[GENERAL] Stemming not working with tsearch2() function

2007-04-30 Thread psql psql
Anyone know why to_tsvector('sausages') might return "sausages" while to_tsvector('default','sausages') correctly returns "sausag"? This is causing me a fairly major headache. I am guessing that the tsearch2() function used in my trigger is not specifying "default" when creating the tsvector sinc

Re: [GENERAL] Stemming not working with tsearch2() function

2007-04-30 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, psql psql wrote: Anyone know why to_tsvector('sausages') might return "sausages" while to_tsvector('default','sausages') correctly returns "sausag"? This is causing me a fairly major headache. I am guessing that the tsearch2() function used in my trigger is not specifying "

Re: [GENERAL] Temporal Units

2007-04-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Brent Wood wrote: If I'm following this correctly, then interval & extract timepart can be used to provide all the required functionality: Thanks, Brent. Your suggestions complete the approach I was considering. There is no need for real-time response, to checking after

[GENERAL] Selecting from a function(x,y) returning a row-type(sum, prod)

2007-04-30 Thread Heiko Klein
Hi, I'm trying to select data from a table, converting two values and return all four. Maybe this is best explained with an example: The function from the documentation on pl/pgsql: CREATE FUNCTION sum_n_product(x int, y int, OUT sum int, OUT prod int) AS $$ BEGIN sum := x + y; prod :

Re: [GENERAL] Temporal Units

2007-04-30 Thread John D. Burger
Rich Shepard wrote: I wonder if a workweek/holiday calendar table for PostgreSQL already exists. If not I need to track down the procedure for creating one as Joe Celko references such a calendar in his books. I think that any schema that has temporal components needs such a table. There

Re: [GENERAL] Selecting from a function(x,y) returning a row-type(sum, prod)

2007-04-30 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 30.04.2007, um 15:45:18 +0200 mailte Heiko Klein folgendes: > Hi, > > I'm trying to select data from a table, converting two values and return > all four. Maybe this is best explained with an example: > > The function from the documentation on pl/pgsql: > > CREATE FUNCTION sum_n_pr

Re: [GENERAL] Stemming not working with tsearch2() function

2007-04-30 Thread psql psql
On 4/30/07, Oleg Bartunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, psql psql wrote: > Anyone know why to_tsvector('sausages') might return "sausages" while > to_tsvector('default','sausages') correctly returns "sausag"? > > This is causing me a fairly major headache. I am guessing that t

Re: [GENERAL] Selecting from a function(x,y) returning a row-type(sum, prod)

2007-04-30 Thread Tom Lane
"A. Kretschmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > am Mon, dem 30.04.2007, um 15:45:18 +0200 mailte Heiko Klein folgendes: >> How can I do the following: >> >> select * from myvals, sum_n_product(myvals.x, myvals.y); > select x, y, sum_n_product(x,y) from myvals; This is only part of the answer, how

[GENERAL] Server crash on postgresql 8.2.4 with tsearch2

2007-04-30 Thread Philippe Amelant
Hi, I'm tryng to upgrade a 8.1.3 server to 8.2.4 and I have a problem with tsearch. I use french snowball package to compile a stemming lib -> dict_fr.so Now if I do a query like this select to_tsvector('default', '... something with more than 200 chars'); -> result ok but select to_tsvector(

Re: [GENERAL] Processing a work queue

2007-04-30 Thread John D. Burger
Andrew - Supernews wrote: Anyone have any ideas on how to handle a work queue? Advisory locks (userlocks in pre-8.2). Can someone explain why these are a better fit than whatever locks SELECT FOR UPDATE acquires? Thanks. - John D. Burger MITRE ---(end of br

Re: [GENERAL] Stemming not working with tsearch2() function

2007-04-30 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, psql psql wrote: On 4/30/07, Oleg Bartunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, psql psql wrote: > Anyone know why to_tsvector('sausages') might return "sausages" while > to_tsvector('default','sausages') correctly returns "sausag"? > > This is causing me a fai

