Re: [GENERAL] Need Help : PostgreSQL Installation on Windows 7 64 bit

2011-10-18 Thread Wendi Adrian
Hi Craig, thanks for your response. I installed Windows 7 Professional on my workstation which connect with office network. I tried to reinstall after disconnect from the network but still failed. So I am assuming that PostgreSQl cannot be installed on workstation (because it does successfully

Re: [GENERAL] Need Help : PostgreSQL Installation on Windows 7 64 bit

2011-10-18 Thread Craig Ringer
On 10/19/2011 09:21 AM, Wendi Adrian wrote: Do anyone can help me to solve this problem? Or, PostgreSQL does not support Windows 7 Professional 64 bit? PostgreSQL does support Windows 7 Pro 64-bit; that's one of the OSes I use and it works fine. It would be helpful to know which language yo

Re: [GENERAL] Out of Memory Error on Insert

2011-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Priest writes: > However, I am still curious as to why I am getting an out of memory > error. I can see how the performance might be terrible on such a > query but I am surprised that postgres doesn't start using the disk at > some point to reduce memory usage. Could it be that postgres tr

Re: [GENERAL] Out of Memory Error on Insert

2011-10-18 Thread Mark Priest
Thanks, Craig. There are no triggers on the tables and the only constraints are the primary keys. I am thinking that the problem may be that I have too many full self joins on the simple_group table. I am probably getting a combinatorial explosion when postgres does cross joins on all the deriv

Fwd: [GENERAL] Out of Memory Error on Insert

2011-10-18 Thread Mark Priest
> Thanks, Craig. > > There are no triggers on the tables and the only constraints are the > primary keys. > > I am thinking that the problem may be that I have too many full self > joins on the simple_group table. I am probably getting a > combinatorial explosion when postgres does cross joins

[GENERAL] Need Help : PostgreSQL Installation on Windows 7 64 bit

2011-10-18 Thread Wendi Adrian
Dear all, I am new in PostgreSQL and need assistance from you for my problem. I tried to install PostreSQL v.9.0 which have been downloaded from PostgreSQL website for Windows x64. My computer use Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. I follow the installation steps with no problems until the last step

[GENERAL] Masquerading a unique index as a primary key in 8.4?

2011-10-18 Thread David Pirotte
I have a large, frequently accessed table that needs a primary key constraint added. The table already has a unique index (but not a unique constraint) on one of its columns. The overly simplified schema looks like this: CREATE TABLE table_without_pk (not_a_pk integer not null, some_data text);

Re: [GENERAL] Postgre Performance

2011-10-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:43 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/18/11 9:51 AM, Bill Moran wrote: >>> >>> Basically we wanted to limit the number of processes so that client code >>> doesn't have to retry for unavailability for connection or sub processes , >>> but postgre takes care of queuing? >>

Re: [GENERAL] value too long - but for which column?

2011-10-18 Thread David Johnston
-Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Farber Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 3:44 PM To: pgsql-general Subject: [GENERAL] value too long - but for which column? Hello, I see the errors ERROR: value

[GENERAL] value too long - but for which column?

2011-10-18 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I see the errors ERROR: value too long for type character varying(32) CONTEXT: SQL statement "update pref_users set first_name = $1 , last_name = $2 , female = $3 , avatar = $4 , city = $5 , last_ip = $6 , login = now() where id = $7 " PL/pgSQL function "pref_update_users"

[GENERAL] Postgre Performance

2011-10-18 Thread Deshpande, Yogesh Sadashiv (STSD-Openview)
Hello , We have a setup where in there are around 100 process running in parallel every 5 minutes and each one of them opens a connection to database. We are observing that for each connection , postgre also created on sub processes. We have set max_connection to 100. So the number of sub proce

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL - bindings were not allocated properly

2011-10-18 Thread leddy
Hi all, Wondering if you can help. We have a PostgreSQL database that we are using to store our data and we are using Access as the front-end. I have linked all the tables and up to now have had no problem with creating the forms/queries based on this data. Until now that is. One of the tables whi

[GENERAL] pg_dump not including custom CAST based on table types

2011-10-18 Thread Frédéric Rejol
Hello, I created a custom CAST to cast from one table type to another. pg_dump does not include my custom CAST. Here is an example: CREATE TABLE foo_source(id integer); CREATE TABLE foo_target(id integer); CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION cast_ident(foo_source) RETURNS foo_target AS $BODY$ DECLARE

Re: [GENERAL] Use true and false when bulk-exporting boolean data

2011-10-18 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi Alban, in the end I used a COPY statement with a query and a CASE statement as suggested by Henry. Cheers, Viktor Alban Hertroys wrote: > On 18 Oct 2011, at 17:54, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > > I was looking for an easier, more automatic way, but I wrote a few > > scripts that wrapped the b

Re: [GENERAL] Postgre Performance

2011-10-18 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/18/11 9:51 AM, Bill Moran wrote: Basically we wanted to limit the number of processes so that client code doesn't have to retry for unavailability for connection or sub processes , but postgre takes care of queuing? pgpool and pgbouncer handle some of that, but I don't know if they do ex

Re: [GENERAL] Postgre Performance

2011-10-18 Thread Raghavendra
Here you go.. http://winpg.jp/~saito/pgbouncer/pgbouncer-1.4-win32.zip --- Regards, Raghavendra EnterpriseDB Corporation Blog: http://raghavt.blogspot.com/ On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Deshpande, Yogesh Sadashiv (STSD-Openview) wrote: > I am not able to find binary distribution of pgbo

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump not including custom CAST based on table types

2011-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_Rejol?= writes: > I created a custom CAST to cast from one table type to another. > pg_dump does not include my custom CAST. Hmm. The reason for that is that the table types aren't considered dumpable objects. I suppose we need to fix that, but in the meantime you'd

Re: [GENERAL] Use true and false when bulk-exporting boolean data

2011-10-18 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 18 Oct 2011, at 17:54, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > I was looking for an easier, more automatic way, but I wrote a few > scripts that wrapped the boolean fields in case statements as suggested. You are aware that COPY accepts a query as well? You could also have created a VIEW over that table th

Re: [GENERAL] Postgre Performance

2011-10-18 Thread Deshpande, Yogesh Sadashiv (STSD-Openview)
Hello Raghavendra, Following are the details.. PostgreSQL9.0 , we running our application on 4CPU 8GB RAM system. Thanks Yogesh From: Raghavendra [mailto:raghavendra@enterprisedb.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:46 PM To: Deshpande, Yogesh Sadashiv (STSD-Openview) Cc: pgsql-general@po

Re: [GENERAL] Postgre Performance

2011-10-18 Thread Deshpande, Yogesh Sadashiv (STSD-Openview)
I am not able to find binary distribution of pgbouncer for windows.. Can you point me to the location? From: Raghavendra [mailto:raghavendra@enterprisedb.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 10:33 PM To: Bill Moran Cc: Deshpande, Yogesh Sadashiv (STSD-Openview); pgsql-general@postgresql.org S

[GENERAL] Can someone help explain what's going on from the attached logs?

2011-10-18 Thread Samuel Hwang
The log is getting from PostgreSQL 9.0.4 Basically we set up streaming replication hot-standby slave while master is under heavy load The slave started but not accepting read-only queries, every request will trigger the "FATAL: the database system is starting up" error. The slave will eventually

Re: [GENERAL] Postgre Performance

2011-10-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 10/18/2011 06:57 AM, Deshpande, Yogesh Sadashiv (STSD-Openview) wrote: Hello , We have a setup where in there are around 100 process running in parallel every 5 minutes and each one of them opens a connection to database. We are observing that for each connection , postgre also created on su

Re: [GENERAL] Postgre Performance

2011-10-18 Thread Raghavendra
> > > We need following information > > > > 1. Is there any configuration we do that would pool the connection > request rather than coming out with connection limit exceed. > > Use pgpool or pgbouncer. > > Use pgbouncer, which is a light weighted connection pooling tool, if you are not optin

Re: [GENERAL] Postgre Performance

2011-10-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Deshpande, Yogesh Sadashiv (STSD-Openview)" : > Hello , > > We have a setup where in there are around 100 process running in parallel > every 5 minutes and each one of them opens a connection to database. We are > observing that for each connection , postgre also created on sub

Re: [GENERAL] What's the impact of archive_command failing?

2011-10-18 Thread David Kerr
On 10/18/2011 09:44 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:58 PM, David Kerr wrote: I have postgres setup for streaming replication and my slave box went down. My question is, how long can that box stay down before it causes a material impact on the master? The archive_command tha

Re: [GENERAL] What's the impact of archive_command failing?

2011-10-18 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:58 PM, David Kerr wrote: > I have postgres setup for streaming replication and my slave box went down. > > My question is, how long can that box stay down before it causes a material > impact on the master? > > The archive_command that I use will not archive logs while

Re: [GENERAL] Postgre Performance

2011-10-18 Thread Raghavendra
Dear Yogesh, To get best answer's from community member's you need to provide complete information like,PG version, Server /Hardware info etc., So that it help's member's to assist you in right way. http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Guide_to_reporting_problems --- Regards, Raghavendra EnterpriseDB

[GENERAL] POstgreSQL Tablespace deletion issue

2011-10-18 Thread Vishnu S.
HI, I am using PostgreSQL 8.4 in windows XP. Also using Slony-I for implementing master/slave support. I have a data base with some tables and a table space with some other tables in another location. My issue is that after a 30 days continuous run, some of the files in the PostgreSQL table sp

[GENERAL] What's the impact of archive_command failing?

2011-10-18 Thread David Kerr
I have postgres setup for streaming replication and my slave box went down. My question is, how long can that box stay down before it causes a material impact on the master? The archive_command that I use will not archive logs while the slave is down. I know the obvious problems: * you're no

Re: [GENERAL] Use true and false when bulk-exporting boolean data

2011-10-18 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
I was looking for an easier, more automatic way, but I wrote a few scripts that wrapped the boolean fields in case statements as suggested. Thanks, Viktor Henry Drexler wrote: > couldn't you just wrap it in a case statement to change the t to true > etc...? > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:29 PM,

Re: [GENERAL] Out of Memory Error on Insert

2011-10-18 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Priest writes: > I am getting an Out of Memory error in my server connection process > while running a large insert query. > Postgres version: "PostgreSQL 8.2.16 on i686-pc-mingw32, compiled by > GCC gcc.exe (GCC) 3.4.2 (mingw-special)" > OS: Windows 7 Professional (v.6.1, build 7601 service

Re: [GENERAL] many sql file and one transaction

2011-10-18 Thread salah jubeh
  Thanks guys as you have pointed , I think the best solution is to go for CAT and set the appropriate options for psql.   Regards From: Merlin Moncure To: Cédric Villemain Cc: salah jubeh ; "andr...@a-kretschmer.de" ; pgsql Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 20

Re: [GENERAL] How to correct: ERROR: permission denied: "RI_ConstraintTrigger_24966" is a system trigger

2011-10-18 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Tuesday, October 18, 2011 2:42:00 am Andre Lopes wrote: > Hi, > > I have created a database and all tables with a user, but I can't > execute this alter table: > > [code] > xxx_database=> ALTER TABLE tdir_categories DISABLE TRIGGER ALL; > ERROR: permission denied: "RI_ConstraintTrigger_25366"

Re: [GENERAL] many sql file and one transaction

2011-10-18 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Cédric Villemain wrote: > 2011/10/18 salah jubeh : >> Hello, >> Thanks for the reply. >> I considered  cat as an option but I did not go for it, because of the >> number of sql files I have is large  which makes the code not readable >> The second thing, which is m

Re: [GENERAL] many sql file and one transaction

2011-10-18 Thread Cédric Villemain
2011/10/18 salah jubeh : > Hello, > Thanks for the reply. > I considered  cat as an option but I did not go for it, because of the > number of sql files I have is large  which makes the code not readable > The second thing, which is more important is because I have some advantages > with  using -f

Re: [GENERAL] many sql file and one transaction

2011-10-18 Thread salah jubeh
Hello, Thanks for the reply. I considered  cat as an option but I did not go for it, because of the number of sql files I have is large  which makes the code not readable  The second thing, which is more important is because I have some advantages with  using -f such as the line number which c

Re: [GENERAL] many sql file and one transaction

2011-10-18 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 18 October 2011 14:11, salah jubeh wrote: > Hello, > > I have many SQL script files to update schema, delete data, unit test > etc.  I want to run all the files in one transaction using shell script > to ease the installation procedure. I can do that from the psql client by > using the \i o

[GENERAL] many sql file and one transaction

2011-10-18 Thread salah jubeh
Hello, I have many SQL script files to update schema, delete data, unit test etc.  I want to run all the files in one transaction using shell script to ease the installation procedure. I can do that from the psql client by using the \i option BEGIN; \i  / .../ module1.sql \i  / .../

Re: [GENERAL] How to correct: ERROR: permission denied: "RI_ConstraintTrigger_24966" is a system trigger

2011-10-18 Thread Andre Lopes
Hi, I have created a database and all tables with a user, but I can't execute this alter table: [code] xxx_database=> ALTER TABLE tdir_categories DISABLE TRIGGER ALL; ERROR: permission denied: "RI_ConstraintTrigger_25366" is a system trigger [/code] What can I do to solve this? Best Regards,

[GENERAL] Log or notice values or rows that cause a constraint violation

2011-10-18 Thread Craig Ringer
Hi all I'm once again trying to figure out which row of a 5000-record insert is violating a constraint, and can't help thinking how nice it'd be if Pg would report the contents of the row violating the constraint, or at least the values that were tested by the constraint check. It's really,

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql; execute query inside exists

2011-10-18 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 18 October 2011 09:57, wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the reply! > But I don't want to check if the table exists, I want to see the > result of the SELECT query, if a row presence or not. So you want to check that the table contains data? In that case it makes no sense to create the table if it

Re: [GENERAL] How to correct: ERROR: permission denied: "RI_ConstraintTrigger_24966" is a system trigger

2011-10-18 Thread Craig Ringer
On 10/18/2011 03:52 PM, Andre Lopes wrote: Hi, I have created a database that have a function that disable triggers on tables, but when I execute the function: (I have created the database with the same user that I'm trying to execute the function) [code] select triggerall(false); [/code] retu

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql; execute query inside exists

2011-10-18 Thread jozsef . kurucz
Hi, Thanks for the reply! But I don't want to check if the table exists, I want to see the result of the SELECT query, if a row presence or not. The tmp_tbl is a dynamic generated table name, but when I write the code without EXECUTE, I get syntax error too. In this case how can I check if a SELEC

Re: [GENERAL] Out of Memory Error on Insert

2011-10-18 Thread Craig Ringer
On 10/18/2011 02:52 PM, Mark Priest wrote: I am getting an Out of Memory error in my server connection process while running a large insert query. Postgres version: "PostgreSQL 8.2.16 on i686-pc-mingw32, compiled by GCC gcc.exe (GCC) 3.4.2 (mingw-special)" OS: Windows 7 Professional (v.6.1, buil

[GENERAL] How to correct: ERROR: permission denied: "RI_ConstraintTrigger_24966" is a system trigger

2011-10-18 Thread Andre Lopes
Hi, I have created a database that have a function that disable triggers on tables, but when I execute the function: (I have created the database with the same user that I'm trying to execute the function) [code] select triggerall(false); [/code] return [code] ERROR: permission denied: "RI_Con