Re: [GENERAL] Trigger Performance

2011-01-17 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2011-01-16, Randall Smith rand...@tnr.cc wrote: Before reading. This is solved. Was an error on my part. On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 03:46 +, Jasen Betts wrote: In plpgsql IF is an implicit select. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/plpgsql-expressions.html IF

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL 9.0.2 hangs during shutdown on Windows (Win32)

2011-01-17 Thread Alexandros Karypidis
Hello, I am using PostgreSQL 9.0.2-1 (specifically the pre-compiled ZIP distribution for Win32, postgresql-9.0.2-1-windows-binaries.zip, from EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com/postgresql-902-binaries-win32?ls=Crossovertype=Crossover). The Host is an Intel x86 (Core2Duo) machine running

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger Performance

2011-01-17 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2011-01-17, Fredric Fredricson fredric.fredric...@bonetmail.com wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --00060003050104030402 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 01/15/2011 11:52 PM, Randall Smith wrote:

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 9.0.2 hangs during shutdown on Windows (Win32)

2011-01-17 Thread Alexandros Karypidis
Forgot to mention that: 1. After the shutdown request, I can see that there are still two processes running (postgres.exe). One of the two is hogging the CPU (it uses one of the two cores 100%, so it shows up as 50 on the task manager). The other seems to be waiting, using 0%. 2. If I go to

Re: [GENERAL] Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations?

2011-01-17 Thread Jensen Somers
Hi, On 15/01/2011 14:21, Craig Ringer wrote: On 01/14/2011 03:45 PM, Jensen Somers wrote: Bundling it as part of my application is even better. I didn't knew if that would be possible, but it would solve some of the issues. Mainly data protection. The data that needs to be stored should not be

[GENERAL] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Re: [pgsql-es-ayuda] Para participantes extranjeros en el Tercer PGDay Latinoamericano.

2011-01-17 Thread Alfredo Torres
Mucho agradeseria remitieran las repuestas de este tipo de corroes al que los origino y no a todos. Las respuestas de algunos no les interesan a todos. Saludos 2011/1/16 Fernando Hevia fhe...@gmail.com En oportunidades anteriores donde me ha tocado trabajar con empresas cubanas fue la

Re: [GENERAL] Crosstab query on huge amount of values

2011-01-17 Thread Julia Jacobson
Am 17.01.2011 00:20, schrieb Steve Litt: On Sunday 16 January 2011 17:40:34 Julia Jacobson wrote: Hello everybody out there using PostgreSQL, A table with the results of students in different exams student | date_of_exam | grade -- Peter | 2010-09-09 | 2 Tom

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 9.0.2 hangs during shutdown on Windows (Win32)

2011-01-17 Thread Craig Ringer
On 01/17/2011 06:44 PM, Alexandros Karypidis wrote: Forgot to mention that: 1. After the shutdown request, I can see that there are still two processes running (postgres.exe). One of the two is hogging the CPU (it uses one of the two cores 100%, so it shows up as 50 on the task manager). The

Re: [GENERAL] HA solution

2011-01-17 Thread Jaiswal Dhaval Sudhirkumar
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Streaming_Replication I have gone through the above link. Current streaming replication provides Asynchronous based solution synchronous solution will come with version 9.1 Can some one please give me an approximate idea when version 9.1 will be release? --

Re: [GENERAL] Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations?

2011-01-17 Thread Craig Ringer
On 01/17/2011 06:46 PM, Jensen Somers wrote: Once a recording session is completed the data should be locked and not modified anymore. And everything should be local on the user's PC, I can't use an external database server. Those two requirements are mutually exclusive, unless you're willing

[GENERAL] help understanding collation order

2011-01-17 Thread raf
hi, postgresl-8.4.6 (database encoding is utf8) the following sql behaves strangely on one of my servers: create table ttt(id serial not null primary key, name text); insert into ttt (name) values ('CLARKE, DAVID'); insert into ttt (name) values ('CLARK, PETER'); insert into ttt (name)

Re: [GENERAL] Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations?

