Re: psql command line editing

2025-02-12 Thread Ben Hancock
Emacs, but also to write SQL queries in a buffer and then send the whole buffer or the region. It's not documented in the info pages, but from within Emacs, one of these should get you started: C-h P sql M-x sql-help Or just do: M-x sql-postgres - Ben

Obtaining printed copies of the PostgreSQL manual

2024-01-18 Thread Ben Hancock
available by the PostgreSQL project? It appears so, but I'd like ensure my purchase goes toward supporting the project in some small way. Also, is anyone aware whether these printed manuals are available from any other booksellers online? Thanks, - Ben

Re: Local postgres manual

2023-11-03 Thread Ben Hancock
ing or fetching the HTML locally may also work. In terminal environment, I suppose one could use `lynx` or similar to navigate around. - Ben

Local postgres manual

2023-11-03 Thread Ben Hancock
convenient to view the the manual for the version of Postgres that is on the system, right there. Does one exist? -- Ben Hancock

Re: Create DB privilege is not inherited

2023-07-27 Thread Ben Hancock
On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 06:09:28 -0700 "David G. Johnston" wrote: > On Thursday, July 27, 2023, Ben Hancock wrote: > > > > > > Should the CREATEDB privilege be inherited when granting the 'admins' > > role to a user, or is another step required? &

Create DB privilege is not inherited

2023-07-27 Thread Ben Hancock
ser, or is another step required? Or (quite possibly) have I misunderstood something else? Many thanks, Ben Hancock PostgreSQL 14.3

Re: pgbouncer best practices

2023-07-08 Thread Ben Chobot
Rita wrote on 7/8/23 4:27 AM: I am not sure if it allows transaction pooling. Well, take the time to figure it out. With transaction pooling enabled, you can get away with a much lower number of server connections. For example, our application regularly has thousands of clients connected to

Re: pgbouncer best practices

2023-07-07 Thread Ben Chobot
Rita wrote on 7/7/23 9:23 AM: I have an  application that does many db calls  from a server farm. I've increased my max connections on postgresql to 1000 and tuned the server accordingly. However, I still get can't connect to postgresql some times. I installed pgbouncer on few servers in the fa

Re: pgbouncer

2023-06-28 Thread Ben Chobot
Laurenz Albe wrote on 6/28/23 5:27 AM: On Wed, 2023-06-28 at 07:19 -0400, Rita wrote: seems like I may need to deploy pgbouncer for my webapp. should i deploy it on the db server or on the webserver? On the database server. You don't want network latency between pgbouncer and PostgreSQL, so

Re: typical active table count?

2023-06-28 Thread Ben Chobot
Jeremy Schneider wrote on 6/27/23 11:47 AM: Thank Ben, not a concern but I'm trying to better understand how common this might be. And I think sharing general statistics about how people use PostgreSQL is a great help to the developers who build and maintain it. One really nice thing

Re: typical active table count?

2023-06-27 Thread Ben Chobot
We certainly have databases where far more than 100 tables are updated within a 10 second period. Is there a specific concern you have? Jeremy Schneider wrote on 6/27/23 9:01 AM: Question for other PostgreSQL users On your moderately busy DB, how many different tables might receive at least o

Re: Active Active PostgreSQL Solution

2023-06-09 Thread Ben Chobot
Mohsin Kazmi wrote on 6/9/23 3:38 AM: Now in order to deploy PostgreSQL in our production servers, I need to configure it in Active Active mode. Can anyone help me to do so? We don't need multi-master postgres very often, but when we do, we find the open source bucardo project works fairly wel

Re: PostgreSQL vs MariaDB

2023-03-24 Thread Ben Chobot
Inzamam Shafiq wrote on 3/24/23 4:07 AM: Hi Team, Hope you are doing well. Can someone please list pros and cons of MariaDB vs PostgreSQL that actually needs serious consideration while choosing the right database for large OLTP DBs (Terabytes)? That's a very broad question, which will take

Re: Idea: PostgreSQL equivalent to Oracle's KEEP clause

2023-03-13 Thread Ben Clements
thing like this: SELECT country , count(*) AS ct_cities , max(population) AS highest_population , last(city ORDER BY population, city) AS biggest_city -- !FROM citiesGROUP BY countryHAVING count(*) > 1; -Ben On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 9:51 PM David Rowley wrote: > On Tue, 7 M

Idea: Add first() and last() aggregate functions to the main release

2023-03-11 Thread Ben Clements
> (https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/324646/100880) GitHub: https://github.com/wulczer/first_last_agg Reason: As a non-dba, I can’t install additional modules like first_last_agg . Thanks, -Ben

Idea: PostgreSQL equivalent to Oracle's KEEP clause

2023-03-06 Thread Ben Clements
- DBA Stack Exchange - PostgreSQL equivalent to Oracle's MAX(...) KEEP (DENSE_RANK FIRST/LAST ORDER BY ...) <https://dba.stackexchange.com/a/324429/100880> Thanks, -Ben

Re: Query plan for "id IS NULL" on PK

2023-02-17 Thread Ben Chrobot
Thank you all for your responses! I will continue to put pressure on the vendor (Stitch Data, if anyone knows folks there) to address the issue on their end with the query being issued. Best, Ben Chrobot On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 11:11 PM Tom Lane wrote: > David Rowley writes: > > O

Query plan for "id IS NULL" on PK

2023-02-14 Thread Ben Chrobot
8.325 rows=5 loops=1) Index Cond: ((id > 193208795) AND (id <= 575187488)) Planning Time: 0.166 ms Execution Time: 402.376 ms We have tried leading the planner to water with this view but it did not change the slow query plan: create view my_fast_large_table as select * from my_large_table where id is not null; Any other tricks to try here? Thank you, Ben Chrobot

Re: Reducing bandwidth usage of database replication

2022-11-03 Thread Ben Chobot
Sascha Zenglein wrote on 11/2/22 7:56 AM: Hi all, I want to use the postgres-native logical replication to have multiple clients receive and send data to a central database. Real-time is far less important than network usage, and with my current test setup it appears both instances communicate

Re: could not open relation with OID

2022-01-27 Thread Ben Chobot
Michael Paquier wrote on 1/26/22 9:14 PM: On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 05:30:01PM -0800, Ben Chobot wrote: Other things we've considered:     - we run pg_repack, which certainly seems like it could make an error like this, but we see this error in places and times that pg_repack isn't

could not open relation with OID

2022-01-26 Thread Ben Chobot
We do a lot of queries per day, over a lot of hosts, all of which are on 12.9. We've recently started doing a better job at analyzing our db logs and have found that, a few times a day, every day, we see some of our queries fail with errors like: could not open relation with OID 201940279 In

NIST 800-53v4 scanning?

2022-01-25 Thread Ben Chobot
Hello pgsql-general, I've been tasked with scanning our Ubuntu-hosted databases for NIST 800-53v4 compliance. I'm finding a paucity of tools out there that will do this. I found a few that might work, when pointed at Postgres 9 on RHEL, but not much else. Is this a problem anybody else has t

Re: Database Scalability

2021-12-01 Thread Ben Chobot
Mladen Gogala wrote on 11/30/21 7:52 PM: To my knowledge PostgreSQL doesn't support sharding, which is well and good because sharding is mostly useless, at least in my opinion. OK I'll bite. Not only does PostgreSQL natively support table partitioning (which is absolutely a form of shardin

Re: Database Scalability

2021-12-01 Thread Ben Chobot
Saurav Sarkar wrote on 11/30/21 7:08 PM: So are all the schemas on one DB or are distributed/sharded across multiple DBs ? In our use case, every db entirely homes one or more schemas. Some dbs host many schemas for small customers, some dbs host a handful of schemas for medium customers, and s

Re: Database Scalability

2021-11-30 Thread Ben Chobot
Saurav Sarkar wrote on 11/29/21 10:13 PM: Hi All, We have some multi-tenant solutions which are separating the tenant data in Postgresql mainly in the following manner. 1. Using different schemas 2. Using different tables for different tenants. Without more details it's impossible to give y

Re: Pause streaming replication

2021-11-10 Thread Ben Chobot
Rita wrote on 11/10/21 5:36 PM: Yes, I have read the manual and seen this. It pauses the replication (select pg_is_wal_replay_paused()). But on the primary, when I look at pg_stat_replication, it still says 'streaming' in the state column. My question was how do I get it from 'streaming'  to an

Re: Pause streaming replication

2021-11-10 Thread Ben Chobot
Rita wrote on 11/10/21 1:25 PM: Hello. I am testing alerting on my primary and standby setup. I have async replication working but I would like to temporarily pause it so the value of 'state' isn't streaming. (select * from pg_stat_replication). How can I do that? By reading the fine manua

Re: Postresql/postgis/qgis : assign privileges only for access/reading tables ?

