Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Richard Huxton
On 21/01/13 08:04, Tim Uckun wrote: This is the query I am running update cars.imports i set make_id = md.make_id from cars.models md where i.model_id = md.id; Here is the analyse Looks like it's the actual update that's taking all the time. This query takes fifty seconds on a macb

Re: [GENERAL] pg_Restore

2013-01-21 Thread bhanu udaya
Hello,Greetings !I tried with all the below options. It approximatly takes 1 hour 30 minutes for restoring a 9GB database. This much time can not be affordable as the execution of test cases take only 10% of this whole time and waiting 1 hour 30 minutes after every test case execution is alot f

Re: [GENERAL] pg_Restore

2013-01-21 Thread Raghavendra
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:01 PM, bhanu udaya wrote: > Hello, > Greetings ! > I tried with all the below options. It approximatly takes 1 hour 30 > minutes for restoring a 9GB database. This much time can not be affordable > as the execution of test cases take only 10% of this whole time and waiti

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Tim Uckun
> Can you try a couple of things just to check timings. Probably worth EXPLAIN > ANALYSE. > > SELECT count(*) FROM cars.imports i JOIN cars.models md ON i.model_id = > md.id; Takes about 300 ms > > CREATE TEMP TABLE tt AS SELECT i.* FROM cars.imports i JOIN cars.models md > ON i.model_id = md.id

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Richard Huxton
On 21/01/13 10:30, Tim Uckun wrote: Can you try a couple of things just to check timings. Probably worth EXPLAIN ANALYSE. SELECT count(*) FROM cars.imports i JOIN cars.models md ON i.model_id = md.id; Takes about 300 ms CREATE TEMP TABLE tt AS SELECT i.* FROM cars.imports i JOIN cars.models

Re: [GENERAL] pg_Restore

2013-01-21 Thread Albe Laurenz
bhanu udaya wrote: > I tried with all the below options. It approximatly takes 1 hour 30 minutes > for restoring a 9GB > database. This much time can not be affordable as the execution of test > cases take only 10% of this > whole time and waiting 1 hour 30 minutes after every test case executio

Re: [GENERAL] pg_Restore

2013-01-21 Thread dinesh kumar
Hi Bhanu, Yes, below is the faster approach to follow. I don't know if that helps, but have you tried creating a template database > and doing DROP DATABASE xxx; CREATE DATABASE xxx TEMPLATE mytemplate; > instead of restoring a dump every time? > > Maybe that is faster. > > If you are trying to t

Re: [GENERAL] pg_Restore

2013-01-21 Thread Chris Travers
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:39 AM, Albe Laurenz wrote: > bhanu udaya wrote: > > I tried with all the below options. It approximatly takes 1 hour 30 > minutes for restoring a 9GB > > database. This much time can not be affordable as the execution of test > cases take only 10% of this > > whole time

Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive collation

2013-01-21 Thread Marcel van Pinxteren
As I mentioned in my original post, I don't want to use citext or lower(). I tested on Windows, but as I mentioned in one of my first posts, collation and case sensitivity are separate things. With this, we are back at the beginning of the circle, so I'll leave it there. Maybe I'll check back in a

Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive collation

2013-01-21 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Marcel van Pinxteren, 21.01.2013 13:22: As I mentioned in my original post, I don't want to use citext or lower(). Why not for the unique index/constraint? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.or

[GENERAL] What is impact of "varchar_opts"?

2013-01-21 Thread Edson Richter
I'm wondering why "varchar_opts" is not default operator class for all indexed varchar field. Is the impact to heavy? Thanks for the clarification, Edson -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailp

Re: [GENERAL] pg_Restore

2013-01-21 Thread Chris Ernst
On 01/20/2013 11:17 PM, bhanu udaya wrote: > I am trying to restore 9.5G database (1GB dumpfile) which has 500 > schemas with 1 lakh rows in each schema. Could take the data dump using > pg_dump and it takes around 40 minutes. I tried to use pg_restore to > restore this dump, but it takes hours to

Re: [GENERAL] Sending several commands simultaneously to PostgreSQL 8.4

2013-01-21 Thread Alexander Farber
To make my question more concrete: if I'd like to round-robin 6 PostgreSQL connections from my Perl script - how should I change my code: eval { my $dbh = DBI->connect_cached(DSN, DBUSER, DBPASS, { AutoCommit => 1, PrintWarn => 1,

Re: [GENERAL] Sending several commands simultaneously to PostgreSQL 8.4

2013-01-21 Thread Alexander Farber
I would like to add a private "key" to make my dbh's different throughout my script: eval { my $dbh = DBI->connect_cached(DSN, DBUSER, DBPASS, { AutoCommit => 1, MY_PRIVATE_KEY => __FILE__.__LINE__, ### <-- HERE

Re: [GENERAL] pg_Restore

2013-01-21 Thread bhanu udaya
Hello,Thanks alot for all your replies. I tried all settings suggested, it did not work. pg_restore is very slow. It does not come out less than 1 1/2 hour. Can you please let me know the procedure for Template. Will it restore the data also . Please update. I need the database (metadata + data)

Re: [GENERAL] pg_Restore

2013-01-21 Thread Albe Laurenz
bhanu udaya wrote: > Can you please let me know the procedure for Template. Will it restore the > data also > . It will create a complete copy of an existing database The procedure is CREATE DATABASE newdb TEMPLATE olddb; Nobody may be connected to olddb for this to work. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: [GENERAL] pg_Restore

2013-01-21 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 21 January 2013 16:10, bhanu udaya wrote: > Can you please let me know the procedure for Template. > As they say, Google is your friend. The basic principle is this: You create a read-only (template) version of your sample database and use that as a template for the creation of new ones. Of

[GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Rich Shepard
What is the behavior if a column data type is timestamptz but there is only the date portion available? There must be a default time; can that be defined? Rich -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.or

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/21/2013 07:26 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: What is the behavior if a column data type is timestamptz but there is only the date portion available? There must be a default time; can that be defined? Easy enough to test: test=# create table ts_test(ts_fld timestamp with time zone); CREATE TA

Re: [GENERAL] String comparison and the SQL standard

2013-01-21 Thread Albe Laurenz
Tom Lane wrote: >> I tested not only with string literals, but also comparing >> table columns of the respective types. > >> I came up with the following table of semantics used for >> comparisons: > >>| CHAR(n)=CHAR(n) | VARCHAR(n)=VARCHAR(n) | CHAR(n)=VARCHAR(n) | >> ---+---

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Adrian Klaver wrote: Easy enough to test: Thanks again, Adrian. Rich -- 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] pg_Restore

2013-01-21 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Monday, January 21, 2013 08:40:05 PM bhanu udaya wrote: > Hello,Thanks alot for all your replies. I tried all settings suggested, it > did not work. pg_restore is very slow. It does not come out less than 1 1/2 > hour. Can you please let me know the procedure for Template. Will it > restore the

Re: [GENERAL] not(t_xmax = 0)

2013-01-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
Alejandro Carrillo wrote: > this function didn't work to know if a row can surely dead? > > http://doxygen.postgresql.org/tqual_8c_source.html#l01236 Sure, as long as you call it after HeapTupleSatisfiesMVCC(), as the comment specifies. Also note that not all deleted or updated tuples will be re

Re: [GENERAL] pg_Restore

2013-01-21 Thread bhanu udaya
Hello,Thanks all for the great help. Template is very good option so far seen. It comes little quickly than pg_restore. But, this also takes 40 minutes time. I am using Windows with 4GB Ram. Thanks and RegardsRadha Krishna > From: laurenz.a...@wien.gv.at > To: udayabhanu1...@hotmail.com; chris

Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive collation

2013-01-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:22 AM, Marcel van Pinxteren wrote: > As I mentioned in my original post, I don't want to use citext or lower(). > I tested on Windows, but as I mentioned in one of my first posts, collation > and case sensitivity are separate things. Wait, is there an actual reason for n

Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive collation

2013-01-21 Thread Marcel van Pinxteren
To be honest, the reason I don't want to use citext and lower(), is me being lazy. If I have to use these features, there is more work for me converting from SQL Server to Postgresql. I have to make more changes to my database, and more to my software. But, developers are generally lazy, so you cou

Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive collation

2013-01-21 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 21 January 2013 17:25, Marcel van Pinxteren < marcel.van.pinxte...@gmail.com> wrote: > The other reason, is that I assume that "lower()" adds overhead, so makes > things slower than they need to be. > Whether that is true, and if that is a compelling reason, I don't know. > Case insensitive co

Re: [GENERAL] pg_Restore

2013-01-21 Thread bhanu udaya
Hello All, Can we achieve this template or pg_Restore in less than 20 minutes time. Any more considerations. Kindly reply. Thanks and RegardsRadha Krishna From: udayabhanu1...@hotmail.com To: laurenz.a...@wien.gv.at; chris.trav...@gmail.com CC: mag...@hagander.net; franc...@teksol.info; pgsql-ge

Re: [GENERAL] pg_Restore

2013-01-21 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/21/2013 08:46 AM, bhanu udaya wrote: Hello All, Can we achieve this template or pg_Restore in less than 20 minutes time. Any more considerations. Kindly reply. Seems to me this is where Point in Time Recovery(PITR) might be helpful. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/continuous-a

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
Richard Huxton wrote: > The only differences I can think of are WAL logging (transaction > log) and index updates (the temp table has no indexes). What about foreign keys? Are there any tables which reference the updated column in a foreign key declaration? Do they have indexes on that column? -

Re: [GENERAL] What is impact of "varchar_opts"?

2013-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
Edson Richter writes: > I'm wondering why "varchar_opts" is not default operator class for all > indexed varchar field. varchar has no operators of its own; it just relies on the operators for type text. Therefore text_ops is the formally correct choice. The varchar_ops opclass is just an alia

Re: [GENERAL] What is impact of "varchar_opts"?

2013-01-21 Thread Edson Richter
Em 21/01/2013 17:18, Tom Lane escreveu: Edson Richter writes: I'm wondering why "varchar_opts" is not default operator class for all indexed varchar field. varchar has no operators of its own; it just relies on the operators for type text. Therefore text_ops is the formally correct choice. T

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
Adrian Klaver writes: > On 01/21/2013 07:26 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> What is the behavior if a column data type is timestamptz but there is >> only the date portion available? There must be a default time; can that be >> defined? > Easy enough to test: > test=# create table ts_test(ts_fld time

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013, Tom Lane wrote: Note that that default is local midnight according to your current timezone setting (from which we may guess that Adrian lives on the US west coast, or somewhere in that general longitude). Yep. About 3 hours north of me. Not sure you can change the def

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/21/2013 11:27 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Adrian Klaver writes: On 01/21/2013 07:26 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: What is the behavior if a column data type is timestamptz but there is only the date portion available? There must be a default time; can that be defined? Easy enough to test: test=#

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/21/2013 11:27 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Adrian Klaver writes: On 01/21/2013 07:26 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: What is the behavior if a column data type is timestamptz but there is only the date portion available? There must be a default time; can that be defined? Easy enough to test: test=#

Re: [GENERAL] What is impact of "varchar_opts"?

2013-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
Edson Richter writes: > I see. So, what is the overhead of having text_ops in opclass? > Can I define it as default for all my indexes when textual type of any kind? Why are you intent on defining anything? IMO, best practice is to let the database choose the opclass, unless you have a very good

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Tim Uckun
Just to close this up and give some guidance to future googlers... There are no foreign keys. The table is empty when I start. I copy the data into it from a text file. Removing indexes didn't help much (made a very slight difference). running a query CREATE TEMP TABLE tt AS SELECT using a

Re: [GENERAL] What is impact of "varchar_opts"?

