Re: [GENERAL] SAST FATAL: could not access private key file "server.key"

2008-07-02 Thread Dave Coventry
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Albe Laurenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you don't care, you could > 1) remove the symbolic link. > 2) copy the key file to server.key in the PostgreSQL directory. > 3) chown the copy of the file. Okay, I'll do that. > Do you need SSL support at all? > If not,

Re: [GENERAL] Date Formatting for dd/mm/yyyy

2008-07-02 Thread Klint Gore
J Ottery wrote: Hi all. I am using Postgres 8.3 with Windows XP Pro. System date format is dd/MM/ Having problems when I writing records to a database with a single 'date' type field. e.g. FieldByName('Date').ASString:='2/2/2003' What is delphi's ShortDateFormat set to? Does fieldbyna

Re: [GENERAL] Memory use in 8.3 plpgsql with heavy use of xpath()

2008-07-02 Thread Matt Magoffin
> Probably the right thing for you to do now is just to install the known > fix, and keep an eye on your server for awhile to see if you still see > any indication of the long-term leak behavior. Certainly, that is my plan. Once I can get the patch rolled out to these systems, I should be able to

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump - lost synchronization with server: got message type "d", length 6036499

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
Klint Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Would you be willing to send me a "pg_dump -s" (ie, just schema no >> data) dump of this DB? Off-list of course. >> > attached. created with pg_dump 8.3.3 win32 to the 8.3.1 win32 server. Thanks. When I reload this here and try to pg_

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump - lost synchronization with server: got message type "d", length 6036499

2008-07-02 Thread Klint Gore
Tom Lane wrote: Klint Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Maybe you've found a memory leak in pg_dump (it wouldn't be the first >> one). Does this database have a particularly large number of objects? > I wouldn't call it large - 27 tables, 111 functions, 21 custom types > (

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump - lost synchronization with server: got message type "d", length 6036499

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
Klint Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Maybe you've found a memory leak in pg_dump (it wouldn't be the first >> one). Does this database have a particularly large number of objects? > I wouldn't call it large - 27 tables, 111 functions, 21 custom types > (used for set retur

Re: [GENERAL] Memory use in 8.3 plpgsql with heavy use of xpath()

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
"Matt Magoffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> So there may be a second issue remaining to be found. Can you put >> together a test case for the long-term small leak? > Hmm, I'm not sure what else to add to this test case. This test case was a > good example of what our database is doing with xpa

[GENERAL] Date Formatting for dd/mm/yyyy

2008-07-02 Thread J Ottery
Hi all. I am using Postgres 8.3 with Windows XP Pro. System date format is dd/MM/ Having problems when I writing records to a database with a single 'date' type field. e.g. FieldByName('Date').ASString:='2/2/2003' When the row is viewed in pgAdmin it is always 1899-12-30 I have tried chang

Re: [GENERAL] LDAP Authentication

2008-07-02 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile)
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 17:58 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > This is not something you currently can do. We can only do LDAP > authentication, not authorization. There's no way to restrict it to a > particular group. We're very interested in this functionality (nss_ldap for PgSQL) -- so if there's

Re: [GENERAL] Confusion about ident sameuser

2008-07-02 Thread Douglas McNaught
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Gurjeet Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you can see, if I use the machine's interface or unix sockets, it either > asks for password or lets me in. But when I use localhost, it correctly uses > 127.0 line for authentication, but does not let me in!!! > > I

[GENERAL] Confusion about ident sameuser

2008-07-02 Thread Gurjeet Singh
Hi All, I am confused with the 'ident sameuser' authentication. Here's my setup: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ grep -v "^#" /pg_hba.conf local all all ident sameuser hostall all 127.0.0.1/32 ident sameuser hostall all

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump - lost synchronization with server: got message type "d", length 6036499

2008-07-02 Thread Klint Gore
Tom Lane wrote: Klint Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Maybe it's >> dying here after having leaked a lot of memory for some other reason >> --- try watching the pg_dump process size while it runs. > Peak memory usage was about 540m which brought the total usage for the > m

Re: [GENERAL] Memory use in 8.3 plpgsql with heavy use of xpath()

2008-07-02 Thread Matt Magoffin
> This part seems to match the bug though --- the leak is approximately > the same size as all the text returned by xpath() within the current > transaction. > > So there may be a second issue remaining to be found. Can you put > together a test case for the long-term small leak? > >

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump - lost synchronization with server: got message type "d", length 6036499

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
Klint Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Maybe it's >> dying here after having leaked a lot of memory for some other reason >> --- try watching the pg_dump process size while it runs. > Peak memory usage was about 540m which brought the total usage for the > machine to about ha

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump - lost synchronization with server: got message type "d", length 6036499

2008-07-02 Thread Klint Gore
Tom Lane wrote: Klint Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone shed some light on what's happening here? > D:\backups>pg_dump -Z 9 -Fc -C -U postgres -f sheepcrc\dbback.dmp sheepcrc2 > pg_dump: Dumping the contents of table "uploadeddatafiles" failed: > PQgetCopyData > () failed. > pg_dum

Re: [GENERAL] SET CLIENT_ENCODING

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
Zbigniew Baniewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would to ask about function (vide subject) transcoding the characters > between different character pages "on the fly": is it smart enough to skip > any transcoding operation, when both client and database are set to use > the same encoding already

Re: [GENERAL] Delete from Join

2008-07-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
Take a look here, in the notes section: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/sql-delete.html on the using keyword. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] changing text search treatment of puncutation

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
John DeSoi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there an easy way to change '/' to be treated like '-' ? I've > looked over the documentation several times and could not find > anything. Even just a way to get the two tokens 'home' and 'work' > without the joined form would be helpful. Seems lik

Re: [GENERAL] Memory use in 8.3 plpgsql with heavy use of xpath()

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
"Matt Magoffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Later, I added a large set of plpgsql trigger functions that operate on > that new xml column data, using the xpath() function to extract bits of > XML and populate them into normal tables. The server has been running in > this fashion for many months n

Re: [GENERAL] Memory use in 8.3 plpgsql with heavy use of xpath()

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
"Matt Magoffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I think this should fix it. >>> Kris Jurka Confirmed, that makes it go away nicely here: LibxmlContext: 57344 total in 3 blocks; 55720 free (202 chunks); 1624 used >> It looks like xml.c source has changed considerably since 8.3 (looking at >> re

[GENERAL] pg_ctl start check sum failed

2008-07-02 Thread Fernando Dominguez
Hello, I try to use an old cluster into a new system. The new system comes with a newer version of postgres so I uninstalled it and I installed the same version that I had in the older system --->8.1 I got impressed when I Installed the 8.1 with dpkg -i and it started to run without starting t

Re: [GENERAL] Memory use in 8.3 plpgsql with heavy use of xpath()

2008-07-02 Thread Matt Magoffin
>> I think this should fix it. >> >> Kris Jurka > > It looks like xml.c source has changed considerably since 8.3 (looking at > revision 1.68.2.2 from the 8.3.3. release). Do you know where/if this > patch would apply to the 8.3 branch? I diff'ed 1.74 and 1.68.2.2, and I'm guessing this new line c

Re: [GENERAL] Memory use in 8.3 plpgsql with heavy use of xpath()

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
"Matt Magoffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It looks like xml.c source has changed considerably since 8.3 No, hardly at all actually, but this patch happens to be right next door to one of the lines that did change. cstring_to_text() replaces some grottier stuff that used to be used for the sam

Re: [GENERAL] Memory use in 8.3 plpgsql with heavy use of xpath()

2008-07-02 Thread Matt Magoffin
>> I'm able to duplicate the memory leak in this function with the current >> Fedora 8 libxml2 (2.6.32). The leak is definitely inside libxml2 >> itself, because the bloat shows up here: >> > > I think this should fix it. > > Kris Jurka It looks like xml.c source has changed considerably since 8.

Re: [GENERAL] Memory use in 8.3 plpgsql with heavy use of xpath()

2008-07-02 Thread Kris Jurka
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Tom Lane wrote: "Matt Magoffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Below is a test case that simulates the use of xpath() within a plpgsql function in my application. I'm able to duplicate the memory leak in this function with the current Fedora 8 libxml2 (2.6.32). The leak is

Re: [GENERAL] Delete from Join

2008-07-02 Thread Gwyneth Morrison
--- On Wed, 7/2/08, Gwyneth Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Gwyneth Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [GENERAL] Delete from Join > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 3:15 PM > Hello, > > Is it possible to use a join keyword in a delete? >

Re: [GENERAL] Memory use in 8.3 plpgsql with heavy use of xpath()

2008-07-02 Thread Matt Magoffin
> I looked through the libxml2 sources a little bit but couldn't > immediately find the problem. I'm fairly confident though that > this could be reproduced outside Postgres, by replicating the sequence > of libxml2 calls we make in xpath(). The next step should probably be > to build a reproduce

[GENERAL] SET CLIENT_ENCODING

2008-07-02 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
Hallo, I would to ask about function (vide subject) transcoding the characters between different character pages "on the fly": is it smart enough to skip any transcoding operation, when both client and database are set to use the same encoding already? To make it more clear: I've got an applicati

[GENERAL] changing text search treatment of puncutation

2008-07-02 Thread John DeSoi
Text with the '/' character gets treated as a file path, e.g. select * from to_tsvector('english', 'home/work'); gives only the single token: 'home/work':1 Changing '/' to '-' gives 'home':2 'work':3 'home-work':1 which is much more desirable for this application. Is there an easy way to c

Re: [GENERAL] Memory use in 8.3 plpgsql with heavy use of xpath()

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
"Matt Magoffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Below is a test case that simulates the use of xpath() within a plpgsql > function in my application. I'm able to duplicate the memory leak in this function with the current Fedora 8 libxml2 (2.6.32). The leak is definitely inside libxml2 itself, beca

Re: [GENERAL] Delete from Join

2008-07-02 Thread Lennin Caro
--- On Wed, 7/2/08, Gwyneth Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Gwyneth Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [GENERAL] Delete from Join > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2008, 3:15 PM > Hello, > > Is it possible to use a join keyword in a delete? > > For

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with roles and permissions

2008-07-02 Thread Chandra Barnett
Bah. Must be pgAdmin, then. In its role creation dialogue, INHERIT is definitely off by default. Guess that's not you guys, though. Sorry to have impugned your judgement... =) -cb. "Chandra Barnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That did it! Thanks, all. > (Out of curiosity, what's

Re: [GENERAL] simple tool for building web forms

2008-07-02 Thread jcvlz
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Roberts, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.sqlmaestro.com/products/postgresql/ > > I've used the PHP Code Generator with great success for simple stuff > like you describe. You could then write a function to do email > notifications or whatever you want. >

[GENERAL] Delete from Join

2008-07-02 Thread Gwyneth Morrison
Hello, Is it possible to use a join keyword in a delete? For example: DELETE FROM data_table1 using data_table2 INNER JOIN data_table1 ON data_table1.fkey = data_table2.pkey; It is not directly mentioned in the delete syntax but the delete refers to

Re: [GENERAL] pg crashing

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'll see if I can repro a case like it to see if the syslogger prevents > the shared mem from going away when I get back to a dev box. Should be > enough to just stick a sleep preventing it from stopping, right? The syslogger isn't restarted at all dur

Re: [GENERAL] pg crashing

2008-07-02 Thread Magnus Hagander
Tom Lane wrote: > Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Not likely, but I'd test it anyway. If the issue is related to AV, it's >> certainly fine - you won't be running AV on your Solaris. But more >> importantly, Unix has actual support for signals and not just the fake >> stuff we have o

Re: [GENERAL] pg crashing

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not likely, but I'd test it anyway. If the issue is related to AV, it's > certainly fine - you won't be running AV on your Solaris. But more > importantly, Unix has actual support for signals and not just the fake > stuff we have on Win32, so it's likel

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump - lost synchronization with server: got message type "d", length 6036499

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
Klint Gore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can someone shed some light on what's happening here? > D:\backups>pg_dump -Z 9 -Fc -C -U postgres -f sheepcrc\dbback.dmp sheepcrc2 > pg_dump: Dumping the contents of table "uploadeddatafiles" failed: > PQgetCopyData > () failed. > pg_dump: Error message fr

Re: [GENERAL] pg crashing

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
BTW, just looking at win32_shmem.c ... retptr = malloc(bufsize + 1 + 18);/* 1 NULL and 18 for * Global\PostgreSQL: */ if (retptr == NULL) elog(FATAL, "could not allocate memory for shared memory name"); strcpy(retptr, "Global\\Pos

Re: [GENERAL] SRF written in C

2008-07-02 Thread Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo
El mié, 02-07-2008 a las 10:39 -0400, Alvaro Herrera escribió: > Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: > > > I suspect that my error is: > > > > r = obtPadre( &intF->izq, &intF->der ); > > You didn't show obtPadre(). > ok it is: Racional* obtPadre( Racional *li, Racional *ld){

Re: [GENERAL] pg crashing

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
"Roberts, Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not complaining. I just want to make sure that if I upgrade, it > will fix the problem. An upgrade could possible introduce a new > problem. I also wonder if this is isolated to Win32 because we are > upgrading to Solaris very soon. The specific

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres benchmark?

2008-07-02 Thread David Siebert
Well that is the rub. I am currently using Postgres everyday. It runs like a champ and even on an old PIII 600 MHZ machine with a single old and slow IDE drive and 256 megs of ram it is fast enough for what we do. This is more for me to do some testing with. I think it would useful as a tunning to

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres benchmark?

2008-07-02 Thread Mayuresh Nirhali
Craig Ringer wrote: David Siebert wrote: I am interesting in finding a good Postgres benchmark. I an not interested in seeing how fast Postgres is compared to MySql, Firebird, or any other SQL database. What I am interested in is how file systems, memory, and X-64 vs X-32 effects the performance

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Problem

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
Volkan YAZICI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have an IBM System x3850 machine running on RHEL 4.5 Cluster Suite > with high-availability enabled. During a huge delete process, PostgreSQL > (8.3.1) exhausts available memory and receives an OOM kill. Are there any foreign keys referencing this tab

Re: [GENERAL] pg crashing

2008-07-02 Thread Magnus Hagander
Roberts, Jon wrote: >> Not having looked at the internals of db_link, I'd say it's certainly >> possible that this is the reason for the failed restart. If db_link is >> blocking something, the postmaster can't kill it off, and it'll still > be >> sitting there holding a reference to the shared mem

Re: [GENERAL] pg crashing

2008-07-02 Thread Roberts, Jon
> > Not having looked at the internals of db_link, I'd say it's certainly > possible that this is the reason for the failed restart. If db_link is > blocking something, the postmaster can't kill it off, and it'll still be > sitting there holding a reference to the shared memory segment. > > That

Re: [GENERAL] SRF written in C

2008-07-02 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: > I suspect that my error is: > > r = obtPadre( &intF->izq, &intF->der ); You didn't show obtPadre(). -- Alvaro Herrerahttp://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres benchmark?

2008-07-02 Thread Craig Ringer
David Siebert wrote: I am interesting in finding a good Postgres benchmark. I an not interested in seeing how fast Postgres is compared to MySql, Firebird, or any other SQL database. What I am interested in is how file systems, memory, and X-64 vs X-32 effects the performance of Postgres. It is m

[GENERAL] Postgres benchmark?

2008-07-02 Thread David Siebert
I am interesting in finding a good Postgres benchmark. I an not interested in seeing how fast Postgres is compared to MySql, Firebird, or any other SQL database. What I am interested in is how file systems, memory, and X-64 vs X-32 effects the performance of Postgres. It is more for my own curiosi

Re: [GENERAL] SRF written in C

2008-07-02 Thread Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo
El mié, 02-07-2008 a las 08:02 +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout escribió: > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 10:02:39AM -0500, Felipe de Jesús Molina Bravo wrote: > > Hi > > > > what can i do for a SRF written in C, can called as follow: > > > > select * from obtAscendencia('(11099,15685)','(6808,9621)'

Re: [GENERAL] pg crashing

2008-07-02 Thread Magnus Hagander
Roberts, Jon wrote: >> Roberts, Jon wrote: Tom Lane wrote: > "Roberts, Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Version: "PostgreSQL 8.3.0, compiled by Visual C++ build 1400" > Well, there are plenty of known bugs in 8.3.0 by now. You really > should update before complaining, not

Re: [GENERAL] SAST FATAL: could not access private key file "server.key"

2008-07-02 Thread Albe Laurenz
Dave Coventry wrote: >> If you want SSL, >> 2) Is there a file server.key? If yes, make it readable to the >> postgres user. If not, create it as documented. > > Here is the contents of my /var/lib/postgresql/8.2/main/ : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib/postgresql/8.2/main# ls -l > total 9 > drwx

Re: [GENERAL] SAST FATAL: could not access private key file "server.key"

2008-07-02 Thread Dave Coventry
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Albe Laurenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you don't need SSL, set 'ssl=off' in postgresql.conf. > If you want SSL, > 1) read the manual on SSL support > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/ssl-tcp.html > 2) Is there a file server.key? If yes, make it reada

Re: [GENERAL] pg crashing

2008-07-02 Thread Roberts, Jon
> Roberts, Jon wrote: > >> Tom Lane wrote: > >>> "Roberts, Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Version: "PostgreSQL 8.3.0, compiled by Visual C++ build 1400" > >>> Well, there are plenty of known bugs in 8.3.0 by now. You really > >>> should update before complaining, not after. > >> Yes. And

Re: [GENERAL] pg crashing

2008-07-02 Thread Magnus Hagander
Roberts, Jon wrote: >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> "Roberts, Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Version: "PostgreSQL 8.3.0, compiled by Visual C++ build 1400" >>> Well, there are plenty of known bugs in 8.3.0 by now. You really >>> should update before complaining, not after. >> Yes. And the traditiona

Re: [GENERAL] pg crashing

2008-07-02 Thread Craig Ringer
Roberts, Jon wrote: "Roberts, Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Version: "PostgreSQL 8.3.0, compiled by Visual C++ build 1400" Well, there are plenty of known bugs in 8.3.0 by now. You really should update before complaining, not after. I'm not complaining. I just want to make sure that if I

Re: [GENERAL] pg crashing

2008-07-02 Thread Roberts, Jon
> Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> But the syslogger process (and maybe others) is *not* supposed to die. > > > Right. But are you saying we actually want to start up a new backend in > > a directory where we already have a running syslogger (and maybe others) >

Re: [GENERAL] pg crashing

2008-07-02 Thread Roberts, Jon
> Tom Lane wrote: > > "Roberts, Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Version: "PostgreSQL 8.3.0, compiled by Visual C++ build 1400" > > > > Well, there are plenty of known bugs in 8.3.0 by now. You really > > should update before complaining, not after. > > Yes. And the traditional question shou

Re: [GENERAL] pg crashing

2008-07-02 Thread Roberts, Jon
> "Roberts, Jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Version: "PostgreSQL 8.3.0, compiled by Visual C++ build 1400" > > Well, there are plenty of known bugs in 8.3.0 by now. You really > should update before complaining, not after. I'm not complaining. I just want to make sure that if I upgrade, it

Re: [GENERAL] simple tool for building web forms

2008-07-02 Thread Roberts, Jon
http://www.sqlmaestro.com/products/postgresql/ I've used the PHP Code Generator with great success for simple stuff like you describe. You could then write a function to do email notifications or whatever you want. Jon > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:pgsql-genera

[GENERAL] simple tool for building web forms

2008-07-02 Thread Ron Peterson
Can anyone recommend a good tool for building simple web forms w/ a PostgreSQL backend? Emphasis on simple - single table contact info forms, etc. Something that can be presented to end users w/out a lot of hand-holding. E.g. "I want a form w/ last name, first name, # of guests, arrival date. S

Re: [GENERAL] Target lists can have at most 1664 entries?

