Re: [GENERAL] Strange select query

2001-09-12 Thread Einar Karttunen
till haven't result, > and backend still was eating my RAM. I know that this query is > ugly and bad, but I think backend will reject such query at parsing. > The query is valid you should get more ram or rethink your query :-) - Einar Karttunen ---(end

Re: [GENERAL] Performance question

2001-09-10 Thread Einar Karttunen
y that an index scan will improve the situation drastically. Even more so for you because the table seems to have very many rows in it. - Einar Karttunen ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Perfomance decreasing

2001-08-20 Thread Einar Karttunen
work with quite big bases (up to 10-20Gb). I am not > sure now that Postgres will work with bases greater than 10Gb, what does All > think? > > Thanks in advance, Ivan Babikoff. > In my experience postgresql has no problems with big databases. I have had several pr

Re: [GENERAL] minimum hardware for Postgresql Install

2001-08-07 Thread Einar Karttunen
You should probably compile it with a better machine, then you can run it in your low-end machine. Remember to specify the correct machine-type flags for gcc. - Einar Karttunen ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with

Re: [GENERAL] Install with Apache/PHP (Was "Stubborn Multibyte")

2001-05-23 Thread Einar Karttunen
It is by no means an answer to the problem but should help if you just need things to work. eg. export PATH=/usr/local/postgres/include:$PATH replace /usr/local/postgres/include with the path to postgres.h - Einar Karttunen ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] perl vs php for postgresql

2001-05-22 Thread Einar Karttunen
the application is very simple php might be better, but if it is very complex I think perl is better. - Einar Karttunen ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl

Re: [GENERAL] Time to insert

2001-05-03 Thread Einar Karttunen
vacuuming server side, if the application doesn't change a large amount of data. - Einar Karttunen ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly

Re: [GENERAL] Time to insert

2001-05-03 Thread Einar Karttunen
so many that you should use a copy, try wrapping them in a single transaction. - Einar Karttunen ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that

Re: [GENERAL] Time to insert

2001-05-03 Thread Einar Karttunen
> > Sincerely, Renaud THONNART > Have you performed a VACUUM [ANALYZE]? If you are inserting data in larger patches consider using copy or dropping indexes. What version of pgsql are you using? There used to be (if I remember correctly) a bug in 7.1 betas that made the inserts

Re: [GENERAL] Out of date security docs

2001-03-27 Thread Einar Karttunen
cript (as attachement) that does the inserting feel free to use it. You need DBI and DBD::Pg to use it. - Einar Karttunen #!/usr/bin/perl # Einar Karttunen 28.3.2001 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # this file must be distributed under GNU GPL use DBI; use DBD::Pg; print 'group

Re: [GENERAL] Foreign keys/unique values and views

2001-03-22 Thread Einar Karttunen
uld reference this view I could simulate referencing parent and child tables easily. What I have in mind is a hierarchy of persons all inheriting from a table called person. Different kinds of persons have different attributes but all have an id and name. What I want is that other tables could reference

[GENERAL] Problems installing version 7.1beta4

2001-02-05 Thread Einar Karttunen
ted by the installation. Anyone had the same problem? Is there any way to get the db working? Because I need outer joins I cannot use the 7.03. - Einar Karttunen