Re: [GENERAL] selecting data from subquery in same order

2008-08-16 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 6:11 PM, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hi >> if i execute this statement: >> >> select * from users where id in (2341548, 2325251, 2333130, 2015421, >> 2073536, 2252374, 2273219, 2350850, 236731

Re: [GENERAL] selecting data from subquery in same order

2008-08-16 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 6:11 PM, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > if i execute this statement: > > select * from users where id in (2341548, 2325251, 2333130, 2015421, > 2073536, 2252374, 2273219, 2350850, 2367318, 2032977, 2032849, ) > > the order of rows obtained is random. > > is there any

Re: [GENERAL] Confronting the maximum column limitation

2008-08-16 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Decibel! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 12, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Jeff Gentry wrote: >> >> So I've seen the header file where the 1600 column limit is defined > > > IIRC, that limit is directly related to block size in the header, so one > possible fix is to increa

[GENERAL] selecting data from subquery in same order

2008-08-16 Thread mark
hi if i execute this statement: select * from users where id in (2341548, 2325251, 2333130, 2015421, 2073536, 2252374, 2273219, 2350850, 2367318, 2032977, 2032849, ) the order of rows obtained is random. is there anyway i can get the rows in the same order as the ids in subquery? or is there a d

Re: [GENERAL] Changing between ORDER BY DESC and ORDER BY ASC

2008-08-16 Thread Decibel!
On Aug 15, 2008, at 12:35 PM, William Garrison wrote: Is there an easy way to write one single query that can alternate between ASC and DESC orders? Ex: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION GetSomeStuff(_start integer, _count integer, _sortDesc boolean) RETURNS SETOF text AS $BODY$ SE

Re: [GENERAL] Confronting the maximum column limitation

2008-08-16 Thread Decibel!
On Aug 12, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Jeff Gentry wrote: So I've seen the header file where the 1600 column limit is defined IIRC, that limit is directly related to block size in the header, so one possible fix is to increase block size. AFAIK anything up to 64K blocks should be safe. BTW, keep i

Re: [GENERAL] How to tell if a trigger is disabled

2008-08-16 Thread Ian Harding
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Ian Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is there any way to tell if a trigger or triggers are disabled on a >> table? I was updating some data a week or two ago and must have >> forgotten to re-enable the triggers. Took m

Re: [GENERAL] What's size of your PostgreSQL Database?

2008-08-16 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Amber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all: >We are currently considering using PostgreSQL to host a read only > warehouse, we would like to get some experiences, best practices and > performance metrics from the user community, following is the question list