Re: [GENERAL] Sync production DB with development?

2014-10-08 Thread Jeff Ross
On 10/8/14, 2:24 PM, Israel Brewster wrote: Agreed. and no, I don't need all the data. But pg_dump doesn't give me an option to, say, only grab the last week of data. You might want to check out pg_sample. It lets you get a referentially consistent sample of a database. You specify the

[GENERAL] Question about plan difference between 9.3 and 9.3.2

2014-01-17 Thread Jeff Ross
. Thanks for any insight! Jeff Ross

Re: [GENERAL] Question about plan difference between 9.3 and 9.3.2

2014-01-17 Thread Jeff Ross
On 1/17/14, 11:02 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross jr...@openvistas.net writes: I had to move our production database to a new server with virtually identical hardware. At the same time I went to 9.3.2 from 9.3. Queries on the old server (nirvana) run many magnitudes faster than on the new server

Re: [GENERAL] After upgrade to 9.3, streaming replication fails to start--SOLVED

2013-11-07 Thread Jeff Ross
On 11/6/13, 12:26 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: On 11/6/13, 11:32 AM, Jeff Janes wrote: On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Jeff Ross jr...@wykids.org mailto:jr...@wykids.org wrote: _postgresql@nirvana:/var/postgresql $ cat start_hot_standby.sh #!/bin/sh backup_label=wykids_`date +%Y-%m-%d

[GENERAL] After upgrade to 9.3, streaming replication fails to start

2013-11-06 Thread Jeff Ross
checkpoint record 2013-11-06 07:50:23.495858500 % LOG: invalid secondary checkpoint record 2013-11-06 07:50:23.495862500 % PANIC: could not locate a valid checkpoint record I'm sure I'm missing something simple here, but I'm not seeing what it is. Thanks! Jeff Ross -- Sent via pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] After upgrade to 9.3, streaming replication fails to start

2013-11-06 Thread Jeff Ross
On 11/6/13, 11:32 AM, Jeff Janes wrote: On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Jeff Ross jr...@wykids.org mailto:jr...@wykids.org wrote: _postgresql@nirvana:/var/postgresql $ cat start_hot_standby.sh #!/bin/sh backup_label=wykids_`date +%Y-%m-%d` #remove any existing wal files

Re: [GENERAL] Largest PG database known to man!

2013-10-01 Thread Jeff Ross
Maybe some of these folks can chime in? http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/ Simbad (and I think VisieR) runs on PostgreSQL. A friend of mine is a grad student in astronomy and he told me about them. Jeff Ross On 10/1/13 3:49 PM, Mark Jones wrote: Hi all, We are currently working with a customer who

[GENERAL] Split_part on a CR

2012-11-19 Thread Jeff Ross
Hi, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to use split_part with a carriage return (hex 0a) as the delimiter. Would someone please offer me a clue? Thanks! Jeff Ross -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [GENERAL] Split_part on a CR

2012-11-19 Thread Jeff Ross
On 11/19/12 12:58, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross jr...@wykids.org writes: Hi, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to use split_part with a carriage return (hex 0a) as the delimiter. Um, 0x0a is line feed last I checked. But you should be able to write the literal as E'\r' (if you wanted CR

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction question

2012-07-11 Thread Jeff Ross
On 7/10/12 8:39 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/10/2012 07:30 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: On 7/10/12 6:21 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/10/2012 01:06 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: Hi all, Thanks for any and all ideas! For your initial attempt everything was done in one session? All the inserts were

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction question

2012-07-11 Thread Jeff Ross
On 7/11/12 2:07 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/11/2012 07:01 AM, Jeff Ross wrote: On 7/10/12 8:39 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/10/2012 07:30 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: On 7/10/12 6:21 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/10/2012 01:06 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: Hi all, Thanks for any and all ideas

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction question

2012-07-11 Thread Jeff Ross
On 7/11/12 3:52 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/11/2012 02:41 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: On 7/11/12 2:07 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/11/2012 07:01 AM, Jeff Ross wrote: On 7/10/12 8:39 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/10/2012 07:30 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: On 7/10/12 6:21 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction question

2012-07-11 Thread Jeff Ross
On 7/11/12 4:24 PM, Marcin Mańk wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Jeff Ross jr...@wykids.org mailto:jr...@wykids.org wrote: 2012-06-19 15:37:36.283752500 www%wykids LOG: statement: update survey_response set srv_resp_submitted = now() where srv_resp_srv_id = 2

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction question

2012-07-11 Thread Jeff Ross
On 7/11/12 5:13 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/11/2012 04:02 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: On 7/11/12 3:52 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: Is there an index on this table? If so have you tried a REINDEX? Here's the table definition: jross@nirvana:/home/jross $ psql wykids psql (9.1.4, server 9.1.3

