[GENERAL] Parallel DB architechture

2009-03-30 Thread aravind chandu
Hello, I would like to implement parallel DB Architecture in postgres.I came across various parallel architectures shared memory,shared disk,shared nothing,hierarchical.But I am unaware of how to implement one of these in real time system.Can you guys help me in this aspect?

[GENERAL] pgstattuple triggered checkpoint failure and database outage?

2009-03-30 Thread Stuart Bishop
I just had a brief outage on a production server running 8.3.6, which I suspect was triggered by me running a table bloat report making lots of pgstattuple calls. The first I got of it was the script I'd just kicked off died: could not open segment 1 of relation 1663/16409/11088101 (target block

Re: [GENERAL] Parallel DB architechture

2009-03-30 Thread Asko Oja
Hello We use plProxy (RUN ON ALL) to run queries in parallel. We split our database into 16 shards and distributed it over 4 servers. So now we are running queries on 16 cpu's in parallel :) regards, Asko On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:20 AM, aravind chandu avin_frie...@yahoo.comwrote: Hello,

Re: [GENERAL] running two servers on one machine

2009-03-30 Thread Eric Smith
Thomas, When I start the servers, I use different ports via the -p option. Is that equivalent to using different listener ports in postgresql.conf? Thanks, Eric On Mar 28, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote: Adrian Klaver wrote on 28.03.2009 23:37: On Saturday 28 March 2009 3:27:15

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PLPython - Version Problem

2009-03-30 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:51 AM, ray ray.jos...@cdicorp.com wrote: I am trying to get Python 2.6 and PostgreSQL 8.3 to work together under Windows 2000. When I try to add Python to PostgreSQL via: createlang plpythonu dbname But when doing so, I get an error: createlang: language

Re: [GENERAL] New shapshot RPMs (Mar 27, 2009) are ready for testing

2009-03-30 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Devrim GÜNDÜZ, 28.03.2009 10:02: As we are moving very close to 8.4 beta, please join us for testing 8.4 release. I just released new RPM sets, which is based on Mar 27 CVS snapshot. Please note that these packages are **not** production ready. They are for Fedora 9,10 and RHEL/CentOS 5. I have

Re: [GENERAL] New shapshot RPMs (Mar 27, 2009) are ready for testing

2009-03-30 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Thomas Kellerer spam_ea...@gmx.net wrote: Devrim GÜNDÜZ, 28.03.2009 10:02: As we are moving very close to 8.4 beta, please join us for testing 8.4 release. I just released new RPM sets, which is based on Mar 27 CVS snapshot. Please note that these packages

Re: [GENERAL] [Q] rollback after select?

2009-03-30 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 08:44:59PM -0400, V S P wrote: The same problem was with my set client encoding (my other email) both were related problem to the fact that PG I have to issue commits even for the 'non sql' statements. That's something between you and your database driver. PostgreSQL by

Re: [GENERAL] Parallel DB architechture

2009-03-30 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Behalf Of Asko Oja Hello We use plProxy (RUN ON ALL) to run queries in parallel. We split our database into 16 shards and distributed it over 4 servers. So now we are running queries on 16 cpu's in parallel :) Wow.. query time improved How many fold? Any idea? -- Sent via pgsql-general

[GENERAL] Parallel Query Processing

2009-03-30 Thread aravind chandu
Thanks for your reply guys.My aim is to run multiple queries.Will joins come under multiple queries? or it just mean two or more different queries like one select statement and another select statement? Does postgresql itself supports to run multiple queries or we have to use pgpool-II tool?

Re: [GENERAL] Accent insensitive search?

2009-03-30 Thread Stuart Bishop
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[GENERAL] debian package 8.4devel was:[Pkg-postgresql-public] Postgres major version support policy on Debian

2009-03-30 Thread Cédric Villemain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cédric Villemain a écrit : Martin Pitt a écrit : Cédric Villemain [2009-03-15 23:58 +0100]: Any plan for 8.4 pre-beta package ? (Devrim Gunduz provide usefull rpm package, I'd like to have the same in debian). Can it be in the experimental

[GENERAL] Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] debian package 8.4devel was: Postgres major version support policy on Debian

2009-03-30 Thread Martin Pitt
Hello Cédric, Cédric Villemain [2009-03-30 12:08 +0200]: I have started some work on that. Whoops, sorry. So did I yesterday evening. I just fixed the branch enough to build now [1]. I just need to update postgresql-common to work with 8.4. Some things changed, e. g. pg_controldata doesn't

Re: [GENERAL] New shapshot RPMs (Mar 27, 2009) are ready for testing

2009-03-30 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Dave Page, 30.03.2009 10:34: EnterpriseDB used to provide 8.4 builds for Windows, but the page I bookmarked does not longer work. Does anybody know if EnterpriseDB stopped this service? No - in fact we refreshed the builds just a few days ago:

Re: [GENERAL] Parallel Query Processing

2009-03-30 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 30/03/2009 07:18, aravind chandu wrote: Thanks for your reply guys.My aim is to run multiple queries.Will joins come under multiple queries? or it just mean two or more Not sure what you're getting at herea query that includes a JOIN is still one query. different queries like one

[GENERAL] [fulltext] GIN indexes - OR search

2009-03-30 Thread esemba
Is it possible to have 2 gin indexes and OR the search of them? Problem is, I need to search 5 columns and there is limitation of only 4 weights, so I want to have one index of 4 vectors and second index of 1 vector and need to OR the search. When I try to search them separately, or use AND, it

Re: [GENERAL] New shapshot RPMs (Mar 27, 2009) are ready for testing

2009-03-30 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Dave Page, 30.03.2009 14:28: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Thomas Kellerer spam_ea...@gmx.net wrote: OK, thanks. I received very strange error messages last week when I accessed that page. (Velocity Template not found and similar errors). But now it's working. Yeah, we had a big website

Re: [GENERAL] New shapshot RPMs (Mar 27, 2009) are ready for testing

2009-03-30 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Thomas Kellerer spam_ea...@gmx.net wrote: OK, thanks. I received very strange error messages last week when I accessed that page. (Velocity Template not found and similar errors). But now it's working. Yeah, we had a big website update and that page got messed

Re: [GENERAL] How to split timestamps values by 24h slices ?

2009-03-30 Thread Artacus
Bruno Baguette wrote: Hello ! I have a table that contains two timestamps (and some other fields that does not matter here). the_table -- pk_planning_id == INT8 (primary key) timestamp_start == (not null timestamp without time zone) timestamp_stop =+ (not null timestamp without

Re: [GENERAL] Maximum transaction rate

2009-03-30 Thread Marco Colombo
Markus Wanner wrote: Hi, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: And fsync better do what you're asking (how fast is just a performance issue, just as long as it's done). Where are we on this issue? I've read all of this thread and the one on the lvm-linux mailing list as well, but still don't

Re: [GENERAL] [fulltext] GIN indexes - OR search

2009-03-30 Thread Tom Lane
esemba ese...@gmail.com writes: Is it possible to have 2 gin indexes and OR the search of them? Sure. They need to be fairly restrictive though, or the planner might decide that a seqscan is cheaper. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PLPython - Version Problem

2009-03-30 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Joseph, Ray ray.jos...@cdicorp.com wrote: Dave, I am sorry that I was not clear.  I want to use 2.6 but the stack seems to direct me to 2.5. That's exactly what I understood from your email - however my fingers weren't working properly at that time in the

Re: [GENERAL] running two servers on one machine

2009-03-30 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Sunday 29 March 2009 7:59:19 pm Eric Smith wrote: Thomas, When I start the servers, I use different ports via the -p option. Is that equivalent to using different listener ports in postgresql.conf? Thanks, Eric I think you are going to have to show us the exact command you are using.

