[GENERAL] Running exe problem

2009-01-07 Thread Shahbaz A. Tyagi
Hi, While trying to run pg_ctl.exe with valid parameters, using command prompt in windows XP sp2 machine, it's not getting executed. In event viewer we are getting following events,

Re: [GENERAL] Running exe problem

2009-01-07 Thread Ashesh Vashi
How did you install PostgreSQL on your system? Microsoft Visual Studio redistribution binaries are missing on your system. Download it from the following link and install it. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=200b2fd9-ae1a-4a14-984d-389c36f85647displaylang=en After

Re: [GENERAL] Running exe problem

2009-01-07 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Shahbaz A. Tyagi shahbaz.ty...@sphere.ae wrote: Hi, While trying to run pg_ctl.exe with valid parameters, using command prompt in windows XP sp2 machine, it's not getting executed. For more information, see Help and Support Center at

Re: [GENERAL] Running exe problem

2009-01-07 Thread Shahbaz A. Tyagi
We have not installed the Postgre but we are trying to use the binaries directly. Thanks, Shahbaz _ From: Ashesh Vashi [mailto:ashesh.va...@enterprisedb.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:38 PM To: Shahbaz A. Tyagi Cc:

Re: [GENERAL] Running exe problem

2009-01-07 Thread Shahbaz A. Tyagi
Yeah, thanks guys, we were able to run it in one machine but not in our main server, hence the confusion came. Than we installed other version of runtimes but now we installed the correct one as suggested, hence worked. Thanks, Shahbaz A. Tyagi Sphere Networks -Original Message-

Re: [GENERAL] Running exe problem

2009-01-07 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Shahbaz A. Tyagi shahbaz.ty...@sphere.ae wrote: We have not installed the Postgre but we are trying to use the binaries directly. Did you read the README? postgresql-8.3.5-1-binaries-no-installer.zip is a zip of the PostgreSQL installation directory. It does not

[GENERAL] How do I 'include' a stored procedure in a SQL script file

2009-01-07 Thread Donna Rudd
Hi, All I want to do is 'include' a stored procedure (contained in another script file) into my main PostgreSQL database creation script file so that it can get defined/declared before I define my triggers to call it. It seems such a simple thing but I don't seem to be able to find any examples or

Re: [GENERAL] How do I 'include' a stored procedure in a SQL script file

2009-01-07 Thread Serge Fonville
An .sql file is just a list of sql you can just as well enter when running psql.If you had the psql prompt open, what would you type to execute the commands in an .sql file, limited to 'true' sql and not psql specific commands If you know that you know which lines to add to the .sql file Hope

Re: [GENERAL] How do I 'include' a stored procedure in a SQL script file

2009-01-07 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to Donna Rudd : Hi, All I want to do is 'include' a stored procedure (contained in another script file) into my main PostgreSQL database creation script file so that it can get defined/declared before I define my triggers to call it. It seems such a simple thing but I don't seem

[GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-07 Thread yogvinder
Hi All, I am having multiple postgresql 7.3(pretty old version now) on rhel4 servers. I am getting the error MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size on many of these servers from time to time. On crawling through net, I have found that its because of some bad word value in a variable length

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-07 Thread Richard Huxton
yogvinder wrote: Hi All, I am having multiple postgresql 7.3(pretty old version now) on rhel4 servers. Which 7.3? Are you aware the community doesn't even officially support them now? I am getting the error MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size on many of these servers from time to

Re: [GENERAL] RCA for MemoryContextAlloc: invalid request size(Known Issue)

2009-01-07 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 06:07:02AM -0800, yogvinder wrote: Hi All, I am having multiple postgresql 7.3(pretty old version now) on rhel4 servers. Not just pretty old, but past any community support. You'll need to build and implement an upgrade strategy along with doing your upgrade. I

[GENERAL] explain

2009-01-07 Thread Gustavo Rosso
Es 1.213ms un valor correcto para realizar un insert en una tabla obtenido por explain analyze. Gustavo -- 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] explain

2009-01-07 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:30:54PM -0300, Gustavo Rosso wrote: Es 1.213ms un valor correcto para realizar un insert en una tabla obtenido por explain analyze. trochę długo, ale to zależy od sprzętu. dodatkowo - może masz tam triggery? klucze obce? ciężko powiedzieć. pokaż schemat tabeli i

Re: [GENERAL] explain

2009-01-07 Thread Jaime Casanova
2009/1/7 Gustavo Rosso gro...@sadaic.org.ar: Es 1.213ms un valor correcto para realizar un insert en una tabla obtenido por explain analyze. eso es un poco mas de un milisegundo, no parece mucho... en todo caso el tiempo que demore un INSERT dependera en parte de la cantidad de indices, FK y

Re: [GENERAL] explain

2009-01-07 Thread Jaime Casanova
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:53 AM, hubert depesz lubaczewski dep...@depesz.com wrote: p.s. as you can clearly see from another mails from this list - the list uses english language. please use it, or if you'd like to use spanish (i'm not sure if your language if spanish, i don't know it) - you

[GENERAL] The length of a tsvector (lexemes + positions) must be less than 1 megabyte

2009-01-07 Thread Mohamed
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/textsearch-limitations.html The length of a tsvector (lexemes + positions) must be less than 1 megabyte What does this mean ? Is that per column and row or for the whole index ?

