[GENERAL] pg_dump: could not format inet value

2007-12-05 Thread Tomas
Hi, I've stumbled on pg_dumpall problem: -- pg_dump: ERROR: could not format inet value: Address family not supported by protocol pg_dump: SQL command to dump the contents of table elog failed: PQendcopy() failed. pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: could not format inet value:

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 05.12.2007, um 10:24:04 + mailte Ashish Karalkar folgendes: Hello List member, Iha a table containing two columns x and y . for single value of x there are multiple values in y e.g X Y 1 ABC 2 PQR 3 XYZ 4 LMN 1 LMN 2

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread Ashish Karalkar
A. Kretschmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: am Wed, dem 05.12.2007, um 10:24:04 + mailte Ashish Karalkar folgendes: Hello List member, Iha a table containing two columns x and y . for single value of x there are multiple values in y e.g X Y 1 ABC 2 PQR

[GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread Ashish Karalkar
Hello List member, Iha a table containing two columns x and y . for single value of x there are multiple values in y e.g XY 1ABC 2PQR 3 XYZ 4 LMN 1 LMN 2 XYZ I want a query that will give me following output 1ABC:LMN 2

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump: could not format inet value

2007-12-05 Thread Tomas
I'm sorry, it was issue with my PITR replication setup which I think I've fixed now. (race condition between full db backup and pg_dump). Regards, Tomas Simonaitis ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:24:04AM +, Ashish Karalkar wrote: Hello List member, Iha a table containing two columns x and y . for single value of x there are multiple values in y e.g XY 1ABC 2PQR 3 XYZ 4 LMN 1 LMN 2

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread Steve Grey
Hi, Its not elegant, and certainly not dynamic or the perfect solution or for anything but a static dataset but I've approached this in SQL before as... First work out the maximum number of times each value of X will occur in the table - something like select max(subfoo.ycount) from (select

[GENERAL] Nested loop in simple query taking long time

2007-12-05 Thread Henrik Zagerholm
Hello list, Usually I can see what is wrong with queries but I can't figure out why this query is slow. Below is query and explain analyze output. Any help would be appreciated. EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT computer_name FROM tbl_computer INNER JOIN tbl_share ON pk_computer_id =

[GENERAL] Problem with joining two tables

2007-12-05 Thread Przemyslaw Bojczuk
Hello! I have a problem joining two tables. I tried various types of join and none seems to work as I expect Table 1: id | stuff --- 1 | sth1 2 | sth2 3 | sth3 4 | sth4 5 | sth5 .. | ... Table 2: id | desc | etc -- 1 | desc1 | etc1 2 | desc2 | etc2

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with joining two tables

2007-12-05 Thread Thomas Burdairon
On 5 déc. 07, at 14:42, Przemyslaw Bojczuk wrote: Hello! I have a problem joining two tables. I tried various types of join and none seems to work as I expect Table 1: id | stuff --- 1 | sth1 2 | sth2 3 | sth3 4 | sth4 5 | sth5 .. | ... Table 2: id | desc | etc

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with joining two tables

2007-12-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 05.12.2007, um 14:42:32 +0100 mailte Przemyslaw Bojczuk folgendes: Hello! I have a problem joining two tables. I tried various types of join and none seems to work as I expect Table 1: id | stuff --- 1 | sth1 2 | sth2 3 | sth3 4 | sth4 5 | sth5 ..

Re: [GENERAL] Moving pgstat.stat and pgstat.tmp

2007-12-05 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 05 December 2007 07:22, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Robert Treat wrote: On Monday 03 December 2007 20:22, Erik Jones wrote: Interesting. If this is anything you'd like to look into I can provide whatever diagnostic output you need (iostat, vmstat, dtrace script outputs, etc...)

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 05.12.2007, um 3:46:26 -0800 mailte David Fetter folgendes: Use the array_accum aggregate from the docs as follows: SELECT x, array_to_string(array_accum(y),':') FROM your_table GROUP BY x; Yes, no noubt a better solution as my new aggregat... Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer

[GENERAL] 8.3 beta FATAL: invalid value for parameter timezone_abbreviations: Default

2007-12-05 Thread marcelo Cortez
folks i've installed 8.3beta but at start up receive FATAL: invalid value for parameter timezone_abbreviations: Default any clue? best regards. MDC info: Linux richelet-internet 2.6.21.6 #9 SMP Sun Dec 2 17:52:20 ART 2007 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux gp_config

Re: [GENERAL] Nested loop in simple query taking long time

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Lane
Henrik Zagerholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Usually I can see what is wrong with queries but I can't figure out why this query is slow. Seems the main problem is here: - Bitmap Index Scan on tbl_archive_idx1 (cost=0.00..1150.47 rows=8 width=0) (actual

Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 beta FATAL: invalid value for parameter timezone_abbreviations: Default

2007-12-05 Thread marcelo Cortez
Alvaro ,folks --- Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: marcelo Cortez escribió: folks i've installed 8.3beta but at start up receive FATAL: invalid value for parameter timezone_abbreviations: Default Do you have a file named Default on the share/timezonesets dir?

Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 beta FATAL: invalid value for parameter timezone_abbreviations: Default

2007-12-05 Thread Alvaro Herrera
marcelo Cortez escribió: folks i've installed 8.3beta but at start up receive FATAL: invalid value for parameter timezone_abbreviations: Default Wow, strange. Mismatching case, perhaps? -- Alvaro Herrerahttp://www.advogato.org/person/alvherre Cuando mañana

[GENERAL] storage size of bit data type..

2007-12-05 Thread Alex Mayrhofer
Hi, i'm trying to find out the storage size for bit(n) data. My initial assumption would be that for any 8 bits, one byte of storage is required. Is this assumption correct? I didn't find that information in the online docs. thanks, Alex ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Moving pgstat.stat and pgstat.tmp

2007-12-05 Thread Erik Jones
On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Robert Treat wrote: On Wednesday 05 December 2007 07:22, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Robert Treat wrote: On Monday 03 December 2007 20:22, Erik Jones wrote: Interesting. If this is anything you'd like to look into I can provide whatever diagnostic output you need

Re: [GENERAL] Recovering data via raw table and field separators

2007-12-05 Thread Alvaro Herrera
John Wells wrote: I have pg_filedump installed, but can't figure out how to dump the rows themselves. I get the equivalent of the output at the end of this post. Looking over the --help, there's nothing obvious that has gotten me further. -i is the option you need; but you have to keep in

Re: [GENERAL] initdb - encoding question

2007-12-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 12:51:27PM -0500, Josh Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 63 lines which said: The encoding you selected (UTF8) and the encoding that the selected locale uses (LATIN1) do not match. Indeed. Rerun initdb and either do not specify an encoding explicitly,

Re: [GENERAL] Older version of PGSQL help

2007-12-05 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:53:45AM -0500, Greg Smith wrote: The issue Andrew is bringing up here is that really new PostgreSQL versions probably aren't necessairly backward compatible talking to or reading dumps from your 7.0 system, so your odds are better trying to upgrade to 7.3 instead

Re: [GENERAL] WAL shipping question

2007-12-05 Thread Erik Jones
On Dec 5, 2007, at 1:39 PM, SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH wrote: This basically archives the data in the primary server itself...right!!! But how can I set up continuous archiving from primary to a directory (WAL archive directory) on the stand-by server ? The closest thing to a worked out

Re: [GENERAL] WAL shipping question

2007-12-05 Thread SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH
This basically archives the data in the primary server itself...right!!! But how can I set up continuous archiving from primary to a directory (WAL archive directory) on the stand-by server ? The closest thing to a worked out example of how to do this I'm aware of is at

[GENERAL] elegant way to fill a table with serial

2007-12-05 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
I've to fill something like: create table DESTtable1 ( pk1 serial primary key, -- rest of stuff ); create table DESTtable2 ( pk2 serial primary key, fk1 int references DESTtable1(pk1) -- rest of stuff ); from data that are such way create table SRCtable1 ( pk1 serial primary key, --

Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 beta FATAL: invalid value for parameter timezone_abbreviations: Default

2007-12-05 Thread Alvaro Herrera
marcelo Cortez escribió: folks i've installed 8.3beta but at start up receive FATAL: invalid value for parameter timezone_abbreviations: Default Do you have a file named Default on the share/timezonesets dir? I'm wondering if your installation is being mistakenly trying to use a

Re: [GENERAL] Re-partitioning huge schema

2007-12-05 Thread Robert Treat
On Monday 03 December 2007 17:32, Erik Jones wrote: Hi, I've inherited smirk a database schema wherein the original developers took the inheritance mechanism to an extreme where new client accounts get 13 different tables of their own created for them. We're at the many tens of thousands of

Re: [GENERAL] Moving pgstat.stat and pgstat.tmp

2007-12-05 Thread Erik Jones
On Dec 5, 2007, at 7:50 AM, Robert Treat wrote: On Wednesday 05 December 2007 07:22, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Robert Treat wrote: On Monday 03 December 2007 20:22, Erik Jones wrote: Interesting. If this is anything you'd like to look into I can provide whatever diagnostic output you need

[GENERAL] pg_dump and server responsiveness

2007-12-05 Thread Bryan Murphy
When we run pg_dump on our database, our web site becomes completely unresponsive. I thought pg_dump was runnable while the database was still being actively used? Anyway, I'm not entirely sure why, but here's what I'm seeing. pg_dump -v database_name | gzip output_file 25% to 50% CPU usage (4

Re: [GENERAL] Re-partitioning huge schema

2007-12-05 Thread Erik Jones
Rober, Thank you once again for your input. On Dec 5, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Robert Treat wrote: On Monday 03 December 2007 17:32, Erik Jones wrote: snip Too much to keep quoted here. Check the archives if you want to read more about the setup for this conversation. -[ RECORD 1

Re: [GENERAL] Recovering data via raw table and field separators

2007-12-05 Thread Alvaro Herrera
John Wells wrote: On 12/5/07, Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Wells wrote: I have pg_filedump installed, but can't figure out how to dump the rows themselves. I get the equivalent of the output at the end of this post. Looking over the --help, there's nothing obvious

Re: [GENERAL] Nested loop in simple query taking long time

2007-12-05 Thread Henrik Zagerholm
5 dec 2007 kl. 16.25 skrev Tom Lane: Henrik Zagerholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Usually I can see what is wrong with queries but I can't figure out why this query is slow. Seems the main problem is here: - Bitmap Index Scan on tbl_archive_idx1 (cost=0.00..1150.47

[GENERAL] elegant way to fill a table with serial

2007-12-05 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
I've to fill something like: create table DESTtable1 ( pk1 serial primary key, -- rest of stuff ); create table DESTtable2 ( pk2 serial primary key, fk1 int references DESTtable1(pk1) -- rest of stuff ); from data that are such way create table SRCtable1 ( pk1 serial primary key, --

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and server responsiveness

2007-12-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bryan Murphy wrote: When we run pg_dump on our database, our web site becomes completely unresponsive. I thought pg_dump was runnable while the database was still being actively used? It is but it assumes you have resources available. Anyway, I'm not entirely sure why, but here's what I'm

Re: [GENERAL] initdb - encoding question

2007-12-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2007 schrieb Josh Harrison: initdb -E UTF8 -D /export/home/josh/postgres8.3/pgsql/data The database cluster will be initialized with locales COLLATE: en_CA.ISO8859-1 CTYPE:en_CA.ISO8859-1 MESSAGES: C MONETARY: en_CA.ISO8859-1 NUMERIC: en_CA.ISO8859-1

Re: [GENERAL] Moving pgstat.stat and pgstat.tmp

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But then I thought, why do we need it to be a file at all? Why not use a mmap'ed memory area or something like that, and only write it to a file on postmaster shutdown? Yeah, we definitely need some other technology for this. The difficulty is in

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:43:08AM +, Steve Grey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 153 lines which said: First work out the maximum number of times each value of X will occur in the table A better solution, when you do not know this maximum number, is CREATE AGGREGATE

Re: [GENERAL] Recovering data via raw table and field separators

2007-12-05 Thread John Wells
On 12/4/07, Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:05:53PM -0500, John Wells wrote: So, given a database table file that still has records in it, and given the fact that these records could be parsed and displayed if the proper utilty knew how to read the

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and server responsiveness

2007-12-05 Thread Bryan Murphy
Sorry about the formatting, here's the dump as a text file. Thanks, Bryan On Dec 5, 2007 10:05 AM, Bryan Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When we run pg_dump on our database, our web site becomes completely unresponsive. I thought pg_dump was runnable while the database was still being

Re: [GENERAL] Moving pgstat.stat and pgstat.tmp

2007-12-05 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Robert Treat wrote: On Monday 03 December 2007 20:22, Erik Jones wrote: Interesting. If this is anything you'd like to look into I can provide whatever diagnostic output you need (iostat, vmstat, dtrace script outputs, etc...) but I do have to reiterate that we are an extreme corner

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with joining two tables

2007-12-05 Thread Przemyslaw Bojczuk
Thomas Burdairon wrote: hope this help. Thank you, it helped a lot! It was a part of a bigger problem (involving PostGIS, Mapserver et al.) and I *thought* I traced it down to this join, but now it's clear the problem lies completely elsewhere. Thanks again! PB -- Geographical Information

Re: [GENERAL] pgcrypto functions fail for asymmetric encryption/decryption

2007-12-05 Thread Marko Kreen
On 11/29/07, Stefan Niantschur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SELECT pgp_pub_decrypt(dearmor(armor(pgp_pub_encrypt(armor(pgp_sym_encrypt('geheim'::text,'test'::text)),dearmor((SELECT ens_pubkey FROM ens_user WHERE ens_userid = 10112)::text,dearmor((SELECT ens_privkey FROM ens_user WHERE

[GENERAL] pgAccess for PostgreSQL 8.2.5

2007-12-05 Thread Kandy Wong
Hi, I'd like to ask if there is a version of pgAccess that works with PostgreSQL 8.2.5 for CentOS 4, RHEL4 or SL4 which allows creating and editing tables in GUI? Thank you. Kandy ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the

Re: [GENERAL] pgAccess for PostgreSQL 8.2.5

2007-12-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:50:27 -0800 Kandy Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like to ask if there is a version of pgAccess that works with PostgreSQL 8.2.5 for CentOS 4, RHEL4 or SL4 which allows creating and editing tables in GUI?

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and server responsiveness

2007-12-05 Thread Bryan Murphy
On Dec 5, 2007 10:14 AM, Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pg_dump uses Access Share if I recall. You can operate normally while running pg_dump. I am having a hard time parsing that. Could you instead go over to pgsql.privatepaste.com and send back a paste link?

Re: [GENERAL] initdb - encoding question

2007-12-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2007 schrieb Josh Harrison: initdb -E en_CA.utf-8 -D /export/home/sjothirajah/postgres8.3/pgsql/data gives this error initdb: en_CA.utf-8 is not a valid server encoding name The option name you want is --locale, not -E. -- Peter Eisentraut

Re: [GENERAL] storage size of bit data type..

2007-12-05 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Dec 5, 2007, at 14:19 , Alex Mayrhofer wrote: Hi, i'm trying to find out the storage size for bit(n) data. My initial assumption would be that for any 8 bits, one byte of storage is required. select pg_column_size(B'1') as 1bit, pg_column_size(B'') as 4bits,

[GENERAL] thesaurus support in postgresql

2007-12-05 Thread Florian Aumeier
Hi, the docs for Full Text Search (pre 8.3: tsearch2) explain how to include a thesaurus dictionary. It also says the current implementation is only an extension of the synonym dictionary with added phrase support. Are there any plans to include a proper thesaurs support, with broader terms

Re: [GENERAL] Server crashed and now experiencing slow running queries

2007-12-05 Thread Peter Childs
On 05/12/2007, Keaton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're running PostgreSQL 8.1.4 on RHEL. I'm running a vacuum analyze on the mxl_fs_size table to see if that shows anything. -Keaton On 12/4/07 10:50 PM, Keaton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have two servers configured the same

Re: [GENERAL] hibernate + postgresql ?

2007-12-05 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Saturday 1 December 2007 David Fetter's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: You'd only think so if you hadn't actually seen these things in action. They save no time because of the silly, unreasonable assumptions underlying them, which in turn cause people to do silly, unreasonable

Re: [GENERAL] libpq messages language

2007-12-05 Thread Efraín López
Thank you for your reply but I got the error 'LC_MESSAGES' : undeclared identifier locale.h only defines LC_COLLATE, LC_CTYPE, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME I tried to set a system variable LC_MESSAGES, but didn't work Then, I tried to find more information In libpq, when ENABLE_NLS is

Re: [GENERAL] WAL shipping question

2007-12-05 Thread Greg Smith
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH wrote: I see the archive directory in standby server getting filled up, but there are no log messages generated. Whay? What am I missing here? If you're using pg_standby, you can pass it -d to have it log more information about what's going on, which

[GENERAL] 7.4 end of life

2007-12-05 Thread Chris Velevitch
Where can I find information on when support for 7.4.x formally cease? Chris -- Chris Velevitch Manager - Sydney Flash Platform Developers Group m: 0415 469 095 www.flashdev.org.au ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and server responsiveness

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Lane
Bryan Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When we run pg_dump on our database, our web site becomes completely unresponsive. ... Does pg_dump create table locks? It doesn't look like an I/O problem as far as I can tell... Only access-share locks, but that could still be an issue if anything in

Re: [GENERAL] 7.4 end of life

2007-12-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Chris Velevitch wrote: Where can I find information on when support for 7.4.x formally cease? This has yet to be determined. However you can expect that it will be considered in the next 12 to 18 months. We are about to EOL 7.3. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake Chris

Re: [GENERAL] elegant way to fill a table with serial

2007-12-05 Thread Tom Lane
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... BTW I saw there is no OWNED BY in 8.1, is there any other way to auto-drop sequences when columns get dropped? In previous versions, a sequence object that was auto-created as a result of a SERIAL column declaration will be auto-dropped when