Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-18 Thread Mark kirkwood
Previously: >psql ids -c 'select src,dst,count(*) from brick* where src_port=135 >group by src,dst' > /tmp/135.dat This is just a guess, increasing the parameters shared_buffers and sort_mem might help. For example if your table is about 1Gb in size then try shared_buffers=1 and sort_mem

Re: [SQL] Holiday Calculations?

2001-09-18 Thread Brett Schwarz
Based on your criteria (I never really had thought about Thanksgiving before, as far as when it hits), but here is a small Tcl proc that I think will do it. You may need to add error checking. Takes the year (i.e. 2001), and returns the day date (i.e. 22).

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-18 Thread Kovacs Baldvin
> psql ids -c 'select src,dst,count(*) from brick* where src_port=135 > group by src,dst' > /tmp/135.dat > > and I get: > > ERROR: out of free buffers: time to abort ! Does anybody knows if the buffers of pgsql are insufficient, or the operating system cries out this error? Regards, Baldvin

Re: [SQL] Holiday Calculations?

2001-09-18 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Not that this is the best solution, but I read in a book (SQL for smarties I think) the following (maybe I'm wrong, but this is what I remember :) Create a holidays table. Put in all the holidays. Do the math yourself and just put them in there manually for the next 10 years or so (and then rem

[SQL] URGENT ! Nouveau virus

2001-09-18 Thread Denis Bucher
Hello ! TRES URGENT : N'utilisez PLUS DU TOUT Microsoft Internet Explorer pour l'instant, à la place vous pouvez utiliser Netscape (http://www.netscape.com) Infos peu claires : http://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/18/151203.shtml En effet, un nouveau virus infecte des sites web, et à cause d'un

Re: [SQL] Number the lines

2001-09-18 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 17 Sep 2001 14:54:51 +0200, Kovacs Baldvin wrote: > Hi! > > I am in the university now, not be able to test what I > say, so please forgive me if it is buggy or wrong. > > So does it helps you?: That works correctly. Thanks very much for the tip . Do not forget to DROP the sequence afterwar

Re: [SQL] Checking for table existence

2001-09-18 Thread Kovacs Baldvin
> > CREATE FUNCTION my_function ( ... > > > IF NOT table_exists(''my_table'') THEN > CREATE TABLE ... > END IF; > > > > Got the idea? Not bad... Well, I am not the person questioned... But let me share a few ideas about it. The solution what I gave was a "more SQL way" of doing i

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-18 Thread Tom Lane
"Diehl, Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > psql ids -c 'select src,dst,count(*) from brick* where src_port=135 > group by src,dst' > /tmp/135.dat > and I get: > ERROR: out of free buffers: time to abort ! Oh? What PG version is this? What is the schema you are actually working with --- how

[SQL] Registring a C function in PostgreSQL

2001-09-18 Thread Miguel González
I have followed the instructions in the Bruje Momjian´s book to register afunction, and i got this message: ERROR:/load of file /home/postgres/ctof.so failed: /home/postgres/ctof.soELF file´s phentsize not the expected size.What is going on? I have tried to get more documentation about how

Re: [SQL] Stored prosedure last run

2001-09-18 Thread Stephan Szabo
On 17 Sep 2001, Pasha wrote: > Hello to Every1. > I'm trying to find if anyone knows how to find out when the stored > procedure was used last time (not created). I don't think there's any real way to do that apart from having your procedure keep track of that itself. -

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-18 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes: > Thus spake Diehl, Jeffrey >> psql ids -c 'select src,dst,count(*) from brick* where src_port=135 >> group by src,dst' > /tmp/135.dat > Hard to tell without knowing more but perhaps you need another table > instead of/in addition to this one that just

[SQL] Selecting latest value

2001-09-18 Thread Patrik Kudo
Hi, I have a table which basically looks like this: create table (userid text, val integer, ts timestamp); This table holds multiple values for users, timestamped for history reasons. Now I need to fetch the latest val for each userid to insert into a new table (with about the same schema, exc

[SQL] Holiday Calculations?

2001-09-18 Thread Josh Berkus
Folks, I'm spec'ing a calendar app for PostgreSQL, and was wondering if anyone had already solved the following problem: How can I calculate the dates of American holidays? Obviously, Christmas & New Year's are easy. As is July 4. However, Thanksgiving is the last Thursday in November, unless

[SQL] Stored prosedure last run

2001-09-18 Thread Pasha
Hello to Every1. I'm trying to find if anyone knows how to find out when the stored procedure was used last time (not created). Thank You. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unre

Re: [SQL] How to see the definition of an existing table?

2001-09-18 Thread Lee Harr
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:51:52 + (UTC), ke wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any command or query to see the definition of an existing table, > like which is the primary key, which is not null etc. > In psql: \d tablename to see what the exact query is, start psql with the -E flag: p

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-18 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
Thus spake Diehl, Jeffrey > I have a large query that I'm trying to run, but it never finishes. I > get an error message and it quits. > > I'm doing: > > psql ids -c 'select src,dst,count(*) from brick* where src_port=135 > group by src,dst' > /tmp/135.dat Hard to tell without knowing more but

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-18 Thread Haller Christoph
As long as there are no nulls allowed in column 'dst' the select src,dst,count(dst) from ... should retrieve the same result. Try it. It should run faster anyway. Maybe there are other ways to word your query, but without more knowledge about your table structure and intentions I can't tell

Re: [SQL] How to see the definition of an existing table?

2001-09-18 Thread Haller Christoph
Within psql you can do commands like \d to learn rudimentary information about a table. Try this to learn more sophisticated information select u.usename, t.typname, a.attname, a.atttypid, a.attlen, a.attnotnull, a.attnum from pg_user u, pg_type t, pg_attribute a where u.usesysid = t.typo

Re: [SQL] Out of free buffers... HELP!

2001-09-18 Thread Diehl, Jeffrey
Hi all. I sent this once before, but didn't see it appear on the list... So here we go again... I have a large query that I'm trying to run, but it never finishes. I get an error message and it quits. I'm doing: psql ids -c 'select src,dst,count(*) from brick* where src_port=135 group by src