Re: [OT] Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Increased company involvement

2005-05-05 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On 5/4/05, Russell Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 4 May 2005 04:40 am, Tom Copeland wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:26 -0400, Mitch Pirtle wrote: > > > > Of course, Mitch is running the second largest GForge site on the planet > > (as far as

[HACKERS] Mailing list unsubscribe - hackers isn't there?

2002-10-05 Thread Mitch
It seems that the Hackers list isn't in the list to subscribe/unsubscribe at http://developer.postgresql.org/mailsub.php Just an FYI. -Mitch Computers are like Air Conditioners, they don't work when you open Windows. ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] casting for dates

2001-09-26 Thread Mitch Vincent
Will SELECT now() - 'nummonths months'::interval ; work? - Original Message - From: "Vince Vielhaber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 4:30 PM Subject: [HACKERS] casting for dates > > I'm trying to use an integer from a table to add/subt

Re: [HACKERS] Escaping strings for inclusion into SQL queries

2001-08-30 Thread Mitch Vincent
Ok, I misudnerstood, I had long included my own escaping function in programs that used libpq, I thought the intent was to make escaping happen automatically.. Thanks! -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Alex Pilosov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mitch Vincent&qu

Re: [HACKERS] Escaping strings for inclusion into SQL queries

2001-08-30 Thread Mitch Vincent
escaping them (else major breakage of existing application would occur).. I didn't see the patch but I assume that someone took a look to make sure before applying it. -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Florian Weimer" &l

Re: [HACKERS] Re: List response time...

2001-08-21 Thread Mitch Vincent
I've had great luck with Postfix as well. -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Ian Lance Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lamar Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Serguei Mokhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "PostgreSQL Hackers" <

Re: [HACKERS] Link to bug webpage

2001-08-21 Thread Mitch Vincent
MySQL has to first add some features in order to have some bugs, don't they? :-) Some people crack me up in their opinions.. If it took him 6 hours to figure out "int8" then I'm not really interested in anything else he has to say... Lord... -Mitch - Original Messag

Re: [HACKERS] Portal question

2001-07-30 Thread Mitch Vincent
I've used select count(), then a select LIMIT/OFFSET for the pages.. A cursor might be a better idea though I don't think you can get the total number of rows without count()'ing them. Good luck! -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne&quo

[HACKERS] Re: [HACKERS - GENERAL] PQexec() 8191 bytes limit and text fields

2001-07-18 Thread Mitch Vincent
you have outdated source code or the problem is somewhere else.. Good luck! -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Steve Howe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 1:30 PM Subject: Re

Re: [HACKERS] PQexec() 8191 bytes limit and text fields

2001-07-18 Thread Mitch Vincent
luck! -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Steve Howe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:51 AM Subject: [HACKERS] PQexec() 8191 bytes limit and text fields > Hello all, > > > Writing my interface application,

[HACKERS] Re: Not scanning by index

2001-05-03 Thread Mitch Vincent
> explain select * from forsamling where klar = 1; Try SELECT * FROM forsampling WHERE klar = 1::int2 -Mitch ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

[HACKERS] Re: CRN article not updated

2001-04-18 Thread Mitch Vincent
used) it for every database-driven project I've done to date. I haven't had any trouble convincing clients to use PostgreSQL over Oracle (and everyone that wants some software written always wants to use Oracle!). I present the facts of PostgreSQL and in ev

[HACKERS] The "Current Release Docs"

2001-04-15 Thread Mitch Vincent
The "Current Release Docs" on the PostgreSQL website still look 7.0.Xish.. Just an FYI... -Mitch ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html

[HACKERS] Re: Fast Forward (fwd)

2001-04-15 Thread Mitch Vincent
To top it all off, their comments are broken -- I submitted mine and it displays Marc's again (until you click on the link of course).. *sigh* they must be using MySQL. :-) -Mitch - Original Message - From: "The Hermit Hacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL

[HACKERS] Re: Estimating Size of Database

2001-04-12 Thread Mitch Vincent
In the FAQ.. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq-english.html#4.7 Good luck! -Mitch Software development : You can have it cheap, fast or working. Choose two. - Original Message - From: "Mitesh Shah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday,

[HACKERS] Re: Speaking of Indexing... (Text indexing)

2001-04-11 Thread Mitch Vincent
e (Tom?) told me it was about 2k.. -Mitch ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly

[HACKERS] Re: Re: Re: "--tuning" compile and runtime option (?)