Re: [GENERAL] running two servers on one machine

2009-03-30 Thread Tom Lane
Adrian Klaver akla...@comcast.net writes: I think you are going to have to show us the exact command you are using. What *I* want to see is the postmaster log, which should certainly contain an error message explaining why it failed to start. regards, tom lane -- Sent

[GENERAL] [GENEAL] dynamically changing table

2009-03-30 Thread A B
Hi, In the next project I'm going to have a number of colums in my tables, but I don't know how many, they change. They all use integers as datatype though.. One day, I get 2 new columns, a week later I loose one column, and so on in a random pattern. I will most likely have a few million rows of

[GENERAL] i have a problem with judge some words contain chinese word!

2009-03-30 Thread shiguoying
Hello: I have a problem with juding some words contain chinese word. I found that with oracle.but i can't find it in postgresql. oracle? has acsiistr and lengthb to deal with it.i wonna to know postgresql how to ! ??? thx !

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PLPython - Version Problem

2009-03-30 Thread ray
On Mar 30, 2:55 am, dp...@pgadmin.org (Dave Page) wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:51 AM, ray ray.jos...@cdicorp.com wrote: I am trying to get Python 2.6 and PostgreSQL 8.3 to work together under Windows 2000. When I try to add Python to PostgreSQL via: createlang plpythonu dbname But

Re: [GENERAL] [GENEAL] dynamically changing table

2009-03-30 Thread ries van Twisk
Without knowing to much currently.. can you create one table with enough columns? Then create a view to query the table and 'reflect' the changes and correct column names. Using rule you could also even simulate the update to the view and update to the correct columns. This so that you

Re: [GENERAL] [GENEAL] dynamically changing table

2009-03-30 Thread Emanuel Calvo Franco
IMHO one of the possible solutions is to review the table and storage externaly the stable columns. So when you run 'alter table ' it was less expensive (i never test this, but maybe its true :P ) So the mutable columns will be separated from the others and the phisical structure could be

Re: [GENERAL] [GENEAL] dynamically changing table

2009-03-30 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:39:19PM +0200, A B wrote: Hi, In the next project I'm going to have a number of colums in my tables, but I don't know how many, they change. They all use integers as datatype though.. One day, I get 2 new columns, a week later I loose one column, and so on in a

Re: [GENERAL] running two clusters on one machine

2009-03-30 Thread Emanuel Calvo Franco
To run servers at diferent ports you must use postgres binary. postgres -D data1 -p 5432 -l logfile postgres -D data2 -p 5433 -l logfile I never used pg_ctl to run postgres and don't ask me why. 2009/3/28, Eric Smith esm...@haas-software.com: All, I'm trying to run two database clusters

Re: [GENERAL] [GENEAL] dynamically changing table

2009-03-30 Thread A B
Well, not as such. Except that deleting a column doesn't really delete it, it hides it, so it never really goes away. So the number of columns in your table will only go up and eventually you're going to reach the point (around 1600 IIRC, probably earlier) where it will simply stop working.

Re: [GENERAL] [GENEAL] dynamically changing table

2009-03-30 Thread David Fetter
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:39:19PM +0200, A B wrote: Hi, In the next project I'm going to have a number of colums in my tables, but I don't know how many, they change. Stop right there. You need to get some sanity into your project, either by changing that requirement, or by not using an

FW: [GENERAL] [GENEAL] dynamically changing table

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Black
From: michaelblack75...@hotmail.com To: gentosa...@gmail.com Subject: RE: [GENERAL] [GENEAL] dynamically changing table Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:05:52 + The simplest way is to plan for the maximum number of columns that will be required (say 14 - 2 weeks of data assuming that is

Re: [GENERAL] running two clusters on one machine

2009-03-30 Thread Adrian Klaver
- Emanuel Calvo Franco postgres@gmail.com wrote: To run servers at diferent ports you must use postgres binary. postgres -D data1 -p 5432 -l logfile postgres -D data2 -p 5433 -l logfile That is not true. You can set the port in the postgresql.conf for each cluster to be

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSql with or without Plus?

