[GENERAL] PGSQL 8.1.4 on Win2003 at istanbul :), could not access status of transaction xxxxx , could not open file "pg_subtrans/000A": Invalid argument

2006-07-21 Thread AL� �EL�K
Hi There is a new installed PostgreSQL 8.1.4 running on Windows2003. Last 3 days we get error message below incidentally. After first error, we get the error frequently. After restart the service, the error gone. 2006-07-13 19:43:57.218 192.168.3.14(1093) test user SELECTLOG: duration: 15.000 ms

Re: [GENERAL] Impact of vacuum full...

2006-07-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 15:49, Erik Jones wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > > I'd use regular cronned vacuums on the tables that you know grown a lot > > (or just hit the whole db and not worry about it) and run occasional > > vacuum verbose / vacuum full verbose by hand to see if you have problems

Re: [GENERAL] Impact of vacuum full...

2006-07-21 Thread Erik Jones
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 15:49, Erik Jones wrote: Scott Marlowe wrote: I'd use regular cronned vacuums on the tables that you know grown a lot (or just hit the whole db and not worry about it) and run occasional vacuum verbose / vacuum full verbose by hand to see if yo

Re: [GENERAL] Impact of vacuum full...

2006-07-21 Thread Erik Jones
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 11:40, Erik Jones wrote: Scott Marlowe wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 10:13, Erik Jones wrote: Hello, I was wondering if someone could enlighten me as to the impact to the entire database of running VACUUM FULL against a single table.

Re: [GENERAL] Problem getting postmaster PID in pg_regress

2006-07-21 Thread Eric E
Sorry - that semicolon is an artifact of a change I made - I attempted to put postmaster_pid=$! inside the executing statement, but as I discovered, if you put it before last &, you get the backgrounded process before postmaster. I'm presently checking out how the SLES init scripts work, but a

Re: [GENERAL] Impact of vacuum full...

2006-07-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 11:40, Erik Jones wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 10:13, Erik Jones wrote: > > > >> Hello, I was wondering if someone could enlighten me as to the impact to > >> the entire database of running VACUUM FULL against a single table. The > >> reason I

Re: [GENERAL] Problem getting postmaster PID in pg_regress

2006-07-21 Thread Tom Lane
Eric E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I chased the problem down to the following lines in pg_regress: >"$bindir/postmaster" -D "$PGDATA" -F $postmaster_options >> "$LOGDIR/postmaster.log"; 2>&1 & ^ Is there really a semicolon there? There should not be (and

Re: [GENERAL] Impact of vacuum full...

2006-07-21 Thread Bill Moran
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:40:32 -0500 Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No!!! The table is filled and entries are deleted one at a time, or in > groups, but definitely not all at once.So, then what is the > difference between scheduling regular vacuum on specific tables v. > scheduling

Re: [GENERAL] [JDBC] Is what I want possible and if so how?

2006-07-21 Thread Csaba Nagy
Jochem, > For a small number of processes and a large difference in time > between the 'loookup' speed and the 'work' I have used a two-step > process where you first get a batch of records and then try them > all in rapid succession. In pseudocode: > > SELECT * > FROM table > WHERE condition

Re: [GENERAL] Impact of vacuum full...

2006-07-21 Thread Bill Moran
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:35:17 -0500 Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Csaba Nagy wrote: [snip] > That is an excellent idea, however, what are the effects of CLUSTER on > empty tables? Considering that most of our queue tables sit empty until > their used, our main concern is keep the disk

Re: [GENERAL] Impact of vacuum full...

2006-07-21 Thread Erik Jones
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 10:13, Erik Jones wrote: Hello, I was wondering if someone could enlighten me as to the impact to the entire database of running VACUUM FULL against a single table. The reason I ask is that at company we work for we have a very large number of que

Re: [GENERAL] Column info without executing query

2006-07-21 Thread Dan Strömberg
I found pg_prog.prorettype in the system catalogs , is it possible to use that to find the resultset datatypes of a set returning function ? Anyway , maybe the odbc driver will work by using SQLDescribecol() without executing it ?! I found something in the archives where someone suggests that

[GENERAL] Problem getting postmaster PID in pg_regress

2006-07-21 Thread Eric E
Hi all, I'm trying to run pg_regress as part of a build of Postgres 8.1 on Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9. I keep getting the following error: ./pg_regress: line 264: kill: (25049) - No such process I chased the problem down to the following lines in pg_regress: "$bindir/postmaster" -D "$P

Re: [GENERAL] Impact of vacuum full...

2006-07-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 10:13, Erik Jones wrote: > Hello, I was wondering if someone could enlighten me as to the impact to > the entire database of running VACUUM FULL against a single table. The > reason I ask is that at company we work for we have a very large number > of queue type tables tha

[GENERAL] Antw: problem with windows installer

2006-07-21 Thread Christian Rengstl
Hi, forget the last email. After rebooting it's working again. Don't know why or how, but it's working... >>> Christian Rengstl 21.07.06 12.55 Uhr >>> Hi list, i just wanted to delete my sandbox version of postgre and install the "real" postgresql-database. unfortunately, the windows installe

Re: [GENERAL] Impact of vacuum full...

2006-07-21 Thread Erik Jones
Csaba Nagy wrote: Erik, On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 17:13, Erik Jones wrote: Hello, I was wondering if someone could enlighten me as to the impact to the entire database of running VACUUM FULL against a single table. The reason I ask is that at company we work for we have a very large number of

Re: [GENERAL] Column info without executing query

2006-07-21 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 05:47:32PM +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > > Did you see my comment about get partial result sets from libpq. for > > asyncronous queries you can run PQftype as soon as you've received and > > parsed the T record > > We can run PQftype() on what, conn->result? (We can't use a

Re: [GENERAL] Impact of vacuum full...

2006-07-21 Thread Csaba Nagy
Erik, On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 17:13, Erik Jones wrote: > Hello, I was wondering if someone could enlighten me as to the impact to > the entire database of running VACUUM FULL against a single table. The > reason I ask is that at company we work for we have a very large number > of queue type tab

[GENERAL] Impact of vacuum full...

2006-07-21 Thread Erik Jones
Hello, I was wondering if someone could enlighten me as to the impact to the entire database of running VACUUM FULL against a single table. The reason I ask is that at company we work for we have a very large number of queue type tables that fill up and empty out on a regular basis, on the ave

Re: [GENERAL] Column info without executing query

2006-07-21 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Jul 21 04:25, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 05:07:08PM +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > > AFAICS, that's not possible with current parsing capabilities. See > > related lines in > > > > fe-protocol3.c:pqParseInput3() > > 102 /* > > 103 * Can't pro

Re: [GENERAL] Column info without executing query

2006-07-21 Thread Mitch.Logue
My question is a bit off the path that you're taking with this issues, but I'd like to add a twist to the discussion -- to meet my needs of course :) Is it possible to simply retrieve Column Type (Numeric, Varchar, Int,...) data for a given table using ecpg? The reason I ask is that when I wri

Re: [GENERAL] Column info without executing query

2006-07-21 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 05:07:08PM +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > AFAICS, that's not possible with current parsing capabilities. See > related lines in > > fe-protocol3.c:pqParseInput3() > 102 /* > 103 * Can't process if message body isn't all here yet. > 104 *

Re: [GENERAL] Create index hanging

2006-07-21 Thread Claire McLister
Thanks. I'll look into this next time it happens. For now, I tried the create index commands again, and they worked in a split-second. So, it must have been the lock contention, and not the VACUUM'ng. On Jul 21, 2006, at 6:45 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Claire McLister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: [GENERAL] Create index hanging

2006-07-21 Thread Csaba Nagy
On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 14:17, Claire McLister wrote: > Yes, that could be the case. We have a python function that imports > CSV files, which can take a long time, and that may have been running > during that time. I didn't look at the pg_lock file. What should I be > looking for? I have the

