Re: [GENERAL] MySQL to Postgres question

2008-03-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
it supposed to create an INDEX? If so, you will need to create the indexes (not including the PRIMARY KEY) after you create the table. And just a quick editor view, you spelled description incorrectly in product_descrition and your product_id is your primary key so you don't have to set it NOT

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres development

2008-03-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:51:57 +1300 "Brent Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm interested in finding what would be involved on enhancing > Postgres to allow queries run in one database in a cluster to access > & join with tables in othe

Re: [GENERAL] Which RHEL

2008-03-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:40:30 -1000 "Tri Quach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am not sure which RHEL is on my server. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] pq8.2.6]# uname -a > Linux lyris3.k12.hi.us 2.4.21-20.EL #1 SMP Wed Aug 18 20:34:58 EDT > 2004

Re: [GENERAL] rpmbuild: command not found

2008-03-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
rpm. I got error > rpmbuild: command not found. up2date install rpm-build I think. > rpmbuild --rebuild --define 'buildrhel3 1' > postgresql-8.2.6-1PGDG.f8.src.rpm However... you are missing a great deal more than rpmbuild if you think you are going to build 8.2.6 on RHEL3. J

[GENERAL] Less than two weeks before PostgreSQL Conference: East

2008-03-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
/ Talk: http://www.sun.com/ Talk: http://www.afilias.info Talk: http://www.xtuple.com/ Food: http://www.otg-nc.com/ General: http://www.myemma.com/ Facilities: http://www.umd.edu/ Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] postgre vs MySQL

2008-03-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:26:35 -0500 Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While I agree companies are likely to get annoyed - just like fast > > food companies do when you say how much trans-fats their products > > contain; I'm rather curious what

Re: [GENERAL] PG secure for financial applications ...

2008-03-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:00:39 -0600 Micah Yoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe it's nuts to consider such a setup (and if you're talking a > major bank it probably is) ... and maybe not. At this point it's > kind of a mental exercise. :-) If you

Re: [GENERAL] postgre vs MySQL

2008-03-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
t really annoyed if you do that when they > didn't give you permission. This has actually happened, where > someone has asked to be removed from the list of those using > PostgreSQL. Yes it has. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http

Re: [GENERAL] postgre vs MySQL

2008-03-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
rse, we don't :) but then again that's why you don't see our name attached to large rollouts (even though you can see large rollouts attached to us.) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conferenc

Re: [GENERAL] Recomendations on raid controllers raid 1+0

2008-03-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
omething else as they're crap at raid 10. > > Use an actual LSI branded card instead of the Dell "improved" version. > +1 Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlc

Re: [GENERAL] Can't rename an existnig DB because it doesn't exist???

2008-03-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:30:57 -0700 "Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might want to keep this one on the list. I'm out of my league > with this one I think Can you pg_dump the database? What about vacuum? What does: SELECT * FROM pg_database; Return? J > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008

Re: [GENERAL] postgre vs MySQL

2008-03-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
t; > quickly from the community release of MySQL scared me. > > MySQL has incentives to _not_ make their community release > production-quality. > This thread is making my talk at MySQLCon very interesting. Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.comm

What is the community, WAS: Re: [GENERAL] Watch your PlanetPostgreSQL.org blogs

2008-03-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ly driving the growth of our "Community" which encompasses but is not anywhere near limited to PostgreSQL.org and yet has everything to do with, "PostgreSQL" Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Co

Re: [GENERAL] Watch your PlanetPostgreSQL.org blogs

2008-03-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
reSQL.org doesn't do the community or the project itself justice. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.or

Re: [GENERAL] Watch your PlanetPostgreSQL.org blogs

2008-03-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
hat the ITPUG folks, who for the most part do not participate on these lists aren't part of our community? Or perhaps you are saying that the very hard work by Elein via the old Bits days are not part of the community just because it doesn't have PostgreSQL.org address. Tom with the utmos

Re: [GENERAL] Watch your PlanetPostgreSQL.org blogs

2008-03-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
pill Lewis, all you have to do is this: Log in to blogger. Select Settings Select Site Feed Change Allow Blog Feeds to short Problem solved. You owe me a beer. I didn't have a blogger account until this argument. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 19

Re: [GENERAL] Watch your PlanetPostgreSQL.org blogs

2008-03-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Well, it's obviously never > been an issue before. Robert has rights as do I but Devrim is by far the BDFL on this. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlco

Re: [GENERAL] Watch your PlanetPostgreSQL.org blogs

2008-03-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
sql-www, and Devrim has been pretty consistent > in raising issues there before taking action. I don't know why he > didn't this time; I've posted to pgsql-www inquiring. Josh I invite you to see my reply on this. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 19

Re: [GENERAL] Watch your PlanetPostgreSQL.org blogs

2008-03-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
m isn't the length of your post as a blog. It's that you aren't following headline rules. Look here: http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs/ You will see short headlines of the blog, that is the part that is supposed to show up at planet. Not the whole blog. Sincerely, Joshua D. Dra

Re: [GENERAL] PHPs PDO, apache and "never ending sessions"

2008-03-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
#x27;DB_PERSISTENCY', 'true');". Thanks > for pointing me in the right direction. That is what we are here for :). Glad we could help. Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.

Re: [GENERAL] PHPs PDO, apache and "never ending sessions"

2008-03-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
er of allowed connections and not worry > about apache holding sessions open even after the "client" > has long gone? It depends on how you are connecting. For example if you are doing this: PDO::ATTR_PERSISTENT => true Then... yeah :). You really shouldn't use a language

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL Conference East, only 3 weeks left

2008-03-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
onsor Emma http://www.myemma.com/ Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL SPI Li

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Docs - Community Documentation

2008-03-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ays use more). http://www.postgresql.org/about/servers Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/don

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.6 > 8.3 blows up

2008-03-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
the goals for 8.3 and the integrated tsearch was to remove exactly this problem. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://w

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade to 8.3.0?

2008-02-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 03:27:50 - "Shane Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The RPMs installed from are these: > > postgresql-8.3.0-1PGDG.rhel4 > postgresql-libs-8.3.0-1PGDG.rhel4 > postgresql-server-8.3.0-1PGDG.rhel4 You need postgresql-debug (

Re: [GENERAL] reindexing

2008-02-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
class support is a non starter. That is what the companies surrounding the community are for. If companies want the community and not the companies surrounding the community to provide that kind of support, those companies need to start paying for it. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Co

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL's hashing function?

2008-02-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:49:10 -0500 "Kynn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > Does PostgreSQL expose its hash function? I need a fast way to hash a > string to a short code using characters in the set [A-Za-z0-9_]. > (I'm not sure yet how long t

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 8.3 broke everything

2008-02-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:49:29 -0500 "Alex Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah - I pressed tab to indent my code, and of course it tabbed to the > next element on the page, which was the send button, then I hit a key, > and it sent the message bef

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 8.3 broke everything

2008-02-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
( No that would fail. Did you forget the rest of your message? :) Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/d

Re: [GENERAL] the feasibility of sending email from stored procedure in Postgres

2008-02-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:59:19 +0800 hewei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can send email from stored procedure in Postgres? Sure, see plperl. Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconfe

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL Conference East: Talks announced

2008-02-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
://www.continuent.org/ OTG: http://www.otg-nc.com/ Sun: http://www.sun.com/ Xtuple: http://www.xtuple.com/ Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql book - practical or something newer?

2008-02-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
alk to the guys and see which machine this needs to go on and I will get back with you. Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://ww

Re: [GENERAL] Is PG a moving target?

2008-02-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
jor release. 8.3.1 would be a minor release. Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL SPI Liaison | S

Re: [GENERAL] POLL: Women-sized t-shirts for PostgreSQL

2008-02-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 21:48:39 -0300 Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, did this go anywhere? I still look for the shiny new Pg polos on > the mail every day, only to be disappointed. > Yes, they will be part of the larger run of shirts we do after SCALE. Joshua D.

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql book - practical or something newer?

2008-02-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
lity is for the majority of intro topics even the 6 year old book is more than relevant. Where Practical falls down is talking about things like background writer or vacuum. Those particular topics are covered ad-naseum in the docs. Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql book - practical or something newer?

2008-02-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
t I feel it would be > inappropriate to host a PostgreSQL documentation wiki on a shared > host where the underlying database was *censored*. > CMD will host anything you need. Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreS

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.3.0 RPMs are available for download

2008-02-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
; PostgreSQL packaging @ SuSE. > > You are welcome to switch to Fedora/RHEL/CentOS btw ;) Or a real linux like Ubuntu/Debian. Joshua D. Drake > > Regards, -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconfere

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL Certification

2008-02-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ns in a corner where not everyone is subscribed. That's what > happened recently on another topic and it seems to be what's > happening now with this certification stuff. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ Postgre

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL Certification

2008-02-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
o new > topics as well as having already seen the solutions to issues well > before I've encountered them. > Right, I believe that is a valid argument. I think the real problem is that as a community we are not diligent in pushing people to the contextually specific lists we alr

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL Certification

2008-02-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
d you are not one of those. Please let us be productive now. Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL SPI L

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL Certification

2008-02-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:18:55 + Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Guys, with respect this thread does nothing for us unless it is on > > the certification list. > > Do we really need

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL Certification

2008-02-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
tifying individuals. > > Microsoft seems to have something like that for their > partners in their "Database Management competency" > https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40012911 > Guys, with respect this thread does nothing for us unless it is on the certificat

Re: [GENERAL] Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism "inferior"?

