Re: [GENERAL] Why DISTINCT ... DESC is slow?

2006-12-11 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Dec 12, 2006, at 16:43 , Richard Huxton wrote: Anton wrote: While without DESC query goes faster... But not so fast! =# explain analyze SELECT DISTINCT ON (login_id) login_id, collect_time AS dt FROM n_traffic ORDER BY login_id collect_time; QUERY PLAN --

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch2 and pdf files

2006-12-11 Thread Magnus Hagander
> >> 1. Convert PDF to file with e.g xpdf > >> 2. Insert parsed text to a table of your choice. > >> 3. Make vectors from the text. > > > > Actually, if you're not going to use the headline() > function, you cna > > just store it directly in a vector, cutting down on the size > > requirements. >

Re: [GENERAL] Why DISTINCT ... DESC is slow?

2006-12-11 Thread Richard Huxton
Anton wrote: While without DESC query goes faster... But not so fast! =# explain analyze SELECT DISTINCT ON (login_id) login_id, collect_time AS dt FROM n_traffic ORDER BY login_id collect_time; QUERY PLAN --

Re: [GENERAL] Restore database from files (not dump files)?

2006-12-11 Thread wheel
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > wheel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > % I copied all of the database 'parts' to the new 'base' directory. I am > % not sure how carefully anyone has read what I wrote. But it's so simple > % what I'm a

Re: [GENERAL] Restore database from files (not dump files)?

2006-12-11 Thread wheel
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > Uh, do you have the entier /data directory tree? If so, just restore > the directory start it up a binary. > > > >>> > >>> Yes I have the entire dir/file set. But what does "If so, just restore > >>> the directory

[GENERAL] Why DISTINCT ... DESC is slow?

2006-12-11 Thread Anton
Hi. With this table (about 800 000 rows): =# \d n_traffic Table "public.n_traffic" Column|Type | Modifiers --+-+-- login_id | integer | not n

[GENERAL] 8.2.0 Installation Problem

2006-12-11 Thread Ashish Karalkar
Hello All, I am getting following error when tried to install PG 8.2 on Windows -XP from PG binary installation pack "Internal account lookup failure: No mapping between account names and security ID was done" The account is created by installer itself. can anyone explain where iam going wrong

[GENERAL] possible typo on 8.2 manual

2006-12-11 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
on the link: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/rules-update.html you will notice that from items are repeated. Is this correct? ... FROM shoelace_arrive shoelace_arrive, shoelace_ok shoelace_ok, shoelace_ok *OLD*, shoelace_ok *NEW*, shoelace shoelace, shoelace *OLD*,

Re: [GENERAL] PITR and moving objects between table spaces

2006-12-11 Thread Tom Lane
Glen Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess the best question I can see is, under what circumstances is the > directory name in pg_tablespace actually used? It isn't used (except by pg_dumpall) ... what counts is where the symlink in $PGDATA/pg_tblspc points. > I have a scenario where I wa

[GENERAL] Metadata from NEW and OLD constructs?

2006-12-11 Thread Lenorovitz, Joel
Greetings, I was wondering if it's possible to get any of the metadata from the NEW and OLD constructs in a trigger or view rule? Specifically, I'd like to get the column name or identifier anywhere the new record differs from the old record (i.e. NEW.column_X <> OLD.column_X). Any advice would

Re: [GENERAL] forcing compression of text field

2006-12-11 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 10:18, Jonathan Ellis wrote: >> I have a table of log messages. They are mostly in the 100-200 >> character length, which apparently isn't large enough for PG to want >> to compress it (length == octet_length). I really need to sav

[GENERAL] PITR and moving objects between table spaces

2006-12-11 Thread Glen Parker
Gurus, I hope I can make this clear somehow... Anyway... This all involves PG 8.1.4 on a 64-bit FC5 box. Select version() says "PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC x86_64-redhat-linux-gcc (GCC) 4.1.0 20060304 (Red Hat 4.1.0-3)". I guess the best question I can se

Re: [GENERAL] out of memory error on 3 table join

2006-12-11 Thread Jeff Davis
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 17:50 -0600, Kirk Wythers wrote: > SELECT count (*) returns 33,061,700 > > met_data=# SELECT count(*) FROM climate, sites, solar WHERE > climate.id = sites.id AND solar.id = sites.id AND climate.year = 1999; > -- > 33061700 > (1 row) > > However attempting the join

Re: [GENERAL] out of memory error on 3 table join

2006-12-11 Thread Kirk Wythers
On Dec 11, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Kirk Wythers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have an database (pg 8.1.0 on OS X) where a three table inner-join gives the following errors: psql(606) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=8421376) failed (error code=3) psql(606) malloc: *** error: can't all

Re: [GENERAL] Geometric Types

2006-12-11 Thread Bob Pawley
Thank you. Thats the technical view. I was hoping for a more generel overview - as if I knew absolutely nothing about geometric types and their uses. (Which is close to the truth.) Geometric Types (and GIS) for dummies would be ideal. Bob - Original Message - From: Shoaib Mir

Re: [GENERAL] forcing compression of text field

2006-12-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 10:18, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > I have a table of log messages. They are mostly in the 100-200 > character length, which apparently isn't large enough for PG to want > to compress it (length == octet_length). I really need to save disk > space. I can store it as a bytea and

Re: [GENERAL] shell script to populate array values

2006-12-11 Thread SCassidy
You should be able to use something like this in a bash script: psql -U postgres -hMYSERVER --quiet --no-align --field-separator ' ' -t -c "SELECT servername,instanceport from server where serverclass = 3 and isactive = 'True'" Admin | while read -a SVRDATA ;do echo "name: ${SVRDATA[0]} port:

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch2 and pdf files

2006-12-11 Thread philip johnson
>> 1. Convert PDF to file with e.g xpdf >> 2. Insert parsed text to a table of your choice. >> 3. Make vectors from the text. > > Actually, if you're not going to use the headline() function, you cna > just store it directly in a vector, cutting down on the size > requirements. What size requiremen

Re: [GENERAL] forcing compression of text field

2006-12-11 Thread Jeff Davis
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 09:18 -0700, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > I have a table of log messages. They are mostly in the 100-200 > character length, which apparently isn't large enough for PG to want > to compress it (length == octet_length). I really need to save disk > space. I can store it as a byte

Re: [GENERAL] concatenation operator || with "null" array

2006-12-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
The question of concatentation using NULLs comes up enough that I have added an item to an existing FAQ entry for it, patch attached. --- stroncococcus wrote: > Hello! > > When I try to fill an array with the concatenation

[GENERAL] forcing compression of text field

2006-12-11 Thread Jonathan Ellis
I have a table of log messages. They are mostly in the 100-200 character length, which apparently isn't large enough for PG to want to compress it (length == octet_length). I really need to save disk space. I can store it as a bytea and compress it manually (zlib level 1 compression gives about

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch2 and pdf files

2006-12-11 Thread Magnus Hagander
> 1. Convert PDF to file with e.g xpdf > 2. Insert parsed text to a table of your choice. > 3. Make vectors from the text. Actually, if you're not going to use the headline() function, you cna just store it directly in a vector, cutting down on the size requirements. Just insert to the to_tsvector

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch2 and pdf files

2006-12-11 Thread Henrik Zagerholm
1. Convert PDF to file with e.g xpdf 2. Insert parsed text to a table of your choice. 3. Make vectors from the text. Cheers, 11 dec 2006 kl. 18:23 skrev Philip Johnson: Do you know what kind of table should I use ? Is there a shell script or a php script that does the work ? regards -M

Re: [GENERAL] Status of SSL encryption in ODBC driver

2006-12-11 Thread John McCawley
sslmode=require did the trick. Thanks! Dave Page wrote: John McCawley wrote: Where would I go to find the connection string settings to turn it on? I have dug around quite a bit, and tried everything I have found, but nothing seems to work, and the docs included with the driver don't seem

Re: [GENERAL] search_path when restoring to new db

2006-12-11 Thread Brandon Aiken
PostgreSQL is simply very granular about what it lets you dump. The major point to realize is that pg_dump is useful for getting your data schema and data, and pg_dumpall will capture data schema, data, and most database instance configurations. Pg_dumpall has access to *global* objects, such

Re: [GENERAL] Status of SSL encryption in ODBC driver

2006-12-11 Thread Dave Page
John McCawley wrote: Where would I go to find the connection string settings to turn it on? I have dug around quite a bit, and tried everything I have found, but nothing seems to work, and the docs included with the driver don't seem to cover it. The easy method is to setup a DSN as required,

