Re: [GENERAL] optimum postgres server configuration

2003-08-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
* Disk speed 4 drives... 7200 RPM... as big as you can get. Get 8 Meg cache drives so you have a 3 year warranty. * Hardware RAID 3Ware IDE controller (or SATA) running RAID 10 * Memory 2 gig * Processor speed 1800+ * Processor type Athlon MP * Multiple processors 2 We are able to run a

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware Performance Tuning

2003-08-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
I need to update that. 7.4 will use many more shared buffers by default. Yes, they are very small because we want to start even on small machines. --- Knut P. Lehre wrote: > The doc "PostgreSQL Hardware Performance Tuning"

Re: [GENERAL] plPHP -- sort of an announcement.. but not commercial

2003-08-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: > (Including PLs in the standard distro strikes me as a good idea, BTW. > They usually need maintenance along with the core backend code.) We could also say that keeping some PLs outside the core would keep us more honest in keeping the interfaces stable. The only maintenance th

[GENERAL] v7.4 Beta 1 Bundle Available for Testing ...

2003-08-05 Thread The Hermit Hacker
Just a quick note to everyone that v7.4 is now official in Beta Freeze, with the first Bundle available for download, testing and bug reports ... The Bundle is available on all FTP mirrors (in both .gz and .bz2 format) under: /pub/source/v7.4 We encourage everyone that is able to downlo

Re: [GENERAL] Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pg_connect()

2003-08-05 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 03:31 am, Jean-Christian Imbeault wrote: > shreedhar wrote: > > Is it necessary to uninstall previous version of PHP in my system. > > No,but a new recompile will probably over-write the version you have now. > > > Which is the better compatible ve

[GENERAL] multiple insert into's (may be NEWBIE question)

2003-08-05 Thread Williams, Travis L, NPONS
I have a table (lets say a,text b,text) and I want to insert the data jim,jimmy and trav,travis can I do this with 1 insert into statement instead of 2? Travis ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an approp

Re: [GENERAL] plPHP -- sort of an announcement.. but not commercial

2003-08-05 Thread scott.marlowe
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Tom Lane writes: > > > (Including PLs in the standard distro strikes me as a good idea, BTW. > > They usually need maintenance along with the core backend code.) > > We could also say that keeping some PLs outside the core would keep us > more honest

Re: [GENERAL] Dump Customizing

2003-08-05 Thread Dennis Gearon
A nice addition to the dump commands would be something like: -scope( schema( schema_s), tables( table_1), dbases_name objects( tables, indexes, constraints, types, functions, triggers, data, etc) ) if it could be completely hierarchial, then any set of objects desired could be extracted. Step

[GENERAL] indices and cidr/inet type

2003-08-05 Thread Richard Welty
in looking over the section of the users manual on indices, i see that R-Tree indices are recommended for <<, but this advice is clearly tied to the geometric interpretation of << ("to the left of") rather than the network interpretation ("is contained in"). what type of index is recommended when

Re: [GENERAL] Monthly table partitioning for fast purges?

2003-08-05 Thread Jean-Luc Lachance
I second that. I have discussed adding partitioning tables almost a year ago... No need to partition a functional index or anything like that. Just partition on a specific field. Ron Johnson wrote: >[...] > Partitioning "should" be put on the TODO list soon after tablespaces > (or DBA-defined dir

[GENERAL] # Re: Monthly table partitioning for fast purges?

2003-08-05 Thread psql-mail
Below is the EXPLAIN ANALYZE output of a typical current query. I have just begun looking at tsearch2 to index the header and body fields. I have also been using 'atop' to see I/O stats on the disk, i am now pretty sure thats where the current bottleneck is. As soon as a query is launched the

Re: [GENERAL] Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pg_connect()

2003-08-05 Thread Cornelia Boenigk
Hi did you configure php for PostgreSQL support ./configure --with-pgsql Regards Conni ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org