Re: [GENERAL] Enumerating a row set

2009-03-27 Thread Marc Mamin
Hello, There is also a funny approach here with custom operators and variables that could be adapted to build a rownum functioanlity in functions (look for Vladimir) http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-11/msg00048.php not very clean, but apparently fast Marc Mamin

[GENERAL] PITRTools: Bring up warm standby - unexpected pageaddr

2009-03-27 Thread Hannes Dorbath
Hi, I'm trying to setup a warm standby using PITRTools. Environment is CentOS 5.2 x86_64 and PG 8.3.6 from yum.pgsqlrpms.org. As far as I can tell everything seems to work as expected. After a successful base backup and issuing cmd_standby -S the standby goes into constant recovery mode and

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a meaningful benchmark?

2009-03-27 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com wrote: It's also important to point out that writers don't necessarily block other writers.  As long as they're operating on different ranges of the data set.  You can have dozens of writers streaming data in with

Re: [GENERAL] Enumerating a row set

2009-03-27 Thread George Sakkis
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:55 PM, David Fetter da...@fetter.org wrote: In PostgreSQL 8.4, you'll be able to do: SELECT    row_number() OVER (ORDER BY col1) AS i,    e.col1,    e.col2,    ... FROM ... Good news! Better late than never :) Until then, there are some ugly, fragile

Re: [GENERAL] log shipping from 64 bit linux server to a 32 bit linux server

2009-03-27 Thread Sam Mason
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:32:33AM +1300, Tim Uckun wrote: What about running a 32bit build of PG on the 64bit machine? How would one go about doing something like this? Depending on your distribution you should be able to install 32bit binaries alongside 64bit binaries; for example in

[GENERAL] Postgresql On Windows

2009-03-27 Thread MDB
What is the path format for the i (\i) command in the SQL shell? Thank you. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql On Windows

2009-03-27 Thread Aurimas Černius
Hi, What is the path format for the i (\i) command in the SQL shell? I think it's just as anywhere else on Windows, e.g. \i c:\path\to\file.sql Windows support forward slashes as well, only not all Windows programs do support that (cmd.exe for example doesn't). So, it's worth a try.

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql On Windows

2009-03-27 Thread John Cheng
From my experience, you must use the forward slash. Using the backslash may give you an error: \i C:\sql\test.sql C:: Permission denied Instead, use \i C:/sql/test.sql From: Raymond O'Donnell r...@iol.ie To: MDB mdb...@yahoo.com Cc:

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a meaningful benchmark?

2009-03-27 Thread Will Rutherdale (rutherw)
I've had lots of experience fighting with the LOAD FROM command with an old application using an old version of Informix. When the data to be loaded is large enough, Informix (dbaccess) hits a wall. Tracking it down with tools generally shows that zillions of locks are accumulating. The system

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql On Windows

2009-03-27 Thread Sam Mason
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 04:45:26PM +0200, Aurimas Černius wrote: Windows support forward slashes as well, only not all Windows programs do support that (cmd.exe for example doesn't). So, it's worth a try. Where did you get the idea that cmd.exe doesn't support forward slashes? It just passes

[GENERAL] Multidatabase query

2009-03-27 Thread Mauro Bertoli
Hi all, is possible in PostgreSQL to create query between multidatabase like Sql Server 2005? An example: SELECT db1.a.id FROM db1.a UNION db2.b.id FROM db2.b Where db1 is a database and db2 is another database. a is a table in database db1 and b is a table in database db2 Best

[GENERAL] Partitioned tabled not using indexes for full text search

2009-03-27 Thread Justin Funk
I have a table that is partitioned on a daily basis. Full text searches used to be respectably fast with large tables (40 million + records) but insert speed would slow down. So I went with a partitioned approach. But now, it doesn't seem like the indexes are being used. Any idea why it would

Re: [GENERAL] PITRTools: Bring up warm standby - unexpected pageaddr

2009-03-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 10:54 +0100, Hannes Dorbath wrote: Hi, I'm trying to setup a warm standby using PITRTools. Environment is CentOS 5.2 x86_64 and PG 8.3.6 from yum.pgsqlrpms.org. This really should be on the pitrtools list: https://lists.commandprompt.com/mailman/listinfo/pitrtools Be

