On 2008-11-05 08:13, Christian Schröder wrote:
If I have 5 disks available, how should I use them to get best
performance without the risk of severe data loss?
What percentage of your usage are writes? What do you need the most:
high throughput or minimal latency?
How important is data
Tom Allison wrote:
This should be a dumb question:
--with-perl
I don't see that I have to do this in order to load pl/perl as a
function/trigger language option. So I should assume that this will
compile pl/perl in rather than having it available as a loadable
function. Nice for
Hi Everybody,
Forgive my sarcasm below, but I just *adore* postgres for years, now. I
hope it's all natural with this level of emotions to be deeply hurt when
the object of attraction is (to quote HHTTG by Douglas Adams):
almost, but not quite entirely unlike tea.
I've just upgraded to
Hello Michael,
Am 2008-10-31 11:15:54, schrieb Michael Hall:
I have a table where I have a serialnumber which shuld be increased be
each INSERT. I know I can use max() to get the highest number, but how
can I use it in a INSERT statement?
Have a look in the manual for the SERIAL data
Hello Nikolas,
Am 2008-10-31 09:44:50, schrieb Nikolas Everett:
I think you want a sequence. Give the serial number the type bigserial or
serial. See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-sequence.html for
more.
OK, thats cool... I have found an example in
Hello Grzegorz,
Am 2008-10-31 13:39:46, schrieb Grzegorz Ja??kiewicz:
AUTOINCREMENT has so many problems, that soon you'll start to love sequences
so much, you'll start to hate mysql's childlish approach to problem solving
:)
OK, you hit me, I am trying to convert a mysql scheme to
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Hello Grzegorz,
Am 2008-10-31 13:39:46, schrieb Grzegorz Ja??kiewicz:
AUTOINCREMENT has so many problems, that soon you'll start to love sequences
so much, you'll start to hate mysql's childlish approach to problem solving
:)
OK, you hit me, I am trying to convert a
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 02:24:37PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Du I need to create a SEQUENCE for each table or do I need only ONE of
if and can use it independant on differnt tables?
If you just create a bunch of tables with SERIAL or BIGSERIAL columns,
it will create one sequence for
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 06:57:25PM -0400, Eric Schwarzenbach wrote:
My problem with GEQO using a random number generator is that
non-deterministic behavior is really hard to debug, and problems can go
undiagnosed for ages. Frankly I would rather something fail all the
time, than it work most
Eduardo Arévalo escribió:
hola quiero crear una base que soporte caracteres en español y le doy este
comando pero no crea la base sino me manda este error:
-bash-3.2$ ./createdb --encoding=LATIN1 sig_spa_prueba
Password:
createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: encoding LATIN1 does not
Michelle Konzack wrote:
Hello Michael,
Am 2008-10-31 11:15:54, schrieb Michael Hall:
I have a table where I have a serialnumber which shuld be increased be
each INSERT. I know I can use max() to get the highest number, but how
can I use it in a INSERT statement?
Have a look in the manual
Hi,
String in DB:
D:\Program Files\BMC Software\CONTROL-D\wa/reports
In the output files \| are duplicated: The string in the output text
fileis
D:\\Program Files\\BMC Software\\CONTROL-D\\wa/reports
== ==== ==
Standard_conforming_strings will not help here.
Tom Allison wrote:
Scott Ribe wrote:
'make' is prefixed by /Developer/usr/bin/.
The question is *why* the location is nonstandard.
Starting with Xcode 3, all the developer tools get installed under the
Developer directory, in order to allow one to easily have multiple
versions
of Xcode
When I do the install script in contrib it says I have no rights to
the directory. It was in /usr/local/pgsql/data/log and I changed it
to /usr/local/pgsql/log. It was set as root.wheel with 755
permissions so I suspect it's mad at me because the postgres user
was left in the cold.
Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Tom Lane escribió:
However, the interval version of the function can capture the time case
because there's an implicit cast from time to interval:
regression=# select casttarget::regtype,castcontext,castfunc::regprocedure from
pg_cast where castsource = 'time'::regtype;
Hello everybody,
I have got an already existing Porstgres DB which is pretty large
(including more than 650 table with considerable number of constraints
etc). And now I am supposed to realize generally how it is constructed
and works. I thought it would be good to have a grapahical
visualization
Mohammad Ali Darvish Darab, 05.11.2008 13:18:
Hello everybody,
I have got an already existing Porstgres DB which is pretty large
(including more than 650 table with considerable number of constraints
etc). And now I am supposed to realize generally how it is constructed
and works. I thought it
DbVisualizer is a tool I have used in the past for exactly this.
// Matthias
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Mohammad Ali Darvish Darab
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everybody,
I have got an already existing Porstgres DB which is pretty large
(including more than 650 table with
Hi,
I have a pgsql 8.3.3 cluster running on windows.
I want to install another cluster, so i use initdb.
Because the postgres user must own the files, i use runas to run initdb as
postgres2 (the correct user here).
I've created a separate folder for the data files of this cluster. The
folder is
Michelle Konzack wrote:
I think you want a sequence. Give the serial number the type
bigserial or
serial. See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-sequence.html
for
more.
OK, thats cool... I have found an example in
sql-createsequence.html
CREATE SEQUENCE serial
Abraham, Danny wrote:
String in DB:
D:\Program Files\BMC Software\CONTROL-D\wa/reports
In the output files \| are duplicated: The string in the output text
fileis
D:\\Program Files\\BMC Software\\CONTROL-D\\wa/reports
== ==== ==
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Could we change the data types of the pg_cast table to regprocedure and
regtype instead?
Back when we first introduced the reg-foo types, there was some
discussion of changing all relevant catalog columns to those types,
but the idea crashed and
Tom Lane wrote:
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tom Lane escribi�:
regression=# select casttarget::regtype,castcontext,castfunc::regprocedure from
pg_cast where castsource = 'time'::regtype;
BTW it very much looks like we should have a pg_casts view that displays
these things in a
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 05:06:36 -0600
Abraham, Danny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
String in DB:
D:\Program Files\BMC Software\CONTROL-D\wa/reports
In the output files \| are duplicated: The string in the output
text fileis
D:\\Program Files\\BMC Software\\CONTROL-D\\wa/reports
==
After installing dspace when I tried to connect it to the postgresql
server it gave the following error.
psql -U postgres -h localhost ( command used )
the error was
psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused (0X274D/10061)
Is the server running on host localhost and
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:33:26 -0500
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It seems that gin creation is triggering something nasty in the
server that depends on previous history of the server.
Can you put together a self-contained test case that
hey folks,
so suppose I have a query that in explain analyze
Sort Method: external merge Disk: 218080kB
What param should I set to high up, to end up with that sort in memory, and
also - will that memory will always be allocated per connection, (I am bit
worried that having say 320MB of
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:34:55PM +0530, Shashank Mujumdar wrote:
After installing dspace when I tried to connect it to the postgresql
server it gave the following error.
psql -U postgres -h localhost ( command used )
the error was
psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused
praveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
During configure I find the error in config.log file
checking for flags to link embedded Perl... Can't locate ExtUtils/Embed.pm
in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
Well, there's your problem ...
FYI, our current Fedora RPMs
Have you checked the logsWhat have you configured
What os are you using
What version of postgresql
Have you run netstat to check for port 5432
Regards,
Serge Fonville
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Joshua Tolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:34:55PM +0530, Shashank
Mohammad Ali Darvish Darab wrote:
I have got an already existing Porstgres DB which is pretty large
(including more than 650 table with considerable number of constraints
etc). And now I am supposed to realize generally how it is constructed
and works. I thought it would be good to have a
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Rafal Pietrak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Everybody,
Forgive my sarcasm below, but I just *adore* postgres for years, now. I
hope it's all natural with this level of emotions to be deeply hurt when
the object of attraction is (to quote HHTTG by Douglas Adams):
Hi,
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 10:34 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Rafal Pietrak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Everybody,
[...]
I've just upgraded to v8.3.4 ... since eventually it does have
INSERT ... RETURNING extention to the SQL standard.
