[GENERAL] How to rename the same column name in dozens of tables in Postgres?

2013-12-17 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Hi there, I have dozens of tables where I need to rename one column in each of these. Is there any generic way to do that? I am not really familiar with the scripting possibilities of Postgres. Thanks a lot for your help! Stefan -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresq

Re: [GENERAL] Replication: GZIP compression in WAL sender/receiver processes communication?

2013-12-17 Thread Rahila Syed
Hello, Yes, gzip compression can be used for compressing WAL traffic during streaming replication Following tools can be used in this regard. SSL compression-SSL support is built in PostgreSQL. You need to ensure you have OpenSSL library support in your PostgreSQL installation. Also, you can comp

Re: [GENERAL] How to rename the same column name in dozens of tables in Postgres?

2013-12-17 Thread Raghavendra
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: > Hi there, > > I have dozens of tables where I need to rename one column in each of > these. Is there any generic way to do that? > I am not really familiar with the scripting possibilities of Postgres. > > Thanks a lot for your help! > >

Re: [GENERAL] How to rename the same column name in dozens of tables in Postgres?

2013-12-17 Thread Raghavendra
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Raghavendra < raghavendra@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Stefan Schwarzer < > stefan.schwar...@unep.org> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> I have dozens of tables where I need to rename one column in each of >> these. Is there any generic

Re: [GENERAL] How to rename the same column name in dozens of tables in Postgres?

2013-12-17 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
> Hi there, > > I have dozens of tables where I need to rename one column in each of these. > Is there any generic way to do that? > I am not really familiar with the scripting possibilities of Postgres. > > Thanks a lot for your help! > > Stefan > > > You can do with script. I made one on fl

Re: [GENERAL] pg_stat_tmp

2013-12-17 Thread Tim Kane
Thanks Jeff, Magnus Thanks for the suggestions. This morning the same issue occurred, but this time it also complained that it failed to write to pg_clog (previous days, the only failure was in writing to pg_stat_tmp) 2013-12-17 07:13:04 GMT DETAIL: Could not write to file "pg_clog/0004" at o

Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] [ADMIN] Scheduled Events

2013-12-17 Thread Marcin Krawczyk
I'm using pgAgent you mentioned before. You can easily schedule recurring tasks from within pgAdmin. regards mk 2013/12/11 Dev Kumkar > Resending... > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Dev Kumkar wrote: > >> Yes actually that's one alternate solution to use cron or windows >> scheduled tasks.

Re: [DOCS] Re: postgresql.org inconsistent (Re: [GENERAL] PG replication across DataCenters)

2013-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> It looks like it's been morphed into TED, the TransLattice Elastic > Database. From their FAQ[1]: > > TransLattice Elastic Database (TED) > > What’s the basis of TED? Did you write it from scratch? > > We started TED from PostgreSQL, a very robust, open-source, > ACID-compliant, fully transac

[GENERAL] Need Help Restoring Old Backup

2013-12-17 Thread Steve Knott
Hi, I have a really old database (5+ years old) that was backed up stored away for a while. Now I want some data out of it. I originally thought that if I made a backup and kept around the original database install.exe file, I could reinstall the db & restore the data. It looks like that i

[GENERAL] help replacing expresion in plpgsql

2013-12-17 Thread Juan Pablo L
Hi, i have a function that receives a parameter which represents days: FUNCTION aaa_recharge_account(expdays integer) i want to add those days to the CURRENT_DATE, but i do not know how to do it, i have tried several ways to replace that in an expresion like: newexpdate := CURRENT_TIMESTAMP + in

[GENERAL] Bus error in libxml2 in postgresql 9.2.x on FreeBSD

2013-12-17 Thread Steve McCoy
Hello, I found some semi-recent messages related to this in 9.0.x, but wanted to confirm for anybody searching that the same issue exists in 9.2.x. It crashes for me with a similar backtrace as [Laurentius Purba’s][1]. The same fix/workaround applies as well: Compile libxml2 without the “threads”

[GENERAL] Postgres SQL 8.4 regularly craches

2013-12-17 Thread hune
Hello all We have a postgres server on Windows 2008 R2 used by tree services. This worked quite for a long time (several years) but lately the Postgres service regularly crashes 2013-12-11 14:03:10 CET LOG: Serverprozess (PID 3576) wurde durch Ausnahme 0xC043 beendet (sorry German) I res

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres SQL 8.4 regularly craches

2013-12-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Hungerbühler Philipp (hune) wrote: > > Hello all > > > > We have a postgres server on Windows 2008 R2 used by tree services. This > worked quite for a long time (several years) but lately the Postgres service > regularly crashes > > > > 2013-12-11 14:03:10 CET LO

Re: [GENERAL] Need Help Restoring Old Backup

2013-12-17 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 12/15/2013 11:00 AM, Steve Knott wrote: Hi, I have a really old database (5+ years old) that was backed up stored away for a while. Now I want some data out of it. Not sure what you mean here? Do you mean you stored the database data directory or did a dump and stored that? I origina

Re: [GENERAL] pg_stat_tmp

2013-12-17 Thread Jeff Janes
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Tim Kane wrote: > > Thanks Jeff, Magnus > > Thanks for the suggestions. > This morning the same issue occurred, but this time it also complained > that it failed to write to pg_clog (previous days, the only failure was in > writing to pg_stat_tmp) > > ... > 201

[GENERAL] Question(s) about crosstab

2013-12-17 Thread Ken Tanzer
Hi. I've got a simple table unit_hold, with grant numbers, buildings and counts of unit types, which I need to summarize, along with a table listing unit types: \d unit_hold Table "public.unit_hold" Column| Type | Modifiers --+

Re: [GENERAL] Question(s) about crosstab

2013-12-17 Thread rob stone
O n Tue, 2013-12-17 at 15:31 -0800, Ken Tanzer wrote: > > \d unit_hold > Table "public.unit_hold" > Column| Type | Modifiers > --+---+--- > grant_number_code| character varying(10) | > housi

Re: [GENERAL] Question(s) about crosstab

2013-12-17 Thread Ken Tanzer
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:47 PM, rob stone wrote: > SELECT UH.grant_number_code, UH.housing_project_code, UH. count, > UT.description > FROM l_unit_type UT, unit_hold UH > WHERE UH.unit_type_code = UT.unit_type_code; > > > Easier to create a view. > > Thanks Rob, but that doesn't get the data in

Re: [GENERAL] Question(s) about crosstab

2013-12-17 Thread David Johnston
Ken Tanzer wrote > 1) Is there a simpler way? I'm hoping I made this unnecessarily > cumbersome and complicated. > 2) AFAICT, if a new unit type were to be added, I'd have to rewrite this > query. Is there any way to avoid that? > 3) It seems like everything after the first query, except for t

Re: [GENERAL] Question(s) about crosstab

2013-12-17 Thread Ken Tanzer
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 5:11 PM, David Johnston wrote: > 3) Limitation of SQL - explained below: > > The function call string that you pass in is just that, a string, the SQL > construct within which it resides has no knowledge of its contents. > > SQL has the hard requirement that at the time yo

Re: [GENERAL] Question(s) about crosstab

2013-12-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Ken Tanzer wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 5:11 PM, David Johnston wrote: >> >> 3) Limitation of SQL - explained below: >> >> The function call string that you pass in is just that, a string, the SQL >> construct within which it resides has no knowledge of its