Re: [GENERAL] Status of SSL encryption in ODBC driver

2006-12-11 Thread John McCawley
Where would I go to find the connection string settings to turn it on? I have dug around quite a bit, and tried everything I have found, but nothing seems to work, and the docs included with the driver don't seem to cover it. Dave Page wrote: John McCawley wrote: I did a few searches on the

Re: [GENERAL] Status of SSL encryption in ODBC driver

2006-12-11 Thread Dave Page
John McCawley wrote: I did a few searches on the mailing list, and checked the documentation of psqlODBC, and I'm confused as to the current status of SSL support in psqlODBC. From the mailing list, it appears that the Open Source driver does not fully support SSL, and I would need to use the

[GENERAL] Status of SSL encryption in ODBC driver

2006-12-11 Thread John McCawley
I did a few searches on the mailing list, and checked the documentation of psqlODBC, and I'm confused as to the current status of SSL support in psqlODBC. From the mailing list, it appears that the Open Source driver does not fully support SSL, and I would need to use the commercial ODBC drive

Re: [GENERAL] search_path when restoring to new db

2006-12-11 Thread SunWuKung
Thanks for your answers. I guess it means that I have to issue Alter database after restore than. I find this a little scary because this is something that I just realised now and wouldn't have thought beforehand. Seems to me that to make an exact copy of a single db it isn't enough to use pg_back

[GENERAL] shell script to populate array values

2006-12-11 Thread Paul Silveira
Hello, I would like to create a shell script that would populate two variables with the return of a SELECT statement that would return two attributes... For example... #!/bin/bash SERVER_NAMES=`psql Admin -Upostgres -hMYSERVER -t -c"SELECT servername, instanceport from server where serverclas

Re: [GENERAL] TOAD-like query builder for PostgreSQL?

2006-12-11 Thread Tony Caduto
Scott Marlowe wrote: I didn't come away with that impression from the toad web site. Note that I'm not a user, and not a huge fan or anything. But, according to this page, toad supports lots of databases besides oracle: http://www.quest.com/toad_data_modeler/release_information.aspx tha

Re: [GENERAL] Creating multiple Rules for on update

2006-12-11 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
> When I read the docs about RULEs I remember seeing that an unqualified RULE > was needed otherwise PG wouldn't know that the operation was complete and > would fail. I haven't used them, but I believe that you have two options: > - use a RULE with your filtering conditions AND add an unqualifie

Re: [GENERAL] Creating multiple Rules for on update

2006-12-11 Thread Jorge Godoy
Richard Broersma Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a view joining two tables with a (1 to 1) relationship. I am trying > to create two update rules (1 rule for each table in the view). To > accomplish this I am trying (unsuccessfully) to use the where condition > syntax of the update rules

Re: [GENERAL] Numeric or Integer for monetary values?

2006-12-11 Thread Jorge Godoy
"Yonatan Ben-Nes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, I need to decide which data type should I make for monetary values, > shall I use Numeric data type to hold values like "9.52" or is it better to > keep it as an integer with value in cents like "952"? I know that at the > manual it's writte

Re: [GENERAL] TOAD-like query builder for PostgreSQL?

2006-12-11 Thread Shoaib Mir
Thanks for the link Scott. Shoaib Mir EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com) On 12/12/06, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 10:12, Tony Caduto wrote: > Shoaib Mir wrote: > > Thanks Scott, just confirmed it from TOAD's review at > > http://www.pcsoftla

Re: [GENERAL] TOAD-like query builder for PostgreSQL?

2006-12-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 10:12, Tony Caduto wrote: > Shoaib Mir wrote: > > Thanks Scott, just confirmed it from TOAD's review at > > http://www.pcsoftland.com/development-tools/databases/toad-for-sql-server.htm > > > > > > "Plus the SQL editor will actually function with any ODBC database > > connec

Re: [GENERAL] out of memory error on 3 table join

2006-12-11 Thread Tom Lane
Kirk Wythers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have an database (pg 8.1.0 on OS X) where a three table inner-join > gives the following errors: > psql(606) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=8421376) failed (error code=3) > psql(606) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region > psql(606) malloc: *** set a

