Re: [GENERAL] Why database is corrupted after re-booting

2005-10-26 Thread Wes Williams
Even with a primary UPS on the *entire PostgreSQL server* does one still need, or even still recommend, a battery-backed cache on the RAID controller card? [ref SCSI 320, of course] If so, I'd be interest in knowing briefly why. Thanks. -Original Message- ===snip=== ... every server I'

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle 10g Express - any danger for Postgres?

2005-10-31 Thread Wes Williams
I presume this thread was all brought about by the /. article http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/31/0659254&tid=221&tid=1 87 According to the link provided in the /. article (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5920796.html), Oracle has *proposed* a free version by "year end". Obv

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle 10g Express - any danger for Postgres?

2005-10-31 Thread Wes Williams
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 11:50 AM To: Wes Williams Cc: Postgresql-General; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Oracle 10g Express - any danger for Postgres? I assume they are probably thinking of a free for non-commercial use, which is great and all, but I assume that lik

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle 10g Express - any danger for Postgres?

2005-10-31 Thread Wes Williams
Precisely the point I was trying to make sure everyone would understand clearly. Although I don't have a copy of Oracle's suspected new license, if it is close to the existing license verbiage, even though it is "crippled" by having certain hardware and software limits, those limits are per physic

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle 10g Express - any danger for Postgres?

2005-11-01 Thread Wes Williams
Still, at least Oracle 10g provides for an easy GUI from which to configure and perform imports and exports of data. Some of use have need for a database that can dump all data and accept another series of new data...only to be dropped again in a few days. The GUI tools make this MUCH easier - es

Re: [GENERAL] OT It is here: Oracle 10g Express

2005-11-03 Thread Wes Williams
Again, the previously provide link is NOT the version that is licensed free for commercial production use! The version in the headlines lately suggesting a free Oracle database for professional and production use is NOT YET PUBLICLY AVAILABLE [expected by year-end]. Still, the link below is likel

Re: [GENERAL] OT It is here: Oracle 10g Express

2005-11-03 Thread Wes Williams
Go ahead and proceed through the click-throughs...this is still the same old demo for development and testing only that they have had available for some time. This updated on Oct-28th only is for a newer version(http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/xe/index .html) of the sam

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum,8.1, Win

2005-11-08 Thread Wes Williams
Correct, the default setting for PostgreSQL 8.1 W32 value in postgresql.conf is 'autovacuum' to 'on'. You can see this and more settings in pgAdmin III by visiting 'Tools', 'Server Configuration', then the config file of your choice. Now, if only I could setup my home to autovaccum. -Origin

[GENERAL] unstable postgres on freebsd

2006-10-20 Thread Wes Sheldahl
after restarting postgresql. Versions/Environment:Postgresql 8.1.4 (installed from ports on FreeBSD 6.1)I've already tried reinstalling the postgresql81-server and postgresql81-client ports and their dependencies via portupgrade, but the symptoms persist. What else should I try? -- Wes Shel

Re: [GENERAL] performace review

2006-10-23 Thread Wes Sheldahl
t seems a little disingenuous to claim they support them on the site's front page. Oh well. (shrug) -- Wes Sheldahl[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] unstable postgres on freebsd

2006-10-24 Thread Wes Sheldahl
well. Right now it's running as pgsql, UID 70, which I'm sure is the default. Thanks, Wes SheldahlOn 10/21/06, Marc G. Fournier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1Are you running this in a FreeBSD jail under 6.1?  It sounds like the problemthat I

Re: [GENERAL] Is postgres installed by default in Fedora Core 5 ??

2006-10-29 Thread Wes Sheldahl
obably* included among the applications you can install during the Fedora installation process itself. To install the client and server packages via yum, you would do: yum install postgresql postgresql-serverCheers,-- Wes SheldahlSheldahl Consulting LLChttp://www.sheldahlconsulting.comPhone: 859-338-3

Re: [GENERAL] Is there anyway to...

2006-11-02 Thread Wes Sheldahl
expirations. So this particular problem may be better solved without any timer functionality either in OR out of the database... if you did have a cron job run to check, you would probably just have it set a boolean field on expired records or something of that sort, and run it a little after midnight, at the start of each day, assuming durations were always being measured in days. Best of luck,-- Wes Sheldahl[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] Is PostgreSQL an easy choice for a large CMS?

2006-05-04 Thread Wes James
On 4/30/06, Tony Lausin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, I'm working on a CMS which requires an open source database capable of handling hundreds of thousands of users simultaneously, with a high rate of database writes, and without buckling. We're talking somewhere between nerve.com/catch2

Re: [GENERAL] 7.4.2 on Solaris 9 - Error

2004-03-26 Thread Wes Palmer
EENTRANT -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS" According to Jan, -D_REENTRANT must also be specified for libpq to be built correctly. Why isn't -D_THREAD_SAFE required also? Wes ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [GENERAL] Compound keys and foreign constraints

2004-04-06 Thread Wes Palmer
- I have not changed those. I did bump up some postgresql.conf memory settings, but haven't touched any of the cost parameters. Wes ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

[GENERAL] thread_test.c problems

2004-04-06 Thread Wes Palmer
When I try to run thread_test.c from the CVS tip, it hangs in an infinite CPU loop on both linux (RedHat AS 3.0, gcc 3.2.3) and Mac OS X 10.3.3 (gcc 3.3). I've also tried down to gcc 2.96 on Mac OS X. If I compile it with -g instead of -O2 on linux, it runs to completion and gives me: Add this t

Re: [GENERAL] Cursors and Transactions, why?

2004-04-07 Thread Wes Palmer
et too small. I tried doing a mass update of all rows with a single SQL statement in psql and after it ran for many hours, I got 'out of memory'. I didn't try that using C and WITH HOLD. I assumed it ran out of swap space, but was sleeping at the time.

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