Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM ANALYZE

2001-07-23 Thread Fabrice Scemama
You might suffer from a deadlock. On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Ben-Nes Michael wrote: > Hi All > > VACUUM ANALYZE; > > return me the next error: > > pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly. > This probably means the backend terminated abnormally > before or while proce

Re: [GENERAL] Re: How to install on Windows?

2001-05-04 Thread Fabrice Scemama
People, saying that it is easy to install Pg on NT using Cygwin environment does not assume that *using* Pg on win32 can be done the way a MS product is -- that is, clicking on an icon and playing with the toy without never ever reading any doc. You must initb, then create your databases, etc. Do

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql upgrades -> where's the dump go?

2001-03-02 Thread Fabrice Scemama
Why don't you read the INSTALL file, included in any pg distribution ? On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, will trillich wrote: > when upgrading from version X to version Y of postgres, the > install appears to dump the data and schema, and then suck it > back in with the new binaries. > > [i just tried going

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql 7 user passwords dont work ?????

2000-09-05 Thread Fabrice Scemama
su - postgres chmod u+w ~/data/pg_hba.conf vi ~/data/pg_hba.conf chmod u-w ~/data/pg_hba.conf Eric Webber wrote: > > users dont seem to need password in postgres 7 on red hat linux > 6.2, compiled from source. > > I do an: > > alter user nsadmin with password 'whatever'; > > And then when

[GENERAL] Vacuum Complains

2000-05-28 Thread Fabrice Scemama
Hello; when running a daily vacuum, my cron regularly reports this message from Pg (7.0 RC1 / RH5.2 with glibc2.1 / compiled with gcc 2.5.2): NOTICE: RegisterSharedInvalid: SI buffer overflow NOTICE: InvalidateSharedInvalid: cache state reset Does anyone know what it means exactly ? The messag

Re: [GENERAL] Is 7.0 ready?

2000-04-25 Thread Fabrice Scemama
have had to be modified: i was doing "select distinct on my_field aaa, bbb, my_field ..." which is not correct any more. Pg7 insists that you write "select distinct on (my field) aaa, " instead. That's all I've got to say about it, so far. Thanks you everyone who coded it, for this smart new Pg release. Fabrice Scemama

Re: [GENERAL] excell to postgres

2000-04-17 Thread Fabrice Scemama
And yes, even with it, I come across bad surprises, very often. So often that I've been in the obligation to refuse that people send me Excel tables. Access is the maximum I can tolerate (ODBC is ok at least). Fabrice Scemama Chris Carbaugh wrote: > > Can't you just export the excel

[GENERAL] Accelerating subqueries

2000-04-06 Thread Fabrice Scemama
ay) { print "$$> Code_Ag: [$row[1]]\n"; $sth_Bind->execute($row[0]); } $sth->finish; print "\n\nOK?";; $dbh->commit; $dbh->disconnect; --------cut And this script will do the DELETE within less than a minute. Any ideas about a way to write a single query that fast ? Fabrice Scemama

[GENERAL] Re: info on people running postgre

1999-03-26 Thread Fabrice Scemama
tuned and fastest database, and could not afford them anyway. But we enjoy Postgres' handling transactions so well. We vacuum everything every day, and like Pg a lot. Thanks to the developing community. Go and use it with no fear! Fabrice Scemama Gesnet Consulting / Paris

[GENERAL] LIMITS in SELECTs

1999-01-09 Thread Fabrice Scemama
Hi ! Is there a way to select only a range of rows from a table, using a command like: SELECT * FROM table WHERE where_statement LIMIT 50,100; I've tried, and then read the doc, but found no information so far. Thanks in advance. Fabrice Scemama