backup compress...blobs/insert commands/verbose messages

Can someone explain me the following options while using pgAdimn III for
backup:

blobs
insert commands
verbose messages

Thanks.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Davis" <sdavis2(at)mail(dot)nih(dot)gov>
To: "Hrishikesh Deshmukh" <hdeshmuk(at)gmail(dot)com>; "Ben"
<bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com>
Cc: "Postgresql-General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres and GnuPlot

> As an alternative, be sure to check out pl/R. Everything happens inside
> the server except for the actual plot which goes to a file.
>
> Sean
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hrishikesh Deshmukh" <hdeshmuk(at)gmail(dot)com>
> To: "Ben" <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com>
> Cc: "Postgresql-General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2005 11:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres and GnuPlot
>
>
> Hmmmm......looks like i simply can't send the query results to gnuplot
> without an intermediary!! So far my search results have not yielded
> anything....i guess intermediary is the only way to !! :(((
>
> Hrishi
>
> On 5/9/05, Ben <bench(at)silentmedia(dot)com> wrote:
>> Heh. Funny you should ask; I spent a fair amount of time yesterday
>> doing precisely this.
>>
>> Here's my gnuplot file:
>>
>> set terminal png small color picsize 1000 400
>> set style fill solid 1.0 border
>> set title "Concurrent listeners"
>> set xdata time
>> set xlabel "Time"
>> set ylabel "Cuncurrent Logged In Listeners"
>> set format x "%Y/%m/%d\n%H:%M:%S"
>> set timefmt "%s"
>> plot "< echo \"select t-7*3600,c from stats_concurrent_listener_count
>> (extract(epoch from '2004/12/13 20:00'::timestamp)::int,null);\" |
>> psql -h plur -U greenroom gr-dev -t | sed 's/|//'" using 1:2 with boxes
>>
>> cat file | gnuplot > image.png works perfectly.
>>
>> The bitch of it is that I seem to be having a hard time running this
>> as a cgi. I can't figure out. Not that this question has anything to
>> do with postgres, but maybe somebody else can tell me where I'm going
>> wrong? My CGI is:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> echo -e "Content-type: image/png\n\n";
>> echo -e "set terminal png small color picsize 1000 400\nset style
>> fill solid 1.0 border\nset title \"Concurrent listeners\"\nset xdata
>> time\nset xlabel \"Time\"\nset ylabel \"Cuncurrent Logged In Listeners
>> \"\nset format x \"%Y/%m/%d\\\n%H:%M:%S\"\nset timefmt \"%s\"\nplot
>> \"< echo \\\"select t-7*3600,c from stats_concurrent_listener_count
>> (extract(epoch from '2004/12/13 20:00'::timestamp)::int,null);\\\" | /
>> usr/bin/psql -h plur -U greenroom gr-dev -t | sed 's/|//'\" using 1:2
>> with boxes" | /usr/bin/gnuplot
>>
>> ...and it seems that when printing to stdout, it gives a truncated
>> version of the file. When redirecting, it does not. Maybe that's not
>> too surprising, if apache is looking for a null to see when stdout
>> stops.... but I don't know how to get around that.
>>
>>
>> On May 9, 2005, at 7:51 AM, Hrishikesh Deshmukh wrote:
>>
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > Has anybody tried using gnuplot to plot results from queries; there
>> > are some suggestions given in PostgreSQL Developer's Handbook but i
>> > have not any luck so far!
>> > Any pointers as how to send results from queries straight to a simple
>> > plotting utility (ex:gnuplot)!
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Hrishi
>> >
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