2008-01-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
the true spirit of OpenSource *BECAUSE* of what you list > as a bonus of it ... the locking down of benefits reaped from > OpenSource not getting back into the stream. RMS wouldn't make any such argument at all. His argument would be centered around FREE not OpenSource software. Joshua D.

Re: [GENERAL] Log file permissions?

2008-01-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ents. Unless you don't have access to /var/log (on linux) but do have access to postgresql logs. Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL Certification

2008-01-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
they are provided. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL [WAS: postgresql book...]

2008-01-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
y) > > Why is this something to apologize for? I think he was apologizing to himself. After that much self inflicted pain, the inner psyche has to start to revolt. :P Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company since 1997: http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http:

Re: [GENERAL] Is PostGreSql's Data storage mechanism "inferior"?

2008-01-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ies. > * Non-availability of required assistance for PostgreSql hosting: > Assistance is being provided via mailing lists. However there is no > guarantee that the issue faced during PostgreSql hosting would be > resolved. Say what? http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_support

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL Certification

2008-01-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
spoken with SRA or the Venezualan folks but am more than happy to have them involved. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Pr

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL Certification

2008-01-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
information please visit: http://www.postgresqlcertification.org/ Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Community Conference: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql book - practical or something newer?

2008-01-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
e looks hard at Tom Hart... "Yep, looks like a volunteer to me" said Bob. Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql book - practical or something newer?

2008-01-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
s the docs, which personally I > like). The above sounds like you want a cookbook not a manual. In proper open source fashion perhaps you could start documenting the things you learn and post them to Techdocs :) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, ht

Re: [GENERAL] PGCon vs Postgresql Conference

2008-01-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
h is bad for me (but I'll have to wait until the schedule and costs are posted before I'll know for sure). There is always PGday in July and August, plus West in October. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3:

Re: [GENERAL] OT - pg perl DBI question

2008-01-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ly sure where that is. I thought last year was the year David started maintaining himself? Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.po

Re: [GENERAL] PGCon vs Postgresql Conference

2008-01-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
at all honestly. At least not by looking at the queue of proposed talks we have. Anyway my suggestion to Sim is to read about each conference on the respective conference websites: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/why/ http://www.pgcon.org/2008/ Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The Postgre

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql book - practical or something newer?

2008-01-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ubt I would ever publish through a traditional house those. Something more along the lines of Lulu where the book can give the most use to the community. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql book - practical or something newer?

2008-01-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
y and in a lot of ways counter-intuitive (to a newbie) but if you have the terminology down you aren't going to find a more comprehensive text. Plus, when you find things that don't quite make sense you can submit a doc patch to make the docs that much better. Sincerely,

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.3 RC2 is now available!

2008-01-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
PostgreSQL 8.3 RC2 is now available The community testing of RC1 has yielded positive results. We avoided several nasty bugs and are now releasing 8.3 RC2. We need the entire community to continue testing to help us get to the final release. Please report your bugs before the end of the month! .

[GENERAL] Only a week left for PostgreSQL Conference talk submissions

2008-01-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
: http://www.sun.com Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate SELECT 'Training', 'C

Re: [GENERAL] Sun acquires MySQL

2008-01-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
and they aren't the same thing. I don't have a solution for that one. I think adding help to the psql prompt is a very sane way to help people. It is human. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake > > Have a nice day, - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprom

Re: [GENERAL] Sun acquires MySQL

2008-01-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
o > write a quick patch... +1 Joshua D. Drake signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [GENERAL] postgres.org src build vs. enterprisedb installer

2008-01-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ver product. > 4 - I do want a good install structure and decent compile options that > suites my target production platform (AMD64 on ubuntu 7.04). > Then I suggest you use what the debian packager provides you. Check backports. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [GENERAL] Sun acquires MySQL

2008-01-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
an tell you that in terms of Oracle we are pretty far behind (plpgsql vs plsql). Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [GENERAL] Default_with_oids

2008-01-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
s been deprecated for quite some time > now. I suggest looking for a newer version of PgAccess... IIRC PgAccess is long dead. They really need to move to PgAdmin or OOBase or something like that. Joshua D. Drake > > regards, tom lane >

Re: [GENERAL] [OT] RAID controllers blocking one another?

