[GENERAL] Re: [GENERAL] Puzzling table scan in a CTE

2013-11-25 Thread slapo
Sorry for the delay, but I didn't have access to the database during the weekend.   Here's the output of explain (analyze, buffers): http://explain.depesz.com/s/scC   I'm also curious why it actually seems to touch the table assuming there are output columns which I haven't defined anywhere

[GENERAL] Re: [GENERAL] Puzzling table scan in a CTE

2013-11-25 Thread slapo
I apologise for the late response.   I've increased effective_cache_size to 50% and tried again - no change. Afterwards, I've increased cpu_tuple_cost from 0.02 to 0.05 and tried again - no change.   What is most curious to me is that I think the initial result set is very small, so any JOINs

[GENERAL] Weird function does not exist error.

2013-11-25 Thread 邓尧
Hi, I ran into a function does not exist error when invoking a function created by myself. What's weird is that the function works perfectly if I invoke it through the command line tool psql but fails if I invoke it through the C API. The SQL to create the function is: CREATE OR REPLACE

Re: [GENERAL] Weird function does not exist error.

2013-11-25 Thread 邓尧
My apologies, I connected to the wrong database in my C code ... Sorry, if this E-mail bothers you. On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:33 PM, 邓尧 tors...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I ran into a function does not exist error when invoking a function created by myself. What's weird is that the function

Re: [GENERAL] Solution for Synonyms

2013-11-25 Thread Albe Laurenz
Thomas Kellerer wrote: mrprice22 wrote on 22.11.2013 19:25: We are in the process of moving from Oracle to PostgreSQL. We use a stored procedure to populate some reporting tables once an hour. There are two sets of these tables, set A and set B. We use synonyms to point to the “active” set

Re: [GENERAL] Re: corruption issue after server crash - ERROR: unexpected chunk number 0

2013-11-25 Thread Shaun Thomas
Update - I have two hot replication slaves of this db, both have the problem. I took one out of recovery and ran REINDEX table session_session and it fixed the errors about this row. Now Im going to run vacuum and see if there are other tables that complain, but Im guessing if so I will need

Re: [GENERAL] Streaming replication slave crash

2013-11-25 Thread Mahlon E. Smith
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: On Mon, Sep 09, 2013, Jeff Davis wrote: You may have seen only partial information about that bug and the fix. Yep, I totally glazed over the REINDEX. Giving it a go -- thank you! As a followup for anyone else landing on this thread, the

Re: [GENERAL] pg_xlog is getting bigger

2013-11-25 Thread Pankaj Mishra
Dera Kevin, If you run checkpoint in database then you can delete the pg_xlog other then current timestamp. We do this to our customer on regular basis when pg_xlog exceed more then 15 gb Regards Pankaj On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Kevin Grittner kgri...@ymail.com wrote: Pankaj

[GENERAL] Slony-I installation Help !

2013-11-25 Thread Tobadao
Hi. I have downloaded postgresql-9.3.1-1-windows.exe and edb_slony_i_pg93.exe I'm using Windows XP v3. installation + set Slony-I path: C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\9.3\share But When I try to initiate a new Slony cluster in the PgAdmin interface, the status-bar says Slony-I creation scripts not

[GENERAL] passing tables name into a cursor

2013-11-25 Thread John Kelly
Im having a problem changing several cursors in a function to use a passed in child table name. Database is 8.4.3 on Linux --Original cursor c_runway18a cursor is ( select id, geom , way_num as waydesignator, status_d as status , t_width as width , t_len as length ,

Re: [GENERAL] Slony-I installation Help !

2013-11-25 Thread Glyn Astill
From: Tobadao tobaqu...@gmail.com To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Cc: Sent: Monday, 25 November 2013, 16:40 Subject: [GENERAL] Slony-I installation Help ! Hi. I have downloaded postgresql-9.3.1-1-windows.exe and edb_slony_i_pg93.exe I'm using Windows XP v3. installation + set

Re: [GENERAL] Re: corruption issue after server crash - ERROR: unexpected chunk number 0

2013-11-25 Thread Mike Broers
Thanks Shaun, Im planning to schedule a time to do the vacuum freeze suggested previously. So far the extent of the problem seems limited to the one session table and the one session row that was being used by a heavy bot scan at the time of the crash. Currently Im testing a recovery of a

[GENERAL] Streaming replication and WAL archives

2013-11-25 Thread Tree
TLDR: We want to be able to use streaming replication, WAL archiving, and have the ability to restore from a backup made before a failover using the WAL archive. Setup: We use postgresql 9.1 with streaming replication between a pair of nodes. The nodes are identical, and can fail over and

Re: [GENERAL] pg_xlog is getting bigger

2013-11-25 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Pankaj Mishra escribió: Dera Kevin, If you run checkpoint in database then you can delete the pg_xlog other then current timestamp. We do this to our customer on regular basis when pg_xlog exceed more then 15 gb That is somewhat correct (meaning you are less likely to see data corruption in

Re: [GENERAL] pg_xlog is getting bigger

2013-11-25 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 03:00:56PM +0530, Pankaj Mishra wrote: We do this to our customer on regular basis when pg_xlog exceed more then 15 gb Wow. Your poor customers. But I'm glad you phrased it do this to our customer rather than do this _for_ our customer, since your customer certainly is

Re: [GENERAL] Query runs slow

2013-11-25 Thread Kevin Grittner
Hengky Liwandouw hengkyliwand...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 24, 2013, at 11:21 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: Hengky Lie hengkyliwand...@gmail.com wrote: this query takes long time to process. It takes around 48 seconds to calculate about 690 thousand record. Is there any way to make calculation

[GENERAL] Debugging of C functions

2013-11-25 Thread Janek Sendrowski
Hi,   How is it possible to debug user defined functions written in C. I can't just include all the files and run it.   Does anyone have an idea?   Janek Sendrowski -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

[GENERAL] wiki on monitoring locks has queries that don't seem to work

2013-11-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
So I'm running 8.4 and go to this page:http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Lock_Monitoring I have a query that is definitely blocked by another query. I run the first or third queries, the ones that explicitly say that they're for 9.2 and neither produces any output. The third query gives me a list

Re: [GENERAL] passing tables name into a cursor

2013-11-25 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:43 AM, John Kelly jtke...@gmail.com wrote: Im having a problem changing several cursors in a function to use a passed in child table name. Database is 8.4.3 on Linux --Original cursor c_runway18a cursor is ( select id, geom , way_num as waydesignator,

Re: [GENERAL] wiki on monitoring locks has queries that don't seem to work

2013-11-25 Thread Jeff Janes
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.comwrote: So I'm running 8.4 and go to this page:http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Lock_Monitoring I have a query that is definitely blocked by another query. I run the first or third queries, the ones that explicitly say that

Re: [GENERAL] Easiest way to CREATE EXTENSION when upgrading from 9.0 to 9.2?

2013-11-25 Thread Joshua Boyd
Ah - that's what unpackaged meant. I read that page, but didn’t fully understand what it was referring to. Thank you for your quick reply. :) Josh -Original Message- From: Kevin Grittner [mailto:kgri...@ymail.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 1:21 PM To: Joshua Boyd;

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging of C functions

2013-11-25 Thread hamann . w
Hi, � How is it possible to debug user defined functions written in C. I can't just include all the files and run it. � Does anyone have an idea? � Janek Sendrowski Hi, I recall compiling with debug as normal, adding a printf followed by 30 sec sleep, and use the pause to attach gdb.

[GENERAL] Inserting rows containing composite foreign keys

2013-11-25 Thread Nelson Green
Hello, I have a question regarding inserting a row into a child table when the PK of the parent table is a composite key. In this case, I have funding sources that buy projects, and projects generate jobs. Project numbers are not universally unique, but are unique to funding source. Therefore

Re: [GENERAL] wiki on monitoring locks has queries that don't seem to work

2013-11-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Jeff Janes jeff.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com wrote: So I'm running 8.4 and go to this page:http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Lock_Monitoring I have a query that is definitely blocked by another

[GENERAL] Wrap around id failure and after effects

2013-11-25 Thread Arun P . L
Hi all, We had a wraparound failure in the db and most of the tables and data were missing. So we have done a full vacuum in db and after that the tables reappeared but now the problem is, all the tables have duplicate when listing tables with /dt. And also after the vacuum we recievied the

Re: [GENERAL] Inserting rows containing composite foreign keys

2013-11-25 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Nelson Green, 25.11.2013 23:01: Hello, When inserting a record into the jobs table that references projects by name, do I have to query the projects table twice, once to get the funding source number, and once to get the project sequence number, even though both results will return the