Re: [GENERAL] WIN1251 localization

2013-06-21 Thread Yuriy Rusinov
Hello ! Sorry for delay. Yes there are two version of postgresql 8.4 and 9.1 and suddenly all begin to work properly. pg_lsclusters output is Version Cluster Port Status OwnerData directory Log file 8.4 main 5432 down postgres /var/lib/postgresql/8.4/main /var/log/postgresql/post

Re: [GENERAL] Circular references

2013-06-21 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 21 June 2013 05:08, Tom Lane wrote: > Melvin Call writes: > > I was given a dump of an existing remote schema and database, and the > > restore on my local system failed. Looking into it, I found a circular > > parent-child/child-parent relationship, and I don't believe this existing > > stru

Re: [GENERAL] Circular references

2013-06-21 Thread Ladislav Lenart
Hello. I think this CAN happen in practice when the constraints are DEFERRED, because as such are checked at COMMIT time. HTH, Ladislav Lenart On 21.6.2013 05:08, Tom Lane wrote: > Melvin Call writes: >> I was given a dump of an existing remote schema and database, and the >> restore on my lo

Re: [GENERAL] Replication with Drop: could not open relation with OID

2013-06-21 Thread salah jubeh
Hello, I have just found this post http://grokbase.com/t/postgresql/pgsql-hackers/10ces3w9kz/alter-table-replace-with/nested/page/2#responses_tab_top and it helped a lot Thanks From: salah jubeh To: pgsql Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 5:58 PM Subject: [

[GENERAL] Index scan and bitmap index scan - hard to understand how planner chooses

2013-06-21 Thread boraldomaster
Here is a script for initializing my database *drop table if exists z; create table z as select lpad(i::text,6,'0') as name from generate_series(0,99) as i; create index z_name on z(name text_pattern_ops); analyze; * So - I have a table z with one column name that has textual index. Now, I wa

Re: [GENERAL] Replication with Drop: could not open relation with OID

2013-06-21 Thread Eduardo Morras
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:58:35 -0700 (PDT) salah jubeh wrote: > Hello, > > > I have a database server which do a complex  views calculation,  the result > of those views are shipped to another database servers via a simple  > replication tool which have a high  client loads. > > > The tool 

[GENERAL] File System backup

2013-06-21 Thread itishree sukla
Hi all, Can any one give me more suggestion, about this problem. Every time my os got restart, postmaster.pid is missing. After that createing postmaster.pid is also not helping to start the server. I am using postgresql 9.2 in ubuntu, with default installation. Is there any possibility i can tak

Re: [GENERAL] Migration from DB2 to PostgreSQL

2013-06-21 Thread sachin kotwal
>as i know each value is limited to 1GB. For larger content use module lo >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/lo.html I just want to know that like DB2 we can convert other data types into CLOB/BLOB using function CLOB()/BLOB(). Example: SELECT CLOB('testdata') FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1 Same

Re: [GENERAL] File System backup

2013-06-21 Thread Amit Langote
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:53 PM, itishree sukla wrote: > Hi all, > > Can any one give me more suggestion, about this problem. Every time my os > got restart, postmaster.pid is missing. After that createing postmaster.pid > is also not helping to start the server. I am using postgresql 9.2 in > ub

Re: [GENERAL] Migration from DB2 to PostgreSQL

2013-06-21 Thread Amit Langote
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 9:40 PM, sachin kotwal wrote: >>as i know each value is limited to 1GB. For larger content use module lo >>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/lo.html > > > I just want to know that like DB2 we can convert other data types into > CLOB/BLOB using function CLOB()/BLOB()

Re: [GENERAL] Circular references

2013-06-21 Thread Melvin Call
Hi Tom, First an apology of sorts. The restore doesn't fail, but the COPY statements generate errors about the referenced table not containing the key values (as you seem to have figured out that I meant). I have no idea what version of PostgreSQL the remote system is running, I just have the dump

Re: [GENERAL] Circular references

2013-06-21 Thread Melvin Call
Hi Ladislav and Alban, Thanks for the suggestions regarding the DEFERRED constraint. While certainly a viable option, I would expect the dump to maintain those constraints. The lack of them indicates to me that somehow an initial insert was created and then the structure was modified to support th

