Re: Where is my app installed?

2024-08-22 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, 2024-08-22 at 20:36 -0400, Arbol One wrote: >   > After installing PostgreSQL on my Debian-12 machine, I typed > 'postgres --version' and got this msg: >  bash: postgres: command not found >   > 'psql --version', however, does work and gives me this message : >   > psql (PostgreSQL) 16.3 (D

Re: Can't Remote connection by IpV6

2024-06-06 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, 2024-06-06 at 11:46 -0300, Marcelo Marloch wrote: > Hi everyone, is it possible to remote connect through IpV6? IpV4 > works fine but I cant connect through V6 > > postgresql.conf is to listen all address and pg_hba.conf is set > with host all all :: md5 i've tried ::/0 and ::0/0 but had

Re: Seeking help extricating data from Amazon RDS Aurora/Postgres

2024-01-29 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 14:22 -0500, Bill Mitchell wrote: > We are attempting to extract one of our database from Amazon RDS > Aurora/Postgres to another PostgreSQL cluster that is running > directly on EC2 instances. Aurora PostgreSQL supports logical replication and purports to use the native WAL

Re: vacuumdb seems not to like option -j when run from crontab

2023-12-04 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Mon, 2023-12-04 at 11:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > PG 9.6.24 (Yes, it's EOL.) > > When running "vacuumdb -p5433 -j4 --analyze tap_d" from a bash > prompt, it works as expected: > $ vacuumdb -p5433 -j4 --analyze tap_d > vacuumdb: vacuuming database "tap_d" > > But not when running from cronta

Re: Can user specification of a column value be required when querying a view ?

2023-11-20 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Mon, 2023-11-20 at 13:44 -0800, Christophe Pettus wrote: > > > > On Nov 20, 2023, at 13:41, David Gauthier > > wrote: > > I want the users to be required to provide a value for ssn in the > > following query... > > "select * from huge_view where ssn = '106-91-9930' " > > I never want them to

Re: connecting to new instance

2023-09-22 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Fri, 2023-09-22 at 17:08 -0500, Brad White wrote: > I have the v15 service started and listening on 0.0.0.0:5434. > Through TCPView, I can see it listening on 5434, I can see the > previous version listening and connecting on 5432. > I can connect from localhost to port 5434. > I have ipv6 turne

Re: Trying to understand a failed upgrade in AWS RDS

2023-05-23 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Sun, 2023-05-21 at 07:56 -0700, Mike Lissner wrote: > > As far as I know it's impossible to reliably pg_upgrade a node > > that has subscriptions and eventually resume logical > > replication.  > > > > > Should this go in the documentation somewhere? Maybe in the > pg_upgrade notes? I still d

Re: Issues Scaling Postgres Concurrency

2023-03-14 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Mon, 2023-03-13 at 12:24 -0400, Harrison Borges wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I’m running into severe performance problems with Postgres as I > increase the number of concurrent requests against my backend. I’ve > identified that the bottleneck is Postgres, and to simplify the > test case, I cre

Re: pg_upgrade 13.6 to 15.1?

2023-01-15 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Sun, 2023-01-15 at 16:59 -0500, p...@pfortin.com wrote: > > > encodings for database "template1" do not match:  old "UTF8", new > "SQL_ASCII" Failure, exiting You almost certainly don't want your new database to use SQL_ASCII. Init the new cluster with -E UTF8.

Re: pg_receivewal/xlog to ship wal to cloud

2022-07-18 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Mon, 2022-07-18 at 15:55 -0400, neslişah demirci wrote: > Hi all,  > > Wondering if anyone has any experience of using pg_receivewal/xlog > to ship wal files to GCP/S3? > I use archive_command to send WAL to S3. It works fine. I do gzip them before uploading, as they are usually pretty compre

Re: Need to install Postgres Version 14 in Linux server with Client and migration steps.

2022-05-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Mon, 2022-05-09 at 06:46 +, Rajamoorthy-CW, Thirumurugan 8361 wrote: > Hi Team, >   > I need to install Postgres Version 14 in Linux server with Client > and migration steps. Can you please provide me the installation > steps document ? > PostgreSQL is kind of a do-it-yourself thing like a

Re: Moving the master to a new server

2022-02-14 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tue, 2022-02-15 at 08:58 +1300, Glen Eustace wrote: > > But upgrading that way takes too long for the master so I build a > new > server instead. So, if I shutdown both postgresql instances old and > new, > rsync the data directory and restart on the new. I should be OK ? > Should be, yeah.

