[GENERAL] Error in installing compat-postgresql-libs rpm

2006-12-06 Thread Leonard Soetedjo
Hi, I'm trying to install PostgreSQL 8.2.0 ony my development box using rpm on CentOS 4.4. Currently I'm stuck at installing compat-postgresql-libs with the following error: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by compat-postgresql-libs-4-1PGDG.i386 libcrypto.so.6 is needed by

Re: [GENERAL] Errors trying to install compat-postgresql-libs:

2006-12-06 Thread Albe Laurenz
I get the following error installing the binary RPMS for RedHat es 4: [EMAIL PROTECTED] postgres]# rpm -Uvh compat-postgresql-libs-4-1PGDG.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by compat-postgresql-libs-4-1PGDG.i386 libcrypto.so.6 is needed by

[GENERAL] plpythonu array parameter

2006-12-06 Thread Sim Zacks
I ran into an interesting issue trying to pass an array to a plpythonu function (Postgresql 8.03). When I googled the issue I found a number of people asking similar questions and they haven't found an answer. The problem is that there is no type mapped from a postgresql array to a python list.

Re: [GENERAL] Error in installing compat-postgresql-libs rpm

2006-12-06 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 16:43 +0800, Leonard Soetedjo wrote: I'm trying to install PostgreSQL 8.2.0 ony my development box using rpm on CentOS 4.4. Currently I'm stuck at installing compat-postgresql-libs with the following error: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by

Re: [GENERAL] Anything I can do to speed up this query?

2006-12-06 Thread Richard Huxton
Wei Weng wrote: I have a table that has roughly 200,000 entries and many columns. The query is very simple: SELECT Field1, Field2, Field3... FieldN FROM TargetTable; TargetTable has an index that is Field1. The thing is on this machine with 1Gig Ram, the above query still takes about 20

Re: [GENERAL] Error in installing compat-postgresql-libs rpm

2006-12-06 Thread Leonard Soetedjo
Hi, On Wednesday 06 December 2006 5:26 pm, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 16:43 +0800, Leonard Soetedjo wrote: I'm trying to install PostgreSQL 8.2.0 ony my development box using rpm on CentOS 4.4. Currently I'm stuck at installing compat-postgresql-libs with the

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Locking in PostgreSQL?

2006-12-06 Thread Dave Cramer
Unless you specifically ask for it postgresql doesn't lock any rows when you update data. Dave On 6-Dec-06, at 2:04 AM, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Does PostgreSQL lock the entire row in a table if I update only 1 column? -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB

Re: [GENERAL] Error in installing compat-postgresql-libs rpm

2006-12-06 Thread Albe Laurenz
I'm trying to install PostgreSQL 8.2.0 ony my development box using rpm on CentOS 4.4. Currently I'm stuck at installing compat-postgresql-libs with the following error: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by compat-postgresql-libs-4-1PGDG.i386 libcrypto.so.6 is needed by

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Locking in PostgreSQL?

2006-12-06 Thread Jens Schipkowski
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:29:37 +0100, Dave Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you specifically ask for it postgresql doesn't lock any rows when you update data. Thats not right. UPDATE will force a RowExclusiveLock to rows matching the WHERE clause, or all if no one is specified. @Joost

Re: [GENERAL] Error in installing compat-postgresql-libs rpm

2006-12-06 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 13:14 +0100, Albe Laurenz wrote: I have notified the packager and hope that the problem will be fixed soon. After thinking about it a bit, I thought it is the only solution to prepare different RPMs per platform :-( Per this, I built new packages for RHEL4 for both

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Locking in PostgreSQL?

2006-12-06 Thread Dave Cramer
On 6-Dec-06, at 8:20 AM, Jens Schipkowski wrote: On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:29:37 +0100, Dave Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you specifically ask for it postgresql doesn't lock any rows when you update data. Thats not right. UPDATE will force a RowExclusiveLock to rows matching

Re: [GENERAL] Error in installing compat-postgresql-libs rpm

2006-12-06 Thread Leonard Soetedjo
Hi, On Wednesday 06 December 2006 9:20 pm, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 13:14 +0100, Albe Laurenz wrote: I have notified the packager and hope that the problem will be fixed soon. After thinking about it a bit, I thought it is the only solution to prepare different

Re: [GENERAL] Error in installing compat-postgresql-libs rpm

2006-12-06 Thread Bernhard Weisshuhn
Devrim GUNDUZ schrieb: Hi, On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 13:14 +0100, Albe Laurenz wrote: I have notified the packager and hope that the problem will be fixed soon. After thinking about it a bit, I thought it is the only solution to prepare different RPMs per platform :-( Per this, I built

[GENERAL] Array shift equivalent?

