Re: [GENERAL] postgresql performace degrading after a while

2006-01-30 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:28:14AM +0200, Ron Marom wrote: Indeed I forgot to mention that I AM vacuuming the database using a daemon every few hours; however this seems not to be the issue this time, as when the CPU consumptions went up I tried to vacuum manually and this seemed to take no

[GENERAL] schema rename sequence issue

2006-01-30 Thread Sim Zacks
PostGreSQL 8.01 Gentoo I renamed my schema from public to stock, and then I found out it didn't change the schemas of the sequences. After searching through the archives, I found that this was on a bug list and would probably be fixed in version 8.2 I needed to fix the sequences in any case,

Re: [GENERAL] schema rename sequence issue

2006-01-30 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jan 30, 2006, at 18:51 , Sim Zacks wrote: However, when I try to insert into the table I get an error that public.sequence name is not found Am I missing a reference or table update somewhere? You probably need to update the defaults for the columns that call the sequences. They may

Re: [GENERAL] schema rename sequence issue

2006-01-30 Thread Sim Zacks
I thought the pg_attrdef table was the defaults. Is there another table that contains the defaults Thank You Sim On Jan 30, 2006, at 18:51 , Sim Zacks wrote: However, when I try to insert into the table I get an

Re: [GENERAL] schema rename sequence issue

2006-01-30 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jan 30, 2006, at 19:03 , Sim Zacks wrote: I thought the pg_attrdef table was the defaults. Is there another table that contains the defaults What I'm thinking of is this situation: create table foo ( foo_id serial primary key , foo_value text not null unique ); This will

Re: [GENERAL] schema rename sequence issue

2006-01-30 Thread Sim Zacks
Thank you for your thoughts, but I am hoping that I don't have to update 400 tables manually. The way I understand the postgresql structure is that each field is listed in the pg_attribute table and those fields with default values have records in the pg_attrdef table. I changed both the text and

Re: [GENERAL] Are rules transaction safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Alban Hertroys
Oliver Fürst wrote: 'currval()' is specifically written to Do The Right Thing. See the docs. My problem isn't answered in the manual, otherwise I wouldn't have asked. I know that sequences are working correct for transactions (either implicit or explicit). But is nowhere stated if

Re: [GENERAL] Indexes

2006-01-30 Thread Alban Hertroys
Silas Justiniano wrote: enough for every query I want to perform? Or should I need CREATE UNIQUE INDEX foo ON Intermediate(book_id, author_id); CREATE UNIQUE INDEX bar ON Intermediate(book_id); CREATE UNIQUE INDEX baz ON Intermediate(author_id); If you'd use plain indexes for the last two

Re: [GENERAL] Indexes

2006-01-30 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Sunday 29 January 2006 19:03, Silas Justiniano wrote: My question is about the indexes in Intermediate table. Is the following index: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX foo ON Intermediate(book_id, author_id); enough for every query I want to perform? Or should I need CREATE UNIQUE INDEX foo ON

Re: [GENERAL] TSearch2 / German compound words / UTF-8

2006-01-30 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Harald Armin Massa wrote: Teodor, To all: May be, we should put all snowball's stemmers (for all available languages and encodings) to tsearch2 directory? Yes, that would be VERY helpfull. Up to now I do not dare to use tsearch2 because get stemmer here, get

Re: [GENERAL] Indexes

2006-01-30 Thread Greg Stark
Silas Justiniano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I normally create these two indexes: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX foo ON Intermediate(book_id, author_id); CREATE INDEX baz ON Intermediate(author_id); Note that the second one isn't unique. Or you can go the other way (author_id,book_id and book_id). The

[GENERAL] Little Offtopic: Database frontends

2006-01-30 Thread Bohdan Linda
Hello, I am sorry for this little offtopic, but recently I was looking for some matured DB frontend. I am licensed user of Aquafold Datastudio and before I will start to spend another money for next licenses, I would like to ask you if there are some similar frontends out there, but with three

