Re: [GENERAL] backup-strategies for large databases

2011-08-26 Thread Niyas
Hi All, I have some other issue related to taking backup of the database having bigger size. I have been getting the following errors anil@ubuntu107:~/Desktop$ pg_dump -Uadmin -h192.168.2.5 dbname > filename.sql pg_dump: Dumping the contents of table "tbl_voucher" failed: PQgetCopyData() faile

Re: [GENERAL] backup-strategies for large databases

2011-08-26 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 26 Srpen 2011, 11:48, Niyas wrote: > Hi All, > > I have some other issue related to taking backup of the database having > bigger size. I have been getting the > following errors > > anil@ubuntu107:~/Desktop$ pg_dump -Uadmin -h192.168.2.5 dbname > > filename.sql > > pg_dump: Dumping the content

Re: [GENERAL] passing cursors from one PL function to another

2011-08-26 Thread Martín Marqués
El día 26 de agosto de 2011 00:04, Merlin Moncure escribió: > 2011/8/25 Martín Marqués : >> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION prueba_cursor(codigo integer, curCursor refcursor) >>   RETURNS SETOF refcursor AS >> $BODY$ >> DECLARE >>       cur alias for $2; >> BEGIN >>       PERFORM mpf.ConstruyeCursorDes

Re: [GENERAL] backup-strategies for large databases

2011-08-26 Thread Niyas
Actually database is not crashed. I can run my application perfectly. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/backup-strategies-for-large-databases-tp4697145p4737697.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-ge

Re: [GENERAL] backup-strategies for large databases

2011-08-26 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 26 Srpen 2011, 12:46, Niyas wrote: > Actually database is not crashed. I can run my application perfectly. That does not mean one of the backends did not crash. Check the log. Tomas -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: h

Re: [GENERAL] backup-strategies for large databases

2011-08-26 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello 2011/8/26 Niyas : > Hi All, > > I have some other issue related to taking backup of the database having > bigger size. I have been getting the > following errors > > anil@ubuntu107:~/Desktop$ pg_dump -Uadmin -h192.168.2.5 dbname > > filename.sql > >  pg_dump: Dumping the contents of table "t

Re: [GENERAL] backup-strategies for large databases

2011-08-26 Thread Niyas
I also guessed the same at initial stage of debugging. So i tried to export the tbl_voucher data to a file and it works fine. Then i googled and found some link, its explaines the reason is higher size of the database. But didnt get any proper solution in the internet. -- View this message in con

Re: [GENERAL] access to lexems or access to parsed elements

2011-08-26 Thread Massa, Harald Armin
Sushant, Can this fit? > > select plainto_tsquery('english', 'the quick brown fox jumped over the > lazy fox'); > plainto_tsquery > - > 'quick' & 'brown' & 'fox' & 'jump' & 'lazi' & 'fox' > no, this cannot fit. This just adds

[GENERAL] COPY FROM how long should take ?

2011-08-26 Thread Condor
Hello, today I try to restore on of my tables with copy from file that I made before. The file is 2.4 GB, only integers ... took me 3 hours and 30 min and I hit CTRL+C on i7 processor with 8 GB memory, sata 2 hard drive. I modify some psql conf file values and increase memory, work, wal, temp,

Re: [GENERAL] passing cursors from one PL function to another

2011-08-26 Thread Merlin Moncure
2011/8/26 Martín Marqués : > El día 26 de agosto de 2011 00:04, Merlin Moncure > escribió: >> 2011/8/25 Martín Marqués : >>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION prueba_cursor(codigo integer, curCursor >>> refcursor) >>>   RETURNS SETOF refcursor AS >>> $BODY$ >>> DECLARE >>>       cur alias for $2; >>> B

Re: [GENERAL] COPY FROM how long should take ?

