Re: [Fwd: Re: [GENERAL] GEQO randomness?]

2008-11-04 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 06:57:25PM -0400, Eric Schwarzenbach wrote: > > My problem with GEQO using a random number generator is that > non-deterministic behavior is really hard to debug, and problems can go > undiagnosed for ages. Frankly I would rather something fail all the > time, than it work

Re: [GENERAL] Storage location of temporary files

2008-11-04 Thread Christian Schröder
Tomasz Ostrowski wrote: This is wrong. RAID5 is slower than RAID1. You should go for RAID1+0 for fast and reliable storage. Or RAID0 for even faster but unreliable. I did not find a clear statement about this. I agree that RAID10 would be better than RAID5, but in some situations RAID5 at lea

Re: [GENERAL] Installation Error of postgresql-8.1.5 with perl.

2008-11-04 Thread praveen
Hello Tom, During configure I find the error in config.log file checking for flags to link embedded Perl... Can't locate ExtUtils/Embed.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/li

Re: [GENERAL] I'm puzzled by a foreign key constraint problem

2008-11-04 Thread Craig Ringer
Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > The thing is, the C++ code does this > > BEGIN transaction 1 > INSERT project > COMMIT > > BEGIN transaction 2 > SET permissions > COMMIT > > or, at least, it's supposed to. OK, and we know that if it is doing what it is supposed to, transaction 2 /must/ see the chang

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Allison
Scott Ribe wrote: 'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/. The question is *why* the location is nonstandard. Starting with Xcode 3, all the developer tools get installed under the Developer directory, in order to allow one to easily have multiple versions of Xcode installed alongside each o

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Scott Ribe
>> 'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/. > > The question is *why* the location is nonstandard. Starting with Xcode 3, all the developer tools get installed under the Developer directory, in order to allow one to easily have multiple versions of Xcode installed alongside each other. The ques

Re: pg_casts view (was Re: date_trun() with timezones? (was Re: [GENERAL] TIME column ...))

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane escribió: >> There already is a \dC command in psql, which has nice enough output >> format but doesn't provide any way to select a subset of the table. >> Maybe we should just agree that its argument is a pattern for the >> castsource type's n

Re: [GENERAL] GEQO randomness?

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Eric Schwarzenbach wrote: > This is in a sense a followup to my post with subject "Wildly erratic > query performance". The more I think about it the only thing that makes > sense of my results is if the query planner really WAS choosing my join > order truly randomly each time. I went digging into

[GENERAL] postgresql installation - PL/???

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Allison
This should be a dumb question: --with-perl I don't see that I have to do this in order to load pl/perl as a function/trigger language option. So I should assume that this will compile pl/perl in rather than having it available as a loadable function. Nice for optimizations? I'm assuming

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Allison
Tom Lane wrote: Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I tried getting a source install on my mac book yesterday and today. It's not a normal *nix installation. The location of the files are all non-standard. 'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/. The question is *why* the location is no

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread A.M.
On Nov 4, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I tried getting a source install on my mac book yesterday and today. It's not a normal *nix installation. The location of the files are all non-standard. 'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/. The que

Re: [GENERAL] Error al crear una base en español.....

2008-11-04 Thread Diego Schulz
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Eduardo Arévalo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hola quiero crear una base que soporte caracteres en español y le doy este > comando pero no crea la base sino me manda este error: > > -bash-3.2$ ./createdb --encoding=LATIN1 sig_spa_prueba > Password: > createdb: databas

[GENERAL] Error al crear una base en español.....

2008-11-04 Thread Eduardo Arévalo
hola quiero crear una base que soporte caracteres en español y le doy este comando pero no crea la base sino me manda este error: -bash-3.2$ ./createdb --encoding=LATIN1 sig_spa_prueba Password: createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: encoding LATIN1 does not match server's locale en_US.UTF-8

Re: [GENERAL] Semi-customized queries? Subset of SQL? Accessing the parser? Injection?

2008-11-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Webb Sprague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Or do it with simple combo boxes if you >> want to limit the users to crippled queries.) > > I want to limit my users to *half* crippled queries -- arbitrary > column lists, where clauses, group by lists, and sort by lists.

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Steve Atkins
On Nov 4, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Tom Allison wrote: I tried getting a source install on my mac book yesterday and today. It's not a normal *nix installation. The location of the files are all non-standard. 'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/. It's in /usr/bin/make on my OS X box (as well

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried getting a source install on my mac book yesterday and today. > It's not a normal *nix installation. The location of the files are all > non-standard. > 'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/. The question is *why* the location is nonstandard.

