Re: [GENERAL] Segmentation fault during restoration of compressed(.gz) database

2009-09-17 Thread Richard Huxton
sulmansarwar wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to PostgreSQL. I have been trying to restore a compressed(.gz) > database using > > gunzip -c filename.gz | psql dbname > > After some 8 or 9 tables are restored the program exists giving error: > Segmentation Fault. > Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGS

Re: [GENERAL] Segmentation fault during restoration of compressed(.gz) database

2009-09-17 Thread Richard Huxton
Ignore me - I missed the previous thread with the same question. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd -- 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] Unicode normalization

2009-09-17 Thread Sam Mason
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:01:57AM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Strip_accents_from_strings I'm still confused as to why plpython doesn't know the server's encoding already; seems as though all text operations are predicated on knowing this and hence all but the mo

Re: [GENERAL] Unicode normalization

2009-09-17 Thread Andreas Kalsch
My standard encoding is UTF-8 on all levels so I don't need this high-cost call: plpy.execute("select setting from pg_settings where name = 'server_encoding'"); Additionally I want to get the original cases. For this purpose my solution is still fitting to my need. But it is not the one you

Re[2]: [GENERAL] Problems with pg_dump for PG8.4 for WinXP (MinGW build)

2009-09-17 Thread el dorado
> 2009/9/15 el dorado : > > Hello! > > I need PG 8.4 built from source code for WinXP. So I got archive > > postgresql-8.4.1.tar.gz, unpacked it and built postgres by MinGW. > > Everything seeds to be fine until we tried to test pg_dump. It failed (not > > always but often). > > Command: > > pg_

[GENERAL] What kind of JOIN, if any?

2009-09-17 Thread Paul M Foster
Folks: I can't find a way to do this purely with SQL. Any help would be appreciated. Table 1: urls id | url -- 1 | alfa 2 | bravo 3 | charlie 4 | delta Table 2: access userid | url_id --- paulf | 1 paulf | 2 nancyf | 2 nancyf | 3 The access table is related to th

Re: [GENERAL] What kind of JOIN, if any?

2009-09-17 Thread Serge Fonville
Hi, I'd look into outer joins http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/tutorial-join.html > I can do *part* of this with various JOINs, but the moment I specify > userid = 'paulf', I don't get the rows with NULLs If you want all fields from one table and only those matching from another use

Re: [GENERAL] What kind of JOIN, if any?

2009-09-17 Thread Sam Mason
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:29:11AM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > I want all the records of the > url table, one row for each record, plus the userid field that goes with > it, for a specified user (paulf), with NULLs as needed Maybe something like this? SELECT a.userid, u.url FROM urls u

Re: [GENERAL] What kind of JOIN, if any?

2009-09-17 Thread Mark Styles
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:29:11AM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > I can't find a way to do this purely with SQL. Any help would be > appreciated. > > Table 1: urls > > id | url > -- > 1 | alfa > 2 | bravo > 3 | charlie > 4 | delta > > Table 2: access > > userid | url_id > ---

Re: [GENERAL] What kind of JOIN, if any?

2009-09-17 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:20:57PM +0100, Sam Mason wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:29:11AM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > I want all the records of the > > url table, one row for each record, plus the userid field that goes with > > it, for a specified user (paulf), with NULLs as needed > >

[GENERAL] Index Usage in View with Aggregates

2009-09-17 Thread Ian Harding
I have never had this particular problem in PostgreSQL, it seems to "just know" when queries can be "flattened" and indexes used. I know that takes tons of work. Thank you for that. Here's the Oracle question. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1439500/oracle-index-usage-in-view-with-aggregates

Re: [GENERAL] Index Usage in View with Aggregates

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Ian Harding wrote: > I have never had this particular problem in PostgreSQL, it seems to > "just know" when queries can be "flattened" and indexes used.  I know > that takes tons of work.  Thank you for that. > > Here's the Oracle question. > > http://stackoverflow

Re: [GENERAL] What kind of JOIN, if any?

