Re: [GENERAL] VM-Ware Backup of VM safe?

2017-09-22 Thread Klaus P. Pieper
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general- > ow...@postgresql.org] Im Auftrag von George Neuner > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 21. September 2017 18:35 > > I can't speak for all VM managers, but Vmware's standard static snapshots > *do* capture bot

Re: [SPAM] Re: [GENERAL] VM-Ware Backup of VM safe?

2017-09-20 Thread Klaus P. Pieper
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general- > ow...@postgresql.org] Im Auftrag von Moreno Andreo > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. September 2017 17:42 > I may be wrong, as I don't know MS SQL Server, but in the way you describe it, > you make me com

Re: [GENERAL] VM-Ware Backup of VM safe?

2017-09-20 Thread Klaus P. Pieper
> Von: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general- > ow...@postgresql.org] Im Auftrag von George Neuner > > But VSS is needed only to copy VM files *while* they are in use. If you > snapshot > the VM, the snapshot files then are read-only and can be freely copied. As > long > as t

Re: [GENERAL] VM-Ware Backup of VM safe?

2017-09-20 Thread Klaus P. Pieper
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general- > ow...@postgresql.org] Im Auftrag von Thomas Güttler > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. September 2017 10:03 > An: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Betreff: [GENERAL] VM-Ware Backup of VM safe? > > We run a P

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade --link on Windows

2017-06-14 Thread Klaus P. Pieper
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > > I apologize for not being smarter on this thread. When I helped with the > Windows port, I was told Windows didn't have hard links for use by tablespace > directories, so I got it into my head that Windows didn't have hard links. > Therefore, when I was wri

[GENERAL] LIMIT clause slowing down query in some cases, accelerating in others

2017-04-26 Thread Klaus P. Pieper
Running PostgreSQL 9.6 on a Windows Server. Table "t" is kind of a materialized view with > 100 columns and 2.24 Mio rows. Queries are generated by an ORM framework - fairly difficult to modify. Vacuum analyze was carried out - no impact. The framework generates queries like this: sel

Re: [GENERAL] Why is this functional index not used?

2017-03-21 Thread Klaus P. Pieper
A similar result was achieved by return a dummy ID from the function for records without country. Any idea why the functional index does not work in a LEFT JOIN query? Thanks Klaus Von: Jeff Janes [mailto:jeff.ja...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. März 2017 08:22 An: Klaus P.

[GENERAL] Why is this functional index not used?

2017-03-20 Thread Klaus P. Pieper
Given a country table and an order table: CREATE TABLE g.country ( -- inherited from table g.standard: oid uuid NOT NULL, -- … some more columns inherited… lisocode integer NOT NULL, -- Numeric ISO 3166 code szisoalpha2 character varying(2), -- The 2 letter country code szisoalpha

[GENERAL] Toolchain for extensions (language C, Visual Studio 2013 / 2015)

2016-05-16 Thread Klaus P. Pieper
I'm using the setting "Toolchain: Visual Studio 2010" for C language extensions. Is this still correct for the current versions? Thanks Klaus

[GENERAL] ON CONFLICT DO for UPDATE statements

2016-05-12 Thread Klaus P. Pieper - ibeq GmbH
We run two separate databases which are synchronized through our own replication system (two master databases, so we use our own trigger based methods). Let's call the two databases "main" and "remote". >From time to time we get constraint violations on sorting fields classified >UNIQUE when us

[GENERAL] ON CONFLICT DO for UPDATE statements

2016-05-12 Thread Klaus P. Pieper
We run two separate databases which are synchronized through our own replication system (two master databases, so we use our own trigger based methods). Let's call the two databases "main" and "remote". >From time to time we get constraint violations on sorting fields classified UNIQUE when user

Re: [GENERAL] Allow disabling folding of unquoted identifiers to lowercase

2016-05-08 Thread Klaus P. Pieper
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > > What exactly is the problem you are trying to solve? > > If you and your users are consistent about never using quotes, your users can > write: > > SELECT MyColumn FROM MyTable ORDER BY MyColumn; > > It will select mycolumn from mytable, but that doesn't

[GENERAL] Experience with PL/xx?

2003-10-27 Thread Klaus P. Pieper
Hi, does anybody out there have experience with the several PL's which are available for PostgreSQL? I am currently evaluating several databases (commercial as well as free & open source) for a new project and would just like to hear some feedback. PL/Java seems to be developed by a fairly small