Re: [GENERAL] post installation addition of uuid extension

2011-08-05 Thread Rob Sargent
On 08/05/2011 05:26 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Rob Sargent writes: >> I've inherited some version 9.0 databases which make use of the uuid >> data type but which do not have the uuid-generate-vx() functions. >> These installations are running on openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) and were >> installed (probably)

Re: [GENERAL] post installation addition of uuid extension

2011-08-05 Thread Rob Sargent
On 08/05/2011 05:26 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Rob Sargent writes: >> I've inherited some version 9.0 databases which make use of the uuid >> data type but which do not have the uuid-generate-vx() functions. >> These installations are running on openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) and were >> installed (probably)

Re: [GENERAL] post installation addition of uuid extension

2011-08-05 Thread Tom Lane
Rob Sargent writes: > I've inherited some version 9.0 databases which make use of the uuid > data type but which do not have the uuid-generate-vx() functions. > These installations are running on openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) and were > installed (probably) from yast. I've loaded the requisite share-lib

[GENERAL] post installation addition of uuid extension

2011-08-05 Thread Rob Sargent
I've inherited some version 9.0 databases which make use of the uuid data type but which do not have the uuid-generate-vx() functions. These installations are running on openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) and were installed (probably) from yast. I've loaded the requisite share-libs (also via yast) (/usr/lib64

[GENERAL] post installation addition of uuid extension

2011-08-05 Thread Rob Sargent
I've inherited some version 9.0 databases which make use of the uuid data type but which do not have the uuid-generate-vx() functions. These installations are running on openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) and were installed (probably) from yast. I've loaded the requisite share-libs (also via yast) (/usr/lib64

Re: [GENERAL] postgres table have a large number of relpages and occupied a big memory size

2011-08-05 Thread Jaime Casanova
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Tomas Vondra wrote: > On 5 Srpen 2011, 10:52, Vivekkumar Pandey wrote: > >> Also suggest the Query that can view the dead tuples in the table. > > You can't see the dead tuples with a query - that's why they're called > dead. you can see an estimate of how many dea

Re: [GENERAL] using raise info to display array element

2011-08-05 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello It working on my 9.1. postgres=# select "public"."test_func_new" (); INFO: 1st element: 5 test_func_new ─── 0 (1 row) can you send more info about your environment? Regards Pavel Stehule 2011/8/5 Kiryl Mauryshchau : > I am trying to print values of an array o

[GENERAL] using raise info to display array element

2011-08-05 Thread Kiryl Mauryshchau
I am trying to print values of an array one by one, but it doesn't work. For example, if i want to print entire array at once, it does work: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "public"."test_func" () RETURNS integer AS $body$ declare i int; v_arr integer[] = '{0, 1}'; begin v_arr[1] := 5; v_arr[

Re: [GENERAL] Temp table visibility

2011-08-05 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:55:08AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Also, you can change the priority if you have a mind to, by adding > "pg_temp" to the search_path explicitly, for example Hey, that's cool, and it never occurred to me. The current text in the 9.0 manual says this: Likewise, the cur

Re: [GENERAL] Filling null values

2011-08-05 Thread David Johnston
-Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of jeffrey Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 12:33 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] Filling null values I have a table that looks like this: homeidcity

[GENERAL] Filling null values

2011-08-05 Thread jeffrey
I have a table that looks like this: homeidcity date measurement pre/post 123 san francisco 1/2/2003 1458 pre 123 san francisco NULL 1932 post 124 los angeles2/4/2005 938 pre 124 NULLNULL

Re: [GENERAL] Is there a better way to unnest an entire row?

2011-08-05 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:23 PM, David Johnston wrote: > Currently I have a de-normalized table with two sets of “records” embedded > (i.e.,  [id, item1_name, item1_amount, item2_name, item2_amount]).  My goal > is to output two records (i.e., [id, item_name, item_amount]) into an > intermediate re

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql problem with update double precision

2011-08-05 Thread Chris Travers
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Igor Neyman wrote: > If you want to avoid your problem, switch to NUMERIC(precision, scale), which > is precise data type. > Alter the type of your "double" columns. > I'd suggest NUMERIC without specifying precision or scale. That gives you the most flexibility.

