Re: [GENERAL] Full text searching?

2000-11-10 Thread Gunnar R|nning
"Poul L. Christiansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I convert the characters - e.g. ø will be converted to ø When I > do a search, i just replace the search string the same way. The only > problem that could arise is when people search for the word "slash", but > I guess you could avoid searc

Re: [GENERAL] More vacuum troubles

2000-11-10 Thread Dan Moschuk
| | The very next vacuum I do produces the exact same response. The next one | | after that though continues.. | | And as another side note :) ... | | vacuum some_table (without the analyze) completes quite happily. Grr! There must be a law against replying to so many of your own messages...

Re: [GENERAL] More vacuum troubles

2000-11-10 Thread Dan Moschuk
| | I've upgraded to 7.0.3, now I get... | | | | c2net=> vacuum verbose analyze some_table; | | NOTICE: --Relation some_table-- | | | | It's been sitting like that for about half an hour now. There's only | | about 3000 records in that table. | | As a side note, when I ^C the vacuum I get..

Re: [GENERAL] More vacuum troubles

2000-11-10 Thread Dan Moschuk
| | (Marc hasn't officially announced 7.0.3 yet, but to the best of my | | knowledge the release-candidate tarballs currently available from our | | FTP server will be it.) | | I've upgraded to 7.0.3, now I get... | | c2net=> vacuum verbose analyze some_table; | NOTICE: --Relation some_table--

Re: [GENERAL] More vacuum troubles

2000-11-10 Thread Dan Moschuk
| > A vacuum without the analyze gives the error | > ERROR: No one parent tuple was found | | I think you might be getting bit by the same bug that was biting Alfred | Perlstein a month or so back. Try 7.0.3 and see if it's any better... | if not, let me know and we'll probe deeper. | | (Marc

Re: [GENERAL] Sequencial scan over primary keys

2000-11-10 Thread Michael Fork
Just a few suggestions (1) Make sure you have run the VACUUM ANALYZE command on the table (i.e. VACUUM ANALYZE tipo_categoria) (2) Try running the following 3 commands, and comparing the total costs to see which is cheaper (an index scan is *not* always best). If the sequential scan is cheaper,

[GENERAL] 'currency' question; precision/decimal meaing

2000-11-10 Thread Will Fitzgerald
I want to store prices in a table. What's the best way to do this (since 'money' is deprecated)? What do 'precision' and 'decimal' mean for the numeric type?

No Luck -> Re: [GENERAL] Sequencial scan over primary keys

2000-11-10 Thread Vilson farias
Tom, I've tried like you said (::integer) but doesn't work. I tried another way, using GROUP BY at the end, but no luck again. What now? Table "prog_teste" Attribute| Type | Modifier -+--+-- cod_teste | integer | not n

Re: [GENERAL] TEXT and BLOBS

2000-11-10 Thread Ben Souther
- Original Message - From: Martin A. Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 8:36 AM Subject: [GENERAL] TEXT and BLOBS > I want to find out how confused I am. ;-) > I'm testing something on a Postgres 7.0.2 database. I made a small table wi

Re: [GENERAL] Increasing the number of semaphores on FreeBSD 4.1(clarification)

2000-11-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Philip Hallstrom writes: > I recently tried to start postmaster (7.0.2) with -B 128 -N 64 and > got the "semget failed" error. Looking in the faq[1] it says I need to > increase the amount allowed in the kernel. It tells me what I need to do, > but my question is what values should I set

Re: [GENERAL] Semaphores was: Increasing the number of semaphores on FreeBSD 4. 1 (clarification)

2000-11-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
> * Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001109 20:37] wrote: > > > > Yeah, that's what I've seen... I guess I was wondering if there were any > > guidelines to raising them.. I mean should I up the defaults by 10? Or > > up them by a percentage (to keep the relationship), etc... > > here's w

Re: [GENERAL] Union & Nested queries

2000-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
Nelio Alves Pereira Filho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to do the following query, but it doesn't work. > IFX=> select 1 IN (SELECT 1 UNION SELECT 2); > ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "union" Not supported currently. 7.1 will handle it... regards, tom lan

Re: [GENERAL] locales and indexes.

2000-11-10 Thread Mathieu Arnold
Tom Lane wrote: > > There is a TODO item to cause the postmaster always to adopt the LOCALE > settings that were in force when initdb ran, but it doesn't seem to be > very high priority for anyone... for now, just be careful. > > regards, tom lane i've done some more tes

Re: [GENERAL] locales and indexes.

2000-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
Mathieu Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I ran into trouble with all my indexes when i upgraded postgresql from > 7.0.2 to 7.0.2 with locales. I did not really found where the problem > was but the indexes created before were messing un all the queries using > them. > The thing i did was drop/

Re: [GENERAL] Sequencial scan over primary keys

2000-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
"Vilson farias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sitest=# CREATE TABLE tipo_categoria ( > sitest(#cod_categoriasmallint NOT NULL, > sitest(#descricaovarchar(40), > sitest(#CONSTRAINT XPKtipo_categoria PRIMARY KEY (cod_categoria) > sitest(# > sitest(# ); >

Re: [GENERAL] strange behvaviour in join? BUG in 7.02?

2000-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
"Oliver Elphick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You are actually doing a 3-way join, with linia included twice. > It is implicitly included a second time when a column is referenced > from it without the alias. 7.1 will provide a NOTICE that's intended to alert people that such constructs probably

[GENERAL] Union & Nested queries

2000-11-10 Thread Nelio Alves Pereira Filho
I tried to do the following query, but it doesn't work. IFX=> select 1 IN (SELECT 1 UNION SELECT 2); ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "union" Are there and syntax error? What is wrong about that?? Thanks -- Nelio Alves Pereira Filho IFX Networks Sao Paulo / Brazil

Re: [GENERAL] strange behvaviour in join? BUG in 7.02?

2000-11-10 Thread Oliver Elphick
Radoslaw Stachowiak wrote: >I have PSQL 7.02 > >classic join on Two tables: > >select l.id from linia l,lk_strefa2linia lk >where l.id = lk.fk_linia and lk.fk_strefa=5; > >gives correct linia.ids. > >but >select linia.id from linia l,lk_strefa2linia lk >where l.id = lk.fk_l

Re: [GENERAL] Sequencial scan over primary keys

2000-11-10 Thread Igor Roboul
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 10:16:47AM -0200, Vilson farias wrote: > result of execution is a sequencial scan, but this is a PRIMARY KEY, it does > has an index. How can it be explained? If you wish use index, then you need include ORDER BY clause. AFAIK two SELECTs on same data without ORDER BY _CAN

[GENERAL] Sequencial scan over primary keys 2

2000-11-10 Thread Vilson farias
Just another question : Does foreign has a automatic created index, like primary keys? - Original Message - From: Vilson farias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: SIMONE Carla MOSENA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sexta-feira, 10 de Novembro de 2000 10:16 Subject: [GENERAL] Sequen

[GENERAL] locales and indexes.

2000-11-10 Thread Mathieu Arnold
Hi I ran into trouble with all my indexes when i upgraded postgresql from 7.0.2 to 7.0.2 with locales. I did not really found where the problem was but the indexes created before were messing un all the queries using them. The thing i did was drop/create with my indexes, but it shouldn't be neces

[GENERAL] Sequencial scan over primary keys

2000-11-10 Thread Vilson farias
Hello, I need help in case below. My table tipo_categoria has a primary key, called cod_categoria When I use this key as parameter for my sql script, the result of execution is a sequencial scan, but this is a PRIMARY KEY, it does has an index. How can it be explained? sitest=# CREATE TAB

[GENERAL] Semaphores was: Increasing the number of semaphores on FreeBSD 4.1 (clarification)

2000-11-10 Thread Roger Wernersson
Whoa! Shit! I'm working on a system which probably will use ALOT of semaphores and mutexes. Is this the limits, <1000? I was hoping for millions. I have asked around but no-one I have asked seems to know the answer. I'm using pthreads on Linux right now but will probably use HP-UX, AIX, True64 or

[GENERAL] bug?

2000-11-10 Thread Chris Picton
Hi I have the following two queries: 1) select count(*) from mappings where substring(virtual from 1 for 1) = '@'; 2) select count(*) from mappings where virtual like '@%'; both should do the same thing - give me a count of virtual which starts with '@'. however, the results returned are diffe

[GENERAL] strange behvaviour in join? BUG in 7.02?

2000-11-10 Thread Radoslaw Stachowiak
I have PSQL 7.02 classic join on Two tables: select l.id from linia l,lk_strefa2linia lk where l.id = lk.fk_linia and lk.fk_strefa=5; gives correct linia.ids. but select linia.id from linia l,lk_strefa2linia lk where l.id = lk.fk_linia and lk.fk_strefa=5; (the only difference is second word:

Re: [GENERAL] Increasing the number of semaphores on FreeBSD 4.1 (clarification)

2000-11-10 Thread Igor Roboul
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:55:32PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > options SHMMAXPGS=512000 > options SHMSEG=128 > options SEMMNI=40 # /* # of semaphore identifiers */ > options SEMMNS=240 # /* # of semaphores in system */ > options S

Re: [GENERAL] Full text searching?

2000-11-10 Thread Poul L. Christiansen
Gunnar R|nning wrote: > > "Poul L. Christiansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I chose to use a 3rd party product (Verity) for full text indexing even > > though I would prefer to use PostgreSQL for fti. > > How is the support for Danish in Verity now ? I convert the characters - e.g. ø w