Re: [GENERAL] Why database is corrupted after re-booting

2005-10-28 Thread w_tom
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Re: [GENERAL] mysql replace in postgreSQL?

2005-10-28 Thread Bricklen Anderson
blackwater dev wrote: In MySQL, I can use the replace statement which either updates the data there or inserts it. Is there a comporable syntax to use in postgreSQL? I need to do an insert and don't want to have to worry about if the data is already there or not...so don't want to see if it the

Re: [GENERAL] Installation trouble -- oops

2005-10-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Steve Crawford wrote: I'm having difficulty installing 8.0.4. Server is SuSE 8.2 without PG installed. However some client libraries are Yast installed due to dependency reconciliation. I'm doing the standard install (./configure, make, make install) and have created the postgres user and ap

Re: [GENERAL] Installation trouble

2005-10-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Steve Crawford wrote: I'm having difficulty installing 8.0.4. Server is SuSE 8.2 without PG installed. However some client libraries are Yast installed due to dependency reconciliation. I'm doing the standard install (./configure, make, make install) and have created the postgres user and ap

Re: [GENERAL] mysql replace in postgreSQL?

2005-10-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
blackwater dev wrote: In MySQL, I can use the replace statement which either updates the data there or inserts it. Is there a comporable syntax to use in postgreSQL? I need to do an insert and don't want to have to worry about if the data is already there or not...so don't want to see if it th

[GENERAL] Backup problem...No BIN directory!!!

2005-10-28 Thread Uzo Madujibeya
Ok, so I decide to migrate from postgresql 8.0 to 8.0.4 and, as you do, go to backup my database. On trying to navigate to my bin directory I get an error message saying the directory doesn't exist. So I check the pgsql folder and true enough the directory doesn't exist. So how in the good

[GENERAL] mysql replace in postgreSQL?

2005-10-28 Thread blackwater dev
In MySQL, I can use the replace statement which either updates the data there or inserts it. Is there a comporable syntax to use in postgreSQL? I need to do an insert and don't want to have to worry about if the data is already there or not...so don't want to see if it there, if so do update if n

Re: [GENERAL] newbie question: reading sql commands from script

2005-10-28 Thread basel novo
Thanks to all who answered this question! From: Brent Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: basel novo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] newbie question: reading sql commands from script Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:36:34 +1300 (NZDT) On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, basel n

Re: [GENERAL] problems after pg_resetxlog

2005-10-28 Thread Miguel
Miguel wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Increasing the WAL start address might help (see the pg_resetxlog man page). Realize that you're probably going to be dealing with corrupted data, however :-( regards, tom lane Ops, foget the last email, i reread the man, this is what i have to

Re: [GENERAL] Installation trouble

2005-10-28 Thread Douglas McNaught
Steve Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note, the directories shown for libdir, bindir, includedir and such > are not where the files were actually installed. > > Now I could just start shuffling files around till things work but > since I've installed/upgraded many PG installations without

Re: [GENERAL] problems after pg_resetxlog

2005-10-28 Thread Miguel
Tom Lane wrote: Increasing the WAL start address might help (see the pg_resetxlog man page). Realize that you're probably going to be dealing with corrupted data, however :-( regards, tom lane Yeah, i know, but i only want to be able to finish the dump, i must exec

[GENERAL] Installation trouble

2005-10-28 Thread Steve Crawford
I'm having difficulty installing 8.0.4. Server is SuSE 8.2 without PG installed. However some client libraries are Yast installed due to dependency reconciliation. I'm doing the standard install (./configure, make, make install) and have created the postgres user and appropriate data directory

Re: [GENERAL] problems after pg_resetxlog

2005-10-28 Thread Tom Lane
Miguel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ERROR: xlog flush request 98/E3E83848 is not satisfied --- flushed only > to 98/C364344 > what can i do? Increasing the WAL start address might help (see the pg_resetxlog man page). Realize that you're probably going to be dealing with corrupted data, howev

[GENERAL] problems after pg_resetxlog

2005-10-28 Thread Miguel
Hi, i had a server crash and after that , postgres refused to start, i read on the list that pg_resetxlog could help me, indeed, after i run pg_resetxlog dir_data, postgres started again, but i look a lot of these errors: CONTEXT: writing block 1 of relation 1663/17231/69118230 WARNING: coul

Re: [GENERAL] Map of Postgresql Users (OT)

2005-10-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
FYI, here is a map of my PostgreSQL trips, using Google: http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/map.html --- Claire McLister wrote: > I took a look at your map, this is great wonderful that you were > already think

Re: [GENERAL] Frequency of Analyze?

2005-10-28 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 01:47:49PM -0700, Benjamin Smith wrote: > 1) Any problem with running "Analyze" hourly via cron? Probably not. Analyze usually only reads a small portion of the table. > 2) Does "Vacuum analyze" also do the actions performed by "Analyze"? Yes, it does. > 3) What's the

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch2 setweight

2005-10-28 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, David Gama Rodr??guez wrote: Hello List I' ve installed tsearch2 and is working perfectly but I get this thing, I want to index more than 4 fields in one tsvector so I think to use the setweight but it can only accept ABCD y need to have 5 letters or more Is there any wa

[GENERAL] tsearch2 setweight

2005-10-28 Thread David Gama Rodrí­guez
Hello List I' ve installed tsearch2 and is working perfectly but I get this thing, I want to index more than 4 fields in one tsvector so I think to use the setweight but it can only accept ABCD y need to have 5 letters or more Is there any way to change that? or changing the source code, but I

Re: [GENERAL] Function written in C, hangs on one machine and not another...

2005-10-28 Thread Douglas McNaught
CG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks to the great suggestions I've at least gotten it to not hang... > > Martijn's hint about blocking led me to open up those filehandles in > a non-blocking mode. It appears that write() will write, at a > maximum, only 4096 bytes when it is called from within

[GENERAL] Frequency of Analyze?

2005-10-28 Thread Benjamin Smith
I have a rapidly growing database with a very complex schema, and I'm looking to improve performance. It's typical to have 2-4 foreign keys in each table, and there are currently 113 tables, and queries with 5-10 tables with combined inner/outer joins are pretty typical. (I avoid subqueries anyw

Re: [GENERAL] Function written in C, hangs on one machine and not another...

2005-10-28 Thread CG
Thanks to the great suggestions I've at least gotten it to not hang... Martijn's hint about blocking led me to open up those filehandles in a non-blocking mode. It appears that write() will write, at a maximum, only 4096 bytes when it is called from within PostgreSQL. I've tried to push data int

Re: [GENERAL] FoxPro in WINE to Postgresql on LINUX?

2005-10-28 Thread William Yu
Andrus wrote: Can you use Postgres savepoints from VFP ? sqlexec('ROLLBACK TO mysavepoint') and even sqlexec('ROLLBACK') cause C5 error. I have no experience w/ savepoints yet. However, I will say that sometimes ODBC will hijack your commands and alter them so you may want to try turnin

[GENERAL] querying while copying into a table and optimizations

2005-10-28 Thread davidgn
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:22:43 -0500 (CDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: IMP/PHP IMAP webmail program 2.2.8 X-Originating-IP: 200.34.166.34 Hi This is postgresql 7.

Re: [GENERAL] Function written in C, hangs on one machine and not another...

2005-10-28 Thread Douglas McNaught
Martijn van Oosterhout writes: > The things that have screwed me up in the past with pulling tricks like > this are: > > 1. Program has registered atexit() handlers. _exit() avoids this. > 2. Pending stdio output that gets flushed. The backend doesn't use > stdio much so you might be fine here. >

Re: [GENERAL] Function written in C, hangs on one machine and not another...

2005-10-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 11:59:03AM -0400, Douglas McNaught wrote: > Dennis Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is it safe for the postgres engine to fork()? Would > > the child need to close down anything immediately in > > its main() to avoid corrupting the parent? > > I *think* (Tom may

Re: [GENERAL] Function written in C, hangs on one machine and not another...

2005-10-28 Thread Douglas McNaught
Dennis Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it safe for the postgres engine to fork()? Would > the child need to close down anything immediately in > its main() to avoid corrupting the parent? I *think* (Tom may correct me) that as long as you don't call into the backend code at all in the c

Re: [GENERAL] Function written in C, hangs on one machine and not another...

2005-10-28 Thread Dennis Jenkins
--- CG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's no other way to load data into the toolkit! > (Can you /feel/ the > insanity?) > > Does this give you any more insight into an > alternate method of getting this > thing done? > Write a completely seperate process to process your FDF stuff. Have th

Re: [GENERAL] Function written in C, hangs on one machine and not another...

2005-10-28 Thread Dennis Jenkins
--- Douglas McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does this give you any more insight into an > alternate method of getting this > > thing done? > > I would fork(), set up file descriptors > appropriately, then have the > child call the Adobe library and th

Re: [GENERAL] Function written in C, hangs on one machine and not another...

2005-10-28 Thread CG
--- Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 07:24:12AM -0700, CG wrote: > Not entirely sure, but I'm sure the size of the write matters. For > example, if your test rpogram, did you check that the write actually > wrote everything? There's beginning and ending tokens in the FDF f

Re: [GENERAL] serial number in output

2005-10-28 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On 10/28/05, alessandra de gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What function should I use to get a serial number, together with my results,from a query?Ex. Of output I want:1   ooo pp  ij2   hou joo iu3   bhi ft  yhBasically, I would like to have one column with

Re: [GENERAL] Function written in C, hangs on one machine and not another...

2005-10-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 07:24:12AM -0700, CG wrote: > So it might be a kernel thing. What is different when the function is called > from within PostgreSQL that is different that the function being called in a > standalone program? Not entirely sure, but I'm sure the size of the write matters. For

Re: [GENERAL] Why database is corrupted after re-booting

2005-10-28 Thread w_tom
Destructive surges seek earth ground. Do you think a protector is going to stop what 3 miles of non-conductive sky could not? And yet that is exactly what some protectors manufacturers hope you will assume. Effective protectors don't stop, block, or absorb typically destructive transients.

Re: [GENERAL] Function written in C, hangs on one machine and not another...

2005-10-28 Thread Douglas McNaught
CG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does this give you any more insight into an alternate method of getting this > thing done? I would fork(), set up file descriptors appropriately, then have the child call the Adobe library and the parent feed the data to it. Once the document is loaded in the chil

[GENERAL] tablename.columnname%TYPE in Functions & Types

2005-10-28 Thread Troy
My ref: http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/plpgsql-declarations.html WHAT AM I MISSING in my ORACLE to PG Port? --1) I write CREATE FUNCTION func1( var_1 INOUT T_TABLE1.C_COL1%TYPE, var_2 IN INTEGER) AS. --2) It works but, NOTICE: type reference T_TABLE1.C_COL1%TYPE converted to

Re: [GENERAL] Why database is corrupted after re-booting

2005-10-28 Thread w_tom
One of the many problems with FAT32 was that files on the drive can be deleted if power is lost. This is why FAT was obsoleted by HPFS which in turn was obsoleted by NTFS. Power loss should not cause data loss which is why we stopped using FAT even before Windows 95 was released. Program t

[GENERAL] serial number in output

2005-10-28 Thread alessandra de gregorio
Hi, What function should I use to get a serial number, together with my results, from a query? Ex. Of output I want: 1 ooo pp ij 2 hou joo iu 3 bhi ft yh Basically, I would like to have one column with integers, from 1 onwards, no matter how man

Re: [GENERAL] Why database is corrupted after re-booting

2005-10-28 Thread Troy
huh never heard of that - I'll hold out testing it for now but thats good info. (how does it know which partition - if there's 2?) Troy H ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresq

Re: [GENERAL] Connections to DB

2005-10-28 Thread Tony Caduto
Jim C. Nasby wrote: SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity; Note that if you turn on stats_command_string you'll also be able to see what each connection is doing if you're connected as a superuser. Just as a little FYI, on 8.1 pg_stat_activity will show the IP address and port as well, but onl

Re: [GENERAL] Learning server programming

2005-10-28 Thread Andreas Kretschmer
Michael Schuerig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > I'm looking for information on learning how to write stored procedures > and server-side programming in general. The docs provide a reference, Falls Du in der Nähe von Dresden wohnst: dort ist morgen Linux-Info-Tag und ein paar Leute der deutsc

Re: [GENERAL] Function written in C, hangs on one machine and not another...

2005-10-28 Thread CG
--- Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 06:38:29AM -0700, CG wrote: > > Umm, what *are* you trying to do? Is this running in the backend? Yes, running on the back-end. I'm trying to utilize Adobe's FDF toolkit to parse the FDF files stored in my database. They distirubte a C

[GENERAL] Learning server programming

2005-10-28 Thread Michael Schuerig
I'm looking for information on learning how to write stored procedures and server-side programming in general. The docs provide a reference, of course, but that only tells what one can do, not what one should do. In particular, I'm interested in how server programming fits in with system archi

Re: [GENERAL] Why database is corrupted after re-booting

2005-10-28 Thread Alex Turner
I have read it before - it's a _fantastic_ resource, and I will probably make every junior tech I ever hire read it too. On 10/28/05, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Alex Turner wrote: > > Of course not counting the Western Digital Raptor SATA drive, which > > are priced more like SCSI drives also, and ha

Re: [GENERAL] Why database is corrupted after re-booting

2005-10-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alex Turner wrote: > Of course not counting the Western Digital Raptor SATA drive, which > are priced more like SCSI drives also, and have many of the features > of a SCSI drive including NCQ > Well, the PDF talks about several aspects of server drives, including concurrency, performance, and rel

Re: [GENERAL] Why database is corrupted after re-booting

2005-10-28 Thread Alex Turner
Of course not counting the Western Digital Raptor SATA drive, which are priced more like SCSI drives also, and have many of the features of a SCSI drive including NCQ Alex On 10/28/05, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Andrus wrote: > > >> QUANTUM FIREPALLP LM20.5 is a widely used ATA IDE drive. > > >> > >

Re: [GENERAL] Function written in C, hangs on one machine and not another...

2005-10-28 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 06:38:29AM -0700, CG wrote: > PostgreSQL 7.4 ... > > Essentially, I've written a function in C for use with PostgreSQL. The > debugger > shows that the program is hanging on the part of the program that is writing > data into it's own STDIN. Umm, what *are* you trying to

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for a command to list schemas

2005-10-28 Thread Marc Andre Paquin
Le 2005 10 26 09:36, Martijn van Oosterhout a ecrit: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:25:22AM -0700, Cosmopo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > We are presently experimenting with Postgresql schemas... We used basic > > commands like \d to list info from all tables/sequence/owner in a > > db... The schema info

[GENERAL] Function written in C, hangs on one machine and not another...

2005-10-28 Thread CG
PostgreSQL 7.4 ... Essentially, I've written a function in C for use with PostgreSQL. The debugger shows that the program is hanging on the part of the program that is writing data into it's own STDIN. [snip] // Open up and hijack STDIN int pipe_pair[2]; int pipe_rv = pipe(pipe_pair); i

Re: [GENERAL] Why database is corrupted after re-booting

2005-10-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrus wrote: > >> QUANTUM FIREPALLP LM20.5 is a widely used ATA IDE drive. > >> > >> Where do find information does it implement write caching properly or not > >> ? > > > > I don't think the manufacturers bother to make this sort of information > > available. > > > >> Is there IDE drive compati

Re: [GENERAL] Why database is corrupted after re-booting

2005-10-28 Thread Andrus
>> QUANTUM FIREPALLP LM20.5 is a widely used ATA IDE drive. >> >> Where do find information does it implement write caching properly or not >> ? > > I don't think the manufacturers bother to make this sort of information > available. > >> Is there IDE drive compatibility list for Postgres ? > > N