2021-10-14 Thread Ben Madin
Two thoughts: 1. Can the user view the tables when connecting through another database program (ie psql or PgAdmin)? 2. Does the user have access to the database schema that has the PostGIS extension (normally public schema)? cheers Ben On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 at 19:00, celati Laurent wrote

Re: Gist fastbuild and performances

2021-10-08 Thread talk to ben
On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 4:33 PM Francisco Olarte wrote: > If you do not run the same sequences, you do not know. Note I do not > know what exact sequences you have tested, I write with only what I > have read as as input. > I ran this on both versions on fresh instances / clusters with the data f

Re: Gist fastbuild and performances

2021-10-08 Thread talk to ben
Hi, thanks for the answer. I ran the same scipt on both sides at first. Then I switched to a COPY because the CREATE TABLE generates random data. Since I got weird results, I wanted to be sure I had the same data on both versions. I ran the tests several times (and even asked a collegue to do it

Gist fastbuild and performances

2021-10-08 Thread talk to ben
Hi, I am playing around with the gist fast build and comparing the result between v13 and v14. The space gain and speed increase are really awesome. When I compare the performance with the following script, I get a lot more data read into the buffers in v14 and a little slower query. Is it expec

Re: help implementing OGR Postgres foreign data wrapper

2021-10-05 Thread Ben Madin
er). TITLE=WFS 1: BOMEC_15_Class_WFS:BOMEC_15_Class (title: BOMEC_15_Class) (Multi Surface) not very helpful, but a 400 error might be some kind of encoding problem with request? cheers Ben On Tue, 5 Oct 2021 at 14:18, Brent Wood wrote: > Hi, > > Apologies, this not strictly a Postgre

Re: To JIT (or not!) in Ubuntu packages

2021-09-14 Thread Ben Chobot
Thomas Munro wrote on 9/14/21 5:50 PM: On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 10:11 AM Ben Chobot wrote: We've noticed that the Ubuntu postgresql-12 package has --with-llvm enabled on x86_64, but not on aarch64. Does anybody know if this was intentional, or just an oversight? For what it's worth

To JIT (or not!) in Ubuntu packages

2021-09-13 Thread Ben Chobot
We've noticed that the Ubuntu postgresql-12 package has --with-llvm enabled on x86_64, but not on aarch64. Does anybody know if this was intentional, or just an oversight? For what it's worth, it seems the beta postgresql-14 package for Ubuntu still doesn't have --with-llvm. I'm not sure if

Re: Licensing

2021-08-18 Thread Ben Chobot
Bryan Boone wrote on 8/18/21 11:39 AM: Can someone tell me if I am able to use PostgreSQL for the small company I work for? Yes, you are.

Re: pg_restore (fromuser -> touser)

2021-07-26 Thread Ben Madin
27; | psql new_database this is presuming a space before the schemaname, and a fullstop between schema and other elements. cheers Ben On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 at 01:38, Mayan wrote: > Hi, > > > > I had a general question about a feature that we depended on heavily when > using other R

Re: looping over multirange segments?

2021-07-15 Thread Ben Chobot
hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote on 7/15/21 5:15 AM: select * from regexp_matches(_YOUR_MULTIRANGE_::text, '[\[(][^\])]+[\])]', 'g'); I wrote more, including explanation, and ready-to-use function, in here: https://www.depesz.com/2021/07/15/how-to-get-list-of-elements-from-multiranges/ So ugly

looping over multirange segments?

2021-07-14 Thread Ben Chobot
I'm really, really liking the multirange types in PG14. Thank you for making them! Unfortunately I am struggling with how to loop over the segments of a multirange. There doesn't seem to be a way to convert them to arrays, and I can't just use plpgsql's FOREACH on one. Am I missing something ob

Re: Doubt on pgbouncer

2021-07-03 Thread Ben Chobot
Rama Krishnan wrote on 7/3/21 8:35 AM: Hi Team, How can I split read and write queries using pgbouncer You do it with your application. Make a pgbouncer database for read/write queries and point it at your postgresql primary, and then make a second pgbouncer database for read-only queries a

Re: Connecting to Postgresql without IP address

2021-06-30 Thread Ben Madin
Your connection string will work as long as there is a DNS entry for PGServer. Your pg_hba.conf will however need to have an IP address/netmask. So if you are connecting from within your local network, you can put something like: hostssl all all 192.168.0.0/16 md5 Hth? On W