Re: [GENERAL] Geometric Types

2006-12-11 Thread Shoaib Mir
You can use the PostgreSQL docs for that purpose at --> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-geometry.html For more details you can go through PostGIS (http://postgis.refractions.net/) for that purpose... Hope this helps... --- Shoaib Mir EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.co

Re: [GENERAL] World Wide International Law: Linux is compulsory (mandotary) in all schools/universities world-wide

2006-12-11 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
Any chance we could block this idiot? On 10 Dec 2006 at 12:22, Al_Dev wrote: > All the countries/governments immediately pass legislation to make > Linux compulsory(mandatory) subject in all schools from K to > 12th-grade and all undergraduate /graduate degrees. > > Linux is foundation for othe

[GENERAL] out of memory error on 3 table join

2006-12-11 Thread Kirk Wythers
I have an database (pg 8.1.0 on OS X) where a three table inner-join gives the following errors: psql(606) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=8421376) failed (error code=3) psql(606) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region psql(606) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug out of memory

Re: [GENERAL] search_path when restoring to new db

2006-12-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 10:06, Tom Lane wrote: > "SunWuKung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It seems to me that if I dump and restore a database as a new db I need > > to manually issue > > ALTER DATABASE dbname SET search_path=schema1, schema2; > > to get back the search_path of the original db. >

[GENERAL] Geometric Types

2006-12-11 Thread Bob Pawley
I would like to learn the basics of PostgreSQL geometric types. Can someone point to a simple explanation of how it works (preferably within the PostgreSQL database) how it is being used and any drawing system that would display the results? Thanks in advance. Bob Pawley

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch2 and pdf files

2006-12-11 Thread Philip Johnson
Do you know what kind of table should I use ? Is there a shell script or a php script that does the work ? regards > -Message d'origine- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-general- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Hannes Dorbath > Envoyé : lundi 11 décembre 2006 12:21 > À : pgsql-gen

Re: [GENERAL] Numeric or Integer for monetary values?

2006-12-11 Thread Brandon Aiken
postgres=# select (101::integer)/(2::integer); ?column? -- 50 postgres=# select (1.01::numeric)/(2::numeric); ?column? 0.5050 Rounding errors are something you will need to deal with whether you use INTEGER or NUMERIC fields. You

Re: [GENERAL] TOAD-like query builder for PostgreSQL?

2006-12-11 Thread Shoaib Mir
Actually it was not me who was looking for a query builder, but yes in the past I did some research with PostgreSQL so was just trying out if anyone was able to use TOAD with it. Lightning Admin looks good to me, good work. Let me know in case you need help while adding on EnterpriseDB support t

Re: [GENERAL] TOAD-like query builder for PostgreSQL?

2006-12-11 Thread Tony Caduto
Shoaib Mir wrote: Thanks Scott, just confirmed it from TOAD's review at http://www.pcsoftland.com/development-tools/databases/toad-for-sql-server.htm "Plus the SQL editor will actually function with any ODBC database connection, thus it supports many other popular databases like Oracle, DB2

[GENERAL] Creating multiple Rules for on update

2006-12-11 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
I have a view joining two tables with a (1 to 1) relationship. I am trying to create two update rules (1 rule for each table in the view). To accomplish this I am trying (unsuccessfully) to use the where condition syntax of the update rules. Basically, I only want to update a table if the colu

Re: [GENERAL] search_path when restoring to new db

2006-12-11 Thread Tom Lane
"SunWuKung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems to me that if I dump and restore a database as a new db I need > to manually issue > ALTER DATABASE dbname SET search_path=schema1, schema2; > to get back the search_path of the original db. ALTER DATABASE and ALTER USER commands are handled by pg

[GENERAL] Numeric or Integer for monetary values?

2006-12-11 Thread Yonatan Ben-Nes
Hi all, I need to decide which data type should I make for monetary values, shall I use Numeric data type to hold values like "9.52" or is it better to keep it as an integer with value in cents like "952"? I know that at the manual it's written about the Numeric data type that "It is especially

[GENERAL] search_path when restoring to new db

2006-12-11 Thread SunWuKung
It seems to me that if I dump and restore a database as a new db I need to manually issue ALTER DATABASE dbname SET search_path=schema1, schema2; to get back the search_path of the original db. I s this realy the case or I am doing something wrong and there is a way to have the backup-restore do t

Re: [GENERAL] TOAD-like query builder for PostgreSQL?

