Re: [GENERAL] Replication and PITR

2006-09-27 Thread Robert Treat
to explain how > to do this and that, and I think I am a bit spoiled by the easy working > of the mysql replication :-) > Hmm almost sounds like what you really want is mammoth replicator... lower level than slony, built into the db, can handle ddl (iirc) not oss though. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Is Postgres good for large Applications

2006-10-18 Thread Robert Treat
p, PostgtreSQL has a list of users here: http://www.postgresql.org/about/users Some limits are in the FAQ: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ.html And anecdotaly I've run systems that maintained 1000+ simultaneous connections on fairly modest hardware as far back as 7.3,

Re: [GENERAL] Any documatation about porting from Oracle to PostgreSQL

2006-10-18 Thread Robert Treat
) Felix, in case your still watching, a (in theory) more up to date link would be found at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.3. Oh, and please don't crosspost across 3 different lists in the future, it just creates noise for the rest of us. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2 release schedule

2006-10-25 Thread Robert Treat
. Unofficially that will probably be sometime in November. HTH. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate su

Re: [GENERAL] Wordpress & PostgreSQL ...

2006-10-26 Thread Robert Treat
the wordpress guys have basically said they do not want to support postgres, which is mainly why we swapped to s9y on planetpg. you can read some more info here: http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/13-One-Good-Port.html Robert Treat On Saturday 21 October 2006 23:31

Re: [GENERAL] Reducing pg_dump & pg_restore times

2006-10-26 Thread Robert Treat
?/archives/133-Getting-faster-database-restores-on-postgresql-8.1.html -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/

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

2006-10-28 Thread Robert Treat
proposal or patch. Depending on what your doing there are ways to simulate those things with more standard sql. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0,

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

2006-10-28 Thread Robert Treat
On Saturday 28 October 2006 19:47, Nicolas Barbier wrote: > 2006/10/28, Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 15:19, stig erikson wrote: > >> Are there any plans to implement CUBE, ROLLUP and/or GROUPING SETS in > >> future PostgreSQL ve

Re: [GENERAL] Replicating changes

2006-10-29 Thread Robert Treat
n read, which sounds rather tricky (when compared to doing this at a higher level anyway). I think your best bet for learning how WAL files work is to read the backend code and maybe take a look at http://pgfoundry.org/projects/xlogviewer/ > This is a call for advice, as we're surely no

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql books and convertion utilities

2006-10-30 Thread Robert Treat
into postgresql. Then step by step will try to improve/change queries. > If you have made use of a lot of built in mysql functions, make sure to check out the mysql compat project: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/mysqlcompat/ -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql books and convertion utilities

2006-10-30 Thread Robert Treat
.1 topics... 8.1 was in development at the time of the writing, so some things are mentioned, but a lot of 8.1 didn't really apply to PHP programmers. For example, I mention tuning max_prepared_transactions, but the recommendation is simply to set it to 0, since there is almost n

Re: [GENERAL] Automatically Creating INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE Rules on Views

2006-11-11 Thread Robert Treat
any view that only has a single table in it's dependency tree. (I've really no idea if this would work, so if you try it and it succeeds please post a note or some code back to the group!) -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Using GIN indexes on 8.2

2006-11-11 Thread Robert Treat
same thing, but it appears the trade-off is disk space/update speed (GiST) vs. query times (Gin). Magnus had a couple of nice posts in his blog you might want to check out: http://people.planetpostgresql.org/mha/ -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Utility to Convert MS SQL Server to Postgres

2006-11-11 Thread Robert Treat
believe have some pointers to afew scripts. (Right click and save to file any pdf docs you run across) -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] installing 8.2 on solaris 10?

2007-01-17 Thread Robert Treat
-- > > regards, > > Jaime Casanova > > > > "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to > > build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the universe trying > > to produce bigger and better idiots. > > So far, the universe is winn

Re: [GENERAL] How I can read-back a serial value just inserted?

2007-01-18 Thread Robert Treat
zilla/index.php?/archives/169-Is-lastval-evil.html :-) -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/

Re: [GENERAL] daylight savings patches needed?

2007-02-06 Thread Robert Treat
ted). If you running an any 8.x version, you need to be on the most current corresponding 8.x.y release. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] real multi-master replication?