Re: Moving the master to a new server

2022-02-14 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tue, 2022-02-15 at 08:29 +1300, Glen Eustace wrote: > I need to move my master postgresql deployment to a new server. > > I am comfortable with stopping all connections then doing a > pg_dumpall > > psql to move the databases, they are not huge so this completes in > an > acceptable time and

Re: Find missing data in a column

2021-12-29 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wed, 2021-12-29 at 12:43 -0500, john polo wrote: > I have a database in PostgreSQL 12 on Windows. It has > 8,000,000 > rows.  > I want to copy this database to PostgreSQL 10 on Slackware Linux. I > used > this command to get the data out of the Windows database: > > "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQ

Re: Query planner issue with preferring primary key over a better index when using ORDER BY and LIMIT

2021-12-06 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Mon, 2021-12-06 at 10:19 -0700, Rob Sargent wrote: > To be clear, is it the devs or the ORM that's adding the ORDER  and > the  > LIMIT?  I'm betting on devs.  Do they need the smallest id (first > occurrance?) or do they need data common to all 5096 entries > (Name?) and > any record will do?

Re: Query planner issue with preferring primary key over a better index when using ORDER BY and LIMIT

2021-12-06 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Mon, 2021-12-06 at 18:20 +0100, Francisco Olarte wrote: > > Can you post an explain analyze? To me it seems like the planner > thinks shipment_import_id is randomly distributed and the table is > well correlated with it's PK, so scanning it for the first id > should > be fast.    #explain anal

Re: Query planner issue with preferring primary key over a better index when using ORDER BY and LIMIT

2021-12-06 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Mon, 2021-12-06 at 10:18 -0700, Michael Lewis wrote: > What is your default_statistics_target and how accurate is that > estimate of 5668 rows? What is random_page_cost set to by the way? > > > default_statistics_target = 1000 random_page_cost = 2.0 (it's on AWS on a 9000 iops gp2 volume) P

Query planner issue with preferring primary key over a better index when using ORDER BY and LIMIT

2021-12-06 Thread Alan Hodgson
I keep running into problems like these: Devs are using an ORM. It really likes to produce queries like: SELECT "shipment_import_records".* FROM "shipment_import_records" WHERE shipment_import_records"."shipment_import_id" = 5090609 ORDER BY "shipment_import_records"."id" ASC LIMIT 1; I don't kn

Re: Psql wants to use IP6 when connecting to self using tcp...

2021-06-23 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wed, 2021-06-23 at 17:25 -0500, Jerry LeVan wrote: > > So the question is: Why does using the short name evidently cause postresql > to use the ipv6 address > and using the full name use the ipv4 address? I'm thinking this might be coming from Avahi, which might be enabled on Fedora by default

Re: Database issues when adding GUI

2021-06-07 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Mon, 2021-06-07 at 09:22 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2021, Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter wrote: > > > Are you sure it should be 127.0.1.1, not 127.0.0.1? AFAIK, localhost > > should be 127.0.0.1 > > May be an issue in /etc/hosts for "salmo" host? > > Edson, > > salmo, 127.0.0.

Re: Database issues when adding GUI

2021-06-07 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Mon, 2021-06-07 at 09:03 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > The problem source is postgres telling me it cannot connect to the database > but I can do so directly using psql: > > $ psql --host salmo --user rshepard --dbname bustrac > psql: error: could not connect to server: could not connect to serv

Re: archive_commnad parameter question

2021-04-19 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Mon, 2021-04-19 at 21:09 +, Allie Crawford wrote: > Hello, > I am new in PostgreSQL and I am trying to understand what the “test” word is > representing in the archive_command configuration that the PostgreSQL > documentation is showing as the format on how to set up this parameter >   > arc

Re: PostgreSQL 11 with SSL on Linux

2020-06-04 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 17:32 +, Susan Joseph wrote: > So when I run rpm -i it says that the package is installed, but I > can't find a postgresql directory with all the files and executables. > So what am I missing? > > > > > > The server stuff is in postgresql11-serverif you're using t

Re: AW: Linux Update Experience

2020-05-28 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, 2020-05-28 at 09:00 +, Marco Lechner wrote: > Hi Markus, > > at the moment we are facing similar conflicts on Oracle LInux 7 (wich > is derived from RHEL) – we manage our machines using Spacewalk. The > conflicts occur (as expected) on Spacewalk as well as on manually > using yum: >

Re: Advise on how to install pl/perl on existing DB.

