Re: [GENERAL] attempted to lock invisible tuple - PG 8.4.1

2009-10-07 Thread Stuart Bishop
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com wrote: Stuart Bishop wrote: I don't think the committed patch touches anything involved in what you're testing, but if you could grab CVS tip from the 8.4 branch (or the snapshot from

[GENERAL] SSIS and Postgres

2009-10-07 Thread Jamie Lawrence-Jenner
Hi there we are having some problems using OLEDB PGNP and SSIS, this is a post we have added to experts exchange, but we were wondering whether anyone here could shed some light on this. We are also interested how others manage ETL Cheers Jamie Data Warehousing Postgres We're

[GENERAL] problems with encoding

2009-10-07 Thread Karina Guardado
Hi, I have a Map info file named map.TAB and when I tried to export it to Postgres I get an error of encoding so I used konwert to convert it to utf8 using the following statement konwert any/es-utf8 map.TAB -O But this only convert the name of the header of each column but not the registers of

[GENERAL] pg_dump with 1100 schemas being a bit slow

2009-10-07 Thread Loic d'Anterroches
Hello, After a series of sessions to search the web for information, I am asking the help of people having a bit more knowledge of the internals of pg_dump to try to solve a performance problem I have. I am running PostgreSQL version 8.3.8 both server and pg_dump, The context is a farm hosting

[GENERAL] current_query stat is idle

2009-10-07 Thread mezgani ali
I used pg_top to monitor my database and i'm looking for method to find out what queries are currently being serviced by the database. pg_top inform me that the queries are IDLE and the result of select * from pg_stat_activity return that current_query is always on IDLE status. Please can you

Re: [GENERAL] Need help in spi_prepare errors

2009-10-07 Thread Tom Lane
paresh masani masanipar...@gmail.com writes: Below function doesn't work: (I tried each combination mentioned with # but none of them working.) I haven't tried it, but a look at the code makes me think that spi_prepare wants each type name to appear as a separate argument. It definitely won't

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump with 1100 schemas being a bit slow

2009-10-07 Thread Tom Lane
Loic d'Anterroches diaere...@gmail.com writes: Each night I am running: pg_dump --blobs --schema=%s --no-acl -U postgres indefero | gzip /path/to/backups/%s/%s-%s.sql.gz this for each installation, so 1100 times. Substitution strings are to timestamp and get the right schema. This seems

Re: [GENERAL] Need help in spi_prepare errors

2009-10-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane escribió: I'm not much of a Perl hacker, but I seem to recall that it's possible to pass an array to a function in a way that will make the array elements look like separate arguments. If you really need a dynamic list of types and values, maybe there's some solution in that

[GENERAL] How to troubleshoot authentication failure?

2009-10-07 Thread Kynn Jones
I have two Linux servers that are pretty similar to each other, and both are running PostgreSQL servers, but in one server a certain Perl script succeeds in connecting to the localhost server whereas in the other one the same script fails. The error on the second server is of the form

Re: [GENERAL] How to troubleshoot authentication failure?

2009-10-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Kynn Jones escribió: I have two Linux servers that are pretty similar to each other, and both are running PostgreSQL servers, but in one server a certain Perl script succeeds in connecting to the localhost server whereas in the other one the same script fails. The error on the second server

[GENERAL] Re: LF PostgreSQL virtual Linux host provider in India and/or Asia Pac

2009-10-07 Thread Alan McKay
OK, I did find this http://www.postgresql.org/support/professional_hosting_asia but does anyone have experience with any of them? -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump with 1100 schemas being a bit slow

2009-10-07 Thread Loic d'Anterroches
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Loic d'Anterroches diaere...@gmail.com writes: Each night I am running: pg_dump --blobs --schema=%s --no-acl -U postgres indefero | gzip /path/to/backups/%s/%s-%s.sql.gz this for each installation, so 1100 times. Substitution

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump with 1100 schemas being a bit slow

2009-10-07 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Loic d'Anterroches diaere...@gmail.com: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Loic d'Anterroches diaere...@gmail.com writes: Each night I am running: pg_dump --blobs --schema=%s --no-acl -U postgres indefero | gzip

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump with 1100 schemas being a bit slow

2009-10-07 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
Loic, settings up each time. The added benefit of doing a per schema dump is that I provide it to the users directly, that way they have a full export of their data. you should try the timing with pg_dump --format=c completedatabase.dmp and then generating the separte schemas in an extra step

