Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3: Server crashes on Windows using Eclipse/Junit

2007-10-23 Thread Dave Page
tch reduces the per-connection desktop heap usage from arount 9.7KB to 3.2KB which is back in line with 8.2. Regards, Dave ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3: Server crashes on Windows using Eclipse/Junit

2007-10-23 Thread Dave Page
Harald Armin Massa wrote: > Dave, > >> It's coming from direct dependencies on user32.dll (from which we use >> wsprintf()) and shell32.dll (from which we use SHGetSpecialFolderPath()) >> and is allocated when ResumeThread() is called to kickstart the new >> b

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3: Server crashes on Windows using Eclipse/Junit

2007-10-23 Thread Dave Page
Harald Armin Massa wrote: > Replying to myself >> Postgres is definitely NOT started as LocalSystem account; so using a >> "logical not" on Microsofts Words that could indicate the reason why >> our service-backends consume that memory? Add to this that MS SQL runs >> as LocalSystem; and as muc

Re: [GENERAL] "Concatenate" two queries - how?

2007-10-24 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Use "union" ??? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefan Schwarzer Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:09 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] "Concatenate" two queries - how? Hi there, I have two queries, which I would li

Re: [GENERAL] subversion support?

2007-10-25 Thread Dave Page
this feature that is rather common in other database > development tools will ever be added to pgAdmin. pgAdmin II had change control. No-one ever really used it though so we never bothered to implement it in pgAdmin III. Regards, Dave ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [GENERAL] subversion support?

2007-10-25 Thread Dave Page
> --- Original Message --- > From: Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 25/10/07, 19:06:12 > Subject: Re: subversion support? > > The situation is complicated somewhat by the SQL "ALTER TABLE&quo

Re: [GENERAL] subversion support?

2007-10-26 Thread Dave Page
y wanted to keep it, nor did anyone complain about it being missing in pga3. Unless there are a decent number of people that would actually use it now, I'm reluctant to spend the time on a feature that would simply add to the maintenance burden. Regards, Dave ---(end

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3: Server crashes on Windows using Eclipse/Junit

2007-10-26 Thread Dave Page
e the heap for >> all >> non-interactive window stations to 1024KB. > > This part should go in the FAQ, I think. It's valid for 8.2 as well, > from what I can tell, and it's valid for 8.3 both before and after the > patch I just applied. > > Dave, you

Re: [GENERAL] subversion support?

2007-10-26 Thread Dave Page
Hi Tino Tino Wildenhain wrote: > Hi Dave, >> pgAdmin II had change control. No-one ever really used it though so we >> never bothered to implement it in pgAdmin III. > > But it was implemented differently then the proposal above. I'm not sure the detail of how it

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3: Server crashes on Windows using Eclipse/Junit

2007-10-26 Thread Dave Page
> --- Original Message --- > From: Rainer Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Sent: 26/10/07, 18:09:26 > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3: Server crashes on Windows using Eclipse/Junit > > Dave could you add that it's the third

[GENERAL] how can I shut off "more"?

2007-10-31 Thread Gauthier, Dave
When I run a query, and the number of lines exceeds what the screen can hold, the results seem to get piped into "more" (or "less"). How can I turn that off and just have everything stream out without stopping? I tried -echo-all, but that doesn't seem to do the trick. Thanks in Advance !

Re: [GENERAL] young guy wanting (Postgres DBA) ammo

2007-11-02 Thread Gauthier, Dave
You know the old saying, tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth. There are perceptions about databases out there that may not stand the test of analysis. But that really doesn't matter. If you want to bring down the perception, you need to use a different tact. And that has nothing to

[GENERAL] Temporary, In-memory Postgres DB?

2007-11-07 Thread Gauthier, Dave
vanish when the script/program ends. Probably not, but if not, then this would be (IMO) a great addition to have, something that'd really make it distinct from MySQL . I'd use SQLite, but I want to have stored functions and other "real" database features that it just doesn't have. Thanks -dave

Re: [GENERAL] Temporary, In-memory Postgres DB?