2009-09-17 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:23:12AM -0400, Mark Styles wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:29:11AM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > I can't find a way to do this purely with SQL. Any help would be > > appreciated. > > > > Table 1: urls > > > > id | url > > -- > > 1 | alfa > > 2 | bra

[GENERAL] COPY binary

2009-09-17 Thread Nathaniel
Hello, When using PQputCopyData and PQgetCopyData to send and receive binary data from postgres, would you include/expect headers and trailers (as well as the tuples themselves) as you would in a binary file named 'file_name' if you were executing the SQL "COPY BINARY table_name FROM/TO 'file_n

[GENERAL] Multiple counts on criteria - Approach to a problem

2009-09-17 Thread Neil Saunders
Hi all, I maintain an online property rental application. The main focus of the UI is the search engine, which I'd now like to improve by allowing filtering of the search results shown on some criteria, but provide a count of the number of properties that meet that criteria. For example, we're lo

Re: [GENERAL] COPY binary

2009-09-17 Thread Tom Lane
Nathaniel writes: > When using PQputCopyData and PQgetCopyData to send and receive binary data > from postgres, would you include/expect headers and trailers (as well as the > tuples themselves) as you would in a binary file named 'file_name' if you > were executing the SQL "COPY BINARY table_n

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple counts on criteria - Approach to a problem

2009-09-17 Thread Ben Chobot
Neil Saunders wrote: Hi all, I maintain an online property rental application. The main focus of the UI is the search engine, which I'd now like to improve by allowing filtering of the search results shown on some criteria, but provide a count of the number of properties that meet that criter

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple counts on criteria - Approach to a problem

2009-09-17 Thread Adam Rich
Neil Saunders wrote: Hi all, I maintain an online property rental application. The main focus of the UI is the search engine, which I'd now like to improve by allowing filtering of the search results shown on some criteria, but provide a count of the number of properties that meet that criter

[GENERAL] creation of foreign key without checking prior data?

2009-09-17 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
Hi, would it be possible to add a way to create foreign key without checking of prior data? Before you will say it's a bad idea, because then you might get invalid data - i know. You can geet invalid data in column that is checked by foriegn key even now - by temporarily disablnig triggers and/or

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple counts on criteria - Approach to a problem

2009-09-17 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Neil Saunders : > Hi all, > > I maintain an online property rental application. The main focus of the UI > is the search engine, which I'd now like to improve by allowing filtering of > the search results shown on some criteria, but provide a count of the number > of properties tha

[GENERAL] 'Weird' errors

2009-09-17 Thread Martin Gainty
experiencing weird 14001 errors .no logs not evt nothing to go by so i completely rebuilt the cygwin postgres ran cygwin then i ran the initdb as follows $ ./postgresql-8.4.1/src/bin/initdb/initdb.exe -D /pgsql/data The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres". T

Re: [GENERAL] creation of foreign key without checking prior data?

2009-09-17 Thread Peter Hunsberger
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:40 AM, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > > So, since (as we know) foreign keys are not fault-proof, wouldn't it be > good to provide a way to create them without all this time-consuming > check? No. If you don't want the behavior of a foreign key then just don't defin

Re: [GENERAL] creation of foreign key without checking prior data?

2009-09-17 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:31:14PM -0500, Peter Hunsberger wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:40 AM, hubert depesz lubaczewski > wrote: > > > > So, since (as we know) foreign keys are not fault-proof, wouldn't it be > > good to provide a way to create them without all this time-consuming > > chec

[GENERAL] pg_restore -j

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
I'm trying to do a parallel restore with pg_restore -j but I'm only seeing one CPU being used really. The file is custom format, but was made by pg_dump for pgsql 8.3. Is that a problem? Do I need a backup made with 8.4 to run parallel restore? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-gen

Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore -j

2009-09-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 11:48 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > I'm trying to do a parallel restore with pg_restore -j but I'm only > seeing one CPU being used really. The file is custom format, but was > made by pg_dump for pgsql 8.3. Is that a problem? Do I need a backup > made with 8.4 to run paral

Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore -j

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 11:48 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> I'm trying to do a parallel restore with pg_restore -j but I'm only >> seeing one CPU being used really.   The file is custom format, but was >> made by pg_dump for pgsql 8.3.  Is

Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore -j

2009-09-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 12:05 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Joshua D. Drake > wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 11:48 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > >> I'm trying to do a parallel restore with pg_restore -j but I'm only > >> seeing one CPU being used really. The fi

Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore -j

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 12:05 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Joshua D. Drake >> wrote: >> > On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 11:48 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> >> I'm trying to do a parallel restore with pg_restor

Re: [GENERAL] creation of foreign key without checking prior data?

2009-09-17 Thread Peter Hunsberger
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:44 PM, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:31:14PM -0500, Peter Hunsberger wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:40 AM, hubert depesz lubaczewski >> wrote: >> > >> > So, since (as we know) foreign keys are not fault-proof, wouldn't it be >> > go

Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore -j

2009-09-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 12:15 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Joshua D. Drake > wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 12:05 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Joshua D. Drake > >> wrote: > >> > On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 11:48 -0600, Scott Mar

[GENERAL] Row estimates on empty table

2009-09-17 Thread Alban Hertroys
Hello all, I'm seeing something strange with the row-estimates on an empty table. The table in question is merely a template-table that specialised tables inherit from, it will never contain any data. Nevertheless, after importing my creation script and vacuum analyse the result I see is

Re: [GENERAL] creation of foreign key without checking prior data?

2009-09-17 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 01:22:52PM -0500, Peter Hunsberger wrote: > You can't have a foreign key that doesn't have relational integrity, > it is no longer a foreign key. If you don't want the delay then don't > define the key, at least until some point at which you can take the > delay. If there

Re: [GENERAL] 'Weird' errors

2009-09-17 Thread Richard Huxton
Martin Gainty wrote: > experiencing weird 14001 errors .no logs not evt nothing to go by so i > completely rebuilt the cygwin postgres > > ran cygwin > then i ran the initdb as follows > > $ ./postgresql-8.4.1/src/bin/initdb/initdb.exe -D /pgsql/data > The files belonging to this database system

[GENERAL] limiting query time and/or RAM

2009-09-17 Thread Alan McKay
Is there any way to limit a query to a certain amount of RAM and / or certain runtime? i.e. automatically kill it if it exceeds either boundary? We've finally narrowed down our system crashes and have a smoking gun, but no way to fix it in the immediate term. This sort of limit would really help

Re: [GENERAL] limiting query time and/or RAM

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > Is there any way to limit a query to a certain amount of RAM and / or > certain runtime? > > i.e. automatically kill it if it exceeds either boundary? > > We've finally narrowed down our system crashes and have a smoking gun, > but no way to fi

Re: [GENERAL] limiting query time and/or RAM

2009-09-17 Thread Alan McKay
> Generally speaking work_mem limits ram used.  What are your > non-default postgresql.conf settings? This cannot be right because we had queries taking 4G and see our setting is such : work_mem = 2MB # min 64kB I'll have to find a copy of the default file to figure out

Re: [GENERAL] limiting query time and/or RAM

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >> Generally speaking work_mem limits ram used.  What are your >> non-default postgresql.conf settings? > > This cannot be right because we had queries taking 4G and see our > setting is such : Are you sure they were using that much memory? If y

Re: [GENERAL] creation of foreign key without checking prior data?

