Re: [GENERAL] Dirty workaround to get the results and the errors inthe same output file

2000-01-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
This sort of problem should be fixed in 7.0. On 2000-01-10, Alain TESIO mentioned: Hello, Maybe you've experienced this problem too : when you have a huge script with an error somewhere, it's a pain to find out what line produced the error as you can't have the output of psql with the

[GENERAL] logs

2000-01-11 Thread Marcin Inkielman
hi! sorry for my stupid question... is it possible to view logs of postmaster? i remarked a file named pg_log - what is it for? Marcin Inkielman .~. /V\ // \\

RE: [GENERAL] Intro/Win9X

2000-01-11 Thread Huynh, Long
I think I've got it thank you every much for your hints. -Original Message- From: Ron Chmara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 12:21 AM To: Alexei Zakharov Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Huynh, Long Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Intro/Win9X Alexei Zakharov wrote: -

Re: [GENERAL] Intro/Win9X

2000-01-11 Thread Jeff MacDonald
greets, does anyone ever look in ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub ? there is a precompiled nt binary in there. has been for a while. jeff On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Ron Chmara wrote: Alexei Zakharov wrote: - Original Message - From: Huynh, Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] Re: can't seem to use index

2000-01-11 Thread admin
Yes, I did try vacuum analyze, but my search query still uses a sequential scan. I then tried changing the btree index to a hash talbe and went through the same procedure of vacumming and restarting a psql session. Yet again, the index wasn't being used. But did you try vacuum analyze

[GENERAL] Question on timestamp in psql

2000-01-11 Thread Robert Rothe
When I type the following at the psql prompt: select timestamp('now'); ...I always get december 31, 1999. If I use 'now' as the rvalue to a SET, or within an INSERT, it returns the correct date. Is this a known problem? I'm running 6.5.2-1. Thanks, Rob

Re: [GENERAL] Re: can't seem to use index

2000-01-11 Thread Frank Mandarino
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, admin wrote: Following a few suggestions, I have entered 2500 records in the manufacturer table. Unfortunately, searching for name in the manufacturer table still returned a sequential scan. I then tried changing the btree index to a hash talbe and went through the

Re: [GENERAL] Re: can't seem to use index

2000-01-11 Thread admin
I'm trying to use an index on a varchar(32) field, but explain keeps retuning a sequential scan. This is my table and index: I had a similar problem last year when trying to use an index on a char(8) field. Two solutions worked for me: 1) use "bpchar_ops", and 2) leave out the operator

[GENERAL] views containing agregates questions

2000-01-11 Thread Sarah Officer
In the docs directory of the 6.5.3 distribution, I was browsing through the TODO file. There is a note there: 'Views containing aggregates sometimes fail(Jan)' In what way do they fail? I need to create several views with aggregates, and I'm concerned about what the effect will be. I

[GENERAL] Memory leak in FreeBSD?

2000-01-11 Thread Jeff Eckermann
We upgraded to version 6.5.2 recently, running on FreeBSD 3.0. Now we are having problems with moderately complex queries failing to complete (backend terminating unexpectedly; last one crashed the server). The most likely explanation appears to be a memory leak. Is there any known problem

Re: [GENERAL] Memory leak in FreeBSD?

2000-01-11 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Jeff Eckermann wrote: We upgraded to version 6.5.2 recently, running on FreeBSD 3.0. Now we are having problems with moderately complex queries failing to complete (backend terminating unexpectedly; last one crashed the server). The most likely explanation appears to

Re: [GENERAL] Memory leak in FreeBSD?

2000-01-11 Thread admin
Did you upgrade from source or from the freebsd ports? We upgraded to version 6.5.2 recently, running on FreeBSD 3.0. Now we are having problems with moderately complex queries failing to complete (backend terminating unexpectedly; last one crashed the server). The most likely explanation

[GENERAL] logs

2000-01-11 Thread Marcin Inkielman
hi! sorry for my stupid question... is it possible to view logs of postmaster? i remarked a file named pg_log - what is it for? Marcin Inkielman .~. /V\ // \\

RE: [GENERAL] Memory leak in FreeBSD?

2000-01-11 Thread Jeff Eckermann
FreeBSD port: I don't know enough to know what difference that might make. Any suggestion you have would be appreciated: thanks. -Original Message- From: admin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 12:18 PM To: Jeff Eckermann Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:

RE: [GENERAL] Memory leak in FreeBSD?

2000-01-11 Thread admin
What is maxusers set to in your kernel? One prolem I had was that postgresql was using more filedescriptors that my kernel could handle. If you'd like to check your current filedescriptor status and your max, try: pstat -T. If that is your problem, change your maxusers to a suitable number and

RE: [GENERAL] Memory leak in FreeBSD?

2000-01-11 Thread Jeff Eckermann
Maxusers is set to 128. RAM is 256Mg. Do you think this could be the problem? -Original Message- From: admin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 12:50 PM To: Jeff Eckermann Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Memory leak in FreeBSD? What

Re: [GENERAL] Question on timestamp in psql

2000-01-11 Thread Ed Loehr
Robert Rothe wrote: When I type the following at the psql prompt: select timestamp('now'); Try select timestamp(now()); Cheers, Ed Loehr