Re: [HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE) - 4.4G

2005-09-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Darcy Buskermolen wrote: On Thursday 04 August 2005 09:37, Gavin M. Roy wrote: You can send it to me, and ehpg will host it. I'll send you a private email with my info. Gavin On Aug 4, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Mark Woodward wrote: It is 4.4G in space in a gzip package. I'll mail a DVD to two peo

Re: [HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE) - 4.4G

2005-09-15 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Thursday 04 August 2005 09:37, Gavin M. Roy wrote: > You can send it to me, and ehpg will host it. I'll send you a > private email with my info. > > Gavin > > On Aug 4, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Mark Woodward wrote: > > It is 4.4G in space in a gzip package. > > > > I'll mail a DVD to two people who pr

Re: [HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE) - 4.4G

2005-08-04 Thread Mark Woodward
I thought bout it, but it isn't the best program around, but it does work. My program also reformats numbers, i.e. long/lat become properly decimal-ed numerics, zips become integers, etc. The question is... Do you download the raw data and convert it into a database, or do you download the pre-fo

Re: [HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE) - 4.4G

2005-08-04 Thread Ron Mayer
Mark Woodward wrote: It is 4.4G in space in a gzip package. I'll mail a DVD to two people who promise to host it for Hackers. Would it be easier to release the program you did to do this conversion? I use this pretty short (274 line) C program: http://www.forensiclogic.com/tmp/tgr2sql.c t

Re: [HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE) - 4.4G

2005-08-04 Thread Gavin M. Roy
You can send it to me, and ehpg will host it. I'll send you a private email with my info. Gavin On Aug 4, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Mark Woodward wrote: It is 4.4G in space in a gzip package. I'll mail a DVD to two people who promise to host it for Hackers. ---(end of br

[HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE) - 4.4G

2005-08-04 Thread Mark Woodward
It is 4.4G in space in a gzip package. I'll mail a DVD to two people who promise to host it for Hackers. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE)

2005-08-04 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
It's been running for about an hour now, and it is up to 3.3G. pg_dump tiger | gzip > tiger.pgz | bzip2 > tiger.sql.bz2 :) Chris ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/fa

Re: [HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE)

2005-08-04 Thread Mark Woodward
>> It's been running for about an hour now, and it is up to 3.3G. >> >> pg_dump tiger | gzip > tiger.pgz > > | bzip2 > tiger.sql.bz2 :) > I find bzip2 FAR SLOWER than the gain in compression. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postm

Re: [HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE)

2005-08-04 Thread Mark Woodward
> * Mark Woodward ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> > How big dumped & compressed? I may be able to host it depending on >> how >> > big it ends up being... >> >> It's been running for about an hour now, and it is up to 3.3G. > > Not too bad. I had 2003 (iirc) loaded into 7.4 at one point. Cool. >

Re: [HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE)

2005-08-04 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am Donnerstag, den 04.08.2005, 08:40 -0400 schrieb Mark Woodward: > > * Mark Woodward ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> I just finished converting and loading the US census data into > >> PostgreSQL > >> would anyone be interested in it for testing purposes? > >> > >> It's a *LOT* of data (about 40+

Re: [HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE)

2005-08-04 Thread Stephen Frost
* Mark Woodward ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > How big dumped & compressed? I may be able to host it depending on how > > big it ends up being... > > It's been running for about an hour now, and it is up to 3.3G. Not too bad. I had 2003 (iirc) loaded into 7.4 at one point. > pg_dump tiger | gz

Re: [HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE)

2005-08-04 Thread Mark Woodward
> * Mark Woodward ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> I just finished converting and loading the US census data into >> PostgreSQL >> would anyone be interested in it for testing purposes? >> >> It's a *LOT* of data (about 40+ Gig in PostgreSQL) > > How big dumped & compressed? I may be able to host it

Re: [HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE)

2005-08-04 Thread Stephen Frost
* Mark Woodward ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just finished converting and loading the US census data into PostgreSQL > would anyone be interested in it for testing purposes? > > It's a *LOT* of data (about 40+ Gig in PostgreSQL) How big dumped & compressed? I may be able to host it depending o

Re: [HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE)

2005-08-04 Thread Mark Woodward
Wow! a lot of people seem to want it! I am dumping out with pg_dump right now, it may take a few hours. It is in PostgreSQL 8.0.3 Does anyone have access to a high bandwidth server? I could mail it on a DVD to someone who would host it. > > David Fetter wrote: > >>On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 05:00:16P

Re: [HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE)

2005-08-03 Thread Andrew Dunstan
David Fetter wrote: On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 05:00:16PM -0400, Mark Woodward wrote: I just finished converting and loading the US census data into PostgreSQL would anyone be interested in it for testing purposes? It's a *LOT* of data (about 40+ Gig in PostgreSQL) Sure. Got a torrent

Re: [HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE)

2005-08-03 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 05:00:16PM -0400, Mark Woodward wrote: > I just finished converting and loading the US census data into PostgreSQL > would anyone be interested in it for testing purposes? > > It's a *LOT* of data (about 40+ Gig in PostgreSQL) Sure. Got a torrent? Cheers, D -- David Fet

[HACKERS] US Census database (Tiger 2004FE)

2005-08-03 Thread Mark Woodward
I just finished converting and loading the US census data into PostgreSQL would anyone be interested in it for testing purposes? It's a *LOT* of data (about 40+ Gig in PostgreSQL) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend