Re: [ADMIN] Compression of text columns

2005-10-10 Thread Stef
Jim C. Nasby mentioned : => Are you seeing much gain using ztext over using EXTENDED? When storage is defined external, there is a visible gain, but not really significant enough to make me want to use it. And I had instances where not all the rows would uncompress again afterwards. I want to tr

Re: [ADMIN] Compression of text columns

2005-10-10 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:18:39PM +0200, Stef wrote: > I have a table in the databases I work with, > that contains two text columns with XML data > stored inside them. > > This table is by far the biggest table in the databases, > and the text columns use up the most space. > I saw that the de

Re: [ADMIN] Data and logs on different physical drives - advantage?

2005-10-10 Thread Weber, Johann (ISS Kassel)
Thanks, after playing around a little I found that placing the indices on a different drive gave a real performance increase in my scenario. Johann -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 4:35 PM To: Weber, Johann (ISS Kassel) Cc: pgsql

Re: [ADMIN] Data and logs on different physical drives - advantage?

2005-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
"Weber, Johann (ISS Kassel)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is this true for PostgreSQL (V 8.0 on ReadHat)? My tests do not show any > speed gained when placing pg_clog and pg_xlog on a different drive. The conventional wisdom is that it's a win to have pg_xlog on a drive by itself. The above is n

Re: [ADMIN] Update - pg_dumpall money problem

2005-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Gary Stainburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've done a pg_dumpall and then imported that to the new system but a > copy is failing with the following: > psql:/backups/eddie_pg_dumpall.sql:3076: ERROR: invalid input syntax > for type money: "£3.18" > CONTEXT: COPY invoices, line 1, column net

Re: [ADMIN] character problem

2005-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Hannes Dorbath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10.10.2005 11:56, Luca Ferrari wrote: >> gestione_personale=# \l >> List of databases >> Name| Owner | Encoding >> +---+--- >> gestione_database | dbmanager | SQL_ASCII >> gestione_personale | wwwrun

Re: [ADMIN] Query Question

2005-10-10 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 03:20:47PM +0500, M. Imran wrote: > I want to select distinct CODE and thier respective sex, sex can > be male/female, can I get my result strictly distinct in code. > Currently it duplicate code value for each male and female. I am > using this query > > select distinct(c

Re: [ADMIN] character problem

2005-10-10 Thread Hannes Dorbath
On 10.10.2005 14:24, Luca Ferrari wrote: The old rows are still displayed in a bad format, the newly inserted one is instead shown rightly. Also data in pg_dump present wrong strings, thus any suggestion about how to reconvert already inserted data? It should be possible to convert it with an

Re: [ADMIN] character problem

2005-10-10 Thread Luca Ferrari
Hannes Dorbath's cat, on 10/10/2005 12.08, walking on the keyboard wrote: OK, so you are not using Unicode. I don't know much about the SQL_ASCII charset, but I expect it to slightly differ from LATIN1. Type SET client_encoding = LATIN1; in psql, then SELECT some data containing the chars you

[ADMIN] Compression of text columns

2005-10-10 Thread Stef
I have a table in the databases I work with, that contains two text columns with XML data stored inside them. This table is by far the biggest table in the databases, and the text columns use up the most space. I saw that the default storage type for text columns is "EXTENDED" which, according t

Re: [ADMIN] Update - pg_dumpall money problem

2005-10-10 Thread Hannes Dorbath
It /MAY/ help to use a newer pg_dump / pg_restore binary with -i option. Try to dump and restore using 8.1 binaries for example. On 10.10.2005 13:25, Gary Stainburn wrote: I'm trying to move an existing setup on a 7.2 system to another existing box running 7.4. I've done a pg_dumpall and the

Re: [ADMIN] Update - pg_dumpall money problem

2005-10-10 Thread Hannes Dorbath
..and I guess using custom format (-F c -Z 9) might be saver, because a newer pg_restore binary then might have a chance to correct things, depending on the server version it is used against. On 10.10.2005 13:25, Gary Stainburn wrote: I'm trying to move an existing setup on a 7.2 system to anot

[ADMIN] Data and logs on different physical drives - advantage?

2005-10-10 Thread Weber, Johann (ISS Kassel)
I learned for other database systems, that it is an advantage to have database on one physical drive and transaction logs on a different physical drive, as this should minimize seeks on the hard-disks.   Is this true for PostgreSQL (V 8.0 on ReadHat)? My tests do not show any speed gained wh

[ADMIN] Update - pg_dumpall money problem

2005-10-10 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi folks. I'm trying to move an existing setup on a 7.2 system to another existing box running 7.4. I've done a pg_dumpall and then imported that to the new system but a copy is failing with the following: psql:/backups/eddie_pg_dumpall.sql:3076: ERROR: invalid input syntax for type money:

Re: [ADMIN] character problem

2005-10-10 Thread Hannes Dorbath
On 10.10.2005 11:56, Luca Ferrari wrote: gestione_personale=# \l List of databases Name| Owner | Encoding +---+--- gestione_database | dbmanager | SQL_ASCII gestione_personale | wwwrun| SQL_ASCII template0 | dbm

[ADMIN] Query Question

2005-10-10 Thread M. Imran
Dear all,     I want to select distinct CODE and thier respective sex, sex can be  male/female, can I get my result strictly distinct in code. Currently it duplicate code value for each male and female. I am using this query   select distinct(code), id  from table   Regards, imran

Re: [ADMIN] character problem

2005-10-10 Thread Hannes Dorbath
On 10.10.2005 10:34, Luca Ferrari wrote: Do you mean dumping the database, destroying it and then recreating it? I'm sorry, but I'm still new in postgresql, thus it is not clear if meant that or another trick I don't know. Let us find the problem before jumping to solutions. Start psql , typ

Re: [ADMIN] character problem

2005-10-10 Thread Luca Ferrari
Hannes Dorbath's cat, on 10/10/2005 9.28, walking on the keyboard wrote: The client encoding can be set anytime, to change the cluster LOCALE or database encoding you need to initDB + dump and restore AFAIK. Do you mean dumping the database, destroying it and then recreating it? I'm sorry, but

Re: [ADMIN] character problem

2005-10-10 Thread Hannes Dorbath
like "èòéàùì", the string is stored in the database with other characters instead of those digited by the user. Well, how does `èòéàùì' look like in your database? Like `èòéà ùì'? In that case you most probably have initialized your cluster with an UTF-8 locale while not using a / the co