Re: [GENERAL] Front Ends

2004-11-26 Thread Richard Welty
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 22:35:45 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1. is this architecture (relying heavily on dynamically created tables) sound > enough to yield a production quality database? i've seen this method used in _extremely large_ production databases, such as the ones at my current contract

[GENERAL] Front Ends

2004-11-26 Thread mstory
I am new to the databasing market, and am currently working on a complex database that relies heavily on dynamically created tables for data storage. My partner and I have therefore been trying to find a front end utility that can handle using tables with names that aren't known at compile time.

Re: [GENERAL] row-level deadlock problem

2004-11-26 Thread Kamil Kaczkowski
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > > My understanding was that row-level lock at UPDATE statement is somehow > > atomic and it locks all rows matched at once. > > Nope. > > > But what's the solution? How can I force UPDATEs to lock rows in the same > > order? There's no ORDER BY clause for UPD

Re: [GENERAL] row-level deadlock problem

2004-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
Kamil Kaczkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Another possible explanation is if the UPDATE >> command can update more than one row --- in that case different backends >> might happen to reach the target rows in different orders. > Yes, this UPDATE changes several rows, I didn't know this can be

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and languages

2004-11-26 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Friday 26 November 2004 03:11 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > Adrian Klaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sorry should have been more explicit. The dump loaded functions depending > > on plsh before the function that created the language. In fact it did not > > instalI the language at all. > > Ah. Look

Re: [GENERAL] row-level deadlock problem

2004-11-26 Thread Kamil Kaczkowski
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > Kamil Kaczkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have problems with deadlocks caused by(at least I think so) row-level > > locks and I can't find the reason. > > The failure seems clearly a deadlock on row-level locks. Are you > certain you've removed all

Re: [GENERAL] row-level deadlock problem

2004-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
Kamil Kaczkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have problems with deadlocks caused by(at least I think so) row-level > locks and I can't find the reason. The failure seems clearly a deadlock on row-level locks. Are you certain you've removed all relevant FKs (those pointing to the table as well

Re: [GENERAL] Bulk data insertion

2004-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
Jonathan Daugherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is that I don't want to spend a lot of time and memory > building such a query (in C). I would like to know if there is a way to > take this huge chunk of data and get it into the database in a less > memory-intensive way. I suppose

Re: [GENERAL] Regexp matching: bug or operator error?

2004-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
Kenneth Tanzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But what about these two queries: > SELECT substring('a' FROM 'a?|a?'); > This returns a greedy 'a', similar to the example above. But then why does > SELECT substring('ba' FROM 'a?|a?'); > return a non-greedy empty string? You're ignoring the

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and languages

2004-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
Adrian Klaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry should have been more explicit. The dump loaded functions depending on > plsh before the function that created the language. In fact it did not > instalI the language at all. Ah. Looking back at your first message, I see you'd installed plsh int

[GENERAL] Calling function dynamic

2004-11-26 Thread Carlos Roberto Chamorro Mostacilla
Aguien puede ayudarme a obtener el resultado del llamado dinamico de una funcion?. Este es el caso, Resulta que tengo tres funciones F1(), F2(), F3() y quiero ejecutar dinamicamente una de ellas. Inicialmente construi una sentencia Update a una Tabla y luego recuperaba el valor de la tabla asi:

[GENERAL] UnSubEscrib

2004-11-26 Thread Carlos Roberto Chamorro Mostacilla
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Re: [GENERAL] Problems setting up slony-1

2004-11-26 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glen Eustace) wrote: > I am trying to setup slony-1 and need some off list assistance from > someone who has got things going ( or at least knows more than me :-). > > I am running 7.4.6 on both master and slave but when I run the slon

Re: [GENERAL] Regexp matching: bug or operator error?

