Re: [GENERAL] Adding German Character Set to PostgresSQL

2012-01-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Hagen Finley: > Yes but I couldn't input your second line - the ('ä,ß,ö') was not > possible via the psql client - just got beeped when I tried to type or > paste those characters. If you start "cat" instead of "psql", can you enter those characters? What about "python" or the shell itself? Wha

Re: [GENERAL] stop server

2012-01-03 Thread Raghavendra
2012/1/3 roberto sanchez muñoz > i tried but still had the same error and i dont know how to see the logs > $ cd /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.2/bin/ > $ ./pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres stop -mi > waiting for server to shut > down

Re: [GENERAL] stop server

2012-01-03 Thread roberto sanchez muñoz
i tried but still had the same error and i dont know how to see the logs $ cd /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.1.2/bin/ $ ./pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres stop -mi waiting for server to shut down... failed pg_ctl: server does not shut do

Re: [GENERAL] stop server

2012-01-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/02/12 10:10 PM, roberto sanchez muñoz wrote: i tried but still had the same error and i dont know how to see the logs /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log is probably your log, as thats what your PS output shows was the -r argument...its that or its in /usr/local/var/postgres/pg_log/

Re: [GENERAL] Adding German Character Set to PostgresSQL

2012-01-03 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 02.01.2012 20:13, schrieb Hagen Finley: > I am using psql (8.2.15) and I would like to input German characters > (e.g. ä,ß,ö) into char fields I have in a database I see that you are using Outlook which leads me to assume you are running Windows as host for your transaction. Therefor you might

Re: [GENERAL] Adding German Character Set to PostgresSQL

2012-01-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/02/12 6:21 PM, Hagen Finley wrote: Yes but I couldn't input your second line - the ('ä,ß,ö') was not possible via the psql client - just got beeped when I tried to type or paste those characters. the problem is, MS Windows and only MS Windows uses UTF16 instead of the UTF8 that the en

Re: [GENERAL] Large Objects and and Vacuum

2012-01-03 Thread Albe Laurenz
Simon Windsor wrote: [pg_largeobject keeps growing] > The data only has to be kept for a few days, and generally the system is > performing well, but as stated in the email, regular use of vacuumlo, vacuum > and autovacuum leaves the OS disc space slowly shrinking. > > As a last resort this week,

Re: [GENERAL] asynchronous api questions

2012-01-03 Thread Albe Laurenz
Nulik Nol wrote: > I have 2 questions regarding the asynchronous C api (I am using vers. 8.4): > > 1) To make a connection in non-blocking manner the api provides PGconn > *PQconnectStart(const char *conninfo) function. The parameters are > passed in 'conninfo' variable which is a string so I have

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot connect to 2nd cluster database remotely

2012-01-03 Thread Vibhor Kumar
On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:26 AM, Jacques Lamothe wrote: > Hi, I have 2 cluster databases, running on the same host, Linux with redHat. > My fist database port is set to default, 5432, but my second database port is > set to 5436 in the postgresql.conf file. While everything is ok with local > conn

Re: [GENERAL] stop server

2012-01-03 Thread Raghavendra
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > no when i use /usr/local/var/postgres/pg_log directory show me > this /usr/local/var/postgres/pg_log/-bash: /usr/local/var/postgres/pg_log/: > No such file or directory and i use the homebrew installation > > Sorry friend,, am new to homebr

Re: [GENERAL] stop server

2012-01-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
no when i use /usr/local/var/postgres/pg_log directory show me this /usr/local/var/postgres/pg_log/-bash: /usr/local/var/postgres/pg_log/: No such file or directory and i use the homebrew installation El 3 de enero de 2012 02:18, Raghavendra escribió: > 2012/1/3 roberto sanchez muñoz > >> i trie

Re: [GENERAL] Duplicated entries are not ignored even if a "do instead nothing" rule is added.

2012-01-03 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote: > On 3 Jan 2012, at 5:20, 邓尧 wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm new to pgsql, I need the do something like the "INSERT IGNORE" in mysql. >> After some searching I got a solution, which is adding a "do instead >> nothing" rule to the corresponding tabl

Re: [GENERAL] Adding German Character Set to PostgresSQL

2012-01-03 Thread Hagen Finley
Thank you all for your thoughtful suggestions. I just left for a 5 day East Coast business trip so I won't have a chance to tackle this gain until the weekend. For the record, I am running Centos as a VM on both a MAC OS 10.7 laptop and a Windows 7 Workstation. In theory, I ought to be able use

Re: [GENERAL] stop server

2012-01-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
thanks, doesn't stop the server i think i have to reinstall postgresql 2012/1/3 Raghavendra > > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >> no when i use /usr/local/var/postgres/pg_log directory show me >> this /usr/local/var/postgres/pg_log/-bash: /usr/local/var/postgres/pg_lo

[GENERAL] Single Table Select With Aggregate Function

2012-01-03 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm probably not seeing the obvious so I keep making the same mistake. The table holds water chemistry data from multiple streams, sites within each stream, sampling dates, and many chemical constituents. What I need to do are three things: 1.) Find the date and site for the maximum value

Re: [GENERAL] Single Table Select With Aggregate Function

2012-01-03 Thread Tom Lane
Rich Shepard writes: >What I need to do are three things: >1.) Find the date and site for the maximum value of a specified constituent > on a named stream. >2.) Find the values of that same constituent at other sites on the named > stream on that same date. >3.) Find the date of

Re: [GENERAL] Single Table Select With Aggregate Function

2012-01-03 Thread Ondrej Ivanič
Hi, On 4 January 2012 10:26, Rich Shepard wrote: > select max(quant), site, sampdate from chemistry where stream = 'SheepCrk' > and param = 'TDS' group by site, sampdate; > > but this gives me the value of each site and date, not the maximum for all > dates at a specific site. Postgres tells me t

Re: [GENERAL] Single Table Select With Aggregate Function

2012-01-03 Thread David Johnston
-Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Rich Shepard Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 6:27 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] Single Table Select With Aggregate Function I'm probably not seei

Re: [GENERAL] Single Table Select With Aggregate Function

2012-01-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012, Tom Lane wrote: You can do that type of thing using subqueries, eg select ... from mytab where col = (select max(col) from mytab where ...) Thanks, Tom. That's what I thought I needed. or if you don't mind a nonstandard construct, consider SELECT DIST

Re: [GENERAL] Single Table Select With Aggregate Function

2012-01-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Ondrej Ivanič wrote: window functions might be helpful: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/tutorial-window.html Thanks. I'll carefully read this. Much appreciated, Rich -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your