2006-12-11 Thread Shoaib Mir
Thanks Scott, just confirmed it from TOAD's review at http://www.pcsoftland.com/development-tools/databases/toad-for-sql-server.htm "Plus the SQL editor will actually function with any ODBC database connection, thus it supports many other popular databases like Oracle, DB2, Informix, Ingres, Acce

Re: [GENERAL] TOAD-like query builder for PostgreSQL?

2006-12-11 Thread Shoaib Mir
On 12/11/06, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>I've looked it up and can confirm what Tom said, TOAD works with >>PostgreSQL, you just have to make sure you get the right version. Does that one uses ODBC for connection? If possible can you please tell me the version of TOAD to use w

Re: [GENERAL] drop role with privileges

2006-12-11 Thread Tom Darci
>Did you try DROP OWNED BY? It revokes privileges (as well as >dropping objects owned by said role). Thank you. That was exactly the *easy* soluton I'd been missing. I swear I read the page in the manual for "DROP OWNED" several times, hoping to see something like "Any privileges granted to the

Re: [GENERAL] drop role with privileges

2006-12-11 Thread Tom Darci
>> >> That sounds very promising. I'll take a look there. > >I may be wrong about the table name but certainly drop role uses some >set of system tables to do it's work. :) THANKS for your help, Stephen. Once I've reassigned ownership I can then easily find out privilege dependencies using pg_

Re: [GENERAL] TOAD-like query builder for PostgreSQL?

2006-12-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 13:19 +0500, Shoaib Mir wrote: > I guess TOAD uses OCI to interact with the database so there might be > problems connecting TOAD with PostgreSQL... I've looked it up and can confirm what Tom said, TOAD works with PostgreSQL, you just have to make sure you get the right versi

Re: [GENERAL] installation problem, for Postgres 8.2.0

2006-12-11 Thread Shoaib Mir
Do the following: ldconfig Once that is done show me the output for: ldconfig -p | grep libreadline and locate libreadline.so.5 --- Shoaib Mir EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com) On 12/11/06, surabhi.ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did it however i get the same error message

Re: [GENERAL] inheritance and index use (similar to UNION ALL)

2006-12-11 Thread Karsten Hilbert
Further testing has revealed that, indeed, PG 8.2 speeds up our use of child tables ! The query in question went down from 10 minutes to *under a second* just by running against 8.2 :-) Now, that's some gain ! Thanks to the PostgreSQL developers. Karsten, GNUmed team On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at

Re: [GENERAL] installation problem, for Postgres 8.2.0

2006-12-11 Thread Albe Laurenz
> I am trying to install Postgre 8.2.0 on my mc FC4 > > first i installed the libs > > next when i tried installing: postgresql-8.2.0-2PGDG.i686.rpm > it gave me this error: > > error: Failed dependencies: > libreadline.so.5 is needed by postgresql-8.2.0-2PGDG > > please tell me wha

Re: FW: [GENERAL] Male/female

2006-12-11 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 01:34:17PM +0100, H.J. Sanders wrote: > > I would also suggest using a *coded* gender, not "male", > > "female" strings which will make gender-based calculations a > > lot easier down the road. > > Which will also make it easier to have a "multi-langual" solution. Which, p

[GENERAL] Events tables, model discussion in regards to the performances

2006-12-11 Thread Marc Mamin
> Hallo, > > I have a large amount of time based events to aggregate, with a finite > list of possible events. > the events are logged one at the time: > > timestamp_1 : event_1 > timestamp_2 : event_2 > timestamp_3 : event_1 > ... > > My idea is to prepare the data before to import them in ord

Re: FW: [GENERAL] Male/female

2006-12-11 Thread H.J. Sanders
> > I would also suggest using a *coded* gender, not "male", > "female" strings which will make gender-based calculations a > lot easier down the road. Which will also make it easier to have a "multi-langual" solution. Henk Sanders ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: FW: [GENERAL] Male/female

2006-12-11 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 04:50:16PM +0100, Alban Hertroys wrote: > Why not use unicode symbols 0x2640 and 0x2642? A clever idea, however, it does not cover transsexual, female phenotype transsexual, male phenotype hermaphrodite, intersexual phenotype which we (GNUmed, that is) need to support in

