[GENERAL] Compilation failed on MinGW

2008-10-14 Thread leledumbo
I simply calls configure and make, then I got syntax errors on print*.c (I forgot the file name). The more precise errors come from a header included on line 19 (libpq.h). MinGW 4.2.1-dw2 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Compilation-failed-on-MinGW-tp19968096p19968096.htm

Re: [GENERAL] postgres user account on OSX

2008-10-14 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Darren Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you seen anything like this before? I have no idea what this means: > "CFPreferences: user home directory at /Library/PostgreSQL/8.3 is > unavailable" > It looks like a hangover from using a binary installer and I ha

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:45:39 -0600 "Joshua Tolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Premise: I'm not sustaining that the "default" answers are wrong, but they are inadequate. BTW the OP made a direct comparison of pgsql and mysql running drupal. That's a bit different than just asking: how can I improve

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Mikkel Høgh
On 14/10/2008, at 11.40, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:45:39 -0600 "Joshua Tolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PostgreSQL ships with a very conservative default configuration because (among other things, perhaps) 1) it's a configuration that's very unlikely to fail miserab

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Mikkel Høgh wrote: On 14/10/2008, at 11.40, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: That might be true, if the only demographic you are looking for are professional DBAs, but if you're looking to attract more developers, not having sensible defaults is not really a good thing. While I'll probably take t

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Ang Chin Han
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:45:39 -0600 >> "Joshua Tolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Premise: >> I'm not sustaining that the "default"

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Mikkel H?gh wrote: You are targetting DBAs using servers with less than 512 MB RAM. Is PostgreSQL supposed to be used by professional DBAs on enterprise systems or is it supposed to run out of the box on my old Pentium 3? Take a look at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug

Re: [GENERAL] Chart of Accounts

2008-10-14 Thread Isak Hansen
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:57 AM, justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] Also you want to split out the debit and credits instead of > using one column. Example one column accounting table to track values > entered how do you handle Crediting a Credit Account Type. is it a negative > or positi

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Martin Gainty
MG>comments prefixed with MG> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues? > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; pgsql-general@postgresql.org > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct

[GENERAL] Why select 1 where current_date = 'infinity'; doesn't work?

2008-10-14 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
It gives me the following error: ERROR: invalid input syntax for type date: "infinity" I thought I could use it anywhere in my sql. I have to add a cast to timestamp in order for this to work. I thought I wouldn't need to use a case. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance. -- Regards,

Re: [GENERAL] PL/pgSQL stored procedure returning multiple result sets (SELECTs)?

2008-10-14 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Vladimir Dzhuvinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Merlin, > >> Stored procedure support is a pretty complicated feature. They differ >> with functions in two major areas: >> >> *) input/output syntax. this is what you are dealing with >> *) manual transaction man

Re: [GENERAL] Why select 1 where current_date = 'infinity'; doesn't work?

2008-10-14 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Francisco Figueiredo Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It gives me the following error: > > ERROR: invalid input syntax for type date: "infinity" > > I thought I could use it anywhere in my sql. > > I have to add a cast to timestamp in order for this to work. I tho

Re: [GENERAL] PL/pgSQL stored procedure returning multiple result sets (SELECTs)?

2008-10-14 Thread Pavel Stehule
2008/10/14 Merlin Moncure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Vladimir Dzhuvinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Merlin, >> >>> Stored procedure support is a pretty complicated feature. They differ >>> with functions in two major areas: >>> >>> *) input/output syntax. this is

[GENERAL] Update with a Repeating Sequence

2008-10-14 Thread Bill Thoen
I've got a table with repeated records that I want to make unique by adding a sequence code of 0,1,2,...,n for each set of repeated records. Basically, I want to turn: field_id | seq --+- 1 | 0 2 | 0 3 | 0 3 | 0 3 | 0 4 | 0

Re: [GENERAL] Update with a Repeating Sequence

2008-10-14 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
alter table foo add newid sequencial; alter table foo drop field_id; alter table foo rename newid to field_id;

