Re: Quick hack for fetching the contents of a temp table

2019-04-23 Thread Souvik Bhattacherjee
This question seems related to the other thread you started on April 18th? > This is related but perhaps a little complicated than the previous one, since this involves modifying the query that would be executed. Several of us suggested you use a CTE to materialize your intermediate values. Did

Re: Quick hack for fetching the contents of a temp table

2019-04-23 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 2:56 PM Souvik Bhattacherjee wrote: > Hi, > > I need to use the return value of the function somefunction1() to modify a > query and execute it. > > While it is easy to fetch the desired result using plpgsql functions(), > however modifying and rewriting the query using th

Re: Is it possible to store the output of EXPLAIN into a table

2019-04-23 Thread Souvik Bhattacherjee
Thanks, works fine! -Souvik On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:02 PM Tom Lane wrote: > Souvik Bhattacherjee writes: > > I was just wondering if it is possible to store the output of EXPLAIN > into > > a table. > > EXPLAIN won't do that directly, but you could make a plpgsql function > along the lines

Re: pgdg packages removed for 9.3

2019-04-23 Thread Lewis Shobbrook
Thanks for your response Adrian, appreciate your time and effort. I'd read the EOL statement regarding 9.3, but seeing the older 9.2 packages were available figured they should be for 9.3 too. The problem is that we automate the pg install with chef, so I will need to try and vendor the cookbook un

Quick hack for fetching the contents of a temp table

2019-04-23 Thread Souvik Bhattacherjee
Hi, Is there a quick way to fetch the contents of a temp table from within postgres server code? The temp table has a single column and there is a single value in the column. Thus, I'm using the temp table as a variable to store a string. begin; create temp table mytemp(metastr char(1024)) on co

Re: Resetting identity columns

2019-04-23 Thread Ray O'Donnell
On 22/04/2019 18:49, Tom Lane wrote: "Ray O'Donnell" writes: In general, then, is it not possible to use an expression thus? - [...] ALTER COLUMN [...] RESTART WITH No. In general, PG's utility commands (everything except SELECT/ INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE) don't do expression evaluation

Re: Primary key data type: integer vs identity

2019-04-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 23 Apr 2019, Peter Devoy wrote: I think you may have serial already there (indicated by sequence in the the default value). Peter, As serial is an alias for integer (the actual data type) using integer and specifying it as the primary key works. If you wish to change to identity col

Re: Primary key data type: integer vs identity

2019-04-23 Thread Peter Devoy
Hi Rich I think you may have serial already there (indicated by sequence in the the default value). If you wish to change to identity columns this should be useful: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/postgresql-10-identity-columns/ Regards Peter

Re: Why does log_error_verbosity not apply to server logs?

2019-04-23 Thread Jeremy Finzel
> > My question was about how you (think you are) setting log_error_verbosity, > not what you're doing to produce the message. The decisions in elog.c > about which fields to print in the server log do not depend on the latter. > Roger that. > However... looking again at what elog.c does, I'm p

Re: pgdg packages removed for 9.3

2019-04-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 4/22/19 9:05 PM, Lewis Shobbrook wrote: Thanks Adrian, The symlinks have been created for all pgdg versions other than 9.3 It seems to have been an over site perhaps. As stated in the announcement... "Today, you still get the link to the pgdg-centos11-11-2 rpm." Which is true in all instances

Standby behavior with setting synchronous_commit = remote_apply

2019-04-23 Thread Konstantin Evteev
Hi there, >From documentation https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/runtime-config-wal.html standby behavior with setting synchronous_commit = remote_apply is not obvious. I think we should explain this case. Am I correct that master always sync COMMIT, except 'off' and regardless of whether standb