[GENERAL] Transaction question

2012-07-10 Thread Jeff Ross
) that this is some sort of hardware problem as I see no indication of that anywhere else. Thanks for any and all ideas! Jeff Ross Wyoming Children's Action Alliance -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction question

2012-07-10 Thread Jeff Ross
On 7/10/12 6:21 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/10/2012 01:06 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: Hi all, I have an anomaly on my hands that I'm at a loss to understand. We recently ran a small survey where participants were required to answer all the questions. After validation for skipped questions, mis

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: terminating connection due to conflict with recovery

2011-08-31 Thread Jeff Ross
On 08/30/11 18:03, Fujii Masao wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Jeff Rossjr...@wykids.org wrote: Is there a setting in this or something else that I should tweak so this query can complete against the replica? Google turned up some threads on the error code associated with the error

[GENERAL] FATAL: terminating connection due to conflict with recovery

2011-08-30 Thread Jeff Ross
. Thanks, Jeff Ross Wyoming Children's Action Alliance Cheyenne, Wyoming -- 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] Book recommendation?

2011-02-01 Thread Jeff Ross
On 02/01/11 08:55, Herouth Maoz wrote: As a result of my recent encounter with table bloat and other tuning issues I've been running into, I'm looking for a good resource for improving my tuning skills. My sysadmin ran into the following book: PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance, by Gregory

[GENERAL] Almost full pg_xlog/

2011-01-31 Thread Jeff Ross
it yet. Thanks, Jeff Ross -- 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] Almost full pg_xlog/

2011-01-31 Thread Jeff Ross
On 01/31/11 17:13, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Rossjr...@wykids.org writes: In the meantime, I now have 242 16MB files in pg_xlog/. The archive_status directory in pg_xlog/has a matching .done file for all but the most recent of those pg_xlog files. What have you got checkpoint_segments set to?

Re: [GENERAL] Schema tool

2010-11-11 Thread Jeff Ross
and shows me some, um, interesting things in my database that probably need addressing. Warm regards from snowy Wyoming! Jeff Ross -- 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] Instructions/status of modpglogger

2010-11-11 Thread Jeff Ross
Stratum doesn't work and you (or anyone else for that matter) would like my slightly modified version let me know off list and I'll get it to you. Jeff Ross -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] psql \q hang

2010-10-05 Thread Jeff Ross
On 10/04/10 15:55, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 This is more of an odd anoyance than anything, but for the past month or so when I \q out of psql I have to wait 20-25 seconds for the return to the shell prompt. This is the only copy of psql

Re: [GENERAL] psql \q hang

2010-10-05 Thread Jeff Ross
On 10/05/10 10:35, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Rossjr...@wykids.org writes: Thanks for the hint, Greg! It was indeed the .psql_history file. Although I'm using the default history size, the file was over 5MB in size and full of a table dump. I truncated the file and no more delay quitting psql.

[GENERAL] psql \q hang

2010-10-04 Thread Jeff Ross
and primarily PostgreSQL is powering Drupal. Searching Google turned up nothing. I can live with it but I'd be more interested in fixing it. Thanks! Jeff Ross -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

[GENERAL] Question about joins, left outer and others

2010-05-07 Thread Jeff Ross
) In fact, every join combination (left|right|full|inner|outer) I've tried gives me the same result. Clearly I'm missing something obvious and will welcome all hints, clue-by-fours and so on. Thanks, Jeff Ross -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [GENERAL] Question about joins, left outer and others

2010-05-07 Thread Jeff Ross
Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross jr...@wykids.org writes: To get the output I want above, I'd think I'd need to do a left outer join like this: jr...@wykids localhost# select ed_cat_name as Level, pp_ed_cat_subject as Subject, pp_ed_cat_institution as Institution from education_categories left

[GENERAL] Plpgsql function syntax error at first coalesce statement

2010-04-25 Thread Jeff Ross
staring at it so long now I can't see the forest for the trees. Thanks! Jeff Ross -- 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] Plpgsql function syntax error at first coalesce statement

2010-04-25 Thread Jeff Ross
On 04/25/10 12:32, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Rossjr...@wykids.org writes: I'm trying to write my first plpgsql function and I'm running into a problem that may or may not have to do with a coalesce statement. No, it's not the coalesce ... When I try to run this I get the following error:

Re: [GENERAL] Plpgsql function syntax error at first coalesce statement

2010-04-25 Thread Jeff Ross
On 04/25/10 14:20, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Rossjr...@wykids.org writes: Now I'm *really* confused. I thought the table structure I created at the beginning of the function was where the results would be returned to. Uh, you're using that as the destination for the FOR loop's SELECT. What

Re: [GENERAL] Joining one-to-one and one-to-many tables

2010-03-12 Thread Jeff Ross
...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Ross Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:37 AM To: PostgreSQL Subject: [GENERAL] Joining one-to-one and one-to-many tables I'm stumped about the best was to retrieve the most recent entry in a one-to-many type of table and combine

[GENERAL] Joining one-to-one and one-to-many tables

2010-03-11 Thread Jeff Ross
become important for me to get because more and more we are moving to keeping things in the history type of table so we can keep a progression of events. Cluesticks or links welcome! Thanks! Jeff Ross -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Usage and OpenBSD

2010-02-13 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Smith wrote: Jeff Ross wrote: I think I'm doing it right. Here's the whole script. I run it from another server on the lan. That looks basically sane--your description was wrong, not your program, which is always better than the other way around. Note that everything your script

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Usage and OpenBSD

2010-02-11 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Smith wrote: Jeff Ross wrote: pgbench is run with this: pgbench -h varley.openvistas.net -U _postgresql -t 2 -c $SCALE pgbench with scale starting at 10 and then incrementing by 10. I call it three times for each scale. I've turned on logging to 'all' to try and help figure out

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Usage and OpenBSD

2010-02-10 Thread Jeff Ross
kernel will not run on this particular server. I think that means that I'm going to be shopping for an Opteron based server before long. Thanks to all! Jeff Ross

[GENERAL] Memory Usage and OpenBSD

2010-01-27 Thread Jeff Ross
ErrorContext: 8192 total in 1 blocks; 8176 free (6 chunks); 16 used 2010-01-27 14:07:26.327874500 172.16.0.1(22842):_postgre...@pgbench:[17225]:ERROR: out of memory 2010-01-27 14:07:26.327881500 172.16.0.1(22842):_postgre...@pgbench:[17225]:DETAIL: Failed on request of size 67108864. Jeff

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Usage and OpenBSD

2010-01-27 Thread Jeff Ross
Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross jr...@wykids.org writes: Running a simple select only pgbench test against it will fail with an out of memory error as it tries to vacuum --analyze the newly created database with 750 tuples. Better look at the ulimit values the postmaster is started with; you

[GENERAL] pgbench out of memory error

2010-01-05 Thread Jeff Ross
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Re: [GENERAL] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-23 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Stark wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Jeff Rossjr...@wykids.org wrote: Greg Stark wrote: Actually, I wonder if this isn't more likely to show the problem -- it would explain why *all* your tables are showing up with duplicates rather than just one. select

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-23 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Stark wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Jeff Rossjr...@wykids.org wrote: I had to modify your query slightly to make it run--hope I got what you are after! select (h).* from (select heap_page_items(get_raw_page('pg_namespace',0)) as h) as x;

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-23 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Stark wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Greg Starkgsst...@mit.edu wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Jeff Rossjr...@wykids.org wrote: Incidentally, may as well ask the usual questions: And just for reference, what does pg_controldata print?

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-23 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Stark wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Jeff Rossjr...@wykids.org wrote: pg_clog is 32K. �I've put it at http://www.openvistas.net/pg_clog Sorry, I'm getting a 404 Oops--fixed now. Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-23 Thread Jeff Ross
Tom Lane wrote: Greg Stark gsst...@mit.edu writes: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Tom Lanet...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Urgh. I bet that's where the problem is then. Some path is failing to clear that bit, or maybe there's a race condition that allows it to become set incorrectly (ie

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-23 Thread Jeff Ross
Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross jr...@wykids.org writes: Tom Lane wrote: heap_update is broken. Details left as an exercise for the reader Well, as the reader that started this all ;-) should I be worried? Should I do a pg_dump and reinstall? Roll back to 8.3.7? Or just

[GENERAL] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-22 Thread Jeff Ross
is running OpenBSD -current. Thanks, Jeff Ross -- 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] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-22 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Stark wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Jeff Rossjr...@wykids.org wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded to 8.4 and everything went great. �All databases are working as they are supposed to, no problems seen. Today, however, I did a \d on a database and was surprised to see sets of 5

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-22 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Stark wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Jeff Rossjr...@wykids.org wrote: I browsed through the system catalogs but haven't found anything yet that can shine some light on this. Actually, I wonder if this isn't more likely to show the problem -- it would explain why *all*

Re: [GENERAL] Doubt about SELECT

2009-03-29 Thread Jeff Ross
from test, people where test.person_id = people.person_id union all select null as person_id, null as service_id, null as name, null as address, null as price_serv, sum(price_serv) as total from test; Hope that helps, Jeff Ross -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] databases list to file

2008-10-09 Thread Jeff Ross
Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: Hello all, I need to print to a file a simple list of all the databases on my postgresql. I need to do this from a shell script to be executed without human intervention I guess something like: su postgres -c 'psql ...whatever /tmp/my_databases.txt' but I

Re: [GENERAL] Can interval take a value from a field?