2013-01-21 Thread Edson Richter
Em 21/01/2013 18:03, Tom Lane escreveu: Edson Richter writes: I see. So, what is the overhead of having text_ops in opclass? Can I define it as default for all my indexes when textual type of any kind? Why are you intent on defining anything? IMO, best practice is to let the database choose t

Re: [GENERAL] What is impact of "varchar_opts"?

2013-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
Edson Richter writes: > Thanks, but I've found that some queries using LIKE operator uses table > scan instead index unless it is defined with varchar_ops in the index... You mean varchar_pattern_ops? That's an entirely different animal. regards, tom lane -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Richard Huxton
On 21/01/13 20:09, Tim Uckun wrote: Just to close this up and give some guidance to future googlers... Careful, future googlers. Conclusion. Updates on postgres are slow Nope. (given the default postgresql.conf). I presume this is due to MVCC or the WAL or something and there are probably

Re: [GENERAL] pg_Restore

2013-01-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 01/21/2013 08:46 AM, bhanu udaya wrote: >> Can we achieve this template or pg_Restore in less than 20 >> minutes time. > Seems to me this is where Point in Time Recovery(PITR) might be > helpful. Maybe, if the source is on a different set of drives, to reduce contention

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread patrick keshishian
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Richard Huxton wrote: > On 21/01/13 20:09, Tim Uckun wrote: >> >> Just to close this up and give some guidance to future googlers... > > Careful, future googlers. > >> Conclusion. Updates on postgres are slow > > Nope. > > >> (given the default >> postgresql.conf)

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Tim Uckun
> > Nope. If you have any suggestions I am all ears. For the purposes of this discussion we can narrow down the problem this update statement. Update imports set make_id = null. There are 98K records in the table. There is no index on the make_id field. Standard untouched postgresql.conf from th

Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive collation

2013-01-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Marcel van Pinxteren wrote: > To be honest, the reason I don't want to use citext and lower(), is me being > lazy. If I have to use these features, there is more work for me converting > from SQL Server to Postgresql. I have to make more changes to my database, > a

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Tim Uckun
> I'd be curious to see results of the same "update" on a standard HDD > vs the SSD, and maybe on a more typical database deployment hardware > vs a macbook air. > I haven't tried it on any other machine yet. CREATE TEMP TABLE tt as SELECT ... takes eight seconds so presumably the disk is not t

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
Richard Huxton wrote: > On 21/01/13 20:09, Tim Uckun wrote: >> Just to close this up and give some guidance to future >> googlers... > Careful, future googlers. +1 >> Conclusion. Updates on postgres are slow > Nope. Agreed. >> (given the default postgresql.conf). I presume this is due to >>

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
Tim Uckun wrote: > If you have any suggestions I am all ears. For the purposes of this > discussion we can narrow down the problem this update statement. > > Update imports set make_id = null. Well, that simplifies things. First off, what does it say for rows affected? (Hint, if you really are

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread patrick keshishian
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Tim Uckun wrote: >> I'd be curious to see results of the same "update" on a standard HDD >> vs the SSD, and maybe on a more typical database deployment hardware >> vs a macbook air. >> > > > I haven't tried it on any other machine yet. CREATE TEMP TABLE tt as > SE

Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive collation

2013-01-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
Scott Marlowe wrote: > Honestly as a lazy DBA I have to say it'd be pretty easy to write a > script to convert any unique text index into a unique text index with > a upper() in it. As another poster added, collation ain't free > either. I'd say you should test it to see. My experience tells me >

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
Kevin Grittner wrote: > First off, what does it say for rows affected? (Hint, if you really > are using a default configuration and it doesn't say 0 rows > affected, please show us the actual query used.) Never mind that bit -- I got myself confused. Sorry for the noise. -Kevin -- Sent via pg

Re: [GENERAL] What is impact of "varchar_opts"?