Re: [GENERAL] I'm puzzled by a foreign key constraint problem

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... or, at least, it's supposed to. Those two operations are not supposed > to overlap at all even if they're on two different connections. I > thought I had verified this by looking at the log file. I mean, I can > look at the log file and see thin

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Allison
Francisco Figueiredo Jr. wrote: On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: I feel good about control here, and I certainly don't have any problems. So, please don't whine :) Especially since I want to run cvs head, and be able to actually u

Re: [GENERAL] I'm puzzled by a foreign key constraint problem

2008-11-04 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 04:40 +0900, Craig Ringer wrote: > The point is that if your initial create and the setting of the initial > permissions must succeed or fail together, they MUST be done within a > single transaction. That is, in fact, the fundamental point of database > transactions. I under

Re: [GENERAL] Semi-customized queries? Subset of SQL? Accessing the parser? Injection?

2008-11-04 Thread Steve Atkins
On Nov 4, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Webb Sprague wrote: Or do it with simple combo boxes if you want to limit the users to crippled queries.) I want to limit my users to *half* crippled queries -- arbitrary column lists, where clauses, group by lists, and sort by lists. I want to make sure that the

Re: [GENERAL] time interval format srting

2008-11-04 Thread Sam Mason
Andreas Kretschmer replied: > I wrote: > > How about doing: > > > > SELECT justify_interval(90061 * '1 second'::INTERVAL); > > Nice, didn't know this function. Yup, PG does everything! Not sure when I discovered it; also not sure if I've ever had to use it in anger before. I am, however, sli

Re: [GENERAL] time interval format srting

2008-11-04 Thread Andreas Kretschmer
Sam Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:06:37PM +, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > > I've been searching the docs on a simple way to convert a time > > _duration_ in seconds to the format dd:hh:mm:ss, but I can't find it. > > > > 90061 --> 1d 1h 1m 1s > > > > (90061=

Re: [GENERAL] Semi-customized queries? Subset of SQL? Accessing the parser? Injection?

2008-11-04 Thread Webb Sprague
> Or do it with simple combo boxes if you > want to limit the users to crippled queries.) I want to limit my users to *half* crippled queries -- arbitrary column lists, where clauses, group by lists, and sort by lists. I want to make sure that they aren't doing any data modifications nested insid

Re: [GENERAL] I'm puzzled by a foreign key constraint problem

2008-11-04 Thread Craig Ringer
Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > It's possible, likely even. We use a connection pool to manage > connections to the database and they're doled out as the system sees > fit. However, at some point every update has to finish such that any > view of the database will see that update as finished, right?

Re: [GENERAL] Semi-customized queries? Subset of SQL? Accessing the parser? Injection?

2008-11-04 Thread Steve Atkins
On Nov 4, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Webb Sprague wrote: If they're that smart, they're smart enough to deal with SQL, and likely to be frustrated by a like-sql-but-not command language or a GUI query designer. Instead, create a user that only has enough access to read data (and maybe create temporary

Re: [GENERAL] Semi-customized queries? Subset of SQL? Accessing the parser? Injection?

2008-11-04 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:12:05AM -0800, Webb Sprague wrote: > > If they're that smart, they're smart enough to deal with SQL, and > > likely to be frustrated by a like-sql-but-not command language or > > a GUI query designer. > > > > Instead, create a user that only has enough access to read data

Re: [GENERAL] Semi-customized queries? Subset of SQL? Accessing the parser? Injection?

2008-11-04 Thread David Wilson
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Webb Sprague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can't do that. (Or I wouldn't have asked the question.) Need a WWW > interface, period. A WWW interface doesn't preclude the suggestion of simply relying on permissions to maintain safety and providing what amounts to a q

Re: [GENERAL] Semi-customized queries? Subset of SQL? Accessing the parser? Injection?

