[GENERAL] Failed to create process: 2! during installation in windows 2000

2007-06-21 Thread filipe paiva
Hi there! First of all, sorry if that's not the correct place to send my question but I didn't find any installation mailing list. I'd aprecciate if you tell me where's the correct mailling list. My question is: can PostgresSql 8.2 be installed in Windows 2000? In the instalation file ppl

[GENERAL] AutoVacuum Behaviour Question

2007-06-21 Thread Bruce McAlister
Hi All, I have enabled autovacuum in our PostgreSQL cluster of databases. What I have noticed is that the autovacuum process keeps selecting the same database to perform autovacuums on and does not select any of the others within the cluster. Is this normal behaviour or do I need to do something

Re: [GENERAL] [pgadmin-support] Problem editing tables (geom columns)

2007-06-21 Thread Dave Page
Pedro Doria Meunier wrote: (First of all sorry for cross-posting but I feel this is a matter that interests all recipients) Thread on pgadmin support: http://www.pgadmin.org/archives/pgadmin-support/2007-06/msg00046.php Hello Dave, Hi Pedro This behavior (trying to show the entire

Re: [GENERAL] Experiences of PostgreSQL on-disk bitmap index patch

2007-06-21 Thread Christan Josefsson
Ok. Big thanks for the information. You mentioned Bizgres, do you have any more information in that direction, or do you know who to contact regarding information on Bizgres bitmap indexes. If there is a bitmap index patch in Bizgres which can be applied to the latest stable source of

[GENERAL] Recovery/Restore and Roll Forward Question.

2007-06-21 Thread Bruce McAlister
Hi All, Is it at all possible to roll forward a database with archive logs when it has been recovered using a dump? Assuming I have the archive_command and archive_timeout parameters set on our live system, then I follow these steps: [1] pg_dump -d database /backup/database.dump, [2] initdb

[GENERAL] Accent insensitive search

2007-06-21 Thread Diego Manilla Suárez
Hi. I have a few databases created with UNICODE encoding, and I would like to be able to search with accent insensitivity. There's something in Oracle (NLS_COMP, NLS_SORT) and SQL Server (don't remember) to do this, but I found nothing in PostgreSQL, just the 'to_ascii' function, which AFAIK,

Re: [GENERAL] Recovery/Restore and Roll Forward Question.

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Huxton
Bruce McAlister wrote: Hi All, Is it at all possible to roll forward a database with archive logs when it has been recovered using a dump? Assuming I have the archive_command and archive_timeout parameters set on our live system, then I follow these steps: [1] pg_dump -d database

Re: [GENERAL] Accent insensitive search

2007-06-21 Thread PFC
Hi. I have a few databases created with UNICODE encoding, and I would like to be able to search with accent insensitivity. There's something in Oracle (NLS_COMP, NLS_SORT) and SQL Server (don't remember) to do this, but I found nothing in PostgreSQL, just the 'to_ascii' function, which

Re: [GENERAL] Recovery/Restore and Roll Forward Question.

2007-06-21 Thread Bruce McAlister
Richard Huxton wrote: Bruce McAlister wrote: Hi All, Is it at all possible to roll forward a database with archive logs when it has been recovered using a dump? Assuming I have the archive_command and archive_timeout parameters set on our live system, then I follow these steps: [1]

[GENERAL] [PGSQL 8.2.x] INSERT+INSERT

2007-06-21 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Hi all. I'd like to do the following: insert into t1 values ( 'atextvalue',( insert into t2 values ( 'somethingelse' ) returning theserial ) ) ; that is, I first insert data into t2 getting back the newly created serial values, then i insert this values in

Re: [GENERAL] Recovery/Restore and Roll Forward Question.

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Huxton
Bruce McAlister wrote: Thats exactly what I think. There is something strange going on. At the moment I think it is the disk I am writing the data to that is slow, possibly due to the fact that it is mounted up as forcedirectio, so as not to interfere with the file system cache which we want to

[GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with corrupted item pointer

2007-06-21 Thread Henka
Hello all, I'm using PG 8.2.3: PostgreSQL 8.2.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.6 I happened to notice this error in the log when my application was refused a db connection (quite unexpectedly): PANIC: corrupted item pointer: offset = 3308, size = 28 LOG: autovacuum

Re: [GENERAL] Recovery/Restore and Roll Forward Question.

