Re: [GENERAL] techniques for bulk load of spatial data

2010-12-01 Thread Robert Gravsjö
On 2010-11-30 14.29, Mario Corchero wrote: Hi, I'm a student of Computer Science, I know diffrents techniques of bulk load, but I need to know how specifically postgreSQL make a bulk load of spatial data, could anyone Suggestions when loading large amount of data:

Re: [GENERAL] How to find correct locale name for CREATE DATABASE

2010-12-01 Thread Andrus
Thom, You can list available locales on your system with: locale -a Thank you. How to resolve this issue if only 5432 port is open in server ? Based on my limited knowledge, postgres does not have command to run locale -a How to get list of available locale names from Postgres ? Why

Re: [GENERAL] How to find correct locale name for CREATE DATABASE

2010-12-01 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 01/12/2010 08:26, Andrus wrote: Thom, You can list available locales on your system with: locale -a Thank you. How to resolve this issue if only 5432 port is open in server ? Based on my limited knowledge, postgres does not have command to run locale -a How to get list of available

[GENERAL] A question about timezone

2010-12-01 Thread Ciaran Doherty
Hello, Sorry if I have posted this to the wrong mailing list. Its my first post. I have a problem that I hope someone can help me with. I have inherited a postgresql DB which has a table containing a day of the week, a time and a time zone. I need to translate all these times into UCT but I

Re: [GENERAL] How to find correct locale name for CREATE DATABASE

2010-12-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2010-12-01 at 10:26 +0200, Andrus wrote: How to get list of available locale names from Postgres ? Why Postgres does not have command which returns available locale names ? How to use same locale names in every platform? There is no portable operating system interface to get the

Re: [GENERAL] How to find correct locale name for CREATE DATABASE

2010-12-01 Thread Andrus
There is no portable operating system interface to get the names of all locales. Thank you. Why postgres does not use conditional directives like #ifdef WINDOWS ... #endif #ifdef LINUX .. #endif to return list of available locales ? Andrus. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] A question about timezone

2010-12-01 Thread Martin Gainty
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[GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy)
I am having problems starting up Postgres and am getting the following error: 2010-12-01 08:36:42 EST LOG: database system was shut down at 2010-11-29 17:38:17 EST 2010-12-01 08:36:42 EST FATAL: invalid cache id: 19 2010-12-01 08:36:43 EST FATAL: the database system is starting up 2010-12-01

Re: [GENERAL] Does Postgres support bookmarks (tuples ids)?

2010-12-01 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Dann Corbit dcor...@connx.com wrote: The ctid is not permanent.   An alternative is to create tables with OID values. Creating OIDs gives you zero benefit over having a PK. They would be roughly equivalent if you added a unique index on the OID column, but that

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy) peter.jol...@ge.com wrote: 2010-11-29 12:39:17 EST HINT:  Stop the postmaster and use a standalone backend to vacuum that database. so did you do what the HINT told you to do? does it still not startup? I had multiple auto-vacuum

[GENERAL] Grant command help -- postgres

2010-12-01 Thread akp geek
Hi All - I created a schema , I used pg_restore with postgres as user and restored every thing to the new schema I created. Now I want to change the owner ship of the schema and all its objects to a different user other than postgres. Is it possible to do that with one command?

Re: [GENERAL] Stalled post to pgsql-general

2010-12-01 Thread Samba
REPOST! On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:34 PM, pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org wrote: Your message to pgsql-general has been delayed, and requires the approval of the moderators, for the following reason(s): The author (Samba saas...@gmail.com) is not a member of any of the restrict_post

[GENERAL] Looking for auto starting procedures

2010-12-01 Thread mabra
Hello ! I am coming from Sql Server right now and have to learn about the infrastructure. What I missed first, is, to execute procedures regularly/repeatedly on a given time. I want to prevent my to write a lot external programs und use cron :-( The othing thing is, that I need some internally

Re: [GENERAL] Stalled post to pgsql-general

2010-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
Samba saas...@gmail.com writes: REPOST! Please fix the subject line to be something useful when you resend a message. I'm trying to assign the individual sub arrays to other array elements like: other-array VARCHAR[]; other_array=some_array[1]; and I'm expecting to get

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
Vick Khera vi...@khera.org writes: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy) peter.jol...@ge.com wrote: 2010-11-29 12:39:17 EST HINT:  Stop the postmaster and use a standalone backend to vacuum that database. so did you do what the HINT told you to do? does it still not

[GENERAL] [REPOST] plpgsql : looping over multidimensional array : getting NULL for subdimension

2010-12-01 Thread Samba
Hi all, I'm trying to loop over a multidimensional array and find if any of the elements in a sub-dimensional array are matching some known criteria but facing issue with NULL for the sub arrays. I have a data structure that looks like: *some_array VARCHAR[][] :=

Re: [GENERAL] Grant command help -- postgres

2010-12-01 Thread Gary Chambers
akp geek, I created a schema , I used pg_restore with postgres as user and restored every thing to the new schema I created. Now I want to change the owner ship of the schema and all its objects to a different user other than postgres. Is it possible to do that with one command? In those

[GENERAL] plpgsql : looping over multidimensional array : getting NULL for subdimension

2010-12-01 Thread Samba
Hi all, I'm trying to loop over a multidimensional array and find if any of the elements in a sub-dimensional array are matching some known criteria but facing issue with NULL for the sub arrays. I have a data structure that looks like: *some_array VARCHAR[][] :=

[GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy)
On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 9:58 AM Vick Khera wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy) wrote: 2010-11-29 12:39:17 EST HINT:  Stop the postmaster and use a standalone backend to vacuum that database. so did you do what the HINT told you to do? does it still

[GENERAL] How to recover a postgres installation from files

2010-12-01 Thread Anibal David Acosta
Hello. I have a not bootable Windows Server with Postgres 8.1, now I am trying to recover it but as I can't boot the windows, I can't start the postgres service and I can't do a Backup So, I only have the postgres directory on my hands. I decide to install the same database version in another

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy) peter.jol...@ge.com wrote: EST WARNING:  database fps_data must be vacuumed within 1100 transactions I know now that I'm going to have to slow down the transaction rate in order to let the autovacuum keep up, but at this point

Re: [GENERAL] How to find correct locale name for CREATE DATABASE

2010-12-01 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 1 Dec 2010, at 15:15, Andrus wrote: There is no portable operating system interface to get the names of all locales. Thank you. Why postgres does not use conditional directives like #ifdef WINDOWS ... #endif #ifdef LINUX .. #endif to return list of available locales ?

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy)
On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 1:27 PM Vick Khera wrote: Just how big is the table and how many transactions per second do you push through it? Perhaps your I/O bandwidth is just insufficient for your load level. The entire database is about 700 GB. In the database I've got approximately

Re: [GENERAL] techniques for bulk load of spatial data

2010-12-01 Thread Brent Wood
On 2010-11-30 14.29, Mario Corchero wrote: Hi, I'm a student of Computer Science, I know diffrents techniques of bulk load, but I need to know how specifically postgreSQL make a bulk load of spatial data, could anyone If you are using spatial data in Postgres, this might usefully be addressesd

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Vick Khera
the original hint said to use a standalone backend. If you go to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/routine-vacuuming.html section 23.1.4 it will describe exactly what just happened to you and how to recover. On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy)

Re: [GENERAL] Grant command help -- postgres

2010-12-01 Thread akp geek
Thanks for the help. it worked On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Gary Chambers gwch...@gmail.com wrote: akp geek, I created a schema , I used pg_restore with postgres as user and restored every thing to the new schema I created. Now I want to change the owner ship of the schema and all

Re: [GENERAL] Does Postgres support bookmarks (tuples ids)?