2008-01-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
have long pushed to SAS on that scale. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate SELECT 'Training&#x

Re: [GENERAL] Sun acquires MySQL

2008-01-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
> connection? > > Well, as everyone knows, Pennsylvania is a haven for brilliant > people. In fact, simply living in Pennsylvania makes you smarter. Then why did Ben Frankly attach a key to a kite in the middle of a thunderstorm? Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: S

Re: [GENERAL] Sun acquires MySQL

2008-01-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:23:35 -0800 (PST) dvanatta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's up with 3 of the 7 being from Pennsylvania? What's the > connection? Its the closest the cult of the elephant will get to jersey. Jos

Re: [GENERAL] Sun acquires MySQL

2008-01-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
7;m asking because I was always told EnterpriseDB employs now 5 out > of 7 core committers. What? They do employ more contributors than that (oh and just because they are core doesn't mean they have commit rights). They employ Dave Page and Bruce Momjian who are core members. They also employ G

Re: [GENERAL] Sun's PostgreSQL contribution?

2008-01-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: dvanatta wrote: How much does Sun currently contribute to the project? Do they have designated coders? They employ a core member who is not a hacker. They provide some machines etc.. They contributed a DTrace patch and the Sun hackers can be

Re: [GENERAL] Sun's PostgreSQL contribution?

2008-01-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
dvanatta wrote: How much does Sun currently contribute to the project? Do they have designated coders? They employ a core member who is not a hacker. They provide some machines etc.. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1

Re: [GENERAL] Sun acquires MySQL

2008-01-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ave official packages etc.. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: 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] Sun acquires MySQL

2008-01-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Russ Brown wrote: http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/sun-acquires-mysql.html/ What does this mean for Sun's support of Postgres? Does it matter? :) I am sure OmniTI and Command Prompt will be happy to help any disgruntled customer :) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(e

Re: [GENERAL] ATTN: Clodaldo was Performance problem. Could it be related to 8.3-beta4?

2008-01-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:29:16 -0500 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If we are sure that this issue is apparent actual row insertion it > > should be easy to

Re: [GENERAL] ATTN: Clodaldo was Performance problem. Could it be related to 8.3-beta4?

2008-01-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. All volumes show online. If we are sure that this issue is apparent actual row insertion it should be easy to duplicate. I will do some testing on my box which is similar. I have 2gig of ram, dual core and a raid 1 with SATA drives. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
will improve as well. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] advocacy: drupal and PostgreSQL

2008-01-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:12:07 +0100 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Among Drupal developer there is such kind of discussion over and over > recently: > > http://drupal4hu.com/node/64 I commented here. > I'd ask to all th

[GENERAL] Registration for PostgreSQL Conference East now open

2008-01-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Group: http://www.otg-inc.com Sun: http://www.sun.com/ Remember all registrations are direct donations to the PostgreSQL Community! Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake PostgreSQL Conference Organizer PostgreSQL SPI Liaison - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Su

Re: [GENERAL] Search connections created per day

2008-01-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
7;t suggest having more than a 1000 open at any given time though. Also take a look at connection pooling. > Are there some table where i can search it? pg_stat_activity > All users is connected in the database with postgres user. > Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] How to query for a user-table column name?

2008-01-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
houghts, help? select * from information_schema.columns? table_catalog| information_schema.sql_identifier | table_schema | information_schema.sql_identifier | table_name | information_schema.sql_identifier | column_name | information_schema

Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 Beta Incompatible Data Disaster

2008-01-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
beta1 Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Mark Walker ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [GENERAL] Connect to SQL Server via ODBC from Postgresql

2008-01-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
y a, process the result and send the answer to b. There is a PostgreSQL project explicitly for this type of thing... dbi-link: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbi-link/ Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0,

Re: [GENERAL] Query to get column-names in table via PG tables?

