Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-24 Thread Chris Travers
Carlos Henrique Reimer wrote: I read some documents about replication and realized that if you plan on using asynchronous replication, your application should be designed from the outset with that in mind because asynchronous replication is not something that can be easily “added on” after the

[GENERAL] Help with a subselect inside a view

2005-08-24 Thread Bill Moseley
I need a little SQL help: I'm trying to get a subselect working inside a view. I have a table "class" that has related tables (a class has a location, a location has an address with columns city, state, zip). I want to use a VIEW to display columns related to a given class. But a class can also

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-24 Thread Greg Stark
William Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Allocation of unique IDs that don't collide across servers is a must. For 1 > project, instead of using numeric IDs, we using CHAR and pre-append a unique > server code so record #1 on server A is A01 versus ?x01 on > other > servers. For

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-24 Thread Aly Dharshi
I know I am wadding into this discussion as an beginner compared to the rest who have answered this thread, but doesn't something like pgpool provide relief for pseudo-multimaster replication, and what about software like sqlrelay wouldn't these suites help to some extent ? Looking forward to be

Re: [GENERAL] Problem finding libpg.3.dylib on macos X in plperlu

2005-08-24 Thread Sean Davis
I answered my own question--if one upgrades the server, one must also consider the consequences for the client (DBD::Pg). It had been compiled using an older library that got removed when I upgraded. Sean On 8/24/05 4:31 PM, "Davis, Sean (NIH/NHGRI)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran across t

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-24 Thread Jim C. Nasby
Or, for something far easier, try http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgcluster/ which provides syncronous multi-master clustering. On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:53:34PM -0700, Jeff Davis wrote: > Chris Browne wrote: > > > > Slony-I is a master/slave asynchronous replication system; if you > > already con

Re: [GENERAL] About column type to "varchar(1)" or "char(1)"

2005-08-24 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:06:18PM -0400, Emi Lu wrote: > Good afternoon, > > A question about varchar(1) and char(1). > As a result, setup 'col1' to either "varchar(1)" or "char(1)" does not > matter at all? As far as storage goes, nope. Think about it, depending on your encoding, 1 characte

[GENERAL] unsubscribe

2005-08-24 Thread Richard Sydney-Smith
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Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-24 Thread William Yu
Carlos Henrique Reimer wrote: I read some documents about replication and realized that if you plan on using asynchronous replication, your application should be designed from the outset with that in mind because asynchronous replication is not something that can be easily “added on” after the

Re: [GENERAL] Problem finding libpg.3.dylib on macos X in plperlu procedure

2005-08-24 Thread Tom Lane
Sean Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I ran across this problem while running a plperlu procedure. I do not have > a libpq.3.dylib, but do have a libpq.4.dylib. I am running perl 5.8.1, > macos 10.3.8 on an Xserve G5, and Postgres 8.0.2. Any suggestions? > dyld: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmast

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-24 Thread Welty, Richard
Jeff Davis writes: >The disadvantages: one more: if you actually have m tables and n servers, you have m x n tables in reality, which is pretty miserable scaling behavior. i should think that rules, triggers, and embedded procedures would explode in complexity rather rapidly. i know i wouldn't w

Re: [GENERAL] Start up script for Fedora Core 3

2005-08-24 Thread Chris Guo
Thanks, I found it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua D. Drake Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:18 PM To: Chris Guo Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Start up script for Fedora Core 3 Chris Guo wrote: > -->

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-24 Thread Jeff Davis
Welty, Richard wrote: > Jeff Davis writes: > > >>The disadvantages: > > > one more: if you actually have m tables and n servers, you have > m x n tables in reality, which is pretty miserable scaling behavior. > i should think that rules, triggers, and embedded procedures would > explode in comp

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-24 Thread Welty, Richard
Jeff Davis writes: >>I hope this is helpful. Let me know if there's some reason my plan won't >>work. > look at the solution in pgreplicator. site ids are embedded in the > id columns in the tables, so there only m tables, and a bit less insanity. That doesn't work with Slony-I unfortunately.

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql return setof integer?

