Re: [GENERAL] Text Search Configuration Problem

2008-04-05 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Kevin, it looks like you use UTF-8, so the problem in .aff file, which contains cyrillic comments :) I converted files into UTF-8 encoding using iconv. Oleg On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Kevin Reynolds wrote: I'm using Postgresql version 8.3.1 on CentOS 5 and am following the steps in section 12.7 of

Re: [GENERAL] Limiting postgresql resources

2008-04-05 Thread Tom Lane
"Joey K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, is it possible to kill a query thats running for x minutes with 50%+ CPU > load and using y MB of memory? There's statement_timeout ... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To

Re: [GENERAL] Exception messages -> application?

2008-04-05 Thread Frank Miles
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:02:20PM -0700, Frank Miles wrote: I have a moderately DB-ignorant question: is there a "built-in" way for an application to receive the message emitted by a RAISE in a PgSQL function? Context: I have a moderately complex application (in python, using psycopg2)

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot Install PostgreSQL on Windows 2000 Server

2008-04-05 Thread Dee
Not with 8.3. I finally did get a few earlier versions to install. I am not very familiar with windows 2000 administration, so it took some doing ;) Here is what I did http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-03/msg00904.php At that point I stopped looking into version 8.3. Since I wa

Re: [GENERAL] Numbering rows by date

2008-04-05 Thread brian
Andrus wrote: I have table create Document ( docdate date, docorder integer ) I need update docorder column with numbers 1,2 in docdate date order Something like i = 1; UPDATE Document SET docorder = i++ ORDER BY docdate; How to do this is PostgreSQL 8.2 ? ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN docord

[GENERAL] Limiting postgresql resources

2008-04-05 Thread Joey K.
Hello, Is it possible to limit cpu/memory resources to queries on postgres something akin to limits.conf on Linux? We have a couple of databases (pg 8.2.7) serving 500K - 1M records. For various reasons, users are allowed to run queries against the database via a web based query interface. These

Re: [GENERAL] slow pgsql tables - need to vacuum?

2008-04-05 Thread Douglas McNaught
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Dan99 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am having some troubles with a select group of tables in a database > which are acting unacceptably slow. For example a table with > approximately < 10,000 rows took about 3,500ms to extract a single row > using the f

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: XX000: cache lookup failed for relation

2008-04-05 Thread Jan Wieck
On 4/5/2008 11:02 AM, Glyn Astill wrote: Hi Jan, Is that still true for 1.2.12? As that's the version I'm using.. Also any ideas on where I start to sort it out? I just want to drop the old table now I've removed it from replication, but the error mentioned previously is stopping me. Yes, th

Re: [GENERAL] Text Search Configuration Problem

2008-04-05 Thread Tom Lane
Kevin Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I get the following error: > ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xe0c020 > HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the > encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by "client_encoding".

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump / load seems really slow..

2008-04-05 Thread Tom Lane
Chad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > export: > pg_dump forums --data-only --no-owner -t foo > > The load step seems really slow. Don't use --data-only. Or if you must, look into dropping and recreating indexes and foreign keys. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/populate.html (or t

[GENERAL] drop database regardless of connections

2008-04-05 Thread Kev
Hi everyone, I'd like to drop a database to which users have idle connections. I'm running pgsql 8.2 on win32, soon 8.3, using mod_perl2 and connect_cached. I know this issue has been brought up several times over the past few years, but I don't quite understand the reason for it not being suppo

[GENERAL] Silent install 8.3 diiffers from 8.2

2008-04-05 Thread Syra . Didelez
Hello, With the postgresql-8.2-int.msi, i used to do a succesful install with the following options BASEDIR=C:\Postgres DATADIR=D:\PostgresData INTERNALLAUNCH=1 DOSERVICE=1 CREATESERVICEUSER=1 SERVICEACCOUNT=postgres SERVICEDOMAIN=%COMPUTERNAME% SERVICEPASSWORD=123qwe-. DOINITDB=1 ENCODING

[GENERAL] pg_dump / load seems really slow..

2008-04-05 Thread Chad
Howdy! I'm trying to build some fixture (test) data for a webapp I'm building for my company. To do this I've taken a dump of data from production, exported it using pg_dump, and load it via psql < The data that is exported from production is about 25K rows and 12MB. The dump takes less than a

[GENERAL] Text Search Configuration Problem

2008-04-05 Thread Kevin Reynolds
I'm using Postgresql version 8.3.1 on CentOS 5 and am following the steps in section 12.7 of the documentation for creating a custom text search configuration. When I get to the step that says: CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY english_ispell ( TEMPLATE = ispell, DictFile = englis

[GENERAL] slow pgsql tables - need to vacuum?

