Re: [GENERAL] Login to Postgres 8.2 via Cygwin hangs

2007-04-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Sergei Dubov wrote: Hi guys, I just installed the latest release of Postgres (8.2 native version) on Win XP Pro). When I try to run psql through Cygwin, I cannot get to the postgres terminal. I mean I type in the password, and the feeling is that it just hangs. If you are running 8.2

Re: [GENERAL] Login to Postgres 8.2 via Cygwin hangs

2007-04-19 Thread Klint Gore
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:25:07 -0400, Sergei Dubov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed the latest release of Postgres (8.2 native version) on Win XP Pro). When I try to run psql through Cygwin, I cannot get to the postgres terminal. I mean I type in the password, and the feeling is that

[GENERAL] WAL

2007-04-19 Thread Ashish Karalkar
Hello All, can anybody please tell me which file name should given in %f parameter of archive_command. As per documantation When not using WAL archiving, the system normally creates just a few segment files and then recycles them by renaming no-longer-needed segment files to higher

[GENERAL] Postgres data/form entry tool

2007-04-19 Thread David Potts
Can any body recommend a generic opensource data entry tool that can be used to make some simple forms for entering data in to postgres? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] WAL

2007-04-19 Thread Richard Huxton
Ashish Karalkar wrote: Hello All, can anybody please tell me which file name should given in %f parameter of archive_command. As per documantation When not using WAL archiving, the system normally creates just a few segment files and then recycles them by renaming no-longer-needed

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres data/form entry tool

2007-04-19 Thread Richard Huxton
David Potts wrote: Can any body recommend a generic opensource data entry tool that can be used to make some simple forms for entering data in to postgres? For the web? *nix console? GTK? Mac? -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres data/form entry tool

2007-04-19 Thread David Potts
David Potts wrote: Any platform ! ie Web ,X, , L/Unix console, Mac or even Weandozz Can any body recommend a generic opensource data entry tool that can be used to make some simple forms for entering data in to postgres? For the web? *nix console? GTK? Mac? -- Richard Huxton

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres data/form entry tool

2007-04-19 Thread Richard Huxton
David Potts wrote: David Potts wrote: Any platform ! ie Web ,X, , L/Unix console, Mac or even Weandozz pgadmin, phppgadmin - although these are pitched more towards admin, they let you edit table data. There are also lots of commercial admin/data tools that will work with PG - check the

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres data/form entry tool

2007-04-19 Thread Kenneth Downs
If you want end-users to be doing the data entry, Andromeda may be what you want. http://www.andromeda-project.org/ The project is aimed at more complicated cases and may carry too much overhead for what you want, but perhaps not. David Potts wrote: Can any body recommend a generic

[GENERAL] Auditing a database

2007-04-19 Thread Germán Hüttemann Arza
Hi, I am developing a web application for auditing tables from a postgresql database. My question is: when an update occurrs in the base table, should I insert in the auditing table the new record or the old one? I was first inserting the new one but a job partner, who are testing the

Re: [GENERAL] Auditing a database

2007-04-19 Thread Richard Huxton
Germán Hüttemann Arza wrote: Hi, I am developing a web application for auditing tables from a postgresql database. My question is: when an update occurrs in the base table, should I insert in the auditing table the new record or the old one? Old - you already have the new version in the

Re: [GENERAL] Auditing a database

2007-04-19 Thread Kenneth Downs
Ask the question: can I make sure I always have a complete trail? If you insert the old row, you will always have the old values and the table itself holds the new values. Germán Hüttemann Arza wrote: Hi, I am developing a web application for auditing tables from a postgresql database.

[GENERAL] Need help with db script, and daily routines

2007-04-19 Thread Peter Neu
Hello, I have 2 tables: In one I log the user name of a web site user like this: Name Access time makost00012007-04-19 15:09:19 makost00012007-04-19 15:09:19 In the other I have the user name his group and the expiry date of his account. Name Group

Re: [GENERAL] Auditing a database

2007-04-19 Thread Dave Page
Germán Hüttemann Arza wrote: Hi, I am developing a web application for auditing tables from a postgresql database. My question is: when an update occurrs in the base table, should I insert in the auditing table the new record or the old one? I was first inserting the new one but a

Re: [GENERAL] How often do I need to reindex tables?

2007-04-19 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just an FYI ... I remembered what prompted the cron job. We were seeing significant performance degradation. I never did actual measurements, but it was on the order of Bill, why is restoring taking such a

Re: [GENERAL] How often do I need to reindex tables?

2007-04-19 Thread Martin Gainty
Bill and Tom Best to find out what kind of index you want to create beforehand If your data is evenly distributed and exhibits High Cardinality (2 entries for A,B,C...Z) then I would recommend a BTREE Index If not (low cardinality scenarios such as gender) then create Bitmap Index I cant speak

Re: [GENERAL] Need help with db script, and daily routines

2007-04-19 Thread Richard Huxton
Peter Neu wrote: Hello, I have 2 tables: In one I log the user name of a web site user like this: Name Access time makost00012007-04-19 15:09:19 makost00012007-04-19 15:09:19 In the other I have the user name his group and the expiry date of his account. Name

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres data/form entry tool

2007-04-19 Thread Tony Caduto
David Potts wrote: Can any body recommend a generic opensource data entry tool that can be used to make some simple forms for entering data in to postgres? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend For Desktop

[GENERAL] Auditing a database

2007-04-19 Thread Germán Hüttemann Arza
Hi, I am developing a web application for auditing tables from a postgresql database. My question is: when an update occurrs in the base table, should I insert in the auditing table the new record or the old one? I was first inserting the new one but a job partner, who are testing the

Re: [GENERAL] Incremental backups

2007-04-19 Thread Kev
On Apr 17, 10:27 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mageshwaran) wrote: hi everyone, please any one give any methods to do incremental backups. it is urgent .. help me Regards J Mageshwaran Sorry, I don't have anything implemented, but I've been wondering about this too. One way (not necessarily the

[GENERAL] Can Postgresql be ported to a device with no OS and simple file I/O and memory management?

2007-04-19 Thread Raymond Hurst
I have a requirement of incorporating a database in a hard disk drive. Can postgresql do the job? Any consultants out here that have done this? If not, any suggestions? Ray Hurst Western Digital 20511 Lake Forest Drive Lake Forest, CA 92630 949-672-9853

Re: [GENERAL] Incremental backups

2007-04-19 Thread Kev
On Apr 19, 9:41 am, Kev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Apr 17, 10:27 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mageshwaran) wrote: hi everyone, please any one give any methods to do incremental backups. it is urgent .. help me Regards J Mageshwaran Sorry, I don't have anything implemented, but I've been

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres data/form entry tool

2007-04-19 Thread Reid Thompson
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 10:05 -0500, Tony Caduto wrote: David Potts wrote: Can any body recommend a generic opensource data entry tool that can be used to make some simple forms for entering data in to postgres? ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] Can Postgresql be ported to a device with no OS and simple file I/O and memory management?

2007-04-19 Thread Frederick Ross
In a hard disk drive? My god, why? If you're doing embedded programming, don't carry over applications that were never intended for it. Go port eForth or Pygmy Forth to your hard drive, or at least set up a C cross compiler, and write whatever hash tables you need. If you're trying to make a

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres data/form entry tool

2007-04-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Reid Thompson wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 10:05 -0500, Tony Caduto wrote: http://www.gnome-db.org/ Glom (www.glom.org) would seem to fit the bill. -- Alvaro Herrerahttp://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

Re: [GENERAL] Can Postgresql be ported to a device with no OS and simple file I/O and memory management?

2007-04-19 Thread Listmail
If you want embedded SQL, you'll probably have only 1 user at a time so sqlite is a better choice. But do you want embedded SQL ? On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:48:52 +0200, Raymond Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a requirement of incorporating a database in a hard disk drive.

[GENERAL] tsearch2 benchmarks, Oleg gets prize

2007-04-19 Thread Listmail
tsearch2 versus mysql FULLTEXT in the context of a large forum. I guess you know the answer already, but it never hurts to have nice graphics to show your boss. http://peufeu.free.fr/ftsbench/ I will upload new versions with more results, and maybe other engines, as I

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch2 benchmarks, Oleg gets prize

2007-04-19 Thread Oleg Bartunov
This is very interesting and I'm interested if you write a paper, so we could reference on. Two days ago I gave a talk on Russian Internet Technologies conference about new FTS we developed for 8.3 version and there was real interest. btw, there are several performance optimization tips for

[GENERAL] Building PG 8.2.3 for x86_64 on Mac OS X 10.4.9

2007-04-19 Thread Kevin Murphy
Has anybody tried making a 64-bit PostgreSQL on an Apple XServe w/ Intel Woodcrest CPU's? My compile works, but the 'make check' fails because of failure to allocate shared memory. There's plenty of SYSV memory available. I compiled using: ./configure --without-readline

Re: [GENERAL] Download source

2007-04-19 Thread Andrew Toth
2007. 04. 18, szerda keltezéssel 18.21-kor Alvaro Herrera ezt írta: Andrew Toth wrote: Dear List, I would like to download the version of source code containing catversion.h with the line #define CATALOG_VERSION_NO 200611051. This is first met in Changeset 26624

Re: [GENERAL] Can Postgresql be ported to a device with no OS and simple file I/O and memory management?