2007-03-05 Thread Robert Treat
> > not sure I follow - pgpool will simply replay the queries to each > > backend-server that are going through it. > > I guess I'm comparing it to Slony, which has a clear delineation between > master and slave. With pgpool, you don't have the failover procedure

Re: [GENERAL] Query timing

2007-03-05 Thread Robert Treat
> There are several logging parameters in the postgresql.conf, including log_duration. Logging to a file also has a bonus that you can feed it into a query analyzing program like pgfouine or pqa. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL -

Re: [GENERAL] pg temp tables

2007-03-05 Thread Robert Treat
ve me "the good link"? The main issue against using temp tables involve bloat of some of the system catalogs, but it's no worse than doing create/drop cycles with standard tables, and better because they don't suffer as much i/o load. -- Robert Treat Build A Bright

Re: [GENERAL] giving a user permission to kill their processes only

2007-03-05 Thread Robert Treat
ed by other users. > you could try to match CURRENT_USER with the information in pg_stat_activity, but be aware there is a reason why this functionality was made for superusers... -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] US Highschool database in postgres

2007-03-05 Thread Robert Treat
k at the samples database project on pgfoundry: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/dbsamples/ -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/

Re: Wikipedia on Postgres (was Re: [GENERAL] postgresql vs mysql)

2007-03-05 Thread Robert Treat
ould be using wikipgedia, I'm sympathetic to those who might still be stuck on it for some reason, so if you guys can produce a patch against the wikipgedia cvs, I'd be happy to apply it. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] PostgreSQL to Oracle

2007-03-15 Thread Robert Treat
instances connecting back into PostgreSQL and the results I had have been flakey at best. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ

Re: [GENERAL] phpPgAdmin - prior version available?

2007-03-21 Thread Robert Treat
m you're seeing? -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a shortage of postgresql skilled ops people

2007-04-09 Thread Robert Treat
> table is just two or three integers, and the PK is a multi-part key > > of all fields, it makes sense not to store the data twice. > > However, in Pg you can't do that since visibility is only stored in > > the data, not the index. > You can achieve the same effect wit

Re: [GENERAL] Pg schema diff tools Was: [ANNOUNCE] == PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 08 2007 ==

2007-04-09 Thread Robert Treat
:-P http://sqlmanager.net/en/products/postgresql/dbcomparer And I think there are some others floating around... -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you

Re: [GENERAL] What about SkyTools?

2007-04-11 Thread Robert Treat
st it in your environment. IMHO YMMV -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] Postgresql Help

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Treat
dated / recompiled against newer versions as well. HTH. -- Robert Treat Database Architect OmniTI Technology Firm http://www.omniti.com/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] Questions about TSearch2 and PG 8.2

2007-05-01 Thread Robert Treat
ome projects at OmniTI at least. I've got some gin/gist information up as well at http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/278-PostgreSQL-full-text-search-testing.html, also be sure check the trackback links... and also I think magnus had a post on gin/gist wrt the postgresql.org website. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] Two questions from the boss (SQL:2003 && scalability)

2004-10-21 Thread Robert Treat
eeds... though I should say that PostgreSQL has tremendous ability to scale up even without getting into all the buzzword friendly schemes. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [pgsql-www] [GENERAL] FTP mirror problems

2004-11-09 Thread Robert Treat
s of the software in the past, and would not presume to know when others won't want them in the future. We keep a link to "latest" in the main directory, and I'm willing to believe most people are capable of figuring out which is the latest 7.3.x branch on their own (at least u

Re: [GENERAL] FW: Proper nesting of hierarchical objects

2004-11-10 Thread Robert Treat
I missed the original post, but I think you both might want to do some googling on nested set. Robert Treat On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 11:40, Garris, Nicole wrote: > We've actually implemented this kind of thing in a different DBMS. The > physical design consists of a single "org

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle versus PostgreSQL

2004-11-16 Thread Robert Treat
ecific questions if you have any, there are a number of oracle converts floating about. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Certifications in military environment

2004-11-18 Thread Robert Treat
might want to contact is http://www.devis.com who has done a number of different projects with the government. Hope this helps, and if you do get a definitive answer, please post your finding to the -advocacy group. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL -

Re: [GENERAL] RSS date still broken

2004-11-29 Thread Robert Treat
he feeds with the problem to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] pgFoundary?

