Re: [GENERAL] general questions

2014-01-08 Thread Raghavendra
On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 5:04 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > CS DBA writes: > > 1) \d and schema's > > - I setup 2 schema's (sch_a and sch_b) > > - I added both schema's to my search_path > > - I created 2 tables: sch_a.test_tab and sch_b.test_tab > > > If I do a \d with no parameters I only see the first

Re: [GENERAL] general questions

2014-01-08 Thread Tom Lane
CS DBA writes: > 1) \d and schema's > - I setup 2 schema's (sch_a and sch_b) > - I added both schema's to my search_path > - I created 2 tables: sch_a.test_tab and sch_b.test_tab > If I do a \d with no parameters I only see the first test_tab table > based on the order of my search_path. > I ge

[GENERAL] general questions

2014-01-08 Thread CS DBA
Hi All; I recently ran into the following, any thoughts? Thanks in advance... 1) \d and schema's - I setup 2 schema's (sch_a and sch_b) - I added both schema's to my search_path - I created 2 tables: sch_a.test_tab and sch_b.test_tab If I do a \d with no parameters I only see the first test_t

Re: [GENERAL] general questions postgresql performance config

2010-01-26 Thread Jayadevan M
ql-general@postgresql.org Date: 01/25/2010 09:57 PM Subject: [GENERAL] general questions postgresql performance config Sent by:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org Dear postgresql people, Introduction Today I've been given the task to proceed with my plan to use postgresql

Re: [GENERAL] general questions postgresql performance config

2010-01-26 Thread Greg Smith
Andy Colson wrote: I recall seeing someplace that you can avoid WAL if you start a transaction, then truncate the table, then start a COPY. Is that correct? Still hold true? Would it make a lot of difference? That is correct, still true, and can make a moderate amount of difference if the

Re: [GENERAL] general questions postgresql performance config

2010-01-26 Thread Andy Colson
On 1/25/2010 8:12 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: On 26/01/2010 12:15 AM, Dino Vliet wrote: 5) Other considerations? Even better is to use COPY to load large chunks of data. libpq provides access to the COPY interface if you feel like some C coding. The JDBC driver (dev version only so far) now prov

Re: [GENERAL] general questions postgresql performance config

2010-01-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Dino Vliet wrote: > > Introduction > Today I've been given the task to proceed with my plan to use postgresql and > other open source techniques to demonstrate to the management of my > department the usefullness and the "cost savings" potential that lies ahead.

Re: [GENERAL] general questions postgresql performance config

2010-01-25 Thread Craig Ringer
On 26/01/2010 12:15 AM, Dino Vliet wrote: 5) Other considerations? To get optimal performance for bulk loading you'll want to do concurrent data loading over several connections - up to as many as you have disk spindles. Each connection will individually be slower, but the overall throughp

[GENERAL] general questions postgresql performance config

2010-01-25 Thread Dino Vliet
Dear postgresql people,   Introduction Today I've been given the task to proceed with my plan to use postgresql and other open source techniques to demonstrate to the management of my department the usefullness and the "cost savings" potential that lies ahead. You can guess how excited I am r

Re: [GENERAL] general questions about joins in queries

2006-01-17 Thread Viktor Lacina
Hi, it's the same , try "EXPLAIN " if you are not sure. Viktor Dne pondělí 16 ledna 2006 18:01 Zlatko Matić napsal(a): > Hello. > Is it better to use A) or B) ? > > A) > > SELECT > "public"."departments".*, > "public"."plants".*, > "public"."batches_microbs".*, > "public"."results_microbs".*

[GENERAL] general questions about joins in queries

2006-01-17 Thread Zlatko Matić
Hello. Is it better to use A) or B) ?   A)   SELECT "public"."departments".*, "public"."plants".*, "public"."batches_microbs".*, "public"."results_microbs".*FROM "public"."departments", "public"."plants", "public"."batches_microbs", "public"."results_microbs"WHERE "plants"."department" = "depar

Re: [GENERAL] general questions on Postgresql and deployment on

2004-12-03 Thread Doug McNaught
Calvin Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > symbolic link. But on win32, there is no equivalent. However, even under > *nix system, I believe symbolic link can only be created for directories on > the same hard drive. This seems less than optimal. Typically, one would > place database files on RA

Re: [GENERAL] general questions on Postgresql and deployment on win32 platform

2004-12-03 Thread Magnus Hagander
> I have gone through the documentation that come with version > 8 beta 4 and I have a number of questions. > > (1) backup/restore > I notice that in the documentation, it seems to suggest that > an online backup, made via pg_start_backup() and > pg_stop_backup() functions would back up all dat

Re: [GENERAL] general questions on Postgresql and deployment on win32

2004-12-03 Thread Richard Huxton
Calvin Wood wrote: Does it also mean that I must back up and restore all the databases (or database cluster in Postgresql Speak) even if I am only interested in 1 database? You can use pg_dump to backup individual databases (or tables etc). A file-level backup does require all databases in one "

[GENERAL] general questions on Postgresql and deployment on win32 platform

2004-12-02 Thread Calvin Wood
I have gone through the documentation that come with version 8 beta 4 and I have a number of questions. (1) backup/restore I notice that in the documentation, it seems to suggest that an online backup, made via pg_start_backup() and pg_stop_backup() functions would back up all databases running