Re: [GENERAL]

2011-11-10 Thread Raghavendra
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:24 PM, daflmx daf...@qq.com wrote: Hello,all. I have installed the postgresql . $/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data LOG:database system was shut down at 2011-11-10 15:36:14 CST LOG:database system is ready to accept connections LOG:autovacuum

Re: [GENERAL] count (DISTINCT field) OVER ()

2011-11-10 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz, 10.11.2011 00:52: I would like to implement the equivalent of count (DISTINCT field) OVER (): SELECT id, name, similarity(name, 'Tooneyvara') as delta, count (id) OVER() AS cnt FROM vtown WHERE similarity(name, 'Tooneyvara') 0.1 ORDER BY delta

[GENERAL]

2011-11-10 Thread daflmx
Hello,all. I have installed the postgresql . $/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data start LOG:database system was shut down at 2011-11-10 15:36:14 CST LOG:database system is ready to accept connections LOG:autovacuum launcher started when I check the status of cluster

Re: [GENERAL] count (DISTINCT field) OVER ()

2011-11-10 Thread Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:02:36 +0100 Thomas Kellerer spam_ea...@gmx.net wrote: Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz, 10.11.2011 00:52: I would like to implement the equivalent of count (DISTINCT id) OVER (): [...] produces result: id, name, delta, cnt 1787 Toomyvara 0.5 4 1787 Toomevara

Re: [GENERAL] count (DISTINCT field) OVER ()

2011-11-10 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz, 10.11.2011 11:24: SELECT id, name, delta, sum(case when rn = 1 then rn else null end) over() as distinct_id_count FROM ( SELECT id, name, similarity(name, 'Tooneyvara') as delta, row_number() OVER(partition by id) AS rn

[GENERAL] Exp/Imp data with blobs

2011-11-10 Thread Alexander Burbello
Hi, In one db that I have, there are a few columns that are blob datatype. This db has around 200MB of data today and as it a development db yet, so I am replicating data to another db for testing purposes using pg_dump and pg_restore. To export the data it is pretty fast, about 3~4 minutes,

Re: [GENERAL] Foreign Keys and Deadlocks

2011-11-10 Thread Csaba Nagy
Hi David, On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 09:52 -0800, David Kerr wrote: So, aside from removing the PKs do i have any other options? Sure you have: order the inserts by primary key inside each transaction. Then you will not get deadlocks, but inserting the same key again will fail of course (but that's

[GENERAL] How to list installed pl languages

2011-11-10 Thread Dennis Ryan
Is there a way to list the installed pl languages for a database and/or server cluster? thanks -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

[GENERAL] PG 9.0.5 RPM's for SLES - Where to get !?

2011-11-10 Thread David Morton
I'm desperately trying to get a hold of the latest RPM's for PostgreSQL 9.0..5 for SLES 11 SP1 x86_64 ... I simply can not find these anywhere !! It seems that the good folk over at software.opensuse.org are only compiling 9.1.x now. Rather annoying to say the least for those of us who don't

[GENERAL] Learning to rephrase equivalent queries?

2011-11-10 Thread Jay Levitt
Sometimes the planner can't find the most efficient way to execute your query. Thanks to relational algebra, there may be other, logically equivalent queries that it DOES know how to optimize. But I don't know relational algebra. yet. (Date/Codd is a sleeping pill.) I need more experience

Re: [GENERAL] How to list installed pl languages

2011-11-10 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 10:58:01PM -0600, Dennis Ryan wrote: Is there a way to list the installed pl languages for a database and/or server cluster? \dL in psql or select * from pg_language; Best regards, depesz -- The best thing about modern society is how easy it is to avoid contact with

[GENERAL] plpgsql, I have a solution, want to see if there is a cleaner/better one. Taking vertical list and comma separating it onto a row

2011-11-10 Thread Henry Drexler
I am thinking there is a better/simpler way, though this is what I have working: (postgres 9.1) I would like to have the list of colors for each type of clothing to be comma seperated in the end result. like this: typeorganized_by_type pants red, blue, orange shirt black,

Re: [GENERAL] How to list installed pl languages

2011-11-10 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday, November 09, 2011 8:58:01 pm Dennis Ryan wrote: Is there a way to list the installed pl languages for a database and/or server cluster? aklaver@tucker:~$ createlang -l -U postgres test Procedural Languages Name| Trusted? ---+-- plpgsql | yes plpythonu

Re: [GENERAL] Returning a row from a function with an appended array field

2011-11-10 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 10 November 2011 02:54, Wes Cravens wcrav...@cortex-it.com wrote: On 11/9/2011 7:34 PM, David Johnston wrote: Use WITH RECURSIVE instead of a function. I apologize but I don't know how that would work.  An example would help. There are fine examples in the documentation for the SELECT

Re: [GENERAL] How to list installed pl languages

2011-11-10 Thread Jens Wilke
On Thursday 10 November 2011 05:58:01 Dennis Ryan wrote: Is there a way to list the installed pl languages for a database and/or server cluster? they are registered in the pg_language system catalog. Rgds, Jens -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [GENERAL] dll files missing in postgrsql bin folder in Windows

2011-11-10 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 10 November 2011 08:56, Kalai R softlinne...@gmail.com wrote: please suggest, what are the configurations should I do in postgres to avoid these problem. Thank You None, it's not a Postgres problem. Most likely it is a problem with your Windows installation. You have files disappearing,

[GENERAL] Re: plpgsql, I have a solution, want to see if there is a cleaner/better one. Taking vertical list and comma separating it onto a row

2011-11-10 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Henry Drexler, 10.11.2011 14:22: I am thinking there is a better/simpler way, though this is what I have working: (postgres 9.1) I would like to have the list of colors for each type of clothing to be comma seperated in the end result. like this: typeorganized_by_type pants

Re: [GENERAL] Re: plpgsql, I have a solution, want to see if there is a cleaner/better one. Taking vertical list and comma separating it onto a row

2011-11-10 Thread Henry Drexler
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Thomas Kellerer spam_ea...@gmx.net wrote: SELECT type, string_agg(color, ',') as organized_by_type FROM clothes GROUP BY type; wow, yes that is cleaner. Thank you for taking the time - obviously I need to read through the string functions again.

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql, I have a solution, want to see if there is a cleaner/better one. Taking vertical list and comma separating it onto a row

2011-11-10 Thread David Johnston
On Nov 10, 2011, at 8:22, Henry Drexler alonup...@gmail.com wrote: I am thinking there is a better/simpler way, though this is what I have working: (postgres 9.1) I would like to have the list of colors for each type of clothing to be comma seperated in the end result. like this:

Re: [GENERAL]

2011-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?B?ZGFmbG14?= daf...@qq.com writes: [ server is running but ] $/usr/local/pgsql/bin/createdb mydb createdb:could nto connect to database postgres:could not connect to server:No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain

[GENERAL] Fedora 16 note...

2011-11-10 Thread Jerry Levan
I upgraded to Fedora 16 yesterday… I thought I might have lost my 12 year old db when the system came up and I noticed the 9.1 had overwrote the old binaries. Then I read about pg_upgrade stuff and it worked! I found that postgresql would not start at boot time until I did: systemctl enable

[GENERAL] How to inquiry a nest result?

2011-11-10 Thread shuaixf
--*Test SQL* CREATE TABLE tb(id integer primary key, name varchar(32), parent integer); INSERT INTO tb VALUES(1, 'iPhone',NULL); INSERT INTO tb VALUES(2, 'HTC', NULL); INSERT INTO tb VALUES(3, 'Motorola', NULL); INSERT INTO tb VALUES(4, 'iPhone3GS',

Re: [GENERAL] How to list installed pl languages

2011-11-10 Thread Dennis
Thanks the select * from pg_language works and is exactly what I was looking for. \dL in psql does not in my version, 9.0.4.14, however \dL did work on another install of version 9.1.1. Thanks for the help. -Original Message- From: dep...@depesz.com [mailto:dep...@depesz.com] Sent:

[GENERAL] troubleshooting PGError

2011-11-10 Thread slavix
Hello, I am new to postgres, but need to resolve this error: PGError: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block : SELECT 1 FROM trades WHERE (trades.uuid = 'bc8d86e6-0a8d-11e1-a345-001d09203579' AND trades.id != 25) LIMIT 1 Don't know what is the

Re: [GENERAL] function within a function/rollbacks/exception handling

2011-11-10 Thread Lori Corbani
Richard, I manage to find one comment about an implicit rollback in a section of the developer's guide when porting from Oracle-to-Postgres: when an exception is caught by an EXECPTION clause, all database changes since the block's BEGIN are automatically rolled back Do you know of any

[GENERAL] select from dynamic table names

2011-11-10 Thread Dinesh Kumara
I have 16 tables which created according to generated MD5 hash. At the time of execution i tried to retrieve data from a table where table name id dynamic. table name can be expertdb.rate_AVAIL_[0 to F] I tried to get this from ; SELECT * FROM expertdb.rate_AVAIL_ ||

Re: [GENERAL] How to inquiry a nest result?

