[GENERAL] Booth Volunteers for LISA 08 (San Diego)

2008-10-20 Thread Joshua Drake
Hello, PostgreSQL is going to have a booth at LISA: http://www.usenix.org/event/lisa08/ http://www.usenix.org/event/lisa08/exhibition.html Currently we are confirmed for Joshua Drake and Richard Broeserma. However due to an excessive travel schedule by me, it would be great to find a few folks

[GENERAL] It is official, Replicator is now BSD

2008-10-13 Thread Joshua Drake
Hello, We finally got around to releasing Replicator as FOSS. It is BSD licensed and available here: https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/replicator/wiki (Yes it is a self signed cert, its on the list to fix). Enjoy folks! Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company since

[GENERAL] Pg Conference: West, bigger than last year!

2008-10-07 Thread Joshua Drake
On October 20th 2007 the first annual PostgreSQL Conference: West commenced. It was a single day, single room event. On March 29th and 30th the first annual PostgreSQL Conference: East commenced. It was a two day, three room event which. On October 10-12th the second annual PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Standalone Windows Installation

2008-10-03 Thread Joshua Drake
On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:02:27 +0200 Jörn Heid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, nobody knows how to make the official Postgres without Installer to work with a normal Windows installation? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_MINGW.html Have fun. Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company

Re: [GENERAL] failed to install posgrest

2008-10-03 Thread Joshua Drake
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:18:26 -0500 Eduardo Arévalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am trying to install the portgres of 64btis in centos 5.6 but at the next command ./postgresql-8.3.4-1-linux-x64.bin the results are as follows: We don't distribute .bin files I would strongly suggest using

Re: [GENERAL] failed to install posgrest

2008-10-03 Thread Joshua Drake
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 22:12:08 +0100 Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Joshua Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:18:26 -0500 Eduardo Arévalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am trying to install the portgres of 64btis in centos 5.6

Re: [GENERAL] failed to install posgrest

2008-10-03 Thread Joshua Drake
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 22:14:22 +0100 Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes we do - and simply switching to the RPM distro is unlikely to solve the problem as the OP is obviously not aware of the what the problem is and will probably grab the latest version available. Where do we

Re: [GENERAL] failed to install posgrest

2008-10-03 Thread Joshua Drake
On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 00:00:03 +0100 Dave Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Joshua Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.postgresql.org/download/linux No that is a link to another vendors open source software. That is not a .Org file. By the same token

[GENERAL] West: Second call for lightning talks

2008-09-29 Thread Joshua Drake
The PostgreSQL Conference: West is being held at Portland State University on October 10th - 12th. The West Coast PostgreSQL conference is currently seeking more Lightning Talks. Lightning talks are an exciting way to get involved in the conference with very little commitment on the speakers end.

Re: [GENERAL] pg_start_backup() takes too long

2008-09-29 Thread Joshua Drake
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:06:46 -0400 (EDT) Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with Tom; either we make the pg_start_backup() checkpoint immediate or leave the behavior unchanged. Personally I think immediate makes more sense because issuing pg_start_backup() seems like it should

[GENERAL] Pg COnference: Call for Lightning Talks

2008-09-18 Thread Joshua Drake
While recently seeking feedback on the conference schedule from Josh Berkus and David Fetter I was asked, Are there going to be lightning talks?. To which I replied, What?. I know of lightning talks; in a similar manage of how I know of the existence of competitors to PostgreSQL. They are there

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle and Postgresql

2008-09-16 Thread Joshua Drake
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:54:18 -0500 Roberts, Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wasn't kidding up there. Setting view permissions on plpgsql (or any pl code really) would be understandable. If you're not a super user or the owner, you need permission to see it. How can I make that a

Re: [GENERAL] What's size of your PostgreSQL Database?

2008-09-10 Thread Joshua Drake
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:17:40 +0800 Amber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Some kind of MPP. 2. No single point of failure. 3. Convenient and multiple access interfaces. And following the is the solutions we have examined: http://www.greenplum.com/ Joshua D. Drake -- The PostgreSQL Company

Re: [GENERAL] What's size of your PostgreSQL Database?

2008-09-10 Thread Joshua Drake
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:33:44 +0800 Amber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, we know both Greenplum and Netezza are PostgreSQL based MPP solutions, but they are commercial packages. I'd like to know are there open source ones, and I would suggest the PostgreSQL Team to start a MPP version of

Re: [GENERAL] Simple query not using index: why?

2008-09-03 Thread Joshua Drake
On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:55:17 -0400 William Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I expected scanning the index was faster, and still had everything it needed to do the count. Or perhaps it was because I said COUNT(*) so it needs to look at the other columns in the table? I really just wanted

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres does not start, gives no error

2008-09-03 Thread Joshua Drake
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 14:58:45 -0700 Akhtar Yasmin-B05532 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am using the following command to start the database: pg_ctl start -p 5432 -D /home/data/www/pg7/data Yes I know, 7.2 is a very old version, but that's what we have to work with for now.. So what

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres does not start, gives no error

2008-09-03 Thread Joshua Drake
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 15:19:25 -0700 Akhtar Yasmin-B05532 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It says, pg_ctl: 5432: not found postmaster successfully started pg_ctl doesn't take a -p argument for the port. -p is reserved for the path to the postmaster. Try: pg_ctl -D /home/data/www/pg7/data start

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres does not start, gives no error

2008-09-03 Thread Joshua Drake
domain socket /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432? -Original Message- From: Joshua Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 3:25 PM To: Akhtar Yasmin-B05532 Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres does not start, gives no error On Wed, 3 Sep

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL LAST_INSERT_ID() to Postgres

2008-08-28 Thread Joshua Drake
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:06:14 -0600 Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to PostgreSQL but it seems to me that lastval() will only work if the insert does not produce side effects that call nextval(). Consider the

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL LAST_INSERT_ID() to Postgres

2008-08-28 Thread Joshua Drake
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:29:51 -0700 Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The PostgresSQL 8.3 help file clearly shows that lastval() does not take a sequence as a parameter and the description i is Return the value most recently returned by |nextval| in the current session. This function is identical

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL LAST_INSERT_ID() to Postgres

2008-08-28 Thread Joshua Drake
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:46:19 -0600 Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Joshua Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:06:14 -0600 Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, setval, currval, and lastval all require as an argument

Re: [GENERAL] Dump/restore with bad data and large objects

2008-08-25 Thread Joshua Drake
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:21:54 -0400 John T. Dow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By bad data, I mean a character that's not UTF8, such as hex 98. As far as I can tell, pg_dump is the tool to use. But it has serious drawbacks. If you dump in the custom format, the data is compressed (nice) and

Re: [GENERAL] Dump/restore with bad data and large objects

2008-08-25 Thread Joshua Drake
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:37:13 -0400 John T. Dow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua The TOC feature sounds good, as does converting a single table to plain text. But I can't find documentation for the TOC feature under pg_dump or pg_restore. I'm looking in postgresql-8.2.1-US.pdf. The

Re: [GENERAL] Dump/restore with bad data and large objects

2008-08-25 Thread Joshua Drake
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:05:53 -0400 John T. Dow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joshua Thank you very much for answering these various questions. I guess the compressed format is the best overall solution, except for roles. I find myself having a table with other information about users

Re: [GENERAL] Easy upgrade on Cpanel *without* downtime

2008-08-25 Thread Joshua Drake
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:25:09 +0800 Phoenix Kiula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Slony. Any simple instructions on installing it and getting it working? Why is PG so complex! It's a such a lovely database. If only at least the installation and upgrade could be made more humane.. Well the

Re: [GENERAL] on delete cascade slowing down delete

2008-08-21 Thread Joshua Drake
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:16:21 -0700 Alan Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any hint to track down the problem? 1) Define slow. 2) Tell us what your disk subsystem consists of. 3) Are there any delete triggers on the tables? And the EXPLAIN ANALYZE Joshua D. Drake -- The

Re: [GENERAL] Single character bitfields

2008-08-20 Thread Joshua Drake
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:40:29 +1000 Andrew Maclean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a large database and I want to have several fields (among many) that are single character fields (in fact they are bitfields). 1) Is char(1) the most efficient way to store these fields? If not what is better?

Re: [GENERAL] non-WAL btree?

2008-08-01 Thread Joshua Drake
On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:41:12 -0700 Alex Vinogradovs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, I was wondering if there is a btree indexing implementation that is not WAL-logged. I'm loading data in bulks, and index logging is an unnecessary overhead for me (easier to rebuild on crash). Drop the index

Re: [GENERAL] non-WAL btree?

2008-08-01 Thread Joshua Drake
On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:07:18 -0700 Alex Vinogradovs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By loading in bulks, I mean I load some 40-50 thousand rows at once into a table that already has some millions. Index rebuild on that table after each 50k inserts will be even less efficient ;) Fair enough, to

Re: [GENERAL] What is the deal with mailing lists?

2005-11-30 Thread Joshua Drake
It looks like it took a total of 7:20 for that email to make it to me.In a case of pot calling kettle black ;P, it took your machine 5:58 to get it to postgresql.org. Of course that's assuming everyone's clock isin sync, and the clock on the machine you sent the email from appears tobe 13 minutes

Re: [GENERAL] Quad Xeon vs. Dual Itanium

2004-02-09 Thread Joshua Drake
John Gibson wrote: Hi, all. I need to upgrade my dual Xeon PostgreSQL engine. Assuming similar memory and disk sub-systems, I am considering a Quad Xeon system vs. a Dual Itanium for PostgreSQL. I believe that the PostgreSQL code is written for 32 bit and not optimized for the 64 bit Itanium

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge ceases operations

2001-09-15 Thread Joshua Drake
Does that leave Red Hat the main (only?) commercial supporter of PostgreSQL? Heh, Hardly, there is PGSQL, Inc. and Command Prompt, Inc. (my company). We have been around for almost four years and have provided custom development and support for PostgreSQL (starting with Postgres95) since that

Re: [GENERAL] Great Bridge ceases operations

2001-09-06 Thread Joshua Drake
Hello, This is very unfortunate. I wish all of the Great Bridge employees the best. Sincerely, Joshua Drake Command Prompt, Inc. Author: a href=http://stage.linuxports.com/projects/practicalpostgresql/book1.htm Practical PostgreSQL/a [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) wrote in message news

[GENERAL] New Book: PostgreSQL: The Elephant Never Forgets

2001-03-21 Thread Joshua Drake
Open Docs Publishing has announced today that they plan to release their sixth book entitled "Learning PostgreSQL: The Elephant Never Forgets" by the first week of June. This title will include PostgreSQL Great Bridge version 7.1 (The Linux World Editors winner for Best Database in 2000).