[GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.2.x and JDBC driver

2007-02-26 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Hello List, I am not sure that this is the appropriated list but I try... I try to used BenchmarkSQL (release 2.3.2, built on February 12, 2006) with PostgreSQL 8.2.2 and then 8.2.3. By default, the JDBC driver included with this release of BenchmarkSQL is "postgresql-8.0.309.jdbc3.jar". So I d

Re: [GENERAL] RPM compat-postgresql-libs-4-2 for IA-64

2007-02-20 Thread DANTE Alexandra
-02-19 at 16:49 +0100, DANTE Alexandra wrote: Where can I find the RPM compat-postgresql-libs-4-2 for RHEL4-AS and IA-64 ? Those libs are extracted from 8.1.X RPMs and put together to form an RPM package. If you can build and send us 8.1.8 RPMs, I can build and upload that compat RPM

[GENERAL] RPM compat-postgresql-libs-4-2 for IA-64

2007-02-19 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Hello List, I work with PostgreSQL 8.2.3 on a IA-64 server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS update 2 and I am looking for the RPM compat-postgresql-libs-4-2 associated. Unfortunately, I didn't find it on http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/, even in the RPM available for the 8.2.1 release

Re: [GENERAL] Time Input with format HH.MM.SS

2007-02-01 Thread DANTE Alexandra
ing the "replace" function ? Any suggestions ? Regards, Alexandra A. Kretschmer wrote: am Thu, dem 01.02.2007, um 15:58:08 +0100 mailte DANTE Alexandra folgendes: Hello List, Is it possible to import in a TIMESTAMP(6) field a timestamp in which the format of hour is HH.MM

[GENERAL] Time Input with format HH.MM.SS

2007-02-01 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Hello List, Is it possible to import in a TIMESTAMP(6) field a timestamp in which the format of hour is HH.MM.SS (and not HH:MM:SS) ? In the documentation, at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/datatype-datetime.html#DATATYPE-TIMEZONES, I didn't find this format. So can I think tha

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.2 : warnings during the built with ICC 9.1.045

2006-12-13 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Hello List, Last question on the compilation of PostgreSQL 8.2 with the intel compiler icc. I work with an IA-64 server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS update 2 on which the Intel compiler icc 9.1.045 is available and I build PostgreSQL 8.2 with this compiler. To do that I generated RPM fro

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.2 : IPO link warning with ICC 9.1.045

2006-12-13 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Hello Tom, Martijn and List, Thank you for these precisions. I checked the spec file used to build the RPM and compile PostgreSQL and I ran the configure with the icc compiler by setting : %configure CC=/opt/intel/cc/9.1.045/bin/icc CFLAGS='-O2 -pipe -override_limits' I was afraid that this I

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.2 : IPO link warning with ICC 9.1.045

2006-12-12 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Hello List, I'm back with my questions on compilation of PostgreSQL 8.2. :-) I work with an IA-64 server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS update 2 on which the Intel compiler icc 9.1.045 is available. I try to build PostgreSQL 8.2 with this compiler. To do that : - I generated RPM from the "

[GENERAL] Questions about postgresql-8.2.0-2PGDG.src.rpm

2006-12-08 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Hello List, I am still trying to generate RPM for an IA-64 server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS and today, I got a question about the "postgresql-8.2.0-2PGDG.src.rpm". This src.rpm contains : -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 12459207 Dec 2 20:25 postgresql-8.2.0.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 po

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.2 on IA-64 : 2 regression tests FAILED

2006-12-07 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Hello List, I work on an IA-64 server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS, and as the 8.2 release is now available, I try to generate RPM for IA-64. To do that, I downloaded the "postgresql-8.2.0-2PGDG.src.rpm", extracted the ".spec" file and these files : -bash-3.00$ cd SOURCES/ -bash-3.00$ ls

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and Munin

2006-10-19 Thread DANTE Alexandra
rpm source available is : "rrdtool-1.2.13-1.fc3.rf.src.rpm". Can I use it on RHEL4-AS ? I also tried to find the rpm sources on the Red Hat web site, without success... Thanks, Alexandra Robin Ericsson wrote: On 10/19/06, DANTE Alexandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My problem is

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL and Munin

2006-10-19 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Hello List, I work with PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on an IA64 server with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS and I try to install Munin 1.2.4. To do that, I downloaded these RPM from Sourceforge : - munin-1.2.4-8rhel4.noarch.rpm -munin-node-1.2.4-8rhel4.noarch.rpm and "munin-plugins-postgresql-0.3.tar.tar" fr

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres on 64bit Windows Server with WOW64

2006-08-01 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Hello Mont, hello List, I am the person who wrote these threads and since, I haven't found the solution to compile PostgreSQL on Windows 64 bits...Instead, I used a 32 bit release of PostgreSQL on Windows 64 bits. I worked with "Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition with SP1 for It

Re: [GENERAL] Questions about update, delete, ctid...

2006-07-31 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Hello Tom, Martijn and List, Thank you for yours answers ! This point is now closed for me and I can go further in the mecanisms of VACUUM. Regards, Alexandra Tom Lane wrote: DANTE Alexandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: - during a SELECT query on a tuple just updated and co

Re: [GENERAL] Questions about update, delete, ctid...

2006-07-31 Thread DANTE Alexandra
s are done in the source code ? Thank you very much ! Regards, Alexandra DANTE Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:04:58AM +0200, DANTE Alexandra wrote: I've just seen that I've done a mistake in my example. My question was : is it correct to think that the

Re: [GENERAL] Questions about update, delete, ctid...

2006-07-31 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Hello Martijn, hello List, Thank you very much. I still have some questions, further to your answers : Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 12:00:19PM +0200, DANTE Alexandra wrote: Hello List, I try to understand perfectly the mecanisms used to update / delete a tuple

[GENERAL] Questions about update, delete, ctid...

2006-07-28 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Hello List, I try to understand perfectly the mecanisms used to update / delete a tuple (and consequently those used in VACUUM) and I've got some questions. I've created a small database with only one table called "nation". This table was created with this command : CREATE TABLE nation(

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM and index

2006-07-19 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Thank you Martijn for your answer ! I use the 8.1.3 release of PostgreSQL. Will it be sensible to launch an ANALYZE after the VACUUM to update statistics ? Regards, Alexandra Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 03:03:43PM +0200, DANTE Alexandra wrote: Imagine you have

[GENERAL] VACUUM and index

2006-07-19 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Hello List, Sorry to send an other e-mail on this subject but it is become a little bit vague for me. Imagine you have a database on which a lot of transactions are done daily : the tables will contain a lot of dead tuples and the B-tree index too. If I do a VACUUM on this database, will the

Re: [GENERAL] Background Writer and performances

2006-07-10 Thread DANTE Alexandra
s there a way to be more aggressive with pushing pages out to disk via PostgreSQL ? Regards, Alexandra Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 05:06:56PM +0200, DANTE Alexandra wrote: Hello List, I have uploaded charts on a ftp server. You can access to these 6 graphs by doing ftp vi

Re: [GENERAL] Background Writer and performances

2006-07-10 Thread DANTE Alexandra
= 100 - bgwriter_all_maxpages = 1000 I hope someone will give me explanations on the background writer. Thank you very much for your help. Regards, Alexandra DANTE Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:56:48PM +0200, DANTE Alexandra wrote:

[GENERAL] Background Writer and performances

2006-07-10 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Hello List, I’m using BenchmarkSQL to evaluate, characterize and optimize PostgreSQL in transaction processing. I work with PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on RHEL4-AS, Itanium-2 processor, 8GB RAM. The database, generated via BenchmarkSQL and used, is a 200-warehouses database and its size is about 20GB.

Re: [GENERAL] Aim of --enable-thread-safety ?