2007-06-21 Thread Albe Laurenz
Richard Huxton wrote: In our environment it takes approx 2 hours to perform a PIT backup of our live system: [1] select pg_start_backup('labe;') [2] cpio compress database directory (exclude wals) [3] select pg_stop_backup() However, if we perform a plain dump (pg_dump/pg_dumpall) we

[GENERAL] Aggregates

2007-06-21 Thread Naz Gassiep
Hi, If I have a table with users and a table with messages, is it possible to have a query that returns user.* as well as one extra column with the number of messages they have posted and the data and time of the last message? At the moment I am using a subquery to do this, however it seems

Re: [GENERAL] Accent insensitive search

2007-06-21 Thread Gregory Stark
PFC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I have a few databases created with UNICODE encoding, and I would like to be able to search with accent insensitivity. There's something in Oracle (NLS_COMP, NLS_SORT) and SQL Server (don't remember) to do this, but I found nothing in PostgreSQL, just the

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with corrupted item pointer

2007-06-21 Thread Gregory Stark
Henka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, I'm using PG 8.2.3: You should update to 8.2.4, it includes a security fix and several bug fixes. However afaik none of them look like this. PANIC: corrupted item pointer: offset = 3308, size = 28 LOG: autovacuum process (PID 18165) was

Re: [GENERAL] Recovery/Restore and Roll Forward Question.

2007-06-21 Thread Bruce McAlister
Richard Huxton wrote: Bruce McAlister wrote: Thats exactly what I think. There is something strange going on. At the moment I think it is the disk I am writing the data to that is slow, possibly due to the fact that it is mounted up as forcedirectio, so as not to interfere with the file

Re: [GENERAL] Recovery/Restore and Roll Forward Question.

2007-06-21 Thread Bruce McAlister
Albe Laurenz wrote: Richard Huxton wrote: In our environment it takes approx 2 hours to perform a PIT backup of our live system: [1] select pg_start_backup('labe;') [2] cpio compress database directory (exclude wals) [3] select pg_stop_backup() However, if we perform a plain dump

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with corrupted item pointer

2007-06-21 Thread Henka
I'm using PG 8.2.3: You should update to 8.2.4, it includes a security fix and several bug fixes. That was my next option. My last backup dump looks suspiciously small, but the day before that looks about right. My first thought is bad memory. It's always good to rule that out since

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with corrupted item pointer

2007-06-21 Thread Gregory Stark
Henka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Other than that it might be interesting to know the values of some server parameters: fsync and full_page_writes. Have you ever had this machine crash or had a power failure? And what kind of i/o controller is this? fsync = off full_page_writes = default

Re: [GENERAL] Accent insensitive search

2007-06-21 Thread Albe Laurenz
PFC wrote: Hi. I have a few databases created with UNICODE encoding, and I would like to be able to search with accent insensitivity. There's something in Oracle (NLS_COMP, NLS_SORT) and SQL Server (don't remember) to do this, but I found nothing in PostgreSQL, just the 'to_ascii'

Re: [GENERAL] Aggregates

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Huxton
Naz Gassiep wrote: Hi, If I have a table with users and a table with messages, is it possible to have a query that returns user.* as well as one extra column with the number of messages they have posted and the data and time of the last message? At the moment I am using a subquery to do

Re: [GENERAL] [PGSQL 8.2.x] INSERT+INSERT

2007-06-21 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On 6/21/07, Vincenzo Romano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I'd like to do the following: insert into t1 values ( 'atextvalue',( insert into t2 values ( 'somethingelse' ) returning theserial ) ) ; that is, I first insert data into t2 getting back the newly

Re: [GENERAL] Aggregates

2007-06-21 Thread John D. Burger
On Jun 21, 2007, at 09:22, Richard Huxton wrote: Naz Gassiep wrote: Hi, If I have a table with users and a table with messages, is it possible to have a query that returns user.* as well as one extra column with the number of messages they have posted and the data and time of the last

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL question re select for update (locking??)

