Re: [GENERAL] Configure default for sorting of null-values?

2010-09-07 Thread Rob Gansevles
Does anyone know if this is configurable? Or should I file a feature request? Rob On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Rob Gansevles wrote: > Hi, > > From the docs I see that you can control null values being sorted > before or after all non-null-values using 'NULLS LAST' or 'NULLS > FIRST' in the

Re: [GENERAL] Configure default for sorting of null-values?

2010-09-07 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Le 07/09/2010 09:57, Rob Gansevles a écrit : > Does anyone know if this is configurable? > You can only add that clause in the order by. There's no way to have a "default value" at connection time or as a server configuration parameter. -- Guillaume http://www.postgresql.fr http://dalibo.com

Re: [GENERAL] Configure default for sorting of null-values?

2010-09-07 Thread Tom Lane
Rob Gansevles writes: > Does anyone know if this is configurable? > Or should I file a feature request? It is not, and a feature request is probably going to go nowhere. The reason configurability seems like a bad idea is that null sort direction is wired into things like index contents. If a us

Re: [GENERAL] Forcing the right queryplan

2010-09-07 Thread Henk van Lingen
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:20:39AM +0200, Yeb Havinga wrote: > > If the index is useless anyway, you might consider dropping it. > Otherwise, increasing random_page_cost might help in choosing the > otherplan, but on the other hand that plan has index scanning too, > so I'm not to sure t

Re: [GENERAL] does record_eq() ignore user-defined operators?

2010-09-07 Thread Kurt
Kurt writes: >> i'm trying to replicate tables containing XML-fields using Pg 8.4.4 and >> 9.0B4 with Bucardo and got: >> DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: could not identify an equality >> operator for type xml Tom Lane writes: > You would need to create a default btree or hash opclass for xm

Re: [GENERAL] Configure default for sorting of null-values?

2010-09-07 Thread Craig Ringer
On 7/09/2010 10:32 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Rob Gansevles writes: Does anyone know if this is configurable? Or should I file a feature request? It is not, and a feature request is probably going to go nowhere. The reason configurability seems like a bad idea is that null sort direction is wired in

Re: [GENERAL] Forcing the right queryplan

2010-09-07 Thread Alban Hertroys
Sorry for not replying earlier, I've been quite busy. On 31 Aug 2010, at 16:50, Henk van Lingen wrote: > syslog=# \d systemevents > Table "public.systemevents" > Column |Type | > Modi > fiers

Re: [GENERAL] Forcing the right queryplan

2010-09-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Henk van Lingen wrote: > > Thanks for your answer. Dropping the (pkey) index is not an option. > iostat suggest the thing is CPU bound (%iowait remaining 11% but cpu > rizing from 1 to 13 %) How man cores that server have? If you've got 8 cores and one IO bound on

Re: [GENERAL] On-disk size of db increased after restore

2010-09-07 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 11:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > I'm confused. I'm still seeing a bug in here: I cannot restore a > dump > > effectively... Running CLUSTER or VACUUM FULL does not make any > sense to > > me in here. > > Oh, wait. What you need is this patch: > > 2010-06-06 23:01 itagaki

[GENERAL] Empty SELECT result at simultaneous calls

2010-09-07 Thread Stefan Wild
Hello guys, I have a problem with my web application and postgres. I have several servlets on a page which results in severeal simultaneous data base calls kind of: SELECT d.id, d.aa, d.ab, ts.ac, d.ad, d.af, d.ag, d.ah, d.ai, d.aj, d.ak, d.al, d.am, d.an, d.ao, d.ap, d.ar, d.as, d.at, d.au, d

[GENERAL] Find \ in text

2010-09-07 Thread Christine Penner
I have a character field in a table that contains either a file name or a full path and file name. I need to pick out the ones that have no full path. I do this by looking for no \. This is what I am doing: select MM_PATH_FILE from MULTI_MEDIA Where MM_PATH_FILE NOT ILIKE '%\\%' -this g

Re: [GENERAL] Find \ in text

2010-09-07 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 09/07/2010 02:04 PM, Christine Penner wrote: I have a character field in a table that contains either a file name or a full path and file name. I need to pick out the ones that have no full path. I do this by looking for no \. This is what I am doing: select MM_PATH_FILE from MULTI_MEDIA Wher

Re: [GENERAL] Find \ in text

2010-09-07 Thread Steve Crawford
On 09/07/2010 02:04 PM, Christine Penner wrote: I have a character field in a table that contains either a file name or a full path and file name. I need to pick out the ones that have no full path. I do this by looking for no \. This is what I am doing: select MM_PATH_FILE from MULTI_MEDIA Wh

Re: [GENERAL] Find \ in text

2010-09-07 Thread Steve Crawford
On 09/07/2010 02:04 PM, Christine Penner wrote: I have a character field in a table that contains either a file name or a full path and file name. I need to pick out the ones that have no full path. I do this by looking for no \. This is what I am doing: select MM_PATH_FILE from MULTI_MEDIA Wh

Re: [GENERAL] Find \ in text

2010-09-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/07/10 2:44 PM, Steve Crawford wrote: Any other suggestions? ... like E'%%' and, for extra fun, if that SQL statement is a constant string in a C or similar programming language, you may well need to double up those \'s again so that SQL sees them as the C/C++/etc parser itself d

