[GENERAL] Memory on 32bit machine

2008-01-07 Thread mljv
Hi, i have the option to upgrade to a new dedicated database server with 8 GB Ram i want to run on debian linux 32bit because i had some trouble the last time i used 64bit with iptables which did not work (i guess it was a year ago...) 8GB are addressable as far as i know with a bigmem kernel.

[GENERAL] WAL Sequence

2008-01-07 Thread Ashish Karalkar
Dear list member: I have small problem, below is the output from ls -larth command for listing WAL segments. As far as my understanding every new WAL segment created is numerically greater than the previous one,but below out show the WAL 13 is created after wal 14,15,16,17,18,19 checked by creat

Re: [GENERAL] basic questions: Postgres with yum on CentOS 5.1

2008-01-07 Thread Tomasz Ostrowski
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008, Chuck wrote: > Sort order, and specifically setting LC_COLLATE and LC_CTYPE was less of a > concern. (I still need to read and learn more.) It should be, as it is not only sort order. Try for example this: select upper('ąŧäɣ'); - these are polish a_ogonek, t stroke, g

Re: [GENERAL] Memory on 32bit machine

2008-01-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:32:26AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So assuming i could choose between 4 GB RAM and 8 GB RAM and 32bit debian and > 64bit debian. Which option would you choose? Always go for more RAM, whether you use 64 or 32-bit is really orthoginal to that, whatever memory you

[GENERAL] advisory locks: documentation hint and feature request

2008-01-07 Thread Marc Mamin
Hello, I have defined some functions to manage advisory locks in a more restrictive way than the default usage. here my requirements: - a session cannot stack write locks - a session cannot aquire a shared lock if it already holds the write locks - there is a maximum allowed shared loc

Re: [GENERAL] Memory on 32bit machine

2008-01-07 Thread mljv
Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 11:48 schrieb Martijn van Oosterhout: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:32:26AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So assuming i could choose between 4 GB RAM and 8 GB RAM and 32bit debian > > and 64bit debian. Which option would you choose? > > Always go for more RAM, whether

Re: [GENERAL] Memory on 32bit machine

2008-01-07 Thread Florian Weimer
> Or would you rather vote for 64bit because there are no problems > anymore and postgresql runs fine on 64bit debian. We haven't run into any trouble with iptables on Debian etch, running on amd64 hardware. But we use only fairly standard iptables functionality. -- Florian Weimer

[GENERAL] Looking for freelancer in Switzerland

2008-01-07 Thread Andreas Hartmann
Dear PostgreSQL community, we're looking for a freelancer with PostgreSQL experience in the area of Zürich, Switzerland. The task will be to maintain and improve the database for a quite large web application based on Apache Cocoon and PostgreSQL (e.g. configuration of connection pools and ind

Re: [GENERAL] Memory on 32bit machine

2008-01-07 Thread mljv
Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 12:56 schrieb Florian Weimer: > > Or would you rather vote for 64bit because there are no problems > > anymore and postgresql runs fine on 64bit debian. > > We haven't run into any trouble with iptables on Debian etch, running > on amd64 hardware. But we use only fairly s

Re: [GENERAL] Memory on 32bit machine

2008-01-07 Thread Geoffrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 12:56 schrieb Florian Weimer: Or would you rather vote for 64bit because there are no problems anymore and postgresql runs fine on 64bit debian. We haven't run into any trouble with iptables on Debian etch, running on amd64 hardware. But we us

Re: [GENERAL] Index trouble with 8.3b4

2008-01-07 Thread Gregory Stark
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hannes Dorbath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> hannes=> CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY "ts_fts_tsv" ON "public"."fts" USING gin >> ("tsv"); >> ERROR: item pointer (0,1) alreadt exists > >> I was able to reproduce that error a few times, but not always. It seems