2007-04-19 Thread Walter Vaughan
Raymond Hurst wrote: I have a requirement of incorporating a database in a hard disk drive. Well, back in the day there was a man called Dick Pick. The US Goverment had the same request. They wanted a database incorporated into a hard disk drive, and that's what they got. An operating

[GENERAL] Is it possible to move a database to another tablespace?

2007-04-19 Thread Francisco Reyes
I see tables and indexes can be moved to a different tablespace. Is there any way to move an entire database to a different tablespace? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an

Re: [GENERAL] Download source

2007-04-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Andrew Toth wrote: 2007. 04. 18, szerda keltezéssel 18.21-kor Alvaro Herrera ezt írta: Andrew Toth wrote: Dear List, I would like to download the version of source code containing catversion.h with the line #define CATALOG_VERSION_NO 200611051. This is first met in Changeset

Re: [GENERAL] Can Postgresql be ported to a device with no OS and simple file I/O and memory management?

2007-04-19 Thread Dave Page
Walter Vaughan wrote: Raymond Hurst wrote: I have a requirement of incorporating a database in a hard disk drive. Well, back in the day there was a man called Dick Pick. The US Goverment had the same request. They wanted a database incorporated into a hard disk drive, and that's what they

Re: [GENERAL] recommendations for reducing mem usage on local dev machine

2007-04-19 Thread Anton Melser
On 19/04/07, Andrej Ricnik-Bay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/15/07, Anton Melser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it might even make more sense), and with KDE/Gnome these days, I don't think there is much difference with XP... Of course you could use fluxbox, twm or something else less bloated ... my

[GENERAL] Incrementally Updated Backups: Docs Clarification

2007-04-19 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
I'm about to begin playing with incrementally updated backups for a warm standby scenario, but I need some help understanding this paragraph in postgres terms. From 23.4.5 in the 8.2.3 docs: If we take a backup of the standby server's files while it is following logs shipped from the

Re: [GENERAL] Building PG 8.2.3 for x86_64 on Mac OS X 10.4.9

2007-04-19 Thread Kevin Murphy
On Apr 19, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Kevin Murphy wrote: Has anybody tried making a 64-bit PostgreSQL on an Apple XServe w/ Intel Woodcrest CPU's? My compile works, but the 'make check' fails because of failure to allocate shared memory. There's plenty of SYSV memory available. The call to

Re: [GENERAL] Building PG 8.2.3 for x86_64 on Mac OS X 10.4.9

2007-04-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Kevin Murphy wrote: On Apr 19, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Kevin Murphy wrote: Has anybody tried making a 64-bit PostgreSQL on an Apple XServe w/ Intel Woodcrest CPU's? My compile works, but the 'make check' fails because of failure to allocate shared memory. There's plenty of SYSV memory

Re: [GENERAL] Can Postgresql be ported to a device with no OS and simple file I/O and memory management?

2007-04-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/19/07 15:11, Dave Page wrote: Walter Vaughan wrote: Raymond Hurst wrote: I have a requirement of incorporating a database in a hard disk drive. Well, back in the day there was a man called Dick Pick. The US Goverment had the same request.

Re: [GENERAL] Is it possible to move a database to another tablespace?

2007-04-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/19/07 14:51, Francisco Reyes wrote: I see tables and indexes can be moved to a different tablespace. Is there any way to move an entire database to a different tablespace? Move one table at a time? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA

[GENERAL] dollar-quoting trouble

2007-04-19 Thread Karsten Hilbert
Hi all, I can't spot the trouble with this function definition: create function dem.trf_null_empty_title() returns trigger language plpgsql as $null_empty_title$ begin if (NEW.title is null) then return NEW; end if; if

[GENERAL] Bug o not bug in subqueries

2007-04-19 Thread William Contreras
I have one table. create table u ( id integer, __ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/ ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres data/form entry tool

2007-04-19 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Downs) writes: If you want end-users to be doing the data entry, Andromeda may be what you want. http://www.andromeda-project.org/ The project is aimed at more complicated cases and may carry too much overhead for what you want, but perhaps not. Their choice of

Re: [GENERAL] dollar-quoting trouble

2007-04-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Karsten Hilbert wrote: Hi all, I can't spot the trouble with this function definition: create function dem.trf_null_empty_title() returns trigger language plpgsql as $null_empty_title$ begin if (NEW.title is null) then return NEW; end if;

Re: [GENERAL] selective export for subsequent import (COPY)