2008-04-05 Thread Dan99
Hi, I am having some troubles with a select group of tables in a database which are acting unacceptably slow. For example a table with approximately < 10,000 rows took about 3,500ms to extract a single row using the following select statement: SELECT * FROM table WHERE column = 'value' I have p

Re: [GENERAL] To many records returned

2008-04-05 Thread Dan99
On Apr 3, 9:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin) wrote: > Have a select statement with a where clause using datestamp with > timezone column compared to a date > > Select * from sometable where DateStampColumn > '2008-03-31' > > this returns records that are equal 2008-03-31 > > but when the query inc

[GENERAL] Newby Help needed

2008-04-05 Thread Andrea
Hi all, i'm newby to postgresql: really great product. I'm trying to understand exactly how to set up WAL archiving. I read the doc ( by the way i'm running postgresql-8.1.11 ): i need some explanation on how are created and recycled theWAL bacause i cannot understand, for example, how is fill

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot Install PostgreSQL on Windows 2000 Server

2008-04-05 Thread Ron Tyndall
No luck here and can and no one responded to my post. It is a mystery. did you have any luck? thx Ron Tyndall IT Tools Sr. Systems Analyst Nortel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office 919-905-2793 ESN 355 2793 -Original Message- From: Dee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008

[GENERAL] Numbering rows by date

2008-04-05 Thread Andrus
I have table create Document ( docdate date, docorder integer ) I need update docorder column with numbers 1,2 in docdate date order Something like i = 1; UPDATE Document SET docorder = i++ ORDER BY docdate; How to do this is PostgreSQL 8.2 ? Andrus. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing li

[GENERAL] Benetl 1.7, free ETL tool using postgreSQL is out !!!

2008-04-05 Thread Benoît Carpentier
Dear all, Benetl, a free ETL tool for files using postgreSQL is out, in version 1.7 !!! It is correcting a trouble with part formula, and brings six new functionalities. Benetl is now much more compliant with Linux (should be tested). It is available at : www.benetl.net Thanks for your interest

Re: [GENERAL] Conversion to 8.3

2008-04-05 Thread Terry Lee Tucker
On Friday 04 April 2008 16:36, Tom Lane wrote: > Terry Lee Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am converting our application from 7.4.19 to 8.3.1. In the old scheme > > of things, I was generating an interval between two timestamps and > > evaluating the interval string in another set of trigg

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and schemas

2008-04-05 Thread Brent Wood
Hi Rusty, In which case can you not include the text around the schema & table creation commands to ensure other instances of "public" do not match the string? I'm not sure exactly what the pg_dump output contains, but you could use something like: cat pg_dump.sql | sed 's/CREATE SCHEMA "publi

Re: [GENERAL] mac ports question

2008-04-05 Thread Shane Ambler
Stephan Szabo wrote: On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Tom Allison wrote: If it doesn't remove the 8.2 then I guess I can migrate it. But that requires that I still need to get 8.2 running. Right now it complains that it can't find a listening socket at /tmp/... (localhost mode). And I can't find the conf

Re: [GENERAL] mac ports question

2008-04-05 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Tom Allison wrote: > If it doesn't remove the 8.2 then I guess I can migrate it. > But that requires that I still need to get 8.2 running. > > > Right now it complains that it can't find a listening socket at /tmp/... > (localhost mode). And I can't find the configuration file

Re: [GENERAL] mac ports question

2008-04-05 Thread Tom Allison
If it doesn't remove the 8.2 then I guess I can migrate it. But that requires that I still need to get 8.2 running. Right now it complains that it can't find a listening socket at /tmp/... (localhost mode). And I can't find the configuration files in this set-up. I do have this running: /opt

Re: [GENERAL] mac ports question

2008-04-05 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Tom Allison wrote: > I ran into a problem today where somewhere my port of postgresql82 just > stopped working. I'm largely an idiot on Mac because I use is as a > workstation/development box and do most of the real system related work > on my debian boxes. > > But I don't kno

Re: [GENERAL] database 1.2G, pg_dump 73M?!

2008-04-05 Thread Anton Melser
> I am still trying to figure out if the database was getting any > automatic vacuuming at all. The Postgres documentation (the database is > 8.2, though I'm moving to 8.3 soon) sounds as if it's on automatically, > but the Debian-specific documentation suggests I may need to do some > additi

Re: [GENERAL] Conversion to 8.3

2008-04-05 Thread Tom Lane
"Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what type is new.ontime ?? timestamp or interval. I would expect it > to be an interval. But intervals are either negative or positive, not > "ago" unless that's something peculiar to 7.4 that I've long since > forgotten. No, it's still around: re

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: XX000: cache lookup failed for relation

2008-04-05 Thread Glyn Astill
Hi Jan, Is that still true for 1.2.12? As that's the version I'm using.. Also any ideas on where I start to sort it out? I just want to drop the old table now I've removed it from replication, but the error mentioned previously is stopping me. Thanks - Original Message > From: Jan Wi

