Re: [GENERAL] why is autovacuum still ongoing even if set to off ?

2009-07-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Costin Grigoras wrote: > => show autovacuum; > autovacuum > > off > > I really overdid it, I know, but this issue is very annoying. Even with > these settings it's still ongoing. > > The IO doesn't seem to be an issue, the DB sits on a RAID6 of 8 10K

Re: [GENERAL] why is autovacuum still ongoing even if set to off ?

2009-07-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Costin Grigoras wrote: > >> Anytime autovacuum is instrusive look at incrementing the nap time to >> 10 to 20 ms.  If that doesn't help then you're already running on the >> ragged edge of IO throughput and might need to look into a faster RAID >> array or somethin

Re: [GENERAL] why is autovacuum still ongoing even if set to off ?

2009-07-30 Thread Costin Grigoras
Anytime autovacuum is instrusive look at incrementing the nap time to 10 to 20 ms. If that doesn't help then you're already running on the ragged edge of IO throughput and might need to look into a faster RAID array or something. => show autovacuum_naptime; autovacuum_naptime --

Re: [GENERAL] Make check fails on 8.3.7

2009-07-30 Thread Tom Lane
Christine Desmuke writes: > I'm trying to install 8.3.7, but can't get past make check. > CentOS release 4.7 (Final), with an existing install of 8.3.1 running as > a warm standby > ... > It looks in every case like the ERROR (and also HINT lines) lines are > causing the failures, but I'm not su

[GENERAL] PG optimization on CentOS Linux file system with SCSI disks

2009-07-30 Thread Phoenix Kiula
I read here in a different context http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/cms/rhea-dpg-cms-en-6.1/ch-config.html About /etc/security/limits.conf and /etc/sysctl.conf files. For the last year or so I've had this on a CentOS 32 bit system with 4GB of RAM and SATA II disks, only Postgres relevant stuff

Re: [GENERAL] why is autovacuum still ongoing even if set to off ?

2009-07-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Costin Grigoras wrote: > The insertion rate is ~250 records / second, quite uniformly spread in time > over ~3000 tables. To reach 2^31 something like 100 days are needed and the > cluster is less than 10 days old. And we do vacuuming :) I do believe there are som

Re: [GENERAL] Reg: Data Conversion in PGSQl

2009-07-30 Thread John R Pierce
Rama Mohan Reddy wrote: Hi Gurus, My Client gave me data in .dat format for each table, which is in postgresql in linux environment I want to table data in windows environment I'd suggest taking a look at those .dat files, see if they are in fact CSV or SQL or what. for instance, in a CM

[GENERAL] Reg: Data Conversion in PGSQl

2009-07-30 Thread Rama Mohan Reddy
Hi Gurus, My Client gave me data in .dat format for each table, which is in postgresql in linux environment I want to table data in windows environment Thanks in Advance, Ramu

Re: [GENERAL] why is autovacuum still ongoing even if set to off ?

2009-07-30 Thread Costin Grigoras
The insertion rate is ~250 records / second, quite uniformly spread in time over ~3000 tables. To reach 2^31 something like 100 days are needed and the cluster is less than 10 days old. And we do vacuuming :) So as far as I understand, the wraparound shouldn't happen. In fact before 8.4 we ran

Re: [GENERAL] SVN and Postgres 8.3

2009-07-30 Thread Greg Smith
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Phoenix Kiula wrote: svn: error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I'll bet you installed an RPM at some point with "--force" when you shouldn't have when installing the new PostgreSQL versions. The packa

[GENERAL] Make check fails on 8.3.7

2009-07-30 Thread Christine Desmuke
I'm trying to install 8.3.7, but can't get past make check. CentOS release 4.7 (Final), with an existing install of 8.3.1 running as a warm standby $ eval ./configure `pg_config --configure` $ gmake == All of PostgreSQL successfully made. Ready to install. $ gmake check Everything looks ok un

Re: [GENERAL] pg_config --sharedir points to the wrong folder.. is this a problem?

2009-07-30 Thread Daniel Verite
Jennifer Trey wrote: > >> locate pg_config > /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/bin/pg_config > /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/include/ecpg_config.h > /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/include/pg_config.h > /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/include/pg_config_manual.h > /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/include/pg_config_os.h > /opt/PostgreSQL/8.4/include/p

Re: [GENERAL] why is autovacuum still ongoing even if set to off ?

