[GENERAL] Problemas com client_encoding ?

2012-02-23 Thread Emanuel Araújo
Srs. realizei uma instalação de um de nossos servers e me deparei com a seguinte mensagem [user@local ~]$ psql psql: invalid connection option "client_encoding" Depois de procurar sobre o assunto, setei uma variavel chamada PGCLIENTENCODING = UTF8 e isso resolveu meu problema, no entanto, ao inst

Re: [GENERAL] Optimise PostgreSQL for fast testing

2012-02-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:00:08 pm Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote: > On 24/02/2012, at 2:06 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > >> Would appreciate some suggestions. > > > > Not enough information to make suggestions. > > Jack Christensen pretty nailed it very well. But I'll answer the particulars here t

Re: [GENERAL] Optimise PostgreSQL for fast testing

2012-02-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote: > On 24/02/2012, at 5:15 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: > > Now all you have to do is parallelise the tests and everything can > work 10 times quicker and it would be much faster than the time SQLite > produced. > > So using PostgreSQL for testing

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade to 9.1 causing function problem

2012-02-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:53:42 pm Willem Buitendyk wrote: > Both via psql and PgAdmin. > > Yes only one database cluster. > Another thought. Did you CREATE the schema using PgAdmin and if so, might you have inadvertently put in a trailing or leading space ? I ask because if I remember

Re: [GENERAL] Optimise PostgreSQL for fast testing

2012-02-23 Thread Greg Smith
On 02/23/2012 07:16 PM, Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote: That's totally fine if PG can't beat SQLite on speed in **this particular case**. I just want to try to tune it to be as fast as it can (for **this particular case**, see my reply to Adrian). You can find all of the big tunable parameters at htt

Re: [GENERAL] Optimise PostgreSQL for fast testing

2012-02-23 Thread Dmytrii Nagirniak
On 24/02/2012, at 5:15 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: > Now all you have to do is parallelise the tests and everything can > work 10 times quicker and it would be much faster than the time SQLite > produced. > > So using PostgreSQL for testing would be both quicker and more > accurate, if you set the tes

Re: [GENERAL] Optimise PostgreSQL for fast testing

2012-02-23 Thread Dmytrii Nagirniak
On 24/02/2012, at 2:22 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: >> Would appreciate some suggestions. > > You really need to explain why this matters... I've just replied to Adrian with more details. I suppose you don't mind to take a look there so I won't copy-paste it :) > You mention a "typical Ruby on Rail

Re: [GENERAL] Optimise PostgreSQL for fast testing

2012-02-23 Thread Dmytrii Nagirniak
On 24/02/2012, at 2:06 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: >> >> Would appreciate some suggestions. > > Not enough information to make suggestions. Jack Christensen pretty nailed it very well. But I'll answer the particulars here too: > Why are you switching databases? Need FTS from PG. No other reason

Re: [GENERAL] Optimise PostgreSQL for fast testing

2012-02-23 Thread Dmytrii Nagirniak
On 23/02/2012, at 7:35 PM, Marti Raudsepp wrote: > If you have lots of very simple queries, then usually much of the > overhead is in query planning. There are a few tricks to dumb down the > planner to make it faster -- although that may come at the cost of > slowing down execution. > > * If you

Re: [GENERAL] Optimise PostgreSQL for fast testing

2012-02-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Scott Marlowe > wrote: > >> He's probably doing automated continuous integration testing.  Two >> jobs ago we had a setup to do that and had 40k tests.  The whole test >> suite took about 30 minutes to runm a

Re: [GENERAL] Re: [PERFORM] Disable-spinlocks while compiling postgres 9.1 for ARM Cortex A8

2012-02-23 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Jayashankar K B wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Sorry about the cross-post. > I am not aware of the procedures for patch etc. > Could you please tell me how to use the patch ? see general instructions here: http://jungels.net/articles/diff-patch-ten-minutes.html merlin --

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade to 9.1 causing function problem

2012-02-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 02/23/2012 01:53 PM, Willem Buitendyk wrote: Both via psql and PgAdmin. Yes only one database cluster. 1) Did you try Johns recommendation, just to be sure?: " add the database name to your log_line_prefix ... I use something like... log_line_prefix = '%m %u@%d[%p]: ' " 2) So what ha

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade to 9.1 causing function problem

2012-02-23 Thread Willem Buitendyk
Both via psql and PgAdmin. Yes only one database cluster. On 2012-02-23, at 1:32 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 02/23/2012 01:08 PM, Willem Buitendyk wrote: >> I have it set in postgresql.conf and I've also used: >> >> alter user postgres set search_path = crabdata,public; >> >> looking at t

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade to 9.1 causing function problem

2012-02-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 02/23/2012 01:08 PM, Willem Buitendyk wrote: I have it set in postgresql.conf and I've also used: alter user postgres set search_path = crabdata,public; looking at the logs after issuing the above alter user command I get: 2012-02-23 13:03:09 PST WARNING invalid value for parameter "search_

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade to 9.1 causing function problem

2012-02-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 02/23/2012 01:15 PM, Igor Polishchuk wrote: Actually, what works is set search_path='crabdata', 'public' ; Yea, I was not clear here. I was referring to postgresql.conf setting. -- Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade to 9.1 causing function problem

2012-02-23 Thread Igor Polishchuk
Actually, what works is set search_path='crabdata', 'public' ; On 2/23/12 1:10 PM, "Adrian Klaver" wrote: > On 02/23/2012 01:08 PM, Willem Buitendyk wrote: >> I have it set in postgresql.conf and I've also used: >> alter user postgres set search_path = crabdata,public; >> > > Well search_pat

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade to 9.1 causing function problem

2012-02-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 02/23/2012 01:08 PM, Willem Buitendyk wrote: I have it set in postgresql.conf and I've also used: alter user postgres set search_path = crabdata,public; Well search_path is a string, so have you tried?; search_path='crabdata,public' -- Adrian Klaver adrian.kla...@gmail.com -- Sent via p

[GENERAL] Re: [PERFORM] Disable-spinlocks while compiling postgres 9.1 for ARM Cortex A8

2012-02-23 Thread Jayashankar K B
Hi Tom, Sorry about the cross-post. I am not aware of the procedures for patch etc. Could you please tell me how to use the patch ? I have already compiled and got the postgres server. So please let me know the process of patching or kindly point me to a link which explain this. Thanks and Regar

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade to 9.1 causing function problem

2012-02-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/23/12 11:49 AM, Willem Buitendyk wrote: 2012-02-23 11:31:44 PST WARNING invalid value for parameter "search_path": "crabdata" 2012-02-23 11:31:44 PST DETAIL schema "crabdata" does not exist Bizarre because I did set my search path to the schema crabdata but now it is saying

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade to 9.1 causing function problem

2012-02-23 Thread Willem Buitendyk
I have it set in postgresql.conf and I've also used: alter user postgres set search_path = crabdata,public; looking at the logs after issuing the above alter user command I get: 2012-02-23 13:03:09 PST WARNING invalid value for parameter "search_path": "crabdata, public" 2012-02-23 13:03:09

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade to 9.1 causing function problem

2012-02-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 02/23/2012 11:49 AM, Willem Buitendyk wrote: Here are the log returns: 2012-02-23 11:31:44 PST WARNING invalid value for parameter "search_path": "crabdata" 2012-02-23 11:31:44 PST DETAIL schema "crabdata" does not exist Bizarre because I did set my search path to the schema c

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade to 9.1 causing function problem

2012-02-23 Thread Willem Buitendyk
crabby=# \dv List of relations Schema | Name| Type | Owner --+---+--+-- crabdata | Total XXX X by XXX | view | postgres also; crabby=# show sear

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Disable-spinlocks while compiling postgres 9.1 for ARM Cortex A8

2012-02-23 Thread Tom Lane
Jayashankar K B writes: > Hi All, > I am trying to compile Postgres Source code for ARM cortex A8 architecture. > While compiling, I got an error message which read "selected processor does > not support `swpb r4,r4,[r3]' " > One of the Postgres forums at the location > "http://postgresql.104569

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade to 9.1 causing function problem

2012-02-23 Thread Rob Sargent
On 02/23/2012 12:49 PM, Willem Buitendyk wrote: Here are the log returns: 2012-02-23 11:31:44 PST WARNING invalid value for parameter "search_path": "crabdata" 2012-02-23 11:31:44 PST DETAIL schema "crabdata" does not exist Bizarre because I did set my search path to the schema c

[GENERAL] Disable-spinlocks while compiling postgres 9.1 for ARM Cortex A8

2012-02-23 Thread Jayashankar K B
Hi All, I am trying to compile Postgres Source code for ARM cortex A8 architecture. While compiling, I got an error message which read "selected processor does not support `swpb r4,r4,[r3]' " One of the Postgres forums at the location "http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/BUG-6331-Cross-compi

