Re: [GENERAL] Major Performance issue

2005-03-26 Thread Tom Lane
John Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is that inserting into temp_holding takes more than a SECOND PER > ROW! Offhand I'd bet on the repeated computations of max(core_leads.id) as being the bulk of the problem. That's completely broken anyway since if concurrent insertions are ha

Re: [GENERAL] Perl and AutoCommit

2005-03-26 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 1:34 AM -0500 3/27/05, Madison Kelly wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: At 12:31 AM -0500 3/27/05, Madison Kelly wrote: Hi all, After looking at the postres and perl docs plus some Googling I can't seem to find the answer I am looking for. I hope maybe someone here can help. ^_^ What I am trying

Re: [GENERAL] Command prompt window (8.0)

2005-03-26 Thread Guy Rouillier
Vernon wrote: > Just installed the 8.0 version for Windows. As a Unix > guy, I would like to do things through the command > prompt. I have trouble to bring up it. After bringing > up the "psql to template1" as the same user of the > installation configuration, it disappears right after > I type in

[GENERAL] Debugging deadlocks

2005-03-26 Thread Guy Rouillier
I'm getting the following in the server log: 2005-03-27 06:04:21 GMT estat DETAIL: Process 20928 waits for ShareLock on transaction 7751823; blocked by process 20929. Process 20929 waits for ShareLock on transaction 7768115; blocked by process 20928. 2005-03-27 06:04:21 GMT estat CONTEXT:

Re: [GENERAL] create or replace trigger?

2005-03-26 Thread Tom Lane
"David Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a technical reason that the "or replace" syntax isn't supported > for CREATE TRIGGER? Lack of round tuits. Does it seem like a high priority to you? I'd think that changes in the trigger function (which you *can* do with CREATE OR REPLACE) wo

Re: [GENERAL] psql variables

2005-03-26 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Patrick TJ McPhee wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: % I use a bash script (similar to following example) to update tables. % % psql -v passed_in_var=\'some_value\' -f script_name % % Is it possible to pass a value back from

Re: [GENERAL] Perl and AutoCommit

2005-03-26 Thread Madison Kelly
Dan Sugalski wrote: At 12:31 AM -0500 3/27/05, Madison Kelly wrote: Hi all, After looking at the postres and perl docs plus some Googling I can't seem to find the answer I am looking for. I hope maybe someone here can help. ^_^ What I am trying to do is turn off autocommit for one particular

Re: [GENERAL] Perl and AutoCommit

2005-03-26 Thread Yanni Chiu
Madison Kelly wrote: > >What I am trying to do is turn off autocommit for one particular task > in my program. I realize I can turn off AutoCommit when I connect to the > database but in this case that is not what I want to do. This is a > one-off task. > >What I thought would work was: >

Re: [GENERAL] Good Books

2005-03-26 Thread Sim Zacks
PostgreSQL 8.0.0beta5 Documentation Chapter 35.9 bottom of the page. "RAISE EXCEPTION presently always generates the same SQLSTATE code, P0001, no matter what message it is invoked with. It is possible to trap this exception with EXCEPTION ... WHEN RAISE_EXCEPTION THEN ... but there

Re: [GENERAL] Perl and AutoCommit

2005-03-26 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 12:31 AM -0500 3/27/05, Madison Kelly wrote: Hi all, After looking at the postres and perl docs plus some Googling I can't seem to find the answer I am looking for. I hope maybe someone here can help. ^_^ What I am trying to do is turn off autocommit for one particular task in my program

[GENERAL] Extremely slow queries

2005-03-26 Thread Asger Petersen
Hi list I have been posting about this problem with Dave Page and Magnus Hagander on pgadmin-support because i first thought I had a problem with pgAdmin. After further investigation Dave suggested that I post to this list as I seem to have a more general problem. In short the problem is that eve

[GENERAL] PG constraint

2005-03-26 Thread Szmutku Zoltán
Hi everybody ,   I tried using Postgre, but  I have some problems. I create a constraint (  R1>=0 ), and after connect to server from VFP via ODBC . In the client program I turn on the transactions . (  SQLSETPROP(nHandle,'Transactions',2)   )   When I run UPDATE statements one after the ot

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL v7.4.7 support platform?

2005-03-26 Thread Vivek Khera
> "AI" == Alexander Ivanko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AI> Hi! AI> Could you please answer me whether PostgreSQL v7.4.7 (on x86 platform) is AI> compatible with FreeBSD v5.3 or its safer to use FreeBSD v4.11? AI> Excuse me for my English. Thank you in advance! I use Postgres 7.4.7 on both Fre

Re: [GENERAL] failure with pg_dump

2005-03-26 Thread Vivek Khera
> "SM" == Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SM> Are you getting any output from the postgresql logs that would point to SM> backends dieing or anything like that? This sounds like a networking / SM> client problem to me. Ok... well, I rebuilt the entire OS and postgres *without* the

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump fails with socket_not_open

2005-03-26 Thread Vivek Khera
> "SE" == Sarah Ewen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SE> Hi there folks, SE> I've just had pg_dump fail on me for the first time ever, and I'm not SE> sure why. SE> It generates 24MB of dump before bombing out with: SE> pg_dump: socket not open SE> pg_dump: SQL command to dump the contents of ta

[GENERAL] Command prompt window (8.0)

2005-03-26 Thread Vernon
Just installed the 8.0 version for Windows. As a Unix guy, I would like to do things through the command prompt. I have trouble to bring up it. After bringing up the "psql to template1" as the same user of the installation configuration, it disappears right after I type in the password, which is th

Re: [GENERAL] Using sequence name depending on other column

2005-03-26 Thread Andrus
>> I'm trying to move existing ERP database to Postgres >> >> My database contains table of document headers: >> >> CREATE TABLE document ( >> category CHAR, >> sequence NUMERIC(7), >> ... a lot of other columns ... , >> PRIMARY KEY (category, sequence) ) ; >> >> and document rows: >> >> CREATE TAB

[GENERAL] LWM 2004 Readers' Choice Nomination

2005-03-26 Thread rdiamond
A copy of your registration form is provided below for your records: === The following data was entered into our database on March 24, 2005 at 09:06 AM Product = PostgreSQL Company = PostgreSQL Org Listing Description = Title = PostgreSQL

[GENERAL] Major Performance issue

2005-03-26 Thread John Hughes
Hi, I've been working the past couple of days to import a bunch of csv data into my system. I have a temp_holding table which basically just matches the csv format. I have a trigger before insert on each row on the temp_holding table, below. The problem is that inserting into temp_holding takes

[GENERAL] Looking for persons interested in a Beta version of a PostgreSQL reporting tool

2005-03-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I'm wondering if you can help. We are currently enabling QLR Manager (http://www.qlrmanager.com) to work with PostgreSQL. QLR (Query, Layout & Report) Manager is a php server based reporting and graphing tool that currently works with Oracle and MySQL. It runs on most any javascript ena

Re: [GENERAL] psql variables

2005-03-26 Thread Patrick TJ McPhee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: % I use a bash script (similar to following example) to update tables. % % psql -v passed_in_var=\'some_value\' -f script_name % % Is it possible to pass a value back from psql to the bash script? If you run it like

[GENERAL] Merging item codes using referential integrity

2005-03-26 Thread Andrus Moor
I have item table and many child tables where the items are used. I want to merge two item codes into single item in all tables. It is not nice to write a lot of separate UPDATE statements for each table. So I want to utilize REFERENCES clause for merging. I tried the following code but got dupli

Re: [GENERAL] Referential integrity using constant in foreign key

2005-03-26 Thread Andrus Moor
Thomas, thank you for reply. There was a typo in my code. Second table should be CREATE TABLE info ( code1 CHAR(10), code2 CHAR(10), FOREIGN KEY ('1', code1) REFERENCES classifier, FOREIGN KEY ('2', code2) REFERENCES classifier ); I try to explain my problem more precicely. I can implemen

Re: [GENERAL] Using sequence name depending on other column

2005-03-26 Thread Andrus
Reply from Bruno Wolff III, re-posted from mail: > >>I have 120 concurrent users inserting documents. Mostly they are using > >>10 > >>different document types. Each type should have separate numbering. > >>They > >>insert 30 documents per minute in peak hours. > > > >You really should think abou

[GENERAL] create or replace trigger?

2005-03-26 Thread David Parker
Is there a technical reason that the "or replace" syntax isn't supported for CREATE TRIGGER? - DAP--David Parker    Tazz Networks    (401) 709-5130   

[GENERAL] Perl and AutoCommit

2005-03-26 Thread Madison Kelly
Hi all, After looking at the postres and perl docs plus some Googling I can't seem to find the answer I am looking for. I hope maybe someone here can help. ^_^ What I am trying to do is turn off autocommit for one particular task in my program. I realize I can turn off AutoCommit when I con

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.2 Beta Available

2005-03-26 Thread Tom Lane
Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems HISTORY has not been updated yet. Is this intended? Someone (probably Bruce or me) will do release notes before the release. This is just a beta to find out if we broke anything ... regards, tom lane ---

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.2 Beta Available

2005-03-26 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> In order to provide more extensive testing for 8.0.2, we have just > packaged up a Beta1 available from: > > http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.0.2beta1/ > > The major reason for this release is the ARC->2Q changes that Tom has > implemented. > > Our plan is to do a full release n

[GENERAL] 8.0.2 Beta Available

2005-03-26 Thread Marc G. Fournier
In order to provide more extensive testing for 8.0.2, we have just packaged up a Beta1 available from: http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.0.2beta1/ The major reason for this release is the ARC->2Q changes that Tom has implemented. Our plan is to do a full release next Thursday ...

[GENERAL] Problems building PostgreSQL 8.01 under Mandrake 10.1

2005-03-26 Thread Marco Aurélio Carvalho
Hi folks, I am building PostgreSQL 8.01 on a Linux Mandrake 10.1 machine. The commands: configure gmake gmake install operates without errors The problem is with: gmake check 67 of 96 tests fail !! The erros are caused by the postmaster not responding error messages to the tests where error

Re: [GENERAL] building 8.0.1 on OS X

2005-03-26 Thread Ben
Just to follow up on this, yes, it was an include path thing. On Mar 24, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm trying to build 8.0.1 on OS X, and after a simple ./configure without any options, the build progresses smoothly until, when building pg_ctl: pg_ctl.c: In

Re: [GENERAL] unsupported types in 8.0.1

2005-03-26 Thread Ben
Well, 33 years from now, it's a pretty safe bet that this project won't exist. :) Or, if it does exist, that it will have been rewritten from scratch for numerous other reasons. (I know, I know, and 640KB ought to be enough memory for everybody. but this time I'm right.) On Mar 26, 2005, a

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql no longer exists

2005-03-26 Thread Tom Lane
Bricklen Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Once I recompile the function, I no longer get that message. Is there >> anything else that I can check or do to make this stop happening? Or is >> this a sign of things to come (possible corruption, etc?) Well, the original error sounds like a di

Re: [GENERAL] unsupported types in 8.0.1

2005-03-26 Thread Ben
The way our app is structured, storing unixtime is the most efficient way to get what we want. I can't recall why I started using abstime... I started it with some other projects years ago and was under the impression that it was the preferred way. Maybe it was then, but isn't anymore? Maybe I'

Re: [GENERAL] unsupported types in 8.0.1

2005-03-26 Thread Tom Lane
Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a workaround I could use, Make the column abstime instead of int, perhaps. Or better yet timestamp. Have you considered what will happen in 2038? regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql no longer exists

2005-03-26 Thread Bricklen Anderson
Bricklen Anderson wrote: Hi listers! I'll start with some details: select version(); PostgreSQL 8.0.0 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.3-5) Upon compiling a new function that I was working on, I came across an error: "could not read block 0 of relation 1663/172

Re: [GENERAL] unsupported types in 8.0.1

2005-03-26 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 12:22:51PM -0800, Ben wrote: > > Is there a workaround I could use, or should I stick with 7.4 for now? The documentation discourages using abstime -- is there a reason you're using it instead of extract(epoch from now())? That should work in the query. Is there a reason

[GENERAL] plpgsql no longer exists

2005-03-26 Thread Bricklen Anderson
Hi listers! I'll start with some details: select version(); PostgreSQL 8.0.0 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.3-5) Upon compiling a new function that I was working on, I came across an error: "could not read block 0 of relation 1663/17239/16709: Bad address" whi

Re: [GENERAL] unsupported types in 8.0.1

2005-03-26 Thread Ben
Is there a workaround I could use, or should I stick with 7.4 for now? On Mar 26, 2005, at 11:14 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SELECT x FROM foo WHERE x < now()::abstime::integer; ERROR: unsupported type: 23 It looks like examine_variable shouldn't be throwing away t

Re: [GENERAL] unsupported types in 8.0.1

2005-03-26 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > SELECT x FROM foo WHERE x < now()::abstime::integer; > ERROR: unsupported type: 23 It looks like examine_variable shouldn't be throwing away the RelabelType on the now() call ... this code is all new in 8.0 IIRC, which is why you don't see the failure in

Re: [GENERAL] unsupported types in 8.0.1

2005-03-26 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 10:24:06AM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote: > > SELECT x FROM foo WHERE x < now()::abstime::integer; > ERROR: unsupported type: 23 \set VERBOSITY verbose SELECT x FROM foo WHERE x < now()::abstime::integer; ERROR: XX000: unsupported type: 23 LOCATION: convert_timevalue_to_sca

Re: [GENERAL] unsupported types in 8.0.1

2005-03-26 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 08:25:24AM -0800, Ben wrote: > > gr-test=> select expires from invitecodes where expires < > ((now())::abstime)::int4; > ERROR: unsupported type: 23 Hmmm... CREATE TABLE foo (x integer); INSERT INTO foo (x) VALUES (10); INSERT INTO foo (x) VALUES (20);

[GENERAL] unsupported types in 8.0.1

2005-03-26 Thread Ben
I'm attempting to upgrade to 8.0.1, and have hit my latest hurdle: an unsupported type when I try to compare ints. Example: gr-test=> \d invitecodes Table "public.invitecodes" Column | Type |Modifiers +- +---

Re: [GENERAL] help w/ a little naive brainstorming ...

2005-03-26 Thread John DeSoi
On Mar 25, 2005, at 6:16 PM, OpenMacNews wrote: if i were to consider 'storing' those messages trees, instead, in a pgsql db, i i mmediately/naively think of three possible options (a) simple DB-stored references to flat file:/// locations (b) pointers to external, actionable (parseable? writeabl