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql On Windows

2009-03-27 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 27/03/2009 14:28, MDB wrote: What is the path format for the i (\i) command in the SQL shell? I think it's just as anywhere else on Windows, e.g. \i c:\path\to\file.sql If there are spaces in the path you may have to enclose it in double-quotes: \i c:\path with spaces\file.sql

[GENERAL] metadata development

2009-03-27 Thread Dara Olson
Happy spring. I am new to postgres/postgis and am trying to figure out the best way to approach documenting metadata within postgres. Has there been anything developed to add FGDC or Dublin Core standard metadata records into postgres for each table within the database? Is there any program

Re: [GENERAL] Partitioned tabled not using indexes for full text search

2009-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
Justin Funk fun...@iastate.edu writes: Any idea why it would not be using the indexes? The child table you showed us has a btree index on message_index_col, which is useless for @@ queries. Maybe you forgot to specify the index type while rearranging the table into partitioned form?

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql On Windows

2009-03-27 Thread MDB
Thank you, I also found you could drop the C: (e.g. /sql/test.sql) if it is on the c drive. The backslashes on my system threw the same error.. --- On Fri, 3/27/09, John Cheng jlch...@ymail.com wrote: From: John Cheng jlch...@ymail.com Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql On Windows To:

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql On Windows

2009-03-27 Thread John R Pierce
MDB wrote: Thank you, I also found you could drop the C: (e.g. /sql/test.sql) if it is on the c drive. to be more precise, you can drop the C: if its the same as the current default drive for whatever process is reading it. Windows, for legacy reasons that date at least back to Digital

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a meaningful benchmark?

2009-03-27 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Will Rutherdale (rutherw) ruth...@cisco.com wrote: Incidentally, in case people are interested in hearing the follow-up to my original message, my home-cooked benchmark with lots of processes doing tons of updates seemed to initially show MyISAM winning over

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a meaningful benchmark?

2009-03-27 Thread Will Rutherdale (rutherw)
I see. Perhaps earlier I alienated some people by talking about transactions per second, which is not necessarily an appropriate unit. Thanks for the tip. -Will -Original Message- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marl...@gmail.com] Sent: 27 March 2009 16:08 To: Will Rutherdale

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a meaningful benchmark?

2009-03-27 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Will Rutherdale (rutherw) ruth...@cisco.com wrote: I see.  Perhaps earlier I alienated some people by talking about transactions per second, which is not necessarily an appropriate unit. Hard to say, tps is still important. A lot of loads need to change one

Re: [GENERAL] how to specify the locale that psql uses

2009-03-27 Thread Dhaval Jaiswal
I had given reply abt windows   From: Shoaib Mir shoaib...@gmail.com To: Dhaval Jaiswal bablu_postg...@yahoo.com Cc: Kent Tong k...@cpttm.org.mo; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 4:47:43 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] how to specify the

Re: [GENERAL] Installation Error, Server Won't Start

2009-03-27 Thread Dhaval Jaiswal
log_statement = none/ddl/mode/all  log_min_duration = value    -- to log query consumes more than set value -- Thanks Regards Dhaval Jaiswal   From: Raymond O'Donnell r...@iol.ie To: ray ray.jos...@cdicorp.com Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent:

Re: [GENERAL] Multidatabase query

2009-03-27 Thread Vibhor Kumar
Hi Mauro, Not possible in PostgreSQL. However, you can use dblink for creating query between multidatabase as given below: select empno from dblink('dbname=edb','SELECT empno from emp') as emp(empno numeric) union select empno from dblink('dbname=enterprisedb','SELECT empno from emp') as

Re: [GENERAL] Determining PUBLIC's permissions

2009-03-27 Thread Dhaval Jaiswal
select a.relname, a.relowner, b.oid, b.rolname from pg_class a, pg_roles b where relname like 'table_name' and a.relowner=b.oid and relkind = 'r'; \dt+ -- Thanks Regards Dhaval Jaiswal From: Roderick A. Anderson raand...@cyber-office.net To: PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql On Windows

2009-03-27 Thread Dhaval Jaiswal
postgres=# \i C:/dj1.sql; If there are space.  --   postgres=# \i  'C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/bin/dj.sql'; Thanks Regards Dhaval Jaiswal www.enterprisedb.com   From: Raymond O'Donnell r...@iol.ie To: