Re: [GENERAL] Hint for a query

2011-11-03 Thread David Johnston
On Nov 4, 2011, at 0:37, Efrain Lopez wrote: > I have this tables > > > Table: Contact > IdContact > First Name > Second Name > … other columns > > Table: Employee > IdEmployee > IdContact, related to Contact table > … other columns > > Table: Salesman > IdSaleman > IdEmployee, if salesman is

[GENERAL] Hint for a query

2011-11-03 Thread Efrain Lopez
I have this tables Table: Contact IdContact First Name Second Name … other columns Table: Employee IdEmployee IdContact, related to Contact table … other columns Table: Salesman IdSaleman IdEmployee, if salesman is employee, related to Employee table IdContact, if salesman is not an employee, r

[GENERAL] ERROR from pg_restore - From OS X to Ubuntu

2011-11-03 Thread Naoko Reeves
I dumped from: OS: OS X 10.5.8 pg version: PostgreSQL 9.0.4 on x86_64-apple-darwin, compiled by GCC i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664), 64-bit Installation Method: EDB installer to: OS: Ubuntu 10.04.3 64bit pg version: PostgreSQL 9.1.1 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compile

Re: [GENERAL] Recommendations for SSDs in production?

2011-11-03 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 16:15, Benjamin Smith wrote: > On Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:59:37 AM you wrote: >> There's a pretty varied mix of speed, durability, and price with any >> SSD based architecture, but the two that have proven best in our >> testing and production use (for ourselves and o

Re: [GENERAL] equivalent to "replication_timeout" on standby server

2011-11-03 Thread Fujii Masao
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Samba wrote: > The postgres manual explains the "replication_timeout" to be used to > > "Terminate replication connections that are inactive longer than the > specified number of milliseconds. This is useful for the primary server to > detect a standby crash or net

Re: [GENERAL] Recommendations for SSDs in production?

2011-11-03 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:59:37 AM you wrote: > There's a pretty varied mix of speed, durability, and price with any > SSD based architecture, but the two that have proven best in our > testing and production use (for ourselves and our clients) seem to be > Intel (mostly 320 series iirc), a

[GENERAL] Foreign Keys and Deadlocks

2011-11-03 Thread David Kerr
Howdy, We have a process that's deadlocking frequently. It's basically multiple threads inserting data into a single table. That table has FK constraints to 3 other tables. I understand how an FK check will cause a sharelock to be acquired on the reference table and in some instances that lea

Re: [GENERAL] Recommendations for SSDs in production?

2011-11-03 Thread Michael Nolan
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 4:15 AM, Allan Kamau wrote: > > > How about SSDs on Raid 1+0 (I have no experience on SSD and RAID > though) and have replication to another server having the same setup > and still do frequent backups. The Crucial m4 SSDs seem to be > reasonably priced and perform well. >

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 06:02:04PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > select * from pg_attribute where attrelid = 'sss.xobjects'::regclass > and attisdropped; no dropped columns. looking for some other info. will post as soon as i'll gather it, but that will be in utc morning :( Best regards, depesz

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread Tom Lane
hubert depesz lubaczewski writes: > i tried: > create table qqq as select cmax as o_cmax, xmax as o_xmax, cmin as > o_cmin, xmin as o_xmin, ctid as o_ctid, * from sss.xobjects; > but the resulting table didn't have -1 values: Oh, that's pretty interesting ... suggests that the targetlist has

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
> I would like to know the ctid's of the -1 rows in the copied table, > along with the ctid's of the rows they share magic_ids with, and > the ctid's of the rows with those same magic_ids in the original. > I'm wondering whether the affected rows are physically clustered ... i tried: create table

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread Tom Lane
Adrian Klaver writes: > On Thursday, November 03, 2011 1:03:12 pm hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: >> as you can see counts of rows in created table are more or less >> sensible, but whatever method I used - create table as, insert into, >> using sychronized_scans (initially) or not (later) - copy

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday, November 03, 2011 1:03:12 pm hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 10:55:20AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > So, did some tests: > > as you can see counts of rows in created table are more or less > sensible, but whatever method I used - create table as, insert int

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump schma while excluding specific table

2011-11-03 Thread Tony Capobianco
BINGO! Thanks everyone. That did the trick! On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 12:56 -0700, Ioana Danes wrote: > > > > > pg_dump newdb > /DUMPDIR/newdb.dmp -n dev -T corgi -w -v -F c 2> > > /DUMPDIR/newdb.log > > > > Try: -T dev.corgi instead of -T corgi > > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump schma while excluding specific table

2011-11-03 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday, November 03, 2011 12:54:35 pm Tony Capobianco wrote: > I'm using 9.0.3. I've tried several permutations of this script and > still I get a dump of the entire schema. The corgi table is still > included when I need it excluded. You may be getting bit by search path issues: http://ww

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 10:55:20AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > hubert depesz lubaczewski writes: > > index on xobject_id might be corrupted, but it doesn't explain that I > > don't see duplicates with group_by/having query on xobjects, which uses > > seqscan: > > I was just going to ask you to check

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump schma while excluding specific table

2011-11-03 Thread Ioana Danes
> > pg_dump newdb > /DUMPDIR/newdb.dmp -n dev -T corgi -w -v -F c 2> > /DUMPDIR/newdb.log > Try: -T dev.corgi  instead of -T corgi -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump schma while excluding specific table

2011-11-03 Thread Tony Capobianco
I'm using 9.0.3. I've tried several permutations of this script and still I get a dump of the entire schema. The corgi table is still included when I need it excluded. On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 12:02 -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On Thursday, November 03, 2011 8:16:42 am Tony Capobianco wrote: > > W

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump schma while excluding specific table

2011-11-03 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday, November 03, 2011 8:16:42 am Tony Capobianco wrote: > When I issue: > > pg_dump newdb > /DUMPDIR/newdb.dmp -n dev -T corgi -w -v -F c 2> > /DUMPDIR/newdb.log > > I get a dump of the entire dev schema. My goal is to dump the dev > schema minus the corgi table. How can I adjust my sc

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump schma while excluding specific table

2011-11-03 Thread Greg Williamson
Tony -- > When I issue: > > pg_dump newdb > /DUMPDIR/newdb.dmp -n dev -T corgi -w -v -F c 2> > /DUMPDIR/newdb.log > > I get a dump of the entire dev schema.  My goal is to dump the dev > schema minus the corgi table.  How can I adjust my script to perform > this function? > > Thanks. Maybe

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres"

2011-11-03 Thread Robert Treat
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Sabn Coanda wrote: > Hi, > > I am using trust authentication since some years, but I need now to > authenticate the user for a specific application when connect to postgresql > database. I found "trust" ignores the password, so I changed it in > pg_hba.conf to "pass

Re: [GENERAL] Recommendations for SSDs in production?

2011-11-03 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Benjamin Smith wrote: > On Wednesday, November 02, 2011 11:39:25 AM Thomas Strunz wrote: >> I guess go Intel >> route or some other crazy expensive enterprise stuff. > > It's advice about some of the "crazy expensive enterprise" stuff that I'm > seeking...? I don't

[GENERAL] FATAL: password authentication failed for user "postgres"

2011-11-03 Thread Sabn Coanda
Hi, I am using trust authentication since some years, but I need now to authenticate the user for a specific application when connect to postgresql database. I found "trust" ignores the password, so I changed it in pg_hba.conf to "password". My application is working now, but I have problems

[GENERAL] First "beta" of multicorn FDW on pgxn

2011-11-03 Thread Ronan Dunklau
Hello. I just uploaded a first version of our multicorn foreign data wrapper: http://pgxn.org/dist/multicorn/0.0.3/ Homepage for the project is at http://multicorn.org. It provides python bindings for foreign data wrapper through a minimalist interface. It is not safe (any python module could be

Re: [GENERAL] Performance issue during multiple insertions

2011-11-03 Thread Alex Lai
Siva Palanisamy wrote: Hi All. I basically have 3 tables. One being the core table and the other 2 depend on the 1st. I have the requirement to add upto 7 records in all the tables. I do have constraints (primary & foreign keys, index, unique etc) set for the tables. I can't go for bulk

Re: [GENERAL] Why is there no 8.3.16 rpm with _id ?

2011-11-03 Thread Robert Treat
2011/11/3 Devrim GÜNDÜZ : > On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 13:16 -0400, Robert Treat wrote: >> > >> >> Hey Devrim, any chance you have published your rpm spec files you used >> on the earlier 8.3 -id builds? I looked around and couldn't find one. > > They were in the previous repo -- anyway, I just update t

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday, November 03, 2011 8:30:34 am hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 08:23:01AM -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > On Thursday, November 03, 2011 8:05:38 am hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 08:04:19AM -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > > > So

Re: [GENERAL] 9.1 replication on different arch

2011-11-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2011-11-02 at 22:40 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote: > 2011/11/2 John R Pierce : > > On 11/02/11 11:21 AM, Martín Marqués wrote: > >> > >> Don't worry, they are both x86 arch, so I'll just install 32bit > >> postgresql on the 64 bit server. That should make it work, right? > > > > yes, that sho

[GENERAL] converting ts2vektor to postgres 9.1

2011-11-03 Thread robert rottermann
hi there, I habe to upgrade a db from 8.4 to 91 that is using tsvector (that was converted from an older version before). now I am looking for pointer on how to proceed. for insance in the dump from the old db I find declarations like added at the end (and lots more): I think these are thes

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread Tom Lane
hubert depesz lubaczewski writes: > other tests are running, but simple question - how to get number of rows > affected from psql? > create table xxx as select * from xobjects; > returns just: > SELECT We fixed that in 9.0, but 8.4 won't provide the count (unless you care to patch it). That's w

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 08:23:01AM -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On Thursday, November 03, 2011 8:05:38 am hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 08:04:19AM -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > > So just to be clear there is and never has been a -1 value for xobject_id > > > in the

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 04:21:37PM +0100, Alban Hertroys wrote: > On 3 November 2011 09:25, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > > All looks good. pg_dump of the table also doesn't show any strange > > problems, and is duplicate free. But: > > > > $ create table zzz as select * from sss.xobject

[GENERAL] pg_dump schma while excluding specific table

2011-11-03 Thread Tony Capobianco
When I issue: pg_dump newdb > /DUMPDIR/newdb.dmp -n dev -T corgi -w -v -F c 2> /DUMPDIR/newdb.log I get a dump of the entire dev schema. My goal is to dump the dev schema minus the corgi table. How can I adjust my script to perform this function? Thanks. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing l

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday, November 03, 2011 8:05:38 am hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 08:04:19AM -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > So just to be clear there is and never has been a -1 value for xobject_id > > in the source table? > > yes. min value of xobject_id is 1000, and we had tr

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 3 November 2011 09:25, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > All looks good. pg_dump of the table also doesn't show any strange problems, > and is duplicate free. But: > > $ create table zzz as select * from sss.xobjects; > SELECT > > $ select xobject_id, count(*) from zzz group by 1 having c

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 08:04:19AM -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote: > So just to be clear there is and never has been a -1 value for xobject_id in > the > source table? yes. min value of xobject_id is 1000, and we had trigger in place on the table which logged all inserts/updates/deletes and the val

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday, November 03, 2011 7:15:22 am hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 07:00:30AM -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > > I also verified that there are no concurrent updates that would set > > > xobject_id to -1, so it's not a problem of isolation. > > > > > > During the n

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 10:55:20AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > index on xobject_id might be corrupted, but it doesn't explain that I > > don't see duplicates with group_by/having query on xobjects, which uses > > seqscan: > I was just going to ask you to check that. Weird as can be. > Does plain ol

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread Tom Lane
hubert depesz lubaczewski writes: > index on xobject_id might be corrupted, but it doesn't explain that I > don't see duplicates with group_by/having query on xobjects, which uses > seqscan: I was just going to ask you to check that. Weird as can be. Does plain old "SELECT COUNT(*)" show a diff

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Issue

2011-11-03 Thread Ioana Danes
- Original Message - From: Scott Marlowe To: Ioana Danes Cc: PostgreSQL General Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2011 10:30:27 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Memory Issue On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Ioana Danes wrote: > After another half an hour almost the entire swap is used and the sys

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Issue

2011-11-03 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Ioana Danes wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have a performance test running with 1200 clients performing this > transaction every second: > > > begin transaction > select nextval('sequence1'); > select nextval('sequence2'); > insert into table1; > insert into table2

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 03:19:36PM +0100, Alban Hertroys wrote: > On 3 November 2011 15:15, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > >> Do the xobject_id values have other negative numbers or is -1 just a > >> special > >> case? The only thing I can think of is a corrupted index on xobject_id. > > > >

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 3 November 2011 15:15, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: >> Do the xobject_id values have other negative numbers or is -1 just a special >> case? The only thing I can think of is a corrupted index on xobject_id. > > minimal xobject_id in source table is 1000. > > index on xobject_id might be cor

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 07:00:30AM -0700, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > I also verified that there are no concurrent updates that would set > > xobject_id to -1, so it's not a problem of isolation. > > > > During the night I repeated the procedure and the rows that got duplicated > > seem to be the sam

Re: [GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday, November 03, 2011 1:25:58 am hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > Hi > We have pretty weird situation, which seems to be impossible, but perhaps > you'll notice something that will let me fix the problem. > > System: SunOS 5.11 snv_130 > Pg: PostgreSQL 8.4.7 on i386-pc-solaris2.11,

[GENERAL] Memory Issue

2011-11-03 Thread Ioana Danes
Hello Everyone, I have a performance test running with 1200 clients performing this transaction every second: begin transaction select nextval('sequence1'); select nextval('sequence2'); insert into table1; insert into table2; commit; Table1 and table2 have no foreign keys and no triggers. Ther

Re: [GENERAL] 9.1 replication on different arch

2011-11-03 Thread Martín Marqués
El día 3 de noviembre de 2011 09:18, Rodrigo Gonzalez escribió: > El 02/11/11 22:40, Martín Marqués escribió: >> >> 2011/11/2 John R Pierce: >>> >>> On 11/02/11 11:21 AM, Martín Marqués wrote: Don't worry, they are both x86 arch, so I'll just install 32bit postgresql on the 64 bit s

Re: [GENERAL] 9.1 replication on different arch

2011-11-03 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
El 02/11/11 22:40, Martín Marqués escribió: 2011/11/2 John R Pierce: On 11/02/11 11:21 AM, Martín Marqués wrote: Don't worry, they are both x86 arch, so I'll just install 32bit postgresql on the 64 bit server. That should make it work, right? yes, that should work fine. Sad thing is that it's

Re: [GENERAL] dblink not returning result

2011-11-03 Thread robins . tharakan
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Re: [GENERAL] Recommendations for SSDs in production?

2011-11-03 Thread Allan Kamau
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Benjamin Smith wrote: > On Wednesday, November 02, 2011 11:39:25 AM Thomas Strunz wrote: >> I have no idea what you do but just the fact that you bought ssds to >> improve performance means it's rather high load and hence important. > > Important enough that we back

Re: [GENERAL] dblink not returning result

2011-11-03 Thread Robins Tharakan
Hi, From reading your email and from the URL below, it seems that the error is because it's returning the status of the first call (where you are beginning the transaction and making the first query). http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/contrib-dblink-get-result. Have you tried doing a

Re: [GENERAL] Why is there no 8.3.16 rpm with _id ?

2011-11-03 Thread devrim
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Re: [GENERAL] Recommendations for SSDs in production?

2011-11-03 Thread Yeb Havinga
On 2011-11-03 04:02, Benjamin Smith wrote: Which is what we're trying next, X25E. 710's apparently have 1/5th the rated write endurance, without much speed increase, so don't seem like such an exciting product. I've tested the 710 with diskchecker.pl and it doesn't lie about it's cache status

Re: [GENERAL] Why is there no 8.3.16 rpm with _id ?

2011-11-03 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 13:16 -0400, Robert Treat wrote: > > > > Hey Devrim, any chance you have published your rpm spec files you used > on the earlier 8.3 -id builds? I looked around and couldn't find one. They were in the previous repo -- anyway, I just update the spec file to 8.3.16: http://sv

[GENERAL] Strange problem with create table as select * from table;

2011-11-03 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
Hi We have pretty weird situation, which seems to be impossible, but perhaps you'll notice something that will let me fix the problem. System: SunOS 5.11 snv_130 Pg: PostgreSQL 8.4.7 on i386-pc-solaris2.11, compiled by cc: Sun C 5.10 SunOS_i386 2009/06/03, 64-bit In there I have a table:

Re: [GENERAL] : failed: ERROR: could not open file "base/44620/972355": No such file or directory

2011-11-03 Thread Venkat Balaji
Sorry forgot to mention the thread I referred to - http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2010-12/msg01000.php Thanks VB On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Venkat Balaji wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > We had recently taken an online backup of our production database cluster > (pg_start_backup(

[GENERAL] Performance issue during multiple insertions

2011-11-03 Thread Siva Palanisamy
Hi All. I basically have 3 tables. One being the core table and the other 2 depend on the 1st. I have the requirement to add upto 7 records in all the tables. I do have constraints (primary & foreign keys, index, unique etc) set for the tables. I can't go for bulk import (using COPY command)

Re: [GENERAL] UTF-8 for bytea

2011-11-03 Thread Marko Kreen
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Robert James wrote: > When trying to INSERT on Postgres (9.1) to a bytea column, via E'' > escaped strings, I get the strings rejected because they're not UTF8. > I'm confused, since bytea isn't for strings but for binary.  What > causes this? How do I fix this? (I

[GENERAL] : failed: ERROR: could not open file "base/44620/972355": No such file or directory

2011-11-03 Thread Venkat Balaji
Hello Everyone, We had recently taken an online backup of our production database cluster (pg_start_backup() - rsync - pg_stop_backup()). We had built the testing cluster with the backup. When we try to vacuum the database or vacuum full the testing database, we are getting the following error.

[GENERAL] dblink not returning result

2011-11-03 Thread AI Rumman
I am using Postgresql 9.1. I found that dblink is not returning result for BEGIN transaction. select new_conn('conn1'); select new_conn('conn2'); select dblink_send_query('conn1','begin; update t2 set i=10 where nam=''a1'';'); select