[GENERAL] pgbench - prevent client from aborting on ERROR

2015-04-30 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
Hi, Is there any way to do this? For context, I'm wanting to write a custom script in repeatable read isolation level. If I hit a serializable error, I don't want the client to abort, I want it to continue running transactions. Is that possible? thanks, Brad. -- Sent via pgsql-general

[GENERAL] Documentation Inaccuracy – Transaction Isolation

2015-04-28 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
statement will be seen. Brad. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

[GENERAL] Stat estiamtes off - why?

2013-08-29 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
Thanks, Brad.

[GENERAL] Temp files on Commit

2013-08-22 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
814822 Is this a case of having work_mem set to low, or something else? I haven't seen temp files on commit before. Thanks, Brad.

[GENERAL] Source code and database object identifiers

2013-04-06 Thread brad st
+ debug the PostgreSQL. Can someone please provide some guidance where I should make the changes to preserve mixed case for identifiers? Thank you Brad.

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

2011-12-08 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
between DB users and/or databases on the instance? If the answer is yes to either, that is a fair bit better than what we can achieve today. Brad. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql

[GENERAL] psql HTML mode - quoting HTML characters

2011-10-26 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
the line td align=leftlt;a href=http://www.postgresql.orggt;Postgreslt;/agt;/td To be td align=lefta href=http://www.postgresql.orgPostgres/a/td Thanks, Brad -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] psql HTML mode - quoting HTML characters

2011-10-26 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
-Original Message- From: Josh Kupershmidt [mailto:schmi...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 5:04 PM To: Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA) Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] psql HTML mode - quoting HTML characters On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:51 PM

Re: [GENERAL] max_stack_depth error, need suggestion

2011-08-18 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
for some of my clusters. They may have fixed the query that was causing that to happen though. Brad. -- 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] PostgreSQL 9.0 or 9.1 ?

2011-06-16 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
you actually need any of the new features and/or performance benefits in 9.1? Postgres does have an excellent track record for quality and stability with new releases, but a couple of months in the field isn't really considered stable in most places. Brad. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] Inspecting a DB - psql or system tables ?

2011-05-30 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
believe, but very different from the way the pg_catalog queries work - which will return you all objects back regardless of permissions on them. Brad. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref

Re: [GENERAL] 10 missing features

2011-04-26 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
be a win. Brad -- 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] 10 missing features

2011-04-25 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
that there are ways to get at some of this stuff or work around it - but the barrier of entry is often pretty high, can involves high volume logging and is often far more time consuming task than it could be. Brad. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes

Re: [GENERAL] Disk space usage analyzer?

2011-03-28 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
with each table. pg_total_relation_size() will give you the size of the table and the indexes on it. Brad. -- 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] multi-tenant vs. multi-cluster

2011-03-18 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
approach, the instance can evict buffers cached for DB B in order to load buffers needed for DB A. In the split instance, you can't. Brad. -- 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] multi-tenant vs. multi-cluster

2011-03-18 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
-Original Message- From: Ben Chobot [mailto:be...@silentmedia.com] Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 3:45 PM To: Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA) Cc: pgsql-general General Subject: Re: [GENERAL] multi-tenant vs. multi-cluster On Mar 18, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Nicholson, Brad (Toronto

Re: [GENERAL] How do you change the size of the WAL files?

2011-03-11 Thread Nicholson, Brad (Toronto, ON, CA)
of such a change before deploying it. Be very aware that just because something works in one fashion on another database like Oracle, it does not mean that it will work in the same fashion for Postgres (or any other DB for that matter). Brad. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Binary Replication and Slony

2010-09-20 Thread Brad Nicholson
a degraded state or worrying about STONITH. If you switch roles in a controlled manner, both nodes remain in the cluster. Slony prevents writes against the replica. I do agree that for most, Slony is overkill and streaming replication and hot standby will be the better choice. -- Brad

Re: [GENERAL] Need help understanding vacuum verbose output

2010-08-06 Thread Brad Nicholson
tuples -- a number we know in fact to be correct? How could both statements be correct? It found 45878 dead tuples in 396 pages for the index authors_archive_pkey. It found 16558 dead tuples in 492 pages for the table authors_archive. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias

Re: [GENERAL] Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?

