Re: [GENERAL] Procedural Languages

2012-05-31 Thread Joshua Tolley
in production, but rather as a teaching tool. It taught me rather nicely, too. :) -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com pgpc2KfpMpMGx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [GENERAL] Debug Contrib/cube code

2011-05-14 Thread Joshua Tolley
is welcome. ps: sorry for late reply I don't have any good answers beyond what was already presented here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2011-05/msg00784.php -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] Debug Contrib/cube code

2011-05-11 Thread Joshua Tolley
postgres build uses --enable-debug, cube should use it as well. It determines this either through pg_config, or by referring to makefiles in the postgres source directory contrib/cube lives in. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [GENERAL] Bidirectional replication

2011-05-05 Thread Joshua Tolley
sufficient for some use cases. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] Bidirectional replication

2011-05-05 Thread Joshua Tolley
: http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] Bidirectional replication

2011-05-05 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 08:13:55PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 05/05/11 8:05 PM, Joshua Tolley wrote: Actually, Bucardo doesn't do statement replication. It, like Slony for instance, replicates data, not SQL statements. And as you pointed out, it does do bidirectional replication in a way

Re: [GENERAL] Cross-schema view issue/question

2011-04-23 Thread Joshua Tolley
issue, and depends on things like how stable your user expects the objects in xyz to be. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[GENERAL] Compellent SAN, anyone?

2011-02-09 Thread Joshua Tolley
I'm hunting opinions on Compellent (http://www.compellent.com) storage devices and postgres. Comments, anyone? Experiences? Case studies? Success or horror stories? Thanks in advance. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [GENERAL] How to retrieve values of 'array' field using C library (libpq)

2011-02-09 Thread Joshua Tolley
to use. I can't guarantee that writing my own was the best way to do it, or that it's free of bugs. See pg_array.c and pg_array.h at http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=pgsnmpd.git;a=summary -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [GENERAL] Automatic database monitoring tool for PostgreSQL ... new project

2011-01-31 Thread Joshua Tolley
://bucardo.org/wiki/Check_postgres -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] plpyhton

2010-11-29 Thread Joshua Tolley
do this for you. PLPython caches a procedure's input and return types, and a compiled representation of the procedure's source. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] plpyhton

2010-11-26 Thread Joshua Tolley
SQL functions, beyond what gets loaded anyway. If you have problems with hundreds of connections using too much memory when each loads an interpreter, you ought to consider getting more memory, using a connection pooler, changing how you do things, or some combination of the above. -- Joshua Tolley

Re: [GENERAL] plpyhton

2010-11-24 Thread Joshua Tolley
needing to look up or calculate that information again when you run the function next time. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] diagram tools?

2010-11-24 Thread Joshua Tolley
/architect -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] How to see what SQL queries are associated with pg_locks?

2010-10-04 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 11:27:11AM -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: How to see what SQL queries are associated with pg_locks, please? Look at the pid column in pg_locks. It will match the procpid column in pg_stat_activity. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http

Re: [GENERAL] Foreign keys and permissions oddity

2010-08-07 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 08:34:12AM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: On 07/08/10 01:13, Joshua Tolley wrote: Is there some justification for this behavior that I should know already? It seemed awfully strange when some folkds here stumbled on it: [snip] The key point seems to be that the owner

Re: [GENERAL] Partitioning into thousands of tables?

2010-08-06 Thread Joshua Tolley
, but in general the conclusion was it's bad to have lots of partitions, where lots is probably 100 or more. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[GENERAL] Foreign keys and permissions oddity

2010-08-06 Thread Joshua Tolley
of the referenced table has no permissions on the table, although the referencing user does. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] column depends on sequence

2010-08-05 Thread Joshua Tolley
('some_sequence'), this worked for me: select attrelid::regclass || '.' || attname, adsrc from pg_attrdef ad join pg_attribute pa on (ad.adrelid = pa.attrelid and pa.attnum = ad.adnum) where adsrc ~* 'nextval' -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and distributed transactions

2010-07-31 Thread Joshua Tolley
-transaction.html If I may be allowed to toot my own horn, may I suggest this as an example: http://blog.endpoint.com/2010/07/distributed-transactions-and-two-phase.html -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool

2010-06-29 Thread Joshua Tolley
see doing this by having separate connection pools. The higher priority users have a larger connection pool. That's entirely reasonable. Is there a problem with using connection pooling and traditional connections to connect to the same database? Nope. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End

Re: [GENERAL] No PL/PHP ? Any reason?

