Re: [GENERAL] Migrating MySQL app to postgres?

2005-04-25 Thread Alex Turner
Be warned that if you use python, expect it to be slow. Many basic associative array operations are more than 10x slower than C++'s comparative operations leading to long page execution time if you are dealing with alot of data. I have written a simple web framework in Python and XML, and it's a

Re: [GENERAL] optimal hardware for postgres?

2005-04-25 Thread Alex Turner
The first thing you need to do is assess where your bottleneck is going to be. Is it RAM? or CPU or IO? If your system is IO bound, you are better off spending your $s on a good IO controller and lots of drives that racking up the $$s with Expensive Opteron 275s or 250s, when a 242 would do the j

Re: [GENERAL] optimal hardware for postgres?

2005-04-25 Thread Guy Rouillier
William Yu wrote: > On other note -- if you are thinking about SMP Opteron, you may > actually get better performance from 1x275 (Dual Core 2.2ghz) versus > 2x248 (2.2ghz). Full duals have twice the bandwidth but without good > NUMA support, memory has to be interleaved between CPUs. I thought th

Re: [GENERAL] Toad Adm. Datasource Location

2005-04-25 Thread Guy Rouillier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am just curious to see if I can get Toad to connect to Postgresql. > I have Access talking to it via ODBC. Toad is asking for Datasource > and Location. I cant figure out what to put there. I have done some > searching in google. > > Thanks for any suggestions.

Re: [GENERAL] I can't create a new database with GB18030 encoding

2005-04-25 Thread Tom Lane
Huang GeHua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want create a new database with the GB18030 encoding.But the > pgAdminIII tell a error "GB18030 is not a valid encoding name".How can > i do for it? The docs say that GB18030 is supported as a client-side encoding only. So pick any superset encoding (UTF

Re: [GENERAL] question about about future 8.1 and IN, INOUT, and OUT parameters

2005-04-25 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:05:57PM -0500, Tony Caduto wrote: >> Is the syntax going to be exactly like it is in Oracle? > I'm not familiar with the Oracle syntax and I don't know how close > the PostgreSQL implementation is to being final, but here's an >

[GENERAL] Postgres source (tar file) for Fedora Core OS?

2005-04-25 Thread Dinesh Pandey
From where can I download latest Postgres source (tar file) for Fedora Core OS? Regards Dinesh Pandey  

Re: [GENERAL] Migrating MySQL app to postgres?

2005-04-25 Thread Joe Healy
Hi Rich, Guess now's the time. I'm trying to find a copy of pygresql to use, but it's not easy (www.pygresql.org leads to druid.net and there's nothing on the page about pygresql). I'm learning python to use on a major project here (but the core libraries will remain in C) so I'd like to use th

[GENERAL] I can't create a new database with GB18030 encoding

2005-04-25 Thread Huang GeHua
I want create a new database with the GB18030 encoding.But the pgAdminIII tell a error "GB18030 is not a valid encoding name".How can i do for it? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your

[GENERAL] pgadminIII - creating servers

2005-04-25 Thread Typing80wpm
I just now tried creating a second server with pgadminIII.    I am confused as to why one would have more than one server.  There does not seem to be any way to "switch" from one server to another, or to log into one particular server (and not the other), or to create tables specifically for

[GENERAL] pgexplorer adm

2005-04-25 Thread Typing80wpm
I went to http://www.pgexplorer.com and downloaded their adm program for postgresql running on windows.  The site proclaims that it is now FREE, yet there is a moment of confusion when you go to install and it talks about 30 evaluation period. Yet, once you install, if you click on the REGIS

Re: [GENERAL] UltraSPARC versus AMD

2005-04-25 Thread Mike Mascari
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my *utter* lack of enthusiasm over this option, I was gathering ammunition for better hardware. I went to spec.org for speed comparisons, and sun.com for price comparisons. Sun's *entry* level servers are more powerful when running AMD CPUs. Just in case people still h

