[GENERAL] wiki.postgresql.org down?

2011-07-27 Thread Yan Chunlu
I tried several times to visit the site recently but the domain always can not be resolved. is there something wrong? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Implementing "thick"/"fat" databases

2011-07-27 Thread Chris Travers
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Karl Nack wrote: >> The current svn trunk (to be 1.3) does. > > So how far do you take this? I've been playing around with plpgsql a bit > and am pretty encouraged by what I'm discovering; now I'm at a point > where I'm thinking, "how far do/can I go with this?" H

Re: [GENERAL] wiki.postgresql.org down?

2011-07-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/26/11 11:35 PM, Yan Chunlu wrote: I tried several times to visit the site recently but the domain always can not be resolved. is there something wrong? per the guys on the IRC channel, there was a DNS server issue a little while ago, hopefully its reserved, but if your server has cached

Re: [GENERAL] wiki.postgresql.org down?

2011-07-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/27/11 12:48 AM, John R Pierce wrote: ...hopefully its reserved... errr. i meant to type RESOLVED. hah. -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To

Re: [GENERAL] heavy load-high cpu itilization

2011-07-27 Thread Filippos
thx a lot for your answer. i have already bought your book and have read most of the chapters. (in the near future i will study it more thoroughly) i asked here for tips in case there was something i had missed and there was a "magic" way to improve the perfomance even a little. as far as the

Re: [GENERAL] Implementing "thick"/"fat" databases

2011-07-27 Thread Vincent Veyron
Le mardi 26 juillet 2011 à 11:23 -0500, Merlin Moncure a écrit : > I think I've been cursed due > to have discovered the secret to fast, efficient programming while > continually being constrained from developing that way. Then again, > most programmers probably feel like that :-). > I think

Re: [GENERAL] mac installer on Lion

2011-07-27 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
Alternatively you can get the 'server' package from app store, it has postgresql already in it :) (9.0) -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Implementing "thick"/"fat" databases

2011-07-27 Thread Karl Nack
> The current svn trunk (to be 1.3) does. So how far do you take this? I've been playing around with plpgsql a bit and am pretty encouraged by what I'm discovering; now I'm at a point where I'm thinking, "how far do/can I go with this?" Probably the best example is input validation. Constraints a

[GENERAL] repmgr problem with registering standby

2011-07-27 Thread Toby Corkindale
Hi, I have repmgr working to some degree on a couple of servers, but am having trouble with the "register" part on the slave. On the master, I run: # repmgr -f /etc/repmgr/validator/repmgr.conf \ --verbose --force master register Opening configuration file: /etc/repmgr/validator/repmgr.conf

Re: [GENERAL] variant column type

2011-07-27 Thread salah jubeh
Thanks for the help, and for different design options it really helped me. I had a look on vertical design and horizontal design and this is some cons and pros in general for vertical design Advantages: •Avoid null values and utilize storage •Avoid constant schema changes due to adding

Re: [GENERAL] repmgr problem with registering standby

2011-07-27 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Toby Corkindale wrote: > Hi, > I have repmgr working to some degree on a couple of servers, but am having > trouble with the "register" part on the slave. > > On the master, I run: > # repmgr -f /etc/repmgr/validator/repmgr.conf \ >  --verbose --force master regis

Re: [GENERAL] wiki.postgresql.org down?

2011-07-27 Thread Yan Chunlu
thanks! working now On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:54 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 07/27/11 12:48 AM, John R Pierce wrote: >> >> ...hopefully its reserved... > > errr.  i meant to type RESOLVED.  hah. > > -- > john r pierce                            N 37, W 122 > santa cruz ca                      

[GENERAL] Backup complete

2011-07-27 Thread Adarsh Sharma
Dear all, I take backup of postgres databases with pg_dump command. But it didn't take backup of all sequences,views & functions in different databases. I want to know how we can complete backup so we can get complete data after restoring from a single file. I faced errors when dumping data

Re: [GENERAL] Backup complete

2011-07-27 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 27/07/2011 10:51, Adarsh Sharma wrote: > Dear all, > > I take backup of postgres databases with pg_dump command. > But it didn't take backup of all sequences,views & functions in > different databases. That's because you told it to backup only the postgres database. pg_dump only dumps a single

Re: [GENERAL] Backup complete

2011-07-27 Thread Adarsh Sharma
Raymond O'Donnell wrote: On 27/07/2011 10:51, Adarsh Sharma wrote: Dear all, I take backup of postgres databases with pg_dump command. But it didn't take backup of all sequences,views & functions in different databases. That's because you told it to backup only the postgres database.