Re: [GENERAL] schema rename sequence issue

2006-01-30 Thread Sim Zacks
It seems to be an in-memory issue or something like that. 5 hours later it gave me another error implying that it was reading the pg_attrdef table. Apparantly the first number in the byte string is the number of characters in the string, and since my new schema is 1 character shorter then the

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql performace degrading after a while

2006-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
Ron Marom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed I forgot to mention that I AM vacuuming the database using a daemon every few hours; however this seems not to be the issue this time, as when the CPU consumptions went up I tried to vacuum manually and this seemed to take no affect. This is not

Re: [GENERAL] schema rename sequence issue

2006-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
Sim Zacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PostGreSQL 8.01 Gentoo I renamed my schema from public to stock, and then I found out it didn't change the schemas of the sequences. After searching through the archives, I found that this was on a bug list and would probably be fixed in version 8.2

Re: [GENERAL] schema rename sequence issue

2006-01-30 Thread Sim Zacks
I may not be a smart man, but I do know what love is Of course I did this on a database that I didn't care about. This is my development machine. If it actually fully worked after testing, I would have considered moving it into production code. Is there a more approved way of doing this,

Re: [GENERAL] Alternative to knoda, kexi and rekall?

2006-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-25 16:56:04, schrieb Peter Eisentraut: Michelle Konzack wrote: Does anyone know a Frontend for PostgreSQL which I can use to design and admin a very huge Database OpenOffice 2? Design a Database with OO2? code Functions? Greetings Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator

Re: [GENERAL] Alternative to knoda, kexi and rekall?

2006-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-25 17:01:39, schrieb Martijn van Oosterhout: On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 04:43:18PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello, I am using PostgreSQL since more then 6 years now and for 1 1/2 years rekall. Now there is a problem with the crapy QT and I have no Frontend anymore which

Re: [GENERAL] Alternative to knoda, kexi and rekall?

2006-01-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-01-25 17:21:48, schrieb Leif B. Kristensen: I'm using PHP with plain old HTML forms. That way, I can slap together a custom interface in no time. And it even works in links2 :) How do you design a ned Database via your Webinterface? How do you create functions and trigers? The

Re: [GENERAL] Alternative to knoda, kexi and rekall?

2006-01-30 Thread Cristian Prieto
What about PgAdmin III, I know, it is now perfect but I prefer it a lot against similar commercial products. Really, I have long time looking for a product with the same specs. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michelle Konzack Sent:

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql performace degrading after a while

2006-01-30 Thread Rick Gigger
On Jan 30, 2006, at 12:28 AM, Ron Marom wrote: First of all thanks for you quick and efficient response. Indeed I forgot to mention that I AM vacuuming the database using a daemon every few hours; however this seems not to be the issue this time, as when the CPU consumptions went up I tried

[GENERAL] How to change the default database for a user

2006-01-30 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I've created a user and a database both wrongly named phpbb. After that I have renamed both to punbb using ALTER DATABASE and ALTER USER. Now everything works fine, except I always have to specify the database when connecting (both using psql or the PQconnectdb() from my C-program):

Re: [GENERAL] How to change the default database for a user

2006-01-30 Thread Doug McNaught
Alexander Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I've created a user and a database both wrongly named phpbb. After that I have renamed both to punbb using ALTER DATABASE and ALTER USER. Now everything works fine, except I always have to specify the database when connecting (both using

[GENERAL] FW: Schema with Postgress 8.1

2006-01-30 Thread chris preston
Hello all, I have setup a fedora 4 box with Postgress 8.0.6 (with Schemas). The problem is that by windows odbc driver that i have setup shows me the tables but when i double click to display the fields i get a message Connectivity error. Error while executing the query,ERROR: schemas postgress

Re: [GENERAL] incremental backups

2006-01-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Unfortunately, I think I understand your question. :-) These TODO items are what you need: * Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) o Allow point-in-time recovery to archive partially filled write-ahead logs [pitr] Currently only full WAL files are archived.

