Re: [GENERAL] WebSphere Application Server support for postgres

2012-10-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 10/15/2012 01:22 AM, John Nash wrote: Hi, There is no reason to email all the lists. Removing ones that aren't required. You are just going to irritate everyone. Our IT Company systems architecture is based on IBM Websphere Application Server, we would like to migrate our databases

Re: [GENERAL] moving from MySQL to pgsql

2012-10-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 10/10/2012 02:18 AM, Sim Zacks wrote: 2) I run MySQL from a USB stick. There is no installation required (on WinXP.). (not tried on Ubuntu) Is it the same for pgsql? To use postgres on a USB stick, see

Re: [GENERAL] Packaging of plpython

2012-09-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to keep DB servers in Linux and Windows plpython compatible? Because you are using non .Org packages. It is up to the distribution whether linux or Windows to determine what is packaged, not .Org. Joshua D. Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support

Re: [GENERAL] Regarding pgTAP

2012-07-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
don't know if I would call it formal, but it is still a productive project. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Thanks and Regards, Kumar Rajeev Rastogi Cell No - +91 8971367787 -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support, Training, Professional Services

[GENERAL] PgNext CFP still open

2012-04-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hey, Just a small reminder that the CFP for PgNext in Denver is still open. Let's get those talks in! https://www.postgresqlconference.org/ JD -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support, Training, Professional Services and Development The PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] EDB - oracle compatibility (Nested Tables)

2012-04-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
is not a community product. You may want to check with EDB support. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support, Training, Professional Services and Development The PostgreSQL Conference - http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ @cmdpromptinc - @postgresconf

Re: [GENERAL] Re: A 154 GB table swelled to 527 GB on the Slony slave. How to compact it?

2012-03-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 03/07/2012 06:27 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: SELECT relname as Table, pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size(relid)) As Size from pg_catalog.pg_statio_user_tables ORDER BY pg_total_relation_size(relid) DESC; ) I ran VACUUM FULL on this table, but it is still over 500 GB in

Re: [GENERAL] Rails pg setup question

2012-02-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 02/25/2012 08:13 AM, Scott Ribe wrote: What I'm trying to determine is: should I plan on using pgbouncer? With Rails Passenger, do the app server processes take and hold connections to the db? Or take release with queries/connections? This is not a scalability question; given the

Re: [GENERAL] Hope for a new PostgreSQL era?

2011-12-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 12/08/2011 03:24 AM, Craig Ringer wrote: - shared-storage clustering. Dunno if anyone still cares about this one though. This one seems to be moving into the legacy category over the next 3-5 years. JD -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support,

Re: [GENERAL] Hope for a new PostgreSQL era?

2011-12-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 12/08/2011 10:54 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/08/11 10:14 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: - shared-storage clustering. Dunno if anyone still cares about this one though. This one seems to be moving into the legacy category over the next 3-5 years. um, I believe this is referring

Re: [GENERAL] Hope for a new PostgreSQL era?

2011-12-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 12/08/2011 11:24 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/08/11 11:16 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: um, I believe this is referring to Oracle RAC clustering, not HA active/standby. I seriously doubt Oracle is dropping RAC. I meant worrying about it for Pg. the odds of Postgres developing something

Re: [GENERAL] Database system identifier via SELECT?

2011-12-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 12/08/2011 12:57 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Chris Redekop wrote: Is there any way to get the database system identifier via a select statement? I have a primary/secondary async replication setup, and I'd like be able to verify from the client side that the provided primary and secondary

Re: [GENERAL]

2011-12-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 12/08/2011 03:12 PM, Raymond O'Donnell wrote: On 08/12/2011 23:07, sharmi...@yahoo.com wrote: http://happenenstappengroningen.nl/news.html?r5h1h5 Just wondering, and without intending to cast any aspersions on the poster - is this spam or legit? I didn't take the risk of actually

Re: [GENERAL] Permission Problems

2011-11-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 11/23/2011 01:54 PM, Bill Thoen wrote: Am I digging too deep here, or what am I missing? Is there a better way to tranfer info between my database and the web than by using a generic account? It sure seems like I'm granting too much access to too little a player. Any advice would be

Re: [GENERAL] PostGIS in a commercial project

2011-10-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 10/27/2011 04:24 PM, Chris Travers wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Martijn van Oosterhout klep...@svana.org wrote: I note in the OPs case they are relying on the customer to install PostGIS. The GPL only applies to *redistribution* not usage. So if you're not supplying your

Re: [GENERAL] Postgre Performance

2011-10-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
coming out with connection limit exceed. Yes you need a pooler. Initiating connections like that is expensive. The use of PgBouncer is your friend here. http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgBouncer Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Noob help for charting on web site, need assistance

2011-09-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
and/or recommendations for how to graphically display sensor data over time. I would suggest importing it into Google Docs and charting it as you would a spreadsheet and then sharing that. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support, Training

Re: [GENERAL] Has Pg 9.1.0 been released today?

2011-09-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
both async and sync, are you working on multi-master replication? *excited* Or what's the roadmap? I would take a look at postgres-r. It is under active and supported development. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support, Training

[GENERAL] Final 48 for PgWest CFP

2011-08-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, We are in the final 48 hours of the CFP for PgWest. Let's get those talks in. https://www.postgresqlconference.org/talk_types Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support, Training, Professional Services and Development

Re: [GENERAL] running out of oids

2011-08-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
creating a table. Joshua D. Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support, Training, Professional Services and Development The PostgreSQL Conference - http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ @cmdpromptinc - @postgresconf - 509-416-6579 -- Sent via pgsql-general

[GENERAL] CFP for PgWest extended till the 12th!

2011-08-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hey .Org, The PgWest CFP has been extended until the 12th. Let's get those talks in! https://www.postgresqlconference.org/talk_types JD -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support, Training, Professional Services and Development The PostgreSQL Conference -

Re: [GENERAL] streaming replication does not work across datacenter with 20ms latency?

2011-07-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 07/23/2011 10:55 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote: On 23 Červenec 2011, 18:14, Yan Chunlu wrote: thanks for the help! are there any other possible reasons? both system are using Debian amd64, as uname -a shows: Linux washington 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 9 22:29:32 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux It

[GENERAL] PgWest CFP closes in two weeks

2011-07-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hey folks, As a reminder, PgWest is in a few months and the CFP closes in two weeks. Get those talks in! https://www.postgresqlconference.org/talk_types Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support, Training, Professional Services

Re: [GENERAL] Adding Foreign Key Constraint To Existing Table

2011-07-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 07/01/2011 02:00 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I've examined the 9.0 manual page on alter table without seeing how to add a foreign key constraint to a column. I needed to make changes on a couple of existing tables which could be accomplished only by dropping the foreign key constraint. That, and

Re: [GENERAL] EnterpriseDB-xDBReplicationServer java process on OS X.

2011-06-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
constantly wastes cpu cycles and memory. I want to turn it off until I actually have my postgreSQL server running. I think this belongs over at one of EnterpriseDB's support forums. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support, Training

[GENERAL] #PgWest 2011: CFP now open

2011-05-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, The CFP for #PgWest is now open. We are holding it at the San Jose Convention Center from September 27th - 30th. We look forward to seeing your submissions. http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Joshua D. Drake -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] Can we Flush the Postgres Shared Memory ?

2011-05-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 5/3/2011 7:33 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: Pleased to meet you Mark. If you post here, the above disclaimer is not effective. Right now your words are being copied across the internet... I believe our community needs to move past posting replies like this. It isn't even relevant to the

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for Silicon Valley/Peninsula/San Francisco users group

2011-04-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 04/29/2011 10:01 PM, Greg Smith wrote: On 04/29/2011 06:13 PM, Jeff Davis wrote: I'm not sure which reference you found, but SFPUG is certainly active with meetings every month. http://pugs.postgresql.org/sfpug ; last meeting listed there is January 2009. Yeah, that site is kind of.

Re: [GENERAL] pervasiveness of surrogate (also called synthetic) keys

2011-04-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 04/28/2011 10:29 AM, Jim Irrer wrote: A colleague of mine insists that using surrogate keys is the common practice by an overwhelming margin in relational databases and that they are used in 99 percent of large installations. I agree that many situations benefit from them, but are they

Re: [GENERAL] Protecting stored procedures

2011-04-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
help you. As someone mentioned previously, there is also pl/secure. It certainly isn't perfect but it will deal with the low hanging fruit. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres-9.x - ADODB - PHP

2011-04-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
options should I have selected when building this version so the PHP application can connect to the back end? This seems more like a question for the adodb list. SIncerely, Joshua D. Drake Rich -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com

Re: [GENERAL] Autovacuum firing up during my manual vacuum on same table

2011-04-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 19:26:56 +0200, Henry C. he...@cityweb.co.za wrote: On Sat, April 2, 2011 14:17, Jens Wilke wrote: Nevertheless since at least 8.4 IMO there's no need to bother with manual vacuum any more. Uhh, this is entirely untrue. There are plenty of cases where 8.4 autovacuum can't

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
that gear is much of an obstacle. No, gear is not the obstacle. It is man power. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc

Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore

2011-03-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
database running and answering queries while it's WAL'ing. I'd have to log in and switch it to normal mode and start the webapp, and that's what I may not be able to do if the backup server were needed. You can if you are using 9.x, take a look at the HS stuff. Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
? That is a lot of resources. Simply put, we would have needed a minimum of 21 volunteers just for video (assuming we each volunteer was dedicated for only a day). The conferences just aren't that big yet. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- Jon -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdrake(at)jabber(dot

Re: [GENERAL] Primary key

2011-03-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 16:03 +, Raymond O'Donnell wrote: On 14/03/2011 15:56, Raymond O'Donnell wrote: On 14/03/2011 15:35, Allan Kamau wrote: CREATE SEQUENCE hy3_pack_seq MINVALUE 1000; CREATE TABLE hy3_pack ( hy3_id INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('hy3_pack_seq') -- or hy3_id

Re: [GENERAL] How do you change the size of the WAL files?

2011-03-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to the new cluster. Your existing cluster will not be usable once you do this. Joshua D. Drake -- Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.ushttp://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- PostgreSQL.org

[GENERAL] #PgEast schedule is up

2011-03-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hey, The schedule for #PgEast is up. It can be found here: https://www.postgresqlconference.org/files/east_2011_schedule.html As usually we have a increasingly wide selection of content. Sincerely, JD -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ -

Re: [GENERAL] updating all records of a table

2011-03-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 20:03 -0700, Gauthier, Dave wrote: Hi: I have to update all the records of a table. I'm worried about what the table will look like in terms of fragmentation when this is finished. Is there some sort of table healing/reorg/rebuild measure I should take if I want the

Re: [GENERAL] Index question

2011-03-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 13:45 -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 06:31:57PM +, Michael Black wrote: Ok. I have been working with databases a few years but my first real venture in to PostgreSql. I just want a plain simple index regardless if there are duplicates

[GENERAL] #PgEast Training Schedule Up

2011-03-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hey folks, The training (not sessions) schedule is up for trainings. You can get it right off the front page: https://www.postgresqlconference.org/ . We are running 7 sessions in parallel with a total of 9 trainings. Sincerely, JD -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc:

[GENERAL] #PgEast Training Schedule Up

2011-03-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hey folks, The training (not sessions) schedule is up for trainings. You can get it right off the front page: https://www.postgresqlconference.org/ . We are running 7 sessions in parallel with a total of 9 trainings. Sincerely, JD -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc:

Re: [GENERAL] Thousands of users using one schema - ERROR: row is too big

2011-03-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 15:57 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Magnus Reftel magnus.ref...@gmail.com: I'm working on a database that will have a very large number of users, and I'm running in to a problem: when I grant more than about 2500 users access to a schema, I get

[GENERAL] #PgEast Training Schedule Up

2011-03-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hey folks, The training (not sessions) schedule is up for trainings. You can get it right off the front page: https://www.postgresqlconference.org/ . We are running 7 sessions in parallel with a total of 9 trainings. Sincerely, JD -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc:

Re: [GENERAL] slow building index and reference after Sybase to Pg

2011-02-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 18:16 -0500, Gary Fu wrote: It is set to 12GB. Do you recommend to set fsync to off ? It needs to restart the server. Not in production. JD Thanks, Gary -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579

[GENERAL] PgEast 2011: Talks and trainings up

2011-02-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, Per the customary URL: https://www.postgresqlconference.org/ JD -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc |

[GENERAL] Cross Pollination is a wonderful thing

2011-02-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-General How did we get the duckbill platypus? Cross Pollination of course and today is the last day to get your content in for PostgreSQL Conference East. A conference that is cross pollinating with MongoDB, one of those NoSQL technologies. Now, we have experience, lots of experience on our side

[GENERAL] PgEast: 2011, CFP closes in three days

2011-02-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello hackers, Just FYI, the CFP for PgEast in NYC closes in three days. https://www.postgresqlconference.org/talk_types Sincerely, JD -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development,

Re: [GENERAL] Database Design Question

2011-02-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 11:08 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: On 02/02/11 10:32 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: I would create a seperate database for each thing that has nothing to do with the other things.I doubt mediawiki and phpbb will ever share any data, they are totally different

Re: [GENERAL] cast problem in Postgresql 9.0.1

2011-02-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. You can't sum text. You need to change the data type to a proper numerical type. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc

Re: [GENERAL] Moving from SQL Anywhere to PostGres - First Time

2011-01-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
commands. You can use psql (text based), pgadmin, navicat, and about 4 dozen others. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Thank you. -Robert -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom

[GENERAL] PgEast: 2011, 2nd call for papers

2011-01-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hey folks, PgEast is being held in NYC this year from 03/22-03-25. Get your papers in, the deadline is soon! http://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support

Re: [GENERAL] UUID column as pimrary key?

