Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-07-14 00:57:57 -0400: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:46:01PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote: > > Vivek Khera wrote: > > >The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should read > > >"So that leaves Postgres". Your problem is solved ;-) > > > > > >(If you are acc

Re: [GENERAL] Japanese words not distinguished

2005-07-13 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> Harry Mantheakis wrote: > >>Correct. The lesson is, never use locale support for Asian languages > >>and multibyte encodings including UTF-8. > > > > > > Thank you for your reply - much appreciated. > > > > I'm now concerned if and how this will affect ORDER BY query results (and > > other fun

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 02:46:01PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote: > Vivek Khera wrote: > >The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should read > >"So that leaves Postgres". Your problem is solved ;-) > > > >(If you are accustomed to Oracle, you are probably expecting an ACID > >da

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Neil Conway
Vivek Khera wrote: The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should read "So that leaves Postgres". Your problem is solved ;-) (If you are accustomed to Oracle, you are probably expecting an ACID database, which rules out MySQL too). Does MySQL with InnoDB not qualify as

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Parser for PL/pgSQL

2005-07-13 Thread Neil Conway
Alvaro Herrera wrote: I don't think you can use just plpgsql's parser. The problem is that it relies on the main backend parser to figure out anything it doesn't understand. I think it depends on what kind of information you want to extract from a PL/PgSQL function definition. The PL/PgSQL pa

Re: [GENERAL] Errors building older versions of PostgreSQL

2005-07-13 Thread Gregory Youngblood
Thanks for the tips. It kind of worked. I got passed that point, but then got to another set of errors. I'm going to change my approach. I'm trying to locate some older Linux ISOs that I can install in a vmware virtual environment and try to build in there. Since all I want is to dump my da

Re: [GENERAL] Japanese words not distinguished

2005-07-13 Thread Stuart Bishop
Harry Mantheakis wrote: >>Correct. The lesson is, never use locale support for Asian languages >>and multibyte encodings including UTF-8. > > > Thank you for your reply - much appreciated. > > I'm now concerned if and how this will affect ORDER BY query results (and > other functions) with respe

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent encryption in PostgreSQL?

2005-07-13 Thread Bob
Here is the link in case your fingers are broken and it hurts to type;) http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/encryption-options.html On 7/13/05, Matt McNeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings,   I need to securely store lots of sensitive contact information andnotes in a freely av

Re: [GENERAL] Errors building older versions of PostgreSQL

2005-07-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:29:41PM -0700, Gregory Youngblood wrote: > It gets through most of the make process, but then at the point where > it starts creating files like GNUmakefile, it returns: > sed: file conftest.sl line 35: unterminated `s' command The problem is that GCC now gives a mult

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
I'm developing a habit of being the most frequent replier to my own posts, but anyway: I discovered the meaning of 1663, which is the default tablespace oid.But I still need help with diagnosis and treatment... -- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information Architect Sitening, LLC Strategic Open S

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction Handling in pl/pgsql?

2005-07-13 Thread Neil Conway
Joshua D. Drake wrote: If you are using savepoints you can rollback to a specific point of a parent transaction. Although you can't use savepoints (explicitly) in functions. PL/PgSQL exceptions (which are actually implemented internally via savepoints) can be used to achieve a similar effect.

Re: [GENERAL] chosing a database name

2005-07-13 Thread Tim Allen
Karsten Hilbert wrote: My main concern, however, was whether the *approach* is sound, eg using a separate database name per release or IOW version. One way would be to use the database name "gnumed" regardless of release, another way would be to use "gnumedX_Y" for release X.Y. I wonder whether

Re: [GENERAL] stored proc help

2005-07-13 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:28:45PM -0500, Jason Tesser wrote: > I have the following store dproc but when I run it I am getting the > error > > ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "(1)" > CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function "irispermissionget" line 9 at return next > > What am I doing wrong? The

[GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
I have a production database where we just encountered the following error:ERROR:  could not open relation 1663/32019395/94144936: No such file or directory Here's the output of SELECT version():PostgreSQL 8.0.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.95.4Here's uname -a:Linux 2.6.11.8 #8 SMP Tue

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent encryption in PostgreSQL?

