Re: [GENERAL] Problem with initdb: creates database which do not exists

2010-10-18 Thread Torsten Zühlsdorff
Thom Brown schrieb: initdb creates a database cluster, not a database. [..] Now i'm feeling like fool - this is so obviously. -.- I will stop posting stressed to the Usenet. I'm sorry. Thanks for your replies and time! Greetings, Torsten -- http://www.dddbl.de - ein Datenbank-Layer, der

[GENERAL] drop view with out cascading the dependents

2010-10-18 Thread Ravi Katkar
Hi List, Is there any feature to drop the view with out cascading the dependents. Below is my requirement. I have a view which is dependent on the other view/table. I wanted to drop the view dynamically and recreate the view with same name ( definition of view will differ ) with out cascading

Re: [GENERAL] select count(*) status these days

2010-10-18 Thread Greg Smith
Dennis Gearon wrote: Is there any architectural way to speed it up? I'd actually like to run it every 2-60 seconds to update a counter on a page for the marketing guy, (which for once, is me :- Could always maintain it with triggers. See http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Counting for a d

[GENERAL] install PostgreSQL 9 .0.1 issue using linux binary package .bin

2010-10-18 Thread Tahir Tamba
Hi, I downloaded PostgreSQL 9.0.1 binary package for Linux from Entreprise DB Web page, but when I try to install the binary package, I get the follwing message error: /home/ttamba/Desktop/postgresql-9.0.1-1-linux.bin: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected I'm using ubuntu 10.04 LTS distribution a

Re: [GENERAL] installing from source in Windows

2010-10-18 Thread Craig Ringer
On 19/10/10 11:58, Turner, John J wrote: > I began to suspect my version of WinZip was lousing up the pg source > files when it dropped files from a zlib.tar I was trying to install. Hmm, ok. Thanks for the heads-up, then. "Winzip mangles tar archives" goes into the list of possible fault causes..

Re: [GENERAL] installing from source in Windows

2010-10-18 Thread Turner, John J
I began to suspect my version of WinZip was lousing up the pg source files when it dropped files from a zlib.tar I was trying to install. So, I installed 7-zip and unpacked the pg source with that.. - I ran ./configure --without-zlib Then: make world Success! (then: make install-world) So, now

Re: [GENERAL] select count(*) status these days

2010-10-18 Thread Chris
On 19/10/10 11:15, Dennis Gearon wrote: I'm about to launch an in house 'Aplpha' stage project. One of the marketing driven outputs on the page is filled by a: SELECT COUNT(*) WHERE date_field IS NOT NULL AND date_field> :todays_date; Last I heard, this kind of query is kind of slow

Re: [GENERAL] installing from source in Windows

2010-10-18 Thread Craig Ringer
On 19/10/2010 5:58 AM, Turner, John J wrote: Here's a question: is my source download getting mangled by unpacking with WinZip instead of gzip? I doubt it. I use 7-zip on Windows without problems. You certainly don't need to use gzip and GNU tar. I'm pretty puzzled about why c.h isn't seei

[GENERAL] select count(*) status these days

2010-10-18 Thread Dennis Gearon
I'm about to launch an in house 'Aplpha' stage project. One of the marketing driven outputs on the page is filled by a: SELECT COUNT(*) WHERE date_field IS NOT NULL AND date_field > :todays_date; Last I heard, this kind of query is kind of slow on Postgres in particular, (Love postgres o

Re: [GENERAL] installing from source in Windows

2010-10-18 Thread Turner, John J
I retried after make maintainer-clean and same problem - Here's a question: is my source download getting mangled by unpacking with WinZip instead of gzip? I'm beginning to suspect so. I don't have gzip installed. And frankly, I don't know how - the GNU site doesn't seem to have a step-by-ste

Re: [GENERAL] psql copy command - 1 char limitation on delimiter

2010-10-18 Thread Steve Crawford
On 10/12/2010 08:28 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Steve Crawford wrote: On 09/25/2010 07:03 AM, Tom Lane wrote: rey writes: Why limit this to a single character? Performance. Believe it or not, breaking fields at the delimiter is a significant factor in COPY speed.