Re: [GENERAL] Corruption on production system

2005-04-25 Thread Eric B. Ridge
On Apr 25, 2005, at 9:42 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Well, you can get a page header corruption on any release as long as you have faulty hardware ... RAM randomly dropping bits is not unheard of. Have you run memtest? No doubt. :) What I was asking was if 7.3.9 (or .8 or .7) had a known issue

Re: [GENERAL] Corruption on production system

2005-04-25 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:24:03PM -0400, Eric B. Ridge wrote: > Is page header corruption a known issue with 7.3.6 and should I > upgrade to 7.3.9 at the same time that I'm restoring this table from > backup? Well, you can get a page header corruption on any release as long as you have fault

Re: [GENERAL] question about about future 8.1 and IN, INOUT, and OUT parameters

2005-04-25 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:05:57PM -0500, Tony Caduto wrote: > > I saw that the recently released pl/java has the ablity to use IN, INOUT, and > OUT parameters. > > Is the syntax going to be exactly like it is in Oracle? I'm not familiar with the Oracle syntax and I don't know how close the Post

[GENERAL] Corruption on production system

2005-04-25 Thread Eric B. Ridge
We've got a PG 7.3.6 installation that just started receiving this error: 2005-04-25 19:28:54 ERROR: Invalid page header in block 1110 of the_table_name We're also unable to dump that table using pg_dump. Postgres isn't actually crashing, so I'm not sure how to get a backtrace out of i

Re: [GENERAL] Intuitive Software and Mario Brothers

2005-04-25 Thread Rob Stone
Title: Message WELL... I did that, and , LO AND  BEHOLD,... there the darn thing is now WHO in the name of Heaven would ever dream of going there and right clicking? Maybe it was some bloke called Gates who couldn't figure out what to do with a single button mouse. After all, it is "int

[GENERAL] Toad Adm. Datasource Location

2005-04-25 Thread Typing80wpm
I am just curious to see if I can get Toad to connect to Postgresql.  I have Access talking to it via ODBC.  Toad is asking for Datasource and Location.  I cant figure out what to put there.  I have done some searching in google.   Thanks for any suggestions.

Re: [GENERAL] rollback vs. commit for closing read-only transaction

2005-04-25 Thread Tom Lane
"Dann Corbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Probably, turning fsync off would be helpful, since you know it is > read-only. Wouldn't make any difference: a transaction that hasn't modified the database doesn't bother to write any commit/abort WAL record at all. regards, to

Re: [GENERAL] rollback vs. commit for closing read-only transaction

2005-04-25 Thread Dann Corbit
Probably, turning fsync off would be helpful, since you know it is read-only. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-general- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Momjian > Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 3:01 PM > To: David Parker > Cc: postgres general > Subject: Re:

Re: [GENERAL] rollback vs. commit for closing read-only transaction

2005-04-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
David Parker wrote: > If an application transaction is known to be read-only, is there any > reason to prefer COMMIT or ROLLBACK for closing that transaction? Would > there be any performance difference between the two commands? Doesn't matter. -- Bruce Momjian| http:/

[GENERAL] rollback vs. commit for closing read-only transaction

2005-04-25 Thread David Parker
If an application transaction is known to be read-only, is there any reason to prefer COMMIT or ROLLBACK for closing that transaction? Would there be any performance difference between the two commands? - DAP--Da

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql function not working

2005-04-25 Thread John DeSoi
On Apr 25, 2005, at 4:07 PM, Ruff, Jeffry C. SR. wrote: Thanks for the reply. After making the change I now get the following ERROR: unterminated string CONTEXT: compile of PL/pgSQL function "group_list" near line 6 Ok make that string text := ; I'm now spoiled with dollar quoting :) John DeS

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql function not working

2005-04-25 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 02:40:29PM -0500, Ruff, Jeffry C. SR. wrote: > > CREATE FUNCTION userinfo.group_list(text) RETURNS text AS' >DECLARE > rec RECORD; > string text := NULL; >BEGIN > FOR rec IN SELECT * FROM userinfo.userdb_groups WHERE username = $1 LOOP >