Re: [GENERAL] How to change the default database for a user

2006-01-30 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, On 1/30/06, Doug McNaught [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: h754814:afarber {103} psql -U punbb psql: FATAL: database phpbb does not exist psql uses your Unix username as the default database if you don't specify one. but I do specify the

Re: [GENERAL] How to change the default database for a user

2006-01-30 Thread Doug McNaught
Alexander Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: but I do specify the database username: h754814:afarber {109} psql --help | grep -w user -U NAME database user name (default: phpbb) h754814:afarber {110} psql -U punbb psql: FATAL: database phpbb does not exist And it

Re: [GENERAL] How to change the default database for a user

2006-01-30 Thread Alexander Farber
Argh, I had phpbb in my env ( ~/.login) too: setenv PGDATA /var/postgresql/data setenv PGDATABASE phpbb setenv PGHOST /var/www/tmp setenv PGUSER phpbb Now everything makes sense (I was thinking about some kind of system table for default databases). Sorry and

Re: [GENERAL] Alternative to knoda, kexi and rekall?

2006-01-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Michelle Konzack wrote: Design a Database with OO2? code Functions? I'm not sure about what kind of function coding support you have in mind, but certainly you can design a database with it. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of

[GENERAL] Transaction safety and large objects. Possible?

2006-01-30 Thread Eric Davies
I've got some server functions that were previously written using libpq. They work fine. However because they need to open their own connection to insert into tables and write into large objects, etc, they aren't transaction safe. That is to say, if a user starts a transaction, executes my

[GENERAL] pg 8.1.2 ERROR: direct correlated subquery unsupported as initplan

2006-01-30 Thread Ed L.
Just encountered this error on an 8.1.2 cluster: LOG: statement: PREPARE dbdpg_5 AS SELECT * FROM foo WHERE visitnum = $1 and (scheduledtime = $2 OR scheduledtime IS NULL) AND (scheduledtime $3 OR scheduledtime IS NULL) UNION SELECT * FROM bar WHERE visitnum = $4 ORDER BY

Re: [GENERAL] Logging statements and parameter values

2006-01-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
I assume it is this TODO: * Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged --- Ted Powell wrote: Our development group needs to have the option of logging all SQL statements including substituted

Re: [GENERAL] Logging statements and parameter values

2006-01-30 Thread Ted Powell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:31:29PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: I assume it is this TODO: * Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged --- Ted Powell wrote: Our development group needs to have

Re: [GENERAL] Access Problem After Version Upgrade -- Update

2006-01-30 Thread George Woodring
We had the same problem after re-compiling on 8.1.2. We had to edit the /etc/ld.so.conf file and add /usr/local/pgsql/lib manually. There is a mention to this in the DBD::Pg readme file. Woody iGLASS Networks 211-A S. Salem St Apex NC 27502 (919)

Re: [GENERAL] pg 8.1.2 ERROR: direct correlated subquery unsupported as initplan

2006-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
Ed L. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just encountered this error on an 8.1.2 cluster: ERROR: direct correlated subquery unsupported as initplan Can you provide a test case for this? (No, the query text is not enough.) regards, tom lane ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Logging statements and parameter values

2006-01-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Ted Powell wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 04:31:29PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: I assume it is this TODO: * Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged --- Ted Powell wrote: Our

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction safety and large objects. Possible?

2006-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
Eric Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now I'm trying to make the functions transaction safe. In theory, all I need to do is convert my libpq calls to equivalent SPI calls. However, there don't appear to be any SPI equivalents for the large object functions like lo_write and lo_read. What

[GENERAL] Rotation of security logs in Postgres 7.4.11

2006-01-30 Thread John Zubac
Hi Everyone What is the best way to go about rotating the postgres security log file on postgresql 7.4.11 under openbsd 3.7? I got it to work logging to a file but as soon as the file rotates the new log is dead. Would reloading the postmaster after the log rotation resolve this? I also was

Re: [GENERAL] Logging statements and parameter values

2006-01-30 Thread Ted Powell
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 05:19:23PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: [...] * Allow protocol-level BIND parameter values to be logged [...] That's it! (I should have thought to look in the TODO.) Has any design work been done on this? No. I am with Simon Riggs today at my house and I

[GENERAL] WinXP install question

2006-01-30 Thread Héjja Attila
Hi, I have been installed the PostgreSQL v8.1 (postgresql-8.1.2-1.zip) on WinXP Pro as service with default settings suggested by setup wizzard. When I tryed to start the service I have got en error message: 'could not create inherited socket: error code 10022' Could anybody help me, or give

[GENERAL] Insert rate drops as table grows

2006-01-30 Thread jao
I have this table and index: create table t(id int, hash int); create index idx_t on t(hash); The value of the hash column, which is indexed, is a pseudo-random number. I load the table and measure the time per insert. What I've observed is that inserts slow down as the table grows to

Re: [GENERAL] incremental backups

2006-01-30 Thread Rick Gigger
Yes! Thanks you! That is exactly what I was looking for. So I take it that this means that it is save to copy the current in use WAL file even as it is being written to? And it also means that if I copy it with my physical file system backup then I should have the last file that I need to

Re: [GENERAL] incremental backups

2006-01-30 Thread Rick Gigger
And here is the real million dollar question. Let's say for some reason I don't have the last WAL file I need for my backup to be valid. Will it die and tell me it's bad or will it just start up with a screwed up data directory? On Jan 30, 2006, at 4:29 PM, Rick Gigger wrote: Yes!

[GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI Installer for Linux/Unix systems

2006-01-30 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, As you know, many databases that run on Linux / Unix systems have a GUI installer which make installation easier and more attractive for some people. Our Windows Installer is very attractive, for example. Now, I and Burcu Guzel, who is a Senior Programmer, decided to launch a new project:

Re: [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI Installer for

2006-01-30 Thread Doug McNaught
Devrim GUNDUZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgnixinstaller/ We are actively looking for developers for the project. Please drop me an e-mail if you want to join this project. We will use Python, so you need to be a Python guy to join the project. We are in planning

[GENERAL] pg 8.1.2 ERROR: direct correlated subquery unsupported as initplan

2006-01-30 Thread Ed L.
Just encountered this error on an 8.1.2 cluster, wondering if anyone can provide troubleshooting hints: LOG: statement: PREPARE dbdpg_5 AS SELECT * FROM foo WHERE visitnum = $1 and (scheduledtime = $2 OR scheduledtime IS NULL) AND (scheduledtime $3 OR scheduledtime IS NULL) UNION

Re: [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI Installer for

2006-01-30 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:03 -0500, Doug McNaught wrote: We are actively looking for developers for the project. Please drop me an e-mail if you want to join this project. We will use Python, so you need to be a Python guy to join the project. We are in planning phase, if you join us

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI Installer

2006-01-30 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: OTOH, exluding Synaptic that I hate to use, FC / RH does not have a GUI RPM interface for the repositories. So our installer will help them a lot. Also, our installer will have an option to download and install the prebuilt binaries from PostgreSQL FTP site (and possible

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

2006-01-30 Thread Doug McNaught
Devrim GUNDUZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:03 -0500, Doug McNaught wrote: What value does this bring to systems that have a good package system and up-to-date repositories? I can install Postgres today on Ubuntu using a GUI tool, and install another GUI tool to

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

2006-01-30 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:27 -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: OTOH, exluding Synaptic that I hate to use, FC / RH does not have a GUI RPM interface for the repositories. So our installer will help them a lot. Also, our installer will have an option to download and install the prebuilt

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

2006-01-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:03 -0500, Doug McNaught wrote: We are actively looking for developers for the project. Please drop me an e-mail if you want to join this project. We will use Python, so you need to be a Python guy to join the project. We

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

2006-01-30 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:31 -0500, Doug McNaught wrote: Certainly you can install pre-built binaries without a compiler, and let the user choose database location, autovacuum settings and stuff like that. That's another good point. We can adjust many settings before installing.

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

2006-01-30 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 21:34 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: OTOH, exluding Synaptic that I hate to use, FC / RH does not have a GUI RPM interface for the repositories. So our installer will help them a lot. Also, our installer will have an option to download and install the prebuilt

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

2006-01-30 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:31 -0500, Doug McNaught wrote: You can install, but what if you need different configure options than the package provides? This means a rebuild of the package. Instead, we will build and install that package via the installer. That's actually a pretty cool

Re: [GENERAL] Insert rate drops as table grows

2006-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have this table and index: create table t(id int, hash int); create index idx_t on t(hash); The value of the hash column, which is indexed, is a pseudo-random number. I load the table and measure the time per insert. What I've observed is that inserts

Re: [GENERAL] incremental backups

2006-01-30 Thread Tom Lane
Rick Gigger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And here is the real million dollar question. Let's say for some reason I don't have the last WAL file I need for my backup to be valid. Will it die and tell me it's bad or will it just start up with a screwed up data directory? It'll restore up

[GENERAL] I need some info on repairing database corruption

2006-01-30 Thread frank church
One of my database tables appears to corrupted see this post - Re: [GENERAL] REPOST:Memory Allocation error using pg_dump on 7.4. On checking the archives it appears I have to use a pg_filedump program to fix it, which doesn't appear to be in my distribution. Where can I find it and install it?

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

2006-01-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: BTW, gcc is not installed on by default AFAIR. Wow, how do you update the kernel each week? :) More seriously, I know under FreeBSD, one of the first things that gets done after installing is to customize the kernel to get rid of all the 'cruft'

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

2006-01-30 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 22:04 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: BTW, gcc is not installed on by default AFAIR. Wow, how do you update the kernel each week? :) More seriously, I know under FreeBSD, one of the first things that gets done after installing is to customize the kernel to get

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

2006-01-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: On my RHEL boxes, I do never ever recompile the kernel since Red Hat does not provide support if I do so :) Is everything 'loadable modules' then? I can't imagine you have some mammoth kernel running on your system, do you? with every conceivable

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

2006-01-30 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Marc G. Fournier wrote: More seriously, I know under FreeBSD, one of the first things that gets done after installing is to customize the kernel to get rid of all the 'cruft' part of the generic kernel, I take it that this isn't something that ppl do with Linux? The Linux kernel has

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

2006-01-30 Thread Jonah H. Harris
I had to deal with an installer written in python and several in Java... IMHO, Java would be a better language for this and you could build off some nice OSS installers that already exist (such as IzPack). Just my 2 cents :) On 1/30/06, Devrim GUNDUZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,On Mon, 2006-01-30

Re: [GENERAL] optimizing server for a 10 million row table

2006-01-30 Thread Jim C. Nasby
General consensus is to use 10-25% of server memory for shared_buffers, but much of that consensus was generated before 8.0, which introduced a much more sophisticated management scheme for shared_buffers. Basically, you need to do some testing to see what setting will work best. Reports back to

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

2006-01-30 Thread Doug McNaught
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: On my RHEL boxes, I do never ever recompile the kernel since Red Hat does not provide support if I do so :) Is everything 'loadable modules' then? I can't imagine you have some mammoth kernel running on

Re: [GENERAL] TSearch2 / German compound words / UTF-8

2006-01-30 Thread Mike Rylander
On 1/30/06, Oleg Bartunov oleg@sai.msu.su wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Harald Armin Massa wrote: Teodor, To all: May be, we should put all snowball's stemmers (for all available languages and encodings) to tsearch2 directory? Yes, that would be VERY helpfull. Up to now I do not

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

2006-01-30 Thread Vivek Khera
On Jan 30, 2006, at 8:32 PM, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: However none of them are PostgreSQL Installers, none of them has the ability to customize the packages and none of them has the ability to install the community packages, etc. :) You need to take a sniff over at the FreeBSD ports. Lets you

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

2006-01-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: On my RHEL boxes, I do never ever recompile the kernel since Red Hat does not provide support if I do so :) Is everything 'loadable modules' then? I can't imagine you have some mammoth kernel running on your system, do

Re: [GENERAL] incremental backups

2006-01-30 Thread Rick Gigger
On Jan 30, 2006, at 6:58 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Rick Gigger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And here is the real million dollar question. Let's say for some reason I don't have the last WAL file I need for my backup to be valid. Will it die and tell me it's bad or will it just start up with a screwed

Re: [GENERAL] Insert rate drops as table grows

2006-01-30 Thread jao
Quoting Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have this table and index: create table t(id int, hash int); create index idx_t on t(hash); The value of the hash column, which is indexed, is a pseudo-random number. I load the table and measure the time per insert.

Re: [GENERAL] regarding debugging?

2006-01-30 Thread Scott Ribe
where we can check the execution of our program or we can dry run our code, is there aby option or feature with PGSQL for the same purpose that we can check our PGSQL statements? No, unfortunately not. What I do is: - error check everything you can, and use RAISE EXCEPTION with descriptive

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI Installer for

2006-01-30 Thread Tony Caduto
Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: Have you looked at AutoPackage? http://autopackage.org screen shots. http://autopackage.org/gallery.html Has a GUI wizard if X windows is available and a command line wizard if no X is available. Using autopackage is similar to using MSI,Wise,Inno etc on Windows.

Re: [GENERAL] incremental backups

2006-01-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Yes, I think copying it while it is being written is safe. --- Rick Gigger wrote: Yes! Thanks you! That is exactly what I was looking for. So I take it that this means that it is save to copy the current in use WAL

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL best practices?

2006-01-30 Thread Jim C. Nasby
At present time, your best bet is to drop in on the IRC channel and ask questions there. You'll normally get an immediate reply, even if it's just a URL to look at. On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:23:26PM +0800, Leonard Soetedjo wrote: Hi, Is there any documentation or wiki on PostgreSQL best

[GENERAL] New Edition of Date/Darwen's The Third Manifesto

2006-01-30 Thread Michael Glaesemann
Thought people might like to know that the third edition of The Third Manifesto by CJ Date and Hugh Darwen is going to be released in February. It's been retitled Databases, Types and the Relational Model: The Third Manifesto. Good stuff on relational theory by two former IBM employees who

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL + hibernate

2006-01-30 Thread Myatluk Andrey
Hi! I have an application, consisting of Struts 1.2 + Tomcat 5.5 + Hibernate 3.1 + PostgreSQL 8.1 The application is developed on WinXP and installed on Fedora Core 4. On local machine everything works OK. Both databases are created from the same script and application is the same. But when

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL + hibernate

2006-01-30 Thread Chris
Hi, Are you doing this as the same user that your application uses? Maybe the application postgresql user doesn't have access to the sequence but the default user you're connecting as does. ( You're connecting as a postgresql super-user because you have a '#' in your command prompt - a

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI Installer for

2006-01-30 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Devrim GUNDUZ schrieb: Hi, As you know, many databases that run on Linux / Unix systems have a GUI installer which make installation easier and more attractive for some people. If you think of the *racle-GUI-Installer, most people find it very s*cking ;) Our Windows Installer is very

Re: [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI Installer for

2006-01-30 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Devrim GUNDUZ schrieb: Hi, ... Are you going to work with the underlying system's package manager, or put everything in /usr/local? We'll work with the package manager -- I'm an RPM guy ;) RPM isnt the only packaging system out there ;) ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

2006-01-30 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Jonah H. Harris schrieb: I had to deal with an installer written in python and several in Java... IMHO, Java would be a better language for this and you could build off some nice OSS installers that already exist (such as IzPack). Just my 2 cents :) Yes! Use Java for ultimate suckiness of

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] New project launched : PostgreSQL GUI

2006-01-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Tino Wildenhain wrote: Devrim GUNDUZ schrieb: Hi, ... Are you going to work with the underlying system's package manager, or put everything in /usr/local? We'll work with the package manager -- I'm an RPM guy ;) RPM isnt the only packaging system out there ;) I