2005-07-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Doesn't that really only save you from having someone come in at the OS > > level and copying your data files and than moutning them on a differet > > server/database. A person could still come in to psql as a dba or anyone > > for > > that

[GENERAL] Stopping Postgres

2005-07-13 Thread David Mitchell
What is the best way to quickly and reliably stop postgres? We've found that pg_ctl doesn't work for us very well, frequently failing to actually stop the postmaster (it times out and reports that it has failed to stop). This is the same even if we use -m immediate. We don't want to kill -9, o

Re: [GENERAL] Converting MySQL tinyint to PostgreSQL

2005-07-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Ron Mayer wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > > > Well, you get another issue, alignment. If you squeeze your string > > down, the next field, if it is an int or string, will get padded to a > > multiple of 4 negating most of the gains. Like in C structures, there > > is padding to optimise

Re: [GENERAL] Table Update Systems (was: chosing a database name)

2005-07-13 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:23:06PM -0500, Jeffrey Melloy wrote: > I'm currently looking at implementing a system almost exactly like this, > and I was wondering if there is anything around that does this. Attached find how GNUmed does it based on recent discussion here on the list. Karsten --

[GENERAL] Errors building older versions of PostgreSQL

2005-07-13 Thread Gregory Youngblood
I've been going through some old backups, and found databases from pgsql versions as old as 7.0 (7.0, 7.1, 7.3, and 7.4 to be precise). I'm trying to build these older versions specifically so I can dump the data and see what I want to keep and what I can erase. 7.3 and 7.4 appear to have b

[GENERAL] versioning schema changes was: chosing a database name

2005-07-13 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 03:53:26PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think a better approach is to handle configuration management with a > table in each schema. Update the schema, update the table. We already do that anyways. Our schema scripts have their CVS version tag embedded in an INSERT

Re: [GENERAL] Nulls in timestamps

2005-07-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Tom Lane wrote: > > According to the SQL spec it's "implementation defined", which means > different DBs could do it differently but they have to tell you what > they will do. "Implementation dependent" effectively means "the > behavior is not specified at all". One problem is that even if the

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Parser for PL/pgSQL

2005-07-13 Thread Matt Miller
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 17:04 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > a simple standalone PL/pgSQL parser > > it relies on the main backend parser ... you'd have to mix > both parsers somehow. ... The main parser depends (at least) > on the List handling and memory handling Okay, you scared me off. It lo

[GENERAL] Table Update Systems (was: chosing a database name)

2005-07-13 Thread Jeffrey Melloy
I think a better approach is to handle configuration management with a table in each schema. Update the schema, update the table. This works well with automating database upgrades as well, where upgrades are written as scripts, and applied in a given order to upgrade a database from release A

Re: [GENERAL] Nulls in timestamps

2005-07-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Scott Marlowe wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:41, Tom Lane wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Where does PostgreSQL rank nulls when sorting a column of timestamps, > > > is this behaviour deterministic, and can I rely on it not changing in > > > the future? > > > > Nulls sort high (in

Re: [GENERAL] index bloat

2005-07-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:39:33PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > (Memo to hackers: this is a fairly interesting case for autovacuum > I think. The overall update rate on the table is not high enough to > trigger frequent vacuums, unless autovacuum is somehow made aware that > particular index key rang

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent encryption in PostgreSQL?

2005-07-13 Thread Tom Lane
Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doesn't that really only save you from having someone come in at the OS > level and copying your data files and than moutning them on a differet > server/database. A person could still come in to psql as a dba or anyone for > that matter with the proper select g

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent encryption in PostgreSQL?

2005-07-13 Thread snacktime
On 7/13/05, Matt McNeil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > I need to securely store lots of sensitive contact information and > notes in a freely available database (eg PostgreSQL or MySQL) that will be > stored on a database server which I do not have direct access to. > This database will

Re: [GENERAL] index bloat

2005-07-13 Thread Tom Lane
"David Esposito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... and the way new keys are > inserted into the index is to always add them to a new page (where the 'new' > page is either a truly new page, or a page that is completely empty), rather > than using up some of the fragmented space within existing page

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:24:53PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Jul 12, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Ted Slate wrote: > > >If I stick with a true RDBMS then Codebase is out. So that leaves > >Postgres and MySQL. > > The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should > read "So that

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Parser for PL/pgSQL

2005-07-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 08:33:59PM +, Matt Miller wrote: > I'd like (to find or make) a utility that inputs the code of a Pl/pgSQL > function (e.g. from a text file or from STDIN, and then parses the > function definition, building a complete symbol table. I would then > write C code that walk

Re: [GENERAL] index bloat

2005-07-13 Thread David Esposito
> -Original Message- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 3:45 PM > > Hmm, this is preferentially touching stuff near the right end of the > index, ie, it's going to bloat the pages associated with higher keys. > As I understand your usage of these

Re: [GENERAL] chosing a database name

2005-07-13 Thread Richard_D_Levine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/13/2005 02:59:02 PM: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:53:15PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > > we are developing GNUmed, a medical practice management > > > application running on PostgreSQL (you want your medical > > > data to be hosted by something reliable, don't

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Bob
Even though PostgreSQL is more like an Oracle which is a good thing. It's like Oracle in function not in cost and adminstration. PostgreSQL not only fits into the enterprice really well it also fits in the mom and pop shops(dentist office,corner store, you name it that may not have any IT folks.  S

Re: [GENERAL] chosing a database name

2005-07-13 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:21:01PM -0700, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > >My main concern, however, was whether the *approach* is > >sound, eg using a separate database name per release or IOW > >version. One way would be to use the database name "gnumed" > >regardless of release, another way would be

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent encryption in PostgreSQL?

2005-07-13 Thread Bob
Doesn't that really only save you from having someone come in at the OS level and copying your data files and than moutning them on a differet server/database.  A person could still come in to psql as a dba or anyone for that matter with the proper select grants and query off that data and see it i

[GENERAL] Standalone Parser for PL/pgSQL

2005-07-13 Thread Matt Miller
I'd like (to find or make) a utility that inputs the code of a Pl/pgSQL function (e.g. from a text file or from STDIN, and then parses the function definition, building a complete symbol table. I would then write C code that walks that symbol table and does stuff. As a starting point I'd be happy

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 05:16:44PM +, Ted Slate wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I considering moving a product to Solaris/Linux and trying to find a > good DB. Oracle is out due to cost so as far as i know the only > reasonable alternatives are Postgres or Codebase or MySQL. Does > anyone here

Re: [GENERAL] chosing a database name

2005-07-13 Thread Philip Hallstrom
we are developing GNUmed, a medical practice management application running on PostgreSQL (you want your medical data to be hosted by something reliable, don't you ;-) We are putting out our first release sometime in the next two weeks. The idea is to name the production database "gnumed0.1" for

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jul 12, 2005, at 1:16 PM, Ted Slate wrote: If I stick with a true RDBMS then Codebase is out. So that leaves Postgres and MySQL. The first sentence rules out MySQL, so the second sentence should read "So that leaves Postgres". Your problem is solved ;-) (If you are accustomed to Ora

Re: [GENERAL] chosing a database name

2005-07-13 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jul 13, 2005, at 1:18 PM, Berend Tober wrote: Or why bother including either? Just use sequential integers, maybe left-padded with zeros to make the name the same length for the first thousand or so releases? I concur with this advice. Just use a sequence number which happens to c

Re: [GENERAL] chosing a database name

2005-07-13 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:18:09PM -0400, Berend Tober wrote: > Or why bother including either? Just use sequential integers, maybe > left-padded with zeros to make the name the same length for the first > thousand or so releases? A good tip, too, thanks. Would solve the ambiguity dilemma, too.