2001-04-10 Thread Mitch Vincent
sure a lot more).. -Mitch Software development : You can have it cheap, fast or working. Choose two. - Original Message - From: "Darren King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 11:13 AM Subject: RE: Re: Re: "--tuning" c

[HACKERS] Re: Re: "--tuning" compile and runtime option (?)

2001-04-10 Thread Mitch Vincent
uning should be left up to the administrator as that's what administrators are for :-) Just my humble $0.02 worth.. -Mitch Software development : You can have it cheap, fast or working. Choose two. - Original Message - From: "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Joh

[HACKERS] Re: why the DB file size does not reduce when 'delete'the data in DB?

2001-03-04 Thread Mitch Vincent
ase or putting up with the missing features of MySQL.. All my humble opinion of course, I wish you the best of luck. -Mitch ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

[HACKERS] Re: http access to ftp.postgresql.org files

2001-02-26 Thread Mitch Vincent
Just an FYI -- It works well from behind my proxy.. -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Vince Vielhaber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Zeugswetter Andreas SB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'The Hermit Hacker'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAI

[HACKERS] Re: beta5 ...

2001-02-21 Thread Mitch Vincent
beta 4 now, but I'd bet at least one of you is using FreeBSD (and it compiles and installs rather nicely anyway).. -Mitch

[HACKERS] PHP 4.0.4pl1 / Beta 5

2001-02-18 Thread Mitch Vincent
*crosses fingers* Is there anything stupendously broken in PG beta 4? I have it on my devel server and don't want to have to recompile (right now at least, deadlines are growing close) unless I stand a large chance of pulling the pin on a grenade somewhere. Thanks!! -Mitch - O

[HACKERS] Re: PHP 4.0.4pl1 BUILD: BUSTED WITH CURRENT CVS

2001-02-18 Thread Mitch Vincent
Just an FYI... PHP compiles with up to and including PG-Beta4.. -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Larry Rosenman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PostgreSQL Hackers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 3:18 PM Subject: PHP 4.0.4pl1 BUILD:

[HACKERS] Re: Re: PostgreSQL -> PHP problem

2001-02-05 Thread Mitch Vincent
Bruce said he and Rasmus (from PHP devel) were fixing this. That'll be great! -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 8:55 PM Subject: RE: Re: PostgreSQL -> P

[HACKERS] Re: PostgreSQL -> PHP problem

2001-02-05 Thread Mitch Vincent
4.0.2 Ouch. It looks like this is exactly what is happening to me. pg_open gets called several times in these scripts.. It looks like I'll have to install an old version of PHP.. Son of a er nevermind.. Thanks guys.. -Mitch

[HACKERS] Re: Like vs '='

2001-02-05 Thread Mitch Vincent
There isn't any row or query size limit in 7.1 thanks to TOAST! -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Manuel Cabido" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "m w" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 10:18 PM Subject:

[HACKERS] PostgreSQL -> PHP problem

2001-02-05 Thread Mitch Vincent
This is the debug output for the last query that seems to be throwing PHP into a fit (a fit that somehow closes the backend connection - note, it doesn't crash, it just closes).. I don't think anything is going on here that shouldn't be, it looks the same as any other query that succeeds.. I just

[HACKERS] Re: 1024 limits??

2001-02-05 Thread Mitch Vincent
You need to compile PostgreSQL from source with -g .. ftp.postgresql.org is the main FTP, there are many mirrors. Look for the source tarball there.. -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Mathieu Dube" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

[HACKERS] Re: Very odd order by behavior - followup

2001-02-04 Thread Mitch Vincent
I found the problem. User error, it's been a long Sunday. Sorry! -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Mitch Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 11:00 PM Subject: Very odd order by behavior > FreeBSD 4.2, Pos

[HACKERS] Very odd order by behavior

2001-02-04 Thread Mitch Vincent
[ACC] 1818 | ACC| Accounting [ACC] 1819 | ACD| Acoustics [ACD] 1819 | ACD| Acoustics [ACD] 1820 | ADV| Advertising [ADV] 1820 | ADV| Advertising [ADV] Either I'm seeing double or something isn't right here :-) Thanks for any insights. -Mitch

[HACKERS] Re: Re: Format of the Money field

2001-02-03 Thread Mitch Vincent
email directly to Peter -- I was too quick on the send.. -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Dave Mertens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 2:12 PM Subject: Re: Re: Format of the Money field > On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at

[HACKERS] Re: Format of the Money field

2001-02-03 Thread Mitch Vincent
se for all fields that need to hold a dollar amount so I'm curious.. I remember reading in the documentation that money was numeric(9,2) with the dollar sign added but I wanted to check with the man :-) -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Peter Mount" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