2009-09-17 Thread Sam Mason
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 08:34:20PM +0200, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 01:22:52PM -0500, Peter Hunsberger wrote: > > You can't have a foreign key that doesn't have relational integrity, > > it is no longer a foreign key. > > you do realize that having foreign key defi

Re: [GENERAL] 'Weird' errors

2009-09-17 Thread Martin Gainty
thanks for the prompt response i took the stack of bad calls and placed them in a .sh and they all ran flawlessly.. there is a delta in there somewhere I have a followup (if i may) I am able to get past the initdb but when i run the postgres on the data folder I get no postgresql.conf found s

Re: [GENERAL] limiting query time and/or RAM

2009-09-17 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Scott Marlowe : > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > > Is there any way to limit a query to a certain amount of RAM and / or > > certain runtime? > > > > i.e. automatically kill it if it exceeds either boundary? > > > > We've finally narrowed down our system cras

Re: [GENERAL] limiting query time and/or RAM

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Scott Marlowe : > >> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >> > Is there any way to limit a query to a certain amount of RAM and / or >> > certain runtime? >> > >> > i.e. automatically kill it if it exceeds either b

Re: [GENERAL] limiting query time and/or RAM

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Bill Moran wrote: >> In response to Scott Marlowe : >> >>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >>> > Is there any way to limit a query to a certain amount of RAM and / or >>> > certain runtim

[GENERAL] Substitutes for some Oracle packages

2009-09-17 Thread Arnold, Sandra
We are in the process of migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL. One of the things that we are needing to find out is what to use in place of Oracle supplied functionality such as "DBMS_OUTPUT" and "UTL_FILE". We are currently using this type of functionality in Stored Procedures and packages. W

Re: [GENERAL] 'Weird' errors

2009-09-17 Thread Richard Huxton
Martin Gainty wrote: > thanks for the prompt response > i took the stack of bad calls and placed them in a .sh and they all ran > flawlessly.. > there is a delta in there somewhere > > I have a followup (if i may) > I am able to get past the initdb but when i run the postgres on the data > fol

Re: [GENERAL] Substitutes for some Oracle packages

2009-09-17 Thread Sam Mason
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:53:36PM -0400, Arnold, Sandra wrote: > We are in the process of migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL. One of > the things that we are needing to find out is what to use in place of > Oracle supplied functionality such as "DBMS_OUTPUT" and "UTL_FILE". For those of us who

Re: [GENERAL] limiting query time and/or RAM

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Scott Marlowe > wrote: >> True, but with a work_mem of 2M, I can't imagine having enough sorting >> going on to need 4G of ram.  (2000 sorts? That's a lot)  I'm betting >> the OP was looking at top and misunder

Re: [GENERAL] limiting query time and/or RAM

2009-09-17 Thread Sam Mason
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:56:09PM -0400, Alan McKay wrote: > Our databases are pretty big, and our queries pretty complex. How big is "big" and how complex is "complex"? An EXPLAIN (EXPLAIN ANALYSE if it's not going to hurt things) of some of your common queries would help a lot here. -- Sam

Re: [GENERAL] Substitutes for some Oracle packages

2009-09-17 Thread Arnold, Sandra
DBMS_OUTPUT is used to either display output or write output to a file. UTL_FILE is used to open a file and then write data to a file. Most of the time we use these two packages to create log files from PL/SQL stored procedures/packages. -Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@p

Re: [GENERAL] limiting query time and/or RAM

2009-09-17 Thread Alan McKay
> I'm gonna make a SWAG that you've got 4 to 4.5G shared buffers, and if > you subract that from DRS you'll find it's using a few hundred to > several hundred megs.  still a lot, but not in the 4G range you're > expecting.  What does top say about this? I've just add this in my cronjob with "top -

Re: [GENERAL] haversine formula with postgreSQL

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Jonathan wrote: > Hi! > > I am looking at the PHP/MySQL Google Maps API store locator example > here: > > http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlsearch.html > > And I'm trying to get this to work with PostgreSQL instead of MySQL. > > I've (slightly) modifi

Re: [GENERAL] Substitutes for some Oracle packages

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Arnold, Sandra wrote: > We are in the process of migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL.  One of the > things that we are needing to find out is what to use in place of Oracle > supplied functionality such as "DBMS_OUTPUT" and "UTL_FILE".  We are > currently using thi

Re: [GENERAL] limiting query time and/or RAM

2009-09-17 Thread Alan McKay
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > True, but with a work_mem of 2M, I can't imagine having enough sorting > going on to need 4G of ram.  (2000 sorts? That's a lot)  I'm betting > the OP was looking at top and misunderstanding what the numbers mean, > which is pretty common rea

[GENERAL] NAS

2009-09-17 Thread Marco Fortina
Hello there! A customer of our company would like to create a 2 nodes cluster connected to an external NAS storage. I would like to know if PostgreSQL supports its datafiles on this kind of storage and if this solution is certified. Thanks Marco Fortina Senior Consultant Mobile:+39 348 524673

Re: [GENERAL] NAS

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Marco Fortina wrote: > > Hello there! > > A customer of our company would like to create a 2 nodes cluster connected > to an external NAS storage. I would like to know if PostgreSQL supports its > datafiles on this kind of storage and if this solution is certified.

Re: [GENERAL] Substitutes for some Oracle packages

2009-09-17 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello, 2009/9/17 Arnold, Sandra : > We are in the process of migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL.  One of the > things that we are needing to find out is what to use in place of Oracle > supplied functionality such as "DBMS_OUTPUT" and "UTL_FILE".  We are > currently using this type of functionali

Re: [GENERAL] Does PG cache results of an aggregate function, (and results of non-volatile functions)?

2009-09-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Allan Kamau wrote: > Hi, > I do have a query which make use of the results of an aggregate > function (for example bit_or) several times in the output column list > of the SELECT clause, does PostgreSQL simply execute the aggregate > function only once and provide the output to the other calls to t

Re: [GENERAL] 'Weird' errors

2009-09-17 Thread Martin Gainty
yes i flipped to my regular account and re-created the db with initdb -D newFolder i have noticed that initdb basically deletes everything ..and the reason for doing that would be? initdb -D dataDir --noclean allows initdb to retain the data folder and postgresql.conf configuration file conten

[GENERAL] haversine formula with postgreSQL

2009-09-17 Thread Jonathan
Hi! I am looking at the PHP/MySQL Google Maps API store locator example here: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/articles/phpsqlsearch.html And I'm trying to get this to work with PostgreSQL instead of MySQL. I've (slightly) modified the haversine formula part of my PHP script but I keep getting

Re: [GENERAL] 'Weird' errors

2009-09-17 Thread Tom Lane
Martin Gainty writes: > i flipped to my regular account and re-created the db with initdb -D newFolder > i have noticed that initdb basically deletes everything ..and the reason for > doing that would be? Oh? It should refuse to do anything if the target directory is not empty; and does act tha

Re: [GENERAL] Row estimates on empty table

2009-09-17 Thread Tom Lane
Alban Hertroys writes: > I'm seeing something strange with the row-estimates on an empty table. It's intentional that we don't assume an empty table is empty. Otherwise you could get some spectacularly awful plans if you create a table, fill it, and immediately query it.

Re: [GENERAL] haversine formula with postgreSQL

2009-09-17 Thread Tom Lane
Jonathan writes: > Here is my PHP with SQL: > $query = sprintf("SELECT 'ID', 'FACILITY', 'ADDRESS', latitude, > longitude, ( 3959 * acos( cos( radians('%s') ) * cos( radians > ( latitude ) ) * cos( radians( longitude ) - radians('%s') ) + sin > ( radians('%s') ) * sin( radians( latitude ) ) ) ) AS

Re: [GENERAL] 'Weird' errors

2009-09-17 Thread Martin Gainty
i was able to get it sorted out with the latest release these initdb and pg_ctl commands as follows initdb --pgdata=/pgsql/data #postgresql.conf contents consist of # this is a comment #what port to run on port = 5432 #hostname or address on which the postmaster is to listen for connection

