[GENERAL] Performance Problem with postgresql 9.03, 8GB RAM,Quadcore Processor Server--Need help!!!!!!!

2011-10-28 Thread Mohamed Hashim
I have Quadcore server with 8GB RAM vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 44 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5607 @ 2.27GHz stepping: 2 cpu MHz : 1197.000 cache size : 8192 KB MemTotal:8148636 kB MemFree: 4989

[GENERAL] "Named" column default expression

2011-10-28 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Hello, I just noticed that Postgres allows the following syntax: create table foo ( id integer constraint id_default_value default 42 ); But as far as I can tell the "constraint id_default_value" part seems to be only syntactical sugar as this is stored nowhere. At least I couldn't find it

Re: [GENERAL] Server hitting 100% CPU usage, system comes to a crawl.

2011-10-28 Thread Radosław Smogura
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:43:00 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/27/11 11:39 AM, Brian Fehrle wrote: I've got a system that has 32 cores and 128 gigs of ram. We have connection pooling set up, with about 100 - 200 persistent connections open to the database. Our applications then use these conn

[GENERAL] Re: [PERFORM] Performance Problem with postgresql 9.03, 8GB RAM,Quadcore Processor Server--Need help!!!!!!!

2011-10-28 Thread Gregg Jaskiewicz
what sort of queries you are running against it ? the select * from.. is not really (hopefully) a query you are running from your php app. -- 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] "Named" column default expression

2011-10-28 Thread Thom Brown
On 28 October 2011 08:29, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > Hello, > > I just noticed that Postgres allows the following syntax: > > create table foo > ( >    id integer constraint id_default_value default 42 > ); > > But as far as I can tell the "constraint id_default_value" part seems to be > only syntac

Re: [GENERAL] Custom data type in C with one fixed and one variable attribute

2011-10-28 Thread Adrian Schreyer
I added one more byte to include \0 and its working as expected now. Thanks for your help! Cheers, Adrian On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 23:23, Tom Lane wrote: > Adrian Schreyer writes: >> The data type I have is > >> typedef struct { >>         int4   length; >>         uint32 foo; >>         char  

Re: [GENERAL] "Named" column default expression

2011-10-28 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Thom Brown, 28.10.2011 10:10: On 28 October 2011 08:29, Thomas Kellerer wrote: Hello, I just noticed that Postgres allows the following syntax: create table foo ( id integer constraint id_default_value default 42 ); But as far as I can tell the "constraint id_default_value" part seems to

[GENERAL] PG_DUMP error : unexpected chunk number

2011-10-28 Thread mailtolouis2020-postg...@yahoo.com
Hello, I think I got a big problem now, I'm not able to do pg_dump on one of my production database. When I do pg_dump it give me this error: pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR:  unexpected chunk number 18390760 (expected 4) for toast value 92784 in pg_toast_88487 I believe this message

Re: [GENERAL] Server move using rsync

2011-10-28 Thread Venkat Balaji
> > "Another option is to use rsync to perform a file system backup. This is > done by first running rsync while the database server is running, then > shutting down the database server just long enough to do a second rsync. The > second rsync will be much quicker than the first, because it has rel

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL Naming Rules

2011-10-28 Thread Robert Buckley
Hi, according to this article http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=409471, the naming of tables, and fields is restricted to 63 characters and must start with an underscore or letter. Nothing is however said about in which character set.  Am I allowed to name a table field < Änderu

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Naming Rules

2011-10-28 Thread Szymon Guz
On 28 October 2011 12:49, Robert Buckley wrote: > > Hi, > > according to this article > http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=409471, the naming of > tables, and fields is restricted to 63 characters and must start with an > underscore or letter. Nothing is however said about in which c

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Naming Rules

2011-10-28 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Robert Buckley, 28.10.2011 12:49: according to this article http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=409471, the naming of tables, and fields is restricted to 63 characters and must start with an underscore or letter. Nothing is however said about in which character set. Am I allowed to n

WG: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Naming Rules

2011-10-28 Thread Robert Buckley
- Weitergeleitete Message - Von: Robert Buckley An: Szymon Guz Gesendet: 13:23 Freitag, 28.Oktober 2011 Betreff: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Naming Rules Thanks, I tried importing a table and I got some errors regarding Character sets. The error suggested I should use Latin1 instead

Re: [GENERAL] Performance Problem with postgresql 9.03, 8GB RAM,Quadcore Processor Server--Need help!!!!!!!