2011-11-10 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 10 November 2011 15:43, shuaixf shua...@gmail.com wrote: --*Test SQL* CREATE TABLE tb(id integer primary key,                name varchar(32),                parent integer); INSERT INTO tb VALUES(1, 'iPhone',    NULL); INSERT INTO tb VALUES(2, 'HTC',       NULL); INSERT INTO tb

Re: [GENERAL] troubleshooting PGError

2011-11-10 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 9 November 2011 06:02, slavix mikerin.sl...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am new to postgres, but need to resolve this error: PGError: ERROR:  current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block : SELECT  1 FROM trades  WHERE (trades.uuid =

Re: [GENERAL] troubleshooting PGError

2011-11-10 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 9:02:40 pm slavix wrote: Hello, I am new to postgres, but need to resolve this error: PGError: ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block : SELECT 1 FROM trades WHERE (trades.uuid =

Re: [GENERAL] troubleshooting PGError

2011-11-10 Thread Gregg Jaskiewicz
your transaction had an error, and any query after the first one that has failed will be ignored. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

[GENERAL] Updating Geometry

2011-11-10 Thread Asli Akarsakarya
Hello, I am having trouble when attempting to update an existing geometry on a spatial table. The table stores 2D Point geometry, with the SRID 101. The update statement i am trying to use to update the geometry with the id 110 is as follows: UPDATE Table Name SET Geometry Column Name =

Re: [GENERAL] How to inquiry a nest result?

2011-11-10 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello 2011/11/10 shuaixf shua...@gmail.com: --*Test SQL* CREATE TABLE tb(id integer primary key,                name varchar(32),                parent integer); INSERT INTO tb VALUES(1, 'iPhone',    NULL); INSERT INTO tb VALUES(2, 'HTC',       NULL); INSERT INTO tb VALUES(3, 'Motorola',  

[GENERAL] pg_dump -n switch lock schema from dml/ddl?

2011-11-10 Thread Tony Capobianco
I'm testing out various pg_dump scenarios using the -n switch and I have a few questions: - When using the -n switch, is the whole schema locked from all non-read DML/DDL operations? - If the whole schema is locked, once each table is dumped, is it then released for non-read DML/DDL operations?

Re: [GENERAL] troubleshooting PGError

2011-11-10 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday, November 10, 2011 8:47:39 am you wrote: not sure about version.. (latest i presume because installed recently) same problem on my local machine running Ubuntu and on Heroku server what command to get version? select version(); -- Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com -- Sent

Re: [GENERAL]

2011-11-10 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/09/11 11:54 PM, daflmx wrote: I have installed the postgresql . $/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data . What version of postgres? What installation method? (compile from source? install prebuilt binary from where?) What operating system version and distribution?

Re: [GENERAL] troubleshooting PGError

2011-11-10 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday, November 10, 2011 8:56:56 am you wrote: PostgreSQL 8.4.9 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc-4.4.real (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.4.4-14ubuntu5) 4.4.5, 32-bit Please reply to the list also. That gets your issue in front of more eyes:) The above answers my first question. The second

Re: [GENERAL] function within a function/rollbacks/exception handling

2011-11-10 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello 2011/11/8 Lori Corbani l...@informatics.jax.org: Richard, I manage to find one comment about an implicit rollback in a section of the developer's guide when porting from Oracle-to-Postgres:  when an exception is caught by an EXECPTION clause, all database changes since the block's

Re: [GENERAL] Returning a row from a function with an appended array field

2011-11-10 Thread Wes Cravens
On 11/9/2011 7:19 PM, Wes Cravens wrote: I have an adjacency list kind of table CREATE TABLE thingy ( id int, parent int ); I'd like to be able to write a procedural function that returns a row or rows from this table with an appended field that represents the children.