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump with 1100 schemas being a bit slow

2009-10-07 Thread Loic d'Anterroches
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: In response to Loic d'Anterroches diaere...@gmail.com: On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Loic d'Anterroches diaere...@gmail.com writes: Each night I am running: pg_dump --blobs

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump with 1100 schemas being a bit slow

2009-10-07 Thread Loic d'Anterroches
Harald, settings up each time. The added benefit of doing a per schema dump is that I provide it to the users directly, that way they have a full export of their data. you should try the timing with pg_dump --format=c  completedatabase.dmp and then generating the separte schemas in an extra

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump with 1100 schemas being a bit slow

2009-10-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 12:51 +0200, Loic d'Anterroches wrote: Hello, My problem is that the dump increased steadily with the number of schemas (now about 20s from about 12s with 850 schemas) and pg_dump is now ballooning at 120MB of memory usage when running the dump. And it will continue

Re: [GENERAL] automated row deletion

2009-10-07 Thread Dave Huber
A colleague gave me the following query to run: DELETE FROM data_log_20msec_table WHERE (log_id IN (SELECT log_id FROM data_log_20msec_table ORDER BY log_id DESC OFFSET 1000)) log_id is the primary key (big serial) data_log is the table described below This query keeps the most recent 10

Re: [GENERAL] automated row deletion

2009-10-07 Thread John R Pierce
Dave Huber wrote: A colleague gave me the following query to run: DELETE FROM data_log_20msec_table WHERE (log_id IN (SELECT log_id FROM data_log_20msec_table ORDER BY log_id DESC OFFSET 1000)) ... This query keeps the most recent 10 million rows and deletes the remaining ones. If

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump with 1100 schemas being a bit slow

2009-10-07 Thread Loic d'Anterroches
Hi Josua, On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 12:51 +0200, Loic d'Anterroches wrote: Hello, My problem is that the dump increased steadily with the number of schemas (now about 20s from about 12s with 850 schemas) and pg_dump is

Re: [GENERAL] automated row deletion

2009-10-07 Thread Dave Huber
John, I got your previous post, but I think I misunderstood something. You didn't mean a disk partition. I think I get what you're describing now. I had previously missed the link in your earlier post, too. Please accept my apologies for not being more diligent in my reading. I'll look into

Re: [GENERAL] How to troubleshoot authentication failure?

2009-10-07 Thread Greg Smith
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Kynn Jones wrote: Is there some way to have Postgres dump excruciatingly thorough details about every single step of the authentication sequence? There's a postgresql.conf parameter named log_min_messages that you can crank up until you see the detail level you're looking

[GENERAL] Using complex PRIMARY KEY

2009-10-07 Thread Zsolt
Normal 0 21 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 This is our first project using PostgerSQL, where I have a problem I cant solve on a neat way (I assume PGSQL should provide a nice solution...). So we have an old xBase

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall asking for password for each database

2009-10-07 Thread Krzysztof Barlik
What version are you running? IIRC it should remember the password between databases. 8.4.0 on Linux/x86_64. It does not, and man page clearly says: pg_dumpall needs to connect several times to the PostgreSQL server (once per database). If you use password authentication it will

Re: [GENERAL] Using complex PRIMARY KEY

2009-10-07 Thread Sam Mason
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 09:19:58PM +0200, Zsolt wrote: For a given house I would like to start the numbering of tenants from 1. Each house could have tenant_ID=1, obviously in this case the house_ID will differ. The combination of tenant_ID and house_ID will be the unique identifier of each

Re: [GENERAL] How to troubleshoot authentication failure?

2009-10-07 Thread Kynn Jones
Thank you all! Someone else in our team found the problem (a missing user in the failing server). k

Re: [GENERAL] Need help in spi_prepare errors

2009-10-07 Thread paresh masani
You were correct below trigger worked. Giving reference for others. CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION init() RETURNS TEXT AS $$ my $raw_row = (\col1\, \col2\); my @new_row = ('5', '6'); my @col_types = (integer, character varying); my $query = INSERT INTO mytable $raw_row

Re: [GENERAL] Using complex PRIMARY KEY

2009-10-07 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to Zsolt : This is our first project using PostgerSQL, where I have a problem I cant solve on a neat way (I assume PGSQL should provide a nice solution...). So we have an old xBase based program we are trying to port to PostgreSQL while we should keep the original data