2011-10-28 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 28 October 2011 09:02, Mohamed Hashim wrote: > EXPLAIN select * from stk_source ; > QUERY > PLAN > - >  Result  (cost=0.00..6575755.39 rows=163132513 width=42) >    ->  Appen

Re: [GENERAL] Performance Problem with postgresql 9.03, 8GB RAM,Quadcore Processor Server--Need help!!!!!!!

2011-10-28 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 28 October 2011 13:37, Alban Hertroys wrote: > On 28 October 2011 09:02, Mohamed Hashim wrote: Please don't cross-post to mailing lists for multiple projects. -- If you can't see the forest for the trees, Cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing l

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Naming Rules

2011-10-28 Thread Albe Laurenz
Robert Buckley wrote: > according to this article > http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=409471, the naming of > tables, and fields is restricted to 63 characters and must start with an > underscore or letter. Nothing > is however said about in which character set. > > Am I allowed to

Re: [GENERAL] "Named" column default expression

2011-10-28 Thread Tom Lane
Thomas Kellerer writes: >>> I just noticed that Postgres allows the following syntax: >>> create table foo >>> ( >>> id integer constraint id_default_value default 42 >>> ); > I'm wondering why this doesn't throw an error then. It's an implementation artifact --- our grammar regards everything a

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Naming Rules

2011-10-28 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Friday, October 28, 2011 3:49:58 am Robert Buckley wrote: > Hi, > according to this > article http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=409471, the naming > of tables, and fields is restricted to 63 characters and must start with > an underscore or letter. Nothing is however said about in

[GENERAL] nextval skips values between consecutive calls

2011-10-28 Thread depstein
I just found an odd thing about nextval (PostgreSQL 9.0): When nextval is called together with a function returning a sequence, such as generate_series or unnest, it skips one value between consecutive calls: create sequence test_sequence; -- This works as expected select nextval(' test_sequenc

Re: [GENERAL] nextval skips values between consecutive calls

2011-10-28 Thread Tom Lane
writes: > -- This is rather surprising > select nextval(' test_sequence'), generate_series(1, 1); -- 3, 1 > select nextval(' test_sequence'), generate_series(1, 1); -- 5, 1 > Is there any explanation for why nextval skips a value in the second case? The targetlist is evaluated twice because of t

Re: [GENERAL] nextval skips values between consecutive calls

2011-10-28 Thread depstein
> -Original Message- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:t...@sss.pgh.pa.us] > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 7:22 PM > To: Dmitry Epstein > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Peter Gagarinov > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] nextval skips values between consecutive calls > > writes: > > -- This is rather sur

[GENERAL] Client-site "lo_export"

2011-10-28 Thread whiplash
Hello! I use client-side "lo_export" for save large object to file. If i login as database owner then i do not have error (output file exists), but if i login as not database owner then function "lo_export" returning -1. My code is simple: PGresult *res = PQexec(pg_conn, "begin"); PQclear(r

[GENERAL] pg_dump error unexpected chunk number

2011-10-28 Thread Louis Voo
Hello, I think I got a big problem now, I'm not able to do pg_dump on one of my production database. When I do pg_dump it give me this error: pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR:  unexpected chunk number 18390760 (expected 4) for toast value 92784 in pg_toast_88487 I believe this message

Re: [GENERAL] Unable to write inside TEMP environment variable path

2011-10-28 Thread kucoj
i solved this problem. follow this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFZnPw4p4eo -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Unable-to-write-inside-TEMP-environment-variable-path-tp3315027p4945094.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabb

Re: [GENERAL] "Named" column default expression

2011-10-28 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Tom Lane wrote on 28.10.2011 16:21: I just noticed that Postgres allows the following syntax: create table foo ( id integer constraint id_default_value default 42 ); I'm wondering why this doesn't throw an error then. It's an implementation artifact --- our grammar regards everything after a

Re: [GENERAL] nextval skips values between consecutive calls

2011-10-28 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:28 AM, wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Tom Lane [mailto:t...@sss.pgh.pa.us] >> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 7:22 PM >> To: Dmitry Epstein >> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Peter Gagarinov >> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] nextval skips values between consecut

Re: [GENERAL] nextval skips values between consecutive calls

2011-10-28 Thread depstein
> -Original Message- > From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:mmonc...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 8:29 PM > To: Dmitry Epstein > Cc: t...@sss.pgh.pa.us; pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Peter Gagarinov > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] nextval skips values between consecutive calls > > On Fri,

[GENERAL] From select to delete

2011-10-28 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, in PostgreSQL 8.4.9 I'm able to select all games and his partners by a player id: # select * from pref_scores s1 join pref_scores s2 using(gid) join pref_games g using(gid) where s1.id='OK531282114947'; gid | id | money | quit | id | money | quit | rounds |

Re: [GENERAL] From select to delete

2011-10-28 Thread Alexander Farber
First half is delete from pref_scores where gid in (select gid from pref_scores where id=_id); but how to clean pref_games? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/

Re: [GENERAL] From select to delete

2011-10-28 Thread Alexander Farber
Nevermind, sorry - I've figured it out myself (for a change) delete from pref_scores where id<>_id and gid in (select gid from pref_scores where id=_id); delete from pref_games where gid in (select gid from pref_scores where

Re: [GENERAL] nextval skips values between consecutive calls

2011-10-28 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:32 AM, wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Merlin Moncure [mailto:mmonc...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 8:29 PM >> To: Dmitry Epstein >> Cc: t...@sss.pgh.pa.us; pgsql-general@postgresql.org; Peter Gagarinov >> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] nextval ski

Re: [GENERAL] From select to delete

2011-10-28 Thread David Johnston
-Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Farber Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 12:34 PM To: pgsql-general Subject: [GENERAL] From select to delete Hello, Is there maybe an easy way to delete that player

Re: [GENERAL] From select to delete

2011-10-28 Thread Alexander Farber
Thank you, David - On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:00 PM, David Johnston wrote: > The easiest way is to create FOREIGN KEY relationships between the various > tables and allow "ON DELETE CASCADE" to do the work. > > Otherwise you need to DELETE with an appropriate WHERE clause (and > sub-selects) or yo

Re: [GENERAL] From select to delete

2011-10-28 Thread Alexander Farber
For now I'm trying to finish my 1st approach (without "on delete cascade") and the following strangely fails with ERROR: syntax error at "temp" DETAIL: Expected record variable, row variable, or list of scalar variables following INTO. CONTEXT: compilation of PL/pgSQL function "pref_delete_user

Re: [GENERAL] From select to delete

2011-10-28 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 28 Oct 2011, at 19:40, Alexander Farber wrote: > For now I'm trying to finish my 1st approach > (without "on delete cascade") and the following > strangely fails with > > ERROR: syntax error at "temp" > DETAIL: Expected record variable, row variable, or list of scalar > variables following I

Re: [GENERAL] From select to delete

2011-10-28 Thread Alexander Farber
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Alban Hertroys wrote: > SELECT INTO in PL/pgSQL isn't the same command as SELECT INTO in SQL. > > Check the documentation for the two ;) > > Alban Hertroys Thanks and I'm not surprised about this news... -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@post

Re: [GENERAL] Client-site "lo_export"

2011-10-28 Thread Dmitriy Igrishin
Hey, 2011/10/28 whiplash > Hello! > > I use client-side "lo_export" for save large object to file. If i login as > database owner then i do not have error (output file exists), but if i login > as not database owner then function "lo_export" returning -1. My code is > simple: > > PGresult *res

Re: [GENERAL] From select to delete

2011-10-28 Thread Alexander Farber
This seems to work (I'm not sure if ON COMMIT DROP is needed or not - I'm using non-persistent PHP 5.3 script with pgbouncer pool_mode=session and PostgreSQL 8.4.9): create or replace function pref_delete_user(_id varchar, _reason varchar) returns void as $BODY$

Re: [GENERAL] PG 9.1.1 - availability of xslt_process()

2011-10-28 Thread aperi2007
Hi Vibor, thx for hint. it resolve. Really great new the extension command ! Best regards, Il 27/10/2011 08:47, Vibhor Kumar ha scritto: On Oct 27, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Andrea Peri wrote: Hi, I'm using the compiled version of PG 9.1.1 on win32 . try-ing to call the xslt_process(text,text)

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Naming Rules

2011-10-28 Thread Craig Ringer
On 10/28/2011 06:49 PM, Robert Buckley wrote: according to this article http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=409471, the naming of tables, and fields is restricted to 63 characters and must start with an underscore or letter. Nothing is however said about in which character set. Am I