2004-12-06 Thread Robert Treat
Probably just an oversight, but will be linked when we roll the new website layout with 8.0 (crosses fingers) Robert Treat On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 02:07, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > Then I guess my next question is: why isn't it linked to from > http://postgresql.org ? > > On Fri, Dec

Re: [GENERAL] Best practice in postgres

2004-12-13 Thread Robert Treat
mbersome than querying across schemas. If you are not doing any cross schema work, then it probably doesn't matter as much. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have

Re: [GENERAL] disabling OIDs?

2005-01-06 Thread Robert Treat
irst, then a unique index, then look for an oid. Furthermore the really clueful ones will check # of affected rows = 1 when modifying by oid, so its pretty safe. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] Pg database, need a solution to a problem

2005-01-30 Thread Robert Treat
es for music brainz might be more applicable. I can't recall if his OSCon talk is linked from techdocs, but it should be available on the OSCon 2004 site. Google on some of the above words to find out more info. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a peer-to-peer server solution with PG?

2005-02-07 Thread Robert Treat
be able to help get you to a little closer to what your looking for. If you have time please check it out and see if it can be of any help, I'm sure many of us would be interested in hearing some feedback on it. http://www.daffodildb.com/dbreplicator.html Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter La

[GENERAL] What talk would get you to go to OSCon?

2005-02-08 Thread Robert Treat
an uptick in postgresql attendees. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [GENERAL] Schema comparison tool

2005-02-18 Thread Robert Treat
ck to this. Robert Treat On Tuesday 15 February 2005 16:31, Bradley D. Snobar wrote: > The database comparer tool is one of EMS better products. > > http://www.sqlmanager.net/ > http://www.sqlmanager.net/products/postgresql/dbcomparer > > Jeff Amiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [GENERAL] Why pgAdmin III guru suggests VACUUM in 8.1

2005-11-30 Thread Robert Treat
py it over before start up) so you should have a chance, but it is complicated to do in an uncontrolled environment, which is why it doesn't work that way as of yet. BTW, if you have a good idea of the size of your data set, you might be able to hardcode things. Ie. a desktop app is prob

Re: [GENERAL] Error on PostgreSQL mailing list web pages?

2005-12-07 Thread Robert Treat
ROTECTED] > > Also on a couple of the others I have looked at... Is this right? > I forwarded this on to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Marc is on it, though it will take some time for the pages to regenerate. Thanks for the report though. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linu

Re: [GENERAL] Performance large tables.

2005-12-10 Thread Robert Treat
Example command "UPDATE data where name=x and date=y;". > > Try using VACUUM or VACUUM FULL after those weekly updates... Once you've updated a majority of the rows in a large tables, if your still doing further work on that table that involves complex conditionals, you'l

Re: [GENERAL] Forum Software

2005-12-30 Thread Robert Treat
ould be a wonderful product. (From this thread it just sounds like they need a little more structure in the project) -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [GENERAL] Reordering columns in a table

2006-01-07 Thread Robert Treat
provides anything like that. Robert Treat On Friday 06 January 2006 22:34, Ian Harding wrote: > As I recall, the MS SQL Server draggy droppy diagrammer tool made it > seem trivial to rearrange columns did the same thing. It just > generated SQL statements to: > > Begin trans

Re: [GENERAL] 'Official' definition of ACID compliance?

2006-01-07 Thread Robert Treat
ly ACID-incompliant anymore than how they handle timestamp fields. That said see nearby posts about row level constraints and transactions involving mixed table types that can't actually be rolled back if you want to find ways that mysql breaks acid compliance. -- Robert Treat Build A Br

Re: [GENERAL] Compile of Pgmail function fails

2006-02-07 Thread Robert Treat
pos := pgmail(p1,p2,p3,p4); > > > Can anyone help me? I'm using postgres 7.4.7 version. Try to run pgmail by itself with those values and see what error that gives you. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---

Re: [GENERAL] Why does an ON SELECT rule have to be named "_RETURN"?

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Treat
of cases. Last time we discussed this for phppgadmin, the general opinion was it wasn't worth trying to work around postgresql core's deficiency. Once the core postgresql server supports updatable views in proper, I'd imagine this would get done. --

Re: [GENERAL] Why does an ON SELECT rule have to be named "_RETURN"?