2010-12-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:55 -0500, Vick Khera wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Dann Corbit dcor...@connx.com wrote: The ctid is not permanent. An alternative is to create tables with OID values. Creating OIDs gives you zero benefit over having a PK. They would be roughly

[GENERAL] PG84 and SELinux

2010-12-01 Thread James B. Byrne
OS: CentOS-5.5 Earlier today I attempted to upgrade a production server from 8.1 to 8.4 using the pgdg-84-centos.repo. I say attempted because I could never get it to support ssl connections and as that is a requirement I had to roll back to 8.1. Whatever was the cause of the ssl problem I also

Re: [GENERAL] Warm Standby log filling up with FATAL: the database system is starting up entries

2010-12-01 Thread Jens Wilke
On Mittwoch, 1. Dezember 2010, Greg Swisher wrote: FATAL: the database system is starting up This is what you get on 8.4, when you try to connect to a standby. Rgds, Jens -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] [REPOST] plpgsql : looping over multidimensional array : getting NULL for subdimension

2010-12-01 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Samba saas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to loop over a multidimensional array and find if any of the elements in a sub-dimensional array are matching some known criteria but facing issue with NULL for the sub arrays. I have a data structure that

Re: [GENERAL] How to find correct locale name for CREATE DATABASE

2010-12-01 Thread Andrus
Alban, Seriously though, functionality like that has no place in a database server. That's the responsibility of the OS, or if it lacks in that respect, for third-party tools. Thank you. So only portable way is to probe Postgres 9 locales using CREATE DATABASE command with expected locale

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy)
On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 1:59 PM Vick Khera wrote: the original hint said to use a standalone backend. If you go to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/routine- vacuuming.html section 23.1.4 it will describe exactly what just happened to you and how to recover. I

[GENERAL] PG_ERROR 42501 permissions error

2010-12-01 Thread James B. Byrne
It never rains but it pours they say. I am trying to extract (ad hoc) some data from my production database on the 8.1 service that I tried to upgrade to 8.4. I am using the same username and password as is used by a process hosted on the same server as the posgresql instance. That process works

[GENERAL] Proper Permissions for /usr/local/pgsql/data

2010-12-01 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm manually replacing -8.3.3 with -9.0.1 I have the old data/ directory and pg_dumpall files safely stored. Following the directions at: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/install-upgrading.html, step #5 I see this: postg...@salmo:~$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D

Re: [GENERAL] PG84 and SELinux

2010-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca writes: Earlier today I attempted to upgrade a production server from 8.1 to 8.4 using the pgdg-84-centos.repo. I say attempted because I could never get it to support ssl connections and as that is a requirement I had to roll back to 8.1. Can't comment

Re: [GENERAL] PG_ERROR 42501 permissions error

2010-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca writes: I am particularly nonplussed over the 'ERROR: 55P02: parameter standard_conforming_strings cannot be changed' message. Can anyone here clue me in as to what I am doing wrong? 8.1 did have a read-only parameter named that; in 8.2 and later it's a

Re: [GENERAL] Proper Permissions for /usr/local/pgsql/data

2010-12-01 Thread Dmitriy Igrishin
Hey Rich, You should chown your data dir (/usr/local/pgsql/data) to postgres before you run initdb. 2010/12/2 Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com I'm manually replacing -8.3.3 with -9.0.1 I have the old data/ directory and pg_dumpall files safely stored. Following the directions at:

Re: [GENERAL] How to find correct locale name for CREATE DATABASE

2010-12-01 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 1 Dec 2010, at 21:46, Andrus wrote: Alban, Seriously though, functionality like that has no place in a database server. That's the responsibility of the OS, or if it lacks in that respect, for third-party tools. Thank you. So only portable way is to probe Postgres 9 locales using

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Vick Khera
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy) peter.jol...@ge.com wrote: I apologize for the seeming dumb questions, but I have tried to start the database using the following command: postgres --single -D d:/database mydatabase That gets me a new line in my command prompt

Re: [GENERAL] Proper Permissions for /usr/local/pgsql/data

2010-12-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Dmitriy Igrishin wrote: You should chown your data dir (/usr/local/pgsql/data) to postgres before you run initdb. Thank you, Dmitriy. I thought that was the proper owner but wanted to check first. This should be included in the document page on installation/upgrading.