Re: [GENERAL] Hash Indexes

2008-01-07 Thread Naz Gassiep
Why are hash indexes "obviously" best? In an ideal world with a good implementation maybe, but postgresql b-trees are really quite good. Because doing normal queries on a table where there are large text blocks is unlikely to be a good idea. E.g.,: SELECT * FROM table WHERE textcol = 'a 4k

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for freelancer in Switzerland

2008-01-07 Thread Andreas Hartmann
Sorry for my post to the wrong list, I re-posted the mail to the jobs list. -- Andreas Andreas Hartmann schrieb: Dear PostgreSQL community, we're looking for a freelancer with PostgreSQL experience in the area of Zürich, Switzerland. The task will be to maintain and improve the database for

[GENERAL] Can a stored procedure that creates a temp table be declared STABLE?

2008-01-07 Thread Dennis Brakhane
Hello, I need to write a stored procedure that does look something like this: CREATE FUNCTION foo() RETURNS SETOF BIGINT LANGUAGE plpgsql AS $$ DECLARE result RECORD; BEGIN EXECUTE 'CREATE TEMP TABLE foo (id int,...)'; -- Insert something into foo depending on contents of the database

Re: [GENERAL] Index trouble with 8.3b4

2008-01-07 Thread Gregory Stark
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I didn't have any luck reproducing either of these behaviors --- maybe > it's data-dependent. Can you extract a test case? I haven't been able to reproduce this either but I produced an entirely different problem: postgres=# create index concurrently dg5

[GENERAL] File system level backup from 32bit to 64bit

2008-01-07 Thread mljv
i wanted to move my database from a 32bit machine to 64bit machine with rsync like it is explained here http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/backup-file.html I did an inital rsync while database was running. then shutdown, rsync again, starting 64bit database says: /var/lib/postgres

Re: [GENERAL] Hash Indexes

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 01:49:53AM +1100, Naz Gassiep wrote: > Because doing normal queries on a table where there are large text > blocks is unlikely to be a good idea. E.g.,: > > SELECT * FROM table WHERE textcol = 'a 4kb block of text'; I suggest you look at the tsearch stuff instead. > I wo

Re: [GENERAL] Hash Indexes

2008-01-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 01:49:53AM +1100, Naz Gassiep wrote: > I would assume that hash indexes have inbuilt mechanisms for collision > checking before returning the row as a match. Am I correct in this > assumption? Well, they do in the sense that it does the equivalent of: SELECT * FROM table

Re: [GENERAL] Hash Indexes

2008-01-07 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 01:49:53AM +1100, Naz Gassiep wrote: > >You could always do something like: > > > >CREATE INDEX foo ON table((md5(textcol))); > > > >Then it will get used in queries like: > >SELECT * FROM table WHERE md5(textcol) = md5('text'); > > That's exactly what I was considering doi

Re: [GENERAL] File system level backup from 32bit to 64bit

2008-01-07 Thread Thomas Pundt
Hi, On Montag, 7. Januar 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | i wanted to move my database from a 32bit machine to 64bit machine with | rsync like it is explained here [...] | i guess that rsyncing all database files from 32bit to 64bit does not work. Yes, you are right; 32bit and 64bit formats are i

Re: [GENERAL] basic questions: Postgres with yum on CentOS 5.1

2008-01-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 7, 2008 1:28 AM, Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I had sent this email, I contacted my web host for help. They > said that I could '-E UTF8 --no-locale' to the initdb call within > /etc/init.db/postgresql. I stopped postgres, deleted the data > directory and restarted postgres. My c

[GENERAL] PhpBB 3.x query review

2008-01-07 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré
Dear friends, I am reviewing some of PhpBB 3.x queries. This allows me to learn more about PostgreSQL. The thread can be read here: http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=29260 Do not hesitate to post your review there. In pg_tables, I saw that there was an extensive use of sequentia

Re: [GENERAL] Server doesn't seem to be listening...

