[ADMIN] Creating tables...not a usual question (I think)

2005-08-23 Thread Rodrigo Sakai
  Hi all, I have a question!   Suppose that you have a 'virtualstore' database that are owned by Peter, the enterprise DBA. So why the tables that we create inside 'virtualstore' don't have peter as owner automatically??? I mean, why don't the tables inherits the owner of the database???    

[ADMIN] encoding issue with postgres 8.0

2005-08-23 Thread Kailash Vyas
hi i am migrating from postgres 7.3.9 to 8.0.3 I am facing a issue with encoding. By default  when i create new database it creates as UNICODE In the earlier version the encoding was SQL_ASCII so i am passing this variable while initializing the db directory /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/

Re: [ADMIN] Creating tables...not a usual question (I think)

2005-08-23 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Rodrigo Sakai wrote: > Hi all, I have a question! > Suppose that you have a 'virtualstore' database that are owned by > Peter, the enterprise DBA. So why the tables that we create inside > 'virtualstore' don't have peter as owner automatically??? I mean, why > don't the tables inherits the owne

Re: [ADMIN] encoding issue with postgres 8.0

2005-08-23 Thread Tom Lane
Kailash Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_GB.UTF-8. > initdb: warning: encoding mismatch > The encoding you selected (SQL_ASCII) and the encoding that the selected > locale uses (UTF-8) are not known to match. This may lead to > misbehavior i

Re: [ADMIN] sleep?

2005-08-23 Thread Don Drake
Sorry for the delay in replying. The use-case that I have is the following.  I'm writing a job-control tracking sub-system  that will store when jobs are started, finished, failed, etc.  I would like to have the ability to have a process that is requesting to start, to actually wait a specified pe

Re: [ADMIN] sleep?

2005-08-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Don Drake wrote: Sorry for the delay in replying. The use-case that I have is the following. I'm writing a job-control tracking sub-system that will store when jobs are started, finished, failed, etc. I would like to have the ability to have a process that is requesting to start, to actua

[ADMIN] EnterpriseDB ?

2005-08-23 Thread Izoel Aguiar C
I just saw the interview made in LinuxWorld with Enterprisedb, my question is: are they really supporting PostgreSQL like they claim? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an

Re: [ADMIN] EnterpriseDB ?

2005-08-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Izoel Aguiar C wrote: I just saw the interview made in LinuxWorld with Enterprisedb, my question is: are they really supporting PostgreSQL like they claim? Yes. They hired David Cramer, Jonah Harris and Alverro. They also sponsored the community in their booth for LinuxWorld. They are

Re: [ADMIN] EnterpriseDB ?

2005-08-23 Thread Goulet, Dick
From what I've seen in their beta version, yes their just being a Red Hat like var and adding some gui based add-ons. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Izoel Aguiar C Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 12:43 PM To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Sub

[ADMIN] Fwd: Indexes (Disk space)

2005-08-23 Thread jose fuenmayor
-- Forwarded message -- From: jose fuenmayor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 22, 2005 1:37 PM Subject: Indexes (Disk space) To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Hi all, I have the following question. Is there anyway for me to know how much space on disk will ocupy an index, created in a d

Re: [ADMIN] EnterpriseDB ?

2005-08-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Goulet, Dick wrote: From what I've seen in their beta version, yes their just being a Red Hat like var and adding some gui based add-ons. Well that isn't true at all. They have added a huge Oracle compatibility layer. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [ADMIN] sleep?

2005-08-23 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On a related note, you might be interested in http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgjob/ On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:42:27AM -0500, Don Drake wrote: > Sorry for the delay in replying. > > The use-case that I have is the following. I'm writing a job-control > tracking sub-system that will store when job

Re: [ADMIN] Fwd: Indexes (Disk space)

2005-08-23 Thread Aldor
select * from pg_class; or select relname, relpages from pg_class where relname = '[index-name]'; the pages give you the information about the space the index uses, a page has 8kb. [...]Every table and index is stored as an array of pages of a fixed size (usually 8Kb, although a different p