Re: [GENERAL] PG84 and SELinux

2010-12-01 Thread James B. Byrne
On Wed, December 1, 2010 16:54, Tom Lane wrote: Whatever was the cause of the ssl problem I also encountered a surprising number of SELinux violations. The following details the SELinux settings that I ultimately had to apply as a local module. This took a considerable period of time as

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Tom Lane
Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy) peter.jol...@ge.com writes: I apologize for the seeming dumb questions, but I have tried to start the database using the following command: postgres --single -D d:/database mydatabase That gets me a new line in my command prompt window and nothing else. Hmm ...

Re: [GENERAL] PG84 and SELinux

2010-12-01 Thread James B. Byrne
On Wed, December 1, 2010 16:54, Tom Lane wrote: James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca writes: Earlier today I attempted to upgrade a production server from 8.1 to 8.4 using the pgdg-84-centos.repo. I say attempted because I could never get it to support ssl connections and as that is a

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for auto starting procedures

2010-12-01 Thread Craig Ringer
On 12/01/2010 11:16 PM, ma...@manfbraun.de wrote: The othing thing is, that I need some internally running procedures, which do some work. On Sql Server, I can use auto-start stored procedures. Is there anything like this in postgresql, or what can I do? There is no built-in scheduler at

Re: [GENERAL] How to find correct locale name for CREATE DATABASE

2010-12-01 Thread Craig Ringer
On 12/02/2010 02:49 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote: Because, as opposed to the developers of the projects that you're apparently familiar with, the Postgres developers have common sense ;) Seriously though, functionality like that has no place in a database server. That's the responsibility of the

Re: [GENERAL] Proper Permissions for /usr/local/pgsql/data

2010-12-01 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 01 December 2010 3:01:29 pm Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 2 Dec 2010, Dmitriy Igrishin wrote: You should chown your data dir (/usr/local/pgsql/data) to postgres before you run initdb. Thank you, Dmitriy. I thought that was the proper owner but wanted to check first. This

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot start Postgres- FATAL: invalid cache id: 19

2010-12-01 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 01 December 2010 1:15:45 pm Jolles, Peter M (GE Energy) wrote: On Wednesday, December 01, 2010 1:59 PM Vick Khera wrote: the original hint said to use a standalone backend. If you go to http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/routine- vacuuming.html section 23.1.4 it

[GENERAL] ResultSet problem in JDBC

2010-12-01 Thread Zhipan Wang
Hi all, I am writing a Java program using postgres. When I run my program, I got the following error message: Exception in thread main org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Can't infer the SQL type to use for an instance of org.postgresql.jdbc4.Jdbc4ResultSet. Use setObject() with an explicit

Re: [GENERAL] Does Postgres support bookmarks (tuples ids)?

2010-12-01 Thread Konstantin Izmailov
Dann, it is a very good suggestion! How does OLEDB implement the bookmarks? Is there a specific Postgres feature that is used for the bookmarks? Thank you! Konstantin On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Dann Corbit dcor...@connx.com wrote: Is your application by chance using OLEDB? If that is

[GENERAL] number of rows returned by a query

2010-12-01 Thread Konstantin Izmailov
Maybe this question was discussed previously, but I could not find an answer: An application used PQntuples function to obtain number of tuples after executing each query. Since number of rows increased we decided to use DECLARE CURSOR/FETCH commands to retrieve tuples. However, it seems that

Re: [GENERAL] [JDBC] ResultSet problem in JDBC

2010-12-01 Thread Craig Ringer
On 02/12/10 13:14, Zhipan Wang wrote: Statement st = c.createStatement(); ResultSet r = st.executeQuery(select unnest(col0) from relation2_col1 where keyValue500); PreparedStatement sql = c.prepareStatement( SELECT col1 FROM relation2 WHERE col0 IN ?); sql.setObject(1, r); ResultSet result

Re: [GENERAL] How to recover a postgres installation from files

2010-12-01 Thread Craig Ringer
On 02/12/10 01:11, Anibal David Acosta wrote: So, I don't know how to recover the database from the data directory of a windows postgres 8.1 installation. You'll need PostgreSQL 8.1 for Windows. This appears to have been removed from the FTP site for the well-intentioned reason that, on