Re: [GENERAL] problem with pg_restore?

2009-07-14 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Jim Michaels, 15.07.2009 01:47: most programmer's text editors can't handle more than 2000 characters per line. and I want to be able to edit my dumps. I don't know what you are using, but the following editors can certainly handle more than 2000 characters: OpenSource and free: http://www.p

Re: [GENERAL] cache lookup failed for function 72629

2009-07-14 Thread Lawrence Wong
I'm not exactly sure what was wrong. But I tried making a change on another database on the same server and it was ok. So I thought deleting the problem database and restoring it again would do the trick and it did. So problem solved I guess. Although I'm still not sure what happened . . .

Re: [GENERAL] problem with pg_restore?

2009-07-14 Thread Richard Huxton
Jim Michaels wrote: I am having problems with pg_restore. pg_restore --file=c:\pg-jmichae3-7-13-2009.sql --verbose --host=localhost --port=5432 --username=postgres this just hangs. I am restoring from 8.3.7 to 8.4 - what did I do wrong? Well, I don't see a database name, was that just an ac

Re: [GENERAL] problem with pg_restore?

2009-07-14 Thread David Wilson
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Jim Michaels wrote: > could somebody rewrite pg_dumpall and pg_dump so that it makes editable > dumps? > most programmer's text editors can't handle more than 2000 characters per > line. > and I want to be able to edit my dumps. You're going to have better luck fin

[GENERAL] problem with pg_restore?

2009-07-14 Thread Jim Michaels
I am having problems with pg_restore. pg_restore --file=c:\pg-jmichae3-7-13-2009.sql --verbose --host=localhost --port=5432 --username=postgres this just hangs. I am restoring from 8.3.7 to 8.4 - what did I do wrong? could somebody rewrite pg_dumpall and pg_dump so that it makes editable dumps

Re: [GENERAL] Custom Class variables

2009-07-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Michael Gould wrote: > I have created the following in my postgres.conf file > > custom_variable_classes = 'iss' > > In a SQL session I've tried > > Set iss.one = '1' > set iss.two = '2' > > Select * from iss; > > How do I access the values from the custom class in sql code? show iss.one; se

[GENERAL] PL/Python debugging - line numbers

2009-07-14 Thread Mike Toews
Hi, Debugging PL/Python isn't as easy as with PL/pgSQL, as it appears I can't see line numbers where errors occur. For example: ERROR: plpython: function "evaluate_something" failed DETAIL: : sequence index must be integer, not 'str' The location of this type of exception is difficult to

Re: [GENERAL] Request for features

2009-07-14 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:00:04AM +, Jasen Betts wrote: > On 2009-07-13, Michael Gould wrote: > > I would like to know what the formal method of requesting new features are > > for Postgres and how are decisions made which features are included in a > > future release or not. > > Formal? >

[GENERAL] Custom Class variables

2009-07-14 Thread Michael Gould
I have created the following in my postgres.conf file custom_variable_classes = 'iss' In a SQL session I've tried Set iss.one = '1' set iss.two = '2' Select * from iss; How do I access the values from the custom class in sql code? Best Regards Michael Gould -- Michael Gould, Managing Partne

Re: [GENERAL] [Q] single image Table across multiple PG servers

2009-07-14 Thread Kevin Kempter
On Tuesday 14 July 2009 14:16:33 you wrote: > This is great, > thank you > > I have to say, if this is a free-of-charge > add on to postgres that works and utilizes the hardware on each server > to perform > the join, > > -- why would anybody need to use mapreduce/hadoop/etc? > for database-like se

Re: [GENERAL] [Q] single image Table across multiple PG servers

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:38 PM, V S P wrote: > Hi, > thank you for the links > > > I read through the presentation > > and they did not solve the issue for me -- which presenting a e table from > multiple > shards as one single table (at least for reads) for ODBC clients. > > > I also do not thin

Re: [GENERAL] [Q] single image Table across multiple PG servers

2009-07-14 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 > The reason why I think the data will not fit into one database, > is because I just do not have money for servers (everything is coming > out of my small pocket) so I just want to deploy inexpensive computers > but add them as I get more data

Re: [GENERAL] [Q] single image Table across multiple PG servers

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Mead
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 1:16 AM, V S P wrote: > Hello > > I am researching how to store the data for easy 'user-driven' > reporting (where I do not need to develop application for > every user request). > > The data will typically be number ranges and text strings with > unique Id for each row >

Re: [GENERAL] [Q] single image Table across multiple PG servers

2009-07-14 Thread Kevin Kempter
On Tuesday 14 July 2009 13:35:23 you wrote: > yes -- thank you > > that's in the direction of what I am looking for > > > ODBC connectivity and joins across databases! > > > It looks like it cannot support > a single image table across databases It's effectively a single image across nodes - in

Re: [GENERAL] [Q] single image Table across multiple PG servers

2009-07-14 Thread Kevin Kempter
On Tuesday 14 July 2009 12:38:27 V S P wrote: > Hi, > thank you for the links > > > I read through the presentation > > and they did not solve the issue for me -- which presenting a e > table from multiple > shards as one single table (at least for reads) for ODBC clients. > > > I also do not think

Re: [GENERAL] [Q] single image Table across multiple PG servers

2009-07-14 Thread V S P
Hi, thank you for the links I read through the presentation and they did not solve the issue for me -- which presenting a e table from multiple shards as one single table (at least for reads) for ODBC clients. I also do not think that skypetools do that they have implemented essentially an AP

Re: [GENERAL] filter duplicates by priority

2009-07-14 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:04:12AM -0400, Clark Slater wrote: > SELECT DISTINCT ON (part_number) * FROM ( > SELECT part_number, priority FROM ... > UNION ALL > SELECT part_number, priority FROM ... > UNION ALL > SELECT part_number, priority FROM ... > ) AS filter_duplicates ORDER BY priority,part_n

Re: [GENERAL] filter duplicates by priority

2009-07-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:04:12AM -0400, Clark Slater wrote: > Hello- > > I am trying to use DISTINCT ON to filter out *potential* duplicate values > from a set of sub queries. There are certain cases where there can be > repetitive part numbers that are priced differently. I'm trying to start

Re: [GENERAL] filter duplicates by priority

2009-07-14 Thread Tom Lane
"Clark Slater" writes: > I am trying to use DISTINCT ON to filter out *potential* duplicate values > from a set of sub queries. There are certain cases where there can be > repetitive part numbers that are priced differently. I'm trying to start > with the full list, ordered by priority, and the

Re: [GENERAL] filter duplicates by priority

2009-07-14 Thread Hartman, Matthew
> From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general- > ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Clark Slater > Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 10:04 AM > Subject: [GENERAL] filter duplicates by priority Maybe I'm missing something, but why not something like (incoming pseudo-SQL): Select par

Re: [GENERAL] prepared statements and DBD::Pg

2009-07-14 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 > It's perfectly valid (from the DBI's point of view) for prepare() to > return a prepared statement handle for an invalid statement. >

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump of a big table

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Mead
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Sam Mason wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:57:43PM +, Nelson Correia wrote: > > Running pg_dump from another machine needs much space on the DB > > host? Or it just outputs the data as it goes? > > pg_dump should use very little space on the server, it just

Re: [GENERAL] Best practices for moving UTF8 databases

2009-07-14 Thread Andres Freund
On Tuesday 14 July 2009 15:52:29 Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Andres Freund wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 July 2009 11:36:57 Jasen Betts wrote: > > > if you do an ascii dump and the dump starts out "SET CLIENT ENCODING > > > 'UTF8'" or similar but you still get errors. > > > > Do you mean that a dump from SQ

Re: [GENERAL] cache lookup failed for function 72629

2009-07-14 Thread Lawrence Wong
I guess I'll ask on the slony-i mailing list also. thanks for your hlep. LW . . . Lawrence > To: lawrence...@hotmail.com > CC: mmonc...@gmail.com; pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] cache lookup failed for function 72629 > Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:18:10 -0400 > From: t...