Re: [GENERAL] Update with a Repeating Sequence

2008-10-14 Thread Webb Sprague
Untested ideas (beware): Use an insert trigger that: curr_seq := select max(seq) from foo where field_id = NEW.field_id if curr_seq is null then NEW.seq := 0 else NEW.seq := curr_seq + 1 (You have to figure out how to build the trigger infrastructure...) If you need to do it on a t

Re: [GENERAL] Update with a Repeating Sequence

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Atkins
On Oct 14, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Bill Thoen wrote: I've got a table with repeated records that I want to make unique by adding a sequence code of 0,1,2,...,n for each set of repeated records. Basically, I want to turn: field_id | seq --+- 1 | 0 2 | 0 3 | 0

Re: [GENERAL] db_user_namespace, md5 and changing passwords

2008-10-14 Thread Fernando Moreno
2008/10/7 Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bruce Momjian escribió: > > > Well, I posted about this in August with no one replying: > > > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2008-08/msg00068.php > > > > Basically, there is a mismatch between what libpq and the backend think > > i

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Mikkel Høgh
Hmm, those are interesting numbers. Did you use a real, logged in, drupal session ID (anonymous users also get one, which still gives them cached pages). They are in the form of "SESS6df8919ff2bffc5de8bcf0ad65f9dc0f=59f68e60a120de47c2cb5c98b010" Note how the thoughput stays in the 30-

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Mikkel Høgh
-- Med venlig hilsen, Mikkel Høgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 14/10/2008, at 17.28, Ang Chin Han wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, it's rather braindead. I'd rather not worry about why, but how'd we make Drupal use the PostgreSQL more effectiv

Re: [GENERAL] Why select 1 where current_date = 'infinity'; doesn't work?

2008-10-14 Thread Stephen Frost
* Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > We do have a TODO item to allow type date to do that too. It's been asked > for often enough, not sure why it hasn't happened. Seems easy enough, > maybe I'll go do it. It's certainly be useful for us.. Thanks, Stephen signature

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Ang Chin Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:45:39 -0600 >>> "Joshua Tolley" <[E

Re: [GENERAL] Chart of Accounts

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Crawford
Isak Hansen wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:57 AM, justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Also you want to split out the debit and credits instead of using one column. Example one column accounting table to track values entered how do you handle Crediting a Credit Account Type. is it a n

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Erik Jones
On Oct 13, 2008, at 2:08 AM, admin wrote: Can anyone recommend an alternative CMS with the features and flexibility of Drupal that supports PostgreSQL 100%? What about the Python world, what is Plone like with PostgreSQL support? Look at using either Pylons or Turbogears with SQLAlchemy if

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Daniel Verite
Mikkel Høgh wrote: In any case, if anyone has any tips, input, etc. on how best to configure PostgreSQL for Drupal, or can find a way to poke holes in my analysis, I would love to hear your insights :) I'm a recent Drupal user with postgres. What I've noticed on drupal-6.4 with Ub

Re: [GENERAL] Update with a Repeating Sequence

2008-10-14 Thread Bill Thoen
The table exists already; all I need to do is update the sequence code to make the records unique, but also I need each repeating set numbered from 0 (Zero) so I can select a list of unique farm field records where seq = 0. I think that the suggestion to use a cursor sounds good, but I'm conc

Re: [GENERAL] databases list to file

2008-10-14 Thread postgres Emanuel CALVO FRANCO
inside psql turn \o file then \l 2008/10/9 Jeff Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I need to print to a file a simple list of all the databases on my >> postgresql. >> >> I need to do this from a shell script to be executed without human >> intervention

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Mikkel Høgh
On 14/10/2008, at 20.23, Daniel Verite wrote: What I've noticed on drupal-6.4 with Ubuntu 8.04 is that the default postgresql.conf has: ssl=true and since drupal doesn't allow connecting to pgsql with unix socket paths [1], what you get by default is probably TCP + SSL encryption. A crude tes

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Mikkel Høgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14/10/2008, at 20.23, Daniel Verite wrote: >> >> What I've noticed on drupal-6.4 with Ubuntu 8.04 is that the default >> postgresql.conf has: >> ssl=true >> and since drupal doesn't allow connecting to pgsql with unix soc

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:23:47PM +0200, Daniel Verite wrote: > [1] A patch has been posted here: http://drupal.org/node/26836 , but it > seems to have gotten nowhere. The comments about pg_connect() are > depressingly lame, apparently nobody had a clue how unix socket files > should be specifi

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:56:02 -0600 "Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is a useful question, but there are reasonable answers to > >> it. The key underlying principle is that it's impossible to > >> know what will work well in a given situation until that > >> situation is tested.

