Re: [GENERAL] Any known issues Pg 9.3 on Ubuntu Xenial kernel 4.4.0?

2017-09-20 Thread Jerry Sievers
Scott Marlowe writes: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Jerry Sievers > wrote: > >> Basically as per $subject. >> >> We took a perf hit moving up to newer hardware and OS version which >> might in some cases be OK but admittedly there is some risk running a >> much older app (Pg 9.3) on a ker

Re: [GENERAL] Any known issues Pg 9.3 on Ubuntu Xenial kernel 4.4.0?

2017-09-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Jerry Sievers wrote: > Basically as per $subject. > > We took a perf hit moving up to newer hardware and OS version which > might in some cases be OK but admittedly there is some risk running a > much older app (Pg 9.3) on a kernel/OS version that nowhere near exi

Re: [GENERAL] Any known issues Pg 9.3 on Ubuntu Xenial kernel 4.4.0?

2017-09-20 Thread Justin Pryzby
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 01:14:14PM -0500, Jerry Sievers wrote: > Be curious to hear of issues encountered and particular to eager to know > if disabling any kernel 4.x features helped. What was the old kernel/OS ? wheezy / kernel 3.x ? Perhaps try these ideas ? https://www.postgresql.org/message

[GENERAL] Any known issues Pg 9.3 on Ubuntu Xenial kernel 4.4.0?

2017-09-20 Thread Jerry Sievers
Basically as per $subject. We took a perf hit moving up to newer hardware and OS version which might in some cases be OK but admittedly there is some risk running a much older app (Pg 9.3) on a kernel/OS version that nowhere near existed when 9.3 was current. Be curious to hear of issues encounte

Re: [GENERAL] Any thoughts on making a psql meta-command "hide (or show alt text) if no results"?

2017-08-08 Thread David G. Johnston
On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 6:25 PM, Melvin Davidson wrote: > > *​H​ave you looked at the TUPLES ONLY option?* > > *-t* *--tuples-only* > > *Turn off printing of column names and result row count footers, etc. This > is equivalent to the \t command.* > *https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/app-p

Re: [GENERAL] Any thoughts on making a psql meta-command "hide (or show alt text) if no results"?

2017-08-08 Thread Melvin Davidson
On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 9:16 PM, David G. Johnston < david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, looking for thoughts on a feature request: > > I run quite a few queries, using psql, that are intended for exceptional > situations. When there are no results, which is expected, I still get the > t

[GENERAL] Any thoughts on making a psql meta-command "hide (or show alt text) if no results"?

2017-08-08 Thread David G. Johnston
Hey all, looking for thoughts on a feature request: I run quite a few queries, using psql, that are intended for exceptional situations. When there are no results, which is expected, I still get the table header and basic frame showing up in the output. The option I'd like is to be able to suppr

Re: [GENERAL] Any undocumented catalog changes remaining for v10?

2017-05-24 Thread Neil Anderson
> > Feature freeze is in effect and we have a Beta release out. Major bugs or > major usability issues are the only things that would cause any change to > the catalogs at this point and there likely won't be many, if any, of those > (at least not ones that necessitate catalog changes - must disco

Re: [GENERAL] Any undocumented catalog changes remaining for v10?

2017-05-24 Thread David G. Johnston
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:22 AM, Neil Anderson wrote: > Hi all, > > I am writing a blog post about changes to the catalogs between v9.6.3 > and the upcoming v10. I've diffed the catalogs.sgml and it looks > pretty informative so far, see > https://gist.github.com/sql-migrate/8e87214cc3127ba52fc93

[GENERAL] Any undocumented catalog changes remaining for v10?

2017-05-24 Thread Neil Anderson
Hi all, I am writing a blog post about changes to the catalogs between v9.6.3 and the upcoming v10. I've diffed the catalogs.sgml and it looks pretty informative so far, see https://gist.github.com/sql-migrate/8e87214cc3127ba52fc93a589f040425. I'm not too familiar with the release cycle and wheth

[GENERAL] Any experiences with using PhpUnit's DbUnit extension with Postgres?

