Re: [GENERAL] Operator based on data type

2012-01-13 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > Oooh, that's clever. Nice! > > People say function overloading is no good They do?? I wrote a similar set of functions to simplify a particular piece of UI code. Three functions called 'str2int'; one takes varchar and returns int, one t

Re: [GENERAL] select statment going slow and slow while using IN (xx,xx)

2012-01-13 Thread Yan Chunlu
seems similar to this problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5198380/improving-postgres-psycopg2-query-performance-for-python-to-the-same-level-of-ja but no solution yet. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Yan Chunlu wrote: > I also tried explain but found nothing special: > > explain select

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql allow connections without password

2012-01-13 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 12/01/2012 05:16, debian nick wrote: > I have postgresql 8.4.9 installed now, my problem is that from time to > time my postgresql let psql version 8.4.9 access the database without > asking for password (psql -d mydatabase -h myhost -U myuser), and the > connection attempts from psql 8.3 are no

[GENERAL] Appending a newline to a column value - in a psql cronjob

2012-01-13 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello! I'm using PostgreSQL 8.4.9 on CentOS 6.2 and with bash. The following cronjob works well for me (trying to send a mail to myself - for moderation): 6 6 * * * psql -c "select 'http://mysite/user.php?id=' ||id, about from pref_rep where length(about) > 1 and la

Re: [GENERAL] Compiling C function with VC++ for Windows version

2012-01-13 Thread Edwin Quijada
> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:44:24 +0800 > From: ring...@ringerc.id.au > To: listas_quij...@hotmail.com; pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Compiling C function with VC++ for Windows version > > On 13/01/2012 1:55 AM, Edwin Quijada wrote: > > > > Ok. > > This is the way that

Re: [GENERAL] Appending a newline to a column value - in a psql cronjob

2012-01-13 Thread Rob Sargentg
On 01/13/2012 05:11 AM, Alexander Farber wrote: Hello! I'm using PostgreSQL 8.4.9 on CentOS 6.2 and with bash. The following cronjob works well for me (trying to send a mail to myself - for moderation): 6 6 * * * psql -c "select 'http://mysite/user.php?id=' ||id,

Re: [GENERAL] Appending a newline to a column value - in a psql cronjob

2012-01-13 Thread David Johnston
... || id || E'\n' ... To enable the backslash escape you prefix the literal with the letter E David J. On Jan 13, 2012, at 7:11, Alexander Farber wrote: > Hello! > > I'm using PostgreSQL 8.4.9 on CentOS 6.2 and with bash. > > The following cronjob works well for me > (trying to send a mail

[GENERAL] time zone problem

2012-01-13 Thread Cefull Lo
Hi everybody, I'm located in Hong Kong, UTC+8 time zone. When I select current_timestamp; gives now --- 2012-01-13 23:56:16.825558+08 However, when I select current_timestamp at time zone 'UTC+8'; I expect the result is the same as the above one. But

[GENERAL] pg_bulkloader

2012-01-13 Thread Hardy, Paul
I have no problem loading a table using bulkloader. Eg. OUTPUT = schema.tablename# [.]table_name INPUT = /filelocation/table.csv # Input data location (absolute path) TYPE = CSV

[GENERAL] ORAFCE -> UTL_FILE -> pul_line

2012-01-13 Thread bj77
Hi, OS: SUSE LINUX I am writing a logfile (batch process) with the ORAFCE utilities of UTL_FILE. I recently observed that the logfile is not refreshed after every new entry written. It appears to me that the every 4096 bytes of data are written at the same time. Can anyone explain me this please

Re: [GENERAL] Corrupted index, what do i do?ruc

2012-01-13 Thread eshishki
> Since you were running with fsync off, you must have had good backups or > replication configured, because the documentation warns you that running > with fsync=off will probably destroy your data and is only for expert users. Yes, i know, i have a replica and slow disk. > In case you don't hav

Re: [GENERAL] time zone problem

2012-01-13 Thread Tom Lane
Cefull Lo writes: > I'm located in Hong Kong, UTC+8 time zone. When I > select current_timestamp; > 2012-01-13 23:56:16.825558+08 > However, when I > select current_timestamp at time zone 'UTC+8'; > I expect the result is the same as the above one. Sorry, but it isn't. A time zone name spelled

