Re: [GENERAL] Select question..... is there a way to do this?

2007-08-03 Thread Rodrigo De León
On Aug 3, 11:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Denninger) wrote: > Ideas? SELECT item.user, item.subject, item.number FROM item, seen WHERE item.user = seen.user AND item.number = seen.number AND item.changed > seen.lastviewed UNION SELECT item.user, item.subject, item.number FROM item, se

[GENERAL] Select question..... is there a way to do this?

2007-08-03 Thread Karl Denninger
Assume the following tables: Table ITEM (user text, subject text, number integer, changed timestamp); table SEEN (user text, number integer, lastviewed timestamp); Ok, now the data in the "SEEN" table will have one tuple for each user and number in the table ITEM which a user has viewed, and th

Re: [GENERAL] Suse RPM's

2007-08-03 Thread Jorge Godoy
On Friday 03 August 2007 10:04:27 Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: > Complain to Reinhard, he is CC'ed to this e-mail. > > ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/postgresql/ > > has only 8.2.0... > > BTW, I have promised to build SuSE RPMs some time ago; however Reinhard > said that they will keep the packages up2dat

Re: [GENERAL] index bloat WAS: reindexing pg_shdepend

2007-08-03 Thread Tom Lane
OK, as far as I saw you never mentioned what PG version you are running, but if it's 8.2.x then I think I know what's going on. The thing that was bothering me was the discrepancy in size of the two indexes. Now the entries in pg_shdepend_reference_index are all going to be references to roles, a

[GENERAL] virtual database

2007-08-03 Thread Farhan Mughal
Does PostgreSQL support a Virtual Database like Oracle? --Farhan ___ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.

Re: [GENERAL] What do people like to monitor (or in other words, what might be nice in pgsnmpd)?

2007-08-03 Thread Jeff Davis
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 20:41 -0600, Josh Tolley wrote: > So please respond, if you feel so inclined, describing things you like > to monitor in your PostgreSQL instances as well as things you would > like to be able to easily monitor in a more ideal world. Many thanks, > and apologies for any breach

Re: index bloat WAS: [GENERAL] reindexing pg_shdepend

2007-08-03 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:40:24PM -0400, Joseph S wrote: >> I do use autovac. Like I said they don't get really out of hand, only >> up to 20 megs or so before I noticed that it was weird. The large >> indexes are what tipped me off that something str

[GENERAL] Table queue (locking)

2007-08-03 Thread Tomas Simonaitis
Hello, I've got following two-tables events queue implementation (general idea is that multiple writers put events, while multiple readers retrieve and handle them in order): Table events: ev_id: SERIAL ev_data: bytea -- serialized event details Table eventsconsumers: con_name: text UNIQUE -- c

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool2 vs sequoia

2007-08-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
David Fetter wrote: On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 09:25:41AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 2. August 2007 22:37 schrieben Sie: On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:58:40AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i would like to use a statement replication for postgresql Why? i have read http:/

Re: [GENERAL] parsed queries (cursors) cashing issues

2007-08-03 Thread Sibte Abbas
On 8/3/07, Sergey Moroz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No that is not I meant. The problem in Prepared statements is in that you > should determine SQL inside the function. I want to pass a query as a > parameter, as well as query parameters. > For example (I want to create a function like the follow

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool2 vs sequoia

2007-08-03 Thread David Fetter
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 09:25:41AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 2. August 2007 22:37 schrieben Sie: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:58:40AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > i would like to use a statement replication for postgresql > > > > Why? > > i have re

Re: [GENERAL] index bloat WAS: reindexing pg_shdepend

2007-08-03 Thread Joseph Shraibman
Tom Lane wrote: Joseph S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... and when I notice that the tuplesperpage for the indexes is low (or that the indexes are bigger then the tables themselves) I know it is time for a VACUUM FULL and REINDEX on that table. If you are taking the latter as a blind must-be-w

Re: [GENERAL] PG for DataWarehouse type Queries

2007-08-03 Thread Gregory Stark
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Can anyone shed some light on this. I just would like to know if queries >> for raw data (not aggregregates) is expected to take a long time. >> Running times between 30 - 2 hours for large dataset pulls. > >> Invo

Re: [GENERAL] PG for DataWarehouse type Queries

2007-08-03 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 15:12 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Is 30min - 2hours too long or is this considered "normal"?? Yes. -- Simon Riggs EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header

2007-08-03 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hi, Tom Lane wrote: Hm, looks suspiciously ASCII-like. If you examine the page as text, is it recognizable? Doh! Yup, is recognizable. It looks like some PHP serialized output: png%";i:84;s:24:"%InfoToolIconActive.png%";i:85;s:29:"%InfoToolIconHighlighted.png%";i:86;s:26:"%InfoToolIconInact

Re: index bloat WAS: [GENERAL] reindexing pg_shdepend

2007-08-03 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:40:24PM -0400, Joseph S wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > >Heavy use of temp tables would expand pg_class, pg_type, and especially > >pg_attribute, but as long as you have a decent vacuuming regimen (do you > >use autovac?) they shouldn't get out of hand. > > I do use autovac.