2007-11-07 Thread Gauthier, Dave
t;? Is it (gulp) just a "rm -r" ? I do have access to scratch disks which, in effect, could be used as a temporary storage area. IOW, if something goes wrong, and I don't get to delete a db that was created on the scratch disk, it'll get cleaned up for me overnight. It'

Re: DB on a ramdisk (was Re: [GENERAL] Temporary, In-memory Postgres DB?)

2007-11-07 Thread Gauthier, Dave
orary) DB for small apps that can reap all the wonderful features of PG would make it very attractive for some users. Just something to think about for future development. One question I had earlier that I don't think got answered was how to undo an "initdb". "dropdb" drops

[GENERAL] pg_tables and temp tables

2007-11-11 Thread Gauthier, Dave
g this other than trying to do something with the table (select, insert, delete...) and trapping a failed attempt? The contents of pg_tables appears to be the same from both the owning and non-owning sessions. Thanks in Advance for any help. v8.2.0 on 64-bit suse-linux -dave

[GENERAL] reverse strpos?

2007-11-12 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Is there a function that'll return the position of the last occurance of a char in a string? For Example, in the string 'abc/def/ghi' I want the position of the 2nd '/'. Thanks in Advance.

Re: [GENERAL] reverse strpos?

2007-11-12 Thread Gauthier, Dave
. Kretschmer Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] reverse strpos? On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 05:19:25PM +0100, A. Kretschmer wrote: > am Mon, dem 12.11.2007, um 10:54:53 -0500 mailte Gauthier, Dave folgendes: > > Is there a function that?ll return the position of the last >

[GENERAL] reserving space in a rec for future update

2007-11-14 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: I have a situation where I will be inserting thousands of records into a table but leaving 2 of it's columns null. Later on, I will be updating most of those records and putting real values in place of those 2 nulls. As for the ones that do not get updated, I want to leave them null. My

Re: [GENERAL] reserving space in a rec for future update

2007-11-14 Thread Gauthier, Dave
load. Thanks for the advanced warning about problems with vaccuum ! -dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Sullivan Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 11:13 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] reserving space

Re: [GENERAL] PLpgsql debugger question

2007-11-14 Thread Dave Page
> --- Original Message --- > From: Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 14/11/07, 19:01:04 > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PLpgsql debugger question > > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wed

Re: [GENERAL] Compiled debugger plug in for windows, any one have it?

2007-11-15 Thread Dave Page
Tony Caduto wrote: > I dont' have a c/c++ compiler on my PCs as I am a Delphi guy. > > Anyone have it compiled for win32 and willing to share? > > Actually I do have CodeGear C++, but it's unlikely to work with that. Just download and install the win32 distro of

Re: [GENERAL] pl-pgsql "return set of..." "return next..." performance question

2007-11-16 Thread Gauthier, Dave
ECTED] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 1:16 PM To: Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pl-pgsql "return set of..." "return next..." performance question Hello > > I noticed that it takes a long time to return the set of records. But if I

[GENERAL] pl-pgsql "return set of..." "return next..." performance question

2007-11-16 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: I have PL-PgSQL function that returns a set of records. It builds up 2 temp tables and then queries them to generate the set of records to be returned a-la for rrec in select t1.x, t2.x from t1, t2 where loop return next rrec; end loop; I noticed that it takes a

Re: [GENERAL] Temporary, In-memory Postgres DB?

