[GENERAL] Understanding ps -ef "command" column

2008-02-22 Thread David Jaquay
When I do a ps -ef, in the command column, I see: postgres: postgres dbname 10.170.1.60(57413) idle I get all of this, except the "57413". What does this mean, and more importantly, how can I tie that number back to a connection that I've acquired via JDBC? In my case, I've got a connection tha

Re: [GENERAL] Understanding ps -ef "command" column

2008-02-22 Thread David Jaquay
Yeah, kinda guessed that. So there's no way (that you know of) to, say, cast my JDBC connection object to something Postgresql'y and peer into its internals? Thanks, Dave On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Douglas McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/22/08, David Jaqua

Re: [GENERAL] Understanding ps -ef "command" column

2008-02-22 Thread David Jaquay
(one of many) on the client. Thanks just the same, tho, Dave On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 22, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Douglas McNaught wrote: > > > On 2/22/08, David Jaquay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &

[GENERAL] LEFT JOIN issue

2008-09-09 Thread David Jaquay
I'm seeing a problem with a LEFT JOIN in 8.3.3, running on what I believe to be an Ubuntu Heron server. The sql below demonstrates the issue. What I expect to see is no rows in the output, i.e. the LEFT JOIN should pair the two rows together, and the WHERE clause should decide that the joined row

Re: [GENERAL] LEFT JOIN issue

2008-09-09 Thread David Jaquay
Just got an email saying that this has been fixed in 8.3.4, so I suppose I'll watch and wait for that. Thanks for looking, Alan (and anyone else who was watching this...) Dave On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Alan Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2008,

Re: [GENERAL] How does filter order relate to query optimization?

2007-03-28 Thread David Jaquay
A really long time ago, on 2/27/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Usually what you want to think about for something like this is plan optimization, ie, what order are the tables joined in and with what join methods. How exactly can you control the join order? I have cases where the expl