Re: [GENERAL] indexes no longer used after shutdown during reindexing

2012-01-13 Thread Matt Dew
On 01/12/2012 01:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Matt Dew writes: On 01/11/2012 04:29 PM, Tom Lane wrote: What exactly is your definition of a "clean shutdown"? Is a reboot command considered a clean shutdown? It's a redhat box which called /etc/init.d/postgresql stop, which does: pg_ctl stop -D '$P

Re: [GENERAL] time zone problem

2012-01-13 Thread Steve Crawford
On 01/13/2012 08:18 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Cefull Lo writes: I'm located in Hong Kong, UTC+8 time zone. When I select current_timestamp; 2012-01-13 23:56:16.825558+08 However, when I select current_timestamp at time zone 'UTC+8'; I expect the result is the same as the above one. Sorry, but it i

Re: [GENERAL] unnest array of row type

2012-01-13 Thread seiliki
What I really intend to do is slightly more complicate than the original code. I need to iterate RECORD variable in PL/pgSQL. By combining both ideas from Pavel and Merlin, I get the following working function. CREATE FUNCTION test() RETURNS VOID AS $$ DECLARE rec RECORD; BEGIN C

Re: [GENERAL] ORAFCE -> UTL_FILE -> pul_line

2012-01-13 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello 2012/1/13 bj77 : > Hi, > > OS: SUSE LINUX > > I am writing a logfile (batch process) with the ORAFCE utilities of > UTL_FILE. > I recently observed that the logfile is not refreshed after every new entry > written. It appears to me that the every 4096 bytes of data are written at > the same

[GENERAL] PG9.1.2 -- 3 day old orphaned/non-responsive query -- pg_(cancel)(terminate)_backend has no effect

2012-01-13 Thread Reid Thompson
Looking for some quidance or suggestions. PostgreSQL 9.1.2 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.4.5 20110214 (Red Hat 4.4.5-6), 64-bit $ uname -a Linux db1.hw.ateb.com 2.6.32-131.21.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 22 19:48:09 GMT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux datid| d

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql allow connections without password [SOLVED]

2012-01-13 Thread debian nick
Thanks raymond, you were right, i never think that psql was using .pgpass file. When a delete it psql ask me for the password. THANKS I’ll never figure that out. 2012/1/13 Raymond O'Donnell > On 12/01/2012 05:16, debian nick wrote: > > I have postgresql 8.4.9 installed now, my problem is that fr

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql allow connections without password [SOLVED]

2012-01-13 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/13/2012 09:10 AM, debian nick wrote: Thanks raymond, you were right, i never think that psql was using .pgpass file. When a delete it psql ask me for the password. THANKS I’ll never figure that out. You still should check your pg_hba.conf file for trust and ident connection rules. .pgpas

Re: [GENERAL] indexes no longer used after shutdown during reindexing

2012-01-13 Thread Matt Dew
On 01/12/2012 01:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Matt Dew writes: On 01/11/2012 04:29 PM, Tom Lane wrote: What exactly is your definition of a "clean shutdown"? Is a reboot command considered a clean shutdown? It's a redhat box which called /etc/init.d/postgresql stop, which does: pg_ctl stop -D '$P

Re: [GENERAL] indexes no longer used after shutdown during reindexing

2012-01-13 Thread Tom Lane
Matt Dew writes: > An interesting sidenote we realized. the nice system shutdown script > /etc/init.d/postgres doesn't actually wait for the db to be down, it > just waits for pg_ctl to return. By default, "pg_ctl stop" does wait for the server to shut down ... regards

[GENERAL] Schedule for PostgreSQL devroom at FOSDEM 2012

2012-01-13 Thread Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
Hi all, the schedule for the PostgreSQL devroom at FOSDEM 2012 is now available: http://www.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/postgresql_devroom We will have 8 talks on Saturday, February 4th. -- Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum German PostgreSQL User Group European Postgr

Re: [GENERAL] indexes no longer used after shutdown during reindexing

2012-01-13 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 13.1.2012 22:20, Tom Lane wrote: > Matt Dew writes: >> An interesting sidenote we realized. the nice system shutdown script >> /etc/init.d/postgres doesn't actually wait for the db to be down, it >> just waits for pg_ctl to return. > > By default, "pg_ctl stop" does wait for the server to s