Re: [GENERAL] JDBC prepared statements & server-side prepared statements

2009-06-25 Thread Albe Laurenz
Jack Orenstein wrote: > I'm using postgresql 8.3.7. Under what conditions does a JDBC prepared > statement > result in a server-side prepared statement? http://jdbc.postgresql.org/development/privateapi/org/postgresql/PGStatement.html#setPrepareThreshold(int) The default is 5, as far as I remem

Re: [GENERAL] example of aggregate function for product

2009-06-25 Thread Albe Laurenz
Whit Armstrong wrote: > I needed to write a product aggregate function, and just happened to > find this example in the nodes to the 8.0 manual: > [...] > > but that example looks pretty different than the ones found in the 8.3 > manual (avg for instance): > [...] > > Are there any experts out

Re: [GENERAL] 8.4 RC1 on ubuntu 9.04 jaunty, problems after install

2009-06-25 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Dragan Sahpaski wrote: > Ok the same thing happened with the 8.3.7 installer after a few hours - not > right away. > I uninstalled the 8.4, and there are no libuuid files in /opt/8.3/lib/. No, uuid-ossp isn't included in the 8.3 installer, so the offending librar

Re: [GENERAL] Bug in ecpg lib ?

2009-06-25 Thread Albe Laurenz
l...@crysberg.dk wrote: >I'm using PostgreSQL in a server project that uses many > forks and many threads in each forked process. > >Almost everytime I do a pthread_cancel() I get a SIGSEGV. > I have then linked the libmudflapth into my program to catch > the problem sooner and now that

[GENERAL] Add Space symbols for TSvector

2009-06-25 Thread Henk van Lingen
Hi, How can I add a character as space symbol for the full text search indexes? I'm adding firewall syslog lines in a database (8.3.7), and have a GIN index on the message field. I'd like the slash considered a space symbol, so i can search for IPnumbers in test like world/123.456.192.46(0) ->

Re: [GENERAL] Add Space symbols for TSvector

2009-06-25 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Henk van Lingen wrote: Hi, How can I add a character as space symbol for the full text search indexes? I'm adding firewall syslog lines in a database (8.3.7), and have a GIN index on the message field. I'd like the slash considered a space symbol, so i can search for IPnu

Re: [GENERAL] Replication

2009-06-25 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2009-06-23, Mike Christensen wrote: > Does anyone actually have that (any node > can go down and the others still replicate amongst themselves?) you are describing usenet. (it was not designed for relational database replication but it does have that feature) -- Sent via pgsql-general mai

Re: [GENERAL] Add Space symbols for TSvector

2009-06-25 Thread Henk van Lingen
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 01:05:41PM +0400, Oleg Bartunov wrote: >> >> How can I add a character as space symbol for the full text search indexes? >> >> I'm adding firewall syslog lines in a database (8.3.7), and have a GIN >> index on the message field. I'd like the slash considered a space symbol,

Re: [GENERAL] JDBC prepared statements & server-side prepared statements

2009-06-25 Thread Dave Cramer
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Albe Laurenz wrote: > Jack Orenstein wrote: > > I'm using postgresql 8.3.7. Under what conditions does a JDBC prepared > statement > > result in a server-side prepared statement? > > > http://jdbc.postgresql.org/development/privateapi/org/postgresql/PGStatement.htm

Re: [GENERAL] [JDBC] Postgres 8.3.7 -- EOF on client connection

2009-06-25 Thread Saurabh Dave
Hi CMJ, If you are using WebNMS framework with hibernate, can you check if you have done this: *ConfigReader configReader = ConfigReader.getInstance(); configReader.modifyHbmToDdl(true); * Thanks, Saurabh On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 6:06 PM, CM J wrote: > Hi , > > I

[GENERAL] Upgrade

2009-06-25 Thread Pedro Doria Meunier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I've got a somewhat 'hairy' problem in my hands... One of my servers is still Fedora Core (cough) (cough) 6 :] It's running Postgresql 8.2.4 I want it to serve as a last resort, end of the spectrum, backup/slave for another server running Po

