Re: [GENERAL] It is official, Replicator is now BSD

2008-10-13 Thread Matthew Terenzio
Great news. Thanks.

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch 2 query

2008-10-02 Thread Matthew Terenzio
Thanks Tom, Sorry if that last post went over multiple times. I was getting a mailing failure (or so I thought) here is EXPLAIN ANALYZE . I really need to work on my skills at analyzing these: Limit (cost=105505.78..105505.83 rows=20 width=655) (actual time=74806.973..74807.037 rows=20 loops=1)

[GENERAL] tsearch 2 query

2008-10-02 Thread Matthew Terenzio
There are less than 20,000 records being searched here, but the query takes several minutes. I know this may not be enough info, but would one suggest I optimize the query or put my attention towards other areas. SELECT id,date,headline as head,headline(body,q),rank(vectors,q),timestamp FROM sto

[GENERAL] tsearch2 query

2008-10-02 Thread Matthew Terenzio
There are less than 20,000 records being searched here, but the query takes several minutes. I know this may not be enough info, but would one suggest I optimize the query or put my attention towards other areas. SELECT id,date,headline as head,headline(body,q),rank(vectors,q),timestamp FROM sto

Re: [GENERAL] PHP pg_connect

2007-07-17 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Jul 17, 2007, at 3:13 AM, Vince wrote: When this fails, I get a useful error print: $dbconn = pg_connect($connection_str); Ouput: Warning: pg_connect() [function.pg-connect]: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres1" in ... How do

Re: [GENERAL] Restarting postgres server

2007-05-14 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On May 14, 2007, at 6:21 PM, George Heller wrote: psql mydatabase postgres it gives me the error, psql: could not connect to server: No such file or directory Depending on your setup, postgres might not be starting automatically on reboot. Try: pg_ctl start -D [datadir] replacing [datadi

Re: [GENERAL] COPY FROM and sequences

2007-01-08 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Jan 8, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Matthew Terenzio wrote: On Jan 8, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Matthew Terenzio wrote: On Jan 8, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Jan 8, 2007, at 19:20 , Matthew Terenzio wrote: Is it true that you can't use COPY FROM to fill a table with a SERIAL

Re: [GENERAL] COPY FROM and sequences

2007-01-08 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Jan 8, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Matthew Terenzio wrote: On Jan 8, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Jan 8, 2007, at 19:20 , Matthew Terenzio wrote: Is it true that you can't use COPY FROM to fill a table with a SERIAL type column? Or rather, how does one approach

Re: [GENERAL] COPY FROM and sequences

2007-01-08 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Jan 8, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Jan 8, 2007, at 19:20 , Matthew Terenzio wrote: Is it true that you can't use COPY FROM to fill a table with a SERIAL type column? Or rather, how does one approach that situation most effectively? Could you give an example of

[GENERAL] COPY FROM and sequences

2007-01-08 Thread Matthew Terenzio
Is it true that you can't use COPY FROM to fill a table with a SERIAL type column? Or rather, how does one approach that situation most effectively? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to

[GENERAL] wildcard alias

2006-11-10 Thread Matthew Terenzio
I suppose I should have named things differently but is there a way to join two tables with a bunch of identical column names and rather than explicitly alias each column just use some sort of wildcard like: SELECT tablename.* AS alias.* OR do I have to name each column like: columnname as

[GENERAL] not null across multiple columns

2006-11-02 Thread Matthew Terenzio
here is an interesting question (to me) suppose you wanted to be certain that either one of two or more columns were present Like in a user table, either a username or an email need to be present to create a row. You can't use not null because it's an either or situation. what's the best

[GENERAL] storing XML and querying

2006-02-01 Thread Matthew Terenzio
I'm looking into methods to store XML docs for query and retrieval across all the docs or subsets. I've looked over a couple of options and may end up creating relations with the data. Are there any "Super" solutions that I might be overlooking. Also, this article claims that these functions a

[GENERAL] Timestamp with Timezone

2005-11-21 Thread Matthew Terenzio
reading the docs . . . let's see if I've got it. 1. Timestamp with timezone accepts a timestamp with the additional timezone, converts it and stores it as GMT 2. It returns the value as the timestamp converted to the timezone of the local machine? ---(end of broadcas

[GENERAL] joining a query with a select count(*)

2005-11-05 Thread Matthew Terenzio
I want a query to return all the rows from one table along with a count of rows in another table that reference each returned row from the first table. For instance, if you had a table of children and another table of grandchildren that had a foreign key on the children table, I'd want to r