2013-01-21 Thread Edson Richter
Em 21/01/2013 18:36, Tom Lane escreveu: Edson Richter writes: Thanks, but I've found that some queries using LIKE operator uses table scan instead index unless it is defined with varchar_ops in the index... You mean varchar_pattern_ops? That's an entirely different animal.

Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive collation

2013-01-21 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Marcel van Pinxteren wrote on 21.01.2013 17:25: The other reason, is that I assume that "lower()" adds overhead It won't add any noticeable overhead for the unique index. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.

Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive collation

2013-01-21 Thread Jeff Janes
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Marcel van Pinxteren > wrote: >> To be honest, the reason I don't want to use citext and lower(), is me being >> lazy. If I have to use these features, there is more work for me converting >> from SQL Server

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Gavan Schneider
On Monday, January 21, 2013 at 06:53, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 01/21/2013 11:27 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Note that that default is local midnight according to your current timezone setting (from which we may guess that Adrian lives on the US west coast, or somewhere in that general longitude).

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Tim Uckun
> First off, what does it say for rows affected? (Hint, if you really > are using a default configuration and it doesn't say 0 rows > affected, please show us the actual query used.) update imports set make_id = null Query returned successfully: 98834 rows affected, 49673 ms execution time. vac

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Tim Uckun
Oh I forgot SELECT version(); "PostgreSQL 9.2.2 on x86_64-apple-darwin12.2.1, compiled by Apple clang version 4.1 (tags/Apple/clang-421.11.65) (based on LLVM 3.1svn), 64-bit" SELECT name, current_setting(name), source FROM pg_settings WHERE source NOT IN ('default', 'override'); "appl

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Steve Crawford
On 01/21/2013 02:48 PM, Gavan Schneider wrote: On Monday, January 21, 2013 at 06:53, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 01/21/2013 11:27 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Note that that default is local midnight according to your current timezone setting (from which we may guess that Adrian lives on the US west co

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Steve Crawford
On 01/21/2013 03:45 PM, Tim Uckun wrote: Oh I forgot ... "shared_buffers";"1600kB";"configuration file" You *reduced* shared buffers to 1.6MB? IIRC the typical default is 32MB and the most common adjustment is to *increase* shared buffers. Most of my servers are set to 2GB. Try bumping that

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Gavan Schneider
On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 09:48, I wrote: (and I did report it as a bug back then) Didn't pick this up on my pre-post re-read bug report was _NOT_ against PostgreSQL. It was some very early incarnations of OSX iCal, etc. which showed this behaviour. Apologies for the noise/confusi

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Steve Crawford
On 01/21/2013 04:15 PM, Steve Crawford wrote: On 01/21/2013 03:45 PM, Tim Uckun wrote: Oh I forgot ... Me, too. I forgot to ask for the table definition. If there are variable-length fields like "text" or "varchar", what is the typical size of the data. Also, what is the physical size of the

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/21/2013 03:53 PM, Steve Crawford wrote: On 01/21/2013 02:48 PM, Gavan Schneider wrote: On Monday, January 21, 2013 at 06:53, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 01/21/2013 11:27 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Note that that default is local midnight according to your current timezone setting (from which w

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/21/2013 03:53 PM, Steve Crawford wrote: On 01/21/2013 02:48 PM, Gavan Schneider wrote: On Monday, January 21, 2013 at 06:53, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 01/21/2013 11:27 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Note that that default is local midnight according to your current timezone setting (from which w

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Tim Uckun
I already posted the schema earlier. It's a handful of integer fields with one hstore field. On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Steve Crawford wrote: > select * from pg_stat_user_tables where relname='yourtable'; Messy output "relid","schemaname","relname","seq_scan","seq_tup_read","idx_scan",

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
Adrian Klaver wrote: > I see where my confusion lies. There are two proposals at work in the above: > > "Taking another tangent I would much prefer the default time to be > 12:00:00 for the conversion of a date to timestamp(+/-timezone)" > > "Propose: '2013-12-25'::timestamp ==> 2013-12-25 12:0