2017-05-06 Thread Peter Devoy
Hi all This DbUnit extension for PHPUnit is driving me insane. On my deathbed, the days of my life I have wasted debugging this testing framework will haunt me. Basic things like serial IDs fields, boolean values and timestamps seem to require omission or unholy workarounds in order to get tests

Re: [GENERAL] Any work being done on materialized view?

2016-12-03 Thread Melvin Davidson
What exactly are the features you are looking for? Materialized views are treated as tables in PostgreSQL and you can create indexes on them. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/sql-creatematerializedview.html "CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW is *similar to **CREATE TABLE* AS, except that it also

[GENERAL] Any work being done on materialized view?

2016-12-03 Thread inspector morse
Is there any work being done on materialized views for version 9.7? This postgresql feature is severely lacking compared to similar features like indexed views by sql server.

Re: [GENERAL] Any work on better parallelization of pg_dump?

2016-08-29 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais wrote: > > Yeah. I recall there being some stupid limitation in ALTER TABLE .. ADD > > CONSTRAINT USING INDEX to create a primary key from a previously > > existing unique index, which would be very good to fix (I don't recall > > what it was, but it was something infu

Re: [GENERAL] Any work on better parallelization of pg_dump?

2016-08-29 Thread Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais
On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:13:17 -0300 Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:38:03 +0200 > > hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > we have rather uncommon case - DB with ~ 50GB of data, but this is > > > spread across ~ 8 tables. >

Re: [GENERAL] Any work on better parallelization of pg_dump?

2016-08-29 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 01:13:17PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > This happens on Pg 9.5. Are there any plans to make getting schema > > > faster for such cases? Either by parallelization, or at least by getting > > > schema for all tables "at once", and having pg_dump "sort it out", > > > inst

Re: [GENERAL] Any work on better parallelization of pg_dump?

2016-08-29 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:38:03 +0200 > hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > > > Hi, > > we have rather uncommon case - DB with ~ 50GB of data, but this is > > spread across ~ 8 tables. > > > > Running pg_dump -Fd -jxx dumps in parallel, but only data, and MOS

Re: [GENERAL] Any work on better parallelization of pg_dump?

2016-08-29 Thread Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais
On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 13:38:03 +0200 hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > Hi, > we have rather uncommon case - DB with ~ 50GB of data, but this is > spread across ~ 8 tables. > > Running pg_dump -Fd -jxx dumps in parallel, but only data, and MOST of > the time is spent on queries that run sequen

[GENERAL] Any work on better parallelization of pg_dump?

2016-08-29 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
Hi, we have rather uncommon case - DB with ~ 50GB of data, but this is spread across ~ 8 tables. Running pg_dump -Fd -jxx dumps in parallel, but only data, and MOST of the time is spent on queries that run sequentially, and as far as I can tell, get schema of tables, and sequence values. This

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-16 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 08/16/2016 01:15 PM, Jim Nasby wrote: On 8/16/16 1:05 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 08/16/2016 07:54 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: On 8/14/16 5:13 AM, Xtra Coder wrote: - ability to switch session language from 'sql' to 'pl/pgsql' Actually, something I wish I had was the ability to temporarily switc

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-16 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 08/16/2016 01:15 PM, Jim Nasby wrote: On 8/16/16 1:05 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 08/16/2016 07:54 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: On 8/14/16 5:13 AM, Xtra Coder wrote: - ability to switch session language from 'sql' to 'pl/pgsql' Actually, something I wish I had was the ability to temporarily switc

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-16 Thread Jim Nasby
On 8/16/16 1:05 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 08/16/2016 07:54 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: On 8/14/16 5:13 AM, Xtra Coder wrote: - ability to switch session language from 'sql' to 'pl/pgsql' Actually, something I wish I had was the ability to temporarily switch to an entirely different interpreter (su

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-16 Thread Pavel Stehule
2016-08-16 21:50 GMT+02:00 Jim Nasby : > On 8/16/16 11:17 AM, Chris Travers wrote: > >> I am thinking adding a temporary keyword to functions would make a lot >> more sense. >> > > Well, right now that's just syntactic sugar, so I think the only real > benefit might be visibility (though, really w

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-16 Thread Jim Nasby
On 8/16/16 11:17 AM, Chris Travers wrote: I am thinking adding a temporary keyword to functions would make a lot more sense. Well, right now that's just syntactic sugar, so I think the only real benefit might be visibility (though, really we should be marketing the idea that you can create al

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-16 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 08/16/2016 07:54 AM, Jim Nasby wrote: On 8/14/16 5:13 AM, Xtra Coder wrote: - ability to switch session language from 'sql' to 'pl/pgsql' Actually, something I wish I had was the ability to temporarily switch to an entirely different interpreter (such as ipython), while still retaining curr

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-16 Thread Chris Travers
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 5:58 AM, Chris Travers > wrote: > > >> > >> All this seems to be a huge change which will definitely not appear any > >> time soon. > > > > I am willing to bet that DO $$ $$; blocks are neither planned nor > > param

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-16 Thread Jim Nasby
On 8/14/16 5:13 AM, Xtra Coder wrote: - ability to switch session language from 'sql' to 'pl/pgsql' Actually, something I wish I had was the ability to temporarily switch to an entirely different interpreter (such as ipython), while still retaining current database connection and context. Tha

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-16 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 5:58 AM, Chris Travers wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Xtra Coder wrote: >> >> Thanks, I'm aware about ability to create temp functions, but this is >> actually too much overhead - I mean unneeded boilerplate code, but it seems >> in current state it is "the l

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-14 Thread Chris Travers
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Xtra Coder wrote: > Thanks, I'm aware about ability to create temp functions, but this is > actually too much overhead - I mean unneeded boilerplate code, but it seems > in current state it is "the least evil" which I have to use. > > I think 'what i need' is sup

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-14 Thread Xtra Coder
Thanks, I'm aware about ability to create temp functions, but this is actually too much overhead - I mean unneeded boilerplate code, but it seems in current state it is "the least evil" which I have to use. I think 'what i need' is support for following - ability to switch session language from 's

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-14 Thread Chris Travers
If all you want is a temporary function, you *can* create it in the pg_temp namespace though that seems hackish. Maybe a better solution would be to extend CREATE FUNCTION in a way that allows you to CREATE TEMPORARY FUNCTION? On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Xtra Coder wrote: > Thanks for the

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-14 Thread Xtra Coder
Thanks for the link. After looking through it i see following major points: - thread is from 2013 and nothing changed today in 2016 - quote from that thread (C) Dimitri Fontaine "That topic apparently raises each year and rehash the same points" (So ... there should be more similar discussio

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-13 Thread Francisco Olarte
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Xtra Coder wrote: ... > In my particular case I'm more interested in an easy way to create complex > SELECTs that require usage of variables in the one-time through-away scripts > (some-time during experiments for implementation of functions, to see > immediate re

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-12 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Xtra Coder wrote: > May you have the link to 'DO'-discussion to take a look on it? I was trying > to google for something like that, but word 'DO' is too generic to bring > useful results :( Probably this is one: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/51b624c6@2ndquadrant.com -- Álvaro Herrer

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-12 Thread Xtra Coder
May you have the link to 'DO'-discussion to take a look on it? I was trying to google for something like that, but word 'DO' is too generic to bring useful results :( In my particular case I'm more interested in an easy way to create complex SELECTs that require usage of variables in the one-time

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-11 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 7:25 PM, Xtra Coder wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just curious about the reasons of the design of 'DO' statement so that > it is not able to return result of the SELECT in its body. > > References: > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-do.html > > http://stackoverf

Re: [GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-10 Thread Jim Nasby
On 8/8/16 7:25 PM, Xtra Coder wrote: With some former experience with MsSQL server, where 'complex' script is executed easily and straightforward without any 'wrapping', like this dummy-one ... DECLARE @a int; DECLARE @b int; ... select @a + @b as "a+b" ... every time I need to

[GENERAL] Any reasons for 'DO' statement not returning result?