Re: [GENERAL] SQL injection

2005-11-02 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Nov 2, 2005, at 6:08 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote: As an aside, it's interesting to see that the PHP documentation states: --- Magic Quotes is a process that automagically escapes incoming data to the PHP script. It's preferred to code with magic quotes off and to instead escape the data a

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-12 Thread Matthew Terenzio
As much as I respect Marc and Postgresql.org, I can't see Oracle hiring him away as a "killer" threat to the community. People would set up camp somewhere else, like Command Prompt. It would hurt things for a while but the software is too important to too many to be killed by a domain name or p

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-08 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Oct 8, 2005, at 11:25 PM, Uwe C. Schroeder wrote: Didn't MySQL AB acquire SAPdb (which was Adabas D before)? AFAIK (and you're welcome to correct me since I might very well be wrong) SAPdb supports transactions and foreign keys. If that's the case MySQL AB might be in a position to offer

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-08 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Oct 8, 2005, at 10:34 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Are there any lessons to be learned from this with regards to PostgreSQL? Like Marc said, doesn't seem to be a worry to the Postgres community . . . Unless this is all really an Oracle ploy to grab the competition to the their real fut

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

2005-10-08 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Oct 8, 2005, at 5:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand. If both MySQL and Innodb are GPL licensed, commercial or not should make no difference, and they can add all the GPL changes they want o the last Innodb GPL release. MySQL owns their code so they can release it with wha

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.1 vs. MySQL 5.0?

2005-10-08 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Oct 8, 2005, at 2:04 PM, CSN wrote: AFAIK MySQL's fulltext indexing is only supported on MyIsam tables, so if you want to use it, you lose ACID, For me, the fact that to use a feature means one needs to give up ACIDity ends any debate on which DB to choose, and I'm not even a power user

Re: [GENERAL] License question

2005-10-04 Thread Matthew Terenzio
I had thought we were completely sunk until we moved everything over to .Net. Insert microsoft wisecrack of your choice here : ) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] Replication

2005-09-16 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Sep 16, 2005, at 4:30 PM, Russ Brown wrote: just because replication is included and part of the core of a database, it doesn't mean that it's reliable or well tested. I just jumped into this thread, and this statement just triggers one thought. Many Postgres end users rely on experts

Re: [GENERAL] Question about PHP and PostgreSQL

2005-09-13 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Sep 13, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Federico Kereki wrote: I'm having problems trying to install the PHP module for Apache2. It seems it requires libpq.so.4 but the latest 8.0.3 PostgreSQL version doesn't include it -- though it does include a libpq.so.3. I hope you are getting help from Scott

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Hosting

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Sep 9, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Matthew Terenzio wrote: On Sep 9, 2005, at 7:54 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 18:35, Matthew Terenzio wrote: On Sep 9, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Ron Mayer wrote: I've found that with if you can get 5 companies/users to share a dedicated server yo

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql Hosting

2005-09-09 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Sep 9, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Ron Mayer wrote: I've found that with if you can get 5 companies/users to share a dedicated server you can be much better off than a hosting plan, and have full control over the services you run. I'm sure the numbers work out, but it sounds like being in a Band.

Re: [GENERAL] syntax error foreign key

2005-08-16 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Aug 16, 2005, at 9:37 PM, Matthew Terenzio wrote: db=# ALTER TABLE ONLY table ADD CONSTRAINT "$1" FOREIGN KEY (user) REFERENCES users(user_id); ERROR: syntax error at or near "user" at character 56 I'm either blind or something besides syntax can cause this e

[GENERAL] syntax error foreign key

2005-08-16 Thread Matthew Terenzio
db=# ALTER TABLE ONLY table ADD CONSTRAINT "$1" FOREIGN KEY (user) REFERENCES users(user_id); ERROR: syntax error at or near "user" at character 56 I'm either blind or something besides syntax can cause this error. no? ---(end of broadcast)--- T

[GENERAL] tsearch2 and colons or urls

2005-08-01 Thread Matthew Terenzio
I'm trying to do a full text search for URL's stored in a table. SELECT *,headline(description,q), rank(vectors,q) FROM bb_item, to_tsquery('http://www.yahoo.com') AS q WHERE vectors @@ q ORDER BY rank(vectors,q) DESC LIMIT 10 OFFSET 0 I get a general syntax error. I know it;s the colon in th

