Re: [GENERAL] Feature proposal

2010-08-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 12:20 -0400, Eric Comeau wrote: Without even changing any line of data or code in sql ! Incredible, isn't it ? Curious- what postgresql.conf settings did you change to improve it? The most obvious would be to turn fsync off, sychronous_commit off, increase

Re: [GENERAL] Massively Parallel transactioning?

2010-08-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
for all databases within it on a single (or small number) of connections? Well if you are just using it for updates to the schema etc... you should only need to launch a single connection to each database to make those changes. Joshua D. Drake -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] Windows 2003 server installation issue

2010-08-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
windows operating system except Windows 2003 . There is a reason the community provides binary packages. The idea that you are patching 8.4.1 is quite ridiculous. Upgrade to 8.4.4. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http

Re: [GENERAL] Compression on SSL links?

2010-08-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2002-12/msg00598.php I say, let's DO IT! :) 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

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL versus Postgres

2010-08-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
% of available memory work_mem = 2-4MB (test using explain analyze) effective_cache_size = 50-60% of available memory INCLUDING shared_buffers etc Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL versus Postgres

2010-08-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 20:01 -0400, Greg Smith wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Can we just say in the docs say 25% of memory to shared_buffers Yes, in fact we can. With the caveat of Windows, the reality is this isn't going to hurt nearly as much as a untuned version of PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] PG-friendly CASE/modeling tool?

2010-08-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 13:17 -0400, Michael C Rosenstein wrote: Hello. We are new to Postgres, and are in the process of migrating our project's app from Oracle. I have been using Embarcadero's ER/Studio as a data modeling/DDL tool for 15 years (and love it!), but its support for Postgres

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL versus Postgres

2010-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 10:09 -0600, Scott Ribe wrote: It's not a requirement, just a reasonable default. The actual requirement is: Thou shall not use a privelaged user, e.g; Administrator or UID = 0. Not only is that a reasonable default, MySQL is broken because of theirs. Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] killing idle attaches without killing others

2010-08-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
if it lasts for any length of time as it can conflict with routine maintenance. However again, it could also be doing the same thing as above. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support

Re: [GENERAL] deleting db cluster

2010-08-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:15 +0200, Ulas Albayrak wrote: Hi, I have a Linux/Debian machine running postgres 8.3 and I need to remove a database cluster that I created with the initdb command. Is it enough to just delete the folder in which the cluster resides on the filesystem, or does it

Re: [GENERAL] problem with pg_standby

2010-08-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
no idea why... What are you using to manage this? I would strongly suggest Walmgr or PITRTools. They take a lot of the guess work out of all this stuff. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training

Re: [GENERAL] solaris slow

2010-08-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
the CACHE turned on, on the drive. The SATA drives will have cache turned on and will be faster. That said, your results are slow as a whole. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom

Re: [GENERAL] Need help on WAL shipping

2010-08-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 21:04 +, stee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I posted twice and didn't get any response, wonder my post didn't get populated properly. Again, followed the document on WAL shipping, and couldn't get target to recognize the archive WAL files. It looks for different WAL

Re: [GENERAL] Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?

2010-07-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. 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://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?

2010-07-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
with Postgres support in Drupal. The issue isn't Drupal. It is modules. There are a lot of popular modules that do not work with PostgreSQL (Lightbox for example). The google checkout module for Ubercart didn't work either until relatively recently. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?

2010-07-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
definitely competitive now, but I don't know if we'll ever fully overcome that historical disadvantage. Yeah that is a tough one. I would note though, if you move out of PHP, our community grows astronomically. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake regards, tom lane -- PostgreSQL.org

Re: [GENERAL] Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?

2010-07-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
of application would you expect to find that start development right now in VB? http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training

Re: [GENERAL] Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?

2010-07-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Except for Drupal's partial support, I cant find any which has a sizeable deployment and community size behind it. Spree is a new RoR based system, that would obviously work with PG, but doesnt have a sizeable deployment base. Drupal + Ubercart + a ton of their modules work great. It is

Re: [GENERAL] Comparison of Oracle and PostgreSQL full text search

2010-07-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
on-site). Over time though, there is no question that hands down PostgreSQL will save you money. You can get an Enterprise class support contract for 500.00 a month per server. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdrake(at)jabber(dot)postgresql(dot)org Consulting, Development

Re: [GENERAL] How Big is Too Big for Tables?

2010-07-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
there for PG tables? what do you all recommend in this case? 80-100Gb isn't that much. However it may be worth looking into partitioning by state. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training

Re: [GENERAL] Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?

2010-07-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 22:37 +0530, Sandeep Srinivasa wrote: Could you point me to any deployments of Drupal + Ubercart + Postgres ? Did you not see the links below? Drupal + Ubercart + a ton of their modules work great. It is what drives:

Re: [GENERAL] Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?

2010-07-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
/multiple_drupal_installations_single_login_10_steps/ That show the flexibility you get by using PostgreSQL. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering

Re: [GENERAL] Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?

2010-07-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 07:04 +0200, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: BTW up to my memory Django suggest postgres. I haven't seen any benchmark of Django with pg vs mysql. Django was originally developed for Postgres but really, they are wholly different beasts. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org

Re: [GENERAL] text vs. varchar

2010-07-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 08:58 -0700, Ben Chobot wrote: Is there any difference between text and varchar data types? (Not varchar(n), just varchar.) I can't see a different from the manual page, but I'm wondering about index usage or something similarly subtle. They are the same thing. So is

Re: [GENERAL] Database recovery after dropdb

2010-07-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 18:18 +0200, easyCity Team wrote: Hi guy, I just droped a development database by mistake using the dropdb command witch contains valuable data. Can I still restaure it ? I have no backup. No. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor

Re: [GENERAL] Any ideas on Version 9.0 production release date?

2010-07-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 13:05 -0400, Darin Del Vecchio wrote: We are doing an upgrade soon, and are wondering if its worth waiting till version 9.0 is put into production. I found that its projected to be mid-August at the following wiki. I wasn't sure if there might be some more recent up

Re: [GENERAL] How to Declare Functions Containing OUT PArameters?

2010-07-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
fishy( $1 , $2 , $3 , $4 ) PL/pgSQL function main line 9 at SQL statement You are passing four IN paramaters. The out paramaters are used in return are they not? Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting

[GENERAL] PgWest 2010 Call for Papers!

2010-07-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Following on the smashing success of PostgreSQL Conference East, PostgreSQL Conference West, The PostgreSQL Conference for Decision Makers, End Users and Developers, is being held at the St. Francis, Westin Hotel in San Francisco from November 2nd through 4th 2010. Please join us in making this

Re: [GENERAL] atul.g...@globaldatapoint.com

2010-07-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 20:33 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: That's a write rate of 34MB/min, or half a meg a second. Not pretty. Where's the load during the COPY? Mostly CPU? Or mostly disk I/O? Are you writing the output to the same disk the database is on? (Not that it should make this much

Re: [GENERAL] No PL/PHP ? Any reason?

2010-07-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 03:42 +, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Joshua D. Drake wrote: * No trusted/untrusted versions This is false. There are both. Ah, good news, glad I was misinformed. I'm curious, what mechanism does it use

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] Anyone in Madison?

2010-07-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 17:54 -0700, David Fetter wrote: On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 02:31:04PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: Folks, I'll be unexpectedly in Madison next week for an onsite contract. Is there a user group in Madison I could meet up with? Maybe do a quick session on 9.0? As

Re: [GENERAL] php and connection

2010-06-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
be. - could this be solved using persistent connections, or the persistent connections in php and postgres don't work properly? Don't use them. - could this be solved using something like pgpool? Yes, using a connection pooler will solve the problem. I prefer pgbouncer. Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] Any problem with the Long Integer type?

