Re: [GENERAL] checkpoint_timeout and archive_timeout

2012-09-11 Thread Kevin Grittner
Jeff Janes wrote: > Kevin Grittner wrote: >> Jeff Janes wrote: >>> So a server that is completely free of user activity will still >>> generate an endless stream of WAL files, averaging one file per >>> max(archive_timeout, checkpoint_timeout). That comes out to one >>> 16MB file per hour (sin

Re: [GENERAL] Compressed binary field

2012-09-11 Thread Kevin Grittner
Edson Richter wrote: > So, should I use > > alter table MYTABLE set storage EXTENDED Don't bother; that is the default. This should already be happening automatically. Is there some problem you're seeing that you want to fix? If so, you should probably describe that. -Kevin -- Sent vi

[GENERAL] Displaying image from php script displays string

2012-09-11 Thread Alexander Reichstadt
Sorry if this has been asked a thousand time. I read through the web and think to have done everything I should. I have a db with a bytea field. In it I stored data from a png file. When I stored it I used pg_escape_bytea() and it seems it ended up ok in the database. I made a test setup, che

Re: [GENERAL] Where do I get pgAdmin 1.16 for openSuSE?

2012-09-11 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 09/10/2012 09:43 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: > Is there a place to download pgAdmin 1.16 for openSuse (or a > repository I can add?) > > All I can find is packages for 1.14, however this version is unable to > connect to Postgres 9.2 databases. Thanks! I could find none. You might have to bui

Re: [GENERAL] Where do I get pgAdmin 1.16 for openSuSE?

2012-09-11 Thread Alexander Reichstadt
Also, you could try the enterprise package, it does have the pgAdmin and probably every other bit you could have a need for now or later: http://enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads The installer walks you through all the subpackages and you can confirm for each if you want

[GENERAL] Postgresql replication assistance

2012-09-11 Thread Gustav Potgieter
Hi All, Hope you can assist and that I am posting to the right forum. We currently have multiple Postgresql 9 instances running with warm standby, and the replication work wonderfully. The problem is the following, we take the slave database out of recovery and it works perfectly, but when we

[GENERAL] Displaying image from php script displays string

2012-09-11 Thread Alexander Reichstadt
Sorry if this has been asked a thousand time. I read through the web and think to have done everything I should. I have a db with a bytea field. In it I stored data from a png file. When I stored it I used pg_escape_bytea() and it seems it ended up ok in the database. I made a test setup, che

Re: [GENERAL] Displaying image from php script displays string

2012-09-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/11/12 6:24 AM, Alexander Reichstadt wrote: What am I doing wrong? I'm not a php programmer (hate the sloppy stuff) but nowhere do I see you specifying a mime image type for your image data being returned to the browser. this is a php problem, not a postgres problem. -- john r pierce

Re: [GENERAL] Displaying image from php script displays string

2012-09-11 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 11/09/2012 14:24, Alexander Reichstadt wrote: > > > What am I doing wrong? > What version of PG are you using? The default output format of bytea changed from "escape" to "hex" a version or two ago - try changing it to "escape" and see if that makes a difference: ALTER DATABASE x SET

[GENERAL] AIX and ipv6

2012-09-11 Thread John R Pierce
we're still having issues with PG on AIX 6.1, our configurations have no ipv6 as our WAN is purely ipv4, but if we use listen_addresses='*', we consistently get an error... LOG: could not bind IPv6 socket: Address already in use the workaround we've been using is to set listen_addresses

Re: [GENERAL] Compressed binary field

2012-09-11 Thread Edson Richter
Em 11/09/2012 09:40, Kevin Grittner escreveu: Edson Richter wrote: So, should I use alter table MYTABLE set storage EXTENDED Don't bother; that is the default. This should already be happening automatically. Is there some problem you're seeing that you want to fix? If so, you shoul

Re: [GENERAL] AIX and ipv6

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Lane
John R Pierce writes: > we're still having issues with PG on AIX 6.1, our configurations have no > ipv6 as our WAN is purely ipv4, but if we use listen_addresses='*', we > consistently get an error... > LOG: could not bind IPv6 socket: Address already in use This was discussed at bug #649

Re: [GENERAL] Compressed binary field

2012-09-11 Thread Kevin Grittner
Edson Richter wrote: > there is no problem. Just trying to reduce database size > Actual database size = 8Gb > Backup size = 1.6Gb (5x smaller) > > Seems to me (IMHO) that there is room for improvement in database > storage (we don't have many indexes, and biggest tables are just > the ones

Re: [GENERAL] Compressed binary field

2012-09-11 Thread Edson Richter
Em 11/09/2012 14:00, Kevin Grittner escreveu: Edson Richter wrote: there is no problem. Just trying to reduce database size Actual database size = 8Gb Backup size = 1.6Gb (5x smaller) Seems to me (IMHO) that there is room for improvement in database storage (we don't have many indexes,

Re: [GENERAL] AIX and ipv6

2012-09-11 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 09/11/2012 09:09 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > we're still having issues with PG on AIX 6.1, our configurations have no > ipv6 as our WAN is purely ipv4, but if we use listen_addresses='*', we > consistently get an error... > > LOG: could not bind IPv6 socket: Address already in use > >

Re: [GENERAL] Compressed binary field

2012-09-11 Thread Kevin Grittner
Edson Richter wrote: > For storage, du -h --max-depth 1 on data directory gives me the > amount of data. > Biggest objects are just the tables with files. > I've 2 tables that held all these objects. Structure is > > create table MYTABLE (id bigint not null primary key, mimetype > varchar(

Re: [GENERAL] Compressed binary field

2012-09-11 Thread Edson Richter
Em 11/09/2012 14:34, Kevin Grittner escreveu: Edson Richter wrote: For storage, du -h --max-depth 1 on data directory gives me the amount of data. Biggest objects are just the tables with files. I've 2 tables that held all these objects. Structure is create table MYTABLE (id bigint

Re: [GENERAL] Compressed binary field

2012-09-11 Thread Kevin Grittner
Edson Richter wrote: > Em 11/09/2012 14:34, Kevin Grittner escreveu: >> Edson Richter wrote: >> >>> For storage, du -h --max-depth 1 on data directory gives me the >>> amount of data. >> >>> Biggest objects are just the tables with files. >> >>> I've 2 tables that held all these objects.

Re: [GENERAL] AIX and ipv6

2012-09-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/11/12 10:12 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: Did not say what version you where on. But in 9.1: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/runtime-config-connection.html "The special entry * corresponds to all available IP interfaces. The entry 0.0.0.0 allows listening for all IPv4 addresses

Re: [GENERAL] Where do I get pgAdmin 1.16 for openSuSE?

2012-09-11 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Hi, On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 21:43 -0700, Mike Christensen wrote: > s there a place to download pgAdmin 1.16 for openSuse (or a > repository I can add?) > > All I can find is packages for 1.14, however this version is unable to > connect to Postgres 9.2 databases. OpenSuSE has an open build serv

Re: [GENERAL] AIX and ipv6

2012-09-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 09:09:22AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > > is their any chance this will ever be addressed? The problem you're having is that "*" means "bind to all the addresses on this machine", and for some reason IBM's strange and wonderful implementation of the IP layer appears to gi

Re: [GENERAL] AIX and ipv6

2012-09-11 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:09 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > we're still having issues with PG on AIX 6.1, our configurations have no > ipv6 as our WAN is purely ipv4, but if we use listen_addresses='*', we > consistently get an error... > > LOG: could not bind IPv6 socket: Address already in use

Re: [GENERAL] AIX and ipv6

2012-09-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/11/12 12:55 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: is their any chance this will ever be addressed? have you got your aix completely up to date with all patches? I got burned in a similar fashion a while back on a related call -- getaddrinfo IIRC. It was updated to 'current' a year or so ago, I beli

Re: [GENERAL] Bad pg_dump error message

2012-09-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 01:21 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Mike Christensen writes: > > Oh reading the online docs, it looks like what I may have wanted was: > > --format=custom > > Right. That does everything tar format does, only better --- the only > thing tar format beats it at is you can disassem

[GENERAL] Why is my view making my disk churn? (iostat)

2012-09-11 Thread Wells Oliver
I have this view which combines a few tables. It's wide-ish, 60 rows, almost all columns integer. It joins five tables, all using primary keys. The explain output is as follows: Nested Loop Left Join (cost=0.01..92.38 rows=4 width=222) (actual time=0.291..0.711 rows=4 loops=1) Join Filter: ((my

Re: [GENERAL] Bad pg_dump error message

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut writes: > We could change the tar code to produce POSIX 2001 format archives, > which don't have that limitation. But if someone wanted to do some work > in this area, it might be more useful to look into a zip-based format. I find it doubtful that it's worth spending effort on

Re: [GENERAL] Why is my view making my disk churn? (iostat)

2012-09-11 Thread David Johnston
On Sep 11, 2012, at 22:41, Wells Oliver wrote: > I have this view which combines a few tables. It's wide-ish, 60 rows, almost > all columns integer. It joins five tables, all using primary keys. The > explain output is as follows: > > Nested Loop Left Join (cost=0.01..92.38 rows=4 width=222)

Re: [GENERAL] Compressed binary field

2012-09-11 Thread Edson Richter
Em 11/09/2012 14:59, Kevin Grittner escreveu: Edson Richter wrote: Em 11/09/2012 14:34, Kevin Grittner escreveu: Edson Richter wrote: For storage, du -h --max-depth 1 on data directory gives me the amount of data. Biggest objects are just the tables with files. I've 2 tables th

Re: [GENERAL] Performance issue with cross table updates

2012-09-11 Thread Jeff Janes
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Craig Gibson wrote: > Hi all > > I am no database wizard so I am hoping someone may be able to assist me :) > > I get a daily CSV file of 6.5 million records. I create a temporary > table and COPY them in. On completion I create an index on the mdnid > column. This

[GENERAL] force defaults

2012-09-11 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
Hi, I want to force deafults, and wonder about the performance. The trigger i use (below) makes the query (also below) take 45% more time. The result is the same now, but i do have a use for using the trigger (see "background info"). Isn't there a more efficient way to force the defaults (in the