Re: [GENERAL] Backup complete

2011-07-27 Thread C. Bensend
> I take backup of postgres databases with pg_dump command. > But it didn't take backup of all sequences,views & functions in > different databases. > > I want to know how we can complete backup so we can get complete data > after restoring from a single file. > > I faced errors when dumping data

Re: [GENERAL] Backup complete

2011-07-27 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 27/07/2011 11:31, Adarsh Sharma wrote: > Raymond O'Donnell wrote: >> On 27/07/2011 10:51, Adarsh Sharma wrote: >> >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I take backup of postgres databases with pg_dump command. >>> But it didn't take backup of all sequences,views & functions in >>> different databases. >>>

[GENERAL] [ANN] ODB C++ ORM adds support for PostgreSQL

2011-07-27 Thread Boris Kolpackov
I am pleased to announce the release of ODB 1.5.0 with support for PostgreSQL. ODB is an open-source object-relational mapping (ORM) system for C++. It allows you to persist C++ objects to a relational database without having to deal with tables, columns, or SQL and without manually writing any of

Re: [GENERAL] Implementing "thick"/"fat" databases

2011-07-27 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Chris Travers wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Karl Nack wrote: >>> The current svn trunk (to be 1.3) does. >> >> So how far do you take this? I've been playing around with plpgsql a bit >> and am pretty encouraged by what I'm discovering; now I'm at a po

[GENERAL] does slony use work_mem?

2011-07-27 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
Hi, Does slony use work_mem? We are considering to limit work_mem on a per task basis so that demanding tasks can get more with a low risk of entering SWAP. (work_mem is used for: ORDER BY, DISTINCT, merge joins, hash joins, hash-based aggregation, and hash-based processing of IN subqueries. ) C

Re: [GENERAL] Implementing "thick"/"fat" databases

2011-07-27 Thread Chris Travers
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: > Note, we wrote libpqtypes (http://libpqtypes.esilo.com/) precisely to > deal with this problem -- first class handling of arrays and > composites in the client.  It's not much help for a perl client, but I > think similar methodologies can

Re: [GENERAL] Implementing "thick"/"fat" databases

2011-07-27 Thread Karsten Hilbert
> I wonder which other languages have first class support for these areas of > Pg? While already supporting most if not all standard PG datatypes the psycopg2 interface lets you write in/out wrappers of arbitray complexity mapping PG <-> Python datatypes and insert them into the driver at runtime.

Re: [GENERAL] repmgr problem with registering standby

2011-07-27 Thread Toby Corkindale
- Original Message - > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Toby Corkindale wrote: > > Hi, > > I have repmgr working to some degree on a couple of servers, but am > > having > > trouble with the "register" part on the slave. > > > > On the master, I run: > > # repmgr -f /etc/repmgr/validator/r

Re: [GENERAL] heavy load-high cpu itilization

2011-07-27 Thread Greg Smith
On 07/27/2011 04:37 AM, Filippos wrote: P.S i will send a message to the admins, to ask them to move the topic to the sub-forum of perfomance Don't do that; will just waste their time. pgsql-general is a mailing list, and the "forum" view you're seeing at Nabble is just a web interface t

Re: [GENERAL] Suggested enhancement to pg_restore

2011-07-27 Thread Michael Nolan
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Chris Travers wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Michael Nolan wrote: > > I suggest adding the following parameter to pg_restore: > > > > --rename-table= > > > > When used in conjunction with the --data-only, --schema and -t options > (all > > three of