2010-06-29 Thread Joshua Tolley
is that any language running on Parrot will be usable with PL/Parrot. Whether that pans out in real life is an open question, probably, but it's part of the plan. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] Weird trouble with select

2010-06-29 Thread Joshua Tolley
afterward? -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] IMMUTABLE columns in tables?

2010-06-16 Thread Joshua Tolley
that! useless noise PL/LOLCODE doesn't support running triggers, 'cuz no one has written that bit yet /useless noise -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] Enforcing password standards

2010-06-14 Thread Joshua Tolley
off integrating with some external authentication provider, as has been suggested elsewhere in this thread. -- Josh Thanks Deepak On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Joshua Tolley eggyk...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 06:01:24PM -0700, DM wrote: How

Re: [GENERAL] How to show the current schema or search path in the psql PROMP

2010-06-11 Thread Joshua Tolley
useful ... 5432 j...@josh# SHOW search_path; search_path $user,public (1 row) -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] Enforcing password standards

2010-06-11 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 06:01:24PM -0700, DM wrote: How to force postgres users to follow password standards and renewal policies? Thanks Deepak 9.0 will ship with a contrib module called passwordcheck which will enforce some of these things, FWIW. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End

Re: [GENERAL] Connection's limit in SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 and pg 8.3.11 (no more than 94 connections)

2010-06-07 Thread Joshua Tolley
of postgresql.conf, or not restarting PostgreSQL after editing -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] Statement Pooling

2010-06-02 Thread Joshua Tolley
was wrong in my original assertion that they wouldn't be replanned. So now I'm thinking don't bother manually refreshing your prepared statements, because postgresql will do it for you :) -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [GENERAL] postgres authentication against Windows Domain

2010-06-02 Thread Joshua Tolley
://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/auth-methods.html You might also refer to this PGCon 2010 talk: http://www.fosslc.org/drupal/content/secure-postgresql-deployment -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] Statement Pooling

2010-06-01 Thread Joshua Tolley
even longer to change sufficiently to suggest one plan is better than another. Explicitly replanning sounds like it's probably more work than it's worth, unless you see specific plan problems. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description

Re: [GENERAL] Statement Pooling

2010-05-27 Thread Joshua Tolley
that would make the plan fail to execute. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] Connection lost

2010-05-19 Thread Joshua Tolley
PostgreSQL closed the connection on purpose. Any JDBC driver people reading this, with ideas? -- Joshua Tolley  /  eggyknap End Point Corporation -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] Connection lost

2010-05-18 Thread Joshua Tolley
and some others i get an exception of org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: An I/O error occured while sending to the backend. java.net.SocketException: Socket closed Do the PostgreSQL logs include any useful information? -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] Table Column Retrieval

2010-02-22 Thread Joshua Tolley
. For some workloads the columnar storage is a win, and for some workloads, row-based storage is the best bet. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] query a table from one database to another

2010-01-28 Thread Joshua Tolley
and other objects. In this case it's called dblink.sql. Find that file -- in my case it's part of the postgresql-contrib package -- and execute it in your database to create that function. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description

Re: [GENERAL] query a table from one database to another

2010-01-27 Thread Joshua Tolley
the dblink contrib module to get one database to talk to another. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] replication from multiple master servers to a single read-only slave

2010-01-12 Thread Joshua Tolley
? Bucardo should handle the disconnection problems you described just fine. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] DataBase Problem

2009-12-30 Thread Joshua Tolley
://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-config-logging.html -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] Comparing 2 databases

2009-12-29 Thread Joshua Tolley
That depends on what you mean by compare. check_postgres[1] has a schema comparison action you can use. [1] http://bucardo.org/wiki/Check_postgres -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] Comparing 2 databases

2009-12-29 Thread Joshua Tolley
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Re: [GENERAL] replication dbs

2009-12-16 Thread Joshua Tolley
Bucardo is released under the BSD license (see htt://bucardo.org for more details). It's actively developed, and we at End Point have found it very useful and reliable. But we wrote it :) -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:05:34PM

Re: [GENERAL] createlang error(s)

2009-11-04 Thread Joshua Tolley
any excuse ;) Anyway, I can confirm you're not the only one having this problem. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] tar error while running basebackup

2009-10-13 Thread Joshua Tolley
a working database, current up to the last WAL file you recovered. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for way to replicate master db to multiple mobile databases

2009-09-24 Thread Joshua Tolley
between two hosts, unless perhaps you can assure that only certain primary keys will be updated on certain hosts, or do some other trickery. Syncing from one master to multiple slaves is straightforward, if all you need is master-slave. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http

Re: [GENERAL] PG connections going to 'waiting'

2009-09-06 Thread Joshua Tolley
those statistics) for the moment they're queried, but when those values are updated, the old values are lost. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] PG connections going to 'waiting'

2009-09-05 Thread Joshua Tolley
might be able to get the same or a similar condition by executing those queries against the restored system. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] Viable alternatives to SQL?