2010-06-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 6/26/2010 1:25 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote: Hello 2010/6/26wei...@lycos.com: About four five years ago, I had received a few of emails about the data type problems on this mailing list. I believe that the problem was about a performance issue. Is any problem withe the Long Integer type in

Re: [GENERAL] PG dump and restore

2010-06-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
/postgresql84/bin/psql Trading-Access ./Trading-Access it causes the error: invalid byte sequence for encoding UTF8: 0x8b It means the database you has characters in it that are not UTF8 compliant. You can use iconv to clean it up. Joshua D. Drake Thanks, -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor

Re: [GENERAL] Backup issues

2010-06-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
that? You have to move the whole cluster. (Your data directory) 1. Are the Redo Logs enabled by default? Yes, its called WAL. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom

Re: [GENERAL] Hide the code from users postgres

2010-06-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
they don't have access to the data. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] Hide the code from users postgres

2010-06-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
have no problem with him trying to protect his hard earned work. I just think he is trying to solve the wrong problem. Joshua D. Drake Allan. -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom

Re: [GENERAL] Hide the code from users postgres

2010-06-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
/pl_secure_standard_server.do That's interesting... does it just turn it into bytecode? Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] what is the meaning of Datum?

2010-06-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
those? Here is a nice interface to the code: http://doxygen.postgresql.org/ Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] UPDATE after Cancle

2010-06-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. Any idea if that's the case? and if so, is that expected? It finished before it received the cancellation. You need to be using transactions. Joshua D. Drake Thanks Dave -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting

Re: [GENERAL] No PL/PHP ? Any reason?

2010-06-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 17:17 -0400, John DeSoi wrote: On Jun 22, 2010, at 1:08 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: I recall talking to the guys at command prompt and apparently something in the php runtime makes it unsuitable for pl deployment. Any chance that the Parrot runtime could be used for

Re: [GENERAL] No PL/PHP ? Any reason?

2010-06-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to update it from the migration from Trac. * PHP is not as stable, mature, secure, or well designed as Perl/Tcl/Python. No it is just more popular, more widely used and has a larger community. (Oh: And remember, I am a python guy) Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command

Re: [GENERAL] postgres crash SOS

2010-06-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
in selection of hardware and configuration. Is this different for any database system? Yes :) but does it matter? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development

Re: [GENERAL] UUID/GUID

2010-06-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
for uniqueness instead of Sequences and Site ID's. No you can use your own library as well (or language library). Joshua D. Drake Thanks, O. -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom

Re: [GENERAL] How to remove the current database and populate the database with new data?

2010-06-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to stop postgres, initdb, recreate your users etc... Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL database and other daemons crashing

2010-05-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
, this happens at least 5 times per day at random times. Apache however, does not die. All three? What does /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog say? I wonder if the oom killer is acting up. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http

Re: [GENERAL] object tracking

2010-05-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall for Postgres Database Daily Backup?

2010-05-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to work with for partial restores. Joshua D. Drake Thanks in advance. Mary -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing

Re: [GENERAL] Question about Beta for Windows 64 bits

2010-05-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 15:15 +0100, Dave Page wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Igor Neyman iney...@perceptron.com wrote: Will 9.0 also have 64-bit ODBC driver? Eventually. What would be the benefit? We considered it with ODBCng but couldn't find any real suitable purpose. Joshua D

Re: [GENERAL] Question about Beta for Windows 64 bits

2010-05-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 19:08 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 15:15 +0100, Dave Page wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Igor Neyman iney...@perceptron.com wrote: Will 9.0 also have 64

Re: SQLite (was: RE: [GENERAL] Reliability of Windows versions 8.3 or 8.4)

2010-05-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
it is also important to remember to use the right tool for each job. SQLite is used for RPM as well as bookmarks for firefox. It makes sense there. PostgreSQL would not. SQLite is a small, cool, fast, embedded database. Joshua D. Drake RobR -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump custom format across versions

2010-05-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 19:05 +0100, Thom Brown wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if there are issues with performing a pg_dump in custom format in one major version, and using pg_restore on it on a higher version? You want to use the pg_dump from the higher version. Joshua D. Drake Thanks

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump custom format across versions

2010-05-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 19:33 +0100, Thom Brown wrote: On 12 May 2010 19:29, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 19:05 +0100, Thom Brown wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if there are issues with performing

Re: [GENERAL] How to do pg_dump + pg_restore within Perl script?

