[GENERAL] Application Stack Builder - proxy error

2008-12-05 Thread Lee Keel
Hello all, I know that I am WAY behind the times here, but I am just now getting to upgrade to 8.3. As I was reading through all of the installations I realized that in order to install postgis now, you have to use the Application Stack Builder and that this application has to access the

Re: [GENERAL] Application Stack Builder - proxy error

2008-12-05 Thread Lee Keel
-Original Message- You can grab the installer manually from http://pgfoundry.org/frs/?group_id=1000256release_id=1266 and copy that around in whatever way you need. Thanks Dave! I will do that. I just wasn't sure if installing outside of Application Stack Builder was going to cause

[GENERAL] nightly vacuum

2008-09-16 Thread Lee Keel
I should be looking at (especially if not in the list above) that I should be changing to get this full vacuum to perform? Thanks in advance, Lee Keel

Re: [GENERAL] nightly vacuum

2008-09-16 Thread Lee Keel
-Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Lee Keel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have 15 or so databases that I am deleting all the data in them and re-importing on a nightly basis. (Long story here, but basically I found using the copy command was the fastest way

Re: [GENERAL] System V IPC on Windows

2007-11-08 Thread Lee Keel
your free space map settings [Lee Keel] What if the page file exceeds the shared_buffers, but you can't increase the shared buffers to a larger amount? For example, page file is set to be between 500MB and 10GB, but you can't set the shared_buffers to more than 1200MB. If set to 1300MB or higher

Re: [GENERAL] System V IPC on Windows

2007-11-08 Thread Lee Keel
. //Magnus [Lee Keel] I can't do any benchmarks because I keep getting errors. But I have dropped this value down and I am not getting the out of memory errors any more. I was trying to solve other problems by bumping this way up but it seemed to just cause more problems. I found several

Re: [GENERAL] select random order by random

2007-11-01 Thread Lee Keel
column's datatypes do not match [Lee Keel] Would this not have to do with the 'order by' you added to the end of the statement? If you remove the order by clause, then it works for me... -LK This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use

Re: [GENERAL] Convert bytea to Float8

2007-10-16 Thread Lee Keel
-Original Message- From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 8:22 PM To: Lee Keel Cc: Scott Marlowe; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Convert bytea to Float8 This is sounding more and more like a question for the postgis

[GENERAL] Convert bytea to Float8

2007-10-15 Thread Lee Keel
from cnt for 8)::float8; The error that I get is: ERROR: 42846: cannot cast type bytea to double precision I have also tried get_byte, but that seems to only be returning the single byte and not all 8bytes for the float. Thanks in advance. Lee Keel This email and any files transmitted

Re: [GENERAL] Convert bytea to Float8

2007-10-15 Thread Lee Keel
I am sorry to push this issue, but I have clients waiting on a solution for this. So, does the lack of response mean that I am going to have to find another approach? Or can this conversion be done in ppgsql\perl? Thanks in advance, Lee Keel _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

Re: [GENERAL] Convert bytea to Float8

2007-10-15 Thread Lee Keel
-Original Message- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 3:54 PM To: Lee Keel Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Convert bytea to Float8 Does something like: select encode('12346758'::bytea,'escape')::float work

Re: [GENERAL] Convert bytea to Float8

2007-10-15 Thread Lee Keel
-Original Message- From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 3:26 PM To: Lee Keel Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Convert bytea to Float8 On 10/15/07, Lee Keel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sorry to push this issue

Re: [GENERAL] [OT - sorta] How to extract a substring using Regex

2007-08-24 Thread Lee Keel
-Original Message- From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 10:09 AM To: Lee Keel Cc: Josh Trutwin; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] [OT - sorta] How to extract a substring using Regex Woah! That is great. Now to find

Re: [GENERAL] tables not in list

2007-07-31 Thread Lee Keel
Is there no way to do this without doing an insert into another table? _ From: paddy carroll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 3:24 PM To: Lee Keel Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] tables not in list put all your tables in a new table

Re: [GENERAL] tables not in list

2007-07-31 Thread Lee Keel
-Original Message- From: Viatcheslav Kalinin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 9:16 AM To: Lee Keel Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] tables not in list I usually resolve this as: -- this function lets you select from an array CREATE

[GENERAL] tables not in list

2007-07-30 Thread Lee Keel
Hi List, I have a list of table names and I am trying to confirm that they are all in my postgres db. But what I want returned is a list/array of ones that are in my list but not in the db. So for example: CREATE TABLE test ( somecol integer ) WITHOUT OIDS; CREATE TABLE bar ( barcol

Re: [GENERAL] Design Tool

2007-07-05 Thread Lee Keel
costly is, but I find it very reasonable for the time it saves me. It does do Postgres and MANY more database formats. You can find more information at http://www.datanamic.com/dezign/index.html Regards, Lee Keel This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely

Re: [GENERAL] Checking for a number

2007-06-27 Thread Lee Keel
to only the rows that end in 2 digits as well as return those digits for you. Hope that helps, Lee Keel This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error

Re: [GENERAL] How to install Postgresql on MS Vista?

2007-06-21 Thread Lee Keel
The first thing you have to do is disable the User Access Control. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-general- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dfx Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:58 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] How to install

Re: [GENERAL] Large Database Restore

2007-05-18 Thread Lee Keel
Thanks to everyone for their input on this. After reading all the emails and some of the documentation (section 23.3), I think this is all a little more than what I need. My database is basically read-only and all I was looking to do is to be able to take snap-shots of it and be able to restore

Re: [GENERAL] Large Database Restore

2007-05-18 Thread Lee Keel
Keel Cc: Michael Nolan; Ron Johnson; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Large Database Restore Lee Keel wrote: Thanks to everyone for their input on this. After reading all the emails and some of the documentation (section 23.3), I think this is all a little more than what I need

[GENERAL] Large Database Restore

2007-05-17 Thread Lee Keel
I am restoring a 51GB backup file that has been running for almost 26 hours. There have been no errors and things are still working. I have turned fsync off, but that still did not speed things up. Can anyone provide me with the optimal settings for restoring a large database? Thanks in