Dave,
please also check out the licence and costs terms in detail.
Especially: is it given that the planned usage willl continue to be
within the allowed bounds for MySQL-GPL? Are otherwise the costs for
MySQL-commercial budgeted or a reserve founded?
PostgreSQL has here a GIANT advantage with a
Hi,
Would one day the Talend people understand that Astroturfing is definitly not a
good marketing strategy ?
Please stop your lame posting once and for all, we are all tired of reading
your useless babbling.
Vincent
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I've a web application.
I'm logging data related to the landing page and subsequent selected
hits.
create table track_hit (
hitid serial not null,
/* pk? I don't mind if serial wrap around
pk could be (hitid, tracking_time) */
esid varchar(32), -- related to session
tracking_time
In response to Ivan Sergio Borgonovo :
I've a web application.
I'm logging data related to the landing page and subsequent selected
hits.
create table track_hit (
hitid serial not null,
/* pk? I don't mind if serial wrap around
pk could be (hitid, tracking_time) */
esid
On Dec 16, 2009, at 10:30 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:
- If you don't care about your data, MySQL used with MyISAM is *crazy* fast
for lots of small simple queries.
This one causes me no end of grief as too often it's simply touted as MyISAM
is fast(er) while leaving of the bit about for lots of
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:38:32 +0100
A. Kretschmer andreas.kretsch...@schollglas.com wrote:
In response to Ivan Sergio Borgonovo :
I've a web application.
I'm logging data related to the landing page and subsequent
selected hits.
create table track_hit (
hitid serial not null,
Hi,
postgres cores on SUN 2.9. Disk is in 100% IO.
(dbx) where
[1] 0x65eacdd4(0x7fffa36c, 0x400, 0x10032d4e8, 0x1, 0x48,
0xd6), at 0x65eacdd4
[2] XLogFileInit(0x48, 0xd6, 0x7fffa85d, 0x1, 0x488000, 0x0), at
0x10007955c
[3] XLogWrite(0x48, 0x6, 0x1,
Hi,
postgres cores on SUN 2.9. Disk is in 100% IO.
(dbx) where
[1] 0x65eacdd4(0x7fffa36c, 0x400, 0x10032d4e8, 0x1, 0x48,
0xd6), at 0x65eacdd4
[2] XLogFileInit(0x48, 0xd6, 0x7fffa85d, 0x1, 0x488000, 0x0), at
0x10007955c
[3] XLogWrite(0x48, 0x6, 0x1,
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 05:18:12PM -0800, yuliada wrote:
Sam Mason wrote:
How about combining all 1000 selects into one?
I can't combine these selects into one, I need to run them one after
another.
Hum, difficult. What other information is in the row that you need
back? Can you turn the
Hi all.
I'm planning to implement table partitioning as suggested (among
other sources) in the official documentation.
I'm using v8.4.2 at the moment.
My case is far from the general one as:
1. I'll never UPDATE or DELETE rows from partitioned tables (only INSERTs)
2. Rows will be inserted
Rule is not advisable, Trigger is the best solution.
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Thanks
Sam Jas
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From: Vincenzo Romano vincenzo.rom...@notorand.it
Subject: [GENERAL] Table Partitioning Advice Request
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date:
Why?
If you have to choose among a couple hundred partition tables, the
trigger function body is far from trivial!
You really think that calling and running a trigger function for every
line is the best solution?
2009/12/17 Sam Jas samja...@yahoo.com
Rule is not advisable, Trigger is the best
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On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Gauthier, Dave dave.gauth...@intel.com wrote:
Hi Everyone:
Tomorrow, I will need to present to a group of managers (who know nothing
about DBs) why I chose to use PG over MySQL in a project, MySQL being the
more popular DB choice with other engineers, and
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:41:40PM +0100, Vincenzo Romano wrote:
2009/12/17 Sam Jas samja...@yahoo.com
Rule is not advisable, Trigger is the best solution.
If you have to choose among a couple hundred partition tables, the
trigger function body is far from trivial!
It's possible to
2009/12/17 David Fetter da...@fetter.org:
You really think that calling and running a trigger function for every
line is the best solution?
Yes. The trigger function is choosing from a small subset of the
tables, or you know which tables exactly the rows are going into and
insert them
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Really? Works for me, in everything back to 7.3.
I must be missing something, because this function fails:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION insertShort()
RETURNS VOID AS
$BODY$
DECLARE
s Short.shortCol%TYPE;
BEGIN
Justin Bailey jgbai...@gmail.com writes:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
Really? Works for me, in everything back to 7.3.
If s was automatically truncated, the insert would succeed, but it
fails with a value too long error.
Oh, I thought the failure was
2009/12/17 Sam Jas samja...@yahoo.com
Rule is not advisable, Trigger is the best solution.
Does the trigger solution need the TABLE CHECK constraint?
It looks to me it won't.
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Vincenzo Romano vincenzo.rom...@notorand.it writes:
Is there any performance study for the trigger-based implementation?
Consider that if you use RULE to partition, when you DROP a partition
the INSERTs are locked out because the query depends on the table being
droped.
That alone could lead
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:24:28AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
Justin Bailey jgbai...@gmail.com writes:
If s was automatically truncated, the insert would succeed, but it
fails with a value too long error.
Oh, I thought the failure was the behavior you wanted. There's
no automatic truncation
On Wednesday 16 December 2009 5:05:19 pm Justin Bailey wrote:
Greetings! I am trying to avoid the old problem of inserting a 40
character string into a 20 character field. However, I'd like to avoid
hard-coding the acceptable length (20). Is there a way to say cast to
the same type as a given
2009/12/17 Dimitri Fontaine dfonta...@hi-media.com:
Vincenzo Romano vincenzo.rom...@notorand.it writes:
Is there any performance study for the trigger-based implementation?
Consider that if you use RULE to partition, when you DROP a partition
the INSERTs are locked out because the query
They just called the meeting, or at least that part of it. There seems to be a
battle brewing, some MySQL advocates are angry, concerned, fearful, ... I dont
know why for sure. My managers, who advocate my position and PG are preparing,
but the decision will be made by higher-ups who really
Hello again,
I'm trying to integrate the extended query protocol with my libraries.
I'm sending a simple SELECT to validate the method, but I'm getting an Invalid
Message Format.
50 = P
00 00 00 29 = length
6D7973746174656D656E74 00 = mystatement + null
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Gauthier, Dave dave.gauth...@intel.com wrote:
They just called the meeting, or at least that part of it. There seems to be
a battle brewing, some MySQL advocates are angry, concerned, fearful, ... I
dont know why for sure.
in places like that it is
Actually, the DB I'm working on is rather small but has a somewhat complex
system of constraints and triggers that maintain the data. Queries will
outnumber writes (20x at least). And the DB has to be mirrorred at a sister
site a couple thousand miles away, so I'm looking for a robust DB
How difficult is it to switch the master's hat from one DB instance to another?
Let's say the master in a master-slave scenario goes down but the slave is
fine. Can I designate the slave as being the new master, use it for
read/write, and then just call the broken master the new slave once it
On Dec 16, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Erwin Brandstetter wrote:
Hello,
I need a long text form from a file in my plpgsql variable.
Can anyone think of a more straightforward way to read the file than
the following:
CREATE FUNCTION test() RETURNS void AS
$BODY$
DECLARE
mytxt
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Gauthier, Dave dave.gauth...@intel.com wrote:
How difficult is it to switch the master's hat from one DB instance to
another? Let's say the master in a master-slave scenario goes down but the
slave is fine. Can I designate the slave as being the new master,
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How difficult is it to switch the master's hat from one DB instance
to another? Let's say the master in a master-slave scenario goes
down
Gauthier, Dave dave.gauth...@intel.com writes:
I am more concerned with getting a robust DB replication system up and
running. Bucardo looks pretty good, but I've just started looking at
the options. Any suggestions?
Master Slave replication? Meaning no writes on the sister site.