2016-08-09 Thread Xtra Coder
Hi, I'm just curious about the reasons of the design of 'DO' statement so that it is not able to return result of the SELECT in its body. References: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-do.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14652477/how-to-perform-a-select-query-in-a-do-b

Re: [GENERAL] Any difference between commit/rollback when only temp tables and \copy are used

2016-05-16 Thread David G. Johnston
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 05/16/2016 12:41 PM, David G. Johnston wrote: > >> I have a psql script that obtains data via the \copy command and loads >> it into a temporary table. Additional work is performed possibly >> generating additional temporary tables but n

Re: [GENERAL] Any difference between commit/rollback when only temp tables and \copy are used

2016-05-16 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 05/16/2016 12:41 PM, David G. Johnston wrote: I have a psql script that obtains data via the \copy command and loads it into a temporary table. Additional work is performed possibly generating additional temporary tables but never any "real" tables. Then the script outputs, either to stdout o

Re: [GENERAL] Any difference between commit/rollback when only temp tables and \copy are used

2016-05-16 Thread David G. Johnston
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Alan Hodgson wrote: > On Monday, May 16, 2016 03:41:23 PM David G. Johnston wrote: > > I have a psql script that obtains data via the \copy command and loads it > > into a temporary table. Additional work is performed possibly generating > > additional temporary

Re: [GENERAL] Any difference between commit/rollback when only temp tables and \copy are used

2016-05-16 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, May 16, 2016 03:41:23 PM David G. Johnston wrote: > I have a psql script that obtains data via the \copy command and loads it > into a temporary table. Additional work is performed possibly generating > additional temporary tables but never any "real" tables. Then the script > outputs,

[GENERAL] Any difference between commit/rollback when only temp tables and \copy are used

2016-05-16 Thread David G. Johnston
I have a psql script that obtains data via the \copy command and loads it into a temporary table. Additional work is performed possibly generating additional temporary tables but never any "real" tables. Then the script outputs, either to stdout or via \copy, the results. Does it matter whether

Re: [GENERAL] Any way to selectively color query output in psql?

2016-01-07 Thread David G. Johnston
On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: > On 08/01/16 10:25, David G. Johnston wrote: > >> Basically I want to write this: >> >> psql -c "SELECT E'\e[1;33m Some Text Here \e[0m';" >> >> And have just the text "Some Text Here" colored while everything else is >> default white. >> >> Th

Re: [GENERAL] Any way to selectively color query output in psql?

2016-01-07 Thread Gavin Flower
On 08/01/16 10:25, David G. Johnston wrote: Basically I want to write this: psql -c "SELECT E'\e[1;33m Some Text Here \e[0m';" And have just the text "Some Text Here" colored while everything else is default white. The \e constructs are the ANSI color escapes which work when using echo -e I

[GENERAL] Any way to selectively color query output in psql?

2016-01-07 Thread David G. Johnston
Basically I want to write this: psql -c "SELECT E'\e[1;33m Some Text Here \e[0m';" And have just the text "Some Text Here" colored while everything else is default white. The \e constructs are the ANSI color escapes which work when using echo -e I am using bash 4.2.25(1) on Ubuntu 14.04 Is thi

Re: [GENERAL] Any thoughts on a better approach to this query?

2015-09-09 Thread David G. Johnston
On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Marc Mamin wrote: > >array_not_nulls(array_agg(case when type='A' then link end ))as ar_a, >array_not_nulls(array_agg(case when type='B' then link end ))as ar_b, >array_not_nulls(array_agg(case when type NOT IN ('A', 'B') then link > end)) as ar_others

Re: [GENERAL] Any thoughts on a better approach to this query?

2015-09-05 Thread Marc Mamin
>?Formatted query attached in addition to placing it inline. The commentary is >inline with the query. Basically I've already solved this problem but was >wondering if someone has a different perspective; or simply observations. > >TIA, > >David J. > >/* >For a given id there are multiple linke

[GENERAL] Any thoughts on a better approach to this query?

