Re: [GENERAL] Help in finding the error

2004-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
Duane Lee - EGOVX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to insert data into an empty table but I keep getting the error: > ERROR: could not open relation with OID 42939 More detail please? For starters, what PG version is this? > I have a couple of constraints on the table but what I'm ente

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster out of memory....

2004-06-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 01:45:07PM -0500, Joe Maldonado wrote: > Hello all! > > when asking postgres to aggregate totals accross 4.5 or so Million > records. The visible effect is that the postmaster will grow to the > 3GB process limit and die without a core :(. > I have seen

[GENERAL] Another win for PostgreSQL

2004-06-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
Interesting article, notice the "never have to reboot it" line. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/07/1086460218113.html?oneclick=true ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] PLSQL Question regarding multiple inserts

2004-06-08 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 04:11:37AM +, Humble Geek wrote: > Assume XXX is the id from the first insert. How do I get that number? Not > currval('someSeq') - 'cause someone else may have performed an insert - but > the id for that specific insert. Read the documentation carefully, currval() doe

Re: [GENERAL] Slow queries in PL/PGSQL function

2004-06-08 Thread Gary Doades
It's OK, I'm an idiot. I read s many times that you need to get the data types in the query the same as the column types or indexes won't work. So I go and get it wrong! I had defined the parameter to the function as timestamp (equivalent to SQLServer datetime), but the column data type is

[GENERAL] Is there a variant/anytype datatype in postgresql?

2004-06-08 Thread Rob Bochenek
Both oracle and MS-SQL server have a variant datatype which allows the insertion of any data type except BLOBs.  A short integer is concatenated onto the front of the piece of data being inserted into the variant (SQL Server) or anytype(Oracle) which defines the type of data in the field. 

Re: [GENERAL] value too long error

2004-06-08 Thread Richard Huxton
On Saturday 28 February 2004 08:36, Rajat Katyal wrote: > Ya, through application we can provide field input validation but iam > working on the tool which transfers the data from some specifed database to > another. Here user itself wants if value is too long for the target column > then truncates

[GENERAL] clear defunct entries from pg_stat_activity

2004-06-08 Thread Robert Treat
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2003-11/msg00581.php In the above Jan Wieck mentions a bug that occurs in pg 7.3.4 that causes a crashing backend to hang around in the stats until the slot is reused, due to the message that tells that the backend terminates is never sent to the collec

[GENERAL] Help in finding the error

2004-06-08 Thread Duane Lee - EGOVX
Title: Help in finding the error I'm trying to insert data into an empty table but I keep getting the error: ERROR: could not open relation with OID 42939 I have a couple of constraints on the table but what I'm entering doesn't violate those.  Can someone tell me where in the system catal

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL insert speed tests

2004-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
Sezai YILMAZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I changed the three hash indexes to btree. > The performance is increased about 2 times (in PostgreSQL 7.3.4 1905 > rows/s). > Concurrent inserts now work. Concurrent inserts should work with hash indexes in 7.4, though not 7.3. The slowdown you report

Re: [GENERAL] using regexp backreferences

2004-06-08 Thread DeJuan Jackson
No you cannot. But look at this for a pointer: select 'hi' || (select substring('hello1234567890' from '[0-9]+$')) where 'hello1234567890' ~* '[a-z]+([0-9+])'; CSN wrote: Can you use backreferences in regular expressions like so? update table set title='foobar ' || \1 where title ~* '[a-z]+([0-9]+)

[GENERAL] compartmentalizing users

2004-06-08 Thread jwsacksteder
Is there a way to segregate users by database or schema so that in a hosting situation you could keep different customers apart? Otherwise, the unpleasant alternative is to run separate instances of Postgres. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'k

Re: [GENERAL] postgreSQL licenseing

2004-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
David Garamond wrote: Peter Eisentraut wrote: 1) If we just ship the PostgreSQL binaries in our product(without source code), do we need to include the BSD licence text anywhere? Yes. The license says "... provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph and the following two paragraph

Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] simple addition of constraints problem

2004-06-08 Thread Richard Poole
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 05:51:22PM -0400, Michelle Murrain wrote: > I'd like to make 'courseid' in this second table a foreign key, > referencing 'courseid' in the first table. So I did this command: > > charter_dev2=# ALTER TABLE coursesevaluations ADD CONSTRAINT rc_ce > FOREIGN KEY (courseid)

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL insert speed tests

2004-06-08 Thread Sezai YILMAZ
Hello I need high throughput while inserting into PostgreSQL. Because of that I did some PostgreSQL insert performance tests. -- Test schema create table logs ( logid serial primary key, ctime integer not null, stime int

[GENERAL] using regexp backreferences

2004-06-08 Thread CSN
Can you use backreferences in regular expressions like so? update table set title='foobar ' || \1 where title ~* '[a-z]+([0-9]+)'; __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ---

Re: [GENERAL] Prevent users from creating tables

2004-06-08 Thread Jim Seymour
"Campano, Troy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > I'm trying to set up PostgreSQL for proof of concept according to our > standards. > I need to create a user for database01 that has the ability to create > any objects they want. > They can create tables, views, indexes, etc. > > Then I n

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple databases on seperate drives/file systems?

2004-06-08 Thread Jim Seymour
"Scot L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > Yes I have tried it without quoting the PGDATA2. Same result. > > I have also tried the full path but the flag is apparently not set to > allow that. > > Besides the error I am getting it appears to me that postmaster would > not be able

Re: [GENERAL] Windows Library for libpq

2004-06-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shridhar Daithankar wrote: Karam Chand wrote: I searched the sitebut i couldnt find a link...where can I get compiled libraries for libpq and its coreresponding header files for Windows. HTH Shridhar Try at the OLE DB project. http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/oledb/projdisplay.php. That w

[GENERAL] Prevent users from creating tables

2004-06-08 Thread Campano, Troy
Title: Prevent users from creating tables Hello, I’m trying to set up PostgreSQL for proof of concept according to our standards. I need to create a user for database01 that has the ability to create any objects they want. They can create tables, views, indexes, etc. Then I need a second

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple databases on seperate drives/file systems?

2004-06-08 Thread Scot L. Harris
On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 14:34, Richard Huxton wrote: > > 1. Have you tried not quoting PGDATA2 (I seem to remember it being picky > about such things). > > 2. Are you aware you can use a full path (/vhost/database/data) instead > of PGDATA2? This requires setting a compile-time flag though. Tha

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple databases on seperate drives/file systems?

2004-06-08 Thread Richard Huxton
Scot L. Harris wrote: I am running postgresql 7.2.4 on a Redhat 8.0 system. I have been looking for a way to setup another database besides the initial one setup under /var/lib/pgsql/data on a different file system. I have found a few references to configuring a separate PGDATA2 environment variabl

[GENERAL] Multiple databases on seperate drives/file systems?

2004-06-08 Thread Scot L. Harris
I am running postgresql 7.2.4 on a Redhat 8.0 system. I have been looking for a way to setup another database besides the initial one setup under /var/lib/pgsql/data on a different file system. I have found a few references to configuring a separate PGDATA2 environment variable and running the in

Re: [GENERAL] The pgreplication project

2004-06-08 Thread Robert Treat
Well I am working to address the problem, sorry if I am not doing it fast enough. I spoke with the gborg maintainer and found out that the top 5 is based on page views for a project rather than cvs activity. While I've no doubt you've been more active on slony development, I am not so sure that pg

Re: [GENERAL] Index Information

2004-06-08 Thread Karam Chand
Sorry... the function is pg_get_indexdef and i found the docs for it. Thanks . Karam --- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karam Chand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > How do I display the field(s) used to create an > index, > > The pg_get_index_def function is the easiest way. > >

Re: [GENERAL] The pgreplication project

2004-06-08 Thread Jan Wieck
On 6/8/2004 11:49 AM, Robert Treat wrote: Well I am working to address the problem, sorry if I am not doing it fast enough. I spoke with the gborg maintainer and found out that the top 5 is based on page views for a project rather than cvs activity. Aha ... and let me guess, the algorithm does NOT

Re: [GENERAL] The pgreplication project

2004-06-08 Thread Jan Wieck
I guess I have to address a slightly broader audience, or do I conclude from the total lack of interest in this matter that nobody cares if we promote something here as one of our "top five" flagship projects, that is inactive for years and still a prototype implementation against PostgreSQL 6.