[GENERAL] inheritance and index use (similar to UNION ALL)

2006-12-11 Thread Karsten Hilbert
Hi, we have a parent table root_item with a few common fields (one is a text field) from which a whole bunch of child tables derives. We need to run queries against the text field across the whole bunch of child tables. What naturally comes to mind is to run the query against root_item.text_field

Re: [GENERAL] installation problem, for Postgres 8.2.0

2006-12-11 Thread surabhi.ahuja
I did it however i get the same error message should i reboot? thanks surabhi From: Shoaib Mir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 12/11/2006 4:34 PM To: surabhi.ahuja Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] installation problem, for Postgres

Re: [GENERAL] installation problem, for Postgres 8.2.0

2006-12-11 Thread Shoaib Mir
The case here is that he might be using a RPM which is for FC5 and been used on FC4 which is why it keeps on looking for so.5 as libreadline.so.5 is the updated libreadline.so.4 in FC5. I have tried making symlinks (workaround) in the past and that worked for me this way when I used a FC5 built R

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch2 and pdf files

2006-12-11 Thread Hannes Dorbath
You just need software that extracts the text from it. Search google for pdf2txt and others. Printer drivers that try to get text from anything are available as well. On 11.12.2006 11:41, Philip Johnson wrote: I'm using Postgresql 8.1.5 Tsearch2 is installed and runs well I'd like to use ts

Re: [GENERAL] installation problem, for Postgres 8.2.0

2006-12-11 Thread Dave Page
Shoaib Mir wrote: Logged in as 'root' user do the following: ln -s /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4 /usr/lib/libreadline.so.5 And then continue with the installation I'm no RPM expert, but doesn't a failed RPM dependency require that you install the correct RPM rather than adding probably-incom

[GENERAL] tsearch2 and pdf files

2006-12-11 Thread Philip Johnson
I'm using Postgresql 8.1.5 Tsearch2 is installed and runs well I'd like to use tsearch2 to index PDF files. Do someone has a detailed process to implement that?

Re: [GENERAL] installation problem, for Postgres 8.2.0

2006-12-11 Thread Shoaib Mir
Logged in as 'root' user do the following: ln -s /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4 /usr/lib/libreadline.so.5 And then continue with the installation - Shoaib Mir EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com) On 12/11/06, surabhi.ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: the o/p for ldconfig -p | grep

Re: [GENERAL] installation problem, for Postgres 8.2.0

2006-12-11 Thread surabhi.ahuja
the o/p for ldconfig -p | grep libreadline it is ibreadline.so.4 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4 thanks, regards Surabhi From: Shoaib Mir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 12/11/2006 4:26 PM To: surabhi.ahuja Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: R

Re: [GENERAL] installation problem, for Postgres 8.2.0

2006-12-11 Thread Shoaib Mir
Can you show me the output for: ldconfig -p | grep libreadline --- Shoaib Mir EnterpriseDB (www.enterprisedb.com) On 12/11/06, surabhi.ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am trying to install Postgre 8.2.0 on my mc FC4 first i installed the libs next when i tried installing: postgre

[GENERAL] installation problem, for Postgres 8.2.0

2006-12-11 Thread surabhi.ahuja
I am trying to install Postgre 8.2.0 on my mc FC4 first i installed the libs next when i tried installing: postgresql-8.2.0-2PGDG.i686.rpm it gave me this error: error: Failed dependencies: libreadline.so.5 is needed by postgresql-8.2.0-2PGDG please tell me what to do thanks, regard

[GENERAL] Postgres 8.1.5, 64 bit server running on FC4

2006-12-11 Thread surabhi.ahuja
Hi I had installed Postgres 8.1.5 , , 64 bit server running on FC4. I had seen that the performance is much slower than the corresponding 32 bit one Why is it so? (i have donr explain analyse, before performing the tests, also the num of rows etc were similar) Another thing that i want to me

[GENERAL] Remove diacritic

2006-12-11 Thread Jiří Němec
Good morning, I would like to remove diacritic from string like 'žluťoučký kůň' (UTF-8) and transform it into 'zlutoucky kun'. I have used function convert(); and SQL_ASCII as destination encoding. Converted string still contains diacritic: SELECT convert('žluťoučký kůň','UTF8','SQL_ASCII') arr