Re: [GENERAL] standby questions

2008-02-08 Thread Greg Smith
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, David Wall wrote: Does pg_standby take care of this by checking file sizes or the like? In my testing with scp, we never experienced any problems, but I wonder if we were somehow "just lucky." pg_standby only processes files of exactly the length they're supposed to be.

Re: [GENERAL] standby questions

2008-02-08 Thread Greg Smith
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Roberto Scattini wrote: -a "WAL segment file" is the same that a "log file segment"? Yes: WAL="write-ahead log". -how often a new WAL file is generated? this depends on the server load? These are the WAL segment files that are produced by the database, the ones you're

Re: [GENERAL] standby questions

2008-02-08 Thread David Wall
That's correct. You have to do it that way or the system in recovery mode can start to consume the new segment file before it has been completely copied over yet. Does pg_standby take care of this by checking file sizes or the like? In my testing with scp, we never experienced any problems

Re: [GENERAL] standby questions

2008-02-08 Thread Greg Smith
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, David Wall wrote: Is 'scp' by itself considered an "atomic tool" for copying files to the standby server? Does "atomic" mean that the program should copy a file over using a temp file name and then renames at the end or does it mean something else? That's correct. You h

Re: [GENERAL] standby questions

2008-02-08 Thread David Wall
2) if archive_command is activated and working, the primary server sends (preferably with rsync or some other "atomic tool") the NEW WAL files to the standby server. Later, at some point, the primary server will delete this files when considers that are not necessary anymore. Is 'scp'

Re: [GENERAL] how to list column names.

2008-02-08 Thread Martin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Postgres 8.2 using php5 > >what is the simplest way to request column names ? The pg_field_name is simple: http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-field-name.php ---(end of broadcast)--

[GENERAL] standby questions

2008-02-08 Thread Roberto Scattini
hi list: im working in the setup of a warm standby server. im using postgres-8.2.5 in the slave and 8.2.4 in master right now, in production it will be only 8.2.5, everything in debian etch. we decided this solution because we want an easy to migrate/implement/adminstrate backup sever, and we have

Re: [GENERAL] POLL: Women-sized t-shirts for PostgreSQL

2008-02-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake escribió: > Richard Broersma Jr wrote: >> --- On Wed, 11/21/07, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I've got a real desire for a PG polo. :) One which I could wear to >>> work (business casual or whatever) would seriously rock. >> >> That's what I like to do. The dress-co

Re: [GENERAL] installing in another directory

2008-02-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Feb 8, 2008 3:21 PM, Alan Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 08 February 2008, "Hua-Ying Ling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to install postgresql in a custom directory. when I run rpm > > --prefix I'm getting a package is not relocatable error. Suggestion

Re: [GENERAL] installing in another directory

2008-02-08 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Friday 08 February 2008, "Hua-Ying Ling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install postgresql in a custom directory. when I run rpm > --prefix I'm getting a package is not relocatable error. Suggestions on > how do I get around this? Build your own package, or install from so

[GENERAL] installing in another directory

2008-02-08 Thread Hua-Ying Ling
Hi, I'm trying to install postgresql in a custom directory. when I run rpm --prefix I'm getting a package is not relocatable error. Suggestions on how do I get around this? Thanks Hua-ying

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: COPY quote must be a single ASCII character

2008-02-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Feb 8, 2008 9:06 AM, Andrej Kastrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The answer is simple no. I know I can to some preprocessing on input > files using awk, sed etc. but don't want to change the structure of the > file. If the problem is that you have | characters in your data, then can you change

Re: [GENERAL] hyperthreading and pqlib

2008-02-08 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Has someone encountered a problem using pqlib in a multi-threading >> application (POSIX or Win32) when the Intel Hyperthreading is enabled? >> Disabling the hyperthreading option from the bios of the computer all works >> fine

Re: [GENERAL] Execute

2008-02-08 Thread valgog
On Feb 5, 9:11 am, "Дикий неадекватный кальмар" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a way to catch error returned by EXECUTE statement? > > declare stmt character varying; > begin > stmt=crate user||'some_name'||' with password '''||'somepassword'; > execute stmt; > > end; > > here i need to know

Re: [GENERAL] full text index and most frequently used words

2008-02-08 Thread Teodor Sigaev
What I'd like to know is if there is an easy to way to use the full text index to generate a list of the most common words. I could write this code manually, but I'm hoping there's a better (simpler) way. For 8.3 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/textsearch-features.html#TEXTSEARCH-STAT

Re: [GENERAL] hyperthreading and pqlib

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[GENERAL] Trouble with Mixed UTF-8 and Latin1 data

2008-02-08 Thread valgog
Hi, we have a 8.2.1 database that has a Latin1 encoding. We managed to write there UTF-8 data (not Latin1) and, as this version of the database, was actually allowing everything to be written to the Latin1 database, by now we have a problem of having data in different encoding on that database. I

[GENERAL] full text index and most frequently used words

2008-02-08 Thread Bryan Murphy
I'm a bit of a novice writing tsearch2 queries, so forgive me if this is a basic question. We have a table with 2million+ records which has a considerable amount of text content. Some search terms (such as comedy, new, news, music, etc.) cause a significant performance hit on our web site. There