2010-07-30 Thread Brad Nicholson
On 10-07-29 08:54 PM, Greg Smith wrote: Brad Nicholson wrote: Postgres also had a reputation of being slow compared to MySQL. This was due to a lot of really poor MySQL vs Postgres benchmarks floating around in the early 2000's. I think more of those were fair than you're giving them credit

Re: [GENERAL] Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?

2010-07-30 Thread Brad Nicholson
On 10-07-29 08:54 PM, Greg Smith wrote: Brad Nicholson wrote: Postgres also had a reputation of being slow compared to MySQL. This was due to a lot of really poor MySQL vs Postgres benchmarks floating around in the early 2000's. I think more of those were fair than you're giving them credit

Re: [GENERAL] idle process autovacuum

2010-07-30 Thread Brad Nicholson
-generate statistics for the table for the query planner to use. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp.

Re: [GENERAL] Which CMS/Ecommerce/Shopping cart ?

2010-07-29 Thread Brad Nicholson
protection for your data that MySQL didn't worry about. No one really tested it in a way that mattered, which was how the two databases performed under concurrent load, where Postgres won hands down. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] Configure Postgres From SQL

2010-07-12 Thread Brad Nicholson
if their is no index on the updated column and there is enough space in the physical page to keep the tuple on the same page. You can adjust the fillfactor to try and favour this. You can check if you are doing hot updates by looking at pg_stat_user_tables for the number of hot updates. -- Brad

Re: [GENERAL] A thought about other open source projects

2010-06-21 Thread Brad Nicholson
are tied to that app. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

[GENERAL] pgcrypto in separate schema

2010-06-15 Thread Brad Nicholson
I want to put the functions from pgcrypto into a separate schema, but pgcrypto.sql is explicitly setting the search path to public. Is there a reason it does this that I should be aware of? Is it fine to change that and install the functions in a separate schema? -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106

[GENERAL] ERROR: unrecognized time zone name: UTC

2010-05-18 Thread Brad Ediger
I am experiencing this error trying to set the connection time zone to UTC on PostgreSQL 8.4.4: postgres=# set time zone 'UTC'; ERROR: unrecognized time zone name: UTC I have read the documentation for timezone_abbreviations, and everything looked in order, at least as far as my limited

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: unrecognized time zone name: UTC

2010-05-18 Thread Brad Ediger
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Brad Ediger b...@bradediger.com wrote: I am experiencing this error trying to set the connection time zone to UTC on PostgreSQL 8.4.4:    postgres=# set time zone 'UTC';    ERROR:  unrecognized time zone name: UTC Answered my own question -- it was my Prefix

[GENERAL] Lifekeeper

2010-04-01 Thread Brad Nicholson
Hi, Is anyone using Lifekeeper for Linux availability with Postgres? If so, what are your thoughts on it? Work as advertised? Any dangerous gotchas? -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Solid State Drives with PG

2010-03-26 Thread Brad Nicholson
space costs. Depends on the your vantange point I guess. I'm looking at these as potential alternatives to some high end, expensive storage products, not a cheap way to get really fast disk. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. -- Sent via pgsql

[GENERAL] 8.3.10 Changes

2010-03-08 Thread Brad Nicholson
Could someone please point me towards the changes for 8.3.10 that was mentioned on -announce this morning? Also, any idea when this is going to be released? -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. pgsql-general pgsql-general@postgresql.org -- Sent via

[GENERAL] Work Mem Allocation Questions

2010-03-03 Thread Brad Nicholson
allocate all 30MB, or just the 10MB I need? -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. -- 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] Cacti + PostgreSQL Graphing

2010-03-01 Thread Brad Nicholson
, Check_posgres:database_size will alert me if I go over X size, which is useful but with Cacti, I get a graph of waht the size is over a 5 min period of time, so I can watch growth ... Check out Hyperic. We're currently evaluating it for profiling out systems, and I'm pretty impressed with it so far. -- Brad

Re: [GENERAL] checkpoints/bgwriter tuning verification

2009-10-30 Thread Brad Nicholson
initdb. If you want to do it after the DB is created, move the contents of pg_xlog/ (when the DB is shut down) and make a symlink to the new directory. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] checkpoints/bgwriter tuning verification

2009-10-29 Thread Brad Nicholson
. Absolutely. The smoothing is supposed to alleviate that, but I'm not sure how well it works with aggressive activity driven checkpoints like you have. Keep up posted, I'm curious. Thanks for any ideas. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. -- Sent

[GENERAL] autovacuum and immediate shutdown issues

2009-10-19 Thread Brad Nicholson
, but after deleting one row, it shows dead_tuple_percent = 0.09? 5: on the missing stats - does this mean my query plans are potentially bad until the stats are regenerated? -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum and immediate shutdown issues

2009-10-19 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 12:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Brad Nicholson bnich...@ca.afilias.info writes: If you issue an immediate shutdown to the database, autovacumm will not process tables that should be vacuumed until manually re-analyzed. AFAICS this is an unsurprising consequence

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum and immediate shutdown issues

2009-10-19 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 10:53 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Brad Nicholson bnich...@ca.afilias.info writes: On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 12:07 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: That seems like a fundamentally stupid idea, unless you

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum and immediate shutdown issues

2009-10-19 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 11:16 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Brad Nicholson bnich...@ca.afilias.info wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 10:53 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Brad Nicholson bnich

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum and immediate shutdown issues

2009-10-19 Thread Brad Nicholson
, autovacuum will vacuum accordingly. autoanalyze will automatically analyze new tables when they don't have stats. It seems logical that it should handle this case where the table also does not have stats. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum and immediate shutdown issues

2009-10-19 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 15:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Brad Nicholson bnich...@ca.afilias.info writes: autoanalyze will automatically analyze new tables when they don't have stats. It seems logical that it should handle this case where the table also does not have stats. It will autoanalyze

Re: [GENERAL] autovacuum and immediate shutdown issues

2009-10-19 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 15:09 -0400, Brad Nicholson wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 15:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Brad Nicholson bnich...@ca.afilias.info writes: autoanalyze will automatically analyze new tables when they don't have stats. It seems logical that it should handle this case where

Re: [GENERAL] pg_stat_reset() not resetting all statistics counters

2009-07-15 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 14:13 +0200, Rafael Martinez wrote: Hello Should not the execution of pg_stat_reset() reset *all* statistics counters everywhere in the database? It only resets the stats for the current database, not the cluster wide stats - pg_database is cluster wide. -- Brad

[GENERAL] Maintenance database SQL_ASCII

2009-06-12 Thread Brad Schick
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL= -Brad -- 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] Average connections

2009-06-10 Thread Brad Nicholson
/XAJ43UGqlzv5gfzg1YgECbhvL2MaPzwCdEnt3 GfewITsorV/t7cfpq3WxVqM= =84cI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] Bloated Table

2009-05-27 Thread Brad Nicholson
estimating, or is it flat our wrong? Co-workers that were PGCon are saying that this is becoming a popular/accepted way to check for bloated tables. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general

[GENERAL] Prepare / Execute Method Error

2009-04-28 Thread Brad Budge
I'm having problems passing in variables into my execute statement. Any ideas? * * ** *Table:* CREATE TABLE cat.case ( vari character varying(50),--Contains Value ‘BDD1’ htnumeric(4,1) --Contains Value 30.0 )

Re: [GENERAL] Selling an 8.1 to 8.3 upgrade

2009-04-24 Thread Brad Nicholson
frustrated with this request as I figured just the amount of bug-fixes alone would be adequate reasoning. Unfortunately, what seems adequate to us technical folks is seldom is to the business folks. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. -- Sent via

[GENERAL] Time intersect query

2009-03-22 Thread Brad Murray
I'm wanting to optimize and improve a query to get the maximum number of users over a period of time. What I'm trying to accomplish is to get graphable data points of the maximum number of simultaneous users at a specified interval over a period of time, preferably with only a single pass through

Re: [GENERAL] clearing the buffer cache

2009-02-13 Thread Brad Nicholson
for a function I could call, or maybe some variable I write to, that would cause the contents to be invalidated. Restart the database. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make

[GENERAL] XPath to search for elements in a sequence

2009-01-13 Thread Brad Balmer
With XML similar to: a b c 1 / c c 2 / c c 3 / c / b I'm trying to create an xpath expression (for a postgresql query) that will return if is a particular value and not that is all three values. What I currently have (which does not work) is: select * from someTable