2011-01-17 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:46:11AM +0100, Jensen Somers wrote: I am migrating from a binary data format. But it's hard to maintain and add new features. Most of the operations I need to perform on the data is list, sort and analyze, which is why I'm interested into using a database as a

Re: [GENERAL] Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations?

2011-01-17 Thread Jensen Somers
Hi, On 17/01/2011 14:49, Craig Ringer wrote: On 01/17/2011 06:46 PM, Jensen Somers wrote: Once a recording session is completed the data should be locked and not modified anymore. And everything should be local on the user's PC, I can't use an external database server. Those two

Re: [GENERAL] Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations?

2011-01-17 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:31:45PM +0100, Jensen Somers wrote: But, from your initial reply I understood that a user can simply browse to my database installation folder (e.g.: C:/ProgramData/MyApp/data), read out and/or modify a configuration file and he can access the entire database

Re: [GENERAL] iPad and Postgresql...

2011-01-17 Thread John DeSoi
On Jan 16, 2011, at 7:40 PM, Andrej wrote: Is there an idiot installable package for MacOsX Snow Leopard that will provide a 'better' user experience for accessing Pg via the web, especially when viewed on the iPad? It's not perl, but have you considered http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/

Re: [GENERAL] HA solution

2011-01-17 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Monday 17 January 2011 5:43:19 am Jaiswal Dhaval Sudhirkumar wrote: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Streaming_Replication I have gone through the above link. Current streaming replication provides Asynchronous based solution synchronous solution will come with version 9.1 Can some one

Re: [GENERAL] Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations?

2011-01-17 Thread Jensen Somers
On 17/01/2011 16:46, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:31:45PM +0100, Jensen Somers wrote: But, from your initial reply I understood that a user can simply browse to my database installation folder (e.g.: C:/ProgramData/MyApp/data), read out and/or modify a configuration file

Re: [GENERAL] iPad and Postgresql...

2011-01-17 Thread Jerry LeVan
On Jan 17, 2011, at 10:48 AM, John DeSoi wrote: On Jan 16, 2011, at 7:40 PM, Andrej wrote: Is there an idiot installable package for MacOsX Snow Leopard that will provide a 'better' user experience for accessing Pg via the web, especially when viewed on the iPad? It's not perl, but

Re: [GENERAL] Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations?

2011-01-17 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Monday 17 January 2011 8:11:20 am Jensen Somers wrote: On 17/01/2011 16:46, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:31:45PM +0100, Jensen Somers wrote: But, from your initial reply I understood that a user can simply browse to my database installation folder (e.g.:

Re: [GENERAL] iPad and Postgresql...

2011-01-17 Thread John DeSoi
On Jan 17, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Jerry LeVan wrote: There also seems to be some nice looking native iPad/iPhone apps with the ability to perform ad-hoc queries using PostgreSQL. Pointers to the apps if you please :) I did not give links because I have not used any of them. But if you

Re: [GENERAL] iPad and Postgresql...

2011-01-17 Thread Gary Chambers
Jerry, http://www.gnegg.ch/2009/08/snow-leopard-and-php/ It sorta looks like the above might blow away the existing php stuff... Have you considered using the MacPorts version? That's what I use for development on my Macs and I've never had a problem replicating my production environments

Re: [GENERAL] iPad and Postgresql...

2011-01-17 Thread John DeSoi
On Jan 17, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Gary Chambers wrote: http://www.gnegg.ch/2009/08/snow-leopard-and-php/ It sorta looks like the above might blow away the existing php stuff... Have you considered using the MacPorts version? That's what I use for development on my Macs and I've never had a

[GENERAL] Postgis error

2011-01-17 Thread Plata Martínez, Álvaro (KNMI)
Hi, Using postgreSQL 8.4 and Postgis 1.4 in an Ubuntu 10.04 Server, when trying to create a table: CREATE TABLE observation ( (...) spatial_value geometry, ); I get this error message: ERROR: type geometry does not exist I supposed that installing postgis I would get the geographical object,

Re: [GENERAL] iPad and Postgresql...