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Magnus Hagander
Mikkel Høgh wrote: > On 14/10/2008, at 20.23, Daniel Verite wrote: >> What I've noticed on drupal-6.4 with Ubuntu 8.04 is that the default >> postgresql.conf has: >> ssl=true >> and since drupal doesn't allow connecting to pgsql with unix socket >> paths [1], what you get by default is probably TCP

Re: [GENERAL] databases list to file

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Crawford
postgres Emanuel CALVO FRANCO wrote: inside psql turn \o file then \l I need to print to a file a simple list of all the databases on my postgresql. I need to do this from a shell script to be executed without human intervention... ... but I don't know exactly to what extent I can format

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: The fact that out of the box on common hardware PostgreSQL under-perform MySQL with default config would matter if few paragraph below you wouldn't say that integrity has a *big* performance cost even on read-only operation. If you want a mor

Re: [GENERAL] Update with a Repeating Sequence

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Atkins
On Oct 14, 2008, at 11:36 AM, Bill Thoen wrote: The table exists already; all I need to do is update the sequence code to make the records unique, but also I need each repeating set numbered from 0 (Zero) so I can select a list of unique farm field records where seq = 0. "select distinct

Re: [GENERAL] PL/pgSQL stored procedure returning multiple result sets (SELECTs)?

2008-10-14 Thread Vladimir Dzhuvinov
Hi guys, Ugh, why is it so hard to let go of this topic ;) I want to tell you why I find stored procedures useful and summarise my understanding on how they differ from functions. I hope this user perspective would be helpful to a future Postgres implementation. So what is my use of stored pr

Re: [GENERAL] Why select 1 where current_date = 'infinity'; doesn't work?

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Lane
"Francisco Figueiredo Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> ERROR: invalid input syntax for type date: "infinity" >> I thought I could use it anywhere in my sql. No, only timestamps support infinity. We do have a TODO item to allow type date to do that too. It's been asked for often enough, not s

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Mikkel Høgh
On 14/10/2008, at 16.05, Martin Gainty wrote: > The benchmark is a mostly read-only Drupal site -- a few admins, but a > lot of readers. Drupal as a benchmark is skewed towards lots and lots > of small, simple queries, which MyISAM excels at. The long term fix > ought to be to help the Drupal

Re: [GENERAL] Update with a Repeating Sequence

2008-10-14 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
I would probably do that in plpgsql, as a cursor

[GENERAL] run postgres 8.3

2008-10-14 Thread Eduardo Arévalo
I installed the 8.3 postgres the amount of giving the command: bash-3.2$ /usr/local/postgres_8.3/bin/initdb -D /base/data the result is: The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initial

Re: [GENERAL] PL/pgSQL stored procedure returning multiple result sets (SELECTs)?

2008-10-14 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Vladimir Dzhuvinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to tell you why I find stored procedures useful and summarise my > understanding on how they differ from functions. I hope this user > perspective would be helpful to a future Postgres implementation. > > > So

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Kevin Murphy
Greg Smith wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Mikkel H�gh wrote: You are targetting DBAs using servers with less than 512 MB RAM. Is PostgreSQL supposed to be used by professional DBAs on enterprise systems or is it supposed to run out of the box on my old Pentium 3? you'll discover that the Linux

Re: [GENERAL] Update with a Repeating Sequence

2008-10-14 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
oh, sorry - you want something else. blah.

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Mikkel Høgh
After disabling SSL for localhost, I ran the tests again, and the performance gap is reduced to about 30%. -- Kind regards, Mikkel Høgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 14/10/2008, at 21.17, Magnus Hagander wrote: Mikkel Høgh wrote: On 14/10/2008, at 20.23, Daniel Verite wrote: What I've noticed on

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Mikkel Høgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After disabling SSL for localhost, I ran the tests again, and the > performance gap is reduced to about 30%. ok, now consider you are on a read only load, with lots (if I read the thread correctly) repetitive queries. mysql

Re: [GENERAL] More schema design advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Sam Mason
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:29:45PM +, Matthew Wilson wrote: > I track employee qualifications in one table and I track job > requirements in another table. A job requires zero-to-many > qualifications, and for an employee to be qualified for that job, the > employee must have ALL the requireme

Re: [GENERAL] Chart of Accounts

2008-10-14 Thread Isak Hansen
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:07 PM, justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > because a credit account is a liability account aka a negative account so > credit a credit account causes it to go UP not down. As you say, "a negative account". Our liability accounts go further down when credited. I work with

Re: [GENERAL] Update with a Repeating Sequence

2008-10-14 Thread Bill Thoen
Steve Atkins wrote: On Oct 14, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Bill Thoen wrote: I've got a table with repeated records that I want to make unique by adding a sequence code of 0,1,2,...,n for each set of repeated records. Basically, I want to turn: field_id | seq --+- 1 | 0 2 |

Re: [GENERAL] PL/pgSQL stored procedure returning multiple result sets (SELECTs)?

2008-10-14 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:51:29 -0400 "Merlin Moncure" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Functions are limited in the sense that it is awkward to return > multiple sets, but are much more flexible how they can be > integrated into queries -- you can call a function anywhere a > scalar or a set is allowed

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:42:33 -0700 "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mikkel Høgh wrote: > > On 14/10/2008, at 11.40, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > > > That might be true, if the only demographic you are looking for > > are professional DBAs, but if you're looking to attract more > >

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:40 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:45:39 -0600 > "Joshua Tolley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Premise: > I'm not sustaining that the "default" answers are wrong, but they are > inadequate. > BTW the OP made a direct compariso

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Mikkel Høgh
On 14/10/2008, at 23.22, Merlin Moncure wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Mikkel Høgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After disabling SSL for localhost, I ran the tests again, and the performance gap is reduced to about 30%. ok, now consider you are on a read only load, with lots (if I read

benchmark on D7 + PG 8.3 Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
forwarding here too cos I just got the copy sent to my personal address and just much later the one from pg list... + adding some more siege run. On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:05:42 +0200 Mikkel Høgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm, those are interesting numbers. Did you use a real, logged > in, drupal

Re: [GENERAL] Update with a Repeating Sequence

2008-10-14 Thread Bill Thoen
Grzegorz Jas'kiewicz wrote: alter table foo add newid sequencial; alter table foo drop field_id; alter table foo rename newid to field_id; I can't do that; I need to preserve the field_id values. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your s

Re: [GENERAL] Chart of Accounts

2008-10-14 Thread justin
because a credit account is a liability account aka a negative account so credit a credit account causes it to go UP not down. Look a your bank statement it says Credit you $500 when you make a deposit its a debit to you a credit to the bank in a credit account as its a liability to the bank.

Re: [GENERAL] Why select 1 where current_date = 'infinity'; doesn't work?

2008-10-14 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Francisco Figueiredo Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> ERROR: invalid input syntax for type date: "infinity" >>> I thought I could use it anywhere in my sql. > > No, only timestamps support infinity. > > We do have a TODO i

Re: [GENERAL] OR or IN ?

2008-10-14 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "A. Kretschmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > am Tue, dem 14.10.2008, um 8:33:21 +0200 mailte Luca Ferrari folgendes: >> Hi all, >> I've got a query with a long (>50) list of ORs, like the following: >> >> SELECT colB, colC FROM table WHERE colA=X OR colA=Y OR co

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Kevin Murphy wrote: One thing that might help people swallow the off-putting default "toy mode" performance of PostgreSQL would be an explanation of why PostgreSQL uses its shared memory architecture in the first place. I doubt popularizing the boring technical details be

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Ang Chin Han
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MG>comments prefixed with MG> > MG>What about INNODB is Drupal forgetting the default engine for 5.x? I don't use MySQL for drupal myself except for testing, but Drupal just uses the default storage engine for MySQL, whi