Re: [GENERAL] chosing a database name

2005-07-13 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:53:15PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > we are developing GNUmed, a medical practice management > > application running on PostgreSQL (you want your medical > > data to be hosted by something reliable, don't you ;-) We > > are putting out our first release sometime in

[GENERAL] Transparent encryption in PostgreSQL?

2005-07-13 Thread Matt McNeil
Greetings, I need to securely store lots of sensitive contact information andnotes in a freely available database (eg PostgreSQL or MySQL) that will bestored on a database server which I do not have direct access to. This database will be accessed by a PHP application that I amdeveloping.  H

[GENERAL] What's Popular for CMS and RAD with PHP/PostgreSQL?

2005-07-13 Thread Google Mike
Using PHP and PostgreSQL only, what do you feel are the most popular CMS and RAD tools out there? I'm looking for free options. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent encryption in PostgreSQL?

2005-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
My sense is that this is a difficult problem. However, I made the mistake of promising this functionality, Well it isn't that difficult except that you need some level of two way encryption and it is going to be a performance nightmare. I would suggest instead just mounting postgresql on a

Re: [GENERAL] index bloat

2005-07-13 Thread Tom Lane
"David Esposito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm, if I keep running the following query while the test program is going > (giving it a few iterations to rest between executions), the steady-state > usage of the indexes seems to go up ... it doesn't happen every time you run > the query, but if yo

Re: [GENERAL] index bloat

2005-07-13 Thread David Esposito
> -Original Message- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 2:10 PM > To: David Esposito > > Plain VACUUM doesn't try very hard to shorten the table physically, so > that's not surprising either. But the internal free space should get > picked up at t

[GENERAL] Transparent encryption in PostgreSQL?

2005-07-13 Thread Matt McNeil
Greetings,   I need to securely store lots of sensitive contact information andnotes in a freely available database (eg PostgreSQL or MySQL) that will bestored on a database server which I do not have direct access to. This database will be accessed by a PHP application that I amdeveloping. 

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Tadej Kanizar
I've been using MySql for a long time, and have just recently moved to PostgreSql (currently I have a few projects already running on postgresql).. I have to say I prefer PostgreSql over MySql. One major factor in this is the price (as mysql isn't free for commercial projects). I can't really tell

[GENERAL] stored proc help

2005-07-13 Thread Jason Tesser
I have the following store dproc but when I run it I am getting the error   ERROR:  invalid input syntax for integer: "(1)" CONTEXT:  PL/pgSQL function "irispermissionget" line 9 at return next   What am I doing wrong?   CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "public"."irispermissionget" (usern

Re: [GENERAL] Slow delete

2005-07-13 Thread Tom Lane
Doug Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If the EXPLAIN output doesn't say >> anything about a "hashed subplan", then either you've got an old >> version or there's some sort of estimation problem. > No, the EXPLAIN doesn't mention "hashed subplan". I suspect it was a > bug in the beta. You mig

Re: [GENERAL] fts error

2005-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Oleg Bartunov wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, marcelo Cortez wrote: hi folks the follow script fail select to_tsquery('hello world '); -> ERROR: syntax error how to catch this error, any clue? Also there is a handy article over here: http://www.devx.com/opensource/Article/21674/0 by de

Re: [GENERAL] Slow delete

2005-07-13 Thread Doug Hall
On Jul 13, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Doug Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: delete from citizen where id not in (select citizenid from citizen_stage); The explain select tells me that there is a sequential select of citizen_stage records. (??) There are 75009 citizen records and 1477

Re: [GENERAL] Nulls in timestamps

2005-07-13 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:41, Tom Lane wrote: >> Nulls sort high (in any datatype, not only timestamps). It's possible >> that we'd offer an option to make them sort low in the future, but I >> can't imagine that we'd change the default behavior. > Isn't

Re: [GENERAL] Nulls in timestamps

2005-07-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:41, Tom Lane wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Where does PostgreSQL rank nulls when sorting a column of timestamps, is > > this > > behaviour deterministic, and can I rely on it not changing in the future? > > Nulls sort high (in any datatype, not only timestamps).