2006-12-06 Thread Michael Glaesemann
I'm trying to shift the first element off of an array, but I'm just not getting it. I'm not necessarily interested in saving the rest of the array. i just want to get the first element, which in this case is another array. # select * from arrays; this_array_id |

Re: [GENERAL] Error in installing compat-postgresql-libs rpm

2006-12-06 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 15:39 +0100, Bernhard Weisshuhn wrote: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib64/libpq.so.4;4576d3af: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch Please download the RPM from another mirror, or re-download it. I could not duplicate that error. Is the srpm for

Re: [GENERAL] Array shift equivalent?

2006-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Glaesemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to shift the first element off of an array, but I'm just not getting it. I'm not necessarily interested in saving the rest of the array. i just want to get the first element, which in this case is another array. No, it isn't. What

Re: [GENERAL] Time Stamp auto Field

2006-12-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 17:31:53 +0530, deepak pal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi can we make a field auto incrementing field using Time Stamp data type You can use a column default that uses current_timestamp for its expression. If you also want to handle updates or override cases where people

Re: [GENERAL] Error in installing compat-postgresql-libs rpm

2006-12-06 Thread Bernhard Weisshuhn
Devrim GUNDUZ schrieb: Hi, On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 15:39 +0100, Bernhard Weisshuhn wrote: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib64/libpq.so.4;4576d3af: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch Please download the RPM from another mirror, or re-download it. I could not duplicate that error. I

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2 contrib. Full Disjunction

2006-12-06 Thread Brandon Aiken
Download the contrib module .tgz from PGFoundry and check out the readme. Syntax is explained therein. It's a multi-step process, it appears. I don't especially care for the term 'full disjunction' to describe this operation, but it seems to be an understood relational operation. -- Brandon

Re: [GENERAL] HELP: Urgent, Vacuum problem

2006-12-06 Thread Vivek Khera
On Dec 5, 2006, at 4:09 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: I recently tossed 8.1 on my workstation which runs a little reporting application here. I pointed the app from 7.4 to 8.1 and got a visit within about an hour from a user, asking if I'd done anything to my database. Worrying that I'd made some

Re: [GENERAL] [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL 8.2 Now Available

2006-12-06 Thread Vivek Khera
On Dec 5, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: Ragnar, Now that this has been announced, should not http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ and co be redirected to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/ instead of http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/ in particular, the press release's link to

Re: [GENERAL] Error in installing compat-postgresql-libs rpm

2006-12-06 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 16:32 +0100, Bernhard Weisshuhn wrote: I don't get it. Per offlist discussion with Bernhard (thanks again for your patience and detailed testing), we now have the correct RPM. It is tagged as fc6.x86_64 and will hit the main FTP site shortly. It seems a weird

[GENERAL] Why does explain differ from explan analyze?

2006-12-06 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
I have a query that if I do explain shows an other plan than if I do explain analyze with that same query (immediately after the explain). Is that possible, and if so, why? Does it have to do something with vacuum? TIA -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB

Re: [GENERAL] HELP: Urgent, Vacuum problem

2006-12-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 10:15, Vivek Khera wrote: On Dec 5, 2006, at 4:09 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: I recently tossed 8.1 on my workstation which runs a little reporting application here. I pointed the app from 7.4 to 8.1 and got a visit within about an hour from a user, asking if I'd done

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Locking in PostgreSQL?

2006-12-06 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hi, Dave Cramer wrote: Apparently I've completely misunderstood MVCC then Probably not. You are both somewhat right. Jens Schipkowski wrote: Thats not right. UPDATE will force a RowExclusiveLock to rows matching the WHERE clause, or all if no one is specified. That almost right,

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Locking in PostgreSQL?

2006-12-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 08:26:45AM -0500, Dave Cramer wrote: Unless you specifically ask for it postgresql doesn't lock any rows when you update data. Thats not right. UPDATE will force a RowExclusiveLock to rows matching the WHERE clause, or all if no one is specified. Apparently

Re: [GENERAL] Error in installing compat-postgresql-libs rpm

2006-12-06 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 16:55 +0200, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: Is the srpm for compat-postgresql downloadable somewhere? I don't plan to upload them somewhere, because: After thinking a bit (and talking with Alvaro and Magnus), I decided to put them to main FTP site. They are under

Re: [GENERAL] DBI module for postgres 1.4.3

2006-12-06 Thread Jasbinder Singh Bali
Hi, Whats the difference between a module and a bundle as i can see while downloading DBI from CPAN website. What exactly needs to be downloaded . I'm kind of not sure about it. Thanks, Jas On 12/4/06, Albe Laurenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to connect to it throught perl code. Just