2008-11-04 Thread Webb Sprague
> If they're that smart, they're smart enough to deal with SQL, and > likely to be frustrated by a like-sql-but-not command language or > a GUI query designer. > > Instead, create a user that only has enough access to read data (and > maybe create temporary tables) and use that user to give them >

Re: [GENERAL] I'm puzzled by a foreign key constraint problem

2008-11-04 Thread Richard Huxton
Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 07:49 +, Richard Huxton wrote: >> Jonathan Guthrie wrote: >>> When I create a project, entries in the project table and the resource >>> table are created in a single function. Then, separate functions are >>> called to set the owner's access to

Re: [GENERAL] I'm puzzled by a foreign key constraint problem

2008-11-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 07:49 +, Richard Huxton wrote: >> Jonathan Guthrie wrote: >> > When I create a project, entries in the project table and the resource >> > table are created in a single function. Then, separate

Re: [GENERAL] I'm puzzled by a foreign key constraint problem

2008-11-04 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 07:49 +, Richard Huxton wrote: > Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > > When I create a project, entries in the project table and the resource > > table are created in a single function. Then, separate functions are > > called to set the owner's access to the new project. These oth

Re: [GENERAL] Semi-customized queries? Subset of SQL? Accessing the parser? Injection?

2008-11-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Steve Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 4, 2008, at 9:21 AM, Webb Sprague wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am writing an application that allows users to analyze demographic >> and economic data, and I would like the users to be able to pick >> columns, transf

Re: [GENERAL] time interval format srting

2008-11-04 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Tue, dem 04.11.2008, um 17:06:37 + mailte Joao Ferreira gmail folgendes: > Hello, > > I've been searching the docs on a simple way to convert a time > _duration_ in seconds to the format dd:hh:mm:ss, but I can't find it. > > 90061 --> 1d 1h 1m 1s > > (90061=24*3600+3600+60+1) > > any id

Re: [GENERAL] time interval format srting

2008-11-04 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:06:37PM +, Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > I've been searching the docs on a simple way to convert a time > _duration_ in seconds to the format dd:hh:mm:ss, but I can't find it. > > 90061 --> 1d 1h 1m 1s > > (90061=24*3600+3600+60+1) > > any ideas ? > > I've been usi

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: >> >> I feel good about control here, and I certainly don't have any problems. >> So, please don't whine :) >> Especially since I want to run cvs head, and be able to actually update it >> from cvs w

Re: [GENERAL] Semi-customized queries? Subset of SQL? Accessing the parser? Injection?

2008-11-04 Thread Steve Atkins
On Nov 4, 2008, at 9:21 AM, Webb Sprague wrote: Hi all, I am writing an application that allows users to analyze demographic and economic data, and I would like the users to be able to pick columns, transform columns with functions (economists take the logarithm of everything), and write custo

Re: [GENERAL] time interval format srting

2008-11-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've been searching the docs on a simple way to convert a time >> _duration_ in seconds to the format dd:hh:mm:ss, but I can'

Re: [GENERAL] time interval format srting

2008-11-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Joao Ferreira gmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I've been searching the docs on a simple way to convert a time > _duration_ in seconds to the format dd:hh:mm:ss, but I can't find it. > > 90061 --> 1d 1h 1m 1s > > (90061=24*3600+3600+60+1) select number*

Re: [GENERAL] Installation Error of postgresql-8.1.5 with perl.

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
"praveen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but when I execute command "make " that time I got following errors. > make[3]: *** [plperl.o] Error 1 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/postgres/postgresql-8.1.5/src/pl/plperl' > make[2]: *** [all] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/postgre

[GENERAL] Semi-customized queries? Subset of SQL? Accessing the parser? Injection?

2008-11-04 Thread Webb Sprague
Hi all, I am writing an application that allows users to analyze demographic and economic data, and I would like the users to be able to pick columns, transform columns with functions (economists take the logarithm of everything), and write customized WHERE and GROUP-BY clauses. This is kind of li

Re: [GENERAL] JDBC and setting statement_timeout

2008-11-04 Thread Jason Long
Kris Jurka wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Jason Long wrote: *Would someone please comment on the status of setQueryTimeout in the JDBC driver? Is there any workaround if this is still not implemented?* setQueryTimeout is not implemented, the workaround is to manually issue SET statement_time

[GENERAL] time interval format srting

2008-11-04 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
Hello, I've been searching the docs on a simple way to convert a time _duration_ in seconds to the format dd:hh:mm:ss, but I can't find it. 90061 --> 1d 1h 1m 1s (90061=24*3600+3600+60+1) any ideas ? I've been using to_char and to_timestamp to format dates/timestamps... but this is diferent...

[Fwd: Re: [GENERAL] GEQO randomness?]

2008-11-04 Thread Eric Schwarzenbach
My problem with GEQO using a random number generator is that non-deterministic behavior is really hard to debug, and problems can go undiagnosed for ages. Frankly I would rather something fail all the time, than it work most of the time and fail just now and then. Never getting a good plan for a q

[GENERAL] GEQO randomness?