Re: [GENERAL] [Slony1-general] ERROR: XX000: cache lookup failed for relation

2008-04-05 Thread Jan Wieck
On 4/5/2008 7:47 AM, Glyn Astill wrote: Hi chaps, I know there's been a bit of "activity" on this listrecently - but does anyone know where I should start looking to resolvethe below? Yes, a "SET DROP TABLE" is mandatory prior to dropping the table itself. This is because up to version 1.2.x

Re: [GENERAL] pl/pgsql RECORD data type, how to access to the values

2008-04-05 Thread Guillaume Bog
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Pavel Stehule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > > > > On 05/04/2008, Guillaume Bog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm writing a trigger in pl/pgSQL and I'd like to pass one column name as > > argument to the trigger function. > > > > Provided my

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and schemas

2008-04-05 Thread Rusty Conover
Hi Brent, It's not he best solution, because we could have fields containing "public" in their names and sed would happily change those to test1 as well. I'm looking for a safer solution, thats why it should be a part of pg_dump. Rusty On Apr 5, 2008, at 12:41 AM, Brent Wood wrote: H

[GENERAL] mac ports question

2008-04-05 Thread Tom Allison
I ran into a problem today where somewhere my port of postgresql82 just stopped working. I'm largely an idiot on Mac because I use is as a workstation/development box and do most of the real system related work on my debian boxes. But I don't know how to get the port working again. Then I sa

Re: [GENERAL] [Slony1-general] ERROR: XX000: cache lookup failed for relation

2008-04-05 Thread Glyn Astill
Hi chaps, I know there's been a bit of "activity" on this listrecently - but does anyone know where I should start looking to resolvethe below? - Original Message > From: Glyn Astill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Sent: Friday, 4 April,

Re: [GENERAL] default value based on select

2008-04-05 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Pedro Doria Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The record being created has a column with an Id that has to be passed as an > argument to the function that, in turn, fills the other column in the same > record. Doesn't BEFORE INSERT/UPDATE trigger solve this problem? (If n

Re: [GENERAL] default value based on select

2008-04-05 Thread Pedro Doria Meunier
Pavel and Volkan Thank you for your kind (and prompt) replies. Let me try to better explain my needs: The record being created has a column with an Id that has to be passed as an argument to the function that, in turn, fills the other column in the same record. Does this even make sense? :) K

Re: [GENERAL] default value based on select

2008-04-05 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Pedro Doria Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to have a table's column default value set to some form of > select? AFAIK, you cannot provide sub-selects in the default values of a field. E.g. CREATE TABLE foo (bar int DEFAULTS (SELECT ...), ...); For thi

Re: [GENERAL] default value based on select

2008-04-05 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello On 05/04/2008, Pedro Doria Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to have a table's column default value set to some form of > select? > directly no, but you can use function postgres=# create table a(a integer); CREATE TABLE postgres=# create function mx() returns

[GENERAL] default value based on select

2008-04-05 Thread Pedro Doria Meunier
Hi, Is it possible to have a table's column default value set to some form of select? e.g. picking another table's value for a given SELECT ... WHERE ... Already thankful for any insight, -- Pedro Doria Meunier Ips. da Olaria, Edf. Jardins do Garajau, 4, r/c Y 9125-162 Caniço Madeira - Portuga

Re: [GENERAL] simple update queries take a long time - postgres 8.3.1

2008-04-05 Thread Tomasz Ostrowski
On 04/04/2008 05:43 PM, mark wrote: stats with new settings are below.. These stats look good for me. but even with this sometimes update queries take more than coupla seconds sometimes... checkpoint_completion_target = 0.8 It looks like that this is set too high for your workload. If y

Re: [GENERAL] pl/pgsql RECORD data type, how to access to the values

2008-04-05 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello On 05/04/2008, Guillaume Bog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm writing a trigger in pl/pgSQL and I'd like to pass one column name as > argument to the trigger function. > > Provided my table has only one column named 'id', I can do easilly > > CREATE FUNCTION ft() RETURNS trigger A

Re: [GENERAL] Word boundaries in regular expressions

2008-04-05 Thread Thomas Pundt
Troy Rasiah schrieb: Apologies if this has been posted somewhere else but what is the equivalent of perl's \b in postgres regular expressions ? I think you are looking for \m and \M. See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-POSIX-REGEXP Ciao, Thom

[GENERAL] pl/pgsql RECORD data type, how to access to the values

2008-04-05 Thread Guillaume Bog
Hello, I'm writing a trigger in pl/pgSQL and I'd like to pass one column name as argument to the trigger function. Provided my table has only one column named 'id', I can do easilly CREATE FUNCTION ft() RETURNS trigger AS $$ BEGIN RAISE NOTICE 'It works:%', OLD.id; END $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;