2008-01-07 Thread Eric D Nielsen
Quoting Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: "Eric D. Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've confirmed from the commandline using psql -h -p -U database "psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused That's not a Postgres problem. You do not have network-level connectivity --- I'm bet

Re: [GENERAL] PhpBB 3.x query review

2008-01-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 7, 2008 11:06 AM, Jean-Michel Pouré <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear friends, > > I am reviewing some of PhpBB 3.x queries. > This allows me to learn more about PostgreSQL. > > The thread can be read here: > http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=29260 > > Do not hesitate to post

[GENERAL] calculating shared data memory space

2008-01-07 Thread Jean-Michel Pouré
Dear Friends, I am running a phpBB forum with more than 400.000 messages. I would like to make sure that all indexes fit in shared memory. How can I calculate the needed space of all indexes? I remember this was part of VACUUM FULL ANALYSE or the like. Kind regards, Jean-Michel ---

[GENERAL] many to one of many modeling question

2008-01-07 Thread Kevin Hunter
Hi List, I have multiple objects to which I'd like to associate comments. I'd like this to be a many to one relationship, so that each object can have many different comments. The issue is how to have one comment table. One method that has been proposed is to have a third table which stores

Re: [GENERAL] PhpBB 3.x query review

2008-01-07 Thread Shelby Cain
- Original Message > From: Jean-Michel Pouré <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Sent: Monday, January 7, 2008 11:06:09 AM > Subject: [GENERAL] PhpBB 3.x query review > > > I set indexes on ban_email, ban_userid and ban_ip. > But the query plan is still the same. >

Re: [GENERAL] PhpBB 3.x query review

2008-01-07 Thread Shane Ambler
Jean-Michel Pouré wrote: Dear friends, I am reviewing some of PhpBB 3.x queries. This allows me to learn more about PostgreSQL. The thread can be read here: http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=29260 Do not hesitate to post your review there. In pg_tables, I saw that there was an

[GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
I want to announce PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm today. PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm is a set of Xen instances which includes all combinations of RHEL/CentOS 3,4,5 and Fedora 7,8 with 32 and 64 bit architectures, as well as all PostgreSQL major releases. More will come later. RPM users will be able to fi

Re: [GENERAL] Performance problem. Could it be related to 8.3-beta4?

2008-01-07 Thread Clodoaldo
2008/1/7, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Jan 6, 2008 1:46 PM, Clodoaldo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2008/1/6, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Jan 6, 2008 5:06 AM, Clodoaldo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Then I rebuilt and reinstalled postgresql with the xlog

Re: [GENERAL] Concurrent modification of plpgsql function body

2008-01-07 Thread Alex Vinogradovs
I mean I re-create the function with the same signature but different body, and when the application invokes that function again, it starts getting those errors. Alex. On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 15:36 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Alex Vinogradovs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've got an application t

Re: [GENERAL] many to one of many modeling question

2008-01-07 Thread brian
Kevin Hunter wrote: Hi List, I have multiple objects to which I'd like to associate comments. I'd like this to be a many to one relationship, so that each object can have many different comments. The issue is how to have one comment table. One method that has been proposed is to have a thir

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 7, 2008 12:57 PM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to announce PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm today. This is very very very cool! Thanks you guys. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map sett

Re: [GENERAL] Concurrent modification of plpgsql function body

2008-01-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Alex Vinogradovs wrote: > I mean I re-create the function with the same signature but > different body, and when the application invokes that function > again, it starts getting those errors. Are you using CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION, or DROP FUNCTION followed by CREATE FUNCTION? -- Alvaro Herr

Re: [GENERAL] Concurrent modification of plpgsql function body

2008-01-07 Thread Alex Vinogradovs
Yes, I'm using CREATE OR REPLACE. Alex. On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 16:17 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Alex Vinogradovs wrote: > > I mean I re-create the function with the same signature but > > different body, and when the application invokes that function > > again, it starts getting those errors.

Re: [GENERAL] Concurrent modification of plpgsql function body

2008-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alex Vinogradovs wrote: >> I mean I re-create the function with the same signature but >> different body, and when the application invokes that function >> again, it starts getting those errors. > Are you using CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION, or DROP FUNCTI

Re: [GENERAL] calculating shared data memory space

2008-01-07 Thread Greg Smith
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Jean-Michel Pour? wrote: I am running a phpBB forum with more than 400.000 messages. I would like to make sure that all indexes fit in shared memory. How can I calculate the needed space of all indexes? There's a useful commentary on finding the sizes of various objects, i

Re: [GENERAL] many to one of many modeling question

2008-01-07 Thread Kevin Hunter
At 2:09p -0500 on 07 Jan 2008, brian wrote: Kevin Hunter wrote: Is there a clever/clean way of having the comments foreign key into the multiple tables? If, by object, you mean that you have several tables, each row of which should be associated with one or more comments, the best way would b

Re: [GENERAL] Performance problem. Could it be related to 8.3-beta4?

2008-01-07 Thread Greg Smith
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Clodoaldo wrote: I just did it. Built and installed 8.2.5. Copied the postgresql.conf from the production. Issued an analyze and ran the insert query twice: The second time it ran in 403 sec, half the production time. OK, you're getting close now. What you should do now is

Re: [GENERAL] Index trouble with 8.3b4

2008-01-07 Thread Hannes Dorbath
Tom Lane wrote: I didn't have any luck reproducing either of these behaviors --- maybe it's data-dependent. Can you extract a test case? I will try to come up with a test case, but it might take until next weekend, sorry. The test data was an IRC log file, containing lots of color and form

Re: [GENERAL] WAL Sequence

2008-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
Ashish Karalkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As far as my understanding every new WAL segment created is numerically > greater than the previous one,but below out show the WAL 13 is created after > wal 14,15,16,17,18,19 checked by creation time. You're in error to assume that the creation time

Re: [GENERAL] calculating shared data memory space

2008-01-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 7, 2008 11:29 AM, Jean-Michel Pouré <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I am running a phpBB forum with more than 400.000 messages. > I would like to make sure that all indexes fit in shared memory. You're kind of leaning towards tying to optimized things in postgresql the way ot

Re: [GENERAL] Hash Indexes

2008-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
Naz Gassiep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Why are hash indexes "obviously" best? In an ideal world with a good >> implementation maybe, but postgresql b-trees are really quite good. >> > Because doing normal queries on a table where there are large text > blocks is unlikely to be a good idea. E.

Re: [GENERAL] many to one of many modeling question

2008-01-07 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
--- On Mon, 1/7/08, Kevin Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > :-( Yeah this is one method. I was hoping for something > cleaner though. > Something along the lines of > > CREATE TABLE o_1 ( id SERIAL ... ); > CREATE TABLE o_2 ( id SERIAL ... ); > CREATE TABLE o_3 ( id SERIAL ... ); > CREATE T

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Richard Huxton
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 12:57 PM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to announce PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm today. This is very very very cool! Thanks you guys. I'll second that, and I'm a Debian type of chap :-) -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd --

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:25:45 + Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2008 12:57 PM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> I want to announce PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm today. > > > > This is very

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: > I want to announce PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm today. Where is it? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archive

Re: [GENERAL] Performance problem. Could it be related to 8.3-beta4?

2008-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The only thing I noticed in your original explain plans that was different > between the two was: > 8.2: > Merge Cond: ((ut.n_time = ui.n_time) AND > ((ut.usuario)::text = "inner"."?column4?")) > 8.3: > Merge Cond: ((ut.n_tim

[GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Yum Repository

2008-01-07 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
I want to announce that PostgreSQL RPM Yum repository is now available. With this repository, you will be able to install your favorite PostgreSQL version with the other compatible PostgreSQL related software to your favorite OS . You don't have to stick to OS-supplied RPM packages. Please visit

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 22:59 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > I want to announce PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm today. > > Where is it? You mean the server? Here it is: http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/rpmbuildfarm.php :-) Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ , RHCE PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom De

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 7, 2008 4:32 PM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 22:59 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > I want to announce PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm today. > > > > Where is it? > > You mean the server? Here it is: > > http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/rpmbuildfarm.php Ha!