Re: [GENERAL] troubleshooting PGError

2011-11-10 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday, November 10, 2011 9:10:10 am Slava Mikerin wrote: I am running Rails 3.1 that uses a db. I used phpmyadmin for development and deployed to Heroku which uses postgres. When I got this error on the Heroku server I switched to postgres locally to investigate and got same error. So

Re: [GENERAL] Re: plpgsql, I have a solution, want to see if there is a cleaner/better one. Taking vertical list and comma separating it onto a row

2011-11-10 Thread David Johnston
From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Henry Drexler Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 8:42 AM To: Thomas Kellerer Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Re: plpgsql, I have a solution, want to see if there is a

Re: [GENERAL] select from dynamic table names

2011-11-10 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello 2011/11/8 Dinesh Kumara din...@rezgateway.com ** I have 16 tables which created according to generated MD5 hash. At the time of execution i tried to retrieve data from a table where table name id dynamic. table name can be expertdb.rate_AVAIL_[0 to F] I tried to get this from ;

Re: [GENERAL] Returning a row from a function with an appended array field

2011-11-10 Thread David Johnston
-Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Wes Cravens Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:54 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Returning a row from a function with an appended array field

Re: [GENERAL] Returning a row from a function with an appended array field

2011-11-10 Thread Wes Cravens
On 11/10/2011 12:05 PM, David Johnston wrote: -Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Wes Cravens Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:54 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Returning

Re: [GENERAL] Foreign Keys and Deadlocks

2011-11-10 Thread David Kerr
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 09:09:06AM +0100, Csaba Nagy wrote: - Hi David, - - On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 09:52 -0800, David Kerr wrote: - So, aside from removing the PKs do i have any other options? - - Sure you have: order the inserts by primary key inside each transaction. - Then you will not get

Re: [GENERAL] troubleshooting PGError

2011-11-10 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 10 Nov 2011, at 17:42, Slava Mikerin wrote: Thank you for reply Alban, I am new to postgres and don't know the right commands to use to troubleshoot this issue.. The error message is unclear and I don't know what caused the problem. can you tell me what exact command to use? I don't need

Re: [GENERAL] Returning a row from a function with an appended array field

2011-11-10 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 10 Nov 2011, at 19:51, Wes Cravens wrote: On 11/10/2011 12:05 PM, David Johnston wrote: On 11/9/2011 7:19 PM, Wes Cravens wrote: I have an adjacency list kind of table CREATE TABLE thingy ( id int, parent int ); I'd like to be able to write a procedural function that returns

Re: [GENERAL] troubleshooting PGError

2011-11-10 Thread David Johnston
-Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of slavix Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:03 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] troubleshooting PGError Hello, I am new to postgres, but need to

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL uninstall fails

2011-11-10 Thread J.V.
I have to do a lot of testing which involves uninstalling PostgreSQL completely sometimes, but there is a lot of crud still left around after an uninstall. 1) the installation directory with PostgreSQL droppings - I have to go manually remove it. I do not know why the uninstaller does not

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL uninstall fails

2011-11-10 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/10/11 1:30 PM, J.V. wrote: Can anyone get me started on where to checkout the postgreSQL installer code and fix it so that it is no longer broken? I may need to ask a few questions so if I can be put in touch with the uninstaller team, would really like to get this fixed and go back and

Re: [GENERAL] Updating Geometry

2011-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
Asli Akarsakarya aslia...@yahoo.com writes: I am having trouble when attempting to update an existing geometry on a spatial table. The table stores 2D Point geometry, with the SRID 101. The update statement i am trying to use to update the geometry with the id 110 is as follows: UPDATE

Re: [GENERAL] Learning to rephrase equivalent queries?

2011-11-10 Thread Ondrej Ivanič
Hi, On 11 November 2011 00:04, Jay Levitt jay.lev...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes the planner can't find the most efficient way to execute your query. Thanks to relational algebra, there may be other, logically equivalent queries that it DOES know how to optimize. But I don't know relational

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL uninstall fails

2011-11-10 Thread J.V.
yes, this is on windows. Currently removing the data directory and the postgresql user is not optional. It fails and does not remove those two items. There must be 30+ registry keys still there as well. What I am looking to do is to delete any registry entry: 1. that has a data value

