Re: [GENERAL] Column as arrays.. more efficient than columns?

2007-09-06 Thread Joe Conway
Ow Mun Heng wrote: => select code, subset, avg(value) from foo group by subset, code; code | subset | avg --++- A| 3 | 98. A| 1 | 20. A| 4 | 98. A| 0 | 98.000

Re: [GENERAL] Column as arrays.. more efficient than columns?

2007-09-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 20:57 -0500, Michael Glaesemann wrote: > On Sep 6, 2007, at 20:46 , Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > I would believe performance would be better it being denormalised. (in > > this case) > > I assume you've arrived at the conclusion because you have > (a) shown > that the performan

Re: [GENERAL] Column as arrays.. more efficient than columns?

2007-09-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 21:53 -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On 9/6/07, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Table is like > > > > create table foo ( > > number int, > > subset int, > > value int > > ) > > > > select * from foo; > > number | subset | value > > 111 > > 1

Re: [GENERAL] Column as arrays.. more efficient than columns?

2007-09-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Nobody has any comments on this?? On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 12:22 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Table is like > > create table foo ( > number int, > subset int, > value int > ) > > select * from foo; > number | subset | value > 111 > 122 > 1310 > 1

Re: [GENERAL] Adapter update.

2007-09-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 20:41 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > Murali Maddali wrote: > > This is what I am doing, I am reading the data from SQL Server 2005 and > > dumping to out to Postgresql 8.2 database. My 2 cents.. I'm doing roughly the same thing, but I'm using perl and DBI to do it. > Fastest

Re: [GENERAL] log_statement and PREPARE

2007-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But that should mean that my prepared statement that contains an INSERT > should be logged, yes? (8.1 issues notwithstanding) > I ask because i've set log_statement to 'mod' but am not seeing any > of my prepared statements in the log. INSERT, UPDATE, and friend

[GENERAL] What's the difference between SET STORAGE MAIN and EXTENDED?

2007-09-06 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
Hi, according to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/storage-toast.html: EXTENDED allows both compression and out-of-line storage. This is the default for most TOAST-able data types. Compression will be attempted first, then out-of-line storage if the row is still too big. MAIN a

Re: [GENERAL] log_statement and PREPARE

2007-09-06 Thread brian
Tom Lane wrote: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The docs (8.1) say the following about log_statement: -- snip -- ... mod logs all ddl statements, plus INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, TRUNCATE, and COPY FROM. PREPARE and EXPLAIN ANALYZE statements are also logged if their contained command is of an a

Re: [GENERAL] Column as arrays.. more efficient than columns?

2007-09-06 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Sep 6, 2007, at 20:46 , Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 20:20 -0500, Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Sep 6, 2007, at 19:58 , Ow Mun Heng wrote: Don't denormalise the table? Yes. Don't denormalize the tables. I would believe performance would be better it being denormalised. (in

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql 7.3 on Red Hat Enterprise 5 (Problem with SEMMNI, SEMMNS)

2007-09-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 9/6/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Darek Czarkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It can not be the resource limit, it has to be something else. I assume thi= > > s version of postgres is incompatible with RedHat ES 5. Changing to a newer= > > version of postgres is not an option f

Re: [GENERAL] Do AGGREGATES consistently use sort order?

2007-09-06 Thread Gregory Stark
"Chris Browne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory Stark) writes: > >> You can even do this with GROUP BY as long as the leading columns of >> the ORDER BY inside the subquery exactly matches the GROUP BY >> columns. ... > Is there not some risk that the query planner might c

Re: [GENERAL] an other provokative question??

2007-09-06 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Relational database pioneer says technology is obsolete > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9034619 > kindlt explain how?? There are several spins relevant to this: 1. He's trying to sell His New Thing, and it certainl

Re: [GENERAL] Column as arrays.. more efficient than columns?

2007-09-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 19:52 -0500, Michael Glaesemann wrote: > On Sep 6, 2007, at 19:37 , Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > Nobody has any comments on this?? > > Don't do it. don't do what? Don't denormalise the table? don't put them into arrays? Thing is, end-result is always for them to be in 1 row a

Re: [GENERAL] array_to_records function

2007-09-06 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 9/6/07, Yudie Pg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here I'm posting a function to convert array to records. > any other suggestions are welcome http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-07/msg01240.php http://people.planetpostgresql.org/merlin/index.php?/archives/4-fun-with-arrays.html merl

Re: [GENERAL] Do AGGREGATES consistently use sort order?

2007-09-06 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory Stark) writes: >> In theory we can't promise anything about future versions of >> Postgres but there are lots of people doing this already so if ever >> this was lost there would probably be some new explicit way to >> achieve th

Re: [GENERAL] a provocative question?

2007-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/06/07 20:45, Chris Browne wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Trevor Talbot") writes: >> There's also a point in regard to how modifications are made to your >> data store. In general, things working with text files don't go to >> much effort to mainta

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