Re: [GENERAL] Implementing "thick"/"fat" databases

2011-07-27 Thread Karl Nack
> I wonder which other languages have first class support for these areas > of Pg? It'd be nice if PHP could get there. :p Maybe it's time to look at some of these other languages. Or finally learn C and try hacking on the extension myself. Karl Nack Futurity, Inc 5121 N Ravenswood Ave Chicago,

Re: [GENERAL] Implementing "thick"/"fat" databases

2011-07-27 Thread Peter Bex
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 04:35:45PM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > > I wonder which other languages have first class support for these areas of > > Pg? > > While already supporting most if not all standard PG datatypes the > psycopg2 interface lets you write in/out wrappers of arbitray > complexit

Re: [GENERAL] Implementing "thick"/"fat" databases

2011-07-27 Thread Karl Nack
> The best option is to use exceptions to communicate to the application > what went wrong and then allow the application to handle those > exceptions in many cases. In other cases, the application may need to > know which inputs are mandatory. So other than sanitizing input and making sure it's

[GENERAL] error when compiling a c function

2011-07-27 Thread Ioana Danes
Hello, I built a c function that exports data from various tables into a text file but when I compile the function I get this error: In file included from /usr/include/pgsql/server/postgres.h:48, from myfile.c:1: /usr/include/pgsql/server/utils/elog.h:69:28: error: utils/errcode

[GENERAL] problems viewing information_schema.schemata

2011-07-27 Thread Little, Douglas
Hi, Some of my users are using sqldbx and it's not working due to a dependence on displaying the content of information_schema.schemata When I query the view I see content. When they do it, nothing - 0 rows - from sqldbx, pgadmin or other client. I suspect that they don't have access to a cata

Re: [GENERAL] repmgr problem with registering standby

2011-07-27 Thread Jaime Casanova
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Toby Corkindale wrote: > > So that looks good, but then I try this on the slave: > # repmgr -f /etc/repmgr/validator/repmgr.conf \ >  --verbose standby register > can you show the content of /etc/repmgr/validator/repmgr.conf? [...] > > I can query the database li

Re: [GENERAL] error when compiling a c function

2011-07-27 Thread Sebastian Jaenicke
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 09:34:20AM -0700, Ioana Danes wrote: [..] > #include "/usr/include/pgsql/server/postgres.h" > #include "/usr/include/pgsql/server/fmgr.h" #include "postgres.h" #include "fmgr.h" > #ifdef PG_MODULE_MAGIC #ifndef > PG_MODULE_MAGIC; > #endif ...and compile with -I`pg_confi

Re: [GENERAL] error when compiling a c function

2011-07-27 Thread Ioana Danes
Thanks a lot Sebastian --- On Wed, 7/27/11, Sebastian Jaenicke wrote: > From: Sebastian Jaenicke > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] error when compiling a c function > To: "Ioana Danes" > Cc: "PostgreSQL General" > Received: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 2:12 PM > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 09:34:20AM > -070

Re: [GENERAL] error when compiling a c function

2011-07-27 Thread Rob Sargent
On 07/27/2011 12:38 PM, Ioana Danes wrote: > Thanks a lot Sebastian > > --- On Wed, 7/27/11, Sebastian Jaenicke > wrote: > >> From: Sebastian Jaenicke >> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] error when compiling a c function >> To: "Ioana Danes" >> Cc: "PostgreSQL General" >> Received: Wednesday, July 27,

Re: [GENERAL] Cannot reproduce why a query is slow

2011-07-27 Thread John Cheng
Sorry about the long wait between reply. On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Tomas Vondra wrote: > Resource usually means there's too much I/O so the query is slow, but > when you try it later the drives are idle and query runs much faster. > Run some monitoring, e.g. even a simple 'iostat -x' or 'd

[GENERAL] WITH x AS (...) and visibility in UPDATE

2011-07-27 Thread Peter V
Hello all, I am trying out PostgreSQL 9.1 Beta 3. In particular, I am very interested in WITH x AS (...) construction. drop table if exists t; create table t (     identifier   serial,     title    text ); with c as (     insert into t (title) values ('old') returning * ) update t set titl