Re: Occasional lengthy locking causing stalling on commit

2021-05-18 Thread Ben Hoskings
s is useful for someone else. Thanks again for your help Tom - your advice on listen/notify locking on commit was very useful despite not being the cause in this case. Cheers Ben On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 at 12:33, Ben Hoskings wrote: > > On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 at 10:33, Tom Lane wrote: > &

Re: Problem building psql on Mac OS 10.15 (around readline bit I think)

2021-02-28 Thread Ben Madin
he build script still failed at the same point showing the same error citing the readline/history.h from the apple SDK's... is there something else I have to do to ensure it uses the ones on the PATH and specified in the configure? cheers Ben On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 12:50, Tom Lane wrote:

Problem building psql on Mac OS 10.15 (around readline bit I think)

2021-02-28 Thread Ben Madin
x27;m not sure that rl_set_screen_size is a good replacement for reset, and I realise that this might be about the apple readline libs... do I need to install another version of readline, or is there somewhere else I should be looking? )and can I assume given the proximity of the second error, that it

Re: Occasional lengthy locking causing stalling on commit

2021-01-31 Thread Ben Hoskings
(grasping at straws here...) > wraparound of the file names back to ? We don't have filesystem access on Cloud SQL - the downside of the managed route :) It sounds like it might be time to bump the pg13 upgrade up the TODO list. Cheers Ben

Re: Occasional lengthy locking causing stalling on commit

2021-01-31 Thread Ben Hoskings
unless we can convince Google to run it for us :) I wonder if there are any likely candidates that we could look into - for example, is it possible it could be due a batched index update that we could alleviate with "fastupdate=off"? Cheers Ben

Occasional lengthy locking causing stalling on commit

2021-01-30 Thread Ben Hoskings
messages on commit: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3598.1363354686%40sss.pgh.pa.us If that's the case, the real question is why a small number of those commits are taking so much longer than expected. Any advice on how to proceed from here much appreciated. Cheers Ben Hoskings --- The observed outage

Hash aggregate spilling (v13) / partitions & batches

2020-11-23 Thread talk to ben
Hi, I am testing things on hash aggregate spilling in version 13.1 and am struggling to understand the partition thing in the two explains below. My understanding is that a partition corresponds to a spill file which will be treated in a later batch (which can re-spill in some cases). Am I right

Re: Obvious data mismatch in View2 which basically SELECT * from View1

2020-09-17 Thread Ben
20-07-01 13:22:58+08 | 2020-07-01 | D    | 5 | S00    | F02   | {PDCB} (5 rows) ) The result in returned column looks different but definition of the column in question (wspan::float8) looks identical in both case. Regards, Ben On 9/17/20 10:41 PM, Jerry Sievers wrote: Ben writes

Re: Obvious data mismatch in View2 which basically SELECT * from View1

2020-09-17 Thread Ben
cern is that if there are other views inside that database having similar integrity issue, how can I find them all (if any). It's beyond my regular SQL ability. I guess I really need help from people with maintenance experience. Any help will be appreciated, thanks in advance. Ben On Sep

Re: Obvious data mismatch in View2 which basically SELECT * from View1

2020-09-16 Thread Ben
intended to show just a small set of them. But you are right, I should be more cautious. Thanks for the headsup. Regards, Ben On 9/16/20 3:35 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 9:26 AM Ben <mailto:benten...@outlook.com>> wrote: Dear list, Recently I am getting

Obvious data mismatch in View2 which basically SELECT * from View1

2020-09-16 Thread Ben
tats_per_shift_filtered definition is a different object from utlog.stats_per_shift_filtered_u0206? I am totally out of clues. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Regards, Ben

Re: 12.3 replicas falling over during WAL redo

2020-09-04 Thread Ben Chobot
Alvaro Herrera wrote on 8/3/20 4:54 PM: On 2020-Aug-03, Ben Chobot wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote on 8/3/20 2:34 PM: On 2020-Aug-03, Ben Chobot wrote: dd if=16605/16613/60529051 bs=8192 count=1 seek=6501 of=/tmp/page.6501 If I use skip instead of seek Argh, yes, I did correct that in my

Re: index numbers in pg_restore list

2020-08-14 Thread Ben Madin
Thanks Tom and Adrian, The clarity is helpful - We'll run up a solution to specifically choose the elements. cheers Ben On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 at 00:45, Tom Lane wrote: > Ben Madin writes: > > " Is the index number ( the archive ID) assigned at the time of creation > &g

index numbers in pg_restore list

2020-08-14 Thread Ben Madin
pt to grep the lines we need out of the list of the current dump, not re-use the same list file? cheers Ben -- [image: Ausvet Logo] <https://www.ausvet.com.au/> Dr Ben Madin BVMS MVPHMgmt PhD MANZCVS GAICD Managing Director Mobile: +61 448 887 220 <+61448887220> E-mail: b...

