Re: [GENERAL] unnest-like pg_stats.most_common_values and pg_stats.most_common_freqs

2017-11-17 Thread Justin Pryzby
pgsql_call_handler,plpython2_call_handler,plpython3_call_handler,plpython_call_handler,pltcl_cal l_handler,pltclu_call_handler} Justin -- 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] EXPLAIN command just hangs...

2017-11-03 Thread Justin Pryzby
column alone (CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY). Re-creating the index might conceivably be the solution in the end, and it's what pg_repack does behind the scenes. Justin -- 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] checkpoint and recovering process use too much memory

2017-11-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
ostgres 20 0 34.9g 25g 25g S 0.0 40.4 46:36.86 postgres: > startup process recovering 00040855004B > 167162 postgres 20 0 34.9g 25g 25g S 0.0 40.2 17:58.38 postgres: > checkpointer process > > shared_buffers = 32GB Also, what is work_mem ? Justin -

Re: [GENERAL] EXPLAIN command just hangs...

2017-11-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
and see if it's reading (or writing??) consecutively (hopefully with ample OS readahead) or randomly (without). Justin -- 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] EXPLAIN command just hangs...

2017-11-02 Thread Justin Pryzby
_pid() before starting "explain") does it show "active" state or waiting ? If it's waiting, you can see what it's waiting ON by looking at pg_locks.. Maybe like: SELECT c.query, * FROM pg_locks a JOIN pg_locks b USING(relation) JOIN pg_stat_activity c ON b.pid=c.pid

Re: [GENERAL] Possible bug: could not open relation with OID [numbers] SQL State: XX000

2017-11-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
log), can you send the log fragment for the line with error_severity='ERROR' ? https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/runtime-config-logging.html#runtime-config-logging-csvlog Justin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [GENERAL] explain analyze output: 0 rows, 1M loops

2017-11-01 Thread Justin Pryzby
sulted in a record being found". > IIUC I'd be wondering why some form of hash join wasn't used... Except that: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/using-explain.html "... the loops value reports the total number of executions of the node, and the actual time an

Re: [GENERAL] UPDATE syntax change (column-list UPDATE syntax fails with single column)

2017-10-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
719174507.ga19...@telsasoft.com Justin -- 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] Why does a SELECT query cause "dirtied" buffers?

2017-10-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 09:24:40PM +0200, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > Under which situation does a SELECT query change a block? https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Hint_Bits -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgres

Re: [GENERAL] parray_gin and \d errors in PG10

2017-10-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 02:36:12PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Justin Pryzby writes: > > After installing parray_gin extension and pg_upgrading another instance, > > \d is failing like so: > > > [pryzbyj@database ~]$ psql ts -c '\d pg_class' > > ERROR: ope

[GENERAL] parray_gin and \d errors in PG10

2017-10-22 Thread Justin Pryzby
---+-- (0 rows) Is this to be considered an issue with parray_gin or with psql ? I don't think that's an urgent problem to fix, but if someone has a workaround for \d I would appreciate if you'd pass it along :) Thanks in advance Justin -- 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] Weird performance difference

2017-10-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
the query to see which one is contributing most to the rowcount estimate being off by a factor of 3e6. Justin -- 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] Preventing psql from attempting to access ~/.pgpass file.

2017-10-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 09:06:59AM +0300, Allan Kamau wrote: > Is there a way to instruct psql not to try reading ~/.pgpass file? https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/libpq-envars.html PGPASSFILE behaves the same as the passfile connection parameter. passfile Specifies the name of the fi

Re: [GENERAL] Determine size of table before it's committed?

2017-10-11 Thread Justin Pryzby
27;ve seen its interruption to syscalls change the behavior of the program being straced). Justin -- 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] core system is getting unresponsive because over 300 cpu load

2017-10-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
SM ? echo 2 |sudo tee /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run I believe for us that was affecting a postgres VM(QEMU/KVM) and maybe not postgres itself. Worth a try ? https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20170718180152.GE17566%40telsasoft.com Justin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postg

Re: [GENERAL] Any known issues Pg 9.3 on Ubuntu Xenial kernel 4.4.0?

