Re: [ADMIN] pg_restore error: function plpgsql_call_handler already exists with same argument types

2002-12-02 Thread Tom Lane
"Nick Fankhauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There are a lot of situations where pg_dump fails to pick a safe reload >> order at the moment (that's why pg_restore has that wild and woolly set >> of options for manual adjustment of the reload order). > Is this considered a bug, or a generally a

Re: [ADMIN] What kind of index to use for many rows with few unique

2002-12-02 Thread Dan Langille
On 2 Dec 2002 at 15:15, Joe Conway wrote: > David F. Skoll wrote: > > No, I'm sure a btree will work. However, won't the index be > > inefficient (i.e., very flat) if there are many entries with the same > > value? Or is this not a problem? > > > > If you're concerned, why not try a partial in

Re: [ADMIN] What kind of index to use for many rows with few unique

2002-12-02 Thread Joe Conway
David F. Skoll wrote: No, I'm sure a btree will work. However, won't the index be inefficient (i.e., very flat) if there are many entries with the same value? Or is this not a problem? If you're concerned, why not try a partial index? Joe ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [ADMIN] What kind of index to use for many rows with few unique values?

2002-12-02 Thread Dan Langille
On 2 Dec 2002 at 17:10, David F. Skoll wrote: > I've heard that a btree index performs badly in this situation. As another poster has shown, it should be OK. I recently dealt with distributions simlar to your example. > Is a hash index appropriate? I've heard bad things about hash > indexes

Re: [ADMIN] What kind of index to use for many rows with few unique

2002-12-02 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Joel Burton wrote: > Looks right to me: index scan for the less-common option, seqscan for > the most common. Why don't you think this, as a btree, will work for > you? No, I'm sure a btree will work. However, won't the index be inefficient (i.e., very flat) if there are many

Re: [ADMIN] What kind of index to use for many rows with few unique values?

2002-12-02 Thread Joel Burton
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:10:00PM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote: > Hi, > > I have a table with a column called "state". Each row can be in one > of four states, let's call them 'new', 'pending', 'ok', and 'bad'. > On average, about 95% of the rows will be 'bad', with the remaining > 5% being in on

[ADMIN] What kind of index to use for many rows with few unique values?

2002-12-02 Thread David F. Skoll
Hi, I have a table with a column called "state". Each row can be in one of four states, let's call them 'new', 'pending', 'ok', and 'bad'. On average, about 95% of the rows will be 'bad', with the remaining 5% being in one of the other three states. If the table has 50K rows and I just want to p

Re: [ADMIN] [SQL] CURRENT_TIMSTAMP

2002-12-02 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Raymond Chui wrote: > I created a column, dada type timstamp with time zone > and with default CURRENT_TIMSTAMP > it shows me the default is > > default ('now'::text)::timstamp(6) with time zone > > Then when I insert a row, the default timestamp value is > > -mm-dd HH:MM:s

Re: [ADMIN] pg_restore error: function plpgsql_call_handler already exists with same argument types

2002-12-02 Thread Nick Fankhauser
> You could check this by running pg_restore with query logging > turned on, to see what commands it's actually issuing -- or just do > "pg_restore -s" into a text file and eyeball the generated script. I did this, and there is a view created before the table it refers to. > There are a lot of

Re: [ADMIN] [SQL] CURRENT_TIMSTAMP

2002-12-02 Thread Joel Burton
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:41:33AM -0500, Raymond Chui wrote: > I created a column, dada type timstamp with time zone > and with default CURRENT_TIMSTAMP > it shows me the default is > > default ('now'::text)::timstamp(6) with time zone > > Then when I insert a row, the default timestamp value is

Re: [ADMIN] How to setup a cluster of postgresql databases?

2002-12-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
We don't work with Mosix/beowulf because we use shared memory between the backends. --- Mario Medina Nussbaum wrote: > Hi! i need a cluster of psql databases, i readed about mosix and > beowulf, but i don't know which one i

[ADMIN] How to setup a cluster of postgresql databases?

2002-12-02 Thread Mario Medina Nussbaum
Hi! i need a cluster of psql databases, i readed about mosix and beowulf, but i don't know which one is the right one for that task, or if there is another one. Anyone can tell me which one, and give me a clue (or link) on how to configure it? Thank you. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptog

Re: [ADMIN] H/W RAID 5 on slower disks versus no raid on faster HDDs

2002-12-02 Thread David Jericho
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:16:35PM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote: > I agree 100%: hardware raid sucks. I've been mostly ignoring this thread, but I'm going to jump in at this point. > We confirmed the performance results with heavy testing. There is virtually > no disadvatage to software raid, ju

Re: [ADMIN] pg_restore error: function plpgsql_call_handler

2002-12-02 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 14:47, Nick Fankhauser wrote: > Apparently my first problem is the result of plpgsql already being defined > in template1. I haven't touched template1 since my install, but it may be > that template1 comes with this already defined, or it may be that template1 > is set up thi

Re: [ADMIN] pg_restore error: function plpgsql_call_handler already exists with same argument types

2002-12-02 Thread Tom Lane
"Nick Fankhauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It appears that in the process of creating the schema, pg_restore attempted > to create an object that required the existence of actor, which wasn't > restored yet. My conjecture is that the objects are just being created in > the wrong order. Probab

Re: [ADMIN] pg_restore error: function plpgsql_call_handler already exists with same argument types

2002-12-02 Thread Nick Fankhauser
Hi- Thanks for the helpful suggestions on this problem last Wednesday morning- I spent the rest of the day in a meeting, and I'm now returning to the problem post-holiday. I apologize for the slow response to your ideas. Tom- You were correct, I was restoring the wrong database in my example with

Re: [ADMIN] Unable to automaticly load Postmaster.

2002-12-02 Thread Rajesh Kumar Mallah.
if you are on linux copy contrib/start-scripts/linux /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql and as root do: # chkconfig --add postgresql # chkconfig postgresql start if that does not works out you can add following line in one of your start up scripts usually /etc/rc.d/rc.local su -l postgres -c "pg_c

Re: [ADMIN] Disabling triggers on a relation.

2002-12-02 Thread Bhuvan A
> What is the correct method of temporarily > disabling all triggers from a table? Disable: db=# update pg_class set reltriggers = '0' where relname = 'your_table'; Enable: db=# update pg_class set reltriggers = (select count(*) from pg_trigger where pg_class.oid = tgrelid) where relname = 'yo