[GENERAL] pg_stat_reset not resetting all stats

2008-12-12 Thread Brad Nicholson
Is there a reason that pg_stat_reset doesn't reset the stats in pg_stat_bgwriter and pg_stat_database? PG 8.3 (obviously). The call to pg_stat_reset works, as my other stats tables are clear. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] Healing a table after massive updates

2008-09-11 Thread Brad Nicholson
on disk is greater). Is there a way to do this? Regular VACUUM is the correct operation to get rid of the dead tuples. If you want to compact the the table, you either need to use CLUSTER or VACUUM FULL + REINDEX. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp

Re: [GENERAL] dbsize command

2008-06-23 Thread Brad Nicholson
on how to use it? There are a series of functions in the database core that will tell you this now. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/functions-admin.html -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] page is uninitialized --- fixing

2008-03-27 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 15:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Brad Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We just took a test database down (PG 8.1.11) fairly hard (pulled a SAN It could be that but not necessarily. These could be pages that were allocated to put new tuples into, but the crash happened

Re: [GENERAL] page is uninitialized --- fixing

2008-03-27 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 10:29 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Brad Nicholson wrote: On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 15:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Brad Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We just took a test database down (PG 8.1.11) fairly hard (pulled a SAN It would be easier to believe

Re: [GENERAL] page is uninitialized --- fixing

2008-03-27 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 10:37 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: What do you mean by two separate SAN switches pulled out --- is the DB spread across multiple SAN controllers? It's using IO mutilpath through 2 HBAs. Both of those were taken down. Brad. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql

[GENERAL] page is uninitialized --- fixing

2008-03-26 Thread Brad Nicholson
: relation my_table page 652140 is uninitialized --- fixing WARNING: relation my_table page 652940 is uninitialized --- fixing WARNING: relation my_table page 652941 is uninitialized --- fixing That sort of looks like it could be data loss, can someone explain what happened? Brad. -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] How to copy tables between databases?

2008-02-26 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 15:19 -0500, Kynn Jones wrote: Is there a simple way to copy a table from one database to another without generating an intermediate dump file? pg_dump -t table name source DB | psql -d target DB -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada

Re: [GENERAL] Perceived weaknesses of postgres

2008-02-13 Thread Brad Nicholson
with 8.3 and Slony 2.0. Brad. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql storage and performance questions

2007-11-20 Thread Brad Nicholson
) (we had set postgres' db block size as 8 and oracle's is 16kb...) Do you have any comments on this? 8k is the defualt. You can change the block size if you need to. You need to modify src/include/pg_config_manual.h recompile and re-initdb. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql storage and performance questions

2007-11-20 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 13:04 -0500, Josh Harrison wrote: On Nov 20, 2007 11:13 AM, Brad Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 07:22 -0500, Josh Harrison wrote: There were a couple of things we noted. 1. Tablesize twice as much than oracle-- Im not sure if postgres null

Re: [GENERAL] young guy wanting (Postgres DBA) ammo

2007-11-02 Thread Brad Nicholson
no part in this :-)) was a cron job was that restarted the MySQL server every night. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http

Re: [GENERAL] subversion support?

2007-10-25 Thread Brad Lhotsky
what the differences are. We have a script that runs nightly that dumps tables / functions to file, and then checks it in automagically to svn, which sends an email of the diffs. Perhaps that would work for you? -- Brad Lhotsky[EMAIL PROTECTED] NCTS Computer

Re: [GENERAL] Missing files under pg_data following power failure

2007-10-12 Thread Brad Nicholson
is lying about fsync operations. What filesystem are you using? I've seen similar problems on JFS2, it was something with logredo or fsck being busted on a Big Blue OS. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. ---(end of broadcast

Re: [GENERAL] lowering impact of checkpoints

2007-09-25 Thread Brad Nicholson
on what is going on, as it is possible that you can make things worse. I would start with something like 2% for bgwriter_all_maxpages and see if that helps things out. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. ---(end of broadcast

Re: [GENERAL] I get a error msg when i try to connect to the DB

2007-08-16 Thread Brad Nicholson
:::::::trust can you please guide me on what the problem might be. Regards Rajaram -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading

[GENERAL] Cluster and MVCC

2007-08-10 Thread Brad Nicholson
I just want to confirm that the cluster/MVCC issues are due to transaction visibility. Assuming that no concurrent access is happening to a given table when the cluster command is issued (when takes it visibility snapshot), it is safe to cluster that table. Correct? -- Brad Nicholson 416-673

[GENERAL] Time for Vacuum vs. Vacuum Full

2007-08-09 Thread Brad Nicholson
I have a couple of database clusters that need a vacuum full, and I would like to estimate how long it will take, as it will need to be in a maintenance window. I have the times that it takes to to do a regular vacuum on the clusters, will vacuum full take longer? -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106

[GENERAL] Vaccum Stalling

2007-07-10 Thread Brad Nicholson
in main (argc=1, argv=0x2ff22c40) at main.c:222 #21 0x1204 in __start () Ideas? -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ

Re: [GENERAL] Vaccum Stalling

2007-07-10 Thread Brad Nicholson
for 7.4? I bumped it up to ~ 245mbs -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/

Re: [GENERAL] Vaccum Stalling

2007-07-10 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 11:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Brad Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 11:19 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Oh, I forgot to mention --- you did check that vacuum_mem is set to a pretty high value, no? Else you might be doing a lot more btbulkdelete

Re: [GENERAL] Dangers of fsync = off

2007-05-09 Thread Brad Nicholson
that there is a worthwhile performance benefit from turning it off (which there may not be), and you gotten your boss/clients/stakeholders to sign off (preferably in writing) that data loss is acceptable if the db crashes, then go ahead and turn it off. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias

[GENERAL] Dynamically Allocated System Resources

2007-05-01 Thread Brad Nicholson
Running PG8.1 - will it recognize CPU and memory that are added dynamically to the server when the postmaster is running? -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres and geographically diverse replication

2007-04-24 Thread Brad Nicholson
the connection between the two sites is. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] Regarding WAL

2007-04-24 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 09:02 +0530, Mageshwaran wrote: Hi , I want to do replication using WAL , please tell the methods by which log shipping is done ie moving the wal files to slaves and executing it. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/continuous-archiving.html -- Brad

Re: [GENERAL] Missing magic block

2007-04-23 Thread Brad Buran
Hi Martijn, Thank you very much for the suggestion: CREATE FUNCTION add_one(IN int) RETURNS int AS 'add_one' LANGUAGE C; I corrected this to say: AS 'Project1', 'add_one' And restarted psql (rebooted for that matter as well) and am still getting the same error.

[GENERAL] Missing magic block

2007-04-22 Thread Brad Buran
int add_one(int arg) { return arg + 1; } And the sql statement I am using is: CREATE FUNCTION add_one(IN int) RETURNS int AS 'add_one' LANGUAGE C; Any feedback as to how to correct it is appreciated! Thanks, Brad ---(end of broadcast

[GENERAL] pg_dump and buffer usage

2007-02-14 Thread Brad Nicholson
Question about pg_dump and Postgres 8.1. Assuming you've let you buffers settle, and then you dump your database. Will this clobber your shared buffers like a seq scan against a large table will? -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106[EMAIL PROTECTED] Database Administrator, Afilias Canada

Re: [GENERAL] Recording insert, updates, and deletes

2007-01-10 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 16:51 +0100, Andy Dale wrote: If anyone can help or offer advice on how to achieve my objective it would be greatly appreciated. Slony log shipping will do this -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp

[GENERAL] Unrecognized time zone name error.

2006-12-12 Thread Brad Nicholson
on powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.2 (1 row) -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Unrecognized time zone name error.

2006-12-12 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 11:13 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Brad Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This seems odd. Any idea what's going on here? template1=# SET TimeZone TO 'GMT'; ERROR: unrecognized time zone name: GMT Worksforme. Perhaps you are missing the /usr/share/pgsql/timezone

Re: [GENERAL] Request for replication advice

2006-11-10 Thread Brad Nicholson
version that causes log shipping to fall over if you have more than 2 nodes in your config (not just log shipped nodes). If you have more questions, please sign up for the Slony list. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. ---(end

Re: [GENERAL] Request for replication advice

2006-11-10 Thread Brad Nicholson
rate = higher latency), and not easy to put a bound on pre-8.2. I'm not entirely sure how battle tested the Slony log shipping stuff actually is. -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. ---(end of broadcast

Re: [GENERAL] Request for replication advice

2006-11-10 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 15:16 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Brad Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 15:07 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Those are two different methods: you'd use one or the other, not both. Slony has its own log shipping, I think that was what he was referring

[GENERAL] log_duration and JDBC V3 Preparded Statements

2006-10-30 Thread Brad Nicholson
I'm wondering what that status of the fix for this is. Looking at the archives, it looks like Bruce had a patch http://beta.linuxports.com/pgsql-jdbc/2006-08/msg00036.php I don't see anything in the release notes though. What's the status on this? -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database

Re: [GENERAL] log_duration and JDBC V3 Preparded Statements

2006-10-30 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 10:14 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Brad Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm wondering what that status of the fix for this is. AFAIK it all works ... grab beta2 and try it. Will do. Is this strictly an 8.2 patch, or will it be back-ported to 8.1 and 7.4? -- Brad

Re: [GENERAL] log_duration and JDBC V3 Preparded Statements

2006-10-30 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 10:27 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Brad Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will do. Is this strictly an 8.2 patch, or will it be back-ported to 8.1 and 7.4? We aren't going to change the behavior of logging that much in existing releases --- or were you just thinking

[GENERAL] Stats Collector Won't Start

2006-10-18 Thread Brad Nicholson
appropriate permissions to? -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Stats Collector Won't Start

2006-10-18 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 13:00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Brad Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone please provide a bit of information where the following error is coming from? This is PG 8.1.3 on AIX 5.3 LOG: could not bind socket for statistics collector: Permission denied

Re: [GENERAL] Stats Collector Won't Start

2006-10-18 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 14:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Brad Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 13:00 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: That's bizarre. What error conditions does your man page for bind(2) document as yielding EACCES? The only one mentioned on my systems

Re: [GENERAL] Stats Collector Won't Start

2006-10-18 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 15:59 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Brad Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 14:31 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Would you try strace'ing postmaster start to see what gets passed to the socket() and bind() calls just before this message comes out? Here

[GENERAL] How does PG access wal files?

2006-10-11 Thread Brad Nicholson
Is it by file name or by inode? Brad. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql rising

2006-09-21 Thread Brad Nicholson
to evaluate something is on the basis of - if there is someone they can sue. Good luck attempting to sue Microsoft, Oracle or IBM for deficiencies in their database products. Brad. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner

[GENERAL] Select Cast Error

2006-09-21 Thread Brad Budge
I have a field that is varchar(15) type and an example of data I'm working with is (PROJ-0001-06) I can make these two select statements work but not together. select cast((max(substring(test.test from 6 for 4))) AS INTEGER) + 1 FROM test;select max(substring(test.test from 11 for 2)) FROM

Re: [GENERAL] Best approach for a gap-less sequence

2006-08-17 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 16:07 -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote: On 8/17/06, Brad Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, I think you are wrong. There is a SELECT ... FOR UPDATE; The first-to-obtain the gapless sequence transaction will establish a lock onthe tax_id row. The other

Re: [GENERAL] Best approach for a gap-less sequence

2006-08-17 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 15:13 -0500, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 15:07, Merlin Moncure wrote: On 8/17/06, Brad Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, I think you are wrong. There is a SELECT ... FOR UPDATE; The first-to-obtain the gapless sequence transaction

Re: [GENERAL] Best approach for a gap-less sequence

2006-08-14 Thread Brad Nicholson
the max id of x t2 tries to insert a value of x+1, insert fails (if it doesn't, you really want to have a close look at your constraints :-) Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106 Database Administrator, Afilias Canada Corp. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1

Re: [GENERAL] Using currval() in an insert statement...

2006-07-25 Thread Brad Nicholson
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 10:45 -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: I'm having trouble figuring out how to use the currval() function for sequences in an INSERT statement. I did some searching online, but couldn't find what I was looking for. I have two Schemas in my Database: metadata geometry

[GENERAL] Strange Behavior with Serializable Transcations

2006-06-28 Thread Brad Nicholson
SERIALIZABLE; -- SELECT * from foo; INSERT INTO foo (id) -- VALUES (1); -- -- SELECT * from foo; The select in t2 (the last one, obviously) does not see the insert from t1. What's up? -- Brad Nicholson 416-673-4106[EMAIL

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