Re: Practical maximums (was Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL theoretical

2006-08-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 13:51, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Jeff Davis wrote: >>> On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 09:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >

Re: Practical maximums (was Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL theoretical

2006-08-07 Thread Ron Johnson
> http://www.apl.jhu.edu/Misc/Unix-info/tar/tar_97.html Mostly no, because it serializes access. Fill up one tape, go to the next, then the 3rd, etc. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power rac

Re: Practical maximums (was Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL theoretical

2006-08-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 14:51, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Scott Marlowe wrote: >>> On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 13:51, Ron Johnson wrote: >>>&

Re: Practical maximums (was Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL theoretical

2006-08-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 15:18, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Scott Marlowe wrote: >>> Oh, I see where you were headed. >>> >>&

Re: Practical maximums (was Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL theoretical

2006-08-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Davis wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 14:51 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> What would be darned useful (but only, I think, with heavy usage of >> tablespaces) is: >> $ pg_tapedump /some/database /dev/st0,/dev/st1,/dev/

Re: Practical maximums (was Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL theoretical

2006-08-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> This is where a multi-threaded pg_tapedump would be more effective, >> since it would be able to, for example, have 4 threads reading >> (different parts of) the database and wr

Re: Practical maximums (was Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL theoretical

2006-08-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 16:09, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Scott Marlowe wrote: >>> On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 15:18, Ron Johnson wrote: >>>&

Re: Practical maximums (was Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL theoretical

2006-08-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Davis wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 16:57 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Attach X tape drive, put in a bunch of tapes, and just pg_dump > mdt0 >>> and you're backing up. Restore the other way around. >> Tape

Re: Practical maximums (was Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL theoretical

2006-08-08 Thread Ron Johnson
; in parallel, which was the point I was trying to make. So, just run them > in the background in whatever way is most convenient. Open database or closed database? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to whi

Re: [GENERAL] Importance of re-index

2006-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
uch need to reindex. How aggressively does PostgreSQL keep b-trees in balance? Inserting the range [1..1000] should result in a right- unbalanced tree. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-pow

Re: [GENERAL] Migrating PostgreSQL database to MySQL/MS Access

2006-08-13 Thread Ron Johnson
system knowledge to itself, and not share with the DBAs. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, tha

Re: [GENERAL] Best approach for a "gap-less" sequence

2006-08-13 Thread Ron Johnson
ach record be NULL, blanks, zeros or indicator values ("~~", - -9, etc). Then create a single-field table called, for example, CUR_MAX_VALUE that gets incremented as part of each transaction. To serialize access, transactions would need an EXCLUSIVE lock on the table. -

Re: [GENERAL] Best approach for a "gap-less" sequence

2006-08-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Godoy wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Pre-allocate records. The (primary key?) field would have the >> numbers already filled in, but all the rest of the fields in each >> record be NULL, bla

Re: [GENERAL] Length limit for query

2006-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
col1, col2, ... coln >> from table 1, table2, >> where >> >> constraint1 + constraint2 +constraintN >> ] >> >> Is there any length arrange for the Query str such as 500M, 1G, etc? >> Or the query can be as long as it is. Wouldn't the "need" t

Re: [GENERAL] Precision of data types and functions

2006-08-28 Thread Ron Johnson
breaks down. DBMSs have *always* returned errors when the app tries to do something beyond the range of the DB's parameters. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are su

Re: [GENERAL] Atomicity?

2006-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
AND RGT >= 11 DO UPDATE REPLIES SET RGT = RGT + 2 WHERE REPLIYID = :X.REPLYID; END FOR; END; - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that

[GENERAL] Anonymous stored procedures

2006-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Does PostgreSQL support them? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown

Re: [GENERAL] Anonymous stored procedures

2006-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Fetter wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:02:12AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi, >> >> Does PostgreSQL support them? > > Not yet. Any plans?