Re: [GENERAL] limiting query time and/or RAM

2009-09-17 Thread Alan McKay
> An EXPLAIN (EXPLAIN ANALYSE if it's not going to hurt things) of some of > your common queries would help a lot here. Yes, we are just about to start getting into that sort of thing. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of F

Re: [GENERAL] haversine formula with postgreSQL

2009-09-17 Thread Mike Christensen
This behavior kinda gets me sometimes too, especially in WHERE clauses.. I'm a bit curious as to why this is so bad. I could see why it would be expensive to do, since your clause wouldn't be indexed - but why is the syntax itself not allowed? Repeating the clause isn't gonna gain you any speed,

Re: [GENERAL] haversine formula with postgreSQL

2009-09-17 Thread Jonathan
It's the whole query as far as I can tell. The app takes input from the user --- the user enters an address and chooses a radius ("show me all facilities within 5 miles of this address") and then the latitude and longitude of the address and the radius is passed into the query so that the database

Re: [GENERAL] haversine formula with postgreSQL

2009-09-17 Thread Tom Lane
Mike Christensen writes: > This behavior kinda gets me sometimes too, especially in WHERE clauses.. > I'm a bit curious as to why this is so bad. I could see why it would > be expensive to do, since your clause wouldn't be indexed - but why is > the syntax itself not allowed? It's not logically

Re: [GENERAL] NAS

2009-09-17 Thread John R Pierce
Marco Fortina wrote: Hello there! A customer of our company would like to create a 2 nodes cluster connected to an external NAS storage. I would like to know if PostgreSQL supports its datafiles on this kind of storage and if this solution is certified. active/standby type cluster, where

Re: [GENERAL] haversine formula with postgreSQL

2009-09-17 Thread Brent Wood
A bit out in left field, Writing your own haversine in Postgres seems a bit like reinventing a wooden wheel when you gan get a free pneumatic one... Any reason not to just install PostGIS & fully support geometries & projections in Postgres? You can build the geometries provided to the functio

Re: [GENERAL] NAS

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:53 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > afaik, postgresql doesn't 'certify' anything, and certainly most of us on > this email list do not speak for postgresql.org, we're mostly just users. However, many of us on the list ARE certifiable. But that's a different story. -- Sent

Re: [GENERAL] haversine formula with postgreSQL

2009-09-17 Thread Jonathan Harahush
I do have PostGIS installed and I use it for other things (geoserver), but I'm not knowledgeable enough about it to the point where I understand how to get it to work with the Google Maps API. I'll look into it. In the meantime, I was hoping to create something based off of the GMaps/PHP/MySQL ex

Re: [GENERAL] haversine formula with postgreSQL

2009-09-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Jonathan Harahush wrote: > I do have PostGIS installed and I use it for other things (geoserver), but > I'm not knowledgeable enough about it to the point where I understand how to > get it to work with the Google Maps API.  I'll look into it.  In the > meantime, I

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL nonstandard use of escape in a string literal

2009-09-17 Thread Johnson, Trevor
Using Moodle with PostgreSQL 8.4 and we get warning messages... 2009-09-18 13:48:11 ESTWARNING: nonstandard use of escape in a string literal at character 209 2009-09-18 13:48:11 ESTHINT: Use the escape string syntax for escapes, e.g., E'\r\n'. "standard_conforming_strings" is set to off, i

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL nonstandard use of escape in a string literal

2009-09-17 Thread Jeff Davis
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 14:05 +1000, Johnson, Trevor wrote: > Are these just warnings or is there something we need to fix? They are just warnings. The application is apparently written assuming the non-standard quoting for string literals. > If so is it okay to turn the warnings with escape_string

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL nonstandard use of escape in a string literal

2009-09-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On fre, 2009-09-18 at 14:05 +1000, Johnson, Trevor wrote: > Using Moodle with PostgreSQL 8.4 and we get warning messages... > > 2009-09-18 13:48:11 ESTWARNING: nonstandard use of escape in a string > literal at character 209 > > 2009-09-18 13:48:11 ESTHINT: Use the escape string syntax for > es