[HACKERS] Re: Format of the Money field

2001-02-02 Thread Mitch Vincent
icants; $77,000.00 $43,500.00 $0.00 $93,000.00 ... If it changed, it looks like it changed a long time ago! :-) -Mitch - Original Message - From: "The Hermit Hacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter T Mount" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent

Re: [HACKERS] Beta 4 problem(s)

2001-02-01 Thread Mitch Vincent
Yes, I did.. -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Mitch Vincent'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 10:33 AM Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Beta 4 problem(s) > D

[HACKERS] Beta 4 problem(s)

2001-02-01 Thread Mitch Vincent
ssues in beta4 that might cause this kind of thing to happen? Are there any changes that anyone can think of that might need to happen to the PHP PostgreSQL support for 7.1? I'd be happy to look into doing making the changes if so.. Thanks!! -Mitch

[HACKERS] Re: Re: MySQL has transactions

2001-01-25 Thread Mitch Vincent
nce 7.0 (on a productions server) and haven't had a problem one.. -Mitch

[HACKERS] Beta 3 question(s)

2001-01-22 Thread Mitch Vincent
x27;m importing data : DEBUG: copy: line 2865, XLogWrite: new log file created - try to increase WAL_FILES Is that anything to be concerned about? Do I need to increase WAL_FILES? If so, how? Thanks! -Mitch

Re: [HACKERS] beta testing version

2000-12-05 Thread Mitch Vincent
there will always be the base PostgreSQL out there for everyone.. I hope. Just my $0.02 worth.. -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Lamar Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PostgreSQL Development" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 1:45 PM Sub

[HACKERS] WAL information

2000-12-01 Thread Mitch Vincent
Ok, this has peaked my interest in learning exactly what WAL is and what it does... I don't see any in-depth explanation of WAL on the postgresql.org site, can someone point me to some documentation? (if any exists, that is). Thanks! -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Na

Re: [HACKERS] beta testing version

2000-11-30 Thread Mitch Vincent
;t see why this wouldn't work... Note I'm not saying you're wrong, just asking that you explain your comment a little more. If WAL can't be used to help recover from crashes where database corruption occurs, what good is it? -Mitch

Re: [HACKERS] Size of my data base?

2000-11-30 Thread Mitch Vincent
If you installed in the default directory then the files relating to a database are in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/ So you could just total up the size of everything under that directory. -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Guus Kerpel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMA

Re: [HACKERS] beta testing version

2000-11-28 Thread Mitch Vincent
peep from any PostgreSQL backend. It's superbly stable on all my machines.. Damn good work guys. -Mitch - Original Message - From: "The Hermit Hacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hannu Krosing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "xuyifeng" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [HACKERS] Please advise features in 7.1 (SUMMARY)

2000-11-28 Thread Mitch Vincent
> So, having _both_ is the best thing. Absolutely, that's always what I meant -- we already have views and views can do this type of stuff at SELECT time can't they? So it's not a change, just an addition -Mitch

Re: [HACKERS] Please advise features in 7.1 (SUMMARY)

2000-11-28 Thread Mitch Vincent
imple computations like that but more complex ones. Just playing the devil's advocate a bit. -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Zeugswetter Andreas SB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Ross J. Reedstrom'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [HACKERS] Full text Indexing -out of contrib and into main..

2000-11-27 Thread Mitch Vincent
I modified the FTI trigger for my own use a while ago (indexes whole words, eliminates duplicate a few other things) -- I'm not sure if it would do anyone any good but you're welcome to it. To whom should I send it? -Mitch - Original Message - From: "The Hermit

Re: [HACKERS] 8192 BLCKSZ ?

2000-11-27 Thread Mitch Vincent
If it breaks anything in PostgreSQL I sure haven't seen any evidence -- the box this database is running on gets hit pretty hard and I haven't had a single ounce of trouble since I went to 7.0.X -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <[EMAIL P

Re: [HACKERS] 8192 BLCKSZ ?

2000-11-27 Thread Mitch Vincent
I've been using a 32k BLCKSZ for months now without any trouble, though I've not benchmarked it to see if it's any faster than one with a BLCKSZ of 8k.. -Mitch > This is just a curiosity. > > Why is the default postgres block size 8192? These days, with caching > f

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [NOVICE] Re: re : PHP and persistent connections

2000-11-25 Thread Mitch Vincent
I'm sure that this, if true, could certainly be the source of the problems I've seen... I can't comment on if PHP is completely threadsafe, I know that some of the modules (for lack of a better word) aren't, possible the ClibPDF library I'm using. I'll c

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [NOVICE] Re: re : PHP and persistent connections

2000-11-25 Thread Mitch Vincent
ust at the bottom of the to-do list I'm sure (as that was back before PHP 4 was even released and obviously the problem remains).. Just my $0.02 worth. -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Ron Chmara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [HACKERS] Crash during WAL recovery?

2000-11-21 Thread Mitch Vincent
Just speaking Russian and English both (to any degree) is absolutely amazing, put that on top of MVCC and WAL and we have Vadim, the smartest person alive! *grin* -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Mikheev, Vadim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Don Baccus'&quo

Re: [HACKERS] RE: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-20 Thread Mitch Vincent
s good for some things and some people, I've tried MySQL, tested MySQL and then tossed MySQL into the garbage can... I found some very educational conversation here : http://openacs.org/philosophy/why-not-mysql.html courtesy of Don and others. -Mitch - Original Message - From:

Re: [HACKERS] Varchar standard compliance

2000-11-16 Thread Mitch Vincent
ning, just trying to understand.) I just made a varchar(3) field, inserted some data into it and created an index on it, it seemed to work OK -- is it really only indexing X characters or something? -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Peter Eisentraut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

Re: [HACKERS] 7.0.2 -> 7.0.3 problem - anyone? - Fixed!

2000-11-12 Thread Mitch Vincent
, I'm off to sit in the corner for a while... -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mitch Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 6:47 PM Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 7.0.2 -> 7.0.3 problem - anyo

Re: [HACKERS] 7.0.2 -> 7.0.3 problem - anyone?

2000-11-12 Thread Mitch Vincent
oncerned was the same as when I was running 7.0.2 Knowing all the above, do you still think a dump and reload was required? If so that's fine, I just need to know.. -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Bruce Momjian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mitch Vincent" <

Re: [HACKERS] 7.0.2 -> 7.0.3 problem - anyone?

2000-11-12 Thread Mitch Vincent
ssing the same file seconds before I upgraded, that and the fact that I changed permissions to 777 all the way down the tree to make sure.. -Mitch > You have to dump/initdb/reload if you change the block size. Simply > recompiling is not going to work. > > Cheers... > > > MikeA

Re: [HACKERS] 7.0.2 -> 7.0.3 problem

2000-11-12 Thread Mitch Vincent
By the way, what is pg_control and what does it do? -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Michael Ansley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Mitch Vincent '" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 4:02 PM Subje

[HACKERS] 7.0.2 -> 7.0.3 problem

2000-11-12 Thread Mitch Vincent
Open() that fails.. I did nothing but stop the postmaster, compile and install 7.0.3 and start the postmaster. then compiled and installed 7.0.2 again and all of the sudden the 7.0.2 or 7.0.3 backend doesn't start -- it makes no sense. As always, any help is appreciated. Thanks! -Mitch

[HACKERS] Full text indexing (Question/request)

2000-10-16 Thread Mitch Vincent
It doesn't seem like too many are worried about it so the request is pretty selfish, though I'm sure it would help many people especially after 7.1 and TOAST make text fields unlimited in size. Thanks! -Mitch

Re: [HACKERS] Possible age() bug?

2000-10-10 Thread Mitch Vincent
08:00:00 2000 EDT'::timestamp + '1 mon 24 days 1 hour'::interval); ?column? ---- Sun Dec 03 07:00:00 2000 CST (1 row) (Timezone differences are there and expected, these boxes are all across the country). -Mitch

[HACKERS] Possible age() bug?

2000-10-10 Thread Mitch Vincent
s.. hhs=# SELECT age('Sun Nov 05 08:00:00 2000 EST','Tue Oct 10 08:00:00 2000 EDT') as esec; esec -- @ 26 days 1 hour (1 row) hhs=# SELECT ('Tue Oct 10 08:00:00 2000 EDT'::timestamp + '1 mon 24 days 1 hour'::interval); ?column? -- Mon Dec 04 08:00:00 2000 EST (1 row) *shrug* Thanks! -Mitch

Re: [HACKERS] off-topic: (sorta) freebsd -> oracle, lightweight

2000-10-02 Thread Mitch Vincent
estion for an Oracle list since this has nothing to do with PostgreSQL? (Just a friendly suggestion) :-) Good luck!! -Mitch - Original Message - From: "Jim Mercer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 12:43 PM Subject: [HAC