your words are a great encouragement to me!
i am embarrassed by my English and i will improve it.
maybe i missed something that makes you a little misunderstand in point 3.
what i want is data-copys between databases automatically processed by
program. and databases may be not in the same host.
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:01:47AM -0500, Justin wrote:
i wish that could work but need to keep track of the individual weights
as its a percentage of the total amount of the weight.
Unless you have a different meaning of weighted average to me, I don't
think you do. AFAIK this would produce
Hi all,
is it possible to instrument pg_dumpall to produce separate sql files for each
database it is going to backup? I'd like to keep separate backups of my
databases, but using pg_dump can lead to forgetting a database.
Thanks,
Luca
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longlong wrote:
your words are a great encouragement to me!
i am embarrassed by my English and i will improve it.
maybe i missed something that makes you a little misunderstand in point 3.
what i want is data-copys between databases automatically processed by
program. and databases may be not
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:54:47AM +0100, Luca Ferrari wrote:
Hi all,
is it possible to instrument pg_dumpall to produce separate sql files for
each
database it is going to backup? I'd like to keep separate backups of my
databases, but using pg_dump can lead to forgetting a database.
today I had a problem with postgresql.conf file, i remove it
from my local home, any of you know if there is some security
copy of it somewhere or if there is some how to recover it?
the guy who did the configuration is not working at my office
any more and i don't know is he changed
Luca Ferrari wrote:
Hi all,
is it possible to instrument pg_dumpall to produce separate sql files for each
database it is going to backup? I'd like to keep separate backups of my
databases, but using pg_dump can lead to forgetting a database.
You could build a shell script to repeatedly
On Mar 10, 8:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to reindex some indexes through a batch script. for
example
Database : hermes
Schema : sc1
Indexes : ind1
when i use reindexdb with the following switches
./reindexdb --index=ind1 hermes
i see.
now i know that COPY with STDIN/OUT can do what i mentioned before exactly.
2008/3/11, Richard Huxton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
longlong wrote:
your words are a great encouragement to me!
i am embarrassed by my English and i will improve it.
maybe i missed something that makes you a
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:50:26AM -0500, Kynn Jones wrote:
Hi! When it comes to programming SQL, my newbie approach is to write my
code in a file test.sql, which I test from within psql by using
my_db= \i /some/path/test.sql
...and (once I'm satisfied with the code) copy and paste it
Joe Conway escreveu:
Kevin Kempter wrote:
Anyone know of any MOLAP/MDDB/MDX Business Intelligence reporting
solutions tahat work on top of PostgreSQL ?
I haven't used it myself, but you could check out Mondrian:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mondrian/
I did... and it works fine. :)
hi,
how to find trigger names in my database ?
using psql 7.4
the following query shows system triggers, i want only to list the
triggers created by me
select relname, tgname, tgtype, proname, prosrc, tgisconstraint,
tgconstrname, tgconstrrelid, tgdeferrable, tginitdeferred, tgnargs,
tgattr,
Hi:
Trying (and failing) to attach to my DBs. Getting...
database foo_standby has disappeared form pg_database
DETAIL: Database OID 2323523 now seems to belong to foo
I have 2 dbs... foo and foo_standby. Every midnight, I truncate
foo_standby and load it up with all the
Thanks for the tips. I was able to use array_to_string and then use
split_part a bunch to split out the grantor, grantee, and each of the
grants into separate columns.
I really didn't see any documentation on aclitm[]. Generating a report
showing who has rights to what is little bit harder than
I tried vacuum pg_database, no luck. I shut down and restarted the DB
and it seems to have fixed the problem. Still, not sure why it happened
in the first place or how to prevent it in the future.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Kynn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi! When it comes to programming SQL, my newbie approach is to write my
code in a file test.sql, which I test from within psql by using
my_db= \i /some/path/test.sql
...and (once I'm satisfied with the code) copy and
thanks
it now takes 806 ms
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:01:47AM -0500, Justin wrote:
i wish that could work but need to keep track of the individual weights
as its a percentage of the total amount of the weight.
Unless you have a different meaning of
Gauthier, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I tried vacuum pg_database, no luck. I shut down and restarted the DB
and it seems to have fixed the problem. Still, not sure why it happened
in the first place or how to prevent it in the future.
My recollection is that that's a symptom of lack of
Gauthier, Dave wrote:
I tried vacuum pg_database, no luck. I shut down and restarted the DB
and it seems to have fixed the problem. Still, not sure why it happened
in the first place or how to prevent it in the future.
Trying (and failing) to attach to my DBs. Getting...
database
Gurjeet Singh wrote:
If your sole objective is to comment out large chunks of SQL code, which in
turn may have multi-line comments, then the simplest trick is to comment
them using /* multi-line */ itself!