2004-11-26 Thread Kenneth Tanzer
OK. I've been trying to get my mind around this, and think about ways to improve the documentation (more about that below). I'm pretty sure that I can see the general concept now, and am almost convinced that it really does work as described. I guess I really don't like the whole RE inheriti

[GENERAL] Bulk data insertion

2004-11-26 Thread Jonathan Daugherty
Hello, I have a PL/PgSQL function that I need to call with some ARRAY parameters. These array values are very large -- typically thousands of elements. Each element is a 4-element array. This function is called to do some sanity checking on the array data and use the individual elements to d

[GENERAL] Invalid Character Data Problem

2004-11-26 Thread Hunter Hillegas
I am having some trouble pulling some data out from the database. I have tried against both 7.4.5, 8.0b4 and 8.0b5 and get the same result. I have used both the v308 and CVS HEAD of the JDBC driver. When I SELECT from a certain table, I see this JDBC exception: "Invalid character data was found.

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and languages

2004-11-26 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Friday 26 November 2004 10:26 am, Tom Lane wrote: > Adrian Klaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I used the pg_dump from Postgres 8.0beta5 to dump the data from a version > > 7.4.0 database. Both databases are located on SuSE Linux machines. The > > pg_restore to the 8.0 version went very well

Re: [GENERAL] Inserting greek letters

2004-11-26 Thread Keary Suska
on 11/26/04 8:16 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said: >> As for PHP, you need to have the browser and PHP agree on what >> character set they're going to use. Then you set the client encoding >> appropriately and PostgreSQL will make sure you get the information you >> expect. > > Im not sure,

[GENERAL] Problems setting up slony-1

2004-11-26 Thread Glen Eustace
I am trying to setup slony-1 and need some off list assistance from someone who has got things going ( or at least knows more than me :-). I am running 7.4.6 on both master and slave but when I run the slonik script, I get the error. :5: Initializing the cluster :7: PGRES_FATAL_ERROR create schem

Re: [GENERAL] Query on exception handling in PL/pgSQL

2004-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
diya das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My pgsql function > does an insert to a table and I have opened a > transaction block before calling my function from the > client. When the insert operation fails due to unique > key violation the whole transaction aborts. Is there a > way I can handle this e

Re: [ok] [GENERAL] Error after adding Foreign Keys

2004-11-26 Thread j0rd1 adame
Nevermind, I just upgraded to 7.4 and everything is just fine now thanx anyway El Vie 26 Nov 2004 12:24, j0rd1 adame escribió: > Hi, > > When I add a FK to a table and then try to do \d table > i get this > > ERROR: Function pg_catalog.pg_get_triggerdef(oid) does not exist > Unable to id

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL slow after VACUUM

2004-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
Nikola Milutinovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - PostgreSQL 7.3.2 MDK5 > ... > A couple of days ago, disk became full, since we were not doing VACUUM > on the DB at all. So, I deleted all records from the 3 tables the DB has > and performed "VACUUM FULL ANALYZE". This reclaimed the space. The

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and languages

2004-11-26 Thread Tom Lane
Adrian Klaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used the pg_dump from Postgres 8.0beta5 to dump the data from a version > 7.4.0 database. Both databases are located on SuSE Linux machines. The > pg_restore to the 8.0 version went very well with the exception of the > languages. I have plpgsql and

[GENERAL] Error after adding Foreign Keys

2004-11-26 Thread j0rd1 adame
Hi, When I add a FK to a table and then try to do \d table i get this ERROR: Function pg_catalog.pg_get_triggerdef(oid) does not exist Unable to identify a function that satisfies the given argument types You may need to add explicit typecasts i have googled for this without any

[GENERAL] Errors when deleting cords and droping table at the same time

2004-11-26 Thread Cheng Shan
Hello!    Every one.    I met some difficult questions when I was developing an application.    We have an old table object whose definition is:   CREATE TABLE object ( name name, -- object’s name pid oid,    -- parent’s object ID

[GENERAL] Query on exception handling in PL/pgSQL

2004-11-26 Thread diya das
Hi, I am just a beginner in postgreSQL and writing some functions in PL/pgSQL. I use the libpq interface in the client to call this funtions. My pgsql function does an insert to a table and I have opened a transaction block before calling my function from the client. When the insert operation f