2007-06-21 Thread Reid Thompson
Hello list, We are using PostgreSQL 8.0.3. Some background, and a couple of questions.. We have a database table called jobq on the database machine, and 2 networked server machines. One of the network server machines has around 20 server processes connecting over the network using ODBC. These

Re: [GENERAL] Excell

2007-06-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
David Gardner wrote: Agreed ODBC is the way to go, depending on what you are doing, Access may be helpfull as an intermediate step. Joshua D. Drake wrote: Bob Pawley wrote: Hi All Is there a fast and easy method of transferring information between MS Excel and PostgreSQL?? odbc?

Re: [GENERAL] Aggregates

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Huxton
John D. Burger wrote: On Jun 21, 2007, at 09:22, Richard Huxton wrote: Naz Gassiep wrote: Hi, If I have a table with users and a table with messages, is it possible to have a query that returns user.* as well as one extra column with the number of messages they have posted and the data

Re: [GENERAL] Excell

2007-06-21 Thread Csaba Nagy
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 16:45, Scott Marlowe wrote: Another option is to use your favorite scripting language and throw an excel header then the data in tab delimited format. Or even in excel xml format. Why would you need any scripting language ? COPY supports CSV output pretty well, it can

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL question re select for update (locking??)

2007-06-21 Thread Richard Huxton
Reid Thompson wrote: Each server process claims a jobq record by selecting for update a jobq record where the pid column is null, then rewrites the record with the pid set in the pid column. The distilled sql select statement is: * SELECT J.*, C.name, C.client_id, C.priority * FROM

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and solaris 10: pitch to sysadmins

2007-06-21 Thread Robert Treat
On Monday 18 June 2007 16:27, John Smith wrote: guys need to pitch postgresql to some hard-to-budge solaris sysadmins- they don't even know about the postgresql-solaris 10 package, just used to oracle and don't want to break their backs over postgresql. plus i don't know enough slony yet.

Re: [GENERAL] persistent db connections in PHP

2007-06-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
Raymond O'Donnell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, with this new Postgres site, I don't have access to my temp tables after I've traversed another pg_connect. So PHP is either creating a new connection, or giving me another session, not the one which I created my tables in. You

Re: [GENERAL] Experiences of PostgreSQL on-disk bitmap index patch

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 10:39:29AM +0200, Christan Josefsson wrote: Any guess when 8.4 could be production ready? A year or more? In the future is what I'd be willing to state out loud ;-) 8.3 hasn't finished development yet. I wouldn't hold my breath. You can find out more about bizgres at

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with corrupted item pointer

2007-06-21 Thread Tom Lane
Henka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I happened to notice this error in the log when my application was refused a db connection (quite unexpectedly): PANIC: corrupted item pointer: offset = 3308, size = 28 LOG: autovacuum process (PID 18165) was terminated by signal 6 FWIW, the only occurrences

[GENERAL] finding items with 0 rels for a 0 to many relationship

2007-06-21 Thread danmcb
Hi I have two tables, say A and B, that have a many-to-many relationship, implemented in the usual way with a join table A_B. How can I economically find all the rows in table A whose id's are not in A_B at all (i.e. they have zero instances of B associated)? Thanks Daniel

Re: [GENERAL] finding items with 0 rels for a 0 to many relationship

2007-06-21 Thread Josh Tolley
On 6/21/07, danmcb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have two tables, say A and B, that have a many-to-many relationship, implemented in the usual way with a join table A_B. How can I economically find all the rows in table A whose id's are not in A_B at all (i.e. they have zero instances of B

Re: [GENERAL] finding items with 0 rels for a 0 to many relationship

2007-06-21 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jun 21, 2007, at 11:57 , Josh Tolley wrote: On 6/21/07, danmcb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have two tables, say A and B, that have a many-to-many relationship, implemented in the usual way with a join table A_B. How can I economically find all the rows in table A whose id's are not

Re: [GENERAL] Recovery/Restore and Roll Forward Question.

2007-06-21 Thread Erik Jones
On Jun 21, 2007, at 5:16 AM, Bruce McAlister wrote: Thats exactly what I think. There is something strange going on. At the moment I think it is the disk I am writing the data to that is slow, possibly due to the fact that it is mounted up as forcedirectio, so as not to interfere with the

[GENERAL] Throwing exceptions

2007-06-21 Thread Germán Hüttemann Arza
Hi, I need a way to throw a message in a function, when an exception occurs, but I don't want to write again and again the same message in every place I need to throw it. So, is there a way to handle this situation in a more general manner? Thanks in advance, -- Germán Hüttemann Arza CNC -

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with corrupted item pointer

2007-06-21 Thread Henk - CityWEB
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Tom Lane wrote: Henka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I happened to notice this error in the log when my application was refused a db connection (quite unexpectedly): PANIC: corrupted item pointer: offset = 3308, size = 28 LOG: autovacuum process (PID 18165) was

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with corrupted item pointer

2007-06-21 Thread Henk - CityWEB
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Gregory Stark wrote: Ugh. The worst part is that you won't even know that there's anything wrong with your data. I would actually suggest that if you run with fsync off and have a power failure or kernel crash you should just immediately restore from your last backup and

[GENERAL] How to install Postgresql on MS Vista?

2007-06-21 Thread dfx
I tryied it but get errors on create user postgres. Is there some workaround? Thank you Domenico ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] How to install Postgresql on MS Vista?

2007-06-21 Thread Andreas Kretschmer
dfx [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I tryied it but get errors on create user postgres. Is there some workaround? I'm not familiar with this crappy OS, but maybe you should disable UAC. Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side

Re: [GENERAL] How to install Postgresql on MS Vista?

2007-06-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Andreas Kretschmer wrote: dfx [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I tryied it but get errors on create user postgres. Is there some workaround? I'm not familiar with this crappy OS, but maybe you should disable UAC. In your mind, it may be crappy but it is indeed an officially supported

Re: [GENERAL] How to install Postgresql on MS Vista?

2007-06-21 Thread Andreas Kretschmer
Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I tryied it but get errors on create user postgres. Is there some workaround? I'm not familiar with this crappy OS, but maybe you should disable UAC. In your mind, it may be crappy but it is indeed an officially supported operating system by this

Re: [GENERAL] How to install Postgresql on MS Vista?

2007-06-21 Thread Lee Keel
The first thing you have to do is disable the User Access Control. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-general- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dfx Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:58 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] How to install

Re: [GENERAL] Aggregates

2007-06-21 Thread John D. Burger
Richard Huxton wrote: Ah, but this just includes the time of the last message, not its data. Oops, I read the OP's question as date and time, rather than data and time. Nevermind. :) - John D. Burger MITRE ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3 PANIC with corrupted item pointer

2007-06-21 Thread Hannes Dorbath
Henk - CityWEB wrote: I can't wait to get a decent master/multi-slave setup going where I can turn fsync on and still get semi-decent performance... I don't see how replication can help you with fsync performance problems. Controllers with battery backed write cache are cheap. What is the point

Re: [GENERAL] Experiences of PostgreSQL on-disk bitmap index patch

2007-06-21 Thread Hannes Dorbath
Christan Josefsson wrote: Any guess when 8.4 could be production ready? A year or more? Why don't you just use Bizgres? Right, they don't release that often, and 0.9 misses various fixes that went into PostgreSQL. But if it has what you are after and works for you.. -- Best regards, Hannes

Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic Log tigger (plpgsql)

2007-06-21 Thread Noah Heusser
Sergey Konoplev schrieb: My Question: How can I do OLD.columnName != NEW.columnName if I don't know what the columnNames are at Compile Time? I have the columnName in a variable. I suggest you use plpython. In this case you'll be able to do it. TD['old'][colNameVar] != TD['new'][colNameVar]