2011-01-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 11:07 -0800, Dennis Gearon wrote: I haven't been able to find anywhere, easily, in the documentation using google where a list of allowed data types for primary keys is. Anything that can be UNIQUE NOT NULL So, UUIDs can be primary keys? Yes. JD --

Re: [GENERAL] Ownership/Permissions Problem

2010-12-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 14:09 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2010, John R Pierce wrote: I'd check the permisisons on /usr/local/pgsql and /usr/local/pgsql/lib too. if that directory is not o+r, you'll have problems too. John, Bingo! The subdirectories in

[GENERAL] PgEast 2011: NYC CFP

2010-12-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
December 16th, 2010: Celebrating 15 years of PostgreSQL, early. Following on the smashing success of PostgreSQL Conference West, PostgreSQL Conference West, The PostgreSQL Conference for Developers, End Users and Decision Makers, is being held at the Hotel Pennsylvania, in New York City from

Re: [GENERAL] Simple, free PG GUI/query tool wanted

2010-12-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Gnome and KDE and OpenOffice all have free simple query tools On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 11:12 +1300, Brent Wood wrote: -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering

Re: [GENERAL] Understanding Schema's

2010-12-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
SQL of course) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -Carlos -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt -- Sent

Re: [GENERAL] Do we want SYNONYMS?

2010-12-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 08:31 -0500, Vick Khera wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: Command Prompt is currently considering writing a patch to provide synonyms to PostgreSQL. Is this something the community is interested in? Do we have use

Re: [GENERAL] Do we want SYNONYMS?

2010-12-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 09:14 -0500, Michael C Rosenstein wrote: I won't press the issue for Postgres any further, but I will attest that synonyms work quite elegantly in Oracle, provide valuable functionality, and do not generally sow confusion among skilled developers. It sounds like the

Re: [GENERAL] Do we want SYNONYMS?

2010-12-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 19:54 +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote: Hello 2010/12/7 Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com: On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 09:14 -0500, Michael C Rosenstein wrote: I won't press the issue for Postgres any further, but I will attest that synonyms work quite elegantly in Oracle

Re: [GENERAL] PG84 and SSL on CentOS-5.5 was PG84 and SELinux

2010-12-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
still 32bit. You would have a problem if one was 64bit. So you should be fine there. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com

Re: [GENERAL] Uncommitted Data

2010-12-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 00:56 +, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: Hi Everyone, What does PG do with data that has been inserted into a table, but was never committed? Does the data get discarded once the connection dies? Yes, the transaction will rollback. Thanks -- PostgreSQL.org Major

[GENERAL] Do we want SYNONYMS?

2010-12-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
/msg02043.php Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] Do we want SYNONYMS?

2010-12-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 13:57 -0600, Andy Colson wrote: On 12/6/2010 1:31 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Hey -general, Command Prompt is currently considering writing a patch to provide synonyms to PostgreSQL. Is this something the community is interested in? Do we have use cases

Re: [GENERAL] Do we want SYNONYMS?

2010-12-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 15:27 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com writes: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 13:57 -0600, Andy Colson wrote: I dont understand the need for it. Dont view's do the exact same thing (plus even more)? What does a synonym offer that a view does

Re: [GENERAL] Does Postgres support bookmarks (tuples ids)?

2010-12-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:55 -0500, Vick Khera wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Dann Corbit dcor...@connx.com wrote: The ctid is not permanent. An alternative is to create tables with OID values. Creating OIDs gives you zero benefit over having a PK. They would be roughly

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL hanging on new connections?

2010-11-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 15:57 -0500, Vick Khera wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: hubert depesz lubaczewski dep...@depesz.com writes: straced postmaster when the problem was happening, and I was opening new connections. strace looks like this: [

Re: Fwd: [GENERAL] [pgsql-www] Forums at postgresql.com.au

2010-11-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 10:40 +1100, Elliot Chance wrote: I would argue that if the person wants to use a forum, aren't they saying they don't want to be contacted via email. I think we just throw it only to the forum (that is the user) and leave it that. Forum users don't get the _rich_

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading 8.2 to 8.4: pg_restore: did not find magic string in file header\n

2010-11-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 17:45 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com writes: Now I understand. I wonder if this would be a good time to ask about whether pg_restore could be made to work with plain-text files:) Not in any particularly useful way --- the plain text dump

Re: [GENERAL] pgadmin story...

