Re: [GENERAL] Corrupted DB? could not open file pg_clog/####

2006-07-30 Thread Francisco Reyes
Martijn van Oosterhout writes: It's still a reasonable suggestion. The maximum offset is the number of rows in the table. You'll notice when the output is empty. Once I find the point where the output is empty then what? Do you have an idea how much data it contains? Yes. Around 87

[GENERAL] Corrupted DB? could not open file pg_clog/####

2006-07-29 Thread Francisco Reyes
Looking at archives seem to indicate missing pg_clog files is some form of row or page corruption. In an old thread from back in 2003 Tom Lane recommended (http://tinyurl.com/jushf): If you want to try to narrow down where the corruption is, you can experiment with commands like select

Re: [GENERAL] Can Log filename include database name?

2006-07-09 Thread Francisco Reyes
Jaime Casanova writes: so you want a different logfile for every database you connect to? An option to specify a log for database. where do you will log database shared operations like autovacuum, role creation, maybe even a database creation, tablespace creation, etc... In a global

[GENERAL] Can Log filename include database name?

2006-07-07 Thread Francisco Reyes
I am currently using a log with the file name format: log_filename = 'postgresql-%Y-%m.log' Is there any way to change the filename do start witht he database name? For now just added to add the database name to each line, but it would be usefull to have each DB written to it's own file. Or

[GENERAL] Seeing locks (was Status of gist locking in 8.1.3)

2006-05-30 Thread Francisco Reyes
Chris writes: SELECT * from pg_locks ; And this is per DB right? No, this is per system. On a DB doing no/little work I always see two records returned. One has a value in the 'database' column. How can I find what database it is? Looking for it in pg_database did not yield any databases

Re: [GENERAL] Status of gist locking in 8.1.3?

2006-05-29 Thread Francisco Reyes
Tom Lane writes: CREATE INDEX shouldn't block any concurrent SELECT, regardless of which index AM is involved. The problem was that the table needed a vacuum full. It was a large table and had done a massive update. It is not that it was blocked, but that it was just taking a very long

Re: [GENERAL] Status of gist locking in 8.1.3?

2006-05-29 Thread Francisco Reyes
Chris writes: Is there a way to tell what tables have locks on them? SELECT * from pg_locks ; (version 7.4 and above at least, don't have an install earlier than that). And this is per DB right? Any way to tell locks in all DBs? In particular if planning to bounce back the DB would be

[GENERAL] Status of gist locking in 8.1.3?

2006-05-25 Thread Francisco Reyes
The release notes for 8.1, http://www.postgresql.org/docs/whatsnew, states about GIST indexing mechanism has improved to support the high-speed concurrency, recoverability and update performance As I write this I am creating an index with gist and trying to do a select on the table froze.

[GENERAL] psql freezes loading large file

2006-05-22 Thread Francisco Reyes
I have a test .sql file of the form: insert into testtable values ('1'); insert into testtable values ('2'); insert into testtable values ('3'); 100 Million Right before I call the file with \i I do a begin transaction. At some point during the load the process stops. After some 5+ minutes

Re: [GENERAL] psql freezes loading large file

2006-05-22 Thread Francisco Reyes
Tom Lane writes: I don't have the patience to run this for 10^8 rows, but the test case I got suspicious of my 'test' file so I took 1000 rows. That had problems and pointed out problems with the file. It seems I had mismatched single quotes.. my guess is that psql got confused and went

[GENERAL] out of memory for query result

2006-04-22 Thread Francisco Reyes
What resource do I need to increase to avoid the error above? Trying to do a straight select against a table with 6 million records. So far tried increasing SHMMAX to 512MB ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] Asking advice on speeding up a big table

2006-04-15 Thread Francisco Reyes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Usage is to match data from the key and val tables to fetch the data value from the sid table. What is the relation between key and val tables? Will key.id and val.id be equal? I have never quite/fully understand the outputs of analyze, but I wonder why you have:

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware related question: 3ware 9500S

2006-04-15 Thread Francisco Reyes
Merlin Moncure writes: escalade is a fairly full featured raid controller for the price. consider it the ford taurus of raid controllers, it's functional and practical but not sexy. Their S line is not native sata but operates over a pata-sata bridge. Stay away from raid 5. Do you know if

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware related question: 3ware 9500S