[GENERAL] PgWest 2010: Two weeks away

2010-10-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hey folks, As a gentle reminder PgWest 2010 is two weeks away. In case you missed it, Sun Microsystems Founder Scott McNealy will be presenting the keynote. Here are the relevant links: Agenda: https://www.postgresqlconference.org/2010/west/agenda Registration: https://www.postgresqlconference.

Re: [GENERAL] archiver process problem

2010-10-18 Thread Scot Kreienkamp
Never mind, it picked up again. It took a few hours, not sure why. Scot Kreienkamp skre...@la-z-boy.com From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Scot Kreienkamp Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 11:29 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.or

Re: [GENERAL] How to find which query are doing seq_scan

2010-10-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:58 PM, AI Rumman wrote: > I am using Postgresql 8.1. > I need to know which query are executing seq_scan on tables as statistics > said there were 4 seq_scan on the tables for the last 2 days. Not sure really. You could log all query plans I think, but I don't know if

[GENERAL] archiver process problem

2010-10-18 Thread Scot Kreienkamp
Hey guys, My archive became unavailable for a short while, causing the archiver process to stop copying files out. Now it seems to be stuck although the archive location is available again. This is from ps -ax: postgres: archiver process last was 0001032300F8 How do I wa

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with initdb: creates database which do not exists

2010-10-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Tom Lane : > Adrian Klaver writes: > > On Monday 18 October 2010 7:46:21 am Torsten Z_hlsdorff wrote: > >> So: any idea why the database is not visible? And how do get rid of the > >> "non-existing" databases ;) > > > My guess is that you have more than one installation of Postgre

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with initdb: creates database which do not exists

2010-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
Adrian Klaver writes: > On Monday 18 October 2010 7:46:21 am Torsten Zühlsdorff wrote: >> So: any idea why the database is not visible? And how do get rid of the >> "non-existing" databases ;) > My guess is that you have more than one installation of Postgres. The initdb > is > working on one c

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with initdb: creates database which do not exists

2010-10-18 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Monday 18 October 2010 7:46:21 am Torsten Zühlsdorff wrote: > Hello, > > i'm using initdb of an PostgreSQL 8.4 installed over the port-system of > FreeBSD: > > = > > > initdb foo --locale=de_DE.UTF-8 --lc-collate=de_DE.UTF-8 > > --lc-ctype=de_DE.UTF-8 --lc-messages=de_DE.UTF-8 > --lc-moneta

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with initdb: creates database which do not exists

2010-10-18 Thread Thom Brown
On 18 October 2010 15:46, Torsten Zühlsdorff wrote: > Hello, > > i'm using initdb of an PostgreSQL 8.4 installed over the port-system of > FreeBSD: > > = > >> initdb foo --locale=de_DE.UTF-8 --lc-collate=de_DE.UTF-8 >> --lc-ctype=de_DE.UTF-8 --lc-messages=de_DE.UTF-8 --lc-monetary=de_DE.UTF-8

Re: [GENERAL] installing from source in Windows

2010-10-18 Thread Greg Smith
Craig Ringer wrote: Have you re-tried all this on a clean source tree, running under the msys shell from start to finish? A handy thing to know is that running "make maintainer-clean" in the source code tree will clean out all artifacts from any previous build attempt. -- Greg Smith, 2ndQua

[GENERAL] Problem with initdb: creates database which do not exists

2010-10-18 Thread Torsten Zühlsdorff
Hello, i'm using initdb of an PostgreSQL 8.4 installed over the port-system of FreeBSD: = > initdb foo --locale=de_DE.UTF-8 --lc-collate=de_DE.UTF-8 --lc-ctype=de_DE.UTF-8 --lc-messages=de_DE.UTF-8 --lc-monetary=de_DE.UTF-8 --lc-numeric=de_DE.UTF-8 --lc-time=de_DE.UTF-8 The files belon

Re: [GENERAL] Question on STABLE functions limitations

2010-10-18 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Marc Mamin wrote: > I wonder if there are some special cases where STABLE functions should be > avoided. > > I think for example of functions using set_config or querying the advisory > locks. Advisory locks are highly volatile and everything that touches them sho

Re: [GENERAL] Question on STABLE functions limitations

2010-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
"Marc Mamin" writes: > I wonder if there are some special cases where STABLE functions should > be avoided. > I think for example of functions using set_config or querying the > advisory locks. set_config has side-effects and hence should not be done in non-volatile functions.

Re: [GENERAL] How to change pg_trigger query so that it works in 9.0 without pg_trigger.tgisconstraint does not exist error

2010-10-18 Thread Josh Kupershmidt
2010/10/16 Andrus Moor : > In 9.0 query below returns error > > 7/42703:ERROR: column pg_trigger.tgisconstraint does not exist > > How to change it so that it works in all servers starting at 8.0 (or at > least > from 8.1) to 9.0 ? > Or if this is not possible how to fix it so that it works in 9 ?

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Mike Christensen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Dave Page wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Mike Christensen >>> wrote: Okay I found one that I can use.. One question..  

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Mike Christensen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: >> Okay I found one that I can use.. >> >> One question..  Should the connection string in the script have the >> password for "root" hard coded in it?  Or will it use a password from >>

[GENERAL] Hints for trees

2010-10-18 Thread Vincenzo Romano
Hi all. I need to implement a (classical) categorization of items accordingly to a tree-like hierarchy. I mean, I have a tree describing the hierarchy itself. Then I need to link each item to one or more categories. Later I may be asked to select all items belonging to one or more categories or any

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Dave Page wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Mike Christensen >> wrote: >>> Okay I found one that I can use.. >>> >>> One question..  Should the connection string in the script have the >>> pas

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: > Okay I found one that I can use.. > > One question..  Should the connection string in the script have the > password for "root" hard coded in it?  Or will it use a password from > ~/.pgpass automatically?  If so, what user account will it

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Mike Christensen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Dave Page wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Mike Christensen >>> wrote: Sorry, it looks like it defaulted to the wrong DB.  I create

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Dave Page wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Mike Christensen >> wrote: >>> Sorry, it looks like it defaulted to the wrong DB.  I created the >>> schema in the "postgres" database and now I see

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Mike Christensen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: >> Sorry, it looks like it defaulted to the wrong DB.  I created the >> schema in the "postgres" database and now I see a Jobs node.. > > :-) > >> One last question - How do I configure p

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Dave Page
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: > Sorry, it looks like it defaulted to the wrong DB.  I created the > schema in the "postgres" database and now I see a Jobs node.. :-) > One last question - How do I configure pgAgent to start automatically? You'll need to put together

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Mike Christensen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Dave Page wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: >>> Okay my required n00b question of the week, hopefully this'll be an easy >>> one.. >>> >>> I decided to give pgAgent a sho

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Mike Christensen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: >> Okay my required n00b question of the week, hopefully this'll be an easy >> one.. >> >> I decided to give pgAgent a shot, because there's this stored sproc >> (sorry, function) I need

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Dave Page
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: > Okay my required n00b question of the week, hopefully this'll be an easy one.. > > I decided to give pgAgent a shot, because there's this stored sproc > (sorry, function) I need to run nightly and I think spending hours > figuring out pgAg

[GENERAL] Question on STABLE functions limitations

2010-10-18 Thread Marc Mamin
Hello, I wonder if there are some special cases where STABLE functions should be avoided. I think for example of functions using set_config or querying the advisory locks. Thanks in advance, Marc Mamin