2007-11-19 Thread Gauthier, Dave
this is just a wish list / suggestion matter at this point. -dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michelle Konzack Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 11:48 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Temporary, In-memory P

Re: [GENERAL] loading a funtion script from a file

2007-11-21 Thread Gauthier, Dave
"\i create_try.sql;" psql --dbname mydb -c "select trythis('foo');" psql --dbname mydb -c "drop function trythis(varchar);" -dave -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Kretschmer Sent: Wednesd

[GENERAL] postgres schema printer

2007-11-25 Thread Dave Potts
Is there such a thing as an opensource schema printer for postgres ? Dave. begin:vcard fn:David Potts n:Potts;David x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] replication in Postgres

2007-11-26 Thread Dave Page
p://www.enterprisedb.com/products/enterprisedb_replication.do Regards. Dave. ---(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] replication in Postgres

2007-11-26 Thread Dave Page
inly falls into the "near real time" replication category. I don't know how modified it might be, but I should also note that there's another tool for synchronising data with Oracle which is not based on Slony. Iirc, it's intended more for tasks like regular updating of

Re: [GENERAL] Select all fields except one

2007-11-28 Thread Gauthier, Dave
There's probably some way to pull all the field names from the metadata tables and build a query on-the-fly that selects all but the offensive one. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Doughty Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 11

Re: [GENERAL] Select all fields except one

2007-11-28 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Seems odd that you'd know specifically which column you don't want, but not know what columns you do want. And then not care what order those desired columns happen to be be returned in. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Fetter Sent: We

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.3: Server crashes on Windows using Eclipse/Junit

2007-11-30 Thread Dave Page
That could be an issue with Hibernate or the other code you're running, but yes, if it's opening lots of connections and keeping them open that could be what's wrong and I would suggest checking the FAQ above. Regards, Dave ---(end of broadcast)

[GENERAL] Postgres shutting down by itself...why?

2007-11-30 Thread Dave Horn
I've recently installed Postgres 8.2.x on a RedHat Linux system. Everything seems fine and normal. I can start and stop the server without errors. When the server is running, everything appears normal. The problem is that about every 2 to 3 hours I find the server is just not running anymore. I'

Re: [GENERAL] libeay32.dll and libpq.dll

2007-12-01 Thread Dave Page
hey are the OpenSSL libraries that your libpq was built against. If you're developing with libpq you should really do so against a build rather than the source tree - using the windows installer will get you all the headers, dlls and import libraries you need provided you o

[GENERAL] postmaster logfile

2007-12-03 Thread Gauthier, Dave
What's a good way to start the postmaster, send the log info to a logfile somewhere, and return the linux prompt? v8.2.0 on suse64 Thanks -dave

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster logfile

2007-12-03 Thread Gauthier, Dave
t; all seem to fail. "postmaster -d myplace/db -l logfile start" (as was in the message right after the initial db create) doesn't seem to work. I'll request v8.2.5. Thanks for the advise. -dave -Original Message- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [GENERAL] Tuning configuration

2007-12-04 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Is there something like a freeware windows client app that does DBA stuff for a remote server? Sort of like TOAD for Oracle? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Jones Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 1:34 PM To: Konrad Neuwirth Cc: Postgr

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres shutting down by itself...why?

2007-12-04 Thread Dave Horn
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 8:22 PM To: Dave Horn Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres shutting down by itself...why? "Dave Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've recently installed Postgres 8.2.x on a RedHat Linux system. Eve

[GENERAL] reformatting floats ?

2007-12-06 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: if... create table coords (id int, x float, y float); then... insert into coords (id,x,y) values (1,1.000,2.001) and then... select * from coords i get... 1,1,2.001 i want... 1.1.000,2.001 while retaining the numeric nature of the x,y data

Re: [GENERAL] reformatting floats ?

2007-12-06 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Both work (to_char and casting to numeric) Thanks ! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Kretschmer Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 1:46 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] reformatting floats ? Gauthier, Dave

Re: [GENERAL] Nested loop in simple query taking long time

2007-12-06 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Future Enhancement? If the column's new value can fit in the space already being used by the existing value, just change the column value in place and leave the record alone. Would reduce the need for vacuum in many cases. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [GENERAL] Continual Postgres headaches...