[GENERAL] From Clause

2006-12-06 Thread Bob Pawley
I am receiving an error message about a missing From Clause in an insert statement. I've tried a number of variations of adding a from clause with no success. Could someone help with the following statement?? Insert Into p_id.loop_sequence (monitor) values(p_id.loops.monitor) ; Bob Pawley

Re: [GENERAL] Speed of postgres compared to ms sql, is this

2006-12-06 Thread Scott Ribe
I didn't notice this kind of sensitivity with MSSQL, but again, I can't easily reproduce what I've been doing. Funny, although it was better at the IN type of query, so the difference was not as great, MSSQL also typically did better with the query expressed as a join--older versions, I haven't

Re: [GENERAL] Why does explain differ from explan analyze?

2006-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Joost Kraaijeveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a query that if I do explain shows an other plan than if I do explain analyze with that same query (immediately after the explain). Really? What PG version is this? Can you provide a self-contained test case? Does it have to do something

Re: [GENERAL] Concatenate performance question

2006-12-06 Thread Michael Guyver
On 03/12/06, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Guyver [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Running the array_append version is faster by at least one order of magnitude in these examples. Really? I see only about a 50% advantage (155 msec vs 105 msec) in both 8.1 and 8.2. What PG version

Re: [GENERAL] Online index builds

2006-12-06 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Moran) writes: In response to Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Josh Berkus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -- Online index builds I'm particularly curious about this feature. Does this mean that PostgreSQL 8.2 can perform a REINDEX

[GENERAL] dynamic SQL - variable substitution in plpgsql

2006-12-06 Thread km
Hi all, i could not do variable substitution in plpgsql procedure. The variable names are taken as it is but not substituted in the SQL query. what could be the problem ? code looks like this: -- CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test(a

[GENERAL] Update Perrformance with nested loop vs. merge-join

2006-12-06 Thread Nathan Boley
Hi, I just created a new column on a relatively large table (~ 2 mil rows over 400 mb in tablesize) and am trying to populate it from another much smaller table by using an update query . The purpose of the query to set a bool flag if the user for the action on table1 is the last user, as

[GENERAL] Help on Update Rule for View

2006-12-06 Thread Lenorovitz, Joel
Howdy, I'm trying to create a schema in which there will be simple a view for each table that will have the same columns and can be acted on in the same way as the underlying table An example of one table and its view would be: CREATE TABLE test (id int, text_field varchar(100)); CREATE VIEW

Re: [GENERAL] HELP: Urgent, Vacuum problem

2006-12-06 Thread Schwenker, Stephen
Thank you everybody, I decided to modify the export process to vacuum right after the export and that has done the trick to clean up the filesystem. I know it's not the best solution but I couldn't get an answer fast enough because every time I send an email to the list, I get a message saying

[GENERAL] cant connect php to postgresql

2006-12-06 Thread swati desai
i am trying to connect php to postgresql but im getting warning FATAL: IDENT authentication failed... for user and pg_connect(dbname=swati user=xyz password=abc); and hence cant work plz tell me wat is d problem

[GENERAL] Error with the odbc driver and the large objects

2006-12-06 Thread Manuel Fernández Campos
Hi, the problem is that i can insert, or I think that it is insert (it didn't show any error), well. But when I try to read the large object in the db, it didn't read nothing. The last var parameter of SQLbindCol, StrLen_or_IndPtr, ever return 0. I don't know where the error is. Any Idea to fix

Re: [GENERAL] Restore database from files (not dump files)?

2006-12-06 Thread wheel
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... [ The author's email address is clearly bogus, so I can't privately send him email.] You seems to be trying to get help by supplying the least amount of information possible, and not even fully typing out words. Such approaches

Re: [GENERAL] PG Admin

2006-12-06 Thread Bob Pawley
What exactly are the restrictions of a serial column? It's just standard integer value with a default value that calls the nextval function. The deletion process produces gaps and/or voids. The only way to resurect the gapless sequence, starting at 1, is to drop and re-create the table or

Re: [GENERAL] dynamic SQL - variable substitution in plpgsql

2006-12-06 Thread Tony Caduto
km wrote: Hi all, i could not do variable substitution in plpgsql procedure. The variable names are taken as it is but not substituted in the SQL query. what could be the problem ? FOR result IN SELECT x,y,z FROM mydata WHERE x = a AND y b AND z c LOOP RETURN NEXT result; I

Re: [GENERAL] Restore database from files (not dump files)?

