[GENERAL] How to increase shared memory buffers?

1999-05-05 Thread Anand Surelia
Hi All, I have been trying to increase the shared memory buffers used by Postgres by using the -B option to postmaster, but postmaster fails to start up for any value greater than 64 (which is the default in any case) saying "couldn't get shared memory - permission denied". So, (I know this shoul

[GENERAL] dying backend processes

1999-05-05 Thread postgres admin
Hi all, we are using Postgresql 6.4.2 on FreeBSD 2.2.8 and have a lot of problems with suddenly dying backend processes. We have already changed kernel parameters to get more shared memory and start the postmaster with -B 1024. The postmaster's virtual memory limit is currently 300MByte and our l

RE: [GENERAL] which guru know this ??

1999-05-05 Thread Michael J Davis
Try: #include int plus2(int a,int b) { return(a+b); } cc -c plus2.c /* I get the object file *.o */ gcc -shared -o plus2.so plus2.o /* you need a library file */ from psql: create function plus2(int4,int4) returns int4 as

[GENERAL] which guru know this ??

1999-05-05 Thread Carlos Peralta Ramirez
Primary, Sorry for my english !!! Hi, I ´m developing a several test database, for study. But I can´t create any function, every time ERROR appears. I write a C code in a plus2.c file #include int4 plus2(int4 a,int4 b) { return(a+b); } main() /* For getting *.out*/ { } , then I compile i

Re: [GENERAL] Row Count?

1999-05-05 Thread Dustin Sallings
On Wed, 5 May 1999, Bruce Tong wrote: Someone has a table with a column named row_count. # This is probably one of those things everyone knows except me, but my # search of the documentation only turned up it's not a keyword in # PostgreSQL... # # SELECT * FROM foo WHERE ROW_COUNT < 10;

RE: [GENERAL] Row Count?

1999-05-05 Thread Michael J Davis
Try: SELECT * FROM foo WHERE LIMIT 10; You must have PostgreSQL 6.5 for this to work. It is a new feature. -Original Message- From: Bruce Tong [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 8:09 AM To: PostgreSQL General

Re: [GENERAL] Row Count?

1999-05-05 Thread Bruce Tong
> -> set query_limit '10' set query_limit = '10'; > when you are done with it i think the syntax is > > -> set query limit set query_limit = default; You got me close enough to where I could find it. It was documented, I just didn't know what to look for originally. Thanks a bunch! Bruce

Re: [GENERAL] postgreSQL for storing a database of documents

1999-05-05 Thread darold
Hi, Rigth now I have less than one thousand of gif/jpg around 6 to 15 ko each. I guess I can go upper :-)) regards, Gilles Darold Chris Bitmead wrote: > darold wrote: > > > I'm using Large Object to store images and displayed them on the fly. I never found > > any problems and it > > is very

Re: [GENERAL] Row Count?

1999-05-05 Thread Thomas Reinke
Bruce Tong wrote: > > > > SELECT * FROM foo WHERE ROW_COUNT < 10; > > > Is there anything like "ROW_COUNT" or "ROWCOUNT" in PostgreSQL? > > > If trying to receive 10 rows, try > > > > begin; > > declare thomas cursor for select * from foo; > > fetch 10 in thomas; > > end; > > Ooo, a cursor. I

Re: [GENERAL] Row Count?

1999-05-05 Thread Wim Ceulemans
>> > SELECT * FROM foo WHERE ROW_COUNT < 10; >> > Is there anything like "ROW_COUNT" or "ROWCOUNT" in PostgreSQL? > Look through the archives with LIMIT. I believe in postgresql 6.4.2 you can use something like set QUERY_LIMIT TO '10'; and after you've done: reset QUERY_LIMIT; and in 6.5 I

Re: [GENERAL] Row Count?

1999-05-05 Thread Bruce Tong
> > SELECT * FROM foo WHERE ROW_COUNT < 10; > > Is there anything like "ROW_COUNT" or "ROWCOUNT" in PostgreSQL? > If trying to receive 10 rows, try > > begin; > declare thomas cursor for select * from foo; > fetch 10 in thomas; > end; Ooo, a cursor. I'll have to look into those. I was thinking

Re: [GENERAL] Row Count?

1999-05-05 Thread Thomas Reinke
Try "select count(*) from row" to get a count of the number of rows. If trying to receive 10 rows, try begin; declare thomas cursor for select * from foo; fetch 10 in thomas; end; Bruce Tong wrote: > > This is probably one of those things everyone knows except me, but my > search of the do

Re: [GENERAL] postgreSQL for storing a database of documents

1999-05-05 Thread Michael Davis
Your e-mail did not arrive at its intended destination. You need to send it to Michael J. Davis, not Michael Davis From: dustin sallings on 05/05/99 01:57 AM To: mtony @ iname.com@SMTP@EXCHANGE cc: pgsql-general @ postgreSQL.org@SMTP@EXCHANGE S

Re: [GENERAL] postgreSQL for storing a database of documents

1999-05-05 Thread Michael Davis
Your e-mail did not arrive at its intended destination. You need to send it to Michael J. Davis, not Michael Davis. From: Mark Fleming on 05/04/99 02:23 PM To: pgsql-general @ postgreSQL.org@SMTP@EXCHANGE cc: Subject:Re: [GENERAL] post

Re: [GENERAL] advice on buying sun hardware to run postgres

1999-05-05 Thread Michael Davis
Your e-mail did not arrive at its intended destination. You need to send it to Michael J. Davis, not Michael Davis. From: Bruce Momjian on 05/04/99 12:39 PM To: Chris Bitmead @SMTP@EXCHANGE cc: pgsql-general @ postgreSQL.org@SMTP@EXCHANGE Subje

[GENERAL] Row Count?

1999-05-05 Thread Bruce Tong
This is probably one of those things everyone knows except me, but my search of the documentation only turned up it's not a keyword in PostgreSQL... SELECT * FROM foo WHERE ROW_COUNT < 10; Is there anything like "ROW_COUNT" or "ROWCOUNT" in PostgreSQL? I've been looking through "The Practical S

Re: [GENERAL] index on an int8 column

1999-05-05 Thread José Soares
It works on 6.5beta1. Sarah Officer ha scritto: > I have a table with a column of type int8. When I try to create an > index on it, the > database protests and gives the following error message: > > ERROR: Can't find a default operator class for type 20. > > Is there an easy fix for this?

Re: [GENERAL] postgreSQL for storing a database of documents

1999-05-05 Thread Chris Bitmead
darold wrote: > I'm using Large Object to store images and displayed them on the fly. I never found > any problems and it > is very quiet. "When Postgre starts using large objects it is going to make a lot > of noise." ??? How many images are you storing? -- Chris Bitmead http://www.bigfoot.co