2008-11-04 Thread Eric Schwarzenbach
This is in a sense a followup to my post with subject "Wildly erratic query performance". The more I think about it the only thing that makes sense of my results is if the query planner really WAS choosing my join order truly randomly each time. I went digging into the manual and Section 49.3.1. "G

Re: [GENERAL] perl-DBD-Pg package for CentOS 5?

2008-11-04 Thread Joao Ferreira
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 17:31 +0200, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: > Hi, > Have you considered installing directlly from CPAN ? # perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBD::Pg;' joao > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 09:20 -0400, Kevin Murphy wrote: > > > My life would be complete if it offered perl-DBD-Pg for CentOS 5! > >

Re: [GENERAL] epqa; postgres performance optimizer support tool; opensource.

2008-11-04 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:55:51PM +0530, sathiya psql wrote: > Dear All, > > > Recently i have released the next version of the epqa. which is a very > useful tool for, gives input for optimizing psql queries, and fine tuning > it. Generally, it's good to send announcements like this to pgsql-

Re: [GENERAL] gin creation and previous history of server

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems that gin creation is triggering something nasty in the > server that depends on previous history of the server. Can you put together a self-contained test case that illustrates this? regards, tom lane -- Sent v

[GENERAL] gin creation and previous history of server

2008-11-04 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
It seems that gin creation is triggering something nasty in the server that depends on previous history of the server. If I vacuum full than drop the index and recreate it even with maintenance_work_mem='200MB' index creation may take forever. Stopping the execution may make vacuuming very slow or

Re: [GENERAL] INSERT with RETURNING clause inside SQL function

2008-11-04 Thread Diego Schulz
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Lennin Caro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm re-writing some functions and migrating bussines >> logic from a >> client application to PostgreSQL. >> >> I expected something like this to work, but it doesn't: >> >> -- simple table >> CREATE TABLE somet

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] Installation Error of postgresql-8.1.5 with perl.

2008-11-04 Thread praveen
Hello , I am trying to install postgresql-8.1.5 and postgresql-8.2.5 in linux (Linux version 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 (mockbuild@) (gcc version 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41 EDT 2008).but during compilation it is showing following error. I configure with follow

Re: [GENERAL] Hot standby stops after a few days of inactivity (i.e. no new WAL)

2008-11-04 Thread Marc Schablewski
Yes, 'warm standby' was what I intended to write. This must have been some kind of wishful thinking. ;) But I'd really appreciate 'hot standby' in a future version of postgres. Marc Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Marc Schablewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >>

[GENERAL] Installation Error of postgresql-8.1.5 with perl.

2008-11-04 Thread praveen
Hello , I am trying to install postgresql-8.1.5 and postgresql-8.2.5 in linux (Linux version 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 (mockbuild@) (gcc version 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41 EDT 2008).but during compilation it is showing following error. make[3]: *** [plperl.o]

Re: [GENERAL] Hot standby stops after a few days of inactivity (i.e. no new WAL)

2008-11-04 Thread Marc Schablewski
Ah, ok. I somehow missed the first line of the message an the rest of it left the impression that "something" must be wrong with replication. I guess one of my colleagues might have shut down the database by accident and forgot to tell me. Anyway, thanks for your reply. Marc Alvaro Herrera wro

Re: [GENERAL] Hot standby stops after a few days of inactivity (i.e. no new WAL)

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Marc Schablewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... When looking for a reason why the WAL weren't shipped, we found > the following error message: > 2008-10-31 17:07:52 CET 9162LOG: received smart shutdown request > 2008-10-31 17:07:52 CET 9178FATAL: could not restore file > "00010086

Re: [GENERAL] Hot standby stops after a few days of inactivity (i.e. no new WAL)

2008-11-04 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Marc Schablewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > we are running a PostgreSQL 8.3.3 on a Linux box (SuSE 10.3, 2.6.22 > kernel) as a hot standby. After some maintenances work the WAL files I'm assuming you meant 'warm standby'...hot standby servers can be served

[GENERAL] don't use GIN index, when i use =any

2008-11-04 Thread Laczi József
Hi all! I have a problem. I have a field with type: bigint[], and I create a GIN index on it but don't use the index when i use '=any'. When I try it with '<@' operator, then use index. I don't understand why doesn't work with '=any'? Does anybody knows why doesn't work it? -- Sent via pgsql-

Re: [GENERAL] Hot standby stops after a few days of inactivity (i.e. no new WAL)

2008-11-04 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Marc Schablewski wrote: > Hi, > > we are running a PostgreSQL 8.3.3 on a Linux box (SuSE 10.3, 2.6.22 > kernel) as a hot standby. After some maintenances work the WAL files > couldn't be shipped to that system (which had nothing to do with > postgres, as we found out later). The problem was not no

Re: [GENERAL] epqa; postgres performance optimizer support tool; opensource.

