[GENERAL] Postgres Start up Error

2011-04-17 Thread Adarsh Sharma
Dear all, Today I by mistake deleted all the contents of pg_log & pg_xlog directory and my Postgresql refuses to start due to the below error :- 2011-04-18 10:51:39 ISTLOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2011-04-18 10:06:42 IST 2011-04-18 10:51:39 ISTLOG: could not open f

Re: [GENERAL] How to configure a read-only database server and session? (Was: read-only UNLOGGED tables)

2011-04-17 Thread Craig Ringer
On 04/18/2011 04:04 AM, Stefan Keller wrote: 5. Optimize and secure session by following parameters: SET transaction_read_only TO FALSE; SET TRANSACTION READ ONLY; AFAIK, neither of those have any effect on security. They're purely advisory hints to Pg. Personally I think it'd be

[GENERAL] "interval hour to minute" or "interval day to minute"

2011-04-17 Thread Jack Douglas
Hi I discovered the 'fields' option of 'interval', but i can't figure out from the docs how it is supposed to work. Are "hour to minute" and "day to minute" really the same thing? And if not, in what circumstances are they treated differently? psql (8.4.7) Type "help" for help. postgres=> s

Re: [GENERAL] Howto sort the result of UNION (without modifying its type)?

2011-04-17 Thread Radosław Smogura
Clemens Eisserer Friday 08 April 2011 23:44:21 > Hi, > > I have a query where I UNION several select statements which return > IDs of type INTEGER. > > This works well, if the IDs don't need to be sorted: > > SELECT id FROM table WHERE id IN ((select id FROM table WHERE ...) UNION > > (SELECT id

Re: [GENERAL] Indexing strategy

2011-04-17 Thread Andy Colson
On 04/17/2011 03:52 AM, Phoenix Kiula wrote: Hi, Need some help here. I have a large table (200 million rows already). There are two columns. ColA ColB There is an index on ColA. It's an important column. ColB is a boolean. Either 1 or 0. For about 10% of the data, ColB is 1. Otherwise it's

[GENERAL] How to configure a read-only database server and session? (Was: read-only UNLOGGED tables)

2011-04-17 Thread Stefan Keller
I have a single-disk virtual Linux system and a read-only dataset which is exposed to internet and completely replaced from time to time. I compiled following steps in order to secure and speedup such PostgreSQL/PostGIS instance: 1. Re-configure PostgreSQL server as following: a. Disabling aut

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PGDG on a fresh CentOS 5.6

2011-04-17 Thread Tom Lane
Alexander Farber writes: > I have installed CentOS from a CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso > and then installed PGDG because I want to have PostgreSQL 8.4.7: I'm not sure if CentOS is caught up, but postgresql 8.4.7 is available for RHEL5 from Red Hat --- it's called "postgresql84". Possibly y

Re: [GENERAL] Installing PGDG on a fresh CentOS 5.6

2011-04-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/17/11 11:05 AM, Alexander Farber wrote: ... ---> Package postgresql-libs.x86_64 0:8.4.7-1PGDG.rhel5 set to be updated --> Running transaction check ---> Package compat-postgresql-libs.x86_64 0:4-1PGDG.rhel5 set to be updated ... postgresql-devel-8.1.23-1.el5_6.1.i386 from updates has dep

[GENERAL] Installing PGDG on a fresh CentOS 5.6

2011-04-17 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, I have installed CentOS from a CentOS-5.6-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso and then installed PGDG because I want to have PostgreSQL 8.4.7: # rpm -Uvh http://www.pgrpms.org/8.4/redhat/rhel-5-x86_64/pgdg-centos-8.4-2.noarch.rpm # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/pgdg-84-centos.repo [pgdg84] name=PostgreSQL 8

Re: [GENERAL] Using column aliasses in the same query

2011-04-17 Thread Tom Lane
"Robert J.C. Ivens" writes: > I am not sure if there ever was a feature request for using defined > column aliases in the rest of a query. Yes, we've heard that before. Many times. It's not going to happen, and here's why: it's flat out contrary to the SQL specification, as well as to the basi

Re: [GENERAL] Using column aliasses in the same query

2011-04-17 Thread Robert J.C. Ivens
On 17 apr 2011, at 13:43, pasman pasmański wrote: > Maybe you think about WITH queries? > > 2011/4/17, Robert J.C. Ivens : >> >> On 17 apr 2011, at 13:21, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote: >> >>> On Sunday 17 April 2011 13:01:45 Robert J.C. Ivens wrote: Hi, I am not sure if there e

Re: [GENERAL] Using column aliasses in the same query

2011-04-17 Thread pasman pasmański
Maybe you think about WITH queries? 2011/4/17, Robert J.C. Ivens : > > On 17 apr 2011, at 13:21, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote: > >> On Sunday 17 April 2011 13:01:45 Robert J.C. Ivens wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am not sure if there ever was a feature request for using defined >>> column >>> aliases i

Re: [GENERAL] Using column aliasses in the same query

2011-04-17 Thread Cédric Villemain
2011/4/17 Robert J.C. Ivens : > > On 17 apr 2011, at 13:21, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote: > >> On Sunday 17 April 2011 13:01:45 Robert J.C. Ivens wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am not sure if there ever was a feature request for using defined column >>> aliases in the rest of a query. This would make que

Re: [GENERAL] Using column aliasses in the same query

2011-04-17 Thread Robert J.C. Ivens
On 17 apr 2011, at 13:21, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote: > On Sunday 17 April 2011 13:01:45 Robert J.C. Ivens wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am not sure if there ever was a feature request for using defined column >> aliases in the rest of a query. This would make queries with a lot of >> logic in those a

Re: [GENERAL] Using column aliasses in the same query

2011-04-17 Thread Leif Biberg Kristensen
On Sunday 17 April 2011 13:01:45 Robert J.C. Ivens wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure if there ever was a feature request for using defined column > aliases in the rest of a query. This would make queries with a lot of > logic in those aliased columns a lot smaller and this easier to > write/debug. >

Re: [GENERAL] Howto sort the result of UNION (without modifying its type)?

2011-04-17 Thread Radosław Smogura
Clemens Eisserer Friday 08 April 2011 23:44:21 > Hi, > > I have a query where I UNION several select statements which return > IDs of type INTEGER. > > This works well, if the IDs don't need to be sorted: > > SELECT id FROM table WHERE id IN ((select id FROM table WHERE ...) UNION > > (SELECT id

[GENERAL] Using column aliasses in the same query

2011-04-17 Thread Robert J.C. Ivens
Hi, I am not sure if there ever was a feature request for using defined column aliases in the rest of a query. This would make queries with a lot of logic in those aliased columns a lot smaller and this easier to write/debug. I already know you can use the following syntax: SELECT col1, col2,

Re: [GENERAL] SSDs with Postgresql?

2011-04-17 Thread Henry C.
On Thu, April 14, 2011 20:54, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:27:34PM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > >>> That's what a UPS and genset are for.  Who writes critical stuff to >>> *any* >>> drive without power backup? >> >> Because power supply systems with UPS never fail. >> > > R

Re: [GENERAL] SSDs with Postgresql?

2011-04-17 Thread Henry C.
On Thu, April 14, 2011 18:56, Benjamin Smith wrote: > After a glowing review at AnandTech (including DB benchmarks!) I decided to > spring for an OCX Vertex 3 Pro 120 for evaluation purposes. It cost about $300 > with shipping, etc and at this point, won't be putting any > > Considering that I sp

[GENERAL] Indexing strategy

2011-04-17 Thread Phoenix Kiula
Hi, Need some help here. I have a large table (200 million rows already). There are two columns. ColA ColB There is an index on ColA. It's an important column. ColB is a boolean. Either 1 or 0. For about 10% of the data, ColB is 1. Otherwise it's default is 0. Now, my question: for that 10%,