[GENERAL] Integrated Trigers

2011-03-03 Thread Alpha Beta
Hello, I'm still at beginning regarding databases. I got a question about trigers that model the behavior of some data, usualy a relational database may contain trigers and declarative sql constraints. My question is how could I detect these trigers within a database? using postgresql would help

Re: [GENERAL] Integrated Trigers

2011-03-03 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
Hi, do you want to know how to create a trigger? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/sql-createtrigger.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/sql-createtrigger.htmldo you want to know how to list the triggers in your database? - in pgAdmin they are listed in the tree-view

Re: [GENERAL] I need your help to get opinions about this situation

2011-03-03 Thread David Johnston
I'll leave the can/cannot responses to those more familiar with high-load/use situations but I am curious; what reasons other than cost are leading you to discontinue using your current database engine? With that many entities any migration is likely to be quite challenging even if you

Re: [GENERAL] Screencasts for PostgreSQL

2011-03-03 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
maybe this? http://enterprisedb.com/resources-community/webcasts-podcasts-videos http://enterprisedb.com/resources-community/webcasts-podcasts-videos cheers, WBL On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:34 PM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.cawrote: I recently viewed a screen-cast on PostgreSQL developed

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql not start during Startup

2011-03-03 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
also nice: sysv-rc-conf - SysV init runlevel configuration tool for the terminal On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Ray Stell ste...@cns.vt.edu wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 06:37:35PM +0530, Adarsh Sharma wrote: But I want to start it after booting automatically.

Re: [GENERAL] data type

2011-03-03 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Nick Raj nickrajj...@gmail.com wrote: Which type of data type will be used in above function (in place of ?) that can collect more than one row(20,000) ? Maybe the id that those 20M records have in common? hth, WBL On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Nick

[GENERAL] opening connection more expensive than closing connection?

2011-03-03 Thread Rob Sargent
A developer here accidentally flooded a server with connection opens and closes, essentially one per transaction during a multi-threaded data migration process. We were curious if this suggests that connection clean up is more expensive than creation thereby exhausting resources, or if perhaps

[GENERAL] invalid byte sequence

2011-03-03 Thread Maximilian Tyrtania
After upgrading to pg 9.0.3 (from 8.4.2) on my Mac OS 10.6.2 machine i find this in my log file (a lot): postgres%192.168.254.210%2011-03-03 16:37:30 CET%22021STATEMENT: SELECT pg_file_read('pg_log/postgresql-2011-03-03_00.log', 25, $ postgres%192.168.254.210%2011-03-03 16:37:32

Re: [GENERAL] opening connection more expensive than closing connection?

2011-03-03 Thread Rob Sargent
top posting my self to clarify, since the title is in fact inverted: close might be more expensive the open. On 03/03/2011 08:28 AM, Rob Sargent wrote: A developer here accidentally flooded a server with connection opens and closes, essentially one per transaction during a multi-threaded data

[GENERAL] closing connection more expensive than opening connection?

2011-03-03 Thread Rob Sargent
A developer here accidentally flooded a server with connection opens and closes, essentially one per transaction during a multi-threaded data migration process. We were curious if this suggests that connection clean up is more expensive than creation thereby exhausting resources, or if perhaps

[GENERAL] Why count(*) doest use index?

2011-03-03 Thread obamabarak
I use pgsql 9.0.3 and I know that postgresql tries to use the fields in indexes instead of the original table if it possible But when I run SELECT COUNT(id) FROM tab or SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tab where there id is PRIMARY KEY and there are other indexes there I get execution plan that

[GENERAL] Tracking table modifications / table stats

2011-03-03 Thread Derrick Rice
Hey folks, I was looking through the contrib modules with 8.4 and hoping to find something that satisfies my itch. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/pgstatstatements.html comes the closest. I'm inheriting a database which has mostly unknown usage patterns, and would like to figure them

Re: [GENERAL] Why count(*) doest use index?

2011-03-03 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 03/03/2011 05:29 AM, obamaba...@e1.ru wrote: I use pgsql 9.0.3 and I know that postgresql tries to use the fields in indexes instead of the original table if it possible But when I run SELECT COUNT(id) FROM tab or SELECT COUNT(*) FROM tab where there id is PRIMARY KEY and there are other

Re: [GENERAL] Tracking table modifications / table stats

2011-03-03 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Derrick Rice derrick.r...@gmail.com wrote: Hey folks, I was looking through the contrib modules with 8.4 and hoping to find something that satisfies my itch. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/pgstatstatements.html comes the closest. I'm inheriting a

Re: [GENERAL] Tracking table modifications / table stats

2011-03-03 Thread Andy Colson
On 3/3/2011 11:00 AM, Derrick Rice wrote: Hey folks, I was looking through the contrib modules with 8.4 and hoping to find something that satisfies my itch. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/pgstatstatements.html comes the closest. I'm inheriting a database which has mostly unknown

Re: [GENERAL] Tracking table modifications / table stats

2011-03-03 Thread Derrick Rice
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Andy Colson a...@squeakycode.netwrote:There are stat tables you can look at: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/monitoring-stats.html -Andy Aha! Thank you.

[GENERAL] orphaned?? tmp files

2011-03-03 Thread Reid Thompson
Given the below information, is it reasonable to assume that files in pgsql_tmp dated prior to 10 days ago can be safely removed? postgres@hw-prod-repdb1 uptime 15:01:35 up 10 days, 13:50, 3 users, load average: 1.23, 1.15, 0.63 postgres@hw-prod-repdb1 pwd /mnt/iscsi/psql_tmp/tmpdata

Re: [GENERAL] orphaned?? tmp files

2011-03-03 Thread Tom Lane
Reid Thompson reid.thomp...@ateb.com writes: Given the below information, is it reasonable to assume that files in pgsql_tmp dated prior to 10 days ago can be safely removed? That listing doesn't show anything in pgsql_tmp ... What the listing looks like to me is a tablespace containing a few

Re: [GENERAL] I need your help to get opinions about this situation

2011-03-03 Thread Greg Williamson
Rayner -- ... I have a database of 1000 tables, 300 of theirs are of major growing with 1 rows daily, the estimate growing for this database is of 2,6 TB every year. In and of-itself sheer number of rows only hits you when you need to be reading most of them; in that case good hardware

Re: [GENERAL] database is bigger after dump/restore - why? (60 GB to 109 GB)

2011-03-03 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com writes: Looks like the TOAST compression is not working on the second machine. Not sure how that could come to be. Further investigation underway:) Somebody carelessly messed with the

[GENERAL] updating all records of a table

2011-03-03 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: I have to update all the records of a table. I'm worried about what the table will look like in terms of fragmentation when this is finished. Is there some sort of table healing/reorg/rebuild measure I should take if I want the resulting table to operate at optimal efficiency? What

Re: [GENERAL] updating all records of a table

2011-03-03 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 20:03 -0700, Gauthier, Dave wrote: Hi: I have to update all the records of a table. I'm worried about what the table will look like in terms of fragmentation when this is finished. Is there some sort of table healing/reorg/rebuild measure I should take if I want the

[GENERAL] Pgdump error invalid page header in block

2011-03-03 Thread tuanhoanganh
Yesterday, I had some problem with postgresql 9.0.2. Today i backup postgres and has error pg_dump: reading dependency data pg_dump: SQL command failed pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: invalid page header in block 299 of relation pg_depend_depender_index pg_dump: The command was: