Re: [GENERAL] serialization errors when inserting new records

2005-01-22 Thread Gary Doades
Ralph van Etten wrote: Hoi, I searched the archives but couldn't find an answer to this: I have a table (simplyfied) CREATE TABLE test ( id INT PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(250) ); I insert records with INSERT INTO test (id, name) SELECT COALESCE(MAX(id)+1, 1), 'name' FROM test Ofcourse this giv

Re: [GENERAL] USENET vs Mailing Lists Poll ...

2004-11-29 Thread Gary Doades
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > The WWW folks just put up a survey asking: > > "If there was an official newsgroup for postgresql, would you switch to > using Usenet from using the mailing lists?" Switch no, use in addition yes. I subscribe to several of the mailing lists that I find most interesting,

Re: [GENERAL] Functions not dropped.

2004-11-01 Thread Gary Doades
On 1 Nov 2004 at 20:45, Glen Eustace wrote: > When I tried to reload the production database dump, I got a series of > errors relating to functions. I repeated the exercise but this time did > a \df prior to trying to load the database. In the public schema for the > newly created admin database w

Re: [GENERAL] Win installed pgsql 8.0 beta2 dev3

2004-10-23 Thread Gary Doades
On 23 Oct 2004 at 10:42, A. Mous wrote: > > Note, if I install the ODBC driver separately, these characters do not show > up. Therefore, this seems to be an issue specific to the Win installer, no? > No, not as such. It is a problem with the version of the ODBC driver that ships with Beta2 De

Re: [GENERAL] how much ram do i give postgres?

2004-10-20 Thread Gary Doades
On 20 Oct 2004 at 15:36, Josh Close wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:49:54 +0100, Gary Doades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is this the select(1) query? Please post an explain analyze for this and any other > > "slow" > > queries. > > I think it took

Re: [GENERAL] how much ram do i give postgres?

2004-10-20 Thread Gary Doades
On 20 Oct 2004 at 14:09, Josh Close wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:59:38 +0100, Gary Doades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, that seems a bit slow. How big are the rows you are inserting? Have you > > checked > > the cpu and IO usage during the inserts? You will

Re: [GENERAL] how much ram do i give postgres?

2004-10-20 Thread Gary Doades
On 20 Oct 2004 at 13:34, Josh Close wrote: > > How long does 100,000 rows take to insert exactly? > > I believe with the bulk inserts, 100k only takes a couple mins. > Hmm, that seems a bit slow. How big are the rows you are inserting? Have you checked the cpu and IO usage during the inserts?

Re: [GENERAL] how much ram do i give postgres?

2004-10-20 Thread Gary Doades
On 20 Oct 2004 at 11:37, Josh Close wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 09:52:25 -0600, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1: Is the bulk insert being done inside of a single transaction, or as > > individual inserts? > > The bulk insert is being done by COPY FROM STDIN. It copies in 100,000 >

Re: [GENERAL] how much ram do i give postgres?

2004-10-20 Thread Gary Doades
On 19 Oct 2004 at 17:35, Josh Close wrote: > Well, I didn't find a whole lot in the list-archives, so I emailed > that list whith a few more questions. My postgres server is just > crawling right now :( > Unlike many other database engines the shared buffers of Postgres is not a private cache o

Re: [GENERAL] removing idle connections

2004-10-19 Thread Gary Doades
On 19 Oct 2004 at 13:32, Josh Close wrote: > The provider is corelabs. The programmer that wrote the code says he's > closing the connections, but they aren't actually closing. > > Any ideas? Or better yet, do you know of a good postgres .net provider? > Hmm, I've had lots of problems with the

Re: [GENERAL] removing idle connections

2004-10-19 Thread Gary Doades
On 19 Oct 2004 at 13:00, Josh Close wrote: > Is there a way to remove idle connections? My postgres server is > getting serveral hundred idle connections. It's due to a postgres .NET > provider not closing the connections properly. I don't want to kill > them all, or restart postgres everytime the

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] OT moving from MS SQL to PostgreSQL

2004-10-03 Thread Gary Doades
On 3 Oct 2004 at 11:24, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 06:33, stig erikson wrote: > There are a few tools I've seen that will try to convert ASP to PHP, but > for the most part, they can't handle very complex code, so you're > probably better off just rewriting it and learning PHP on

Re: [GENERAL] Slow queries in PL/PGSQL function

2004-06-08 Thread Gary Doades
haviour in this area, is this so? Cheers, Gary. On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:15:50 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) wrote: >Gary Doades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is there someway to force the use of an index. Or at least get the >> backend to substitue the parameters in

Re: [GENERAL] Slow queries in PL/PGSQL function

2004-02-28 Thread Gary Doades
ted Loop (cost=0.00..3443.90 rows=2 width=0) (actual time=4.531..4.724 rows=3 loops=98) -> Index Scan using main_order_idx on main_order (cost=0.00..5.87 rows=2 width=4) (actual time=0.143..0.153 rows=1 loops=98) Index Cond: (client_id = $3)

Re: [GENERAL] Slow queries in PL/PGSQL function

2004-02-20 Thread Gary Doades
I have a very similar problem. I put the following SQL into a function: SELECT VS.*,VL.TEL1,SC.CONTRACT_ID,SC.CONTRACT_REF, SC.MAX_HOURS, SC.MIN_HOURS, (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM TIMESHEET_DETAIL JOIN MAIN_ORDER ON (MAIN_ORDER.ORDER_ID = TIMESHEET_DETAIL.ORDER_ID AND MAIN_ORDER.CLIENT_ID = $3) WHERE