2009-03-30 Thread Jennifer Trey
I am sorry, but it seems that I replied to only one of you instead of to the mailing list. I am just about to install a version on my Server computer (Windows web server 2008 x64) and I am stuck on what I should go with. I have been developing on the standard postgreSQL but like that the

Re: [GENERAL] [GENEAL] dynamically changing table

2009-03-30 Thread A B
2009/3/30 David Fetter da...@fetter.org: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:39:19PM +0200, A B wrote: Hi, In the next project I'm going to have a number of colums in my tables, but I don't know how many, they change. Stop right there.  You need to get some sanity into your project, either by

[GENERAL] string_to_array with empty input

2009-03-30 Thread Steve Crawford
I have a query that converts a string to an array with the string_to_array function. Sometimes the input is an empty string (not a null, but a string of zero-length). I had expected the result to be a one-element array with an empty string as the first and only element but instead it returned

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSql with or without Plus?

2009-03-30 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Jennifer Trey jennifer.t...@gmail.com wrote: I am sorry, but it seems that I replied to only one of you instead of to the mailing list. I am just about to install a version on my Server computer (Windows web server 2008 x64) and I am stuck on what I should go

Re: [GENERAL] [GENEAL] dynamically changing table

2009-03-30 Thread Sam Mason
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:04:06AM -0700, David Fetter wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 05:39:19PM +0200, A B wrote: Hi, In the next project I'm going to have a number of colums in my tables, but I don't know how many, they change. Stop right there. You need to get some sanity into your

Re: [GENERAL] [GENEAL] dynamically changing table

2009-03-30 Thread Andrej
2009/3/31 A B gentosa...@gmail.com: One option is, put it in a db as a huge text (or in textfiles, one per object) and parse it when you need it. That might also work. Why are you demanding sanity? I need crazy ideas to get this to work ;-) Heh ... sorry, but dynamic table just SCREAMS

Re: [GENERAL] [GENEAL] dynamically changing table

2009-03-30 Thread Sam Mason
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 08:50:59PM +0200, A B wrote: Well, the requirement is: keep a lot of data stored, don't loose any of it, and you will not know what you will have to store (changing number of fields and of different types) As you've not said anything about getting said data back; it

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSql with or without Plus?

2009-03-30 Thread Jennifer Trey
Hmm, cant find it.. but.. if I install the regular (not plus), could I later upgrade easily to other versions ? Is that possible? In that case I could just start with the one I already are familiar with. Jen On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Dave Page dp...@pgadmin.org wrote: On Mon, Mar 30,

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSql with or without Plus?

2009-03-30 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Jennifer Trey jennifer.t...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, cant find it.. but.. if I install the regular (not plus), could I later upgrade easily to other versions ? Is that possible? In that case I could just start with the one I already are familiar with. It's quite

Re: [GENERAL] [GENEAL] dynamically changing table

2009-03-30 Thread Will Rutherdale (rutherw)
Is it possible that what you want is a lookup table with a string index, i.e. attribute-value pairs? If so, that would be represented as a hash in Perl, or a map in C++. In a database, you could design a very simple schema for it. Or do you just have unclear requirements, as others have

[GENERAL] Point me to latest JDBC for pgSQL (plus) standard server?

2009-03-30 Thread Jennifer Trey
Point me to latest JDBC for pgSQL (plus) standard server?

[GENERAL] Postgres startup processes on linux?

2009-03-30 Thread Eshelman, James
We're running PG 8.1 on CentOS 5.0. When postgres starts the following processes apparently required by the DB itself get created: postgres 23784 1 0 13:55 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -p 5432 -D /var/lib/pgsql/data postgres 23786 23784 0 13:55 ?00:00:00 postgres:

Re: [GENERAL] Point me to latest JDBC for pgSQL (plus) standard server?

