Re: [GENERAL] Losing records when server hang

2004-08-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 19:30, lec wrote: > Chris Travers wrote: > The first hardware that got replaced was the SCSI controller. After > that there were still hardware "hanging" and eventually the system > engineers replaced the whole server and they weren't sure what the fault > was. The lost

Re: [GENERAL] error moving table to tablespace (8.0 beta win32 )

2004-08-10 Thread Christian Traber
Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote: > are you able to create new tables in the default tablespace ? Yes, permissions are ok. looks like a permission issue did you initdb a fresh folder see if the owner of $PGDATA/data/base is the user that running postmaster (usually postgres) . It works fine for me thoug

Re: [GENERAL] lock conflicting with another

2004-08-10 Thread Tom Lane
Amir Zicherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what does it mean when one lock mode conflicts with another It means that a holder of the one lock type will block a requestor of the other lock type (on the same lockable object, of course). regards, tom lane -

[GENERAL] lock conflicting with another

2004-08-10 Thread Amir Zicherman
what does it mean when one lock mode conflicts with another like is says in the documentation? can somebody explain and maybe give an example. thanx, amir ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate

Re: [GENERAL] psql: immediately exit after an error?

2004-08-10 Thread Mike G
I would think that depends upon how the sql in the file is coded. You can use the RAISE NOTICE / ERROR commands to abort a function's execution. > Can psql be told to exit immediately after an error (especially when > doing commands from a file, -f)? This is the default behaviour of the > mysq

Re: [GENERAL] error moving table to tablespace (8.0 beta win32 )

2004-08-10 Thread Rajesh Kumar Mallah
Christian Traber wrote: Hi! just playing with tablespaces... - moved a existing table to a new tablespace - tried to move it back to default tablespace (ALTER TABLE accounts SET TABLESPACE pg_default;) Got the following error in logfile: ERROR:  could not create re

Re: [GENERAL] shared_buffers Question

2004-08-10 Thread Scott Ribe
> Your shared buffers are almost certainly not the problem here. 2000 > shared buffers is only 16 Megs of ram, max. More than likely, the > database filled up the data directory / partition because it wasn't > being vacuumed. Yes. Also check to make sure that some rogue process somewhere isn't f

Re: [GENERAL] shared_buffers Question

2004-08-10 Thread Scott Ribe
BTW Joe, I sent my earlier suggestion to you directly. You might want to talk to your email admin to find out why your server bounced a perfectly innocuous message thusly: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 12.47.0.10 failed after I sent the message. Remote host said: 550 Message Returned: For some reason, you

[GENERAL] postmaster does not shut down

2004-08-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am getting 'postmaster does not shut down' when trying to stop the database with '.../pg_ctl -D /path/to/datadir stop -m fast. How should I proceed to get the database shut down and restarted? Are there other options besides immediate shutdown flag? I dont' want to lose everything I've worked on

Re: [GENERAL] 7.4.3 server panic

2004-08-10 Thread Chris
"Chris Ochs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ERROR: invalid user ID: 194 PANIC: error during error recovery, giving up LOG: server process (PID 38302) was terminated by signal 6 Can you get a stack traceback from this crash? The only occurrence of "invalid user ID:" that I see in the source code i

Re: [GENERAL] Losing records when server hang

2004-08-10 Thread lec
Chris Travers wrote: lec wrote: Scott Marlowe wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 19:43, lec wrote: Hi, I'm observing the following: If I commit the following records 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 to the database and the server hangs, I could lose records 5,6,7,8,9 but record 10 is there. How is this possibl

Re: [GENERAL] Sorting varchar w/single digits

2004-08-10 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 08:54:45PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I have varchar column with both numbers and letters, like 1 thru 10 and > 5A thru 5G, they are unit numbers for apartments. If I have 1 thru 100, > since it is a varchar field, it sorts like 1,10,11... instead of > 1,2,3... > >