2008-07-02 Thread Bjørn T Johansen
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:24:38 +0800 Craig Ringer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > =?UTF-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn?= T Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What does this mean and how can it be fixed? > > > > Reduce the number of columns in your SELECTs? > > > > This whiffs to me of excr

Re: [GENERAL] Insert into ... returning ... before 8.2?

2008-07-02 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 02.07.2008, um 11:58:19 +0200 mailte A B folgendes: > What should I replace the command > > INSERT INTO table (name) VALUES (value) RETURNING currval('my_id_seq') > into my_var; > > with if I have to use version 8.1? select currval('my_id_seq'); Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kont

[GENERAL] Insert into ... returning ... before 8.2?

2008-07-02 Thread A B
What should I replace the command INSERT INTO table (name) VALUES (value) RETURNING currval('my_id_seq') into my_var; with if I have to use version 8.1? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref

[GENERAL] Memory Problem

2008-07-02 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, We have an IBM System x3850 machine running on RHEL 4.5 Cluster Suite with high-availability enabled. During a huge delete process, PostgreSQL (8.3.1) exhausts available memory and receives an OOM kill. $ /srv/usr/bin/psql -e -f ~/schemas/working/test_1_5_1_0-schema-delete-bogus-2-20080625

Re: [GENERAL] Target lists can have at most 1664 entries?

2008-07-02 Thread Bjørn T Johansen
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:04:04 -0400 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > =?UTF-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn?= T Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What does this mean and how can it be fixed? > > Reduce the number of columns in your SELECTs? > > This whiffs to me of excruciatingly bad schema design. Ho

Re: [GENERAL] Target lists can have at most 1664 entries?

2008-07-02 Thread Craig Ringer
Tom Lane wrote: > =?UTF-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn?= T Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What does this mean and how can it be fixed? > > Reduce the number of columns in your SELECTs? > > This whiffs to me of excruciatingly bad schema design. How could you > possibly need upwards of a thousand columns

Re: [GENERAL] Target lists can have at most 1664 entries?

2008-07-02 Thread Richard Huxton
Magnus Hagander wrote: Richard Huxton wrote: Bjørn T Johansen wrote: What does this mean and how can it be fixed? We are running Hibernate with PostgreSQL 8.3.x... What query is Hibernate generating? That's an error from the planner. It does sound like you're trying to query back more than 1

Re: [GENERAL] Target lists can have at most 1664 entries?

2008-07-02 Thread Bjørn T Johansen
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:03:04 +0200 Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Huxton wrote: > > Bjørn T Johansen wrote: > >> What does this mean and how can it be fixed? We are running Hibernate > >> with PostgreSQL 8.3.x... > > > > What query is Hibernate generating? That's an error fr

Re: [GENERAL] Target lists can have at most 1664 entries?

2008-07-02 Thread Tom Lane
=?UTF-8?Q?Bj=C3=B8rn?= T Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What does this mean and how can it be fixed? Reduce the number of columns in your SELECTs? This whiffs to me of excruciatingly bad schema design. How could you possibly need upwards of a thousand columns in a query result? IMHO reas

Re: [GENERAL] Target lists can have at most 1664 entries?

2008-07-02 Thread Magnus Hagander
Richard Huxton wrote: > Bjørn T Johansen wrote: >> What does this mean and how can it be fixed? We are running Hibernate >> with PostgreSQL 8.3.x... > > What query is Hibernate generating? That's an error from the planner. It does sound like you're trying to query back more than 1664 columns in

Re: [GENERAL] Memory use in 8.3 plpgsql with heavy use of xpath()

2008-07-02 Thread Matt Magoffin
>> OK, I'll try to come up with something. Do you have a recommended way of >> capturing the amount memory being used by Postgres related to this? I >> was >> thinking I would have a plpgsql function that loops a large number of >> times, calling a few xpath() calls, > > Yeah, that's what I'd try f