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade

2009-06-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Pedro Doria Meunier : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I've got a somewhat 'hairy' problem in my hands... > > One of my servers is still Fedora Core (cough) (cough) 6 :] > It's running Postgresql 8.2.4 > > I want it to serve as a last resort, end

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade

2009-06-25 Thread Guy Flaherty
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Pedro Doria Meunier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > > I've got a somewhat 'hairy' problem in my hands... > > One of my servers is still Fedora Core (cough) (cough) 6 :] > It's running Postgresql 8.2.4 > > I want it to serve

[GENERAL] create a table inside a function

2009-06-25 Thread Alain Roger
Hi, i would like to execute the following SQL command into a function based on some IF, END IF tests before. how can i do that ? here is my SQL command: > create table sw.tmp_import ( id serial NOT NULL, software VARCHAR(1024), barcode VARCHAR(10), username VARCHAR(1024), area VARCHAR(512)

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade

2009-06-25 Thread Greg Stark
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Guy Flaherty wrote: > One of my servers is still Fedora Core (cough) (cough) 6 :] > It's running Postgresql 8.2.4 > > I want it to serve as a last resort, end of the spectrum, backup/slave > for another server running Postgresql 8.2.9 via Slony-I. Before doing anyt

Re: [GENERAL] [BUGS] Integrity check

2009-06-25 Thread Greg Stark
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Scott Mead wrote: > >    If you're asking "Does the database have the ability to verify that > whatever is in a block is what was put into that block", then Oracle has > block check-summing (I'm not sure if this got into PG 8.4 or not...) It didn't, due to technic

Re: [GENERAL] create a table inside a function

2009-06-25 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 02:53:59PM +0200, Alain Roger wrote: > i would like to execute the following SQL command into a function based on > some IF, END IF tests before. > how can i do that ? 1. you can use execute in pl/pgsql. 2. if your ifs are basically testing if the table exists - you might w

Re: [GENERAL] create a table inside a function

2009-06-25 Thread Alain Roger
This is what i did at the beginning and it did not work. But now i've just discovered that my create table command was wrong...so it's ok. :-) thx. A. On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Frank Heikens wrote: > A very simple and incomplete example: > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION new_table(int) retur

Re: [GENERAL] create a table inside a function

2009-06-25 Thread Alain Roger
I'm confused now because if i try my SQL command alone it works without any problem, but in the following pglSQL code, it does not :-( IF (outResult = 1) THEN > return true; > ELSE > EXECUTE 'create table sw.tmp_import (id serial NOT NULL CONSTRAINT id_key > PRIMARY KEY, software VARCHAR(1024),

Re: [GENERAL] create a table inside a function

2009-06-25 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Thursday 25 June 2009 6:29:10 am Alain Roger wrote: > I'm confused now because if i try my SQL command alone it works without any > problem, but in the following pglSQL code, it does not :-( What is the error? > > IF (outResult = 1) THEN > > > return true; > > ELSE > > EXECUTE 'create table

[GENERAL] Postgres online backup and restore has errors that are concerning

2009-06-25 Thread Chris Barnes
I started an online backup of postgres, tar’d my data folder, copy to usb drive in production and restored it into my RC environment. Have I missed something important? Online Backup psql checkpoint; SELECT pg_switch_xlog(); SELECT pg_start_backup('postres_full_

Re: [GENERAL] Add Space symbols for TSvector

2009-06-25 Thread Tom Lane
Henk van Lingen writes: > I understand the ts_search parser is not configurable? You can substitute your own parser, but the built-in one doesn't have any provisions for fine-grained configuration. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@

[GENERAL] PG 8.3.7 initdb -E LATIN1 fails on Windows

2009-06-25 Thread Abraham, Danny
Hi, Runnning: initdb -E LATIN1 -D . Error: encoding mismatch Used to run fine on 8.2.4 on the same Windows platform. OUTPUT === The database cluster will be initialized with locale English_United States.1252. initdb: encoding mismatch The encoding you selected (LATIN1) and the enc

[GENERAL] How do I add text to a thread?