Re: [GENERAL] Slow Vacuum was: vacuum output question

2009-01-07 Thread Dan Armbrust
I'm no closer to a solution, but here are some additional data points - all taken on Fedora Core 6. Postgres 8.1 built from source. Auto vacuum disabled. Create Empty Database. Run our load on the system for 2 hours to populate and exercise the database. Run Vacuum. Takes more than a minute.

Re: [GENERAL] Slow Vacuum was: vacuum output question

2009-01-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Dan Armbrust daniel.armbrust.l...@gmail.com wrote: I'm no closer to a solution, but here are some additional data points - all taken on Fedora Core 6. So, what does vmstat 10 say when you're running the long vacuum on each system? -- Sent via pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] The length of a tsvector (lexemes + positions) must be less than 1 megabyte

2009-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
Mohamed mohamed5432154...@gmail.com writes: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/textsearch-limitations.html The length of a tsvector (lexemes + positions) must be less than 1 megabyte What does this mean ? Is that per column and row or for the whole index ? It's for a single

[GENERAL] FreeBSD and large shared_buffers a no-go?

2009-01-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
I'm running PostgreSQL 8.3.5 on a FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 system with 8GB of RAM and two quad-core Xeon CPUs. The data filesystem is on a battery- backed RAID-10 system. This is a dedicated server so I want to commit all resources to PostgreSQL alone. The database will get hit with a lot of

Re: [GENERAL] FreeBSD and large shared_buffers a no-go?

2009-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com writes: First, shmget is asking for a lot less than shmmax - why is it failing? Check to see if things work as expected when you have shmmax and shmall set to a shade less than 2GB and fail when they are a shade more. If so, it would seem there's a

[GENERAL] stable function called for every row?

2009-01-07 Thread Gerhard Heift
Hello, I have a query like this: SELECT * FROM table WHERE has_permission('permission_name'); and the function CREATE FUNCTION has_permission(IN pname text, OUT is_ok boolean) RETURNING boolean AS $BODY$ BEGIN SELECT has_perm INTO is_ok FROM permission WHERE title = pname; RAISE INFO

Re: [GENERAL] FreeBSD and large shared_buffers a no-go?

2009-01-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com writes: First, shmget is asking for a lot less than shmmax - why is it failing? Check to see if things work as expected when you have shmmax and shmall set to a shade less than 2GB and fail when they are a shade

[GENERAL] to_tsquery, plainto_... avoiding bad input, injections. Is there a builtin function for this ? Escaping?

2009-01-07 Thread Mohamed
Hi, I am wondering whether or not there exists any built in function for making sure a query/textinput is not harmful or one that escapes them. If not, what kind of things should I watch out for ? As of now, I get errors on the quote ( ' ) if it is entered in an input and in to_tsquery also on

Re: [GENERAL] encoding of PostgreSQL messages

2009-01-07 Thread Karsten Hilbert
Bruce, et al, given the thread partially quoted below would this warrant a TODO item improve communication of encoding between client and server regarding early startup messages ? A very usable band-aid for 8.4 - short of a proper fix - would be the minimal-invasive sending of messages in 7-bit

Re: [GENERAL] stable function called for every row?

2009-01-07 Thread Gerhard Heift
I isolated my problem a little bit: CREATE FUNCTION get_array() RETURNS integer[] AS $BODY$ BEGIN RAISE INFO 'get_array'; RETURN ARRAY[1, 2]; END $BODY$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' STABLE; And now SELECT * FROM generate_series(1,3) a(b) where array[b] @ core.get_array(); gives me: INFO: get_array

Re: [GENERAL] FreeBSD and large shared_buffers a no-go?

2009-01-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:30 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com writes: First, shmget is asking for a lot less than shmmax - why is it failing? Check to see if things work as expected when you have shmmax and shmall set to a shade less than 2GB and fail when they are a shade

Re: [GENERAL] stable function called for every row?