2011-01-17 Thread Gary Chambers
Jerry, Yes, I tried MacPorts. I seemed get caught in some kind of dependency hell and could not get things to update correctly. I agree that it can be somewhat tedious to keep the packages up-to-date, but you'll face that problem (in varying degrees of difficulty, admittedly) no matter what

Re: [GENERAL] Postgis error

2011-01-17 Thread Frank Heikens
Op 17 jan 2011, om 18:35 heeft Plata Martínez, Álvaro (KNMI) het volgende geschreven: Hi, Using postgreSQL 8.4 and Postgis 1.4 in an Ubuntu 10.04 Server, Did also install the PostGIS-functions, types, etc. in your database? Installing PostGIS is a combination of installing the package

Re: [GENERAL] Postgis error

2011-01-17 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Plata_Mart=EDnez=2C_=C1lvaro_=28KNMI=29=22?= alvaro.plata.marti...@knmi.nl writes: Using postgreSQL 8.4 and Postgis 1.4 in an Ubuntu 10.04 Server, when trying to create a table: CREATE TABLE observation ( (...) spatial_value geometry, ); I get this error message:

Re: [GENERAL] Postgis error

2011-01-17 Thread Ludwig Kniprath
Hi, for adding a geometry-column to an existing table use one of the postgis-functions select AddGeometryColumn(...); described in: http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-1.5/AddGeometryColumn.html Ludwig Am 17.01.2011 18:35, schrieb Plata Martínez, Álvaro (KNMI): Hi, Using

Re: [GENERAL] Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations?

2011-01-17 Thread Jensen Somers
On 17/01/2011 17:26, Adrian Klaver wrote: On Monday 17 January 2011 8:11:20 am Jensen Somers wrote: On 17/01/2011 16:46, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:31:45PM +0100, Jensen Somers wrote: But, from your initial reply I understood that a user can simply browse to my database

Re: [GENERAL] How to generate unique invoice numbers for each day

2011-01-17 Thread Chris Browne
m...@smogura.eu (Radosław Smogura) writes: In any approach preventing gaps, locking is required. This is real life situation; imagine you have two coworkers and then they need to create invoices, so they looks in ledger (or a last day copy of ledger in their offices; international company,

Re: [GENERAL] iPad and Postgresql...

2011-01-17 Thread Arturo Perez
Didn't someone make an iPod touch app version of pgadmin? There's this http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dataglass-postgresql/id390298877?mt=8 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] help understanding collation order

2011-01-17 Thread Tom Lane
raf r...@raf.org writes: the behaviour i expect (and see on macosx-10.6.6) is: id | name +--- 4 | CLARK 2 | CLARK, PETER 3 | CLARKE 1 | CLARKE, DAVID the behaviour i don't expect but see anyway (on debian-5.0) is: id | name

Re: [GENERAL] Crosstab query on huge amount of values

2011-01-17 Thread Igor Neyman
-Original Message- From: Julia Jacobson [mailto:julia.jacob...@arcor.de] Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 7:21 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Cc: Steve Litt Subject: Re: Crosstab query on huge amount of values Am 17.01.2011 00:20, schrieb Steve Litt: On Sunday 16 January

Re: [GENERAL] help understanding collation order

2011-01-17 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 02:19:14PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: No, not particularly. Sort order is determined by lc_collate not lc_messages. Unfortunately it's entirely possible that OSX will give you a different sort order than Linux even for similarly named lc_collate settings. About the only

[GENERAL] libpq: how to retrieve query result?

2011-01-17 Thread Вячеслав Блинников
I retrieve asynchronous queries results using PQgetResult() which returns NULL not in case of some error, but when results end - so there is no way to know if database responded successfully or there happened some error? For example, error can happen when column names are miswritten.

Re: [GENERAL] iPad and Postgresql...

2011-01-17 Thread Jerry LeVan
On Jan 17, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Gary Chambers wrote: Jerry, http://www.gnegg.ch/2009/08/snow-leopard-and-php/ It sorta looks like the above might blow away the existing php stuff... Have you considered using the MacPorts version? That's what I use for development on my Macs and I've

Re: [GENERAL] libpq: how to retrieve query result?

2011-01-17 Thread Fredric Fredricson
On 01/17/2011 09:00 PM, ? wrote: I retrieve asynchronous queries results using PQgetResult() which returns NULL not in case of some error, but when results end - so there is no way to know if database responded successfully or there happened some error? For example, error can

Re: [GENERAL] libpq: how to retrieve query result?

2011-01-17 Thread Dmitriy Igrishin
Hey 17 января 2011 г. 23:00 пользователь Вячеслав Блинников slav...@gmail.comнаписал: I retrieve asynchronous queries results using PQgetResult() which returns NULL not in case of some error, but when results end - so there is no way to know if database responded successfully or there

Re: [GENERAL] Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations?

2011-01-17 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/17/2011 10:21 AM, Jensen Somers wrote: The ORM framework I want to use is http://dataobjects.net/ - Jensen Hmm, sees you might have to be patient:) From the their manual: Upcoming storage providers include: * Built-in file system database (i.e. regular embedded database) Any

Re: [GENERAL] libpq: how to retrieve query result?

2011-01-17 Thread Tom Lane
=?KOI8-R?B?99HexdPMwdcg4szJzs7Jy8/X?= slav...@gmail.com writes: I retrieve asynchronous queries results using PQgetResult() which returns NULL not in case of some error, but when results end - so there is no way to know if database responded successfully or there happened some error? For

Re: [GENERAL] Crosstab query on huge amount of values

2011-01-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 17 January 2011 07:21:11 you wrote: Am 17.01.2011 00:20, schrieb Steve Litt: On Sunday 16 January 2011 17:40:34 Julia Jacobson wrote: Hello everybody out there using PostgreSQL, A table with the results of students in different exams student | date_of_exam | grade

[GENERAL] Ad hoc report writer

2011-01-17 Thread James B. Byrne
I have occasion to produce reports from our PostgreSQL database which are ephemeral. In a previous life on CODASYL installation I used a report writer called QUIZ to dash these things off. Is there anything of a similar nature in the FOSS community that people care to recommend for use with

Re: [GENERAL] help understanding collation order

2011-01-17 Thread raf
Tom Lane wrote: raf r...@raf.org writes: the behaviour i expect (and see on macosx-10.6.6) is: id | name +--- 4 | CLARK 2 | CLARK, PETER 3 | CLARKE 1 | CLARKE, DAVID the behaviour i don't expect but see anyway (on debian-5.0) is:

Re: [GENERAL] plpythonu memory leak

2011-01-17 Thread Alex Hunsaker
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 19:14, Daniel Popowich danielpopow...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip ] CREATE FUNCTION pygaps(start_ts timestamp without time zone, end_ts timestamp without time zone, gap_length interval) RETURNS SETOF timerange    LANGUAGE plpythonu    AS $$    # because pg passes

Re: [GENERAL] Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations?

2011-01-17 Thread Craig Ringer
On 01/17/2011 11:31 PM, Jensen Somers wrote: But, from your initial reply I understood that a user can simply browse to my database installation folder (e.g.: C:/ProgramData/MyApp/data), read out and/or modify a configuration file and he can access the entire database and modify the data. And

Re: [GENERAL] help understanding collation order

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tis, 2011-01-18 at 10:33 +1100, raf wrote: p.s. if anyone in debian locale land is listening, 'E' does not sort before ','. what were you thinking? :-) What is actually happening is that the punctuation is sorted in a second pass after the letters. Which is both correct according to the