The documentation
Hello.
Does someone have a tool to read xlog?
Nothing high-tech , just simple to read it in ascii.
Thanks
Henk Sanders
Tom Allison wrote:
It confirms what I'm working through.
crt1.o located at /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/lib/crt1.o
crt1.10.5.0 at /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/lib/crt1.10.5.o
So I'm trying to find how to get these directories included in the
compilation. I thought --with-libs
H.J. Sanders wrote:
Hello.
Does someone have a tool to read xlog?
http://xlogviewer.projects.postgresql.org/
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On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:53:38 -0500
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you put together a self-contained test case that illustrates
this?
I'm trying... Tonight I just let my long transaction run all
I have a FreeBSD server with Postfix that filters mail using
amavisd-maia+SA+ClamAV. It crashed when we received an SMTP attack that
traced back to a compromised user login and a flood a messages were sent
to this smarthost. After getting it back up, I find this in the logs...
Nov 4 08:09:50
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tom Lane wrote:
Maybe we should just agree that its argument is a pattern for the
castsource type's name?
I'd say it could be a pattern for both source and target. Often times I
am interested in casts in either direction.
Well, it makes the query
We have a number of automated jobs that connect to our pgsql DB and
I'm wondering what others are doing for authentication and securing
passwords. It's easy enough to hardcode a password, but is there
something specific to pgsql, perhaps, that would be a better solution?
Thanks.
--
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--
I have Server running on Windows XP using
PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on i686-pc-mingw32, compiled by GCC gcc.exe (GCC) 3.4.2
(mingw-special)
Db size is 862 MB
8 users
Bigger tables:
1 1214 pg_shdepend 775 MB
2 1232 pg_shdepend_depender_index 285
2008/11/5 Brandon Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
We have a number of automated jobs that connect to our pgsql DB and
I'm wondering what others are doing for authentication and securing
passwords. It's easy enough to hardcode a password, but is there
something specific to pgsql, perhaps, that
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:13:10AM +0100, Christian Schröder wrote:
Tomasz Ostrowski wrote:
This is wrong. RAID5 is slower than RAID1.
You should go for RAID1+0 for fast and reliable storage. Or RAID0 for
even faster but unreliable.
I did not find a clear statement about this. I agree
On Nov 5, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote:
2008/11/5 Brandon Metcalf [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
We have a number of automated jobs that connect to our pgsql DB and
I'm wondering what others are doing for authentication and securing
passwords. It's easy enough to hardcode a password, but
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
After getting it back up, I find this in the logs...
Nov 4 08:09:50 esmtp postgres[769]: [6-1] WARNING: worker took too
long to start; cancelled
I have this every minute prior to the crash about 5 or 6 times.
This means that an autovacuum worker could not
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you put together a self-contained test case that illustrates
this?
I'm trying... Tonight I just let my long transaction run all night.
It has been running for about 10h and it blocked on index
re-creation.
I have table with index
CREATE TABLE firma2.dok(
...
dokumnr serial NOT NULL,
...
CONSTRAINT dok_pkey PRIMARY KEY (dokumnr),
...
);
CREATE INDEX dok_dokumnr_idx
ON firma2.dok
USING btree
(dokumnr);
I ran analyze command on it.
explain analyze select * from firma2.dok where
On Wednesday 05 November 2008, Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
takes 34 seconds. Tables are indexed and logfile shows autovacuum
running. I ran VACUUM ANALYZE.
It returns
INFO: free space map contains 22501 pages in 77 relations
DETAIL: A total of 2 page slots are in use (including
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 07:51:24PM +0200, Andrus wrote:
I have Server running on Windows XP using
PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on i686-pc-mingw32, compiled by GCC gcc.exe (GCC) 3.4.2
(mingw-special)
You really could do with updating that; 8.1.4 is very old. 8.1.15 is
the latest in the 8.1 series and has
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:52:50PM +0200, Andrus wrote:
explain analyze select * from firma2.dok where dokumnr='1228137'::float8
Seq Scan on dok (cost=0.00..187766.23 rows=6255 width=1145) (actual
time=43168.460..43176.063 rows=1 loops=1)
Filter: ((dokumnr)::double precision =
I'm trying to debug a C function that is used for the binary send/receive part
of a user defined type. I can debug the send part fine, but the receive part
takes an input parameter of type internal, and I can't seem to conjure up an
internal to feed to my function to test if the output is
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Rafal Pietrak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 10:34 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Rafal Pietrak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Everybody,
[...]