2009-06-25 Thread Abraham, Danny
I am not " .2 instance that won't come up after shutdown" But cannot add more posts. Thanks a lot Danny -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

[GENERAL] Fedora 11 where is plpython.so

2009-06-25 Thread Clodoaldo Pinto Neto
Where can i find plpython.so in the Fedora 11 i586 rpm packages? The postgresql-python does not have it: $ rpm -q --filesbypkg postgresql-python | grep plpython $ http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/postgresql-python-8.3.7-1.fc11.i586.rpm There

[GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Hartman, Matthew
Good morning. On occasion I'll perform a full vacuum on a database but will still receive a suggestion to vacuum an individual table immediately after. Does the full database vacuum not handle each individual table? Thanks, Matthew Hartman Programmer/Analyst Information Management, ICP Ki

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres online backup and restore has errors that are concerning

2009-06-25 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday 25 June 2009, Chris Barnes wrote: > I started an online backup of postgres, tar’d my data folder, copy to > usb drive in production > and restored it into my RC environment. Have I missed > something important? > You need the transaction logs archived during and immediately after t

Re: [GENERAL] Fedora 11 where is plpython.so

2009-06-25 Thread Clodoaldo Pinto Neto
2009/6/25 Clodoaldo Pinto Neto : > Where can i find plpython.so in the Fedora 11 i586 rpm packages? The > postgresql-python does not have it: > > $ rpm -q --filesbypkg postgresql-python | grep plpython > $ > > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/po

Re: [GENERAL] horizontal sharding

2009-06-25 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 11:03:07PM -0700, mobiledream...@gmail.com wrote: > GOals are to scale our game for 1 simultaneous connection to db > right now db crashing at 500 or 1000 sim connections Consider using pgbouncer to multiplex your database connections. If that doesn't work, consider hi

[GENERAL] Support of multibyte encoding for pg_trgm

2009-06-25 Thread Brian Hirt
Teodor, I ran across a commit message that shows multibyte encoding support in 8.4 and my testing shows that to be the case as well. Is there a back patch for 8.2? My own quick attempt at creating one didn't work so well and before I start spending some major time trying I thought I'd

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Hartman, Matthew wrote: > On occasion I’ll perform a full vacuum on a database but will still receive > a suggestion to vacuum an individual table immediately after. Does the full > database vacuum not handle each individual table? What's the exact message, what OS

Re: [GENERAL] create a table inside a function

2009-06-25 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Alain Roger escribió: > IF (outResult = 1) THEN > > return true; > > ELSE > > EXECUTE 'create table sw.tmp_import (id serial NOT NULL CONSTRAINT id_key > > PRIMARY KEY, software VARCHAR(1024), barcode VARCHAR(10), username > > VARCHAR(1024), area VARCHAR(512), locality VARCHAR(512)) WITH > > (OI

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrade

2009-06-25 Thread Pedro Doria Meunier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 First of all, thank you all who have replied so far :) The FC8 server has been upgraded to 8.2.13 with minor "glitches" :) I'm one step shy of upgrading it to 8.3 :P Btw: I'm using the http://yum.pgsqlrpms.org/ repository as the source for the upgrade

Re: [GENERAL] create a table inside a function

2009-06-25 Thread Frank Heikens
A very simple and incomplete example: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION new_table(int) returns bool AS $$ BEGIN IF $1 = 1 THEN EXECUTE 'CREATE TABLE x()'; ELSIF $1 = 2 THEN EXECUTE 'CREATE TABLE y()'; ELSE EXECUTE 'CREATE TABLE z()'

[GENERAL] Postgres online backup and restore

2009-06-25 Thread Chris Barnes
Sorry if posting twice, wasn't part of general when sent and didn't see it received by group. I started an online backup of postgres, tar'd my data folder, copy to usb drive in production and restored it into my RC environment. Have I missed something important? Online Backup psql checkpoint;

[GENERAL] Problems with postgres online backup - restore

2009-06-25 Thread Chris Barnes
I started an online backup of postgres, tar'd my data folder, copy to usb drive in production and restored it into my RC environment. Have I missed something important? When starting the database I receive many errors that look like the backup was corrupted. 2009-06-23 08:29:15 EDT:@:7614E

[GENERAL] why the similar query takes so difference time in tsearch2?