Re: [GENERAL] cache lookup failed for function 72629

2009-07-14 Thread Dean Rasheed
This sounds like a problem I have observed, which I was able to fix by restarting the Slony daemon. - Dean 2009/7/14 Lawrence Wong : > I had been using Slony-I together with another database on a server on a > different machine.  I had been testing my replication constantly dropping > and creat

Re: [GENERAL] cache lookup failed for function 72629

2009-07-14 Thread Tom Lane
Lawrence Wong writes: > I had been using Slony-I together with another database on a server on a > different machine. I had been testing my replication constantly dropping and > creating my Slony-I tables. This is not out of the ordinary though. I had > been doing this for many days now.

Re: [GENERAL] Checkpoint Tuning Question

2009-07-14 Thread Dan Armbrust
> > Propose a DTrace probe immediately after the "goto begin" at line 740 of > xlog.c, so we can start tracing from the first backend following > checkpoint, and turn off tracing when all backends have completed a > transaction. > That's greek to me. But I'm happy to test things if you send me pa

[GENERAL] filter duplicates by priority

2009-07-14 Thread Clark Slater
Hello- I am trying to use DISTINCT ON to filter out *potential* duplicate values from a set of sub queries. There are certain cases where there can be repetitive part numbers that are priced differently. I'm trying to start with the full list, ordered by priority, and then remove any repeats tha

Re: [GENERAL] Best practices for moving UTF8 databases

2009-07-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Andres Freund wrote: > On Tuesday 14 July 2009 11:36:57 Jasen Betts wrote: > > if you do an ascii dump and the dump starts out "SET CLIENT ENCODING > > 'UTF8'" or similar but you still get errors. > Do you mean that a dump from SQL_ASCII can yield non-utf8 data? right. But > According to the OP h

Re: [GENERAL] Ascending / Descending Indexes

2009-07-14 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Michael Gould wrote: > In some SQL engines the engine doesn't need to define both Ascending and > Descending indexes on the same column.  Does Postgres need to have indexes > defined for both Ascending and Descending sorts?  We use quite a few of > these types of sorts. A single btree index can be

[GENERAL] Ascending / Descending Indexes

2009-07-14 Thread Michael Gould
In some SQL engines the engine doesn't need to define both Ascending and Descending indexes on the same column.  Does Postgres need to have indexes defined for both Ascending and Descending sorts?  We use quite a few of these types of sorts.   Best Regards -- Michael Gould, Managing Partner I

Re: [GENERAL] cache lookup failed for function 72629

2009-07-14 Thread Lawrence Wong
I had been using Slony-I together with another database on a server on a different machine. I had been testing my replication constantly dropping and creating my Slony-I tables. This is not out of the ordinary though. I had been doing this for many days now. The query, I had been doing is

Re: [GENERAL] cache lookup failed for function 72629

2009-07-14 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Lawrence Wong wrote: > I'm sorry.  What does 're-applying the function source' mean?  and how would > I do it? > > For the 'change to the table' I was talking about, I just tried to do a > regular update on the table using pgAdmin III. > > LW . . . Lawrence > well,

Re: [GENERAL] Flexibility of views and functions?

2009-07-14 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Andreas wrote: > Hi, > I need to do some reporting for projects that have some columns that stay > the same for every project and then every project brings along some project > specific stuff. > Now I've got a big view for everyone of those about 100 projects (and >

Re: [GENERAL] cache lookup failed for function 72629

2009-07-14 Thread Lawrence Wong
I'm sorry. What does 're-applying the function source' mean? and how would I do it? For the 'change to the table' I was talking about, I just tried to do a regular update on the table using pgAdmin III. LW . . . Lawrence > Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:01:38 -0400 > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] c

Re: [GENERAL] cache lookup failed for function 72629

2009-07-14 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Lawrence Wong wrote: > Hi, > > I had been using my database for a pretty long time now.  It is postgres 8.3 > on Windows 2003 Server.  Today I tried to make a change to one of my tables > and I got this error message: > > 'An error has occured: ERROR: cache lookup f

[GENERAL] cache lookup failed for function 72629

2009-07-14 Thread Lawrence Wong
Hi, I had been using my database for a pretty long time now. It is postgres 8.3 on Windows 2003 Server. Today I tried to make a change to one of my tables and I got this error message: 'An error has occured: ERROR: cache lookup failed for function 72629' I tried stopping the service and sta

[GENERAL] Connection pool/load balancer supporting ident authentication?