Re: [GENERAL] fts error

2005-07-13 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, marcelo Cortez wrote: hi folks the follow script fail select to_tsquery('hello world '); -> ERROR: syntax error how to catch this error, any clue? by definition :) read http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/oddmuse/index.cgi/tsearch-v2-intro Lets attempt to use the function

Re: [GENERAL] Nulls in timestamps

2005-07-13 Thread markMLl . pgsql-general
Many thanks Tom. Inconvenient from the point of view of the application but still useful information. The situation is that I've got a query with numerous subselects, each of which has to return exactly one row so I was doing a union with a nulled record then selecting the most recent: obviously I

Re: [GENERAL] index bloat

2005-07-13 Thread Tom Lane
"David Esposito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You're right that the index behavior is well-behaved with the cycle of > INSERT / DELETE / VACUUM ... But while it was running, I started a second > session to the database after the 60th iteration and did > BEGIN; > SELECT COUNT(*) FROM bigboy; > RO

Re: [GENERAL] Slow delete

2005-07-13 Thread Tom Lane
Doug Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > delete from citizen where id not in (select citizenid from > citizen_stage); > The explain select tells me that there is a sequential select of > citizen_stage records. (??) There are 75009 citizen records and 14778 > records, and it's taking more than ha

Re: [GENERAL] Nulls in timestamps

2005-07-13 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Where does PostgreSQL rank nulls when sorting a column of timestamps, is this > behaviour deterministic, and can I rely on it not changing in the future? Nulls sort high (in any datatype, not only timestamps). It's possible that we'd offer an option to make them sort l

Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] dynamically loaded functions

2005-07-13 Thread TJ O'Donnell
> > It sounds like you need to link gnova.so against the other shared > objects so the runtime linker can find them. For examples, see the > Makefiles used by contributed modules like dblink, xml2, and a few > others that link against external libraries. > That approach is working, but only after

Re: [GENERAL] chosing a database name

2005-07-13 Thread Berend Tober
Alvaro Herrera wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:56:03PM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote: we are developing GNUmed, a medical practice management application running on PostgreSQL (you want your medical data to be hosted by something reliable, don't you ;-) We are putting out our first releas

[GENERAL] Nulls in timestamps

2005-07-13 Thread markMLl . pgsql-general
Where does PostgreSQL rank nulls when sorting a column of timestamps, is this behaviour deterministic, and can I rely on it not changing in the future? Apologies if this shows up as a repost, I've had gateway problems at this end. -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinion

[GENERAL] re my previous e-mail client-server example

2005-07-13 Thread John Tulodziecki
Bizzarly its now working after I added the server ip address in addition to the client ip address in the listen addresses config line !!!   John Tulodziecki Senior Software Engineer Squire Technologies Ltd   Phone  +44(0)1305 757315 Web    www.squire-technologies.com Email 

Re: [GENERAL] chosing a database name

2005-07-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:56:03PM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > we are developing GNUmed, a medical practice management > application running on PostgreSQL (you want your medical > data to be hosted by something reliable, don't you ;-) We > are putting out our first release sometime in the nex

[GENERAL] Slow delete

2005-07-13 Thread Doug Hall
Sorry. I realize this is a rather newbie question, but I've got a slow delete going on here, and I could use some help figuring out why. This is the classic "get rid of orphans" select. delete from citizen where id not in (select citizenid from citizen_stage); citizen.id and citizen_stage.ci

