[GENERAL] undefined symbol: SPI_plan_get_cached_plan

2013-02-11 Thread Roger Niederland
I am getting the following error when trying to execute a plpgsql funtion: PSTERROR: could not load library /usr/pgsql-9.2/lib/plpgsql.so: /usr/pgsql-9.2/lib/plpgsql.so: undefined symbol: SPI_plan_get_cached_plan This is on a SL6.3 system running postgres 9.2.2 We set this server up about

Re: [GENERAL] Upsert Functionality using CTEs

2013-02-11 Thread Tim Uckun
The best strategy is fixing your data-model so that you have a unique key. As you found out already, e-mail addresses aren't very suitable as unique keys for people. For this particular case I'd suggest adding a surrogate key. Alternatively, you might try using (first_name, email) as your

[GENERAL] Issue installing an extension

2013-02-11 Thread P. Broennimann
Hi there I have installed 9.2.2 on a Debian Squeeze VM. I am trying to install a third party extension. 1) For the extension I did make make install. 2) I now see the extension files in /usr/share/postgresql/9.2/extension/... (files .sql and .control) 3) When I issue CREATE EXTENSION ... I

Re: [GENERAL] Upsert Functionality using CTEs

2013-02-11 Thread Geoff Winkless
On 11 February 2013 07:47, Alban Hertroys haram...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 11, 2013, at 2:23, Tim Uckun timuc...@gmail.com wrote: This works pretty good except for when the top 100 records have duplicated email address (two sales for the same email address). I am wondering what the best

Re: [GENERAL] Upsert Functionality using CTEs

2013-02-11 Thread Tim Uckun
I read it that he has multiple sales from the same person? In which case pretending that the two sales were from different people isn't the correct result at all. Actually it turns out that both cases exist. I may be missing the point of the query, but wasn't it to add an entry for each

Re: [GENERAL] Issue installing an extension

2013-02-11 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 02/11/2013 02:33 AM, P. Broennimann wrote: Hi there I have installed 9.2.2 on a Debian Squeeze VM. I am trying to install a third party extension. 1) For the extension I did make make install. 2) I now see the extension files in /usr/share/postgresql/9.2/extension/... (files .sql and

Re: [GENERAL] fascinating article on postgresql mailing lists

2013-02-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Merlin Moncure escribió: http://citusdata.com/blog/57-postgresql-full-text-search http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/511164ef.8010...@dalibo.info -- Álvaro Herrerahttp://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training Services -- Sent via pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] undefined symbol: SPI_plan_get_cached_plan

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Lane
Roger Niederland ro...@niederland.com writes: I am getting the following error when trying to execute a plpgsql funtion: PSTERROR: could not load library /usr/pgsql-9.2/lib/plpgsql.so: /usr/pgsql-9.2/lib/plpgsql.so: undefined symbol: SPI_plan_get_cached_plan This is on a SL6.3 system

Re: [GENERAL] undefined symbol: SPI_plan_get_cached_plan

2013-02-11 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 09:47 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: After restarting the postgres service, the error went away. So you had upgraded, but not actually restarted the server ... just for future reference, SLES apparently doesn't do a service restart automatically during package upgrade.

Re: [GENERAL] undefined symbol: SPI_plan_get_cached_plan

2013-02-11 Thread Roger Niederland
On 2/11/2013 6:47 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Roger Niederland ro...@niederland.com writes: I am getting the following error when trying to execute a plpgsql funtion: PSTERROR: could not load library /usr/pgsql-9.2/lib/plpgsql.so: /usr/pgsql-9.2/lib/plpgsql.so: undefined symbol:

Re: [GENERAL] Tcl PG on Win 7 64 bit - is it working for anyone?

2013-02-11 Thread Carlo Stonebanks
I had seen that thread, and that's how I came in contact with L J Bayuk (the person who owns the pgtclng sourceforge project and who answered the questions) and followed his advice, which is how I came to create the 64 bit build. I am still experiencing problems. It's possible that I have missed

Re: [GENERAL] fascinating article on postgresql mailing lists

2013-02-11 Thread Vincent Veyron
Le lundi 11 février 2013 à 08:03 -0600, Merlin Moncure a écrit : http://citusdata.com/blog/57-postgresql-full-text-search I find it strange that 'Probability that a new thread gets a response' sits below 60% for the 'general' list In my mailbox, which holds the last 2628 messages from the

Re: [GENERAL] fascinating article on postgresql mailing lists

2013-02-11 Thread Vincent Veyron
Le lundi 11 février 2013 à 17:20 +0100, Vincent Veyron a écrit : Le lundi 11 février 2013 à 08:03 -0600, Merlin Moncure a écrit : http://citusdata.com/blog/57-postgresql-full-text-search I find it strange that 'Probability that a new thread gets a response' sits below 60% for the

Re: [GENERAL] undefined symbol: SPI_plan_get_cached_plan

2013-02-11 Thread Pavel Stehule
2013/2/11 Roger Niederland ro...@niederland.com: On 2/11/2013 6:47 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Roger Niederland ro...@niederland.com writes: I am getting the following error when trying to execute a plpgsql funtion: PSTERROR: could not load library /usr/pgsql-9.2/lib/plpgsql.so:

[GENERAL] Cache lookup failed for relation

2013-02-11 Thread David Clymer
I've been seeing the following error in one database of ours: cache lookup failed for relation 7640518 The SQL that apparently triggers this is: drop table if exists ns_e5461ae570429d0b7863cce9ef4d4ead; Unfortunately, manual attempts to reproduce the issue have failed. In normal

Re: [GENERAL] Cache lookup failed for relation

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Lane
David Clymer david.cly...@vistashare.com writes: I've been seeing the following error in one database of ours: cache lookup failed for relation 7640518 Always the same OID, or does it change? The SQL that apparently triggers this is: drop table if exists

Re: [GENERAL] Cache lookup failed for relation

2013-02-11 Thread Péter Kovács
I'm confused by the error message. Is a cache miss an error condition? Thanks Peter On Feb 11, 2013 6:22 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: David Clymer david.cly...@vistashare.com writes: I've been seeing the following error in one database of ours: cache lookup failed for relation

Re: [GENERAL] Cache lookup failed for relation

2013-02-11 Thread Pavel Stehule
2013/2/11 Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us: David Clymer david.cly...@vistashare.com writes: I've been seeing the following error in one database of ours: cache lookup failed for relation 7640518 Always the same OID, or does it change? The SQL that apparently triggers this is: drop table

Re: [GENERAL] Cache lookup failed for relation

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Lane
=?UTF-8?B?UMOpdGVyIEtvdsOhY3M=?= peter.dunay.kov...@gmail.com writes: I'm confused by the error message. Is a cache miss an error condition? Well, this isn't a cache miss, it's more of a there's no such OID in the pg_class catalog condition. Normally you see something more user-friendly; but in

Re: [GENERAL] Visual query builder for PosgreSQL?

2013-02-11 Thread Wolfgang Keller
I'm looking for some good visual query builder which can be used by non-tech people for some ETL tasks. Do you have any recommendation? Libreoffice Base? I know it has a visual query builder and it does support PostgreSQL, but I have no clue what it is worth, since I tend to use SQL instead.

Re: [GENERAL] Cache lookup failed for relation

2013-02-11 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: David Clymer david.cly...@vistashare.com writes: I've been seeing the following error in one database of ours: cache lookup failed for relation 7640518 Always the same OID, or does it change? It appears that almost

Re: [GENERAL] Cache lookup failed for relation

2013-02-11 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Pavel Stehule pavel.steh...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/2/11 Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us: David Clymer david.cly...@vistashare.com writes: I've been seeing the following error in one database of ours: cache lookup failed for relation 7640518 Always the same

Re: [GENERAL] Cache lookup failed for relation

2013-02-11 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:13 PM, David Clymer david.cly...@vistashare.comwrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Pavel Stehule pavel.steh...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/2/11 Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us: David Clymer david.cly...@vistashare.com writes: I've been seeing the following error in

Re: [GENERAL] Cache lookup failed for relation

2013-02-11 Thread Pavel Stehule
2013/2/11 David Clymer david.cly...@vistashare.com On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:13 PM, David Clymer david.cly...@vistashare.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Pavel Stehule pavel.steh...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/2/11 Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us: David Clymer

Re: [GENERAL] Cache lookup failed for relation

2013-02-11 Thread Kevin Grittner
David Clymer david.cly...@vistashare.com wrote: The SERIALIZABLE isolation mode is being used in 9.0, and REPEATABLE READ in 9.2, which should be the same thing, correct (eg. 9.0 serializable ~ 9.2 repeatable read)? Correct. In 9.0 SERIALIZABLE and REPEATABLE READ are exactly same.  In 9.1