2009-08-27 Thread Joshua Tolley
a reporting package rather than trying to write your own query interface and provide for user-friendly error reporting, decent security constraints, etc. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] Schema diff tool?

2009-08-21 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:43:49AM -0700, David Kerr wrote: Is there a default/standard (free) schema diff tool that's in use in the community? check_postgres.pl will compare schemas and report on results. http://bucardo.org/check_postgres/ -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres and multiple updates in one statement

2009-07-27 Thread Joshua Tolley
to reduce bloat. You could possibly use UNION or UNION ALL to consolidate your 5 passes into one pass. You could also possibly use UPDATE FROM to avoid having to return the primary keys at all, and get the whole thing done in one query. -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http

Re: [GENERAL] comparing NEW and OLD (any good this way?)

2009-07-23 Thread Joshua Tolley
be helpful in this case: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-trigger.html -- Joshua Tolley / eggyknap End Point Corporation http://www.endpoint.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

[GENERAL] Happy Birthday...

2009-07-08 Thread Joshua Tolley
Since no one else seems to have sent it yet, I'll do the obligatory annual Happy Birthday email. Happy Birthday, PostgreSQL. You're a teenager now. The pimples will go away, in time. - Josh / eggyknap signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] Free OLAP software for Postgres databas

2009-06-29 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:02:30AM +0300, Sim Zacks wrote: The first is easy; simply configure data sources pointed at the PostgreSQL database. Note that the JDBC drivers that ship with Pentaho are, in my experience, of inconsistent version, and you might want to update them to the

Re: [GENERAL] Free OLAP software for Postgres databas

2009-06-27 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 02:04:13PM -0700, Michal Szymanski wrote: I've used Pentaho with pgsql and it worked pretty well.  I'm pretty sure jasper as well can work with pgsql. Where can I find information how to install Pentaho on Postgres? Do you use free edition? We also both the free

Re: [GENERAL] A question about inheritance and sequence

2009-06-24 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 01:43:20PM +0200, Marko Pahić wrote: Hello, I have two databases, and I want the same structure, and if I change the structure of one database it changes the structure of the other. In documentation I saw that the syntax goes something like this: CREATE

Re: [GENERAL] Using results from DELETE ... RETURNING

2009-06-05 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:21:27PM +0100, Shak wrote: When RETURNING from a DELETE statement (or similar), how do you access the results being returned? Something like: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM (DELETE FROM a RETURNING *) ; sounds reasonable but results in a syntax error. I am able to return

Re: [GENERAL] cursores

2009-06-03 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:36:18AM -0400, Esneiker wrote: I'm trying to build a cursor for postgres but I have some problems. Can anybody send me an example of cursor in postgres? What about these examples? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/plpgsql-cursors.html - Josh /

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres registry access using java

2009-05-27 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 01:21:40PM +0530, Anirban Pal wrote: Can any body tell me how to fetch directory path for lib or data directory for postgres installation in windows using registry. Solution using Java language will be highly solicited. Some PL/Java or PL/J function might do

Re: [GENERAL] using explain to get query expected time

2009-05-25 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:10:21AM -0700, Scara Maccai wrote: is there any chance to get the Planner Cost Constants right enough to get a good estimate in seconds of how long a query is supposed to run? The rowcount estimates are always good (there is no skew data at all in the db, values

Re: [GENERAL] Column oriented pgsql

2009-05-08 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:25:30AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Mag Gam wrote: Is it possible to tweak (easily) Postgresql so the storage is column oriented versus row-oriented? We would like to increase read optimization on our data which is about 2TB. you read your tables by column,

Re: [GENERAL] bizgres

2009-05-05 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:04:15AM +, Glyn Astill wrote: I'm looking at building an olap reporting environment and I came across this project on pgfoundry. However it was last updated over 3 years ago, am I correct in assuming that this probably isn't something I should be looking at? I've