2009-07-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Costin Grigoras wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running 8.4 and I've tried to disable autovacuum since the vacuuming is > taken care internally in the code. The same was true with the previous > version (8.0 to 8.3) and there was never any problem. However now in 8.4 the > "of

[GENERAL] why is autovacuum still ongoing even if set to off ?

2009-07-30 Thread Costin Grigoras
Hi, I'm running 8.4 and I've tried to disable autovacuum since the vacuuming is taken care internally in the code. The same was true with the previous version (8.0 to 8.3) and there was never any problem. However now in 8.4 the "off" setting seems to be ignored even if "track_counts = off" and hug

Re: [GENERAL] SVN and Postgres 8.3

2009-07-30 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 19:37 +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote: > > My question: how can I use PostgreSQL 8.3 and SVN on the same server? > Has someone figured out how to fix this situation? http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/8.3/redhat/rhel-5-x86_64/repoview/compat-postgresql-libs.html Download and install both

Re: [GENERAL] pg_config --sharedir points to the wrong folder.. is this a problem?

2009-07-30 Thread Jennifer Trey
Yes, you are right. I didn't stop the server before un-installing. Not good. I should have thought about that. Not sure how to repair that though. running pg_config : r...@ubuntu-904-jaunty-64-minimal:/opt/PostgreSQL/EnterpriseDB-TuningWizard# pg_config BINDIR = /usr/lib/postgresql/8.3/bin DOCDIR

Re: [GENERAL] SVN and Postgres 8.3

2009-07-30 Thread Scott Mead
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Vick Khera wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Phoenix Kiula > wrote: > > We installed 8.3.7 on a new server. Some of the config changes such as > > tracker_acvitity etc are nice. > > > > But big problem. When I start SVN on this machine (which we need!) I

Re: [GENERAL] How do I run PG Tuning Wizard on Linux?

2009-07-30 Thread Jennifer Trey
Thank you for your answer. I did export the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and now the complain is something else.. progress :) Error: Unable to initialize gtk, is DISPLAY set properly? I have also launched the TuningWizard from an icon and I got to the step (development, mixed, dedicated) as before and then th

Re: [GENERAL] How do I run PG Tuning Wizard on Linux?

2009-07-30 Thread Sachin Srivastava
On 07/30/2009 07:31 PM, Jennifer Trey wrote: Unfortunately I used the apt-get utility. So I might have missed out on those packages. But I un-installed (I hope I got everything) and deleted some folders, got the one click installer and re-installed. I got everything now and set up postgre and

Re: [GENERAL] pg_config --sharedir points to the wrong folder.. is this a problem?

2009-07-30 Thread Sachin Srivastava
On 07/30/2009 08:38 PM, Jennifer Trey wrote: Hi, First I installed postgres using the apt-get utility on ubuntu, and then later uninstalled it to install postgres though the one-click installer. Trying to find the share folder i ran pg_config and it shows the old path : /usr/share/postgresq

Re: [GENERAL] SVN and Postgres 8.3

2009-07-30 Thread Chris Browne
phoenix.ki...@gmail.com (Phoenix Kiula) writes: > My question: how can I use PostgreSQL 8.3 and SVN on the same server? > Has someone figured out how to fix this situation? I'm on CentOS 5 x64 > bit. RPM has a "--replacefiles" option which might either help or hurt... I think there's a fair chanc

Re: [GENERAL] How do I run PG Tuning Wizard on Linux?

2009-07-30 Thread Sachin Srivastava
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/PostgreSQL/EnterpriseDB-TuningWizard/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/PostgreSQL/EnterpriseDB-TuningWizard/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH /opt/PostgreSQL/EnterpriseDB-TuningWizard/TuningWizard Basically you have to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This will solve the

Re: [GENERAL] How to make an INSERT INTO to a view?

2009-07-30 Thread Jeff Davis
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 20:37 +0100, Andre Lopes wrote: > I'am new to PostGre... I need to insert to a view. For security > measures the users will be only able to insert to views. Take a look at the rules system: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/rules.html Regards, Jeff Davis -

Re: [GENERAL] How to make an INSERT INTO to a view?

2009-07-30 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to Andre Lopes : > Hi, >   > I'am new to PostGre... I need to insert to a view. For security measures the > users will be only able to insert to views. >   > How can I do that? INSERT INTO a view in PostGreSQL You have to create a rule. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/rules-

[GENERAL] How to make an INSERT INTO to a view?

2009-07-30 Thread Andre Lopes
Hi, I'am new to PostGre... I need to insert to a view. For security measures the users will be only able to insert to views. How can I do that? INSERT INTO a view in PostGreSQL Best Regards, André.

