Re: [GENERAL] how to get sequence list ?

2005-06-06 Thread ouyang_jw
Michael Fuhr: thanks! through the method you supplied,i had resolved the problem. OuYangJW - Original Message - From: "Michael Fuhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 11:33 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] how to get sequence list ? > On Tue, Jun

Re: [GENERAL] db corruption/recovery help

2005-06-06 Thread Ed L.
On Monday June 6 2005 11:15 pm, Tom Lane wrote: > It's possible that you are one minor release short of having > dodged this problem, as I see in the 7.3.5 CVS log > > * src/backend/storage/buffer/bufmgr.c (REL7_3_STABLE): Force > zero_damaged_pages to be effectively ON during recovery

Re: [GENERAL] db corruption/recovery help

2005-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
"Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Someone flipped a breaker switch, and evidently triggered > corruption in one of our major clusters: > 2005-06-06 14:31:11.984 [20124] PANIC: Invalid page header in block 22376 > of 79189398 It's possible that you are one minor release short of having dodg

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump 8.0.3 failing against PostgreSQL 7.3.2

2005-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (gdb) bt > #0 0x16e73f in elog_message_prefix () > #1 0x16da26 in elog () > #2 0x82b3d in typecast_expression () > #3 0x818d9 in transformExpr () > #4 0x89d4d in transformTargetEntry () > #5 0x8a021 in transformTargetList () > #6 0x3cb78 in tra

Re: [GENERAL] how to get sequence list ?

2005-06-06 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 09:42:12AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I need to know whether a sequence object exists in postgresql. > the sequence named "seq_serial". In psql you can use the \d or \ds commands; otherwise you can query the pg_class system catalog. http://www.postgresql.org/docs

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql fails to start?

2005-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
Dianne Yumul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have Fedora Core 4 Test 3 installed on a development box and just > recently installed Postgresql 8.0.3. Sometimes, when starting > postgresql with the /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql script, it gives me the > following: > /usr/bin/chcon: can't apply pa

[GENERAL] how to get sequence list ?

2005-06-06 Thread ouyang_jw
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Re: [GENERAL] CPU-intensive autovacuuming

2005-06-06 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Phil Endecott wrote: Following up on my own post from last night: > Could it be that there is some code in autovacuum that is O(n^2) in > the number of tables? Browsing the code using webcvs, I have found this: for (j = 0; j < PQntuples(res); j++) { tbl_elem = DLGetHead(dbs->table_list);

[GENERAL] Postgresql fails to start?

2005-06-06 Thread Dianne Yumul
Hello list, We have Fedora Core 4 Test 3 installed on a development box and just recently installed Postgresql 8.0.3. Sometimes, when starting postgresql with the /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql script, it gives me the following: /usr/bin/chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file /ho

Re: [GENERAL] db corruption/recovery help

2005-06-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 16:39, Ed L. wrote: > On Monday June 6 2005 3:29 pm, Ed L. wrote: > > On Monday June 6 2005 3:17 pm, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 15:16, Ed L. wrote: > > > > Someone flipped a breaker switch, and evidently triggered > > > > corruption in one of our major cl

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump 8.0.3 failing against PostgreSQL 7.3.2

2005-06-06 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Tom Lane wrote: [ studies 7.3 code a bit ] It might work better to set the breakpoint at elog_message_prefix, assuming you've got logging dialed down to the point where only actual ERRORs go to the log. Attaching to process 10284 0x403827df in ?? () (gdb) symbol-file postmaster Reading symbol

Re: [GENERAL] db corruption/recovery help

2005-06-06 Thread Ed L.
On Monday June 6 2005 3:29 pm, Ed L. wrote: > On Monday June 6 2005 3:17 pm, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 15:16, Ed L. wrote: > > > Someone flipped a breaker switch, and evidently triggered > > > corruption in one of our major clusters: > > > > OK, if postgresql is running on hard

