Hello Giovanni,
I had a similar problem. I think the windows installer tries to create
a new service which he can't, since there is already one with the same
name. I uninstalled Postgresql but told it to keep the data directory,
rebooted the machine (that's important since only then the old
CSN wrote:
In a field I have text like in today's news... When
I select that field in psql using putty (Latin-1),
then apostrophe doesn't show up (shows up as
todays), but it does show up in phppgadmin (and
other php programs). Is this an issue with psql, or
putty (or something else)?
It's an
I have a problem creating a usable index for the following simple query:
SELECT * FROM my.table WHERE node = '10' ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1
id is a serial, so the query is to find the latest entry to a given node
and id is the primary key.
The table contains around 1 million records and the
Poul Møller Hansen wrote:
I have a problem creating a usable index for the following simple query:
SELECT * FROM my.table WHERE node = '10' ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1
id is a serial, so the query is to find the latest entry to a given node
and id is the primary key.
You're not necessarily
I have a problem creating a usable index for the following simple query:
SELECT * FROM my.table WHERE node = '10' ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1
id is a serial, so the query is to find the latest entry to a given
node and id is the primary key.
You're not necessarily getting the latest entry,
Hi Tom,
I did run vacuum verbose.
INFO: vacuuming public.userclick
INFO: index userclick_i01 now contains 13715747 row versions in 60640
pages
DETAIL: 0 index row versions were removed.
14209 index pages have been deleted, 14209 are currently reusable.
CPU 2.46s/6.06u sec elapsed 186.45
Hello!
What's wrong with this function?
public | common_adviewnum_increase | integer | bigint,
character varying | postgres | plpgsql |
declare
row record;
result int;
begin
select into row viewnum from common_adviewnum where adid = $1
and site = $2 and
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Poul Møller Hansen wrote:
I have a problem creating a usable index for the following simple query:
SELECT * FROM my.table WHERE node = '10' ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1
id is a serial, so the query is to find the latest entry to a given node
and id is the primary key.
The
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Mage wrote:
2005-08-12 19:08:43: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint
common_adviewnum_adid_site_day_index
Between your select and your insert someone else inserted a row making the
insert fail.
See this example of how you can update or insert depending on
Mage schrieb:
Hello!
What's wrong with this function?
public | common_adviewnum_increase | integer | bigint,
character varying | postgres | plpgsql |
declare
row record;
result int;
begin
select into row viewnum from common_adviewnum where adid = $1 and
Was looking to see if I could get pgAdmin to log into postgresql 8.0.3
on Windows XP using the current windows login information. Tried using
the ident functionality on pg_hba.conf to no avail.
Can someone post a link to a how to on this subject please?
Also can anyone tell me if there is
Which function of libpq.dll should one use to determine if a field may
contain NULL values ?
---(end of broadcast)---
TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
Hello,
using a highly surjective left (or inner) join to a table reveals data
loss if the hash join method is used.
Here, highly surjective means I have a table with about 1.4 million tuples
which map to a table with about 4 tuples.
Now here's the explanation:
qaos=# explain select
Ulrich Wisser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
INFO: vacuuming public.userclick
INFO: index userclick_i01 now contains 13715747 row versions in 60640
pages
DETAIL: 0 index row versions were removed.
14209 index pages have been deleted, 14209 are currently reusable.
CPU 2.46s/6.06u sec elapsed
Sebastian Freundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
using a highly surjective left (or inner) join to a table reveals data
loss if the hash join method is used.
In which PG version? Given that you appear to be playing with 8.1devel
code, you might be needing this bug fix:
2005-07-23 22:25 tgl
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Poul_M=F8ller_Hansen?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
explain analyze SELECT * FROM my.table WHERE node = '10' ORDER BY node,
id DESC LIMIT 1
QUERY
PLAN
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sebastian Freundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
using a highly surjective left (or inner) join to a table reveals data
loss if the hash join method is used.
In which PG version? Given that you appear to be playing with 8.1devel
code, you might be needing
Hello All,
I hope that you are well. I noticed that Chapters (in Canada atleast) has these
books for sale, does anybody have any recommendations which one to get ?
1) PostgreSQL by Korry Douglas (SAMS)
http://www.samspublishing.com/title/0672327562
2) beginning Databases With Postgresql:
You're not there yet: you want what Richard said, namely
I realized that it wasn't optimal for all nodes, namely those with a lot
of rows.
So you are absolutely right, I followed the suggestion of Richard and it
works perfect.
Thank you all, I learned a lesson of indexes today...
Poul
Was looking to see if I could get pgAdmin to log into
postgresql 8.0.3 on Windows XP using the current windows
login information. Tried using the ident functionality on
pg_hba.conf to no avail.
Can someone post a link to a how to on this subject please?
Also can anyone tell me if
Is the standard libpq.dll distributed by PostgreSQL8.0 for windows
thread safe by default ?
No.
It is safe as long as you use each PGconn on a separate
thread but you
cannot share the same PGconn between threads.
//Magnus
But what if I compile the DLL using
Hi,
Just had a quick question about the name type used by pg_proc and
pg_class etc to return the name of a function,table,seq,view etc.
Is this type limited to 64 bytes? ( could not find it in the docs)
Must function/table names be limited to 64 characters in length?
Thanks,
Tony
Hi all,
This might seem like an odd question but I couldn't find the answer
in the docs (did I miss the obvious?).
I want to use a 'serial uniue' column in a table but there is likely
to be many, many inserts and deletes from this column. I was wondering,
what happens when the serial
Hi, Folks.
I've a problem so i can use some help.
I've trying to put a 5 MB file in my database, but i got an error.
Anyone knows if lo_import or lo (type of bytea) has a limit of
data transferred in one operation?
Some people tell me that i can't transferr more than 1 MB a time to
Postgresql,
Never mind, I found it.
I just did not scroll down on the page to see the Special Char types.
Thanks,
Tony
Hi,
Just had a quick question about the name type used by pg_proc and
pg_class etc to return the name of a function,table,seq,view etc.
Is this type limited to 64 bytes? ( could not
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aly Dharshi
does anybody have any recommendations which one to get ?
1) PostgreSQL by Korry Douglas (SAMS)
http://www.samspublishing.com/title/0672327562
i like the first edition of Douglas very much, i presume that this
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:02:01AM -0500, Tony Caduto wrote:
Just had a quick question about the name type used by pg_proc and
pg_class etc to return the name of a function,table,seq,view etc.
Is this type limited to 64 bytes? ( could not find it in the docs)
See the Character Types
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:19:29AM -0400, WELTY, RICHARD wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aly Dharshi
does anybody have any recommendations which one to get ?
1) PostgreSQL by Korry Douglas (SAMS)
http://www.samspublishing.com/title/0672327562
Douglas McNaught wrote:
Madison Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to use a 'serial uniue' column in a table but there is
likely to be many, many inserts and deletes from this column. I was
wondering, what happens when the serial value reaches
2,147,483,647'? Does it roll back
Madison Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to use a 'serial uniue' column in a table but there is
likely to be many, many inserts and deletes from this column. I was
wondering, what happens when the serial value reaches
2,147,483,647'? Does it roll back over to '1' and keep
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:07:31AM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
This might seem like an odd question but I couldn't find the answer
in the docs (did I miss the obvious?).
The serial type is a just convenient way to define an integer column
that takes its default value from a sequence, so look
Madison Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Douglas McNaught wrote:
Madison Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to use a 'serial uniue' column in a table but there is
likely to be many, many inserts and deletes from this column. I was
wondering, what happens when the serial value
Michael Fuhr wrote:
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:07:31AM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
This might seem like an odd question but I couldn't find the answer
in the docs (did I miss the obvious?).
The serial type is a just convenient way to define an integer column
that takes its default value
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 11:48 -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
Douglas McNaught wrote:
Madison Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to use a 'serial uniue' column in a table but there is
likely to be many, many inserts and deletes from this column. I was
wondering, what happens
Marlos Corrêa wrote:
Hi, Folks.
I've a problem so i can use some help.
I've trying to put a 5 MB file in my database, but i got an error.
Anyone knows if lo_import or lo (type of bytea) has a limit of
data transferred in one operation?
There are two things here - large-objects (accessed
Michael Fuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
See Identifiers and Key Words in the SQL Syntax chapter:
The system uses no more than NAMEDATALEN-1 characters of an identifier;
longer names can be written in commands, but they will be truncated. By
default, NAMEDATALEN is 64 so the maximum identifier
Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org wrote:
It's ~/.pgpass the dot is important.
Thanks. Just a typo error in the mail.
I did put the dot in the file name. The file on Fedora is ~/.pgpass and on
Windows it is in %APPDATA%/postgresql as pgpass.conf.
It did not work in Windows and
Marlos Corrêa wrote:
Hi, Folks.
I've a problem so i can use some help.
I've trying to put a 5 MB file in my database, but i got an error.
Anyone knows if lo_import or lo (type of bytea) has a limit of
data transferred in one operation?
Some people tell me that i can't transferr more than 1
Hi,
I have a database that was created with the encoding set to SQL_ASCII.
A lot of data comes with accented characters. When reading this data
with PHP, and using utf-8 as my broweser output charset, any accented
characters are displayed as weird symbols. If I use the PHP function
Dave Lazar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a database that was created with the encoding set to SQL_ASCII.
A lot of data comes with accented characters.
You need to figure out what encoding that data is actually in (hint:
it's not ASCII) and specify that encoding as the client_encoding in
the
--- Richard Huxton dev@archonet.com wrote:
CSN wrote:
In a field I have text like in today's news...
When
I select that field in psql using putty (Latin-1),
then apostrophe doesn't show up (shows up as
todays), but it does show up in phppgadmin (and
other php programs). Is this an
Oluwatope Akinniyi [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org wrote:
It's ~/.pgpass the dot is important.
Thanks. Just a typo error in the mail.
I did put the dot in the file name. The file on Fedora is ~/.pgpass and on
Windows it is in
Actually I try to authenticate my Linux Postgres installation
against Active Directory, I find 3 solution to use:
1) LDAP
2) Pam and Kerberos
3) Kerberos alone
(3) is the one I've been using, and it works very well. I've been
working on a HOWTO, but it' snot done yet.
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:53:25PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
regression=# select 1
***
2;
server closed the connection unexpectedly
with this in the log:
TRAP: FailedAssertion(!(keylen 64), File: hashfunc.c,
Is there a way to replace all curly apostrophes with
standard apostrophes (presumably with replace(x,y,z))?
My database is SQL_ASCII and I can't find a character
code for curly apostrophes in ASCII here:
http://www.lookuptables.com, but nevertheless there
appear to be curly apostrophes in the
CSN wrote:
and check what
character set phppgadmin is using (HINT: is it
utf-8?)
Hmm, how can you tell? I don't see character set
specified anywhere in phppgadmin (including
conf.inc.php).
View Character Encoding in firefox while you have a page open
View Encoding in IE
--
Richard
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 06:44:09PM +0200, Andreas Seltenreich wrote:
3) Oh, and I have also this for checking IF there are items in
region that are above the item in question -- to see IF an item
can or cannot be moved up in the sort order relative to others.
SELECT id FROM __TABLE__
Ah, it's Western ISO-8859-1. Putty has the same
setting. I tried changing putty's charset to UTF-8 and
now curly apostrophes are displayed as a grey box in
psql's output (e.g. in today[box]s news...).
Thanks,
CSN
--- Richard Huxton dev@archonet.com wrote:
CSN wrote:
and check what
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:14:16PM -0700, CSN wrote:
Is there a way to replace all curly apostrophes with
standard apostrophes (presumably with replace(x,y,z))?
My database is SQL_ASCII and I can't find a character
code for curly apostrophes in ASCII here:
http://www.lookuptables.com, but
William Bug wrote:
I'm not certain I understand what you mean here? Are you recommending
all application layer interaction with tables using INHERIT should be
done via a VIEW intermediary? If so, wouldn't the VIEW (built from a
SELECT ... ONLY...) then be as dependent on the fixed
While writing installation instructions for my new PostgreSQL product, I found
myself
writing the following sentence:
For first time users, we recommend building the gnova database,
since it has no impact on other databases.
Is this really true? Of course, my gnova database will take some disk
Hello
Im trying to load plpgsql into my test db... Im wondering if theres a
way to check if its loaded... I do:
test-# createlang plpgsql test
test-#
When i try load an example function:
test-# \i test.sql
Im getting:
psql:test.sql:5: ERROR: language plpgsql does not exist
HINT: You need to
--- Michael Fuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:14:16PM -0700, CSN wrote:
Is there a way to replace all curly apostrophes
with
standard apostrophes (presumably with
replace(x,y,z))?
My database is SQL_ASCII and I can't find a
character
code for curly apostrophes
eoghan wrote:
Hello
Im trying to load plpgsql into my test db... Im wondering if theres a
way to check if its loaded... I do:
test-# createlang plpgsql test
createlang is a command line client:
bash# createlang -U postgres -P 5432 plpgsql database
What you are looking for is:
CREATE
Exit the psql prompt. Type the same command:
createlang plpgsql test
Then access your db:
psql test
And load your script:
\i test.sql
On Aug 15, 2005, at 4:45 PM, eoghan wrote:
Hello
Im trying to load plpgsql into my test db... Im wondering if theres a
way to check if its loaded... I do:
Almost forgot:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/app-createlang.html
I hope this and the prior reply help.
On Aug 15, 2005, at 4:45 PM, eoghan wrote:
Hello
Im trying to load plpgsql into my test db... Im wondering if theres a
way to check if its loaded... I do:
test-#
On 15 Aug 2005, at 21:58, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
eoghan wrote:
Hello
Im trying to load plpgsql into my test db... Im wondering if
theres a way to check if its loaded... I do:
test-# createlang plpgsql test
createlang is a command line client:
bash# createlang -U postgres -P 5432
On 8/15/05 4:45 PM, eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello
Im trying to load plpgsql into my test db... Im wondering if theres a
way to check if its loaded... I do:
test-# createlang plpgsql test
test-#
When i try load an example function:
test-# \i test.sql
Im getting:
psql:test.sql:5:
On 15 Aug 2005, at 22:03, James Cradock wrote:
Almost forgot:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/app-createlang.html
I hope this and the prior reply help.
On Aug 15, 2005, at 4:45 PM, eoghan wrote:
Hi James
Thanks! That got it...
Exit psql prompt and ran createlang...
Suppose
Bill Moseley schrob:
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 06:44:09PM +0200, Andreas Seltenreich wrote:
3) Oh, and I have also this for checking IF there are items in
region that are above the item in question -- to see IF an item
can or cannot be moved up in the sort order relative to others.
ok guys thanks for the help. I will follow this advice to upgrade my
existing installation, I have already dumped by database as i keep
backups of course, and Im sure I can figure it out. I was just hoping I
didnt need to do much manual work, alas.
gioOn 8/15/05, Magnus Hagander
[EMAIL
Andrus,
You might consider something like materialized views:
http://jonathangardner.net/PostgreSQL/materialized_views/matviews.html
Whether table caching is a good idea depends completely on the
demands of your application.
--
Thomas F. O'Connell
Co-Founder, Information Architect
Hello Richard,
I hope that you are well. Having read both books would your recommendation be
to go with Korry Douglas' book ?
Cheers,
Aly.
WELTY, RICHARD wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aly Dharshi
does anybody have any recommendations
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:48:00PM -0700, CSN wrote:
db=select ascii('');
ascii
---
226
db=select id from news where body ilike '%%';
(0 rows)
db=select id from news where body ilike '%' ||
chr(226) || '%';
db'
db'^C
db=
What's going on with the last query? The prompt
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 11:30:32PM +0200, Andreas Seltenreich wrote:
This would be one possibility. If you don't want your application to
deal with transactions being aborted because of non-serializable
transactions, you could alternatively use explicit locking (SELECT ...
FOR UPDATE)
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:26:27PM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote:
chiranjeevi.i wrote:
Hi Team Members,
Is it possible to write jobs in postgresql if possible how
should I write .please help me.
See pgjob in pgfoundry: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgjob/. It's in
the planning
TJ O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While writing installation instructions for my new PostgreSQL product, I
found myself
writing the following sentence:
For first time users, we recommend building the gnova database,
since it has no impact on other databases.
Is this really true?
--- Michael Fuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:48:00PM -0700, CSN wrote:
db=select ascii('');
ascii
---
226
db=select id from news where body ilike '%%';
(0 rows)
db=select id from news where body ilike '%' ||
chr(226) || '%';
db'
db'^C
I hope that you are well. Having read both books would your
recommendation be to go with Korry Douglas' book ?
Two copies of the Douglas^2 book came in today at the office...
I took a peruse of the chapter that everyone would expect I'd look at
first, and was quite impressed.
I haven't
While writing installation instructions for my new PostgreSQL
product, I found myself writing the following sentence: For first
time users, we recommend building the gnova database, since it has
no impact on other databases.
Is this really true? Of course, my gnova database will take some
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:15:03PM -0700, TJ O'Donnell wrote:
While writing installation instructions for my new PostgreSQL product, I
found myself
writing the following sentence:
For first time users, we recommend building the gnova database,
since it has no impact on other databases.
A
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