Re: [GENERAL] Python client + select = locked resources???

2009-07-01 Thread johnf
On Monday 29 June 2009 09:26:24 am Craig Ringer wrote: > Try connecting to the database with psql and running >   "select * from pg_stat_activity" > while the web app is running. You should see only "IDLE" or working > connections, never idle in transaction. If you have anything idle in a > transac

Re: [GENERAL] BETWEEN not matching on timestamp value

2009-06-30 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 30 June 2009 10:48:50 am Scott Marlowe wrote: > Oh I so do hope that we won't have to bother with currencies anymore THAT > > > far into the future! > > You laugh, but who will be fixing the Y20M problem, huh? Not you or I that's for sure. -- John Fabiani -- Sent via pgsql-general

[GENERAL] datestyle no effect in 8.3.7

2009-06-25 Thread johnf
I added "datestyle = 'SQL,MDY' to the postgres.conf (restarted the server). But it does not appear to work with any setting. Is this a bug? Did I do it wrong? openSUSE 11.0 postgres 8.3.7 -- John Fabiani -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes

Re: [GENERAL] ubuntu 9.04 and auto-start

2009-05-28 Thread johnf
On Thursday 28 May 2009 07:28:04 am Scott Marlowe wrote: > update-rc.d > > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:25 AM, johnf wrote: > > Hi, > > I have installed postgres 8.3 and it runs if I manually start postgres. > >  That is to say I '/etc/init.d/postgresql start' as

[GENERAL] ubuntu 9.04 and auto-start

2009-05-28 Thread johnf
Hi, I have installed postgres 8.3 and it runs if I manually start postgres. That is to say I '/etc/init.d/postgresql start' as root. Runs perfectly. But if I restart the computer postgres does not auto-start. I've done a little research but did not see anything that jumped off the page to tell

Re: [GENERAL] migrating from MSSQL

2009-05-08 Thread johnf
On Friday 08 May 2009 12:08:44 am Eugene . wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been tasked with evaluating the feasibility of migrating our in-house > application from MSSQL to PostgreSQL. It is fairly old and has lots of > stored procedures, which is why we need to think carefully before making > the switch

Re: [GENERAL] 'text' is gone?

2009-02-10 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 07:22:45 pm Tom Lane wrote: > I don't think I believe the OP's premise anyway.  The concept that every > string column has to have a specific hard-coded maximum length is an > evil hangover from the days of punched cards.  It seems very unlikely > that M$, who are not ex

[GENERAL] 'text' is gone?

2009-02-10 Thread johnf
Looks like microsoft is going to drop the data type "text" in the near future. VarChar(max) will be taking it's place. Does Postgres have some like varChar(max)? -- John Fabiani -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: htt

Re: [GENERAL] Pet Peeves?

2009-01-29 Thread johnf
On Thursday 29 January 2009 05:16:17 am Gregory Stark wrote: > I'm putting together a talk on "PostgreSQL Pet Peeves" for discussion at > FOSDEM 2009 this year. I have a pretty good idea what some them are of > course, but I would be interested to hear if people have any complaints > from personal

Re: [GENERAL] executing a sql script

2009-01-17 Thread johnf
On Saturday 17 January 2009 07:14:06 am Adrian Klaver wrote: > On Friday 16 January 2009 10:09:06 pm johnf wrote: > > I'm using python and can execute standard > > "select,update,delete,functions". What I'd like to do is execute a sql > > script (a text fil

[GENERAL] executing a sql script

2009-01-16 Thread johnf
I'm using python and can execute standard "select,update,delete,functions". What I'd like to do is execute a sql script (a text file). But I don't know how? Some thing like: import psycopg2 import psycopg2.extensions conn = psycopg2.connect("host=%s dbname=%s user =%s password =%s "

Re: [GENERAL] localhost (windows) performance

2008-10-08 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 08:11:05 am johnf wrote: > I have a friend I asked to load postgres 8.3 on his XP machine. He then > tested a python script which accesses several tables and discovered that it > retrieves data very slowly. It takes about 20 seconds to retrieve the da

Re: [GENERAL] localhost (windows) performance

2008-10-07 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 08:54:31 am justin wrote: > johnf wrote: > > I have a friend I asked to load postgres 8.3 on his XP machine. He then > > tested a python script which accesses several tables and discovered that > > it retrieves data very slowly. It takes about 2

Re: [GENERAL] localhost (windows) performance

2008-10-07 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 07 October 2008 08:20:16 am you wrote: > On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:11 AM, johnf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I then thought it had something to do with the data -although the data > > set is small. I did a complete dump and restored on his machine and > >

[GENERAL] localhost (windows) performance

2008-10-07 Thread johnf
I have a friend I asked to load postgres 8.3 on his XP machine. He then tested a python script which accesses several tables and discovered that it retrieves data very slowly. It takes about 20 seconds to retrieve the data - on localhost. However, using a remote connection to a postgres datab

Re: [GENERAL] on windows 8.3 many processes - is it normal?

2008-10-06 Thread johnf
On Monday 06 October 2008 10:34:12 am Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:30 AM, johnf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I open task manager there appears 10 'postgres.exe' in the list. I > > this normal. Windows XP, postgres 8.3 > > Yep.

[GENERAL] on windows 8.3 many processes - is it normal?

