Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Conference 08 East!

2007-11-20 Thread Walter Vaughan
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 conference! The current plan is to host a two day conference of Tutorials (new) and Talks on March 28th and 29th. The currently desig

Re: [GENERAL] vacuum and postgresql.conf settings

2007-06-15 Thread Walter Vaughan
Francisco Reyes wrote: Walter Vaughan writes: I am not even sure this is a problem. INFO: "data_import_customer2": scanned 3000 of 5033 pages, containing 84905 live rows and 0 dead rows; 3000 rows in sample, 142442 estimated total rows I don't believe it is a problem. I t

[GENERAL] vacuum and postgresql.conf settings

2007-06-15 Thread Walter Vaughan
I am not even sure this is a problem. INFO: "data_import_customer2": scanned 3000 of 5033 pages, containing 84905 live rows and 0 dead rows; 3000 rows in sample, 142442 estimated total rows Do I have some setting wrong? ---(end of broadcast)

[GENERAL] Cannot get autovacuum configured

2007-05-24 Thread Walter Vaughan
Configuring autovacuum shouldn't be so hard. :( I had a similar problem to this months ago, and I can't seem to fix it again opentaps=# SELECT name, setting from pg_settings where name like '%stats_%'; name | setting -+- stats_block_

Re: [GENERAL] Can Postgresql be ported to a device with no OS and simple file I/O and memory management?

2007-04-19 Thread Walter Vaughan
Raymond Hurst wrote: I have a requirement of incorporating a database in a hard disk drive. Well, back in the day there was a man called Dick Pick. The US Goverment had the same request. They wanted a database incorporated into a hard disk drive, and that's what they got. An operating system

Re: [GENERAL] Importing data into views fails

2007-04-02 Thread Walter Vaughan
Karl O. Pinc wrote: I've created an INSERT rule on a view but when I try to use the COPY command to import data into the view it fails with. cannot copy to view "viewname" If the day was 24hours earlier, and Mr. Pinc was asking about some problem with his "frail loop" view update, I would

Re: [GENERAL] UPGRADATION TO 8.1

2007-03-19 Thread Walter Vaughan
Ben Trewern wrote: So what's he meant to do? Write a longer question just so the mandatory disclamer that his company attaches to his e-mail takes up a lower percentage of his e-mail? (or should he not ask the question at all?) Perhaps the OP's posit should have been sent to pgsql-admin@pos

Re: [GENERAL] DST problem on Windows Server

2007-03-14 Thread Walter Vaughan
George Weaver wrote: A client has PostgreSQL 8.2.1 installed on a Windows 2000 server. W2K has been EOL'ed for quite some time. You might want to stress that to your client. I don't know what you bill per hour, but their not-upgrading cost savings should be negative and keep climbing. Did y

Re: [GENERAL] Anyone know a good opensource CRM that actually installs with Posgtres?

2007-03-09 Thread Walter Vaughan
Bradley Kieser wrote: I am looking for a decent OpenSource CRM system that will run with Postgres. OpenTAPS the demo won't even work. And it's US-centric whereas we are in the UK. A pity that it's so very much tied to the US as it could be very good. What actually didn't work with OpenTaps

Re: [GENERAL] COPY from and NULL values for double precisions fields

2007-03-04 Thread Walter Vaughan
Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote: I'm currently mucking around w/ importing TAB-delimited files; how can I import empty values into a double precision field? COPY complains about nothing between the TABS, about "\N" and other variations, as being "invalid input syntax for type double precision:" For b

Re: [GENERAL] How would you handle updating an item and related stuff all at once?

2007-02-17 Thread Walter Vaughan
Rick Schumeyer wrote: Completely off topic, (but not worth a separate post) I have been forced to use a little bit of mysql lately...did you know that if you use transaction and foreign key syntax with myisam tables, it does not complain...it just silently ignores your requests for transaction

Re: [GENERAL] Stored Procedure examples

2007-02-14 Thread Walter Vaughan
Vladimir Zelinski wrote: I'm struggling to create a stored procedure. I searched on Internet for several hours trying to find a simple example, but didn't find anything. I saw dozens of questions how to create a procedure without any responses. I searched on postgreSql site and found a topic "St

Re: [GENERAL] Dumb question - how to tell if autovacuum is doing its job in 8.2.x