[GENERAL] tsearch2 frequent updates

2005-07-23 Thread Matthew Terenzio
If I'm using Tsearch2 to search a public online forum, do you think it's okay to update on every forum entry? Put another way: is to_tsvector() resource intensive when used in this way? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your

Re: [GENERAL] current_timestamp - 20 minutes

2005-07-12 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Jul 12, 2005, at 11:43 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Matthew Terenzio wrote: I 'm storing things in a table with now() and I want to select * from theTable WHERE the Timestamp is > the current time - 20 minutes Anyone know the correct syntax. I was trying something lik

[GENERAL] current_timestamp - 20 minutes

2005-07-12 Thread Matthew Terenzio
I 'm storing things in a table with now() and I want to select * from theTable WHERE the Timestamp is > the current time - 20 minutes Anyone know the correct syntax. I was trying something like: WHERE timestamp_field > (timestamp now() - interval '20 minutes') and will continue reading the

Re: [GENERAL] Wikipedia hackers wanted

2005-07-10 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Jul 10, 2005, at 9:44 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - From a wikipedia list I'm on: At the moment there's not even anyone maintaining our PostgreSQL support, which as free software is more accessible to users and developers. Oracle isn't ev

[GENERAL] tsearch2 errors after db move

2005-07-03 Thread Matthew Terenzio
I recently moved a database to a new machine: PostgreSQL 7.4.7 on i386-portbld-freebsd5.3, compiled by GCC cc (GCC) 3.4.2 [FreeBSD] 20040728 any queries related to tsearch2 give me this error: ERROR: cache lookup failed for function 17188 I am running the same versions of Postgres, Freebsd

[GENERAL] freebsd port successful/failed install

2005-05-31 Thread Matthew Terenzio
Any FreeBSD experts know what conditions might have the port (postgresql-server-8.0.1_3) look like like it installs successfully but /usr/local/pgsql/data is not created and so there is no postgresql.conf to find. also running /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh initdb looks like it just shoo

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres PHP error

2005-05-23 Thread Matthew Terenzio
I f you are using Apache, also check the max connections in the httpd.conf. You really can't allow more Apache children than your max number of Postgres connections. At least it solved the problem in my case. On May 23, 2005, at 9:47 AM, Richard Huxton wrote: Shaun Clements wrote: Thanks. G

Re: [GENERAL] getting the ranks of items

2005-05-03 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On May 3, 2005, at 8:30 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Is there a simple way with PostgreSQL to assign relative ranks to the result of a query ORDER BY? What do you mean by ranks? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to

Re: [GENERAL] sequence advances on failed insert

2005-04-07 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Apr 7, 2005, at 11:33 PM, David Fetter wrote: Relational purists sometimes insist that artificial keys cause more problems than they solve That's interesting. It seems to come in handy for me. It is interesting though. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

[GENERAL] sequence advances on failed insert

2005-04-07 Thread Matthew Terenzio
I'm noticing that a sequence is advancing even if the insertion fails. Is this weird or expected? Matt Terenzio ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] TSearch2 FreeBSD

2005-03-25 Thread Matthew Terenzio
On Mar 25, 2005, at 9:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Matthew Terenzio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anyone with any TSearch2 experience on FreeBSD? Any known Gotchas? Postgres 7.3 ERROR: Load of file /usr/local/lib/postgresql/tsearch2.so failed: dlopen '/usr/local/lib/postgresql/tsearch2.so

[GENERAL] TSearch2 FreeBSD

2005-03-25 Thread Matthew Terenzio
Anyone with any TSearch2 experience on FreeBSD? Any known Gotchas? Postgres 7.3 Postgres is working fine and the Port for contrib seemed to install okay. tsearch2.so is indeed in the below directory and permissions look right. $ psql database < tsearch2.sql SET BEGIN NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIM

[GENERAL] vaccum db fail

2004-12-30 Thread Matthew Terenzio
Trying vacuumdb eventuallydisplays this: ERROR: catalog is missing 3 attribute(s) for relid 31457 vacuumdb: vacuum databasename failed There is another thread which states this is a corrupted systems catalog. Is this definitely the case? Does it mean I need to re-build the database? Re-install?

Fwd: [GENERAL] Advice on moving rows to history

2004-12-29 Thread Matthew Terenzio
Meant this to go to whole list , sorry for duplicate Begin forwarded message: On Dec 29, 2004, at 4:58 PM, Dave Smith wrote: I am trying to figure out the fastest way to move rows from a current table to a history table. There are currently 150,000 rows of which about 60,000 get moved (monthly). Th