Re: [GENERAL] How do I run PG Tuning Wizard on Linux?

2009-07-30 Thread Jennifer Trey
Just another try on TuningWizard. I tried running it from console : r...@ubuntu-904-jaunty-64-minimal:/opt/PostgreSQL/EnterpriseDB-TuningWizard# ./TuningWizard ./TuningWizard: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory And : r..

Re: [GENERAL] Slony and local machine slave..(supernewbie question)

2009-07-30 Thread Scott Mead
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Phoenix Kiula wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Scott Mead > wrote: > > ...snip... > > > It may make more sense to setup a dedicated PITR slave in your office, > and > > refresh it every now and then. > > > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL server listen on other port than 5432

2009-07-30 Thread Tom Lane
Dotan Barak writes: > The weird thing is that i used this port in a service that i wrote > only few seconds before this happened... Oh? How'd you start that service exactly? I'm thinking maybe the postmaster inherited the open file from its parent process. If it's not marked close-on-exec, whi

Re: [GENERAL] Problems compiling contribs in Open Solaris

2009-07-30 Thread Emanuel Calvo Franco
>> I trying to compile several contribs in Osol. I had in result some >> problems to take them work. >> >> /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -Xa -xO3 -xarch=native -xspace -W0,-Lt >> -W2,-Rcond_elim -Xa -xildoff -xc99=none -xCC -KPIC -I. >> -I../../src/include   -c -o xpath.o xpath.c >> Putting child 0x080a3290

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL server listen on other port than 5432

2009-07-30 Thread Dotan Barak
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Dotan Barak writes: >> I'm using CentOS 5.3 and PostgreSQL version 8.1.11. > > Are you using the Red Hat/CentOS postgresql RPMs, or some other > distribution of PG? Yes, I'm using the original RPM that comes with CentOS. > >> It seems that the po

Re: [GENERAL] SVN and Postgres 8.3

2009-07-30 Thread Vick Khera
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Phoenix Kiula wrote: > We installed 8.3.7 on a new server. Some of the config changes such as > tracker_acvitity etc are nice. > > But big problem. When I start SVN on this machine (which we need!) I > see this error: > > > - > svn: error while loading shared li

[GENERAL] pg_config --sharedir points to the wrong folder.. is this a problem?

2009-07-30 Thread Jennifer Trey
Hi, First I installed postgres using the apt-get utility on ubuntu, and then later uninstalled it to install postgres though the one-click installer. Trying to find the share folder i ran pg_config and it shows the old path : /usr/share/postgresql/8.3 I have a pg_config under my new installation

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL server listen on other port than 5432

2009-07-30 Thread Tom Lane
Dotan Barak writes: > I'm using CentOS 5.3 and PostgreSQL version 8.1.11. Are you using the Red Hat/CentOS postgresql RPMs, or some other distribution of PG? > It seems that the posgres SQL sometimes listen on other ports than 5432: > # lsof -i -n -P | grep postg > postmaste 18415 postgres3

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Greg Stark
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > > The earlier part of the discussion was focused on getting the kernel > to actively tell us when the connection had dropped.  That would be > workable if we found a way to request it, but I think we'd run out of > options :-( Yeah, everything I'v

Re: [GENERAL] PG equivalent of "mysqlhotcopy"?

2009-07-30 Thread Josh Kupershmidt
> I know about pg_dumpall, which creates a humongous SQL file, but is > there something equivalent in the postgresql world, like a > "pgsqlhotcopy" which copies data folders in a similar way as > mysqlhotcopy? If you're lucky enough to be using a filesystem which supports atomic snapshotting of di

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Tom Lane
Craig Ringer writes: > Greg Stark wrote: >> Also it requires the server to >> periodically take time out from processing the query to do this. > This aspect I'm not to bothered about. I doubt it'd cost anything > detectable if done a few times a minute - unless it required > restructuring of qu

Re: [GENERAL] integration of fulltext search in bytea/docs

2009-07-30 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Glaesemann writes: > On Jul 30, 2009, at 9:09 , Radek Novotný wrote: >> Is there possible to create pg trigger that runs shell script? > Yes. You can use an untrusted language such as pl/perlu to run system > commands. The fact that you can do it doesn't make it a good idea ... If you

Re: [GENERAL] How do I run PG Tuning Wizard on Linux?

2009-07-30 Thread Jennifer Trey
Unfortunately I used the apt-get utility. So I might have missed out on those packages. But I un-installed (I hope I got everything) and deleted some folders, got the one click installer and re-installed. I got everything now and set up postgre and it is working fine. However (something I ran int

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL server listen on other port than 5432

2009-07-30 Thread Dotan Barak
Hi. I'm using CentOS 5.3 and PostgreSQL version 8.1.11. I opened the posgres SQL to accept incoming connections: listen_addresses = '*' # comma-separated list of addresses; # defaults to 'localhost', '*' = all port

Re: [GENERAL] PG equivalent of "mysqlhotcopy"?

2009-07-30 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
you can always try to write something on your own, using pitr and pg_start_backup(), rsync, and friends. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/continuous-archiving.html -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.post

[GENERAL] PG equivalent of "mysqlhotcopy"?

2009-07-30 Thread Phoenix Kiula
Although mysqldump is the official solution, there's a fabulous perl script "mysqlhotcopy" that simply copies the data from MySQL tables in folders and restoring the data is as simple as copying the files back to their /var/lib/mysql/data location. I know about pg_dumpall, which creates a humongou

Re: [GENERAL] Slony and local machine slave..(supernewbie question)

2009-07-30 Thread Phoenix Kiula
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Scott Mead wrote: ...snip... >   It may make more sense to setup a dedicated PITR slave in your office, and > refresh it every now and then. > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/continuous-archiving.html Thanks. This was useful. So much for my bra

Re: [GENERAL] Can't execute function

2009-07-30 Thread Sam Mason
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:22:03PM +0100, Andre Lopes wrote: > Hi. I need to know what is wrong with this function > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "public"."apr_alta_empregado" ("pID_SOCIEDADE" > varchar, "pID_EMPREGADO" varchar, "pNOME" varchar, "pNOME_ABREV" varchar, [..] > VALUES ( pID_SOCIEDAD

Re: [GENERAL] integration of fulltext search in bytea/docs

2009-07-30 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to Radek Novotný : > Is there possible to create pg trigger that runs shell script? Sure, use an untrusted language for the trigger-function. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C, privat 0x7F4584DA

Re: [GENERAL] integration of fulltext search in bytea/docs

2009-07-30 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jul 30, 2009, at 9:09 , Radek Novotný wrote: Is there possible to create pg trigger that runs shell script? [Please don't top post.] Yes. You can use an untrusted language such as pl/perlu to run system commands. Michael Glaesemann grzm seespotcode net -- Sent via pgsql-general m

Re: [GENERAL] integration of fulltext search in bytea/docs

2009-07-30 Thread Sam Mason
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:09:12PM +0200, Radek Novotnnn wrote: > Is there possible to create pg trigger that runs shell script? Yes, pl/perl can do this. -- Sam http://samason.me.uk/ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription

Re: [GENERAL] integration of fulltext search in bytea/docs

2009-07-30 Thread Radek Novotný
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Re: [GENERAL] Slony and local machine slave..(supernewbie question)

2009-07-30 Thread Scott Mead
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Phoenix Kiula wrote: > I use a Mac OSX at work. And finally have a running PG install. > > So I'm thinking: can I use some mechanism to have my local PG server > (in our premises) as a slave mirror of the main live website server > (at our data center). > > > Woul

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Csaba Nagy
[this is getting off topic] On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 13:44 +0200, Craig Ringer wrote: > A host with a runaway process hogging memory shouldn't be dying. It > should really be killing off the problem process, or the problem process > should be dying its self after failing to allocate requested memor

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Greg Stark
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > > In fact, I'm not even sure _how_ one goes about exiting without sending an > RST. A quick check shows that when I `kill -9' a process with an open client > socket (ssh, in this case) the OS sends a FIN, and responds to the server's > FIN,ACK

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Csaba Nagy
[just to make things clear, I'm not the one who brought up this discussion, only that I was also bitten once by zombie connections] On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 13:29 +0200, Craig Ringer wrote: > Idle? I thought your issue was _active_ queries running, servicing > requests from clients that'd since cea

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Csaba Nagy
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 13:40 +0200, Craig Ringer wrote: > > A simple ping to the client would have > > cleared the fact that the client is not there anymore. > > Yep. It'd also stop PostgreSQL working for clients with software > firewalls, since most of them drop ICMP ECHO ("ping"). I wasn't mea

Re: [GENERAL] How do I run PG Tuning Wizard on Linux?