Re: 12.3 replicas falling over during WAL redo

2020-08-03 Thread Ben Chobot
Alvaro Herrera wrote on 8/3/20 2:34 PM: On 2020-Aug-03, Ben Chobot wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote on 8/3/20 12:34 PM: On 2020-Aug-03, Ben Chobot wrote: Yep. Looking at the ones in block 6501, rmgr: Btree   len (rec/tot): 72/    72, tx:   76393394, lsn: A0A/AB2C43D0, prev A0A/AB2C4378

Re: 12.3 replicas falling over during WAL redo

2020-08-03 Thread Ben Chobot
/page.6501 Ben might find this approach to dumping out a single page image easier, since it doesn't involve relfilenodes or filesystem files: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Getting_a_stack_trace_of_a_running_PostgreSQL_backend_on_Linux/BSD#contrib.2Fpageinspect_page_dump I don't think th

Re: 12.3 replicas falling over during WAL redo

2020-08-03 Thread Ben Chobot
Alvaro Herrera wrote on 8/1/20 9:35 AM: On 2020-Aug-01, Ben Chobot wrote: Can you find out what the index is being modified by those LSNs -- is it always the same index?  Can you have a look at nearby WAL records that touch the same page of the same index in each case? They turn out to be

Re: 12.3 replicas falling over during WAL redo

2020-08-03 Thread Ben Chobot
Peter Geoghegan wrote on 8/3/20 11:25 AM: On Sun, Aug 2, 2020 at 9:39 PM Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote: All of the cited log lines seem suggesting relation with deleted btree page items. As a possibility I can guess, that can happen if the pages were flushed out during a vacuum after the last checkpo

Re: 12.3 replicas falling over during WAL redo

2020-08-03 Thread Ben Chobot
Alvaro Herrera wrote on 8/3/20 12:34 PM: On 2020-Aug-03, Ben Chobot wrote: Yep. Looking at the ones in block 6501, rmgr: Btree   len (rec/tot): 72/    72, tx:   76393394, lsn: A0A/AB2C43D0, prev A0A/AB2C4378, desc: INSERT_LEAF off 41, blkref #0: rel 16605/16613/60529051 blk 6501 rmgr

Re: 12.3 replicas falling over during WAL redo

2020-08-03 Thread Ben Chobot
Ben Chobot wrote on 8/1/20 9:58 AM: Alvaro Herrera wrote on 8/1/20 9:35 AM: On 2020-Aug-01, Ben Chobot wrote: Can you find out what the index is being modified by those LSNs -- is it always the same index?  Can you have a look at nearby WAL records that touch the same page of the same index in

Re: 12.3 replicas falling over during WAL redo

2020-08-03 Thread Ben Chobot
Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote on 8/2/20 9:39 PM: At Sat, 1 Aug 2020 09:58:05 -0700, Ben Chobot wrote in All of the cited log lines seem suggesting relation with deleted btree page items. As a possibility I can guess, that can happen if the pages were flushed out during a vacuum after the last

Re: 12.3 replicas falling over during WAL redo

2020-08-01 Thread Ben Chobot
Alvaro Herrera wrote on 8/1/20 9:35 AM: On 2020-Aug-01, Ben Chobot wrote: We have a few hundred postgres servers in AWS EC2, all of which do streaming replication to at least two replicas. As we've transitioned our fleet to from 9.5 to 12.3, we've noticed an alarming incre

12.3 replicas falling over during WAL redo

2020-08-01 Thread Ben Chobot
We have a few hundred postgres servers in AWS EC2, all of which do streaming replication to at least two replicas. As we've transitioned our fleet to from 9.5 to 12.3, we've noticed an alarming increase in the frequency of a streaming replica dying during replay. Postgres will log something lik

Re: How to create function returning numeric from string containing percent character

2020-07-29 Thread Ben Madin
gt; $BODY$ language sql immutable; > > but if string contains % character, > > select val('1,2%') > > returns 0. > > How to force it to return 1.2 ? > > It should work starting from Postgres 9.0 > > Posted also in > > > https://stackoverfl

Re: Postgresql 9.6 -> AWS RDS Postgresql 12.2 with pg_logical

2020-05-31 Thread Ben Chobot
Igor Polishchuk wrote on 5/30/20 9:33 PM: Hello, I need to replicate Postgresql 9.6 to  AWS RDS Postgresql 12.2 with pg_logical. AWS RDS Pg 12.2 (target) only supports pg_logical 2.3.0. Can I use v2.3.1 on the source and v2.3.0 on the target? We had lots of issues with pglogical when we accid

streaming slaves can't keep up?

2020-03-31 Thread Ben Chobot
We have a few busy 9.5 dbs, both streaming to a few slaves each. The master and slaves are identical hardware and are getting no small amount of load - about 45k transactions/s on the master and ~36k transactions/s on the slave actively serving clients. During these busy times, queries are all

Re: Is PostgreSQL SQL Database Command Syntax Similar to MySQL/MariaDB?

2020-03-31 Thread Ben Madin
ts ;-) > > regards, tom lane > > > -- [image: Ausvet Logo] <https://www.ausvet.com.au/> Dr Ben Madin BVMS MVPHMgmt PhD MANZCVS GAICD Managing Director Mobile: +61 448 887 220 <+61448887220> E-mail: b...@ausvet.com.au Website: www.ausvet.com.au Skype: benmadin Address: 5 Shuffrey Street Fremantle, WA 6160 Australia

Backup & Restore

2020-02-24 Thread Dor Ben Dov
Hi All, What is your backup and restore solution in production when working with Postgres ? (+ if you can say few words why you picked this X solution instead of others) Regards, Dor This email and the information contained herein is proprietary and confidential and subject to the Amdocs Email

Backup and Restore

2019-12-25 Thread Dor Ben Dov
Hi All, What Is the best recommended / used tool for backup and restore that you suggest or work with postgres ? Regards, Dor This email and the information contained herein is proprietary and confidential and subject to the Amdocs Email Terms of Service, which you may review at https://www.amdo

Backup and Restore

2019-12-12 Thread Dor Ben Dov
Hi, What is the most common used back and restore solution for postgres ? Which one are you using ? Regards, Dor This email and the information contained herein is proprietary and confidential and subject to the Amdocs Email Terms of Service, which you may review at https://www.amdocs.com/abou

RE: PostgreSQL HA FO question

2019-12-09 Thread Dor Ben Dov
Hi Zwettler, Based on what comparison, production experience ? Regards, Dor From: Zwettler Markus (OIZ) Sent: Monday, December 9, 2019 1:13 PM To: Dor Ben Dov ; pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org Subject: AW: PostgreSQL HA FO question In my opinion, the best open source product is Patroni

PostgreSQL HA FO question

2019-12-09 Thread Dor Ben Dov
Hi everyone, What is the best / mostly common / production used open source solution for HA / FO/ backup and restore. Open source community / Commercial Best Regards, Dor Ben Dov This email and the information contained herein is proprietary and confidential and subject to the Amdocs Email

Re: Redis 16 times faster than Postgres?

2019-09-29 Thread Ben Chobot
On Sep 29, 2019, at 8:44 PM, Ron wrote: > > On 9/29/19 8:09 PM, Steve Litt wrote: >> On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 07:46:14 +1000 >> Nathan Woodrow wrote: >> >>> Redis is a in memory database so I would except it to be always much >>> faster.. >> Is there a way to have Redis periodically update an on-dis

Error during analyze after upgrade from 10.10 -> 11.4

2019-09-23 Thread Ben Snaidero
ppened or how I can fix this issue? I had the issue once on another server and running VACUUM FULL on entire database fixed the error. Note: I ran "VACUUM FREEZE ANALYZE" before the upgrade on every database and there were no errors. Ben Snaidero *Geotab* Senior Database Specialist

pg_rewind: invalid record length

2019-09-17 Thread Ben Wheatley
s a zero-length record? (this does seem to mitigate the error - see attached patch) Thanks, Ben 0001-Fix-pg_rewind-when-divergence-is-at-end-of-WAL.patch Description: Binary data