2015-09-04 Thread David G. Johnston
​Formatted query attached in addition to placing it inline. The commentary is inline with the query. Basically I've already solved this problem but was wondering if someone has a different perspective; or simply observations. TIA, David J. /* For a given id there are multiple linked values of

Re: [GENERAL] Any freeware graphic display of DDL software available?

2015-05-07 Thread Rajiv M Ranganath
If you use Amazon Linux on EC2, we have packaged SchemaSpy support for it. More details are here, https://lambda-linux.io/blog/2015/05/07/announcing-schemaspy-support-for-amazon-linux/ Best, Rajiv On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 7:46 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Susan C

Re: [GENERAL] Any changes in Java and PGSQL 9.4?

2015-01-18 Thread Bjørn T Johansen
On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:25:48 +0100 Thomas Kellerer wrote: > Bjørn T Johansen wrote on 18.01.2015 20:20: > > Just noticed that a column field of type bigint containing a null, becomes > > a 0 when retrieving it from the resultset using JDBC. > > If I run the same application against my old 9.3 da

Re: [GENERAL] Any changes in Java and PGSQL 9.4?

2015-01-18 Thread Bjørn T Johansen
On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:20:35 +0100 Bjørn T Johansen wrote: > Just noticed that a column field of type bigint containing a null, becomes a > 0 when retrieving it from the resultset using JDBC. > If I run the same application against my old 9.3 database, the value > retrieved is a null > >

Re: [GENERAL] Any changes in Java and PGSQL 9.4?

2015-01-18 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Bjørn T Johansen wrote on 18.01.2015 20:20: Just noticed that a column field of type bigint containing a null, becomes a 0 when retrieving it from the resultset using JDBC. If I run the same application against my old 9.3 database, the value retrieved is a null You need to show us some

[GENERAL] Any changes in Java and PGSQL 9.4?

2015-01-18 Thread Bjørn T Johansen
Just noticed that a column field of type bigint containing a null, becomes a 0 when retrieving it from the resultset using JDBC. If I run the same application against my old 9.3 database, the value retrieved is a null Regards, BTJ -- --

Re: [GENERAL] Any postgres API available to get errorcode for PQerrorMessage

2014-10-16 Thread Adrian Klaver
) Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:19 PM To: 'Tom Lane'; pgsql-...@postgresql.org; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Any postgres API available to get errorcode for PQerrorMessage Thanks Tom, But that's not what I am looking for. I need the 'integer'

Re: [GENERAL] Any postgres API available to get errorcode for PQerrorMessage

2014-10-16 Thread Roopeshakumar Narayansa Shalgar (rshalgar)
Appreciate any replies on this. /rK -Original Message- From: Roopeshakumar Narayansa Shalgar (rshalgar) Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:19 PM To: 'Tom Lane'; pgsql-...@postgresql.org; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Any postgres API available to get

Re: [GENERAL] Any postgres API available to get errorcode for PQerrorMessage

2014-10-15 Thread Yogesh. Sharma
bpq.so.5.3 libpq.so.5 How to resolve by postgresql.spec file? Regards, Yogesh From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Rob Sargent Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 10:08 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Any pos

Re: [GENERAL] Any postgres API available to get errorcode for PQerrorMessage

2014-10-15 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/15/2014 9:48 AM, Roopeshakumar Narayansa Shalgar (rshalgar) wrote: I need the 'integer' errorcode SQLSTATE Error codes are NOT integers, they are strings. note there's stuff in there like 0100C, 01P01, etc. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on t

Re: [GENERAL] Any postgres API available to get errorcode for PQerrorMessage

2014-10-15 Thread Roopeshakumar Narayansa Shalgar (rshalgar)
: Roopeshakumar Narayansa Shalgar (rshalgar) Cc: pgsql-...@postgresql.org; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Any postgres API available to get errorcode for PQerrorMessage "Roopeshakumar Narayansa Shalgar (rshalgar)" writes: > HI, > PQerrorMessage pirints the e