2006-07-10 Thread DANTE Alexandra
readed. Consequently, PostgreSQL can not execute a query in several CPU, the source code of PostgreSQL is not multi-threaded. Is it correct ? Thank you very much for your help. Regards, Alexandra Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 11:47:06AM +0200, DANTE Alexandra wrote

[GENERAL] Aim of --enable-thread-safety ?

2006-07-10 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Hello List, I wonder if this compilation option is really taken into account as PostgreSQL is not multi-threading but multi-processing. I have read that without this option, the libpq won't know anything about threads and may indeed have problems, but could you explain me how this option runs

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM and fsm_max_pages

2006-07-10 Thread DANTE Alexandra
n Fri, 2006-07-07 at 01:57, DANTE Alexandra wrote: Good morning List, I have seen several posts on this concept but I don’t find a complete response. I’m using BenchmarkSQL to evaluate PostgreSQL in transaction processing and I work with PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on RHEL4-AS, Itanium-2 processor, 8GB RAM.

[GENERAL] VACUUM and fsm_max_pages

2006-07-07 Thread DANTE Alexandra
Good morning List, I have seen several posts on this concept but I don’t find a complete response. I’m using BenchmarkSQL to evaluate PostgreSQL in transaction processing and I work with PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on RHEL4-AS, Itanium-2 processor, 8GB RAM. The database, generated via BenchmarkSQL and u

[GENERAL] How to compile PostGreSQL on Windows 64 bits ?

2006-04-13 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
Hello List, After having compiled and installed PostGreSQL on IA64, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS, I had to do the same thing on Windows 64 bits... I have read that PostGreSQL wasn't test on Windows 64 bits, is it still correct ? My problem is to find how obtain an Unix/Linux environnement co

Re: [GENERAL] Question about the contrib rpm ?

2006-03-06 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
Martijn van Oosterhout a écrit : On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:17:16PM +0100, DANTE ALEXANDRA wrote: Hello, We are working with PostGreSQL since november 2005, and ours questions are automatically those of novice persons, that's why your answer suprises us. The aim of our question

Re: [GENERAL] Question about the contrib rpm ?

2006-03-06 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
Hello, We are working with PostGreSQL since november 2005, and ours questions are automatically those of novice persons, that's why your answer suprises us. The aim of our question about the "contrib" rpm was to understand why this package exists, what it is used for, and how generate it. We

[GENERAL] How to save and restore a template database ?

2006-03-02 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
Hello, We have a question concerning backup / restore of database. Is it right if we say that for having a complete backup, we have do : 1. use pg_dumpall 2. do a backup of the modified "template1" database with pg_dump ? Our question is how to save and restore a template database, as "template

[GENERAL] Question about the contrib rpm ?

2006-03-02 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
Hello, We have generated a rpm with PostGreSQL 8.1.2, from the "tar.gz" file, compiled with the "icc" Intel compiler on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS. During the compilation, we have had few warnings, but nevertheless, we work with this rpm without trouble. We have a question about the contr

[GENERAL] Question about "pg_upgrade"

2006-03-02 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
Hello, We have a question about "pg_upgrade". We work with PostGreSQL 8.1.2. We have seen that with the 8.1.0 release, some programs from contrib are now included in PostGreSQL, such as "dbsize". Is it the same thing with "pg_upgrade" ? Does it still exist ? If not, is there another tool to re

Re: [GENERAL] Initdb panic: invalid record offset at 0/0 creating

2006-01-20 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
e result file is about 16MB... I don't post it, but I can do an archive of this file if you want... I hope you would explain us with initdb fails. Thank you for your help. Regards, Alexandra DANTE Tom Lane a écrit : DANTE ALEXANDRA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: we recompil

[GENERAL] Initdb panic: invalid record offset at 0/0 creating template1]

2006-01-20 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
Hello, I work with Agnès Bocchino who have posted a message on the NOVICE mailing-list on an initdb error. Maybe we must post this message in the GENERAL mailing-list. I try, hoping someone knows this error. Regards, Alexandra DANTE Message original Sujet: [NOVICE] Initdb p

[GENERAL] Anyone doing a 8.1.0-ia64-RHEL4-as.rpm ?