Re: [GENERAL] Server crash on postgresql 8.2.4 with tsearch2

2007-04-30 Thread Tom Lane
Philippe Amelant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm tryng to upgrade a 8.1.3 server to 8.2.4 and I have a problem with > tsearch. > I use french snowball package to compile a stemming lib -> dict_fr.so Are you sure you used the same snowball version that tsearch2 uses? The snowball people have mad

[GENERAL] When the locially dropped column is also physically dropped

2007-04-30 Thread rupesh bajaj
Hi, I have dropped a column (say column name is 'A') from the relation R. By setting the attisdropped as true in the pg_catalog.pg_attribute table. But the column is dropped locially not the physically. Can you please tell me when this column will be physically also dropped. Is this column is auto

[GENERAL] tsearch2 issue

2007-04-30 Thread Matthew Cooke
Anyone know why to_tsvector('sausages') might return "sausages" while to_tsvector('default','sausages') correctly returns "sausag"? This is causing me a fairly major headache as it seems the tsearch2() function used by triggers is not specifying "default" which means many words that are ind

[GENERAL] Server crash on postgresql 8.2.4 with tsearch2

2007-04-30 Thread philippe
Hi, I'm tryng to upgrade a 8.1.3 server to 8.2.4 and I have a problem with tsearch. I use french snowball package to compile a stemming lib -> dict_fr.so Now if I do a query like this select to_tsvector('default', '... something with more than 200 chars'); -> result ok but select to_tsvector(

Re: [GENERAL] pljava on mac

2007-04-30 Thread jcrada
Hi, I finally could repair pljava sources to make it compile in Mac OS X 10.4.8. The problem is that XactListener.c (src/C/pljava) references XactEvent without including the library where it is declared. XactEvent is declared within xact.c and you can get this file from postgresql sources. What I d

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump without psql rights

2007-04-30 Thread Vinay Sajip
> > config tables are like other user created tables, the same access policy. > It's up to user grant access to them. True, but the tables should be created with the same owner as the database. I'm finding that they're created with owner "postgres" even though the database they're created in has a

Re: [GENERAL] Temporal Units

2007-04-30 Thread Alexander Staubo
On 4/28/07, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would like to store a temporal frequency as NUMERIC, without units, and have the application's front end (or middleware) transform the number to the appropriate interval name. I'm having difficulties figuring out how to do this. This is a

Re: [GENERAL] pljava for mac osx 10.4.8

2007-04-30 Thread jcrada
Hi, I'm looking for it too, I have the same configuration you do. Have you found a solution? Thanks On Mar 2, 11:31 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Eddy D. Sanchez") wrote: > I'm trying to install pljava on postgresql on macintosh > I have postgres runing, but I have not got any manual for install > pl

Re: [GENERAL] Temporal Units

2007-04-30 Thread Ted Byers
I am not sure I see why it would be good to do this using SQL, but I do know that I have used a number of Perl packages for this sort of thing. When I have done this in the past, I'd do the date and time calculations in Perl and feed the result to whatever RDBMS I happen to be using (PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Temporal Units

2007-04-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, John D. Burger wrote: There was a brief discussion of this just last week, with a few solutions suggested: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-04/msg01098.php John, That thread asked how to find business days between any two specified dates. I would like

Re: [GENERAL] Server crash on postgresql 8.2.4 with tsearch2

2007-04-30 Thread Philippe Amelant
Le lundi 30 avril 2007 à 11:51 -0400, Tom Lane a écrit : > Philippe Amelant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm tryng to upgrade a 8.1.3 server to 8.2.4 and I have a problem with > > tsearch. > > > I use french snowball package to compile a stemming lib -> dict_fr.so > > Are you sure you used the

Re: [GENERAL] Stemming not working with tsearch2() function

2007-04-30 Thread psql psql
On 4/30/07, Oleg Bartunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, psql psql wrote: > On 4/30/07, Oleg Bartunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, psql psql wrote: >> >> > Anyone know why to_tsvector('sausages') might return "sausages" while >> > to_tsvector('default',