Re: [GENERAL] Empty SELECT result at simultaneous calls

2010-09-07 Thread Tom Lane
Stefan Wild writes: > I have a problem with my web application and postgres. I have several > servlets on a page which results in severeal simultaneous data base calls > kind of: > SELECT d.id, d.aa, d.ab, ts.ac, d.ad, d.af, d.ag, d.ah, d.ai, d.aj, d.ak, > d.al, d.am, d.an, d.ao, d.ap, d.ar,

[GENERAL] "private" installation of postgres

2010-09-07 Thread Scott Ribe
Assume I want to install an instance of postgres such that it cannot interfere with another install, or even be visible to other apps. Is this all I need to do: - install pg somewhere within my own directory - init the db somewhere within my own directory - disallow IP connections - set the sock

Re: [GENERAL] "private" installation of postgres

2010-09-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/07/10 5:15 PM, Scott Ribe wrote: Assume I want to install an instance of postgres such that it cannot interfere with another install, or even be visible to other apps. Is this all I need to do: - install pg somewhere within my own directory - init the db somewhere within my own director

Re: [GENERAL] "private" installation of postgres

2010-09-07 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Tuesday 07 September 2010, John R Pierce elucidated thus: > On 09/07/10 5:15 PM, Scott Ribe wrote: > > Assume I want to install an instance of postgres such that it > > cannot interfere with another install, or even be visible to other > > apps. Is this all I need to do: > > > > - install pg s

Re: [GENERAL] "private" installation of postgres

2010-09-07 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 > Assume I want to install an instance of postgres such > that it cannot interfere with another install, > or even be visible to other apps. Is this all I need to do: > > - install pg somewhere within my own directory > - init the db somewhere

Re: [GENERAL] "private" installation of postgres

2010-09-07 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/07/10 5:24 PM, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: I'm pretty sure the socket directory is hard coded in the source, I don't think you can override it even with ./configure postgresql.conf: unix_socket_directory = '/var/run/postgresql' for some reason, I'm remembering that last time I looked, the

Re: [GENERAL] "private" installation of postgres

2010-09-07 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
It is defined in postgresql.conf unix_socket_directory = '/var/run/postgresql' On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:20:24 -0700 John R Pierce wrote: > On 09/07/10 5:15 PM, Scott Ribe wrote: > > Assume I want to install an instance of postgres such that it > > cannot interfere with another install, or even

Re: [GENERAL] "private" installation of postgres

2010-09-07 Thread Scott Ribe
On Sep 7, 2010, at 6:30 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > for some reason, I'm remembering that last time I looked, there were places > where this value wasn't being used. but then again, maybe I'm thinking of > something else entirely different and am just confused. wouldn't be the > first time.

Re: [GENERAL] "private" installation of postgres

2010-09-07 Thread Scott Ribe
On Sep 7, 2010, at 6:28 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > Yep, that should do it. I do this all the time for testing > various programs. Set the socket with pg_ctl -o "-k newsocketdir" Thanks :-) -- Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice --

Re: [GENERAL] "private" installation of postgres

2010-09-07 Thread Tom Lane
John R Pierce writes: > On 09/07/10 5:24 PM, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: >>> I'm pretty sure the socket directory is hard coded in the source, I >>> don't think you can override it even with ./configure >> postgresql.conf: >> unix_socket_directory = '/var/run/postgresql' > for some reason, I'm rem

Re: [GENERAL] "private" installation of postgres

2010-09-07 Thread Scott Ribe
On Sep 7, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Personally, though, I think it's easier to change the default port > number and not worry about sharing /tmp. Changing the port is a good > idea anyway to avoid any possible conflicts on shared memory IDs. I was planning on changing the default port

[GENERAL] joins with text search

2010-09-07 Thread pg
hi- supposing i have the following table structure: vendors - id int - name varchar products - product_list_id int - vendor_id int references vendors - part_number varchar - description varchar - price - textsearch how can i execute some type of join and get the name of the vendor to be inclu

[GENERAL] Postgres 32bit on Windows 64bit, related components

2010-09-07 Thread Brendan Hill
We're about to purchase a new server for our Postgres 8.4 database. We'd like to go with Windows 64bit for possible future developments, but are happy to stick with 32bit Postgres + Npgsql, ODBC, OpenSSL, slony2 and libxml2, libpq. I understand that Postgres 32bit runs fine in Windows 64bit, bu

[GENERAL] pgfoundry news section

2010-09-07 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
Hi, It seems the news section on http://pgfoundry.org wasn't updated for a while. I thought this is automatically done if each project put a news. pgpool-II project put news several times, but it never appeas on the page. Does anybody know who is able to fix this? -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Jap

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 32bit on Windows 64bit, related components

2010-09-07 Thread Jayadevan M
> We're about to purchase a new server for our Postgres 8.4 database. > We’d like to go with Windows 64bit for possible future developments, > but are happy to stick with 32bit Postgres + Npgsql, ODBC, OpenSSL, > slony2 and libxml2, libpq. Any specific reasons for choosing Windows? Once in a whil