[GENERAL] Could not read block of temporary files

2015-03-25 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi all, I'm creating a table from a select query. During the execution it errors with: ERROR: could not read block 13 of temporary file: Success I am running Postgresql 9.1 on a Debian/Linux server. Does anyone have any suggestions on what could be causing this? I checked diskspace and

Re: [GENERAL] Index usage with slow query

2014-07-25 Thread Rebecca Clarke
...@potentialtech.com wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 10:45:56 +0100 Rebecca Clarke r.clark...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Looking for some advice regarding a slow query I have and indexing. I'm using postgresql 9.1 and this is my table that has around 680 rows: CREATE TABLE mytable ( class

[GENERAL] Index usage with slow query

2014-07-23 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi all, Looking for some advice regarding a slow query I have and indexing. I'm using postgresql 9.1 and this is my table that has around 680 rows: CREATE TABLE mytable ( class character varying, floor character varying, source_id integer, the_geom geometry ) WITH ( OIDS=TRUE );

[GENERAL] What query currently running within function

2014-07-22 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi all, Presently I'm executing a function that runs many queries within it. select * from _myfunction(); Is there a way to see what query it is up to within the function? When I do a select of pg_stat_activity it just shows me the _myfunction() query. I'm running postgresql 9.1 Thanks in

[GENERAL] Track changes to function code

2014-07-21 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi all, At present when a function is being edited we keep note of when and by who within comments in the function's code. Is there, or can anyone recommend, any open source software that tracks function activity when it comes to edits (not executions)? I tried searching on the web, but all I

Re: [GENERAL] Track changes to function code

2014-07-21 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Thanks guys. I'll check that out. On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Pavel Stehule pavel.steh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi 2014-07-21 14:36 GMT+02:00 Jacob Bunk Nielsen ja...@bunk.cc: Rebecca Clarke r.clark...@gmail.com writes: At present when a function is being edited we keep note of when

Re: [GENERAL] Re: collecting employees who completed 5 and 10 years in the current month

2014-07-01 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Right you are David re my first query. That'll be more appropriate if you want to establish if they're in their 5th year, or 10th year. On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 6:08 PM, David G Johnston david.g.johns...@gmail.com wrote: Rebecca Clarke-2 wrote create view vw_employee as select * from

Re: [GENERAL] collecting employees who completed 5 and 10 years in the current month

2014-07-01 Thread Rebecca Clarke
, 2014 04:52:32 PM Rebecca Clarke wrote: Hi Arup, Two ways come to mind for me. They're pretty much the same as Szymon's, just minus the sample table creation. I would suggest creating a view instead, so you can just select from it whenever you please. create view vw_employee

Re: [GENERAL] collecting employees who completed 5 and 10 years in the current month

2014-06-30 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi Arup, Two ways come to mind for me. They're pretty much the same as Szymon's, just minus the sample table creation. I would suggest creating a view instead, so you can just select from it whenever you please. create view vw_employee as select * from employees where

[GENERAL] Initial queries of day slow

2014-04-07 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi all. I'm a bit stumped. At present I'm finding that queries to my database, that normally execute promptly, are taking a long time when they are executed first thing in the morning (after the database has been inactive for several hours). After the first execution, everything is back to

Re: [GENERAL] Initial queries of day slow

2014-04-07 Thread Rebecca Clarke
...@wien.gv.atwrote: Rebecca Clarke wrote: I'm a bit stumped. At present I'm finding that queries to my database, that normally execute promptly, are taking a long time when they are executed first thing in the morning (after the database has been inactive for several hours). After the first execution

Re: [GENERAL] Initial queries of day slow

2014-04-07 Thread Rebecca Clarke
manual and autovac to see how things go. On a side not, we're not doing a vacuumdb, but individual vacuum analyze statements on each table. Not sure if that makes any difference. On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Jeff Janes jeff.ja...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Rebecca Clarke

Re: [GENERAL] .pgpass being ignored

2013-06-24 Thread Rebecca Clarke
I could be wrong, but shouldn't the owner of .pgpass be postgres? On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Ziggy Skalski zskal...@afilias.infowrote: On 13-06-21 06:19 PM, Stephen Rasku wrote: I am trying to write a script that will create and populate a database. I don't want to enter a password

Re: [GENERAL] Get data type aliases

2013-06-13 Thread Rebecca Clarke
That's great, thank you! worked like a charm. On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@2ndquadrant.comwrote: Rebecca Clarke escribió: Hi all. I have a function that has an attribute with datatype of character varying. In the pg_type table the oid of the data type

[GENERAL] Get data type aliases

2013-06-12 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi all. I have a function that has an attribute with datatype of character varying. In the pg_type table the oid of the data type points to type varchar Is there somewhere that identifies the alias for each type? E.g. int4 = integer varchar = character varying. and so on. I can do an if

[GENERAL] Function tracking

2013-06-07 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi all I'm looking for suggestions on the best way to track the updates to a function. We have two databases, Dev Live, so I want to update Live with just the functions that have been modified in the DEV databas3e. Is there another, easier way to track the updates than manually recording it in

[GENERAL] Storing Special Characters

2013-05-14 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi there. This may be the wrong forum to inquire in, but I'd be grateful if I could directed in the right direction if that is the case. I am currently using Postgresql 9.1. I have a table in which I want to store shop names. Some of the shop names contain 'é' and '£'. The query below works

[GENERAL] Databas has no Object Identifier Types Functions

2012-09-04 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi there, I'm running postgresql 8.4 on a debian system. I have a database that has no object identifier types and functions in the pg_catalog, e.g. regclass, regclassout. What's the best way to get these in to this database? I don't want to upgrade postgresql. There are other databases on the

Re: [GENERAL] Databas has no Object Identifier Types Functions

2012-09-04 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Returns 0 rows. On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Pavan Deolasee pavan.deola...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Rebecca Clarke r.clark...@gmail.comwrote: Hi there, I'm running postgresql 8.4 on a debian system. I have a database that has no object identifier types

[GENERAL] No Default Text Search Parser

2012-09-04 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi there Postgresql 8.4. I keep getting this error multiple times when I tried to access the pg_catalog in pg_admin: Cache lookup failed for text search parser 3722. The logs show that the query that was being executed was: (example is one of many) SELECT (SELECT t.alias FROM

Re: [GENERAL] .pgpass not working

2012-05-08 Thread Rebecca Clarke
wrote: On May 4, 2012, at 9:30 AM, Rebecca Clarke wrote: I do not want to touch the pg_hba.conf so I have generated the .pgpass file. The permissions is set to 600, and I have correctly inputted the details into .pgpass, there are no leading spaces. *myhostname:myport:*:postgres:mypassword

[GENERAL] .pgpass not working

2012-05-04 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi Apologies in advance if this is the wrong place to ask. I have Postres 8.4 and I am setting up replication with Slony. I'm having password issues with slony. I have roamed the net for a solution and the way to fix it is to use the .pgpass file or change pg_hba.conf to accept trusted

Re: [GENERAL] how to drop function?

2011-11-15 Thread Rebecca Clarke
DROP FUNCTION process_table; should work. On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:38 PM, J.V. jvsr...@gmail.com wrote: How do I drop a function that was created like so: create or replace function process_table (action TEXT, v_table_name varchar(100)) RETURNS BOOLEAN AS $$ DECLARE BEGIN ...

Re: [GENERAL] Transfer 8.3 to 8.4 - FUNCTION gtsq_in(cstring) does not exist

2011-10-14 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Your right. I'm actually transferring from 8.2. Dumb moment for me there! I am using tsvector so unable to uninstall. I will look into documentation.. Thanks for your help. Rebecca On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Rebecca Clarke rebe...@clarke.net.nz writes

[GENERAL] Transfer 8.3 to 8.4 - FUNCTION gtsq_in(cstring) does not exist

2011-10-13 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi I'm transferring a database from 8.3 to 8.4 and I've done a pg_dump of the db schema on 8.3. When I pg_restore it to 8.4 I get the following: pg_restore: creating FUNCTION gtsq_in(cstring) pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 550; 1255 4231868780 FUNCTION gtsq_in(cstring) postgres

[GENERAL] Transfer 8.3 to 8.4 - FUNCTION gtsq_in(cstring) does not exist

2011-10-13 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi I'm transferring a database from 8.3 to 8.4 and I've done a pg_dump of the db schema on 8.3. When I pg_restore it to 8.4 I get the following: pg_restore: creating FUNCTION gtsq_in(cstring) pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 550; 1255 4231868780 FUNCTION gtsq_in(cstring) postgres

Re: [GENERAL] Connection Error during Pg_restore

2011-08-24 Thread Rebecca Clarke
That worked thank you On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:01 PM, raghu ram raghuchenn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Rebecca Clarke rebe...@clarke.net.nzwrote: Hi there I'm doing a restore of a large table. The backup file is 18gb. When I run the restore after sometime

[GENERAL] Connection Error during Pg_restore

2011-08-17 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi there I'm doing a restore of a large table. The backup file is 18gb. When I run the restore after sometime it comes up with this error while it is restoring the data. pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC: pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 3022; 0 4287406059

[GENERAL] Pg_dump Query

2011-08-15 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi I want to pg_dump only a select amount of rows from a table and restore them to a table on another server. Is there away to do this? I thought of using a view but how would I upload that into a specific table. Copy? or is there something I can do with pg_restore. Rebecca

[GENERAL] List Functions and Code

2011-07-28 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi I want to search and list all the functions in a database that reference a particular table within its code. Is there a way to do this? I can list all the functions from pg_proc, however there is nothing there which provides the code of the function, so therefore I can't query if it mentions

Re: [GENERAL] Error creating function

2011-07-21 Thread Rebecca Clarke
the restoration. So after I created the language and restarted the restoration from scratch with the public schema first, I no longer received this error. Thanks Rebecca On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Rebecca Clarke rebe...@clarke.net.nz writes: I'm doing

[GENERAL] Error creating function

2011-07-20 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi I'm doing a restore into Postgresql 8.4, postgis 1.5.1 and I'm getting the following error when it creates the below function: pg_restore: creating FUNCTION _get_buffer(geometry, double precision, integer) pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 966; 1255 49162661 FUNCTION

[GENERAL] Database Restore Fail - No liblwgeom.so

2011-07-19 Thread Rebecca Clarke
Hi there I'm transferring a database from 8.2 to 8.4 and I have some triggers that reference liblwgeom.so within the database. When I restore a dump of the 8.2 database into my 8.4 database it says that liblwgeom.so does not exist. From various forums on the internet I have discovered that this