Re: [GENERAL] System requirements

2000-01-24 Thread Charles Tassell
The disks you use also play a big part in the performance you get. If you are going to have multiple simultaneous connections accessed the server, I'd go with a good SCSI disk array. Maybe even RAID if it's going to be under a high load. At 07:49 PM 1/24/00, Peter Eisentraut wrote: >This dep

RE: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL running on Redhat 6.1 and VB6.0

2000-01-24 Thread Barnes
You need this: http://www.insightdist.com/psqlodbc/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Dormer Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 7:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL running on Redhat 6.1 and VB6.0 Can you use

Re: [GENERAL] EndTransactionBlock error

2000-01-24 Thread Ed Loehr
Ed Loehr wrote: > > Correction: this message happens when you 'commit' but without > anything to commit. > > % destroydb test; createdb test; psql -d test -c "commit" > NOTICE: EndTransactionBlock and not inprogress/abort state > END And it seems to be a harmless occurrence, **assuming** you

Re: [GENERAL] EndTransactionBlock error

2000-01-24 Thread Ed Loehr
Correction: this message happens when you 'commit' but without anything to commit. % destroydb test; createdb test; psql -d test -c "commit" NOTICE: EndTransactionBlock and not inprogress/abort state END Cheers, Ed Loehr Graeme Merrall wrote: > > > Not certain, but I think you get an error

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL running on Redhat 6.1 and VB6.0

2000-01-24 Thread Matthew Dormer
Can you use Visual Basic 6.0 to Access a PostreSQL Database running on Redhat 6.1? Where would I find information on how to do this? Matt

Re: [GENERAL] EndTransactionBlock error

2000-01-24 Thread Graeme Merrall
> Not certain, but I think you get an error message like that when you > rollback at inappropriate (but harmless?) times, as in when you are > not in a transaction or have nothing pending on the current > transaction. The transaction goes though OK so I don't think it's that. I'll take a closer

Re: [GENERAL] System requirements

2000-01-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
This depends entirely(?) on what kinds of tables you use, especially their size, and what kind of queries you want to do with it. 128MB RAM should be fine for average applications, the hard disk size pretty much just limits how much data you can store (and sort), and the processor factor is hard t

[GENERAL] Re: your mail

2000-01-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2000-01-24, Yury Don mentioned: > Hello All, > > Does anybody knows where to send bugreport for postgresql? I can't > find this information on postgres site. > > > Best regards, > Yury ICQ 11831432 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > -- Peter Eis

Re: [GENERAL] max(oid)

2000-01-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 2000-01-24, Jose Soares mentioned: > We need also aggregates for data type TIME > MAX(time) > MIN(time) Thomas, do you think this could be done? -- Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 75262 Uppsala http://yi.org/peter-e/

Re: [GENERAL] EndTransactionBlock error

2000-01-24 Thread Ed Loehr
Not certain, but I think you get an error message like that when you rollback at inappropriate (but harmless?) times, as in when you are not in a transaction or have nothing pending on the current transaction. Cheers, Ed Loehr > Graeme Merrall wrote: > > Hi. > I've been getting the following er

[GENERAL] EndTransactionBlock error

2000-01-24 Thread Graeme Merrall
Hi. I've been getting the following error in my scripts using transactions to write to pg NOTICE:  EndTransactionBlock and not inprogress/abort state   I didn't see much of it in the archives. I'm using PHPLib and PHP3 which I suspect may be causing the problem, but I need a bit more info.

[GENERAL] Re: pgsql-general-digest V1 #614

2000-01-24 Thread Manuel Cabido
Sir, I encountered a problem when my postgres 6.5.3 stop running. I attempted to run the postmaster but an error was displayed on my screen which goes like this: [root@hindang bin]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql restart Stopping postgresql service: [FAILED] C

Re: [GENERAL] Is the fix for > 2GB files already in 6.5.3?

2000-01-24 Thread Peter Mount
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Ron King wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I want to build a prototype system under 32-bit Linux using > a table that would be about 20GB with PostgreSQL. I looked > through the archives and saw talk about a patch for PostgreSQL > to fix a bug with tables > 2Gb. If the system wor

[GENERAL] is this a bug?