I've just upgraded to v8.3.4 ... since eventually it does have
You really could do with updating that; 8.1.4 is very old. 8.1.15 is
the latest in the 8.1 series and has lots of bug fixes.
Will update increase speed ?
Server is running for approx 4 years now and I havent encountered any bugs.
Db size is 862 MB
Bigger tables:
1 1214
CG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm trying to debug a C function that is used for the binary send/receive
part of a user defined type. I can debug the send part fine, but the receive
part takes an input parameter of type internal, and I can't seem to conjure
up an internal to feed to my
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:52:29PM +0200, Andrus wrote:
You really could do with updating that; 8.1.4 is very old. 8.1.15 is
the latest in the 8.1 series and has lots of bug fixes.
Will update increase speed ?
Server is running for approx 4 years now and I havent encountered any bugs.
Not
Sam Mason wrote:
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:52:29PM +0200, Andrus wrote:
after that I got
1 1214 pg_shdepend 440 MB
2 1232 pg_shdepend_depender_index 285 MB
3 1233 pg_shdepend_reference_index
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Jason Long wrote:
For some reason Postgres is pegging my CPU and I can barely log on to reboot
the machine.
Take a look at pg_stat_activity when this happens to see what's going on.
Also, try running top -c to see what is going on (the -c displays extra
information for
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:52:50PM +0200, Andrus wrote:
explain analyze select * from firma2.dok where dokumnr='1228137'::float8
Seq Scan on dok (cost=0.00..187766.23 rows=6255 width=1145) (actual
time=43168.460..43176.063 rows=1 loops=1)
Filter: ((dokumnr)::double precision =
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have table with index
CREATE TABLE firma2.dok(
...
dokumnr serial NOT NULL,
...
CONSTRAINT dok_pkey PRIMARY KEY (dokumnr),
...
);
CREATE INDEX dok_dokumnr_idx
ON firma2.dok
USING btree
(dokumnr);
I ran analyze
Greg Smith wrote:
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Jason Long wrote:
For some reason Postgres is pegging my CPU and I can barely log on to
reboot the machine.
Take a look at pg_stat_activity when this happens to see what's going
on. Also, try running top -c to see what is going on (the -c
displays
I ran analyze and tried command
explain analyze
SELECT * FROM dok WHERE doktyyp=E'O' AND ('0'::float8 =0 or
dok.tasumata0) AND
('0'::float8 =0 or NOT dok.taidetud) AND dok.sihtyksus LIKE
'RIISIPERE%' ESCAPE '!' AND kuupaev BETWEEN '2008-05-01' AND '2999-08-31'
ORDER BY dokumnr
Stop trying to compare exact and inexact types?
You do realize that a float is not an exact number. What you and I
see as 1228137 might really be, internally, 1228136. ?
So it won't get an exact match. What's wrong with trying to match to
an exact number instead?
My query
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stop trying to compare exact and inexact types?
You do realize that a float is not an exact number. What you and I
see as 1228137 might really be, internally, 1228136. ?
So it won't get an exact match. What's
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 02:21:33PM -0700, Scott Marlowe wrote:
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
explain analyze select * from firma2.dok where dokumnr='1228137'::float8
How to force PostgreSql to speed up without changing query ?
Stop trying to compare
explain analyze select * from firma2.dok where dokumnr='1228137'::float8
Seq Scan on dok (cost=0.00..187766.23 rows=6255 width=1145) (actual
time=43168.460..43176.063 rows=1 loops=1)
Filter: ((dokumnr)::double precision = 1228137::double precision)
Total runtime: 43176.375 ms
I've just
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:42:12PM +0200, Andrus wrote:
Scott Marlowe wrote:
You do realize that a float is not an exact number. What you and I
see as 1228137 might really be, internally, 1228136. ?
