Re: [GENERAL] Alter definition of a column

2007-02-05 Thread Gurjeet Singh
On 1/22/07, Jim C. Nasby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kelly=# update pg_attribute set atttypid=25, atttypmod=-1 > kelly-# where attname = 'c1' and attrelid = > kelly-# (select oid from pg_class where relname = 'foo'); > UPDATE 1 Also, you could replace that pg_class sub-select with "'fo

Re: [GENERAL] Locking question?

2007-02-05 Thread Gurjeet Singh
On 1/30/07, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shoaib Mir wrote: > While debugging an application, I just wanted to confirm from the list here: > > Suppose I have a long running transaction which has a few updates and > inserts running on some specific tables which means it has acquired >

Re: [GENERAL] When to use compound PK instead of a FK?

2007-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/04/07 09:48, Jamie wrote: > I typically use compound primary keys when creating a table that > represents a many-to-many relationship. I was wondering if anyone else > had other situations in which you would use a compound PK? Why do you > use it

[GENERAL] Re: Production systems beware: U.S. Daylight Savings Time comes at a new time this year

2007-02-05 Thread Jim C.
John D. Burger wrote: > Sorry if I'm the only one to find this amusing, but I see that the > original message was sent twenty minutes =after= I received it. :) Probably sent from a different time zone. Jim C. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: expla

[GENERAL] When to use compound PK instead of a FK?

2007-02-05 Thread Jamie
I typically use compound primary keys when creating a table that represents a many-to-many relationship. I was wondering if anyone else had other situations in which you would use a compound PK? Why do you use it instead of just a foreign key? ---(end of broadcast)

[GENERAL] table updated status

2007-02-05 Thread finecur
Hi, Can I list tables and the time they were last update (adding columns, drop columns) using sql, something like the "ls -l" command under unix? Can I compare the table definitions (tables, fields, but not data) of two database using sql, something like the "diff file1, file2" command under unix

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres SQL Syntax

2007-02-05 Thread Jim C.
> Besides what Tom says, '0' is a string, not an integer. PG takes > it, but it's a bad habit. Maybe it is and maybe it isn't. I wouldn't know. I'm merely the unfortunate soul chosen to convert this from MySQL to Postgres. :-/ I've been working on it for a week now. I've got to say that it pai

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres SQL Syntax

2007-02-05 Thread Jim C.
> CREATE TABLE "credits" ( > "person" integer NOT NULL default '0', > "chanid" int NOT NULL default '0', > "starttime" timestamp NOT NULL default '1970-01-01 00:00:00+00', > "role" > set('actor','director','producer','executive_producer','writer','guest_star','host','adapter','presenter','

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-05 Thread Andy
RPK wrote: How is FireBird rated when compared with PostgreSQL? Firebird is a good db. But it has its spaces. Its is the little brother of PG. It has two modes: classic (spawn per connection, small caching) and superServer (one program w/threads and lots of caching). superserver does no

[GENERAL] accidentally deleted user --> postgres

2007-02-05 Thread gf
Hello all, I was recently installing pg on a virtual machine. I also had pg installed and working on my local machine. On the vm I was having some issues installing a Drupal db so in searching for a solution I found a recommendation of the following: net user postgres /delete and then reinstall pg

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql fails to start after symlinking pgdata dir

2007-02-05 Thread Gene
Tom, You were right i just considered that a few minutes ago before getting your response. I set SELINUX=disabled in /etc/sysconfig/selinux and it started up ok. a note in this file: http://pgfoundry.org/docman/?group_id=148 would be handy for those who forget easily and aren't sysadmins :)

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql fails to start after symlinking pgdata dir

2007-02-05 Thread Tom Lane
Gene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the past I've always done the following with success (this is under > fedora core 6 x86_64): > mv /var/lib/pgsql/data /data/pg/ > ln -s /data/pg/data /var/lib/pgsql/data > /etc/init.d/postgresql start > I just installed 8.2.2 on a new FC6 machine and when I d

[GENERAL] New RPM Sets for Fedora Core / Red Hat Enterprise Linux

2007-02-05 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
- PostgreSQL New RPM Sets 2007-02-05 Versions: 8.2.2, 8.1.7, 8.0.11, 7.4.16, 7.3.18 Set label: 8.2.2-1PGDG, 8.1.7-1PGDG, 8.0.11-1PGDG, 7.4.16-1PGDG, 7.3.18-1PGDG ---

Re: [GENERAL] Can a function be parameter in PL/PGSQL function?

2007-02-05 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 2/3/07, elein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:32:04PM -0800, Karen Hill wrote: > Is it possible to have a pl/pgsql function take another pl/pgsql > function as one of the parameters? I think that OP meant (correct me if I'm wrong!) to be able to do something like: crea

[GENERAL] postgresql fails to start after symlinking pgdata dir

2007-02-05 Thread Gene
In the past I've always done the following with success (this is under fedora core 6 x86_64): mv /var/lib/pgsql/data /data/pg/ ln -s /data/pg/data /var/lib/pgsql/data /etc/init.d/postgresql start I just installed 8.2.2 on a new FC6 machine and when I do that it fails to start. The logs reveal no

Re: [GENERAL] Production systems beware: U.S. Daylight Savings Time comes at a new time this year

2007-02-05 Thread John D. Burger
Sorry if I'm the only one to find this amusing, but I see that the original message was sent twenty minutes =after= I received it. :) - John D. Burger MITRE ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? h

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: missing cache data for cache id 27

2007-02-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 23:43:48 -0800, David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:18:07PM -0200, Jorge Godoy wrote: > > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I'm using PostgreSQL 8.1.4 and psql 8.1.4 as well. > >

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL/FireBird

2007-02-05 Thread Brandon Aiken
FireBird has a different target audience than PostgreSQL, which is why it's not compared to PostgreSQL as often as MySQL is. FireBird is a direct descendant of Borland InterBase 6. Consequently, much like Postgres inherited a lot of Ingres's weirdness (most of which has since been weeded out or s

Re: [GENERAL] database backup trouble

2007-02-05 Thread Tomi N/A
2007/2/3, George Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >it's a windows-related problem Is the Task Scheduler service running? (Start > Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services - Task Scheduler?). If the Task Scheduler service is running , what does the Task Scheduler log indicate abou

Re: [GENERAL] Index bloat of 4x

2007-02-05 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jim Nasby wrote: > Is there no way to change the index code to allow for moving index > tuples from one page to another? If we could do that then presumably > we could free up substantially more pages. This paper @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigmod/ZouS96, author= {C. Zou and B. Salzberg}

Re: [GENERAL] Some issues with planner and query optimization

2007-02-05 Thread Richard Huxton
Boguk Maxim wrote: Postgres 8.1 Sample test table: (all queries done on fresh vacuumed analyzed table with statistics on rub_id and news_dtime set to 1000) (all table in memory and server do not doing anything other) media=> \d test_table Table "public.test_table" Column |

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.1 Compiling Error

2007-02-05 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 03:05:27PM -0800, elein wrote: > > Debian Linux. Have always built from scratch with no problem. > > This is 8.2.1 from postgresql.org. > gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wendif-labels > -fno-strict-aliasing -g -Wno-error -L../../../../src/p

Re: [GENERAL] partitioning / rules - strange behavior

2007-02-05 Thread tv
> Suddenly stops working, or continues doing exactly what it did before? > I'm wondering if you are relying on a cached plan that doesn't include > the new rule. > > regards, tom lane > If there´s only the insert_850 RULE then everything works as expected - the insert pr

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2007-02-05 Thread 许文清
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Re: [GENERAL] PG Email Client

2007-02-05 Thread Alban Hertroys
Tom Allison wrote: > I would be careful about using dspam. > > I have documented cases where it lost email and even with posting all > the debug and other logs on the mailing lists I've never received any > indication that they recognize this as a dspam problem. > > dspam will lose your mail. Th