2010-05-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
a authorized_keys with a specific command in it, and other tricks, but nothing will be as straightforward and error proof as the line you gave, I suspect. With one minor exception. I don't think he needs -Z9 since he is using SSH which will compress anyway. Joshua D. Drake - -- Greg Sabino

Re: [GENERAL] pg_class has 3615 rows and 1010Mb in table size

2010-05-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
back to the size it is supposed to be at? PostgreSQL 8.2.6 on Windows 2003 Server. vacuum full, its an exclusive lock though. I don't recall if 8.2 autovacuum would vacuum system catalogs or not. Either way, you really should upgrade, especially since you are on Windows. Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] Native DB replication for PG

2010-04-30 Thread Joshua D. Drake
as it gets. It is a great baseline at this point. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] Open Source BI Tool

2010-04-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 12:33 -0400, akp geek wrote: Hi all - I would like to know, if there is a open source BI tool for creating reports against Postgres database ? appreciate your help Pentaho Regards -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc:

Re: [GENERAL] Open Source BI Tool

2010-04-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 13:40 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: akp geek wrote: Business Intelligence isn't that an oxymoron? Depends, you want your paycheck? -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training,

Re: [GENERAL] Server Panic when trying to stop point in time recovery

2010-04-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 15:39 -0500, Chris Copeland wrote: Any help is greatly appreciated. Please let me know if I can provide any more information that will be helpful. Well the problem is that the files are missing. How are you copying them? Joshua D. Drake -Chris

Re: [GENERAL] Avoiding surrogate keys

2010-04-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. Yeah but that isn't generally a problem now and the gain he gets from the lack of join performance is more than worth it. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development

Re: [GENERAL] Avoiding surrogate keys

2010-04-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
remove the need for the join in the first place, which is certainly faster than joining :P Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] pl/java status

2010-04-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 22:53 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Damian Carey wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:18 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Mostly, I think you will find that the back end developers aren't fond of Java and thus, it doesn't get much

Re: [GENERAL] pl/java status

2010-04-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. There is a reason that plPerl is king in this community (and I don't even like Perl). Joshua D. Drake -- Craig Ringer -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering

Re: [GENERAL] [SOLVED] Error in Trigger function. How to correct?

2010-04-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. That's only true for the 8.2 series. : PPAS 8.1 = PostgreSQL 8.1 PPAS 8.3x = PostgreSQL 8.2 base (plus HOT and wal_writer) PPAS 8.4 = PostgreSQL 8.4 (plus compatibility) PPAS 9 [is planned to] = PostgreSQL 9.0 So there was no actual 8.3 base release of PPAS? Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Postgres 9.1 - Release Theme

2010-04-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 10:54 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:05 AM, David E. Wheeler da...@kineticode.com wrote: On Apr 1, 2010, at 3:01 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote: I prefer to dump all my data in a big text file and grep it for the information I need. As long

Re: [GENERAL] prevent connection using pgpass.conf

2010-03-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
in files such as pgpass.conf. Is there any configuration that can be done, on the server side, or in the C++ and/or java application side, so to prevent such thing ? Don't let your users log in to the Windows machine as users that have access to those files. Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] 1-Click installer problems

2010-03-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. Joshua D. Drake -- Craig Ringer -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained through arbitrary and repetitive use or Mr. or Sir. -- Sent

Re: [GENERAL] app table names

2010-03-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
applications in one database. Use multiple databases to isolate them entirely. Or use Schemsa. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned

Re: [GENERAL] unexplained autovacuum to prevent wraparound

2010-03-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2010-03-12 at 16:45 -0700, Gordon Shannon wrote: This is 8.4, there is no pg_autovacuum table. I set it like this: alter table foo set (autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor=0.01); That is 1% changes. I think you want .10 Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major

[GENERAL] PgEast Hotel discount deadline today!

