Re: [GENERAL] searchable book database

2010-08-21 Thread Filip Rembiałkowski
You have plenty other FTS options: postgres has built-in FTS (tsearch), and if you need something more lightweight than Solr, you can use Sphinx. 2010/8/20 Miguel Vaz > > Thank you all for your replies. I already had read about Lucene in its > general flavour and eventually caught up about it

Re: [GENERAL] Could not Store French Accent Marks Correctly in Postgres

2010-08-21 Thread Ludwig Kniprath
Am 20.08.2010 23:10, schrieb Wang, Mary Y: Hi, I'm having a problem right now. Some of our French users uploaded some files with file names that had French accent marks, and those file names were inserted into the Postgres database. When I examined the value of those file names, they all ha

Re: [GENERAL] Could not Store French Accent Marks Correctly in Postgres

2010-08-21 Thread Jonathan Bond-Caron
On Fri Aug 20 05:10 PM, Wang, Mary Y wrote: > > So my questions are: > (1) What is the best character encoding that would work for most of  > those languages that have accent marks? Store data in PostgreSQL as UTF-8 > (2) I assume that I also > need to do some kind of conversion in the front end

[GENERAL] Optimal indexing of Full Text Search (ts_vector & ts_query) columns?

2010-08-21 Thread Denis Papathanasiou
After reading the documentation on Full Text Search here http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/textsearch-tables.html I created the following table and index: CREATE TABLE item ( pk uuid primary key, ... [more columns here] ... searchable_text text not null ); CREATE INDEX item_

[GENERAL] Optimal indexing of Full Text Search (ts_vector & ts_query) columns?

2010-08-21 Thread Denis Papathanasiou
After reading the documentation on Full Text Search here http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/textsearch-tables.html I created the following table and index: CREATE TABLE item ( pk uuid primary key, ... [more columns here] ... searchable_text text not null ); CREATE INDEX ite

Re: [GENERAL] Warm Standby and resetting the primary as a standby

2010-08-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
Derrick Rice wrote: > I've been reading up on the documentation for WAL shipping and warm standby > configuration. One concern that I have (a common one, I'm sure) is that it > seems that after bringing a standby server up as primary, other standby > servers (including the original primary) need to

[GENERAL] nntp not working

2010-08-21 Thread Arturo Pérez
Is anyone else having problems accessing the mailing lists through NNTP? -arturo -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] nntp not working

2010-08-21 Thread Christopher Browne
2010/8/18 Arturo Pérez : > Is anyone else having problems accessing the mailing lists through NNTP? Yeah, I see the occasional message coming through, but it looks like the gateway between mail and NNTP isn't working. -- http://linuxfinances.info/info/linuxdistributions.html -- Sent via pgsql-g

[GENERAL] append_array causes rapid growth according to pg_total_relation_size

2010-08-21 Thread Randall Smith
Hi, Using Postgres 8.4, I create this table: rcs_test=> \d array_big1; Table "public.array_big1" Column | Type | Modifiers ---+--+--- id| integer | not null chunk_ids | bigint[] | Indexes: "array_big1_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id) It's initial