Re: [GENERAL] "Too far out of the mainstream"

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Travers
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Ondrej Ivanič wrote: > Hi, > > On 5 September 2012 12:14, Chris Travers wrote: > > > So people are using PostgreSQL in roles that aren't very visible anyway, > > DBA's are usually coming to PostgreSQL from other RDBMS's, and few > > applications are really distribu

Re: [GENERAL] Are there any options to parallelize queries?

2012-09-04 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Hi, Seref. You might want to take a look at Stado: http://www.slideshare.net/jim_mlodgenski/scaling-postresql-with-stado Best, -at -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Are there any options to parallelize queries?

2012-09-04 Thread Michael Paquier
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Chris Travers wrote: > Does Postgres-XC support query parallelism (at least splitting the > query up for portions that run on different nodes)? They just > released 1.0. I don't know if this sort of thing is supported there > and it might be overkill at any rate.

Re: [GENERAL] "Too far out of the mainstream"

2012-09-04 Thread Ondrej Ivanič
Hi, On 5 September 2012 12:14, Chris Travers wrote: > So people are using PostgreSQL in roles that aren't very visible anyway, > DBA's are usually coming to PostgreSQL from other RDBMS's, and few > applications are really distributed for PostgreSQL. > > Not only > this but there was significan

Re: [GENERAL] "Too far out of the mainstream"

2012-09-04 Thread Gavin Flower
On 05/09/12 08:38, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: On 05/09/12 05:35, Scott Marlowe wrote: I have read to emails to one of the postgresql lists, where people in companies with 1000's of databases had power failures and only the postgresql databases resta

Re: [GENERAL] postgres process got stuck in "notify interrupt waiting" status

2012-09-04 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:21 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 09/04/12 7:09 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: >> >> BTW, after I signalled TERM, the process status changed from >> >> notify interrupt waiting >> >> to >> >> notify interrupt waiting waiting >> >> which I thought looked kind of odd. >> >> T

Re: [GENERAL] postgres process got stuck in "notify interrupt waiting" status

2012-09-04 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/04/12 7:09 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: BTW, after I signalled TERM, the process status changed from notify interrupt waiting to notify interrupt waiting waiting which I thought looked kind of odd. Then I signalled KILL. was this a client process or a postgres process? kill -9 on

Re: [GENERAL] "Too far out of the mainstream"

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Travers
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > Since there's no reporting requirements for using postgresql > commercially etc, it's kind of a stealth database. It's all over the > place and nobody knows it. Meanwhile, finding qualified PostgreSQL > DBAs is pretty tough because of i

Re: [GENERAL] postgres process got stuck in "notify interrupt waiting" status

2012-09-04 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
BTW, after I signalled TERM, the process status changed from notify interrupt waiting to notify interrupt waiting waiting which I thought looked kind of odd. Then I signalled KILL. Aleksey On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: > Hi. > > We use LISTEN/NOTIFY quite a bit

Re: [GENERAL] regexp_matches question

2012-09-04 Thread David Johnston
On Sep 4, 2012, at 21:39, Sergio Basurto wrote: > I am using regexp_matches in a function like this > > create or replace function test (v_string in text) returns varchar as $$ > declare > i_strings text[]; > i_stringtext[]; > > i_strings := > regexp

[GENERAL] regexp_matches question

2012-09-04 Thread Sergio Basurto
I am using regexp_matches in a function like this create or replace function test (v_string in text) returns varchar as $$ declare i_strings text[]; i_stringtext[]; i_strings := regexp_matches(v_string,E'[a-zA-Z0-9:\\s\\-\\.#% ]*:[A-Za-z0-9\\s\\-\\.#%]+

[GENERAL] postgres process got stuck in "notify interrupt waiting" status

2012-09-04 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Hi. We use LISTEN/NOTIFY quite a bit but today something unusual (bad) happened. Number of processes waiting for a lock just started to go up up up. I finally found the object being locked was pg_listener which RhodiumToad on IRC kindly informed happens during LISTEN/NOTIFY. The process that ha

Re: [GENERAL] "Too far out of the mainstream"

2012-09-04 Thread Geert Mak
Since this PGCon 2011 page has no slides - http://www.pgcon.org/2011/schedule/events/361.en.html I Googled for "sharding" and "PostgreSQL" and I found this - http://www.databasesoup.com/2012/04/sharding-postgres-with-instagram.html "On Tuesday last week we had a terrific SFPUG meeting at which

Re: [GENERAL] "Too far out of the mainstream"

2012-09-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: > On 05/09/12 08:38, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Gavin Flower > wrote: > > On 05/09/12 05:35, Scott Marlowe wrote: > I have read to emails to one of the postgresql lists, > where people in companies with 1000's of da

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Misa Simic
Excellent :) Thanks - looks as acceptable workaround... Many thanks, Misa 2012/9/5 Joe Conway > On 09/04/2012 04:45 PM, Misa Simic wrote: > > Hi Joe, > > > > Do you maybe know, is it possible inside PL/R to call another PL/R > > function - but take result as R object (whatever R function retu

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Joe Conway
On 09/04/2012 04:45 PM, Misa Simic wrote: > Hi Joe, > > Do you maybe know, is it possible inside PL/R to call another PL/R > function - but take result as R object (whatever R function returns)? Mmmm, what about using plr_modules table? It creates native R functions that get installed into your

Re: [GENERAL] MS Sync framework sync SQL Server 2012 to PostgreSQL 9

2012-09-04 Thread Craig Ringer
On 09/05/2012 09:11 AM, Claire Chang wrote: Has anyone done that successfully? Is there any better way to sync data between SQL server 2012 and Postgres SQL 9? If you're going to cross-post between Stack Overflow and the PostgreSQL mailing list, please consider mentioning the fact to reduce t

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Misa Simic
> > (what btw forced me to check it in plv8 - and it seems they use the same > approach internally in behind :( - though doesn't make sense because of > find_function works just with plv8 postgres functions) Just realised I have called wrong method - so above is not true... it returns real v8 ob

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Misa Simic
Hi Joe, Do you maybe know, is it possible inside PL/R to call another PL/R function - but take result as R object (whatever R function returns)? If we take this scenario for example (Take some data from DB, pivot them, and save it as CSV)... pseudo code would be: -Execute SQL query -pivot return

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Joe Conway
On 09/04/2012 02:59 PM, Aram Fingal wrote: > On Sep 4, 2012, at 4:36 PM, A.M. wrote: > >> Or you could return the heatmap/plot as BYTEA data or use arrays as >> necessary. > > I was actually thinking exactly the same thing. Part of the reason I > use PostgreSQL for all my bioinformatics work is

[GENERAL] MS Sync framework sync SQL Server 2012 to PostgreSQL 9

2012-09-04 Thread Claire Chang
Has anyone done that successfully? Is there any better way to sync data between SQL server 2012 and Postgres SQL 9? Thanks, Claire

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Aram Fingal
On Sep 4, 2012, at 4:36 PM, A.M. wrote: > Or you could return the heatmap/plot as BYTEA data or use arrays as necessary. I was actually thinking exactly the same thing. Part of the reason I use PostgreSQL for all my bioinformatics work is that there is a need to correctly associate analysis r

Re: [GENERAL] Maintaining a materialized view only on a replica

2012-09-04 Thread Craig Ringer
Subject changed to describe the problem. Reply in-line. On 09/04/2012 07:57 PM, Herouth Maoz wrote: The issue is that when an insert or an update is fired, I can't say whether all the segments of the same transaction have been written yet, and if only some of them were written, there is no guar

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Joe Conway
On 09/04/2012 01:23 PM, Aram Fingal wrote: > So then, PL/R is not a solution to being able to pivot tables > directly in PostgreSQL but I might be able to define a PL/R procedure > which, for example, pivots tables and then uses the write.table() > function of R to send the results to disk without

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:39 AM, punnoose wrote: > hi all > How could i use crostab to display variable number of columns. in the output > There could be variable number of columns > Regards > Punnoose No. The workaround I use is to write a query generator in pl/pgsql (you can also do it in the

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Misa Simic
That is correct, Re you additional question re PL/R or get data from Pg in plain R - I am not sure it will be that much faster inside PL/R... I dont think there will be too much difference in execution time... Would be good to test it... and would be good to share results with us :) Thanks, Mis

Re: [GENERAL] "Too far out of the mainstream"

2012-09-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: > On 05/09/12 05:35, Scott Marlowe wrote: > I have read to emails to one of the postgresql lists, > where people in companies with 1000's of databases had > power failures and only the postgresql databases > restarted without special recovery act

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread A.M.
On Sep 4, 2012, at 4:30 PM, Aram Fingal wrote: > > On Sep 4, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Misa Simic wrote: > >> Inside PL/R you can take the same table as it is (unpivoted) as your >> data.frame and then pivot it inside R using reshape package,,, And then >> inside PL/R function do whatever you would l

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Aram Fingal
On Sep 4, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Misa Simic wrote: > Inside PL/R you can take the same table as it is (unpivoted) as your > data.frame and then pivot it inside R using reshape package,,, And then > inside PL/R function do whatever you would like to do with data i.e export to > whatever... - but you

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Misa Simic
No, you must use AS (..) in crosstab query... To actually, be able to create AS on "unkown" data in design time, what should produce an "unknown" result and unknown number of columns we are using Dynamic SQL to build AS part... (but of course function can't return result - just for export to csv

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Aram Fingal
On Sep 4, 2012, at 3:56 PM, Joe Conway wrote: > On 09/04/2012 12:48 PM, Aram Fingal wrote: >> So, are you saying that if I do something like this: >> >> copy(crosstab(source_sql, category_sql)) to '/output.csv' with csv; >> >> Then I don't have to list what the columns are going to be? In othe

Re: [GENERAL] "Too far out of the mainstream"

2012-09-04 Thread Gavin Flower
On 05/09/12 05:35, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Geert Mak wrote: I have been looking into heroku lately, they run on PostgreSQL - https://postgres.heroku.com/postgres Went out to lunch with a guy who worked for

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Joe Conway
On 09/04/2012 12:48 PM, Aram Fingal wrote: > So, are you saying that if I do something like this: > > copy(crosstab(source_sql, category_sql)) to '/output.csv' with csv; > > Then I don't have to list what the columns are going to be? In other > words, I can skip the "AS (...)" clause which is sh

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Aram Fingal
On Sep 4, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Joe Conway wrote: > On 09/04/2012 12:17 PM, Aram Fingal wrote: >> On Sep 4, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Vincent Veyron wrote: >>> see the documentation for Additional Supplied Modules, in your >>> case tablefunc : >>> >>> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/tablefunc.html

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Joe Conway
On 09/04/2012 12:17 PM, Aram Fingal wrote: > On Sep 4, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Vincent Veyron wrote: >> see the documentation for Additional Supplied Modules, in your >> case tablefunc : >> >> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/tablefunc.html > > I evaluated tablefunc about a year and a half ago

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Aram Fingal
On Sep 4, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Vincent Veyron wrote: > Le mardi 04 septembre 2012 à 08:39 -0700, punnoose a écrit : >> hi all >> How could i use crostab to display variable number of columns. in the output >> There could be variable number of columns > > see the documentation for Additional Supplie

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread dinesh kumar
This is really good feature (crostab) to implement .. Best Regards, Dinesh manojadinesh.blogspot.com On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:21 AM, Vincent Veyron wrote: > Le mardi 04 septembre 2012 à 08:39 -0700, punnoose a écrit : > > hi all > > How could i use crostab to display variable number of column

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Vincent Veyron
Le mardi 04 septembre 2012 à 08:39 -0700, punnoose a écrit : > hi all > How could i use crostab to display variable number of columns. in the output > There could be variable number of columns see the documentation for Additional Supplied Modules, in your case tablefunc : http://www.postgresql.o

Re: [GENERAL] "Too far out of the mainstream"

2012-09-04 Thread Kevin Grittner
Andy Yoder wrote: > I would like the community's input on a topic. The words "too far > out of the mainstream" are from an e-mail we received from one of > our clients, describing the concern our client's IT group has > about our use of PostgreSQL in our shop. The group in question > supports

[GENERAL] A next logical step after index-only scans?

2012-09-04 Thread Mike Christensen
Now that 9.2 supports index-only scans, I'm curious what possibilities this opens up in the future. It seems to me that the next logical step is to allow a user to put all columns into the index, at which point you would no longer even need the heap table. Oracle calls this "index-organized table

Re: [GENERAL] "Too far out of the mainstream"

2012-09-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Geert Mak wrote: >> I have been looking into heroku lately, they run on PostgreSQL - >> >> https://postgres.heroku.com/postgres > > Went out to lunch with a guy who worked for Redfin as well. I guess > the

Re: [GENERAL] "Too far out of the mainstream"

2012-09-04 Thread Mike Christensen
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Geert Mak wrote: > I have been looking into heroku lately, they run on PostgreSQL - > > https://postgres.heroku.com/postgres Went out to lunch with a guy who worked for Redfin as well. I guess they're all Postgres over there too.. -- Sent via pgsql-general mail

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread Aram Fingal
Has anyone tried developing a PLR procedure to do the equivalent of crosstab but using the Reshape library from R? The reason I ask is that I have been extracting tables like this with an R script, using RPostgreSQL, then functions from Reshape and writing the output to a .csv file. I wonder i

Re: [GENERAL] "Too far out of the mainstream"

2012-09-04 Thread Steve Crawford
On 08/31/2012 01:05 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: ..Anyone who thinks that MySQL, with its sketchy guarantees of data integrity and persistence, is mainstream-acceptable but Postgres isn't because they haven't read about it in InfoWorld And if they want to read about it in InfoWorld, they can:

Re: [GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread dinesh kumar
Hi , I believe, we need to have a Dynamic SQL for this to generate the dynamic Crostab.. I have tried the same earlier and wrote the below Calendar Query for the year 2011 including holidays. Crostab Example = select min(case when extract(month from d.dd)= 1 then 'Jan' when extract(mo

[GENERAL] crosstab

2012-09-04 Thread punnoose
hi all How could i use crostab to display variable number of columns. in the output There could be variable number of columns Regards Punnoose -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/crosstab-tp5722632.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archiv

Re: [GENERAL] Databas has no Object Identifier Types & Functions

2012-09-04 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Rebecca Clarke wrote: > Returns 0 rows. how in the world did you get yourself in that situation? merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Would my postgresql 8.4.12 profit from doubling RAM?

2012-09-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Alexander Farber wrote: > Hello, thank you for your replies and sorry for the delay in my replying - > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Scott Marlowe > wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Scott Marlowe >> wrote: >>> users, and currently work_mem is set

[GENERAL] No Default Text Search Parser

2012-09-04 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi there Postgresql 8.4. I keep getting this error multiple times when I tried to access the pg_catalog in pg_admin: Cache lookup failed for text search parser 3722. The logs show that the query that was being executed was: (example is one of many) SELECT (SELECT t.alias FROM pg_ca

Re: [GENERAL] Databas has no Object Identifier Types & Functions

2012-09-04 Thread Chris Travers
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Rebecca Clarke wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm running postgresql 8.4 on a debian system. I have a database that has > no object identifier types and functions in the pg_catalog, > e.g. regclass, regclassout. > > > What's the best way to get these in to this database?

Re: [GENERAL] Reduce the time to know trigger_fi​le's existence

2012-09-04 Thread Craig Ringer
On 09/04/2012 02:15 PM, Harshitha S wrote: Hi, Can Latch - that postgres already uses, be used to achieve the same? With a quick look at latches I'm not sure what that'd have to do with file change notification. Magnus's suggestion to use a signal - especially as one is already understood

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres not getting logged in from command prompt

2012-09-04 Thread himanshu.joshi
Albe Laurenz wrote: Himanshu Joshi wrote: I am getting a below mentioned strange error while logging into postgres from linux command prompt. It is working fine with GUI(pgAdmin III). I am using postgres version 8.4SS. Himanshu # cd /opt/PostgresPlus/8.4SS/ # bin/p

Re: [GENERAL] Databas has no Object Identifier Types & Functions

2012-09-04 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Returns 0 rows. On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Pavan Deolasee wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Rebecca Clarke wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I'm running postgresql 8.4 on a debian system. I have a database that has >> no object identifier types and functions in the pg_catalog, >> e.g.

