Re: [GENERAL] Installation problem ~!

2008-08-05 Thread Albe Laurenz
Harshad Pethe wrote: > I have recently tried to install pgsql on Windows but > I get the following error consistently ! > > Error : " psql : recieved invalid response to SSL negotiation ! " > > This error is encountered as soon as I try to start psql ! Sounds like an SSL problem. Chec

Re: [GENERAL] Initdb problem on debian mips cobalt: Bus error

2008-08-05 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Glyn Astill wrote: http://privatepaste.com/cbY2S4JhtA Very little difference with the -O0 FWIW: there also seems to be a fairly indepth discussion on the cobalt related netbsd list from last year about a problem that looks very similiar (at least to you issue with etch): http://www.nabble

Re: [GENERAL] recovery via base + WAL replay failure

2008-08-05 Thread Rob Adams
Finally figured out what was wrong. The data folder had incorrect permissions after unzipping the base backup. For me, the solution was unchecking the "Inherit from parent the permission entries that apply to child objects" option in the Advanced Security Settings dialog for the data folder & g

[GENERAL] GiST indices and statistical approximations

2008-08-05 Thread Rajarshi Guha
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was reading the Wikipedia entry on GiST (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiST) and it mentions """ Although originally designed for answering Boolean selection queries, GiST can also support nearest-neighbor search, and various forms of sta

Re: [GENERAL] FTS on patterns

2008-08-05 Thread Vyacheslav Kalinin
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's support for prefix text search in CVS HEAD, but not in any > released version ... > >regards, tom lane > Oh, does that mean it won't be released until 8.4?

Re: [GENERAL] What happen to the VARATT_SIZEP macro in version 8.3?

2008-08-05 Thread Tom Lane
Glyn Astill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What replaces the VARATT_SIZEP macro in version 8.3? I have spent a >> long time checking the documentation and have not found the answer. > SET_VARSIZE Yes; you should always use VARSIZE() to fetch the length and SET_VARSIZE() to set it. If you need yo

Re: [GENERAL] bytea encode performance issues

2008-08-05 Thread Tom Lane
Sim Zacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Results below: >> ... but given that, I wonder whether the cost isn't from fetching >> the toasted messageblk data, and nothing directly to do with either >> the encode() call or the ~~ test. It would be interesting to compare >> the results of Okay, so sub

[GENERAL] Update tsvector trigger

2008-08-05 Thread x asasaxax
Hi, i´m trying to do a trigger that its called when update or insert, that update the tsvectors, for text-search. Here´s my code: create table x( cod serial, texto text, vectors tsvector, constraint pk primary key(cod) ); CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION atualiza_vectors() RETURNS trigger AS $$

Re: [GENERAL] What happen to the VARATT_SIZEP macro in version 8.3?

2008-08-05 Thread Glyn Astill
> > What replaces the VARATT_SIZEP macro in version 8.3? I have > spent a long > time checking the documentation and have not found the > answer. > SET_VARSIZE __ Not happy with your email address?. Get the one you really want - m

Re: [GENERAL] What happen to the VARATT_SIZEP macro in version 8.3?

2008-08-05 Thread Jaime Casanova
On 8/5/08, Don Pannese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have C code which defines some user defined postgres functions. This code > has been used with Postgres version 7.4 and it uses the VARATT_SIZEP macro. > seems that macro was deprecated in 8.3... this is the commit that removed it: http://arc

Re: [GENERAL] replication only

2008-08-05 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:03:19AM +0200, Henry wrote: > just much simpler to use -- not as flexible and as powerful as Slony, but > if all you need to do is replicate some tables with minimum fuss and > without having to learn a new language, then Skytools (based on my > personal experience with

Re: [GENERAL] Initdb problem on debian mips cobalt: Bus error

2008-08-05 Thread Glyn Astill
http://privatepaste.com/cbY2S4JhtA Very little difference with the -O0 __ Not happy with your email address?. Get the one you really want - millions of new email addresses available now at Yahoo! http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/ymail/new.ht

[GENERAL] What happen to the VARATT_SIZEP macro in version 8.3?

2008-08-05 Thread Don Pannese
Hello all, I have C code which defines some user defined postgres functions. This code has been used with Postgres version 7.4 and it uses the VARATT_SIZEP macro. I updated to Postgres version 8.3 and attempted to compile my C code and noticed that the VARATT_SIZEP macro (which my code use

[GENERAL] Heikki's Visibility Map for postgres 8.4?