Re: [GENERAL] Client-Server Example

2005-07-13 Thread Bob
Have you checked your pg_hba.conf file and add the correct entry to allow the remote client ip address? Sorry don't have my file so I can't show you an example. But I think the docs and/or a google will show some examples. Also you have to alter the postgresql.conf to allow tcp/ip connections. I t

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Michael Schmidt
There are a number of good, objective, and informative comparisons available on the Internet, such as http://www.databasejournal.com/sqletc/article.php/3486596.  You can Google something like "Postgresql mysql firebird comparison" to access these.  I am migrating an application from Paradox a

Re: [GENERAL] INSERT INTO from a SELECT query

2005-07-13 Thread Adam O'Toole
I solved it. The statment worked as is, I just had to use dynamic SQL (put the statement in a string and the EXECUTE the string). Here is what I did: CREATE FUNCTION test(varchar) RETURNS int2 AS' DECLARE id_list ALIAS FOR $1; query varchar; BEGIN query := '' INSERT INTO history (media_id

[GENERAL] Client-Server Example

2005-07-13 Thread John Tulodziecki
Hi there   I am trying to run a simple client application on one linux box (running redhat 9) whilst the server (i.e postmaster) is running on another box.   I have successfully run the client program locally on the server machine.   I am getting connection refused when I try a remote

[GENERAL] chosing a database name

2005-07-13 Thread Karsten Hilbert
Hi all, we are developing GNUmed, a medical practice management application running on PostgreSQL (you want your medical data to be hosted by something reliable, don't you ;-) We are putting out our first release sometime in the next two weeks. The idea is to name the production database "gnumed

Re: [GENERAL] Temp tables...

2005-07-13 Thread Greg Patnude
I am "TOP POSTING" intentionally -- Thanks Mike... Very informative -- I never realized that child (INHERITED) tables do NOT inherit the indexes from their parent... that might be part of the solution I duplicated the parents index on the child table -- the function still takes 4672 ms to

Re: [GENERAL] Strange memory behaviour with PGreset() ...

2005-07-13 Thread Tom Lane
Einar Indridason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm experiencing a memory leak, when I run this program. Yup, it's a leak. See patches just committed at http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-connect.c (note patch varies depending on branch)

Re: [GENERAL] Array as parameter for plpgsql function

2005-07-13 Thread David Pratt
argh!!! It was telling me I had an error in select statement. Thanks Tom! Regards David On Wednesday, July 13, 2005, at 11:08 AM, Tom Lane wrote: David Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CREATE FUNCTION create_record_test(text[][]) RETURNS int4 AS ' DECLARE test_array ALIAS F

[GENERAL] fts error

2005-07-13 Thread marcelo Cortez
hi folks the follow script fail select to_tsquery('hello world '); -> ERROR: syntax error how to catch this error, any clue? best regards mdc __ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! ¡Abrí tu

Re: [GENERAL] 7.4.7: strange planner decision

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Huxton
Roman Neuhauser wrote: # dev@archonet.com / 2005-07-13 14:09:34 +0100: Roman Neuhauser wrote: callrec32=# \d fix.files Table "fix.files" Column | Type | Modifiers ++--- dir| character varying(255) | bas

Re: [GENERAL] Strange memory behaviour with PGreset() ...

2005-07-13 Thread Einar Indridason
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:23:29AM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:09:37PM +, Einar Indridason wrote: > > > > Hi folks. One of my co-workers came to me with a problem. I took a > > look, and it does seem to be a problem. (But where? That is why I'm > > turning to you

Re: [GENERAL] 7.4.7: strange planner decision

2005-07-13 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Huxton writes: > What happens to the plan if you SET enable_seqscan=false; first? It's > presumably getting the row-estimate right, so unless there's terrible > correlation on "base" in the files table I can only assume it's getting > the cost estimates horribly wrong. I think you'll f

Re: [GENERAL] 7.4.7: strange planner decision

2005-07-13 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-07-13 15:58:09 +0200: > # dev@archonet.com / 2005-07-13 14:09:34 +0100: > > Roman Neuhauser wrote: > > >callrec32=# \d fix.files > > > Table "fix.files" > > > Column | Type | Modifiers > > >++-

Re: [GENERAL] Array as parameter for plpgsql function

2005-07-13 Thread Tom Lane
David Pratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CREATE FUNCTION create_record_test(text[][]) RETURNS int4 AS ' > DECLARE > test_array ALIAS FOR $1; -- alias for input array > BEGIN > return array_upper(test_array,1) > END; > ' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'; > SELECT

Re: [GENERAL] strange error with temp table: pg_type_typname_nsp_index

2005-07-13 Thread Tom Lane
Janning Vygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was just testing some configuration settings, especially increasing > shared_buffers and setting fsync to false. And suddenly it happens 3 times > out of ten that i get this error. Could you put together a complete example --- that is a script someon

Re: [GENERAL] 7.4.7: strange planner decision

2005-07-13 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# dev@archonet.com / 2005-07-13 14:09:34 +0100: > Roman Neuhauser wrote: > >callrec32=# \d fix.files > > Table "fix.files" > > Column | Type | Modifiers > >++--- > > dir| character varying(255) | > >

Re: [GENERAL] INSERT INTO from a SELECT query

2005-07-13 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am Dienstag, den 12.07.2005, 12:47 -0300 schrieb Adam O'Toole: > I am trying to INSERT multiple rows to a table using a stored procedure > something like this: > > CREATE FUNCTION test(varchar) RETURNS int2 AS ' > DECLARE > id_list ALIAS FOR $1; > BEGIN > INSERT INTO history (media_id, media_type

Re: [GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am Dienstag, den 12.07.2005, 17:16 + schrieb Ted Slate: > Hello Everyone, > > I considering moving a product to Solaris/Linux and trying to find a good > DB. Oracle is out due to cost so as far as i know the only reasonable > alternatives are Postgres or Codebase or MySQL. Does anyone here

Re: [GENERAL] index bloat

2005-07-13 Thread David Esposito
First, thank you for spending so much time on this issue Second, I think I might have found a good lead ... I replicated the test you described below (minus the updating of 10% of the records) ... I've attached the PHP script (I'm more proficient at writing PHP than a shell script; you should be a

Re: [GENERAL] Converting MySQL tinyint to PostgreSQL

2005-07-13 Thread Ron Mayer
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Well, you get another issue, alignment. If you squeeze your string down, the next field, if it is an int or string, will get padded to a multiple of 4 negating most of the gains. Like in C structures, there is padding to optimise access. Anecdotally I hear at leas

Re: [GENERAL] INSERT INTO from a SELECT query

2005-07-13 Thread Gnanavel S
Here the media_id will be  checked with  ('24,25') and not with  (24,25). You might change the datatype from varchar to int array in test function and use "any" in the place of "IN" clause like this, CREATE FUNCTION test(int[]) RETURNS int2 AS ' DECLARE id_list ALIAS FOR $1; BEGIN INSERT INTO h

Re: [GENERAL] getting the ranks out of items with SHARED

2005-07-13 Thread Tom Lane
Janning Vygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this way it works: > CREATE TEMP TABLE ranking AS *Q*; > EXECUTE 'UPDATE temp_gc SET gc_rank = ranking.rank > FROM ranking WHERE temp_gc.mg_name = ranking.mg_name;'; > and this way it doesn't: > UPDATE temp_gc > SET gc_rank = ranking.rank > FROM (*Q*)

Re: [GENERAL] Strange memory behaviour with PGreset() ...

2005-07-13 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:09:37PM +, Einar Indridason wrote: > > Hi folks. One of my co-workers came to me with a problem. I took a > look, and it does seem to be a problem. (But where? That is why I'm > turning to you...) Your message doesn't say anything about what the problem is -- wha

[GENERAL] To Postgres or not

2005-07-13 Thread Ted Slate
Hello Everyone, I considering moving a product to Solaris/Linux and trying to find a good DB. Oracle is out due to cost so as far as i know the only reasonable alternatives are Postgres or Codebase or MySQL. Does anyone here have any experience using Codebase or MySql? If I stick with a tru

[GENERAL] Schema accidentaly dropped in pg_namespace table

2005-07-13 Thread Benoît Toutain
Hi all, I've dropped a schema in my database with this command : delete from pg_namespace where nspname = "toto"; I know ... I 've done a big mistake :( . I will prefer "drop schema toto" the next time. Now I can't do a pg_dump because some objects of the removed schema are still referenced

Re: [GENERAL] getting the ranks out of items with SHARED

2005-07-13 Thread Janning Vygen
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2005 00:03 schrieb Tom Lane: > Janning Vygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a guess, what happens here: The order of the subselect statement > > is dropped by the optimizer because the optimizer doesn't see the > > "side-effect" of the ranking function. > > That

Re: [GENERAL] 7.4.7: strange planner decision

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Huxton
Roman Neuhauser wrote: Because you don't have an index on "base" for the files table. I added one, ran vacuum full analyze fix.files, and: callrec32=# \d fix.files Table "fix.files" Column | Type | Modifiers +-

[GENERAL] INSERT INTO from a SELECT query

2005-07-13 Thread Adam O'Toole
I am trying to INSERT multiple rows to a table using a stored procedure something like this: CREATE FUNCTION test(varchar) RETURNS int2 AS ' DECLARE id_list ALIAS FOR $1; BEGIN INSERT INTO history (media_id, media_type) SELECT media.media_id, media.media_type WHERE media.media_id IN (id_list);

Re: [GENERAL] index bloat

2005-07-13 Thread David Esposito
> -Original Message- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 12:26 PM > > "David Esposito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As promised, here are two runs of VACUUM VERBOSE on the > problem table ... > > BTW, the tail of the VACUUM VERBOSE output ought t

Re: [GENERAL] pgcrypto : how to get SHA1(string) as a 40-char string, NOT binary string?

2005-07-13 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:45:19AM -0700, Miles Keaton wrote: > I have the contrib/pgcrypto installed. > I want to get the 40-character hash from SHA1 > > Example: SELECT digest('blue', 'sha1') would be: > 4c9a82ce72ca2519f38d0af0abbb4cecb9fceca9 > > I was surprised and disappointed to get a bina

Re: [GENERAL] 7.4.7: strange planner decision

2005-07-13 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# dev@archonet.com / 2005-07-13 12:57:31 +0100: > Roman Neuhauser wrote: > >Why does the planner want to crawl the table that has 5M rows instead of > >the one > >with 176k rows? Both tables are freshly vacuum-full-analyzed. > > Because you don't have an index on "base" for the files table.

Re: [GENERAL] can you tell me how to use rollback work in 'pgsql' function? and give me a exsample?

2005-07-13 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:55:39PM +0800, Nee.mem() wrote: > > i see you wrote on this page > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2005-07/msg00319.php > > test exsample: > create or replace function test() > returns void as > ' > begin > del

[GENERAL] Strange memory behaviour with PGreset() ...

2005-07-13 Thread Einar Indridason
Hi folks. One of my co-workers came to me with a problem. I took a look, and it does seem to be a problem. (But where? That is why I'm turning to you...) The C code below serves as an example. He is basically trying to re-connect again to a "bad" database server. The "server" at 192.168.0.1,

Re: [GENERAL] 7.4.7: strange planner decision

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Huxton
Roman Neuhauser wrote: Why does the planner want to crawl the table that has 5M rows instead of the one with 176k rows? Both tables are freshly vacuum-full-analyzed. Because you don't have an index on "base" for the files table. callrec32=# \d fix.files Table "fix.files" Column

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