My query contains
'1228137'::float8
I do'nt see
1228136.
Did you read what I wrote? Cause you just repeated it as an argument
against my point.
Lets re-visit the second issue in my reply.
I tried in 8.3
explain SELECT dokumnr
FROM DOK
where dokumnr IN (1227714)
AND
( '0' or
dokumnr IN (SELECT dokumnr FROM firma1.bilkaib )
)
PG 8.3 would
even throw it out, unless dokumnr was explicitly cast to a float8 as
well.
I tried in 8.3
create temp table dok ( dokumnr serial primary key );
select * from dok where dokumnr='1'::float8
and this run without error.
So i do'nt understand how 8.3 throws out.
Andrus.
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2008/11/5 Christian Schröder [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Tomasz Ostrowski wrote:
This is wrong. RAID5 is slower than RAID1.
You should go for RAID1+0 for fast and reliable storage. Or RAID0 for
even faster but unreliable.
I did not find a clear statement about this. I agree that RAID10 would be
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Craig Ringer wrote:
So - it's potentially even worth compressing the wire protocol for use
on a 100 megabit LAN if a lightweight scheme like LZO can be used.
LZO is under the GPL though.
But liblzf is BSD-style.
http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/liblzf.html
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 00:27 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Craig Ringer wrote:
So - it's potentially even worth compressing the wire protocol for use
on a 100 megabit LAN if a lightweight scheme like LZO can be used.
Yes compressing the wire protocol is a benefit. You can
Hi all
Is there a away to set up a schema such that a certain role has (1)
read only access to (2) all the tables, but (3) must use predefined
functions to use that access?
Items 1 and 2 are so that the end user doesn't stomp on the data.
I want item 3 in order to force the application
On Nov 5, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Webb Sprague wrote:
Hi all
Is there a away to set up a schema such that a certain role has (1)
read only access to (2) all the tables, but (3) must use predefined
functions to use that access?
Items 1 and 2 are so that the end user doesn't stomp on the data.
I
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 15:46 -0800, Webb Sprague wrote:
Hi all
Is there a away to set up a schema such that a certain role has (1)
read only access to (2) all the tables, but (3) must use predefined
functions to use that access?
you can set transactions read only but the user can turn them
Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As you see simply removing constant expression
'0' or
produces different query plan which is much faster for large amoutnts of
data.
The IN-pullup code runs before constant-simplification does, so it
doesn't see that as a simple join condition.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-general-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ivan Voras
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 3:28 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Are there plans to add data compression feature
to postgresql?
Peter
you can set transactions read only but the user can turn them off. Use
views, functions and GRANT.
Views was the key word. I had tried to do it with functions and GRANT alone.
Thanks to the collective brain that is a listserv.
-W
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hey folks,
so suppose I have a query that in explain analyze
Sort Method: external merge Disk: 218080kB
What param should I set to high up, to end up with that sort in memory, and
work_mem
also - will that
Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2008/11/5 Christian Schröder [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Tomasz Ostrowski wrote:
This is wrong. RAID5 is slower than RAID1.
You should go for RAID1+0 for fast and reliable storage. Or RAID0 for
even faster but unreliable.
I did not find a clear statement
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
2008/11/5 Christian Schröder [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Tomasz Ostrowski wrote:
This is wrong. RAID5 is slower than RAID1.
You should go for RAID1+0 for fast and reliable storage. Or
Webb Sprague wrote:
you can set transactions read only but the user can turn them off. Use
views, functions and GRANT.
Views was the key word. I had tried to do it with functions and GRANT alone.
You can also do a lot with SECURITY DEFINER functions - for example, if
you want to grant them
Thanks a lot , Tom Lane.
I installed below mentioned RPMs and now it is working
- Original Message -
From: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: praveen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN]
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 14:38 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
[]
It's more complicated than it looks (triggers).
Could you give me pointers where I could get some more information on
[]
matter, the system has several not-easily-removed assumptions that a
SELECT command won't fire
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