Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not read block 4707 of relation 1663/16384/16564: Success

2011-08-01 Thread D M
I am not sure how big your table is one way we implemented here was we selected the clean rows and outputted it to a csv file. And the rows affected we had to load from the backup, luckily we had the clean backup. Ex: assume you have 1,2,3,4,5100 rows and the corrupted is between 60-70. I o

Re: [GENERAL] repmgr and archive_mode

2011-08-01 Thread Simon Riggs
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Toby Corkindale wrote: > Many thanks for clearing that up! I hadn't realised that you could only > change one of the two options on the fly. The streaming rep options require a restart also... --  Simon Riggs   http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/  Post

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not read block 4707 of relation 1663/16384/16564: Success

2011-08-01 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 1 Srpen 2011, 8:27, Deniz Atak wrote: > Deepak, Tom thanks for answering. > > Tom, we have psql 8.1.18. So you are right, this weird message is because > of > the old version. I will check with my colleague about the possible > reasons. > What can I do if there is a messed up table? First of al

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not read block 4707 of relation 1663/16384/16564: Success

2011-08-01 Thread Deniz Atak
Hi Thomas, thanks for your answer. We decided not to go further with this error, because soon we will have another product that replaces this one. Because I want to learn more about this topic, I did the following: Before I write your code, I tried: select oid,ctid,relname from pg_class where cti

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not read block 4707 of relation 1663/16384/16564: Success

2011-08-01 Thread Deniz Atak
Hi Deepak, thanks for your answer. Do you have any opinion about how can I find the corrupted rows? Do you know how to read: "could not read block 4707 of relation 1663/16384/16564" ? Also, there is one interesting thing: a very similar query like this: select src_ip,round(sum(size)/175) from t

[GENERAL] Error: operator does not exist: integer = integer

2011-08-01 Thread Clodoaldo Neto
postgresql.x86_64 8.3.14-1PGDG.rhel5 postgresql-server.x86_64 8.3.14-1PGDG.rhel5 ERROR: operator does not exist: integer = integer LINE 3:inner join vendedor as v on a.vendedor_id = v.id

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not read block 4707 of relation 1663/16384/16564: Success

2011-08-01 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 1 Srpen 2011, 13:55, Deniz Atak wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > thanks for your answer. We decided not to go further with this error, > because soon we will have another product that replaces this one. Because > I > want to learn more about this topic, I did the following: > > Before I write your code,

Re: [GENERAL] Error: operator does not exist: integer = integer

2011-08-01 Thread Clodoaldo Neto
2011/8/1 Clodoaldo Neto > postgresql.x86_64 8.3.14-1PGDG.rhel5 > postgresql-server.x86_64 8.3.14-1PGDG.rhel5 > > ERROR: operator does not exist: integer = integer > LINE 3:inner join vendedor as v on a.vendedor_id = v.id >

Re: [GENERAL] Error: operator does not exist: integer = integer

2011-08-01 Thread Tom Lane
Clodoaldo Neto writes: > postgresql.x86_64 8.3.14-1PGDG.rhel5 > postgresql-server.x86_64 8.3.14-1PGDG.rhel5 > ERROR: operator does not exist: integer = integer > Any ideas? Something nasty happened to the pg_operator catalog?

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not read block 4707 of relation 1663/16384/16564: Success

2011-08-01 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 1 Srpen 2011, 10:25, Deniz Atak wrote: > Hi Deepak, > > thanks for your answer. Do you have any opinion about how can I find the > corrupted rows? Do you know how to read: > > "could not read block 4707 of relation 1663/16384/16564" > > ? > Also, there is one interesting thing: a very similar qu

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: could not read block 4707 of relation 1663/16384/16564: Success

2011-08-01 Thread Tom Lane
Deniz Atak writes: > thanks for your answer. Do you have any opinion about how can I find the > corrupted rows? Do you know how to read: > "could not read block 4707 of relation 1663/16384/16564" You should read the chapter about Database Physical Storage in the manual to find out how to interpr

Re: [GENERAL] Error: operator does not exist: integer = integer

2011-08-01 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Clodoaldo Neto wrote: > Restarting the server fixes the error. There are few things that get "fixed" in PostgreSQL by restarting the server. That is not a recommended action to take to solve problems with this software. --  Simon Riggs   http://w