2017-09-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
ql.org/message-id/20170718180152.GE17566%40telsasoft.com Justin -- 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] "Canceling authentication due to timeout" with idle transaction and reindex

2017-09-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 06:49:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/15/2017 06:34 AM, Justin Pryzby wrote: > [snip] > >But you might consider: 1) looping around tables/indices rather than "REINDEX > >DATABASE", and then setting a statement_timeout=9s for each REINDEX

Re: [GENERAL] "Canceling authentication due to timeout" with idle transaction and reindex

2017-09-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
round tables/indices rather than "REINDEX DATABASE", and then setting a statement_timeout=9s for each REINDEX statement; and/or, 2) use pg_repack, but I don't think it handles system tables. Justin -- 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] Count column with name 'count' returns multiple rows. Why?

2017-08-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 10:47:37PM +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > On 2017-08-18 06:37:15 -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 01:01:45PM +0200, Rob Audenaerde wrote: > > > I don't understand why this query: > > > > > >

Re: [GENERAL] Count column with name 'count' returns multiple rows. Why?

2017-08-18 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 01:01:45PM +0200, Rob Audenaerde wrote: > I don't understand why this query: > >select count(base.*) from mytable base; > > does return multiple rows. > >select count(1) from mytable base; > > returns the proper count. > > There is a column with the name 'count'

Re: [GENERAL] partitioning question

2017-07-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
ted first (so a typical newly-inserted rows only goes through one if/case test). Alternately, the trigger function can dynamically compute the table into which to insert using plpgsql "format()" similar to here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPG

Re: [GENERAL] partitioning question

2017-07-30 Thread Justin Pryzby
daily* partition granularity of every table, was probably due to very large pg_statistics and pg_attributes tables, which no longer fit in buffer cache). Justin -- 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] Partitioning (constraint exclusion involving joins)

2017-07-25 Thread Justin Pryzby
|since the planner cannot know which partition the function value might fall |into at run time. [..] .. and see an early mail on its implementation, here: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1121251997.3970.237.camel@localhost.localdomain Justin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-g

[GENERAL] huge RAM use in multi-command ALTER of table heirarchy

2017-07-06 Thread Justin Pryzby
quot;-c client_min_messages=DEBUG3 -c log_statement_stats=on" psql postgres -c "ALTER TABLE t ${cols%,}" 2>/tmp/pg.err2; ~/src/postgresql.install/bin/pg_ctl -swD ~/src/postgres.dat stop; done' ..and log_statment_stats with a variation on the getrusage patch here https://w

[GENERAL] inheritence children with integer columns of differing width

2017-06-19 Thread Justin Pryzby
ows=2140 width=8) If it were allowed for children to have int columns with differing widths, then to promote int column, we would uninherit the historic children, ALTER the parent (and most recent tables), and then reinherit the children (unless ALTER on its own avoided rewriting tables in such a c

Re: [GENERAL] workaround for column cross-correlation

2017-06-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 08:46:57PM -0700, Jeff Janes wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 8:17 PM, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > > I know PG 10 will have support "CREATE STATISTICS.." for this.. > > > > ..but I wondered if there's a recommended workaround in earlier

[GENERAL] workaround for column cross-correlation

2017-06-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
cs_1.neigh_sect_id, eric_enodeb_cellrelation_metrics_1.sect_id)))) Thanks, Justin -- 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] Deadlock with single update statement?

2017-06-10 Thread Justin Pryzby
7829.560 ms session_id|593be2fd.6816 log_time|2017-06-10 01:16:37.833-11 pid|26646 detail| session_line|2306 message|statement: RESET synchronize_seqscans Thanks in advance for any clue or insight. Justin -- 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] Current best practice for maximum shared_buffers settings on big hardware?

2017-05-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
and I don't know if the behavior is better with recent kernel. /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run=2 ... and maybe also: /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag=madvise /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes=0 Justin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make chan

Re: [GENERAL] Help: Installing 9.6 breaks local connections to 9.2 on Centos 6.9

2017-05-15 Thread Justin Pryzby
libraries, which probably change the (default) socket path. Your options are to specify path to the socket (maybe in /tmp for running PG92?), change to TCP connection, or specify server option unix_socket_directories. Justin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] Partitioning and Table Inheritance

2017-05-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
25%40sss.pgh.pa.us https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/4188.1298960419%40sss.pgh.pa.us Justin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

[GENERAL] PG96 pg_restore connecting to PG95 causes ERROR: unrecognized configuration parameter "idle_in_transaction_session_timeout"

2017-05-05 Thread Justin Pryzby
I'm currenting migrating a DB between servers and this procedure will allow doing so with ~30min downtime...pg_upgrade to 9.6 will be done afterwards, which is why PG96 pg_upgrade is installed). Thanks, Justin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [GENERAL] How to add columns to view with dependencies

2017-04-16 Thread Justin Pryzby
f you're not re-ordering existing columns, you can use CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW Justin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

[GENERAL] SELECT x'00000000F'::int leading zeros causes "integer out of range"

2017-02-24 Thread Justin Pryzby
|/* Check that the bit string is not too long */ |if (VARBITLEN(arg) > sizeof(result) * BITS_PER_BYTE) | ereport(ERROR, | (errcode(ERRCODE_NUMERIC_VALUE_OUT_OF_RANGE), |errmsg("integer out of range"))); Justin -- Sent via

[GENERAL] INSERT ON CONFLICT of "wide" table: target lists can have at most 1664 entries

2016-12-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
(errcode(ERRCODE_PROGRAM_LIMIT_EXCEEDED), ./src/backend/parser/parse_node.c: errmsg("target lists can have at most %d entries", ./src/backend/parser/parse_node.c: MaxTupleAttributeNumber))); Thanks i

[GENERAL] INSERT ON CONFLICT of "wide" table: target lists can have at most 1664 entries

2016-12-04 Thread Justin Pryzby
(errcode(ERRCODE_PROGRAM_LIMIT_EXCEEDED), ./src/backend/parser/parse_node.c: errmsg("target lists can have at most %d entries", ./src/backend/parser/parse_node.c: MaxTupleAttributeNumber))); Thanks i

[GENERAL] Concerned to discover DOMAINs can be the same as built in types with no escaping

2016-06-23 Thread Justin Dearing
arning. CREATE DOMAIN public.int CHAR(50); -- Does work. I could see the argument for it working, but would prefer it didn't work. Should still emit a warning its overriding a base Since I'm returning to postgres after close to a decade, I figured I'd ask here for feedback before posting to the hackers list. Regards, Justin Dearing

Re: [GENERAL] Update from select

2013-05-13 Thread Justin Tocci
em stands for "easy money" update tbl1 set col3=em.col3,col4=em.col4,col5=em.col5 from (select col3, col4,col5 from tbl2 where col1="criteria") em Regards, Justin Tocci Programmer www.workflowproducts.com 7813 Harwood Road North Richland Hills, TX 76180 phone 817-503-9545 s

[GENERAL] Columns defined not matching pg_attibute

2012-12-12 Thread Justin Arnold
- which is missing the last 2 columns defined by pg_attribute and \d. Any ideas on what I can look at or do to correct this problem (if it can be corrected)? We are running postgres 8.3.4 on 64 bit Red Hat kernel release 2.6.18-164.el5 Thanks for the help! - Justin

Re: [GENERAL] Updating pg_attribute to widen column

2012-11-29 Thread Justin Julicher
migrate to another column, but this also involves code changes and lots and lots of testing. So my question is - does postgres take an update to pg_attribute instantly and in a reliable manner? thanks, Justin. On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > -

[GENERAL] Updating pg_attribute to widen column

2012-11-29 Thread Justin Julicher
but I have a number of questions is – - Does postgres pick up this change straight away? - Are there any caveats to my first question? thanks, Justin

