[GENERAL] Increase the number of concurrent connection

2008-01-10 Thread dfx
Dear sirs, how I have to modify postgresql.conf to increase the number of concurrent connection over the value 100 setted by by default? I tryied to modify this value but the server get an error and not start. My version is 8.2.5 on Linux Fedora 8. The PC has 2 GB ram and Celeron 2.8 processor.

Re: [GENERAL] performance differences of major versions

2008-01-10 Thread Pavel Stehule
On 10/01/2008, Matthew T. O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pavel Stehule wrote: pgbench test - default configuration Verze 7.3.15 7.4.13 8.0.8 8.1.4 8.2.beta1 8.3beta1 tps 311 340 334 398 423 585 but pgbench is simple test and thise numbers hasnot great

Re: [GENERAL] Increase the number of concurrent connection

2008-01-10 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Thu, dem 10.01.2008, um 9:12:27 +0100 mailte dfx folgendes: Dear sirs, how I have to modify postgresql.conf to increase the number of concurrent connection over the value 100 setted by by default? I tryied to modify this value but the server get an error and not start. What exactly

Re: [GENERAL] vacuum, dead rows, usual solutions didn't help

2008-01-10 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 07:52 +0100, Gábor Farkas wrote: the remaining 3 were only idle-in-transaction at that point. so if i would keep checking for idle-in-transaction processes, the list of them would keep changing. are you saying, that a process should NEVER be idle-in-transaction? not

Re: [GENERAL] vacuum, dead rows, usual solutions didn't help

2008-01-10 Thread Gábor Farkas
Simon Riggs wrote: also, even if it is wrong, can an 'idle-in-transaction' connection that was opened today block the vacuuming of rows that were deleted yesterday? Yes, if the rows were deleted after the connection started. to avoid any potential misunderstandings, i will summarize the

Re: [GENERAL] Performance problem. Could it be related to 8.3-beta4?

2008-01-10 Thread Clodoaldo
2008/1/8, Clodoaldo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/1/8, Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Clodoaldo escribió: 8.2: Trigger for constraint datas: time=14231.240 calls=880691 Total runtime: 356862.302 ms (12 rows) Time: 357750.531 ms 8.3: Trigger for constraint datas:

Re: [GENERAL] Prepared Statements

2008-01-10 Thread mljv
first: thanks a lot for your answer. it already helped me a lot, but i still have some questions: Am Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2008 21:16 schrieb Kris Jurka: On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I know there is a PREPARE Statement in Postgresql and read the docs. - in PostgresqlJDBC i

Re: [GENERAL] count(*) and bad design was: Experiences with extensibility

2008-01-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:28:04PM +0100, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: Let me consider an everyday use where count() looks as the most obvious solution: paging. I search trough a table and I need to know which is the last page. There's an often overlooked solution to this. Let's say your

Re: [GENERAL] count(*) and bad design was: Experiences with extensibility

2008-01-10 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There may be a further optimization to be had by doing a per-statement trigger that counts the number of INSERTs/DELETEs done, so that inserting 30 tuples (in the table being tracked) leads to adding a single tuple with

Re: [GENERAL] vacuum, dead rows, usual solutions didn't help

2008-01-10 Thread Lars Heidieker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10 Jan 2008, at 11:18, Gábor Farkas wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: also, even if it is wrong, can an 'idle-in-transaction' connection that was opened today block the vacuuming of rows that were deleted yesterday? Yes, if the rows were deleted

Re: [GENERAL] Performance problem. Could it be related to 8.3-beta4?

2008-01-10 Thread Gokulakannan Somasundaram
If possible can you send the data dump of these tables. usuarios_temp , usuarios_indice ? Thanks, Gokul. On Jan 10, 2008 4:00 PM, Clodoaldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/1/8, Clodoaldo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/1/8, Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Clodoaldo escribió: 8.2:

Re: [GENERAL] Kernel kills postgres process - help need

2008-01-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:59:45PM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Jan 9, 2008 3:57 PM, Hervé Piedvache [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan 9 20:30:48 db2 kernel: Free swap = 15623168kB Jan 9 20:30:48 db2 kernel: Total swap = 15623172kB Jan 9 20:30:48 db2 kernel: Free swap: 15623168kB

Re: [GENERAL] Can't make backup

2008-01-10 Thread Sebastián Baioni
Albe Laurenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Sebastián Baioni wrote: Every day we run a Windows Programmed pg_dump, it used to work fine with PostgreSQL 8.0, but since we installed the new version we are not able to make a backup. We tried to make a whole database backup and it never ends. We

Re: [GENERAL] Prepared Statements

2008-01-10 Thread Isak Hansen
On 1/10/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not found anything about preparing unnamed statements. What does it mean? Unnamed statements are what the driver uses before it hits the prepareThreshold limit. Once it has determined the statement will be reused many

Re: [GENERAL] Installation problem: failed to initialize lc_messages to

2008-01-10 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
FATAL: XX000: failed to initialize lc_messages to LOCATION: InitializeGUCOptions, guc.c:2666 Typically what this means is that you have an improper setting of LANG or LC_ALL in your environment (improper meaning that it doesn't match any of the locales that are actually installed on your

Re: [GENERAL] vacuum, dead rows, usual solutions didn't help

2008-01-10 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 11:18 +0100, Gábor Farkas wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: also, even if it is wrong, can an 'idle-in-transaction' connection that was opened today block the vacuuming of rows that were deleted yesterday? Yes, if the rows were deleted after the connection started.

Re: [GENERAL] Installation problem: failed to initialize lc_messages to

2008-01-10 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
FATAL: XX000: failed to initialize lc_messages to LOCATION: InitializeGUCOptions, guc.c:2666 Typically what this means is that you have an improper setting of LANG or LC_ALL in your environment (improper meaning that it doesn't match any of the locales that are actually installed on your

[GENERAL] Format Float numbers

2008-01-10 Thread Fernando Xavier
Hi, I want format a column in select result: 1.1 = 1.10 Any idea? Thanks! Fernando Abraços, Fernando Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail, o único sem limite de espaço para armazenamento! http://br.mail.yahoo.com/ ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] Format Float numbers

2008-01-10 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Thu, dem 10.01.2008, um 10:03:05 -0300 mailte Fernando Xavier folgendes: Hi, I want format a column in select result: 1.1 = 1.10 Any idea? Yes. You can use to_char() or a CAST like test=*# select 1.1::numeric(10,2); numeric - 1.10 (1 row) Andreas -- Andreas

Re: [GENERAL] count(*) and bad design was: Experiences with extensibility

2008-01-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Harald Fuchs wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There may be a further optimization to be had by doing a per-statement trigger that counts the number of INSERTs/DELETEs done, so that inserting 30 tuples (in the table being tracked) leads to

Re: [GENERAL] Format Float numbers

2008-01-10 Thread Albe Laurenz
I want format a column in select result: 1.1 = 1.10 Any idea? Try the to_date() function like SELECT to_char(1.1, '0.99'); Yours, Laurenz Albe ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate

Re: [GENERAL] Query to get column-names in table via PG tables?

2008-01-10 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Jan 10, 2008 1:37 AM, Ken Johanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am looking for expertise on how to program the equivalent to this query, but using the pg_catalog tables, which I understand have fewer security restrictions than information_schema in some cases: SELECT column_name

[GENERAL] Can I create a TYPE (or DOMAIN) with arguments?

2008-01-10 Thread R.A.
Hello, I'm trying to create a composite type with an argument, to create one field of this type like character varying(x), but I don't know if this can be done with PostgreSQL. I want something like: CREATE TYPE mytype AS ( tx character varying(x), t2nd integer ); I need to

[GENERAL] 8.3 Beta Incompatible Data Disaster

2008-01-10 Thread Mark Walker
Ignoring the warnings not to use a beta product on a production database I had been running 8.3beta1. When I saw that it had hit 8.3RC1 I decided to upgrade and folowing the usual data compatibility within major versions I did not do a pg_dump, in fact my last dump was when I loaded the beta on

Re: [GENERAL] Increase the number of concurrent connection

2008-01-10 Thread dformenton
I changed max_connection from 100 to 200 and stop the service. If I try to start again the service does no start. What is the max number of connections I can hope to obtain without recompile the kernel of Fedora 8? Thank you. Domenico Formenton A. Kretschmer wrote: am Thu, dem

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot connect to PgPool

2008-01-10 Thread Christopher Siwy
I had this exact problem. I had to in fact compile the pgpool-II source code rather than yum install pgpool-II. On Jan 8, 2008 9:55 AM, Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you provide more info please? - pgpool version(I assume it's pgpool-II since you use 3 PostgreSQL servers) -

[GENERAL] Importing PostgreSQL data from another database

2008-01-10 Thread Ewing, Chris
Hi Everyone, I am trying to import data from a backed up PostgreSQL tablespace. The server which the original data was on has been wiped. 1. I saved the tablespace onto a portable harddrive from the old server. This contains the tablespace folder (with PG_VERSION file) and a folder named 225809.

Re: [GENERAL] Setting variables equal to elements from an Array

2008-01-10 Thread cdecarlo
On Jan 8, 11:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) wrote: cdecarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm new to pl/pgsql and postgres and I need some help with a part of my function. In the function I loop through a multidemensional array ( [n][3] ), once, while inside the loop, I find the index I

[GENERAL] Time stamp issue

2008-01-10 Thread kapil.munish
Hi Everyone, I have a table named concurrent_user which has a column time_stamp. The column stores the timestamp for the latest entered record. My query finds the difference of the timestamp from the current time, if the value is larger than 5 minutes then the latest entered record in the

Re: [GENERAL] Installation problem: failed to initialize lc_messages to

2008-01-10 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 10/01/2008 12:30, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D --locale=en_US.UTF-8 /Users/schwarzer/Documents/data_postgres Dunno if it'll make a difference, but I'd put the -D immediately before the path to the data directory. Ray.

[GENERAL] postgres 8.3 release date and 2008-01-07 Cumulative Security Update Release

2008-01-10 Thread leonardz
I am testing postgres 8.3RC1 on some non production data and saw the above security release. I am loathe to patch our 8.0 and 8.1 production servers if 8.3 will be out by month's end. Is there any visibility of a production 8.3 release date? ---(end of

[GENERAL] Postgres and MySQL Rosetta stone??

2008-01-10 Thread leonardz
I am reading through HeadFirst SQL (an OReilly book) which uses specific MySQLisms in its examples. I use postgres on our databases. Some examples are easy to work around, some are not . Is there a rosetta stone (table of commands in one and equivalents inthe other) available? In particular,

[GENERAL] Storing and querying boolean fields

2008-01-10 Thread Brown, Richard
Hi All, First, some background: - We are using PostgreSQL 7.3.4, and am locked into this version. I would upgrade if I could, but the decision is not mine. - The table referred to below is 120+ million rows, and has a width of 27 columns (15 smallints, 5 integers, 4 dates, 1 integer[], 1 single

Re: [GENERAL] Experiences with extensibility

2008-01-10 Thread Guido Neitzer
On 09.01.2008, at 13:51, Martin wrote: I've been working with FrontBase a lot lately and I wouldn't say anything about it qualifies as incredibly easy and reliable it is not. We had never ever any reliability issues with FrontBase as long as didn't try to insert garbage. It really doesn't

[GENERAL] After Installing a Program I get this error: psql:sql/Pg-database.sql:825: ERROR: language plpgsql does not exist

2008-01-10 Thread Robin-Vossen
CREATE INDEX psql:sql/Pg-database.sql:825: ERROR: language plpgsql does not exist HINT: You need to use createlang to load the language into the database. psql:sql/Pg-database.sql:828: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block

Re: [GENERAL] After Installing a Program I get this error: psql:sql/Pg-database.sql:825: ERROR: language plpgsql does not exist

2008-01-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:02:53AM -0800, Robin-Vossen wrote: So I thought lets add the language I miss. doing: createlang -d ledgersmb -U ledgersmb plpgsql I keep getting: createlang: language installation failed: ERROR: permission denied for language c You must run creatlang with a

Re: [GENERAL] Connect to SQL Server via ODBC from Postgresql

2008-01-10 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Jan 4, 2008 11:51 AM, Afewtips.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do read mentions about dblink connections, but how to install it looks unclear and complicated. small clarification here. dblink is for connecting two postgresql databases together. It is, IMO, neither unclear nor

Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 Beta Incompatible Data Disaster

2008-01-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Mark Walker escribió: Ignoring the warnings not to use a beta product on a production database I had been running 8.3beta1. When I saw that it had hit 8.3RC1 I decided to upgrade and folowing the usual data compatibility within major versions I did not do a pg_dump, in fact my last dump was

Re: [GENERAL] vacuum, dead rows, usual solutions didn't help

2008-01-10 Thread Erik Jones
On Jan 10, 2008, at 6:01 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 11:18 +0100, Gábor Farkas wrote: Simon Riggs wrote: also, even if it is wrong, can an 'idle-in-transaction' connection that was opened today block the vacuuming of rows that were deleted yesterday? Yes, if the rows

Re: [GENERAL] Installation problem: failed to initialize lc_messages to

2008-01-10 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D --locale=en_US.UTF-8 /Users/ schwarzer/Documents/data_postgres Dunno if it'll make a difference, but I'd put the -D immediately before the path to the data directory. Thanks for the hint. But unfortunately same error message

Re: [GENERAL] Can I create a TYPE (or DOMAIN) with arguments?

2008-01-10 Thread Erik Jones
On Jan 9, 2008, at 3:53 AM, R.A. wrote: Hello, I'm trying to create a composite type with an argument, to create one field of this type like character varying(x), but I don't know if this can be done with PostgreSQL. I want something like: CREATE TYPE mytype AS ( tx character

Re: [GENERAL] Installation problem: failed to initialize lc_messages to

2008-01-10 Thread Tom Lane
Raymond O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 10/01/2008 12:30, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D --locale=en_US.UTF-8 /Users/schwarzer/Documents/data_postgres Dunno if it'll make a difference, but I'd put the -D immediately before the path to the data directory.

Re: [GENERAL] Increase the number of concurrent connection

2008-01-10 Thread Gregory Williamson
You may not have issues such that upping the # of users may be a) running you out of postgres allocations (see your documentation for details) ... increasing settings in the postgresql.conf file might help (shared_buffers for instance, and shared_buffers ) or b) not enough shared memory

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres and MySQL Rosetta stone??

2008-01-10 Thread Erik Jones
On Jan 9, 2008, at 12:19 PM, leonardz wrote: I am reading through HeadFirst SQL (an OReilly book) which uses specific MySQLisms in its examples. I use postgres on our databases. Some examples are easy to work around, some are not . Is there a rosetta stone (table of commands in one and

Re: [GENERAL] Importing PostgreSQL data from another database

2008-01-10 Thread Erik Jones
On Jan 9, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Ewing, Chris wrote: Hi Everyone, I am trying to import data from a backed up PostgreSQL tablespace. The server which the original data was on has been wiped. 1. I saved the tablespace onto a portable harddrive from the old server. This contains the tablespace

Re: [GENERAL] Installation problem: failed to initialize lc_messages to

2008-01-10 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D --locale=en_US.UTF-8 /Users/schwarzer/Documents/data_postgres Dunno if it'll make a difference, but I'd put the -D immediately before the path to the data directory. Also, pay attention to the first few lines of initdb output --- it will tell you what it thinks

Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 Beta Incompatible Data Disaster

2008-01-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:36:04AM +, Mark Walker wrote: Ignoring the warnings not to use a beta product on a production database I had been running 8.3beta1. When I saw that it had hit 8.3RC1 I decided to upgrade and folowing the usual data compatibility within major versions I did not do

[GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Sim Zacks
I just upgraded my database server from 8.0.1 to 8.2.4 Most things went very well, but I have a couple of queries that really slowed down with the new server. On 8.0.1 the query took less then 3 seconds to complete. On 8.2.4 the same query (I vacuumed the database before running the query) takes

Re: [GENERAL] Can I create a TYPE (or DOMAIN) with arguments?

2008-01-10 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Jan 9, 2008 4:53 AM, R.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to create a composite type with an argument, to create one field of this type like character varying(x), but I don't know if this can be done with PostgreSQL. I want something like: CREATE TYPE mytype AS ( tx

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres and MySQL Rosetta stone??

2008-01-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 9, 2008 12:19 PM, leonardz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am reading through HeadFirst SQL (an OReilly book) which uses specific MySQLisms in its examples. I use postgres on our databases. Some examples are easy to work around, some are not . Is there a rosetta stone (table of commands in

Re: [GENERAL] Setting variables equal to elements from an Array

2008-01-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 06:14:10AM -0800, cdecarlo wrote: Maybe, an example will help you understand what I want to do: Let myArray be {{1,2,3},{4,5,6},{7,8,9}} and suppose the element I'm looking for has, in it's first index, an even number. I would loop through myArray looking at the first

Re: [GENERAL] postgres 8.3 release date and 2008-01-07 Cumulative Security Update Release

2008-01-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 9, 2008 12:12 PM, leonardz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am testing postgres 8.3RC1 on some non production data and saw the above security release. I am loathe to patch our 8.0 and 8.1 production servers if 8.3 will be out by month's end. Is there any visibility of a production 8.3

Re: [GENERAL] After Installing a Program I get this error: psql:sql/Pg-database.sql:825: ERROR: language plpgsql does not exist

2008-01-10 Thread Albe Laurenz
Robin-Vossen wrote: Subject: [GENERAL] After Installing a Program I get this error: psql:sql/Pg-database.sql:825: ERROR: language plpgsql does not exist Define the PL/pgSQL language as described in http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/app-createlang.html Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: [GENERAL] Time stamp issue

2008-01-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 08:21:40PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The query is something like : DELETE from CONCURRENT_USER WHERE (now() - CONCURRENT_USER.TIME_STAMP) ? Here the calculated value in '?' is not supported by the postgres as it was set as a double. In postgres subtracting

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Isak Hansen
On 1/10/08, Sim Zacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded my database server from 8.0.1 to 8.2.4 Most things went very well, but I have a couple of queries that really slowed down with the new server. On 8.0.1 the query took less then 3 seconds to complete. On 8.2.4 the same query (I

Re: [GENERAL] Time stamp issue

2008-01-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 8, 2008 8:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DELETE from CONCURRENT_USER WHERE (now() - CONCURRENT_USER.TIME_STAMP) ? Here the calculated value in '?' is not supported by the postgres as it was set as a double. I tried to cast it to a timestamp by using Timestamp timestamp = new

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Clodoaldo
2008/1/10, Sim Zacks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just upgraded my database server from 8.0.1 to 8.2.4 Most things went very well, but I have a couple of queries that really slowed down with the new server. On 8.0.1 the query took less then 3 seconds to complete. On 8.2.4 the same query (I

Re: [GENERAL] performance differences of major versions

2008-01-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 10, 2008 2:12 AM, Pavel Stehule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/01/2008, Matthew T. O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pavel Stehule wrote: pgbench test - default configuration Verze 7.3.15 7.4.13 8.0.8 8.1.4 8.2.beta1 8.3beta1 tps 311 340 334 398 423

Re: [GENERAL] Time stamp issue

2008-01-10 Thread Chandra Sekhar Surapaneni
Difference between timestamps will give you an interval. So the LHS of is interval and hence the RHS should be an interval too. You should not be converting the right hand side value to Timestamp. What is the double value you are calculating? Is it in minutes, hours or days? I am not a Java

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Sim Zacks
Here are all of the data structures involved in this view. Query Ran: select * from assemblycanbuild CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW assemblycanbuild AS SELECT assembliesbatchid, CASE WHEN min( CASE WHEN (stock::double precision - prioruse -

Re: [GENERAL] Can I create a TYPE (or DOMAIN) with arguments?

2008-01-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:58:07AM -0600, Erik Jones wrote: Postgres doesn't support parameterized type declarations directly (that I've ever heard of), but you could probably write a function that uses EXECUTE to do this. IIRC 8.3 will include the user-defined typmod which will allow such

Re: [GENERAL] Setting variables equal to elements from an Array

2008-01-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 9, 2008 8:14 AM, cdecarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 8, 11:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) wrote: The rest of your message suggests that what you want is not that at all, but to set the other variable to an array that consists of one or moreelements from the original

Re: [GENERAL] After Installing a Program I get this error: psql:sql/Pg-database.sql:825: ERROR: language plpgsql does not exist

2008-01-10 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 3:02 am, Robin-Vossen wrote: CREATE INDEX psql:sql/Pg-database.sql:825: ERROR: language plpgsql does not exist HINT: You need to use createlang to load the language into the database. snip So, I wonder what is the best and quickest way to fix this Flaw? Thanks,

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 01:50:42PM -0200, Clodoaldo wrote: I posted about it but the whole thread disappeared from the archives. It can still be found here: http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20080105.004509.22be255d.es.html Huh? It's right there:

Re: [GENERAL] Storing and querying boolean fields

2008-01-10 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 06:19:40PM -0500, Brown, Richard wrote: - We are using PostgreSQL 7.3.4, and am locked into this version. I would upgrade if I could, but the decision is not mine. I mean this sincerely and not snidely: get another job. 7.3.20 was the last release in the 7.3 series.

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Clodoaldo
2008/1/10, Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 01:50:42PM -0200, Clodoaldo wrote: I posted about it but the whole thread disappeared from the archives. It can still be found here: http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20080105.004509.22be255d.es.html Huh?

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 10/01/2008 16:11, Clodoaldo wrote: Where did you get that url? I can't find it here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-01/threads.php It's on page 2 of the list.click Next, and then it's a little over half-way down. Ray.

Re: [GENERAL] Can I create a TYPE (or DOMAIN) with arguments?

2008-01-10 Thread Tom Lane
Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:58:07AM -0600, Erik Jones wrote: Postgres doesn't support parameterized type declarations directly (that I've ever heard of), but you could probably write a function that uses EXECUTE to do this. IIRC 8.3 will

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Clodoaldo escribió: 2008/1/10, Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-01/msg00143.php Where did you get that url? I can't find it here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-01/threads.php Next page -- Alvaro Herrera

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Tom Lane
Clodoaldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2008/1/10, Martijn van Oosterhout [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Huh? It's right there: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-01/msg00143.php Where did you get that url? I can't find it here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2008-01/threads.php

Re: [GENERAL] Connect to SQL Server via ODBC from Postgresql

2008-01-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Merlin Moncure wrote: On Jan 4, 2008 11:51 AM, Afewtips.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do read mentions about dblink connections, but how to install it looks unclear and complicated. small clarification here. dblink is for connecting two postgresql databases together. It is, IMO, neither

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 10, 2008 9:50 AM, Clodoaldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/1/10, Sim Zacks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just upgraded my database server from 8.0.1 to 8.2.4 Most things went very well, but I have a couple of queries that really slowed down with the new server. On 8.0.1 the query took less

Re: [GENERAL] 8.3 Beta Incompatible Data Disaster

2008-01-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Mark Walker wrote: What can I do, a dump is impossible because I cannot re-install the version that the database was last used with (it should have been first initialised on 8.2, as I went to the beta to experiment with enum having recently returned from MySQL). Any help appreciated,

[GENERAL] 8.3beta bug or feature?