Re: [GENERAL] Circular references

2013-06-21 Thread David Johnston
Melvin Call wrote > To summarize, the organization entity has an attribute of creator, which > is a foreign key to the user table, but the user has to belong to an > organization, which is a foreign key to the organization table. Since > neither are nullable, there is no way to create even an initi

Re: [GENERAL] coalesce function

2013-06-21 Thread David Johnston
Chris Angelico wrote > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 7:36 AM, David Johnston < > polobo@ > > wrote: >> SELECT input >> FROM ( SELECT unnest($1) AS input ) src >> WHERE input IS NOT NULL AND input <> '' >> LIMIT 1; > > Does this guarantee the order of the results returne

Re: [GENERAL] variadic args to C functions

2013-06-21 Thread Alan Nilsson
perfect, thanks much alan On Jun 20, 2013, at 1:27 AM, Pavel Stehule wrote: > Hello > > I wrote lot of C VARIADIC functions - some examples are in core - > "format" function > > Schema | Name| Result data type | Argument data types | Type > +---+

[GENERAL] type-casting failures

2013-06-21 Thread Natalie Wenz
Hi all! I am working on migrating data in a very large database (22TB +) between two existing tables that use type text for almost every field, to two new tables that use native data type for dates, integers, etc. The way I'm doing this is running a series of "Insert into new_table values (stu

Re: [GENERAL] File System backup

2013-06-21 Thread itishree sukla
No, as its only one postgresql is running with default installation, server got restatared with out shuting down postgresql service properly. Then i tied to start server using ./init.d command, which didn't help me either. Then i created pstmaster.pid, that also doesn't help me much. Regards, Itis

[GENERAL] 9.3-beta postgres-fdw COPY error

2013-06-21 Thread Lonni J Friedman
Greetings, I'm trying to test out the new postgres-fdw support in postgresql-9.3 (beta) in preparation for an upgrade from 9.2 later this year. So far, everything is working ok, however one problem I'm encountering is with the COPY command. When I run it against a foreign table (which is also in a

Re: [GENERAL] 9.3-beta postgres-fdw COPY error

2013-06-21 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 06/21/2013 10:39 AM, Lonni J Friedman wrote: Greetings, I'm trying to test out the new postgres-fdw support in postgresql-9.3 (beta) in preparation for an upgrade from 9.2 later this year. So far, everything is working ok, however one problem I'm encountering is with the COPY command. When I

Re: [GENERAL] type-casting failures

2013-06-21 Thread Alban Hertroys
On Jun 21, 2013, at 19:21, Natalie Wenz wrote: > Hi all! > > I am working on migrating data in a very large database (22TB +) between two > existing tables that use type text for almost every field, to two new tables > that use native data type for dates, integers, etc. > > The way I'm doing

Re: [GENERAL] File System backup

2013-06-21 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 06/21/2013 10:37 AM, itishree sukla wrote: No, as its only one postgresql is running with default installation, server got restatared with out shuting down postgresql service properly. Then i tied to start server using ./init.d command, which didn't help me either. Then i created pstmaster.pid

Re: [GENERAL] 9.3-beta postgres-fdw COPY error

2013-06-21 Thread Vibhor Kumar
On Jun 21, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > Greetings, > I'm trying to test out the new postgres-fdw support in postgresql-9.3 > (beta) in preparation for an upgrade from 9.2 later this year. So > far, everything is working ok, however one problem I'm encountering is > with the COPY

Re: [GENERAL] File System backup

2013-06-21 Thread Alban Hertroys
On Jun 21, 2013, at 12:53, itishree sukla wrote: > Hi all, > > Can any one give me more suggestion, about this problem. Every time my os got > restart, postmaster.pid is missing. Did you perhaps use reboot instead of shutdown -r? The former doesn't do a clean shutdown. That's how it is on *B

Re: [GENERAL] 9.3-beta postgres-fdw COPY error

2013-06-21 Thread Lonni J Friedman
I was afraid someone would say that. Is this a limitation that might be removed in the future (like 9.4), or is there a technical reason why its not possible to do a COPY against a foreign table? On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 06/21/2013 10:39 AM, Lonni J Friedman wr

Re: [GENERAL] 9.3-beta postgres-fdw COPY error

2013-06-21 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 06/21/2013 10:56 AM, Lonni J Friedman wrote: I was afraid someone would say that. Is this a limitation that might be removed in the future (like 9.4), or is there a technical reason why its not possible to do a COPY against a foreign table? Others would have to comment on that. Important t

Re: [GENERAL] 9.3-beta postgres-fdw COPY error

2013-06-21 Thread Vibhor Kumar
On Jun 21, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > I was afraid someone would say that. Is this a limitation that might > be removed in the future (like 9.4), or is there a technical reason > why its not possible to do a COPY against a foreign table? I think reason is, FDW is a way of repr

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL 9.1.10 release date?