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Chris
Note this comment: /* * Queries sent to Drupal should wrap all table names in curly brackets. This * function searches for this syntax and adds Drupal's table prefix to all * tables, allowing Drupal to coexist with other systems in the same database if * necessary. */ That's an MySQL-ism for

Re: [GENERAL] db_user_namespace, md5 and changing passwords

2008-10-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Fernando Moreno wrote: > Thanks for the answers, I wasn't aware of the conflict between md5-auth and > db_user_namespace, but it seems highly related to my problem. > > Could you suggest me another way to handle this? Managing users in the usual > way is likely to work fine most of the time, but n

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Note this comment: >> /* >> * Queries sent to Drupal should wrap all table names in curly brackets. >> This >> * function searches for this syntax and adds Drupal's table prefix to all >> * tables, allowing Drupal to coexist

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Chris
Are you saying you have to reconnect to change schemas? In Oracle and PostgreSQL both you can change the current schema (or schemas for postgresql) with a single inline command. No I meant you have to change the schema after connecting. Some hosts only give you one db & one user. Yeh it suck

Re: [GENERAL] Column level triggers

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 3:44 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > According to the documentation ( > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/sql-createtrigger.html > ), the feaure "SQL allows triggers to fire on updates to specific > columns (e.g., AFTER UPDATE OF col1

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Are you saying you have to reconnect to change schemas? In Oracle and >> PostgreSQL both you can change the current schema (or schemas for >> postgresql) with a single inline command. > > No I meant you have to change the schem

Re: [GENERAL] how to get unique identifier for a client

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 3:38 AM, gorsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all > is there a way to get a unique identifier for a client? something like > a machine id. session_user does not seem to work since a user can log > on to many workstations. been through the list so i'm not searching > for get

Re: [GENERAL] Column level triggers

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Lane
"Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since you can check which columns have changed, it's pretty easy to > write a trigger that just skips its logic when none of the trigger > columns have changed. ... which is pretty much the same thing a built-in implementation would have to do, too. S

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Gregory Stark
Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > MG>comments prefixed with MG> Incidentally that's a good way to make sure people don't see your comments. There are a few variations but the common denominator is that things prefixed with "foo>" are quotations from earlier messages. Many mailers hide

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Gregory Stark
Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DB2 has automatically updated the "shmmax" kernel > parameter from "33554432" to the recommended value "268435456". This seems like a bogus thing for an application to do though. The Redhat people seem happy with the idea but I'm pretty sure

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> DB2 has automatically updated the "shmmax" kernel >> parameter from "33554432" to the recommended value "268435456". > This seems like a bogus thing for an application to do though. The Redhat > people seem happy

Re: [GENERAL] Update with a Repeating Sequence

2008-10-14 Thread Artacus
Bill Thoen wrote: Steve Atkins wrote: On Oct 14, 2008, at 9:04 AM, Bill Thoen wrote: I've got a table with repeated records that I want to make unique by adding a sequence code of 0,1,2,...,n for each set of repeated records. Basically, I want to turn: field_id | seq --+-

Re: [GENERAL] Column level triggers

2008-10-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Scott Marlowe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Since you can check which columns have changed, it's pretty easy to >> write a trigger that just skips its logic when none of the trigger >> columns have changed. > > ... which is p

Re: [GENERAL] how to get unique identifier for a client

2008-10-14 Thread gorsa
hi! unfortunately the unique identifier must not change from connection to connection, so that there can be a meaningful review of the usage table. is there a similar problem that you've encountered in the past that has this requirement? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postg

Re: [GENERAL] Drupal and PostgreSQL - performance issues?

2008-10-14 Thread Greg Smith
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Gregory Stark wrote: Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: DB2 has automatically updated the "shmmax" kernel parameter from "33554432" to the recommended value "268435456". This seems like a bogus thing for an application to do though. It happens when y

Re: [GENERAL] NATURAL JOINs

2008-10-14 Thread regme please
Well, it could make some sense to extend the semantics when you have explicit "REFERENCES" to tables in the JOINs.Or at least warn or notice the user that the "NATURAL (INNER) JOIN" has actuallt been converted into a CROSS one. It would not be standard but helpful for developers. Thanks. 2008/10/