2009-06-25 Thread Miao Jiang
miao=> \d items Table "public.items" Column | Type | Modifiers +--+ id | integer | not null default nextval('items_id_seq'::regclass) tags

Re: [GENERAL] horizontal sharding

2009-06-25 Thread mobiledreamers
Jim thanks Can you please show how to setup partitining in gridsql and pgpool 2 thanks a lot On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Jim Mlodgenski wrote: > what is a good way to horizontal shard in postgresql > >> 1. pgpool 2 >> 2. gridsql >> >> which is a better way to use sharding >> > > Both are

Re: [GENERAL] horizontal sharding

2009-06-25 Thread mobiledreamers
GOals are to scale our game for 1 simultaneous connection to db right now db crashing at 500 or 1000 sim connections On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:07 AM, David Fetter wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:32:15AM -0700, mobiledream...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hey guys > > what is a good way to horizon

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Hartman, Matthew
Windows XP, PostgreSQL 8.3.5, using pgAdmin III 1.8.4. It's the typical "Running vacuum on this table is recommended" dialog box. Matthew Hartman Programmer/Analyst Information Management, ICP Kingston General Hospital (613) 549- x4294 -Original Message- From: Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz

[GENERAL] planned recovery from a certain transaction

2009-06-25 Thread Chris Spotts
I know questions like this have been asked before, but I hadn't seen one quite from the same perspective (although I'm sure it's out there somewhere). We have a database which has one long involved procedure early in the morning that updates all sorts of things, moves data around, deletes some

Re: [GENERAL] PG 8.3.7 initdb -E LATIN1 fails on Windows

2009-06-25 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Abraham, Danny wrote: > Hi, > > Runnning: initdb -E LATIN1 -D . > > Error: encoding mismatch Right. Try using Win1252 instead of Latin1: initdb -E win1252 ... Or just leave -E out entirely, since it will be picked up by default from the locale setting anyway. -- Alvaro Herrera

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
2009/6/25 Hartman, Matthew : > Windows XP, PostgreSQL 8.3.5, using pgAdmin III 1.8.4. It's the typical > "Running vacuum on this table is recommended" dialog box. Well, it really has nothing to do with postgresql it self. Either it is a bug or property of PgAdmin, but I don't know. Either someone

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Dave Page
2009/6/25 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz : > 2009/6/25 Hartman, Matthew : >> Windows XP, PostgreSQL 8.3.5, using pgAdmin III 1.8.4. It's the typical >> "Running vacuum on this table is recommended" dialog box. > > Well, it really has nothing to do with postgresql it self. Either it > is a bug or property of

Re: [GENERAL] planned recovery from a certain transaction

2009-06-25 Thread Richard Huxton
Chris Spotts wrote: The transaction itself works flawlessly, but every once and awhile the data the it uploads from comes in flawed and we have to find a way to reset it. This reset involves restoring a backup that was taken right before the proc started. If we had the xid of the long running

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Hartman, Matthew wrote: > Good morning. > > > > On occasion I’ll perform a full vacuum on a database but will still receive > a suggestion to vacuum an individual table immediately after. Does the full > database vacuum not handle each individual table? As of 8.3,

Re: [GENERAL] planned recovery from a certain transaction

2009-06-25 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday 25 June 2009, "Chris Spotts" wrote: > The transaction itself works flawlessly, but every once and awhile the > data the it uploads from comes in flawed and we have to find a way to > reset it. This reset involves restoring a backup that was taken right > before the proc started. If w

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Hartman, Matthew
But it'll do so immediately after I run a full vacuum on the entire database? Nothing has changed. This is a development box. You know, I bet it doesn't refresh the view of the database after having run the maintenance script.. Matthew Hartman Programmer/Analyst Information Management, ICP King