2009-03-30 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Jennifer Trey wrote on 30.03.2009 21:39: Point me to latest JDBC for pgSQL (plus) standard server? http://jdbc.postgresql.org -- 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] Postgres startup processes on linux? - resolved.

2009-03-30 Thread Eshelman, James
It's a normal pg connection server created by our own code. Nothing native to pg startup. From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Eshelman, James Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 3:29 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL]

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PLPython - Version Problem

2009-03-30 Thread Craig Ringer
ray wrote: I am sorry for not providing a clear description of my problem. I want to us Python 2.6 but the PLPython seems to me looking for 2.5 which is not on my machine. Is there a way to have PostgreSQL work with Python 2.6? Recompile PostgreSQL, or at least the PL/Python extension, to

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres startup processes on linux?

2009-03-30 Thread Steve Crawford
Eshelman, James wrote: We’re running PG 8.1 on CentOS 5.0. When postgres starts the following processes apparently required by the DB itself get created: postgres 23784 1 0 13:55 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -p 5432 -D /var/lib/pgsql/data postgres 23786 23784 0 13:55 ? 00:00:00

[GENERAL] Read a CLOB data from an Oracle table and INSERT it into a BYTEA column in Postgres using jdbc?

2009-03-30 Thread SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH
Hi, Im reading from an Oracle table and inserting the values to a postgres table thro' jdbc. Everything works fine except for the BLOB data in Oracle. My code snippet ... while (rs1.next()) { for (int m=1;m=colCount;m++) {

[GENERAL] Optimization Wizard

2009-03-30 Thread Jennifer Trey
Hi, During the development of my application I once, somehow through an installed postgresql software got me to a page where I could find information on how to tune my db. I can't seem to find to that link again. I think it was to a page within the EnterpriseDB but that page seems to have

Re: [GENERAL] Optimization Wizard

2009-03-30 Thread Osvaldo Kussama
2009/3/30 Jennifer Trey jennifer.t...@gmail.com: Hi, During the development of my application I once, somehow through an installed postgresql software got me to a page where I could find information on how to tune my db. I can't seem to find to that link again. I think it was to a page within

[GENERAL] Schema for J2EE project

2009-03-30 Thread MargaretGillon
Using Postgresql 8.2.11 on Ubuntu 7.10.I am writing a J2EE project but do not want user specific schemas because this application sits on a production floor and any production employee can walk to a workstation and access the database to punch work time. I know that the public schema is not

Re: [GENERAL] Read a CLOB data from an Oracle table and INSERT it into a BYTEA column in Postgres using jdbc?

2009-03-30 Thread Vyacheslav Kalinin
You are fetching an Oracle LOB locator. I am not a guru of OCI let alone JDBC but AFAIK you should create a LOB descriptor, bind it to the locator and load the LOB data that you can insert into postgres.

Re: [GENERAL] i have a problem with judge some words contain chinese word!

2009-03-30 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:14 , shiguoying wrote: Hello: I have a problem with juding some words contain chinese word. I found that with oracle.but i can't find it in postgresql. oracle? has acsiistr and lengthb to deal with it.i wonna to know postgresql how to ! ??? thx !

[GENERAL] PL/PGSQL arithmetic errors

2009-03-30 Thread jc_mich
Hi all! I'm developing an algorithm with PL/PGSQL using statistical operations from a table. I have several differences between expected results and the results generated by the function. I want to know if there are differences in arithmetic operation sintax or if there's any special

Re: [GENERAL] running two servers on one machine

2009-03-30 Thread Eric Smith
That's it! Log file says could not create shared memory segment. It also says that I should change max_connections or shared_buffers. Error message claims that max_connections is 23, but postgresql.conf has this listed as 20. Error message claims that shared_buffers is 300, but

[GENERAL] partial TEXT search on an index

2009-03-30 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I don't think I understand how PG implements fulltext searching or if my search actually needs to use fulltext search. basically, I have a btree index on a SERIAL_NUMBER which is of sort like ABC12345 or AAA123434 or AAB131441 I would like to have search on the specific text of the SERIAL_NUMBER

Re: [GENERAL] pgstattuple triggered checkpoint failure and database outage?