2007-12-06 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Sometimes breaking the query down using nested cursors can help, especially if the query has many joins. It usually makes behavior more predicatable anyway. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Merlin Moncure Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 2

Re: [GENERAL] pgagent on a mac

2007-12-08 Thread Dave Page
any one help It might be tucked away in the app bundle (can't check right now I'm afraid) - if not, you'll need to build from source unfortunately. Regards, Dave ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, plea

Re: [GENERAL] Column pgl.transaction does not exist in 8.3 beta 4

2007-12-08 Thread Dave Page
saction, instead --- that's > the closest match to the old behavior of pg_locks.transaction. > > > Anyone have any idea as to what is generating this statement? Sounds like a now-fixed bug in pgAdmin 1.8.0's server status monitor. Regards, Dave ---(en

Re: [GENERAL] insert into...

2007-12-09 Thread Dave Cramer
Values is optional. We support insert into select Dave On 9-Dec-07, at 11:05 AM, Alain Roger wrote: Hi, i would like to understand why the following INSERT INTO statement works : INSERT INTO mytable SELECT nextval('my_sequence'), 'myname', 'myfirstna

Re: [GENERAL] General Q's

2007-12-12 Thread Dave Page
Joshua D. Drake wrote: * Is there a project to create MySQL compatibility for Postgresql? I No. Thank god. Just think of all those potential customers you could be missing JD :-) http://pgfoundry.org/projects/mysqlcompat/ /D ---(end of broadcast)-

[GENERAL] setting and using variables in PSQL ????

2007-12-14 Thread Gauthier, Dave
e done some PL-pgsql and know about statement blocks in that context. But I don't want to have to create a function, use it, then delete it. Was wondering of something else could be done. Thanks -dave

Re: [GENERAL] spreadsheet interface

2007-12-17 Thread Dave Page
work out of the box with Excel and OpenOffice - if not, check the copy delimiter/quoting options under file->options. Regards, Dave ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/

Re: [GENERAL] thank you

2007-12-19 Thread Dave Page
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:20:32 +0900 > Paul Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm just disappointed that I finish up work with my current employer >> on Friday and where I am going I won't get to work with PG anymore >> and thus won't have as much opportunity to intera

Re: [GENERAL] Deploy postgres - upgrade strategy

2007-12-20 Thread Dave Page
ctl service runs under, eg. MYPC\postgres The values are split into two sets of keys (with some duplication) to allow easy cross-referencing from service to installation and vice versa. Obviously and in the key paths should be replaced with the actual values. Regards, Dave. --

Re: [GENERAL] Deploy postgres - upgrade strategy

2007-12-20 Thread Dave Page
Harald Armin Massa wrote: > HKLM\Software\PostgreSQL\Services\\Service Account > > Where: > > [...] > Service account is the Windows user account that the pg_ctl service runs > under, eg. MYPC\postgres > > > I guess that would be "service account that was assigned to the pos

Re: [GENERAL] installation on Mac OS X 10.5.1

2007-12-22 Thread Dave Page
aller if you're will to run 8.3 beta until the full release: http://postgres.enterprisedb.com/download.do It works pretty well even if (as the author) I do say so myself :-) Regards, Dave ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8

Re: [GENERAL] installation on Mac OS X 10.5.1

2007-12-22 Thread Dave Page
> --- Original Message --- > From: Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 22/12/07, 18:51:09 > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] installation on Mac OS X 10.5.1 > > Thanks. If I take this approach will it be straightforward to upg

Re: [GENERAL] installation on Mac OS X 10.5.1

2007-12-22 Thread Dave Page
> --- Original Message --- > From: Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 22/12/07, 19:21:21 > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] installation on Mac OS X 10.5.1 > > Yes, thanks for the reminder. I'm using this as a

[GENERAL] default superuser

2007-12-28 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi I created a database instance and a database takign whatever defaults were in effect with regard to defining a superuser and password. What are those defaults? How do I change the password for the superuser? Thanks -dave

Re: [GENERAL] default superuser

2007-12-28 Thread Gauthier, Dave
r that I wanted to grant "all" to and that seemed to work... create user foo password 'foopass'; grant all on database mypgdb to foo; And I can connect using the "foo" user (psql -U foo mypgdb). But it doesn't seem to require the password. Would you know why? I

[GENERAL] alter varchar() column length?

2008-01-11 Thread Gauthier, Dave
t into that new column the value in "temp" - alter table, drop "temp" - recreate all the indexes Thanks -dave

Re: [GENERAL] backup and restore

2008-01-16 Thread Dave Page
the only reason it might fail that I can think of. In 1.6 it'll use the first version it finds. In 1.8, you can select the path yourself if you like. Regards, Dave ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] Sun acquires MySQL

2008-01-16 Thread Gauthier, Dave
If MySQL goes the way of Java, maybe there isn't too much to worry about. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Weslee Bilodeau Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 10:56 AM To: Russ Brown Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Sun

Re: [GENERAL] Sun acquires MySQL

2008-01-16 Thread Dave Page
2 out of 7 - which would be Bruce & I. Regards, Dave On 1/16/08, Dirk Riehle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The main company, MySQL AB was all that was left to effectively give > > them control of MySQL. > > > > PostgreSQL obviously doesn't have this

Re: [GENERAL] Forgot to dump old data before re-installing machine

2008-01-18 Thread Dave Page
assume they can be overridden)? I don't know if you'd see exactly the same symptoms you have, but changing settings like integer datetimes will break things in a similar way. Regards, Dave ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0

Re: [GENERAL] Forgot to dump old data before re-installing machine

2008-01-18 Thread Dave Page
On 18/01/2008, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb Dave Page: > > It got figured out when someone who knew what they were looking for > > peeked at the byte ordering in a file which for all we knew at the > > time mig

Re: [GENERAL] Forgot to dump old data before re-installing machine

2008-01-18 Thread Dave Page
On 18/01/2008, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hm? integer_datetimes is encoded separately and there's a very specific > error message if it's wrong. The case I think you are remembering was > caused by a width-of-time_t discrepancy, which should be fixed but it's > got nothing to do with a

Re: [GENERAL] Forgot to dump old data before re-installing machine

2008-01-18 Thread Dave Page
On 18/01/2008, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Note to the other hackers - is it worth having initdb dump the > > architecture details and configure options used into the cluster in a > > human readble

Re: [GENERAL] Forgot to dump old data before re-installing machine

2008-01-18 Thread Dave Page
On 18/01/2008, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > uname is a separate executable. If you do system("uname") you'll get > results that reflect how uname was built, not how Postgres was built. Right, I realise it's a seperate executable, but doesn't configure rely on it anyway? Meaning if someon

Re: [GENERAL] Forgot to dump old data before re-installing machine

2008-01-18 Thread Dave Page
On 18/01/2008, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 18/01/2008, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah. That would work better than what I thought you were suggesting, but > I still don't trust it a

Re: [GENERAL] Forgot to dump old data before re-installing machine

2008-01-18 Thread Dave Page
nd configure options used into the cluster in a human readble form so we can pickup on this sort of thing more easily in the future? Regards, Dave. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PostGreSQL - 2

2008-01-24 Thread Dave Page
ostgresql-8.3-dev1.txt ', it just might mean > something to you 'cos it does not mean anything to me. Please try 8.3RC2. 8.3-dev1 is a *very* old test build and not something anyone should actually be using. Where did you find it anyway? Regards, Dave. ---(en

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql book - practical or something newer?

2008-01-29 Thread Dave Page
On Jan 29, 2008 6:16 PM, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I try to be reasonable (no laughing people :)). Oh it's hard, so very, very hard! :-) /D ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql book - practical or something newer?

2008-01-30 Thread Dave Page
On Jan 30, 2008 11:35 AM, Raymond O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 30/01/2008 11:27, Gregory Stark wrote: > > > In fact I think most of the features you'll look for examples of will be > > from > > the last 1-2 years. When 8.3 comes out people will be looking for whole > > books > > on X

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql book - practical or something newer?

2008-01-30 Thread Dave Page
;'t wish to use the online help. Regards, Dave. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql book - practical or something newer?

2008-01-30 Thread Dave Page
On Jan 30, 2008 1:34 PM, Peter Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dave Page wrote: > > On Jan 30, 2008 12:45 PM, Peter Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Has anyone else generated a Windows Help version of the manual? > > We distribute it

[GENERAL] PGDay.EU 2010 Call for Papers ending soon!

2010-10-07 Thread Dave Page
enting at the conference. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.p

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 9.0 (x86-64) and Windows 7 (x86-64) - Unable to install

2010-10-07 Thread Dave Page
those particular ones have an unusual ACL on them which caused our pre-installation actions to go haywire. If such a problem occurs with the installation path, you should get a regular "permission denied" error. Regards, Dave. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitte

Re: [GENERAL] Missing uuid_generate_v1()

2010-10-07 Thread Dave Page
y won't be, unless > you remember to do it.  Eventually that's gonna bite ya. > > Of course the best fix would be for EDB to ship a build of Postgres > that actually follows the platform-standard naming convention for this > library.  I'm still wondering why they'

Re: [GENERAL] Slony-I 2.0.5 Released

2010-10-07 Thread Gauthier, Dave
What are the pros/cons of using Slony vs the nre streaming replication in v9? -Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Steve Singer Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 12:58 PM To: slony1-general; pgsql-general@postg

Re: [GENERAL] postgreSQL for Windows 7

2010-10-08 Thread Dave Page
d you can create databases implies that the server is at least installed and running. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgres Company -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.or

Re: [GENERAL] NoSQL -vs- SQL

2010-10-12 Thread Dave Page
the same, > except for replacign the Mongo guy with MySQL and the MySQL guy with > PostgreSQL. That might be more apopros all around ;) Someone did indeed do that: http://nigel.mcnie.name/blog/mysql-is-a-database (also nsfw, iirc) -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @

Re: [GENERAL] Understanding PostgreSQL Storage Engines

2010-10-13 Thread Dave Page
tely close to the ease with which you can plugin a different storage engine in MySQL, and would take a significant amount of engineering expertise and effort. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise Postgr

Re: [GENERAL] Understanding PostgreSQL Storage Engines

2010-10-13 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Thom Brown wrote: > On 13 October 2010 12:35, Dave Page wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Ron Mayer >> wrote: >>> Pavel Stehule wrote: >>>> 2010/10/8 Carlos Mennens : >>>>> I know that MySQL uses MyI

Re: [GENERAL] Adding a New Column Specifically In a Table

2010-10-14 Thread Gauthier, Dave
I think it's incorrect to expect a query to return column in any specific order if you do something like "select * from...". You may see columns returned in the order you created them, but I don't believe it's guaranteed. If you want a specific order, then "select col1, col3, col5, col2, .

Re: [GENERAL] Adding a New Column Specifically In a Table

2010-10-14 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Think of it this way... A person has many properties... age, nationality, eye_color, weight, etc... Does it maks sense to put these properties in a particular "order" ? Neither does a relational DB require them to be in any order. The fact that "select *" consistently shows them in one particu

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Dave Page
to believe that there should be a "Jobs" tree > in pgAdmin created..  But I see nothing.  Thanks! Did you setup the database per the part of the docs prior to that section? The "next steps" are most certainly there - see the index page at http://www.pgadmin.org/docs/1.12/pg

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Dave Page
;ll need to put together a startup script for your OS, if the debian/ubuntu packager hasn't done so already. I'd suggest copying one from /etc/init.d and tweaking it as required. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterpri

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Dave Page wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Mike Christensen >> wrote: >>> Sorry, it looks like it defaulted to the wrong DB.  I created the >>> schema in

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Dave Page
o, what user account will it find the > .pgpass file under?  Thanks! Have the script start pgagent under the postgres account eg; su - postgres -c 'p/path/to/pgadmin' Then it should be able to use postgres' pgpass file. Don't put the password in the connection string!

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Dave Page wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Mike Christensen >> wrote: >>> Okay I found one that I can use.. >>> >>> One question..  Should th

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0 SSL renegotiation failure restoring data

2010-10-21 Thread Dave Page
ay32.dll >> >> How to update them so that they match with linux server ? > > Oh, interesting.  So we install SSL with our Win32 install, and I assume > that is a new/correct version of ssl. > > Dave, this person says they are getting disconnected regularly and we > thoug

[GENERAL] pg view of table columns needed for scripting

2010-10-22 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: Is there something like a pg_xxx view that I can use to get the column names and data types of a table, similar to what I see with \d ? I need to run this is a script, so \d isn't viable. I did a \df and looked around, but nothing popped out. Thanks in Advance !

Re: [GENERAL] createlang plpythonu fails on 64bit windows

2010-10-24 Thread Dave Page
2bit unless you're using the 32bit Postgres build (it's built along with the rest of the server, so...). What version of Python do you have? A quick glance at the build script shows we're using 2.6, and we always use the ActiveState builds. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blog

Re: [GENERAL] Missing uuid_generate_v1()

2010-10-25 Thread Dave Page
ing Postgres. It's not a PostgreSQL issue - the underlying library ossp-uuid doesn't support 64 bit Windows. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-general maili

[GENERAL] PGDay Europe 2010 schedule announced

2010-10-25 Thread Dave Page
o already, head on over to the website and register your attendance at the conference. You won't regret it! Website: http://2010.pgday.eu/ Schedule: http://2010.pgday.eu/schedule Registration: http://2010.pgday.eu/register See you in Stuttgart! -- Dave Page PostgreSQL Core Team http://www.

Re: [GENERAL] 9.0.1-1 windows install VC++ 2008 redistributalbe warning

2010-10-29 Thread Dave Page
t have any idea how or why it works as it does. We just know we need the runtimes it installs. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-genera

Re: [GENERAL] Unhandled exception in PGAdmin when opening 16-million-record table

2010-10-30 Thread Dave Page
he > scrollbar. That is basically how it works (MVC), albeit without using cursors; for both the reason you state and because part of the point of the tool is to tune queries and using cursors to do that completely messes up any timings we might get. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnak

Re: [GENERAL] Unhandled exception in PGAdmin when opening 16-million-record table

2010-10-30 Thread Dave Page
I mean that the tool was developed to help tune application queries, in which the data transfer time can be just as important as the query execution time. With cursors, you lose that information. Of course, patches to make optional use of cursors would be interesting to us. -- Dave

[GENERAL] check constraint on insert but not delete

2010-11-04 Thread Gauthier, Dave
This is a longshot, but here goes... Is there a way to require that a check constraint be checked on insert but not update?Worth knowing is that my check constraint runs a PLPgsql proc which returns a yes/no kinf of flag which the constraint proper checks. Thanks !

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Dave Page
ction server), I will note that Hiroshi Saito has ported ossp-uuid to Win64 now, and we're working on getting it included in the next update of PG 9.0. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Compa

Re: [GENERAL] Please Help...

2010-11-04 Thread Dave Page
normally because it's not in compliance with a security policy on the system - almost always related to password complexity, or age/reuse. You could try creating the account manually in advance. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.en

Re: [GENERAL] One-click Installers for 9.1 Alpha 2 (ETA)

2010-11-08 Thread Dave Page
he tarballs coincided with PGWest, so I couldn't do them then and now have to catch up on a bunch of work. To make matters worse, the pgAdmin build has changed somewhat on Windows and requires some effort to update the installers to work again. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blog

Re: [GENERAL] Why facebook used mysql ?

2010-11-09 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Think upgrades -Original Message- From: Andy [mailto:angelf...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 12:02 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Gauthier, Dave Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Why facebook used mysql ? --- On Tue, 11/9/10, Gauthier, Dave wrote: > A different slant

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