Re: [GENERAL] variable not found in subplan target list

2011-11-01 Thread Roger Niederland
On 11/1/2011 8:30 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Roger Niederland writes: I extracted the tables from the database which generates the error above I eliminated most of the columns such that this query still exhibits this behavior to reduce the file size. I have a zipped file from windows postgresql 9.1

Re: [GENERAL] Subselects in select expressions

2011-11-01 Thread Royce Ausburn
On 02/11/2011, at 2:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Royce Ausburn writes: >> [ random() is evaluated only once in ] >> test=# select (select random()) from generate_series(1,10); -- rows are the >> same > >> I understand that it's likely an optimisation thing -- postgres knows >> that the subselect d

Re: [GENERAL] Regarding the shared disk fail over cluster configuration

2011-11-01 Thread Ondrej Ivanič
Hi, On 2 November 2011 02:00, Debasis Mishra wrote: > Thanks a lot for your replay. I just wanna know whether it is required for > me to run initdb or setting the PGDATA environment variable is enough? Master needs to be properly initialised & configured - install postgres - run initdb - install

Re: [GENERAL] adding a column takes FOREVER!

2011-11-01 Thread Eric Smith
Tom, Well... there's a lot of data hiding in each of those rows... as much as 4MB in each. I'll make allowances in my code so that adding a column without a default is a workable solution. Thank you, Eric On Nov 1, 2011, at 8:27 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Eric Smith writes: >> Thank you for the

Re: [GENERAL] variable not found in subplan target list

2011-11-01 Thread Tom Lane
Roger Niederland writes: > I extracted the tables from the database which generates the error above > I eliminated most of the columns such that this query still exhibits > this behavior to reduce > the file size. I have a zipped file from windows postgresql 9.1.1 > (32-bit) which is about 1.5

Re: [GENERAL] adding a column takes FOREVER!

2011-11-01 Thread Tom Lane
Eric Smith writes: > Thank you for the response... to be perfectly honest, I don't know enough to > know what I'm not telling you. Below is the string I use to create the > table, so you can see the contents. I don't think I have foreign key > references or triggers of any kind. Any ideas? (

Re: [GENERAL] Subselects in select expressions

2011-11-01 Thread Tom Lane
Royce Ausburn writes: > [ random() is evaluated only once in ] > test=# select (select random()) from generate_series(1,10); -- rows are the > same > I understand that it's likely an optimisation thing -- postgres knows > that the subselect doesn't depend on the FROM rows so it evaluates it > on

Re: [GENERAL] variable not found in subplan target list

2011-11-01 Thread Roger Niederland
On 11/1/2011 3:54 PM, Roger Niederland wrote: Hello, I stripped down the original query to what is below. I am not saying that the query below is useful except to show an error I am getting in Postgresql 9.1.1 on both SL6.1 (64 bit) and Windows 2008 server 9.1.1 (32-bit and 64-bit). The e

Re: [GENERAL] variable not found in subplan target list

2011-11-01 Thread Tom Lane
Roger Niederland writes: > I stripped down the original query to what is below. I am not saying > that the query below > is useful except to show an error I am getting in Postgresql 9.1.1 on > both SL6.1 (64 bit) and > Windows 2008 server 9.1.1 (32-bit and 64-bit). The error I am getting is:

Re: [GENERAL] adding a column takes FOREVER!

2011-11-01 Thread Gauthier, Dave
I think you need exclusive access to the table in order to add columns (I'll stand/sit corrected if the more experienced responders say different). I've found that you have to either wait for them to get off or kill them first (as in pg_ctl kill ABRT). From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.or

Re: [GENERAL] Re: [pgsql-general] Need Help With a A Simple Query That's Not So Simple

2011-11-01 Thread Bill Thoen
Thanks! Half the problem searching the 'Net for answers is knowing what it's called. Regards, Bill Thoen GISnet http://gisnet.com 303-786-9961 On Nov 1, 2011, at 10:01 AM, "James B. Byrne" wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:51:02 -0600 >> From: Bill Thoen >> To: Postgrresql >> Subject:

Re: [GENERAL] adding a column takes FOREVER!

2011-11-01 Thread Eric Smith
Thank you for the response... to be perfectly honest, I don't know enough to know what I'm not telling you. Below is the string I use to create the table, so you can see the contents. I don't think I have foreign key references or triggers of any kind. Any ideas? (this is 8.3 running on Mac O

[GENERAL] Subselects in select expressions

2011-11-01 Thread Royce Ausburn
I'm having trouble understanding why these two queries produce different results: test=# select (select random()) from generate_series(1,10); -- rows are the same ?column? --- 0.770797704812139 0.770797704812139 0.770797704812139 0.770797704812139 0.770797704812139

Re: [GENERAL] Regarding the shared disk fail over cluster configuration

2011-11-01 Thread Debasis Mishra
Thanks Ondrej Ivanic, Thanks a lot for your replay. I just wanna know whether it is required for me to run initdb or setting the PGDATA environment variable is enough? Thanks, Debasis -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Regarding-the-shared-disk-fail-ove

Re: [GENERAL] Disable Streaming Replication ==> Stop WAL Sender on master and WAL receiver on Slave

2011-11-01 Thread Jaime Casanova
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Samba wrote: > > But how do I disable streaming replication, with the effect that both WAL > sender on master and WAL receiver on slave gets stopped? Similarly, when I > enable streaming replication, the WAL sender and WAL receiver processes > would need to be start

[GENERAL] Re: [pgsql-general] Need Help With a A Simple Query That's Not So Simple

2011-11-01 Thread James B. Byrne
> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:51:02 -0600 > From: Bill Thoen > To: Postgrresql > Subject: Need Help With a A Simple Query That's Not So > Simple > Message-ID: <4eaf2656.6020...@gisnet.com> > > I think this should be easy, but I can't seem to put the > SQL together correctly and would appreciate an

Re: [GENERAL] Server hitting 100% CPU usage, system comes to a crawl.

2011-11-01 Thread Brian Fehrle
Update on this: We did a switchover to another machine with the same hardware, however this system was running on some older parameters we had set in the postgresql.conf file. So we went from 400 max_connections to 200 max_connections, and 160MB work_mem to 200MB work_mem. And now on this ot

Re: [GENERAL] Server hitting 100% CPU usage, system comes to a crawl.

2011-11-01 Thread Tom Lane
Brian Fehrle writes: > Update on this: > We did a switchover to another machine with the same hardware, however > this system was running on some older parameters we had set in the > postgresql.conf file. > So we went from 400 max_connections to 200 max_connections, and 160MB > work_mem to 200

Re: [GENERAL] missing chunk 0 for toast value ...

2011-11-01 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Hammond writes: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Hmm ... pg_toast_2619 is pg_statistic's toast table. Is this 9.0.x, >> and are you by any chance in the habit of running CLUSTER or VACUUM FULL >> on your system catalogs? Could one have been running in the background

[GENERAL] variable not found in subplan target list

2011-11-01 Thread Roger Niederland
Hello, I stripped down the original query to what is below. I am not saying that the query below is useful except to show an error I am getting in Postgresql 9.1.1 on both SL6.1 (64 bit) and Windows 2008 server 9.1.1 (32-bit and 64-bit). The error I am getting is: ERROR: variable not found

Re: [GENERAL] Server move using rsync

2011-11-01 Thread Alan Hodgson
On October 31, 2011 03:01:19 PM Stephen Denne wrote: > I'm wondering whether it's worth doing anyway, simply to check that it > doesn't do something completely unexpected, which would presumably alert > us to something we hadn't considered. > Testing is always worthwhile, if only to ensure that P

[GENERAL] Disable Streaming Replication ==> Stop WAL Sender on master and WAL receiver on Slave

2011-11-01 Thread Samba
Hi all, I read in pg mail archives that postgresql-9.1 release added support or pausing and resuming (or disabling and enabling) streaming replication but could not find any relevant configuration settings for achieving the same. the closest that i could find so far are: replication_timeout (in

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: the database system is starting up

2011-11-01 Thread patrick keshishian
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:09 PM, patrick keshishian > wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:49 PM, William E. Moreno A. >> wrote: >>> Solution: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-12/msg01339.php >>> Solution: Message-id: <476d

Re: [GENERAL] pglesslog for Postgres 9.1.1

2011-11-01 Thread mailtolouis2020-postg...@yahoo.com
Hi, Thanks for the patch, tested and it working fine. Regards Louis > >From: Satoshi Nagayasu >To: "mailtolouis2020-postg...@yahoo.com" >Cc: Tom Lane ; Postgres >Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 5:51 AM >Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pglesslog for Postgres 9.1.1 > >Hi