2013-06-21 Thread hartrc
I was wondering what is the expected release data for the next PostgreSQL patch - presumably 9.1.10? Although there is no documentation stating release timeframes I'd become accustomed to them being released in the first week of the month every other month. Thank You Rob -- View this message in

Re: [GENERAL] 9.3-beta postgres-fdw COPY error

2013-06-21 Thread Vibhor Kumar
On Jun 21, 2013, at 3:38 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Vibhor Kumar > wrote: >> >> On Jun 21, 2013, at 2:05 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Vibhor Kumar >>> wrote: On Jun 21, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Lonni J Friedman

[GENERAL] .pgpass being ignored

2013-06-21 Thread Stephen Rasku
I am trying to write a script that will create and populate a database. I don't want to enter a password every time so I want to use a .pgpass file. It has the correct permissions: $ ls -l $PGPASSFILE -rw--- 1 Stephen staff 43 21 Jun 14:48 /Users/Stephen/.pgpass However, when I c

Re: [GENERAL] .pgpass being ignored

2013-06-21 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 21/06/2013 23:25, Stephen Rasku wrote: > I am trying to write a script that will create and populate a > database. I don't want to enter a password every time so I want to > use a .pgpass file. It has the correct permissions: > > $ ls -l $PGPASSFILE > -rw--- 1 Stephen staff 43

Re: [GENERAL] .pgpass being ignored

2013-06-21 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 06/21/2013 03:25 PM, Stephen Rasku wrote: I am trying to write a script that will create and populate a database. I don't want to enter a password every time so I want to use a .pgpass file. It has the correct permissions: $ ls -l $PGPASSFILE -rw--- 1 Stephen staff 43 21 Ju

Re: [GENERAL] .pgpass being ignored

2013-06-21 Thread Stephen Rasku
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Raymond O'Donnell wrote: > > What's in your server's pg_hba.conf file? # TYPE DATABASEUSERCIDR-ADDRESSMETHOD #@remove-line-for-nolocal@# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only local all all

[GENERAL] .pgpass being ignored

2013-06-21 Thread Stephen Rasku
I am trying to write a script that will create and populate a database. I don't want to enter a password every time so I want to use a .pgpass file. It has the correct permissions: $ ls -l $PGPASSFILE -rw--- 1 Stephen staff 43 21 Jun 14:48 /Users/Stephen/.pgpass However, when I c

Re: [GENERAL] .pgpass being ignored

2013-06-21 Thread Stephen Rasku
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > First are you running the script from the location with .pgpass? I wasn't but I copied the .pgpass into the local directory and I get the same results. The correct location is actually in the home directory. > Second you are doing a crea

Re: [GENERAL] .pgpass being ignored

2013-06-21 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 06/21/2013 04:29 PM, Stephen Rasku wrote: On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: First are you running the script from the location with .pgpass? I wasn't but I copied the .pgpass into the local directory and I get the same results. The correct location is actually in the

Re: [GENERAL] Migration from DB2 to PostgreSQL

2013-06-21 Thread Daniel de Oliveira Mantovani
http://wiki.postgresql.org/images/d/d1/DB2UDB-to-PG.pdf On 18 June 2013 05:52, sachin kotwal wrote: > Function in DB2: BLOB() Criteria: Size of character string targeted for cast > is more than 1GB How can I migrate this function into PostgreSQL with above > mention criteria. > __

Re: [GENERAL] Migration from DB2 to PostgreSQL

2013-06-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On 06/21/2013 04:49 PM, Daniel de Oliveira Mantovani wrote: http://wiki.postgresql.org/images/d/d1/DB2UDB-to-PG.pdf On 18 June 2013 05:52, sachin kotwal wrote: Function in DB2: BLOB() Criteria: Size of character string targeted for cast is more than 1GB How can I migrate this function into P