2009-07-30 Thread Sachin Srivastava
On 07/30/2009 03:19 PM, Moe wrote: Hi Sachin, I am sorry but I am not that familiar with Linux. So you have excuse me. I can't figure out how to do this. I looked for it in the package manager and googled it but no luck. What commands should I run to install and run it? Thanks in advance / J

[GENERAL] Slony and local machine slave..(supernewbie question)

2009-07-30 Thread Phoenix Kiula
I use a Mac OSX at work. And finally have a running PG install. So I'm thinking: can I use some mechanism to have my local PG server (in our premises) as a slave mirror of the main live website server (at our data center). Would Slony be the solution to look at? Is this a dumb thought to begin wi

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Craig Ringer
Csaba Nagy wrote: It happened to us when a client box went out of memory and started swapping up to the point it was unaccessible even for console login. The connections of that machine were still live but unusable, as the client box will never get out of that state until hard resetting... which

Re: [GENERAL] org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: PANIC: could not write to log file 6

2009-07-30 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 29 Jul 2009, at 14:43, mzh...@ilww.com wrote: Hello, In our customer site, the following error occurred. I tried to find some indication what this means. Is this log file used for the roll back purpose? In what scenario that one gets such fatal error? It's likely part of the WAL, in whi

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Craig Ringer
Csaba Nagy wrote: > A simple ping to the client would have cleared the fact that the client is not there anymore. Yep. It'd also stop PostgreSQL working for clients with software firewalls, since most of them drop ICMP ECHO ("ping"). TCP keepalives are designed to do the same thing, but do

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL server listen on other port than 5432

2009-07-30 Thread Dotan Barak
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Richard Huxton wrote: > Dotan Barak wrote: >> >> grep on what? >> (on ps: there isn't anything). > > I was thinking of something like: >  # find /etc -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep 17583 Thanks for clearing this point; Empty string was found. Dotan -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] Can't execute function

2009-07-30 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello don't use COMMIT in plpgsql. Plpgsql doesn't support it. regards Pavel Stehule 2009/7/30 Andre Lopes : > Hi. I need to know what is wrong with this function > > [code] > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "public"."apr_alta_empregado" ("pID_SOCIEDADE" > varchar, "pID_EMPREGADO" varchar, "pNOME" va

[GENERAL] SVN and Postgres 8.3

2009-07-30 Thread Phoenix Kiula
We installed 8.3.7 on a new server. Some of the config changes such as tracker_acvitity etc are nice. But big problem. When I start SVN on this machine (which we need!) I see this error: - svn: error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Csaba Nagy
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 13:22 +0200, Craig Ringer wrote: > So, barring network breaks (wifi down / out of range, ethernet cable > fell out, etc etc) how is the OP managing to leave backends running > queries? Hard-resetting the machine? It happened to us when a client box went out of memory and st

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Craig Ringer
Csaba Nagy wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 11:41 +0200, Greg Stark wrote: I know this is a popular feeling. But you're throwing away decades of work in making TCP reliable. You would change feelings quickly if you ever faced this scenario too. All it takes is some bad memory or a bad wire and you w

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Craig Ringer
Greg Stark wrote: Right, you'll only get SIGURG if there's actually any urgent data received. The client would have to actively send such data periodically. That would make this a portability headache since it wouldn't just be an add-on which would fail gracefully if it's unsupported. It'd als

[GENERAL] Can't execute function

2009-07-30 Thread Andre Lopes
Hi. I need to know what is wrong with this function [code] CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "public"."apr_alta_empregado" ("pID_SOCIEDADE" varchar, "pID_EMPREGADO" varchar, "pNOME" varchar, "pNOME_ABREV" varchar, "pDAT_NASC" date, "pLOCALIDADE_NASC" varchar, "pID_TIPO_BILHETE_IDENTIFICACAO" varchar, "pB

Re: [GENERAL] Moving from Windows to Ubuntu - Have a couple of questions

2009-07-30 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2009-07-28, Jennifer Trey wrote: > --001636c5a2d8cdcb9c046fc47cee > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hi, > I have been running PostgreSQL 8.3 for a while now and was installed through > the standard Windows installer and everything has been work

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Greg Stark
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Csaba Nagy wrote: > But if I get bad memory or bad wire I'll get much worse problems > already, and don't tell me it will work more reliably if you don't kill > the connection. It's a lot better to find out sooner that you have those > problems and fix them than ha

Re: [GENERAL] pg_stat_activity undocumented?