2020-05-26 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tue, 2020-05-26 at 12:32 -0400, David Gauthier wrote: > psql (9.6.0, server 11.3) linux > > Hi: > I'm a PG users who has asked our IT team to install pl/perlu on an > existing 9.6.0 instance on linux. They really don't know how to > approach this. Could someone point me to a good step-by-st

Re: Best way to use trigger to email a report ?

2020-05-08 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Fri, 2020-05-08 at 12:26 -0400, David Gauthier wrote: > psql (9.6.0, server 11.3) on linux > > Looking for ideas. I want a trigger to... > 1) compose an html report based on DB content > 2) email the report to a dist list (dl = value of a table column) > > If this will involve hybrid coding,

Re: Memory footprint diff between 9.5 and 12

2020-05-07 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, 2020-05-07 at 13:33 -0700, Tory M Blue wrote: > I hadn't noticed this until today, but a running 9.5 system with > buffers at 10GB starts and has been running years without issues. > (15GB available) > Postgres 12 will not start with that configuration, complaining about > memory availabili

Re: keeping images in a bytea field on AWS RDS

2020-03-31 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tue, 2020-03-31 at 15:49 -0400, Richard Bernstein wrote: > I am using postgresql on RDS. I need to upload an image to the table. > I understand that I need to set the PGDATA directory and place the > image file in it, before setting the path in the bytea field. But how > do I set PGDATA if I don

Re: trouble making PG use my Perl

2020-03-02 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Mon, 2020-03-02 at 18:23 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Kevin Brannen writes: > > On Centos 6.10, it ships with Perl 5.10.1, which is really ancient > > tome. > > Well, yeah, because RHEL 6/Centos 6 are really ancient. That's > whatI'd expect with a long-term-support distro that's nearly > EOL.Repl

Re: UPDATE many records

2020-01-07 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 11:58 -0900, Israel Brewster wrote: > > > Really? Why? With the update I am only changing data - I’m not adding > any additional data, so the total size should stay the same, right? > I’m obviously missing something… :-) > PostgreSQL keeps the old row until it gets vacuumed

Re: UPDATE many records

2020-01-07 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tue, 2020-01-07 at 11:47 -0900, Israel Brewster wrote: > One potential issue I just thought of with this approach: disk space. > Will I be doubling the amount of space used while both tables exist? > If so, that would prevent this from working - I don’t have that much > space available at the mo

Re: migration from 9.4 to 9.6

2019-12-06 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Fri, 2019-12-06 at 21:38 +, Julie Nishimura wrote: > I'd like to copy one single database from 9.4 cluster to a new 9.6 > cluster (migration with the upgrade), to the different host > > > > > > > > > > Put 9.4 on the new server. Replicate the db to it. When you're ready to switch,

Re: 11 -> 12 upgrade on Debian Ubuntu

2019-11-07 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 10:45 -0500, stan wrote: > I am in the middle of a project, and it looks like version 12 is now what > the Debian/Ubuntu package managers want to update to. > > I of course, will do this first on a test machine, not the "production", or > "develop,met" machines, but I though

Re: Postgres Point in time Recovery (PITR),

2019-10-21 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Mon, 2019-10-21 at 20:40 +0530, Avinash Kumar wrote: > can't he destroy the offline backups and your database ? > This is not a right justification to encouraging Offline Backups over > Online Backups. > If you are worried about storing your online backups through internet > on cloud (i do no

Re: Postgres Point in time Recovery (PITR),

2019-10-21 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Mon, 2019-10-21 at 16:40 +0530, Avinash Kumar wrote: > We need to ensure that we have safe backup locations, for example, > push them to AWS S3 and forget about redundancy. > Why do you think only Offline Backups are reliable today ? There have been examples of hackers gaining control of an o

Re: Text search lexer's handling of hyphens and negatives

2019-10-16 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tue, 2019-10-15 at 20:34 -0700, raylu wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 3:35 PM Alan Hodgson > wrote: > > My company has found the pg_trm extension to be more useful for > > partial text searches than the full text functions. I don't know > > specifically how it mig

Re: Is my lecturer wrong about PostgreSQL? I think he is!