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/21/2013 05:06 PM, Kevin Grittner wrote: Adrian Klaver wrote: I see where my confusion lies. There are two proposals at work in the above: "Taking another tangent I would much prefer the default time to be 12:00:00 for the conversion of a date to timestamp(+/-timezone)" "Propose: '2013-1

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
Kevin Grittner wrote: > update imports set make_id = 0 > > Query returned successfully: 98834 rows affected, 45860 ms execution time. For difficult problems, there is nothing like a self-contained test case, that someone else can run to see the issue. Here's a starting point: create extension i

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Kevin Grittner
Adrian Klaver wrote: > If I was following Gavan correctly, he wanted to have a single > timestamp field to store calender dates and datetimes. In other > words to cover both date only situations like birthdays and > datetime situations like an appointment. If that is actually true, it sounds like

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2013-01-21 Thread Mihai Popa
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[GENERAL] cache lookup failed

2013-01-21 Thread Pascal Tufenkji
Hi, I have an application that creates temp tables to speed up the fetching of the data Everything was working fine until a couple of days ago, the database is starting to display the following error more and more cache lookup failed for relation 1852615815 I noticed that this error ke

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Gavan Schneider
On Monday, January 21, 2013 at 12:06, Kevin Grittner wrote: Adrian Klaver wrote: [Actually Gavan Schneider wrote this, don't blame Adrian :] I see where my confusion lies. There are two proposals at work in the above: "Taking another tangent I would much prefer the default time to be 12:00:0

Re: [GENERAL] cache lookup failed

2013-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Pascal Tufenkji" writes: > Everything was working fine until a couple of days ago, the database is > starting to display the following error more and more > cache lookup failed for relation 1852615815 Hm, what PG version is that? Is 1852615815 anywhere near the range of existing OIDs in pg_clas

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 01/21/2013 07:40 PM, Gavan Schneider wrote: On Monday, January 21, 2013 at 12:06, Kevin Grittner wrote: Well, the big problem here is in trying to use either version of timestamp when what you really want is a date. It will be much easier to get the right semantics if you use the date type

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Tom Lane
Adrian Klaver writes: > If I have learned anything about dealing with dates and times, is that > it is a set of exceptions bound together by a few rules. Every time you > think you have the little rascals cornered, one gets away. Yeah, that's for sure. Anyway, I think we are exceedingly unlike

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Gavan Schneider
On Monday, January 21, 2013 at 10:53, Steve Crawford wrote: On 01/21/2013 02:48 PM, Gavan Schneider wrote: Taking another tangent I would much prefer the default time to be 12:00:00 for the conversion of a date to timestamp(+/-timezone). Propose: '2013-12-25'::timestamp ==> 2013-12-25 1

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Gavan Schneider
On Monday, January 21, 2013 at 15:33, Tom Lane wrote: I think it is also arguably contrary to the SQL standard... 17) If TD is the datetime data type TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE, then let TSP be the of TD. b) If SD is a date, then the s hour, minute, and second of TV are set to 0 (zero) and t

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Jeff Janes
On Monday, January 21, 2013, Tim Uckun wrote: > > First off, what does it say for rows affected? (Hint, if you really > > are using a default configuration and it doesn't say 0 rows > > affected, please show us the actual query used.) > > update imports set make_id = null > > Query returned succes

Re: [GENERAL] Running update in chunks?

2013-01-21 Thread Jeff Janes
On Monday, January 21, 2013, Tim Uckun wrote: > I already posted the schema earlier. It's a handful of integer fields > with one hstore field. > one hstore field can easily be equivalent to 50 text fields with an index on each one. I'm pretty sure that that is your bottleneck. what does \di+ s

Re: [GENERAL] Yet Another Timestamp Question: Time Defaults

2013-01-21 Thread Nathan Clayton
Monday, January 21, 2013, 8:56:38 PM, you wrote: >>Except for days that are 23-hours long, or 25, or other (it's a big >>world with all sorts of timezone rules). >> > The day's length may change but I don't believe there is > anywhere that allows for the local time of day to equal or be > greate