Re: [GENERAL] db corruption/recovery help

2005-06-06 Thread Ed L.
On Monday June 6 2005 3:17 pm, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 15:16, Ed L. wrote: > > Someone flipped a breaker switch, and evidently triggered > > corruption in one of our major clusters: > > OK, if postgresql is running on hardware that doe NOT lie > about fsyncing, and it is set to

Re: [GENERAL] Large Object => invalid input syntax for integer: ""

2005-06-06 Thread Sean Davis
- Original Message - From: "Adam Witney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "grupos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "pgsql-general" Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 8:17 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Large Object => invalid input syntax for integer: "" On 6/6/05 4:58 am, "grupos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I

Re: [GENERAL] db corruption/recovery help

2005-06-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 15:16, Ed L. wrote: > Someone flipped a breaker switch, and evidently triggered > corruption in one of our major clusters: > > $ cat server_log.Mon > postmaster successfully started > 2005-06-06 14:31:11.950 [20124] LOG: database system was interrupted being > in recover

Re: [GENERAL] db corruption/recovery help

2005-06-06 Thread Ed L.
On Monday June 6 2005 2:16 pm, Ed L. wrote: > Someone flipped a breaker switch, and evidently triggered > corruption in one of our major clusters: BTW, this is a 7.3.4 cluster ... Ed ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desi

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump 8.0.3 failing against PostgreSQL 7.3.2

2005-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's different from backtracing a core dump :) This better? > Breakpoint 1, 0x16d8f8 in elog () > (gdb) bt > #0 0x16d8f8 in elog () > #1 0x110abb in pg_exec_query_string () > #2 0x112a91 in PostgresMain () > #3 0xf4eae in DoBackend () > #4 0xf

[GENERAL] db corruption/recovery help

2005-06-06 Thread Ed L.
Someone flipped a breaker switch, and evidently triggered corruption in one of our major clusters: $ cat server_log.Mon postmaster successfully started 2005-06-06 14:31:11.950 [20124] LOG: database system was interrupted being in recovery at 2005-06-06 14:29:01 EDT This probably mean

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump 8.0.3 failing against PostgreSQL 7.3.2

2005-06-06 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Tom Lane wrote: Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (gdb) break elog Breakpoint 1 at 0x16d8f8 (gdb) bt #0 0x403ca553 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libc.so.28.5 #1 0x10e604 in mdread () #2 0x10f31f in smgrread () You forgot to "continue" until the breakpoint is reached --- this trace jus

Re: [GENERAL] which commands under PostgreSQL do the similar func

2005-06-06 Thread Ying Lu
"show processlist" will display DB, command, time, State, etc under MySQL: | Id | User | Host| db | Command | Time | *State * | *Info* | 21 | admin | server1:40898 | test | *Query* | 104 | Copying to tmp table | INSERT INTO test (SEL

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump 8.0.3 failing against PostgreSQL 7.3.2

2005-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I get the following error: >> C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.0\bin>set PGOPTIONS="-W 30" >> >> "z:\backup\databases\2005-06-06\wedstrijdzeilen.sql" >> WARNING: postgres: invalid command line arguments Hm, that's odd ... but never mind, you thought

Re: [GENERAL] which commands under PostgreSQL do the similar func provided by "show processlist" under mysql

2005-06-06 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ying Lu) writes: > Greetings, > > I have a question about how to see current processes running under > postgreSQL. > > "show processlist" will display DB, command, time, State, etc under MySQL: > > | Id | User | Host| db | Command | Time | > *State

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump 8.0.3 failing against PostgreSQL 7.3.2

2005-06-06 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Tom Lane wrote: Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Below I have copy pasted the console log which has some additional information. This bug, or a related one, seems to have been registered previously as bug #1455 http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-02/msg00021.php Yea

Re: [GENERAL] which commands under PostgreSQL do the similar func provided by "show processlist" under mysql

2005-06-06 Thread David Fetter
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:22:23AM -0400, Ying Lu wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a question about how to see current processes running under > postgreSQL. > > "show processlist" will display DB, command, time, State, etc under MySQL: > > | Id | User | Host| db | Comma

Re: [GENERAL] Logging query plan for queries

2005-06-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Himanshu Baweja wrote: > when i enable debug_print_plan and > debug_pretty_print... > query plans are written to log file for all > queries(3 gb of logs in 3 mins) which is of course > diffcult to analyze and consume too much resources > > is it possible to log plans for only the queries w

[GENERAL] Logging query plan for queries

2005-06-06 Thread Himanshu Baweja
when i enable debug_print_plan and debug_pretty_print... query plans are written to log file for all queries(3 gb of logs in 3 mins) which is of course diffcult to analyze and consume too much resources is it possible to log plans for only the queries whose duration was more than a particu

Re: [GENERAL] numeric precision when raising one numeric to another.

2005-06-06 Thread Jan Wieck
On 5/20/2005 2:26 PM, Tom Lane wrote: numeric_power can in theory deliver an exact answer when the exponent is a positive integer. Division can deliver an exact answer in some cases too --- but the spec doesn't say it must do so when possible. So I would say that there is no spec requirement f

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql books

2005-06-06 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] would write: >> > "Gevik babakhani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> Beside the documentation, which pg book would you recommend? Which one is >> >> your per

[GENERAL] which commands under PostgreSQL do the similar func provided by "show processlist" under mysql

2005-06-06 Thread Ying Lu
Greetings, I have a question about how to see current processes running under postgreSQL. "show processlist" will display DB, command, time, State, etc under MySQL: | Id | User | Host| db | Command | Time | *State * | *Info* | 21 | admin | serv

Re: [GENERAL] return two elements

2005-06-06 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
You could use your own type, since it seems you know what values you'll be storing there. You can create it like this: CREATE TYPE MyResult AS ( dt_inici DATE, dt_fi DATE ); Then you must change your functions as follows: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test1() RETURNS MyResult AS ' decl

Re: [GENERAL] CPU-intensive autovacuuming

2005-06-06 Thread Phil Endecott
Following up on my own post from last night: > Could it be that there is some code in autovacuum that is O(n^2) in > the number of tables? Browsing the code using webcvs, I have found this: for (j = 0; j < PQntuples(res); j++) { tbl_elem = DLGetHead(dbs->table_list); while (tbl_

Re: [GENERAL] return two elements

2005-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Rodr=EDguez_Rodr=EDguez=2C_Pere=22?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how can I write a function that return two or more elements? In existing releases the best way to do this is to create a named composite type and have the function return that, not RECORD.

Re: [GENERAL] return two elements

2005-06-06 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
You could use your own type, since it seems you know what values you'll be storing there. You can create it like this: CREATE TYPE MyResult AS ( dt_inici DATE, dt_fi DATE ); Then you must change your functions as follows: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test1() RETURNS MyResult AS ' decl

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump 8.0.3 failing against PostgreSQL 7.3.2

2005-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Below I have copy pasted the console log which has some > additional information. This bug, or a related one, seems to have > been registered previously as bug #1455 > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-02/msg00021.php Yeah. We never

[GENERAL] return two elements

2005-06-06 Thread "Rodríguez Rodríguez, Pere"
Title: return two elements Hello, how can I write a function that return two or more elements? I try to return a record but after I don't know how to assign returned value to a variable. For example, CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test1() RETURNS record AS ' declare     rec record; begin

Re: [GENERAL] Fyracle?

2005-06-06 Thread Richard_D_Levine
Some comments: > I've just been sent this link by our DBA (pro MySQL but even more > Anti-Postgres): I can see skript kiddies preferring MySQL, but a DBA? Time for a credentials review. Firebird is a good small database (small resource footprint) that handles small databases with many users wel

Re: [GENERAL] Large Object => invalid input syntax for integer: ""

2005-06-06 Thread Richard Huxton
grupos wrote: Hi Adam, I am sorry for the misunderstanding, when I compose the e-mail I forgot the ' ' on the 1 BUT the error is the same, I made: INSERT INTO test VALUES ('1') and I get the error: ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "" I am sure that there is some problem with LO.

Re: [GENERAL] Download mirrors not found?

2005-06-06 Thread John Sidney-Woollett
Hmm you're right, they do seem to be working OK now. Thanks for your response - maybe it was just a temporary glitch. John Sidney-Woollett Michael Fuhr wrote: On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 08:13:10AM +0100, John Sidney-Woollett wrote: Can anyone explain why none of the links to download the 8.0.0

Re: [GENERAL] Large Object => invalid input syntax for integer: ""

2005-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
grupos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to use large objects BUT I am having problemns... I instaled > PostgreSQL 8.0.3 windows version with lo module. > first, I created the table below: > CREATE TABLE test > ( > description varchar(20), > picture lo > ) > WITHOUT OIDS; > After trying t

Re: [GENERAL] transactions

2005-06-06 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:21:15AM -0400, Douglas McNaught wrote: > "Surabhi Ahuja " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > say i have two transactions going on simultaneoulsy. > > in one transaction i do an insertion > > and the other transaction i do a delete. > > what will happen if in both the tran

[GENERAL] pg_dump 8.0.3 failing against PostgreSQL 7.3.2

2005-06-06 Thread Jochem van Dieten
I am experiencing a problem with dumping one specific database on a cluster. All 143 other databases dump without giving errors. The server runs PostgreSQL 7.3.2 on OpenBSD (I know :). pg_dump is version 8.0.3 on Windows (upgraded from 8.0.1 which had the same problem). The error message is:

Re: [GENERAL] Large Object => invalid input syntax for integer: ""

2005-06-06 Thread FERREIRA, William (COFRAMI)
do you really need to use lo module ? try this ... CREATE TABLE test ( description varchar(20), picture oid ) WITHOUT OIDS; if you want to import a BLOB : insert into test values ("toto", lo_import('mypicture')) and if you want no value insert into test values ("toto", 0) -Message d'ori

Re: [GENERAL] Large Object => invalid input syntax for integer: ""

2005-06-06 Thread grupos
Hi Douglas, Thanks for your promptly answer. Here is the "step by step": CREATE TABLE test ( description varchar(20), picture lo ) WITHOUT OIDS; INSERT INTO test (description) VALUES ('1'); And then, the error : INSERT INTO test (description) VALUES ('1') What I am trying to do is insert d

Re: [GENERAL] Large Object => invalid input syntax for integer: ""

2005-06-06 Thread Douglas McNaught
grupos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Adam, > > I am sorry for the misunderstanding, when I compose the e-mail I > forgot the ' ' on the 1 BUT the error is the same, I made: > INSERT INTO test VALUES ('1') > > and I get the error: > ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "" > > I am sure th

Re: [GENERAL] Large Object => invalid input syntax for integer: ""

2005-06-06 Thread Douglas McNaught
grupos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Doug! > > Thanks for your e-mail BUT the point is how I insert data on a table > when the column lo have no value ( NULL), to insert the lo I have no > problem BUT the problem is when the column should have no value... If the "lo" field isn't NOT NULL than

Re: [GENERAL] Large Object => invalid input syntax for integer: ""

2005-06-06 Thread grupos
Hi Doug! Thanks for your e-mail BUT the point is how I insert data on a table when the column lo have no value ( NULL), to insert the lo I have no problem BUT the problem is when the column should have no value... Regards, Rodrigo Carvalhaes Douglas McNaught wrote: grupos <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [GENERAL] transactions

2005-06-06 Thread Douglas McNaught
"Surabhi Ahuja " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello everyone. > I have the following question: > > say i have two transactions going on simultaneoulsy. > in one transaction i do an insertion > and the other transaction i do a delete. > what will happen if in both the transactions, the insert(in o

Re: [GENERAL] Large Object => invalid input syntax for integer: ""

2005-06-06 Thread grupos
Hi Adam, I am sorry for the misunderstanding, when I compose the e-mail I forgot the ' ' on the 1 BUT the error is the same, I made: INSERT INTO test VALUES ('1') and I get the error: ERROR: invalid input syntax for integer: "" I am sure that there is some problem with LO. Regards, Rodri

Re: [GENERAL] Download mirrors not found?