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Page writes: > pgAdmin will advise vacuuming a table if there is a significant > discrepancy between the number of rows in the table and the value in > pg_class.reltuples. i forget the exact algorithm off-hand, but it > takes the size of the table into account, and is looking for a %age > dif

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Hartman, Matthew
I do have autovacuum on (as of yesterday). This was discovered when I ran vacuum on a whim. Matthew Hartman Programmer/Analyst Information Management, ICP Kingston General Hospital (613) 549- x4294 -Original Message- From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:mmonc...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday

[GENERAL] datestyle no effect in 8.3.7

2009-06-25 Thread johnf
I added "datestyle = 'SQL,MDY' to the postgres.conf (restarted the server). But it does not appear to work with any setting. Is this a bug? Did I do it wrong? openSUSE 11.0 postgres 8.3.7 -- John Fabiani -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes

Re: [GENERAL] horizontal sharding

2009-06-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:03 AM, wrote: > GOals are to scale our game for 1 simultaneous connection to db > right now db crashing at 500 or 1000 sim connections Definitely look into pooling. I've got a pretty hefty database server (16 15k5 drives, HW RAID, 32Gig RAM and 8 cores) and I would

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum on the database versus individual tables.

2009-06-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Hartman, Matthew wrote: > Good morning. > > On occasion I’ll perform a full vacuum on a database but will still receive > a suggestion to vacuum an individual table immediately after. Does the full > database vacuum not handle each individual table? Wait, is this a

[GENERAL] Need suggestions

2009-06-25 Thread Jack W
I will create several databases on PostGreSQL. All the databases have the same structure: same number of table/index. I have two choices: 1. For each database, I create a new tablespace and create a new database in the tablespace. 2. I only create one tablespace. Create all the databases on the sam

Re: [GENERAL] Need suggestions

2009-06-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jack W : > I will create several databases on PostGreSQL. All the databases have the > same structure: same number of table/index. > I have two choices: > 1. For each database, I create a new tablespace and create a new database in > the tablespace. > 2. I only create one tablespace

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with postgres online backup - restore

2009-06-25 Thread Gerhard Wiesinger
Hello, I'd like to understand the PostgreSQL internals in "backup mode". When I understood it correctly pg_start_backup() make a checkpoint and stops writing to the data/ directory except the WAL. All new transaction go into WAL which is also logical. But how is data consistency done when th

Re: [GENERAL] Need suggestions

2009-06-25 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jack W : > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > > > In response to Jack W : > > > > > I will create several databases on PostGreSQL. All the databases have the > > > same structure: same number of table/index. > > > I have two choices: > > > 1. For each database, I

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with postgres online backup - restore

2009-06-25 Thread Richard Huxton
Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: Hello, I'd like to understand the PostgreSQL internals in "backup mode". When I understood it correctly pg_start_backup() make a checkpoint and stops writing to the data/ directory except the WAL. All new transaction go into WAL which is also logical. But how is data

Re: [GENERAL] Need suggestions

2009-06-25 Thread Jack W
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Jack W : > > > On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Bill Moran >wrote: > > > > > In response to Jack W : > > > > > > > I will create several databases on PostGreSQL. All the databases have > the > > > > same structure: same number

[GENERAL] Schedule up for pgDay San Jose

2009-06-25 Thread Josh Berkus
Folks, For any PostgresQL users who live in San Jose, or are planning to attend OSCON, we have a full day of PostgreSQL talks on Sunday July 19th. Full details, including free registration information are here: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PgDaySanJose2009 --Josh Berkus -- Sent via pgsq

Re: [GENERAL] planned recovery from a certain transaction

2009-06-25 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Chris Spotts escribió: > The transaction itself works flawlessly, but every once and awhile the data > the it uploads from comes in flawed and we have to find a way to reset it. > This reset involves restoring a backup that was taken right before the proc > started. If we had the xid of the long

Re: [GENERAL] planned recovery from a certain transaction

2009-06-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Chris Spotts wrote: > > > We have a database which has one long involved procedure early in the > morning that updates all sorts of things, moves data around, deletes some > stuff, alters some DDL - you name it, it does it.  The rest of the day, the > database is re