2009-03-30 Thread Tom Lane
Stuart Bishop stu...@stuartbishop.net writes: I just had a brief outage on a production server running 8.3.6, which I suspect was triggered by me running a table bloat report making lots of pgstattuple calls. The first I got of it was the script I'd just kicked off died: could not open

Re: [GENERAL] running two servers on one machine

2009-03-30 Thread Tom Lane
Eric Smith eric_h_sm...@mac.com writes: Log file says could not create shared memory segment. It also says that I should change max_connections or shared_buffers. Error message claims that max_connections is 23, but postgresql.conf has this listed as 20. The autovacuum workers get added

Re: [GENERAL] running two servers on one machine

2009-03-30 Thread Tom Lane
Eric Smith eric_h_sm...@mac.com writes: Following the queue on the postgres web page, I created /etc/ sysctl.conf and added the following five entries: kern.sysv.shmmax=4194304 kern.sysv.shmmin=1 kern.sysv.shmmni=32 kern.sysv.shmseg=8 kern.sysv.shmall=1024 But when I try to start two

Re: [GENERAL] running two servers on one machine

2009-03-30 Thread Eric Smith
Ahhh! Can't seem to make this go away! Here is the log file entry: FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Cannot allocate memory DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=5432001, size=4030464, 03600). HINT: This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request for a shared memory

Re: [GENERAL] string_to_array with empty input

2009-03-30 Thread Tom Lane
Steve Crawford scrawf...@pinpointresearch.com writes: I have a query that converts a string to an array with the string_to_array function. Sometimes the input is an empty string (not a null, but a string of zero-length). I had expected the result to be a one-element array with an empty

Re: [GENERAL] PL/PGSQL arithmetic errors

2009-03-30 Thread Justin
Just because a result is unexpected does not mean its an incorrect result. No postgresql follows the order of operations as expected. Now looking at the 2 For loops the First does not have a where clause and the Second has a Where not null this could be the cause of the problem. Another

Re: [GENERAL] pgstattuple triggered checkpoint failure and database outage?

2009-03-30 Thread Stuart Bishop
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Stuart Bishop stu...@stuartbishop.net writes: I just had a brief outage on a production server running 8.3.6, which I suspect was triggered by me running a table bloat report making lots of pgstattuple calls. The first I got

Re: [GENERAL] string_to_array with empty input

2009-03-30 Thread Justin
Tom Lane wrote: I agree this seems less than consistent though, especially seeing that you *don't* get a null for a zero-length separator, which if anything is a more poorly defined case. I doubt it'd be a good idea to back-patch a change for this, but I could see altering the definition for

Re: [GENERAL] pgstattuple triggered checkpoint failure and database outage?

2009-03-30 Thread Tom Lane
Stuart Bishop stu...@stuartbishop.net writes: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: What's the actual size of that relation now?  Is it growing rapidly? (I'm trying to figure out whether those writes *should* have succeeded, or whether the block numbers were

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] string_to_array with empty input

2009-03-30 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Mar 30, 2009, at 8:26 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Does anyone want to argue for keeping it the same? Or perhaps argue that a zero-element array is a more sensible result than a one-element array with one empty string? (It doesn't seem like it to me, but maybe somebody thinks so.) Hrm. There

Re: [GENERAL] pgstattuple triggered checkpoint failure and database outage?

2009-03-30 Thread Stuart Bishop
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Stuart Bishop stu...@stuartbishop.net writes: On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: What's the actual size of that relation now?  Is it growing rapidly? (I'm trying to figure out whether those