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade to 9.1 causing function problem

2012-02-23 Thread Willem Buitendyk
Here are the log returns: 2012-02-23 11:31:44 PST WARNING invalid value for parameter "search_path": "crabdata" 2012-02-23 11:31:44 PST DETAIL schema "crabdata" does not exist Bizarre because I did set my search path to the schema crabdata but now it is saying that crabdata doesn't

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade to 9.1 causing function problem

2012-02-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:18:46 am Willem Buitendyk wrote: > I have recently upgraded my database from 8.4 to 9.1. In the process I > have moved everything to a different schema. Postgis is occupying the > public schema. Everything is working fine except for some of my own > functions. H

[GENERAL] Upgrade to 9.1 causing function problem

2012-02-23 Thread Willem Buitendyk
I have recently upgraded my database from 8.4 to 9.1. In the process I have moved everything to a different schema. Postgis is occupying the public schema. Everything is working fine except for some of my own functions. Here is a small function and table that will not update when I perform th

Re: [GENERAL] Optimise PostgreSQL for fast testing

2012-02-23 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > He's probably doing automated continuous integration testing.  Two > jobs ago we had a setup to do that and had 40k tests.  The whole test > suite took about 30 minutes to runm and kicked off automatically when > the last one finished and an

Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic File Name for COPY TO in Stored Procedure

2012-02-23 Thread Carlos Oliva
That worked. Thank you Adrian -Original Message- From: Adrian Klaver [mailto:adrian.kla...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:58 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Cc: Carlos Oliva Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic File Name for COPY TO in Stored Procedure On Thursday, Februa

Re: [GENERAL] Optimise PostgreSQL for fast testing

2012-02-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:05 AM, David Salisbury wrote: > > > On 2/23/12 9:06 AM, Jack Christensen wrote: >> >> As another Rails developer using PostgreSQL I think I can explain the >> use case. In standard Rails usage, the ORM handles all SQL query >> generation and thus the application is datab

Re: [GENERAL] Optimise PostgreSQL for fast testing

2012-02-23 Thread David Salisbury
On 2/23/12 9:06 AM, Jack Christensen wrote: As another Rails developer using PostgreSQL I think I can explain the use case. In standard Rails usage, the ORM handles all SQL query generation and thus the application is database agnostic. It is typical to use SQLite in development and testing and

Re: [GENERAL] How to enable thread safety on postgresql 8.3.6

2012-02-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/23/12 3:22 AM, ultrayoYO wrote: OS : Linux Centos 5.1 you haven't installed any security or stability updates since 2007 ? -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-genera

[GENERAL] COPY TO File: Using dynamic file name in stored procedure

2012-02-23 Thread Carlos Oliva
Hi, What would it be the correct format for using a variable in a stored procedure that uses COPY TO? I have the current stored procedure: CREATE FUNCTION Table_To_File(text) RETURNS void AS $delimeter$ COPY (SELECT * FROM table_to_xml('table', true, false, '')) TO '$1' WITH CSV QUOTE ' '; $de

Re: [GENERAL] Optimise PostgreSQL for fast testing

2012-02-23 Thread Jack Christensen
On 2/23/2012 9:22 AM, Simon Riggs wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote: I wonder if you can suggest me how to speed-up PG when running specs. I asked it at SO here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9407442/optimise-postgresql-for-fast-testing But briefly. PG spec

Re: [GENERAL] psql latex and newlines

2012-02-23 Thread Wim Bertels
> > > > the problem arises when u have a field value that contains a newline > > > > character, when this field is not the first column, then all the data > > > > after this newline comes in the first column.. > > > > > > > > u can try this out, writing a function or table, > > > > and then add 'e

Re: [GENERAL] How to enable thread safety on postgresql 8.3.6

2012-02-23 Thread Albe Laurenz
ultrayoYO wrote: > I need to enable option --enable-thread-safety after install completed. > Do you have any way for this case. Because I try to remove and reinstall by > enable thread safety. > But not update feature --enable-thread-safety Postgresql config still value > config in the first insta

Re: [GENERAL] Optimise PostgreSQL for fast testing

2012-02-23 Thread Simon Riggs
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote: > I wonder if you can suggest me how to speed-up PG when running specs. > I asked it at SO here: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9407442/optimise-postgresql-for-fast-testing > > But briefly. PG specs are >2x slower than SQLite. > I