Re: [GENERAL] Sorting varchar w/single digits

2004-08-10 Thread terry
If your string *always* begins with a numeral, this will work: ORDER BY to_number(text_field, text()), text_field If it doesn't always begin with a numeral, you have to ensure that it does, so a textcat of zero ensure it does... ORDER BY to_number(textcat('0', text_field), text())

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 16:53, Liam Lesboch wrote: > Thes slashdots post today about the beta releases of 8.0 caught the > attention of my boss and I. Many comments about the replicator issue and saw > many posts about Slony-I in particular. Maybe this is the only viable option > in PostgreSQL? Th

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-10 Thread Liam Lesboch
Thes slashdots post today about the beta releases of 8.0 caught the attention of my boss and I. Many comments about the replicator issue and saw many posts about Slony-I in particular. Maybe this is the only viable option in PostgreSQL? There are others that cost money but no where did we surfac

[GENERAL] Locks in functions?

2004-08-10 Thread Amir Zicherman
will locks work inside functions or only in transactions? will this lock? CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.sample(varchar) RETURNS SETOF record AS ' DECLARE row RECORD; BEGIN LOCK TABLE "URL" IN ROW SHARE MODE; FOR urlrow in EXECUTE \'SELECT * FROM "table1"\' LOOP UPDATE "table1"

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction blocks

2004-08-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 14:45, Jonathan Barnhart wrote: > Is there a way to continue a transaction after an error? I've got a > situation where I have a transaction open and I'm inserting data, but > some of it could fail on validation. I want to keep the good stuff, > leave out the bad, and get th

Re: [GENERAL] Locks in functions?

2004-08-10 Thread Amir Zicherman
sorry, i wrote the funciton wrong. here is what i meant to write: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.sample(varchar) RETURNS SETOF record AS ' DECLARE row RECORD; BEGIN LOCK TABLE table1 IN ROW SHARE MODE; FOR urlrow in EXECUTE \'SELECT * FROM "table1"\' LOOP UPDATE "table1" SET col1=5 WHE

Re: [GENERAL] 7.4.3 server panic

2004-08-10 Thread Tom Lane
"Chris Ochs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ERROR: invalid user ID: 194 > PANIC: error during error recovery, giving up > LOG: server process (PID 38302) was terminated by signal 6 Can you get a stack traceback from this crash? The only occurrence of "invalid user ID:" that I see in the source

Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore with Fc fails with [archiver] out of memory error

2004-08-10 Thread Tom Lane
Sven Willenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > pg_restore in malloc(): error: allocation failed > Abort (core dumped) A stack trace from that core file would be useful in figuring out what the problem is... also, what PG version is this? regards, tom lane --

Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore with Fc fails with [archiver] out of memory

2004-08-10 Thread Sven Willenberger
Tom Lane wrote: Sven Willenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pg_restore in malloc(): error: allocation failed Abort (core dumped) A stack trace from that core file would be useful in figuring out what the problem is... also, what PG version is this? regards, tom lane psql -V psql (PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Create Table with Foreign Key Error

2004-08-10 Thread Gaetano Mendola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Haney wrote: | Postgresql 7.4.3-1 under Cygwin. | | I created a table called ServerTypes: | | CREATE TABLE ServerTypes( | ServerTypeID SERIAL UNIQUE NOT NULL, | Type TEXT PRIMARY KEY); | | Works fine. | | Now, I want to

[GENERAL] Sorting varchar w/single digits

2004-08-10 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have varchar column with both numbers and letters, like 1 thru 10 and 5A thru 5G, they are unit numbers for apartments. If I have 1 thru 100, since it is a varchar field, it sorts like 1,10,11... instead of 1,2,3... Is there any way to handle this without having to make a sort order column? --

[GENERAL] dump/restore from 7.4.3linux to 8beta1 win32

2004-08-10 Thread Josué Maldonado
I did the pg_dump with the Linux 7.4.3 version and tried to pg_restore with Win32 8beta1 version and I got: C:\TEMP>pg_restore -d desarrollo -i -U postgres xdump pg_restore: [archiver] input file does not appear to be a valid archive Taken from the help "For best results, however, try to use the

Re: [GENERAL] Using connection after fork

2004-08-10 Thread Tom Lane
Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been bit by this sort of thing before. When you fork() the child > inherits all the file descriptors , including the one connected to PG. > But when the child dies that FD will be closed, thus it will also be > closed in the parent causing "odd behavior

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Officially Goes Beta

2004-08-10 Thread Rajesh Kumar Mallah
The beta link under ftp://ftp3.us.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/ and possible all mirrors leads to nowhere. I guess many people would click there. Regds mallah. Gaetano Mendola wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: After almost 9 months of development, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group is proud to

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Most people are using Sloney for master/slave replication. You can search for it easily. --- Liam Lesboch wrote: > Greetings, > > Yesterday theres was a brief discuissions about replications software for > PostgreSQL. My

Re: [GENERAL] plruby issue with redeclaring functions

2004-08-10 Thread David Garamond
David Garamond wrote: -- plruby 0.4.2, ruby 1.8.1, pg 7.4.3, linux Just to note here that the plruby has fixed this issue. He apparently does not read -general daily, so I'll post to ruby-talk mailing list in the future. -- dave ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Officially Goes Beta

2004-08-10 Thread Gaetano Mendola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote: | | The beta link under ftp://ftp3.us.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/ | and possible all mirrors leads to nowhere. I guess many people | would click there. It works for me. Regards Gaetano Mendola -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

[GENERAL] psql: immediately exit after an error?

2004-08-10 Thread David Garamond
Can psql be told to exit immediately after an error (especially when doing commands from a file, -f)? This is the default behaviour of the mysql client, except when we give it -f option ("force"). The problem is, when restoring a dump, a failure at the some point might cause the subsequent comm

Re: [GENERAL] Relation does not exist

2004-08-10 Thread Tom Lane
"Rob Klaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are having a problem where intermittently a query will not work, > returning an error: > ERROR: Relation "x" does not exist > It will do this for a variable period, typically not lasting more than 5 > minutes This certainly seems like a bug, but I have

Re: [GENERAL] Relation does not exist

2004-08-10 Thread Rob Klaus
In general, it seems to correspond to when there are a lot of inserts being run. I have one application that maybe does 10 inserts within 15 seconds or so, at which point the problem seems to crop up. Any operation that does not use the qualified schema.entity names will error out (selects, inser

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Officially Goes Beta

2004-08-10 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Marc G. Fournier wrote: For a complete list of changes/improvements since 7.4.0 was released, please see: http://developer.postgresql.org/beta-history.txt I think is better write in the Win32 Native Server section that Postgres is only available on Win32 with NTFS file system. Regards Gaetan

Re: [GENERAL] BIGINT indexes still with problems

2004-08-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Dan Ruthers wrote: > The index is used! > I also did a vacuum analyze, and restarted Postgres and it did not > make any difference. I tried many other ID values (ex 783218 and > 783220), and they seem to use the index correctly. Only that value > doesn't. Possibly, that is the most common value an

[GENERAL] pg_restore with Fc fails with [archiver] out of memory error

2004-08-10 Thread Sven Willenberger
Created a pg_dump with Fc (custom format compression) that resulted in a 300+MB file. Now trying to pg_restore this thing fails with either an out of memory error (as in the subject line) on FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE or a: pg_restore in malloc(): error: allocation failed Abort (core dumped) error on Fre

Re: [GENERAL] BIGINT indexes still with problems

2004-08-10 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Dan Ruthers wrote: > Now, if I run this query (note the int8 cast - also tried with the '' cast to > String, same results): > test=> explain select * from dmaildatum where idparent=int8(783219); > QUERY PLAN > --

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.0 Feature List?

2004-08-10 Thread Robert L Mathews
At 8/10/04 9:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Slony-I is released... [snip] > >> >> Also, what is the etymology of the term Slony? > >Elephants, especially this one: http://slony.info Is the project called "Slony-1" or "Slony1" (numeral one), or "Slony-I" (uppercase i)? It appears to be referr

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Officially Goes Beta

2004-08-10 Thread Gaetano Mendola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc G. Fournier wrote: | On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Rajesh Kumar Mallah wrote: | |> |> The beta link under ftp://ftp3.us.postgresql.org/pub/postgresql/ |> and possible all mirrors leads to nowhere. I guess many people |> would click there. | | | Already fix

[GENERAL] eWeek Reviews Bricolage

2004-08-10 Thread David Wheeler
eWeek has reviewed Bricolage, the Perl-powered, PostgreSQL-backed open-source content management system. The article was published yesterday. An excerpt: Bricolage is quite possibly the most capable enterprise-class open-source application available. The Web content management application feat

Re: [GENERAL] BIGINT indexes still with problems

2004-08-10 Thread Gaetano Mendola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Ruthers wrote: | Now, if I run this query (note the int8 cast - also tried with the '' cast to String, same results): | test=> explain select * from dmaildatum where idparent=int8(783219); | QUERY PLAN |

Re: [GENERAL] Replication options?

2004-08-10 Thread Liam Lesboch
Thank you much, When I perform the google search: http://www.google.com/search?q=slony-i+review I do not find reviews and critiques of slony-i. Are there many companies using for their enterprise level database systems? Without reviews in the magazines, my bosses uncomfort with PostgreSQL will no

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with MS Visual Basic 6.0

2004-08-10 Thread Andrew Ayers
Brigitte ROLLAND wrote: > Hello ! > I need to intreact from VB6 with an PG 7.4.3 database, I've > psqlodbc-7_03_0200 installed. > I use the Microsoft ADO Data Control 6.0, and I've installed the SP5 for > VB6. Luc, I have never used the ADO Data Control, so I can't be much help there - I can t

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres update with self join

2004-08-10 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
This is the way you do it in postgreSQL: UPDATE    test SET    code=T2.code FROM    test T2 WHERE    test.code=0 AND    test.master=T2.name; you need to specify the join condition in the WHERE clause. On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 00:34, Igor Kryltsov wrote: Hi, If you can help me to correct my

[GENERAL] 7.4.3 server panic

2004-08-10 Thread Chris Ochs
I have been able to crash the server a few times with the following function when it is called on a user and schema that was recently deleted. Following is a log of what happened and also the function that was called. This is 7.4.3 on Freebsd 5.2.1. It doesn't always panic when it encounters a

Re: [GENERAL] hostory tables with a generic function?

2004-08-10 Thread Tom Lane
Raphael Bauduin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - is it possible to write only one function used for all logging triggers? Yes, but it will be very hard and inefficient (maybe even impossible) in plpgsql. plpgsql isn't intended for dynamic field access and you'll really be fighting the language.

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres update with self join

2004-08-10 Thread Tom Lane
"Igor Kryltsov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I need to replace "0" values in "code" column by corresponding "code" > values by following link between "master" field in a record where code=0 and > "name" field where it is not. > This update works in MSSQL but in Postgres it replaces code value

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres update with self join

2004-08-10 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Igor Kryltsov wrote: > Table looks like: > > select * from test; > name | code | master > --+---+ > ABC | 15074 | > ABC1 | 0 | ABC > ABC2 | 0 | ABC > EKL | 15075 | > EKL1 | 0 | EKL > (5 rows) > > > Now I need to replace "0" values in "code

[GENERAL] nested transaction

2004-08-10 Thread "Rodríguez Rodríguez, Pere"
Title: nested transaction Hello, The new release includes savepoints, but I need to do a begin inside another begin and a commit/rollback after another commit/rollback. For example, I have a pA procedure that update some data, so this procedure execute a begin, after manipulate data and end

Re: [GENERAL] Listing views

2004-08-10 Thread ra
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 03:14, Olivier Guilyardi wrote: > SELECT viewname FROM pg_views WHERE viewname !~ '^pg_'; with 7.4 : SELECT viewname FROM pg_views WHERE schemaname NOT IN ('pg_catalog','information_schema'); Albert ---(end of broadcast)-

[GENERAL] history tables with only one function?

2004-08-10 Thread Raphael Bauduin
Hi, I'm looking at the logging of a database we'll put in production soon. I've seen some posts on this list about history tables, like mentioned in http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-dbdsgn2.html . I think I'll go that way too, but I still have some questions on the approach, an

Re: [GENERAL] Listing views

2004-08-10 Thread Kaloyan Iliev Iliev
Hi, What about mydb=# \dv ?? Doesn't it works fine. I don't see any pg views. Regards, Kaloyan Olivier Guilyardi wrote: Hi, I'm trying to list views, eliminating internal ones from the output. Using 7.2, I found this simple statement : SELECT viewname FROM pg_views WHERE viewname !~ '^pg_'; It

[GENERAL] row level lock

2004-08-10 Thread "Rodríguez Rodríguez, Pere"
Title: row level lock Hello, I thought that with the new release I could lock at row level with nowait option, but it seems that nowait option is only for table level lock, so, Can I do a row level lock with nowait option? Thanks, pere

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.0 Feature List?

2004-08-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Dienstag, 10. August 2004 11:51 schrieb Mike Mascari: > I wonder if it would be a good idea from a propaganda perspective to > include a reference to Slony-I in the press release and possibly the > release notes? Or would such an imprimatur be inappropriate? It will probably be in the press rel

[GENERAL] error moving table to tablespace (8.0 beta win32 )

2004-08-10 Thread Christian Traber
Hi! just playing with tablespaces... - moved a existing table to a new tablespace - tried to move it back to default tablespace (ALTER TABLE accounts SET TABLESPACE pg_default;) Got the following error in logfile: ERROR: could not create relation 1663/317186/317191: Permission denied Any suggestio

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.0 Feature List?

2004-08-10 Thread Zoltan Bartko
As to Slony: in a few slavonic languages (I know about Czech, Slovak, Russian, maybe others too, "slony" is the plural of "slon", e.g. elephant. Thus Slony = Elephants. Cheers Zoltan Dňa Utorok 10. August 2004 11:51 ste napísali: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 02:05, [EMAIL P

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.0 Feature List?

2004-08-10 Thread Mike Mascari
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 02:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will PostgreSQL 8.0 include replication server (not contrib/*) and nested transactions support? Slony-I just came out in beta, and it appears to be quite a nice replication system. I wonder if it would be a good idea from

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Officially Goes Beta

2004-08-10 Thread Christian Traber
Thanks to all Developers, GREAT JOB! Just switched from 7.4 cygwin to 8 beta native win32 on my development system. Everything works so far! Just a small suggestion for now: Can you enable file logging (redirect_stderr = true) in the windows installer by default. I think without you'll see no lo

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.0 Feature List?

2004-08-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 02:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Will PostgreSQL 8.0 include replication server (not contrib/*) and nested > transactions support? What difference does it make if replication is contrib/* or an external project or integrated? It's still the same thing. Plus, there are cur

[GENERAL] Using connection after fork

2004-08-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
I'm looking at a database-using program (PostgreSQL/libpq and MySQL) which does the following: A daemon process opens a database connection, forks children on request, and those children access the database using that inherited connection. After one request, the child dies. It seems to me th

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.0 Feature List?

2004-08-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Dienstag, 10. August 2004 10:05 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Will PostgreSQL 8.0 include replication server (not contrib/*) and nested > transactions support? No and yes. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.0 Feature List?

2004-08-10 Thread sector119
Will PostgreSQL 8.0 include replication server (not contrib/*) and nested transactions support? -- WBR, sector119 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend