Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] Fwd: Favorite DB poll on ORA

2004-02-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Josh Berkus wrote: > Marc, > > > now if they only had PostgreSQL on the list, it would be worth rallying > > about ... > > It is on the list. Look again. We're there as Postgres. You'd think that, of all ppl. O'Reilly would know the correct spelling ... but, then again, you

Re: [GENERAL] fsync = true beneficial on ext3?

2004-02-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 03:13:08PM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > FYI - Ext3 has 3 modes : > > data=ordered(default) : metadata is journaled (at write time data is > written before metadata - i.e ordered) > data=journal: data and metadata are journaled > data=writeback: metadata journaled (no orde

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 7.4.1 and pgdb.py

2004-02-08 Thread Kris Jurka
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Manuel Tejada wrote: > > > Lamar Owen wrote: > > > Since I don't necessarily keep up with what is going on in the Python > client > > > world, would people enlighten me as to which python client would be best > to > > > build RPMs for? I'm going to pull the python subpackage

Re: [GENERAL] fsync = true beneficial on ext3?

2004-02-08 Thread Mark Kirkwood
FYI - Ext3 has 3 modes : data=ordered(default) : metadata is journaled (at write time data is written before metadata - i.e ordered) data=journal: data and metadata are journaled data=writeback: metadata journaled (no ordering at write time) The default will not help to protect database integrit

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 7.4.1 and pgdb.py

2004-02-08 Thread Manuel Tejada
As a user of PostgreSQL I totally agree with Gaetano Mendola. There is no reason to pull the python subpackage out of the main set, - Original Message - From: "Gaetano Mendola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 9:24 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postg

Re: [GENERAL] Foreign Key on Inheriting Table?

2004-02-08 Thread Shawn Harrison
Alex, [N.B. I just read the second message you sent on this question, but I have a solution that goes in a different direction.] I ran into the same problem after designing a system based on inheritance, and asked a similar question a couple of weeks ago -- a couple of folks here gave very helpfu

Re: [GENERAL] Foreign Key on Inheriting Table?

2004-02-08 Thread Alex Satrapa
Stephan Szabo wrote: This still works the same way it has. If you look through the archives, you should hopefully be able to scrounge up some of the workaround information that's been sent in the past. For reference, if anyone finds this thread through Google or whatever, here is the result of som

Re: [GENERAL] Return Value of a Function

2004-02-08 Thread elein
I have some light examples in http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/Tidbits based on Stephan's. The discussion in issue http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/24.html shows the differences between setof and rows. --elein On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 09:47:11AM -0800, Joe Conway wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > >

Re: [GENERAL] application developers list?? or report engine using postgres?

2004-02-08 Thread elein
I have a general purpose reporting engine that is good for people who are good at HTML and SQL. It takes in an XML-ish template and spews HTML. There is a sample php application to provide the glue for registering and running the reports from a browser. The engine has a limited distribution becaus

Re: [GENERAL] how can I select into an array?

2004-02-08 Thread elein
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:08:16PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "Andy Kriger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would like to select strings from a table and return them as an array > > You can do that beginning in 7.4 with the ARRAY(sub-select) construct. > > regression=# select f1 from text_tbl; >

Re: [GENERAL] Foreign Key on Inheriting Table?

2004-02-08 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Alex Satrapa wrote: > Does anyone know whether I'm just doing something wrong, or is the old documentation > still correct? This still works the same way it has. If you look through the archives, you should hopefully be able to scrounge up some of the workaround information

[GENERAL] Foreign Key on Inheriting Table?

2004-02-08 Thread Alex Satrapa
There's some mention in the (old!) documentation that constraints such as foreign keys won't include data from inheriting tables, eg: CREATE TABLE foo ( id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY ); CREATE TABLE bar ( attribute integer NOT NULL ) INHERITS (foo); CREATE TABLE bar_widgets ( bar integer

Re: [GENERAL] Extract transaction logging

2004-02-08 Thread W. van den Akker
Well, I think I go to translate... and have already POEdit downloaded... Peter Eisentraut wrote: W. van den Akker wrote: Is it somehow possible to extract the transaction logging? No. Secondly, how can I determine which user is locking a record? Use the system table pg_locks.

Re: [GENERAL] fsync = true beneficial on ext3?

2004-02-08 Thread Ed L.
On Sunday February 8 2004 12:02, Tom Lane wrote: > "Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If we write something without sync'ing, presumably it's immediately > > journaled? > > I was under the impression that ext3 journals only filesystem metadata, > not the contents of files. Ah, didn't know how

Re: [GENERAL] piping output to file

2004-02-08 Thread Adam Ruth
That would depend on the client you're using. psql can do it either directly (using \o) or by piping its output: psql -c "select * from mytable;" mydb > out.txt If you're using a programming library, I think you're on your own. Adam Ruth On Feb 8, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Russ Schneider wrote: Is

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] Fwd: Favorite DB poll on ORA

2004-02-08 Thread Josh Berkus
Marc, > now if they only had PostgreSQL on the list, it would be worth rallying > about ... It is on the list. Look again. We're there as Postgres. Amusingly, the Firebird people have really learned to rally the troops for these online polls; they're leading this one as well. Either that, o

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] Fwd: Favorite DB poll on ORA

2004-02-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
now if they only had PostgreSQL on the list, it would be worth rallying about ... On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Josh Berkus wrote: > Folks, > > We've been issued a challenge ... so Vote! Vote! Vote! > > - > Hey Gents, > > You might want to rally the troops -> http://www.oreilly.c

Re: [GENERAL] fsync = true beneficial on ext3?

2004-02-08 Thread Richard Welty
On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:02:26 -0500 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If we write something without sync'ing, presumably it's immediately > > journaled? > I was under the impression that ext3 journals only filesystem metadata, > not the contents of file

Re: [GENERAL] Repost: postmaster growing to consume all memory

2004-02-08 Thread Tom Lane
Lincoln Yeoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry for the repost. Just wondering if anyone has a workaround for 7.4? Brute force way is "set enable_hashagg = off" regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe an

Re: [GENERAL] fsync = true beneficial on ext3?

2004-02-08 Thread Tom Lane
"Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If we write something without sync'ing, presumably it's immediately > journaled? I was under the impression that ext3 journals only filesystem metadata, not the contents of files. > I've been running a few pgsql clusters on ext3 with fsync = > false, suffer

Re: [GENERAL] connectby for BYTEA keys

2004-02-08 Thread David Garamond
Joe Conway wrote: --without patch regression=# SELECT * FROM connectby('connectby_bytea', 'keyid', 'parent_keyid', 'row\\134', 0, '') AS t(keyid bytea, parent_keyid bytea, level int, branch text); ERROR: invalid input syntax for type bytea --with attached patch regression=# SELECT * FROM connec

[GENERAL] fsync = true beneficial on ext3?

2004-02-08 Thread Ed L.
I'm curious what the consensus is, if any, on use of fsync on ext3 filesystems with postgresql 7.3.4 or later. I did some recent performance tests demonstrating a 45%-70% performance improvement for simple inserts with fsync off on one particular system. Does fsync = true buy me any addition

[GENERAL] piping output to file

2004-02-08 Thread Russ Schneider
Is there an easy way to pipe a select statement's output to a file? -- [ Russ Schneider (a.k.a. Sugapablo) ] [ http://www.sugapablo.com <--music ] [ http://www.sugapablo.net <--personal ] [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] <--jabber IM ] ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [GENERAL] piping output to file

2004-02-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:28:21PM -0500, Russ Schneider wrote: > Is there an easy way to pipe a select statement's output to a file? In psql, type \? and look at what \o and \g do. They both do it but slightly differently. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/klept

Re: [GENERAL] connectby for BYTEA keys

2004-02-08 Thread Joe Conway
David Garamond wrote: Now that I enter as an escaped string, I get this error: db1=> SELECT * FROM connectby('treeadj1b', 'id', 'parent_id', '\\353\\024\\257\\130\\336\\305\\061\\045\\276\\175\\106\\056\\101\\173\\217\\326', 0) AS t(keyid bytea, parent_keyid bytea, level int); ERROR: invalid in

[GENERAL] Repost: postmaster growing to consume all memory

2004-02-08 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
Sorry for the repost. Just wondering if anyone has a workaround for 7.4? At 11:25 AM 1/27/2004 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm afraid I'll have to defer to someone else (Tom?) as why the estimate was > out by three orders of magnitude. I'd like to

Re: [GENERAL] retrieving parts of a resultset

2004-02-08 Thread Christoffer Gurell
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 02:31:38PM -0300, Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote: > I think you should use a cursor; you declare it, and then you fetch the > rows as you need them. thanks this works really nice.. just one more question .. how do i check the number of rows in a cursor? or do i have to do a se

[GENERAL] Partial index in other DB

2004-02-08 Thread David Garamond
Can anybody confirm whether these databases support partial indexes (and what are their term and syntax)? SQL Server 2000: I've glanced the T-SQL Reference and it seems it doesn't support it, though it supports indexing views. CLUSTERED index is not the same thing, right? Oracle: I've glanced

Re: [GENERAL] connectby for BYTEA keys

2004-02-08 Thread David Garamond
Joe Conway wrote: regression=# SELECT * FROM connectby('connectby_bytea', 'keyid', 'parent_keyid', 'row\\002', 0, '') AS t(keyid bytea, parent_keyid bytea, level int, branch text); Oh, I was specifying the fourth argument in BYTEA (decode('hex...','hex')). Now that I enter as an escaped string,

[GENERAL] CREATE BLOB

2004-02-08 Thread nednieuws | charles
Title: Bericht I've found something in the mailing list where it said that CREATE BLOB would be implemented. This refered to 7.1. I'm using 7.4 now and the statement still isn't valid. Did I have to enable something during compile? -- Regards, Charles.

[GENERAL] Where do I find the init-script

2004-02-08 Thread nednieuws | charles
Title: Bericht I've been asked to send the init-script along with the dump. Where can I find it?   -- Regards, Charles.