[GENERAL] PL/pgSQL: SELECT INTO variables - no result

2011-11-10 Thread Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz
I go through a series of SELECT INTO in a trigger function. SELECT INTO country_id id FROM vcountry WHERE [...]; I might or o might not find a result. Next, I try to find a region within this country, if found previously, and if not anywhere. SELECT INTO country_id, region_id

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL uninstall fails

2011-11-10 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/10/11 2:18 PM, J.V. wrote: What I am looking to do is to delete any registry entry: 1. that has a data value matching the pattern '*postgres*' 2. that has a directory value matching the pattern '*postgres*' 3. that has a key name matching the pattern '*postgres*' these

[GENERAL] idle in transaction entry in pg_logs

2011-11-10 Thread Raghavendra
Respected, All the time we see 'idle in transaction' in pg_stat_activity and dig details with process pid from pg_logs for the query,query execution time etc.. Instead of searching with process pid, am trying to pull the information with shell scripting for lines prefixed with 'idle in

Re: [GENERAL] troubleshooting PGError

2011-11-10 Thread slavix
Thank you. I found the problem. It was with the previous query, not the one that was showing up in the prompt. I found the actual query in one of the log files. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

[GENERAL] (bez temata)

2011-11-10 Thread Kaspars Zelgis
Hello, I have problem with installation, I cannot install, cause there is a password, and I dont now what it is about, what kind a password, give me the answer please

Re: [GENERAL] troubleshooting PGError

2011-11-10 Thread Slava Mikerin
I am running Rails 3.1 that uses a db. I used phpmyadmin for development and deployed to Heroku which uses postgres. When I got this error on the Heroku server I switched to postgres locally to investigate and got same error. ruby-1.9.2-p290 and pg-0.11.0 gem used On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:04

Re: [GENERAL] idle in transaction entry in pg_logs

2011-11-10 Thread Raghavendra
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Raghavendra raghavendra@enterprisedb.com wrote: Respected, All the time we see 'idle in transaction' in pg_stat_activity and dig details with process pid from pg_logs for the query,query execution time etc.. Instead of searching with process pid, am

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM touching file but not updating relation

2011-11-10 Thread Thom Brown
On 14 October 2011 12:12, Thom Brown t...@linux.com wrote: Hi, I just noticed that the VACUUM process touches a lot of relations (affects mtime) but for one file I looked at, it didn't change.  This doesn't always happen, and many relations aren't touched at all. I had the following

[GENERAL] Passing NULL to a function called with OidFunctionCall3

2011-11-10 Thread Bborie Park
Hey all, I'm trying to make use of OidFunctionCall3 and am wondering how to resolve an issue. I need to be able to pass to the function called with OidFunctionCall3 a NULL and am having difficulty figuring out how. {{{ /* build fcnarg */ for (i = 0; i set_count; i++) { if

Re: [GENERAL] (bez temata)

2011-11-10 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:09:26 pm Kaspars Zelgis wrote: Hello, I have problem with installation, I cannot install, cause there is a password, and I dont now what it is about, what kind a password, give me the answer please Install from what to what? Examples: One Click installer on

Re: [GENERAL]

2011-11-10 Thread Craig Ringer
On 11/10/2011 05:04 PM, daflmx wrote: Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432? Well? Does the socket file exist? Is PostgreSQL configured to use a different socket - perhaps in /tmp - in postgresql.conf? I'm guessing

Re: [GENERAL] PL/pgSQL: SELECT INTO variables - no result

2011-11-10 Thread Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:46:47 -0500 David Johnston pol...@yahoo.com wrote: -Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 5:18 PM To:

Re: [GENERAL] Passing NULL to a function called with OidFunctionCall3

2011-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
Bborie Park bkp...@ucdavis.edu writes: I'm trying to make use of OidFunctionCall3 and am wondering how to resolve an issue. I need to be able to pass to the function called with OidFunctionCall3 a NULL and am having difficulty figuring out how. You can't. Those convenience functions are

Re: [GENERAL] Passing NULL to a function called with OidFunctionCall3

2011-11-10 Thread Bborie Park
On 11/10/2011 04:43 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Bborie Parkbkp...@ucdavis.edu writes: I'm trying to make use of OidFunctionCall3 and am wondering how to resolve an issue. I need to be able to pass to the function called with OidFunctionCall3 a NULL and am having difficulty figuring out how. You

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM touching file but not updating relation

2011-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
Thom Brown t...@linux.com writes: On 14 October 2011 12:12, Thom Brown t...@linux.com wrote: I just noticed that the VACUUM process touches a lot of relations (affects mtime) but for one file I looked at, it didn't change.  This doesn't always happen, and many relations aren't touched at all.