2008-10-06 Thread johnf
When I open task manager there appears 10 'postgres.exe' in the list. I this normal. Windows XP, postgres 8.3 -- John Fabiani -- 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] keep alive losing connections

2008-09-11 Thread johnf
On Thursday 11 September 2008 09:13:14 am Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:07 AM, johnf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have read several of the posting on the list and I'm guessing I have a > > router issue because I get disconnected f

[GENERAL] keep alive losing connections

2008-09-11 Thread johnf
Hi, I have read several of the posting on the list and I'm guessing I have a router issue because I get disconnected from the database after some idle time. I'm connecting remotely to a postgres 8.3.1 on openSUSE 11. My question is how can I determine what the real cause of dropping the conne

Re: [GENERAL] schema name in SQL statement.

2008-08-19 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 19 August 2008 10:06:55 pm Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:53 PM, johnf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 19 August 2008 04:01:55 pm Adrian Klaver wrote: > >> From: "Masis, Alexander (US SSA)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: [GENERAL] schema name in SQL statement.

2008-08-19 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 19 August 2008 04:01:55 pm Adrian Klaver wrote: > -- Original message -- > From: "Masis, Alexander (US SSA)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I have to explicitly specify the schema name to make SQL statement to > > work. > > Can I set the schema before the quer

Re: [GENERAL] Is there any reason why "edit PostgreSQL.conf should be on my menu"

2008-08-02 Thread johnf
On Saturday 02 August 2008 01:12:35 am Craig Ringer wrote: > John Meyer wrote: > > Especially when I haven't edited anything yet? > > You might want to tell the readers here just a *little* bit more about > your problem. > > Start with "what menu?!?". > > More seriously: > > - What is your operatin

Re: [GENERAL] Does has_table_privilege() have a case bug

2008-02-05 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 04:40:18 pm brian wrote: > Jeff Davis wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 16:10 -0800, johnf wrote: > >> I create a table named "Account_Text_Table" the owner is 'johnf'. > >> > >> select has_table_privilege('

[GENERAL] Does has_table_privilege() have a case bug

2008-02-05 Thread johnf
I create a table named "Account_Text_Table" the owner is 'johnf'. select has_table_privilege('johnf', 'public.Account_Text_Table', 'SELECT') I get the following error: ERROR: relation "public.account_text_table&quo

Re: [GENERAL] A select DISTINCT query? - followup Q

2008-01-27 Thread johnf
On Sunday 27 January 2008 10:56:18 am Mike Ginsburg wrote: > Hi Phil, > Each of columns that you specify in your SELECT clause, must also > appear in the GROPU BY clause. > > SELECT COUNT(*) AS cnt, name, comment, ... > FROM tst > GROUP BY name, comment, ... > HAVING COUNT(*) = 1; > Is the requir

Re: [GENERAL] exporting postgre data

2008-01-25 Thread johnf
On Friday 25 January 2008 07:21:34 am Harald Armin Massa wrote: > Bill, > > pgadmin3 provides the same: just dig down to the table, use the backup > link and give the options. It also calls pg_dump just with the right > parameters, you can copy that command for a .cmd for professional > automatic b

Re: [GENERAL] exporting postgre data

2008-01-25 Thread johnf
On Friday 25 January 2008 02:56:12 am Gevik Babakhani wrote: > Check out the docs for pg_dump utility. > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/app-pgdump.html > > > _ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of User Map > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:18 AM >

Re: [GENERAL] Sun acquires MySQL

2008-01-21 Thread johnf
On Monday 21 January 2008 04:47:40 pm Tom Lane wrote: > Guy Rouillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Unfortunately, I think the stored procedure implementation in PG itself > > introduces significant overhead. See thread "Writing most code in > > Stored Procedures" from August 2007. I converted

Re: [GENERAL] Building Windows fat clients

2007-09-19 Thread johnf
On Wednesday 19 September 2007 10:19, Scott Ribe wrote: > I'm asking this group because we tend to think alike wrt to data modeling > and separation of concerns ;-) > > Any recommendations on ORM libraries for new Windows development? The last > time I started anything from scratch was over 10 year

Re: [GENERAL] Modeling bill/ship addresses

2007-08-06 Thread johnf
On Sunday 05 August 2007 21:43, snacktime wrote: > I've been going back and forth on the best way to model this. > > A user can have one to many bill and ship addresses. > An order can have one bill address and one to many ship addresses > > Let's assume I have a single address table, with an addre

Re: [GENERAL] does anyone have a tool to convert SP'sT-SQL to Postgres

2007-02-09 Thread johnf
On Friday 09 February 2007 04:43, A. Kretschmer wrote: > am Thu, dem 08.02.2007, um 21:28:08 -0800 mailte johnf folgendes: > > Hi, > > I'm hoping someone has already taken the time to write a routine (in some > > language - python,perl, etc..) to convert MS SQL T-SQL

[GENERAL] does anyone have a tool to convert SP'sT-SQL to Postgres

2007-02-09 Thread johnf
Hi, I'm hoping someone has already taken the time to write a routine (in some language - python,perl, etc..) to convert MS SQL T-SQL stored procedures into Postgres PL/pgSQL. And of course they are willing to share. Thanks -- John Fabiani ---(end of broadcast)-

[GENERAL] copy schema X to schema Y in the same DB

2007-01-23 Thread johnf
Hi, I would like to copy a schema X to a new schema Y within the same database. Is this possible? -- John Fabiani ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq