Re: [GENERAL] Linux: PAE or x64

2010-12-15 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:30:14 +0100 Marcin Krol wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > I'll use PG on a dedicated machine with more than 4GB of memory. > > The problem is: what would be better to use: PAE ("bigmem" kernels) or > 64-bit kernel? > > PAE pro: half

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql/postgis installation

2009-12-30 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
Why don't you use https://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pgcore ? This repo provides a fonctionnal postgis rpm, and some more goodies. If you really want to compile it yourself (bad idea, imho), you'll need gcc-c++, and a quite a lot other packages. Laurent. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing l

Re: [GENERAL] very large tables

2009-05-25 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
Hello, I'd try to use postgis ( http://postgis.refractions.net ), that allows you to geolocalize your data. We use such an extention here for the same kind of data you use. It will lighten up table size, and queries. Otherwise, partitioning and cluster are good things to do. I would increase defau

Re: [GENERAL] storing passwords

2008-11-05 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
2008/11/5 Brandon Metcalf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > We have a number of automated jobs that connect to our pgsql DB and > I'm wondering what others are doing for authentication and securing > passwords. It's easy enough to hardcode a password, but is there > something specific to pgsql, perhaps, that

Re: [GENERAL] index scan leads to result that is different from sec scan after upgrading to 8.3.4

2008-10-22 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
20 hours to find the fix Teodor, Kudos ! Due to the importance of the fix, will we see very soon a 8.3.5 ? Regards, Laurent. -- 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] Column level triggers

2008-10-15 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
2008/10/15 Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You'll probably have to ask that in -hackers. I'm guessing it's one > of those things that if one wrote a sufficiently large check one could > find a hacker to implement it. But I can't imagine it being a weekend > project, and if it's not already

[GENERAL] Column level triggers

2008-10-13 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
Hi, According to the documentation ( http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/sql-createtrigger.html ), the feaure "SQL allows triggers to fire on updates to specific columns (e.g., AFTER UPDATE OF col1, col2)" is missing. After a bit of research, I found that this feature was in the TODO li