[GENERAL] Hash index not being updated

2011-10-04 Thread Justin Naifeh
s_hash index, right? Maybe my settings are wrong or I'm making an incorrect assumption about Postgres behavior. Any pointer in the right direction helps. Thanks in advance. -- Justin Naifeh Software Developer Voice: 303-460-7111 x1 Toll Free: 877-444-3074 x1 Cell:

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade from 8.3.4 issue

2011-08-30 Thread Justin Arnold
Thanks Tom and Merlin, I removed that logic from check.c, rebuilt, and it worked fine. On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Merlin Moncure writes: > > It looks like some time after 8.3 was released that function was > > changed from returning 'record'. This is making me wonder if

[GENERAL] pg_upgrade from 8.3.4 issue

2011-08-30 Thread Justin Arnold
;record" Failure, exiting The binaries for the 8.3.4 install were built from source using the --with-perl --with-openssl options as well. Any thoughts on what I might be able to do to fix or workaround this? Thanks! - Justin

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.4.8 RPM/SRPM for RHEL4

2011-07-21 Thread Justin Pasher
perhaps the changes just never got pushed to the RHEL4 repository? Thanks. -- Justin Pasher -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

[GENERAL] Automatic database monitoring tool for PostgreSQL ... new project

2011-01-31 Thread Michael Justin
). Regards -- Michael Justin http://www.habarisoft.com/ -- 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] Easy way to convert a database from WIN1252 to UTF8?

2010-07-01 Thread Justin Graf
On 7/1/2010 11:08 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: > I'd like to convert a small database to UTF8 before it becomes too > large. I'm running on 8.3.x on Windows. It doesn't seem that pgAdmin > has any native way of doing this, what's the easiest way to go about > doing this? Thanks! > > Mike >

Re: [GENERAL] Where has ms2pg gone?

2010-06-10 Thread Justin Graf
On 6/10/2010 4:12 AM, Thom Brown wrote: > Does anyone know if ms2pg is available from somewhere other than > http://edoceo.com/creo/ms2pg ? Attempts to download it result in "not > found". Unless someone knows of an alternative attempt to automate > migration of MSSQL to PostgreSQL? > > Thanks >

Re: [GENERAL] Cognitive dissonance

2010-06-08 Thread Justin Graf
***SNIP*** > 2) Its also available in chm windows help file format. Which i find > allot > more useful > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/ > you could print chm to a text file. > > --I'll have to boot over to XP, ugh. Will do. There are linux chm readers http://www.linux.com/news/sof

Re: [GENERAL] Cognitive dissonance

2010-06-08 Thread Justin Graf
On 6/8/2010 9:23 AM, Peter Hunsberger wrote: > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:04 AM, John Gage wrote: > >> Unix is a text-based operating system with unbelievably helpful text >> manipulation tools. >> >> Postgres is a creature of Unix which happens to have unbelievable text >> searching and manipul

Re: [GENERAL] How to debug efficiently

2010-06-03 Thread Justin Graf
On 6/3/2010 5:43 AM, Jamie Lawrence-Jenner wrote: > > Hi All > > In SQL Server I could copy sql code out of an application and paste it > into SSMS, declare & assign vars that exist in the sql and run.. yay > great debugging scenario. > > e.g. (please note I am rusty and syntax may be incorrect)

Re: [GENERAL] Installing version 8.4

2010-05-29 Thread Justin Graf
On 5/29/2010 6:26 PM, Bob Pawley wrote: > Found it in XP it doesn't seem to exist in Windows 7. I can't even > find Doc and Settings in 7. > > It's a large file. I'm not sure what is needed but here is the latter > part of the file. > > Bob > ***Snip*** Windows 7 and vista move lots of things ar

Re: [GENERAL] child/parent creation

2010-05-29 Thread Justin Graf
On 5/29/2010 1:05 PM, Dennis Gearon wrote: > Is it possible to create a complex schema object in one transaction, I'm not sure i understand what you mean by schema object > using prepared statements to protect(somewaht) against SQL injection? > In short no Prepared statements do not pro

Re: [GENERAL] Please help me write a query

2010-05-27 Thread Justin Graf
On 5/27/2010 9:45 AM, Nikolas Everett wrote: > Sorry. Here is the setup: > CREATE TABLE test (id BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY, state1 INT NOT NULL, > state2 INT NOT NULL, timestamp TIMESTAMP); > INSERT INTO test (state1, state2, timestamp) VALUES (1, 1, now() - > interval '12 hours'); > INSERT INTO tes

Re: [GENERAL] Please help me write a query

2010-05-27 Thread Justin Graf
On 5/27/2010 9:04 AM, Nikolas Everett wrote: > Say I have a table that stores state transitions over time like so: > id, transitionable_id, state1, state2, timestamp > > I'm trying to write a query that coalesces changes in state2 away to > produce just a list of transitions of state1. I guess it

Re: [GENERAL] Hiding data in postgresql

2010-05-25 Thread Justin Graf
On 5/25/2010 2:58 AM, Hector Beyers wrote: > > No, I have not considered encrypting or decrypting data. The reason > for this is that I am trying to /secure a database/ by thinking like a > /malicious user / criminal/. I want to hide (for example) fraudulent > data on a database where it is not

Re: [GENERAL] Hiding data in postgresql

2010-05-25 Thread Justin Graf
On 5/24/2010 3:18 PM, Hector Beyers wrote: > Yes, I mean hide. I am approaching the problem out of the perspective > of a malicious user / hacker. > > **snip*** First hiding data is not a solution to secure or block access to information. This only slows people down it does not stop them, neve

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres stats collector showing high disk I/O

2010-05-20 Thread Justin Pasher
- Original Message - From: Justin Pasher Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:46:16 -0500 Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres stats collector showing high disk I/O To: Alvaro Herrera CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org - Original Message - From: Alvaro Herrera Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:28:03

Re: [GENERAL] Why Performance of SQL Query is *much* Slower in GUI PgAdmin

2010-05-17 Thread Justin Graf
On 5/17/2010 12:52 AM, Yan Cheng CHEOK wrote: > The pgadmin result seems different with my machine. My friend and I are using > Windows machine. Are you using Linux machine? > > Thanks and Regards > Yan Cheng CHEOK > > > **snip** I use both windows and Linux using pgadmin, and on occasion use

Re: [GENERAL] Reliability of Windows versions 8.3 or 8.4

2010-05-12 Thread Justin Graf
On 5/12/2010 12:33 PM, Richard Broersma wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Justin Graf wrote: > > >> I would do a plain text file something like XML. Given this is for >> industrial use 10 years is a good number for warranty and support, but >> this stuff w

Re: [GENERAL] Reliability of Windows versions 8.3 or 8.4

2010-05-12 Thread Justin Graf
On 5/12/2010 11:45 AM, Richard Broersma wrote: > Can anyone advise me if either PostgreSQL 8.3 or 8.4 is ready for > special case of production use? > > I'm considering using the windows version PostgreSQL in the following > conditions: > at least 10 years of up time (with periodic power failur

Re: [GENERAL] Latest source RPMs for 8.1.20

2010-05-04 Thread Justin Pasher
- Original Message - From: Devrim GÜNDÜZ Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 07:18:47 +0300 Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Latest source RPMs for 8.1.20 To: Justin Pasher CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 10:49 -0500, Justin Pasher wrote: I'm looking for the latest source RPM

Re: [GENERAL] Latest source RPMs for 8.1.20

2010-05-03 Thread Justin Pasher
- Original Message - From: Vincenzo Romano Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 17:59:10 +0200 Subject: Re: Latest source RPMs for 8.1.20 To: Justin Pasher CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org 2010/5/3 Justin Pasher : I'm looking for the latest source RPMs for Postgres 8.1.20 on RHEL. I ca

[GENERAL] Latest source RPMs for 8.1.20

2010-05-03 Thread Justin Pasher
h the postgresql-8.1.20.tar.bz2 tarball, update the versions in the spec file, then build the RPM? I noticed there are other patch files installed by the source RPM, so I didn't know if I would be missing any other potential patch files. Thanks. -- Justin Pasher -- Sent via pgsql-gener

Re: [GENERAL] Storing many big files in database- should I do it?

2010-04-29 Thread Justin Graf
On 4/29/2010 3:18 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera writes: > > However, that toast limit is per-table, whereas the pg_largeobject limit > is per-database. So for example if you have a partitioned table then > the toast limit only applies per partition. With large objects you'd > fall ove

Re: [GENERAL] Storing many big files in database- should I do it?

2010-04-29 Thread Justin Graf
On 4/29/2010 1:51 PM, David Wall wrote: > >> Put it another way: bytea values are not stored in the pg_largeobject >> catalog. > > I missed the part that BYTEA was being used since it's generally not a > good way for starting large binary data because you are right that > BYTEA requires escaping

Re: [GENERAL] Storing many big files in database- should I do it?

2010-04-29 Thread Justin Graf
On 4/29/2010 12:07 PM, David Wall wrote: > > > Big downside for the DB is that all large objects appear to be stored > together in pg_catalog.pg_largeobject, which seems axiomatically > troubling that you know you have lots of big data, so you then store > them together, and then worry about run

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres stats collector showing high disk I/O

2010-04-23 Thread Justin Pasher
- Original Message - From: Alvaro Herrera Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:28:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres stats collector showing high disk I/O To: Justin Pasher CC: dep...@depesz.com, pgsql-general@postgresql.org Justin Pasher wrote: Agh... I used pg_stats_reset (with an s

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres stats collector showing high disk I/O

2010-04-23 Thread Justin Pasher
> I'm guessing I should just try to delete the file outright? > Err... I meant "should NOT" delete. -- Justin Pasher -- 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] Postgres stats collector showing high disk I/O

2010-04-23 Thread Justin Pasher
- Original Message - From: hubert depesz lubaczewski Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:40:35 +0200 Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres stats collector showing high disk I/O To: Justin Pasher CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:27:55PM -0500, Justin Pasher wrote: haven&#

[GENERAL] Postgres stats collector showing high disk I/O

2010-04-23 Thread Justin Pasher
Hello, Redhat EL4 update 8, 2.6.9-89.0.23.ELsmp Quad Proc, Dual Core Xeon, 16GB RAM Postgres 8.1.18 I'm having some trouble pinning down exactly what is causing our Postgres cluster to run slowly. After some initial investigation, I noticed that the disk write activity is consistently high, an

Re: [GENERAL] Query is stuck

2010-04-14 Thread Justin Graf
On 4/14/2010 9:42 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > > Man, it's hard to read your emails. I've reformatted, I suggest you > improve the formatting on future emails, as I was about to say "to > hell with this question" because it was just too difficult to read, > and I expect there are others on the list who

Re: [GENERAL] Query is stuck

2010-04-14 Thread Justin Graf
On 4/14/2010 9:20 AM, Satish Burnwal (sburnwal) wrote: > Index Scan using repcopy_index on repcopy a (cost=0.00..87824607.17 > *rows=28* width=142) (actual time=11773.105..689111.440*rows=1* loops=1) > Index Cond: ((dm_user)::text = 'u3'::text) > Filter: ((report_status = 0) AND (repor

Re: [GENERAL] [offtopic] How do you name a table...

2010-04-08 Thread Justin Graf
On 4/8/2010 9:30 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Ognjen Blagojevic: > >> >> Is this: >> a. Lookup table >> b. Classifier >> c. Cypher(er)? >> >> I'm looking for the appropriate term in English. >> > I try to make it an ENUM when it's very unlikely to change, i.e. day of > the week

Re: [GENERAL] round(x) function

2010-03-26 Thread Justin Graf
On 3/26/2010 12:12 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > "Gaietti, Mauro \(SELEX GALILEO Guest, > Italy\)" writes: > >> This query: >> select round(0.5), round(0.5::integer), round(0.5::bigint), round( >> 0.5::float ), round( 0.5::double precision ),round(cast(0.5 as double >> precision )),round(cast(0.5::do

[GENERAL]

2010-03-18 Thread Justin Graf
On 3/18/2010 12:52 PM, Scott Mead wrote: > xtuple ERP does and the latest version of GNUCash can use postgres as a backend too. > > --Scott M > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Garry Saddington < ga...@schoolteachers.co.uk> wrote: > > Does anyone know of a web based accounting(finance) pa

Re: [GENERAL] app table names

2010-03-16 Thread Justin Graf
On 3/16/2010 3:35 PM, Vick Khera wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Jamie Kahgee wrote: > >> I'm curious what people consider best practice (or how do you do it) to >> help ensure these name collisions don't happen. >> > Do not mix data from multiple applications in one database.

Re: [GENERAL] Daylight savings time confusion

2010-03-15 Thread Justin Graf
On 3/15/2010 2:40 PM, Rob Richardson wrote: > Greetings! > > Our database monitors the progression of steel coils through the > annealing process. The times for each step are recorded in wallclock > time (US eastern time zone for this customer) and in UTC time. During > standard time, the differe

Re: [GENERAL] Naming conventions for lots of stored procedures

2010-03-11 Thread Justin Graf
On 3/10/2010 11:52 PM, Chris Travers wrote: > > There are two major limitations here of schemas: > > 1) They can't be nested leading again to possible namespace ambiguity. > 2) there are a number of requests to try to get the application to > install into an arbitrary, nonpublic schema. > > If sc

Re: [GENERAL] Naming conventions for lots of stored procedures

2010-03-10 Thread Justin Graf
On 3/10/2010 8:16 PM, Chris Travers wrote: > Hi all; > > One of my applications currently has over 60 stored procedures and > future versions will likely have several hundred. I am wondering what > folks find to be helpful naming conventions for managing a large > number of stored procedures. We

Re: [GENERAL] managing tablespaces like files?

2010-03-09 Thread Justin Graf
On 3/9/2010 12:07 AM, Sam Carleton wrote: > I would like to thank both John and Scott for the help. It is very > clear to me that PostgreSQL isn't the ideal solution for my current > model. The conversation has gotten me thinking of ways the model > could be modified to work with PostgrSQL (an

Re: [GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-04 Thread Justin Graf
On 3/4/2010 10:00 AM, Greg Stark wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Justin Graf wrote: > >> To pretty much anyone outside MS, a sane human would think 64 bit apps >> in SysWoW64 and 32Bit apps in System32. :'( >> >> > Ah, but you all a

Re: [GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-04 Thread Justin Graf
On 3/4/2010 3:51 AM, Richard Huxton wrote: > On 04/03/10 01:35, Craig Ringer wrote: >> >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942976/en-us > > Classy. Even better - according to the linked page, the 64 bit version > is in the "System32" folder - yippee! > > "* The 32-bit version of the Odbcad32.ex

Re: [GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-03 Thread Justin Graf
On 3/3/2010 5:16 PM, Michael Gould wrote: > One thing I've noticed is that on my machines, when I install the odbc > driver I get no error messages but when I look in the ODBC administrator I > do not see any entry for PostGres in the drivers list. > > I do know that it somehow is working because t

Re: [GENERAL] Scratching my head why results are different between machines.

2010-03-03 Thread Justin Graf
On 3/3/2010 3:40 PM, Michael Gould wrote: > On my machine the UUID that is returned is 16 bytes and I cannot make > out any relevant numbers from the UUID key in the citystateinfo > table. I've tried this in a Windows XP machine and a Windows 7 64 bit. > > Now here is the weird thing. I did a c

[GENERAL] Source RPMs for PostgreSQL 7.4.27 on RHEL4

2010-02-16 Thread Justin Pasher
RPMs don't exist in a similar directory structure (http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/srpms/7.4/redhat/rhel-4-i386/). Any idea where I can grab the 7.4.27 source RPMs? Thanks. -- Justin Pasher -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscrip

Re: [GENERAL] windows7 login- user account

2010-02-11 Thread Justin Graf
On 2/10/2010 7:15 PM, paul e wrote: > Before Installed postgresql Windows7 went straight to my user account. > Now when it boots I have to go to a selection page where I choose > between my user account and a postgresql user account. Is there any > way to bypass this so it boots directly to my us

Re: [GENERAL] Best way to handle multi-billion row read-only table?

2010-02-09 Thread Justin Graf
On 2/9/2010 4:41 PM, Asher Hoskins wrote: > > Thanks for that, it looks like partitioning is the way to go. I'm > assuming that I should try and keep my total_relation_sizes less than > the memory size of the machine? This depends on what the quires look like. As other have stated when partitio

Re: [GENERAL] Best way to handle multi-billion row read-only table?

2010-02-09 Thread Justin Graf
On 2/9/2010 12:47 PM, Asher wrote: > Hello. > > I'm putting together a database to store the readings from various > measurement devices for later processing. Since these things (water > pressure monitors attached to very large water pipes) take readings at > 200Hz and are typically deployed ove

Re: [GENERAL] Order by and strings

2010-02-08 Thread Justin Graf
On 2/8/2010 7:09 PM, Fredric Fredricson wrote: > Hi! > New to the list with a question that I cannot find the answer to in > the manual or on the internet but I suspect is trivial. If somebody > could point me in the correct direction I would be greatful. > > This is what I do (condensed, of cour

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2009-12-21 Thread Justin Alston
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Re: [GENERAL] Automatic truncation of character values & casting to the type of a column type

2009-12-17 Thread Justin Bailey
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Really?  Works for me, in everything back to 7.3. > I must be missing something, because this function fails: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION insertShort() RETURNS VOID AS $BODY$ DECLARE s Short.shortCol%TYPE; BEGIN SELECT longCol I

[GENERAL] Automatic truncation of character values & casting to the type of a column type

2009-12-16 Thread Justin Bailey
DATE Short SET shortCol = CAST(myVal AS Short.shortCol%TYPE) -- syntax error  UPDATE Short SET shortCol = CAST(myVal AS (Short).shortCol) -- syntax error Thanks in advance for any advice. Justin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

[GENERAL] Automatic truncation of character values & casting to the type of a column type

2009-12-16 Thread Justin Bailey
error UPDATE Short SET shortCol = CAST(myVal AS Short.shortCol%TYPE) -- syntax error UPDATE Short SET shortCol = CAST(myVal AS (Short).shortCol) -- syntax error Thanks in advance for any advice Justin -- 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] Problem with plpython

2009-10-30 Thread Justin Pasher
he LANG variable directly in your call to ls, since it's just running a shell command. -- Justin Pasher -- 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] interface for "non-SQL people"

2009-10-10 Thread justin
pere roca wrote: hi, some nice tool over there to let non-SQL knowing people to construct their queries? I'm using pgAdmin III but I know some SQL. there is no other option than constructing an HTML with forms, drop-down menus...? thanks, pERE Your best bet which is not free is

Re: [GENERAL] How useful is the money datatype?

2009-10-04 Thread justin
Rich Shepard wrote: In the early and mid-1980s we used a procedure for business applications involving money that worked regardless of programming language or platform. To each (float, real) monetary amount we added 0.005 and truncated the result to two digits on the right of the decimal

[GENERAL] dump time increase by 1h with new kernel

2009-09-27 Thread Justin Pryzby
t might be different which could cause such a drastic change? Thanks, Justin -- 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] Can't find SRPMs for PG 8.1.18 on RHEL4

2009-09-25 Thread Justin Pasher
Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 15:43 -0500, Justin Pasher wrote: I'm having trouble finding the source RPMs for PostgreSQL 8.1.18 on RHEL4. I've tried looking in the following places with no luck (I can only find the regular RPMs). http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/8.1/red

[GENERAL] Can't find SRPMs for PG 8.1.18 on RHEL4

2009-09-24 Thread Justin Pasher
hel-4-i386/ Any suggestions? -- Justin Pasher -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

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