Re: [GENERAL] Inserting greek letters

2004-11-26 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 03:16:25PM +, Adam Witney wrote: > > Hi Martijn, thanks for your quick reply... > > > As for PHP, you need to have the browser and PHP agree on what > > character set they're going to use. Then you set the client encoding > > appropriately and PostgreSQL will make sure

Re: [GENERAL] Inserting greek letters

2004-11-26 Thread Adam Witney
Hi Martijn, thanks for your quick reply... > As for PHP, you need to have the browser and PHP agree on what > character set they're going to use. Then you set the client encoding > appropriately and PostgreSQL will make sure you get the information you > expect. Im not sure, where do I set the c

Re: [GENERAL] Inserting greek letters

2004-11-26 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 02:52:18PM +, Adam Witney wrote: > Do I have to have created the database with UNICODE encoding to do this? > Also, is there anything in the PHP I have to adjust to be able to store the > data and display the data? Obviously, your database needs to be able to store the

[GENERAL] Inserting greek letters

2004-11-26 Thread Adam Witney
Hi, I have a database fronted with PHP. I want the user to be able to put scientific notation characters (greek letters really) and store them in the database. Do I have to have created the database with UNICODE encoding to do this? Also, is there anything in the PHP I have to adjust to be able

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL slow after VACUUM

2004-11-26 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 02:00:48PM +0100, Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud wrote: > > It seems this issue has been mentionned several times lately... > I'd propose something to do to avoid it : > > * When TRUNCAT'ing a table : > - the row-count is reset to 0 (of course !)

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL slow after VACUUM

2004-11-26 Thread Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud
It seems this issue has been mentionned several times lately... I'd propose something to do to avoid it : * When TRUNCAT'ing a table : - the row-count is reset to 0 (of course !) - however, the column stats are kept, on the basis that the data which will be inserted later in the

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Config.

2004-11-26 Thread Richard Huxton
Ramesh Patel wrote: Dear All I have Redhat 9.0 and i use Postgresql and PHP . This Database ranning last two year. now i have some speed problem. Now i am new in Postgresql so How to Config a PostgreSQL.conf file. my Hardver is P IV server, 1 GB RAM , 72 GB SCGI HDD. and I am use Web Applic

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL Config.

2004-11-26 Thread Ramesh Patel
Dear AllI have Redhat 9.0 and  i use Postgresql and PHP .This Database ranning last two year. now i  have some speed problem.Now i  am new in Postgresql so  How to  Config a PostgreSQL.conf file.my Hardver is P IV server, 1 GB RAM , 72 GB SCGI HDD.   and  I am use Web Application.if Possible then g

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL slow after VACUUM

2004-11-26 Thread Greg Stark
Arjen van der Meijden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My suggestion is to VACUUM (FULL) the table after you've deleted the data. > Then fill up the table and do a ANALYZE when you're done filling it. For now you might be able to improve matters by doing an ANALYZE even while it's busy doing the im

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL slow after VACUUM

2004-11-26 Thread Arjen van der Meijden
Hi Nix, The problem is, that while doing the vacuum full ANALYZE the table was empty. It therefore gathered statistics of a situation which isn't there anymore when you fill up the table. In an empty or small table, it is normal to do sequential scans. Which you most of the time don't want in a

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] HELP speed up my Postgres

2004-11-26 Thread Jerome Macaranas
it did.. thanks.. generally a weeks process turned out to be less than a day.. On Thursday 25 November 2004 15:06, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > update SUBSCRIPTIONTABLE set ACTIVEFLAG='Y' where mobile_num in > > (select > > mobile_num from LOADED_MOBILE_NUMBERS) > > Change t

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL slow after VACUUM

2004-11-26 Thread gnari
From: "Nikola Milutinovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > There is one DB and one DB user. The DB is cleared and loaded with the > data of same volume each month (monthly report). The volume is not small > and it usually takes 3 hours to load. Loading is done with SQL files > which use transactions, 10