Re: [GENERAL] How to free disk space

2008-10-22 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
what's the version you're running ? you shouldn't run into that problem too often with 8.3 just like guys said here, regular vacuum, and reindex once in a while.

Re: [GENERAL] How to free disk space

2008-10-22 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:46 AM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what's the version you're running ? you shouldn't run into that problem too often with 8.3 I'm running 8.3.3 soon to be 8.3.4 or .5 if there's a bug fix due out. There's only so much the autovacuum daemon can do when

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump is ignoring my pgpass file

2008-10-22 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 Tom Lane's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: AFAICT the matching of .pgpass entries to a connection attempt is strictly textual. sedeldap != 192.168.1.2 therefore none of these entries apply. Thanks, I'm able to make entries work only with the ip address, and

[GENERAL] Shopping cart

2008-10-22 Thread Andrus
I'm looking for a open source PHP or C#/mod_modo/Apache shopping chart. PostgreSQL database should contain items and item pictures or pictures should stored in separate files. User can pick items, enter quantities and send order which is stored in database. Any idea where to find source

Re: [GENERAL] Shopping cart

2008-10-22 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:22:21 +0300 Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a open source PHP or C#/mod_modo/Apache shopping chart. PostgreSQL database should contain items and item pictures or pictures should stored in separate files. User can pick items, enter quantities and

Re: [GENERAL] Shopping cart

2008-10-22 Thread Thomas Guettler
Hi, http://www.satchmoproject.com/ But it is written in python. Not PHP or C#. Thomas Andrus schrieb: I'm looking for a open source PHP or C#/mod_modo/Apache shopping chart. PostgreSQL database should contain items and item pictures or pictures should stored in separate files. User can

Re: [GENERAL] Shopping cart

2008-10-22 Thread Andrus
Thomas, http://www.satchmoproject.com/ But it is written in python. Not PHP or C#. Thank you. Unfortunately for me it seems that learning another language, Python + Django to support shopping cart is too much. Where to find Visual FoxPro, PHP or C#/mod_mono scripts for this? Those

Re: [GENERAL] Shopping cart

2008-10-22 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
you'll have problems finding anything like that, mainly because people usually write that stuff themselves. So just that python or whatever code as an example, and write your own lib. You might actually learn something while doing it too.

[GENERAL] where column in ARRAY

2008-10-22 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
Without building up a dynamic query is it possible to: create or replace function t1(a int[]) as $$ ... select * from t1 where c in a; // eg in spite of in (1,2,3); or just obtain a similar effect? -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] index scan leads to result that is different from sec scan after upgrading to 8.3.4

2008-10-22 Thread Teodor Sigaev
Fixed, patch attached. -- Teodor Sigaev E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.sigaev.ru/ diff -c -r src.orig/backend/access/gist/gistget.c src/backend/access/gist/gistget.c ***

Re: [GENERAL] Shopping cart

2008-10-22 Thread Andrus
Ivan, Thank you. I'm writing one especially based on postgresql but I'm still busy with the current client to put the source in such a shape that could be publicly published. What language are you using ? The ones I'm aware of are Zen Cart, OSCommerce, Ubercart and Ecommerce (last 2 for

Re: [GENERAL] where column in ARRAY

2008-10-22 Thread Ludovic Levesque
Hi, http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/arrays.html # SELECT 1 = ANY ('{1,2,3}'::integer[]); ?column? -- t Ludo On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without building up a dynamic query is it possible to: create or replace

Re: [GENERAL] where column in ARRAY

2008-10-22 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:46:35 +0200 Ivan Sergio Borgonovo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Without building up a dynamic query is it possible to: create or replace function t1(a int[]) as $$ ... select * from t1 where c in a; // eg in spite of in (1,2,3); or just obtain a similar effect? tired

Re: [GENERAL] index scan leads to result that is different from sec scan after upgrading to 8.3.4

2008-10-22 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
20 hours to find the fix Teodor, Kudos ! Due to the importance of the fix, will we see very soon a 8.3.5 ? Regards, Laurent. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] How to get schema name which violates fk constraint

2008-10-22 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Scott Marlowe escribió: Actually this sounds like a TODO to me. I imagine the db knows the schema and it's just not reporting it in the error message. Bruce? Tom? Added -- it should be easy to do, so marked as such. -- Alvaro Herrera

Re: [GENERAL] index scan leads to result that is different from sec scan after upgrading to 8.3.4