2009-01-07 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello, stable, volatile, immutable flag doesn't necessary means caching or not caching. if you need really only one call, use srf function postgres=# create table foo(a int); CREATE TABLE postgres=# insert into foo values(10),(20); INSERT 0 2 postgres=# create function foof(bool) returns setof

Re: [GENERAL] SPI_ERROR_CONNECT in plperl function

2009-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_Schr=F6der?= c...@deriva.de writes: When I try to call the function I get the following error message: test=# select * from testfunc(); ERROR: error from Perl function: SPI_connect failed: SPI_ERROR_CONNECT at line 2. Hmph ... looks like plperl is shy a

Re: [GENERAL] stable function called for every row?

2009-01-07 Thread Tom Lane
Gerhard Heift ml-postgresql-20081012-3...@gheift.de writes: The function is called for every row in the table if it is stable or volatile and only once if it is immutable? Yes, possibly. I thought it had to be called only once, if it is stable. No. Stable means that it is *okay* to call it

[GENERAL] Fail of a return query from plpgsql function for a specific table

2009-01-07 Thread c k
Hi all,I have a table accgroups and many others. I have written a test function as follows. CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION uf_testfunction() RETURNS SETOF associates AS $BODY$ begin return query select * from associates; return; end; $BODY$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE; This works fine for above

[GENERAL] pg_bulkload

2009-01-07 Thread John Randall
Does anyone know if this utility can generate a log file of records that for some reason do not load to a PostgreSQL database? I’m looking for something like Oracle’s SQLLDR where an error is generated when a record fails to load. If not pg_bulkload, perhaps there is some other like utility.

Re: [GENERAL] pg_bulkload

2009-01-07 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 4:10:34 pm John Randall wrote: Does anyone know if this utility can generate a log file of records that for some reason do not load to a PostgreSQL database? I’m looking for something like Oracle’s SQLLDR where an error is generated when a record fails to load. If

Re: [GENERAL] Per-user schemas with inherited skeleton.

2009-01-07 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 13:05 +0900, Craig Ringer wrote: alvar...@alvarezp.ods.org wrote: On user account creation, the schema gets created and the interface tries to do a CREATE TABLE my_relation () INHERITS (_skel.my_relation); as the new role, but PostgreSQL returns the error must be

Re: [GENERAL] Per-user schemas with inherited skeleton.

2009-01-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au wrote: alvar...@alvarezp.ods.org wrote: (2) per-user schemas with CREATE TABLE (LIKE parent_table), as getting the data from all users at once would also be difficult and modifying the column definition on the user

Re: [GENERAL] Per-user schemas with inherited skeleton.

2009-01-07 Thread Craig Ringer
Scott Marlowe wrote: Is there a way to let PostgreSQL to allow inherited tables to be owned by different roles? Not that I know of, and given the security implications I'd be a bit nervous about it unless it was done via an explicitly GRANTed right. I hope here you're meaning to have tables

Re: [GENERAL] Per-user schemas with inherited skeleton.

2009-01-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au wrote: Scott Marlowe wrote: Is there a way to let PostgreSQL to allow inherited tables to be owned by different roles? Not that I know of, and given the security implications I'd be a bit nervous about it unless it

Re: [GENERAL] Per-user schemas with inherited skeleton.

2009-01-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au wrote: Scott Marlowe wrote: Is there a way to let PostgreSQL to allow inherited tables to be owned by different roles? Not that I know of, and given the security implications I'd be a bit nervous about it unless it

[GENERAL] Need help! To build geos-3.0.x lib using Sun Studio 12 compiler [conflict in file ConvexHull.cpp]

2009-01-07 Thread SATYAJIT TRIPATHI
Hi there, We are trying to build the PostGIS (1.3.5) extension to PostgreSQL (8.3) on Solaris 10 Update 5 on an amd64 platform (Sun Fire X4100). We are unable to build the geos (3.0.3) library on the same using Sun Studio 12 compiler. We have included the patches as mentioned in

[GENERAL] Error: column host does not exist

2009-01-07 Thread Mayuresh Nirhali
Hello, I am working with 8.1.4 pgsql as my database backend. I have a function written in plpgsql language, that queries a particular table as below, select host from table_host where ip_address = ip_array[i] and port = port_array[i]; The query is running in a for loop. I see ip_array and

Re: [GENERAL] Fail of a return query from plpgsql function for a specific table

2009-01-07 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to c k : Hi all, I have a table accgroups and many others. I have written a test function as follows. CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION uf_testfunction() RETURNS SETOF associates AS $BODY$ begin return query select * from associates; return; end; $BODY$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'

Re: [GENERAL] Error: column host does not exist

2009-01-07 Thread Reg Me Please
IS there any name clash with a function argument? -- Fahrbahn ist ein graues Band weisse Streifen, grüner Rand On Thursday 08 January 2009 08:30:07 Mayuresh Nirhali wrote: Hello, I am working with 8.1.4 pgsql as my database backend. I have a function written in plpgsql language, that queries