RE: [GENERAL] Is Oracle really so much faster

2001-02-02 Thread Mikheev, Vadim
However the result was (running on 64bit Sol 7, E250/1Gig RAM) that Oracle was roughly twice as fast. Is this real or might there be stuff I could do, to improve postgres performance? PostgreSQL version? 7.0.2 Try 7.1 or use -F. You didn't use -F, did you? What's -F ?

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL profiling?

2001-02-02 Thread Alex Pilosov
A quick question: Have someone made effort to do profiling of pgsql during execution of certain things (inserts, selects, sorting, indices)? I have a feeling (based on stopping postgres from gdb periodically), that a lot of time is used in strcoll() (if table and index has string columns).

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql always returning null..

2001-02-02 Thread Stephan Szabo
Okay, that's basically what I tried on my 7.1b3 system which worked, both with quantity as int2 and int4. It'll probably work there. In the mean time, what kinds of queries are you using this in, maybe a subselect would work as a temporary fix. On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Anand Raman wrote: hi

[GENERAL] Postgres SQL 7.1 a thank you and a possible bug

2001-02-02 Thread Nic Ferrier
First of all 7.1 is great! I'm using beta4 and it seems to be working very well. Thank's particularly for the SQL92 join syntax (though union joins would be usefull). I have a problem though and I'm not sure if it's a bug or not so I thought I'd discuss it here first. The synopsis of the

[GENERAL] Programmer's Guide

2001-02-02 Thread Daniel Clark
I've noticed that the PostgreSQL Programmer's Guide (ISBN: 0595149170 )is availabe in print now. Does anyone know if the user, and admin guides will be offered down the road as well? I realize you can dl them from the site. Because of the number of pages, I'd rather buy it in printed form.

[GENERAL] recovery from media failure

2001-02-02 Thread adb
Is there any way to have up to the minute recovery from a disk failure in postgres? Is there a timeframe for the recover from WAL feature? Thanks, Alex.

Re: [GENERAL] recovery from media failure

2001-02-02 Thread adb
Thanks for the info, Raid is definitely in the picture, I'm worried about the less likely but definitely possible case where your entire raid array gets smoked (or just the two disks you care about) and I don't want to recover from a 24 hour backup. The two options I can see are one way

Re: [GENERAL] recovery from media failure

2001-02-02 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, adb wrote: Is there any way to have up to the minute recovery from a disk failure in postgres? RAID1? :) Is there a timeframe for the recover from WAL feature? If you are asking if WAL logs can be reapplied to an database dump, the answer is currently no. I think it'd be

[GENERAL] RE: [NOVICE] RE: Sizing of LARGE databases.

2001-02-02 Thread Michael Miyabara-McCaskey
Francisco, Excellent idea. Thanks for the info. Is this what you are doing now? And if so, since the current version does not appear to have replication, have you found a workaround? -Michael -Original Message- From: Francisco Reyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday,

[GENERAL] Verifying transaction success

2001-02-02 Thread Alfonso Peniche
Is there a way (in plpgsql) to know if an insert, update or delete instruction was successful without having to run a select statement after either one? Something like an error flag, a set of instructions, a process... Thanks again.

[GENERAL] pg_dump shell or php?

2001-02-02 Thread Matt Friedman
Any one written a shell or php script that runs pg_dump on a db say everyday or something? Any suggestions? thanks, Matt Friedman

[GENERAL] Re: pg_dump shell or php?

2001-02-02 Thread Mitch Vincent
This is simple, but it's what I use to do my daily dumps (run from crontab) -- I took out some stuff specific to my application..Replace database with the name of the database.. #!/bin/sh pgpath=/usr/local/pgsql/bin homepath=/home/postgres backup=/usr/local/pgsql/backup today=`date

plpgsql rowsupdated Re: [GENERAL] Verifying transaction success

2001-02-02 Thread Alex Pilosov
Not 'transaction'. If previous operation _failed_, you won't even get to next instruction. What you are asking whether previous statement updated any rows. I _think_ in 7.1 you can do that, but I don't remember how. -alex On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Alfonso Peniche wrote: Is there a way (in plpgsql)

Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgresql 7 on either RaQ3i or RaQ2

2001-02-02 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
I desperately need to get Postgresql 7 running on either a RaQ2 or RaQ3i. I have tried getting help on the Cobalt list-server and at Cobalt but the only response I get is that it will effect my GUI . Since I have been a long supporting Mac user the conversion to the Linux environment

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump shell or php?

2001-02-02 Thread Dan Wilson
Here's a simple PHP script that I use. You can backup only certain databases or the whole server. I'm actually planning on making this part of the phpPgAdmin package. You can specify how many days you want the backup files to remain. -Dan #!/usr/bin/php -q ?php