Re: [GENERAL] Optimise PostgreSQL for fast testing

2012-02-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 9:13:06 pm Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote: > Hi guys, > > I wonder if you can suggest me how to speed-up PG when running specs. > I asked it at SO here: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9407442/optimise-postgresql-for-fast-tes > ting > > But briefly. PG specs are >

Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic File Name for COPY TO in Stored Procedure

2012-02-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday, February 23, 2012 6:42:53 am Carlos Oliva wrote: > Hi, > What would it be the correct format for using a variable in a stored > procedure that uses COPY TO? > > I have the current stored procedure: > CREATE FUNCTION Table_To_File(text) RETURNS void AS $delimeter$ >COPY (SELECT * F

[GENERAL] Dynamic File Name for COPY TO in Stored Procedure

2012-02-23 Thread Carlos Oliva
Hi, What would it be the correct format for using a variable in a stored procedure that uses COPY TO? I have the current stored procedure: CREATE FUNCTION Table_To_File(text) RETURNS void AS $delimeter$ COPY (SELECT * FROM table_to_xml('table', true, false, '')) TO '$1' WITH CSV QUOTE ' '; $de

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql as main database

2012-02-23 Thread Chris Travers
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Twaha Daudi wrote: > Hello all, > Good day, > I would like to make Postgresql 8.4 as main database for running > three(software) and possible exchanging data.Is it possible? if yes what is > the implication in terms of performance? > Yes. As far as implication

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql as main database

2012-02-23 Thread Albe Laurenz
Twaha Daudi wrote: > I would like to make Postgresql 8.4 as main database for running three(software) and possible > exchanging data.Is it possible? if yes what is the implication in terms of performance? Please give us more information: - What is three(software)? - Can you specify how and with w

Re: [GENERAL] How to enable thread safety on postgresql 8.3.6

2012-02-23 Thread ultrayoYO
OS : Linux Centos 5.1 -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/How-to-enable-thread-safety-on-postgresql-8-3-6-tp5507687p5507721.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@pos

[GENERAL] How to enable thread safety on postgresql 8.3.6

2012-02-23 Thread ultrayoYO
Hi I need to enable option --enable-thread-safety after install completed. Do you have any way for this case. Because I try to remove and reinstall by enable thread safety. But not update feature --enable-thread-safety Postgresql config still value config in the first install. Any way sugest to m

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql as main database

2012-02-23 Thread Richard Huxton
Hello all, Good day, I would like to make Postgresql 8.4 as main database for running three(software) and possible exchanging data.Is it possible? if yes what is the implication in terms of performance? It's certainly possible. Obviously it will need a bigger machine than you would use for

Re: [GENERAL] Log statement with timestamp

2012-02-23 Thread Raghavendra
Need to enable log_line_prefix with timestamp "%t". http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/runtime-config-logging.html --- Regards, Raghavendra EnterpriseDB Corporation Blog: http://raghavt.blogspot.com/ On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Madhu S R wrote: > Hi, > > I need to log DDL or M

Re: [GENERAL] Comment on extension issues with pg_dump after upgrading to 9.1.2

2012-02-23 Thread Albe Laurenz
Timothy Garnett wrote: > We recently upgraded to 9.1.2 from 9.0.3 and ran into some issues with the process we've been using to > dump and restore databases. We typically use a super user (but not the postgres user) to dump and > restore databases, but in moving the 9.1.2 we've run into trouble wi

[GENERAL] Log statement with timestamp

2012-02-23 Thread Madhu S R
Hi,     I need to log DDL or MOD statements with current time when the statement executed. Please let me know if this is possible. Regards, Madhu

[GENERAL] Postgresql as main database

2012-02-23 Thread Twaha Daudi
Hello all, Good day, I would like to make Postgresql 8.4 as main database for running three(software) and possible exchanging data.Is it possible? if yes what is the implication in terms of performance? regards huu

Re: [GENERAL] Optimise PostgreSQL for fast testing

2012-02-23 Thread Marti Raudsepp
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 08:02, Dmytrii Nagirniak wrote: > Thanks. So far I tried: > > fsync = off > full_page_writes = off > > It seems it got a *little* faster (down to ~65 seconds from ~76) but is till > too far from my target of ~34 secs. If you have lots of very simple queries, then usually m