2005-08-24 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Hey Christopher, On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:42:56PM -0500, Christopher Murtagh wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 22:57, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > You are initializing the array incorrectly in your htdig(text, text) > > function. {} is the hash reference you are seeing; HASH(0xwhatever) is > > its te

Re: [GENERAL] Start up script for Fedora Core 3

2005-08-24 Thread Alexandre Barros
Chris Guo wrote: Dear all, We are using Fedora Core 3 in our company, and we installed postgresql 8.0.3 as the database system. I wonder if anybody has the start up script for this version so we can start postgresql service automatically after we reboot the server. Any help will be high

[GENERAL] Problem finding libpg.3.dylib on macos X in plperlu procedure

2005-08-24 Thread Sean Davis
I ran across this problem while running a plperlu procedure. I do not have a libpq.3.dylib, but do have a libpq.4.dylib. I am running perl 5.8.1, macos 10.3.8 on an Xserve G5, and Postgres 8.0.2. Any suggestions? I should mention that other db functions seem to work just fine. >From psql: sel

Re: [GENERAL] Start up script for Fedora Core 3

2005-08-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Chris Guo wrote: --> Dear all, We are using Fedora Core 3 in our company, and we installed postgresql 8.0.3 as the database system. I wonder if anybody has the start up script for this version so we can start postgresql service automatically after we reboot the server. If you installed

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-24 Thread Jeff Davis
Chris Browne wrote: > > Slony-I is a master/slave asynchronous replication system; if you > already considered it unsuitable, then I see little likelihood of > other systems with the same sorts of properties being suitable. > > What could conceivably be of use to you would be a *multimaster* > as

Re: [GENERAL] Start up script for Fedora Core 3

2005-08-24 Thread Tom Lane
"Chris Guo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are using Fedora Core 3 in our company, and we installed postgresql = > 8.0.3 > as the database system. I wonder if anybody has the start up script for = > this > version so we can start postgresql service automatically after we reboot = > the > server.

Re: [GENERAL] Start up script for Fedora Core 3

2005-08-24 Thread Dianne Yumul
Hello, We have Fedora Core 4, but I'm pretty sure it's the same. To start the service we use /etc/rc.d/init.d/postgresql start Now if you want postgresql to start automatically on boot you do: chkconfig postgresql on Read the man pages for chkconfig for more details. Hope this helps. On A

Re: [GENERAL] My Slow query.

2005-08-24 Thread Dann Corbit
Can we see the schema for the tables RDD010 and RES_layers (including keys)? 12 H for a million rows really sounds brutal (23 rows/sec). I am guessing it can be done a lot faster using a join but I would like to see more information about the tables involved in the query. > -Original Messag

[GENERAL] About column type to "varchar(1)" or "char(1)"

2005-08-24 Thread Emi Lu
Good afternoon, A question about varchar(1) and char(1). If we have two tables test1 (col1 varchar(1), ... ... ); test2 (col1 char(1), ... ... ); In the manuall, it written: *Tip: * There are no performance differences between these three types, apart from the increased storage size when using

[GENERAL] ora2pg and unicode

2005-08-24 Thread RaEmanuel
Dear list, we are using an oracle 10g and I have to convert the schema and german / chinese data of the oracle to an postgres 8 database. To do that, I use the ora2pg.pl (version 2.1) / OraPg.pm (version 3.3). If I export the data with DATA or COPY the script will unfortunately export only 7bi

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-24 Thread Welty, Richard
Carlos Henrique Reimer  wrote:  > I read some documents about replication and realized  >  that if you plan on using asynchronous replication, your  >  application should be designed from the outset with that  >  in mind because asynchronous replication is not something  >  that can be easi

Re: [GENERAL] [OT?] ETL tools

2005-08-24 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Aug 24, 2005, at 6:00 AM, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: 2005/8/24, Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:50, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Googling a bit I have discovered that what I probably need is an ETL (extract, transform and load) tool, preferably open sourced

[GENERAL] My Slow query.

2005-08-24 Thread Jason
Hi: I have a query that uses one table with about 1 million rows. So far it has been running for about 12h on a P4 3Ghz. The query/function does this: Esentially flattens some data. It looks through the values in a row, does an if/else to categorize the value and update another table based on the

[GENERAL] Start up script for Fedora Core 3

2005-08-24 Thread Chris Guo
Dear all,   We are using Fedora Core 3 in our company, and we installed postgresql 8.0.3 as the database system. I wonder if anybody has the start up script for this version so we can start postgresql service automatically after we reboot the server. Any help will be highly appreciated.

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-24 Thread Carlos Henrique Reimer
I read some documents about replication and realized that if you plan on using asynchronous replication, your application should be designed from the outset with that in mind because asynchronous replication is not something that can be easily “added on” after the fact.   Am I right?   Reimer  __

Re: [GENERAL] Using gdb to obtain statement

2005-08-24 Thread Andreas Seltenreich
Markus Wollny schrob: > 0x40198cd4 in read () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 > (gdb) p debug_query_string > $1 = 137763608 > > What am I doing wrong? You are looking at the string's pointer. You could display it with e.g. printf "%s\n", debug_query_string HTH Andreas

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-24 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos Henrique Reimer) writes: > Currently we have only one database accessed by the headquarter and > two branches but the performance in the  branches is very poor  and > I was invited to discover a way to increase it. > > One possible solution is replicate the headquarter DB

Re: [GENERAL] ctid access is slow

2005-08-24 Thread Ron Mayer
Jim C. Nasby wrote: A better solution is to use a combination of a timestamp and a sequence. Why both? Because it's possible for the clock to be set back (though this is something best avoided), and a sequence will eventually roll over. With the default MAXVALUE of a postgresql sequence (9 qu

Re: [GENERAL] [OT?] ETL tools

2005-08-24 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 09:50:06AM +0200, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > Hi there, > > I have started working on a new place where they have a lot of medical > data stored in relational databases they later exploit with > statistical software. The situation is a bit chaotic as they're using > a lot

[GENERAL] root.crt

2005-08-24 Thread Knut P Lehre
Using pg 7.4.8 on RHEL4. I produced a server.crt and server.key using the server computer, as described in 7.4.8 docs section 16.7. As expected the log reports that root.crt was not found during server startup. On connection, psql (8.0.3 on WinXP) reports "SSL connection". Thus, SSL encryption seem

[GENERAL] Using gdb to obtain statement

2005-08-24 Thread Markus Wollny
Hello! As pg_stat_activity.current_query truncates statements to about 255 characters, I've tinkered a bit with gdb, as suggested by Tom Lane a little while ago. But when I attach to the backend in question, the only output I get from p debug_query_string is some number, for example: mysrv:/var/l

[GENERAL] COPY BINARY

2005-08-24 Thread Ilja Golshtein
Hello! Is there any example could help in usage of COPY BINARY since I am a little bit discouraged by this part of PG manual == To determine the appropriate binary format for the actual tuple data you should consult the PostgreSQL source, in particular the *send and *recv functions for each col

Re: [GENERAL] psql: server closed the connection unexpetedly

2005-08-24 Thread Tom Lane
Phil Thornhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > psql: could not connect to server: Connection refused (0x274D/10061) > Is the server running on host "???" and accepting > TCP/IP connections on port 5432? > the laptop has a trendmicro firewall installed, but this is set to allow >

Re: [GENERAL] Import File

2005-08-24 Thread Brent Wood
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Rodrigo Africani wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to import a sequence txt file. > The file has fix columns ... i.e the first 10 positions is the primary key ... > The comand copy need a delimitier but the file is seq without a delimitier. > I look in the manual but i don't won't

Re: [GENERAL] portuguese characters

2005-08-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ok, i already know that it's a table encoding problem. created new one with unicode and i worked just fine. but i have another problem. how can i change encoding in database which is already created? Jarek ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting

Re: [GENERAL] portuguese characters

2005-08-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sorry for posting that, i already found anwser. but i wonder if client encoding will be enought to make changes i want to.. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if

[GENERAL] portuguese characters

2005-08-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I have a problem with some portuguese characters like: select translate('programação', 'aszzclóençã ', 'aszzcloenca+'); i get: WARNING: ignoring unconvertible UTF-8 character 0xc3a3 and return is: programaco without 'a' is this a problem with tabel encoding? or what? please help and com

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-24 Thread Welty, Richard
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Meskes >Am Mittwoch, 24. August 2005 14:21 schrieb Carlos Henrique Reimer: >> One possible solution is replicate the headquarter DB into the two >> branches. >> I read about slony-i, but then the replicated DBs will be read-only. >That's because it's a

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Meskes
Am Mittwoch, 24. August 2005 14:21 schrieb Carlos Henrique Reimer: > One possible solution is replicate the headquarter DB into the two > branches. > > I read about slony-i, but then the replicated DBs will be read-only. That's because it's a master-slave replication. If you could sync the slave

Re: [GENERAL] [OT?] ETL tools

2005-08-24 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
2005/8/24, Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:50, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > > Googling a bit I have discovered that what I probably need is an ETL > > (extract, transform and load) tool, preferably open sourced and very > > PostgreSQL friendly... does anybody on t

[GENERAL] Postgresql replication

2005-08-24 Thread Carlos Henrique Reimer
Hello,   Currently we have only one database accessed by the headquarter and two branches but the performance in the  branches is very poor  and I was invited to discover a way to increase it.   One possible solution is replicate the headquarter DB into the two branches.   I read about slony-i, but

Re: [GENERAL] [OT?] ETL tools

2005-08-24 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 03:50, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > Googling a bit I have discovered that what I probably need is an ETL > (extract, transform and load) tool, preferably open sourced and very > PostgreSQL friendly... does anybody on this list have experience with > such kind of tools? W

Re: [GENERAL] psql: server closed the connection unexpetedly

2005-08-24 Thread Phil Thornhill
Sean Davis wrote: On 8/24/05 7:24 AM, "Phil Thornhill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I can't connect to a new installation of PostgreSQL 8.1 on a XP SP1 laptop. Im trying to connect using psql in the laptop's command prompt. i keep getting the following error message: psql: se

Re: [GENERAL] psql: server closed the connection unexpetedly

2005-08-24 Thread Sean Davis
On 8/24/05 7:24 AM, "Phil Thornhill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I can't connect to a new installation of PostgreSQL 8.1 on a XP SP1 laptop. > > Im trying to connect using psql in the laptop's command prompt. i keep > getting the following error message: > > psql: server closed the

[GENERAL] psql: server closed the connection unexpetedly

2005-08-24 Thread Phil Thornhill
Hi, I can't connect to a new installation of PostgreSQL 8.1 on a XP SP1 laptop. Im trying to connect using psql in the laptop's command prompt. i keep getting the following error message: psql: server closed the connection unexplectedly this probably means the server terminated

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: database is being accessed by other users

2005-08-24 Thread Sean Davis
On 8/23/05 10:10 PM, "wolverine my" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I got the following psql's error when executing a script, > ERROR: database "test" is being accessed by other users > > To solve this, I have to disconnect the database connection from the > pgAdmin III. > > May I know ho

Re: [GENERAL] ctid access is slow

2005-08-24 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 11:36:31PM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > A better solution is to use a combination of a timestamp and a sequence. > Why both? Because it's possible for the clock to be set back (though > this is something best avoided), and a sequence will eventually roll > over. It's imposs

Re: [GENERAL] [OT?] ETL tools

2005-08-24 Thread Roger Hand
Jose Gonzalez wrote: > The situation is a bit chaotic as they're using > a lot of local Access databases, some databases hosted in an old > version of Microsoft SQL Server and a lot of data in other non > relational files (SPSS, Excel, ...). I was hoping to impose a bit of > order and I started ins

[GENERAL] [OT?] ETL tools

2005-08-24 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Hi there, I have started working on a new place where they have a lot of medical data stored in relational databases they later exploit with statistical software. The situation is a bit chaotic as they're using a lot of local Access databases, some databases hosted in an old version of Microsoft S