Re: [GENERAL] default superuser

2007-12-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Gauthier, Dave wrote: Hi I created a database instance and a database takign whatever defaults were in effect with regard to defining a superuser and password. What are those defaults? How do I change the password for the superuser? You created a database or a cluster? What command did

Re: [GENERAL] default superuser

2007-12-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. The problem is that you don't have your authentication configured. That is discussed in detail here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/client-authentication.html Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support

Re: [GENERAL] Machine spec 64-bit/32 GB RAM

2007-12-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
of PG can the 32 G of RAM be used for caching? There is zero reason not to run PG on 64bit with that configuration. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Many thanks, David ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Warm standby system - FATAL: the database system is starting up

2007-12-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:24:01 -0800 (PST) Glyn Astill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way I can check what it is? Change your log line prefix to show connections and ip addresses. Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http

Re: [GENERAL] Setting Sequence Values

2007-12-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
way to do this? Take a look at setval. postgres=# select setval('foo_id_seq',(select max(id) from foo)); setval - 100 (1 row) postgres=# select currval('foo_id_seq'); currval - - 100 (1 row) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end

Re: [GENERAL] Setting Sequence Values

2007-12-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
AND d.refclassid='pg_class'::regclass AND d.refobjsubid 0 AND d.deptype='a'; sequencename | schema | tablename | columnname - --++---+ foo_id_seq | public | foo | id (1 row) - From there, scripting should be easy. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] Setting Sequence Values

2007-12-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
seem essential, because there isn't any other reason for a sequence to depend on a table column. Otherwise the query seems correct. 8.2 is type 'a' (and I assume 8.3), 8.1 is 'i'. I don't know about anything older. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http

Re: [GENERAL] to realise the dark side of Microsoft SQL Server...?

2007-12-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. the OOXML debacle? The list continues, but I suspect you get my point. You are assuming most people care. 1. You have to pay for the the OS. 2. You have to pay for the database. 3. You have to pay for any extra feature. That is where you start. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] thank you

2007-12-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to work with. /Kevin (Although not the same Kevin as above) /me takes note of all the Kevins that are handing out hugs... :) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Donate

Re: [GENERAL] thank you

2007-12-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
opportunity to interact with the PG community. That is until I can convince my new employer to realise the dark side of Microsoft SQL Server. :) 503-667-4564 extension 101... I am available anytime after 9:00am PST Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http

Re: [GENERAL] Password as a command line argument to createuser

2007-12-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Jane Ren wrote: Hi, I need to write a script that creates a new user with a password automatically. Is there a way I can specify the password as a command line argument to createuser? Since you have access to the shell use psql -U user -c create role ... Joshua D. Drake It looks like

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL Conference East Update

2007-12-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
this week and registration opens up in January 08. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate SELECT

Re: [GENERAL] spreadsheet interface

2007-12-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
can't vouch for how well it works. Well OpenOffice now has a native sdbc driver so no ODBC is required. It seems to work very well. Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Donate

Re: [GENERAL] install problem

2007-12-17 Thread Joshua D. Drake
would be using this once we can actually test it. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/runtime-config-connection.html Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240

Re: [GENERAL] Need to find out which process is hitting hda

2007-12-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
know I'm RAM starved on this machine) Good lord, my laptop has more memory than that. :) My phone has more memory than that :P Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240

Re: [GENERAL] Slow PITR restore

2007-12-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:08:35 -0800 Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: You sure about that? I tested CVS HEAD just now, by setting the checkpoint_ parameters

Re: [GENERAL] Slow PITR restore

2007-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Simon Riggs wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 22:21 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Now I understand that restoring log files can be slow but this is a big machine. Yeah, restoring is known to be less than speedy, because essentially zero optimization work has

Re: [GENERAL] Southern California Linux Expo

2007-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Richard Broersma Jr wrote: Are there any planes in the works for a booth and talks for PostgreSQL? This is already being discussed on the advocacy list :) Joshua D. Drake Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1

Re: [GENERAL] Slow PITR restore

2007-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Simon Riggs wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 07:36 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: We can't really expect people to use PITR if they new it would take hours to recover even on the size of machine I was working on. That's not true statement in all cases and can often be improved with some

Re: [GENERAL] slony1 replication question

2007-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH wrote: Hi, I need some help with slony... Which comes from the Slony lists: http://lists.slony.info/mailman/listinfo Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner

Re: [GENERAL] General Q's

2007-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Dave Page wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: * Is there a project to create MySQL compatibility for Postgresql? I No. Thank god. Just think of all those potential customers you could be missing JD :-) http://pgfoundry.org/projects/mysqlcompat/ I know you put a smiley face

Re: [GENERAL] General Q's

2007-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
of functionality found on Joomla and Drupal work with Postgresql? Those are the two I know best. We have several extremely high profile customers that use Drupal PostgreSQL with great success. Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9

Re: [GENERAL] Slow PITR restore

2007-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
at smaller intervals). Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] Slow PITR restore

2007-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
CPU, there is a huge amount of optimization *somewhere* to be done. Tom is also correct, we should test this on 8.3. Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Donate to the PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Slow PITR restore

2007-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
be. This is a database that is doing nothing but restoring. Zero concurrency. This thing should be flying. Depending on your transaction mix and what percentage of it is read-only select queries you might reasonably expect the restore to take as long as it took to generate t We archive selects? Joshua D

Re: [GENERAL] Slow PITR restore

2007-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Gregory Stark wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:02:39 + Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what you guys' expectations are, but if you're restoring 5 minutes worth of database traffic in 8 seconds I wouldn't be complaining. I would

Re: [GENERAL] timestamp with time zone

2007-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
:34:56+04 (1 row) ? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [GENERAL] Slow PITR restore

2007-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff Trout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in this case it was 24hrs of data - about 1500 wal segments. During this time the machine was nearly complete idle and there wasn't very much IO going on (few megs/sec). Exactly. Which

Re: [GENERAL] Slow PITR restore

2007-12-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: You sure about that? I tested CVS HEAD just now, by setting the checkpoint_ parameters really high, ... And: 2007-12-13 00:55:20 EST LOG: restored log file 000107E1006B from archive Hmm --- I

Re: [GENERAL] Hijack!

2007-12-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
, otherwise how is anyone to know? Because it is standard practice on the internet to have lists-headers? And that is how every standard mail client deals with it? Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency

Re: [GENERAL] Hijack!

2007-12-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
that you are replying to, to have enough wits to not top post. However, I would also note that in windows world, it is very common to top post. I am constantly retraining very smart, just very ignorant customers. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http

Re: [GENERAL] psql batch file question

2007-12-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to a line that has a command to export a table from PostgreSQL, or calls another batch file, which copies some files. Use perl, python, mono/c#, java, pl/sh ... you have a wealth of various easy to use APIs :) Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com

Re: top posting (was: [GENERAL] Hijack!)

2007-12-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
). It is the PostgreSQL communities decision and I believe except for newbies and a few long timers who should know better, everyone avoids top posting. Top posting makes it hard to read. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales

Re: [GENERAL] top posting

2007-12-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
discourage top posting, vehemently if needed. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate SELECT

Re: [GENERAL] Hijack!

2007-12-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
care, email etiquette in painful detail here http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855. Hijacking seems to be more of a Bozo No-No than top posting. Or maybe that's just me. Oh certainly Hi-jacking is bad as well. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http

Re: [GENERAL] Hijack!

2007-12-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
of the original message. FWIW this would be another item on the netiquette FAQ. O.k. but the above is *not* user controlled. I think the community needs to suck it up and live with that. Joshua D. Drake - -- The PostgreSQL Company: Since 1997, http://www.commandprompt.com/ Sales/Support

Re: [GENERAL] Version Upgrade using WAL files ?

2007-12-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
version I can use these WAL? No. Take a look at www.slony.info. Joshua D. Drake Thanks Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=51438/*http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

Re: [GENERAL] top posting

2007-12-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
haven't been here very long. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] top posting

2007-12-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
, and it simply is not the way it's done on this list. Get use to it. Now who's doing the 4 year old crying?? There is no reason for this discussion to become rude. It has been productive on both sides thus far. Let's keep it that way. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end

[GENERAL] Slow PITR restore

2007-12-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
, Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [GENERAL] Slow PITR restore

2007-12-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Now I understand that restoring log files can be slow but this is a big machine. Yeah, restoring is known to be less than speedy, because essentially zero optimization work has been done on it. Heikki has improved matters a bit

Re: [GENERAL] slony question

2007-12-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
the slony lists: http://lists.slony.info/mailman/listinfo Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Thanks josh - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com

Re: [GENERAL] record-based log shipping

2007-12-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Replicator already does replication (www.commandprompt.com). Inserts replication transactional data, where updates and deletes replicate the low level command (what was deleted/updated not the actual DML). Joshua D. Drake P.S. DDL is never a subject for replication (in normal RDBMS'es

Re: [GENERAL] Re-partitioning huge schema

2007-12-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
will be run on allowing you to have a centralized master for your connect manager that can interact with any number of various nodes based on function call. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and server responsiveness

2007-12-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
problem as far as I can tell... Pg_dump uses Access Share if I recall. You can operate normally while running pg_dump. I am having a hard time parsing that. Could you instead go over to pgsql.privatepaste.com and send back a paste link? Joshua D. Drake sdb: tables sdc: logs sdd: backup share

Re: [GENERAL] pgAccess for PostgreSQL 8.2.5

2007-12-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
? pgAccess is long dead. Please take a look at pgadmin, www.pgadmin.org. Alternatively you could use OOBase from OpenOffice. Joshua D. Drake Thank you. Kandy ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire

Re: [GENERAL] 7.4 end of life

2007-12-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Chris Velevitch wrote: Where can I find information on when support for 7.4.x formally cease? This has yet to be determined. However you can expect that it will be considered in the next 12 to 18 months. We are about to EOL 7.3. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Chris

Re: [GENERAL] Can i Force to postgrsql to use a certain index?

2007-12-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
you to do that. Not to mention, a SELECT * without a where clause will always scan the whole table so an Index would be useless. Joshua D. Drake thanks pau -- Pau Marc Muñoz Torres Laboratori de Biologia Computacional Institut de Biotecnologia i Biomedicina Vicent Villar

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL Beta4 released

2007-12-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
of defense to help us find any corner cases of possible issues. Further Beta information is available here: http://www.postgresql.org/developer/beta Binaries for are already available for our major platforms. Joshua D. Drake PostgreSQL Liaison -- * PostgreSQL - The world's most advanced open source

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Beta4 released

2007-12-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 13:59:13 -0800 Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to all the testing, feedback and bug reports the community has performed with the current betas, we now have our fourth beta of 8.4. Pardon. I am living 12 months in the future. This should be: we now have

Re: [GENERAL] CPU

2007-12-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
between a dual core opteron and a dual core xeon will likely not be noticeable to a PostgreSQL installation (generally speaking). However, the two extra cores (even if slower), will greatly help if you have any kind of concurrency. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake ---(end

Re: [GENERAL] CPU

2007-12-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 22:30:58 -0600 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/07 21:27, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Uwe C. Schroeder wrote: On Monday 03 December 2007, Tom Allison wrote

Re: [GENERAL] power failure....

2007-12-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
if it is in contrib or not.. try?: apt-file is your friend: apt-file search pg_resetxlog /usr/lib/postgresql/8.1/bin/pg_resetxlog Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings signature.asc

Re: [GENERAL] power failure....

2007-12-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:32:50 -0500 Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tracked it down and did a reset. I only have one large table right now. And now I've decided to start using fsync=on!!! :) change wal_sync_method to open_sync and fsync=on isn't nearly as bad as it sounds. joshua

Re: [GENERAL] hibernate + postgresql ?

2007-11-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
very usable code but then you have to wonder why you have hibernate there at all. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Regards, Oleg _ Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru), Sternberg Astronomical

Re: [GENERAL] HD is flooded by Error Log info

2007-11-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
like a realistic issue with using logrotate or syslog was tgl's. You can loose data in the log when rotating if you aren't using the PostgreSQL logging facility. Other than that I think our current logging situation is a bit ridiculous. [1] Joshua D. Drake [1] http://www.commandprompt.com/blogs

Re: [GENERAL] Select all fields except one

2007-11-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
list is is the list of fields you don't want selected and the second parameter is the table you are going to use. Then you just have to build the logic inside the function. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Cheers, David. - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales

Re: [GENERAL] Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance

2007-11-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
? I thought it was more about the cost to fork() a process in win32? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com

Re: [GENERAL] Select all fields except one

2007-11-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Cheers, David. - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ UNIQUE NOT NULL Donate

Re: [GENERAL] Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance

2007-11-27 Thread Joshua D. Drake
at the kernel level. Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ UNIQUE NOT NULL Donate to the PostgreSQL Project

Re: [GENERAL] replication in Postgres

2007-11-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
explicitly for use with drdbd which is synchronous block level replication. No license fees :) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Jeff ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] Primary Key

2007-11-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
process, to be not-so-natural after all. In theory the item that would be a natural key in this instance is the VIN. You would of course have to make some kind of allowance for cars that don't have a VIN (nothing in the last what... 50 years?). Joshua D. Drake Cheers, Steve

Re: [GENERAL] Primary Key

2007-11-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:28:03 -0800 (PST) Richard Broersma Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Mon, 11/26/07, Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In theory the item that would be a natural key in this instance is the VIN. You would

Re: [GENERAL] replication in Postgres

2007-11-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
replication. Sorry, this makes no sense to me -- EnterpriseDB has no replication solution that I know of. This is bullsh*t, it does as I've been talking to them this week. Glyn, relax.. he did say, that I know of. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company

Re: [GENERAL] replication in Postgres

2007-11-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:39:42 -0500 Chris Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, the only way to make things deterministic (or to get from near real time to *GUARANTEED* real time) is to jump to synchronous replication, which is not much

Re: [GENERAL] Read-only availability of a standby server?

2007-11-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
important for a project I am working on. There was a Google Summer of Code project IIRC for that... So yes, it has been worked on a bit but I am unaware of the status. Joshua D. Drake ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your

Re: [GENERAL] POLL: Women-sized t-shirts for PostgreSQL

2007-11-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
to see a real desire for them. I have deferred the ladies shirts decision to Selena for what I feel are obvious reasons. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] POLL: Women-sized t-shirts for PostgreSQL

2007-11-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. I personally wouldn't even mind having a PG polo that has 3rd part vendor logos on the sleeves if that would help make PG polo shirts available. O.k., o.k. :) I will look into costs. Joshua D. Drake Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. ---(end of broadcast

Re: [GENERAL] POLL: Women-sized t-shirts for PostgreSQL

2007-11-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
brian wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: We have considered getting Polos as well as normal shirts. The normal shirts are your basic 6.1 oz 100% cotton. No iron required, heavy enough to hide the extra we all get once we get over 30. The main issue with polo's is that they are expensive

Re: [GENERAL] POLL: Women-sized t-shirts for PostgreSQL

2007-11-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Paul Lambert wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: We do not yet have a store although it has been something of interest in the past. We usually order them in bulk and then request donations for them at the conferences and shows. Note :) If you register for East you get a shirt. What if we

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Conference 08 East!

2007-11-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:49:25 -0500 Walter Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: It's that time, after a wildly successful conference last October in Portland, Oregon we are now beginning to ramp up for the East Coast 08

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL Conference 08 East!

2007-11-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:50:03 +0300 (MSK) Oleg Bartunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any possibilities to sponsor me and Teodor ? I will contact off list about this. Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Conference 08 East!

2007-11-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
talking about the hotel idea. More to come after Thanksgiving. Joshua D. Drake -- Walter ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.3 Beta3 released!

2007-11-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
should be available soon. Joshua D. Drake PostgreSQL Liaison -- PostgreSQL - The world's most advanced open source database http://www.postgresql.org/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL Conference 08 East!

2007-11-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
, and will be used for PostgreSQL development, support and advocacy. So if you are on the east coast and can help with organizing this conference please let me know. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] PostgreSQL - Services delivery query ?

2007-11-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
/ pricing available 4. Most importantly are we supporting any customer in APAC on this ? Is tehre a referal ? Why are you asking PostgreSQL about this? These are questions for Sun. Joshua D. Drake Appreciate your help. regards, Jeba ---(end of broadcast

Re: [GENERAL] Primary Key

2007-11-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
, b text, primary (a,b)); Joshua D. Drake life. I'm back to almost never using natural keys now, mainly because interfacing with the outside world gets too complicated. When I'm just doing stuff inside the database then I can use natural keys and all is good, otherwise things just get too

Re: [GENERAL] Primary Key

2007-11-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
on what you're doing, though unless you've got a few years experience I'd be tempted to stay away from primary keys of more than a single column. Fie on you evil synthetic key lovers. Long live the Natural Key! Right with you there buddy. Let's get the pitchforks! Joshua D. Drake - -- Ron

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql and resource isolation

2007-11-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
already provided to me. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Thanks! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/ - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt

Re: [GENERAL] field doesn't exist even though I'm sure it does

2007-11-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
names so that I'm not faced with this problem. Thank you for your reply, and you too Joshua. Sorry for such an easy question :-) No sweat :)... I trust you will have more. Bring them on. Joshua D. Drake Sam ---(end of broadcast

Re: [GENERAL] field doesn't exist even though I'm sure it does

2007-11-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
| text | xxPrimaryName | text | xxJointName | text | xxHouseholdHash | text | current=# TIA It is because when you created the relation you double quoted isactive, so it isn't isactive it is isActive. E.g; case is relevant. Joshua D

Re: [GENERAL] view management

2007-11-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
stored procedures instead. Joshua D. Drake TIA. Ed ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [GENERAL] Primary Key

2007-11-16 Thread Joshua D. Drake
? Normally a primary key would just be a single column. Uhmm no. Normally a primary key is defined by the number of columns it takes to determine naturally distinct values. I would agree that if he is looking at 6 then he probably needs to normalize further. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake

Re: [GENERAL] PLpgsql debugger question

2007-11-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
the packagers are for. As far as I know it's included in the core. Things like the debugger need to just be there with no monkeying around. If you are compiling from source, you are likely monkeying around. It is the packagers responsibility to package this stuff, not core. Sincerely, Joshua D

Re: [GENERAL] PLpgsql debugger question

2007-11-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
.) Right. Joshua D. Drake A - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ UNIQUE NOT NULL Donate to the PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 vs 8.2 sql compatiblity issue

2007-11-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
explicit casts in a few queries that didn't need them before, the elimination of surprising interpretations justifies it. - From the release notes :) http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3.html Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc

Re: [GENERAL] PLpgsql debugger question

2007-11-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
that. I would rather us just start a packaging project. We are already doing this for RPMS... and the debian folks are all over it... We just need to provide some help and get them into the repos. Joshua D. Drake A - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support

Re: [GENERAL] Tom thinks it's bad code was 8.3 vs 8.2 sql compatibility issue

2007-11-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
or unsubscribe. Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ UNIQUE NOT NULL Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql and resource isolation

2007-11-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Trevor Talbot wrote: On 11/15/07, Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A) resource governor - the ability to configure how much resources (IO per second, CPU slices) particular users or sessions are allowed to use That is controlled from the operating system. What OSes support

Re: [GENERAL] Question about PostgreSQL from Delphi newsgroups

2007-11-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
have a priority set, so it can run quicker than other queries? No. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com

Re: [GENERAL] PLpgsql debugger question

2007-11-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
features, why should they? Don't get me wrong the debugger is certainly useful but I see no technical argument (and I am sure you will correct me if I am wrong :)) that deems it needs to be in core. Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support

Re: [GENERAL] PLpgsql debugger question

2007-11-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. A quick co of /trunk shows that it is not in contrib. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com

Re: [GENERAL] PLpgsql debugger question

2007-11-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Later, Tony Caduto ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/ - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc

Re: [GENERAL] PLpgsql debugger question

2007-11-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:40:26 + Richard Huxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: So the debugger is a feature of 8.3. It just isn't included in core. Is it going to be included as a contrib module or something else

Re: [GENERAL] PLpgsql debugger question

2007-11-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake brian ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match - -- === The PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] PLpgsql debugger question

2007-11-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:01:04 + Richard Huxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:49:37 -0600 Tony Caduto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here ya go: http

Re: [GENERAL] PITR and warm standby setup questions

2007-11-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
if the database needs migration from 8.2 to 8.3 or not. What is migration? Application changes? The release notes pretty much tell you everything you need. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3.html Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command

Re: [GENERAL] JOB WITH SUN MICROSYSTEMS!!!

2007-11-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:27:51 -0800 Rick Grandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are looking for a Postgresql Architect/Developer to do some mentoring, training, knowledge transfer and implementation for a large media outlet in Los Angeles. Travel is

Re: [GENERAL] Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance

2007-11-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
postgresql.conf settings? Are you running 64bit on the Linux machine? Is there a trick to making AMDs perform? Does Linux suck compared to BSD? No. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Thanks. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our

Re: [GENERAL] Linux v.s. Mac OS-X Performance

2007-11-12 Thread Joshua D. Drake
are running with 8GB of ram, then it is all about the ability to use more than 2GB of shared memory. Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http

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