Re: [GENERAL] AutoVacuum Behaviour Question

2007-06-27 Thread Bruce McAlister
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >>> How much is the age decremented by on a vacuum run then? >> It should be decremented to the vacuum_freeze_min_age. However, I'm >> running some experiments with your settings and apparently it's not >> working as it should. > Okay, if it's dec

Re: [GENERAL] AutoVacuum Behaviour Question

2007-06-27 Thread Bruce McAlister
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Bruce McAlister wrote: >> Alvaro Herrera wrote: >>> Bruce McAlister wrote: >>> >>> Ok now this is interesting: >>> select datname, age(datfrozenxid) from pg_database; datname |age -+--- blueface-crm

Re: [GENERAL] Image Archiving with postgres

2007-06-27 Thread Richard Huxton
Eddy D. Sanchez wrote: Hello Everyone. I want to scan a large quantity of books and documents and store these like images, I want use postgres, anyone have experience with this kind of systems, can you suggest me an opensource solution ?? Why do you want to use a database rather than just st

Re: [GENERAL] Pg7.4.x plpgsql trigger execution order bug

2007-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
"Luki Rustianto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've found on pg7.4.x that plpgsql trigger will not wait for finishing > one line of command before executing to the next line, specially if > that command is firing another trigger on another table. This is very > wrong on my point of view. This only

Re: [GENERAL] Column Default Clause and User Defined Functions

2007-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Glaesemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jun 27, 2007, at 18:18 , Keary Suska wrote: >> Is it possible to have a user-defined function (a plpqsql function) >> as the >> argument to a default clause that issues SELECTs on other tables? > Not according to the documentation: > http://www

[GENERAL] Pg7.4.x plpgsql trigger execution order bug

2007-06-27 Thread Luki Rustianto
Hi All, I've found on pg7.4.x that plpgsql trigger will not wait for finishing one line of command before executing to the next line, specially if that command is firing another trigger on another table. This is very wrong on my point of view. This only happen on pg7. To check: (create master and

Re: [GENERAL] autovacumm not working ?

2007-06-27 Thread Matthew O'Connor
Tomasz Rakowski wrote: I see autovacuum process starting in avarage every 5 minutes (table contains 30.000 records, and update rate is about 1000records /min). But what is strange is that the number of pages allocated to the table are constant (at least for this hour: 500) and number of pa

Re: [GENERAL] varchar(n) VS text

2007-06-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Paul Lambert wrote: > Looks like my bad - I created the table initially through pgAdminIII and > it appears I selected the wrong character varying from the dropdown list. > > CREATE TABLE tester > ( > test_varchar character varying[], > test_text text > ) > > If I change it to character va

Re: [GENERAL] varchar(n) VS text

2007-06-27 Thread Paul Lambert
Michael Glaesemann wrote: Works for me: test=# select version(); version -- PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] varchar(n) VS text

2007-06-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Paul Lambert wrote: > Is there any disk space advantages to using varchar over text? Or will a > text field only ever use up as much data as it needs. 1. no 2. yes. -- Alvaro Herrera Valdivia, Chile ICBM: S 39º 49' 18.1", W 73º 13' 56.4" "Hackers share the surgeon's secret pleasure in

Re: [GENERAL] varchar(n) VS text

2007-06-27 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jun 27, 2007, at 19:38 , Paul Lambert wrote: Is there any disk space advantages to using varchar over text? No. Or will a text field only ever use up as much data as it needs. Yes. From http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/datatype- character.html The storage requirement

[GENERAL] Better way to handle functions doing inserts into dynamically named tables?

2007-06-27 Thread Steve Wormley
So, I wrote myself a trigger function that when called will dynamically create new partition tables and rules so that the first new record for each partition creates the partition. The only bit that I wanted to see if there was a a better solution was the actual insert into the new table at the en

Re: [GENERAL] Error Message accessing configuration file

2007-06-27 Thread Tom Lane
"Brian J. Erickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I get the following message in the "pgstartup.log": > postmaster cannot access the server configuration file > "/database/postgresql.conf": Permission denied Are you trying to change the standard config file location on a Red Hat or Fedora system?

Re: [GENERAL] varchar(n) VS text

2007-06-27 Thread Paul Lambert
Tom Lane wrote: "Pierre Thibaudeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am puzzling over this issue: 1) Is there ever ANY reason to prefer "varchar(n)" to "text" as a column type? In words of one syllable: no. Not unless you have an application requirement for a specific maximum length limit (eg

Re: [GENERAL] postgres and webmin

2007-06-27 Thread Danyelle Gragsone
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Re: [GENERAL] Column Default Clause and User Defined Functions

2007-06-27 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jun 27, 2007, at 18:18 , Keary Suska wrote: Is it possible to have a user-defined function (a plpqsql function) as the argument to a default clause that issues SELECTs on other tables? Not according to the documentation: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/sql-createtable.htm

[GENERAL] Image Archiving with postgres

2007-06-27 Thread Eddy D. Sanchez
Hello Everyone. I want to scan a large quantity of books and documents and store these like images, I want use postgres, anyone have experience with this kind of systems, can you suggest me an opensource solution ?? Thanks. ---(end of broadcast)--

[GENERAL] Column Default Clause and User Defined Functions

2007-06-27 Thread Keary Suska
Is it possible to have a user-defined function (a plpqsql function) as the argument to a default clause that issues SELECTs on other tables? Thanks, Keary Suska Esoteritech, Inc. "Demystifying technology for your home or business" ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [GENERAL] postgres and webmin

2007-06-27 Thread Danyelle Gragsone
Yes, That was the odd thing about it. All I did was add the ip address. I will have to change my postgres password cause I can't remember it. bleh.. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] autovacumm not working ?

2007-06-27 Thread Tomasz Rakowski
Alvaro, I see autovacuum process starting in avarage every 5 minutes (table contains 30.000 records, and update rate is about 1000records /min). But what is strange is that the number of pages allocated to the table are constant (at least for this hour: 500) and number of pages allocated

Re: [GENERAL] autovacumm not working ?

2007-06-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tomasz Rakowski wrote: > Alvaro, > > I changed autovacuum parametrs for this specific table in pg_autovacuum > > insert into pg_autovacuum(vacrelid,enabled,vac_base_thresh, > vac_scale_factor, anl_base_thresh, anl_scale_factor, > vac_cost_dela

Re: [GENERAL] AutoVacuum Behaviour Question

2007-06-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > How much is the age decremented by on a vacuum run then? > > It should be decremented to the vacuum_freeze_min_age. However, I'm > running some experiments with your settings and apparently it's not > working as it should. Nah, false alarm, it's working as expected for

Re: [GENERAL] autovacumm not working ?

2007-06-27 Thread Tomasz Rakowski
Alvaro, I changed autovacuum parametrs for this specific table in pg_autovacuum insert into pg_autovacuum(vacrelid,enabled,vac_base_thresh, vac_scale_factor, anl_base_thresh, anl_scale_factor, vac_cost_delay, vac_cost_limit, freeze_min_age, f

Re: [GENERAL] postgres and webmin

2007-06-27 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 6/28/07, Danyelle Gragsone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now all I have to do is figure out how to login. My old username and password no longer works.. So you were able to connect to the database with webmin before this change? In that case you may want a similar line for your own user accoun

Re: [GENERAL] postgres and webmin

2007-06-27 Thread Danyelle Gragsone
Amazing how one little line.. makes everything sad. Now all I have to do is figure out how to login. My old username and password no longer works.. thanks for helping! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?

Re: [GENERAL] Checking for a number

2007-06-27 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jun 27, 2007, at 16:17 , Richard Broersma Jr wrote: --- Osvaldo Rosario Kussama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try: SELECT your_field ~ '.*[[:digit:]]{2}$'; This could be simplified a little. :o) WHERE your_field ~ '\\d{2}$'; Using dollar-quotes means not having to escape your \d (which I

Re: [GENERAL] autovacumm not working ?