Re: [GENERAL] strange sum behaviour

2006-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
lumn. So how does PG implement Decimal? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "c

Re: [GENERAL] strange sum behaviour

2006-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Seneca Cunningham wrote: >>> On 29-Aug-2006, at 13:13 :48, Andrew Baerg wrote: >> [snip] >>>

Re: [GENERAL] Installing on Redhat 7.2

2006-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson
system libraries have changed quite a bit in 5 years. If PG uses any new functions, thhtt goes the build. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and

Re: [GENERAL] Installation of Postgres 7.1

2006-08-31 Thread Ron Johnson
I have a 7.1.2 database with me and plan to replicate it to another box. > Pg_dump reports and error while I was dumping. > > My Linux Boxes are all Ubuntu. > > What can i do? Install v8.1? Seriously, why install such an old version? Some arcane data requirement? - -- Ron Johns

Re: [GENERAL] Postrgesql and Mysql in the same server Linux (Fedora

2006-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
; is it possible that this configuration may cause a strong deceleration >> of all system performace? > > If either or both are heavily exercised, then it's quite possible that > you would see system performance worsen. If both RDBMSs are pounding the disk(s)... - -- Ron Johnson

Re: [GENERAL] Precision of data types and functions

2006-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
ry to enter a too-large > number is, in fact, stupid on MySQL's part. I consider that silent > truncation. Heck, MySQL lets you create a date on February 31st, or > prior to the year 1500, both of which are obviously nonsensical. > > -- > Brandon Aiken > CS/IT Systems Enginee

Re: [GENERAL] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson
s much easier to donate your code to the project > and let other people maintain it then to try and maintain your > own fork of the code and cross patch their changes into your own. Ultrix and SunOS are two counter-examples. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense&qu

Re: [GENERAL] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Lane wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Scott Marlowe wrote: >>> ... It's much easier to donate your code to the project >>> and let other people maintain it then to try and maintain your &g

Re: [GENERAL] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Lane wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Scott Marlowe wrote: >>>>> ... It's much easier to donate your code to

Re: [GENERAL] compressed protocol

2006-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
; compress. Wouldn't that add extra libssl overhead? How difficult would it be to add a zlib(?) hook? (No, really. I'm *not* assuming that it would be trivial.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense&quo

Re: [GENERAL] Two billion records ok?

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
k Tablespaces and table partitioning will be crucial to your needs. I'm not sure if you can partition indexes, though. And too bad that compressed bit-map indexes have not been implemented yet. For indexes with high "key cardinality", they save a *lot* of space, and queries can

Re: [GENERAL] Porting from ORACLE to PostgSQL

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
"varchar2", there fore, can I write some type of >> declaration (like in c : #define alias_name name) in order to make PosgSQL >> recognize these types? Or there are other solution that you recommend to >> use ? >> >> Thank you, Gustavo - -- Ron Johnson, Jr

[OT] sig sizes (was Re: [GENERAL] Porting from ...)

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > Eliminating 21 line .signatures would be nice, too. > >> How about your 16 lines ;) ??? It's 8 lines. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really val

Re: [OT] sig sizes (was Re: [GENERAL] Porting from ...)

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Page wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Johnson >> Sent: 05 September 2006 20:36 >> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org >>

Re: [GENERAL] Syntax for converting double to a timestamp

2006-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
TIMESTAMP, CREATION_TIMESTAMP, etc, etc, etc. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "co

Re: [GENERAL] Is this logical?

2006-09-09 Thread Ron Johnson
What happens when you actually try to insert a record? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However,

Re: [GENERAL] Is this logical?

2006-09-09 Thread Ron Johnson
lt actually comes into play >> like >> on insert or update, but not at create table time as there are no rows >> for >> which the constraint fails. >> >> For example after that: >> sszabo=# insert into bar default values; >> ERROR: null value in c

Re: [GENERAL] remote duplicate rows

2006-09-13 Thread Ron Johnson
E1 = :X.COLNAME1; END FOR; IF (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM BIGTABLE_PK) == 0 THEN SET LOOP_FLAG = 0; END IF; COMMIT; END ; - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are s

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL slammed by PHP creator

2006-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/14/06 21:32, AgentM wrote: > > On Sep 14, 2006, at 21:25 , Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> >> I am not going to ask how you got to 135MPH. > > Obviously he was running MySQL under the hood. No wonder he spun out and crashed into a telephone poll... -- Ron Johnson

Re: [GENERAL] A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it?

2003-06-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 08:39, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > The problem is that you can't do the check on the _field_ since it has > already been converted to a date. You're right. How about a "before insert" trigger? > On 19 Jun 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > > &

Re: [GENERAL] A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it?

2003-06-19 Thread Ron Johnson
uffers from the same problem, I believe. If I weren't a lazy > bastard, I check it :) But you could code programatic to validate the date. -- +-------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it?

2003-06-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 15:47, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 12:46, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 00:05, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > >

Re: [GENERAL] A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it?

2003-06-24 Thread Ron Johnson
(including indexes, ordering etc) within a DB > > > > session, I'd rather stick to say the C locale, or whatever it is that's > > > > fastest. > > > > > > > > Another point of consideration: if someone accidentally loads > > > > multibyte/other locale data into a C

Re: [GENERAL] PlPython

2003-06-26 Thread Ron Johnson
1 who could still use trusted PlPython. -- +-----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Oh, great altar of passive entertainment, bestow upon me | |

Re: [GENERAL] Is SQL silly as an RDBMS<->app interface?

2003-07-13 Thread Ron Johnson
ipulation Language) to access it's RDBMS. I'm sure that Burroughs, etc, had their own access methods, too. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson

Re: [GENERAL] different transaction handling between postgresql and

2003-07-14 Thread Ron Johnson
nd try the statement again. Let the developer decide!!! -- +-----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | |

Re: [GENERAL] Are you frustrated with PostgreSQL

2003-07-14 Thread Ron Johnson
a FreeBSD ports site? -- +-----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | 4 degree

Re: [GENERAL] What about a comp.databases.postgresql usenet

2003-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
mane)? > > what is gmane? That big thatch of fur around a GNU Lion??? -- +-----+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | | | | "I'm not a

Re: [GENERAL] What about a comp.databases.postgresql usenet

2003-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 08:31, Andrew Gould wrote: > --- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 19:56, The Hermit Hacker > > wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 Jul 2003, Daniel Seichter wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > &g

Re: [GENERAL] database design of products catalogue

2003-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
using Foreign Keys, you can link the product table to the static fact tables to ensure the integrity of the data. -- +-+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | |

Re: [GENERAL] New Poll @ Codewalkers

2003-07-22 Thread Ron Johnson
codewalkers have a poll up for php > >>developers for their database of choice. I'm not affiliated with the > >>site in any way, I just want to see PgSQL at more than 8% :( It's right > >>on the homepage. > >> > >>http://codewalkers.com/ -- +

Re: [GENERAL] Convert TimeStamp to Date

2003-07-23 Thread Ron Johnson
08-10 17:48:41 (1 row) template1=# select f1, date(f1), f1::date, cast(f1 as date) from t; f1 |date| f1 | f1 -+++---- 1993-08-10 17:48:41 | 1993-08-11 | 1993-08-11 | 1993-08-11 (1 row) -- +

Re: [GENERAL] Can I turn the case sensitive off

2003-07-25 Thread Ron Johnson
iscussion about making this more standard? I'm sure that as PG becomes more popular, more people will get bitten by this. -- +

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware selection

2003-07-25 Thread Ron Johnson
k space? 16GB swap would fit nicely on the system disk. Hope it's on a separate channel from the DB... What OS are you using? > Hope I'm not asking too much... > Thanks ! -- +--

Re: [GENERAL] Using YY-MM-DD date input

2003-07-25 Thread Ron Johnson
nd input DateStyle so that this approach can apply to all > commonly used two-digit-year formats, or we are going to lose > functionality. Or drop YY because it's not y2k compliant. -- +-------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAI

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware selection

2003-07-28 Thread Ron Johnson
ld be very helpful! > > > > > > Question 3 - what would be the best way to distribute tables/swap/ > > > system disk space? > > > > 16GB swap would fit nicely on the system disk. Hope it's on a > >

Re: [GENERAL] concurrent writes

2003-07-29 Thread Ron Johnson
and within the same > transaction in one table" How can N number of transactions write into the database, all within the *same* transaction? -- +-+ | Ron Jo

Minimal system (was Re: [GENERAL] Basic questions before start)

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
ecessary? Also regarding PHP, "links" is a great text-mode web browser that handles style sheets and frames. -- +-+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | |

Re: [GENERAL] Port?