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:32:27 -0800 Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 22:59 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > I want to announce PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm today. > > > > Where is it? > > You mean the server? Here it is: > > http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/rpmbu

Re: [GENERAL] many to one of many modeling question

2008-01-07 Thread Erik Jones
On Jan 7, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: CREATE TABLE comments ( id SERIAL, obj_id INTEGER ... FOREIGN KEY (obj_id) REFERENCES ONE OF o(id); Where are you guys getting this REFERENCES ONE OF stuff? Erik Jones DBA | Emma® [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800.595.4401 or 615.29

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Monday 07 January 2008 15:03:52 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:32:27 -0800 > > Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 22:59 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > > I want to announce PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm today. > > > > > > Where i

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 7, 2008 5:03 PM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:32:27 -0800 > Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 22:59 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > > I want to announce PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm today. > > > > >

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 7, 2008 5:15 PM, Darcy Buskermolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 07 January 2008 15:03:52 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:32:27 -0800 > > > > Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 22:59 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wr

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On Monday 07 January 2008 15:23:46 you wrote: > On Jan 7, 2008 5:15 PM, Darcy Buskermolen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 07 January 2008 15:03:52 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > > > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:32:27 -0800 > > > > > > Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > >

Re: [GENERAL] many to one of many modeling question

2008-01-07 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
--- On Mon, 1/7/08, Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] many to one of many modeling question > To: "Richard Broersma Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Postgres General List" , "Kevin Hunter" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Caktus Team" <[EMA

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread mgainty
what is a botherboard? M - Original Message - Wrom: SCRTNHGSWZIDREXCAXZOWCONEUQZAAFXISHJEXXIMQZUIV To: Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 6:15 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm On Monday 07 January 2008 15:03:52 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:12 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what is a botherboard? Brotherboard -- motherboard is a bit old. Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ , RHCE PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support Managed Services, Shared and Dedicated Hosting Co-Authors: plP

[GENERAL] Column limitation?

2008-01-07 Thread Kandy Wong
Hi, I'd like to know is there a column limitation for PostgreSQL? like column size and maximum number of columns per table? Thank you. Kandy ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
--- On Mon, 1/7/08, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wrote: > > what is a botherboard? > > Brotherboard -- motherboard is a bit old. Maybe a Freudian slip? ;) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map s

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 04:54:46PM -0800, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: > > wrote: > > > what is a botherboard? > > > > Brotherboard -- motherboard is a bit old. > > Maybe a Freudian slip? ;) His brother is his mother? Man... that's just weird. -- "To the extent that we overreact, we proffer

Re: [GENERAL] Column limitation?

2008-01-07 Thread Paul Lambert
Kandy Wong wrote: Hi, I'd like to know is there a column limitation for PostgreSQL? like column size and maximum number of columns per table? Thank you. Kandy ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster http://www.postgres

Re: [GENERAL] Performance problem. Could it be related to 8.3-beta4?

2008-01-07 Thread Clodoaldo
2008/1/7, Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Clodoaldo wrote: > > > I just did it. Built and installed 8.2.5. Copied the postgresql.conf > > from the production. Issued an analyze and ran the insert query twice: > > The second time it ran in 403 sec, half the production time. > >

Re: [GENERAL] Memory on 32bit machine

2008-01-07 Thread Chris
Geoffrey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 7. Januar 2008 12:56 schrieb Florian Weimer: Or would you rather vote for 64bit because there are no problems anymore and postgresql runs fine on 64bit debian. We haven't run into any trouble with iptables on Debian etch, running on amd64 har

Re: [GENERAL] Performance problem. Could it be related to 8.3-beta4?

2008-01-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Clodoaldo escribió: 8.2: > Trigger for constraint datas: time=14231.240 calls=880691 > Total runtime: 356862.302 ms > (12 rows) > > Time: 357750.531 ms 8.3: > Trigger for constraint datas: time=33179.197 calls=877895 > Total runtime: 9546878.520 ms > (13 rows) So what's this constraint an

Re: [GENERAL] Memory on 32bit machine

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Chris wrote: Are there any other recommendations whether to use 64bit or 32bit OS with postgresql? I just want to use 64bit if it as stable as 32bit. I'm curious as to why you would run iptables on a database server. My expectation would be that your database machine would be behind a dedic

Re: [GENERAL] many to one of many modeling question

2008-01-07 Thread Erik Jones
On Jan 7, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: --- On Mon, 1/7/08, Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] many to one of many modeling question To: "Richard Broersma Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Postgres General List" , "Kevin

Re: [GENERAL] Memory on 32bit machine

2008-01-07 Thread Greg Smith
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Certainly and iptables gives you some flexibility in connection availability "before" it hits the actual database but without having to jimmy the production firewall. It's worth emphasizing that in many environments, it's far more likely one will ha

Re: [GENERAL] Memory on 32bit machine

2008-01-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Greg Smith wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Certainly and iptables gives you some flexibility in connection availability "before" it hits the actual database but without having to jimmy the production firewall. 4) Funky tricks with things like port forwarding and filtering

[GENERAL] postgres dump cores

2008-01-07 Thread Rajaram J
Hi, I'm using Postgres V 7.4.14 on HPUX 11.31 box. While doing a load test there was a core generated not sure why. Can you please help. Core was generated by `postgres'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x6000c0587970:0 in kill+0x30 () from /usr/lib/hpux32/libc.so.1 (gdb)

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 13:13 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Jan 7, 2008 12:57 PM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I want to announce PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm today. > > This is very very very cool! Thanks you guys. Ultra Even. No more mucking about for RPMS and finally a ptop

Re: [GENERAL] postgres dump cores

2008-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
"Rajaram J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using Postgres V 7.4.14 on HPUX 11.31 box. While doing a load test there > was a core generated not sure why. Can you please help. What sort of "load test" were you doing exactly? > #5 0x44f01b0:0 in s_lock_stuck () at s_lock.c:36 > #6 0x44f02b0:0

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 13:34 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > finally a ptop in RPM form. I packaged it last month, but did not announce it to public.:) > Devrim, can you also package up pgpool-II-2.0.1? The .spec file you > have in the tarball is destined for beta1 of pgpool and your website's >

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 21:54 -0800, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 13:34 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > finally a ptop in RPM form. > > I packaged it last month, but did not announce it to public.:) Hmm.. can I find it in the same location as the pgpool rpms? > > > Devrim,

Re: [GENERAL] Announcing PostgreSQL RPM Buildfarm

2008-01-07 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 14:15 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > I packaged it last month, but did not announce it to public.:) > > Hmm.. can I find it in the same location as the pgpool rpms? No, please wait until it appears in our yum repository. Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ , RHCE PostgreSQL Repli

[GENERAL] Best way to fix Error: could not access status of transaction?

2008-01-07 Thread Paul McGarry
Hi, I have a database (8.1.10 via Ubuntu) that has started reporting: <2008-01-08 08:51:14 EST|>ERROR: could not access status of transaction 707406378 <2008-01-08 08:51:14 EST|>DETAIL: could not open file "pg_clog/02A2": No such file or directory when trying to do an autovacuum. By vacuumin

[GENERAL] need to dump/restore data for 8.3beta2 -> 8.3RC1 upgrade?

2008-01-07 Thread rihad
Hi, all! Subj, as is. Any other pitfalls I should be aware of? Thanks. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings