Re: [BUGS] BUG #2788: Create Function operator Broken?

2006-11-27 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Shawn Tayler wrote: > > The following bug has been logged online: > > Bug reference: 2788 > Logged by: Shawn Tayler > Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > PostgreSQL version: 8.1.5 > Operating system: Linux 2.6.17 > Description:Create Function operat

Re: [BUGS] BUG #2781: database dump/restore problems

2006-11-27 Thread Tom Lane
"Thomas H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > regarding pg_dump: where there some changes from b3 to rc1 that would > explain the resulting rc1 pg_dump output (-c) being half as big as with b3? No... regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [BUGS] BUG #2784: Performance serious degrades over a period of a month

2006-11-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
This really should have been asked on pgsql-performance and would probably get a better response there.. On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 16:35:52 +, Michael Simms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PostgreSQL version: 8.1.4 > Operating system: Linux kernel 2.6.12 > Description:Performance seriou

Re: [BUGS] BUG #2781: database dump/restore problems

2006-11-27 Thread Thomas H.
We have never promised backward compatibility of pg_dump output to older server versions. regarding pg_dump: where there some changes from b3 to rc1 that would explain the resulting rc1 pg_dump output (-c) being half as big as with b3? i've rerun pg_dump several times with the same result, and

Re: [BUGS] BUG #2785: Exception Issue

2006-11-27 Thread Tom Lane
"Patrick Hayes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I get the following error. > postgres-# language plpgsql; > ERROR: unrecognized exception condition "no_data" > CONTEXT: compile of PL/pgSQL function "chip_pps_data_check" near line 101 Indeed, because no_data is not an error condition, so EXCEPTION

Re: [BUGS] BUG #2782: Too Many open files in system

2006-11-27 Thread Tom Lane
"Alaa El Gohary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > this message appears when trying to open an application > Fatal:could not open file"/usr/local/pgsql/data/global/1262":too many open > files in system Try reducing max_files_per_process. Your kernel is evidently promising more than it can deliver abo

Re: [BUGS] BUG #2784: Performance serious degrades over a period of a month

2006-11-27 Thread Tom Lane
"Michael Simms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OK, we have a database that runs perfectly well after a dump and restore, > but over a period of a month or two, it just degrades to the point of > uselessness. > vacuumdb -a is run every 24 hours. We have also run for months at a time > using -a -z but

Re: [BUGS] BUG #2781: database dump/restore problems

2006-11-27 Thread Tom Lane
"Greg Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As you can see, the primary key is exported as a bigint, with a separate > section for the sequence. This differs to the way 8.1 dumps the same table > below: This is an intentional change that fixes a lot of corner cases such as renamed sequences. The

[BUGS] BUG #2789: problem with delete statement

2006-11-27 Thread Lucian Capdefier
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 2789 Logged by: Lucian Capdefier Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.1.5 Operating system: Windows XP Description:problem with delete statement Details: I have noticed a problem with the DEL

Re: [BUGS] BUG #2769: "invalid memory alloc request size " on

2006-11-27 Thread Chris Jones
Tom Lane wrote: > "Chris Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I used to be decent with gdb, so let me know if there's anything I can do as >> far as backtraces, etc. > > Try setting a breakpoint at errfinish() and backtracing from there. Breakpoint 1, 0x081cd8ba in errfinish () (gdb) bt #0 0x08

[BUGS] BUG #2788: Create Function operator Broken?

2006-11-27 Thread Shawn Tayler
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 2788 Logged by: Shawn Tayler Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.1.5 Operating system: Linux 2.6.17 Description:Create Function operator Broken? Details: I have been through the online DOC's

[BUGS] BUG #2786: PGADMIN 1.6

2006-11-27 Thread Gilberto Xavier
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 2786 Logged by: Gilberto Xavier Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.1 Operating system: Linux and Windows Description:PGADMIN 1.6 Details: Where was set the backup and restore capability int

[BUGS] BUG #2787: postgresql-jdbc-8.1.407 won't install on RHEL4

2006-11-27 Thread Pete Deffendol
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 2787 Logged by: Pete Deffendol Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.1.5 Operating system: Red Hat Enterprise 4 Description:postgresql-jdbc-8.1.407 won't install on RHEL4 Details: When attempt

[BUGS] BUG #2785: Exception Issue

2006-11-27 Thread Patrick Hayes
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 2785 Logged by: Patrick Hayes Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.1 Operating system: Windows Professional Description:Exception Issue Details: I am defining Exception blocks. When I put so

[BUGS] BUG #2781: database dump/restore problems

2006-11-27 Thread Greg Peters
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 2781 Logged by: Greg Peters Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.1/8.2beta3 Operating system: WInXP Description:database dump/restore problems Details: Hello, I recently performed a database

[BUGS] BUG #2782: Too Many open files in system

2006-11-27 Thread Alaa El Gohary
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 2782 Logged by: Alaa El Gohary Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 7.4.12 Operating system: FreeBSD 6.0 Description:Too Many open files in system Details: this message appears when trying to o

[BUGS] BUG #2783: insufficient base table information for updating or refreshing

2006-11-27 Thread mike
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 2783 Logged by: mike Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.1.5 Operating system: windows 2000 Description:insufficient base table information for updating or refreshing Details: if using 8.01.

