Re: [GENERAL] Delete/update with limit

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Kroeger
Csaba Nagy wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 19:06, Stephan Szabo wrote: >>> Unfortunately I don't think this will work. Multiple backends will happily >>> pick up the same ctid in their selects and then try to delete the same >>> records. >> I'm pretty sure he said that the batch processing (and the

Re: [GENERAL] Slow query and indexes...

2007-05-07 Thread Andrew Kroeger
Jonas Henriksen wrote: >>> explain analyze SELECT max(date_time) FROM data_values; > Goes fast and returns: In prior postgres versions, the planner could not take advantage of indexes with max() (nor min()) calculations. A workaround to this was (given an appropriate index) a query like: select

Re: [GENERAL] selective export for subsequent import (COPY)

2007-04-23 Thread Andrew Kroeger
Tom Lane wrote: > chrisj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This helped a lot, but ideally I want a tab field delimiter and -F '\t' does >> not seem to work, any ideas?? > > I don't think there's any provision for backslash-notation in that > switch; you'd need to type an actual tab character there.

Re: [GENERAL] role passwords and md5()

2007-04-12 Thread Andrew Kroeger
Lutz Broedel wrote: > Dear list, > > I am trying to verify the password given by a user against the system > catalog. Since I need the password hash later on, I can not just use the > authentication mechanism for verification, but need to do this in SQL > statements. > Unfortunately, even if I set

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL under Cpanel

2007-01-23 Thread Andrew Kroeger
Erick Papadakis wrote: Right now, if I wish to contribute to the documentation, how do I make it relevant? Look at MySQL docs, or PHP manual. I can leave comments in a context-relevant manner -- e.g., check at the bottom of page: http://sg.php.net/manual/en/ref.pgsql.php. Have you seen the "int

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size, and others

2007-01-09 Thread Andrew Kroeger
Jonathan Hedstrom wrote: Scott Marlowe wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 13:38, Jonathan Hedstrom wrote: We recently upgraded from 8.1.4 to 8.2.0 on Fedora Core 6, and are now seeing a few rather ominous-looking messages. [ SNIP ] Also, schedule some maintenance window for your server to run

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size, and others

2007-01-09 Thread Andrew Kroeger
Jonathan Hedstrom wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Also, schedule some maintenance window for your server to run memtest86 and possibly something to check for bad blocks on your drives. +1 ... I have not seen any instance of "invalid page header" that co