Re: [GENERAL] Speed issues with update

2000-11-02 Thread Norman Clarke
Lorenz, Have you run VACUUM on the table? Norman On Wednesday 01 November 2000 05:43 am, you wrote: > I'm using 'PostgreSQL 7.0.2 on i386-unknown-freebsdelf4.0, compiled by > cc'. > > The problem is that the following statement takes approx 3hrs on a table > with approx 136,000 records. > > upd

Re: [GENERAL] CREATE FUNCTION problem

2000-11-02 Thread Tom Lane
"Cesar A. K. Grossmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > create function > vinculoExportacao (varchar) > returns setof > as 'select codigo, nome, ''T'' as selected > from cad_exportacao > ... > psql:tmp/teste2.sql:15: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "as" setof *what* ? The parser is expectin

Re: [GENERAL] Does this table exist?

2000-11-02 Thread Warren Vanichuk
> Now, the question is: Is there a way to know if a given table exist? > Besides doing a direct query to it, of course, as I think that would be > too much of a dinamite-fishing way of doing it. I believe you want the pg_tables table (view?) A quick and dirty way would be : select tablename fro

Re: [GENERAL] Does this table exist?

2000-11-02 Thread Stephan Szabo
Well, you can do select * from pg_class where relname='' which will tell you if there's a view/table/index with that name. Stephan Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Hi > > I'm Alvaro Herrera, from Chile, South America, where I study CS > (mostly). I'm new to

Re: [GENERAL] Does this table exist?

2000-11-02 Thread Ashley Clark
Well, I'll answer your questions and help you a little too, or at least try... * Alvaro Herrera in "[GENERAL] Does this table exist?" dated 2000/11/02 * 17:44 wrote: > Now, I'm building a database to hold customer data that needs to be > organized in a one-table-per-customer manner. No, I don't

[GENERAL] Does this table exist?

2000-11-02 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Hi I'm Alvaro Herrera, from Chile, South America, where I study CS (mostly). I'm new to PostgreSQL and to SQL in general. That's for my introduction. Now, I'm building a database to hold customer data that needs to be organized in a one-table-per-customer manner. No, I don't think there's anoth

[GENERAL] CREATE FUNCTION problem

2000-11-02 Thread Cesar A. K. Grossmann
Hi! I'm trying to use pgaccess to create a function that returns the same tuples the query bellow: select codigo, nome, 'T' as selected from cad_exportacao where codigo in ( select codigo from user_codigo where username = 'cesar' and tipo

[GENERAL] the List! the List

2000-11-02 Thread Nathan Suderman
by the number of 'set digest' messages I am seeing on the list I can finally assume that I am not the only one that this has happened to. The general list seems to have lost its digest setting, and for some reason I also got subscribed to the Hacker list. While I like receiving these messages

Re: [GENERAL] server protocol used by Postgres

2000-11-02 Thread Peter Korsgaard
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Tom Lane wrote: > > and looking at the c client library, but I haven't been able to find > > any information about the protocol used between the postgres database and > > the clients, > > See the developer's guide at > http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/postgres/ Do

[GENERAL] Supply Chain Management System

2000-11-02 Thread Dave Cramer
Greetings all, We have been using postgres for quite some time now with excellent results. A client of ours is looking for a Supply Chain Management solution. We would like to implement it using postgres. Has anyone on the list implemented an SCM using postgres. Is there any interest in doing a

Re: [BUGS] strange array insertion

2000-11-02 Thread Tom Lane
"Bernie Huang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Strange enough, it seems like the 2-d text array size depends on the last > element size. Looks like a bug to me too ... probably silliness in the array_in routine that determines dimensions of an unspecified-dimensions input. Want to look at it? > B

Re: [GENERAL] server protocol used by Postgres

2000-11-02 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Korsgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been browsing a bit around the develop corner at postgresql.org > and looking at the c client library, but I haven't been able to find > any information about the protocol used between the postgres database and > the clients, See the developer'

Re: [GENERAL] set digest

2000-11-02 Thread Tom Lane
A person who will remain nameless wrote: > set digest Perhaps it's time to remind people once again that sending list management commands to the list repeater address accomplishes nothing, except to annoy the hundreds of other members of the mailing list. If you need to change/add/remove your s

[GENERAL] R-tree index

2000-11-02 Thread Michel Nadeau
Hi, We created a database with some boxes in it. We make spatail queries on the boxes. like: SELECT openMapIndex FROM tableName WHERE BBOX::box && '((-73,45),(-74,46))'; The query is working fine. We indexed the field BBOX. It takes about 17 seconds when doing a sequential search and 0.5 second

[GENERAL] Memory Leak

2000-11-02 Thread Justin Foster
Hello, RedHat 7.0, Postgres 7.1 (libpq), Intel Cel 433, 64mb, 15g hd. I am running a test which performs 1000 transactions of 1000 updates of a single column in a single table, or (1 tranaction = 1000 updates) * 1000. I have no indecies for any of the columns and the table has 3 columns and 20

Re: [GENERAL] SQL question - problem with INTERSECT

2000-11-02 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:50:07AM -0500, Keith L. Musser wrote: > > upper(a.word) = 'JIM' or upper(a.word) = 'JONES' > > upper(s.word) = 'HELLO' or upper(s.word) = 'THERE' > Interesting possibility. Unfortunately, the outer select ends up being > a sequential scan over the entire messages table,

Re[2]: [GENERAL] autostart postgresql

2000-11-02 Thread Andy Corteen
Hello Mike, Thursday, November 02, 2000, 1:00:51 PM, you wrote: ME> * Bob Hartung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Partial success! >> I have postgresql started and have "createdb testdb" >> successfully. I am having trouble with autostarting >> postmaster in RH6.2 however. >> >> I have copie

Re: [GENERAL] autostart postgresql

2000-11-02 Thread Neil Conway
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:00:51AM -0800, Mike E wrote: > You can't run postmaster as root, so to do this I believe you > have to write a wrapper script and give it a postgres (or whatever > your admin account is named) sticky bit. I usually make the script 'su' into postgres and then startup po

Re: [GENERAL] autostart postgresql

2000-11-02 Thread Mike E
* Bob Hartung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Partial success! > I have postgresql started and have "createdb testdb" > successfully. I am having trouble with autostarting > postmaster in RH6.2 however. > > I have copied the file > "/usr/local/postgresql-7.0.2...postgres-init" to > /etc/rc

Re: [GENERAL] Large objects

2000-11-02 Thread Denis Perchine
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:35:04PM +0600, Denis Perchine wrote: > > Except on case... When you would like to be sure in transaction safety... > > Ok, but not for image galery. Again... If you can accept that you will have half of image, it's OK. If not... -- Sincerely Yours, Denis Perchine -

Re: [GENERAL] Large objects

2000-11-02 Thread Igor Roboul
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 02:39:54PM +0300, Igor Roboul wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:35:04PM +0600, Denis Perchine wrote: > > Except on case... When you would like to be sure in transaction safety... > Ok, but not for image galery. I have answered on argument about transactions -- Igor Rob

Re: [GENERAL] Large objects

2000-11-02 Thread Igor Roboul
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 05:35:04PM +0600, Denis Perchine wrote: > Except on case... When you would like to be sure in transaction safety... Ok, but not for image galery. -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", Sochi, Russia http://www.brainbench.com/transcr

Re: [GENERAL] Large objects

2000-11-02 Thread Denis Perchine
> > I want to make a image catalogue. I will use postgresql, perl and php. > > > > What are the advantages of having the images in the database instead of > > having them out in a directory? > > > > After all, to show the images I need them on a directory? > > Really, you can show images from data

RE: [GENERAL] Sample Program

2000-11-02 Thread Colin Taylor
Found examples in: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/aw_pgsql_book/node188.html These include the techniques that I use at home and have had "few" problems. Have fun. > -Original Message- > From: Nick Fankhauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 7:58 PM > To: