[ADMIN] OT: Decent GUI-based reportwriter for Linux?

2002-01-28 Thread Bradley Kieser
Not really a PG-related question, but we are looking to migrate a customer from Oracle on Windows to PG on Linux. The only problem is that the company is already using reportwriter tools like Crystal Reports and Oracle's reportwriter. They are open to be migrated if we can come up with a

Re: [ADMIN] OT: Decent GUI-based reportwriter for Linux?

2002-01-28 Thread Pablo Prieto
The only problem is that the company is already using reportwriter tools like Crystal Reports... Hello. Crystal Reports via ODBC should work, doesn't it?. Pablo. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL

Re: [ADMIN] OT: Decent GUI-based reportwriter for Linux?

2002-01-28 Thread Bradley Kieser
Original Message On 1/28/02, 12:19:38 PM, Pablo Prieto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [ADMIN] OT: Decent GUI-based reportwriter for Linux?: The only problem is that the company is already using reportwriter tools like Crystal Reports... Hello. Crystal Reports via ODBC should

[ADMIN] performance problem with version 7.0.3

2002-01-28 Thread juerg . rietmann
Hello there Running postgreSQL 7.0.3 on a SuSE linux server (1GHz, PIII, 384 MB RAM) I have problems with the performance. There are three to six postmaster processes running. One with ODBC connector to a NT server , the others use JDBC. Each month, we're having this situation. The customer

[ADMIN] PRIMARY KEY Indexes.

2002-01-28 Thread Marc Mitchell
pgsqlPostgres automatically creates a unique index to assure data integrity (see CREATE INDEX statement). The online docs at http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-createtable.html state the following: Postgres automatically creates a unique index to assure data integrity (see CREATE

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem with version 7.0.3

2002-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please help me in analyzing this output. After vacuum/analyze, the performance is ok for another month. So, vacuum on a regular basis. Most people do it at least once a day. regards, tom lane ---(end of

Re: [ADMIN] PRIMARY KEY Indexes.

2002-01-28 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Marc Mitchell wrote: pgsqlPostgres automatically creates a unique index to assure data integrity (see CREATE INDEX statement). The online docs at http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-createtable.html state the following: Postgres automatically creates a

Re: [ADMIN] performance problem with version 7.0.3

2002-01-28 Thread Tony Reina
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hello there Please help me in analyzing this output. After vacuum/analyze, the performance is ok for another month. Are you regularily doing a vacuum analyze? This is a critical step to maintaining the database as PostgreSQL

Re: [ADMIN] Sample database for me to practice with?

2002-01-28 Thread Steve Boyle \(Roselink\)
Andy, I think that there is a database created as part of the regression tests that you can probably use (src/test/regress). hih steve boyle - Original Message - From: Andy Ruhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 2:24 AM Subject: [ADMIN] Sample

Re: [ADMIN] performance tuning on inserts

2002-01-28 Thread Mitch Vincent
Check this http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/hw_performance/index.html I would think that you would see *some* increase in performance by turning fsync off I see huge increases in performance of INSERT/UPDATE with fsync off. -Mitch - Original Message - From: Peter T.

Re: [ADMIN] Sample database for me to practice with?

2002-01-28 Thread Andy Ruhl
On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Steve Boyle (Roselink) wrote: I think that there is a database created as part of the regression tests that you can probably use (src/test/regress). And since you referenced src, it must be within the source tree? I don't have the source tree but I'll grab it. The ports

Re: [ADMIN] performance tuning on inserts

2002-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
Peter T. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All of my queries rely heavily on doing INSERT INTO. So is there some special behavior with insert's, where they are flushed to disk one by one? If I simply increase checkpoint_segments to 50 or so would this cause inserts to occur only in memory and

Re: [ADMIN] performance tuning on inserts

2002-01-28 Thread Peter T. Brown
Regarding the SQL: The query I showed there is built dynamically from a library of queries chosen by the application user (using a web gui). For now, I don't have any way to intelligently condense the often complex series of operations into a single 'smart' query. That being said, I still don't

Re: [ADMIN] performance tuning on inserts

2002-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
Peter T. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Regarding the SQL: The query I showed there is built dynamically from a library of queries chosen by the application user (using a web gui). For now, I don't have any way to intelligently condense the often complex series of operations into a single

[ADMIN] IMporting Oracle DBs to PG

2002-01-28 Thread Bradley Kieser
Has anyone out there got any experience in importing complete Oracle Dbs into PG? Any tip would be useful! A tool to do this would be awesome! Thanks! Brad ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL

Re: [ADMIN] IMporting Oracle DBs to PG

2002-01-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
Bradley Kieser wrote: Has anyone out there got any experience in importing complete Oracle Dbs into PG? Any tip would be useful! A tool to do this would be awesome! There is an Oracle porting tool in PostgreSQL's /contrib. -- Bruce Momjian|

[ADMIN] pg_hba.conf reload

2002-01-28 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
is there any way in postgres (7.1.3) to get postgres to source the pg_hba.conf file without restarting the database completely? will any new backend use a modified pg_hba.conf if it is modified while postgres is running? -tfo ---(end of

Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf reload

2002-01-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: is there any way in postgres (7.1.3) to get postgres to source the pg_hba.conf file without restarting the database completely? will any new backend use a modified pg_hba.conf if it is modified while postgres is running? In 7.1.X and earlier, pg_hba.conf is

Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf reload

2002-01-28 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
In 7.1.X and earlier, pg_hba.conf is reread on every connection request. 7.2.X will requires a sighup to the postmaster to reload pg_hba.conf. why the change? -tfo ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please

Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf reload

2002-01-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: In 7.1.X and earlier, pg_hba.conf is reread on every connection request. 7.2.X will requires a sighup to the postmaster to reload pg_hba.conf. why the change? Performance. Faster to cache contents. -- Bruce Momjian|

[ADMIN] Backup database through web and php

2002-01-28 Thread Lau NH
Hi all, I am writing a php script to backup my postgres database through web interface, but my database is password required. When I do a pg_dump at the linux shell prompt, it will prompt for password in order to backup the database, does anyone know how to pass this password with the