[GENERAL] Postgres 8.0 upgrade to 9.0

2011-08-01 Thread Atul Goel
Hi Forum, We are planning to upgrade a postgres 8.0 database to postgres 9.0 (Actually already done in Dev). The application is J2EE application with Hibernate. My question are 1) Is there a list of things that needs to be taken care while upgrading(known issues). 2) Do I need to up

Re: [GENERAL] Database backup to network folder

2011-08-01 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 01/08/2011 06:35, kalyan kumar wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Postgre SQL 8.3, where I want to backup my entire database. > For the same I am using pg_dump.exe. I am able to take the backup of my > database in to my local machine. If I want to take the backup into > network folder, how to pass "-f

[GENERAL] [ADMIN] number of rows in analyze

2011-08-01 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
Hi, I'ver been wondering how to set the number of rows that are scanned by analyze. (I want to increase it) I couln't find it at first but when i read closer i found that is does: "The largest statistics target among the columns being analyzed determines the number of table rows sampled to prepare

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] number of rows in analyze

2011-08-01 Thread k...@rice.edu
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 04:42:23PM +0200, Willy-Bas Loos wrote: > Hi, > > I'ver been wondering how to set the number of rows that are scanned by > analyze. (I want to increase it) > I couln't find it at first but when i read closer i found that is does: > "The largest statistics target among the c

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] number of rows in analyze

2011-08-01 Thread Tom Lane
Willy-Bas Loos writes: > "The largest statistics target among the columns being analyzed > determines the number of table rows sampled to prepare the > statistics." > (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/sql-analyze.html) > My question is *HOW* does it "detirmine the number of table ro

Re: [GENERAL] repmgr problem with registering standby

2011-08-01 Thread Jaime Casanova
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Toby Corkindale wrote: > 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 sta

[GENERAL] possible ecpg compatibility problem

2011-08-01 Thread Paul Tilles
I have an executable which uses ecpg which was created on a system using postgres version 8.2.6. I sent it to a site with version 8.4.7 installed. The executable fails with a memory fault. Is there a problem doing this? Paul Tilles -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postg

[GENERAL] Postgres 8.0 upgrade to 9.0

2011-08-01 Thread Atul Goel
Hi Forum, We are planning to upgrade a postgres 8.0 database to postgres 9.0 (Actually already done in Dev). The application is J2EE application with Hibernate. My question are 1) Is there a list of things that needs to be taken care while upgrading(known issues). 2) Do I need to u

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] number of rows in analyze

2011-08-01 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
Ok, so 300 times the statistics target! Thanks a lot for the exact code and formula! On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Why?  This is purely an implementation detail.  From the user's > viewpoint, either the stats are good enough or they're not --- the exact > number of rows sample

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 8.0 upgrade to 9.0

2011-08-01 Thread Jaime Casanova
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Atul Goel wrote: > Hi Forum, > > We are planning to upgrade a postgres 8.0 database to postgres 9.0 (Actually > already done in Dev). consider that 9.0 is not the next version after 8.0, there were 4 more (8.1, 8.2, 8.3 and 8.4) and at least for changing from 8.2 t

[GENERAL] CFP for PgWest extended till the 12th!

2011-08-01 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hey .Org, The PgWest CFP has been extended until the 12th. Let's get those talks in! https://www.postgresqlconference.org/talk_types JD -- Command Prompt, Inc. - http://www.commandprompt.com/ PostgreSQL Support, Training, Professional Services and Development The PostgreSQL Conference - http://

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 8.0 upgrade to 9.0

2011-08-01 Thread John Cheng
I am planning on bringing our 8.3 installation up to 9.0.4. First I upgraded the jdbc driver on our staging environment, after 1 month on staging, we tested with the 9.0 driver on production. The actual database upgrade will be more complicated, and we are going to simulate an upgrade on a non-prod

[GENERAL] Pending trigger events on ALTER TABLE in 8.3

2011-08-01 Thread Reuven M. Lerner
Problem: A client of mine, running PostgreSQL 8.3, wrote his application such that it depends on column order. (He now realizes that this was a really bad idea.) Among the things I'm doing for him is helping with upgrades and downgrades. So I wrote a little upgrade script that changes a t

[GENERAL] Postgres 8.3 Function returning a row with different number of colums

2011-08-01 Thread Gianpiero Venditti
Hello, I need to write a function that sometimes return a row with only a column and sometimes return a row with two columns. Is it possible to do something like this with record type? If it's not what's the best alternative to achieve such a result? Thanks in advance for your help. Gianpier

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 8.3 Function returning a row with different number of colums