Re: [GENERAL] PG for DataWarehouse type Queries

2007-08-03 Thread André Volpato
Ow Mun Heng escreveu: Can anyone shed some light on this. I just would like to know if queries for raw data (not aggregregates) is expected to take a long time. Running times between 30 - 2 hours for large dataset pulls. Involves lots of joins on very large tables (min 1 millon rows each table,

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header

2007-08-03 Thread Tom Lane
Markus Schiltknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Block 58591 >> - >> Block Offset: 0x1c9be000 Offsets: Lower12858 (0x323a) >> Block: Size 28160 Version 73Upper14900 (0x3a34) >> LSN: logid 627535472 recof

Re: [GENERAL] PG for DataWarehouse type Queries

2007-08-03 Thread Tom Lane
Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone shed some light on this. I just would like to know if queries > for raw data (not aggregregates) is expected to take a long time. > Running times between 30 - 2 hours for large dataset pulls. > Involves lots of joins on very large tables (min 1

Re: [GENERAL] PG for DataWarehouse type Queries

2007-08-03 Thread Josh Tolley
On 8/3/07, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone shed some light on this. I just would like to know if queries > for raw data (not aggregregates) is expected to take a long time. > Running times between 30 - 2 hours for large dataset pulls. > > Involves lots of joins on very large tab

Re: [GENERAL] Suse RPM's

2007-08-03 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 11:38 +0100, Chris Coleman wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know of anywhere to get Suse 10.1 RPMs of recent (8.2 and > 8.3) versions of postgres? Complain to Reinhard, he is CC'ed to this e-mail. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/postgresql/ has only 8.2.0... BTW, I have

[GENERAL] Latin1 to UTF-8 ?

2007-08-03 Thread Aarni Ruuhimäki
Hi, I've set up a new CentOs server with PostgreSQL 8.2.4 and initdb'ed it with UTF-8. Ok, and runs fine. I have a problem with encodings, however. And mainly with the russian cyrillic characters. When I testdumped some dbs from the old FC / Pg 8.0.2, all Latin1, I noticed that some of the d

Re: [GENERAL] What do people like to monitor (or in other words, what might be nice in pgsnmpd)?

2007-08-03 Thread Gavin M. Roy
Hmm.. also data such as what is the background writer currently doing, where are we at in checkpoint segments, how close to checkpoint timeouts are we, etc. On 8/2/07, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Josh Tolley escribió: > > On 8/2/07, Gavin M. Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ar

Re: [GENERAL] GiST index implementation

2007-08-03 Thread Gregory Stark
"Elena Camossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Gregory, > > thank you very much for you answer! > >> >> > what is the default implementation for GiST index? B-Tree or R-Tree? >> > That is, if i execute the following SQL command: >> > >> > CREATE index ON table USING Gist (column) >> > >> >

Re: [GENERAL] Suse RPM's

2007-08-03 Thread Jorge Godoy
On Friday 03 August 2007 07:38:19 Chris Coleman wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone know of anywhere to get Suse 10.1 RPMs of recent (8.2 and > 8.3) versions of postgres? > > The postgres website only has fredora and redhat ones listed, and using > rpmfind.net I can only find 8.0.13 ones for 10.0. I usua

[GENERAL] invalid page header

2007-08-03 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hi, I'm in the unfortunate position of having "invalid page header(s) in block 58591 of relation "pg_toast_302599". I'm well aware that the hardware in question isn't the most reliable one. None the less, I'd like to restore as much of the data as possible. A pg_filedump analysis of the file

[GENERAL] Suse RPM's

2007-08-03 Thread Chris Coleman
Hi, Does anyone know of anywhere to get Suse 10.1 RPMs of recent (8.2 and 8.3) versions of postgres? The postgres website only has fredora and redhat ones listed, and using rpmfind.net I can only find 8.0.13 ones for 10.0. Thanks Chris Coleman Chris Coleman Prog

Re: [GENERAL] GiST index implementation

2007-08-03 Thread Elena Camossi
Hi Gregory, thank you very much for you answer! > > > what is the default implementation for GiST index? B-Tree or R-Tree? > > That is, if i execute the following SQL command: > > > > CREATE index ON table USING Gist (column) > > > > what is the type of the index that is actually built? > >

Re: [GENERAL] pgpool2 vs sequoia

2007-08-03 Thread mljv
Am Donnerstag, 2. August 2007 22:37 schrieben Sie: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:58:40AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i would like to use a statement replication for postgresql > > Why? i have read http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/high-availability.html i want 4 sy

[GENERAL] PG for DataWarehouse type Queries

2007-08-03 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Can anyone shed some light on this. I just would like to know if queries for raw data (not aggregregates) is expected to take a long time. Running times between 30 - 2 hours for large dataset pulls. Involves lots of joins on very large tables (min 1 millon rows each table, 300 columns per table)