Re: [ADMIN] How to analyse the indexes in postgres?

2007-02-18 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Karthikeyan Sundaram wrote on 18.02.2007 09:15: Hi, I am new to postgres. I need some kind of template script or advise on how to analyse the indexes. In our database, we do delete, insert, update tons of rows. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/routine-reindex.html

Re: [ADMIN] Where 8.4.0 binaries-no-installer for win32

2009-07-16 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Andreas Wenk wrote on 16.07.2009 11:14: dayat schrieb: Hi pgsql admins, I think the postgresql 8.4.0 binaries-no-installer for win32 exists in http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/binary/v8.4.0/win32/ . Who are know where I can to get this file. EnterpriseDB also provides a ZIP archive of the

Re: [ADMIN] can not create user name in Capital letter

2009-11-03 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Emanuel Calvo Franco, 02.11.2009 21:27: I have a trouble in creating user and database in postgres. whenever I create user or databases in capital letters, the names are always converted into names in lower case letter. what's wrong with it? Thanks Dong Try add CREATE USER PepeArgento;

Re: [ADMIN] How to view the code of a function

2009-12-11 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Venkateswara Rao Bondada, 11.12.2009 10:58: I’m trying to look at the source code of a function in PostgreSQL. Could anybody please let me know how to view the same? select pg_catalog.pg_get_functiondef(oid) from pg_proc http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-info.html As

[ADMIN] Re: how to get notification in front end application when ever postgre DB table is modified, any tool, jar, api available?

2010-03-15 Thread Thomas Kellerer
seetharaman jayaraman wrote on 15.03.2010 10:13: how to get notification in front end application when ever postgre DB table is modified, any tool, jar, api available? thanks regards seetharaman. j Have a look at listen/nofify http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-listen.html

[ADMIN] Details about pg_stat_bgwriter

2010-06-08 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Hi, I'm trying to understand the information shown in pg_stat_bgwriter. If I want to identify a possible bottleneck with the bgwriter, for what kind of numbers do I need to watch out? Are the following values OK, or do they indicate that I need to tune my configuration? checkpoints_timed :

Re: [ADMIN] Details about pg_stat_bgwriter

2010-06-08 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Greg Smith wrote on 08.06.2010 19:30: Thomas Kellerer wrote: If I want to identify a possible bottleneck with the bgwriter, for what kind of numbers do I need to watch out? You don't much with a single snapshot of pg_stat_bgwriter data. Try saving this instead: select *,now() from

Re: [ADMIN] Details about pg_stat_bgwriter

2010-06-09 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Greg Smith, 09.06.2010 07:14: I probably should have explained the next part. I've now shared what I do with this information at http://www.pgcon.org/2010/schedule/events/218.en.html Basically, if you put the data from the two snapshots into one of the Statistics Spreadsheet versions, you'll

Re: [ADMIN] Zip file for windows 8.4.4 binary

2010-07-05 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Walter Willmertinger, 05.07.2010 11:46: *Advanced users* can also download a zip archivehttp://www.enterprisedb.com/products/pgbindownload.do of the binaries, without the installer. That page *does* contain the zip files It says Binaries from installer version 8.4.4-1 right above the download

[ADMIN] High Availability: Hot Standby vs. Warm Standby

2010-07-09 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Hi, we are contemplating the possibilities for a Postgres HA installation. As the rollout is targeted towards the end of the year, 9.0 and it's new features might be an option for us. Now from a HA point of view, what is the major difference between 9.0's Hot Standby and 8.x's Warm Standby?

Re: [ADMIN] High Availability: Hot Standby vs. Warm Standby

2010-07-09 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Hi, Rob Wultsch wrote on 09.07.2010 18:14: I am aware that I can use the 9.0 standby server for read only queries, but that is (currently) not something we need Taking SQL backups without impacting the master might be something to consider. Interesting point. Thanks for mentioning that.

Re: [ADMIN] High Availability: Hot Standby vs. Warm Standby

2010-07-12 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Greg Smith, 10.07.2010 14:44: Is there a difference in how much data could potentially be lost in case of a failover? E.g. because 9.0 replicates the changes quicker than 8.4? There's nothing that 9.0 does that you can' t do with 8.4 and the right software to aggressively ship partial files

Re: [ADMIN] High Availability: Hot Standby vs. Warm Standby

2010-07-13 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Greg Smith, 12.07.2010 18:11: Yes, but if you try you'll discover that actually getting any shared disk or file system replication solution setup so that you really do achieve less failover loss than the file shipping approach will be expensive, complicated, fragile in its own way, and just

[ADMIN] Setting up a warm standby server - some questions

2010-07-15 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Hi, I'm trying to setup a warm standby server. But there are some things that I don't yet understand. I'm testing this on my windows box to understand the concepts and while waiting for the real hardware ;) I got the basic setup working, and a simulated failover was working, but some things

Re: [ADMIN] Setting up a warm standby server - some questions

2010-07-16 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Hello, I could solve one of the questions myself :) I have also problems shutting down the secondary server while it is in standby (i.e. recovery) mode This works fine when using -m fast instead of -m immediate. I would still like an answer on these questions: What is the recommended way

Re: [ADMIN] question about HA in PG 9.0

2010-09-18 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Kasia Tuszynska wrote on 18.09.2010 01:30: 1. The doc is lovely but all of the examples are for linux, has anyone tired a Hot Standby streaming scenario on windows? Any issues specific to windows? I know that linux and windows environments “should” behave the same but actually running in both of

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres service won't start, doesn't log any errors

2010-10-18 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Joe Carr wrote on 18.10.2010 23:11: Hello all, I have a windows postgres 9.0.1 installation which doesn't start, and also doesn't log any information. The only evidence that an attempt was made is in the event log with the following pair of messages : 1. Waiting for server startup... 2. Timed

Re: [ADMIN] Creating role using batch file in windows

2010-10-25 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Lukasz Brodziak, 25.10.2010 15:49: Hello, What I need to do is create a batch file to be sent to client in which I have to perform create role statement. Best thing would be if the user didn't see what is happening in the console (is there a @echo off equivalent for psql). Can anyone help me

Re: [ADMIN] Creating role using batch file in windows

2010-10-26 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Lukasz Brodziak, 26.10.2010 08:58: The problem with a batch file is that you will need to provide the password for the superuser in clear text - which is probably not something you will want to do. But if that isn't a problem (and you actually know the superuser password of your client) then

Re: [ADMIN] GUI ERD/ERM tools?

2010-11-12 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Lou Picciano, 12.11.2010 15:40: Friends, This question from our users keeps coming up... What tools are each of you using for ERD ERM? pgAmin's Graphical Query Builder is helpful, but doesn't address the need. Can any of you recommend specific tools, preferences, etc? Regards, Lou Picciano

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres service won't start, doesn't log any errors

2010-11-29 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Joe Carr wrote on 19.10.2010 00:55: Hi Thomas, Thanks for your reply. pg_ctrl has given me some more information, but I'm not quite there yet. I have verified that the postgres user has full control access to the data directory. When I take the commandline from the service definition and

Re: [ADMIN] Is there a batch/bulk UPDATE syntax available?

2011-02-03 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Gnanakumar, 03.02.2011 13:00: Is there a batch/bulk UPDATE query syntax available in PostgreSQL, similar to multirow VALUES syntax available for INSERT? INSERT Multirow VALUES syntax example: INSERT INTO films (code, title, did, date_prod, kind) VALUES ('B6717', 'Tampopo', 110,

Re: [ADMIN] Moving the data directory

2011-02-15 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Sairam Krishnamurthy, 15.02.2011 23:43: Again, pg_ctl: could not open PID file /media/extension/var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main/postmaster.pid: Permission denied Tried all the different ownership possible. And you are sure you ran that as the postgres user? Thomas -- Sent via pgsql-admin

Re: [ADMIN] Dropping all constraints in database

2011-03-14 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Lukasz Brodziak, 14.03.2011 10:26: Hello, Is there a way of disabling/dropping all constrainsts in a given database? I need to restore a db which has duplicate values in nearly half of its tables then remove duplicates and then add the constraints back. Is there a way to do that for each table

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: column time cannot be cast to type bigint

2011-04-21 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Saurabh Agrawal, 20.04.2011 08:38: Hi All, I am trying to alter column from timestamp without timezone to bigint but getting below error: #ALTER TABLE test ALTER column time type bigint; #ERROR: column time cannot be cast to type bigint Is there any other method for alter column to bigint.

Re: [ADMIN] OID for pg_get_functiondef

2011-05-02 Thread Thomas Kellerer
jtke...@verizon.net wrote on 02.05.2011 18:52: I've just started working on an 8.4 database and I have been asked to extract all the functions source code stored in various databases and schemas so they can be put into a repository for the developers. I'm planning to use

Re: [ADMIN] (unknown)

2011-05-07 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Didik Prasetyo wrote on 07.05.2011 09:28: I want to ask how to make GRANT, where users can only perform SELECT on all the TABLE, in the database, which I have done the following You might consider upgrading, because since 9.x you can do: GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public; Thomas

Re: [ADMIN] Problem retrieving large records (bytea) data from a table

2011-07-20 Thread Thomas Kellerer
jtke...@verizon.net, 05.07.2011 18:44: A while ago the some developers inserted several records with a document (stored in doc_Data) that was around 400 - 450 MB each. Now when you do a select * (all) from this table you get a hang and the system becomes unresponsive. What application/program

Re: [ADMIN] Is there a list of pg pre-defined functions?

2011-09-27 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Rural Hunter, 27.09.2011 11:00: I am looking for something like a string hash function to order a string cloumn randomly. It's all in the manual ;) http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-string.html Thomas -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org)

Re: [ADMIN] Is it possible to create a CHECK constraint for my use case?

2012-01-31 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Gnanakumar, 31.01.2012 09:11: Hi, Our Production server is running PostgreSQL v8.2.22 on CentOS5.2. You know that 8.2 is end-of-live? http://www.postgresql.org/support/versioning/ There are 2 columns in the table: managertype numeric(1) and managerid numeric(10). managertype accepts only

Re: [ADMIN] Postgres community version limitaiton - help needed

2012-02-06 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Scott Marlowe, 05.02.2012 23:13: Not sure what you mean by community edition. There's PostgreSQL. From the postgresql.org website, which is what most folks use. I think the term community edition was coined by EnterpriseDB - at least it shows up on their webpages on some places. -- Sent

Re: [ADMIN] Unending DB migration

2012-04-20 Thread Thomas Kellerer
ЇЯЅHAÐ wrote on 17.04.2012 01:27: Hi, We are trying to migrate from Postgres to Oracle, although our DB is gigantic but we started on Mar 14th 2012 its still running with an average of 40 records per day How can we check what is going wrong. Any memory leak, CPU issue or anything. If

Re: [ADMIN] Getting that starts a week of the year

2012-04-23 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Wells Oliver, 22.04.2012 00:58: Is there a way to get the date that starts week 14, or 15 (etc)? Try this: select to_date('201214', 'iyyyiw') That uses the ISO week definition. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [ADMIN] Any public dataset for benchmarking?

2012-05-01 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Bèrto ëd Sèra wrote on 01.05.2012 11:13: Hi all, I'm asked to benchmark a PG-related product. I was wondering if there is any sort of standard public dataset for such operations. The one and only limit I have is I cannot use triggers with this product (otherwise I'd use a copy of our own

[ADMIN] Getting ident to work in Windows

2012-05-04 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Hi, I'm trying to enable ident authentication on my Windows machine using PostgreSQL 9.1 However as soon as I add the following line to pg_hba.conf hostall all ::1/128ident sameuser I get an error message when trying to login (after a server reload

Re: [ADMIN] Getting ident to work in Windows

2012-05-04 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Magnus Hagander, 04.05.2012 15:22: I'm trying to enable ident authentication on my Windows machine using PostgreSQL 9.1 However as soon as I add the following line to pg_hba.conf hostall all ::1/128ident sameuser sameuser was removed in PostgreSQL

Re: [ADMIN] need help to write a function in postgresql

2012-07-19 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Madhu.Lanka, 19.07.2012 11:14: Hi Friends Can u please help to write a function for the following scenario? I have 3 table’s user_roles, principals and roles. I have to write a function in postgresql which should excepts 2 parameters (name, password) With those 2 parameters the query should

[ADMIN] Missing loadable libraries when running pg_upgrade 9.1 - 9.2

2012-09-12 Thread Thomas Kellerer
using Windows XP SP3 (32bit). When running pg_upgrade with the --check option I get the following error: Your installation references loadable libraries that are missing from the new installation. You can add these libraries to the new installation, or remove the functions using

Re: [ADMIN] Missing loadable libraries when running pg_upgrade 9.1 - 9.2

2012-09-12 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Thomas Kellerer wrote on 12.09.2012 11:09: Is there a way to find out which function (or extension?) is using those libraries in order to remove that dependency? What I ended up doing is to search through my pg_dump backups and I found the offending database. After removing the functions

Re: [ADMIN] Notes or comments on columns in a table

2013-02-14 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Campbell, Lance wrote on 14.02.2013 20:09: PostgreSQL 9.2 When creating a table or altering a column of a table, is there a way to add notes on a column? comment on table foo is 'the foo table'; comment on column foo.bar is 'the bar column';

Re: [ADMIN] top posting?

2013-05-06 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Szymon Guz, 06.05.2013 20:25: That's strange. I've never met any newsgroup which would require top posting. Top posting has always been considered rude. We are reading from top to bottom. That's why people should answer below cited text, so we can read it later normally. I mean that I should

Re: [ADMIN] Composite Unique Key - Doubt

2013-06-20 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Technical Doubts wrote on 20.06.2013 09:42: technologies ( technologyid bigint, status character(1), implementeddate date *CONSTRAINT technologies_uq UNIQUE (technologyid, status, implementeddate)* ) entering data as insert into technologies (technologyid,status,implementeddate) values

Re: [ADMIN] Shell Script for Vacuum

2013-07-29 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Manish Kediyal wrote on 29.07.2013 09:17: I have various DB in my DB cluster, i want to vacuum all DB's using a shell script.. scheduling via cron. It would be a great help if anyone could provide me a Shell Script to vacuum all DB's Is there a specific reason you don't want to use