2008-10-22 Thread Teodor Sigaev
20 hours to find the fix Teodor, Kudos ! Nothing for the pride :(, my bug. Due to the importance of the fix, will we see very soon a 8.3.5 ? Don't known, see discussion. I think, that will make sense. -- Teodor Sigaev E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] Shopping cart

2008-10-22 Thread justin
Andrus wrote: Thomas, http://www.satchmoproject.com/ But it is written in python. Not PHP or C#. Thank you. Unfortunately for me it seems that learning another language, Python + Django to support shopping cart is too much. Where to find Visual FoxPro, PHP or C#/mod_mono scripts for

Re: [GENERAL] Shopping cart

2008-10-22 Thread Jonathan Bond-Caron
On Wed Oct 22 07:01 AM, Andrus wrote: I have looked some PHP source code archives without success yet. For PHP, your best option is http://www.magentocommerce.com/ -- http://svn.magentocommerce.com/source/branches/1.1 I've never used it but it's 'clean' code with commercial backing. --

Re: [GENERAL] How to get schema name which violates fk constraint

2008-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scott Marlowe escribió: Actually this sounds like a TODO to me. I imagine the db knows the schema and it's just not reporting it in the error message. Bruce? Tom? Added -- it should be easy to do, so marked as such. A comprehensive response to this

Re: [GENERAL] How to get schema name which violates fk constraint

2008-10-22 Thread Andrus
The type of fix I'd like to see would be to not change message texts at all, but to add separate error-message fields for the name and schema name of object(s) involved in an error; which would be details that psql, for example, would show only in VERBOSE mode. Note that error report fields

Re: [GENERAL] Shopping cart

2008-10-22 Thread Andrus
Jonathan, Thank you. For PHP, your best option is http://www.magentocommerce.com/ -- http://svn.magentocommerce.com/source/branches/1.1 Magento is only for MySql. My shopping cart must get products and add orders to existing PostgreSQL database. So I must re-write some parts of any

[GENERAL] Storing questionnaire data

2008-10-22 Thread Thom Brown
Hi, Is there any optimal and generally agreed way to store questionnaire data in a database? The questionnaire would have to support both of the following: - different question types (e.g. What is your name? (free form text) Are you a smoker? (yes/no checkbox) Are you male or female? (radio

Re: [GENERAL] Shopping cart

2008-10-22 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:42:48 +0300 Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that anyway most of the popular prepackaged solutions don't support transactions in the DB. Probably I do'nt need transactions. You don't need transactions as much as you don't need a database since you can work on

Re: [GENERAL] syncing with a MySQL DB

2008-10-22 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Brandon Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK. I'll dig in and can probably figure everything out. I'll contact David if I can't. You should try http://www.anysql.net/en/software/refresh_mysql.zip It's written in Perl and designed to replicate Oracle-MySQL,

Re: [GENERAL] How to get schema name which violates fk constraint

2008-10-22 Thread Ben Chobot
On Oct 22, 2008, at 6:50 AM, Tom Lane wrote: In the second place, the reason most of our messages don't already contain schema names is that in the past we've judged it would be mostly clutter; and given the infrequency of complaints I see no reason to change that opinion. Well, FWIW, I

Re: [GENERAL] Shopping cart

2008-10-22 Thread Jonathan Bond-Caron
On Wed Oct 22 10:16 AM, Andrus wrote: Jonathan, Thank you. For PHP, your best option is http://www.magentocommerce.com/ -- http://svn.magentocommerce.com/source/branches/1.1 Magento is only for MySql. Wow that's too bad/sad for the mySQL only. At least they are using innoDB. My

[GENERAL] gin index and same query misteriously slowing down on a nearly-readonly DB

2008-10-22 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
I've the usual 600K-800K record table a bunch of records (one coming from another table) are glued to form a tsvector, 3 with the same weight, the others with different weight. There is a clustered index on the pk. (is it worth to keep it?) I wrote a pretty long function that build up a tsquery

Re: [GENERAL] How to view user defined TYPE

2008-10-22 Thread Goboxe
Hi, Any help on the question below? Thanks. On Oct 15, 6:00 pm, Goboxe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Let say I created a new type: CREATE TYPE compfoo AS (f1 int, f2 text); How can I view its definition? I tried to view it in pgAdmin but seems cannot fine any node that display that?

Resp.: [GENERAL] text array accumulate to multidimensional text array

2008-10-22 Thread Osvaldo Kussama
2008/10/14, Rainer Zaiss [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would like to aggregate a text array into a multidimensional text array. Let us say I have one table with two collumns IDARRAY A{A1,B1,C1} A{A2,B2,C2} B {A3,B3,C3} If I use a GROUP BY ID, I would like to receive following

Re: [GENERAL] Shopping cart

2008-10-22 Thread Andrus
I'm not sure / have not used either. Magento seems to use Zend_Db as the database abstraction so it seems like a matter of porting the schema. Ubercart does look simpler, go whatever you find more interesting or faster to do. This is interesting. If it better to modify Magento or Zend Cart

[GENERAL] ALTER/DROP table/view assymmetry

2008-10-22 Thread George Pavlov
This is minor, but just curious about the reasons for the assymetry between ALTER and DROP with respect to tables vs. views. * ALTER TABLE seems to work on both tables and views (even though ALTER VIEW exists, albeit with a limited operation support). * DROP TABLE works only on tables, not on

Re: [GENERAL] How to get schema name which violates fk constraint

2008-10-22 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane escribió: A comprehensive response to this type of gripe wouldn't be all that easy. In the first place, there'd be a lot of code to touch. Well, that makes it tedious, which is not the same as hard. In the second place, the reason most of our messages don't already contain schema

Re: [GENERAL] How to get schema name which violates fk constraint

2008-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane escribió: In the second place, the reason most of our messages don't already contain schema names is that in the past we've judged it would be mostly clutter; and given the infrequency of complaints I see no reason to change that opinion. I

Re: [GENERAL] How to get schema name which violates fk constraint

2008-10-22 Thread Andrus
Well, FWIW, I also would like to be able to see which schema caused the violation, as I'm in a similar boat of having the same table name in multiple schemas. Maybe to report schema name only if it is not public or if same table exists in different schemas or report it in detail message or

Re: [GENERAL] How to get schema name which violates fk constraint

2008-10-22 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane escribió: In the second place, the reason most of our messages don't already contain schema names is that in the past we've judged it would be mostly clutter; and given the

Re: [GENERAL] How to get schema name which violates fk constraint

2008-10-22 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, FWIW, I also would like to be able to see which schema caused the violation, as I'm in a similar boat of having the same table name in multiple schemas. Maybe to report schema name only if it is not public or if same

Re: [GENERAL] How to view user defined TYPE

2008-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
Goboxe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let say I created a new type: CREATE TYPE compfoo AS (f1 int, f2 text); How can I view its definition? In psql, \d works: regression=# CREATE TYPE compfoo AS (f1 int, f2 text); CREATE TYPE regression=# \d compfoo Composite type public.compfoo Column | Type

Re: [GENERAL] text array accumulate to multidimensional text array

2008-10-22 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Osvaldo Kussama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/14, Rainer Zaiss [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would like to aggregate a text array into a multidimensional text array. Let us say I have one table with two collumns IDARRAY A{A1,B1,C1} A{A2,B2,C2} B

Re: [GENERAL] ALTER/DROP table/view assymmetry

2008-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
George Pavlov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wouldn't it be cleaner if view operations worked only on views and table ones on tables? It's not worth the backwards-compatibility issues that would ensue. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] How to get schema name which violates fk constraint

2008-10-22 Thread Craig Ringer
George Pavlov wrote: I suspect lack of complaints is largely due to the (small) number of people using namespaces -- the denominator should be users of the feature, not all users... I certainly found it extremely frustrating that errors didn't reference the involved schema when I was

[GENERAL] triggers problems whit function

2008-10-22 Thread Ma . Cristina Peña C .
I want to use a function in to a trigger This is my CREATE FUNCTION subradio(integer) RETURNS integer AS 'select cast(count (claveubica) as integer ) from asradios where ubicacion =0;' LANGUAGE 'sql'; And my ttrigger is CREATE TRIGGER validaradios AFTER DELETE ON subestacion FOR EACH

Re: [GENERAL] How to get schema name which violates fk constraint

2008-10-22 Thread George Pavlov
In the second place, the reason most of our messages don't already contain schema names is that in the past we've judged it would be mostly clutter; and given the infrequency of complaints I see no reason to change that opinion. I tend to disagree. We can run a poll in a wider

Re: [GENERAL] triggers problems whit function

2008-10-22 Thread Fernando Moreno
2008/10/22 Ma. Cristina Peña C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to use a function in to a trigger This is my CREATE FUNCTION subradio(integer) RETURNS integer AS 'select cast(count (claveubica) as integer ) from asradios where ubicacion =0;' LANGUAGE 'sql'; And my ttrigger is CREATE

[GENERAL] how to split coordinates from point

2008-10-22 Thread Alexander Kuprijanov
Hi How to get X and Y coordinates from point(X,Y)? I need only X from (X,Y) Thanks in advance -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] how to split coordinates from point

2008-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
Alexander Kuprijanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How to get X and Y coordinates from point(X,Y)? Subscript it. See the next-to-last para on http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/functions-geometry.html regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

[GENERAL] join question

2008-10-22 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
Hey folks, I am trying to rewrite a query here, that takes 1.5m atm to finish. I got it down to 20s, and still trying to pin it down. basically, a query looks something like that atm: select a.*, b.* from a join b on a.id = b.a_id and a.banned true where a.start = now() and b.end

Re: [GENERAL] triggers problems whit function

2008-10-22 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Fernando Moreno a écrit : 2008/10/22 Ma. Cristina Peña C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I want to use a function in to a trigger This is my CREATE FUNCTION subradio(integer) RETURNS integer AS 'select cast(count (claveubica) as integer ) from asradios where

Re: [GENERAL] join question

2008-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
=?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Ja=C5=9Bkiewicz?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: that's 20s query, and now I got it down to 10s , by using something - which in my eyes would be always wrong - and against all logic. So if someone could please explain to me why is it faster: [ shrug... ] If you aren't going to

Re: [GENERAL] triggers problems whit function

2008-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
Guillaume Lelarge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fernando Moreno a écrit : A trigger function must have a specific structure, it takes no arguments It can take arguments. No, it can't. At least not in the declaration. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing

[GENERAL] docbook xml into/out-of sql-tables

2008-10-22 Thread Otto Hirr
Greetings, I'm looking for pointers to info on storeing / retreving docbook, or other document type systems, in sql tables. My searchs on docbook sql etc turn up info on manuals etc for a system in docbook, which is not at all what I'm looking for. (e.g. postgresql doc are in docbook form...)

[GENERAL] Database design for separate tsearch table

2008-10-22 Thread Mikkel H??gh
Hi, I'm trying to make a module allowing Drupal to take advantage of PostgreSQL's excellent Full Text Search, aka. tsearch. Since this module will probably not become part of Drupal core right off the bat, I need to do this without modifying Drupal's own tables, so I've created a new one for

Re: [GENERAL] join question

2008-10-22 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
we're even more in the dark than you are. :) so here are the plans, that's the real table run. QUERY PLAN after

Re: [GENERAL] Database design for separate tsearch table

2008-10-22 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:10:19 +0200 Mikkel Høgh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to make a module allowing Drupal to take advantage of PostgreSQL's excellent Full Text Search, aka. tsearch. Since this module will probably not become part of Drupal core right off the bat, I need to do

[GENERAL] stackbuilder updates

2008-10-22 Thread Jeff
Greetings: I successfully installed PostgreSQL 8.3.4-1 on Windows 2003 Server. Additionally, I used the stackbuilder to install Apache 2.2.4 and PHP 5.1.3. What is the suggested method of updating Apache and PHP? BTW, I found it interesting that Apache and PHP would live within my

Re: [GENERAL] join question

2008-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
=?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Ja=C5=9Bkiewicz?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so here are the plans, that's the real table run. Hmm, well this rowcount estimate is way off: - Hash Anti Join (cost=376.60..37791.22 rows=1 width=8) (actual time=15.195..8216.448 rows=2 loops=1) The

Re: [GENERAL] join question

2008-10-22 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Ja=C5=9Bkiewicz?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so here are the plans, that's the real table run. Hmm, well this rowcount estimate is way off: - Hash Anti Join (cost=376.60..37791.22

Re: [GENERAL] join question

2008-10-22 Thread marcin mank
Sort Method: external sort Disk: 1320kB One simple speedup could be upping Your work_mem to 2M for this query, so the sorts are in memory. btw: Last time I used Postgres, it did not show the sort method. Cool. Greetings Marcin Mank -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] join question

2008-10-22 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks like you are testing a case where the tables all fit in memory. Do you expect that to be the reality for your production use? If so, you might want to reduce random_page_cost to something close to 1 to reflect it.

Re: [GENERAL] join question

2008-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
=?UTF-8?Q?Grzegorz_Ja=C5=9Bkiewicz?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure why the rowcount estimate is so far off, but the antijoin code is all new and probably there's an estimation bug in there somewhere. (You didn't get

Re: [GENERAL] join question

2008-10-22 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
thanks. I shall try it.Also, thanks for putting my name in cvs log ;)