2006-12-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 14:16, wheel wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... [ The author's email address is clearly bogus, so I can't privately send him email.] You seems to be trying to get help by supplying the least amount of information possible, and not

Re: [GENERAL] cant connect php to postgresql

2006-12-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 01:17, swati desai wrote: i am trying to connect php to postgresql but im getting warning FATAL: IDENT authentication failed... for user and pg_connect(dbname=swati user=xyz password=abc); and hence cant work plz tell me wat is d problem Your pg_hba.conf file isn't

[GENERAL] Trying to Understand Table Inheritance

2006-12-06 Thread Keary Suska
I have a problem I am trying to address and am looking to see if table inheritance may be the solution. My problem is this: I have a POS system using basic POS principles--i.e., I have an invoice table, with a one-to-many related line items table. Now, each line item may specify one of certain

Re: [GENERAL] Speed of postgres compared to ms sql, is this

2006-12-06 Thread Tomi N/A
2006/12/6, Markus Schiltknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Tomi N/A wrote: When the subselect returns a lot of results, pgsql really takes it's time. 8.1.something PostgreSQL 8.2 improved a lot for IN clauses with lots of values. I think it now performs as good as an equal join query. Thats

Re: [GENERAL] Restore database from files (not dump files)?

2006-12-06 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:16:35PM -0800, wheel wrote: re Bruce Momjian Wow, what an unfriendly dude! Well, he's one of the very guys who make all this (PostgreSQL, that is) happen for us. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346

Re: [GENERAL] Restore database from files (not dump files)?

2006-12-06 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
I don't list my email in newsgroups because they're primary resources for spammers. A lot of users will create a Junk email address specifically for this and other lists. Please realize that any user who's emails get bounced because of false email addresses, exceeded disks quotas, or

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to Understand Table Inheritance

2006-12-06 Thread Erik Jones
Keary Suska wrote: I have a problem I am trying to address and am looking to see if table inheritance may be the solution. My problem is this: I have a POS system using basic POS principles--i.e., I have an invoice table, with a one-to-many related line items table. Now, each line item may

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Locking in PostgreSQL?

2006-12-06 Thread Casey Duncan
On Dec 5, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Does PostgreSQL lock the entire row in a table if I update only 1 column? Know that updating 1 column is actually updating the whole row. So if one transaction updates column A of a row, it will block another concurrent transaction

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Locking in PostgreSQL?

2006-12-06 Thread Erik Jones
Casey Duncan wrote: On Dec 5, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: Does PostgreSQL lock the entire row in a table if I update only 1 column? Know that updating 1 column is actually updating the whole row. So if one transaction updates column A of a row, it will block another

Re: [GENERAL] Anything I can do to speed up this query?

2006-12-06 Thread Wei Weng
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 15:56 -0500, Wei Weng wrote: I have a table that has roughly 200,000 entries and many columns. The query is very simple: SELECT Field1, Field2, Field3... FieldN FROM TargetTable; TargetTable has an index that is Field1. I think I have discovered the reason for

Re: [GENERAL] Array shift equivalent?

2006-12-06 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Dec 7, 2006, at 0:26 , Tom Lane wrote: Michael Glaesemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to shift the first element off of an array, but I'm just not getting it. I'm not necessarily interested in saving the rest of the array. i just want to get the first element, which in this case

[GENERAL] Problems connecting to server

2006-12-06 Thread Curtis Braly
I recently installed this database to use with Sam Broadcaster for my internet radio station. When I log into Sam Broadcaster is should automatically connect to my database. It is giving me an error message stating that it unable to connect to server. I am not a big computer guy, so I am very

Re: [GENERAL] HELP: Urgent, Vacuum problem

2006-12-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:45:08AM -0500, Schwenker, Stephen wrote: ... I know it's not the best solution but I couldn't get an answer fast enough because every time I send an email to the list, I get a message saying it was stalled and I have to wait for it to be approved by the moderator.

Re: [GENERAL] Anything I can do to speed up this query?

2006-12-06 Thread Ragnar
On mið, 2006-12-06 at 17:34 -0500, Wei Weng wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 15:56 -0500, Wei Weng wrote: I have a table that has roughly 200,000 entries and many columns. ... I think I have discovered the reason for why the query runs so slow. The original query has an ORDER BY Field1 clause

Re: [GENERAL] Problems connecting to server

2006-12-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 14:48, Curtis Braly wrote: I recently installed this database to use with Sam Broadcaster for my internet radio station. When I log into Sam Broadcaster is should automatically connect to my database. It is giving me an error message stating that it unable to connect to

Re: [GENERAL] Anything I can do to speed up this query?

