Re: [GENERAL] Parallel databases?

2000-04-16 Thread Jurgen Defurne
James Lewis wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for a way to keep 2 databases in sync? Ideally updates need to be made to both... this can't be too uncommon a requirement. any kind of HA would need it No. The way HA works is that the system is made in such a way that you can't

Re: [GENERAL] Messages to Front End

2000-04-16 Thread Jurgen Defurne
Jigishu P Bhatt wrote: I am developing an Information Management System. I am using PgAccess(0.98.5) as front end. The backend is PostgreSQL-6.5.2 and OS is Red Hat Linux 6.1, on Intel P-II 350 MHz connected with LAN. I have installed them using RPM of Linux. I have learned some of the

[GENERAL] To BLOB Or Not To BLOB

2000-04-16 Thread Frank Joerdens
A while ago it was being held that the Postgres large object data type was too new and not sufficiently tested and mature to be used in a production environment. I am about to deploy a little database that involves storing large-ish text files (20-500k) which could be either done as large objects

[GENERAL] Invisible tables

2000-04-16 Thread Webb Sprague
Hello all, In my quest to learn PG and SQL programming, I have created tables in a database "foo". I am able to insert, select, etc just fine, but when I use "\dt" to show them they don't appear. They ARE listed in the system table "pg_tables", however. I have also tried to createdb "test1"

Re: [GENERAL] Invisible tables

2000-04-16 Thread Mike Mascari
Webb Sprague wrote: Hello all, In my quest to learn PG and SQL programming, I have created tables in a database "foo". I am able to insert, select, etc just fine, but when I use "\dt" to show them they don't appear. They ARE listed in the system table "pg_tables", however. This sounds

[GENERAL] error message help?

2000-04-16 Thread Titus Brown
Can anyone tell me what the following two messages mean? They are from 6.5.3. thanks, --titus NOTICE: equal: don't know whether nodes of type 719 are equal NOTICE: LockReleaseAll: xid loop detected, giving up -- Titus Brown, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] To BLOB Or Not To BLOB

2000-04-16 Thread Robert B. Easter
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Frank Joerdens wrote: A while ago it was being held that the Postgres large object data type was too new and not sufficiently tested and mature to be used in a production environment. I am about to deploy a little database that involves storing large-ish text files

Re: [reaster@comptechnews.com: Re: [GENERAL] To BLOB Or Not To BLOB]

2000-04-16 Thread Robert B. Easter
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, you wrote: There are some programs out there to dump large objects and I've been playing with one. It's worked well so far. You can get it at ftp://ftp2.zf.jcu.cz/zakkr/pg/ --- file not found... Correction: ftp://ftp2.zf.jcu.cz/users/zakkr/pg/

Re: [GENERAL] Data Type...

2000-04-16 Thread John Henderson
Frank, I don't know about varbinary. The 8k limit is expected to disappear in version 7.1. The strategy to do this is known as TOAST. You might search the archives for more details if you want them. John Henderson -Original Message- From: Franck Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] To BLOB Or Not To BLOB

2000-04-16 Thread John Henderson
Hi, It seems that the issue with large objects is "Why do you want the info in a database?" It seems to me that the point of a database is its ability to order and relate data. If you want to retrieve the "large-ish text files" based on their content then I think you need to have the files in

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresqlism Vacuum?

2000-04-16 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 01:23 PM 14-04-2000 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Perhaps its time for the two functions to be separated - controlled by an option? Perhaps VACUUM STATONLY could collect stats, not lock table and not reclaim space. Makes sense. Actually it may be more logical to have VACUUM

Re: [GENERAL] To BLOB Or Not To BLOB

2000-04-16 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
Well I'm currently using the file system for large files. However because of that I can see a few reasons why people might want to use Postgresql to handle them. Others can probably mention more. Using Pg to handle large stuff makes more consistent overall and it's easier for you to handle

Re: [GENERAL] To BLOB Or Not To BLOB (fwd)

2000-04-16 Thread Ing. Roberto Andrade Fonseca
Hola: Una opinión sobre el uso de imágenes en blobs. Alguien tiene experiencias al respecto? Saludos, Roberto Andrade Fonseca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:40:47 +0800 From: Lincoln Yeoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Henderson [EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] To BLOB Or Not To BLOB

2000-04-16 Thread Marten Feldtmann
A while ago it was being held that the Postgres large object data type was too new and not sufficiently tested and mature to be used in a production environment. I am about to deploy a little database that involves storing large-ish text files (20-500k) which could be either done as large

Re: [GENERAL] catching errors from BDI.pm

2000-04-16 Thread Ed Loehr
IIRC, certain kinds of pg errors trigger exceptions that can only be caught with an eval wrapper. Not sure, but the DBD::Pg module may just be parroting the bail-out behavior of the backend. Regards, Ed Loehr Jeffrey wrote: Hi, I am having trouble catching errors from postgress. I am

Re: [GENERAL] To BLOB Or Not To BLOB

2000-04-16 Thread Titus Brown
- It seems that the issue with large objects is "Why do you want the info in a - database?" To organize them, of course. - It seems to me that the point of a database is its ability to order and - relate data. If you want to retrieve the "large-ish text files" based on - their content then I

Re: [GENERAL] Does error within transaction imply restarting it?

2000-04-16 Thread Haroldo Stenger
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Haroldo Stenger writes: I seems that other DBMSs, don't care about erroneous statements within a transaction. Now, I have several paths to follow: 1) Hacking the backend ;-) If you're really brave you can try this change in backend/tcop/postgres.c: