Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Database size

2007-03-19 Thread Naz Gassiep
I have been looking for such a function. Having Just upgraded to 8.2, this function is a very welcome addition to my arsenal of tools. Many thanks! - Naz. Reece Hart wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 00:40 +0530, Mageshwaran wrote: how to find the size of a particular database in

Re: [GENERAL] planning issue

2007-03-19 Thread Alban Hertroys
Jonathan Vanasco wrote: hoping someone may be able to offer advice:. SELECT * FROM table_a WHERE id != 10001 AND ( ( field_1 ilike '123' ) OR ( field_2 ilike 'abc' ) ) You seem to use that ilike expression merely as a

Re: [GENERAL] issue with SELECT settval(..);

2007-03-19 Thread Alban Hertroys
Christian Schröder wrote: Alain Roger wrote: insert into immense.statususer (statususer_id, statususer_type) values (SELECT nextval( 'statususer_statususer_id_seq' ),'customer'); The correct syntax would be: insert into immense.statususer (statususer_id, statususer_type) values ((SELECT

[GENERAL] Client/Server [max connections]

2007-03-19 Thread Ezequias R. da Rocha
Hi list, Could someone tell me the experience of many connections to PostgreSQL ? I am my afraid if when PostgreSQL have many connections (i.e: 1,000) it could cost much for the solution. Could someone tell me if my afraid is justifiable ? ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Client/Server [max connections]

2007-03-19 Thread Shoaib Mir
It depends on the amount of memory you have... -- Shoaib Mir EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com) On 3/19/07, Ezequias R. da Rocha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, Could someone tell me the experience of many connections to PostgreSQL ? I am my afraid if when PostgreSQL have many connections

Re: [GENERAL] UPGRADATION TO 8.1

2007-03-19 Thread Ben Trewern
So what's he meant to do? Write a longer question just so the mandatory disclamer that his company attaches to his e-mail takes up a lower percentage of his e-mail? (or should he not ask the question at all?) Regards, Ben Btw, I personally find a payload/noise ratio of 1/6 atrocious, and

[GENERAL] Stored Procedure / function and their result

2007-03-19 Thread Alain Roger
Hi, I would like to know if there is a better way how to retrieve result from a stored procedure (function) than to use 'AS res(col1 varchar, col2 timestamp,..)' for example, here is a stored procedure : CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION SP_A_003(username VARCHAR) RETURNS SETOF RECORD AS $BODY$

Re: [GENERAL] Stored Procedure / function and their result

2007-03-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 01:54:14PM +0100, Alain Roger wrote: Hi, I would like to know if there is a better way how to retrieve result from a stored procedure (function) than to use 'AS res(col1 varchar, col2 timestamp,..)' Sure, create a type with the relevent field name and use that in you

Re: [GENERAL] UPGRADATION TO 8.1

2007-03-19 Thread Walter Vaughan
Ben Trewern wrote: So what's he meant to do? Write a longer question just so the mandatory disclamer that his company attaches to his e-mail takes up a lower percentage of his e-mail? (or should he not ask the question at all?) Perhaps the OP's posit should have been sent to

Re: [GENERAL] Design / Implementation problem

2007-03-19 Thread Joris Dobbelsteen
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Naz Gassiep Sent: zondag 18 maart 2007 14:45 To: Naz Gassiep Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Design / Implementation problem Here it is again with more sensible wrapping: *** The

[GENERAL] How to recognize obsolete WAL logs

2007-03-19 Thread Jan Poslusny
Hi all, I participate on realization of warm standby pg 8.2.3, according to documentation. Mostly all works fine, but one problem remains. The recovering rdbms eats transfered wal logs fluently, but I cannot see the way how to recognize if the recovered wal log file is really processed into

Re: [GENERAL] How to recognize obsolete WAL logs

2007-03-19 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 3/19/07, Jan Poslusny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I participate on realization of warm standby pg 8.2.3, according to documentation. Mostly all works fine, but one problem remains. The recovering rdbms eats transfered wal logs fluently, but I cannot see the way how to recognize if the

Re: [GENERAL] Design / Implementation problem

2007-03-19 Thread Filip Rembiałkowski
hmmm. just a general notice: A customer loyalty program, which expires earned points, not to let the customer win anything valuable? If I were your client, I wouldn't be happy with this. 2007/3/18, Naz Gassiep [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We are running a customer loyalty program whereby customers

[GENERAL] deleting a foreign key that has no references

2007-03-19 Thread Glen W. Mabey
Hello, I'm using 8.1.8, and I have a situation where a record in one table is only meaningful when it is referenced via foreign key by one or more records in any one of several tables. So, really what I want is when one of the referring records is deleted, to have a trigger check to see if it