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 10:41, Tom Lane wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout writes: > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 07:28:20AM -0500, Robert Treat wrote: > >> One problem is the only way for a client tool to work generically in prov= > > ding > >> data entry forms would be

Re: NULLs in unique indexes; Was: [GENERAL] Oracle purchases

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Treat
n. ISTM this is asking for a lot of knowledge of mysql internals for the average front end developer. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] return setof and Temp tables

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Treat
structure matched that of the temp table, or use out parameters to mimic it. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Attn. PostgreSQL.org webmasters: Site Link not working

2006-02-22 Thread Robert Treat
on't run any proxy so the error cannot be my end and this > problem has been there for at least two days. > It's a known issue with the guides section. I had been waiting on some activity elsewhere wrt a techdocs replacement, but have about given up on that so am working on a plan b

Re: [GENERAL] User groups

2006-02-25 Thread Robert Treat
ake a site on meetup like the php folks did, or maybe make a site at the pg user group site. http://pugs.postgresql.org/ -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3:

Re: [GENERAL] Postgre capability

2006-02-26 Thread Robert Treat
on top of a postgre data base. > > The database is called PostgreSQL or Postgres, not Postgre. > > Search for ERP and Postgres on http://sourceforge.net and you'll get > some hits back. I don't know of anyone running a commercial ERP system > on PostgreSQL, but that doesn&#x

Re: [GENERAL] a web framework for postgresql?

2006-03-01 Thread Robert Treat
might be able to get something together. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL scalability concerns

2006-03-16 Thread Robert Treat
ou'll probably want something that can do connection pooling. You can get more help on the -performance list too, just make sure you provide specifics. You might also want to look into getting commercial support, though choice questions to the mailing list might be enough to steer you on t

Re: [GENERAL] will slony work for this ?

2006-03-16 Thread Robert Treat
portance of this being that there will be no way for it to just "get all the changes"; you'll have to rebuild it. My understanding is the same is true for replicator, but perhaps you can elaborate on that? -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Ap

Re: [DOCS] [GENERAL] COPY command documentation

2006-03-23 Thread Robert Treat
icable. That really is a factor, most of the comments would need to be reworded to be added into the docs proper. In the past these ideas were rejected as either off-topic or that it would turn this list into a high traffic list... if peoples opinions have changed, it could be arranged. -- Rob

Re: [DOCS] [GENERAL] COPY command documentation

2006-03-23 Thread Robert Treat
On Thursday 23 March 2006 17:46, David Fetter wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 04:46:02PM -0500, Robert Treat wrote: > > > ...and it's unlikely that they will, now or later, without > > > somebody whose whole job is to monitor those comments and make > > > pat

Re: [GENERAL] Advantages of PostgreSQL over MySQL 5.0

2006-03-26 Thread Robert Treat
er or possibly joomla? I think the Mambo developers may be anti-postgresql, but Joomla should have decent postgresql support, with the main person behind that being Mitch Pirtle of JamboWorks. You might want to track him down. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middlewar

Re: [GENERAL] best practice in upgrading db structure

2006-03-28 Thread Robert Treat
TABLE because it's a lot cleaner/easier. For larger tables, > you might want to CREATE TABLE AS SELECT ..., or maybe copy out and copy > back in. This seems backwards to me. On larger tables I tend to favor alter table for adding/dropping columns since the table doesn'

Re: [GENERAL] How to use result column names in having cause

2006-03-31 Thread Robert Treat
y this. > Yes, this behavior is driven by the sql standards. There is actually a very nice paper on this subject if you are interested http://web.onetel.com/~hughdarwen/TheThirdManifesto/Importance-of-Column-Names.pdf -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] [Slightly OT] data model books/resources?

2006-03-31 Thread Robert Treat
gement" (ISBN: 0201485559) > Feel free to reply off list to keep the clutter down - I'd be happy to > summarize responses for the list. > We're all about clutter :-) -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL makes me lie

2006-04-01 Thread Robert Treat
on support is in the plans for future > versions of PostgreSQL? > Improved collation support is being worked on but it's a complex problem so there's no realt ETA. (Developers interested in helping out our encouraged to send a note to -hackers). In the mean time check out the citext proj

Re: [GENERAL] giving users access to specific databases

2006-04-01 Thread Robert Treat
my files on the > > server, access to create new postgres databases and a link to phpPgAdmin. > > Do you get the option to create a new database user? You could create > a new user and give that user access to your database. > Yeah, we're just window dressing atop the

Re: [GENERAL] Creating serial ID on Windows.

2006-04-03 Thread Robert Treat
nce between your platforms. In the above scenario you will likely have differences in dependency information when declaring a default nextval call on a sequence compared to declaring a true sequence type. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL --

Re: [GENERAL] how to create script of database in postgres..sql(winxp)

2006-04-03 Thread Robert Treat
d to use the pg_dump program, which is a seperate program from psql. IIRC it is in your start menu, but if not you will need to access it from a command line window. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end

Re: [GENERAL] MediaWiki and Postgresql?

2006-04-07 Thread Robert Treat
x27;s called pgpedia. > > If I am confusing wiki's, I'm wondering if they'd be willing to > accept patches to improve PostgreSQL support... You are not. I dubbed the new code wikipgedia, it lives on the foundry, the home page is at http://wikipedia.projects.postgres

Re: [GENERAL] Google Summer of Code (Fix aggregate operators & Implement features such as Data Cubes and Skyline)

2006-04-17 Thread Robert Treat
ntor to help push the project along. Robert Treat > > -Original Message- > > From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 7:14 PM > > To: Benjamin Arai > > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Googl

Re: [GENERAL] Database Selection

2006-04-26 Thread Robert Treat
one system on linux, apache, mod_foo and the other on bsd, lighty, and mod_bar ? Best to through your support behind one complete system (sounds like postgresql from previous postings) that can do the job and become an expert in making that system secure. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lam

Re: [GENERAL] Alternative for vacuuming queue-like tables

2006-04-28 Thread Robert Treat
al table. > > I guess what I'm asking for is a kind of "REBUILD TABLE" which is not > MVCC by definition but it would be useful in the mentioned queue table > case. > vaccum full ? -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] Autovacuum Logging

2006-04-28 Thread Robert Treat
The best solution I have seen so far is the idea of a GUC to control autovacuums chatter level. I hope we get that becuase the above will be a regression imho. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: RES: [GENERAL] Add column and specify the column position in

2006-05-19 Thread Robert Treat
t mysql uses to implement it (for the table types that will actually do it, some just ignore your request silently!) -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/readin

Re: [GENERAL] Contributing code

2006-05-19 Thread Robert Treat
also open up the amount of people who can also take said code and run it in thier "real-world" instances and find issues or make improvements to it. I recomend posting the code in it's current form and letting others take a look. It can always be updated later if you find that

Re: [GENERAL] reindexdb program error under PG 8.1.3

2006-05-25 Thread Robert Treat
rather scrambled, and > that reindexing often sorts the values and rewrites that data so that > the indexes take less space and work faster. Is that not the case here? > It really isn't neccessary. That said, there is *something* going on with your db, so it might be prudent t

Re: [GENERAL] Case for postgreSQL

2006-06-04 Thread Robert Treat
On Sunday 04 June 2006 12:55, P.M wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to know if it exists a good case tool for creating DB into > PostgreSQL ? thanks a lot, > There are several listed at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.54 -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apa

Re: [GENERAL] Data about rate of downloads

2006-06-06 Thread Robert Treat
made available > freely. > I doubt they could for open source projects, unless those projects had very tight control over thier distribution (which is kind of self defeating). Smaller projects on places like pgfoundry might be able to track this (slony comes to mind), but for us it seem

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] Me And My Database

2006-06-06 Thread Robert Treat
ratch every time I do an > update. If you going through this kind of step now, why not just generate the whole site from the pg database as html pages and then push those out to the client? That way you eliminate any dbms overhead and reduce load on your webservers (and eliminate the need for a 2nd db schema) -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] Fabian Pascal and RDBMS deficiencies in fully

2006-06-09 Thread Robert Treat
o let me know when somebody uses it. :) > So "as an empiricist", you have derived that programming in PHP, hitting a mysql backend, atop a Windows OS, is far better than that wonky perl/postgresql/linux stuff you normally work with, right? -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp ::

Re: [GENERAL] phppgadmin 4.0.1

2006-06-17 Thread Robert Treat
and // understand how to change PostgreSQL's pg_hba.conf to enable // passworded local connections. $conf['extra_login_security'] = false; -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump design problem (bug??)

2006-06-27 Thread Robert Treat
gt; The real question is whether the pg developers would > object to such a feature, whatever the design is, > or whether it's just that nobody's > gotten around to writing it. > Probably more of no one getting around to it, but you need to come up with a solution that does

Re: [GENERAL] phppgadmin

2006-06-29 Thread Robert Treat
session support setup in your php. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(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] php can't connect to postgresql server

2006-07-03 Thread Robert Treat
at your postgresql.conf "listen_addresses" is properly set, also make sure you dont have a firewall setting that is blocking connections, the default firewall settings on FC boxes are notorious for blocking pg. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8 (ISBN 1590595475) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] Notes on converting from MySQL 5.0.x to PostgreSQL 8.1.4

2006-07-03 Thread Robert Treat
ght flags, the output is pretty good. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL on Embeded Systems

2006-07-18 Thread Robert Treat
gt; temporarily need up to an extra 90 MB. Use the df command to check for disk > space. > > This includes space required for compiling the application. Looks like > about 40 MB for the installation and an empty cluster. Well, certainly you aren't going to want to be compiling from

Re: [GENERAL] databases hidden in phppgadmin

2006-07-18 Thread Robert Treat
7;t be > found. You know Tom, if you're interested in hacking on phpPgAdmin, I'd be happy to send you a copy of "Beginning PHP & PostgreSQL 8 " :-) Darren, this is fixed in ppa's CVS HEAD. If you want a specific patch, drop me a note off list, though I am thi

Re: [GENERAL] Consulta

2006-08-06 Thread Robert Treat
I would think .cu == spanish? en la programa "psql" uso \dt también, hay una lista española: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Treat On Sunday 06 August 2006 05:33, Marco Bizzarri wrote: > Sorry, I will try to answer in english and in italian, if you're able > to understand

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-30 Thread Robert Treat
tting a team of developers on top of the contest so they come out shining. Too bad people in this community don't see the value of paying people to do advocacy related development. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(

Re: [GENERAL] Dblink and connections to MySQL?

2006-08-30 Thread Robert Treat
ish this as well, plphp for instance. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMA

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-08-30 Thread Robert Treat
I'd like to see done is to get majordomo to bounce list > > messages containing "unsubscribe" in the subject, with an explanatory > > message about the right way to unsubscribe. There's no reason the rest > > of us should be bothered. > > I would agre

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql mentioned on Newsforge MySQL article

2006-08-30 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 16:48, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 01:54:56PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > >> Seems they are fast where it counts... namely getting a team of > >> developers on top of the contest so they

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Robert Treat
only reservation I see on that is a bias toward more eloquent writers > having disproprotionate influence. But I don't see any way to avoid that. > I think some members of this community confuse volunteerism with meritocracy. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP ::

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL slammed by PHP creator

2006-09-15 Thread Robert Treat
slides from his recent talk showing why he came up with the statements he made (http://talks.php.net/show/oscon06/1). Please post the info when you get comparable performance running from PostgreSQL... -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq

Re: [GENERAL] Any commercial shopping cart packages using

2003-12-16 Thread Robert Treat
> "Its" is a possessive pronoun. "It's" is a contraction for "it is". > > > 'tis not as simple as that my friend, 'tis really more a matter of dialect. http://www.word-detective.com/back-d.html#its Robert Treat -- Build A

Re: [GENERAL] Php help

2003-12-16 Thread Robert Treat
ERE partno ilike '5R%'; Robert Treat On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 01:39, Eric Holmstrom wrote: > Hi there, > > Ive been reading but not getting far, so thought i would ask here. IN > SQL im trying to do this. > > What its meant to do is look in Column partno. Then check if

Re: [GENERAL] Groff and Weinberg SQL Complete Reference - Sample

2003-12-22 Thread Robert Treat
Paul, once you get through the book perhaps you could submit a book review to the techdocs website, along with a pg_dump of the sample database. Robert Treat On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 05:50, Richard Huxton wrote: > On Monday 22 December 2003 07:47, Paul Ganainm wrote: > > Not really a P

Re: [GENERAL] Firebird and PostgreSQL at the DB Corral.

2003-12-24 Thread Robert Treat
ror_id, max(status_id) FROM current ce GROUP BY findsite(entity_id) ) AS errors ON (error_id = search_id) WHERE search_id = s.site_id AND s.region_id = r.region_id AND search_id = e.entity_id AND a.host_id = h.host_id AND h.site_id = s.site_id ) ) AS ss ORDER BY UPPER(ss.name) AS

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