Re: [GENERAL] : PostgreSQL Online Backup

2011-09-27 Thread Albe Laurenz
Venkat Balaji wrote: > Our problem is - > > We had mistakenly executed "rsync" on the running PostgreSQL data directory (production) and we did > not run "pg_start_backup()". > > Will this harm production ? can this lead to corruption ? I assume that you used rsync to copy *from* the data direc

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL recovery when lost some file in data\global

2011-09-27 Thread Venkat Balaji
Hi Tuan Hoang Anh, Are you able to bring up the cluster ?? Please let us know what problem you are facing. Thanks Venkat On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:08 PM, tuanhoanganh wrote: > I am running PostgreSQL 9.0.1 32bit on windows 2003. Last night my disk had > some problem and i lost some file in d

Re: [GENERAL] Does postgresql 9.0.4 use index on PREFIX%SUFFIX queries?

2011-09-27 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article , Marti Raudsepp writes: > Ah, the reverse() function is not included with PostgreSQL 9.0 yet. > This is what I use: > CREATE FUNCTION reverse(input text) RETURNS text > LANGUAGE plpgsql IMMUTABLE STRICT AS $$ > DECLARE > result text = ''; > i int; > BEGIN > FOR i IN 1..length(i

Re: [GENERAL] Does postgresql 9.0.4 use index on PREFIX%SUFFIX queries?

2011-09-27 Thread Marti Raudsepp
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 13:00, Harald Fuchs wrote: > Pavel Stehule has found a better solution for that: > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION reverse(text) RETURNS text AS $$ >  SELECT string_agg(substring($1 FROM i FOR 1), '') >  FROM generate_series(length($1), 1, -1) g(i) > $$ language sql; I don't

RES: [GENERAL] Does postgresql 9.0.4 use index on PREFIX%SUFFIX queries?

2011-09-27 Thread Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter
> -Mensagem original- > De: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general- > ow...@postgresql.org] Em nome de Harald Fuchs > Enviada em: terça-feira, 27 de setembro de 2011 07:01 > Para: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Assunto: Re: [GENERAL] Does postgresql 9.0.4 use index on PREF

Re: [GENERAL] Does postgresql 9.0.4 use index on PREFIX%SUFFIX queries?

2011-09-27 Thread Marti Raudsepp
Alban, you forgot to reply to the mailing list. Please use the "reply to all" button in your email client. :) On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 14:21, Alban Hertroys wrote: > If performance is an issue, I'd suggest coding it as a C function. > > A quick google search turned up: > http://discuss.fogcreek.co

RES: [GENERAL] Does postgresql 9.0.4 use index on PREFIX%SUFFIX queries?

2011-09-27 Thread Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter
> -Mensagem original- > De: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general- > ow...@postgresql.org] Em nome de Marti Raudsepp > Enviada em: terça-feira, 27 de setembro de 2011 09:59 > Para: Alban Hertroys > Cc: PG-General Mailing List > Assunto: Re: [GENERAL] Does postgresql 9.0.4

RES: [GENERAL] Does postgresql 9.0.4 use index on PREFIX%SUFFIX queries?

2011-09-27 Thread Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter
> -Mensagem original- > De: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general- > ow...@postgresql.org] Em nome de Marti Raudsepp > Enviada em: segunda-feira, 26 de setembro de 2011 17:42 > Para: Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Assunto: Re: [GENERAL

Re: [GENERAL] New feature: accumulative functions.

2011-09-27 Thread pasman pasmański
Yes, accumulative functions may be used for sorting,groupping and merge joins with limit. Groupping looks simplest to implement, and comparable to performance of functional index . 2011/9/27, Marti Raudsepp : > 2011/9/25 pasman pasmański : >> My english is not perfect, by accumulative i think abo

Re: [GENERAL] Download States and Capitals Database

2011-09-27 Thread planas
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 12:18 +0530, Adarsh Sharma wrote: > Dear all, > > I googled a lot and find data of all countries , cities , > location etc from Geo Spatial websites but I am able to find the data > that shows all states & their respective capitals in world. > Please let me know if an

Re: [GENERAL] Quick-and-Dirty Data Entry with LibreOffice3?

2011-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, planas wrote: Which version of LO are you using and which Linux? I have some experience with using LO as a front-end when pgAdmin is not the best tool. LO-3.4.3 on Slackware-13.1/32-bit. I have noticed that with Ubuntu you need to use the 3.3.x series from the reposito

Re: [GENERAL] Sending Results From One Function As Input into Another Function

2011-09-27 Thread Jeff Adams
Thanks for the response Laurenz. I will give it a go... Jeff -Original Message- From: Albe Laurenz [mailto:laurenz.a...@wien.gv.at] Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 7:50 AM To: Jeff Adams *EXTERN*; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Sending Results From One Function As I

Re: [GENERAL] Quick-and-Dirty Data Entry with LibreOffice3?

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Broersma
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >  A Google search for 'libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql' actually turns up a link > that supposed to have a .txz version for Slackware, but the only packages on > the site are .deb. Oh, well. I'll keep looking. I'd recommend using JDBC ODBC driver

Re: [GENERAL] Quick-and-Dirty Data Entry with LibreOffice3?

2011-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Richard Broersma wrote: I'd recommend using JDBC ODBC driver for PostgreSQL. Open Office via direct JDBC has a hard time with some PostgreSQL data-types. ODBC handles this by converting these to a text representation that Open Office can handle. Richard, LibreOffice t

Re: [GENERAL] Quick-and-Dirty Data Entry with LibreOffice3?

2011-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Richard Broersma wrote: ODBC handles this by converting these to a text representation that Open Office can handle. Richard, Progress has been made. I built and installed unixODBC from slackbuilds.org and now the hangup is identifying the location and name of the databa

Re: [GENERAL] Quick-and-Dirty Data Entry with LibreOffice3?

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Broersma
You will need to use the PostgreSQL ODBC driver. I should mention that I haven't used ODBC from a Linux client before. I found the some instructions in the mailing list archive: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-odbc/2002-02/msg00023.php On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:

Re: [GENERAL] Quick-and-Dirty Data Entry with LibreOffice3?

2011-09-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/27/11 11:20 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: All my postgresql databases are in /usr/local/pgsql/data/base/ in numbered subdirectories. I've no idea in which one resides the database I want. Is there a way to determine where my database is located? Eeek! you NEVER directly access the postg

Re: [GENERAL] [Solved] Generic logging system for pre-hstore using plperl triggers

2011-09-27 Thread Diego Augusto Molina
/* Created by Diego Augusto Molina in 2011 for Tucuman Government, Argentina. */ /* -- Execute the following accordingly to your needs. CREATE TRUSTED PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'; CREATE TRUSTED PROCEDURAL LANGUAGE 'plperl'; */ CREATE ROLE auditor NOSUPERUSER NOINHERIT

Re: [GENERAL] [Solved] Generic logging system for pre-hstore using plperl triggers

2011-09-27 Thread Diego Augusto Molina
Sh*#@, the code was wrapped! if you can suggest me an external web to host the code I can put it there and send the link. Maybe the wiki Nevertheless, I can't seem to publish in the wiki. I think I've followed all the steps but still can't. Anyway, there aren't many long-long lines, excep

Re: [GENERAL] [Solved] Generic logging system for pre-hstore using plperl triggers

2011-09-27 Thread Diego Augusto Molina
2011/9/27, Diego Augusto Molina : > Honestly, I don't remember why I used triggers instead of rules in the > "audit" and "audet" tables. I remember now, that's because in my case, operations over tuples are done very lightly (one or two in the same sentence at a time). So, for a case as such, rule

Re: [GENERAL] Quick-and-Dirty Data Entry with LibreOffice3?

2011-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, John R Pierce wrote: Eeek! you NEVER directly access the postgres data files. rather, you connect to postgres via a socket, and ask it to fetch the data for you, thats just how it works. Well, when the LO odbc window asks for the location of the database to which to con

Re: [GENERAL] [Solved] Generic logging system for pre-hstore using plperl triggers

2011-09-27 Thread Merlin Moncure
2011/9/27 Diego Augusto Molina : >                /* Created by Diego Augusto Molina in 2011 for Tucuman > Government, > Argentina. */ OK, few random comments: *) when posting schema definitions, particularly in email format, try not to use dumped definitions from pg_dump or pgadmin. This creat

Re: [GENERAL] New feature: accumulative functions.

2011-09-27 Thread pasman pasmański
Thanks Marti for inspiration :). Monotonic functions allows to skip some sorts in window expressions containing them: select winfun1(...) over(order by x), winfun2(...) over(order by f(x)) from ... 2011/9/27, pasman pasmański : > Yes, accumulative functions may be used for sorting,groupping an

[GENERAL] live metadata changes v8.3.4

2011-09-27 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Hi: How does one make a metadata change to a DB that's actively being used. Specifically, I want to drop a view, drop some columns from a table that's used in the view, recreate the view without those columns. In the past, I've resorted to connecting as a super user, running "select procpid f

Re: [GENERAL] live metadata changes v8.3.4

2011-09-27 Thread Richard Broersma
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Gauthier, Dave wrote: > How does one make a metadata change to a DB that's actively being used. > Specifically, I want to drop a view, drop some columns from a table that's > used in the view, recreate the view without those columns. BEGIN TRANSACTION; DROP VIEW

[GENERAL] Identifying old/unused views and table

2011-09-27 Thread Jason Long
I have an application with a couple hundred views and a couple hundred tables. Is there some way I can find out which views have been accessed in the last 6 months or so? Or some way to log this? I know there are views and tables that are no longer in used by my application and I am looking for

[GENERAL] bytea columns and large values

2011-09-27 Thread David North
My application uses a bytea column to store some fairly large binary values (hundreds of megabytes). Recently I've run into a problem as my values start to approach the 1GB limit on field size: When I write a 955MB byte array from Java into my table from JDBC, the write succeeds and the numb

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with the 9.1 one-click installer Windows7 64bit

2011-09-27 Thread Marquis103
the process explorer was the big help for me. what i did while the installation was running was open up process explorer saw what it was running and obviously figured out what it was trying to do and i just went and manually did it myself then i'd kill the icalc.exe...after that another one popped

Re: [GENERAL] bytea columns and large values

2011-09-27 Thread Craig Ringer
On 09/28/2011 01:01 AM, David North wrote: testdb=# select * from problem_table; ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 2003676411 What Pg version are you using? On which platform? 32-bit or 64-bit OS? If 64-bit, with a 32-bit or 64-bit build of PostgreSQL? -- Craig Ringer -- Sent via pg

Re: [GENERAL] Identifying old/unused views and table

2011-09-27 Thread Craig Ringer
On 09/28/2011 04:51 AM, Jason Long wrote: I have an application with a couple hundred views and a couple hundred tables. Is there some way I can find out which views have been accessed in the last 6 months or so? Or some way to log this? I know there are views and tables that are no longer in

Re: [GENERAL] Download States and Capitals Database

2011-09-27 Thread Adarsh Sharma
This Link gives the capitals of all countries but I need the states and their capitals in all these countries too.. But I think this is not possible because very few countries are divided into states and some into cantons, county etc. Thanks planas wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 12:18 +0530, A

Re: [GENERAL] Download States and Capitals Database

2011-09-27 Thread planas
On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 09:39 +0530, Adarsh Sharma wrote: > This Link gives the capitals of all countries but I need the states > and their capitals in all these countries too.. > But I think this is not possible because very few countries are > divided into states and some into cantons, county etc.

Re: [GENERAL] Download States and Capitals Database

2011-09-27 Thread Johan De Meersman
- Original Message - > From: "Adarsh Sharma" > > This Link gives the capitals of all countries but I need the states > and their capitals in all these countries too.. > But I think this is not possible because very few countries are > divided into states and some into cantons, county etc

Re: [GENERAL] Identifying old/unused views and table

2011-09-27 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 09:04 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 09/28/2011 04:51 AM, Jason Long wrote: > > I have an application with a couple hundred views and a couple hundred > > tables. > > > > Is there some way I can find out which views have been accessed in the > > last 6 months or so? Or some