2009-07-14 Thread Stuart Bishop
Hi. Is anyone aware of a connection pool or load balancer for PostgreSQL that supports ident based authentication? Neither pgpool-ii nor pgbouncer support this according to their docs, so I was wondering what else is out there. -- Stuart Bishop http://www.stuartbishop.net/ -- Sent via pgsql-g

Re: [GENERAL] SPI_ERROR_CONNECT within pl/pgsql, PG 8.4

2009-07-14 Thread Marek Lewczuk
2009/7/13 Tom Lane : > No, you're misinterpreting the message.  What that code likely means > is that something is trying to use SPI and finding plpgsql already > connected.  In other words, plpgsql forgets to do a SPI_push() before > calling something that might try to use SPI re-entrantly.  It sh

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL-License

2009-07-14 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 03:02:14AM -0700, Nenad Milasinovic wrote: > > Hello, > > I am interested can PostgreSQL be used in commercial applications, > and what is licensing policy. I know that PostgreSQL is released > under BSD licence, but still i want to be sure are there any costs > when distr

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL-License

2009-07-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Tuesday 14 July 2009 13:02:14 Nenad Milasinovic wrote: > Hello, > > I am interested can PostgreSQL be used in commercial applications, and > what is licensing policy. I know that PostgreSQL is released under BSD > licence, > but still i want to be sure are there any costs when distributing > Pos

Re: [GENERAL] [Q] single image Table across multiple PG servers

2009-07-14 Thread Ransika de Silva
Hello, We were also in search of having a table split across multiple databases but then found out about skypetools and at the same time the following article; http://www.jurriaanpersyn.com/archives/2009/02/12/database-sharding-at-netlog-with-mysql-and-php/, true that it's not done with PG, but the

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL-License

2009-07-14 Thread Nenad Milasinovic
Hello, I am interested can PostgreSQL be used in commercial applications, and what is licensing policy. I know that PostgreSQL is released under BSD licence, but still i want to be sure are there any costs when distributing PostgreSQL in closed, commercial applications (is there any restriction

Re: [GENERAL] Request for features

2009-07-14 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2009-07-13, Michael Gould wrote: > I would like to know what the formal method of requesting new features are > for Postgres and how are decisions made which features are included in a > future release or not. Formal? for open soure software in general, changes are are requested using the bu

Re: [GENERAL] [Q] single image Table across multiple PG servers

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:16 PM, V S P wrote: > Hello > > I am researching how to store the data for easy 'user-driven' > reporting (where I do not need to develop application for > every user request). > > The data will typically be number ranges and text strings with > unique Id for each row > >

Re: [GENERAL] Best practices for moving UTF8 databases

2009-07-14 Thread Andres Freund
On Tuesday 14 July 2009 11:36:57 Jasen Betts wrote: > On 2009-07-13, Andres Freund wrote: > > On Sunday 12 July 2009 13:19:50 Phoenix Kiula wrote: > >> Hi. I *always* get an error moving my current fully utf-8 database > >> data into a new DB. > >> > >> My server has the version 8.3 with a five ye

Re: [GENERAL] Best practices for moving UTF8 databases

2009-07-14 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2009-07-13, Andres Freund wrote: > On Sunday 12 July 2009 13:19:50 Phoenix Kiula wrote: >> Hi. I *always* get an error moving my current fully utf-8 database >> data into a new DB. >> >> My server has the version 8.3 with a five year old DB. Everything, all >> collation, LC_LOCALE etc are all u

Re: [GENERAL] Checkpoint Tuning Question

2009-07-14 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 15:53 -0500, Dan Armbrust wrote: > > So this thought leads to a couple of other things Dan could test. > > First, see if turning off full_page_writes makes the hiccup go away. > > If so, we know the problem is in this area (though still not exactly > > which reason); if not w