2010-11-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 16:18 -0500, andrew wrote: hi all, I've just read that pgadmin team was hired by some company and the project will be closed... It was a post from 2009. I'm just curious what's the story behind that. Did anyone leave? thanks. What are you talking about? Source

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR row is too big size 9336, exceeds size 8160 when populating record with tsquery and tsvector fields

2010-11-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 07:37 +0300, Allan Kamau wrote: Hi, I am experiencing the row is too big error (with postgreSQL-9.0.1) when populating a table having a tsquery and tsvector fields. Are fields of tsquery and tsvector datatypes affected by this row size restriction? Uhh... what index

Re: [GENERAL] The first dedicated PostgreSQL forum

2010-11-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 21:06 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: I do think that the PostgreSQL lists are available there. And other than that, they are on markmail.org, Nabble, etc. AFAIK several of those allow both reading and posting. Is there actually something about these interfaces that people

Re: [GENERAL] The first dedicated PostgreSQL forum

2010-11-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 19:21 +0100, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: Le 13/11/2010 17:43, Raymond O'Donnell a écrit : On 13/11/2010 03:43, Elliot Chance wrote: Hi everyone, This is my first post on the mailing list :) As of today I have started the first dedicated postgres forum at:

Re: [GENERAL] index row requires 10040 bytes, maximum size is 8191

2010-11-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 15:47 -0500, akp geek wrote: Hi all - I am trying to create an index on character varying field. The column is just character varying with no limit. I am getting the following error index row requires 10040 bytes, maximum size is 8191 What can I do the

Re: [GENERAL] index row requires 10040 bytes, maximum size is 8191

2010-11-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 09:48 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: Thoughts, folks? Does this matter in practice, since anything you'd want to index will in practice be small enough or a candidate for full-text indexing? I have run into this problem maybe 3 times in my whole career, precisely

Re: [GENERAL] Unhandled exception in PGAdmin when opening 16-million-record table

2010-10-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 15:02 -0600, Rob Sargent wrote: Not saying this excuses the crash necessarily or more importantly the poor error message. One might find a stack trace in the system error log? Think probably ran out of memory. 16M records? Really? JD -- PostgreSQL.org Major

Re: [GENERAL] Paradox to postgresql interface

2010-10-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
transfer the data to postgresql. Sure. As I recall paradox just uses the dbf file format. So write an interface with a dbf driver (perl, python, etc...) and use your native postgresql interface. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http

[GENERAL] Replication Poll

2010-10-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hey, Based on the discussion here: http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs/joshua_drake/2010/10/users_versus_customers_-_you_dont_need_no_stinking_replication/ http://thebuild.com/blog/2010/10/28/small-postgresql-installations-and-9-0-replication/

Re: [GENERAL] DB become enormous with continuos insert and update

2010-10-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
stop service... I know that a in a similar db where there is a lot of update the problem was solved but I don't know how... Some one Know this problem? You are not vacuuming enough. If you vacuuum more often you should be able to keep bloat down. Joshua D. Drake Thank's :) -- View

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 32 bit DB on 64 bit machine

2010-10-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 18:53 -0500, Martin, Brian D. (JSC-OD)[UNITED SPACE ALLIANCE LLC] wrote: Can a 32 bit PostgreSQL v. 9.0 db be copied from a 32 bit machine and overwrite the db on a 64 bit PostgreSQL machine? I'm trying to get a good initial starting point before performing hot standy

[GENERAL] PgWest 2010: 8 Days away

2010-10-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hello, As a reminder, PgWest 2010 is only 8 days away. Registrations are coming in quickly so I suggest you get moving, if you are coming :D Main site: https://www.postgresqlconference.org/ Talks: https://www.postgresqlconference.org/2010/west/talks Registration:

[GENERAL] PgWest 2010: Two weeks away

2010-10-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hey folks, As a gentle reminder PgWest 2010 is two weeks away. In case you missed it, Sun Microsystems Founder Scott McNealy will be presenting the keynote. Here are the relevant links: Agenda: https://www.postgresqlconference.org/2010/west/agenda Registration:

Re: [GENERAL] pitr question

2010-10-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
should possibly be rephrased to indicate it's the OS not the physical hardware that is the issue. No. Because PostgreSQL itself must also be the same architecture. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting

[GENERAL] PgWest 2010 talk descriptions are up

2010-09-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hey, Just an FYI -- the talk descriptions for PostgreSQL Conference West are now up: https://www.postgresqlconference.org/2010/west/talks JD -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development,

Re: [GENERAL] Centralized User Management Tool?

2010-09-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 14:21 -0700, David Kerr wrote: Howdy, Does anyone know of any tools or methods to handle centralized user management within postgres? I've got about 20 DB servers (and growing) each requiring a different number and level of user access (think dev, qa, staging,

Re: [GENERAL] Merge replication with Postgresql on Windows?

2010-09-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
not exist for Postgresql. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt -- Sent via pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Merge replication with Postgresql on Windows?

2010-09-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
that mammoth is basically gone? Oh it's alive. We are down to the last feature of the 1.9 release before going into the wild again. That said, no -- what we offer would not help you. We offer Master-N-Slave replication. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt

Re: [GENERAL] Front End Application (OFF-TOPIC)

2010-09-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 13:15 -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: I am using PostgreSQL to hold my entire I.T. inventory for my company. I am manually entering the data in via hand through the Linux command line and the 'psql' utility which is great for me but other co-workers in I.T. have no

Re: [GENERAL] Trade Study on Oracle vs. PostgreSQL

2010-09-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2010-09-24 at 22:55 +0200, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote: On Friday 24. September 2010 20.04.26 Lincoln Yeoh wrote: Then again, does Tom ever sleep? Maybe he sleeps in the afternoon? Or is that when he does intensive coding? Once there was a suggestion on this list to give Tom

Re: [GENERAL] Reclaiming space

2010-09-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
and then replicate the data to the new server. Is there anyway to reclaim the space (the space used up by the tables themselves are less than 20G). Not without an outage on the relation. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com

Re: [GENERAL] versioned pl/pgsql functions

2010-09-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 14:56 -0500, Rhys A.D. Stewart wrote: hey all, I think versioned pl/[pgsql|python|perl|bash|java] functions would be a great addition to 9.1. Imagine that instead of CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION you could do CREATE AND VERSION FUNCTION and then all modifications to the

Re: [GENERAL] workaround steps for autovaccum problem

2010-09-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 17:01 -0700, David Fetter wrote: On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 05:30:51AM +0530, tamanna madaan wrote: I know upgrading postgres will resolve the problem permanently . But I wanted some workaround for now before I actually upgrade. I want a pony, but I'm not getting one.

Re: [GENERAL] Incrementally Updated Backups

2010-09-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
take an LVM (or similar) snapshot of an application that can't be paused in a way to provide a consistent filesystem. You need to read up on things like WAL and MVCC. Joshua D. Drake -- Joost -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com

Re: [GENERAL] sql DO in rule 9.0rc1

2010-09-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 13:39 -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote: IDK...functions do everything 'DO' does, and support returning data, which is necessary to support RETURNING. Rules are already fairly capricious and problematic and I doubt any proposal that doesn't fix or work around their basic

Re: [GENERAL] FC13 RPMs for 9.0 - on postgresql.org ftp, but not in yum repo?

2010-09-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
that. We missed the push to the repo on RC13. They should be up in the next hour. Joshua D. Drake -- 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] Problems with ODBC Driver

2010-09-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 14:04 +1200, Phil Jackson wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions? What does the ODBC log say? What does the PostgreSQL Log (or event viewer) say? JD Cheers Phil Jackson -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ -

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump --compress error

2010-08-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
while restoring. if command contains any compress option, it won't work Compress will not work in plaintext format for restore. You need to use -Fc and then pg_restore. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579

Re: [GENERAL] Table update problem works on MySQL but not Postgres

2010-08-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 20:17 -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote: This is where the interesting thing happens: On MySQL the query actually works as intended, but it doesn't on PostgreSQL. As I said, I'm sure this is not a bug in PostgreSQL, but the lack of a stupid user trick. While my project is

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL versus Postgres

2010-08-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 15:42 -0400, Vick Khera wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Marco Colombo pg...@esiway.net wrote: Well, my idea was more along the line of automatically try to acquire a reasonable amount of the available resources. I challenge you to defined reasonable in a

Re: [GENERAL] initdb fails to allocate shared memory

2010-08-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
for MacOS per: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/kernel-resources.html And then initdb. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http

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