Re: [GENERAL] Design / Implementation problem

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Godoy
Filip Rembiałkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hmmm. just a general notice: A customer loyalty program, which expires earned points, not to let the customer win anything valuable? If I were your client, I wouldn't be happy with this. On the other hand, having the possibility is better than

Re: [GENERAL] DST problem on Windows Server

2007-03-19 Thread George Weaver
Margaret Gillon offered the following kind support: We had to run a special utility from Windows... I will email instructions our admin put together... Hi Margaret, I heard from my client this morning and that did the trick! Thanks again for you help, Regards, George

Re: [GENERAL] planning issue

2007-03-19 Thread John D. Burger
create a function lower index and instead of calling ilike call ~ lower('123') To clarify a little: CREATE INDEX table_a_lower_field_1_idx on table_a ((lower(field_1))); CREATE INDEX table_a_lower_field_2_idx on table_a ((lower(field_2))); SELECT * FROM table_a WHERE

[GENERAL] Planner tuning

2007-03-19 Thread Alban Hertroys
I have a query here for which postgres chooses a nested loop, for which it takes ~19s to complete in the worst-case (measured). However, if I disable nestloops it completes in ~400ms... It seems pretty obvious that the planner underestimates the cost of nestloops here, is there some way to tweak

[GENERAL] anyone heard of/use SurfRAID Triton product with postgres?

2007-03-19 Thread Vivek Khera
Does anyone here run Pg on a SurfRAID Triton RAID array? If so, please let me know how satisfied you are with the performance, and what kind of performance you get (operations/second, data transfer/ second, etc.) I'm looking at their fibre attached 16 sata disk solution. Thanks!

Re: [GENERAL] Planner tuning

2007-03-19 Thread Alban Hertroys
Alban Hertroys wrote: I have a query here for which postgres chooses a nested loop, for which it takes ~19s to complete in the worst-case (measured). However, if I disable nestloops it completes in ~400ms... It seems pretty obvious that the planner underestimates the cost of nestloops here,

Re: [GENERAL] deleting a foreign key that has no references

2007-03-19 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On 3/19/07, Glen W. Mabey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, really, I just want to be able to test to see how many references there are to a key. Is there some way to do that? write a triggers which do that. depesz -- http://www.depesz.com/ - nowy, lepszy depesz ---(end

Re: [GENERAL] Possible planner bug?

2007-03-19 Thread Jeff Davis
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 21:30 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The planner chooses what looks to me like a very strange plan for this query: Exactly which PG version is this? = select version(); version

Re: [GENERAL] deleting a foreign key that has no references

2007-03-19 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Glen W. Mabey wrote: Hello, I'm using 8.1.8, and I have a situation where a record in one table is only meaningful when it is referenced via foreign key by one or more records in any one of several tables. So, really what I want is when one of the referring records is

Re: [GENERAL] deleting a foreign key that has no references

2007-03-19 Thread Tom Lane
Glen W. Mabey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I'm hoping to find out is whether there is some way to directly find out how many (using a SELECT query) references there are to a key. There's no hidden shortcut for that, no. regards, tom lane

[GENERAL] DBD:Pg for Windows (PostgreSQL+Perl)

2007-03-19 Thread Jaroslav Záruba
Hello I want to install Bugzilla on our intranet. I don't want to install MySQL just because of a bug tracking system so I was quite pleased to read that Bugzilla has declared full support for PostgreSQL. Yet I was unable to find the module that would make PostgreSQL 8.x work with Perl (which is

Re: [GENERAL] deleting a foreign key that has no references

2007-03-19 Thread andyk
Glen W. Mabey wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 04:51:57PM +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: On 3/19/07, Glen W. Mabey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using 8.1.8, and I have a situation where a record in one table is only meaningful when it is referenced via foreign key by one or more

Re: [GENERAL] DBD:Pg for Windows (PostgreSQL+Perl)

2007-03-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Jaroslav Záruba wrote: Hello I want to install Bugzilla on our intranet. I don't want to install MySQL just because of a bug tracking system so I was quite pleased to read that Bugzilla has declared full support for PostgreSQL. Yet I was unable to find the module that would make PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] deleting a foreign key that has no references

2007-03-19 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On 3/19/07, Glen W. Mabey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: write a triggers which do that. I understand that a trigger should be written, and I have already implemented two such triggers, as described above. no, i think i didn't make myself clear. let's use this situation: we have tables: create

Re: [GENERAL] DBD:Pg for Windows (PostgreSQL+Perl)

2007-03-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Jaroslav Záruba wrote: Hello I want to install Bugzilla on our intranet. I don't want to install MySQL just because of a bug tracking system so I was quite pleased to read that Bugzilla has declared full support for PostgreSQL. Yet I was unable to find the module that

Re: [GENERAL] Planner tuning

2007-03-19 Thread Tom Lane
Alban Hertroys [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems pretty obvious that the planner underestimates the cost of nestloops here, is there some way to tweak this? The real problem is the factor-of-a-thousand underestimate of the size of this join: - Nested Loop (cost=0.00..281.74 rows=2

Re: [GENERAL] Own messages for constraints?

2007-03-19 Thread Jeff Davis
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 20:19 +0100, Kacper Chrapa wrote: Hi ! Is it possible in postgres to define own message for some constraint? Example: If i create check constraint on zip_code column , i want to get a message: Zip code is invalid.Please,input code in format: nn-nnn and I want to

Re: [GENERAL] Own messages for constraints?

2007-03-19 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On 3/19/07, Jeff Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use an AFTER trigger instead of a CHECK constraint (but that may have a performance impact - test for your application). are you sure you meant AFTER? why? generally data-checks should be in before triggers. i guess. depesz --

Re: [GENERAL] cannot get build (initdb) to work after trying for a week

2007-03-19 Thread Magnus Hagander
(list re-added) you need a timezone directory, not just timezonesets. So your problem is why that's not being installed when you do make install. You need to check the output from the make install command to see if there are any errors or warnings related to that. (It's done when make install

Re: [GENERAL] Own messages for constraints?

2007-03-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:08:41PM +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: On 3/19/07, Jeff Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use an AFTER trigger instead of a CHECK constraint (but that may have a performance impact - test for your application). are you sure you meant AFTER? why?

Re: [GENERAL] UPGRADATION TO 8.1

2007-03-19 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 3/20/07, Ben Trewern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what's he meant to do? Write a longer question just so the mandatory disclamer that his company attaches to his e-mail takes up a lower percentage of his e-mail? (or should he not ask the question at all?) Maybe use a gmail account for

Re: [GENERAL] Own messages for constraints?

2007-03-19 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On 3/19/07, Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org wrote: In an AFTER trigger you can be sure you're seeing what actually got inserted. In a BEFORE trigger other triggers after you could still modify the data... yes but in after trigger the only thing you can do is to raise exception. you

Re: [GENERAL] Possible planner bug?

2007-03-19 Thread Tom Lane
Jeff Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have two indexes defined on syslog_p: syslog_p_severity_ts_idx btree (severity, ts) syslog_p_ts_where_severity_1_idx btree (ts) WHERE severity = 1 The planner chooses what looks to me like a very strange plan for this query: = explain analyze select *

Re: [GENERAL] Own messages for constraints?

2007-03-19 Thread Jeff Davis
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:08 +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: On 3/19/07, Jeff Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use an AFTER trigger instead of a CHECK constraint (but that may have a performance impact - test for your application). are you sure you meant AFTER? why? generally

[GENERAL] TSearch2 Problems

2007-03-19 Thread Howard Cole
Hi, I am having some problems with TSearch2 queries since upgrading from 8.0 to 8.2. This is the query: select count(*) from card, to_tsquery('default','test') as q where (q @@ card.fts); This works fine on 8.0 but gives the following error in 8.2: ERROR: No dictionary with name

Re: [GENERAL] deleting a foreign key that has no references

2007-03-19 Thread Glen W. Mabey
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:46:22AM -0700, Stephan Szabo wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Glen W. Mabey wrote: Hello, I'm using 8.1.8, and I have a situation where a record in one table is only meaningful when it is referenced via foreign key by one or more records in any one of several

Re: [GENERAL] Possible planner bug?

2007-03-19 Thread Jeff Davis
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 14:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have two indexes defined on syslog_p: syslog_p_severity_ts_idx btree (severity, ts) syslog_p_ts_where_severity_1_idx btree (ts) WHERE severity = 1 The planner chooses what looks to me like a very

Re: [GENERAL] TSearch2 Problems

2007-03-19 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Howard Cole wrote: Hi, I am having some problems with TSearch2 queries since upgrading from 8.0 to 8.2. This is the query: select count(*) from card, to_tsquery('default','test') as q where (q @@ card.fts); This works fine on 8.0 but gives the following error in

Re: [GENERAL] Own messages for constraints?

2007-03-19 Thread Jeff Davis
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:26 +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: On 3/19/07, Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org wrote: In an AFTER trigger you can be sure you're seeing what actually got inserted. In a BEFORE trigger other triggers after you could still modify the data... yes

Re: [GENERAL] TSearch2 Problems

2007-03-19 Thread Howard Cole
show us output of select * from pg_ts_dict; simple;dex_init(internal);;dex_lexize(internal,internal,integer);Simple example of dictionary. en_stem;snb_en_init(internal);contrib/english.stop;snb_lexize(internal,internal,integer);English Stemmer. Snowball.

Re: [GENERAL] TSearch2 Problems

2007-03-19 Thread Howard Cole
Oleg, My problem may have been solved by doing a vacuum full analyse. I shall check tomorrow and get back to you. Thanks, Howard. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Possible planner bug?

