread Marc Andre Paquin
Le 2005 10 02 14:36, David Fetter a ecrit: On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 09:37:49PM -0700, Cosmopo wrote: Hello, I was using many years ago Sybase that was able then to query several tables that could be located in more than one database... I know that Postgresql did not at the time have this

Re: [GENERAL] Compiling contrib module - intarray

2005-10-02 Thread Tom Lane
Jonathan Tse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just downloaded 8.03 source and try to compile the contrib module intarray by following the instruction in readme. However, I got the following error: You need to run configure at the top of the distribution tree first. Be sure to give configure

Re: [GENERAL] Portable PostgreSQL

2005-10-02 Thread Tom Lane
Samik Raychaudhuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... What I wanted is a no-trace (or minimal trace), no-admin required kind of installation (I won't be able to create a non-admin user in the comp), which, when I am done, I can just delete the installation directory and will be clear. Postgres