Re: [GENERAL] Reclaiming space

2010-09-22 Thread Christopher Gorge A. Marges
On 9/22/2010 12:18 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Christopher Gorge A. Marges go...@apollo.com.ph wrote: But how would the newer version prevent bloat and eliminate making the database unavailable while the *maintenance* goes on? The database is more than five

Re: [GENERAL] What's wrong with this query?

2010-09-22 Thread Mike Christensen
Hi Tom, sorry to be a total n00b, but can you give me a few more pointers? I've noticed if I swap the two tables around, like: FROM plainto_tsquery('quiche') query, Recipes R then it works.. So are you saying that a JOIN can only refer to itself and the last table on the FROM list? I actually

Re: [GENERAL] How about synchronous notifications?

2010-09-22 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Lincoln Yeoh ly...@pop.jaring.my wrote: To me what would also be useful would be synchronous notifications. This would allow many programs to wait for events to happen rather than all of them polling the database (and wasting CPU cycles, battery life, etc).

Re: [GENERAL] versioned pl/pgsql functions

2010-09-22 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Joshua J. Kugler jos...@eeinternet.com wrote: Keep version control in version control. Make creation/replacement of stored procedures part of your deployment system. +1 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to

Re: [GENERAL] versioned pl/pgsql functions

2010-09-22 Thread Nagy Zoltan
hi, a few weeks ago i found a project aimed at providing version control for pq: http://www.pgcon.org/2009/schedule/events/158.en.html http://www.post-facto.org/ it worth to try it out, and use it ;) regards, kirk On 09/21/10 21:56, Rhys A.D. Stewart wrote: hey all, I think versioned

Re: [GENERAL] How about synchronous notifications?

2010-09-22 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 07:55 PM 9/22/2010, Vick Khera wrote: Here's how you do it: first, make sure you are not within a transaction or other Pg activity. Get the socket's file handle from the Pg connection handle. When you're ready to wait for a notify event, just do a select() system call on that file handle

Re: [GENERAL] What's wrong with this query?

2010-09-22 Thread Tom Lane
Mike Christensen m...@kitchenpc.com writes: So are you saying that a JOIN can only refer to itself and the last table on the FROM list? Um, I think you've got the wrong mental model of the syntax. JOIN is a binary operation between two tables: tab1 JOIN tab2 ON

[GENERAL] Kill -9 for a session process caused all the sessions to be killed

2010-09-22 Thread Atul.Goel
Hi All, I by mistake ran a query to update a huge table with around 50 rows and has to kill the session. I found the process-id from the query select * from pg_stat_activity. I killed the process using Kill -9 process_id. This caused all other sessions in the system to be killed and

Re: [GENERAL] Kill -9 for a session process caused all the sessions to be killed

2010-09-22 Thread Tom Lane
atul.g...@globaldatapoint.com writes: I by mistake ran a query to update a huge table with around 50 rows and has to kill the session. I found the process-id from the query select * from pg_stat_activity. I killed the process using Kill -9 process_id. This caused all other sessions in

Re: [GENERAL] Force ARE in regexp string

2010-09-22 Thread Johannes Öberg
On 2010-09-15 15:33, Tom Lane wrote: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johannes_=D6berg?=johannes.ob...@proactivegaming.com writes: I've set regex_flavor to ARE, and I've tried prefixing my strings, i.e. ~* E'***:abc' but for some reason postgres treats all my regexps as BRE's. Well, the symptom as described

[GENERAL] file output via trigger/queue

2010-09-22 Thread Whit Armstrong
I am in a similar situation described by this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/pgsql-general@postgresql.org/msg78604.html I need to write a few xml files to be consumed by a vendor application in real-time. The queue / (poll/cronjob) seems simple enough. Before I commit I just wondered if

[GENERAL] Nested literal parsing rules?

2010-09-22 Thread Maciek Sakrejda
Hi, I have a UDT: CREATE TYPE foo AS (a integer, b integer, c hstore); I need to construct the literal representation of an array of these for input to a textual COPY. The hstore escaping rules are fairly clear (I can quote all keys and values with double quotes, and escape double quotes in

Re: [GENERAL] Kill -9 for a session process caused all the sessions to be killed

2010-09-22 Thread Francisco Reyes
atul.g...@globaldatapoint.com writes: to be killed? What is the best way to kill a session in Postgres? Just plain kill would have worked better. I believe the issue is with the '-9'. Also see http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/index.php?/archives/134-Terminating-An

Re: [GENERAL] How about synchronous notifications?

2010-09-22 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Lincoln Yeoh ly...@pop.jaring.my wrote: Given these issues I guess it would be easier to use a separate messaging server (despite that still not being that easy :) ). This would have the characteristic of not being DB specific, so apps wouldn't be locked in to

Re: [GENERAL] Nested literal parsing rules?

2010-09-22 Thread Tom Lane
Maciek Sakrejda msakre...@truviso.com writes: I have a UDT: CREATE TYPE foo AS (a integer, b integer, c hstore); I need to construct the literal representation of an array of these for input to a textual COPY. The hstore escaping rules are fairly clear (I can quote all keys and values with

[GENERAL] Can psql show the column type of a result ?

2010-09-22 Thread Nils O. Selåsdal
Hello, I'm wondering if there's a way to show the column type of a result with psql, e.g. select sum(r) from mytable; r --- 101.0 I'd like to see the type of the 'r' column. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

[GENERAL] Compiling openssl

2010-09-22 Thread Awodipe James
Good day, Is it possible to use any of your products to compile openssl-1.0.0a.tar.gz form http://www.openssl.org/source/ for Win32 environment, how? OR can you help complile it with this adjustment to the makefile: To build, I needed to modify the first lines of the example code's Makefile as

Re: [GENERAL] Compiling openssl

2010-09-22 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 22 Sep 2010, at 22:00, Awodipe James wrote: Good day, Is it possible to use any of your products to compile openssl-1.0.0a.tar.gz No. Relational databases aren't generally used to compile code ;) I think you're looking to contact the guys of Mingw/Msys or possibly Cygwin. Alban Hertroys

Re: [GENERAL] Can psql show the column type of a result ?

2010-09-22 Thread Richard Broersma
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Nils O. Selåsdal nosel...@asgaard.homelinux.org wrote:  Hello, I'm wondering if there's a way to show the column type of a result with psql, e.g. select sum(r) from mytable;   r ---  101.0 I'd like to see the type of the 'r' column. -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] Can psql show the column type of a result ?

2010-09-22 Thread Tom Lane
=?UTF-8?B?Ik5pbHMgTy4gU2Vsw6VzZGFsIg==?= nosel...@asgaard.homelinux.org writes: I'm wondering if there's a way to show the column type of a result with psql, e.g. select sum(r) from mytable; r --- 101.0 I'd like to see the type of the 'r' column. There's nothing built-in to

Re: [GENERAL] Nested literal parsing rules?

2010-09-22 Thread Maciek Sakrejda
The record and array escaping rules are here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/rowtypes.html#AEN7091 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/arrays.html#ARRAYS-IO and I think the hstore rules are spelled out in the docs for that contrib module. Thanks, that helped a lot. I think I

[GENERAL] What was new in 8.4 8.3?

2010-09-22 Thread Scott Ribe
The what's new in 9.0 document on the wiki is great. Is there anything similar for 8.4 8.3 so on? I haven't had time to take advantage of all new features for a while. (Always read the release notes, just couldn't do much about them.) And now I'm looking at it being a good time to really

Re: [GENERAL] What was new in 8.4 8.3?

2010-09-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/22/10 4:28 PM, Scott Ribe wrote: The what's new in 9.0 document on the wiki is great. Is there anything similar for 8.4 8.3 so on? I haven't had time to take advantage of all new features for a while. (Always read the release notes, just couldn't do much about them.) And now I'm

[GENERAL] One warning on migration from 8.4 -- 9.0

2010-09-22 Thread Karl Denninger
If you use Slony, expect it to lose the replication status. I attempted the following: 1. Master and slaves on 8.4. 2. Upgrade one slave to 9.0. Shut it down, used pg_upgrade to perform the upgrade. 3. Restarted the slave. Slony appeared to come up, but said it was syncing only TWO tables

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-sql] Daily digest v1.3328 (5 messages)

2010-09-22 Thread TJ O'Donnell
Many frameworks do not natively recognize t as true and f as false. I'm using php, json_encode and extjs. Is it possible to cause the default output of boolean values to be something other than t and f, say true and false or even 1 and 0? Of course I can do this for an individual query using

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-sql] Daily digest v1.3328 (5 messages)

2010-09-22 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 5:12:45 pm TJ O'Donnell wrote: Many frameworks do not natively recognize t as true and f as false. I'm using php, json_encode and extjs. Is it possible to cause the default output of boolean values to be something other than t and f, say true and false or even 1

Re: [GENERAL] Can psql show the column type of a result ?

2010-09-22 Thread Nils O. Selåsdal
On 22.09.2010 23:26, Richard Broersma wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Nils O. Selåsdal nosel...@asgaard.homelinux.org wrote: Hello, I'm wondering if there's a way to show the column type of a result with psql, e.g. select sum(r) from mytable; r --- 101.0 I'd like to

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-sql] Daily digest v1.3328 (5 messages)

2010-09-22 Thread David Wilson
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.comwrote: From here; http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/datatype-boolean.html I believe the question relates to changing the string *output* of the database to something other than 't' and 'f', not an issue with

Re: [GENERAL] Kill -9 for a session process caused all the sessions to be killed

2010-09-22 Thread Craig Ringer
On 23/09/2010 12:26 AM, atul.g...@globaldatapoint.com wrote: Hi All, I by mistake ran a query to update a huge table with around 50 rows and has to kill the session. I found the process-id from the query select * from pg_stat_activity. I killed the process using Kill -9 process_id.

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-sql] Daily digest v1.3328 (5 messages)

2010-09-22 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 5:40:55 pm David Wilson wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.comwrote: From here; http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/datatype-boolean.html I believe the question relates to changing the string *output* of the

Re: [GENERAL] Visualize GiST Index

2010-09-22 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Hunter ahun...@ucalgary.ca writes: I have been trying to install the Gevel module but am getting an error when running make on the gevel files download. The error is: /contrib/contrib-global.mk: No such file or directory. I have also tried USE_PGXS=1 make, but get the same result.

Re: [GENERAL] Visualize GiST Index

2010-09-22 Thread Andrew Hunter
On 2010-09-22, at 9:56 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Hunter ahun...@ucalgary.ca writes: I have been trying to install the Gevel module but am getting an error when running make on the gevel files download. The error is: /contrib/contrib-global.mk: No such file or directory. I have also