[GENERAL] Changing primary key of large table, with foreign keys, without locking

2013-11-20 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
I have a database with a rather large events table defined something like: # create table events(a int4, b int4, primary key(b,a)); CREATE TABLE There are more columns, but thy are not relevent here. What I do have is 7(!) tables that reference this one like so: # create table attr1(a int4, b in

Re: [GENERAL] hstore

2013-11-20 Thread Joey Quinn
Thank-you all... create extension hstore; was exactly what I needed (I'm new to PostgreSQL and was unfamiliar with the terminology... was searching unsuccessfully for things like "install hstore module"). Joey On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Joey Quinn wrote: > I'm using 9.3 (Windows 64 bit)

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging extension with gdb?

2013-11-20 Thread Paul Jones
> > From: Tom Lane >To: Paul Jones >Cc: "pgsql-general@postgresql.org" >Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:13 AM >Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Debugging extension with gdb? > > >Paul Jones writes: > >> Can someone point me to information on how to debug a Postgres

Re: [GENERAL] hstore

2013-11-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/20/2013 1:12 PM, Joey Quinn wrote: I'm using 9.3 (Windows 64 bit) and would like to use an hstore field in new table but it does not appear to be available. How do I add the correct module? CREATE EXTENSION hstore; should install the hstore contributed module into the current dat

Re: [GENERAL] hstore

2013-11-20 Thread Venkatesulu Jumbo
Here you go: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/hstore.html#HSTORE-OP-TABLE On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Joey Quinn wrote: > I'm using 9.3 (Windows 64 bit) and would like to use an hstore field in > new table but it does not appear to be available. How do I add the correct > modu

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade ?deficiency

2013-11-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 04:07:59PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 02:36:08PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > > > Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > > > > Let me try to rephrase: > > > > > > > > > > Fact: pg_upgrade can NOT properly upgrade clusters which contain > > > > >

[GENERAL] hstore

2013-11-20 Thread Joey Quinn
I'm using 9.3 (Windows 64 bit) and would like to use an hstore field in new table but it does not appear to be available. How do I add the correct module? Joey

[GENERAL] Does LC_CTYPE affect performance, index use?

2013-11-20 Thread Steven Dodd
I've read that setting LC_COLLATE to something other than "C" / "POSIX" negatively affects performance, and disables use of indexes for LIKE, etc... Does the same apply to LC_CTYPE? I am considering setting LC_COLLATE = "C", and LC_CTYPE = "en_US.UTF-8", and using LOWER() to case-fold strings f

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres as In-Memory Database?

2013-11-20 Thread Jeff Janes
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Stefan Keller wrote: > Hi Jeff and Martin > > On 18. November 2013 17:44 Jeff Janes wrote: > > I rather doubt that. All the bottlenecks I know about for well cached > read-only workloads are around > > locking for in-memory concurrency protection, and have littl

Re: [GENERAL] How to change content of xml datatype

2013-11-20 Thread Rob Sargent
On 11/20/2013 10:21 AM, gajendra s v wrote: Hi All, I need to change content of xml ,Please any one suggest me how to do,the xml is below FailValue="0"/>2534Value="1"/>99432Value="2"/>43232Value="3"/>43323Value="4"/>33432Value="5"/>453432 I want xml like below,is there any way '*Pass*Va

[GENERAL] How to change content of xml datatype

2013-11-20 Thread gajendra s v
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Re: [GENERAL] Postgres as In-Memory Database?

2013-11-20 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Bruce 2013/11/20 Bruce Momjian > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 09:00:05PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Stefan Keller > wrote: > > > How can Postgres be used and configured as an In-Memory Database? > > > > > > Does anybody know of thoughts or presentations abo

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres as In-Memory Database?

2013-11-20 Thread Jeff Janes
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 7:41 PM, Edson Richter wrote: > > > Ok, I still have one doubt (I'm learning a lot, tkx!): > > What happens, then, if data has been commited (so it is in xlog), but it > is not in data pages yet, and it doesn't fit in memory buffers anymore: how > would PostgreSQL query dat

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging extension with gdb?

2013-11-20 Thread Tom Lane
Paul Jones writes: > Can someone point me to information on how to debug a Postgres extension > with gdb? I've noticed that on some platforms, it works better to attach gdb to the backend process before you load the extension, but on others, it works better to attach afterwards. You might try t

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade ?deficiency

2013-11-20 Thread Karsten Hilbert
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 02:36:08PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > > Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > > > Let me try to rephrase: > > > > > > > > Fact: pg_upgrade can NOT properly upgrade clusters which contain > > > > databases that are set to "default_transaction_read_only on" > > > > > > >

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade ?deficiency

2013-11-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 02:36:08PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > > Let me try to rephrase: > > > > > > Fact: pg_upgrade can NOT properly upgrade clusters which contain > > > databases that are set to "default_transaction_read_only on" > > > > > > Question: Is

[GENERAL] Debugging extension with gdb?

2013-11-20 Thread Paul Jones
Can someone point me to information on how to debug a Postgres extension with gdb? I have been able to attach to one but getting breakpoints to work right and getting the addresses to properly relocate (since the extension could be loaded anywhere) has been the problem for me. I have not found

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade ?deficiency

2013-11-20 Thread Karsten Hilbert
> Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > Let me try to rephrase: > > > > Fact: pg_upgrade can NOT properly upgrade clusters which contain > > databases that are set to "default_transaction_read_only on" > > > > Question: Is this intended ? > > I am pretty sure that this is an oversight and hence a bug

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade ?deficiency

2013-11-20 Thread Albe Laurenz
Karsten Hilbert wrote: > Let me try to rephrase: > > Fact: pg_upgrade can NOT properly upgrade clusters which contain > databases that are set to "default_transaction_read_only on" > > Question: Is this intended ? I am pretty sure that this is an oversight and hence a bug. Yours, Laurenz

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade ?deficiency

2013-11-20 Thread Karsten Hilbert
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:22:47AM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > ERROR: transaction is read-only > > > > Now, this is quite understandable since one of the databases > > is set to > > > > ALTER DATABASE ... SET DEFAULT_TRANSACTION_READ_ONLY TO ON; > > > > However, since the above

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade ?deficiency

2013-11-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:22:47AM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > ERROR: transaction is read-only > > Now, this is quite understandable since one of the databases > is set to > > ALTER DATABASE ... SET DEFAULT_TRANSACTION_READ_ONLY TO ON; > > However, since the above setting is som

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres as In-Memory Database?

2013-11-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 09:00:05PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Stefan Keller wrote: > > How can Postgres be used and configured as an In-Memory Database? > > > > Does anybody know of thoughts or presentations about this "NoSQL feature" - > > beyond e.g. "Perspe