2007-04-19 Thread Brent Wood
chrisj wrote: I would like to do a selective export of a number of tables from a large database to import into a smaller (test) DB. I know about: psql dbname -tc select * from tableX where whatever tableX.dat You might try psql dbname -Atc select * from tableX where whatever tableX.dat

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres data/form entry tool

2007-04-19 Thread Brent Wood
Richard Huxton wrote: David Potts wrote: David Potts wrote: Any platform ! ie Web ,X, , L/Unix console, Mac or even Weandozz pgadmin, phppgadmin - although these are pitched more towards admin, they let you edit table data. PGAccess provides a spreadsheet like view of tables which users

[GENERAL] binding 64-bit integer

2007-04-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I'm using Solaris 10 with 64-bit libpq library. I wanted to bind a 64-bit integer, but it failed: ERROR: incorrect binary data format in bind parameter 1. The code would succeed if the type of val is uint32_t. Doe anyone know how to fix this? Thanks a lot!

Re: [GENERAL] binding 64-bit integer

2007-04-19 Thread Martin Gainty
Flying- reading the source displays http://doxygen.postgresql.org/postgres_8c-source.html /* Trouble if it didn't eat the whole buffer */ if (!isNull pbuf.cursor != pbuf.len) ereport(ERROR,

Re: [GENERAL] dollar-quoting trouble

2007-04-19 Thread John DeSoi
Works for me on both 8.1 and 8.2. What client are you using? John On Apr 19, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote: I can't spot the trouble with this function definition: John DeSoi, Ph.D. http://pgedit.com/ Power Tools for PostgreSQL ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Building PG 8.2.3 for x86_64 on Mac OS X 10.4.9

2007-04-19 Thread Kevin Murphy
A.M. wrote: On Apr 19, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Kevin Murphy wrote: Has anybody tried making a 64-bit PostgreSQL on an Apple XServe w/ Intel Woodcrest CPU's? My compile works, but the 'make check' fails because of failure to allocate shared memory. There's plenty of SYSV memory available. The

Re: [GENERAL] dollar-quoting trouble

2007-04-19 Thread Klint Gore
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:45:47 +0200, Karsten Hilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't spot the trouble with this function definition: create function dem.trf_null_empty_title() returns trigger language plpgsql as $null_empty_title$ begin if (NEW.title is null) then

Re: [GENERAL] Building PG 8.2.3 for x86_64 on Mac OS X 10.4.9

2007-04-19 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anybody tried making a 64-bit PostgreSQL on an Apple XServe w/ Intel Woodcrest CPU's? My compile works, but the 'make check' fails because of failure to allocate shared memory. There's plenty of SYSV memory available. creating template1

Re: [GENERAL] selective export for subsequent import (COPY)

2007-04-19 Thread chrisj
Thanks Alan, This helped a lot, but ideally I want a tab field delimiter and -F '\t' does not seem to work, any ideas?? I noticed one other post on this same problem of the fieldsep '\t' not working but the only advise offered was to use \pset. Can \pset be used on the command line, I can only

Re: [GENERAL] selective export for subsequent import (COPY)

2007-04-19 Thread Tom Lane
chrisj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This helped a lot, but ideally I want a tab field delimiter and -F '\t' does not seem to work, any ideas?? I don't think there's any provision for backslash-notation in that switch; you'd need to type an actual tab character there. Depending on what shell you

Re: [GENERAL] binding 64-bit integer

2007-04-19 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wanted to bind a 64-bit integer, but it failed: ERROR: incorrect binary data format in bind parameter 1. It sorta looks like you are trying to send that value to a parameter that the server doesn't think is int8. regards,

Re: [GENERAL] Is it possible to move a database to another tablespace?

2007-04-19 Thread Tom Lane
Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see tables and indexes can be moved to a different tablespace. Is there any way to move an entire database to a different tablespace? No. Moving the system catalogs on-the-fly would be an interesting problem (uh, where did you say pg_class was? ...

Re: [GENERAL] selective export for subsequent import (COPY)

2007-04-19 Thread Brent Wood
chrisj wrote: Thanks Alan, This helped a lot, but ideally I want a tab field delimiter and -F '\t' does not seem to work, any ideas?? I noticed one other post on this same problem of the fieldsep '\t' not working but the only advise offered was to use \pset. Can \pset be used on the command

[GENERAL] Technical Documentation and Community Login

2007-04-19 Thread Guy Rouillier
I was attempting to get info to answer a question on this mailing list. I found a document that sounded appropriate here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.71. Color me dumb, but I can't figure a way to download the document Apache 2.0, Tomcat 5.5, WARs PostgreSQL 8.1 JDBC DataSources