2006-01-04 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
Hello, Is anyone working on an 8.1.0 RPM for IA64 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS ? On the web site : http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.1.1/linux/rpms/redhat/, I have found a "rhel-as 4" version for RHEL4 but I don't think it is a version for IA64. Could someone explain me how genera

Re: [GENERAL] out of memory during query execution

2005-12-21 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
Hello Tom, I've got others questions on work-mem parameter. On the "http://www.powerpostgresql.com/Downloads/annotated_conf_80.html"; web site, I've read that the work-mem specifies the amount of memory to be used by internal sort operations ans hash tables before switching to temporary disk f

Re: [GENERAL] out of memory during query execution

2005-12-21 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
Hello, Just to give you explanation, I will try to explain you why I have set the "work_mem" to 64MB. I noticed that some of the queries have finished with an "out of memory" because the file system on which temporary files were created was to small. Consequently, I have increase the size of

Re: [GENERAL] out of memory during query execution

2005-12-21 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
answer in January. Thank you. Regards, Alexandra DANTE Seneca Cunningham a écrit : DANTE ALEXANDRA wrote: The person is charge of building PostGreSQL 8.1.0 has done a 32 bit build and has used the "cc_r" compiler. This person does not succeed to build PostGreSQL 8.1.0 with "g

Re: [GENERAL] out of memory during query execution

2005-12-21 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
writes: On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:35:03PM +0100, DANTE ALEXANDRA wrote: You will find below the explain plan of one of the queries which has finished with "out of memory". This query contains aggregate and a sub-select with 6 joins : 1. Firstly, it could be the Hash n

Re: [GENERAL] out of memory during query execution

2005-12-20 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
think I will try to optimize PostGreSQL in a second time by creating appropriate indexes. I don't think that this index is on relevent column for this query. Regards, Alexandra DANTE Martijn van Oosterhout a écrit : On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:35:03PM +0100, DANTE ALEXANDRA wrote: You w

Re: [GENERAL] out of memory during query execution

2005-12-20 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
t;.l_partkey) AND (partsupp.ps_suppkey = "outer".l_s uppkey)) -> Index Scan using i_o_orderkey on orders (cost=0.00..5.19 rows=1 width=12) Index Cond: (orders.o_orderkey = "outer".l_orderkey) -> Seq Scan on nation

Re: [GENERAL] out of memory during query execution

2005-12-20 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
bits to solve this error ? Thank you for your help. Regards, Alexandra DANTE Chris Browne a écrit : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DANTE ALEXANDRA) writes: I am a PostGreSQL newbie. I work with the 8.1.0 release on AIX 5.3, with 300GB of datas. Some of the queries launched on this database finish with

[GENERAL] out of memory during query execution

2005-12-19 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
Hello, I am a PostGreSQL newbie. I work with the 8.1.0 release on AIX 5.3, with 300GB of datas. Some of the queries launched on this database finish with an "*out of memory*". The queries which have failed contain a lot of join (between 6 tables), sub-select and aggregate. For these queries, t

Re: [GENERAL] PostGreSQL 8.1.0 : out of memory during vacuum full

2005-12-13 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
launch the VACUUM FULL ANALYZE to update the statistics. Is it correct ? Why ANALYZE has taken less than one minute ? Thanks for your help. Regards Alexandra DANTE Tom Lane a écrit : DANTE ALEXANDRA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Then, on each table, I have launched the "VACUUM FULL ANA

[GENERAL] PostGreSQL 8.1.0 : out of memory during vacuum full analyze

2005-12-12 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
Hello, This is my first posting in this mailing list and I am a PostGreSQL newbie. I've posted this message in the "novice" mailing list last friday, but I have any response. I hope somenone could help me. I realize a benchmarck on PostGreSQL on a 300Gb database. I used the release 8.1.0. I