2010-03-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
03/11/2010 The hotel discount deadline is today, 03/11/2010. If you have not purchased your rooms by the end of today, you will pay at least 60.00 more per night. The hotel is also reaching capacity. It is doubly worth your attention to register today if you are seeking to do so. If you do not,

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL Conference East, Hotel Discount Deadline

2010-03-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
March 9th, 2010 PostgreSQL Conference East, the largest PostgreSQL Conference for Users, Developers, Decision makers and anyone using PostgreSQL arranged for a hotel discount for attendees from the Radisson Warwick Hotel (the location of the conference). The retail price of a double room is ~

Re: [GENERAL] Auto VACUUM

2010-03-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to not conflict. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained through arbitrary and repetitive use or Mr. or Sir. -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] Cast char to number

2010-02-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
numeric; ERROR: column id cannot be cast to type pg_catalog.numeric postgres=# Joshua D. Drake -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development

Re: [GENERAL] Cast char to number

2010-02-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
smarlowe=# alter table abc alter column c type numeric using c::numeric; ALTER TABLE Well that is interesting. I would have thought it would have failed because of the padding... Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564

Re: [GENERAL] How to Output PSQL Errors to a Log File?

2010-02-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:19:34 -0800, Wang, Mary Y mary.y.w...@boeing.com wrote: Hi, I used 'pg_dumpall' to dump the database in Postgres 7.1.3 and I'm in the process of restoring the databases in Postgres 8.3.8. There were lots errors showed on the screen when I ran this command 'psql -e

Re: [GENERAL] Source RPMs for PostgreSQL 7.4.27 on RHEL4

2010-02-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
us a little time. That said, I am not sure that we have any desire to continue to build for 7.4. I will have to discuss it with the team. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] Bug on pg_lesslog

2010-02-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 23:39 +0900, Koichi Suzuki wrote: Dear Folks; A very serious bug was reported on pg_lesslog. So far, I found it's a bug in pg_compresslog. Please do not use pg_compresslog and pg_decompresslog until improved version is uploaded. I strongly advise to take base

Re: [GENERAL] Connect RDF to PostgreSQL?

2010-02-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
that can efficiently connect RDF to PostgreSQL? What do you mean connect? If you want to support RDF as storage we do have native xml capabilities. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/datatype-xml.html Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Aaron Thul http://www.chasingnuts.com

Re: [GENERAL] Questions on PostGreSQL Authentication mechanism...

2010-02-02 Thread Joshua D. Drake
, no doubt. Does it not install symlinks in the actual data directory? If not, that should be reported as a bug ... I disagree. Debian/Ubuntu use the postgresql.conf facilities to have a different postgresql.conf. This is a limitation within PostgreSQL. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major

Re: [pgsql-www] [GENERAL] Versions RSS page is missing version(s)

2010-01-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
all (7.3+) versions to versions.rss, but show only top 5 versions? 7.3 is not supported. It would be 7.4+ and even that, we need to put that under a different category... Something like: Old versions you shouldn't use: 8.0 7.4 Joshua D. Drake Regards, -- PostgreSQL.org Major

Re: [pgsql-www] [GENERAL] Versions RSS page is missing version(s)

2010-01-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 18:50 +0200, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 08:44 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Is it possible to add all (7.3+) versions to versions.rss, but show only top 5 versions? 7.3 is not supported. I know. But it would be a chance to remind people

Re: [GENERAL] Possible to set postgres in case insensitive mode ?

2010-01-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 23:52 +0200, Moe wrote: Is it possible to set postgres in case insensitive mode ? I assume you mean the issue where postgres folds all case of objects to lower if they are not . No. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http

Re: [GENERAL] Log full of: statement_timeout out of the valid range.

2010-01-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:09 -0600, Abraham, Danny wrote: Our setup is a real valid one. Looks like it has to do more with remote connections. A remote connection trying to set statement_timeout on its own and sending an invalid value. Joshua D. Drake Any idea? Thanks Danny

Re: [GENERAL] OT: Db2 connection pooling?

