[GENERAL] When is commited data available

2011-05-26 Thread Fredric Fredricson
Hi, I wonder when the committed data is available to other connections, or more specifically if there is a delay after COMMIT return successfully and the data will appear in SELECTs made by other connections. A more detailed description of my problem: I use postgresql as backend to a REST ser

Re: [GENERAL] Auto-Increment in Postgres

2011-02-11 Thread Fredric Fredricson
On 02/11/2011 12:13 PM, Adarsh Sharma wrote: Dear all, I have an Integer column in Postgres database table. Let's say the column has below values : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Now if i deleted some rows where id= 3 ,5 and 8 or it have these type of data then The data look like as : 1 2 4 6

Re: [GENERAL] (Hopefully stupid) select question.

2011-01-24 Thread Fredric Fredricson
On 01/24/2011 05:02 PM, A.M. wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Fredric Fredricson wrote: I have been fighting with a select and can find no satisfactory solution. Simplified version of the problem: A table that, in reality, log state changes to an object (represented as a row in another

Re: [GENERAL] (Hopefully stupid) select question.

2011-01-24 Thread Fredric Fredricson
On 01/24/2011 04:56 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Fredric Fredricson writes: ... Now I want the latest "someData" for each "ref" like: The best solution I could find depended on the fact that serial is higher for higher dates. I do not like that because if that is true, it is an ind

[GENERAL] (Hopefully stupid) select question.

2011-01-24 Thread Fredric Fredricson
I have been fighting with a select and can find no satisfactory solution. Simplified version of the problem: A table that, in reality, log state changes to an object (represented as a row in another table): CREATE TABLE t ( id SERIAL UNIQUE, ref INTEGER, -- Reference to a row in anoth

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql as a dictionary coder backend?

2011-01-23 Thread Fredric Fredricson
On 01/23/2011 12:29 PM, Attila Nagy wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a database backend for a dictionary coder project. It would have three major tasks: - take a text corpus, get their words and substitute each word by a 64 bit integer (the word:integer is always constant) and store the result

Re: [GENERAL] libpq: how to retrieve query result?

2011-01-17 Thread Fredric Fredricson
On 01/17/2011 09:00 PM, ? wrote: I retrieve asynchronous queries results using PQgetResult() which returns NULL not in case of some error, but when results end - so there is no way to know if database responded successfully or there happened some error? For example, error can

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger Performance

2011-01-16 Thread Fredric Fredricson
On 01/15/2011 11:52 PM, Randall Smith wrote: Hi, I've created a trigger that checks the uniqueness of two columns in a table. Traditionally, one would use a unique constraint, but in my case, the size of the unique index would be too large and some performance loss is acceptable. However, the

Re: [GENERAL] Need advise for database structure for non linear data.

2011-01-03 Thread Fredric Fredricson
On 01/03/2011 12:11 PM, Andre Lopes wrote: [snip] The problem with this task is that the information is not linear, if I try to design tables with fields for all possible data I will end up with many row fields with NULL values. There are any problem with this(end up with many row fields with

Re: [GENERAL] alter table add column - specify where the column will go?

2010-11-24 Thread Fredric Fredricson
On 11/24/2010 12:31 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: * Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz: 2010/11/24 Florian Weimer: * Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz: just never use SELECT *, but always call columns by names. You'll avoid having to depend on the order of columns, which is never guaranteed, even if the table on disk is one

[GENERAL] Best practice to get performance

2010-11-18 Thread Fredric Fredricson
Hi, I have designed a handful databases but is absolutely no SQL-expert. Nor have I had any formal database training and have never worked with someone who had. What I know about SQL I have read in the documentation, found with google, and learned from my numerous mistakes. This question I ha

Re: [GENERAL] The first dedicated PostgreSQL forum

2010-11-17 Thread Fredric Fredricson
On 11/17/2010 03:09 PM, Tony Caduto wrote: On 11/15/2010 5:53 PM, Lee Hachadoorian wrote: If anyone's interested, I've started accessing the postgres list through gmane.org (along with several other mailing lists I subscribe to). It's gives you the choice of reading the list as a threaded archiv

Re: [GENERAL] Why facebook used mysql ?

2010-11-15 Thread Fredric Fredricson
On 11/09/2010 06:01 PM, Andy wrote: MySQL is GPL'd, just like Linux is. Well it is and it isn't. A couple of years ago when I was involved with choosing DB for a (proprietary) application we could not figure MySQLs license out. It was GPL'd but at the same time if you wanted to use it commerc

Re: [GENERAL] What is "return code" for WAL send command

2010-10-25 Thread Fredric Fredricson
On 10/25/2010 01:19 PM, David W Noon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:49:02 +0200, Fredric Fredricson wrote abour Re: [GENERAL] What is "return code" for WAL send command: On 10/23/2010 02:01 PM, zhong ming wu wrote: [snip] For some

Re: [GENERAL] What is "return code" for WAL send command

2010-10-25 Thread Fredric Fredricson
On 10/23/2010 02:01 PM, zhong ming wu wrote: Hello I have a master PG 8.1.11 sending WAL files to a cold-standby using rsync For some reason it failed recently with "return codes 32512" and I couldn't find this num. as a valid rsync exit code During the time that the error was going on I t

Re: [GENERAL] How to allow PostgreSQL to accept remote connection?

2010-04-24 Thread Fredric Fredricson
cording to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/auth-pg-hba-conf.html you should add a line host all all 0.0.0.0/0 md5 /Fredric PS. When everything else fails, read the manual. Best Regards, On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Fredric Fredricson <mailto:fredric.fredric...@bo

Re: [GENERAL] Order by and strings

2010-02-09 Thread Fredric Fredricson
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:42 AM, Fredric Fredricson wrote: I use locale en_US.UTF-8 but why this should affect how leading characters in strings are ignored is beyond me. P.s. this page may shed some light on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collation OK

Re: [GENERAL] Order by and strings

2010-02-09 Thread Fredric Fredricson
Justin Graf wrote: On 2/8/2010 7:09 PM, Fredric Fredricson wrote: Hi! New to the list with a question that I cannot find the answer to in the manual or on the internet but I suspect is trivial. If somebody could point me in the correct direction I would be greatful. This is what I do

[GENERAL] Order by and strings

2010-02-08 Thread Fredric Fredricson
Hi! New to the list with a question that I cannot find the answer to in the manual or on the internet but I suspect is trivial. If somebody could point me in the correct direction I would be greatful. This is what I do (condensed, of course): # create table tmp ( x text ) ; CREATE TABLE # inse