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM touching file but not updating relation

2011-11-10 Thread Thom Brown
On 11 November 2011 00:55, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Thom Brown t...@linux.com writes: On 14 October 2011 12:12, Thom Brown t...@linux.com wrote: I just noticed that the VACUUM process touches a lot of relations (affects mtime) but for one file I looked at, it didn't change.  This

[GENERAL] PQexecParams with binary resultFormat vs BINARY CURSOR

2011-11-10 Thread Mateusz Łoskot
Hi, Considering query for binary data stored directly in tables using libpq API, I'm trying to understand what is the difference between specifying binary format in functions like PQexecParams and use of BINARY CURSOR. For example, with query like this: SELECT large_image FROM tbl; where

Re: [GENERAL] Fedora 16 note...

2011-11-10 Thread Craig Ringer
On 11/10/2011 11:10 PM, Jerry Levan wrote: I upgraded to Fedora 16 yesterday… I thought I might have lost my 12 year old db when the system came up and I noticed the 9.1 had overwrote the old binaries. ... of course, you keep regular backups so you weren't too worried anyway right?

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL uninstall fails

2011-11-10 Thread Craig Ringer
On 11/11/2011 06:18 AM, J.V. wrote: yes, this is on windows. Currently removing the data directory and the postgresql user is not optional. It fails and does not remove those two items. There must be 30+ registry keys still there as well. What I am looking to do is to delete any registry

Re: [GENERAL] (bez temata)

2011-11-10 Thread Craig Ringer
On 11/11/2011 04:09 AM, Kaspars Zelgis wrote: Hello, I have problem with installation, I cannot install, cause there is a password, and I dont now what it is about, what kind a password, give me the answer please You have to make the password up. It is the password you will use to log in to

[GENERAL]

2011-11-10 Thread daflmx
Hello,all. I have installed the postgresql . $/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data start LOG:database system was shut down at 2011-11-10 15:36:14 CST LOG:database system is ready to accept connections LOG:autovacuum launcher started when I check the status of cluster

Re: [GENERAL] Fedora 16 note...

2011-11-10 Thread Jerry Levan
On Nov 10, 2011, at 9:56 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: On 11/10/2011 11:10 PM, Jerry Levan wrote: I upgraded to Fedora 16 yesterday… I thought I might have lost my 12 year old db when the system came up and I noticed the 9.1 had overwrote the old binaries. ... of course, you keep regular

Re: [GENERAL]

2011-11-10 Thread Craig Ringer
You have sent this message at least once before. Pleas go back and read the replies to the first one, don't just re-send your message. On 11/11/2011 11:36 AM, daflmx wrote: Hello,all. I have installed the postgresql . $/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl -D /usr/local/pgsql/data start LOG:database

Re: [GENERAL] Fedora 16 note...

2011-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
Jerry Levan jerry.le...@gmail.com writes: On Nov 10, 2011, at 9:56 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: On 11/10/2011 11:10 PM, Jerry Levan wrote: I found that postgresql would not start at boot time until I did: systemctl enable postgresql.service That's Fedora policy: don't start a service unless the

[GENERAL] strange behavior, hoping for an explanation

2011-11-10 Thread Chris Travers
Hi; I have found recently that tables in certain contexts seem to have a name pseudocolumn. I was wondering if there is any documentation as to what this is and what it signifies. postgres=# CREATE table TEST2 (a text, b text); CREATE TABLE postgres=# INSERT INTO test2 values ('', '');

Re: [GENERAL] strange behavior, hoping for an explanation

2011-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Travers chris.trav...@gmail.com writes: I have found recently that tables in certain contexts seem to have a name pseudocolumn. I was wondering if there is any documentation as to what this is and what it signifies. I/O conversion cast from composite type to string. You might find this

Re: [GENERAL] strange behavior, hoping for an explanation

2011-11-10 Thread pasman pasmański
See documentation, chapter Viii.E.2.2.2 2011/11/11, Chris Travers chris.trav...@gmail.com: Hi; I have found recently that tables in certain contexts seem to have a name pseudocolumn. I was wondering if there is any documentation as to what this is and what it signifies. postgres=# CREATE