Re: [HACKERS] psql and readline

2003-01-09 Thread Jean-Paul ARGUDO
ter: $ ledit | psql yourdatabase ...my 2 cents -- Jean-Paul ARGUDO DBA PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Ingres Membre de l'April http://www.april.org ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once wi

[HACKERS] Version 7.2.3 Vacuum abnormality

2003-02-13 Thread Paul L Daniels
CPU 8.92s/14.11u sec elapsed 1306.20 sec. - The vacuum is still going along fine. Backups are proceeding without incident ( using pg_dump ) DELETE's are proceeding without incident Hope this is enough information. Kind Regards. -- Paul L

Re: [HACKERS] well, now i wish we hadn't gutted the ipv6 support

2001-04-22 Thread Paul A Vixie
> AFAIK we never actually *had* IPV6 support in those datatypes, only > stubs for it. the inet_net_pton implementation that was brought in from BIND had its IPv6 portions scrubbed. micro-over-optimization of the contributed "bitncmp" caused the "ipv4 as int" assumption to reoccur. i'm going to

[HACKERS] well, now i wish we hadn't gutted the ipv6 support

2001-04-22 Thread Paul A Vixie
Forwarded Message Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:37:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Paul A Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Appliance caching server configuration database schema In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Gustafsson) Paul A.

Re: [HACKERS] 'Following' the Primary key

2002-03-14 Thread Jean-Paul ARGUDO
bute | Type ---+- op_id | integer unique btree (primary key) ^^ ^ Watch for unique indices created with CREATE UNIQUE INDEX ... Cheers, -- Jean-Paul ARGUDO ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [HACKERS] Survey results on Oracle/M$NT4 to PG72/RH72 migration

2002-03-15 Thread Jean-Paul ARGUDO
pe functionality about prepared cursors, bind variables, etc will come soon in PG :-) We actually think about solutions to patch PostgreSQL and contribute this way, adding a feature we need for business. Thanks. -- Jean-Paul ARGUDOIDEALX S.A.S Consultant bases

[HACKERS] performance modality in 7.1 for large text attributes?

2000-12-18 Thread Paul A Vixie
(plz cc me on your replies, i'm not on pgsql-hackers for some reason.) http://www.vix.com/~vixie/results-psql.png shows a gnuplot of the wall time of 70K executions of "pgcat" (shown below) using a CIDR key and TEXT value. (this is for storing the MAPS RSS, which we presently have in flat files.)

Re: [HACKERS] performance modality in 7.1 for large text attributes?

2000-12-20 Thread Paul A Vixie
> 1) Have you ran vacuum analyze after all these inserts to update database > statistics? :) Without vacuum, pgsql will opt to table scan even when > there's an index. i hadn't, but i did, and it didn't make that particular difference: vixie=# explain select file from rss where addr = '1

[HACKERS] day 2 results

2000-12-20 Thread Paul A Vixie
the prior results (http://www.vix.com/~vixie/pgsql-results.png) showed: ~70ms usual INSERT time (~1.5sec -> ~1.25sec occasional) ~250ms usual SELECT time (~1.5sec occasional) changing the attribute i key by to be PRIMARY KEY improved things a lot; the new results (http://www.vix.

Re: [HACKERS] performance modality in 7.1 for large text attributes?

2000-12-20 Thread Paul A Vixie
> > anybody know what i could be doing wrong? (i'm also wondering why SELECT > > takes ~250ms whereas INSERT takes ~70ms... seems counterintuitive, unless > > TOAST is doing a LOT better than i think.) > > I would think that this is entirely due to planning the query. An INSERT > has no decision

[HACKERS] how do i store \0 inside a text attribute?

2000-12-29 Thread Paul A Vixie
for my pgcat utility i now know i have to use \nnn octal quoting for nonprintables in the generated INSERT commands. but in testing, i found the following oddity. this is in 7.1-b1 (cvs-current). vixie=> create table foo ( bar text ); CREATE vixie=> insert into foo value

Re: [HACKERS] how do i store \0 inside a text attribute?

2000-12-29 Thread Paul A Vixie
> See bytea, though its presentation format leaves something to be desired IMHO > > > how would someone be expected to store, say, a GIF image in a TOAST text? > > One would not. A TOASTed bytea is the appropriate column type. thanks -- that's EXACTLY what i needed.

[HACKERS] ADD CONSTRAINT ... FOREIGN KEY and custom data type.