2011-08-01 Thread David Johnston
> > Is it possible to do something like this with record type? > > Yes. The docs, while possibly somewhat confusing, cover this need. If you have a more specific question (and possibly provide more details as to why you have this need) you will be more likely to get a detailed answer. Davi

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 8.0 upgrade to 9.0

2011-08-01 Thread Hannes Erven
Atul, > 2) Do I need to upgrade JDBC driver when I upgrade to postgres9.0. Yes, at least if you use BLOB types. The 9.0 server sends them in a format former JDBC drivers cannot understand: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/runtime-config-client.html#GUC-BYTEA-OUTPUT Other than that

Re: [GENERAL] Pending trigger events on ALTER TABLE in 8.3

2011-08-01 Thread Tom Lane
"Reuven M. Lerner" writes: > Outside of a transaction, this function works just great. But inside of > a transaction, we get the following error message: > Error 55006: Cannot ALTER TABLE "RecipeNumericParameterSnapshot" because > it has pending trigger events. > Now, I've never seen this bef

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 8.3 Function returning a row with different number of colums

2011-08-01 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Gianpiero Venditti wrote: > Hello, I need to write a function that sometimes return a row with only a > column and sometimes return a row with two columns. > > Is it possible to do something like this with record type? > > If it's not what's the best alternative to

[GENERAL] string comparison problem

2011-08-01 Thread Johnny Edge
Hi folks, I have a problem with identical versions of postgresql - 8.3.13 Config files are identical. HostA is a 32 bit CentOS 5.3 install and the hostB is x86_64 CentOS 6. Difference in architecture should not be a problem - I have another 64 bit CentOS where both queries are executed displ

[GENERAL] string comparison problem

2011-08-01 Thread Johnny Edge
Hi folks, I have a problem with identical versions of postgresql - 8.3.13 Config files are identical. HostA is a 32 bit CentOS 5.3 install and the hostB is x86_64 CentOS 6. Difference in architecture should not be a problem - I have another 64 bit CentOS where both queries are executed displ

Re: [GENERAL] string comparison problem

2011-08-01 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/01/11 11:12 AM, Johnny Edge wrote: I have a problem with identical versions of postgresql - 8.3.13 Config files are identical. HostA is a 32 bit CentOS 5.3 install and the hostB is x86_64 CentOS 6. Difference in architecture should not be a problem - I have another 64 bit CentOS where bot

Re: [GENERAL] string comparison problem

2011-08-01 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Johnny Edge wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a problem with identical versions of postgresql - 8.3.13 > > Config files are identical. HostA is a 32 bit CentOS 5.3 install and > the hostB is x86_64 CentOS 6. > > Difference in architecture should not be a problem - I hav

[GENERAL] string comparison problem

2011-08-01 Thread Johnny Edge
Hi folks, I have a problem with identical versions of postgresql - 8.3.13 Config files are identical. HostA is a 32 bit CentOS 5.3 install and the hostB is x86_64 CentOS 6. Difference in architecture should not be a problem - I have another 64 bit CentOS where both queries are executed displ

Re: [GENERAL] Pending trigger events on ALTER TABLE in 8.3

2011-08-01 Thread Reuven M. Lerner
Hi, everyone. Tom wrote: Exactly what it says: not-yet-processed trigger events for the table. If you don't have any explicit triggers on the table, maybe they are FOREIGN KEY implementation triggers. It's hard to say more than that when you haven't shown us any of the DDL. Sorry; I'm enc

Re: [GENERAL] Pending trigger events on ALTER TABLE in 8.3

2011-08-01 Thread Tom Lane
"Reuven M. Lerner" writes: > Hi, everyone. Tom wrote: >> Exactly what it says: not-yet-processed trigger events for the table. >> If you don't have any explicit triggers on the table, maybe they are >> FOREIGN KEY implementation triggers. It's hard to say more than that >> when you haven't sho

Re: [GENERAL] string comparison problem

2011-08-01 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 10:53:16PM +0300, Johnny Edge wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have a problem with identical versions of postgresql - 8.3.13 > > Config files are identical. HostA is a 32 bit CentOS 5.3 install and the > hostB is x86_64 CentOS 6. > > Difference in architecture should not be a

[GENERAL] why cannot UNION both SELECT and SHOW?