The SQL standard, and Postgres, allow you to nest comments; some commercial
RDBMS' do not
I'm running 8.2.0 on Linux.
The postgres.conf has...
#autovacuum = off
(commented out) which lead me to believe that by default, it's on. And
I'm assuming that it's vacumming the system tables. Are these
assumptions right?
Thanks
-dave
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL
Richard Huxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gauthier, Dave wrote:
Trying (and failing) to attach to my DBs. Getting...
database foo_standby has disappeared form pg_database
DETAIL: Database OID 2323523 now seems to belong to foo
Hmm - if a shutdown + restart fixed it, I'm wondering if it
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: RIPEMD160
I thought this claim needs further clarification, since the docs for PLPERL
include a warning that may give readers the impression that defining Perl
functions within PLPERL code is somehow problematic. This warning says:
Well, it /is/
Gauthier, Dave wrote:
I'm running 8.2.0 on Linux.
You should be running 8.2.6.
The postgres.conf has...
#autovacuum = off
(commented out) which lead me to believe that by default, it's on. And
I'm assuming that it's vacumming the system tables. Are these
assumptions right?
It's
Tom Lane wrote:
Richard Huxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gauthier, Dave wrote:
Trying (and failing) to attach to my DBs. Getting...
database foo_standby has disappeared form pg_database
DETAIL: Database OID 2323523 now seems to belong to foo
Hmm - if a shutdown + restart fixed it, I'm
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gauthier, Dave wrote:
I'm running 8.2.0 on Linux.
It's not turned on by default (and it's not on 8.2), so it's probably
not vacuuming anything. On 8.2 there are enough protections that this
shouldn't be the actual problem though -- as soon as you
Great, would you please end your truncate patch to the patches email
list? Thanks.
---
Robert Haas wrote:
We require that all submissions conform to the Postgres BSD license,
but we are not picky about requiring
Joe Conway wrote:
Kevin Kempter wrote:
Anyone know of any MOLAP/MDDB/MDX Business Intelligence reporting
solutions tahat work on top of PostgreSQL ?
I haven't used it myself, but you could check out Mondrian:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mondrian/
HTH
Joe
And for a complete
The renames go very fast. It's one of the main reasons I like it. I
run them manually, so I can say for certain that they have not failed
mid stream where midstream seems to take under a second.
-Original Message-
From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:17 AM, Sam Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not quite sure if this would help your use case, but a few editors
allow you to send blocks of text to other processes. For example, under
Emacs I can hit Ctrl+C twice and it will grab the current paragraph
and send it
When forced to denormalize for performance reasons, how do you ensure data
integrity? I like to, instead of denormalizing, use materialized views,
which offer lots of the same benefits without the costs. Yet, in Postgres
they're only experimental add-ons, not to be relied on for production use.
Hello,
I have a series of SQL Update statements. I would like to write a
function which runs all of the SQL Update statements one at a time, in
order from top to bottom. Can somebody share the basic syntax that I
would need to write the aforementioned function?
Please let me know.
Thanks
On 11/03/2008, Luca Ferrari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
is it possible to instrument pg_dumpall to produce separate sql files for
each
database it is going to backup? I'd like to keep separate backups of my
databases, but using pg_dump can lead to forgetting a database.
You
Thanks Tom,
That's definitely it- I've got a global database object that's used
throughout my application, it looks like I missed one crucial mutex lock in
the database code.
Thanks again,
Mike
-Original Message-
From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Gurjeet Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The SQL standard, and Postgres, allow you to nest comments; some
commercial RDBMS' do not provide this, and hence people think it's not
possible in SQL.
Ah! Finally I see what Martin was getting at in his reply.
Well,
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Craig Ringer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Personally I use vim to comment out small blocks. However, this is
rarely required as I break my SQL up into logical chunks in separate
files.
I should get into that habit in any case. Thanks for pointing it out.
Kynn
Hi All,
I'm a novice but learning quickly and I'm stumped on how to do this.
I need to convert postgres timestamp to date format -mm-dd in a
sql statement.
pt.created_date below is timestamp format
i.e ... WHERE pt.created_date = '2008-01-21'
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
am Tue, dem 11.03.2008, um 12:26:49 -0500 mailte Joshua folgendes:
Hello,
I have a series of SQL Update statements. I would like to write a
function which runs all of the SQL Update statements one at a time, in
order from top to bottom. Can somebody share the basic syntax that I
would
I need to convert postgres timestamp to date format -mm-dd in a
sql statement.
pt.created_date below is timestamp format
i.e ... WHERE pt.created_date = '2008-01-21'
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Try this:
WHERE pt.created_date = '2008-01-21'::date
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Hi, I am trying to configure Full Text Search on PostgreSQL 8.3 but I
seem to be missing pg_catalog.english as I get the follow when I try
and do this:
ALTER TABLE useraccounts_contact ADD COLUMN notes_tsv tsvector;
CREATE TRIGGER tsvectorupdate BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON
Hi,
I am a database professional but have never used Postgre. My client was
exploring the posiblity of using Postgre instead of Mysql and wnated to know
the comments from the community.
I waned you people you post your views on the following comparision points
1] Performance
2] Scalablity
3]
I have to dig this up and see if I still have it.
...Robert
-Original Message-
From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 1:05 PM
To: Robert Haas
Cc: Tom Lane; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] contributing patches
Great, would you
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Alban Hertroys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can't define triggers on system tables.
Oh, well... :-/ Thanks for the reality check!
If not, is there some other way to set up a trigger that
Oops. I guess a cut-and-paste error in my original message must
am Tue, dem 11.03.2008, um 10:51:21 -0700 mailte CaseT folgendes:
Hi All,
I'm a novice but learning quickly and I'm stumped on how to do this.
I need to convert postgres timestamp to date format -mm-dd in a
sql statement.
pt.created_date below is timestamp format
i.e ... WHERE
rrahul wrote:
Hi,
I am a database professional but have never used Postgre.
PostgreSQL, or Postgres rather than Postgre.
My client was
exploring the posiblity of using Postgre instead of Mysql and wnated to know
the comments from the community.
I waned you people you post your views on
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:47 AM, rrahul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am a database professional but have never used Postgre. My client was
exploring the posiblity of using Postgre instead of Mysql and wnated to know
the comments from the community.
I waned you people you post your
Tim Child wrote:
Hi, I am trying to configure Full Text Search on PostgreSQL 8.3 but I
seem to be missing pg_catalog.english as I get the follow when I try and
do this:
tsvector_update_trigger(body_tsv, 'pg_catalog.english', notes);
Error:
ERROR: text search configuration
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-general-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rrahul
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:48 AM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] postgre vs MySQL
Hi,
I am a database professional but have never used Postgre. My
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, rrahul wrote:
I waned you people you post your views on the following comparision points
1] Performance 2] Scalablity 4] Speed 6] robustness
These are all covered in more detail that you probably want at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/techdocs.83
The quick summary is
Hello,
I have a quick questions... consider the following information:
I have a table 'customers' which looks like the following:
firstname | middlename
---|--
Johnathan C
Mark S
Joshua
Susan T
Jennifer
Marcus D
Mike
I have a perl/dbi app that loads my DB with sequential and discrete
insert statements. Runs very fast and I'm satisfied with it. Now I
have to run the same app from a different site, but loading my local DB.
The one at a time inserts take too long, probably because of the
client/server delays
On Mar 11, 2008, at 2:50 PM, A. Kretschmer wrote:
i.e ... WHERE pt.created_date = '2008-01-21'
You can't compare a date or timestamp to a varchar or text. For your
example, cast the date-string to a real date like:
Since which version of Pg?
Queries like the above have worked for me from
you need to strip the string apart using either regex which is
difficult to use or split_part()
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/functions-string.html
The update will look something like this...
Update customer set custfirstname = split_part(Name, ' ', 1) ,
custmiddlename =
Gauthier, Dave wrote:
I have a perl/dbi app that loads my DB with sequential and discrete
insert statements. Runs very fast and I’m satisfied with it. Now I
have to run the same app from a different site, but loading my local
DB. The “one at a time” inserts take too long, probably because
Vivek Khera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mar 11, 2008, at 2:50 PM, A. Kretschmer wrote:
i.e ... WHERE pt.created_date = '2008-01-21'
You can't compare a date or timestamp to a varchar or text. For your
example, cast the date-string to a real date like:
Since which version of Pg?
Queries
On 12/03/2008, Kynn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If one can set up this insert operation so that it happens automatically
whenever a new connection is made, I'd like to learn how it's done. But if
not, then I don't see how performing the insert manually every time one
connects would be any
Iam not able to use savepoints i postgres.
Iam using version 8.2.
If i write something like this :
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_savepoint()
RETURNS void AS
$BODY$
DECLARE
BEGIN
SAVEPOINT foo;
INSERT INTO table1 VALUES (3);
INSERT INTO table1 VALUES (4);
ROLLBACK TO foo;
COMMIT;
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Richard Huxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
People here are bound to prefer PostgreSQL to MySQL, otherwise you'd
find us on a MySQL list. What sort of database were you looking at? On
what operating system? With what hardware?
I semi regularly post on the MySQL
Tim Child [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi, I am trying to configure Full Text Search on PostgreSQL 8.3 but I
seem to be missing pg_catalog.english as I get the follow when I try
and do this:
That's odd ... what *do* you have in pg_ts_config? It should look
about like this, in a virgin
Kynn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If one can set up this insert operation so that it happens automatically
whenever a new connection is made, I'd like to learn how it's done.
For manual psql sessions, you can put some setup commands in ~/.psqlrc.
In any other context I'm afraid you're stuck
A. Kretschmer wrote on 11.03.2008 19:50:
am Tue, dem 11.03.2008, um 10:51:21 -0700 mailte CaseT folgendes:
Hi All,
I'm a novice but learning quickly and I'm stumped on how to do this.
I need to convert postgres timestamp to date format -mm-dd in a
sql statement.
pt.created_date below is
sam escribió:
Iam not able to understand if this is a version problem or the way iam
using savepoints is wrong.Please advice.
It is. You cannot use savepoints in PL/pgSQL functions (or any function
for that matter). You can use EXCEPTION clauses instead.
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Hi Devrim,
Thank you for your help.
Our server is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (64-bit).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lm-9.3b-pgsql-linux-rh-enterprise_3]# uname -a
Linux lyris3.k12.hi.us 2.4.21-20.EL #1 SMP Wed Aug 18 20:34:58 EDT 2004
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I uninstalled postgresql 8.2.3 and
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3] community support
It's not unheard of for someone who is really having a problem that looks
like a database bug to get one of the core PostgreSQL contributors poking
at their box to figure out what's going on.
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Scott Marlowe wrote:
That kind of change does NOT get into production versions of
postgresql. With a yearly release schedule, postgresql doesn't have
to put dodgy performance updates in a production release.
This is worth expanding on: PostgreSQL doesn't put *any*
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Gauthier, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a perl/dbi app that loads my DB with sequential and discrete insert
statements. Runs very fast and I'm satisfied with it. Now I have to run
the same app from a different site, but loading my local DB. The one at
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Gauthier, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Again, Perl/DBI, remote attach, Running v8.2.0 on Linux
Oh, and update NOW. schedule a 5 minute maintenance window and update
to 8.2.6 (or if 8.2.7 comes out while this is in transit, that...)
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On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Scott Marlowe wrote:
That kind of change does NOT get into production versions of
postgresql. With a yearly release schedule, postgresql doesn't have
to put dodgy performance updates in a
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Dann Corbit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-general-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rrahul
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:48 AM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: [GENERAL] postgre
Hi,
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 11:53 -1000, Tri Quach wrote:
Our server is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (64-bit).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lm-9.3b-pgsql-linux-rh-enterprise_3]#
^
RHEL 3 or RHEL 4?
Regards,
--
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PostgreSQL
Hi,
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 14:27 -1000, Tri Quach wrote:
It is RHEL 3.
The packages you are installing are for RHEL 4, which won't install on
RHEL 3 correctly. Unfortunately, we don't have RHEL 3 - x86_64 packages.
Please download:
Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm really hoping Sun will put a stop to such behavior, but wonder if
they'll do anything at all.
Sadly, the worst problem with the behavior re mysql releases is that
it trains DBAs to NOT install updates. In fairness, I know quite a
few Oracle DBAs
Tom Lane wrote:
Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm really hoping Sun will put a stop to such behavior, but wonder if
they'll do anything at all.
Sadly, the worst problem with the behavior re mysql releases is that
it trains DBAs to NOT install updates. In fairness, I
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Tom Lane wrote:
I can tell you that new mysql updates don't get into Fedora, let alone
RHEL, till they've been around at least a month or two. That's not
laziness on my part; that's the burnt child shunning the fire.
That would make a great marketing quote: Update to
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I view updates/patches of any kind like this, if ain't broke don't fix it.
I normally only update computers with security patches only after i prove it
don't destroy installs.
But that's juast it. When a postgresql update
i've had to many sleepless nights rolling back patches on other software
to just roll out patches.
I'm a wait and see guy on most things. If its security update and the
server is exposed to the internet i dig into that right away.
Now if patch fixes a problem about data integrity i also dig
Hello all,
It was running fine initially and the database was lying idle for a
few days. Today I looged into the machine and restarted the server by
killing the process by 'kill -9 pid'. And then restarted it by
'postmaster -i -D /opt/pgsql/data/'.
Then it gives the following error on
Is there any article describing the migration database from postgresql 7.4to
8.1
Kakoli Sen wrote:
Hello all,
It was running fine initially and the database was lying idle for a
few days. Today I looged into the machine and restarted the server by
killing the process by 'kill -9 pid'. And then restarted it by
'postmaster -i -D /opt/pgsql/data/'.
Why did you use
Hi all,
I'm wondering whether there would be any extra overhead (CPU, memory,
io, etc), above and beyond the implicit ACCESS SHARE, incurred by
putting a simple SELECT into a transaction block?
Cheers,
-Blair
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as to be understood by
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