Re: [GENERAL] Server crash on postgresql 8.2.4 with tsearch2

2007-04-30 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, philippe wrote: Hi, I'm tryng to upgrade a 8.1.3 server to 8.2.4 and I have a problem with tsearch. I use french snowball package to compile a stemming lib -> dict_fr.so Now if I do a query like this select to_tsvector('default', '... something with more than 200 chars');

Re: [GENERAL] Temporal Units

2007-04-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Ted Byers wrote: I am not sure I see why it would be good to do this using SQL, but I do know that I have used a number of Perl packages for this sort of thing. I am not arguing with you. I just want to know in what circumstances my schemas can be improved by a calendar

Re: [GENERAL] Disadvantages on having too many page slots?

2007-04-30 Thread Jim Nasby
On Apr 18, 2007, at 4:39 PM, Csaba Nagy wrote: Other than hard disk space, are there any disadvantages on having a large number of page slots? It's not using hard disk space, it's using shared memory, so you might want to adjust it to make that memory available for other purposes... AFAIK, th

Re: [GENERAL] permissions

2007-04-30 Thread Jim Nasby
On Apr 21, 2007, at 9:53 PM, Tom Allison wrote: I am not sure how the permissions work anymore. What I want to do is create a database and have a user create all the tables and rules. I created the database from user postgres. I then set the owner of the database to my userid my userid crea

Re: [GENERAL] The directory of the postgresql source

2007-04-30 Thread Jim Nasby
On Apr 23, 2007, at 8:27 AM, shieldy wrote: where can I get the help of the directory explantation to the postgresql src? I have to do some work about the definition of the internal functions. who can help me ? thankyou! You should read the developers FAQ, which is in the developers section

Re: [GENERAL] postgres on Windows: PAE and max memory

2007-04-30 Thread Jim Nasby
On Apr 24, 2007, at 8:50 PM, William Garrison wrote: I have a server running Windows Server 2003 32-bit that has 8GB of memory. Our system administrator installed PAE (Physical Address Extensions) which I know MS SQL Server will use, but I'm not sure if PostgreSQL will. Can PostgreSQL use

Re: [GENERAL] Bitmap Scan Pages

2007-04-30 Thread Jim Nasby
On Apr 25, 2007, at 7:36 AM, Listmail wrote: Is there a way to know how many pages were hit by a Bitmap Heap scan ? For instance : Bitmap Heap Scan on posts (cost=56.71..295.24 rows=2123 width=67) (actual time=0.575..1.462 rows=2160 loops=1) I'd like to know if it hit 2160 pages (i

Re: [GENERAL] reg: bitmap index implementation

2007-04-30 Thread Jim Nasby
On Apr 25, 2007, at 4:13 PM, sangeetha k.s wrote: does postgre sql support bitmap indexing for indexing the datatables. will that be possible to get the source of that. Search the -hackers archives for more information about this; I know there's a patch floating around, but

Re: [GENERAL] Limiting user connnections on 7.4

2007-04-30 Thread Jim Nasby
I think you might be able to accomplish this by setting up a pgpool instance for just the read-only connections and limiting how many connections are allowed there. On Mar 26, 2007, at 3:20 PM, Saqib Awan wrote: Yes other than max_connections. I have a read-only user whose connections need

Re: [GENERAL] Stemming not working with tsearch2() function

2007-04-30 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, psql psql wrote: On 4/30/07, Oleg Bartunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, psql psql wrote: > On 4/30/07, Oleg Bartunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, psql psql wrote: >> >> > Anyone know why to_tsvector('sausages') might return "sau

Re: [GENERAL] When the locially dropped column is also physically dropped

2007-04-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/27/07 07:01, rupesh bajaj wrote: > Hi, > I have dropped a column (say column name is 'A') from the relation R. By > setting the attisdropped as true in the pg_catalog.pg_attribute table. But > the column is dropped locially not the physically. Ca

[GENERAL] Questions about TSearch2 and PG 8.2

2007-04-30 Thread Markus Wollny
Hello! I'm in the process of upgrading our PostgreSQL 8.1 databases to PostgreSQL 8.2.4. I have stumbled over a minor issue with the upgrade and some helpful suggestions here: http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/291-The-pain-that-is-tsearch2-8.1-8.2-upgrading.html I sh

[GENERAL] function and bytea

2007-04-30 Thread Alain Roger
Hi, In my PHP page i upload pictures into database. For that i wrote a simple function which control which user is logged and will upload his picture. here is the function : CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION sp_a_006("login" character varying, photo bytea) RETURNS boolean AS $BODY$ DECLARE my_

Re: [GENERAL] Questions about TSearch2 and PG 8.2

2007-04-30 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Markus Wollny wrote: Hello! I'm in the process of upgrading our PostgreSQL 8.1 databases to PostgreSQL 8.2.4. I have stumbled over a minor issue with the upgrade and some helpful suggestions here: http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/291-The-pain-

Re: [GENERAL] NFS vs. PostgreSQL on Solaris

2007-04-30 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
On Apr 26, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote: "Thomas F. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 1. What aspect of postgres' memory usage would create an "out of memory" condition? I'm guessing you ran the box out of swap space --- look into what other processes got started as a result of ad

[GENERAL] pgsql and Mac OS X

2007-04-30 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to find the binaries for pgsql (the client) for Mac OSX. Is there any way to get these without installing all of postgres on a computer? I'm not going to use postgres on my MacBook, just connect to it. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3:

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql and Mac OS X

2007-04-30 Thread Erik Jones
On Apr 30, 2007, at 2:28 PM, Tom Allison wrote: I'm trying to find the binaries for pgsql (the client) for Mac OSX. Is there any way to get these without installing all of postgres on a computer? I'm not going to use postgres on my MacBook, just connect to it. If you have macports installe

Re: [GENERAL] When the locially dropped column is also physically dropped

2007-04-30 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("rupesh bajaj") writes: > Hi, I have dropped a column (say column name is 'A') from the > relation R. By setting the attisdropped as true in the > pg_catalog.pg_attribute table. But the column is dropped locially > not the physically. Can you please tell me when this column will

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql and Mac OS X

2007-04-30 Thread Tom Allison
I found psql in /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/rmdb.bundle/bin/psql which means that I can, as a user, access the database from a Mac. But I'm still unable to build the perl modules for DBD:Pg support. And this one seems a bit screwed up from default. Port is 5433, not 5432. pg_conf

Re: [GENERAL] postgres on Windows: PAE and max memory

2007-04-30 Thread Magnus Hagander
Jim Nasby wrote: > On Apr 24, 2007, at 8:50 PM, William Garrison wrote: >> I have a server running Windows Server 2003 32-bit that has 8GB of >> memory. Our system administrator installed PAE (Physical Address >> Extensions) which I know MS SQL Server will use, but I'm not sure if >> PostgreSQL wi

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql and Mac OS X

2007-04-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/rmdb.bundle/bin/psql That's not on my mac. Must be some bolt-on you installed. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www

Re: [GENERAL] NFS vs. PostgreSQL on Solaris

2007-04-30 Thread Tom Lane
"Thomas F. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Apr 26, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> "Thomas F. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> 3. What would cause postgres to die from a signal 11? >>> I've also got a core file if that's necessary for further forensics. >> >> Send gdb ba

Re: [GENERAL] When the locially dropped column is also physically dropped

2007-04-30 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ron's comment is well-suggested[1], but a bit of a red herring, as the > column will *NEVER* be "physically dropped." [2] Check. > What will happen is that new tuples will not have the column, but old > tuples will continue to have the (invisible) column

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql and Mac OS X

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Apr 30, 2007, at 16:20 , Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/rmdb.bundle/bin/ psql That's not on my mac. Must be some bolt-on you installed. Apple Remote Desktop uses PostgreSQL as it's data sto

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql and Mac OS X

2007-04-30 Thread Tom Lane
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I found psql in > /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/rmdb.bundle/bin/psql > which means that I can, as a user, access the database from a Mac. > But I'm still unable to build the perl modules for DBD:Pg support. > And this one seems a bit screwed

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql and Mac OS X

2007-04-30 Thread Tom Allison
On Apr 30, 2007, at 5:20 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/rmdb.bundle/bin/ psql That's not on my mac. Must be some bolt-on you installed. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Service

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql and Mac OS X

2007-04-30 Thread Tom Allison
That might be the thing to do. I'm wondering how Apple Remote Desktop got onto my machine and how to remove it. On Apr 30, 2007, at 5:38 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Apr 30, 2007, at 16:20 , Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> /System/Libr

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql and Mac OS X

2007-04-30 Thread Philip Hallstrom
That's not on my mac. Must be some bolt-on you installed. So how did you get it working? (I have no idea how this file got there. Wouldn't know where to begin) Coming in late so maybe someone already posted this, but I used this: http://www.postgresqlformac.com/ I wanted the server too, b

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql and Mac OS X

2007-04-30 Thread Tom Lane
Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm wondering how Apple Remote Desktop got onto my machine and how to > remove it. There isn't any particular need to remove it; it won't conflict with a standard PG installation. regards, tom lane ---(en

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql and Mac OS X

2007-04-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Tom" == Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> What you can do if you want to build PG from source is build normally Tom> but only install the client programs. The Fine Manual recommends Tom> gmake -C src/bin install Tom> gmake -C src/include install Tom> gmake -C src/in

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql and Mac OS X

2007-04-30 Thread Erik Jones
On Apr 30, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Tom Allison wrote: On Apr 30, 2007, at 5:38 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Apr 30, 2007, at 16:20 , Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Tom" == Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/rmdb.bundle/ bin/psql That's

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql and Mac OS X

2007-04-30 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Apr 30, 2007, at 16:39 , Tom Lane wrote: Yeah, Apple uses Postgres as a part of Remote Desktop, but I don't think they intend it for general use --- it deliberately uses a nonstandard port to avoid conflicting with a regular PG server. Really? I've had the Remote Desktop postgres instanc

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql and Mac OS X

2007-04-30 Thread Tom Allison
Please update the Randall Notebook to read: sudo fink install dbd-pg-unified-pm586 Perhaps this will be done in time for YAPC? On Apr 30, 2007, at 6:22 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Tom" == Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> What you can do if you want to build PG from source is buil

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql and Mac OS X

2007-04-30 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Glaesemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Apr 30, 2007, at 16:39 , Tom Lane wrote: >> Yeah, Apple uses Postgres as a part of Remote Desktop, but I don't >> think >> they intend it for general use --- it deliberately uses a nonstandard >> port to avoid conflicting with a regular PG serve

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql and Mac OS X

2007-04-30 Thread John DeSoi
You can get libpq (and psql) from the pgEdit distribution. Just right click on the application and choose "Show Package Contents". You'll find these files in Contents/MacOS/bin John http://pgedit.com/public/pgedit/pgEdit_mac_1.3.dmg On Apr 30, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Tom Allison wrote: I'm tryi

[GENERAL] IF function?

2007-04-30 Thread novnov
Does postgresql have a built in IF function that allows one to eval a condition and return one or another value? Like: IIF(mybooleanfield = true, "It's true", "It's not true") -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/IF-function--tf3673523.html#a10264910 Sent from the PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] IF function?

2007-04-30 Thread David Fetter
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:51:36PM -0700, novnov wrote: > > Does postgresql have a built in IF function that allows one to eval a > condition and return one or another value? Like: > > IIF(mybooleanfield = true, "It's true", "It's not true") It has CASE, as in CASE foo WHEN true THEN 'It''s tru

Re: [GENERAL] IF function?

2007-04-30 Thread Harpreet Dhaliwal
IF ( condition here) -- to do ELSE -- to END IF On 5/1/07, novnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does postgresql have a built in IF function that allows one to eval a condition and return one or another value? Like: IIF(mybooleanfield = true, "It's true", "It's not true") -- View this message