2011-08-01 Thread Konstantin Izmailov
Is it possible instead of executing following two statements: SHOW search_path; SELECT version(); to execute just one statement returning both search_path and version? I'm using Postgres 9.0 and need the result either as two tuples or two fields... Could you suggest how to rewrite the two state

Re: [GENERAL] string comparison problem

2011-08-01 Thread kleptog
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Re: [GENERAL] why cannot UNION both SELECT and SHOW?

2011-08-01 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 08/01/2011 02:07 PM, Konstantin Izmailov wrote: Is it possible instead of executing following two statements: SHOW search_path; SELECT version(); to execute just one statement returning both search_path and version? I'm using Postgres 9.0 and need the result either as two tuples or two fie

Re: [GENERAL] Pending trigger events on ALTER TABLE in 8.3

2011-08-01 Thread Reuven M. Lerner
Hi again. Tom wrote: Um ... I don't see anything about RecipeNumericParameterSnapshot here. Grr... I meant to put: Reports=# \d "RecipeNumericParameterSnapshot" Table "public.RecipeNumericParameterSnapshot" Column | Type | Modifiers --

Re: [GENERAL] why cannot UNION both SELECT and SHOW?

2011-08-01 Thread Jerry Sievers
Konstantin Izmailov writes: > Is it possible instead of executing following two statements: > ? SHOW search_path; SELECT version(); > to execute just one statement returning both search_path and version? > > I'm using Postgres 9.0 and need the result either as two tuples or two > fields... > > C

Re: [GENERAL] why cannot UNION both SELECT and SHOW?

2011-08-01 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
select current_setting('search_path') union select version(); Regards Rodrigo On 08/01/2011 06:07 PM, Konstantin Izmailov wrote: Is it possible instead of executing following two statements: SHOW search_path; SELECT version(); to execute just one statement returning both search_path and vers

Re: [GENERAL] Pending trigger events on ALTER TABLE in 8.3

2011-08-01 Thread Tom Lane
"Reuven M. Lerner" writes: > Reports=# \d "RecipeNumericParameterSnapshot" > Foreign-key constraints: > "RecipeNumericParameterSnapshot_RecipeSnapshot_fk" FOREIGN KEY > ("RecipeSnapshotID") REFERENCES "RecipeSnapshot"("ID") ON DELETE CASCADE > DEFERRABLE INITIALLY DEFERRED OK, this is abou

Re: [GENERAL] Pending trigger events on ALTER TABLE in 8.3

2011-08-01 Thread Reuven M. Lerner
Thanks for the great explanation! Now it's time to do some detective work... Reuven -- 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] Postgres 8.0 upgrade to 9.0

2011-08-01 Thread Craig Ringer
On 1/08/2011 11:07 PM, Atul Goel wrote: Hi Forum, We are planning to upgrade a postgres 8.0 database to postgres 9.0 (Actually already done in Dev). The application is J2EE application with Hibernate. My question are 1)Is there a list of things that needs to be taken care while upgrading(known

Re: [GENERAL] Database backup to network folder

2011-08-01 Thread Craig Ringer
On 1/08/2011 1:35 PM, kalyan kumar wrote: Hi, I am using Postgre SQL 8.3, where I want to backup my entire database. For the same I am using pg_dump.exe. I am able to take the backup of my database in to my local machine. If I want to take the backup into network folder, how to pass "-f" paramet

Re: [GENERAL] possible ecpg compatibility problem

2011-08-01 Thread Craig Ringer
On 1/08/2011 10:11 PM, Paul Tilles wrote: I have an executable which uses ecpg which was created on a system using postgres version 8.2.6. I sent it to a site with version 8.4.7 installed. The executable fails with a memory fault. Is there a problem doing this? With the amount of information y

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 8.0 upgrade to 9.0

2011-08-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Atul Goel wrote: > Hi Forum, > > We are planning to upgrade a postgres 8.0 database to postgres 9.0 (Actually > already done in Dev). The application is J2EE application with Hibernate. My > question are > > 1)  Is there a list of things that needs to be taken c

Re: [GENERAL] repmgr problem with registering standby

2011-08-01 Thread Toby Corkindale
On 02/08/11 01:05, Jaime Casanova wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Toby Corkindale wrote: 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/repm

Re: [GENERAL] repmgr problem with registering standby

2011-08-01 Thread David Johnston
> For that matter - is there a reason it has to be an integer? Allowing > hostnames there would be more friendly. Using integers means someone has to > maintain a mapping on node IDs to hostnames in a separate place, and then > that leads to mistakes, like someone thinking the standby node (2) i