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Albe Laurenz, 30.07.2009 11:55: is there a reason why pg_stat_activity is not documented in the chapter "System Catalogs"? I guess it is because they are documented in http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-STATS-VIEWS-TABLE in Chapter 26. Maybe a remark in

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Csaba Nagy
On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 11:41 +0200, Greg Stark wrote: > I know this is a popular feeling. But you're throwing away decades of > work in making TCP reliable. You would change feelings quickly if you > ever faced this scenario too. All it takes is some bad memory or a bad > wire and you would be turni

Re: [GENERAL] pg_stat_activity undocumented?

2009-07-30 Thread Albe Laurenz
Thomas Kellerer wrote: > is there a reason why pg_stat_activity is not documented in > the chapter "System Catalogs"? > > Is this not a "offical" view? I guess it is because they are documented in http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/monitoring-stats.html#MONITORING-STATS-VIEWS-TABLE in Ch

Re: [GENERAL] How do I run PG Tuning Wizard on Linux?

2009-07-30 Thread Moe
i am using a friends account btw...

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Csaba Nagy
Hi all, On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 11:02 +0200, Greg Stark wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Craig > Ringer wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 14:56 +0100, Greg Stark wrote: > > What does work well is occasionally poking the socket with recv(..., > > MSG_DONTWAIT) while doing other work. Program

Re: [GENERAL] How do I run PG Tuning Wizard on Linux?

2009-07-30 Thread Moe
Hi Sachin, I am sorry but I am not that familiar with Linux. So you have excuse me. I can't figure out how to do this. I looked for it in the package manager and googled it but no luck. What commands should I run to install and run it? Thanks in advance / Jennifer

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Greg Stark
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Csaba Nagy wrote: > > Sorry, I have to disagree here. If there's a spurious network error, you > have usually bigger problems. I prefer to have the connection killed > even if the network recovers I know this is a popular feeling. But you're throwing away decades

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL server listen on other port than 5432

2009-07-30 Thread Richard Huxton
Dotan Barak wrote: grep on what? (on ps: there isn't anything). I was thinking of something like: # find /etc -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep 17583 -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL server listen on other port than 5432

2009-07-30 Thread Dotan Barak
Thanks for the quick response. On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Richard Huxton wrote: > Dotan Barak wrote: >> >> Hi. >> >> I'm using CentOS 5.3 and PostgreSQL version 8.1.11. >> >> I opened the posgres SQL to accept incoming connections: >> >> >> listen_addresses = '*' >>                        

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Greg Stark
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Craig Ringer wrote: > On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 14:56 +0100, Greg Stark wrote: > >> SIGURG might be useful but it would be more complex to use and less >> widely useful since it would only work if the client disconnects >> gracefully (though it might be worth checking i

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Greg Stark
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: >> Well SIGPIPE is no help since it would only fire if we tried to write >> to the socket anyways. > > Right. For this purpose, pgpool sends param packet to client > periodically while waiting for a reply from backend to detect if the > connectio

Re: [GENERAL] pg_stat_activity undocumented?

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Magnus Hagander, 30.07.2009 09:24: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:37, Thomas Kellerer wrote: Hi, is there a reason why pg_stat_activity is not documented in the chapter "System Catalogs"? Is this not a "offical" view? It's not a catalog, it's a statistics view. It's documented in "26.2. The Stati

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL server listen on other port than 5432

2009-07-30 Thread Richard Huxton
Dotan Barak wrote: Hi. I'm using CentOS 5.3 and PostgreSQL version 8.1.11. I opened the posgres SQL to accept incoming connections: listen_addresses = '*' # comma-separated list of addresses; # defaults to 'localhos

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL server listen on other port than 5432

2009-07-30 Thread Dotan Barak
Hi. I'm using CentOS 5.3 and PostgreSQL version 8.1.11. I opened the posgres SQL to accept incoming connections: listen_addresses = '*' # comma-separated list of addresses; # defaults to 'localhost', '*' = all port =

Re: [GENERAL] Clients disconnect but query still runs

2009-07-30 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> Well SIGPIPE is no help since it would only fire if we tried to write > to the socket anyways. Right. For this purpose, pgpool sends param packet to client periodically while waiting for a reply from backend to detect if the connection to the client is broken. If it's broken, pgool sends cancel

Re: [GENERAL] pg_stat_activity undocumented?

2009-07-30 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 08:37, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > Hi, > > is there a reason why pg_stat_activity is not documented in the chapter > "System Catalogs"? > Is this not a "offical" view? It's not a catalog, it's a statistics view. It's documented in "26.2. The Statistics Collector", specifically