[GENERAL] Overhead on while doing pg_start_backup

2011-08-05 Thread senthilnathan
My use case., I have a system with master ---> Standby 1 ---> Standby 2 replicating to 2 standby servers. i will use Incrementally_Updated_Backups(http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Incrementally_Updated_Backups) for 2 puposes 1. For adding one more sta

[GENERAL] Can GiST for tsvector be optimised? #TextSearch

2011-08-05 Thread Daniel Winterstein
Hello Dear People, I have a few questions about the use of GiST for text search. My situation is this: I have a large and rapidly growing database of documents, and I want to support text search. The documents contain lots of words that it would be valid to search over. I think this means a GI

Re: [GENERAL] Select count with offset returns nothing.

2011-08-05 Thread Tom Lane
Tim Uckun writes: > I am using a library which is emitting SQL like this SELECT COUNT(*) > FROM batches LIMIT 15 OFFSET 15 the library fails because on postgres > this query returns nothing (not even zero as a result). Presumably it > returns some valid value on mysql and other databases. FWIW,

Re: [GENERAL] Temp table visibility

2011-08-05 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Sullivan writes: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 08:35:37AM -0400, JJ wrote: >> I was recently looking at the way "create temp table as" works and the >> manual specifies that temp tables given the same name as an existing table >> will be used instead of the permanent table. It also states th

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql problem with update double precision

2011-08-05 Thread Igor Neyman
> -Original Message- > From: Condor [mailto:con...@stz-bg.com] > Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 6:49 AM > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Postgresql problem with update double precision > > > Hello ppl, > for few years I have problem when update double precision field. I have

Re: [GENERAL] Hot Standby Lag Calculation

2011-08-05 Thread mark
>From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org On Behalf Of Sam Nelson >Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 11:03 AM >To: pgsql-general >Subject: [GENERAL] Hot Standby Lag Calculation >Hi, List, >We're trying to calculate the amount of time that a Hot Standby slave is >lagging behind its master, and ou

Re: [GENERAL] Select count with offset returns nothing.

2011-08-05 Thread Tim Uckun
Yea I figured it would need a subquery. I filed a ticket with the library. Hopefully they will fix it. -- 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] Select count with offset returns nothing.

2011-08-05 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Tim Uckun wrote: > I am using a library which is emitting SQL like this  SELECT COUNT(*) > FROM batches LIMIT 15 OFFSET 15 the library fails because on postgres > this query returns nothing (not even zero as a result). Presumably it > returns some valid value on mys

Re: [GENERAL] Temp table visibility

2011-08-05 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 08:35:37AM -0400, JJ wrote: > Hello all, > > I was recently looking at the way "create temp table as" works and the manual > specifies that temp tables given the same name as an existing table will be > used instead of the permanent table. It also states that the permane

Re: [GENERAL] hstore installed in a separate schema

2011-08-05 Thread Ioana Danes
Thank you Harald --- On Thu, 8/4/11, Harald Fuchs wrote: > From: Harald Fuchs > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] hstore installed in a separate schema > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Received: Thursday, August 4, 2011, 11:18 AM > In article <1312401318.5199.yahoomailclas...@web120108.mail.ne1.yahoo.

[GENERAL] Temp table visibility

2011-08-05 Thread JJ
Hello all, I was recently looking at the way "create temp table as" works and the manual specifies that temp tables given the same name as an existing table will be used instead of the permanent table. It also states that the permanent table can be accessed via its schema-qualified name. I ma

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql problem with update double precision

2011-08-05 Thread Condor
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:20:01 -0400, Jerry Sievers wrote: Condor writes: Hello ppl, for few years I have problem when update double precision field. I have table and few double precision columns, here is example: sumall double precision, sumin double precision, My php script do: $get = 2.40

Re: [GENERAL] Select count with offset returns nothing.