[BUGS] BUG #2784: Performance serious degrades over a period of a month

2006-11-27 Thread Michael Simms
The following bug has been logged online: Bug reference: 2784 Logged by: Michael Simms Email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PostgreSQL version: 8.1.4 Operating system: Linux kernel 2.6.12 Description:Performance serious degrades over a period of a month Details: OK, we

Re: [BUGS] Unexpected sort order (suspected bug)

2006-11-27 Thread Ron Mayer
Jeff Davis wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 12:44 -0800, Ron Mayer wrote: >> Shouldn't the results of this query shown here been sorted by "b" rather >> than by "a"? >> >> I would have thought since "order by b" is in the outer sql statement it >> would have >> been the one the final result gets or

Re: [BUGS] multiple SRFs in SELECT clause.

2006-11-27 Thread Tom Lane
Kris Jurka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm getting some odd results when running two generate_series calls in a > SELECT ... > When the row counts differ you get the least common multiple number of > rows. Yup, this is the expected or at least historical behavior. It's not entirely clear what

Re: [BUGS] 8.2rc1: vacuum full fills up disk space

2006-11-27 Thread Thomas H.
well yes, as the system is "live", users are browsing the website. but all queries that try to access the table in question are stalled at the moment. when querying server status i'm seeing lots of queries that are waiting for access to the table. would vacuum freeze be faster? Vacuum freeze

Re: [BUGS] 8.2rc1: vacuum full fills up disk space

2006-11-27 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Thomas H. wrote: this somehow sounds buggy: vacuum full absolutely *will* bloat your index, if run on a heavily-modified table. I do not think it will bloat pg_xlog by itself however; are you sure you don't have some other open transactions? well yes, as the system is "live", users are brows

Re: [BUGS] fsync and semctl errors with 8.1.5/win32

2006-11-27 Thread Jeremy Haile
Thanks for the feedback. If you don't mind, what version of PostgreSQL are you running? I'm trying to bring PostgreSQL into this company - they are primarily a Windows/SQL Server shop (although Java software development) I've already gotten comments similar to "Why don't you just switch to SQL S

Re: [BUGS] fsync and semctl errors with 8.1.5/win32

2006-11-27 Thread Dave Page
Jeremy Haile wrote: I've gotten pushback from my organization on removing antivirus from the servers completely. Are there any antiviruses that are known to be compatible with PostgreSQL/win32? All my boxes (2 build farm members, 1 production server, and the laptop on which the official rel

Re: [BUGS] fsync and semctl errors with 8.1.5/win32

2006-11-27 Thread Jeremy Haile
I've gotten pushback from my organization on removing antivirus from the servers completely. Are there any antiviruses that are known to be compatible with PostgreSQL/win32? On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:28:23 -0500, "Jeremy Haile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Thanks Magnus. > > I will uninstall the

Re: [BUGS] fsync and semctl errors with 8.1.5/win32

2006-11-27 Thread Jeremy Haile
Thanks Magnus. I will uninstall the AntiVirus and see if my problems persist. I have disabled all other non-essential services, indexing, etc. so I don't know of anything else that could be causing the problems. However, in some of the posts I referred to, the poster indicated that they were n

Re: [BUGS] fsync and semctl errors with 8.1.5/win32

2006-11-27 Thread Magnus Hagander
Per the FAQ, we suggest that you *uninstall* your antivirus. Especially if it has firewall-like functionality (like I beleive McAfee does). Just disabling the scan does *not* remove the filter drivers and does not make the antivirus not affect the database processes. So try this. If the problem doe

[BUGS] fsync and semctl errors with 8.1.5/win32

2006-11-27 Thread Jeremy Haile
I've been attempting to run PostgreSQL 8.1.5/win32 on a production deployment, but have started having many problems. McAfee Antivirus is installed and running, although I've excluded the entire drive where PostgreSQL is installed and where the data is installed. I've received several errors in t

[BUGS] multiple SRFs in SELECT clause.

2006-11-27 Thread Kris Jurka
I'm getting some odd results when running two generate_series calls in a SELECT. When the two calls return the same number of rows you get that many rows out: # SELECT generate_series(1,3), generate_series(1,3); generate_series | generate_series -+-