Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Glossary?

2007-09-16 Thread Filip Rembiałkowski
2007/9/13, Nikolay Samokhvalov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, does anybody know where to find a good list of PostgreSQL terms (including both traditional terms and Postgres-specific ones)? Yes. Use http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/bookindex.html -- Filip Rembiałkowski

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby observation

2007-09-16 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 15:13 -0500, Erik Jones wrote: On Sep 13, 2007, at 3:02 PM, Jeff Davis wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 14:05 -0500, Erik Jones wrote: If you include the -d option pg_standby will emit logging info on stderr so you can tack on something like 2 logpath/standby.log. What

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby observation

2007-09-16 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 11:38 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: I think it would be useful if pg_standby (in version 8.3 contrib) could be observed in some way. Right now I use my own standby script, because every time it runs, it touches a file in a known location. That allows me to monitor that file,

Re: [GENERAL] Locking entire database

2007-09-16 Thread Panagiwths Pediadiths
On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/15/07 19:59, Panagiwths Pediadiths wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/15/07 03:28, Panagiwths Pediadiths wrote: Thats the fun part, I actually need to allow duplicates in

Re: [GENERAL] Locking entire database

2007-09-16 Thread Trevor Talbot
On 9/15/07, Panagiwths Pediadiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shouldn't the serializable level prevent these duplicates? As I understand it serializable should give the same result as if the transactions were performed the one after the other.

Re: [GENERAL] Statistics collection question

2007-09-16 Thread Phoenix Kiula
Well first question: how can I check if autovacuum is working? On 04/09/2007, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Phoenix Kiula [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Basically, what I am missing is some info on actually tweaking the postgresql.conf to suit my system. No, that's *not* what you're

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby observation

2007-09-16 Thread Jeff Davis
On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 09:25 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote: Well, the definition of it working correctly is that a restored log file... message occurs. Even with archive_timeout set there could be various delays before that happens. We have two servers and a network involved, so the time might spike

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation fix regarding atan2

2007-09-16 Thread Andrew Maclean
Thanks. On 9/15/07, Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Change made. Thanks. Your documentation changes can be viewed in five minutes using links on the developer's page, http://www.postgresql.org/developer/testing.

[GENERAL] New/Custom DataType - Altering definition / seeing definition in pgAdmin3

2007-09-16 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I've created a new custom datatype eg: create type foo as ( id smallint data1 int data2 int ) to view the datatype in psql I do = \d foo what is the equilvalent on pgadmin3 or any other SQL query tool? As i understand from the docs, I can't alter / change the datatype definition. If I need

Re: [GENERAL] help w/ SRF function

2007-09-16 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 09:21 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I want to use a SRF to return multi rows. current SRF is pretty static. create type foo_type as ( id smallint data1 int data2 int ) CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo_func() RETURNS SETOF foo AS $BODY$ SELECT

Re: [GENERAL] Time Zone design issues

2007-09-16 Thread Troy Rasiah
Alvaro Herrera wrote: novnov escribió: I think I get the picture; this post is the closest to making sense to me (my lack of understanding is the issue, obviously). But: What's the postgresql client, in a web app? When you write The web app sets timezone='EST5EDT' and inserts a time of