2008-11-04 Thread Sathish Duraiswamy
Sure , i 'll try with our database log Regards sathish On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 5:55 PM, sathiya psql <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > > Recently i have released the next version of the epqa. which is a very > useful tool for, gives input for optimizing psql queries, and fine tuning > i

Re: [GENERAL] INSERT with RETURNING clause inside SQL function

2008-11-04 Thread Lennin Caro
> Hi all, > > I'm re-writing some functions and migrating bussines > logic from a > client application to PostgreSQL. > > I expected something like this to work, but it doesn't: > > -- simple table > CREATE TABLE sometable ( >id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, >text1 text, >text2 text > ); > >

Re: [GENERAL] INSERT with RETURNING clause inside SQL function

2008-11-04 Thread Diego Schulz
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:38 AM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Diego Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Raymond O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Just curious - what have you got against currval()? It seems to me that >>> it would make your life e

[GENERAL] epqa; postgres performance optimizer support tool; opensource.

2008-11-04 Thread sathiya psql
Dear All, Recently i have released the next version of the epqa. which is a very useful tool for, gives input for optimizing psql queries, and fine tuning it. epqa is tool similar like, pqa. But designed and implemented to parse log files which is in GB's. Report is similar like that. More inf

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Niklas Johansson
On 4 nov 2008, at 11.21, Tom Allison wrote: I tried getting a source install on my mac book yesterday and today. It's not a normal *nix installation. The location of the files are all non-standard. 'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/. That's not right. It should definately live in /

Re: [GENERAL] Storage location of temporary files

2008-11-04 Thread Tomasz Ostrowski
On 2008-10-31 09:01, Christian Schröder wrote: > We will now move the database to a raid5 > (which should be faster than the raid1) This is wrong. RAID5 is slower than RAID1. You should go for RAID1+0 for fast and reliable storage. Or RAID0 for even faster but unreliable. Regards Tometzky -- .

Re: [GENERAL] dumbofs - a postgresql filesystem

2008-11-04 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Yiannos Pericleous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > i've created a filesystem that lets you view databases, schemas and tables > of pg server as regular directories, and records as files. > > it is still in its infancy, though. > > more info at http://yiannn

[GENERAL] Hot standby stops after a few days of inactivity (i.e. no new WAL)

2008-11-04 Thread Marc Schablewski
Hi, we are running a PostgreSQL 8.3.3 on a Linux box (SuSE 10.3, 2.6.22 kernel) as a hot standby. After some maintenances work the WAL files couldn't be shipped to that system (which had nothing to do with postgres, as we found out later). The problem was not noticed for about a week. When looking

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql and Mac OS X

2008-11-04 Thread Tom Allison
Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: I feel good about control here, and I certainly don't have any problems. So, please don't whine :) Especially since I want to run cvs head, and be able to actually update it from cvs when I want to, that's the only choice. Postgresql is so easy to get from sources, co

[GENERAL] dumbofs - a postgresql filesystem

2008-11-04 Thread Yiannos Pericleous
hi all, i've created a filesystem that lets you view databases, schemas and tables of pg server as regular directories, and records as files. it is still in its infancy, though. more info at http://yiannnos.com/dumbofs cheers, yiannis -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@pos

[GENERAL] FullText index

2008-11-04 Thread Andreas Kraftl
Hello, we have a table where is a column with language ISO code like en, de, ... How can i build the index, depending on this languagecode? >From the manual: to_tsvector([ config regconfig , ] document text) Where is documented what "config regconfig" can be? Thanks Andreas -- Sent via pgsql-

Re: [GENERAL] Best memory/planner settings for Postgres

2008-11-04 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-general- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thom Brown > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 1:45 AM > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: [GENERAL] Best memory/planner settings for Postgres > > We've got a dedicated database

[GENERAL] Best memory/planner settings for Postgres

2008-11-04 Thread Thom Brown
We've got a dedicated database server running PostgresSQL 8.0.9 (yes, I know it needs upgrading), but I've noticed it looks criminally under-configured. Basically it's running on a server with 2 dual-core Intel Xeon 2.33 Ghz processors and 4Gb memory, but has the following settings in postgresql.c