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2006-07-20 Thread Timothy Smith
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Re: [GENERAL] psql seems to hang during delete query

2006-07-20 Thread Harald Armin Massa
You can't delete from a full disk :)No, really: database systems need space for logging, WAL, whatever.And even with delete PostgreSQL will free no single byte, as deleting is done with marking the row as deleted. Read up on multi version concurrency why this has to be that way. To reclaim space:

Re: [GENERAL] psql seems to hang during delete query

2006-07-20 Thread surabhi.ahuja
so how much space should be free so that i am able to delete i have a hard disk of size 130 G. thanks, regards Surabhi From: Harald Armin Massa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thu 7/20/2006 12:16 PMTo: surabhi.ahujaCc: pgsql-general@postgresql.orgSubject: Re: [GENERAL] psql seems to

[GENERAL] timestamp and calculations.

2006-07-20 Thread Thor Tall
Hi, I am new to postgres sql and have a problem with an sql statement which I hope you can help me with. I want to do some calculation on the result of a query. I have a table tb_test which contains a timestamp column my_timestamp. My sql statement should display my_timestamp as 00, 20, 40

Re: [GENERAL] timestamp and calculations.

2006-07-20 Thread Andreas Kretschmer
Thor Tall [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, I am new to postgres sql and have a problem with an sql statement which I hope you can help me with. I want to do some calculation on the result of a query. I have a table tb_test which contains a timestamp column my_timestamp. My sql

Re: [GENERAL] UTF8 conversion differences from v8.1.3 to v8.1.4

2006-07-20 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 06:06:08PM -0400, Eric Faulhaber wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 05:24:53PM -0400, Eric Faulhaber wrote: OK, but now that this feature has been removed in 8.1.4, how is this supposed to be handled, given that we don't control what string

Re: [GENERAL] function is quick for one row but super slow on more than 5..

2006-07-20 Thread Rhys Stewart
Hi All, the following takes about 2 seconds to run: select route,not_in_route2(route) from ksanrt limit 5, but if i limit it to anything greater than 5 it takes forever to come back. Forever as in I always cancel the query. Any reasons why? On 7/19/06, Rhys Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [GENERAL] customizing pg_dump together with copy.c's DoCopy function

2006-07-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brian, Those are very interesting ideas. Thanks. I've been playing around with pg_dump. Modifying it to selectively dump/restore tables and columns is pretty easy. But as you say, changing the data content within the data buffers to reflect varying column values, changed column types, and new

[GENERAL] Ann: PyPgExplorer-0.8

2006-07-20 Thread Jerry LeVan
PyPgExplorer is a pure python application that allows the user to browse and modify Postgresql Databases. Features include: o A Scripts menu that makes access to your favorite SQL scripts only a click away. o On unix and Mac systems, if psql is detected in a standard location, then access

Re: [GENERAL] psql seems to hang during delete query

2006-07-20 Thread Sven Willenberger
On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 12:48 +0530, surabhi.ahuja wrote: so how much space should be free so that i am able to delete i have a hard disk of size 130 G. thanks, regards Surabhi __ If you are trying to delete the

Re: [GENERAL] timestamp and calculations.

2006-07-20 Thread Sven Willenberger
On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 11:57 +0200, Andreas Kretschmer wrote: Thor Tall [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Hi, I am new to postgres sql and have a problem with an sql statement which I hope you can help me with. I want to do some calculation on the result of a query. I have a table

[GENERAL] calling stored procedure using ECPG

2006-07-20 Thread Jasbinder Bali
Hi, Can anyone please tell me how do I call a stored procedure using ECPG??A code snippet would really be handy..Thanks,~Jas

[GENERAL] access method gin does not exist

2006-07-20 Thread Kevin Murphy
I'm trying to test the 8.1 backport of the 8.2 GIN index and tsearch2 functionality. The patch is applied successfully (to 8.1.4, on OS X 10.4.7 w/ xcode 2.3), the build and install goes well, stop start of postmaster is done, but initializing tsearch2 fails: psql -U postgres minitest

Re: [GENERAL] UTF8 conversion differences from v8.1.3 to v8.1.4

2006-07-20 Thread Eric Faulhaber
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 06:06:08PM -0400, Eric Faulhaber wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 05:24:53PM -0400, Eric Faulhaber wrote: OK, but now that this feature has been removed in 8.1.4, how is this supposed to be handled, given that

Re: [GENERAL] UTF8 conversion differences from v8.1.3 to v8.1.4

2006-07-20 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 12:07:54PM -0400, Eric Faulhaber wrote: Well, there's a really nasty workaround: create a cast from bytea to text which doesn't change the value. This will get your data into the database without any encoding checks at all. Ofcourse, you're then responsible for any

[GENERAL] pg_dump pg_restore suggestion

2006-07-20 Thread Pavel Golub
Hello, pgsql-general. Is it possible to create not only executable version of pg_dump and pg_restore, but also libraries (.so, .dll) so developers can use them freely the same as libpq client library? I suppose it would be very usefull. For me it's for sure. -- With best wishes, Pavel