2007-03-19 Thread Tom Lane
Jeff Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about your patch is a crude hack, by the way? At first glance it looks like you're using a more correct test. The surrounding code and comments would need to be changed to reflect what's going on. regards, tom lane

Re: [GENERAL] deleting a foreign key that has no references

2007-03-19 Thread Reece Hart
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 11:12 -0500, Glen W. Mabey wrote: What I'm hoping to find out is whether there is some way to directly find out how many (using a SELECT query) references there are to a key. In the easy case when your schema doesn't change often, you can just hard code a query of the FK

Re: [GENERAL] deleting a foreign key that has no references

2007-03-19 Thread Reece Hart
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 13:03 -0700, Reece Hart wrote: The harder and more general case is to build such a query dynamically from pg_depends ... See the pg_depends documentation at Apologies. I intended to write pg_constraint and the documentation at

Re: [GENERAL] UPGRADATION TO 8.1

2007-03-19 Thread Stuart Cooper
So what's he meant to do? Avoiding terms like UPGRADATION would be an excellent start. Stuart. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] UPGRADATION TO 8.1

2007-03-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote: On 3/20/07, Ben Trewern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what's he meant to do? Write a longer question just so the mandatory disclamer that his company attaches to his e-mail takes up a lower percentage of his e-mail? (or should he not ask the question at all?) Maybe

Re: [GENERAL] UPGRADATION TO 8.1

2007-03-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Mageshwaran wrote: Hi, In our company there are many postgres servers in 7.X version,we are in the process of upgrading to 8.1 version, can anyone tell me the method to do this upgradation. You will want to use the 8.1 version of pg_dump/pg_dumpall to connect to the 7.4 version of

[GENERAL] Optimizing warm standby. Will this work? [PITR WAL]

2007-03-19 Thread Dhaval Shah
I was planning to setup a warm standby using WAL Files and my current setup seems to work. Here is what I do in the current setup On the primary: 1. On the primary, setup continuous archive every 2 minutes. The WAL files are stored on a known location. 2. On the primary :

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL Party, July 22nd 2007 (Day before OSCON 2007)

2007-03-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, We are planning a PostgreSQL party for the weekend before OSCON in Portland Oregon. The 22nd is a Sunday, with OSCON beginning on the 23rd which is Monday. Although the exact venue has not been decided it will likely be a hotel near the convention center. We are also reaching out to other

[GENERAL] Reference Type in PostgreSQL

2007-03-19 Thread Elena
Hello all, I'm new in PostgreSQL... I would want to know like PostgreSQL manages the type reference that defines the standard SQL:1999. I want to define the type of attribute like a reference at other type. For example, in Oracle8i the definition is: -- Type Department CREATE OR REPLACE

Re: [GENERAL] cannot get build (initdb) to work after trying for a week

2007-03-19 Thread Eric
To respond to Alvaro's post, I did try setting TZ=PST, no luck there. As Magnus points out, the install doesn't appear complete because of the missing timezone dir. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives?

Re: [GENERAL] cannot get build (initdb) to work after trying for a week

2007-03-19 Thread Eric
Thanks for responding Magnus. I did reinstall both msys and mingw, as well as blow away the source and start over from scratch. Maybe there is a stray file or directory that's not getting deleted on the clean. Also, does clean just clean up the compile environment, or does it also clean up the

Re: [GENERAL] java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

2007-03-19 Thread Gloria Rodriguez
Hello!! I am working with hermes 2 postgresql and I obtain this mistake I am thinking this mistake is because it not conect very well. Can someone help me?? thanks very mach 2007-03-15 11:02:51 [Thread-6] ERROR cecid.ebms.spa Error in collecting message from mail

[GENERAL] cache - timing

2007-03-19 Thread ab
I am trying to measure the time taken for a number of queries using \timing . All queries on my table other than the first one are pretty fast. This is likely due to caching. Is there any way to clear the internal cache of Postgres. Should I be worried about the entire OS cache also? Appreciate

Re: [GENERAL] java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

2007-03-19 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
Sorry, but I can't seen anything postgres related in those errors messages, all seems to point at e-Mail issues, not database connectivity. Cheers, Andrej ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?

Re: [GENERAL] Reference Type in PostgreSQL

2007-03-19 Thread Jeff Davis
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 11:30 +0100, Elena wrote: Hello all, I'm new in PostgreSQL... I would want to know like PostgreSQL manages the type reference that defines the standard SQL:1999. I want to define the type of attribute like a reference at other type. PostgreSQL doesn't allow

Re: [GENERAL] [PHP] phpPgAdmin - prior version available?

2007-03-19 Thread Tijnema !
On 3/18/07, Bob Hartung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have been struggling with phpPgAdmin 4.1 - login failures. There does not yet seem to be a fix. Where can I find a prior version for FC6 - rpm, tar.gz etc. Thanks, Bob Try this one,