2010-01-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 12:16 -0500, Alan McKay wrote: Hey folks, Sorry for the OT - we are most of the way through a Db2 -- PG migration that is some 18 months in the making so far.We've got maybe another 3 to 6 months to go before we are complete, and in the meantime have identified the

Re: [GENERAL] OT: Db2 connection pooling?

2010-01-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 17:35 -0500, Alan McKay wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com wrote: What language are you running this in again? There might be other options that are more language oriented (java for instance) than db oriented. Or maybe

Re: [GENERAL] Avoid transaction abot if/when constraint violated

2010-01-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
insert a bad record the whole transaction fails. Joshua D. Drake Thanks in Advance! -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql 8.1 windows 2008 64 bit

2010-01-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
our statements and triggers/stored procedures wich is currently in work. PostgreSQL 8.3/8.4/8.5 will run just fine on 64bit Windows. Just understand that PostgreSQL will be running in 32bit mode, which frankly on windows is not a problem compared to other platforms. Joshua D. Drake

[GENERAL] PgEast CFP (second call)

2010-01-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [GENERAL] Minimizing disk space

2010-01-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
applaud your willingness to move to Pg but in this case something like SQLite or even Ingres may be a better solution for you. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom

Re: [GENERAL] How psql source code can be protected?

2010-01-06 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to deploy my DB on a hosting company server. But they can see my functions code (they have root privileges) and this is what I want to avoid. If you don't trust your hosting company then why are you doing business with them? This+ Bingo... Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org

Re: [GENERAL] Save MySQL? HA

2010-01-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
in a court of law, thus is still on shaky legal ground. Can we move this thread to someplace relevant? This really has no place on this list. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom

Re: [GENERAL] Save MySQL? HA

2010-01-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Monty made his be, let him lie in it. I repeat, this if off-topic. Please drop it. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdrake(at)jabber(dot)postgresql(dot)org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving

Re: [GENERAL] Save MySQL? HA

2009-12-31 Thread Joshua D. Drake
without paying a license fee requires that projects using the database are also GPL, IIRC) I'm pretty sure this only applies to commercial software thats distributed -with- MySQL Guys, this is wholly off-topic. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc

Re: [GENERAL] Installation of Postgis/postgresql

2009-12-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 13:21 -0800, Nick wrote: On Dec 28, 8:22 pm, pie...@hogranch.com (John R Pierce) wrote: Nick wrote: 'g++' or g++ says -bash g++: command not found distro is red hat Assuming thats RHEL5, yum install gcc-c++ if its RHEL4 or earlier, use up2date

Re: [GENERAL] using psql after you change the default port

2009-12-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
sort of assumed that psql connected via a local pipe and not a port. The socket is named... .s.PGSQL.port, thus it still needs to know. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom

Re: [GENERAL] using psql after you change the default port

2009-12-22 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 16:08 -0800, David Kerr wrote: - export PGPORT=5433 - - etc... ok thanks, that might be an easier way to handle my scripts. can you export PGHOST as well? The manual provides a list: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/libpq-envars.html Joshua D. Drake

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL Conference East call for papers

2009-12-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering If the world pushes look it in the eye and GRR. Then push back harder. - Salamander -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing

Re: [GENERAL] Use a blob or not?

2009-12-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
(which is bytea with a different delivery and storage mechanism). 5k chunks is pretty small, bytea is probably fine. Joshua D. Drake Thanks. -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby instructions

2009-11-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
or directory: '/opt/postgres/archive/10.100.101.150' LOG: archive command failed with exit code 1 DETAIL: The failed archive command was: cmd_archiver -C /export/home/postgres/8.4/pitrtools/cmd_archiver.ini -F pg_xlog/00030001007D Did you run cmd_archiver -I ? Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] pg_standby instructions

2009-11-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
). Regards On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 16:46 -0500, akp geek wrote: Hi All - I would like to know if any one has instructions on how to setup pg_standby, if so can you please share? If you

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