2000-01-24 Thread John Henderson
Hi all, Using PostgreSQL 6.4 on BSD/OS 3.0 Is this a bug? Otherwise what am I doing wrong? isfiji=> \q moe:~ $ psql isfiji Welcome to the POSTGRESQL interactive sql monitor: Please read the file COPYRIGHT for copyright terms of POSTGRESQL type \? for help on slash commands type \q to qui

Re: [GENERAL] Is the fix for > 2GB files already in 6.5.3?

2000-01-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Hello Everyone, > > I want to build a prototype system under 32-bit Linux using > a table that would be about 20GB with PostgreSQL. I looked > through the archives and saw talk about a patch for PostgreSQL > to fix a bug with tables > 2Gb. If the system worked, I would > like to migrate over to

[GENERAL] Is the fix for > 2GB files already in 6.5.3?

2000-01-24 Thread Ron King
Hello Everyone, I want to build a prototype system under 32-bit Linux using a table that would be about 20GB with PostgreSQL. I looked through the archives and saw talk about a patch for PostgreSQL to fix a bug with tables > 2Gb. If the system worked, I would like to migrate over to a 64-bit Alph

[GENERAL] Re: installation with RH RPM v6.5.2 postmaster hangs

2000-01-24 Thread Lamar Owen
> Tim McKenna wrote: > > When I run the 'postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql' command the prompt never > comes back unless I do 'ctrl Z'. Is that what its supposed to do? > Other incantantions I used prior to that were from Lamar Owen's > Version 1.5 Instal... Without the -S, you need to put it in the

[GENERAL] max row size

2000-01-24 Thread Marc Tardif
I would like to use the max row size to store data instead of using the blob data type. From the FAQ, I understand each row must not cross 8k boundaries so the actual data must stay below 5k. 1. Is 5k litteral, ie exactly 5120 bytes? 2. In this situation, would it be preferable to use the text d

[GENERAL] uninterruptible sleep

2000-01-24 Thread Alex Guryanow
Hi, I'm use postgresql 6.5.3 on RedHat 6.1. To monitor the perfomance of the system I use top. When I run VACUUM ANALYZE in psql monitor top shows sometimes the state of postmaster as D. "man top" says that D in STAT column is "uninterruptible sleep". Is this normal? Best regards, Alex **

Re: [GENERAL] CREATE TABLE AS

2000-01-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Hi, > > How do I create a table from a 'select' statement? > I tried the help from psql '\h create table', > it does not explain how. > > I tried: > > create table blah2 as > select pin from tbs_billing_record > where date(start_time) between '01-JAN-2000' and '23-JAN-2000' > order by pin; S

Re: [GENERAL] max(oid)

2000-01-24 Thread Jose Soares
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 2000-01-21, Bruce Momjian mentioned: > > > > Is there a way to use the max aggregate on an oid field? When I try on > > > 6.5.3, I get the following error message: > > > > > > test=> select max(uid) from user_base; > > > ERROR: Unable to select an aggregate function

[GENERAL] System requirements

2000-01-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
Hi, I've been checking the archives and documentation for what the system requirements are for a PostgreSQL database It's to be used for a database with 8 users, and has MS-Access front-end which causes app. 2 connections per user. My idea was: 128Meg Ram 20 Gig HD 500 Mhz. Celeron will

Re: [GENERAL] CREATE TABLE AS

2000-01-24 Thread David Warnock
Chai, Just miss out the order by, it has no meaning in a table definition. ie Create table blah2 as select pin from tbs_billing_record where date(start_time) between '01-JAN-2000' and '23-JAN-2000'; Dave

[GENERAL] CREATE TABLE AS

2000-01-24 Thread Chairudin Sentosa Harjo
Hi, How do I create a table from a 'select' statement? I tried the help from psql '\h create table', it does not explain how. I tried: create table blah2 as select pin from tbs_billing_record where date(start_time) between '01-JAN-2000' and '23-JAN-2000' order by pin; I received error saying:

[GENERAL] unicode

2000-01-24 Thread Mitja Novak
helllo! is there a way to set up UNICODE table for databases? Or how to set launguages for certain databases or the whole server. I have asked this before while i was away but the disk on server crashed and i lost all my e-mails, before i had a chance to do anything. Thanks for your answers! Mitj