2008-08-05 Thread Josh Harrison
Hi, Is Heikki's Visibility Map patch included for the Postgresql 8.4 version http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg00142.php If not whats the status of that patch? Im especially interested in the index-only scan mentioned there!!! Thanks

Re: [GENERAL] Moved database question

2008-08-05 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Bayless Kirtley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had to move my database to a new disk. I dropped the original after a > pg_dump and then removed the old directory. I then ran initdb on the new > location, created the database and restored from the pg_dump. > > My pro

Re: [GENERAL] Moved database question

2008-08-05 Thread brian
Bayless Kirtley wrote: I had to move my database to a new disk. I dropped the original after a pg_dump and then removed the old directory. I then ran initdb on the new location, created the database and restored from the pg_dump. My problem now is that I have to supply the full pathnames to sta

[GENERAL] Moved database question

2008-08-05 Thread Bayless Kirtley
I had to move my database to a new disk. I dropped the original after a pg_dump and then removed the old directory. I then ran initdb on the new location, created the database and restored from the pg_dump. My problem now is that I have to supply the full pathnames to start or stop the server.

[GENERAL] Installation problem ~!

2008-08-05 Thread Harshad Pethe
Hi, I have recently tried to install pgsql on Windows but I get the following error consistently ! Error : " psql : recieved invalid response to SSL negotiation ! " This error is encountered as soon as I try to start psql ! The installation completes fine , but I'm not able to do anythin

Re: [GENERAL] max_fsm_relations question

2008-08-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Kynn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi. I have a database that is created and populated by a Perl script. > (FWIW, the size of this database is about 12GB, according to > pg_database_size()). > > If, right after the database is built, I connect to it and manually run > VACUUM ANA

[GENERAL] max_fsm_relations question

2008-08-05 Thread Kynn Jones
Hi. I have a database that is created and populated by a Perl script. (FWIW, the size of this database is about 12GB, according to pg_database_size()). If, right after the database is built, I connect to it and manually run VACUUM ANALYZE, I get the warning NOTICE: max_fsm_relations(1000) equa

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum Vs Vacuum Full

2008-08-05 Thread Tom Lane
"Matthew T. O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> 8.2. But you could still get that message, even in CVS HEAD, if >> autovacuum was failing to complete for some reason (and had been >> failing for quite a long time). > Should that message to updated since a database-wide vacu

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum Vs Vacuum Full

2008-08-05 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Tom Lane wrote: "Matthew T. O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BTW, what version of PostgreSQL is this? Database-wide vacuum is no longer required for XID wraparound issues. I think this was an 8.3 change but might have happened in 8.2, I don't remember. 8.2. But you could still get tha

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum Vs Vacuum Full

2008-08-05 Thread Tom Lane
"Matthew T. O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Monday 04 August 2008 11:04:00 pm Robert Shaw wrote: >>> "WARNING: database "mydb" must be vacuumed within 177009986 transactions >>> HINT: To avoid a database shutdown, execute a full-database VACUUM in >>> "mydb". > BTW, what version of P

Re: [GENERAL] replication only

2008-08-05 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:34 AM, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to Jef Peeraer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You'd probably be best with Slony, just don't replicate that 1 table > that you'll need to write to. That's one of my favorite things about slony. -- Sent via pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] replication only

2008-08-05 Thread Henry
On Tue, August 5, 2008 9:21 am, Jef Peeraer wrote: > > i read about the replication possibilities with postgresql. If i just need > some replication ( without failover stuff ) to 1 standby server, what > would be the best option to go with. Slony i presume, although schema > chanages are not propag

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum Vs Vacuum Full

2008-08-05 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Adrian Klaver wrote: On Monday 04 August 2008 11:04:00 pm Robert Shaw wrote: "WARNING: database "mydb" must be vacuumed within 177009986 transactions HINT: To avoid a database shutdown, execute a full-database VACUUM in "mydb"."Which is reason I ask the question, is full vacuum backup useful f

Re: [GENERAL] FTS on patterns

2008-08-05 Thread Tom Lane
"Vyacheslav Kalinin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In our application we need a pattern based text search, that is if user > supplies 'foo bar' he receives only documents containing words that begin > with 'foo' or 'bar' There's support for prefix text search in CVS HEAD, but not in any released v

Re: [GENERAL] FTS on patterns

2008-08-05 Thread Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo
tsearch can help you; i have a system with it ... and its ok. El mar, 05-08-2008 a las 18:03 +0400, Vyacheslav Kalinin escribió: > Hello, > > In our application we need a pattern based text search, that is if > user supplies 'foo bar' he receives only documents containing words > that begin with