Re: [GENERAL] WITH x AS (...) and visibility in UPDATE

2011-07-27 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Peter V wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am trying out PostgreSQL 9.1 Beta 3. In particular, I am very interested in > WITH x AS (...) construction. > > drop table if exists t; > create table t > ( >     identifier   serial, >     title    text > ); > > with c as >

Re: [GENERAL] error when compiling a c function

2011-07-27 Thread Eric Ridge
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Sebastian Jaenicke wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 09:34:20AM -0700, Ioana Danes wrote: > >> #ifdef PG_MODULE_MAGIC > > #ifndef Just to avoid confusion... #ifdef *is* correct. See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/xfunc-c.html (I can't commen

Re: [GENERAL] WITH x AS (...) and visibility in UPDATE

2011-07-27 Thread Peter V
> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:58:04 -0500 > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] WITH x AS (...) and visibility in UPDATE > From: mmonc...@gmail.com > To: peterv861...@hotmail.com > CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Peter V wrote: > >

Re: [GENERAL] WITH x AS (...) and visibility in UPDATE

2011-07-27 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Peter V wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Peter V wrote: >> > >> > Hello all, >> > >> > I am trying out PostgreSQL 9.1 Beta 3. In particular, I am very interested >> > in WITH x AS (...) construction. >> > >> > drop table if exists t; >> > create table t

Re: [GENERAL] WITH x AS (...) and visibility in UPDATE

2011-07-27 Thread Peter V
> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:16:48 -0500 > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] WITH x AS (...) and visibility in UPDATE > From: mmonc...@gmail.com > To: peterv861...@hotmail.com > CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Peter V wrote: > >

Re: [GENERAL] WITH x AS (...) and visibility in UPDATE

2011-07-27 Thread Jack Christensen
On 7/27/2011 4:22 PM, Peter V wrote: I want to apply updates on a copy of a row, instead on the row itself. The queries are above were simplied to demonstrate the problem. So basically I want to do: 1) create the copy of the row and return the identifier 2) apply updates on the new row identifi

Re: [GENERAL] repmgr problem with registering standby

2011-07-27 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 28/07/11 03:47, Jaime Casanova wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Toby Corkindale wrote: So that looks good, but then I try this on the slave: # repmgr -f /etc/repmgr/validator/repmgr.conf \ --verbose standby register can you show the content of /etc/repmgr/validator/repmgr.conf?

Re: [GENERAL] problems viewing information_schema.schemata

2011-07-27 Thread sqldbxdeveloper
I did investigate this issue and the problem is pg_has_role function. Take a look at information_schema.schemata definition below SELECT (current_database ()) ::information_schema.sql_identifier AS catalog_name , (n.nspname) ::information_schema.sql_identifier AS schema_name , (u.rolname)

Re: [GENERAL] WITH x AS (...) and visibility in UPDATE

2011-07-27 Thread David Johnston
> 1) create the copy of the row and return the identifier > 2) apply updates on the new row identified by the identifier returned in step > 1 > > If possible, I want to write this in a single command, to avoid overhead and > mistakes. > > I tried writing a rewrite rule or before trigger, but i

[GENERAL] issue with pg_restore

2011-07-27 Thread Nigel Heron
Hi list, I'm trying to restore a backup into a database with a new name the dump was done on a 8.4 server with: pg_dump -F c -f bakfile olddb i'm trying to restore it with: createdb newdb; pg_restore -v --jobs=4 --disable-triggers --no-tablespaces --dbname=newdb bakfile or even just: createdb

Re: [GENERAL] Implementing "thick"/"fat" databases

2011-07-27 Thread Sim Zacks
On 07/27/2011 07:18 PM, Karl Nack wrote: The best option is to use exceptions to communicate to the application what went wrong and then allow the application to handle those exceptions in many cases. In other cases, the application may need to know which inputs are mandatory. So other than sa

[GENERAL] Master/Slave Setup and Incremental Backup

2011-07-27 Thread Nithya Rajendran
Hi all, I have done a MASTER/SLAVE setup. In that I have to do the Incremental Backup. Without affecting the existing master/slave setup, how to do the incremental backup? Please anyone help on this? Thanks and Regards Nithya R ::DISCLAIMER:: ---