Re: [GENERAL] Any postgres API available to get errorcode for PQerrorMessage

2014-10-15 Thread Rob Sargent
On 10/15/2014 02:17 AM, Roopeshakumar Narayansa Shalgar (rshalgar) wrote: HI, PQerrorMessage pirints the error message like (no space available,etc). Does postgres provide any API which gives the error code listed in the below appendix; http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/errcodes-ap

Re: [GENERAL] Any postgres API available to get errorcode for PQerrorMessage

2014-10-15 Thread Tom Lane
"Roopeshakumar Narayansa Shalgar (rshalgar)" writes: > HI, > PQerrorMessage pirints the error message like (no space available,etc). Does > postgres provide > any API which gives the error code listed in the below appendix; > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/errcodes-appendix.html Use

[GENERAL] Any postgres API available to get errorcode for PQerrorMessage

2014-10-15 Thread Roopeshakumar Narayansa Shalgar (rshalgar)
HI, PQerrorMessage pirints the error message like (no space available,etc). Does postgres provide any API which gives the error code listed in the below appendix; http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/errcodes-appendix.html I need the exact error code so that I can shutdown my application

Re: [GENERAL] Any experiences running PostgreSQL 9.3.5 on compressed Btrfs on Linux?

2014-09-13 Thread Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter
I do have a development machine using constrained SSD disk, and I would like to take advantage of compression. But would not want to reformat everything on ZFS (I'm actually using Ext4). Nevertheless, seems that Joe had a bad experience with Btrfs (my expectation was to just migrate from Ext4 t

Re: [GENERAL] Any experiences running PostgreSQL 9.3.5 on compressed Btrfs on Linux?

2014-09-13 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 09/13/2014 11:14 AM, Joe Conway wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/2014 08:24 AM, Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter wrote: Any experiences running PostgreSQL 9.3.5 on compressed Btrfs on Linux? Yes. It ran great for over a month but once we had some serious data i

Re: [GENERAL] Any experiences running PostgreSQL 9.3.5 on compressed Btrfs on Linux?

2014-09-13 Thread Joe Conway
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/13/2014 08:24 AM, Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter wrote: > Any experiences running PostgreSQL 9.3.5 on compressed Btrfs on > Linux? No personal experience, but someone recently pointed out this article to me: "Btrfs considered … helpful" http:/

[GENERAL] Any experiences running PostgreSQL 9.3.5 on compressed Btrfs on Linux?

2014-09-13 Thread Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter
Any experiences running PostgreSQL 9.3.5 on compressed Btrfs on Linux? Thanks, Edson -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

[GENERAL] Any Postgres experts not afraid of the camera?

2014-09-03 Thread Mike Christensen
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/270574/an-experiment-stack-overflow-tv?cb=1

Re: [GENERAL] any psql \copy tricks for default-value columns without source data?

2014-05-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 5/6/2014 1:22 PM, David G Johnston wrote: I know that I can pre-process the input file and simply add the needed data but I am curious if maybe there is some trick to having defaults populate for missing columns WITHOUT explicitly specifying each and every column that is present? if you didn

Re: [GENERAL] any psql \copy tricks for default-value columns without source data?

2014-05-06 Thread Ryan Kelly
On Tue, May 05/06/14, 2014 at 01:22:20PM -0700, David G Johnston wrote: > So, I am trying to import a file into a table and want to assign a sequence > value to each record as it is imported. > > I know that I can pre-process the input file and simply add the needed data > but I am curious if maybe

[GENERAL] any psql \copy tricks for default-value columns without source data?

