Re: [GENERAL] Datatype sizes; a space and speed issue?

2004-06-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:43:06PM +0900, Joel Matthew wrote: We used to have some attempts at optimizing on the assumption that char(n) fields were physically fixed-width, but we gave it up as a bad job several major releases back ... it was never more than a very marginal optimization

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger isn't fired

2004-06-27 Thread Egyd Csaba
Hi Stephan, it was the problem, but not realy understand the reason. The documentetion sais that perform doesn't porvide the return value and I thought I do not need that. But I read absently, and didn't realized that the query to perform must be a SELECT. Thank you for opening my eyes. :) Now

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger isn't fired

2004-06-27 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Együd Csaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Stephan, it was the problem, but not realy understand the reason. The documentetion sais that perform doesn't porvide the return value and I thought I do not need that. But I read absently, and didn't realized that the

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger isn't fired

2004-06-27 Thread Együd Csaba
Yes, yes you are right. :) I had already modified that (using TG_OP variable) before I posted the letter just didn't mentioned. By the way the trigger does its task. Rally. :) Thanks, -- Csaba -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Harald

[GENERAL] Date localization

2004-06-27 Thread eetemadi
hello, Excuze me, If I want to add localization support in my language Except the messages in postgres, what parts, must be done in Glibc? and what parts must be done in postgres? LC_COLLATE,LC_CTYPE,LC_MONETARY,LC_NUMERIC,LC_TIME I found that the collation order must be done in glibc. What about

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql on debian

2004-06-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 00:36, Jay wrote: Hi group, I am trying to get pgsql working on my debian system. I installed pgsql using apt-get. but then i cant connect to it . i am using the following command psql -U jay -d jaydb earlier i used create su postgres 'createdb root' jaydb.

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql on debian

2004-06-27 Thread Jay
hi oliver i tried the following command but nothing seems to work psql -U root -d root psql: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user root any suggestions thanks jay Oliver Elphick wrote: On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 00:36, Jay wrote: Hi group, I am trying to get pgsql working on my debian system.

Re: [GENERAL] Performance problem on RH7.1

2004-06-27 Thread Együd Csaba
Hi, yes it is vacuumed regulary once a day. And vacuum full is done once a week. The reasons of the slow seq scan are those two stored procedures in the field list (get_stock and get_stock_getup). These take 13-20 ms every time thay executed. Multiplying with the nr of rows we get 11-18 sec. It

[GENERAL] ERROR: tables can have at most 1600 columns

2004-06-27 Thread Ron St-Pierre
I found this error in /var/log/messages yesterday after a cron job wouldn't complete: STATEMENT: ALTER TABLE victoria.eodData DROP COLUMN tickDate; ERROR: tables can have at most 1600 columns STATEMENT: ALTER TABLE victoria.eodData ADD COLUMN tickerID INTEGER; ERROR: tables can have

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump out of shared memory

2004-06-27 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas F. O'Connell) wrote in message news: postgresql.conf just has the default of 1000 shared_buffers. The database itself has thousands of tables, some of which have rows numbering in the millions. Am I correct in thinking that, despite the hint, it's more likely that I

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] Is this a Stupid Question ?

2004-06-27 Thread Adam Smith
Thanks Grega your explanation will go a far way, Thanks again -- Adam -- Grega Bremec wrote: ...and on Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 07:50:53PM -0700, Adam Smith used the keyboard: I have posted this and similar questions repeatedly and can't even raise a single response. I am being led to believe that

[GENERAL] Is this a Stupid Question ?

2004-06-27 Thread Adam Smith
I have posted this and similar questions repeatedly and can't even raise a single response. I am being led to believe that this then 'Must be a stupid question' although people say that there is no stupid question. Is that another for political correctness I am attempting an install of 7.4.3

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: tables can have at most 1600 columns

2004-06-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 11:11:32AM -0700, Ron St-Pierre wrote: I found this error in /var/log/messages yesterday after a cron job wouldn't complete: STATEMENT: ALTER TABLE victoria.eodData DROP COLUMN tickDate; ERROR: tables can have at most 1600 columns STATEMENT: ALTER TABLE

Re: [GENERAL] Is this a Stupid Question ?

2004-06-27 Thread Ben-Nes Michael
hmmm, not sure that this is the best way. under linux runing ./configure --help will show you the default instlation paths. go to each one of them and delete. On future instelation you can consider using --prefix=/usr/local/priv_dir_pg_what_ever_ver dont forget to update PATH and ld.conf

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql on debian

2004-06-27 Thread daniel
1)from root su postgres 2)createuser the username 3)exit 4)su the user 5)createdb psql the database Jay wrote: hi oliver i tried the following command but nothing seems to work psql -U root -d root psql: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user root any suggestions thanks jay Oliver Elphick

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql on debian

2004-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i tried the following command but nothing seems to work psql -U root -d root psql: FATAL: IDENT authentication failed for user root You basically cannot use the -U switch when using IDENT authorization; that auth mode requires that your presented Postgres

Re: [GENERAL] Performance problem on RH7.1

2004-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Egy=FCd_Csaba?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is strange that the laptop substantially faster then the server. The get_stock* functions are executed 2-3 times faster. So what do those stored procedures do exactly? What it smells like to me is a bad plan for a query executed in

[GENERAL] indexing lat lon

2004-06-27 Thread Jonathan Raemdonck
I have the following situation: I'm developing an reverse geocoder, so input is lat/lon coordinate and output is the nearest textual location. I have a database of +- 2 000 000 records that contains lat/lon and full name of the location. These are the steps I take now: 1 'draw' a box around the

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump out of shared memory

2004-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas F. O'Connell) writes: Now I'm curious: why does pg_dump require that max_connections * max_shared_locks_per_transaction be greater than the number of objects in the database? Not objects, just tables. pg_dump takes AccessShareLock (the weakest kind of lock) on each

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: tables can have at most 1600 columns

2004-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 11:11:32AM -0700, Ron St-Pierre wrote: STATEMENT: ALTER TABLE victoria.eodData DROP COLUMN tickDate; ERROR: tables can have at most 1600 columns STATEMENT: ALTER TABLE victoria.eodData ADD COLUMN tickerID INTEGER; ERROR:

Re: [GENERAL] indexing lat lon

2004-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Jonathan Raemdonck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These are the steps I take now: 1 'draw' a box around the lat/lon position we have as input 2 search the DB for all the points in this box 3 measure the distance to each point in the box Right. All you need is an index amenable to step 2. Is

[GENERAL] postgresql perl connectivity

2004-06-27 Thread Jay
hi people i am trying to connect to ppstgresql on a debian system using perl . i am getting the following error .can any one please suggest what has to be done install_driver(pg) failed: Can't locate DBD/pg.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.3

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql perl connectivity

2004-06-27 Thread Scot L. Harris
On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 21:05, Jay wrote: hi people i am trying to connect to ppstgresql on a debian system using perl . i am getting the following error .can any one please suggest what has to be done install_driver(pg) failed: Can't locate DBD/pg.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl