Re: [GENERAL] timestamptz & 'infinity' & date

2007-12-31 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Broersma Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems that 'infinity' still can't be casted to a date. :-( It's still on the TODO list. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FA

[GENERAL] timestamptz & 'infinity' & date

2007-12-31 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
I am getting a little confused in casting 'infinity'. It seems that 'infinity' still can't be casted to a date. :-( But I tried the following casts, but I am not sure the results are consistent. instrumentation=> SELECT 'infinity'::date; ERROR: invalid input syntax for type date: "infinity" i

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with index when using function

2007-12-31 Thread D. Dante Lorenso
Thanks if you started to look into this, but nevermind. I figured it out. Turns out I only needed to mark the function as STABLE: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/xfunc-volatility.html "A STABLE function cannot modify the database and is guaranteed to return the same results given t

[GENERAL] Problem with index when using function

2007-12-31 Thread D. Dante Lorenso
All, I have a weird situation where my index IS used when I use a query that hard-codes a value but it does NOT use the index when the value is returned from a PGSQL function: == DOES NOT WORK

[GENERAL] CREATE TYPE and pgAdmin III

2007-12-31 Thread dvanatta
I realize this is a pgAdmin question but I figure most of you use it and could help. I've executed the following code: CREATE TYPE cart_saved_product AS ( product_id INTEGER, name VARCHAR(50), price NUMERIC(10, 2) ); it created successfully but I do not see it in the pgAdmin ob

[GENERAL] basic questions: Postgres with yum on CentOS 5.1

2007-12-31 Thread Chuck
Hello, About a week ago I got a VPS from a web host. The VPS is running CentOS 5.1. I'm a software developer, new to Postgres and only have basic Unix admin skills. I asked the web host to make sure that Postgres is installed. They did this by running the following command: yum -y install p

Re: [GENERAL] double free corruption?

2007-12-31 Thread Reece Hart
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 12:33 -0300, marcelo Cortez wrote: > i received the follow message from backend ,it's this > a bug? ... > *** glibc detected *** postgres: postgres richelet > 201.235.11.133(2504) SELECT: double free or corruption > (!prev): 0x0845d7e8 *** > === Backtrace: =

Re: [TLM] Re: [GENERAL] batch insert/update

2007-12-31 Thread blackwater dev
I was also thinking about adding a 'is_new' column to the table which I would flag as 0, then do a basic copy of all the new rows in with is_new at 1. I'd then do a delete statement to delete all the rows which are duplicate and have a flag of 0 as the copy should leave me some with two rows, one

Re: [GENERAL] Can postgres handle "group by" queries?

2007-12-31 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 31/12/2007 15:07, Abraham, Danny wrote: runs for about 200s on Postgres, but 13s on MS SQL Server, on the same machine. The searched column is indexed. By reading the "explain" you can tell that the index is being used. Have you been running VACUUM on the table? Ray. -

[GENERAL] Can postgres handle "group by" queries?

2007-12-31 Thread Abraham, Danny
Hi, The following query SELECT START_DATE_IDX, COUNT(*) FROM RUNINFO_HISTORY WHERE START_DATE_IDX>=1005 group by START_DATE_IDX runs for about 200s on Postgres, but 13s on MS SQL Server, on the same machine. The searched column is indexed. By reading the "explain" you can tell that the ind

[GENERAL] Can't make backup

2007-12-31 Thread Sebastián Baioni
Hi, We are running PostgreSQL 8.2.5 on amd64-portbld-freebsd6.2. We have 2 databases, one is a small one (and the pg_dump works ok) and the other one with 14,553,106 rows (the larget table has 3,700,000 rows). Every day we run a Windows Programmed pg_dump, it used to work fine with PostgreSQL 8.