2001-02-06 Thread Panon, Paul-Andre
ting the FOREIGN KEY vs. when adding data after the key is entered, it seems reasonable to suspect a bug in the first case. Any chance this might be addressed for 7.1? Thank you, Paul-Andre Panon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <> PGUniqID.sql

[HACKERS] Crosstab question

2006-10-22 Thread Leendert Paul Diterwich
prijs from artcredinkoopprijzen where int_crednr = 2 OR int_crednr = 3') as c(int_artnr integer, supp1 float4, supp2 float4);    Am I doing something wrong or is this a limitation of the function?   With kind regards,   Paul     

[HACKERS] Two proposals of DBA helper functions

2006-09-25 Thread Jean-Paul Argudo
Please take a look at it and tell me if this could be usefull or not.. Thanks a lot, -- Jean-Paul Argudo www.postgresqlfr.org www.dalibo.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choos

Re: [HACKERS] Array assignment behavior (was Re: [ADMIN] Stored procedure array

2006-09-29 Thread Paul B. Anderson
It seems that the suggestion to fill intermediate positions with NULLs would be preferable to the current behavior.  I know of no requirement to populate arrays in sequence in any other language so I think other programmers would be surprised too by the current behavior. Paul Tom Lane

Re: [HACKERS] Mapping Oracle types to PostgreSQL types

2003-10-18 Thread Jean-Paul ARGUDO
BA, and I need a good CRM solution for personal and profesional purposes. Please tell me if my experience can help you in any way, I'd be really glad in participating your project. I can offer public CVS, web, etc.. for the project if you want. Overall, I think we're both French ;-)) Ch

[HACKERS] build environment: a different makefile

2008-02-06 Thread Paul van den Bogaard
note that in-lining is done in both the compiler and the linker. Thanks, Paul ---- - Paul van den Bogaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISV-E -- ISV Engineering, Opensource Engin

Re: [HACKERS] build environment: a different makefile

2008-02-07 Thread Paul van den Bogaard
ty build script. Just to get that "ipo"-ing done and tested. I'll keep you all updated on the results. If we decide it is too good to be excluded can we start thinking about an adaption of the build environement. Hope this sound fair and acceptable to all. Thanks so far for all t

Re: [HACKERS] Proposed changes to DTrace probe implementation

2008-02-27 Thread Paul van den Bogaard
ure I am biased as a Sun employee :-), but it is not likely to be something a dba would like to master. The availability of "generic" scripts does add value. BTW I wonder if we could somehow combine DTrace as a contextual tool with the counters provided through the stats interface.

Re: [HACKERS] Reducing Transaction Start/End Contention

2008-03-14 Thread Paul van den Bogaard
/entry/ leight_weight_lock_contention I will add more posts on all the other LWlock findings and the instrumentation method being used. Unfortunately a high priority project popped up I need to focus on. So please be patient. Hope to finish this in the first week of april. Thanks, Paul On

Re: [HACKERS] Reducing Transaction Start/End Contention

2008-03-14 Thread Paul van den Bogaard
/entry/ leight_weight_lock_contention I will add more posts on all the other LWlock findings and the instrumentation method being used. Unfortunately a high priority project popped up I need to focus on. So please be patient. Hope to finish this in the first week of april. Thanks, Paul On

Re: [HACKERS] build environment: a different makefile

2008-03-28 Thread Paul van den Bogaard
Peter, finally I had a chance to check it out. One word: perfect! Thanks Paul On 25-feb-2008, at 19:09, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Am Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008 schrieb Paul van den Bogaard: I was hoping someone in the community already has a makefile that "just" creates object fi

[HACKERS] CLogControlLock

2008-04-07 Thread Paul van den Bogaard
just started with 8.4 devel. Still focussing on LWlocks. With the same load (#users & benchmarktool) I now see LockID 11 (CLogControlLock) to be in the top waiting list. This one was never noticable in 8.3. Did anything change with respect to this? Thanks

Re: [HACKERS] Overhauling GUCS

2008-06-03 Thread Paul van den Bogaard
to really measure the impact of the new setting is necessary too. Especially when looking in the direction of auto tuning. Proper measurement is crucial to enable correct analysis. Of course I am in favor of doing this with DTrace, however not all platforms can benefit in that case :-) --

[HACKERS] Attaching and using the Postgres shared memory segment

2008-07-03 Thread Paul van den Bogaard
nitialisation? Or is there another routine (or two ...) that I need to call in order to make things working. Advise on how to proceed or pointers to docs in which this stuff is explained are highly apprec

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