2011-08-05 Thread Jerry Sievers
Tim Uckun writes: > I am using a library which is emitting SQL like this SELECT COUNT(*) > FROM batches LIMIT 15 OFFSET 15 the library fails because on postgres > this query returns nothing (not even zero as a result). Presumably it > returns some valid value on mysql and other databases. > > Ot

Re: [GENERAL] Select count with offset returns nothing.

2011-08-05 Thread Michael Black
My question is why would you put an offset in a query designed to return a row count without grouping and ordering? > Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 22:51:24 +1200 > Subject: [GENERAL] Select count with offset returns nothing. > From: timuc...@gmail.com > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > > I am using

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql problem with update double precision

2011-08-05 Thread Jerry Sievers
Condor writes: > Hello ppl, > for few years I have problem when update double precision field. I > have table and few double precision columns, here is example: > > sumall double precision, > sumin double precision, > > My php script do: > > $get = 2.40 > > and sql code is: > > UPDATE table1 SET

Re: [GENERAL] Select count with offset returns nothing.

2011-08-05 Thread Misa Simic
Hi, I think problem is in OFFSET 15 It means return rows after row 15... because of SELECT COUNT(*) FROM batches LIMIT 15 returns 1 row when you add OFFSET 15 - it returns nothing... because of there is no more than 15 rows... I am not sure u can do something else then to change library to rem

[GENERAL] Select count with offset returns nothing.

2011-08-05 Thread Tim Uckun
I am using a library which is emitting SQL like this SELECT COUNT(*) FROM batches LIMIT 15 OFFSET 15 the library fails because on postgres this query returns nothing (not even zero as a result). Presumably it returns some valid value on mysql and other databases. Other than hacking the library is

[GENERAL] Postgresql problem with update double precision

2011-08-05 Thread Condor
Hello ppl, for few years I have problem when update double precision field. I have table and few double precision columns, here is example: sumall double precision, sumin double precision, My php script do: $get = 2.40 and sql code is: UPDATE table1 SET sumall = sumall + $get WHERE id = 1

Re: [GENERAL] postgres table have a large number of relpages and occupied a big memory size

2011-08-05 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 5 Srpen 2011, 10:52, Vivekkumar Pandey wrote: > Hi, > slon process is running on the system . > > Now , I have a question that Why dead tupples are remains in the table > while AUTOVACUUM process running at the fixed interval of time without > any error. Well, because that's how vacuum works. V

Re: [GENERAL] postgres table have a large number of relpages and occupied a big memory size

2011-08-05 Thread Vivekkumar Pandey
Hi, slon process is running on the system . Now , I have a question that Why dead tupples are remains in the table while AUTOVACUUM process running at the fixed interval of time without any error. Also suggest the Query that can view the dead tuples in the table. Thanks for instant reply... O

Re: [GENERAL] postgres table have a large number of relpages and occupied a big memory size

2011-08-05 Thread Jaime Casanova
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Vivekkumar Pandey wrote: > > Hi Tomas, > >    I am using the slony cluster and both the database have the same Data. > > So Please provide the appropriate solution > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote: > > > > That suggests you're using somet

Re: [GENERAL] postgres table have a large number of relpages and occupied a big memory size

2011-08-05 Thread Vivekkumar Pandey
Hi Tomas, I am using the slony cluster and both the database have the same Data. So Please provide the appropriate solution On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote: > On 5 Srpen 2011, 9:00, Vivekkumar Pandey wrote: >> Hi all, >> >>        I have a cluster database with a mas

Re: [GENERAL] postgres table have a large number of relpages and occupied a big memory size

2011-08-05 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 5 Srpen 2011, 9:00, Vivekkumar Pandey wrote: > Hi all, > >I have a cluster database with a master and slave , > the size of master database is very high reltive to slave >while both have approximatly same data. What version of PostgreSQL is this, what kind of cluster, and what

[GENERAL] postgres table have a large number of relpages and occupied a big memory size

2011-08-05 Thread Vivekkumar Pandey
Hi all, I have a cluster database with a master and slave , the size of master database is very high reltive to slave while both have approximatly same data. On master # select pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('table_name')); pg_size_pretty 15 GB (1 ro