[HACKERS] update syntax

2004-01-18 Thread Edwin S. Ramirez
Hello, Are update statements like: update t1 set (f1, f2, f3) = (select t1, t2, t3 from tab1 where id=5) where id=3 standard. Any hope of supporting this in Postgres? -Edwin S. Ramirez- ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore

Re: [HACKERS] cache control?

2004-01-18 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:00:08PM -0500, Michael Brusser wrote: Is there a way to force database to load a frequently-accessed table into cache and keep it there? If it is frequently accessed, I guess it would be in the cachke permanently --

Re: [HACKERS] What's planned for 7.5?

2004-01-18 Thread Stephen
Any chance we'll see the VACUUM delay patch (throttle) get into 7.5? I only had the chance to try the first patch by Tom Lane and it was very good already. I was hoping it gets into 7.4.1 but it didn't. :-( I really need the VACUUM delay patch because my servers are begging to die every time

Re: [HACKERS] VACUUM delay (was Re: What's planned for 7.5?)

2004-01-18 Thread Stephen
The vacuum delay patch is not the ideal solution but it worked like a charm on my servers. I really need the vacuum delay patch or a better solution in 7.5. I'm getting millions of requests a month and running VACUUM without the patch makes PostgreSQL useless for many consecutive hours. Not quite

[HACKERS] Documentation: Fast Backward/Forward

2004-01-18 Thread A.M.
A simple documentation enhancement request: please provide Fast Backward/Forward links at the bottom of the page as well. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's

[HACKERS] feature request... case sensitivity without double quotes

2004-01-18 Thread Pete
Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to make a feature request. If not hopefully I can be kindly pointed in that direction. I have several project that use MySQL and I would like to port them to PostgreSQL unfortunately they use a naming convention which uses upper case and lower

[HACKERS] where shall i send my he.po file

2004-01-18 Thread Maxim Kovgan
hello, i am in the middle of translating this ru.po file into hebrew messages.i simply change the garbage with hebrew equivalent. where shall i send the result to ? Cheers. M. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] How to retrieve functional index column names

2004-01-18 Thread Jakub
As of 7.4, this is a requirement badly in need of reconsideration. What makes you think there is any function name involved? Consider something like create index i on t ((col + 2)); Getting the column names is still a sensible operation though. I'd suggest looking in pg_depend to

Re: [HACKERS] feature request... case sensitivity without double quotes

2004-01-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 10:02:34PM -0500, Pete wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to make a feature request. If not hopefully I can be kindly pointed in that direction. I have several project that use MySQL and I would like to port them to PostgreSQL unfortunately they

Re: [HACKERS] where shall i send my he.po file

2004-01-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Maxim Kovgan wrote: hello, i am in the middle of translating this ru.po file into hebrew messages.i simply change the garbage with hebrew equivalent. where shall i send the result to ? Read this for instructions: http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/nlsinfo/ You should probably translate

Re: [HACKERS] feature request... case sensitivity without double

2004-01-18 Thread Nigel J. Andrews
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Pete wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to make a feature request. If not hopefully I can be kindly pointed in that direction. I have several project that use MySQL and I would like to port them to PostgreSQL unfortunately they use a naming

Re: [HACKERS] feature request... case sensitivity without double quotes

2004-01-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Pete wrote: I am aware that if you enclose those table and column names with then postgresql will take the case into consideration. Only problem is most people who have current MySQL project have not written their statements with (MySQL parser uses no quotes of the ` back tick) and it would

Re: [HACKERS] User Defined Functions/AM's inherently slow?

2004-01-18 Thread Tom Lane
Theory B would be that there's some huge overhead in calling non-built-in functions on your platform. I've done some profiling and convinced myself that indeed there's pretty steep overhead involved in fmgr_info() for a C-language function. Much of it isn't platform-dependent either --- as

Re: [HACKERS] User Defined Functions/AM's inherently slow?

2004-01-18 Thread Eric B . Ridge
On Jan 18, 2004, at 7:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Theory B would be that there's some huge overhead in calling non-built-in functions on your platform. I've done some profiling and convinced myself that indeed there's pretty steep overhead involved in fmgr_info() for a C-language function. Much of it

Re: [HACKERS] User Defined Functions/AM's inherently slow?

2004-01-18 Thread Tom Lane
Eric B. Ridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wow, thanks for spending the time on this. What about for gettuple? Do calls to it take advantage of the cache? If not, this likely explains some of my custom am's performance troubles. gettuple is looked up once at the start of a scan, so there's