[GENERAL] ECPG usage

2006-07-20 Thread Jasbinder Bali
Hi,I have the follwing ECPG code.-#include stdio.hEXEC SQL INCLUDE sqlca;int main (){ EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION; char movie_type[20]; char *movie_title=NULL; char query_string[256]; EXEC SQL END DECLARE SECTION; EXEC SQL

Re: [GENERAL] UTF8 conversion differences from v8.1.3 to v8.1.4

2006-07-20 Thread Eric Faulhaber
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 12:07:54PM -0400, Eric Faulhaber wrote: Well, there's a really nasty workaround: create a cast from bytea to text which doesn't change the value. This will get your data into the database without any encoding checks at all. Ofcourse, you're

[GENERAL] Create index hanging

2006-07-20 Thread Claire McLister
Hi, We have a couple of tables (40,000 and 600,000 rows each) that I am trying to build an index on an integer column. When I issue the create index foo_index on foo(id); command in psql it just does not return. I've waited over half an hour for the smaller table. The same command

[GENERAL] Column info without executing query

2006-07-20 Thread Dan Strömberg
Hi List ! I would like to know if it is possible to find out the datatypes in the resultset of a query or a set returning function without actually executing them ? I know there is something like that in MS SQL Server where you can use the SET FMTONLY option and only get the column

Re: [GENERAL] Create index hanging

2006-07-20 Thread Claire McLister
Thanks. Haven't VACUUMed ever. (Sloppy housekeeping:-) Will do so and let you know if it helped. There seems to have been some other problem too. I had to just now forcefully shut down the postmaster and re-start it as it was beginning to block on other requests as well. If I Ctl-C the

Re: [GENERAL] Create index hanging

2006-07-20 Thread Claire McLister
No, this is a brand new index, so no drops. On Jul 20, 2006, at 2:03 PM, Ian Harding wrote: On 7/20/06, Claire McLister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We have a couple of tables (40,000 and 600,000 rows each) that I am trying to build an index on an integer column. When I issue the create

Re: [GENERAL] Column info without executing query

2006-07-20 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dan_Str=F6mberg?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know if it is possible to find out the datatypes in the resultset of a query or a set returning function without actually executing them ? You could always do SELECT ...whatever ... LIMIT 0. Also, at the protocol

Re: [GENERAL] Create index hanging

2006-07-20 Thread Tom Lane
Claire McLister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have a couple of tables (40,000 and 600,000 rows each) that I am trying to build an index on an integer column. When I issue the create index foo_index on foo(id); command in psql it just does not return. I've waited over half an hour for

Re: [GENERAL] calling stored procedure using ECPG

2006-07-20 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Jasbinder Bali wrote: Hi, Can anyone please tell me how do I call a stored procedure using ECPG?? A code snippet would really be handy.. I don't know about ECPG, but doing select myfunc(); should work I guess.. greetings, Florian Pflug ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Column info without executing query

2006-07-20 Thread Erik Jones
Dan Strömberg wrote: Hi List ! I would like to know if it is possible to find out the datatypes in the resultset of a query or a set returning function without actually executing them ? Well for result sets of queries on tables there is always the pg_attribute catalog table. See:

[GENERAL] setting serial start value

2006-07-20 Thread Greg Philpott
I have a table with a field called id that is a serial field and pkey. I would like to set the the sequence to start at 1 and increase sequentially from there but I can't seem to get that to work. any suggestions are greatly appreciated. I am using version 7.4.7 Greg

Re: [GENERAL] setting serial start value

2006-07-20 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 09:32:56PM -0400, Greg Philpott wrote: I have a table with a field called id that is a serial field and pkey. I would like to set the the sequence to start at 1 and increase sequentially from there but I can't seem to get that to work. any suggestions are

[GENERAL] ECPG (usage of simple select statement)

2006-07-20 Thread Jasbinder Bali
Hi, I'm using ECPG in my C code and I want to display the result of a simple select statement. If i write something like EXEC SQL select* from abc ; (which as of now is not working) wouldn't this display the result staright away or its always mandatory to use a cursor and then do printf() for

Re: [GENERAL] setting serial start value

2006-07-20 Thread Greg Philpott
Hi Michael, from terminal in psql I enter # ALTER SEQUENCE public.users MINVALUE ; But it doesn't work. I don't think I am specifying the field correctly. the schema is public, the table is users, the field is id. Thanks, Greg On 20-Jul-06, at 10:49 PM, Michael Fuhr wrote: On Thu, Jul

Re: [GENERAL] setting serial start value

2006-07-20 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:35:51PM -0400, Greg Philpott wrote: Hi Michael, from terminal in psql I enter # ALTER SEQUENCE public.users MINVALUE ; But it doesn't work. I don't think I am specifying the field correctly. the schema is public, the table is users, the field is id. ALTER

Re: [GENERAL] setting serial start value

2006-07-20 Thread Greg Philpott
Thanks Michael that did the trick! Greg On 21-Jul-06, at 12:05 AM, Michael Fuhr wrote: On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 11:35:51PM -0400, Greg Philpott wrote: Hi Michael, from terminal in psql I enter # ALTER SEQUENCE public.users MINVALUE ; But it doesn't work. I don't think I am specifying the