Re: [GENERAL] Column info without executing query

2006-07-21 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Jul 21 03:34, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > Really, I would have thought the PHP function would map directly to the > libpq PQftype() function. Although libpq returns the OID whereas the > PHP function returns the type. But I don't think that's what the > original user asked for given you need

Re: [GENERAL] Column info without executing query

2006-07-21 Thread Jacob Coby
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 04:14:52PM +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Jul 21 09:02, Jacob Coby wrote: Volkan YAZICI wrote: As Tom mentioned, there's support for this feature in the protocol level, but I don't know any API supports this yet. However, here's a patch tha

Re: [GENERAL] Create index hanging

2006-07-21 Thread Tom Lane
Claire McLister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, that could be the case. We have a python function that imports > CSV files, which can take a long time, and that may have been running > during that time. I didn't look at the pg_lock file. What should I be > looking for? A record with grant

Re: [GENERAL] Column info without executing query

2006-07-21 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 04:14:52PM +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > On Jul 21 09:02, Jacob Coby wrote: > > Volkan YAZICI wrote: > > >As Tom mentioned, there's support for this feature in the protocol > > >level, but I don't know any API supports this yet. However, here's a > > >patch that adds Describ

Re: [GENERAL] Column info without executing query

2006-07-21 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Jul 21 09:02, Jacob Coby wrote: > Volkan YAZICI wrote: > >As Tom mentioned, there's support for this feature in the protocol > >level, but I don't know any API supports this yet. However, here's a > >patch that adds Describe functionality for Prepared Statements and > >Cursors to libpq: > >http:

Re: [GENERAL] Column info without executing query

2006-07-21 Thread Jacob Coby
Volkan YAZICI wrote: On Jul 20 08:21, Dan Strömberg wrote: I would like to know if it is possible to find out the datatypes in the resultset of a query or a set returning function without actually executing them ? As Tom mentioned, there's support for this feature in the protocol level, but I

Re: [GENERAL] Create index hanging

2006-07-21 Thread Claire McLister
Yes, that could be the case. We have a python function that imports CSV files, which can take a long time, and that may have been running during that time. I didn't look at the pg_lock file. What should I be looking for? On Jul 20, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Claire McLister <[EMAIL

[GENERAL] problem with windows installer

2006-07-21 Thread Christian Rengstl
Hi list, i just wanted to delete my sandbox version of postgre and install the "real" postgresql-database. unfortunately, the windows installer doesn't want to start and keeps telling me that the windows installer service could not be accessed. Strangely, i can start any other installer on the

Re: [GENERAL] question for JAVA developer who r using postgres sql as backend

2006-07-21 Thread Shoaib Mir
Hi Deepak,PostgreSQL JDBC is a type 4 implementation (http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/80/index.html)Thanks,Shoaib Mir EnterpriseDBOn 7/21/06, deepak pal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi,   i am new for postgres sql.i have downloaded driver for postgres sql and trying to do connectivity throug

Re: [GENERAL] Column info without executing query

2006-07-21 Thread Thomas Kellerer
On 21.07.2006 11:12 Volkan YAZICI wrote: As Tom mentioned, there's support for this feature in the protocol level, but I don't know any API supports this yet. I think if you run a query like the suggested one (or SELECT ... WHERE 1=2) the JDBC API will provide the necessary information via R

Re: [GENERAL] Column info without executing query

2006-07-21 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Jul 20 08:21, Dan Strömberg wrote: > I would like to know if it is possible to find out the datatypes in the > resultset of a query or a set returning > function without actually executing them ? As Tom mentioned, there's support for this feature in the protocol level, but I don't know any API

[GENERAL] question for JAVA developer who r using postgres sql as backend

2006-07-21 Thread deepak pal
hi,   i am new for postgres sql.i have downloaded driver for postgres sql and trying to do connectivity through it.is it type 2 driver or type 4 driver..??-- Deepak PalSoftware Developer Wicenet ltd.Pune(M.H)