Re: [GENERAL] Databas has no Object Identifier Types & Functions

2012-09-04 Thread Pavan Deolasee
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Rebecca Clarke wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm running postgresql 8.4 on a debian system. I have a database that has > no object identifier types and functions in the pg_catalog, > e.g. regclass, regclassout. > > Are you sure you don't have them ? I thought regclass is

[GENERAL] Databas has no Object Identifier Types & Functions

2012-09-04 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi there, I'm running postgresql 8.4 on a debian system. I have a database that has no object identifier types and functions in the pg_catalog, e.g. regclass, regclassout. What's the best way to get these in to this database? I don't want to upgrade postgresql. There are other databases on the

[GENERAL] I want your opinion on how to do something.

2012-09-04 Thread Herouth Maoz
Basically, I have several production databases with various data, and I have a reports database that grabs all necessary data once a day. Now, there is is a new requirement to have some of the data available in the reports database as soon as it is inserted in the production database. Specifica

Re: [GENERAL] I: Installation faillure version 8.4.12

2012-09-04 Thread Ashesh Vashi
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Segato Luca wrote: > Dear Ashesh Vashi > > Here enclose the installation log file. > > The operating system is Microsoft windows vista Business service pack 2 > language Italian > Looks like the vbscript engine is missing or misconfigured on your system: P

R: [GENERAL] I: Installation faillure version 8.4.12

2012-09-04 Thread Segato Luca
Dear Ashesh Vashi Here enclose the installation log file. The operating system is Microsoft windows vista Business service pack 2 language Italian Thank for your help, Best regards Da: Ashesh Vashi [mailto:ashesh.va...@enterprisedb.com] Invia

Re: [GENERAL] Would my postgresql 8.4.12 profit from doubling RAM?

2012-09-04 Thread Alexander Farber
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Alexander Farber wrote: > I'll try changing work_mem to 2MB first - once I upgrade the RAM. And then I'll increase it up to 16MB every day as Scott proposed. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscript

Re: [GENERAL] recovering databases

2012-09-04 Thread Albe Laurenz
Yvon Thoraval wrote: > on my computer I had a disk probleme, then i had to reinstall the system > (Xubuntu 12.04). > I've backuped some parts of the disk, namely /etc, /var and /home. > I wonder if I'm able to recover my past databases in the > /var/lib/postgresql/9.1/ backup. > If yes, how ? If

Re: [GENERAL] Would my postgresql 8.4.12 profit from doubling RAM?

2012-09-04 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, thank you for your replies and sorry for the delay in my replying - On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Scott Marlowe > wrote: >> users, and currently work_mem is set to 1M (the default.) If you >> increase that to 16M, that'd be max

Re: [GENERAL] SEPostgreSQL alive?

2012-09-04 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 09:49 +0200, Johannes Segitz wrote: > > i'm currently working on a project to secure a webapplication with > SELinux and I'm interessted > in SEPostgreSQL. Is this project still alive? I couldn't find any > information besides > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SEPostgre

[GENERAL] SEPostgreSQL alive?

2012-09-04 Thread Johannes Segitz
Hello, i'm currently working on a project to secure a webapplication with SELinux and I'm interessted in SEPostgreSQL. Is this project still alive? I couldn't find any information besides http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SEPostgreSQL_Introduction Is anyone actively using/developing SEPostgreSQL?

[GENERAL] Re: [GENERAL] Reduce the time to know trigger_fi​le's existence

2012-09-04 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Harshitha S wrote: > Hi, > > We are trying to introduce a thread that monitors the creation of the > trigger_file. As and when the file is created, the process that monitors > postgres server needs to be notified through the inotify API. > > This is to reduce the 3-