Re: [GENERAL] Need help with what I think is likely a simple query - for each distinct val, return only the record with the most recent date.

2011-09-13 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 13/09/11 10:54, Reid Thompson wrote: Could someone point me in the right direction.. Thanks - reid Given the example data, how do I write a query that will give me the resultset: [snip] I.E. for each distinct val, return the record with the most recent date. Isn't it something simple like

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump

2011-09-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/12/11 7:40 PM, Rogel Nocedo wrote: C:\dbbackup does not exist yet. Please advise. make the directory first. you can't write a file to a nonexistent directory. -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast -- Sent

[GENERAL] Alternative JDBC driver

2011-09-13 Thread Jimmy K.
Hello, I asked this question on JDBC list, but it seems dead. I found alternative JDBC driver marked as Beta 2 (actually last time bumped to Beta 2.1) http://softperience.eu/pages/cmn/ngpgjdbc.xhtml. We still test it. Those features are, mainly, in our interest - binary transfer - possibility of

Re: [GENERAL] Alternative JDBC driver

2011-09-13 Thread Dave Cramer
I looked at the link. Where is the code ? What license ? Dave Cramer dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca http://www.credativ.ca On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Jimmy K. jimmypg...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I asked this question on JDBC list, but it seems dead. I found alternative JDBC driver

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with the 9.1 one-click installer Windows7 64bit

2011-09-13 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Merlin Moncure, 12.09.2011 21:28: With the second attempt, the installer again hang during initdb. Checking the state using ProcessExplorer I could see that the installer script was waiting for icacls.exe to set permissions for the user currently running the installer. It was running [icacls.exe

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump

2011-09-13 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 13/09/2011 03:40, Rogel Nocedo wrote: Hi! How can I please a directory folder where my backup files will be placed? I am calling pg_dump C:\Program Files (x86)\PostgreSQL\9.0\binpg_dump -i -h localhost -p 5433 -U postgres -f add.sql --column-inserts -t address my_db C:\Program Files

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Need help with what I think is likely a simple query - for each distinct val, return only one record with the most recent date.

2011-09-13 Thread Vincent de Phily
On Monday 12 September 2011 22:51:54 Reid Thompson wrote: test=# select distinct on (val1) val1, val2, val3 from (SELECT max(val3) OVER (PARTITION BY val1), * FROM sampledata) as sq where val3 = max order by val1; Other things I've tried (was limited to PG8.3 so no OVER (PARTITION...)

Re: [GENERAL] Has Pg 9.1.0 been released today?

2011-09-13 Thread Venkat Balaji
Yes. I would be excited to know if there is a possibility of multi-master replication system on Postgres. We will be soon using 9.1 Streaming replication. Thanks Venkat On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations on the release of

[GENERAL] Jenkins

2011-09-13 Thread salah jubeh
Hello. This might be the wrong place to post my question, but any help is appreciated. Did any one used Jenkins for Postgresql unit testing, and what are the available unit testing plug-ins?,  is there is a tutorial for that ? Thanks in advance

Re: [GENERAL] Has Pg 9.1.0 been released today?

2011-09-13 Thread Leonardo Carneiro
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Venkat Balaji venkat.bal...@verse.inwrote: Yes. I would be excited to know if there is a possibility of multi-master replication system on Postgres. We will be soon using 9.1 Streaming replication. Thanks Venkat On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Aleksey

Re: [GENERAL] 8.4.4 locked after power failure

2011-09-13 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
I'm guessing I won't get much more from devs , without providing more info here which unfortunately has been lost. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

[GENERAL] Window Function API Performance

2011-09-13 Thread Schneider, Thilo
Dear all, first let me thank the PostgreSQL developers for implementing the incredibly helpful window functions. This is one of the features I use most often. But, as my requirements are perhaps a bit special, I always want more ;) Now I am trying to implement my own window function using

Re: [GENERAL] Need help with what I think is likely a simple query - for each distinct val, return only the record with the most recent date.

2011-09-13 Thread jesuthefrog
I would think to do it like SELECT DISTINCT ON (val) val,date ORDER BY date DESC, val ASC I haven't tested this, but it's similar to things I've done recently, and I'm pretty sure this will do what you want. On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Reid Thompson jreidthomp...@gmail.com wrote: Could

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL 9.1, replica and unlogged tables

2011-09-13 Thread Ferruccio Zamuner
I'm starting to play with PostgreSQL 9.1, thank you all for this nice and sweet piece of software. I've two hosts in my cluster: a) postgresql master b) postgresql standby I've created two tables on master: create table test_logged (id serial, nome text); create unlogged table test_unlogged

Re: [GENERAL] 8.4.4 locked after power failure

2011-09-13 Thread Merlin Moncure
2011/9/13 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz gryz...@gmail.com: I'm guessing I won't get much more from devs , without providing more info here which unfortunately has been lost. yup -- you destroyed all the evidence. if it happens again, try posting some more info, particularly what's going on with locks,

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Need help with what I think is likely a simple query - for each distinct val, return only one record with the most recent date.

2011-09-13 Thread Hannes Erven
Reid, where any one of these 3 11 2011-01-01 11 2011-01-01 13 2011-01-01 or any one of these 2 31 2011-01-05 32 2011-01-05 are suitable for val = 1, val = 3 respectively. Can you please describe in words what you are trying to

Re: [GENERAL] 8.4.4 locked after power failure

2011-09-13 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
2011/9/13 Merlin Moncure mmonc...@gmail.com: 2011/9/13 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz gryz...@gmail.com: I'm guessing I won't get much more from devs , without providing more info here which unfortunately has been lost. yup -- you destroyed all the evidence.  if it happens again, try posting some more

Re: [GENERAL] 8.4.4 locked after power failure

2011-09-13 Thread Merlin Moncure
2011/9/13 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz gryz...@gmail.com: 2011/9/13 Merlin Moncure mmonc...@gmail.com: 2011/9/13 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz gryz...@gmail.com: I'm guessing I won't get much more from devs , without providing more info here which unfortunately has been lost. yup -- you destroyed all the

[GENERAL] pg_restore must failure on attempt

2011-09-13 Thread artdias90
As I try to restore my data, I get the warning message: pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a valid archive (too short?) Ok, but the job ends with green status, I want it to finish with error. Is there any way of using $? there? -- View this message in context:

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 9.1, replica and unlogged tables

2011-09-13 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Ferruccio Zamuner nonsolos...@diff.org wrote: I'm starting to play with PostgreSQL 9.1, thank you all for this nice and sweet piece of software. I've two hosts in my cluster: a) postgresql master b) postgresql standby I've created two tables on master:

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Need help with what I think is likely a simple query - for each distinct val, return only one record with the most recent date.

2011-09-13 Thread Reid Thompson
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 16:39 +0200, Hannes Erven wrote: Reid, where any one of these 3 11 2011-01-01 11 2011-01-01 13 2011-01-01 or any one of these 2 31 2011-01-05 32 2011-01-05 are suitable for val = 1, val = 3

Re: [GENERAL] Has Pg 9.1.0 been released today?

2011-09-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/12/11 1:01 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Now that you have streaming replication both async and sync, are you working on multi-master replication? general case multimaster replication is extremely hard to do 'right'. all solutions compromise data integrity and/or create huge

Re: [GENERAL] warm standby - apply wal archives

2011-09-13 Thread MirrorX
just an update from my tests i restored from the backup. the db is about 2.5TB and the wal archives were about 300GB. the recovery of the db was completed after 3 hours. thx to all for your help -- View this message in context:

Re: [GENERAL] Window Function API Performance

2011-09-13 Thread Tom Lane
Schneider, Thilo t.schneid...@fraport.de writes: Currently I access rows of the window partition using the WinGetFuncArgInPartition function. However, what I noticed is that this function seems incredibly slow when the partition looked at is rather large - for my case about 1245000 rows. It

[GENERAL] Query performance help with 'shadow table' approach.

2011-09-13 Thread Brian Fehrle
Hi all, I've got a large table that has 15 million + rows in it, and a set of queries I've been trying to speed up. The table has a primary key column, and a couple hundred other columns. These queries basically do a 'select max(primary_key_column) from table group by column1, column2.

Re: [GENERAL] Query performance help with 'shadow table' approach.

2011-09-13 Thread Ondrej Ivanič
Hi, On 14 September 2011 07:44, Brian Fehrle bri...@consistentstate.com wrote: 2. I have appropriate indexes where they need to be. The issue is in the query planner not using them due to it (i assume) just being faster to scan the whole table when the data set it needs is as large as it is.

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL benchmarked on XFS vs ZFS vs btrfs vs ext4

2011-09-13 Thread Toby Corkindale
Hi, Some months ago, I ran some (probably naive) benchmarks looking at how pgbench performed on an identical system with differing filesystems. (on Linux). Since then the kernel-level version of ZFS became usable, and there have been improvements to btrfs, and no doubt various updates in the

Re: [GENERAL] 8.4.4 locked after power failure

2011-09-13 Thread Craig Ringer
On 09/13/2011 11:04 PM, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: 2011/9/13 Merlin Moncuremmonc...@gmail.com: 2011/9/13 Grzegorz Jaśkiewiczgryz...@gmail.com: I'm guessing I won't get much more from devs , without providing more info here which unfortunately has been lost. yup -- you destroyed all the

Re: [GENERAL] Has Pg 9.1.0 been released today?

2011-09-13 Thread Craig Ringer
On 09/13/2011 04:01 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Congratulations on the release of 9.1.0! Lots of great features, I for one can't wait to try out unlogged tables, that should help a lot in our environment. Now that you have streaming replication both async and sync, are you working on

Re: [GENERAL] Has Pg 9.1.0 been released today?

2011-09-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 09/13/2011 06:43 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: On 09/13/2011 04:01 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Congratulations on the release of 9.1.0! Lots of great features, I for one can't wait to try out unlogged tables, that should help a lot in our environment. Now that you have streaming replication

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Need help with what I think is likely a simple query - for each distinct val, return only one record with the most recent date.

2011-09-13 Thread Eduardo Piombino
I'm sorry Reid, driving back home I realized that the previous query I suggested didn't do what I was expecting, cause it would compute all of val2 for each val1, even if they belonged to another group (not for a particular val1/date pair), or in other words, to another date. I've considered this

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL benchmarked on XFS vs ZFS vs btrfs vs ext4

2011-09-13 Thread Andy Colson
On 09/13/2011 08:15 PM, Toby Corkindale wrote: Hi, Some months ago, I ran some (probably naive) benchmarks looking at how pgbench performed on an identical system with differing filesystems. (on Linux). Since then the kernel-level version of ZFS became usable, and there have been improvements

Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore must failure on attempt

2011-09-13 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7:57:44 am artdias90 wrote: As I try to restore my data, I get the warning message: pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a valid archive (too short?) Ok, but the job ends with green status, I want it to finish with error. Is there any

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with the 9.1 one-click installer Windows7 64bit

2011-09-13 Thread Craig Ringer
On 09/13/2011 02:44 PM, Thomas Kellerer wrote: It turned out that it tries the following: (Note that the selected data directory is c:\Daten\db\pgdata91) icacls C:\ /grant tkellerer:RX (Changing the permission for the whole harddisk!!) I forwarded your message to Dave Page in case the EDB