2008-01-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
table_catalog=? AND table_schema=? AND table_name=? ORDER BY ordinal_position I need this to lookup the column names and their ordinal position for a given table (implementing a driver call). Just curious... but why is ordinal position important here? Joshua D. Drake Thanks in advance, Ken

Re: [GENERAL] vacuum, dead rows, usual solutions didn't help

2008-01-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ng idle in transaction, your vacuums are useless. You need to fix your app. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/

Re: [GENERAL] Kernel kills postgres process - help need

2008-01-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:17:14 -0800 Jeff Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I posted to LKML here: > > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2007/2/12/54202 > > because linux has a behavior -- which in my opinion is a bug -- that > causes t

Re: [GENERAL] count(*) and bad design was: Experiences with extensibility

2008-01-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
is still there. > Is there a way to get the count of the rows that *may be* there, If you analyze regularly you can use pg_class. It isn't exact but is usually close enough (especially if you are just using it for something like pagination). Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Comp

Re: [GENERAL] Experiences with extensibility

2008-01-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
find that if you are doing those items, you normally have a weird design anyway. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Connect to SQL Server via ODBC from Postgresql

2008-01-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 23:16 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 08:41 +0200, Sim Zacks wrote: Another way of doing this, without dblink, is using an unsecured language (plpython, for example) is to connect to the sql server using odbc and

Re: [GENERAL] Experiences with extensibility

2008-01-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 23:05 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Sim Zacks wrote: The reason companies go with the closed source, expensive solutions is because they are better products. Sometimes, sometimes not. It depends on your needs. This is total FUD. Everything has a

Re: [GENERAL] Connect to SQL Server via ODBC from Postgresql

2008-01-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
both PG and MSSQL. Perl or Python both would service this just fine or PHP (egads). Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings ---(end of broa

Re: [GENERAL] Experiences with extensibility

2008-01-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Guido Neitzer wrote: On 08.01.2008, at 23:40, Joshua D. Drake wrote: There are OS level things you can do here. They are normally not really easier and, more important, I don't have them on my deployment environment. http://www.continuent.org/HomePage When I'm talking about

Re: [GENERAL] Experiences with extensibility

2008-01-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Sim Zacks wrote: > That isn't really an extensibility argument. At least not in my mind. > Further I don't know of anyone that can "easily" do it. You either > suffer the possibility of catastrophic data loss (dolphins) or you > suffer guaranteed bank account drainage (Oracle), or you suffer

Re: [GENERAL] Experiences with extensibility

2008-01-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Guido Neitzer wrote: On 08.01.2008, at 23:20, Joshua D. Drake wrote: That isn't really an extensibility argument. I was thinking about that too - for me, it still is just an outstanding issue with PostgreSQL. It is incredibly scalable on one machine but it totally sucks when you want

Re: [GENERAL] Experiences with extensibility

2008-01-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Guido Neitzer wrote: On 08.01.2008, at 17:36, Joshua D. Drake wrote: 2. What types of extensibility (possibly already available in other DBMSs) are currently missing in PostgreSQL? None that I am aware of. Easy multi-master clustering with just two machines. That isn't real

Re: [GENERAL] Experiences with extensibility

2008-01-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
oice of PostgreSQL as a development > platform based primarily on its extensibility features? > There is no other open source database that can compare with PostgreSQL's extensibility, reliability and scalability. Joshua D. Drake > ** > E

Re: [GENERAL] Memory on 32bit machine

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Greg Smith wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Certainly and iptables gives you some flexibility in connection availability "before" it hits the actual database but without having to jimmy the production firewall. 4) Funky tricks with things like port forw

Re: [GENERAL] Memory on 32bit machine

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ind a dedicated firewall. Why not? Security in layers and all that. :) Certainly and iptables gives you some flexibility in connection availability "before" it hits the actual database but without having to jimmy the production firewall. Joshua D. Drake ---(e

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:25:45 + Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2008 12:57 PM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> I want to announce PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm today. > > > > This is very

Re: [GENERAL] Need efficient way to do comparison with NULL as an option

2008-01-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
hp is extremely rusty but I think you get the idea) And then build out your where clause. That seems to do what I want. Is it bad design? Something I'm missing about indexing a NULL or something like that? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Dante

Re: [GENERAL] large table vacuum issues

2008-01-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to become corrupt? Just curious... Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [GENERAL] Getting process id of a connection?

2008-01-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
lect CURRENT_PID; > 11682 > > I want this so that I can log the psycopg2 connection pid, and kill it > to test reconnection code. postgres=# select procpid from pg_stat_activity; procpid - ----- 30851 17510 4496 20237 1305 (5 rows) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -

Re: [GENERAL] TCL

2008-01-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Glyn Astill wrote: Where can I ask about pg/tcl? What about it? ___ Support the World Aids Awareness campaign this month with Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/ ---(end of broadcast

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