[GENERAL] ORDER BY with exception

2007-06-21 Thread brian
I have a lookup table with a bunch of disciplines: # SELECT id, name FROM discipline; id |name +- 1 | writing 2 | visual arts 3 | music 4 | dance 5 | film and television 6 | theatre 7 | media arts 8 | community 9 | fine craft 10 | other (10

Re: [GENERAL] Excell

2007-06-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
Csaba Nagy wrote: On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 16:45, Scott Marlowe wrote: Another option is to use your favorite scripting language and throw an excel header then the data in tab delimited format. Or even in excel xml format. Why would you need any scripting language ? COPY supports CSV

Re: [GENERAL] Throwing exceptions

2007-06-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
Germán Hüttemann Arza wrote: Hi, I need a way to throw a message in a function, when an exception occurs, but I don't want to write again and again the same message in every place I need to throw it. So, is there a way to handle this situation in a more general manner? Why not create a

Re: [GENERAL] ORDER BY with exception

2007-06-21 Thread Josh Tolley
On 6/21/07, brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a lookup table with a bunch of disciplines: # SELECT id, name FROM discipline; id |name +- 1 | writing 2 | visual arts 3 | music 4 | dance 5 | film and television 6 | theatre 7 | media arts

Re: [GENERAL] Excell

2007-06-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Scott Marlowe wrote: Csaba Nagy wrote: On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 16:45, Scott Marlowe wrote: Another option is to use your favorite scripting language and throw an excel header then the data in tab delimited format. Or even in excel xml format. Why would you need any scripting language

Re: [GENERAL] ORDER BY with exception

2007-06-21 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jun 21, 2007, at 17:35 , brian wrote: I have a lookup table with a bunch of disciplines: To answer your ordering question first: SELECT id, name FROM discipline ORDER BY name = 'other' , name; id |name +- 8 | community 4 | dance 5 | film and

Re: [GENERAL] ORDER BY with exception

2007-06-21 Thread brian
Josh Tolley wrote: It seems to me you could replace it all with one query, something like this: SELECT discipline, COUNT(1) FROM showcase WHERE EXISTS (SELECT * FROM showcase_item WHERE showcase_id = showcase.id LIMIT 1) GROUP BY discipline ORDER BY (discipline != 'other'), discipline;

Re: [GENERAL] ORDER BY with exception

2007-06-21 Thread brian
Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Jun 21, 2007, at 17:35 , brian wrote: I have a lookup table with a bunch of disciplines: To answer your ordering question first: SELECT id, name FROM discipline ORDER BY name = 'other' , name; id |name +- 8 | community 4

Re: [GENERAL] Excell

2007-06-21 Thread Harvey, Allan AC
Because I'm delivering reports to dozens of people who have windows, no psql client, and just want to go to a web page, click a button, and get their report (or was that a banana?) I do exactly this with bog basic HTML and bash scripts. Can send you a copy if you want examples. Allan

Re: [GENERAL] standard LOB support

2007-06-21 Thread EBIHARA, Yuichiro
Hi, I found my understanding was incorrect. Is there any plan to support BLOB and CLOB in future releases? Looking at the spec, and postgresql's implementation, I can't see much reason you couldn't just use a domain to declare that a bytea is a blob and varchar is a clob. That

Re: [GENERAL] Excell

2007-06-21 Thread Bob Pawley
Yes please send me a copy. Bob - Original Message - From: Harvey, Allan AC [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Csaba Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED]; David Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Postgres general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] standard LOB support

2007-06-21 Thread Thomas Kellerer
EBIHARA, Yuichiro wrote on 22.06.2007 06:09: It seems like PG JDBC driver CANNOT handle 'bytea' as BLOB nor 'text' as CLOB. getBlob()/setBlob()/getClob()/setClob() can work with only Large Objects (at least with postgresql-8.1-405.jdbc3.jar). org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Bad Integer

Re: [GENERAL] standard LOB support

2007-06-21 Thread Tom Lane
EBIHARA, Yuichiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Using Large Objects may solve my issue but I have to note that a large object is not automatically deleted when the record referring to it is deleted. The contrib/lo module can help with this. regards, tom lane