2006-04-15 Thread Francisco Reyes
Merlin Moncure writes: there are reasons to go with raid 5 or other raids. where I work we often do 14 drive raid 6 plus 1 hot swap on a 15 drive tray. Raid 5 is different from raid 6 To say that there are times it's ok to use RAID 5 and then say you use raid 6... well... doesn't really

Re: [GENERAL] Asking advice on speeding up a big table

2006-04-15 Thread Francisco Reyes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have made some minor changes and speeded things up to around 15-20 lookups/sec, good enough, but not exciting :-) hmm let me understand this. You went from 1 query 3 to 4 seconds to 45 to 60 queries in the same amount of time... 45 to 60 times faster.. and that

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware related question: 3ware 9500S

2006-04-15 Thread Francisco Reyes
Alex Turner writes: Suggests that the 9550SX is at least competitive with the others. Thanks for the links. I know I like the 3ware/AMCC cards because of their very good RAID 10 performance. Raid 10 is what I used on my last server and likely what I will use on the next. I wish we

Re: [GENERAL] About when we should setup index?

2006-03-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
Emi Lu writes: One more thing to consider. If you have a column with lots of repeated values and a handfull of selective values, you could use a partial index. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/indexes-partial.html For example imagine you have an accounts table like Accounts

Re: [GENERAL] One DB not backed up by pg_dumpall

2005-12-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
Michael Fuhr writes: On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 11:29:13PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: Any reason why a database would not get dumped by pg_dumpall? Is there a way to check the successfull completion of pg_dumpall. Loosing 3 databases is not an experience I want to repeat. Perphaps

Re: [GENERAL] One DB not backed up by pg_dumpall

2005-12-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
Jaime Casanova writes: - you still have the server where these databases exists? No. I lost 3 databases. - what version of pgsql, is this? It was 8.0.4 I was upgrading to 8.1. I checked the nightly jobs had been running, then ran a manual one and proceeded to do the upgrade.

Re: [GENERAL] One DB not backed up by pg_dumpall

2005-12-19 Thread Francisco Reyes
Michael Fuhr writes: On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 11:29:13PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: Any reason why a database would not get dumped by pg_dumpall? Always run pg_dumpall as the superuser. As the operating system superuser or as a database superuser? There's a difference. As the database

Re: [GENERAL] One DB not backed up by pg_dumpall

2005-12-19 Thread Francisco Reyes
Michael Fuhr writes: On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 11:29:13PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: Any reason why a database would not get dumped by pg_dumpall? Always run pg_dumpall as the superuser. Researched what was lost. It seems that all databases after a particular database, called test, were

[GENERAL] One DB not backed up by pg_dumpall

2005-12-18 Thread Francisco Reyes
Any reason why a database would not get dumped by pg_dumpall? Always run pg_dumpall as the superuser. I do a nightly dump and have checked several days so far and the database is missing in all so far. :-( The only thing, for that DB, that got backed up was the database, but not a single

Re: [GENERAL] Safe to kill idle connections?

2005-10-17 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Richard Huxton wrote: At a guess, PHPWiki is using persistent connections to PG, so you'll get one connection per Apache backend. Thanks for the info. That may well be the problem. Alternatively, a small change in PHPWiki's code should clear it too (start with a search

[GENERAL] Safe to kill idle connections?

2005-10-16 Thread Francisco Reyes
Ever since I installed a particular program, PHPWiki, I am seeing idle postgres sessions.. even days old. Is it safe to delete them? For example: postmaster: wiki simplicato_wiki [local] idle (postgres) Ultimately I will either switch wiki or take the time and find the piece of code that is

Re: [GENERAL] Ayuda con procesamiento en Postgres !!!!

2005-03-30 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Carlos Roberto Chamorro Mostac wrote: Hola a todos Replied to the user offlist.. Isn't there a spanish list? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

[GENERAL] Date variables in psql

2004-10-07 Thread Francisco Reyes
Trying the following simple sql file: \set proc_date 6/30/2004 \echo Date is :proc_date select * from feeds where date = :proc_date limit 20; If I start psql with the -a option I see the output: \set proc_date 6/30/2004 \echo Date is :proc_date Date is 6/30/2004 select * from feeds where date =

Re: [GENERAL] Date variables in psql

2004-10-07 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Tom Lane wrote: It's fairly painful to get single quotes into a psql variable; AFAIK you have to do it like this: \set proc_date '\'6/30/2004\'' Thanks that worked. I figure I needed to escape the single quotes, but I had tried \'6/30/2004\', which did not work.

[GENERAL] \? not working in psql

2004-04-07 Thread Francisco Reyes
Today I was using \e to edit the buffer, something I don't commonly do. Somehow that screwed up my help file for psql. When I do \? instead of getting help for the slash commands I get General General General General General ull and not nosend; Any thoughts? The last line ull and not nosend;

Re: [GENERAL] Huge number of raws

2004-03-19 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Anton Nikiforov wrote: Or were you talking about something else like storing different data in different media speeds? (Like Hierarchical Storage Management) I do not exactly know how to deal wth such a huge amount of data. The disk subsytem is the must and i do

[GENERAL] Check constraint

2004-03-17 Thread Francisco Reyes
I have a comment field in a table that I want populated if another field has a certain value. Is it possible to set a check constraint for this? Example: Let's say we have fields Purchase_type smallint check(purchase_type 4) comment varchar I need a check rule to something like (pseudo

Re: [GENERAL] Check constraint

2004-03-17 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Stephan Szabo wrote: Actually, shouldn't a table level check constraint be able to do this with something like: check (purchase_type!=3 or comment is not null) That worked Stephan. Gregory. I think yours would work too. Saw Stephans answer and tested before I saw your

Re: [GENERAL] Changing schema owner?

2004-03-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Tom Lane wrote: Francisco Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to change a schema owner other than dump/restore? How about changing the nspowner in pg_namespace? Will that do the trick without any negative consecuences? I think that will work

[GENERAL] Changing schema owner?

2004-02-10 Thread Francisco Reyes
Is there a way to change a schema owner other than dump/restore? How about changing the nspowner in pg_namespace? Will that do the trick without any negative consecuences? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] Rights in 7.4

2004-01-14 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Tom Lane wrote: The line from the sql file that is failing, a dump, is SELECT pg_catalog.setval('invoicesdetails_invoicesdetailsid_seq', 18, true); You have not given us any context to interpret this report in, but I do not think it has anything to do with the

Re: [GENERAL] Hardware selection

2003-08-01 Thread Francisco J Reyes
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The data will be stored on an external raid, SCSI based 2.5TB with IDE disks. Configured as 1 large volume, RAID5. ( We already have this hardware) How come you did not go with SCSI disks? Specially 15K ones. Performance will be much better with

[GENERAL] Auto completion in psql

2003-07-29 Thread Francisco Reyes
How does line completion gets to psql? At my FreeBSD machines when I build the PostgreSQL port I have always had line completion. Now I need to do some work on a Linux SUSE machine (which I don't administer) and psql doesn't have line completion. The person that manages the machine installed from

[GENERAL] Backward migration

2001-05-17 Thread Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I must migrate a PostgreSQL database that I've created initially with PostgreSQL 7.0 over LiNUX to a system that has PostgreSQL 6.5.3 running on a FreeBSD. I've no chance to update de PostgreSQL engine to a newer version so the only way

[GENERAL]

2001-03-22 Thread Daniel Francisco Sachet
unsubscribe Daniel Francisco Sachet Diretor de Tecnologia de Informao IFX do Brasil - www.ifx.com.br +55 11 3365-5860 +55 11 9119-0083 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

[GENERAL] RE: [NOVICE] RE: Sizing of LARGE databases.

2001-02-06 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Michael Miyabara-McCaskey wrote: Francisco, Excellent idea. Thanks for the info. Is this what you are doing now? And if so, since the current version does not appear to have replication, have you found a workaround? -Michael I am new to PostgreSQL so I haven't

Re: [GENERAL] Re[2]: Memory requirements for web-project

2001-02-04 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Boris wrote: That sounds good, the only question left is the memory requiremend of apache per client, i do not completely understand the spawning things with Apache. On high load there are alway minimum 10 processes left, but where is the limit? Interesting thing. I would

[GENERAL] Help - VACUMM

2001-01-17 Thread Francisco Eriko Barreto Brito
What is this? ERROR: index_formtuple: data takes 16468 bytes: too big When a try VACUUM my_table ; Somebody can help? []'s Eriko

[GENERAL] postgresql on macosx server?

2000-05-23 Thread Francisco Hernandez
does postgresql compile and run on macosx server? if so, does anyone know if binaries for it exist? thanks..

[GENERAL] Record Limit......

2000-04-23 Thread Francisco Hernandez
Does PostGreSQL-6.5.2 have a record limit? Ive read a few posts that say older versions (6.3.x) had a limit of 8k.. and they said it would change soon.. does this limit still exist? Thanks.

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