2003-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
ow the port postgresql is listening on? This should help: $ netstat -a |grep postgresql -- +---------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home:

Re: [GENERAL] Table Stats

2003-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
at the appropriate moment. > Jeff Davidson wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > Is there any quick way to determine how many rows exist in a given table? -- +-------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.

Re: [GENERAL] UPDATE sql question

2003-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
values (3); INSERT 16995 1 template1=# select * from foo; 1 2 1 3 template1=# update foo set f1 = 1 where f1 = 1; UPDATE 2 template1=# select * from foo; 2 3 1 1 Looks like it does what you tell it to do... -- +-------------+

Re: [GENERAL] How to do?

2003-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
that in result is record with e.g. > uid='AC13A1'. > How to reduce result to this record and one record before in result and one > record after in result? > > Are this questions just silly problems? :-) No, but slightly ambiguous, at least for my old brain. -- +------

Re: [GENERAL] Domains (Was [PERFORM] Views With Unions)

2003-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
a supperset of the data, so some times I > would want to access the inheritted tables and other times the parent/main > table. Isn't this when you'd really want child tables, instead? -- +---------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.

Re: [GENERAL] last inserted raw (identity)

2003-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
Why "environment variable"? Are you writing this in shell? -- +---------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA | |

Re: [GENERAL] plPHP -- sort of an announcement.. but not commercial

2003-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
P now. > > Find it here: > > http://www.commandprompt.com/entry.lxp?lxpe=260 Is there a possibility of getting this in v7.5? -- +-------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [GENERAL] last inserted raw (identity)

2003-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
> > Here Identity is the organization's ID that is needed > > as a foreign key in contact table. > > See currval() and nextval(). What if his PK isn't a sequence? -- +

Re: [GENERAL] COPY and double-quote-separated fields

2003-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
se awk. [snip] > cat unprocesseddata.txt | psql -dmydatabase -c "copy importtable from stdin > delimiter '\",\"';" Wouldn't work, because the 1st field has it's leading \", and the last field has it's trailing \". Thanks [snip] &

[GENERAL] Error while running pg_dump

2003-08-06 Thread Ron Johnson
not write to tar member (wrote 47, attempted 317) Has anyone seen this error before? TIA -- +-+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA

Re: [GENERAL] Update of foreign key values

2003-08-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 18:40, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > On 11 Aug 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Maybe this will do it: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/sql-set-constraints.html > > Saw this but my take was it required the original constraint to be cre

Re: [GENERAL] Email DML Errors and Constraint Violations

2003-08-14 Thread Ron Johnson
ty client incremental development > and testing. Sounds like a job for the postmaster. Maybe messages going to the log file could be tee'd off somehow and piped to a mail script? -- +-----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.

Support contracts (was Re: [GENERAL] Commercial support?)

2003-08-14 Thread Ron Johnson
can be quickly solved by someone who lives and breathes Rdb internals. -- +-------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA| |

Re: [GENERAL] Why the duplicate messages to pgsql-general?