Re: Question from someone who is not trained in computer sciences

2019-09-05 Thread Ben Chobot
On Sep 5, 2019, at 2:00 PM, Judith Lacoste wrote: > > Hi, > > I plan to install the database on a server in the office. Me and my four > colleagues will occasionally connect to this database when we are working in > other locations (usually hospitals or universities). In such remote > locatio

Re: pg_dump (COPY) hanging intermittently

2019-07-04 Thread Ben Snaidero
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 3:19 PM Tom Lane wrote: > Ben Snaidero writes: > > Do these stack traces shed help at all? > > None worth mentioning :-(. Can you rebuild with debug symbols? > > regards, tom lane > So I've rebuilt with debug sym

Re: pg_dump (COPY) hanging intermittently

2019-06-27 Thread Ben Snaidero
On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 2:34 PM Tom Lane wrote: > Ben Snaidero writes: > > I am running into a strange issue with Postgres 10 when using pg_dump > with > > the directory format and jobs parameter set it intermittently hangs. > Seems > > to occur less frequent

pg_dump (COPY) hanging intermittently

2019-06-27 Thread Ben Snaidero
PostmasterMain+0x275 postgres.exe!main+0x480 postgres.exe!pgwin32_popen+0x144f KERNEL32.DLL!BaseThreadInitThunk+0x14 ntdll.dll!RtlUserThreadStart+0x21 Any ideas on changes in Postgres 10 that would cause this? We were previously running 9.6.7 and didn't encounter this issue on that version either.

Detaching multiple partitions in 1 ALTER TABLE statement

2019-06-20 Thread Ben Hood
where multiple partitions are detached in 1 statement. This is using version 12 beta 1. Many thanks, Ben

Re: Case Insensitive

2019-03-28 Thread Ben Madin
Or you can just use `ilike`: SELECT * FROM emp WHERE ename ilike 'aaa'; https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/sql-select.html#SQL-WHERE cheers Ben On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 16:24, Sameer Kumar wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Mar, 2019, 4:20 PM Sridhar N Bamandlapally, < > sri

Re: Monitor the ddl and dml activities in logs

2019-03-06 Thread Ben Chobot
> On Mar 6, 2019, at 5:58 AM, Nanda Kumar > wrote: > > Hello Team, > > I would like to know where I can monitor the ddl and dml operations happens > in the production environment . The documentation is your friend, particularly https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/runtime-config-logging.htm

Re: master-> 2 hot standbys

2019-03-04 Thread Ben Chobot
> On Mar 4, 2019, at 1:59 PM, Julie Nishimura wrote: > > Hello, > Our current master 9.2 has two active standbys. Can you please help me out > with the right sequence of events if we would like to promote one of current > standbys to master and convert master to standby? It depends on how yo

Re: automated refresh of dev from prod

2019-02-28 Thread Ben Chobot
On Feb 28, 2019, at 8:04 AM, Stephen Frost wrote: > > Greetings, > > * Julie Nishimura (juliez...@hotmail.com) wrote: >> Hello everybody, I am new to postgresql environment, but trying to get up to >> speed. >> Can you please share your experience on how you can automate refreshment of >> dev

Re: strange slow query performance

2019-01-17 Thread Ben Snaidero
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 4:13 PM David G. Johnston < david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 9:19 AM Ben Snaidero > wrote: > > Any ideas as to why this is happening? > > Not really, I would expect roughly double execution time, not an > expon

strange slow query performance

2019-01-17 Thread Ben Snaidero
al time=0.002..0.004 rows=9 loops=2082) Index Cond: (inodeid = n1ne_1.iid) Heap Fetches: 13973 Planning time: 4.860 ms Execution time: 16442.462 ms (26 rows) Thanks in advance Ben.

Re: pg9.6 when is a promoted cluster ready to accept "rewind" request?

2018-11-13 Thread talk to ben
Hi, You might have to wait for pg_is_in_recovery to be false after the promotion. (in 9.6 pg_ctl promote doesn't wait for promotion to complete unlike 10). [1] You should CHECKOINT between 2 and 3. (or wait for the first checkpoint to finish) In the thread [2], Michael Paquier explains that: "

Re: Problem creating a database

2018-10-15 Thread Ben Madin
Do you have adequate disk space left on your array? cheers Ben On 15 October 2018 at 17:46, Joshua White wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. I've got a > PostgreSQL 10 server instance on CentOS 6, which I set up and manage. I &g

Re: Saving view turns SELECT * into field list

2018-10-15 Thread Ben Madin
r. To get around it all you have to do is script a drop and replace action. A last word - if you have nested views, remember that they are essentially just query aliases that return an unindexed result set... cheers Ben On 16 October 2018 at 03:50, Ben Uphoff wrote: > Hey team – I’m sure

Saving view turns SELECT * into field list

2018-10-15 Thread Ben Uphoff
it means I’ll have to manually change an aggregating “parent” view’s select lists every time I change the “child” views. Thanks for any info. -Ben *** PLEASE NOTE *** This E-Mail/telefax message and any documents accompanying this transmission may contain

Re: Setting up continuous archiving

2018-10-15 Thread talk to ben
Hi, I am not sure what you call discrete / continuous. pgbackrest allows backups of different kinds: full, incremental and differential. It keeps the wals necessary to recover since the oldest backup until the current time. The retention is expressed in number of full backups. You can also specif

Why is JSONB field automatically cast as TEXT?

2018-09-17 Thread Ben Uphoff
ms it thusly: SELECT (((mytable.ajsonbcolumn -> ‘somedata’::text) -> ‘nested’::text) ->> ‘first_name’::text) AS fname FROM mytable (note the ::text casts). Why does it do this? It seems unnecessary and pollutes my SQL with a ton of extra text. Thanks for your thoughts. -Ben ***

constraint exclusion with a tsrange type

2018-09-12 Thread Ben Chobot
Hey everybody, I'm having trouble getting constraint exclusion to work on a table partitioned with a tsrange type. I've distilled it down to this: create table t ( id serial primary key, observed_window tsrange not null ); create index t_window on t(observed_window); create table p1 (like t

Re: Ways to deal with large amount of columns;

2018-08-31 Thread Ben Madin
Hi - this is a spreadsheet model, not a database model, and could be modelled with three columns. The aggregate functions are an analytic issue, not a data issue. cheers Ben On 30 August 2018 at 17:13, a <372660...@qq.com> wrote: > Hi all: > > I need to make a table con

Re: Streaming Replication between PostGreSQL 9.2.2 on Red Hat and PostGreSQL 9.2.24 on Debian

2018-05-24 Thread talk to ben
/ba6132ed-1f6b-4a0b-ac22-81278f5ab...@tripadvisor.com [2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/warm-standby.html (planning section) Hoep this helps. Cheers Ben 2018-05-22 10:13 GMT+02:00 Jonatan Evald Buus < jonatan.b...@cellpointmobile.com>: > Thanks Ian, thank you for pointing out th

Re: Renice on Postgresql process

2018-05-23 Thread Ben Chobot
> On May 7, 2018, at 11:50 PM, Ayappan P2 wrote: > > We are doing "renice" on the main Postgresql process to give higher > scheduling priority because other critical operations depends on the database. > You are saying that the database processes take longer to relinquish their > resources an

Re: Domain based on TIMEZONE WITH TIME ZONE

2018-05-11 Thread Ben Hood
> On 10 May 2018, at 23:43, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > Trying to tame time and time zones is maybe quixotic, but not weird. Quixotic is a very good description, I’d happily admit that using the UTC domain in this way is not as pragmatic as I thought it would when I introduced it. > While I was

Re: Domain based on TIMEZONE WITH TIME ZONE

2018-05-11 Thread Ben Hood
> On 10 May 2018, at 22:17, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > I don't understand how this can work. As Francisco demonstrated, > EXTRACT(TIMEZONE FROM ts) doesn't extract the time zone from the value > ts, it reports the offset of the client's time zone. Yes, you and Francisco are right. If you do:

Re: Domain based on TIMEZONE WITH TIME ZONE

2018-05-10 Thread Ben Hood
> On 10 May 2018, at 16:33, Francisco Olarte wrote: > > For what you want to do I think you'll have to parse the text value, > maybe by definig a view with a text columns and using some > rule/trigger magic for insert / updates. Sorry for being unclear - the solution I have in production appea

Re: Domain based on TIMEZONE WITH TIME ZONE

2018-05-10 Thread Ben Hood
> On 10 May 2018, at 17:38, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > Well if you are using a timestamp with timezone field the value is always > going to be stored as UTC. The TimeZone setting just determines the rotation > from the input value to the stored value and the reverse. My previous point > was j

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