2014-05-06 Thread David G Johnston
So, I am trying to import a file into a table and want to assign a sequence value to each record as it is imported. I know that I can pre-process the input file and simply add the needed data but I am curious if maybe there is some trick to having defaults populate for missing columns WITHOUT expl

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-20 Thread Rajeev rastogi
Regards, Kumar Rajeev Rastogi From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Susan Cassidy Sent: 17 April 2014 05:36 To: Steven Schlansker Cc: Tom Lane; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see&quo

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-17 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Bosco Rama wrote: > Is it returning the right id? I seem to remember a recent thread > about Perl DBI returning the wrong id's for certain operations. Er...can you point me to that thread, please? I'd be very interested in such a bug. - --

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-17 Thread Susan Cassidy
There aren't multiple connections. It is a CGI program. One connection is made when the program starts, and that is all. I've looked at the log. It shows just what I expect, except that the lookup does not work. 0 rows are returned from the select of the newly inserted id. Susan On Wed, A

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-17 Thread Susan Cassidy
No. One gets done automatically when the transaction fails, however. I can see it in the log. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Andy Colson wrote: > On 04/16/2014 07:06 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: > >> Yes, it is the same connection. It is all the same transaction. >> >> Susan >> >> >> On

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 04/16/2014 05:24 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: I marked it volatile, and still the next time I call the function after the first insert, using the previous new id as as input parameter, it still can't "find" the newly inserted id for the next go-round. Nor can any regular SELECTs in the main progr

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Andy Colson
On 04/16/2014 07:06 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: Yes, it is the same connection. It is all the same transaction. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:00 PM, John R Pierce mailto:pie...@hogranch.com>> wrote: On 4/16/2014 4:53 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: Well, it isn't working for me right no

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 04/16/2014 05:24 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: I marked it volatile, and still the next time I call the function after the first insert, using the previous new id as as input parameter, it still can't "find" the newly inserted id for the next go-round. Nor can any regular SELECTs in the main progr

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
I marked it volatile, and still the next time I call the function after the first insert, using the previous new id as as input parameter, it still can't "find" the newly inserted id for the next go-round. Nor can any regular SELECTs in the main program find it. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
It isn't marked as one of those as all, so whatever the default is. That could be it. I'll look up the default. Thanks, Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Susan Cassidy writes: > > It is a fairly large and complex Perl program, so no, not really. > > I do an insert via

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Tom Lane
Susan Cassidy writes: > It is a fairly large and complex Perl program, so no, not really. > I do an insert via a function, which returns the new id, then later I try > to SELECT on that id, and it doesn't find it. > Could it be because the insert is done inside a function? Is the SELECT also ins

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
It seems to be returning the right id. It should be next for the serial datatype. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Bosco Rama wrote: > On 04/16/14 17:08, Susan Cassidy wrote: > > The function does a select to see if the id number exists, and it fails. > > NOT FOUND causes a RAISE EXCEPT

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Rob Sargent
Not to say that perl and complex are redundant, but does the id go away after the NOT FOUND exception? On 04/16/2014 06:08 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: The function does a select to see if the id number exists, and it fails. NOT FOUND causes a RAISE EXCEPTION. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Bosco Rama
On 04/16/14 17:08, Susan Cassidy wrote: > The function does a select to see if the id number exists, and it fails. > NOT FOUND causes a RAISE EXCEPTION. Is it returning the right id? I seem to remember a recent thread about Perl DBI returning the wrong id's for certain operations. Just at though

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
The function does a select to see if the id number exists, and it fails. NOT FOUND causes a RAISE EXCEPTION. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Susan Cassidy < susan.cass...@decisionsciencescorp.com> wrote: > It is a fairly large and complex Perl program, so no, not really. > > I do an inse

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
It is a fairly large and complex Perl program, so no, not really. I do an insert via a function, which returns the new id, then later I try to SELECT on that id, and it doesn't find it. Could it be because the insert is done inside a function? Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Steven Schl

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
Yes, it is the same connection. It is all the same transaction. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:00 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 4/16/2014 4:53 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: > >> Well, it isn't working for me right now. It can't "see" a row that was >> inserted earlier in the transaction. It is

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/16/2014 4:53 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: Well, it isn't working for me right now. It can't "see" a row that was inserted earlier in the transaction. It is a new primary key, and when I SELECT it, it isn't found. are you using the same connection ? it won't be visible to a different con