Re: [GENERAL] planned recovery from a certain transaction

2009-06-25 Thread Greg Stark
>> The transaction itself works flawlessly, but every once and awhile the data >> the it uploads from comes in flawed and we have to find a way to reset it. If you can automate the tests for the flaws you can do the whole transaction itself as one big transaction in Postgres. Even DDL can be done

Re: [GENERAL] Add Space symbols for TSvector

2009-06-25 Thread Arjen Nienhuis
> > preprocess text, for example, using replace(), regexp_replace() functions > > Oke, you mean at the time the insert in de db is done, i suppose. > However, I'm using the new syslog-ng 3 feature which does the > insert directly. So I have to change the syslogd for that. > > I understand the ts_se

Re: [GENERAL] planned recovery from a certain transaction

2009-06-25 Thread Chris Spotts
> > Assuming that the data is mostly created from whole cloth each > morning, it might do to have two dbs, and rename one to replace the > other when you're ready. Gives you 20 or so hours to discover a screw > up and still have the backup db before you toss it away to build the > next day For t

[GENERAL] Re planned recovery from a certain transaction

2009-06-25 Thread Chris Spotts
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 21:59 +0100, Greg Stark wrote: > >> The transaction itself works flawlessly, but every once and awhile the data > >> the it uploads from comes in flawed and we have to find a way to reset it. > > If you can automate the tests for the flaws you can do the whole > transaction i

[GENERAL] Custom runtime variables

2009-06-25 Thread Scott Bailey
I want to be able to change the behavior of some functions based on custom runtime variables. I added the following lines to my postgresql.conf file: custom_variable_classes = 'foo' foo.name = '1s' Now if I do "show foo.name" I get '1s' But it does not show up in show all or in pg_settings. I

Re: [GENERAL] Custom runtime variables

2009-06-25 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Bailey writes: > I added the following lines to my postgresql.conf file: > custom_variable_classes = 'foo' > foo.name = '1s' > Now if I do "show foo.name" I get '1s' > But it does not show up in show all or in pg_settings. No, it doesn't. It should still work in set/show though. > Also,

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with postgres online backup - restore

2009-06-25 Thread Gerhard Wiesinger
Hello, OK, what's then the difference doing a pg_start_backup() or just doing the backup? Isn't that a problem that the datablock are very inconsistent, even so inconsistent that they are corrupt: E.g. A part of a datablock is written when e.g. the file is tarred. => Datablock on backup is

Re: [GENERAL] [JDBC] Postgres 8.3.7 -- EOF on client connection

2009-06-25 Thread CM J
Hi, The problem turned out to be not with postgres but my JDBC connection code. Thanks ! On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Saurabh Dave wrote: > Hi CMJ, > > If you are using WebNMS framework with hibernate, can you check if you have > done this: > > *ConfigReader configReader

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with postgres online backup - restore

2009-06-25 Thread Richard Huxton
Gerhard Wiesinger wrote: Hello, OK, what's then the difference doing a pg_start_backup() or just doing the backup? pg_start_backup() forces a checkpoint (and logs a label for your backup too). Isn't that a problem that the datablock are very inconsistent, even so inconsistent that they ar

Re: [GENERAL] Can't start postgresql 8.3.7

2009-06-25 Thread Sam Wun
I copied the sample config file to postgresql workign directory before trying to start postgresql: # pwd /usr/local/share/postgresql twp1:postgresql # cp postgresql.conf.sample ../../pgsql/data/postgresql.conf On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Sam Wun wrote: > Hi, > > I had been running postgresql

[GENERAL] Can't start postgresql 8.3.7

2009-06-25 Thread Sam Wun
Hi, I had been running postgresql 8.3.7 in freebsd for some time, but after I changed its postgresql.conf file, it can't start any more eventhoguh I changed the config back to its original file. Anything wrong? Here is the errros: Jun 26 15:58:52 twp1 postgres[1394]: [1-1] FATAL: could not crea