Re: [HACKERS] Toast,bytea, Text -blob all confusing

2001-08-27 Thread Frank Joerdens
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:09:14PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying my best to convert from MySQL to PgSQL but I cant get a good > answer about > certian questions. It was an easy task in mysql but all this talk about > , text , toast and bytea is just confusing me. > I cant get a cle

[HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] PHP and PostgreSQL

2000-12-27 Thread Frank Joerdens
Adam Lang wrote: > > I'd say the most important thing would be to get it upto speed with 7.1. > Make sure PHP supports large objects and the TOAST properly. What would be the problem there? As I understand TOAST, the application shouldn't take any notice of it's inner workings whatsoever . . .

[HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] PHP and PostgreSQL

2000-12-27 Thread Frank Joerdens
Adam Lang wrote: > > I thought I saw mention on the interfaces list that the ODBC driver needed > to be modified to properly use the large objects. You normally wouldn't use ODBC to access Postgres from PHP but rather the Postgres-specific interface. You _can_ use ODBC as well but normally that

[HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] Re: PHP and PostgreSQL

2001-01-03 Thread Frank Joerdens
Tom Lane wrote: [ . . . ] > A general-purpose connection-reuse facility on the server end cannot > eliminate these overheads, whereas it's trivial to avoid them within > the context of a multi-threaded client. PHP 4.04 does provide support for AOLServer now (which is multithreaded). I haven't had

[HACKERS] Beta2 Vacuum and pg_dump failures and mangled databases

2001-01-12 Thread Frank Joerdens
First I tried to dump out a database like: frank@limedes:~ > pg_dump mpi > dump.mpi getTables(): relation 'institute': 6 Triggers were expected, but got 0 The database mpi does contain a table 'institute' and a few foreign key constraints. Then I tried to dump another database, as in: postgres

Re: [HACKERS] Beta2 Vacuum and pg_dump failures and mangled databases

2001-01-12 Thread Frank Joerdens
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:05:09PM +0100, Frank Joerdens wrote: [ . . . ] > Does this make any sense to anyone? Are questions related to 7.1 beta versions best directed to hackers or to general? - Frank

Re: [HACKERS] Beta2 Vacuum and pg_dump failures and mangled databases

2001-01-12 Thread Frank Joerdens
Frank Joerdens wrote: [ . . . ] > Restarting the server didn't make a difference. I upgraded to beta3 just now and the problem persists. I didn't do an initdb obviously cuz I cannot save the data via pg_dump. Beta3 will read beta2 data OK (I guess this means that an initdb is not

Re: [HACKERS] Beta2 Vacuum and pg_dump failures and mangled databases

2001-01-12 Thread Frank Joerdens
"Mikheev, Vadim" wrote: > > > [ . . . ] > > > Restarting the server didn't make a difference. > > > > I upgraded to beta3 just now and the problem persists. I > > didn't do an initdb obviously cuz > > I cannot save the data via pg_dump. Beta3 will read beta2 > > data OK (I guess this means that >

[HACKERS] beta3 vacuum crash

2001-01-20 Thread Frank Joerdens
I haven't tried everything to recover from this yet, but will quickly try to document the crash before I lose track of what exactly went into it and what I did: Basically I deleted a table and then ran vacuum verbose, with the net result that I cannot connect to this database anymore with the er

Re: [HACKERS] beta3 vacuum crash

2001-01-21 Thread Frank Joerdens
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 05:35:41PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Frank Joerdens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I haven't tried everything to recover from this yet, but will quickly > > try to document the crash before I lose track of what exactly went > > into it and w

[HACKERS] beta3 vacuum crash

2001-01-23 Thread Frank Joerdens
I haven't tried everything to recover from this yet, but will quickly try to document the crash before I lose track of what exactly went into it and what I did: Basically I deleted a table and then ran vacuum verbose, with the net result that I cannot connect to this database anymore with the er

[HACKERS] beta3 Solaris 7 (SPARC) port report [ Was: Looking for . . . ]

2001-01-24 Thread Frank Joerdens
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:57:52AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: [ . . . ] > After you build PG and test it, send us a port report, and we'll add > Solaris 7 to the list of recently tested platforms. That's how it > works ... The installation by simply running configure, make, make install went complet

Re: [HACKERS] beta3 Solaris 7 (SPARC) port report [ Was: Looking for . . . ]

2001-01-25 Thread Frank Joerdens
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:42:45AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Frank Joerdens writes: > > [randomly varying set of regression tests fail] > > > Running the tests on my Linux box gives no failed tests. Must I assume > > that those failed tests indicate some issue t

Re: [HACKERS] beta3 Solaris 7 (SPARC) port report [ Was: Looking for . . . ]

2001-01-25 Thread Frank Joerdens
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:12:02PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Frank Joerdens writes: > > > > I have experienced before that Unix sockets will cause random connection > > > abortions on Solaris [ . . . ] > > > > Isn't that _really_ bad? Random conn

Re: [HACKERS] beta3 Solaris 7 (SPARC) port report [ Was: Looking for . . . ]

2001-01-25 Thread Frank Joerdens
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:12:02PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Frank Joerdens writes: > > > > I have experienced before that Unix sockets will cause random connection > > > abortions on Solaris [ . . . ] > > > > Isn't that _really_ bad? Random conn

Re: [HACKERS] beta3 Solaris 7 (SPARC) port report [ Was: Looking for . . . ]

2001-01-25 Thread Frank Joerdens
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 12:04:40PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: [ . . . ] > > for the /tmp directory, which looks distinctly odd to me. What kind of > > device is swap (I know what swap is normally but I didn't know you could > > mount stuff there . . . )?? > > That is a tmpfs file system which

Re: [HACKERS] beta3 Solaris 7 (SPARC) port report

2001-01-26 Thread Frank Joerdens
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:29:59PM +, Patrick Welche wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:13:29PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > Frank Joerdens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just did that and ran make check 4 times. 3 times went completely > > > smoothly, on

Re: [HACKERS] beta3 Solaris 7 (SPARC) port report

2001-01-26 Thread Frank Joerdens
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:15:45AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Frank Joerdens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now I get: > > > select_distinct_on ... FAILED > > select_implicit ... FAILED > > random ... failed (ignored) >

Re: [HACKERS] TOAST

2001-03-13 Thread Frank Joerdens
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 01:54:40PM +1100, Pam Withnall wrote: > hi, > I an using postgresql-7.1beta4 and am trying to use the large text fields. > I have heard of TOAST. There is little documentation. > I found one section about creating a data type, > then creating two functions to convert th