Re: [GENERAL] 7.1.1 backend crashes on updates to very large textcolumns

2001-05-28 Thread Norman J. Clarke
Hello Tom, While you were busy responding (should have checked email sooner!) my coworker helped me go through the core file and we found the exact problem, which was of course what you pointed out. A little wasted time maybe, but it was neat to see what was really going on. Thanks very much for

Re: [GENERAL] incomplete transaction keeps table locked?

2001-05-28 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:55:09AM -0400, George Herson wrote: > But since i made the original post i rebooted my server and now i think > that (a reboot) was also needed, as a couple of little things outside > PHP/Apache/Posgresql (in Netscape, actually) are now working that were > broken pre-boo

Re: [GENERAL] 7.1.1 backend crashes on updates to very large text columns

2001-05-28 Thread Tom Lane
"Norman J. Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, on update to the larger (100k+)columns, the postgres backend > crashes and dumps core. I've included a backtrace from the core file. This looks entirely irrelevant to either TOAST or update; I think it is the known 7.1.1 bug with SELECTs t

[GENERAL] Re: [SQL] Difficult SQL Statement

2001-05-28 Thread Tim Barnard
I was able to do this, but not with a simple query :-( Here's the solution I came up with. Perhaps someone else knows an easier way to do this? Using your table (called 'RESULTS' in my example): test=# select ASMT_CODE,count(*)::float4 as TOTAL into tmp1 from RESULTS group by ASMT_CODE; Table t

Re: [GENERAL] FullText in postgres

2001-05-28 Thread Neil Conway
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 01:45:18AM +0600, Ivan Likhachov wrote: > Hello! > > Does postgreSQL has FULLTEXT search for TEXT data type... like in MS SQL? See contrib/fulltextindex You might also want to search the archives -- IIRC, some people have found this solution a bit lacking. Cheers, Nei

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Functional Indices

2001-05-28 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Tue, 22 May 2001, mordicus wrote: > Stephan Szabo wrote: > >> explain select * from titles where lower(title) = 'monde'; > >> Seq Scan on titles (cost=0.00..39392.10 rows=14145 width=44) > > > > How many rows are in titles? It seems to estimate 14000+ > > rows are going to match. If that's

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Cant get Perl Module loaded

2001-05-28 Thread Neil Conway
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 01:33:46AM +, John wrote: > Yes I posted a bunch of stuff way to hastily and was not clear. I ran > perl -e 'use DBD::Pg' and got this: > > perl -e 'use DBD::Pg' > Can't locate DBD/Pg.pm in @INC (@INC contains: > /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005

[GENERAL] 7.1.1 backend crashes on updates to very large text columns

2001-05-28 Thread Norman J. Clarke
Hello, I have some tables with text (TOAST) columns that store xml files of up to about 100k in size. Most are less than 1-10k, with the 100k columns being somewhat unusual. I'd like to have the liberty of occaisonally storing up to about 2MB in these columns without resorting to BLOB columns if

Re: [GENERAL] Re: I want more Money (the data type, of course! :-))

2001-05-28 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Carlos Moreno wrote: > > Stephan Szabo wrote: > > > > Use numeric with appropriate precision information. > > I'm assuming that when I use numeric specifying the > number of decimals, there is no rounding error in > the arithmetic and storage? (well, other than That's

Re: [GENERAL] Help with C++

2001-05-28 Thread Tim Barnard
Look in the programmer docs For C: www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?libpq.html For C++: www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?libpqplusplus.html Tim - Original Message - From: "Mayan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 10:36 PM Subject: [GENER

Re: [GENERAL] "pg_ctl restart" in 7.1.2

2001-05-28 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Trond Eivind Glomsrød writes: > > > "pg_ctl restart" seems to not work as documented in postgresql 7.1.2. > > > > bash-2.04$ /usr/bin/pg_ctl restart -w -D /var/lib/pgsql/data -m fast > > waiting for postmaster to shut down..done > > postmaster s

Re: [GENERAL] set datestyle

2001-05-28 Thread Tom Lane
"mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to reset my datestyle which works till I have to log out and log= > back into my shell. > the docs have nothign in them ast to how to keep the datestyle set. is this= > somethign that can > be done once, or does it have to be done every single time

Re: [GENERAL] set datestyle

2001-05-28 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ideally yes, but they're "special cases" by virtue of behaving specially. > AFAIR, the behaviour couldn't be fitted in exactly, but maybe with the > "assign hook" it would work. Even if these variables can't easily be made table-driven, it seems like

[GENERAL] question

2001-05-28 Thread Linh Luong
Hi all, I am running postgres7.1 and php4.0. When I do top while running my query via browser I notice that the postmaster process takes up almost 100% of the CPU and this is just for one user. What would happen if multiple users does the same search at the same time would the postmaster die?

[GENERAL] pgsql 7.1 --with-tcl doesn't work with cygwin

2001-05-28 Thread guard
pgsql 7.1 how to --with-tcl thanks ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly

[SQL] Re: Return cursor

2001-05-28 Thread Sergey E. Volkov
If you are planing to use ecpg : exec sql declare cuserbase cursor for select column1, column2, column3 from my_table order by 1; exec sql open cuserbase; exec sql whenever not found do break; while ( true ) { exec sql fetch cuserbase into ... // do same work } exec sql close cuserb

[GENERAL] problem with buffer of psql

2001-05-28 Thread Hector Morales
excusem for the first message in spanish. I need insert aproximatly 20,000 tuples in one table and i run psql dbname -f scriptofquerys so show the next error query buffer maxlength of 16,384 exceeded thank for your help Hector Morales ---(end of broadcast)

[GENERAL] Replace MSSQL by PostgreSQL ?

2001-05-28 Thread Pieter Grimmerink
I have a windows application using a MSSQL (the free 2gig version) database. When the application is first started, I have to select 'sql server' and then I need to give the sql setup (servername, user+pass) in an ODBC datasource setup dialog. Now I am wondering, would there be a chance I could u

[GENERAL] altering data type in a column

2001-05-28 Thread Madness
Hi, I have a table in one of my databases which has a row of type char. I would like to convert it to int data type. Is there an easy way for doing it? With regards, Devrim GÜNDÜZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you se

[GENERAL] Re: Stored Procedure

2001-05-28 Thread Nils Zonneveld
KÈmeri Lajos wrote: > And I call it: select * from LOGIN ('username', 'password'); > Result: 1, 'Lewis' > In PostgreSQL you can define only functions, they go a long way, but are not really stored procedures. A stored procedure can return a tuple just like you show. A function can only return

[SQL] Re: Return cursor

2001-05-28 Thread Alla
"Sergey E. Volkov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<9ej088$ulc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > If you are planing to use ecpg : > > exec sql declare cuserbase cursor for > select column1, column2, column3 from my_table order by 1; > exec sql open cuserbase; Thanks, but this is exactly w

[GENERAL] Postgres performance issue

2001-05-28 Thread Linh Luong
Hi Everyone, I am running Postgres 7.1 and php 4.0. I have a question: Why does postmaster use 80% of the CPU on a simple sql query? I have a form that displays a list of customers based on a criteria they enter. If the user doesn't enter in a criteria it will display all the customer in th

[GENERAL] transactions on Postgresql

2001-05-28 Thread hicham bouzdad
Hi everybody, my subject is about : DBI / PostgreSql & Transactions with Perl. my code is : $dbh->{AutoCommit} = 0; # begin of transaction while () { ... $sql = "insert into $table ($col) values ($val)"; $res = $dbh->do($sql); } $dbh->rollback;#

[GENERAL] Re: I want more Money (the data type, of course! :-))

2001-05-28 Thread Carlos Moreno
Stephan Szabo wrote: > > Use numeric with appropriate precision information. I'm assuming that when I use numeric specifying the number of decimals, there is no rounding error in the arithmetic and storage? (well, other than rounding on the decimals beyond the ones specified -- e.g., if I

[GENERAL] Re: Re: perl vs php for postgresql

2001-05-28 Thread John
Jason, Thank you for the insightful post. I did make a typo when I typed DBM. I guess I was frazzled and really meant DBD. Since I eventuall want to open a socket and send some data to/from the database, you have made me realize (or remember) why I was using perl in the first place. Thanks. -Jo

[GENERAL] data/pg_xlog/HUGE_FILE

2001-05-28 Thread Bob Himes
I've discovered this huge file 16Meg in the data/pg_xlog directory but information for it is alluding my discover too. What is it and how can i manage it? Can it be deleted or is some tool necessary to deal with it? -- Bob Himes Pure Matrix, Inc. 303-245-1045ext. 105 http://www.purematrix

[GENERAL] RE: Autocommit off in psql??

2001-05-28 Thread Björn Lundin
Yes, I meant turn off Autocommit for the entire psql session. Starting every manipulation of the database with a BEGIN is a bit tiresome, and i often catch myself with forgetting it. If it isn't possible, it would be a nice featue!? Björn Tim Mickol wrote: > Actually, I think the original que

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL 7.03 Install fails on RedHat Linux 6.1

2001-05-28 Thread Niraj K. Patel
Hello, I'm logged on as root, but when I run the install.sh program from the CD, I get the following error in /tmp/pginstall.log: Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x31)! I see several python programs running via the installation script, but they never return. I have to kill the installati

[GENERAL] Re: Cant get Perl Module loaded

2001-05-28 Thread John
Yes I posted a bunch of stuff way to hastily and was not clear. I ran perl -e 'use DBD::Pg' and got this: perl -e 'use DBD::Pg' Can't locate DBD/Pg.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_p

Re: [GENERAL] can't start as root

2001-05-28 Thread Dave Cramer
On redhat, if you used the rpms you can start postgres by cd /etc/rc.d/init.d ./postgresql start You should set it to start automatically using the gnome configurator Dave - Original Message - From: "Lee Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001

[GENERAL] Re: transactions on Postgresql

2001-05-28 Thread Dave Robinson
hicham bouzdad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Hi everybody, > > my subject is about : DBI / PostgreSql & Transactions with Perl. > my code is : > > $dbh->{AutoCommit} = 0; # begin of transaction > while () { > ... > $sql = "insert into

[GENERAL] CLISP ?

2001-05-28 Thread Justin Clift
Hi all, Does anyone know what the heck CLISP is, and/or if there's a driver for using PostgreSQL with it? :-) I'll add it to the techdocs.postgresql.org website if there is too. :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Gunjan Varshney wrote: > > Dear, > > We are working on a project in C

[GENERAL] FullText in postgres

2001-05-28 Thread Ivan Likhachov
Hello! Does postgreSQL has FULLTEXT search for TEXT data type... like in MS SQL? Please answer me to my email! Thankx! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[GENERAL] Re: OID wrap around

2001-05-28 Thread Steve O'Hagan
But when I've finished calculating the 4 billion names of God, it wont matter anyway - end of universe as we know it . . . ;-) Regards. SGO. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Remembering past discussions: Yes OID's wrap around. When this happens,

[GENERAL] problema con buffer de psql

2001-05-28 Thread Hector Morales
Que tal lista, necesito ayuda con lo siguiente. Intento levantar desde un archivo de texto una serie de insert aproximadamente 20,000 tuplas a una tabla en postgres. Ejecuto psql dbname -f scriptdeinserts y cunado va insertando la tupla 2,013 me tira el siguiente mensaje query buffer maxlengt

[GENERAL] problem with buffer in psql

2001-05-28 Thread Hector Morales
I need insert aproximatly 20,000 tuples in one table and i run psql dbname -f scriptofquerys so show the next error query buffer maxlength of 16,384 exceeded thank for your help Hector Morales ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and u