2006-12-06 Thread Casey Duncan
On Dec 6, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Wei Weng wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 15:56 -0500, Wei Weng wrote: I have a table that has roughly 200,000 entries and many columns. The query is very simple: SELECT Field1, Field2, Field3... FieldN FROM TargetTable; TargetTable has an index that is Field1. I

Re: [GENERAL] Update Perrformance with nested loop vs. merge-join

2006-12-06 Thread Tom Lane
Nathan Boley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Merge Join (cost=883182.60..1024622.03 rows=6873573 width=89) Merge Cond: (outer.pkeycolumn1 = inner.pkey) - Sort (cost=93387.50..94711.01 rows=529404 width=18) Sort Key: table2.pkey - Seq Scan on table2 (cost=0.00..15037.04

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to Understand Table Inheritance

2006-12-06 Thread Jeff Davis
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 13:58 -0700, Keary Suska wrote: My thoughts then turned to table inheritance, but I am not sure whether this addresses the issue or introduce new problems. My thought was that I could have an order_item table with the columns/data shared by all line items, and then have

[GENERAL] VACUUM and transactions in different databases

2006-12-06 Thread Cornelia Boenigk
Hi all If I have a running transaction in database1 and try to vacuum database2 but the dead tuples in database2 cannot be removed. INFO: vacuuming public.dummy1 INFO: dummy1: found 0 removable, 14 nonremovable row versions in 1341 pages DETAIL: 135000 dead row versions cannot be

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM and transactions in different databases

2006-12-06 Thread Bill Moran
Cornelia Boenigk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all If I have a running transaction in database1 and try to vacuum database2 but the dead tuples in database2 cannot be removed. INFO: vacuuming public.dummy1 INFO: dummy1: found 0 removable, 14 nonremovable row versions in 1341 pages

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to Understand Table Inheritance

2006-12-06 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
--- Jeff You can create a table called order_item with columns that exist for all items (the shared columns). Create a table called merchandise with columns that exist only for merchandise and not other items (without any of the shared columns). When you insert new merchandise, put the

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM and transactions in different databases

2006-12-06 Thread Cornelia Boenigk
Hi Bill I don't believe that's the reason. AFAIK, activity in one database will never block activity in another. This way I read the documentation. I would suspect that you haven't vacuumed this database in a long time, I created both databases one hour ago for just testing this

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM and transactions in different databases

2006-12-06 Thread Cornelia Boenigk
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[GENERAL] how to install 8.2 with yum?

2006-12-06 Thread developer
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Re: [GENERAL] how to install 8.2 with yum?

2006-12-06 Thread Leonard Soetedjo
Hi, On Thursday 07 December 2006 8:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got installed on my windows box and my debian box. But is there a way to install 8.2 on centos 4 using yum? I am fairly ignorant about yum but am trying to figure this out. There's no public repository for CentOS4 holding

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM and transactions in different databases

2006-12-06 Thread Bill Moran
Cornelia Boenigk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bill I don't believe that's the reason. AFAIK, activity in one database will never block activity in another. This way I read the documentation. psql -U pgsql db2 Welcome to psql 8.2.0, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. Type:

[GENERAL] Sanity check...

2006-12-06 Thread Eric Andrews
I have a signifigant number of tables that each have a name_date naming scheme. I want to write a function that takes a start and end date as arguments, and optionally a name, and returns a view of all tables joined together by the name of the supplied name, er - if supplied. is there a better

Re: [GENERAL] Online index builds

2006-12-06 Thread Jeff Davis
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 15:00 -0500, Chris Browne wrote: Let me add another question to this; this might possibly be worthy of a TODO for 8.3 or so... What if I wanted to: ALTER TABLE distributors ADD PRIMARY KEY CONCURRENTLY (dist_id); ? We have a number of cases where there isn't a

Re: [GENERAL] Anything I can do to speed up this query?

2006-12-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/06/06 16:34, Wei Weng wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 15:56 -0500, Wei Weng wrote: [snip] I think I have discovered the reason for why the query runs so slow. The original query has an ORDER BY Field1 clause that I forgot to put in my email.

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM and transactions in different databases

2006-12-06 Thread Christopher Browne
Oops! [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cornelia Boenigk) was seen spray-painting on a wall: Hi all If I have a running transaction in database1 and try to vacuum database2 but the dead tuples in database2 cannot be removed. INFO: vacuuming public.dummy1 INFO: dummy1: found 0 removable, 14

[GENERAL] how to install 8.2 with yum on centos 4?

2006-12-06 Thread developer
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