Re: [GENERAL] DATA Location

2010-12-29 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2010-12-28, Ozz Nixon ozzni...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible (and how) to implement a data path on another partition (linux) for an existing system? And then if I do not gain anything, merging it to the production /data path? tablespaces Scenario of what I want to achieve (/mnt/data

Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem

2010-12-29 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2010-12-29, Bob Pawley rjpaw...@shaw.ca wrote: Yes I was just looking at it. It seems that it was dumped in that form. Any thoughts on how that could happen?? Not that it will help in this instance. could be EOL problem. LF vs CRLF but I expect that would be merely cosmetic. -- Sent

[GENERAL] Postgres Switch Over Problem

2010-12-29 Thread aaliya zarrin
Hi All, Kindly help. I am unable to get answer of my question I have sent query many times. This is again related to Signaling PG After creating the trigger file. Steps I am following are as follows, 1- Send Signa SIGUSR1 to PG 2. PG Code: Signal handler Function for catching the signal. 3.

Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem

2010-12-29 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 29 Dec 2010, at 4:29, Adrian Klaver wrote: What program are you using to look at the plain text file? Notepad Bob Open the file in Wordpad and see if it looks better. It looks the same. Bob Well there goes that theory. Notepad is almost useless as a text editor and is

Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem

2010-12-29 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 29 Dec 2010, at 4:40, Bob Pawley wrote: It seems that this has affected just the triggers - although that is quite massive I will just plug away at it until it's done (Gosh, those lines were hard to find!) How did you create those functions? With notepad, or from within pgadmin? If you

Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem

2010-12-29 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 29 Dec 2010, at 7:54, Alan Hodgson wrote: I'll look at that - I'm also looking at something called Vim http://www.vim.org/download.php vim is an excellent open source text editor. Which may fix your problem if it's related to line endings. Learning Vim is probably time well-spent, but

Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem

2010-12-29 Thread Leif Biberg Kristensen
On Wednesday 29. December 2010 13.18.40 Alban Hertroys wrote: Learning Vim is probably time well-spent, but until you do it's probably not that good a tool for fixing your problem. Although Vim is indeed a very powerful editor, it's not particularly easy to use. Unlike your usual editors

[GENERAL] Any way to use refcursors from python?

2010-12-29 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Hi all, For a little application I'm working on (written in Python), I have a number of potentially large result sets that I'd like to return from a PL/pgSQL function. My natural inclination would be to return a refcursor. It seems, however, that psycopg2 can't accept such references. Have I

Re: [GENERAL] Any way to use refcursors from python?

2010-12-29 Thread Daniele Varrazzo
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Andrew Sullivan a...@crankycanuck.ca wrote: Hi all, For a little application I'm working on (written in Python), I have a number of potentially large result sets that I'd like to return from a PL/pgSQL function.  My natural inclination would be to return a

Re: [GENERAL] B-tree index with sorting question

2010-12-29 Thread bricklen
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Guillaume Lelarge guilla...@lelarge.info wrote: Le 29/12/2010 05:28, Bricklen a écrit : On 2010-12-28, at 5:22 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: bricklen brick...@gmail.com writes: In the docs at

Re: [GENERAL] Any way to use refcursors from python?

2010-12-29 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 03:05:26PM +0100, Daniele Varrazzo wrote: There is support for named cursors instead: if you use: Yeah, this I got. But. . . just client side manipulations. So there may be some small sql you may execute (may it be select * from my_function()? -- don't know the

Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem

2010-12-29 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 3:58:35 am Alban Hertroys wrote: On 29 Dec 2010, at 4:29, Adrian Klaver wrote: What program are you using to look at the plain text file? Notepad Bob Open the file in Wordpad and see if it looks better. It looks the same. Bob Well there

Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem

2010-12-29 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Tuesday 28 December 2010 8:45:14 pm Bob Pawley wrote: -Original Message- From: Alan Hodgson Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 8:12 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem On December 28, 2010, Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem

2010-12-29 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 4:34:39 am Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote: On Wednesday 29. December 2010 13.18.40 Alban Hertroys wrote: Learning Vim is probably time well-spent, but until you do it's probably not that good a tool for fixing your problem. Although Vim is indeed a very powerful

Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem

2010-12-29 Thread Bob Pawley
-Original Message- From: Alban Hertroys Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 4:03 AM To: Bob Pawley Cc: Adrian Klaver ; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem On 29 Dec 2010, at 4:40, Bob Pawley wrote: It seems that this has affected just the triggers -

Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem

2010-12-29 Thread Bob Pawley
-Original Message- From: Adrian Klaver Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 8:08 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Cc: Leif Biberg Kristensen Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem On Wednesday 29 December 2010 4:34:39 am Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote: On Wednesday 29. December 2010

Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem

2010-12-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/29/10 4:34 AM, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote: Back when I used Windows, my favorite editor was EditPlus (http://www.editplus.com/). It isn't free, but well worth the 35 bucks. other good choices are Notepad++ (free) and my personal favorite, UltraEdit ($$). UEdit has some nice stuff

Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem

2010-12-29 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 10:52:50 am Bob Pawley wrote: -Original Message- From: Adrian Klaver Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 8:08 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Cc: Leif Biberg Kristensen Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem On Wednesday 29 December 2010 4:34:39 am

[GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation base/2757655/6930168: No such file or directory -- during warm standby setup

2010-12-29 Thread bricklen
Hi all, After setting up a warm standby (pg_start_backup/rsync/pg_stop_backup), and promoting to master, we encountered an error in the middle of an analyze of the new standby db. (the standby server is a fresh server) Source db: PostgreSQL 8.4.2 Standby db: PostgreSQL 8.4.6 ... INFO:

Re: [GENERAL] Restore problem

2010-12-29 Thread Tim Bruce - Postgres
On Wed, December 29, 2010 10:59, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/29/10 4:34 AM, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote: Back when I used Windows, my favorite editor was EditPlus (http://www.editplus.com/). It isn't free, but well worth the 35 bucks. other good choices are Notepad++ (free) and my personal

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation base/2757655/6930168: No such file or directory -- during warm standby setup

2010-12-29 Thread Tom Lane
bricklen brick...@gmail.com writes: After setting up a warm standby (pg_start_backup/rsync/pg_stop_backup), and promoting to master, we encountered an error in the middle of an analyze of the new standby db. (the standby server is a fresh server) [ relfilenode doesn't match on source and

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation base/2757655/6930168: No such file or directory -- during warm standby setup

2010-12-29 Thread bricklen
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: bricklen brick...@gmail.com writes: After setting up a warm standby (pg_start_backup/rsync/pg_stop_backup), and promoting to master, we encountered an error in the middle of an analyze of the new standby db. (the standby

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation base/2757655/6930168: No such file or directory -- during warm standby setup

2010-12-29 Thread Tom Lane
bricklen brick...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: What can you tell us about what was happening on the source DB while the backup was being taken? The source db has between 1000 and 3000 transactions/s, so is reasonably volatile. The two

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not open relation base/2757655/6930168: No such file or directory -- during warm standby setup

2010-12-29 Thread bricklen
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: bricklen brick...@gmail.com writes: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: What can you tell us about what was happening on the source DB while the backup was being taken? The source db has

[GENERAL] B-tree + sorting + unique constraint

2010-12-29 Thread bricklen
Hi, I have a follow-up question to my earlier question[1] about how sorting works in an index. Does creating a UNIQUE constraint not allow the aforementioned sorting capability? eg. create table t (x int, y int, z int); insert into t values (1,1,1),(2,2,2),(3,3,3),(1,2,3),(15,23,21); -- works:

Re: [GENERAL] B-tree + sorting + unique constraint

2010-12-29 Thread Jeff Davis
On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 16:39 -0800, bricklen wrote: -- works: create unique index t_uidx on t (x desc nulls last,y desc nulls last, z asc); drop index t_uidx; ... -- creating the unique constraint with sorting fails: alter table t add constraint t_xyz_uc unique (x desc nulls last,y desc

Re: [GENERAL] B-tree + sorting + unique constraint

2010-12-29 Thread bricklen
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Jeff Davis pg...@j-davis.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 16:39 -0800, bricklen wrote: -- works: create unique index t_uidx on t (x desc nulls last,y desc nulls last, z asc); drop index t_uidx; ... -- creating the unique constraint with sorting fails:

[GENERAL] what's the message: CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function proc_sub_b line 7 at assignment

2010-12-29 Thread Gary Fu
Hi, Why do I get the message in Subject when I do 'select proc_sub_b()' under psql ? If I comment out the RAISE statement in proc_sub_a then I don't see the message. Thanks, Gary int_admin.modaps_int select proc_sub_b(); INFO: id=11 CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function proc_sub_b line 7 at

Re: [GENERAL] what's the message: CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function proc_sub_b line 7 at assignment

2010-12-29 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 2:19:40 pm Gary Fu wrote: Hi, Why do I get the message in Subject when I do 'select proc_sub_b()' under psql ? If I comment out the RAISE statement in proc_sub_a then I don't see the message. Thanks, Gary It is just giving the context for the raising of the

[GENERAL] Automate Scripts to make for managing Large Database Servers.

2010-12-29 Thread Adarsh Sharma
Dear all, I am working on some common tasks that need to be performed on regular intervals in a large Database Servers. I find below lists of tasks that need to be performed and Please tell me if i missed some. 1. Tacking Daily, Weekly Backups. 2. Finding Space Occupied and Remaining in Data

Re: [GENERAL] Understanding PG9.0 streaming replication feature

2010-12-29 Thread Ben Carbery
Thanks for the responses all, I have this working now. I had to create a base backup before copying to the standby for replication to start, but the main sticking point was actually understanding the terms and concepts involved.. I think the Binary Replication Tutorial page on the wiki basically