If yes,
On Thursday 17 December 2009 09:51:19 Richard Broersma wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Gauthier, Dave dave.gauth...@intel.com
wrote:
How difficult is it to switch the master's hat from one DB instance to
another? Let's say the master in a master-slave scenario goes down but
the
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From: Adrian Klaver akla...@comcast.net
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and ON DELETE CASCADE problem
To: cgg...@yahoo.com
Cc: postgresql listserv pgsql-general@postgresql.org, Craig Ringer
cr...@postnewspapers.com.au, Scott
Hi all.
Is there any performance difference in writing trigger function in SQL
rather than PL/PgSQL?
In my case the body would actually be 1 line.
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Gauthier, Dave wrote:
Hi Everyone:
Tomorrow, I will need to present to a group of managers (who know
nothing about DBs) why I chose to use PG over MySQL in a project,
MySQL being the more popular DB choice with other engineers, and
managers fearing things that are “different” (risk). I have
Vincenzo Romano vincenzo.rom...@notorand.it writes:
Is there any performance difference in writing trigger function in SQL
rather than PL/PgSQL?
SQL functions don't support being called as triggers, so performance
questions are a bit beside the point ...
regards, tom
Abraham, Danny wrote:
“postgres” cores on SUN 2.9. Disk is in 100% IO.
(dbx) where
[1] 0x65eacdd4(0x7fffa36c, 0x400, 0x10032d4e8, 0x1,
0x48, 0xd6), at 0x65eacdd4
[2] XLogFileInit(0x48, 0xd6, 0x7fffa85d, 0x1, 0x488000, 0x0),
at 0x10007955c
...
Any idea?
Tom Lane wrote:
Raymond O'Donnell r...@iol.ie writes:
On 16/12/2009 15:01, Richard Broersma wrote:
It looks like the future 8.5 release will be able to
preform an in-place upgrade on 8.4.
Really? That would be *wonderful*. I know it's impossible to be
definitive, but how likely would
Tom Lane wrote:
Raymond O'Donnell r...@iol.ie writes:
On 16/12/2009 15:01, Richard Broersma wrote:
It looks like the future 8.5 release will be able to
preform an in-place upgrade on 8.4.
Really? That would be *wonderful*. I know it's impossible to be
definitive, but how likely would
Bruce Momjian wrote:
pg_migrator (not pg_upgrade) has been used by many people to migrate
from 8.3 to 8.4. I just helped someone yesterday with a migration.
pg_migrator threw an error because they had reindexed pg_largeobject,
and pg_migrator was not prepared to handle that. They also had
Gauthier, Dave wrote:
Hi Everyone:
Tomorrow, I will need to present to a group of managers (who know
nothing about DBs) why I chose to use PG over MySQL in a project, MySQL
being the more popular DB choice with other engineers, and managers
fearing things that are “different” (risk). I
Christine Penner wrote:
Hi,
If we have clients that are going to buy new computers or upgrade
current ones, what we can recommend to them for optimal system
performance to run Postgres. These can be servers or desktop PCs. We can
have from 1-10 users in at a time. At this point all of our
Hi,
I am regularly altering tables, adding columns setting default values etc.
This very often takes a very long time and is very disk intensive, and this
gets pretty annoying.
Things are hampered by the fact that some of our servers run PG 7.3
Suppose I have a table and I want to add a non
begin ;
create table a (
id serial primary key
, info text not null -- not interested here
) ;
create table b (
id serial primary key
, a_id int not null references a
, info text not null -- not interested here
, actual bool not null
) ;
create unique index b_actual on b
( a_id ,
On Thursday 17 December 2009, Antonio Goméz Soto
antonio.gomez.s...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am regularly altering tables, adding columns setting default values
etc. This very often takes a very long time and is very disk intensive,
and this gets pretty annoying.
Things are hampered by the
Antonio Goméz Soto wrote on 17.12.2009 22:26:
Hi,
I am regularly altering tables, adding columns setting default values etc.
This very often takes a very long time and is very disk intensive, and this
gets pretty annoying.
Things are hampered by the fact that some of our servers run PG 7.3
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From: Adrian Klaver akla...@comcast.net
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and ON DELETE CASCADE problem
To: cgg...@yahoo.com
Cc: postgresql listserv pgsql-general@postgresql.org, Craig
wum...@z1p.biz writes:
, unique ( a_id , ( case when actual then 0 else id end ) )
Why can i not define the unique constraint in the
create table?