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql function not working

2005-04-25 Thread John DeSoi
On Apr 25, 2005, at 3:40 PM, Ruff, Jeffry C. SR. wrote: I found this function on line [Thanks to Jeff Eckermann and Juerg Rietmann] that takes the results of a query and creates a comma delimited  string. However when I run it I get no values. Any help would be appreciated. I apologize if this i

Re: [GENERAL] Calculated bigserial column in a view

2005-04-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
Please keep replies copied to the list so that other people can learn from and comment on the discussion unless to have a good reason to make the thread private. On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 21:46:20 +0200, Zlatko Matic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reason for such crazy idea is my front-end MS Ac

Re: [GENERAL] column size in libpq

2005-04-25 Thread John DeSoi
On Apr 25, 2005, at 4:53 AM, Piotr Filipczuk wrote: How to determinate column size in query in libpq? Especially when column is declared for exapmle as varchar(64). PQfsize return -1 which mean that is variable and PQfmod returns 68. 68 - 4 is the correct size for varchar(64). There is 4 bytes o

[GENERAL] plpgsql function not working

2005-04-25 Thread Ruff, Jeffry C. SR.
Title: plpgsql function not working I found this function on line [Thanks to Jeff Eckermann and Juerg Rietmann] that takes the results of a query and creates a comma delimited  string. However when I run it I get no values. Any help would be appreciated. I apologize if this is the wrong forum

Re: [GENERAL] Playing with PostgreSQL and Access VBA

2005-04-25 Thread Tony Caduto
I guess I was thinking more of the "big picture" Your right of course, for someone just fooling around at home or for a very small business Access is great, but I am saying from experience that Access is a poor choice for any kind of large project or corp use. Access may be a poor choice for a De

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2005-04-25 Thread Wilson, David
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Re: [GENERAL] What does "tuple concurrently updated" mean?

2005-04-25 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Tom Lane wrote: "Florian G. Pflug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: So - does "tuple concurrently updated" make sense for "analyze"? Yeah, it's entirely possible, if you have a background process that might issue analyzes too (do you use autovacuum?). The error comes when two sessions concurrently try

Re: [GENERAL] What does "tuple concurrently updated" mean?

2005-04-25 Thread Tom Lane
"Florian G. Pflug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So - does "tuple concurrently updated" make sense for "analyze"? Yeah, it's entirely possible, if you have a background process that might issue analyzes too (do you use autovacuum?). The error comes when two sessions concurrently try to update the

Re: [GENERAL] What does "tuple concurrently updated" mean?

2005-04-25 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Tom Lane wrote: "Florian G. Pflug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: During a batch load of records (using COPY) I got the following postgres error today "tuple concurrently updated". I don't think plain COPY could have produced that, since it only inserts tuples. Tell us about triggers and foreign keys

Re: [GENERAL] timezone() with timeofday() converts the wrong direction?

2005-04-25 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:36:23AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > ---+--- > > 2005-04-24 22:25:51.669218+00 | 2005-04-24 23:25:51.669218+01 > > It was not really possible in 7.1 either (nor any previous version). > The secret to the above is th

Re: [GENERAL] DDL from psql console?

2005-04-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
John Browne wrote: > Actually, that's a thought.. I could even create a bash wrapper > script so I wouldn't have to type the database name each time. Will > give it a shot. > > Thanks > > On 4/25/05, Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:44:14AM -0500, John Brow

Re: [GENERAL] DDL from psql console?

2005-04-25 Thread John Browne
Actually, that's a thought.. I could even create a bash wrapper script so I wouldn't have to type the database name each time. Will give it a shot. Thanks On 4/25/05, Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:44:14AM -0500, John Browne wrote: > > > > Yeah, I know abou

Re: [GENERAL] DDL from psql console?