2007-06-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tomasz Rakowski wrote: > Matthew, > > Thank you for reply. > > I was trying to configure autovacuum for given table to be more aggressive > (min=100, scale factor=0.01). > Then waited for autovacuum to be activated for given table > (watching Server status window; about 1000 updates/mi

Re: [GENERAL] AutoVacuum Behaviour Question

2007-06-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce McAlister wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > Bruce McAlister wrote: > > > > Ok now this is interesting: > > > >> select datname, age(datfrozenxid) from pg_database; > >> datname |age > >> -+--- > >> blueface-crm| 441746613 >

[GENERAL] Execution variability

2007-06-27 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Hi all. I understand this can be a ridiculous question for most you. The very same query on the very same db shows very variable timings. I'm the only one client on an unpupolated server so I'd expect a rather constant timing. INstead for a while the query become very slooow and the CPU reached

Re: [GENERAL] postgres and webmin

2007-06-27 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 6/28/07, Danyelle Gragsone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here is the entire file. Could someone please take a look at this and tell me what I am doing wrong. Apparently I have something commented that I shouldn't but I don't know what that is. Sorry if I sound like a complete moron.. but I a

Re: [GENERAL] postgres and webmin

2007-06-27 Thread Danyelle Gragsone
Here is the entire file. # PostgreSQL Client Authentication Configuration File # === # # Refer to the PostgreSQL Administrator's Guide, chapter "Client # Authentication" for a complete description. A short synopsis # follows. # # This file control

Re: [GENERAL] autovacumm not working ?

2007-06-27 Thread Tomasz Rakowski
Matthew, Thank you for reply. I was trying to configure autovacuum for given table to be more aggressive (min=100, scale factor=0.01). Then waited for autovacuum to be activated for given table (watching Server status window; about 1000 updates/min, 30.000 rows in the table, so didn't

Re: [GENERAL] AutoVacuum Behaviour Question

2007-06-27 Thread Bruce McAlister
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Bruce McAlister wrote: > > Ok now this is interesting: > >> select datname, age(datfrozenxid) from pg_database; >> datname |age >> -+--- >> blueface-crm| 441746613 > > Note this value is 440 million, and yo

Re: [GENERAL] Checking for a number

2007-06-27 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
--- Osvaldo Rosario Kussama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try: > SELECT your_field ~ '.*[[:digit:]]{2}$'; This could be simplified a little. :o) WHERE your_field ~ '\\d{2}$'; ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will i

Re: [GENERAL] postgres and webmin

2007-06-27 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 6/28/07, Danyelle Gragsone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BEFORE # TYPE DATABASEUSERCIDR-ADDRESS METHOD #"local" is for Unix domain socket connections only host template1 postfix, postfixadmin all 10.2.0.202 255.255.255.0 trust # IPv4 local connections: hostall

[GENERAL] Error Message accessing configuration file

2007-06-27 Thread Brian J. Erickson
Hello, I get the following message in the "pgstartup.log": postmaster cannot access the server configuration file "/database/postgresql.conf": Permission denied I have: 1) read the file doing the following: a) su posgres b) less postgresql.conf 2) made sure each directory to file is read

Re: [GENERAL] Checking for a number

2007-06-27 Thread Osvaldo Rosario Kussama
Warren escreveu: I need to check if the last two characters of a field are a number. I am trying something like this but it does not want to work. substring(TRIM(field8) from '..$') SIMILAR TO '\d\d' How should I do this? Try: SELECT your_field ~ '.*[[:digit:]]{2}$'; Osvaldo

Re: [GENERAL] postgres and webmin

2007-06-27 Thread Danyelle Gragsone
BEFORE # TYPE DATABASEUSERCIDR-ADDRESS METHOD #"local" is for Unix domain socket connections only host template1 postfix, postfixadmin all 10.2.0.202 255.255.255.0 trust # IPv4 local connections: hostall all 127.0.0.1/32 trust # IPv6 local conn

Re: [GENERAL] timestamp wiht time zone

2007-06-27 Thread Jasbinder Singh Bali
Thanks Alvaro, Your information proved very handy. ~Jas On 6/27/07, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jasbinder Singh Bali escribió: > Hi, > i have a column in my table defined like this: > > time_stamp timestamp DEFAULT ('now'::text)::timestamp with time zone Note that the column is o

Re: [GENERAL] postgres and webmin

2007-06-27 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 6/28/07, Danyelle Gragsone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am sorry William but you lost me. I haven't disabled anything have I? Hard to say w/o seeing the WHOLE file. You're looking in the wrong section. What you need to make sure is that the line William posted *isn't* commented out. Chee

Re: [GENERAL] Status of pgaccess

2007-06-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bret Busby wrote: What is happening (or not happening) with pgaccess? As far as I know pgaccess has been dead for years. I would suggest www.pgadmin.org Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergen

Re: [GENERAL] AutoVacuum Behaviour Question

2007-06-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce McAlister wrote: Ok now this is interesting: > select datname, age(datfrozenxid) from pg_database; > datname |age > -+--- > blueface-crm| 441746613 Note this value is 440 million, and you said in your original report that >

Re: [GENERAL] COPY to/from non-local file

2007-06-27 Thread Jaime Silvela
Well, for Ruby there are two Postgres drivers, a native compiled one I run in Linux, and a pure Ruby one that I use in Windows. The PGconn object in the Windows version doesn't seem to offer the methods putline, readline or endcopy. The Linux version does, but since I do development in both Lin

[GENERAL] Status of pgaccess

2007-06-27 Thread Bret Busby
What is happening (or not happening) with pgaccess? In upgrading a computer from Debian Linux 3.1 (sarge) to Debian Linux 4.0 (etch), the package pgaccess is no longer available. My wife has it installed on her Ubuntu system, which is the version before the current one. However, the pgaccess

Re: [GENERAL] How do you handle shared memory corruption issues? (contrib/xml2)

2007-06-27 Thread CG
...As we continue through this process I just want to express my sincere thanks for your suggestions heretofore I use neither RedHat nor Fedora :( I also didn't look carefully at the RPMs you were offering me. They are for XML::LibXSLT, not LibXSLT. Sorry about that! I originally built XML:

Re: [GENERAL] COPY to/from non-local file

2007-06-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 02:54:05PM -0400, Jaime Silvela wrote: > The problem is that the getline/readline interface, which does exist for > Ruby, doesn't seem to work so well, and anyway operates line by line; I > would have preferred to just hand a file descriptor and be done with it. Hrm, in w

Re: [GENERAL] timestamp wiht time zone

2007-06-27 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jasbinder Singh Bali escribió: > Hi, > i have a column in my table defined like this: > > time_stamp timestamp DEFAULT ('now'::text)::timestamp with time zone Note that the column is of type timestamp, which _doesn't_ have a time zone. You probably want time_stamp timestamp with time zone DEFAU

Re: [GENERAL] COPY to/from non-local file

2007-06-27 Thread Enrico Sirola
Hi, Il giorno 27/giu/07, alle ore 20:54, Jaime Silvela ha scritto: The problem is that the getline/readline interface, which does exist for Ruby, doesn't seem to work so well, and anyway operates line by line; I would have preferred to just hand a file descriptor and be done with it. Tha

[GENERAL] timestamp wiht time zone

2007-06-27 Thread Jasbinder Singh Bali
Hi, i have a column in my table defined like this: time_stamp timestamp DEFAULT ('now'::text)::timestamp with time zone Data gets filled in this column from a Unix tools server. Example values of this field are: time_stamp 2007-06-27 14:52:14.760133

Re: [GENERAL] COPY to/from non-local file

2007-06-27 Thread Jaime Silvela
The problem is that the getline/readline interface, which does exist for Ruby, doesn't seem to work so well, and anyway operates line by line; I would have preferred to just hand a file descriptor and be done with it. Thanks for your suggestions too, Erik and Ted. Performance-wise the best sol

Re: [GENERAL] How do you handle shared memory corruption issues? (contrib/xml2)

2007-06-27 Thread Martin Gainty
yes..go with the specific distro for your OS (either RH or Fedora) keep us apprised! Thanks/ M-- This email message and any files transmitted with it contain confidential information intended only for the person(s) to whom this email message is addressed. If you have received this email message

Re: [GENERAL] How do you handle shared memory corruption issues? (contrib/xml2)

2007-06-27 Thread CG
I compiled the libraries from the source tarballs I configured using --with-crypt --with-debugger --with-python. It is always possible I missed something! Do you think the RPMs will even be applicable considering I'm not using RedHat or Fedora? - Original Message From: Martin Gai

Re: [GENERAL] "Quota"

2007-06-27 Thread Hannes Dorbath
On 27.06.2007 15:18, Albe Laurenz wrote: Hannes Dorbath wrote: What would be a solution to prevent a single user/schema to fill the disk using PostgreSQL? Is it a good idea to use separate table spaces? Table spaces are the only solution I can think of. If you create a table space on a differe

Re: [GENERAL] Checking for a number

2007-06-27 Thread Lee Keel
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-general- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Warren > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 12:31 PM > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: [GENERAL] Checking for a number > > I need to check if the last two characters of a field ar

[GENERAL] Checking for a number

2007-06-27 Thread Warren
I need to check if the last two characters of a field are a number. I am trying something like this but it does not want to work. substring(TRIM(field8) from '..$') SIMILAR TO '\d\d' How should I do this? -- Thanks, Warren Bell ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] autovacumm not working ?

2007-06-27 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Tomasz Rakowski wrote: I have problem with frequently updated table (around 30.000 records and 1000 updates/minute, few indexes). After a while all queries to that table become much slower then at the begining (the number of records in the table is quite stable all the time). I can see that a

Re: [GENERAL] How do you handle shared memory corruption issues? (contrib/xml2)

2007-06-27 Thread Martin Gainty
Hi CG looks as if your 64bit box needs 64bit libraries instead of default 32 bit did you check here http://dries.studentenweb.org/apt/packages/perl-XML-LibXSLT/info.html Let us know M-- This email message and any files transmitted with it contain confidential information intended only for the

Re: [GENERAL] COPY to/from non-local file

2007-06-27 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:32:32AM -0400, Jaime Silvela wrote: > I've been looking around for this functionality: > Is it possible to use COPY with a file that doesn't reside in the DB's > filesystem? I know there is sort of a solution in using COPY from stdin/ > COPY to stdout, however that depe

[GENERAL] How do you handle shared memory corruption issues? (contrib/xml2)

2007-06-27 Thread CG
Postgresql 8.1 I made a simple modification to contrib/xml2 to include the ability to process exslt tags... On the production side, the postmaster crashes when I try to process my exslt stylesheet. On my development machine, everything runs without crashing. There's a number of differences ther

Re: [GENERAL] COPY to/from non-local file

2007-06-27 Thread Erik Jones
On Jun 27, 2007, at 9:32 AM, Jaime Silvela wrote: I've been looking around for this functionality: Is it possible to use COPY with a file that doesn't reside in the DB's filesystem? I know there is sort of a solution in using COPY from stdin/ COPY to stdout, however that depends on calling

[GENERAL] autovacumm not working ?

2007-06-27 Thread Tomasz Rakowski
Hi everybody, I have problem with frequently updated table (around 30.000 records and 1000 updates/minute, few indexes). After a while all queries to that table become much slower then at the begining (the number of records in the table is quite stable all the time). I can see that autovacuum

Re: [GENERAL] COPY to/from non-local file

2007-06-27 Thread Ted Byers
I just checked the manual and it says nothing about being able to use the SQL copy to access network files. But you have an option that almost works for you. I am sure others here will have some suggestions, but if I were in your place, I'd gather more information about where bottleneck

Re: [GENERAL] "Quota"

2007-06-27 Thread Hannes Dorbath
On 27.06.2007 16:58, Dawid Kuroczko wrote: On 6/27/07, Hannes Dorbath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What would be a solution to prevent a single user/schema to fill the disk using PostgreSQL? Is it a good idea to use separate table spaces? I am contemplating using XFS filesystem's quota to achiev

Re: [GENERAL] postgres and webmin

2007-06-27 Thread Danyelle Gragsone
I am sorry William but you lost me. I haven't disabled anything have I? On 6/27/07, William Leite Araújo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2007/6/27, Danyelle Gragsone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Greetings, > > I am trying to setup postgres and postfix using webmin. I am > following this guide: > http://g

Re: [GENERAL] "Quota"

2007-06-27 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On 6/27/07, Hannes Dorbath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What would be a solution to prevent a single user/schema to fill the disk using PostgreSQL? Is it a good idea to use separate table spaces? I am afraid currently you are stuck with tablespaces as a quoting tool. Of course having a filesyste

[GENERAL] COPY to/from non-local file

2007-06-27 Thread Jaime Silvela
I've been looking around for this functionality: Is it possible to use COPY with a file that doesn't reside in the DB's filesystem? I know there is sort of a solution in using COPY from stdin/ COPY to stdout, however that depends on calling the psql command, which breaks the flow of control of

Re: [GENERAL] "Quota"

2007-06-27 Thread Albe Laurenz
Hannes Dorbath wrote: > > What would be a solution to prevent a single user/schema to fill the > disk using PostgreSQL? Is it a good idea to use separate table spaces? Table spaces are the only solution I can think of. If you create a table space on a different file system, then a table in that

Re: [GENERAL] Does slonik EXECUTE SCRIPT call waits for comands termination?

2007-06-27 Thread Dmitry Koterov
The work-around for old Slony versions: replication_wait() { echo "Waiting for all slaves are in sync with the master..."; echo " `slonik_print_preamble` # Hack for old Slony: this is a dummy operator which generates a SYNC # event and saves its ID for later waiting o

Re: [GENERAL] postgres and webmin

2007-06-27 Thread William Leite Araújo
2007/6/27, Danyelle Gragsone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Greetings, I am trying to setup postgres and postfix using webmin. I am following this guide: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Email:_A_Complete_Virtual_System_-_Postfix_to_Postgres I received the following in the postgres db section of webmin: s

[GENERAL] passing long array of integers to dblink remote call

2007-06-27 Thread valgog
Hi everybody, I could not find any information on the passing arrays to the dblink remote call. By now I am using something like: select t.r from dblink( connection_name, 'select r from remote_stored_procedure( ARRAY[' || array_to_string( my_id_array, ',' ) || '] )' ) as t(r text); The construc

Re: [GENERAL] Auto Vaccume- Time based

2007-06-27 Thread Richard Huxton
Ashish Karalkar wrote: Thnkas Richard for your replay. Actually ,I was looking for some setting in postgresql.conf file Is there any one? Not to run at just a specific time. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don'

Re: [GENERAL] Auto Vaccume- Time based

2007-06-27 Thread Ashish Karalkar
Thnkas Richard for your replay. Actually ,I was looking for some setting in postgresql.conf file Is there any one? With Regards Ashish - Original Message - From: "Richard Huxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ashish Karalkar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 1:00 PM Su

[GENERAL] postgres and webmin

2007-06-27 Thread Danyelle Gragsone
Greetings, I am trying to setup postgres and postfix using webmin. I am following this guide: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Email:_A_Complete_Virtual_System_-_Postfix_to_Postgres I received the following in the postgres db section of webmin: select * from pg_database order by datname failed : no

[GENERAL] "Quota"

2007-06-27 Thread Hannes Dorbath
What would be a solution to prevent a single user/schema to fill the disk using PostgreSQL? Is it a good idea to use separate table spaces? -- Regards, Hannes Dorbath ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore y

Re: [GENERAL] LC_CTYPE and matching accented chars

2007-06-27 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:28:24AM +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > I think it would be much easier if you did something like > > > > select * from test where lower(to_ascii(value)) = lower(to_ascii('martín')); > > > > When to_ascii doesn't work (for example because it do

Re: [GENERAL] Auto Vaccume- Time based

2007-06-27 Thread Richard Huxton
Ashish Karalkar wrote: Hello all, I want to set Auto vaccunme in such a way that it will start in the Mid night (12:00 A.M.) Is there any way to do this except Cron Job for Linux What's wrong with "cron"? It's the tool that's designed to run timed jobs. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd --

Re: [GENERAL] problem importing data with psql

2007-06-27 Thread Richard Huxton
Try and remember to CC: the list - there are plenty of other people who can help too. chandresh rana wrote: Hi Richard, Let me explain you exactly what am trying to achieve. Am trying to export the database of the sever(ver 7.4) to my local server(ver 8.2).The problem in exporting ,is that c

Re: [GENERAL] AutoVacuum Behaviour Question

2007-06-27 Thread Bruce McAlister
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Bruce McAlister wrote: > >> I have just checked the pg_stat_all_tables in the pg_catalog schema and >> I can see the index scans etc table values incrementing. The data in the >> tables seems to be updating. Just an FYI, I've enabled manual vacuum >> analyze runs on the blu

[GENERAL] Auto Vaccume- Time based

2007-06-27 Thread Ashish Karalkar
Hello all, I want to set Auto vaccunme in such a way that it will start in the Mid night (12:00 A.M.) Is there any way to do this except Cron Job for Linux Thanks In advance With Regards ashish ...