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Steven Schlansker
>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Susan Cassidy writes: >> > Is there any way to let a transaction "see" the inserts that were done >> > earlier in the transaction? >> >> It works that way automatically, as long as you're talking about separate >> statements within one tra

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
Well, it isn't working for me right now. It can't "see" a row that was inserted earlier in the transaction. It is a new primary key, and when I SELECT it, it isn't found. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Susan Cassidy writes: > > Is there any way to let a transaction

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Tom Lane
Susan Cassidy writes: > Is there any way to let a transaction "see" the inserts that were done > earlier in the transaction? It works that way automatically, as long as you're talking about separate statements within one transaction. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Steven Schlansker
On Apr 16, 2014, at 4:27 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: > Is there any way to let a transaction "see" the inserts that were done > earlier in the transaction? I want to insert a row, then later use it within > the same transaction. > > If not, I will have to commit after each insert, and I don't

[GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
Is there any way to let a transaction "see" the inserts that were done earlier in the transaction? I want to insert a row, then later use it within the same transaction. If not, I will have to commit after each insert, and I don't want to do that until add the rows are added, if I can possibly av

Re: [GENERAL] Any way to insert rows with ID used in another column

2014-04-06 Thread Francisco Olarte
Hi Adrian: On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 04/06/2014 05:30 AM, Francisco Olarte wrote: >> I think a trigger is overkill for just a simple data-combining >> procedure. JMO, but I prefere to reserve triggers for htings which >> need them. > Well the flip side to that arg

Re: [GENERAL] Any way to insert rows with ID used in another column

2014-04-06 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 04/06/2014 05:30 AM, Francisco Olarte wrote: Hi Adrian: On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: Still think this is something for a BEFORE INSERT TRIGGER: I think a trigger is overkill for just a simple data-combining procedure. JMO, but I prefere to reserve triggers for hti

Re: [GENERAL] Any way to insert rows with ID used in another column

2014-04-06 Thread Francisco Olarte
Hi Adrian: On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > Still think this is something for a BEFORE INSERT TRIGGER: I think a trigger is overkill for just a simple data-combining procedure. JMO, but I prefere to reserve triggers for htings which need them. Regards. Francisco Olarte

Re: [GENERAL] Any way to insert rows with ID used in another column

2014-04-06 Thread Francisco Olarte
Hi: On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Ben Hoyt wrote: > Thanks for the info, Francisco and Alban -- that looks useful. May be. > Can you see a good way in the INSERT to combine VALUES with that nextval() > subquery? As there are some columns that are distinct for each row, and some > that are t

Re: [GENERAL] Any way to insert rows with ID used in another column

2014-04-06 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 06 Apr 2014, at 2:14, Ben Hoyt wrote: > Thanks for the info, Francisco and Alban -- that looks useful. > > Can you see a good way in the INSERT to combine VALUES with that nextval() > subquery? As there are some columns that are distinct for each row, and some > that are the same or program

Re: [GENERAL] Any way to insert rows with ID used in another column

2014-04-05 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 04/05/2014 05:14 PM, Ben Hoyt wrote: Thanks for the info, Francisco and Alban -- that looks useful. Can you see a good way in the INSERT to combine VALUES with that nextval() subquery? As there are some columns that are distinct for each row, and some that are the same or programmatically gen

Re: [GENERAL] Any way to insert rows with ID used in another column

2014-04-05 Thread Ben Hoyt
Thanks for the info, Francisco and Alban -- that looks useful. Can you see a good way in the INSERT to combine VALUES with that nextval() subquery? As there are some columns that are distinct for each row, and some that are the same or programmatically generated for each row. For instance, there's

Re: [GENERAL] Any way to insert rows with ID used in another column

2014-04-03 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 3 April 2014 16:41, Ben Hoyt wrote: > Hi folks, > I tried using currval() to see if that'd work, but it gave an error, I guess > because I was using it multiple times per session. currval() requires that nextval() was called before it (either automatically or explicitly) in the same transacti

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