Re: [ADMIN] Pre-allocate space in advance

2005-11-01 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:37:22PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Jim C. Nasby wrote: > > There was recently discussion about changing how allocation happens in > > the future. I'm pretty sure it was started by Bruce Momjian on -hackers, > > but I can't find it in the archives now... > > I don't th

[ADMIN] UNIQUE KEY with null value...

2005-11-01 Thread Diego
Hi, I´m a brazilian programmer! I have a question about Postgres UNIQUE KEY. Look: (Step 1) CREATE TABLE test ( id integer not null primary key, id_uni integer not null, cod integer, name varchar(40), constraint test_uk unique(id_uni, cod) ) (Step 2) insert into test (id, id_uni, cod, name) val

Re: [ADMIN] Pre-allocate space in advance

2005-11-01 Thread Tomeh, Husam
I don't have any numbers; and it may be an misconception as you pointed out that's out there among Oracle DBAs that need to be re-visited again. Tom, could you also explain what you meant in a previous post I found during my research on this issue, which I may have misunderstood it: "I actually

Re: [ADMIN] Pre-allocate space in advance

2005-11-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 11:17, Tomeh, Husam wrote: > I don't have any numbers; and it may be an misconception as you pointed > out that's out there among Oracle DBAs that need to be re-visited again. > > Tom, could you also explain what you meant in a previous post I found > during my research on t

Re: [ADMIN] UNIQUE KEY with null value...

2005-11-01 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Diego wrote: > Hi, > I´m a brazilian programmer! > > I have a question about Postgres UNIQUE KEY. Look: > > (Step 1) > CREATE TABLE test ( > id integer not null primary key, > id_uni integer not null, > cod integer, > name varchar(40), > constraint test_uk unique(id_uni, cod) >

Re: [ADMIN] UNIQUE KEY with null value...

2005-11-01 Thread Eric Faulhaber
Diego wrote: Hi, I´m a brazilian programmer! I have a question about Postgres UNIQUE KEY. Look: (Step 1) CREATE TABLE test ( id integer not null primary key, id_uni integer not null, cod integer, name varchar(40), constraint test_uk unique(id_uni, cod) ) (Step 2) insert into test (id, id_uni,

Re: [ADMIN] Pre-allocate space in advance

2005-11-01 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:17:46AM -0800, Tomeh, Husam wrote: > > I don't have any numbers; and it may be an misconception as you pointed > out that's out there among Oracle DBAs that need to be re-visited again. > > Tom, could you also explain what you meant in a previous post I found > during

Re: [ADMIN] UNIQUE KEY with null value...

2005-11-01 Thread Jim C. Nasby
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-createtable.html For the purpose of a unique constraint, null values are not considered equal. On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:09:24PM -0300, Diego wrote: > Hi, > I?m a brazilian programmer! > > I have a question about Postgres UNIQUE KEY. Look: >

Re: [ADMIN] Pre-allocate space in advance

2005-11-01 Thread Tomeh, Husam
Sorry about that. -- Husam -Original Message- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:25 AM To: Tomeh, Husam Cc: Tom Lane; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: RE: [ADMIN] Pre-allocate space in advance On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 11:17, Tomeh, Husa

[ADMIN] Can't dump and restore

2005-11-01 Thread Peter Darley
Folks, I'm having some trouble restoring data that was dumped from my database. When I dump out a table (pg_dump -d neo -t question > question.tbl) and try to restore it (psql -d temp -f question.tbl) I get errors on certain rows: "psql:question.tbl:15861: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for

Re: [ADMIN] Can't dump and restore

2005-11-01 Thread Tom Lane
"Peter Darley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having some trouble restoring data that was dumped from my database. > When I dump out a table (pg_dump -d neo -t question > question.tbl) and try > to restore it (psql -d temp -f question.tbl) I get errors on certain rows: > "psql:question.tbl

Re: [ADMIN] Can't dump and restore

2005-11-01 Thread Peter Darley
Tom, As far as I can tell the source and destination dbs are SQL_ASCII, but I have to admit I'm not sure how to find out. When I dump just the schema for the cluster, I get the following create database statements in the dump: CREATE DATABASE neo WITH TEMPLATE = template0 OWNER = postgres

Re: [ADMIN] Can't dump and restore

2005-11-01 Thread Tom Lane
"Peter Darley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, long and short, I think that everything should be SQL_ASCII, but > even > when it is, I get the error. There is no way you're going to get that error if the encoding setting is SQL_ASCII, so better look again. "SHOW server_encoding" and "SHO

Re: [ADMIN] Can't dump and restore

2005-11-01 Thread Peter Darley
Tom, You're correct, the new database was being created as UNICODE instead of SQL_ASCII. I'd never messed with encoding before, but I guess that the default was changed some time after I originally made the database on 6.x. Stupid mistake. :) Thanks a bundle for your help! Peter Darley

[ADMIN] how do you automate database backups?

2005-11-01 Thread Ferindo Middleton Jr
Are there tools available to automate backing up databases? I would like to setup my PostgreSQL install to automatically backup databases and save the file to specific location at specific times of the day with little to no user intervention... I'd like to know how to do this in both Windows an