Re: [HACKERS] Reading from a text file into PostgreSQL

2004-10-07 Thread Chester Kustarz
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Eyinagho Newton wrote: > Can anyone explain how postgreSQL reads from a text > file into tables already created in PostgreSQL? Check out COPY command. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/sql-copy.html The file has to be in a certain format as explained in the docum

[HACKERS] Buffer contents

2004-09-09 Thread Chester Kustarz
I wanted to know the contents of the buffer cache in 7.4, so I created this function and view that seems to work ok: /* Takes relfilenode (from pg_class) and returns the number of * buffer cache pages it is using. */ PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(block_count); Datum block_count(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) {

Re: [HACKERS] PITR Dead horse?

2004-02-05 Thread Chester Kustarz
I do not see the win32 list on http://www.postgresql.org/lists.html How would I find out about it and join? I probably did not subscribe to hackers when it started. On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I think the win32 email list has worked well. What is has allowed is > people who want to

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] log session end - again

2004-02-05 Thread Chester Kustarz
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Wow, like the idea too --- pid plus time_t start time of backend. > Actully, it would be good to have star time first so you can sort > everything in order of start time. Why not just add a printf like pattern so the user can output whatever they like? %

Re: [HACKERS] [PERFORM] More detail on settings for pgavd?

2003-11-28 Thread Chester Kustarz
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: > >> Do you know of an easy way to get a > >>count of the total pages used by a whole cluster? > > > >Select sum(relpages) from pg_class. You might want to exclude indexes from this calculation. Some large read only tables might have indexes larger t