Re: [GENERAL] Lines of code in PG 8.0 & 8.1?

2005-09-23 Thread Nicolas Barbier
; 684533 > > > > and for 8.0.X I get: > > > > 648130 -- Nicolas Barbier http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] transaction limits?

2005-10-21 Thread Nicolas Barbier
thers will keep ignoring its rows. There is nothing to rollback here, thanks to MVCC. Of course, those rows will still be physically present until the next VACUUM. -- Nicolas Barbier http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [GENERAL] sequences, moving from 8.0.4 to 8.1 ?

2005-10-21 Thread Nicolas Barbier
he expressions are actually not using ::text anymore? Normally they will keep the ::text, and only to change to the new system should you use the script. Most people *do* want the new behavior though, so run it :-). greetings, Nicolas -- Nicolas Barbier http://www.gnu.org/philosop

Re: [GENERAL] CUBE, ROLLUP, GROUPING SETS?

2006-10-28 Thread Nicolas Barbier
ulating all aggregations in one run for ROLLUP (instead of doing multiple scans). greetings, Nicolas -- Nicolas Barbier http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives?

Re: [GENERAL] More grist for the PostgreSQL vs MySQL mill

2007-01-21 Thread Nicolas Barbier
, Nicolas -- Nicolas Barbier http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postegres side-by-side with M$ SQL server

2007-01-21 Thread Nicolas Barbier
2007/1/19, Paul Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: A number of months ago I was pointed towards Postgre as a reliable database server Please don't use the word Postgre: http://stoned.homeunix.org/~itsme/postgre/>. greetings, Nicolas -- Nicolas Barbier http://www.gnu.org/phil

Re: [GENERAL] primary key index

2007-05-14 Thread Nicolas Barbier
u are supposed to see those indexes. Try "\d tablename" in psql. It should give you a bunch of information, including something like: Indexes: "tablename_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (keyfieldname) Where tablename is your table's name, and keyfieldname the name of the column th

Re: [GENERAL] Indices for select count(*)?

2005-12-21 Thread Nicolas Barbier
quot; but SELECT > count("ID") from "XYZ" still takes 35 seconds*. (ID is the primary key > basing on a sequence, select count(*) isn't faster.) I would like to redirect you to the zillions of mailing list posts about this subject :-). > So - what kind of inde

Re: [GENERAL] to know

2006-04-24 Thread Nicolas Barbier
.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew> > who is the leading person on postgre? http://www.postgresql.org/developer/bios> Greetings, Nicolas -- Nicolas Barbier http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ---(end of broadcast)--- T

Re: [GENERAL] Postgreql 8.0.3 temporary Table Strange behaviour

2006-04-24 Thread Nicolas Barbier
2006/4/24, Dany De Bontridder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > and the "select count(*)" will be able to use index scan (faster) (in version > 8.1 ?) No, it won't. -- Nicolas Barbier http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -

Re: [GENERAL] Importance of re-index

2006-08-19 Thread Nicolas Barbier
nd for "binary". In the latter: It won't, because the splitting mechanism will never result in an almost-empty leaf. That can only be caused by deletions. greetings, Nicolas -- Nicolas Barbier http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ---