Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade questions

2012-03-24 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2012-03-12, Carson Gross wrote: > We've got a postgres database with *a lot* of data in one table. On the > order of 100 million rows at this point. Postgres is, of course, handling > it with aplomb. > ALTER TABLE my_table ALTER COLUMN id TYPE bigint; > However, given the size of this t

Re: [GENERAL] Table growing faster than autovacuum can vacuum

2012-03-24 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Jasen Betts wrote: > > have you tried using COPY instead of INSERT (you'll have to insert > into the correct partition) triggers fire on copy, but rules do not. So if he has partitioning triggers they'll fire on the parent table etc. HOWEVER, that'll be slower t

Re: [GENERAL] Table growing faster than autovacuum can vacuum

2012-03-24 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2012-02-15, Asher Hoskins wrote: > Hello. > > I've got a database with a very large table (currently holding 23.5 > billion rows, the output of various data loggers over the course of my > PhD so far). The table itself has a trivial structure (see below) and is > partitioned by data time/dat

[GENERAL] Howto Replication for dummies?

2012-03-24 Thread Andreas
Hi, I've got a PG 9.1.3 on an OpenSuse 12.1 runnig that lately crashed because of memory allocation errors probaply due to failing RAMs. In this case the server died thursday afternoon and at first didn't comlain when I restartet it. Later some queries produced "out of memory" errors which is

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql function to insert or update problem

2012-03-24 Thread Andy Colson
On 03/24/2012 05:23 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote: On 23 Mar 2012, at 19:49, Andy Colson wrote: Anyway, the problem. I get a lot of DB Error messages: DB Error: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "by_ip_pk" DETAIL: Key (ip, sessid, "time")=(97.64.237.59, 2qggi9gcdkcaoecqg3arvo1

Re: [GENERAL] pgcon 2012

2012-03-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 04:46:49AM +, Arvind Singh wrote: > Dear sir, > > we are recent users of Postgres and wish to be more aware and soak up the > activities around the DB. > we used to develop more on MySql , SQl Server combo > > Now we are using PG 9.0.5 , NPGSQL + Visual CSharp , Java

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql function to insert or update problem

2012-03-24 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 23 Mar 2012, at 19:49, Andy Colson wrote: > Anyway, the problem. I get a lot of DB Error messages: > DB Error: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "by_ip_pk" > DETAIL: Key (ip, sessid, "time")=(97.64.237.59, 2qggi9gcdkcaoecqg3arvo1gu7, > 2012-03-23 13:00:00) already exists

Re: [GENERAL] broken xlog - recovery plan check

2012-03-24 Thread Thom Brown
On 24 March 2012 00:45, Colin Taylor wrote: > Hi I seem to have an 8.3.9 database with a broken xlog, > > PANIC:  heap_insert_redo: invalid max offset number > > My plan is to run pg_resetxlog. > Hopefully it then starts up. > Test recent data as thoroughly as possible - (script some Select * ' s?

Re: [GENERAL] group by does not show error

2012-03-24 Thread Thomas Kellerer
AI Rumman wrote on 24.03.2012 09:06: I am using Postgresql 9.1.0. I found that following GROUP BY query works in my DB :- \d t1 Table "public.t1" Column | Type | Modifiers +-+--- i | integer | not null nam| text| Indexes: "t1_pkey" PRIMAR

[GENERAL] group by does not show error

2012-03-24 Thread AI Rumman
I am using Postgresql 9.1.0. I found that following GROUP BY query works in my DB :- \d t1 Table "public.t1" Column | Type | Modifiers +-+--- i | integer | not null nam| text| Indexes: "t1_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (i) select i,nam fr

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 64 Bit XIDs - Transaction IDs

2012-03-24 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Bret Stern > wrote: >> VoltDB maybe >> - Original Message - > > VoltDB has a completely different focus than PostgreSQL really. > PostgreSQL is a general purpose database that can achieve some very >

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 64 Bit XIDs - Transaction IDs

2012-03-24 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Bret Stern wrote: > VoltDB maybe > - Original Message - VoltDB has a completely different focus than PostgreSQL really. PostgreSQL is a general purpose database that can achieve some very impressive numbers using super fast hardware, while still being a g