Re: [ADMIN] Different results when specifying DEFAULT values through

2006-04-20 Thread Thusitha Kodikara
Thanks Stephan. That appears to be the reason for the differences.-ThusithaStephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Thusitha Kodikara wrote:> Hi,>> I observed the following on PostgreSQL 8.1.3 (on Windows 2000).>> (1) alter table invoice add column active boolean default true;>

Re: [ADMIN] Schema synchronization

2006-04-20 Thread Arnau
John DeSoi wrote: On Apr 19, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Arnau wrote: I have several databases that I have to synchronize their schemas. I have been testing several programs like EMS PostgreSQL Comparer and Navicat PostgreSQL but none of them does all I need. Any advise about what is the best way

Re: [ADMIN] Invalid Page Headers

2006-04-20 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
On Apr 19, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Tom Lane wrote: "Thomas F. O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Any tips on turning "ERROR: invalid page header in block 34 of relation" into a pg_filedump command that would yield something useful or interesting? If so, I'll post the results of all three rel

[ADMIN] Error inserting row on unique key

2006-04-20 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
I have a large table which uses a sequence for column which is defined as the primary key. Our systems is a real time data acquisition system, so we have "insert" statements going through it wrapped inside stored procedure. Every once in a while I get an inserio error on a violation of a unique

Re: [ADMIN] Error inserting row on unique key

2006-04-20 Thread Tom Lane
"Benjamin Krajmalnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a large table which uses a sequence for column which is defined as the > primary key. > Our systems is a real time data acquisition system, so we have "insert" > statements going through it wrapped inside stored procedure. > Every once i

Re: [ADMIN] Error inserting row on unique key

2006-04-20 Thread Allan Kamau
Benjamin, Are you sure the sequence is the only source of the values of the primary key field of all records in this table, that no records may have been inserted using primary key field values generated from sources other than the sequence. Allan. --- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Benj

Re: [ADMIN] Error inserting row on unique key

2006-04-20 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
The sequence is the only source. The good news is that I was using the sequence to enable purging of old data to maintain our retention period. I am going to try a different methodology by using table partitioning - one inherited table for each month of data. That way after the retention period

Re: [ADMIN] Notification of database changes

2006-04-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
No, there is currently no support for DDL triggers, though I believe it is on the TODO list... On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:08:00PM +0200, G?briel ?kos wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a convenient method to let one know if something in the > database changes (DDL-level). > > Background: we have here se

Re: [ADMIN] WAL file naming after postmaster restart

2006-04-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:05:52AM -0700, Sriram Dandapani wrote: > I noticed something strange. When postgres crashed and restarted...the > archived WAL log file numbering did not take off from where it left > off..instead a new sequence was started (the new sequence was higher > than the last one

Re: [ADMIN] Problem with SELECT FOR UPDATE NOWAIT

2006-04-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
I think you're confused about what actually happened... Session 1: decibel=# select * from a; i --- 1 (1 row) decibel=# begin; BEGIN decibel=# select * from a for update nowait; i --- 1 (1 row) decibel=# Session 2: decibel=# select * from a for update nowait; ERROR: could not obtain loc

Re: [ADMIN] what the problem with this query

2006-04-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:09:16AM +, venu gopal wrote: > Hi all, >When i try to run the following query it gives the following error what > was wrong in the query. > > Query:SELECT o.orgunitname AS ouname, e.entrynumber AS value_field, > centroid(c.the_geom) AS the_geom, c.ogc_fid AS og

Re: [ADMIN] Slony1 or DRBD for replication ?

2006-04-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 07:42:29PM +0200, Pierre LEBRECH wrote: > The second location should be used in case of emergency. So, if my first > machine/system becomes unreachable for whatever reason, I want to be > able to switch very quickly to the other machine. Of course, the goal is > to have no l

Re: [ADMIN] slow cursor

2006-04-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 07:07:54AM -0700, Sriram Dandapani wrote: > I have a cursor that fetches 150K rows and updates or inserts a table > with 150K rows. > > It takes several minutes for the process to complete (about 15 minutes). > The select by itself (without cursor) gets all rows in 15 secon

Re: [ADMIN] Invalid Page Headers

2006-04-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:07:13PM -0500, Thomas F. O'Connell wrote: > But I'm still disappointed in the hardware bleed-through affecting > the filesystem. :( I (well, http://stats.distributed.net/) has been bit by this before. One issue with RAID is that it does you no good if you don't get not

[ADMIN] Howto: Using PITR recovery for standby replication

2006-04-20 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
Title: Re: [ADMIN] Slony1 or DRBD for replication ? I am running PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on Windows. The project itself is a real time data acquisition system, so it cannot be taken off-line for backups. I have tried using pg_dump, but discovered that the backup was not a consistent backup. The ap

Re: [ADMIN] Howto: Using PITR recovery for standby replication

2006-04-20 Thread Tom Lane
"Benjamin Krajmalnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have tried using pg_dump, but discovered that the backup was not a = > consistent backup. Really? > Back to the problem I faced when testing backups with pg_dump, it = > appears that the backup was not a consistent backup of the data. For = >

Re: [ADMIN] Problem with SELECT FOR UPDATE NOWAIT

2006-04-20 Thread Jim Nasby
Please include the list in your reply so others can help. I'm also adding -interfaces. You're still not showing exact errors, but I suspect this might be a JDBC issue. Here's what I get: Session 1: decibel=# begin; BEGIN decibel=# select * from i where i=1 for update nowait; i --- 1 (1 row)

Re: [ADMIN] track alter table history

2006-04-20 Thread Jim C. Nasby
Unfortunately, I don't think there is any way. It might not be a bad idea to add created and last_modified columns to track this information. On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 12:07:43PM -0500, Ma, Yi wrote: > > We're in the process of development between model updating and database > implementation, and

Re: [ADMIN] slow cursor

2006-04-20 Thread Sriram Dandapani
Yes..all of it is in one transaction as there is a window of record ids that need to be processed in 1 transaction. Data inflow is very voluminous appx 1 million every 15 minutes and the goal is to create aggregate tables on the fly (the alternative is to use nightly aggregates). -Original Me

Re: [ADMIN] Howto: Using PITR recovery for standby replication

2006-04-20 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
Title: Re: [ADMIN] Howto: Using PITR recovery for standby replication Tom,   First of all forgive me if I am totally incorrect - I may very well be:)  If so, believe me I will be a very happy camper since my concerns will be void.  My concern was raised when I backed up the server which w

Re: [ADMIN] Howto: Using PITR recovery for standby replication

2006-04-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: > The particular table which was problematic (and for which I posted > another message due to the unique constraint violation which I am > seeing intermittently) is the one with the high insertion rate. The > sequence is currently being used to facilitate purginf of old

Re: [ADMIN] slow cursor

2006-04-20 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
Title: Re: [ADMIN] slow cursor Siriam,   I have no clue what it is you are trying to do, but I have a similar situation.  I have a monitoring system which sends data to our psotgresql database.  The system calls a single stored procedure which performs on-the-fly data aggregation for the p

Re: [ADMIN] Howto: Using PITR recovery for standby replication

2006-04-20 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
Title: Re: [ADMIN] Howto: Using PITR recovery for standby replication Alvaro,   I am a newbie, so I essentially invoked pg_dump from with pgAdmin3, with the defaults (including large objects). This is the command being issued:   .C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\bin\pg_dump.exe -i -h 172.2

Re: [ADMIN] Howto: Using PITR recovery for standby replication

2006-04-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote: > I am a newbie, so I essentially invoked pg_dump from with pgAdmin3, > with the defaults (including large objects). This is the command > being issued: > > .C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\bin\pg_dump.exe -i -h 172.20.0.32 -p 5432 -U > postgres -F c -b -v -f "C:\Doc

Re: [ADMIN] slow cursor

2006-04-20 Thread Sriram Dandapani
Title: Re: [ADMIN] slow cursor Thanks Benjamin   The issue I have with my situation is tht the target table typically has millions of records (not unusual to have tens of millions) and the update is  based on 80% of the columns. The update is a killer w.r.t performance.  I plan to create

Re: [ADMIN] Howto: Using PITR recovery for standby replication

2006-04-20 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
Title: Re: [ADMIN] Howto: Using PITR recovery for standby replication 1.  Dropped database 2.  Recreated blank databas 3.  C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\bin\pg_restore.exe -i -h 172.20.0.32 -p 5432 -U postgres -d events -v "C:\Documents and Settings\administrator.MS\testbk.backup"pg_re

Re: [ADMIN] Howto: Using PITR recovery for standby replication

2006-04-20 Thread Benjamin Krajmalnik
Title: Re: [ADMIN] Howto: Using PITR recovery for standby replication Tom,   Just wanted to let you know that I found the problem with the constraint violation on insert. When I restored from a backup, I forgot to update the sequences current values to thje macval of the associated table