[ADMIN] Feature / Enhancement request.

2009-08-20 Thread Melvin Davidson
It would really be nice if pg_class were altered to add two new columns: relcreatedat & relmoddat. Both would be of type timestamp. relcreatedat would contain the timestamp the object was created. Likewise, relmoddat would contain the last timestamp the object was altered / modified. This would

Re: [ADMIN] Trouble with postgres user's password on Windows

2009-08-20 Thread Jan-Peter Seifert
Oliveiros wrote: > To start it, I have to login as postgres and manually start it with > postgres -D etc. You should make a backup first (users and databases ...) . Try unregistering/registering the service with pg_ctl. First copy the pg_ctl command used during installation from the service's pro

Re: [ADMIN] select count is too slow

2009-08-20 Thread bricklen
VACUUM ANALYZE, rather On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM, bricklen wrote: > Did you vacuum your table after the delete? > > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Kumar Anand > wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I face this problem from last few days. >> >> here is test2 table with only one column id >> er

Re: [ADMIN] select count is too slow

2009-08-20 Thread bricklen
Did you vacuum your table after the delete? On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Kumar Anand wrote: > Dear all, > > I face this problem from last few days. > > here is test2 table with only one column id > erp_test=> \d test2 >Table "public.test2" > Column | Type | Modifiers > +--

[ADMIN] select count is too slow

2009-08-20 Thread Kumar Anand
Dear all, I face this problem from last few days. here is test2 table with only one column id erp_test=> \d test2 Table "public.test2" Column | Type | Modifiers +-+--- id | integer | I insert 10,000,000 entries in this table. erp_test=> INSERT INTO test2 VALU

Re: [ADMIN] Sharing /etc/passwd with PostgreSQL

2009-08-20 Thread Tena Sakai
Many thanks! Tena Sakai -Original Message- From: Richard Broersma [mailto:richard.broer...@gmail.com] Sent: Thu 8/20/2009 10:58 AM To: Tena Sakai Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Sharing /etc/passwd with PostgreSQL On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Tena Sakai wrote:

Re: [ADMIN] Sharing /etc/passwd with PostgreSQL

2009-08-20 Thread Richard Broersma
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Tena Sakai wrote: > Can somebody please tell me how I could retrieve a > history of this particular thread? Generally: http://archives.postgresql.org/ Specifically: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2009-08/msg00056.php -- Regards, Richard Broersma

Re: [ADMIN] Sharing /etc/passwd with PostgreSQL

2009-08-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 10:31 -0700, Tena Sakai wrote: > Hi Everybody, > > I am interested in following this particular thread, > though, yesterday our mail server went down for a few > hours and I don't have the whole account. > > Can somebody please tell me how I could retrieve a > history of thi

Re: [ADMIN] Sharing /etc/passwd with PostgreSQL

2009-08-20 Thread Tena Sakai
Hi Everybody, I am interested in following this particular thread, though, yesterday our mail server went down for a few hours and I don't have the whole account. Can somebody please tell me how I could retrieve a history of this particular thread? Thank you in advance Regards, Tena Sakai tsa.

Re: [ADMIN] Duplicated keys in PITR

2009-08-20 Thread Emanuel Calvo Franco
> When recover a database using a continuous archive backup, i detected some > duplicated keys. This there isn't in the production database. > I use postgres-8.3.5. > anyone know why this happens? > What about the indexes in the slave? -- Emanuel Calvo Franco DBA at:

Re: [ADMIN] Sharing /etc/passwd with PostgreSQL

2009-08-20 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera writes: > It had to do with me having a bogus password in .pgpass (so psql was > first trying empty password, then the one in .pgpass, and both failing). > Pilot error. However, I'd say that we ought to give a notice if the > password in .pgpass fails. Can we do something like

Re: [ADMIN] Sharing /etc/passwd with PostgreSQL

2009-08-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera writes: > > BTW I notice that this does not work unless the client supplies the > > password the first time around; psql does not retry. It only works if I > > do "psql -W". > > Huh, that sounds like a bug someplace. Care to trace through it? It had to do with

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2009-08-20 Thread Dick Visser
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2009-08-20 Thread Dick Visser
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Re: [ADMIN] text cast on regprocedure fails on 8.2

2009-08-20 Thread Tom Lane
"Jan-Peter Seifert" writes: > I didn't see any explicit type cast in 8.3 for regprocedure -> text. Is there > a way to add it in 8.2? You can always cast pretty much anything to anything via a variable assignment in plpgsql... regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-admin

Re: [ADMIN] text cast on regprocedure fails on 8.2

2009-08-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jan-Peter Seifert wrote: > Hello, > > for dropping all functions within the current schema I use this SQL query: > > SELECT DISTINCT 'DROP FUNCTION ' || p.oid::regprocedure::text || ' CASCADE;' > FROM pg_catalog.pg_proc p LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n ON n.oid = > p.pronamespace WHERE n.

Re: [ADMIN] help tuning query

2009-08-20 Thread Emanuel Calvo Franco
First one, try to paste explain into http://explain.depesz.com/ > select > a.id, > ident_id, > time, > customer_name, > extract('day' from timezone(e.name, to_timestamp(a.time))) as day, > category_id > from > pwreport.url_hits a left outer join > pwreport.url_hits_category_jt c on (a.id = c.url_h

[ADMIN] Trouble with postgres user's password on Windows

2009-08-20 Thread Oliveiros
Dear List, This is my first post, I hope I am asking it on the correct list. I changed the password for user postgres and I completely forgot about the previous one. The main problem is that now the postgres server fails to start when I turn on the machine. It used to start automatically. To s

[ADMIN] text cast on regprocedure fails on 8.2

2009-08-20 Thread Jan-Peter Seifert
Hello, for dropping all functions within the current schema I use this SQL query: SELECT DISTINCT 'DROP FUNCTION ' || p.oid::regprocedure::text || ' CASCADE;' FROM pg_catalog.pg_proc p LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n ON n.oid = p.pronamespace WHERE n.nspname = current_schema(); It works f