Re: [GENERAL] Casting timestamp with time zone to varchar automatically

2004-08-04 Thread Pierre-Frdric Caillaud
Idea : Create a function with the same name as your function, but which takes a timestamp as an argument, converts it to a string according to your specifications, then calls your function which needs a string. Postgresql will decide which function to call according to the types of

[GENERAL] Test case for bug fix in 7.4.3

2004-08-04 Thread Gunasekaran Balakrishnan
Hi, I see that one of the bug fixes in 7.4.3 is: "Fix temporary memory leak when using non-hashed aggregates (Tom)" I am still using 7.4.2, and want to find out if I need to upgrade to 7.4.3. I did not quite understand the bug, or find a way to re-produce this in the mailist archives.

Re: [GENERAL] Updateable Views?

2004-08-04 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On Dienstag, August 03, 2004 20:51:45 -0600 Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:05, CSN wrote: Just wondering, is updateable views slated for a future version of Postgresql? In addition to using rules that is. It's on the todo list. Of course, the just means

Re: [GENERAL] Test case for bug fix in 7.4.3

2004-08-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Gunasekaran Balakrishnan wrote: Hi, I see that one of the bug fixes in 7.4.3 is: Fix temporary memory leak when using non-hashed aggregates (Tom) I am still using 7.4.2, and want to find out if I need to upgrade to 7.4.3. I did not quite understand the bug, or find a way to

Re: [GENERAL] trash talk

2004-08-04 Thread terry
The problem is that postgres has failed to thrive as a web based back end database. Ever heard of the LAMP soluton? Linux + Apache + Mysql + Php. Its unfortunate, but real. Its easy to find hosting with Mysql db, its not as easy (although getting more common I think) to find hosting with

[GENERAL] How to know which queries are to be optimised?

2004-08-04 Thread Ulrich Wisser
Hello, my web application grows slower and slower over time. After some profiling I came to the conclusion that my SQL queries are the biggest time spenders (25 seconds). Obviously I need to optimise my queries and maybe introduce some new indexes. The problem is, that my application uses

[GENERAL] Tuning queries on large database

2004-08-04 Thread Valerie Schneider DSI/DEV
Hi, I have some problem of performance on a PG database, and I don't know how to improve. I Have two questions : one about the storage of data, one about tuning queries. If possible ! My job is to compare Oracle and Postgres. All our operational databases have been running under Oracle for about

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Tuning queries on large database

2004-08-04 Thread Merlin Moncure
The result is that for short queries (Q1 and Q2) it runs in a few seconds on both Oracle and PG. The difference becomes important with Q3 : 8 seconds with oracle 80 sec with PG and too much with Q4 : 28s with oracle 17m20s with PG ! Of course when I run 100

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Tuning queries on large database

2004-08-04 Thread Valerie Schneider DSI/DEV
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Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Tuning queries on large database

2004-08-04 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
sort_mem = 5 That is way, way too large. Try more like 5000 or lower. num_poste | numeric(9,0)| not null For starters numerics are really, really slow compared to integers. Why aren't you using an integer for this field since youhave '0' decimal places. schema

[GENERAL] Creating an hourly backup

2004-08-04 Thread Jason Tesser
I am trying to get an hourly backup of postgres. I tried using the script below but when I try to restore off the dumped file it throws an error that says it cannot read the data [-1]. If I just type in pg_dump -Fc --file=*** username= database it restores fine. So something is going on

Re: [GENERAL] Creating an hourly backup

2004-08-04 Thread terry
I have given the requested info below, but read this first: 1) Check the permissions on the backup file, ensure that the user permissions are such that the system user you are trying to restore with has permission to read the file 2) Look at the actual backup file, ensure that there is a backup

Re: [GENERAL] trouble with query

2004-08-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 03:28, Jay wrote: hi people, i am using mysql and i am having the following problem I know this is not the correct to ask this problem. Surely a MySQL mailing list could have answered this? I thought they had good community support. but i am need of help

[GENERAL] Simplfied Bytea input/output?

2004-08-04 Thread Jerry LeVan
Hi, I am adding image and large object support in my Cocoa postgresql browser. Are there going to be any enhanced bytea support functions coming along? It seems sorta silly to have to write customized C code to import a file into a bytea field. Maybe something like CREATE TABLE image ( name

Re: [GENERAL] trash talk

2004-08-04 Thread Dave Cramer
Interesting, IBM is saying that the code is worth 85M dollars! On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 00:19, Scott Ribe wrote: I could be reading it incorrectly, but the paragraph was outside any attributed quote: You are correct that the specific comment about pg not thriving was outside any quotes.

Re: [GENERAL] Where are all the users?

2004-08-04 Thread Robert Treat
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 05:57, Kay-Uwe Genz wrote: But pg_user is a view and cant referenced. So I try to use pg_shadow, but PG say that this is an System table and I cant use it. so you real question is probably: how can i modify the structure of system tables ? you do not say what your

[GENERAL] Recursive PLPGSQL function?

2004-08-04 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
Hi everyone, I'm trying to write a recursive plpgsql function in PostgreSQL 7.4.2 that given a tree node id (ictid) will return all the nodes below it in the tree, one row per node. When I try and execute the function I get the following error message: CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function

Re: [GENERAL] Recursive PLPGSQL function?

2004-08-04 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Cave-Ayland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to write a recursive plpgsql function in PostgreSQL 7.4.2 that given a tree node id (ictid) will return all the nodes below it in the tree, one row per node. When I try and execute the function I get the following error message: You've got

Re: [GENERAL] Recursive PLPGSQL function?

2004-08-04 Thread DeJuan Jackson
If I'm not mistaken you have an infinit recursion because you are always pulling the same id (whatever _id starts at) throughout each function call. Postgres is most likely killing the functions when it's hits some stack or memory limit. Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to write

[GENERAL] COPY not handling BLOBs

2004-08-04 Thread David Rysdam
I have a bunch of data in Sybase and some of it is in image fields. We use bcp on this data transparently all the time without major issues in character mode. Is there a fundamental technical reason that BLOBs can't be COPY'd in postgresql or is it just that nobody has ever wanted to