The syntax for a unique constraint in CREATE TABLE is defined by the SQL
standard, and it doesn't include expressions. More than the syntax, a
Thomas Kellerer spam_ea...@gmx.net writes:
What's wrong with:
alter table person add column address varchar(64) not null default '';
This:
regression=# alter table person add column address varchar(64) not null default
'';
ERROR: Adding columns with defaults is not implemented.
Add
Bruce Momjian wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us writes:
I installed PL/pgSQL by default via initdb with the attached patch. The
only problem is that pg_dump still dumps out the language creation:
CREATE PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE plpgsql;
ALTER PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Vincenzo Romano
vincenzo.rom...@notorand.it wrote:
2009/12/17 Sam Jas samja...@yahoo.com
Rule is not advisable, Trigger is the best solution.
Does the trigger solution need the TABLE CHECK constraint?
It looks to me it won't.
The table check constraint is
Op 17-12-09 23:46, Tom Lane schreef:
This is just one of many many things that could be improved by getting
off of 7.3. In general, complaining about performance (or features)
of a seven-year-old, long since EOL'd release is not a productive use of
anybody's time.
I'm sorry, didn't mean
On Dec 17, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Raimon Fernandez wrote:
I'm trying to integrate the extended query protocol with my libraries.
I'm sending a simple SELECT to validate the method, but I'm getting an
Invalid Message Format.
I did not add up your byte count, but maybe this will help:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Madison Kelly li...@alteeve.com wrote:
Gauthier, Dave wrote:
Hi Everyone:
Tomorrow, I will need to present to a group of managers (who know nothing
about DBs) why I chose to use PG over MySQL in a project, MySQL being the
more popular DB choice with other
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Christine Penner
christ...@ingenioussoftware.com wrote:
Hi,
If we have clients that are going to buy new computers or upgrade current
ones, what we can recommend to them for optimal system performance to run
Postgres. These can be servers or desktop PCs. We
One concern I have about these trigger based replication systems is that I fear
it may ping the slave for each and every DML statement separately in time and
in a transaction. My slave will literally be 1400 miles away and all
replication communications will be over the net. If I have a
--- On Thu, 12/17/09, Adrian Klaver akla...@comcast.net wrote:
Would it be possible to see the table schemas and indices
?
Sure (you asked for it!!) :
CREATE TABLE packet
(
id integer NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('packet_id_seq'::regclass),
packet_uuid uniqueidentifier NOT NULL
I would recommend using a traffic shaping router (like the one built
into the linux kernel and controlled by tc / iptables) to simulate a
long distance connection and testing this yourself to see which
replication engine will work best for you.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Gauthier, Dave
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One concern I have about these trigger based replication systems is
that I fear it may ping the slave for each and every DML statement
separately in time and in a transaction. My slave will literally
Scott Marlowe wrote:
I would recommend using a traffic shaping router (like the one built
into the linux kernel and controlled by tc / iptables) to simulate a
long distance connection and testing this yourself to see which
replication engine will work best for you.
Netem :
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:51 PM, David Boreham david_l...@boreham.org wrote:
Scott Marlowe wrote:
I would recommend using a traffic shaping router (like the one built
into the linux kernel and controlled by tc / iptables) to simulate a
long distance connection and testing this yourself to see
I am designing a DB where column/table constraints are not sufficient
for data integrity (e.g., guaranteeing non-recursive tree graphs) so
I'm writing my first complicated triggers and I have been searching
docs and archives of this list for detailed information on when
triggers are fired
2009/12/18 Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com:
The main reason to avoid rules is that they're much less efficient
than triggers. We use partitioning at work for our stats db, and
partition by day, and we have about 2 years worth of stats data, so
our insert trigger has about 700 if /
On 18/12/2009 1:18 PM, Daniel Popowich wrote:
For example, it was at first surprising to discover in my before-row
trigger that foreign key constraints had not yet been checked (which
I assumed I could take for granted in my trigger since I had defined
the column constraint).
Nope. CHECK
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