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: COPY quote must be a single ASCII character

2008-02-08 Thread brian
Andrej Kastrin wrote: Colin Wetherbee wrote: Andrej Kastrin wrote: ||5354235||,||some text...|| ||1234567||,||some text...|| ||1234568||,||some text...|| The sql statement I defined was: COPY testtable FROM 'test.txt' WITH DELIMITER AS ',' CSV QUOTE AS '||'; but the error: ERROR: COPY quo

Re: [GENERAL] hyperthreading and pqlib

2008-02-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all. > Has someone encountered a problem using pqlib in a multi-threading > application (POSIX or Win32) when the Intel Hyperthreading is enabled? > Disabling the hyperthreading option from the bios of the computer all works > fine, otherwise the threaded application d

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: COPY quote must be a single ASCII character

2008-02-08 Thread Andrej Kastrin
The answer is simple no. I know I can to some preprocessing on input files using awk, sed etc. but don't want to change the structure of the file. Colin Wetherbee wrote: Andrej Kastrin wrote: ||5354235||,||some text...|| ||1234567||,||some text...|| ||1234568||,||some text...|| The sql stat

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: COPY quote must be a single ASCII character

2008-02-08 Thread Colin Wetherbee
Andrej Kastrin wrote: ||5354235||,||some text...|| ||1234567||,||some text...|| ||1234568||,||some text...|| The sql statement I defined was: COPY testtable FROM 'test.txt' WITH DELIMITER AS ',' CSV QUOTE AS '||'; but the error: ERROR: COPY quote must be a single ASCII character I guess I'

Re: [GENERAL] character conversion problem about UTF-8-->SHIFT_JIS_2004

2008-02-08 Thread Hiroshi Saito
Hi. use set client_encoding=''SJIS be the same to export PGCLIENTENCODING=SJIS. But can not export the data to csv file corecttly without errror, just because the character which is not SJIS encoding. Um, Please show the information on your database of 7.3. ex) postgres=# \l List of

Re: [GENERAL] character conversion problem about UTF-8-->SHIFT_JIS_2004

2008-02-08 Thread Hiroshi Saito
Hi. Oh ok, About the data in a database. From the pre- report, you are operating by UTF-8. Therfore, you should take it out by UTF-8 first. It is reload to new 8.3 of UTF-8. Then, conversion does not occur there. To the next. when SJIS is required by the client , some character codes may not

Re: [GENERAL] character conversion problem about UTF-8-->SHIFT_JIS_2004

2008-02-08 Thread bh yuan
I think i can export olddb(7.4) by encoding SJIS, but can not import it into new db(8.3) for some unregular sjis character. And I create the database by encoding UTF-8 . --- createdb -E UNICODE db --- I think it is the same to set PGCLIENTENCODING=UTF-8 . use set client_encoding=''SJIS be the same

[GENERAL] ERROR: COPY quote must be a single ASCII character

2008-02-08 Thread Andrej Kastrin
Dear all, I have to copy the file with the following delimiters into the database: ||5354235||,||some text...|| ||1234567||,||some text...|| ||1234568||,||some text...|| The sql statement I defined was: COPY testtable FROM 'test.txt' WITH DELIMITER AS ',' CSV QUOTE AS '||'; but the error: ER

[GENERAL] hyperthreading and pqlib

2008-02-08 Thread luca . ciciriello
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Re: [GENERAL] using DROP in a transaction

2008-02-08 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
ok, that explains. so i go on with my test, which still doesn't turn out as i expected (PostgreSQL 8.1.10). why?? ==in TTY1== (start.sql) create table test (id int4 primary key); --expect sucess insert into test (id) values (1); --expect success ==in TTY2== (tr1a.sql) begin; --expect success drop

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2/8.3 incompatibility

2008-02-08 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Harald Fuchs wrote: >> This works fine in 8.2.4, but 8.3.0 rejects the ALTER TABLE with the >> following (somewhat misleading) error message: >> >> ERROR: insert or update on table "t2" violates forei

Re: [GENERAL] character conversion problem about UTF-8-->SHIFT_JIS_2004

2008-02-08 Thread Hiroshi Saito
Oops again.. or -- set PGCLIENTENCODING=SJIS pg_dump or copy of psql's. -- However, an environmental setup is as follows again. export PGCLIENTENCODING=SJIS :-) Regards, Hiroshi Saito - Original Message - From: "Hiroshi Saito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi. - Original Message --

Re: [GENERAL] character conversion problem about UTF-8-->SHIFT_JIS_2004

2008-02-08 Thread Hiroshi Saito
Hi. - Original Message - From: "bh yuan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks for your replay. The "0xe9ab99" is not SJIS nor SHIFT_JIS_2004. Ahh Ok, you already understood. :-) But I shoud export data with not regular SJIS character from old database(7.4.3) to new database(8.3), and us

Re: [GENERAL] character conversion problem about UTF-8-->SHIFT_JIS_2004

2008-02-08 Thread bh yuan
Thanks for your replay. The "0xe9ab99" is not SJIS nor SHIFT_JIS_2004. But I shoud export data with not regular SJIS character from old database(7.4.3) to new database(8.3), and use the old programe which export data as SJIS encoding .csv file. Can I modify conf file to ignore the error? or check