Re: [GENERAL] FTI is really really slow; what am I doing wrong?

2001-08-22 Thread Tom Lane
"Paul C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Indeed, the cost to look up a single string in the st_fti > table is way high: > select * from st_fti where string ~ '^kepler'; > costs 36703.40, AND its doing a Seq Scan on st_fti, even though an index > exists. Have you done a VACUUM ANALYZE on st_fti

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Syntax for wildcard selection

2001-08-22 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:11:28PM -0700, Scott Holmes wrote: > It would seem that my database has unseen garbage in the field being queried. > On further testing I find that > > select * > from people > where peopcode LIKE 'AB%AH%' > order by peopcode; > > works, however > > select * > f

Re: [GENERAL] During dump: function not found

2001-08-22 Thread Andrew Gould
oops. Too late to use that option; but thanks! Andrew Gould --- Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > These functions were indeed created by PgAdmin. It > seems to create > tables, functions, triggers and views (maybe rules > too, not sure) going > by the name pgadmin_xxx a

Re: [GENERAL] Printable report generation

2001-08-22 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:25:35AM +0200, Tony Grant wrote: > > > > For example, say I've got a postgresql database of client information > > > (names, addresses, etc.), and I want to use this information to generate > > > envelopes for mailouts. As far as my understanding goes, such > > > funct

Re: [GENERAL] Join questions

2001-08-22 Thread Tom Lane
Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have two related questions about joins. > One is that if you don't group with parenthesis, what order are they > done in? Left to right. A JOIN B JOIN C == (A JOIN B) JOIN C. > Will the optimizer be able to pick the better order of the two possibl

Re: [GENERAL] Join questions

2001-08-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:54:43AM -0400, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have two related questions about joins. > > The latter. See > http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/postgres/explicit-joins.html Thanks, this is what

[GENERAL] Re: FTI is really really slow; what am I doing wrong?

2001-08-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
I think the problem is that the indexes on the words are not usable for regular expression matching. If the words are folded to lower case when the index is built, then using an exact match (or even like) should be much faster. ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [GENERAL] During dump: function not found

2001-08-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Andrew Gould writes: > Notice: function "pgadmin_get_rows" is not dumped. > Reason: return type name (oid 87589805) not found. > Notice: function "pgadmin_get_sequence" is not dumped. > Reason: return type name (oid 87589772) not found. > > Does this simply mean that these functions will not be >

Re: [GENERAL] FTI is really really slow; what am I doing wrong?

2001-08-22 Thread Paul C.
Meant to send this to the whole list... I had vaccum'ed it, but not 'vacuum analyze' -ed it. That did the trick. Cost down to 12.09 from 80628.92. Thank you! >From: "Mitch Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Paul C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [GENERAL] FTI is rea

Re: [GENERAL] During dump: function not found

2001-08-22 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Andrew, These functions were indeed created by PgAdmin. It seems to create tables, functions, triggers and views (maybe rules too, not sure) going by the name pgadmin_xxx and pga_xxx I'm pretty sure from looking at PgAdmin 7.1.0 recently it has a menu option to remove it's tables and other c

Re: [GENERAL] maximum query length

2001-08-22 Thread Mitch Vincent
No. - Original Message - From: "jose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Postgres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 3:51 AM Subject: [GENERAL] maximum query length > Hi all, > > I have a problem related with the maximum query length > ERR: query is too long. Maximum length

Re: [GENERAL] FTI is really really slow; what am I doing wrong?

2001-08-22 Thread newsreader
Did you vacuum after populating the tables? If not you should do it On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:08:55AM -0400, Paul C. wrote: > Greetings, > I am trying to test out the performance of the contrib/fulltextindex > package and I am getting horrid performance results. > The Setup: > I created a

Re: [GENERAL] New RPMS ?

2001-08-22 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 21 August 2001 15:16, Carlos Felipe Zirbes wrote: > You alway seemed to me a very reasonable and smart person, but to suggest > that just because Fernando Lozano is in Brazil he "may not have even a > Pentium" is, to say the least, a terrible proof of ignorance and prejudice. Whoa. I

[GENERAL] FTI is really really slow; what am I doing wrong?

2001-08-22 Thread Paul C.
Greetings, I am trying to test out the performance of the contrib/fulltextindex package and I am getting horrid performance results. The Setup: I created a simple table, ST (id SERIAL, body varchar(1024), which is to be searched. I created the ST_FTI table, trigger and indices as per instruc

[GENERAL] During dump: function not found

2001-08-22 Thread Andrew Gould
During a pg_dump, I got the following messages: Notice: function "pgadmin_get_rows" is not dumped. Reason: return type name (oid 87589805) not found. Notice: function "pgadmin_get_sequence" is not dumped. Reason: return type name (oid 87589772) not found. Does this simply mean that these functio

Re: [GENERAL] problems transfering databases

2001-08-22 Thread Tom Lane
Miroslav Koncar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 'sql:2001-08-21db.out:5: ERROR: copy: line 1, Bad abstime external > representation '\N > psql:2001-08-21db.out:5: PQendcopy: resetting connection Given the weird line-wrapping of the message, I'm going to bet that the problem is that newlines in the

Re: [GENERAL] add, subtract bool type

2001-08-22 Thread Tom Lane
Jeff Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I made some simple functions that create the operators + and - for any > combination of int4's and bool's. > My question is two-part: > 1) Is this a sane approach? It'd be less work if you made a bool->int conversion function and relied on the regular in

[GENERAL] SELECT FOR UPDATE

2001-08-22 Thread jose
Hi all, I'm trying SELECT FOR UPDATE but I have a problem with locks. example: I have two users accessing to the same records, say... user1: DELECT * FROM table WHERE field=value FOR UPDATE --- user2: DELECT * FROM table W

[GENERAL] problems transfering databases

2001-08-22 Thread Miroslav Koncar
Hello, I'm a newbie in the postgreSQL world, so if I'm asking what's rather straightforward, I appologize. This is what I'm trying to do: my collegue and I have set up three postgreSQL databases; he has set it up on Linux RedHat 6.2, and I've been working on RedHat 6.2 as well on Solaris 7. We a

Re: [GENERAL] maximum query length

2001-08-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Hi all, > > I have a problem related with the maximum query length > ERR: query is too long. Maximum length is 16382 > I'm using PostgreSQL 6.5.3 and python > Is this limit in the newer releases of PostgreSQL too? > Thanks for any help All those limits are gone. Upgrade to 7.1.3. -- Bruc

Re: [GENERAL] Comparing fixed precision to floating

2001-08-22 Thread Barry Lind
FYI -- JDBC questions should go to the pgsql-jdbc mail list. As for your problem, I think probably the easiest workaround is to explicitly cast your constants. Assuming you are using PreparedStatements, a statement of the following form should work: select * from foo where bar = ?::numeric W

[GENERAL] Extending triggers capabilities (inserted/deleted pseudo tables)

2001-08-22 Thread Tomasz Zielonka
Hi! I have to migrate application from Delphi/MSSQL to Kylix/. One of things used in this app is INSERTED/DELETED tables in triggers. It's something like NEW and OLD records, but may contain multiple rows. My questions are: How difficult would it be to implement such a feature in PostgreSQL? Wha

[GENERAL] maximum query length

2001-08-22 Thread jose
Hi all, I have a problem related with the maximum query length ERR: query is too long. Maximum length is 16382 I'm using PostgreSQL 6.5.3 and python Is this limit in the newer releases of PostgreSQL too? Thanks for any help Jose Soares ---(end of broadcast)--