2011-08-26 Thread Jayadevan M
> Date: 08/26/2011 05:40 PM > Subject: [GENERAL] COPY FROM how long should take ? > Sent by: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org > > Hello, > today I try to restore on of my tables with copy from file that I made > before. > The file is 2.4 GB, only integers ... took me 3 hours and 30 min and I >

Re: [GENERAL] access to lexems or access to parsed elements

2011-08-26 Thread Marcin Mańk
> a) the lexems of a tsvector ts_debug (it`s a plain sql function, may give You some inspiration for Your own queries) > b) the (unnamed) fields of a set-of-record-returning function select * from ts_parse('default','the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy fox') or select (ts_parse('default','the

[GENERAL] hot standby waiting for invalid wal file

2011-08-26 Thread zhong ming wu
Dear List Since 9.0 comes out, I had been successfully using wal file shipping readonly hotstandby feature in pg. I am currently trying to reestablish a readonly slave after master node failure. The newly established master server is working properly. I have verified that WAL file shipping is

[GENERAL] Postgresql 9.0.4 SRPMS

2011-08-26 Thread Brett Maton
Could anyone tell me where to find postgresql 9.0.4 SRPM's? I need to build some RPM's for CentOS 6 - 32 bit. Thanks in advance...

Re: [GENERAL] COPY FROM how long should take ?

2011-08-26 Thread Condor
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:49:35 +0530, Jayadevan M wrote: >> Date: 08/26/2011 05:40 PM >> Subject: [GENERAL] COPY FROM how long should take ? >> Sent by: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org >> > > Hello, > > today I try to restore on of my tables with copy from file that I made > > before. >

Re: [GENERAL] access to lexems or access to parsed elements

2011-08-26 Thread Daniel Verite
Massa, Harald Armin wrote: > select ts_parse('default','the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy fox') > > (1,the) > (12," ") > (1,quick) > [...] > (1,fox) > > is a set-returning-function, giving me 17 records of type pseudo-record. > Stopwords still in there, so what. But: No chance of

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql 9.0.4 SRPMS

2011-08-26 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 13:33 +0100, Brett Maton wrote: > Could anyone tell me where to find postgresql 9.0.4 SRPM's? > > I need to build some RPM's for CentOS 6 - 32 bit. http://yum.postgresql.org/srpms/9.0 Regards, -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterpris

[GENERAL] "UNION ALL" is failing

2011-08-26 Thread Joy Smith
column types are the same so I don't know why this 'union all' is failing. Any ideas? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - here is the error: ERROR: syntax error at or near "UNION" LINE 17: UNION ALL ^ ** Error ** ERROR: syntax error a

Re: [GENERAL] "UNION ALL" is failing

2011-08-26 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 09:28 -0400, Joy Smith wrote: > column types are the same so I don't know why this 'union all' is failing. > Any ideas? > You cannot have an ORDER BY before the UNION ALL. The manual says: [ WITH [ RECURSIVE ] with_query [, ...] ] SELECT [ ALL | DISTINCT [ ON ( expression

Re: [GENERAL] "UNION ALL" is failing

2011-08-26 Thread Tom Lane
Joy Smith writes: > column types are the same so I don't know why this 'union all' is failing. It's a syntax error --- got nothing to do with column types. I think what you need to do is parenthesize the first subquery. ORDER BY isn't allowed to be attached to a UNION subquery otherwise. You'r

Re: [GENERAL] "UNION ALL" is failing

2011-08-26 Thread Joy Smith
Thanks for the suggestions, combining your and Guillaume Lelarge suggestions I was able to get it two work. I had to do two things. 1. take away the with's and just drop them into my from statement 2. remove the order by's so the working sql is as follows: select 'Phone 611 IVR', 'New States

Re: [GENERAL] "UNION ALL" is failing

2011-08-26 Thread Joy Smith
Hello Guillaume, thanks your and Tom's solutions worked. I did find the page you cited though I admit when I was reading through all the bracets i was not sure if it was telling me a precedence, order or what. I am sure as i get better the following will read quite clearly. [ WITH [ RECURSIVE ]

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql 9.0.4 SRPMS

2011-08-26 Thread Maton, Brett
Thanks Devrim, There was no SRPM for 9.0.4 under the i386 folder, but there was one in the x86_64. rpmbuild reported no errors once I got all of the dependencies installed. All seems to be working sweetly now. Brett 2011/8/26 Devrim GÜNDÜZ > On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 13:33 +0100, Brett Mato