[GENERAL] FTS on patterns

2008-08-05 Thread Vyacheslav Kalinin
Hello, In our application we need a pattern based text search, that is if user supplies 'foo bar' he receives only documents containing words that begin with 'foo' or 'bar', including themselves (something similar to MySQL '+foo* +bar*' text search query). Currently we use separate table for uniqu

Re: [GENERAL] Initdb problem on debian mips cobalt: Bus error

2008-08-05 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The trouble with that approach is that it overrides *everything* that >> configure would normally put into CFLAGS. I only want one thing >> changing, please ... this is confusing enough already. > Eh? Sorry, me

Re: [GENERAL] replication only

2008-08-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jef Peeraer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Bill Moran wrote: > > > In response to Jef Peeraer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > i read about the replication possibilities with postgresql. If i just > > > need > > > some replication ( without failover stuff ) to 1 st

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum Vs Vacuum Full

2008-08-05 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Monday 04 August 2008 11:04:00 pm Robert Shaw wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to get to the bottom of the differences between a vacuum > and a vacuum full, it seems to me that the difference is that a vacuum full > also recovers disk space(and locks things making it less than useful on > produ

Re: [GENERAL] replication only

2008-08-05 Thread Jef Peeraer
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Jef Peeraer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > i read about the replication possibilities with postgresql. If i just need > > some replication ( without failover stuff ) to 1 standby server, what > > would be the best option to go with. > > Yo

Re: [GENERAL] replication only

2008-08-05 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jef Peeraer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > i read about the replication possibilities with postgresql. If i just need > some replication ( without failover stuff ) to 1 standby server, what > would be the best option to go with. Your description of you requirements is very lacking, so

Re: [GENERAL] is a 'pairwise' possible / feasible in SQL?

2008-08-05 Thread Sam Mason
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 05:00:31PM -0400, Rajarshi Guha wrote: > On Aug 4, 2008, at 4:55 PM, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > select a.cid as ac, b.cid as bc, count(*) from aic_cid a left > >outer join > >aic_cid b on a.cid <>b.cid and a.id = b.id where b.cid is not null > >group by > >a.cid, b.cid o

Re: [GENERAL] replication only

2008-08-05 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 05/08/2008 08:21, Jef Peeraer wrote: would be the best option to go with. Slony i presume, although schema chanages are not propagated. Schema changes *are* propagated in Slony, using the EXECUTE SCRIPT statement: http://www.slony.info/documentation/stmtddlscript.html Ray. ---

[GENERAL] equivalent of "using namespace" with schema

2008-08-05 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
Is there anything simpler than processing the search_path to obtain the same effect of using namespace XXX or if I'd like to execute the same set of operations on the same "objects" just in a different schema? -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it -- Sent via pgsql-general mail

Re: [GENERAL] Initdb problem on debian mips cobalt: Bus error

2008-08-05 Thread Gregory Stark
"Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> (Rather than trying to browbeat configure into doing this, I'd suggest >>> manually adjusting CFLAGS in src/Makefile.global, then "make clean" and >>> rebuild.) > >> eh?

Re: [GENERAL] Initdb problem on debian mips cobalt: Bus error

2008-08-05 Thread Glyn Astill
> > "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > (Rather than trying to browbeat configure into > doing this, I'd suggest > > > manually adjusting CFLAGS in src/Makefile.global, > then "make clean" and > > > rebuild.) > > > > eh? either of these should work fine: > > > > ./configure --enabl

[GENERAL] Returning Cursor

2008-08-05 Thread ravi kiran
Hello, I am a developer working on postgres. I just wrote a function which ll return a refcurosor as shown below. CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION reffunc(refcursor) RETURNS refcursor AS $BODY$ BEGIN OPEN $1 FOR SELECT * FROM SAM1; RETURN $1; END; $BODY$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE COST

[GENERAL] Vacuum Vs Vacuum Full

2008-08-05 Thread Robert Shaw
Hi, I've been trying to get to the bottom of the differences between a vacuum and a vacuum full, it seems to me that the difference is that a vacuum full also recovers disk space(and locks things making it less than useful on production servers). But I believe that both will fix the transacti

[GENERAL] replication only

2008-08-05 Thread Jef Peeraer
i read about the replication possibilities with postgresql. If i just need some replication ( without failover stuff ) to 1 standby server, what would be the best option to go with. Slony i presume, although schema chanages are not propagated. thanks jef peeraer -- Sent via pgsql-general

[GENERAL] mailing list/newsgroup disconnect

2008-08-05 Thread Sim Zacks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There seems to be a disconnect between the mailing list and the newsgroup right now. I received a bunch of replies via email that did not show up in the newsgroup. (I did not receive any messages that were sent to the mailing list and not to me persona