2005-06-06 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 08:13:10AM +0100, John Sidney-Woollett wrote: > > Can anyone explain why none of the links to download the 8.0.0 source > work? I trying to use links on this page: > > http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/download/mirrors-ftp?file=source/v8.0.3/postgresql-8.0.3.tar.gz > > All

[GENERAL] transactions

2005-06-06 Thread Surabhi Ahuja
Title: transactions Hello everyone. I have the following question: say i have two transactions going on simultaneoulsy. in one transaction i do an insertion and the other transaction i do a delete. what will happen if in both the transactions, the insert(in one) and delete(in the other) are

Re: [GENERAL] Large Object => invalid input syntax for integer: ""

2005-06-06 Thread Douglas McNaught
grupos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to use large objects BUT I am having problemns... I instaled > PostgreSQL 8.0.3 windows version with lo module. > > first, I created the table below: > CREATE TABLE test > ( > description varchar(20), > picture lo > ) > WITHOUT OIDS; > > After trying

Re: [GENERAL] Large Object => invalid input syntax for integer: ""

2005-06-06 Thread Adam Witney
On 6/6/05 4:58 am, "grupos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to use large objects BUT I am having problemns... I instaled > PostgreSQL 8.0.3 windows version with lo module. > > first, I created the table below: > CREATE TABLE test > ( > description varchar(20), > picture lo > ) > WITHOUT OIDS;

[GENERAL] Large Object => invalid input syntax for integer: ""

2005-06-06 Thread grupos
I need to use large objects BUT I am having problemns... I instaled PostgreSQL 8.0.3 windows version with lo module. first, I created the table below: CREATE TABLE test ( description varchar(20), picture lo ) WITHOUT OIDS; After trying to make one insert without value for the lo I get the err

Re: [GENERAL] Fyracle?

2005-06-06 Thread Mike Rylander
On 6/6/05, Russ Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just been sent this link by our DBA (pro MySQL but even more > Anti-Postgres): > > http://www.janus-software.com/fb_fyracle.html > > I want to know how they've calculated the numbers that they're created > those pie graphs from. The only thi

Re: [GENERAL] Fyracle?

2005-06-06 Thread Richard Huxton
Russ Brown wrote: I've just been sent this link by our DBA (pro MySQL but even more Anti-Postgres): http://www.janus-software.com/fb_fyracle.html I want to know how they've calculated the numbers that they're created those pie graphs from. The only thing I can think of that Postgres doesn't hav

[GENERAL] Fyracle?

2005-06-06 Thread Russ Brown
I've just been sent this link by our DBA (pro MySQL but even more Anti-Postgres): http://www.janus-software.com/fb_fyracle.html I want to know how they've calculated the numbers that they're created those pie graphs from. The only thing I can think of that Postgres doesn't have for 'transactions'

Re: [GENERAL] PG Lightning Admin running on Linux via WINE 2005524

2005-06-06 Thread Russ Brown
On 6/3/05, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tony Caduto wrote: > > Can't do that, it's a Delphi 7 application. > > Have you heard of Kylix? You should be able to do an almost straight > native port to Linux. > I didn't get chance to try it at home under Wine, but a pative port using

Re: [GENERAL] writting a large store procedure

2005-06-06 Thread Rodríguez Rodríguez, Pere
  -Mensaje original-De: Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Enviado el: viernes 3 de junio de 2005 23:34Para: Rodríguez Rodríguez, PereCC: pgsql-general@postgresql.orgAsunto: Re: [GENERAL] writting a large store procedure Well first off can you break those 700 lines out into mo

[GENERAL] Download mirrors not found?

2005-06-06 Thread John Sidney-Woollett
Can anyone explain why none of the links to download the 8.0.0 source work? I trying to use links on this page: http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/download/mirrors-ftp?file=source/v8.0.3/postgresql-8.0.3.tar.gz All the hostnames fail to resolve. Can anyone help me to get a 8.0.3 set of source fil