2005-04-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > John Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I was curious if there was a way to get the DDL for a particular table > > from the psql client console? > > No. Try > pg_dump -s -t tablename dbname Oh, from psql: :-) (We really should have an easier way of show all informat

Re: [GENERAL] Delphi personal (was Playing with PostgreSQL and Access VBA)

2005-04-25 Thread Ben Trewern
I'm pretty sure that zeosdbo needs a version of Delphi with TDataset support. I don't think that the Personal editions have that. You can use the direct access parts of Zeos with the personal editions but then you might as well use Free Pascal and Lazarus as they have just ported ZeosDbo see

Re: [GENERAL] Playing with PostgreSQL and Access VBA

2005-04-25 Thread Jeff Eckermann
"Tony Caduto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > In a real application that uses a client/server type database you should > NEVER construct queries that return a million rows. > You have to keep in mind that each record has to be sent accross the wire > via TCP/IP and

Re: [GENERAL] DDL from psql console?

2005-04-25 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 10:44:14AM -0500, John Browne wrote: > > Yeah, I know about pg_dump. I just was curious if there was another > way, since I always have two psql consoles already open at all times > anyway. :-) You could do "\!pg_dump ..." -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---

Re: [GENERAL] DDL from psql console?

2005-04-25 Thread Tom Lane
John Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was curious if there was a way to get the DDL for a particular table > from the psql client console? No. Try pg_dump -s -t tablename dbname regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [GENERAL] Hosting Service Recommendations

2005-04-25 Thread Steve Atkins
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:04:27AM -0400, Alex Turner wrote: > I have found that even the larger hosting companies such as Rackspace > are pretty clueless when trying to configure even a mid size database > server. They gave us a 4 drive raid 5 even after being explicitly > asked for a RAID 10. T

Re: [GENERAL] DDL from psql console?

2005-04-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 10:29, John Browne wrote: > Hello, > > I was curious if there was a way to get the DDL for a particular table > from the psql client console? I have two postgres boxes (development > and production) and would like to copy & paste the DDL "CREATE TABLE" > statements from the

Re: [GENERAL] DDL from psql console?

2005-04-25 Thread John Browne
Yeah, I know about pg_dump. I just was curious if there was another way, since I always have two psql consoles already open at all times anyway. :-) On 4/25/05, John Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I was curious if there was a way to get the DDL for a particular table > from the p

Re: [GENERAL] DDL from psql console?

2005-04-25 Thread Thomas F . O'Connell
Any reason not to use pg_dump -s? -tfo -- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information Architect Sitening, LLC Strategic Open Source: Open Your i™ http://www.sitening.com/ 110 30th Avenue North, Suite 6 Nashville, TN 37203-6320 615-260-0005 On Apr 25, 2005, at 10:29 AM, John Browne wrote: Hello, I w

Re: [GENERAL] timezone() with timeofday() converts the wrong direction?

2005-04-25 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem I was discussing involves getting *different* time zone > specifictions in the output. That is, something like this (which > apparently is possible in 7.1.3 but not in later versions): >f | timezone

[GENERAL] installation as service failed on windows xp

2005-04-25 Thread Akbar
Hi, The first time I install postgresql in Windows XP, I install it as service. The installer asked me to create postgres account. Ok, fine... then someday I uninstalled postgresql so I can install the newer version of postgresql. But first to make it clean, I delete the postgres account from righ

Re: [GENERAL] artificial keys or not?

2005-04-25 Thread Jeff Eckermann
"Scott Ribe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ..so the only question is: >> >> drop the the serials as PKs and just use short text handles? our >> database size is arround 290 mb. there shouldn't be speed issues as long >> as proper indexes exit, right? some of the co

[GENERAL] DDL from psql console?

2005-04-25 Thread John Browne
Hello, I was curious if there was a way to get the DDL for a particular table from the psql client console? I have two postgres boxes (development and production) and would like to copy & paste the DDL "CREATE TABLE" statements from the development console to the production console when I'm movin

Re: [GENERAL] timezone() with timeofday() converts the wrong direction?

2005-04-25 Thread Karsten Hilbert
> > > select f, f::timestamp at time zone 'MEZ' from test; > > > f | timezone > > > ---+ > > >2005-04-24 22:25:51.669218+00 | 2005-04-24 23:25:51.669218 > > > (1 row) > > > > Huh ? Th

Re: [GENERAL] What does "tuple concurrently updated" mean?

2005-04-25 Thread Tom Lane
"Florian G. Pflug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > During a batch load of records (using COPY) I got the following > postgres error today "tuple concurrently updated". I don't think plain COPY could have produced that, since it only inserts tuples. Tell us about triggers and foreign keys on this ta

Re: [GENERAL] UltraSPARC versus AMD

2005-04-25 Thread Richard_D_Levine
I am looking at options for a customer with an installed base of ~5000 Sun workstations running 400-500MHz UltraSPARCs. They're not getting the performance they need. They shipped me two Tadpole Bullfrog machines, a Bullfrog I and a Bullfrog II for evaluation. http://www.tadpole.com 1.28GHz sin

Re: [GENERAL] Hosting Service Recommendations

2005-04-25 Thread Alex Turner
I have found that even the larger hosting companies such as Rackspace are pretty clueless when trying to configure even a mid size database server. They gave us a 4 drive raid 5 even after being explicitly asked for a RAID 10. They also put the controller in write through cache mode. Pretty bad c

[GENERAL] OpenRPT (was Re: [ANNOUNCE] == PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 24 2005 ==)

2005-04-25 Thread Ned Lilly
David Fetter wrote: == PostgreSQL Product News == OpenRPT is a graphical SQL report writer, designer and rendering engine, optimized for PostgreSQL. WYSIWYG display, GUI built with Qt, runs on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X. Server-side rendering engine. Reports can be saved as XML, either as files or in

Re: [GENERAL] Pgpool questions

2005-04-25 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 00:53, Ron Mayer wrote: > > Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > > >> > > >>Is there anyway to load balance selects to more than 2 servers? ex. 1 > > >>master with 2 slaves? Run multiple instances? > > > > > > It's on my TODO but will not be a trivial change. > > > > Could I set up 2

Re: [GENERAL] Pgpool questions

2005-04-25 Thread Brian Maguire
Thanks.   Is it on your todo list to something like this…?  It is the opposite of "/* NO LOAD BALANCE */".   Make a "/* SLAVE */" type comment to force it to a slave? It would be helpful in forcing a query to a reporting server if you know your what your reporting queries are.   “Set

Re: [GENERAL] Pgpool questions

2005-04-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 00:53, Ron Mayer wrote: > Tatsuo Ishii wrote: > >> > >>Is there anyway to load balance selects to more than 2 servers? ex. 1 > >>master with 2 slaves? Run multiple instances? > > > > It's on my TODO but will not be a trivial change. > > Could I set up 2 pairs of pgpool-ba

Re: [GENERAL] Immutable attributes?

2005-04-25 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 09:18:16AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:53:51PM -0700, David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote > > > > > > PostgreSQL 7.4, switching to 8.0 would be difficult. > > > > Now is easier than later. > > Do you mean that PostgreSQL 8 has imm

Re: [GENERAL] Hosting Service Recommendations

2005-04-25 Thread Jerry Sievers
Chris Kratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems the consensus on this list is that when running postgres, > Opterons outperform Xeons by a significant margin not to mention the > CS storms postgres seems to cause on Xeons. We are looking for a > hosting service for a postgresql based applicati

Re: [GENERAL] Installation problem with the version 8.0.2

2005-04-25 Thread Akbar
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4b6140f9-2d36-4977-8fa1-6f8a0f5dca8f&DisplayLang=en On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 15:37 +0530, K.RajaSekar wrote: > Hi > > I am trying to install the 8.0.2 version in windows 2000 server. After > opening the installer, I have got the welcome scree

Re: [GENERAL] timezone() with timeofday() converts the wrong direction?

