Re: [GENERAL] initdb with lc-collate=C

2011-12-12 Thread Tom Lane
Scot Kreienkamp writes: > There wasn't any output from the initdb other than OK. > [root@dvrv5030 9.1]# /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 initdb --lc-collate=C > Initializing database: [ OK ] Um. This isn't running initdb: this is running the package's initscript a

Re: [GENERAL] WAL file accumulation on log shipping primary node

2011-12-12 Thread Dong Han
Dave, The WAL files were copied using rsync. It seems there is no problem to copy the file over to secondary nodes. It is the primary node somehow keeps more and more old WAL files in the pg_xlog directory. Regards, Dong From: davecra...@gmail.com [dave

Re: [GENERAL] Hope for a new PostgreSQL era?

2011-12-12 Thread Jayadevan M
Hello, > > Some of the features currently under development right now will make > this sort of thing easier to build into the core database. For > example, the recent "Command Triggers" feature submission will make > it easier to catch DDL changes as well as queries for this sort of thing. Tha

Re: [GENERAL] initdb with lc-collate=C

2011-12-12 Thread Scot Kreienkamp
There wasn't any output from the initdb other than OK. [root@dvrv5030 9.1]# /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 initdb --lc-collate=C Initializing database: [ OK ] [root@dvrv5030 9.1]# /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 start Starting postgresql-9.1 service:

Re: [GENERAL] WAL file accumulation on log shipping primary node

2011-12-12 Thread Dave Cramer
Dong, How are you copying the wal logs over to the secondary ? Since this is loosely coupled I am wondering how the master would be effected by load. Dave Cramer dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca http://www.credativ.ca On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Dong Han wrote: > Dear all, > > > > We hav

Re: [GENERAL] WAL file accumulation on log shipping primary node

2011-12-12 Thread Dong Han
Dear all, We have setup log shipping replication between primary node and 2 secondary nodes with Postgresql version 8.4.8. From the data replication points of view, everything is fine. However, under heavy data modification load - we have an extremely busy system, we saw WAL files keep accumul

Re: [GENERAL] Consecutive operators not recognized without whitespace

2011-12-12 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Angelico writes: > 1) Set a bit: > UPDATE tablename SET flags=flags|8 WHERE id=1234 > 2) Clear a bit: > UPDATE tablename SET flags=flags&~8 WHERE id=1234 > However, the second statement fails; the Postgres parser tries to find > a single "&~" operator, instead of using the unary ~ and then

Re: [GENERAL] Having Issue Getting the Postgresql Service to Start

2011-12-12 Thread Craig Ringer
On 13/12/2011 12:18 AM, Sogard, Michael (DPS) wrote: A little more information that may help, the service works fine as a local user. The problem only happens when we try to start it as a network user on the domain. As far as registering the service goes, I am not sure of the details of the ins

[GENERAL] Consecutive operators not recognized without whitespace

2011-12-12 Thread Chris Angelico
Greetings! Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this question. I'm using Postgres (just upgraded from 9.1.1 to 9.1.2 but I don't think it's significant) for some work that includes maintaining a bitfield. The most common operations on this field are: 1) Set a bit: UPDATE tablename SET flag

Re: [GENERAL] initdb with lc-collate=C

2011-12-12 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 12/12/2011 12:37 PM, Scot Kreienkamp wrote: Nope no clusters. I never got past the initial install and configure. All I did was install, initdb, alter a few things in postgresql.conf (nothing relating to locale) and pg_hba.conf, start postgres using the init script, and run the query

Re: [GENERAL] initdb with lc-collate=C

2011-12-12 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 12/12/2011 12:37 PM, Scot Kreienkamp wrote: Nope no clusters. I never got past the initial install and configure. All I did was install, initdb, alter a few things in postgresql.conf (nothing relating to locale) and pg_hba.conf, start postgres using the init script, and run the query

Re: [GENERAL] initdb with lc-collate=C

2011-12-12 Thread Scot Kreienkamp
Nope no clusters. I never got past the initial install and configure. All I did was install, initdb, alter a few things in postgresql.conf (nothing relating to locale) and pg_hba.conf, start postgres using the init script, and run the query to check the collation setting. Nothing more. S

Re: [GENERAL] initdb with lc-collate=C

2011-12-12 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 12/12/2011 12:15 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 12/12/2011 10:49 AM, Scot Kreienkamp wrote: Hey guys, In PG 8.x, when I did an initdb with --lc-collate=c it was always effective in setting it server wide so it would apply to all databases. However, in 9.1.2, when I run initdb like so: /etc/init

Re: [GENERAL] initdb with lc-collate=C

2011-12-12 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 12/12/2011 10:49 AM, Scot Kreienkamp wrote: Hey guys, In PG 8.x, when I did an initdb with --lc-collate=c it was always effective in setting it server wide so it would apply to all databases. However, in 9.1.2, when I run initdb like so: /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 initdb --lc-collate=C, it do

Re: [GENERAL] Statistics mismatch between n_live_tup and actual row count

2011-12-12 Thread Andreas Brandl
> Andreas Brandl writes: > >> The planner doesn't use n_live_tup; > > > I'm just curious: where does the planner take the (approximate) > > row-count from? > > It uses the tuple density estimated by the last vacuum or analyze > (viz, > reltuples/relpages) and multiplies that by the current relat

[GENERAL] initdb with lc-collate=C

2011-12-12 Thread Scot Kreienkamp
Hey guys, In PG 8.x, when I did an initdb with --lc-collate=c it was always effective in setting it server wide so it would apply to all databases. However, in 9.1.2, when I run initdb like so: /etc/init.d/postgresql-9.1 initdb --lc-collate=C, it doesn't seem to have any effect. [root@dvrv50

[GENERAL] psql latex and newlines

2011-12-12 Thread Wim Bertels
Hallo, psql latex output format needs to differentiate between a newline and a tabularnewline. the problem arises when u have a field value that contains a newline character, when this field is not the first column, then all the data after this newline comes in the first column.. u can try this

Re: [GENERAL] Problem installing PG9.1 using yum

2011-12-12 Thread Wojciech Strzałka
> Please also remove postgresql90-libs.i386 Thanks a lot. Works perfect now. Best regards Wojtek -- 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] Question regarding authentication/login

2011-12-12 Thread Chris Deadlock
Like most problems, this was stupidity on my part! I had an old test copy of postgres running on the same port of this windows laptop, so of course I was connecting to that instead of the SSH tunnel that was set up by Putty. Problem solved, thanks for the help On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 3:40 PM, C

Re: [GENERAL] Server/Data Migration Advice

2011-12-12 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Andreas Kretschmer wrote: > - you should use 9.1.2, not 9.1.1 ;-) I don't think it's available yet in Debian repositories. I can only use whatever packages they've compiled in their repositories. > - use the pg_dumpall from the new version to make the dump, for

Re: [GENERAL] Server/Data Migration Advice

2011-12-12 Thread Cédric Villemain
Le 12 décembre 2011 18:12, Carlos Mennens a écrit : > I've finally received my new virtual database server (Debian Linux) & > this weekend I'll be rolling my new PostgreSQL server online. My > question is I've never migrated production data from 8.4.8 to 9.1.1. I > would like to find out from the

Re: [GENERAL] Server/Data Migration Advice

2011-12-12 Thread Andreas Kretschmer
Carlos Mennens wrote: > I've finally received my new virtual database server (Debian Linux) & > this weekend I'll be rolling my new PostgreSQL server online. My > question is I've never migrated production data from 8.4.8 to 9.1.1. I > would like to find out from the community what exactly is the

[GENERAL] Server/Data Migration Advice

2011-12-12 Thread Carlos Mennens
I've finally received my new virtual database server (Debian Linux) & this weekend I'll be rolling my new PostgreSQL server online. My question is I've never migrated production data from 8.4.8 to 9.1.1. I would like to find out from the community what exactly is the recommended process in moving m

Re: [GENERAL] Having Issue Getting the Postgresql Service to Start

2011-12-12 Thread Sogard, Michael (DPS)
The application log has this entry: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( PostgreSQL ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retr

Re: [GENERAL] sort order

2011-12-12 Thread Abraham, Danny
Thanks a lot. Worked fine with . CREATE DATABASE danny Template template0 LC_CTYPE = 'C' LC_COLLATE = 'C'; -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:t...@sss.pgh.pa.us] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 6:07 PM To: Abraham, Danny Cc: Adrian Klaver; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subje

Re: [GENERAL] sort order

2011-12-12 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Monday, December 12, 2011 7:55:37 am Abraham, Danny wrote: > This is exactly what I am trying to do - > To find a CREATE DATABASE statement that will produce a database that has a > binary sorting. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/sql-createdatabase.html CREATE DATABASE name [

Re: [GENERAL] sort order

2011-12-12 Thread Tom Lane
"Abraham, Danny" writes: > This is exactly what I am trying to do - > To find a CREATE DATABASE statement that will produce a database that has a > binary sorting. Setting its LC_COLLATE to "C" ought to do that. BTW, as of 9.1 you can control this at finer granularity than database level, see t

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL DBA in SPAAAAAAAACE

2011-12-12 Thread Joe Miller
Thanks for the support guys, if nothing else, this week has been memorable. :) It seems I lied on my entry--my little brother didn't have my old capsule models. They were actually still back in my childhood bedroom: http://twitpic.com/7sc0jv The covered in dust thing was still correct though :) N

Re: [GENERAL] sort order

2011-12-12 Thread Abraham, Danny
This is exactly what I am trying to do - To find a CREATE DATABASE statement that will produce a database that has a binary sorting. Thanks Danny -Original Message- From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:adrian.kla...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 5:53 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql

Re: [GENERAL] sort order

2011-12-12 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Sunday, December 11, 2011 8:17:41 am Abraham, Danny wrote: > On PG 9.0.4, Windows, Encoding and Collate WIN1252 trying to get a > database to sort according to the ascii order. Example: > Select t from test order by t > Should be exactly like > Select t from test order by ascii(t). > > Can it

Re: [GENERAL] Having Issue Getting the Postgresql Service to Start

2011-12-12 Thread Sachin Srivastava
On Dec 12, 2011, at 9:00 PM, Sogard, Michael (DPS) wrote: > We are running Postgresql 9.0 64-bit on a Windows Server 2003 machine. > Whenever we try to start the postgresql-x64-9.0 service, we eventually get > the error “The postgresql-x64-9.0 service on Local Computer started and > stopped.”

Re: [GENERAL] initdb locale WIN1252

2011-12-12 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Sunday, December 11, 2011 8:30:35 am Abraham, Danny wrote: > What's wrong with locale WIN1252 ? > > Running successfully initdb, but strange warnings show ... > > > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "EMPG". > This user must also own the server process. > > The

Re: [GENERAL] Controlling complexity in queries

2011-12-12 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 12/12/2011 09:15 AM, David Johnston wrote: >> >> Use a WITH clause on the SELECT statement. > > Note that WITH is an optimisation fence, so if you're relying on Pg pushing > WHERE clauses down into subqueries or anything like that you may f

Re: [GENERAL] Problem installing PG9.1 using yum

2011-12-12 Thread devrim
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[GENERAL] Having Issue Getting the Postgresql Service to Start

2011-12-12 Thread Sogard, Michael (DPS)
We are running Postgresql 9.0 64-bit on a Windows Server 2003 machine. Whenever we try to start the postgresql-x64-9.0 service, we eventually get the error "The postgresql-x64-9.0 service on Local Computer started and stopped." The user account trying to start the service has administrator right

Re: [GENERAL] Problem installing PG9.1 using yum

2011-12-12 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 16:26 +0100, Wojciech Strzałka wrote: > > Thanks Devrim - it's a little better now but still not perfect :) > There is some problem with libpq messages. Please also remove postgresql90-libs.i386 Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://ww

Re: [GENERAL] Problem installing PG9.1 using yum

2011-12-12 Thread Wojciech Strzałka
> On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 09:17 -0800, wstrzalka wrote: >> Error: Package postgresql90-devel needs postgresql90 = >> 9.0.1-4PGDG.rhel5, this is not available. > Please remove postgresql90-devel.i386 prior to installation. > We don't push -devel.i386 packages to x86_64 repos anymore. > Regards,

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL DBA in SPAAAAAAAACE

2011-12-12 Thread Cédric Villemain
Le 12 décembre 2011 14:25, Mark Morgan Lloyd a écrit : > Rob Sargent wrote: >> >> On 12/06/2011 01:56 PM, Glyn Astill wrote: >>> >>> __ >>> From: Merlin Moncure To: Joe Miller Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 17:30 S

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL DBA in SPAAAAAAAACE

2011-12-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Rob Sargent wrote: On 12/06/2011 01:56 PM, Glyn Astill wrote: __ From: Merlin Moncure To: Joe Miller Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Tuesday, 6 December 2011, 17:30 Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL DBA in SPCE On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:56 AM, J

Re: [GENERAL] Hope for a new PostgreSQL era?

2011-12-12 Thread Chris Curvey
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > > One thing I think would be interesting for this would be to identify slow > queries (without doing detailed plan timing) and flag them for more > detailed timing if they're run again within time. I suspect this would > only be practical wi

Re: [GENERAL] Hope for a new PostgreSQL era?

2011-12-12 Thread Greg Smith
On 12/09/2011 08:54 PM, Greg Smith wrote: I decided about a year ago that further work on using Systemtap was a black hole: time goes in, nothing really usable on any production server seems to come out. My off-list e-mail this weekend has, quite rightly, pointed out that this cheap shot is

Re: [GENERAL] Hope for a new PostgreSQL era?

2011-12-12 Thread Greg Smith
On 12/11/2011 11:39 PM, Jayadevan M wrote: At the db level, Oracle provides "Database replay" feature. that lets you replay the production server events in the development/test environment. http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/e12253/dbr_intro.htm Won't something like this be useful i

Re: [GENERAL] Howto to clear PostgreSQL cache and how to preload all tuples of a table into the cache?

2011-12-12 Thread Cédric Villemain
Le 12 décembre 2011 01:42, Stefan Keller a écrit : > I'd like to clear the PostgreSQL cache (e.g. for benchmarking purposes). > And I'd like to preload all tuples of a table (say mytable_one) into the > cache. > > AFAIK there is no way to force all caches to be cleared in PostgreSQL > with an SQL