Re: [GENERAL] Can't make backup

2008-01-01 Thread Albe Laurenz
Sebastián Baioni wrote: > Every day we run a Windows Programmed pg_dump, it used to > work fine with PostgreSQL 8.0, but since we installed the new > version we are not able to make a backup. We tried to make a > whole database backup and it never ends. We tried to backup > table by table and i

Re: [GENERAL] basic questions: Postgres with yum on CentOS 5.1

2008-01-01 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Chuck wrote: >> Since I have a packaged installation, I don't believe that I will call >> initdb directly. > There is actually another command I don't think you've noticed yet: > service postgresql initdb Actually, that was only added

Re: [GENERAL] visibility rules for AFTER UPDATE Constraint Triggers Function

2008-01-01 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Broersma Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, It seems the select doesn't yet see the non-committed records. I.E. > the record that should be equal to NEW is in fact equal to OLD. Please provide a self-contained example. regards, tom lane ---

[GENERAL] visibility rules for AFTER UPDATE Constraint Triggers Function

2008-01-01 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
I have a PLpgSQL AFTER UPDATE constraint trigger that calls a trigger function with an embedded select statement. The select statement queries the affected table and returns a mult-result set that includes the record equivalent to NEW. However, It seems the select doesn't yet see the non-commit

Re: [GENERAL] basic questions: Postgres with yum on CentOS 5.1

2008-01-01 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Chuck wrote: Since I have a packaged installation, I don't believe that I will call initdb directly. There is actually another command I don't think you've noticed yet: service postgresql initdb That runs initdb with the user and permissions properly to get you something

Re: [GENERAL] basic questions: Postgres with yum on CentOS 5.1

2008-01-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 18:49:40 -0800 Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ### main question: > I think that need to figure where initdb is being called from to > modify its parameters. Or, I need to determine how to set the default > encoding to be UTF8.

Re: [GENERAL] basic questions: Postgres with yum on CentOS 5.1

2008-01-01 Thread Chuck
Thanks for Tomasz and Andrew's responses (as well as one person's response off the list). There was a lot of valuable information. I've done some further reading in the postgres manual and I've exchanged a few emails from my web host. My web host recommends sticking with the CentOS repo packag

Re: [GENERAL] Need help requiring uniqueness in text columns

2008-01-01 Thread Stuart Bishop
Matthew Wilson wrote: > I have a table MESSAGE with a text column and a timestamp column. I > want to make sure that I have no rows with duplicates for both values. > I have two ideas right now for how to do this. > > IDEA 1: > > CREATE UNIQUE INDEX nodups on MESSAGE (my_timestamp_col, my_text_c

[GENERAL] Need help requiring uniqueness in text columns

2008-01-01 Thread Matthew Wilson
I have a table MESSAGE with a text column and a timestamp column. I want to make sure that I have no rows with duplicates for both values. I have two ideas right now for how to do this. IDEA 1: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX nodups on MESSAGE (my_timestamp_col, my_text_col); IDEA 2: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX n

Re: [GENERAL] basic questions: Postgres with yum on CentOS 5.1

2008-01-01 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 06:05:32PM +0100, Tomasz Ostrowski wrote: > > LC_CTYPE="POSIX" > > LC_COLLATE="POSIX" > > This is bad. Make sure you have > LANG="en_US.UTF-8" > set in a file "/etc/sysconfig/i18n" and reboot. If you do it that way, be _very sure_ you understand the interactions of l

Re: [GENERAL] basic questions: Postgres with yum on CentOS 5.1

2008-01-01 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 02:39:02PM -0800, Chuck wrote: > yum -y install postgre postgre-server postgre-devel I assume that's all spelled "postgres". But otherwise, ok. > Upgrade to PostgreSQL 8.2.5? > Before I start creating databases, it seems like I should up consider > upgrading to PostgreSQ

Re: [GENERAL] basic questions: Postgres with yum on CentOS 5.1

2008-01-01 Thread Tomasz Ostrowski
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007, Chuck wrote: > I asked the web host to make sure that Postgres is installed. They did this > by running the following command: > yum -y install postgre postgre-server postgre-devel I think the proper command was: yum -y install postgresql postgresql-server postgresql-devel

Re: [GENERAL] Hinting the planner

2008-01-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 1, 2008 10:27 AM, Martin Gainty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not the planner but you can hint the query as in this example > select /*+ ordered use_hash(code1)*/ * from table_1; no, that's an oraclism. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: expl

Re: [GENERAL] Hinting the planner

2008-01-01 Thread Martin Gainty
Not the planner but you can hint the query as in this example select /*+ ordered use_hash(code1)*/ * from table_1;Martin __Disclaimer and confidentiality noteEverything in this e-mail and any attachments relates to the official business of Sender. Thi

Re: [GENERAL] CREATE TYPE and pgAdmin III

2008-01-01 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 31/12/2007 23:06, dvanatta wrote: Where are all the types I've created in the object browser? Do you see a "Types" node at all in the tree, one level beneath the schema in which you're working? If not, you need to go to File -> Options -> Display tab, and make sure that "Types" is checked

Re: [GENERAL] Hinting the planner

2008-01-01 Thread Shane Ambler
Reg Me Please wrote: Hello all. I have some tables that contain exactly 1 row and that I use for searches with JOIN. Does it make any sense to hint the planner about this? If so, how can I send such hints to it? You don't give hints to the planner. The planner does use statistics gathered

[GENERAL] Hinting the planner

2008-01-01 Thread Reg Me Please
Hello all. I have some tables that contain exactly 1 row and that I use for searches with JOIN. Does it make any sense to hint the planner about this? If so, how can I send such hints to it? -- Reg me, please! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In