Re: [GENERAL] fascinating article on postgresql mailing lists

2013-02-11 Thread Daniel Verite
Vincent Veyron wrote: I find it strange that 'Probability that a new thread gets a response' sits below 60% for the 'general' list This seems indeed too low. I happen to collect these messages in a database since mid-2005. As a point of comparison, the numbers I get until today

Re: [GENERAL] fascinating article on postgresql mailing lists

2013-02-11 Thread Andrew Satori
On Feb 11, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Daniel Verite dan...@manitou-mail.org wrote: Vincent Veyron wrote: I find it strange that 'Probability that a new thread gets a response' sits below 60% for the 'general' list This seems indeed too low. I happen to collect these messages in a

[GENERAL] Determining if an hstore is empty

2013-02-11 Thread Wells Oliver
What's the canonical way of doing this? Various failed attempts include: select array_length(%%'a=1'::hstore - 'a=1'::hstore, 1) select array_length(%%('a=1'::hstore - 'a=1'::hstore), 1) select array_length(avals('a=1'::hstore - 'a=1'::hstore), 1); select array_length(akeys('a=1'::hstore -

Re: [GENERAL] Cache lookup failed for relation

2013-02-11 Thread Péter Kovács
Thank you, Tom! Recently, as I wanted to drop a schema (PG 8.2), I had to wade through a number of such messages and keep dropping rows in the pg_dependency table with the OID specified in the messages. When I was finally able to drop the schema, I wanted to drop the user (who previously owned

[GENERAL] PG V9 on NFS

2013-02-11 Thread Gauthier, Dave
Can PG V9.1* support a DB that's on an NFS disk? I googled around, but nothing popped out. Also, would you happen to know the answer to this for MySQL v5.5*? Thanks in Advance.

Re: [GENERAL] PG V9 on NFS

2013-02-11 Thread Karl Denninger
On 2/11/2013 4:22 PM, Gauthier, Dave wrote: Can PG V9.1* support a DB that's on an NFS disk? I googled around, but nothing popped out. Also, would you happen to know the answer to this for MySQL v5.5*? Thanks in Advance. That would be (IMHO) very ill-advised. In the event of a

Re: [GENERAL] fascinating article on postgresql mailing lists

2013-02-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Andrew Satori d...@druware.com wrote: On Feb 11, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Daniel Verite dan...@manitou-mail.org wrote: Vincent Veyron wrote: I find it strange that 'Probability that a new thread gets a response' sits below 60% for the 'general' list

Re: [GENERAL] fascinating article on postgresql mailing lists

2013-02-11 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 02/11/2013 03:02 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: Welcome to the perception of the outsider. I am in infrequent poster here, but in my 6 years of doing PostgreSQL for Mac, I get 3-4 emails a week asking for help on PostgreSQL issues that contain some variation of the phrase 'I posted to a

Re: [GENERAL] Tcl PG on Win 7 64 bit - is it working for anyone?

2013-02-11 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 02/11/2013 08:18 AM, Carlo Stonebanks wrote: I had seen that thread, and that's how I came in contact with L J Bayuk (the person who owns the pgtclng sourceforge project and who answered the questions) and followed his advice, which is how I came to create the 64 bit build. I am still

Re: [GENERAL] fascinating article on postgresql mailing lists

2013-02-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/11/2013 11:17 AM, Daniel Verite wrote: I happen to collect these messages in a database since mid-2005. As a point of comparison, the numbers I get until today for pgsql-general are 3348 messages that appear to be outside of any thread (no In-Reply-To field or References field that points

[GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

2013-02-11 Thread Wan Hashim
Hi all; Im looking for in information and resources to setup postgresql 8.0.5 in Ubuntu server . tq -- 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] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

2013-02-11 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 02/11/2013 03:40 PM, Wan Hashim wrote: Hi all; Im looking for in information and resources to setup postgresql 8.0.5 in Ubuntu server . tq Is there a reason you want to install a version that is no longer supported? Also I believe you mean Ubuntu 12.10, correct? -- Adrian Klaver

Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

2013-02-11 Thread Wan Hashim
our legacy system required postgresql 8.0 to run. we are in the process of upgrading the application and database. we must have postgresql 8.8 to keep the system running at this moment . if possible , we want to run in Ubuntu 12. we can consider older version of OS if it can help . tq On Tue,

Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

2013-02-11 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 02/11/2013 04:29 PM, Wan Hashim wrote: our legacy system required postgresql 8.0 to run. we are in the process of upgrading the application and database. we must have postgresql 8.8 to keep the system running at this moment . if possible , we want to run in Ubuntu 12. we can consider older

Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

2013-02-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/11/2013 4:29 PM, Wan Hashim wrote: our legacy system required postgresql 8.0 to run. are you sure it requires this old version? most software works with newer versions with little or no changes. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle

Re: [GENERAL] PG V9 on NFS

2013-02-11 Thread Scott Mead
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Gauthier, Dave dave.gauth...@intel.comwrote: Can PG V9.1* support a DB that's on an NFS disk? I googled around, but nothing popped out. Also, would you happen to know the answer to this for MySQL v5.5*? Thanks in Advance. I've done this

Re: [GENERAL] PG V9 on NFS

2013-02-11 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 22:22 +, Gauthier, Dave wrote: Can PG V9.1* support a DB that's on an NFS disk? http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/25517.1191038...@sss.pgh.pa.us Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

2013-02-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
The change from 8.0 to 8.1 that removed implicit casts broke a LOT of poorly written software. For OP: Install from source, if you don't need EXACTLY the old 8.0.5 version at least look at the bug fixed version 8.0.latest (28 or so?) On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:17 PM, John R Pierce

Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

2013-02-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
Wait I think it was 8.2 wasn't it? On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com writes: The change from 8.0 to 8.1 that removed implicit casts broke a LOT of poorly written software. That was 8.3, not 8.1.

Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

2013-02-11 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com writes: The change from 8.0 to 8.1 that removed implicit casts broke a LOT of poorly written software. That was 8.3, not 8.1. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes

Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

2013-02-11 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 02/11/2013 06:59 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: Wait I think it was 8.2 wasn't it? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/release-8-3.html E.24.2.1. General Non-character data types are no longer automatically cast to TEXT (Peter, Tom) Previously, if a non-character value was

Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

2013-02-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Wan Hashim whas...@gmail.com wrote: our legacy system required postgresql 8.0 to run. we are in the process of upgrading the application and database. we must have postgresql 8.8 to keep the system running at this moment . if possible , we want to run in Ubuntu

[GENERAL] cloning postgres-xc

2013-02-11 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Does somone know the object overlap likely between pg and pgxc repositories? I ask because I could just git clone pgxc, or I could add a remote for pgxc to my pg git clone, and make sure the branches are added, and fetch that remote. And in this way, common files/ objects are properly shared in

Re: [GENERAL] cloning postgres-xc

2013-02-11 Thread Pavan Deolasee
This may not be the best place to ask these questions and you could have considered using postgres-xc-general mailing list from the Postgres-XC project site. Anyways, see my comments below. On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: Does somone know the object

Re: [GENERAL] var/log/postgresql deletion mystery Ubuntu 12.10

2013-02-11 Thread Stuart Bishop
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Andrew Taylor andydtay...@gmail.com wrote: Here's what I did to fix this in Ubuntu 12.10. Now I cannot explain (a) why this problem came into being or (b) what the science is behind my fix. This was my first dive into Linux logs and there being seemingly an

[GENERAL] Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

2013-02-11 Thread whas...@gmail.com
I believe the software can work with any postgresql 8.0.* . It is possible to install pg 8.0 in current release of linux? Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com To: Wan Hashim whas...@gmail.com Cc: Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com,

Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

2013-02-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
Not from a package. I don't think any recent distros have a repo with 8.0 in it, so you'll have to build from source. HOWEVER, building from source is REAL easy with postgresql. sudo apt-get install build-essential # ubuntu build tools apt-get install libreadline-dev # used by pgsql to have

Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

2013-02-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
second line should be sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev of course. unless you're logged in as root. On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com wrote: Not from a package. I don't think any recent distros have a repo with 8.0 in it, so you'll have to build from

Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

2013-02-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/11/2013 11:26 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: ./configure --prefix=/opt/postgres# or wherever you want pg to install and depending on your application's requirements, you may want to enable perl, python or whatever and whatever other optional stuff you may need.. -- john r pierce

[GENERAL] Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

2013-02-11 Thread whas...@gmail.com
Thank you @ Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com To: whas...@gmail.com whas...@gmail.com Cc: Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com, pgsql-general@postgresql.org pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu

[GENERAL] Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress 8.0.5 in Ubuntu 10.12

2013-02-11 Thread whas...@gmail.com
Thank you Scot. I will try Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com To: whas...@gmail.com whas...@gmail.com Cc: Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com, pgsql-general@postgresql.org pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] Installing Postgress