Re: [GENERAL] delete cascade not working

2009-04-25 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 04:01:20PM -0400, Kenneth Tilton wrote: Given constraint: ALTER TABLE provider_input.common ADD CONSTRAINT common_pin_file_load_sid_fkey FOREIGN KEY (pin_file_load_sid) REFERENCES provider_input.file_load (sid) MATCH FULL ON UPDATE NO ACTION ON DELETE

Re: [GENERAL] delete cascade not working

2009-04-25 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 04:21:06PM -0400, Kenneth Tilton wrote: But I am inheriting from the parent, so everything about the parent should be true for me unless overridden. I mean in the usual sense of inherit I know from OO. This is from the current docs

Re: [GENERAL] postgreSQL amazon ec2 cloud

2009-04-20 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 02:14:00PM +0200, Stefano Nichele wrote: Do you think that it could useful mounting two different EBS to handle data and pg_xlog ? Testing I've participated in suggests that it helps to split pg_xlog elsewhere. Your mileage may vary. - Josh / eggyknap signature.asc

Re: [GENERAL] How to get the PID associated with a Perl DBI dbh?

2009-03-12 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 03:13:13PM +0100, A. Kretschmer wrote: In response to Kynn Jones : Is there a reliable way to find out the (Unix) PID associated with a database handle generated by Perl DBI's database connection? You can ask the pg_stat_activity - View, column procpid. The

Re: [GENERAL] Sync 2 tables in 2 databases

2009-03-11 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:26:35PM -0700, SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH wrote: It is just 1 way synchronization... replication with slony sounds pretty good... ill try that out Thanks There are options other than Slony, each with their pros and cons. Some that come to mind include Bucardo[1],

Re: [GENERAL] idle users

2009-03-05 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 04:50:09AM -0800, paulo matadr wrote: I need to procedure to kill users in idle,anybody have this made? thanks See pg_cancel_backend. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-admin.html - Josh / eggyknap signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [GENERAL] postgreSQL amazon ec2 cloud

2009-03-03 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 10:25:17AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Adrian Klaver akla...@comcast.net writes: Nothing. I have created a Postgres instance on an EC2 virtual machine with attached EBS(Elastic Block Storage). I only got as far as creating in it and verifying it would run, no

Re: [GENERAL] Two-phase commmit, plpgsql and plproxy

2009-02-12 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 02:17:03AM +0300, Igor Katson wrote: PostgreSQL does not provide a transaction manager. When you are dealing with multiple databases, the transaction manager needs to make decisions like this transaction failed on one node, therefore we need to roll all the other

Re: [GENERAL] how to group several records with same timestamp into one line?

2008-11-14 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 06:39:47PM -0800, Eus wrote: Isn't that something like this is better handled at the application level instead of the DB level? IOW, isn't that the cost of doing the query above far more expensive than doing a little coding at the application level? That's

Re: [GENERAL] Equivalent for AUTOINCREMENT?

2008-11-05 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 02:24:37PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Du I need to create a SEQUENCE for each table or do I need only ONE of if and can use it independant on differnt tables? If you just create a bunch of tables with SERIAL or BIGSERIAL columns, it will create one sequence for

Re: [Fwd: Re: [GENERAL] GEQO randomness?]

2008-11-05 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 06:57:25PM -0400, Eric Schwarzenbach wrote: My problem with GEQO using a random number generator is that non-deterministic behavior is really hard to debug, and problems can go undiagnosed for ages. Frankly I would rather something fail all the time, than it work most

Re: [GENERAL] Error in starting Postgresql...

2008-11-05 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:34:55PM +0530, Shashank Mujumdar wrote: After installing dspace when I tried to connect it to the postgresql server it gave the following error. psql -U postgres -h localhost ( command used ) the error was psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused

Re: [GENERAL] UPDATE and Indexes and Performance

2008-10-15 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Bill Thoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does PG (8.1) ever use existing indexes when executing an UPDATE? I've got some tables with millions of records and whenever I update a column that involves most or all the records the EXPLAIN command seems to indicate that

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-13 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Anyway I don't find myself comfortable with replies in these 2 lines of reasoning: 1) default configuration of PostgreSQL generally doesn't perform well 2) PostgreSQL may be slower but mySQL may trash your

Re: [GENERAL] Run postgresql engine in readonly mode?

2008-10-11 Thread Joshua Tolley
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:37 AM, Galland Gregoire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I would like to run all my databases in a readonly mode just for a few hours (migration plan). Is it a way to tell the postgresql engine to run in readonly? Sincerly G.Galland This comes up periodically