2005-04-25 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:28:47AM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > > gnumed=> create teable test (f timestamp with time zone); > > > CREATE > > > > Does that really work in 7.1.3? Trying to create a "teable" fails > > This results from "script" logging backspaces into the log > file instead of

[GENERAL] Hosting Service Recommendations

2005-04-25 Thread Chris Kratz
It seems the consensus on this list is that when running postgres, Opterons outperform Xeons by a significant margin not to mention the CS storms postgres seems to cause on Xeons. We are looking for a hosting service for a postgresql based application. Unfortunately, it seems most services st

Re: [GENERAL] Optimising Union Query.

2005-04-25 Thread Rob Kirkbride
Jim C. Nasby wrote on 25/04/2005 01:28: On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 10:39:14PM +, Patrick TJ McPhee wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Kirkbride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: % I've done a explain analyze and as I expected the database has to check % every row in each of the three tables b

Re: [GENERAL] SQLException "Connection is closed. Operation is not

2005-04-25 Thread Clifton Zama
On Monday 25 April 2005 10:54, you wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 03:38 +0530, Rajiv Verma wrote: > > I'm accessing postgres database through tomcat 4.3.1. > > I'm able to execute the select and update query through my application > > but Insert query is giving following SQLException : > > Connecti

[GENERAL] Installation problem with the version 8.0.2

2005-04-25 Thread K.RajaSekar
Hi I am trying to install the 8.0.2 version in windows 2000 server. After opening the installer, I have got the welcome screen. I have selected the Language English/English in the welcome screen and clicked the start button. I am getting the following error. "There is a problem with this windows

[GENERAL] column size in libpq

2005-04-25 Thread Piotr Filipczuk
How to determinate column size in query in libpq? Especially when column is declared for exapmle as varchar(64). PQfsize return -1 which mean that is variable and PQfmod returns 68. Piotr Filipczuk ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' t

Re: [GENERAL] SQLException "Connection is closed. Operation is not

2005-04-25 Thread Ragnar =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hafsta=F0?=
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 03:38 +0530, Rajiv Verma wrote: > I'm accessing postgres database through tomcat 4.3.1. > I'm able to execute the select and update query through my application > but Insert query is giving following SQLException : > Connection is closed. Operation is not permitted. looks li

[GENERAL] What does "tuple concurrently updated" mean?

2005-04-25 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Hi During a batch load of records (using COPY) I got the following postgres error today "tuple concurrently updated". What could have caused this? The only two occurences of the message in the source is in the functions simple_head_delete and simple_heap_update in src/backend/access/heap/heapam.c g

Re: [GENERAL] Help-Urgent

2005-04-25 Thread Mario Guenterberg
ElayaRaja S schrieb: > Hi, >I am using Redhat Linux 9 and PostgreSQL 7.4.5. While shutdown the > linux server i forget to stop the postgresql. After starting the linux > server, now i am unable to stop the postgres. When stopping the > postgres i am getting the following error as > > bash-2.0

Re: [GENERAL] timezone() with timeofday() converts the wrong direction?

2005-04-25 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 03:05:12AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > The fact that different versions of PostgreSQL get it right or > > wrong in a variety of ways indicates that the logic may need > > to be fixed but does show that in principle it is quite > > possible. > > 7.1's version of AT TIME ZONE

Re: [GENERAL] Immutable attributes?

2005-04-25 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 10:05:53PM -0600, Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 85 lines which said: > CREATE FUNCTION check_immutable() RETURNS trigger AS ' > for col in TD["args"]: Ah, yes, much better than mine. Thanks. ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [GENERAL] Immutable attributes?

2005-04-25 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:53:51PM -0700, David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 21 lines which said: > > PostgreSQL 7.4, switching to 8.0 would be difficult. > > Now is easier than later. Do you mean that PostgreSQL 8 has immutable attributes ? I do not find that.

Re: [GENERAL] timezone() with timeofday() converts the wrong direction?

2005-04-25 Thread Tom Lane
Karsten Hilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The fact that different versions of PostgreSQL get it right or > wrong in a variety of ways indicates that the logic may need > to be fixed but does show that in principle it is quite > possible. 7.1's version of AT TIME ZONE was so badly broken that i