2019-10-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
Assuming you're not a troll ... On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 20:06 +0100, Pól Ua Laoínecháin wrote: > 1) Is my lecturer full of it or does he really have a point? > He's more than full of it. PostgreSQL has had a few bugs over the year that could have resulted in data corruption, but they're pretty rar

Re: How to run a task continuously in the background

2019-07-11 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 11:19 -0500, Michael Nolan wrote: > A cron job will only run once a minute, not wake up every second. > But you could write a PHP program that does a one-second sleep before > checking if there's something to do, and a batch job that runs > periodically to see if the PHP prog

Re: running out of disk space

2019-05-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 16:49 +, Julie Nishimura wrote: > Alan, thanks for your reply. > > > > > > > > So, we currently have this situation: > > > > > > > > /dev/sda1 2.7T 2.4T 298G 90% /data/vol1 > > > /dev/sdb2 2.7T 2.4T 296G 89% /data/vol2 > > >

Re: running out of disk space

2019-05-09 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, 2019-05-09 at 15:46 +, Julie Nishimura wrote: > hello, > > We are running out of disk space, and we introduced new volume to it. > I am about to create new tablespace X and alter user databases to set > to this new tablespace X. So, all new tables will be created in X, > but what about

Re: loading plpython error

2019-02-14 Thread Alan Hodgson
> On 2/14/19 4:17 PM, Alan Nilsson wrote: > > Platform: Linux x86-64, CentOS 6, Postgres 11.1. > > > > We have installed from the YUM repo. The server runs fine but we > > are > > trying to add python support. > > > > yum install postrgesql11-contrib postgresql11-plpython > > > > I can see th

Re: Monitoring PITR recovery progress

2019-01-23 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 18:58 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > And, the actual question: how to monitor the WAL replay process? > Currently, the recovery.conf file is sitting there, with the database > running, but pg processes are idle, and pg_stat_activity doesn't list > anything which appears to be rela

Re: How to perform PITR when all of the logs won't fit on the drive

2018-03-01 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, 2018-03-01 at 17:28 -0500, Tony Sullivan wrote: Hello, I have a situation where something was deleted from a database that shouldn't have been so I am having to take a base backup and perform a point-in-time-recovery. The problem I have is that the decompressed WAL files will not fit on th

Re: On error mesage (0x80090325) whilst installing Apps Stack Builder

2018-02-22 Thread Alan Hodgson
> > The problem is that I keep getting the following error mesage: > > - > > --- > > A certificate verification problem was encountered whilst accessing > > https//www.postgresql.org/applications-v2.xml

Re: postgres not starting

2018-02-15 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, 2018-02-15 at 18:21 -0600, Azimuddin Mohammed wrote: > Hello, > I am unable to start postgres on one of the server > I am getting below error "HINT: is another postmaster already running > on port 5432, if not wait a few seconds and retry" > I checked the processes nothing is running with

Re: ERROR: could not load library libperl.so, PostgreSQL trying to CREATE EXTENSION plperlu

2017-11-30 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 22:59 +, Ben Nachtrieb wrote: > Alan, > >   > > Thank you!  Solution: build them from source on the server? Well, it would be more maintainable to find a source for packages built for your particular OS. Or run a supported OS; that one looks pretty old. Or I guess you ca

Re: ERROR: could not load library libperl.so, PostgreSQL trying to CREATE EXTENSION plperlu

2017-11-30 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 22:20 +, Ben Nachtrieb wrote: >   > > ...to ld.so.conf, I get: > > ERROR:  could not load library > "/var/lib/pgsql10/lib/postgresql/plperl.so": > /var/lib/pgsql10/lib/postgresql/plperl.so: undefined symbol: > Perl_xs_handshake > > SQL state: XX000 It looks to me like

Re: To all who wish to unsubscribe

2017-11-21 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 10:52 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > > > > > it seems to *ME* like a simpler solution to the original problem >   would have been to simply STRIP any DKIM out of the original >   messages, and continue to munge headers and footers like mail > list >