2003-08-15 Thread Ron Johnson
eople on dial-up, especially those who are on metered access, may not appreciate the extra download time, though. In Evolution, I am able to do "Actions->Reply to List" Outlook 97 doesn't have such a feature, but I'm sure that MozMail, Pine and Mutt do. -- +---

Re: [GENERAL] Graphical Mapping a Database

2003-08-15 Thread Ron Johnson
There's also AutoDoc http://www.rbt.ca/autodoc/index.html which can output to a dia-compatible format. +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA

Re: [GENERAL] Graphical Mapping a Database

2003-08-16 Thread Ron Johnson
ugust 16, 2003, at 01:38 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-08-14 at 23:17, David Fetter wrote: > >> "Tim Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I have been request to create a relational database map that can be > >>> place on

Re: [GENERAL] Grouping by date range

2003-08-19 Thread Ron Johnson
columns, make indexes and things > should be fast. > > > date| data > > --- > > 01/01/01| 123 > > 01/01/01| abc > > 02/01/01| def > > 03/03/01| hij > > > > I can see how to group by day - but how do i go about decreasing the > > pre

Re: [GENERAL] Grouping by date range

2003-08-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:51, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 13:44:59 -0500, > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The GROUP BY does implicit sorting, so an ORDER BY on the exact same > &g

[GENERAL] Changed mailing list functionality?

2003-08-20 Thread Ron Johnson
"Reply to List" still acts properly wrt [EMAIL PROTECTED], so if it *is* a bug in Evo 1.4.4, it's not a pervasive bug. Sincerely, Ron -- ------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA YODA: Code! Yes. A programmer&

Re: [GENERAL] Changed mailing list functionality?

2003-08-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 15:57, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > we haven't changed any of the list configs in months ... Ok, thanks. > On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Up until a few days ago, when I did a "Reply to List" in my MUA &g

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Need concrete "Why

2003-08-21 Thread Ron Johnson
ckets had better be deep... -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "they love our milk and honey, but preach about another way of living" Merle Haggard, "The Fighting Side Of Me" ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

[GENERAL] Linux ready for high-volume databases?

2003-08-26 Thread Ron Johnson
nsactions per day, while also getting hit by report queries? Don't think of this as a troll, because I really don't know, even though I do know that MVS, OpenVMS & Solaris can. (I won't even ask about toys like Windows and FreeBSD.) -- ------------

Re: [GENERAL] Linux ready for high-volume databases?

2003-08-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 03:06, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On 26 Aug 2003 at 2:55, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 16:28, Gregory S. Williamson wrote: > > > One of our sysads sent this link ... wondering if there is any comment on it > > > from the

Re: [GENERAL] is linux ready for databases ? (Ziff Davis article

2003-08-26 Thread Ron Johnson
Absolutely. Multi-threaded OSs are a lot younger than enterprise- level multi-user databases... -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them into big productions." Pitr Dubovitch -

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Best tweak for fast results.. ?

2003-08-26 Thread Ron Johnson
based on timestamps, varchars... > less on joins... on a 300K rows.. Could it be that 1000tps is as good as your h/w can do? You didn't mention what kind and speed of CPU(s), SCSI-or-IDE controller(s) and type/speed of disk(s) you have. -- -------

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql not using index even though it's faster

2003-08-28 Thread Ron Johnson
ZE SELECT S.* FROM sales S, staff ST WHERE S.staff_no=ST.staff_no AND ST.name='Rudy'; [snip] Are S.staff_no and ST.staff_no the same data type? -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "For me and window

Re: [GENERAL] Replication Ideas

2003-08-28 Thread Ron Johnson
rk for the DLM chatter. This is a tried and true method of synchronization. DEC Rdb/VMS has been using it for 19 years as the underpinnings of it's cluster technology, and Oracle licensed it from them (well, really Compaq) for it's 9i RAC. -- --

Re: [GENERAL] update entire table (with PostGreSQL alone)?

2003-08-28 Thread Ron Johnson
le_2.a = table_1.a); insert into table_1 select * from table_2 where a not in (select t1.a from table_1 t1, table_2 t2 where t2.a = t1.a); -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] Books for PostgreSQL?

2003-08-28 Thread Ron Johnson
n are you using? That which comes with RH8.0? It is recommended that you upgrade to v7.3.4. -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA 4 degrees from Vladimir Putin ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Replication Ideas

2003-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
er channel disks on "HSG" Storage Controllers. 4. Memory Channel : A higher speed interconnect. Don't know much about it. 128 nodes can be clustered. Note that since DLM awareness is built deep into VMS and all the RTLs, every program is cluster-aware, no matter what typ

Re: [GENERAL] About GPL and proprietary software

2003-08-31 Thread Ron Johnson
ary s/w that "speaks" to "GPL" s/w via a pipe, network link, etc., does not break the GPL. Presumably, one of the reasons that PostgreSQL is BSD-licensed is to avoid issues like this. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] Quetions on Joins

2003-08-31 Thread Ron Johnson
anyone tell me if there is a way to do that ? If the filter is empty, how can you filter anything? > PS: I'd like to thank here persons who reply rather than sending the > message per mail. What does that mean? -- ----- Ro

Re: [GENERAL] About GPL and proprietary software

2003-08-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 14:57, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 02:26:14PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > IANAL, but according to my understanding > > (1) proprietary s/w that dynamically links to "GPL" shared libraries > > has not broken the GPL. > &

Re: [GENERAL] About GPL and proprietary software

2003-08-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 14:59, Christopher Browne wrote: > After a long battle with technology,[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Johnson), an earthling, > wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 07:26, Kaarel wrote: > >> I don't feel very confident when it comes to software licenses. But &

Re: [GENERAL] distributed.net now runs postgresql

2003-09-02 Thread Ron Johnson
Check out: > http://n0cgi.distributed.net/cgi/dnet-finger.cgi?user=decibel Great. I've been grinding away on d.net for almost 3 years, now. I hope that "decibel" joins the mailing lists. -- ------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] What is the good equivalent for ENUM ?

2003-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
minated'); > > then reference it via foreign key from the "enum" field: > > CREATE TABLE whatever ( > ... > status varchar(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'active' REFERENCES status_levels(status), > ... > ); > -- ---

Re: [GENERAL] is it possible to do this? have a subselect that

2003-09-03 Thread Ron Johnson
M foo) AS (sub_a,sub_b) > > FROM tab > > > > SELECT x, y, z, SS.* > FROM tab, (SELECT a,b FROM foo) SS But where's the join between tab and foo? Wouldn't you then get a combinatorial explosion? -- ---

Re: [GENERAL] Activate Index

2003-09-04 Thread Ron Johnson
ginal Message - > > > >From: "Edwin Quijada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 4:02 PM > > > >Subject: [GENERAL] Activate Index > > > > > > > > > >

Re: [GENERAL] Backup?

2003-09-04 Thread Ron Johnson
unless the server is > stopped. pg_dumpall works well, produces a consistent backup and is > easily portable to a different machine architecture if need be. And it's smaller than the data/ directory, especially when "-F c" option is used. -- ----------

Re: [PERFORM] [GENERAL] Seq scan of table?

2003-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
if I'm wrong, but I believe numbers are int4's, so they > need to be cast if your column is not an int4. You mean "constant" scalars? Yes, constants scalars are interpreted as int4. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [E

Re: [GENERAL] decrypted pwd

2003-09-08 Thread Ron Johnson
xcuse to buy more hardware. Also, if I remember properly, the estimates are that there are 10^70 atoms in the known Universe. That equates to ~2^233. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Knowled

Upgrading (was Re: [GENERAL] State of Beta 2)

2003-09-12 Thread Ron Johnson
re" really change that much between major versions? -- ------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Vanity, my favorite sin." Larry/John/Satan, "The Devil's Advocate" ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

need for in-place upgrades (was Re: [GENERAL] State of Beta 2)

2003-09-13 Thread Ron Johnson
the postmaster and client libs start yakking away in a slightly diff- erent language, but so what? > Dennis Gearon wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 10:50, Andrew Rawnsley wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Small soapbox m

Re: need for in-place upgrades (was Re: [GENERAL] State of Beta 2)

2003-09-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 11:21, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > So instead of 1TB of 15K fiber channel disks (and the requisite > > controllers, shelves, RAID overhead, etc), we'd need *two* TB of 15K > > fiber channel disks (

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