2007-02-12 Thread Walter Vaughan
Shoaib Mir wrote: pg_stat_all_table view should help you: select last_autovacuum, last_autoanalyze from pg_stat_all_tables; select last_autovacuum, last_autoanalyze from pg_stat_all_tables; last_autovacuum | last_autoanalyze -+-- | ...snip lot

[GENERAL] Hardware

2007-02-06 Thread Walter Vaughan
I need to purchase a new server to put posgresql on that will be acting as the DBMS server for Apache ofBiz soon. While googling around for performance tweaks I saw this at http://revsys.com/writings/postgresql-performance.html CPUs — The more CPUs the better, however if your database does not

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to load MySQL data

2007-01-10 Thread Walter Vaughan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am working on a project where we are converting from MySQL to Postgres. I figured the easiest way would be to export the MySQL data as CSV. I dunno, but unless you don't really care about your data, I'd use something that you have no chance of in your data.

Re: [GENERAL] Advice needed on using postgres in commercial product

2007-01-08 Thread Walter Vaughan
pakt sardines wrote: Hi all, We're currently developing some large-scale software with the intention of selling it (online and off-the-shelf). The version in development uses Postgres to store stuff in a number of large databases. Ignoring potential licensing issues for now, the big iss

Re: [GENERAL] Website Hosting Service and Security

2006-12-21 Thread Walter Vaughan
Brandon E Hofmann wrote: Does anyone recommend a Website Hosting Service that supports PostgreSQL databases, Java, and Java Server Pages? Also does anyone recommend a low budget security method to support logging into an application? I've never had anything hosted there, but several people i

Re: [GENERAL] admin82.sql FreeBSD specific

2006-12-19 Thread Walter Vaughan
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Walter Vaughan wrote: I just removed 8.1.5 and installed 8.2.0 on a freeBSD server. I cannot seem to find where it placed admin82.sql, if in fact such a beast should have been created with the initdb step. I believe said admin81.sql corresponds to functions that were

[GENERAL] admin82.sql

2006-12-19 Thread Walter Vaughan
I just removed 8.1.5 and installed 8.2.0 on a freeBSD server. I cannot seem to find where it placed admin82.sql, if in fact such a beast should have been created with the initdb step. Any ideas? Google has zero indexed documents with admin82.sql in it's engine, and of course all the instument

Re: [GENERAL] Stripping kernel FreeBSD - postgres

2006-11-30 Thread Walter Vaughan
Enrico wrote: HI, I wish I optimize a kernel FreeBSD 6.1 on a server with only postgres installed. Where can I have any info about? Opimizing the FreeBSD kernel? Obviouly you want to start with a machine with a much memory as you can afford, as fast a disk subsystem you can afford, and as

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to Install PhP-4 Module for PostgreSQL from

2006-11-13 Thread Walter Vaughan
Desmond Coughlan wrote: Hi. As title. I'm getting a host of syntax errors, the last ten lines of which are ... NV_READ' undeclared (first use in this function) /usr/ports/databases/php4-pgsql/work/php-4.4.4/ext/pgsql/pgsql.c:1937: error: `INV_WRITE' undeclared (first use in this function)

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL in article I wrote

2006-10-26 Thread Walter Vaughan
Roman Neuhauser wrote regarding: http://www.sema.org/main/semaorghome.aspx?id=56095 The firefox / thunderbird section should rather warn them to pay attention to bugtraq. All those buffer overflows in libwhathaveyou will make sure their single-user (root) KDE installations will need

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL in article I wrote

2006-10-24 Thread Walter Vaughan
I wrote an article that is in this month's SEMA News Show Issue that features postgreSQL amoung other open source projects. I had to write this article at a very high level (99% of the readers are car nuts and mostly senior level management), but any positive mention of postgreSQL should be a

Re: [GENERAL] Newbie "Copy From" not working

2006-08-17 Thread Walter Vaughan
Michael Fuhr wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 03:27:26PM -0400, Walter Vaughan wrote: ERROR: missing data for column "processed_timestamp" The table you posted has 42 columns; at least one line in the file doesn't have that many fields. Yes, we didn't have the rig

[GENERAL] Newbie "Copy From" not working

2006-08-17 Thread Walter Vaughan
For the past few months we have been experimenting with using MySQL with Apache OFBiz. However, we are not sure that we can live with the performance. We have a large dataset that we wanted to import into PostgreSQL, but it seems to fail no matter what we do. We tried ever nuance we could to ge