Re: [GENERAL] pg_restore with -j fails (works without -j option)

2011-08-26 Thread Lonni J Friedman
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Lonni J Friedman writes: >> [ this doesn't work: ] >> $ cat 2011-08-25-1314280801-nightly.out | pg_restore -j2 -U lfriedman -v -d >> nightly > > It's basically impossible for that to work.  -j implies spawning > multiple processes that will be w

Re: [GENERAL] COPY FROM how long should take ?

2011-08-26 Thread pasman pasmański
You can add a trigger and send message every 10 rows -- pasman -- 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] documentation for hashtext?

2011-08-26 Thread pasman pasmański
The better solution is you write own hashing function. -- pasman -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

[GENERAL] Setting a psql variable from SQL output

2011-08-26 Thread Bobby Dewitt
Is there a way to get output from a SQL command or function and have it be set to a variable value in psql? My main goal is to execute a certain script depending on the version of the database server (either 8.4 or 9.0). I can dynamically execute a script using the following, but I can't get i

Re: [GENERAL] Setting a psql variable from SQL output

2011-08-26 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Bobby Dewitt wrote: > Is there a way to get output from a SQL command or function and have it be > set to a variable value in psql?  My main goal is to execute a certain > script depending on the version of the database server (either 8.4 or 9.0). >  I can dynamica

Re: [GENERAL] Setting a psql variable from SQL output

2011-08-26 Thread Rob Sargent
On 08/26/2011 02:16 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Bobby Dewitt wrote: >> Is there a way to get output from a SQL command or function and have it be >> set to a variable value in psql? My main goal is to execute a certain >> script depending on the version of the d

Re: [GENERAL] Setting a psql variable from SQL output

2011-08-26 Thread Bobby Dewitt
I'm using a home-grown Ruby script to execute a given SQL script against all of the databases in our environment. I could modify the Ruby script to execute a different SQL script depending on the database version, but that would require a lot of changes to the Ruby code and would probably only be

[GENERAL] Need help with dropping a view please

2011-08-26 Thread CauBa
I am running postgresql 8.3.3 on solaris My server has a number of databases.  I have a problem with only one of them. That particular database got corrupted and I do not yet know the cause.  No hardware problems as far as I can see. I am not able to search on a view that I was able to do before.

[GENERAL] Array syntax in the copier

2011-08-26 Thread Andy Chambers
Hi All, What's the correct method of writing array columns using the bulk copier. It seems to support the curly braces notation but how do you escape special characters like ","? I tried using "\x2c" and that prevents the syntax error but I end up with what looks like the string \x2c in the data

[GENERAL] Looking at the contents of a WAL file

2011-08-26 Thread Winning Runner
Postgres 9.0 on Solaris 10. Is there any meaningful way to check the contents of a WAL file? I had a server run out of space and I wanted to check the WAL files to see what was going on that filled up the disk space. No errors in the log file so whatever was running was running "error free" unti

[GENERAL] Performing upgrade to latest minor release using PGDG RPMs

2011-08-26 Thread John Moran
I'm wondering how it's possible to upgrade my fedora system's pg to the latest minor release. I'm using the PGDG RPMs. A "yum update" leaves me on version 9.0.2. I'd expect it to put me on 9.0.4. What am I doing wrong? I installed from pgdg-fedora-9.0-2.noarch . Cheers, John -- Sent via pgsql-ge

Re: [GENERAL] Need help with dropping a view please

2011-08-26 Thread Royce Ausburn
> I created a new view called "clients2" with the same member tables as clients > and it works I can query it. > > But due to the many hardcoded places that use "clients" view, I have to have > "clients" view. So I tried to drop clients view but cannot > > #DROP view clients; > ERROR: missin

Re: [GENERAL] Need help with dropping a view please

2011-08-26 Thread pasman pasmański
Hi. Maybe last bugfix helps you. -- pasman -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general