2008-09-10 Thread Jeff Ross
Jeff Davis wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 17:03 -0600, Jeff Ross wrote: select ts_date as Transcript Date, ts_expiration_date as Current Expiration Date, expiration_value as Expiration Interval from transcript, training_expiration_value where

[GENERAL] Can interval take a value from a field?

2008-09-09 Thread Jeff Ross
'expiration_value'; and I'm getting the following error: ERROR: invalid input syntax for type interval: expiration_value Is there a way to use the value in expiration_value for the interval? Thanks, Jeff Ross -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes

[GENERAL] Column alias in where clause?

2008-08-13 Thread Jeff Ross
of the SELECT must refer to this FROM item as f not foo.. Does this apply in the WHERE clause as well? If it doesn't how can I refer to the results of the case statements later in the where clause? Thanks, Jeff Ross -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [GENERAL] Column alias in where clause?

2008-08-13 Thread Jeff Ross
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:47:17AM -0600, Jeff Ross wrote: I'm a little confused about how to use a column alias in the where clause of a query. I'm sure the answer is something simple, but I haven't found anything searching through Google or from reading

[GENERAL] Alter sequence restart with selected value...

2007-09-18 Thread Jeff Ross
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Re: [GENERAL] Alter sequence restart with selected value...

2007-09-18 Thread Jeff Ross
Scott Marlowe wrote: On 9/18/07, Jeff Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using copy to insert a bunch of rows into a new table with a unique primary key. Copy is correctly incrementing the primary key, but apparently the sequence itself is never updated because when I go to insert again I get

[GENERAL] psql error while restoring database: unrecognized node type: 655

2007-07-16 Thread Jeff Ross
pg_dumpall script runs without a single error. The only difference that I can see is that this third machine did not start with a freshly initialized database. Thanks for any insights. Jeff Ross ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below

Re: [GENERAL] psql error while restoring database: unrecognized node type: 655

2007-07-16 Thread Jeff Ross
Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When psql begins loading this file, it throws the error: psql:/tmp/people.sql:79: ERROR: unrecognized node type: 655 Hmm. Can you try that with \set VERBOSITY verbose so we can determine where the error is being thrown from? Using

Re: [GENERAL] psql error while restoring database: unrecognized node type: 655

2007-07-16 Thread Jeff Ross
Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: Hmm. Can you try that with \set VERBOSITY verbose so we can determine where the error is being thrown from? psql:/tmp/people.sql:79: ERROR: XX000: unrecognized node type: 655 LOCATION: _outValue, outfuncs.c:1707 Hmm

Re: [GENERAL] Generate random password

2007-06-07 Thread Jeff Ross
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Can anyone suggest how one might be able to do this? I want to be able to generate an 8 character random password for users in their password field. Perhaps through the default setting of the field or a trigger function. I found the following, but is there anything that

[GENERAL] Shell script to determine if PostgreSQL is accepting connections?

2007-03-18 Thread Jeff Ross
problems (it does fine until the backend goes away ;-) and re-release it. Thanks, Jeff Ross P.S. Apologies to the owner of the list--I inadvertently sent this to the wrong address first. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Mailing List management solution

2007-03-06 Thread Jeff Ross
Desire Athow wrote: I am looking for a email list management solution (can be a script, an open source application etc), which uses Postgre SQL (AKA Postgres) as database. Can you let me know whether this rare bird exist? ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] open source - content management system - that uses PostGreSQL

2007-02-19 Thread Jeff Ross
Vivek Khera wrote: On Feb 16, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Andrew Kirkness wrote: I am currently setting up a website and have PostGreSQL database I'm using for the backend. I'm researching an open source Content Management System that uses PostGreSQL. Do you have any recommendations? You need to

Re: [GENERAL] invalid regular expression: invalid backreference number

2007-02-18 Thread Jeff Ross
Tom Lane wrote: Thanks for the reply, Tom. Jeff Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This used to work before my upgrade to 8.2.1. Which version were you using before? 8.1.x The error the function now throws is: jross%wykidsERROR: invalid regular expression: invalid

[GENERAL] invalid regular expression: invalid backreference number

2007-02-15 Thread Jeff Ross
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