2008-01-10 Thread marcelo Cortez
folks the follow queries work in postgres 8.2 but in 8.3beta don't work SELECT c.* FROM c WHERE c.numero LIKE '1%'; i think automatic conversion of numeber to text is the problem , in 8.3beta don't work numero field is integer type any ideas? best regards mdc ps:PostgreSQL

[GENERAL] ATTN: Clodaldo was Performance problem. Could it be related to 8.3-beta4?

2008-01-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 10, 2008 9:50 AM, Clodoaldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen performance degradation at every new version since 7.3. But now 8.3 is a complete disaster. It could be that my most expensive query is just a corner case, but I don't believe it. I posted about it but the whole thread

Re: [GENERAL] Installation problem: failed to initialize lc_messages to

2008-01-10 Thread Tom Lane
Stefan Schwarzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, pay attention to the first few lines of initdb output --- it will tell you what it thinks it's supposed to use for locale. It tells me the following: The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user schwarzer. This user

Re: [GENERAL] 8.3beta bug or feature?

2008-01-10 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello, it isn't bug. You have to cast to string before. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3.html E.1.2.1. General Regards Pavel Stehule On 10/01/2008, marcelo Cortez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: folks the follow queries work in postgres 8.2 but in 8.3beta don't work

Re: [GENERAL] 8.3beta bug or feature?

2008-01-10 Thread marcelo Cortez
Pavel --- Pavel Stehule [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hello, it isn't bug. You have to cast to string before. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3.html E.1.2.1. General Yes you are right, but my queries was generated for one mapper ,explicit cast is not an option ( not

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 10, 2008 11:12 AM, Clodoaldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/1/10, Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have seen performance degradation at every new version since 7.3. Then your experience has been exactly the opposite of mine. I suspect some developers here make a living from

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Sim Zacks
I meant I did Vacuum Analyze. In any case, Aside from the vacuum analyze, I also tested it right after a database restore, so there should be no need for any maintenance features. Sim Isak Hansen wrote: On 1/10/08, Sim Zacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded my database server from

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Sim Zacks
Most of the queries that I have tested work on 8.2.4 at least as fast as on 8.0.1. This one has really thrown me for a loop. Sim Could you try 8.3 and see what happens? Keep the emails in case this thread mysteriously disappears. Please stop the histrionics. If your new query is slower,

Re: [GENERAL] 8.3beta bug or feature?

2008-01-10 Thread Erik Jones
On Jan 10, 2008, at 10:47 AM, marcelo Cortez wrote: folks the follow queries work in postgres 8.2 but in 8.3beta don't work SELECT c.* FROM c WHERE c.numero LIKE '1%'; i think automatic conversion of numeber to text is the problem , in 8.3beta don't work numero field is integer type

Re: [GENERAL] 8.3beta bug or feature?

2008-01-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
marcelo Cortez escribió: folks the follow queries work in postgres 8.2 but in 8.3beta don't work SELECT c.* FROM c WHERE c.numero LIKE '1%'; i think automatic conversion of numeber to text is the problem , in 8.3beta don't work numero field is integer type This is

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Clodoaldo
2008/1/10, Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jan 10, 2008 9:50 AM, Clodoaldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/1/10, Sim Zacks [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just upgraded my database server from 8.0.1 to 8.2.4 Most things went very well, but I have a couple of queries that really slowed down

Re: [GENERAL] 8.3beta bug or feature?

2008-01-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
marcelo Cortez escribió: Pavel --- Pavel Stehule [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hello, it isn't bug. You have to cast to string before. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3.html E.1.2.1. General Yes you are right, but my queries was generated for one

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Bricklen Anderson
I don't an answer to your question, but an obvious difference is that the slow query contains many more loops. (this may already have been noted, I didn't see it posted however). (showing just the loops with more than one loop) - Index Scan using assemblies_pkey on assemblies a

[GENERAL] How to query for a user-table column name?

2008-01-10 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi List; I'm researching a db and I want to find samples of some of the data. I know based on the documentation for the proposed new schema that the db I have access to (the old schema) probably has a column in one or more of the user tables called 'region'. I'm looking for a way to query

Re: [GENERAL] 8.3beta bug or feature?

2008-01-10 Thread marcelo Cortez
Alvaro --- Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: marcelo Cortez escribió: Pavel --- Pavel Stehule [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Hello, it isn't bug. You have to cast to string before. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3.html E.1.2.1.

Re: [GENERAL] Storing and querying boolean fields

2008-01-10 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:08:16AM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: I mean this sincerely and not snidely: get another job. 7.3.20 was the last Err, 7.3.21, I meant, of course. Sorry. A ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list

Re: [GENERAL] How to query for a user-table column name?

2008-01-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:38:16 -0700 Kevin Kempter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi List; I'm researching a db and I want to find samples of some of the data. I know based on the documentation for the proposed new schema that the db I have access to

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Isak Hansen
On 1/10/08, Sim Zacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I meant I did Vacuum Analyze. In any case, Aside from the vacuum analyze, I also tested it right after a database restore, so there should be no need for any maintenance features. The stats didn't look too far off, no. Perhaps a suboptimal plan

Re: [GENERAL] ATTN: Clodaldo was Performance problem. Could it be related to 8.3-beta4?

2008-01-10 Thread Clodoaldo
2008/1/10, Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jan 10, 2008 9:50 AM, Clodoaldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen performance degradation at every new version since 7.3. But now 8.3 is a complete disaster. It could be that my most expensive query is just a corner case, but I don't

Re: [GENERAL] ATTN: Clodaldo was Performance problem. Could it be related to 8.3-beta4?

2008-01-10 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, I was looking at the previous thread that you thought had disappeared, and with the explain analyze output from 8.3 I noticed something odd. For 8.2 you had something like this: QUERY PLAN

Re: [GENERAL] ATTN: Clodaldo was Performance problem. Could it be related to 8.3-beta4?

2008-01-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Clodoaldo escribió: If you read that thread you will notice my experience with xlog_seg_size of 1GB which makes the time goes down to 1,300 sec, still much more than 8.2. Do tell, what's your wal_buffers setting? Have you tried increasing that? -- Alvaro Herrera

Re: [GENERAL] ATTN: Clodaldo was Performance problem. Could it be related to 8.3-beta4?

2008-01-10 Thread Greg Smith
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Alvaro Herrera wrote: Do tell, what's your wal_buffers setting? Have you tried increasing that? Original post here suggested wal_buffers=512kb in 8.2 and 1024kb in the 8.3 config. Seemed plenty big for this scale of server. -- * Greg Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 10, 2008 10:50 AM, Sim Zacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I meant I did Vacuum Analyze. In any case, Aside from the vacuum analyze, I also tested it right after a database restore, so there should be no need for any maintenance features. FYI, a restore does NOT restore the stats, nor does

Re: [GENERAL] count(*) and bad design was: Experiences with extensibility

2008-01-10 Thread Ron Mayer
Chris Browne wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zoltan Boszormenyi) writes: SELECT COUNT(*) [Waving hands for a moment] Would what Chris describes below be a good candidate for a pgfoundry project that has functions that'll create the triggers for you? (yeah, I might be volunteering, but would

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Sim Zacks
It does contain a lot more loops, but it is the exact same query, so I don't understand why it would use that kind of plan sim Bricklen Anderson wrote: I don't an answer to your question, but an obvious difference is that the slow query contains many more loops. (this may already have been

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Sim Zacks
Perhaps a suboptimal plan is picked due to configuration issues, e.g. memory constraints? Could you post your postgresql.conf as well? Below is the postgresql.conf file for 8.2.4. The server has 2 GB of RAM and it was not maxed out when I ran the query. As I mentioned, I tried running both

Re: [GENERAL] 8.2.4 serious slowdown

2008-01-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 10, 2008 12:33 PM, Sim Zacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps a suboptimal plan is picked due to configuration issues, e.g. memory constraints? Could you post your postgresql.conf as well? Below is the postgresql.conf file for 8.2.4. The server has 2 GB of RAM and it was not maxed

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