[ADMIN][GENERAL] openvz and shared memory trouble

2014-03-28 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
Hi, I have a problem with postgres in combination with openvz. My hot standby crashes on me when i give it a normal value for shared_buffers (4GB, which 25% of the memory in the container). When i tune down the shared_buffers, it works again. But of course this is far from desireable. Now, i've s

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle_FDW - Cache lookup failed

2014-03-28 Thread Albe Laurenz
Emanuel Araújo wrote: > I have a problem wiht Oracle FDW 0.9.10 in PostgreSQL 9.3 > > I am using pg 9.3.4 > > Oracle FDW 0.9.10 > > Fedora 20 > > Client Oracle Release 11.2.0.3.0 > > > Return Error: > > ERROR: cache lookup failed for type 0 This is a known bug, the fix is already committed

Re: [GENERAL] Synchronizing a table that is in two different databases : Need to dump a table as inserts from db1 and change the insert statements into UPDATE statements

2014-03-28 Thread Khangelani Gama
Hi Chris or anyone who can help When I try this just below, it complains about foo (new table created in db2) , saying *ERROR: schema foo does not exist*. I got stuck on this error for a while now but still trying to see why but still no luck so far. If you have something please help begin;

Re: [GENERAL] Synchronizing a table that is in two different databases : Need to dump a table as inserts from db1 and change the insert statements into UPDATE statements

2014-03-28 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 28 March 2014 11:07, Khangelani Gama wrote: > Hi Chris or anyone who can help > > When I try this just below, it complains about foo (new table created in > db2) , saying ERROR: schema foo does not exist. I got stuck on this error > for a while now but still trying to see why but still no luck

Re: [GENERAL] Synchronizing a table that is in two different databases : Need to dump a table as inserts from db1 and change the insert statements into UPDATE statements

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Curvey
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Khangelani Gama wrote: > Hi Chris or anyone who can help > > > > When I try this just below, it complains about foo , saying "ERROR: > schema "foo" does not exist." I got stuck on this error for a while now > but still trying to see why but still no luck so far. I

Re: [GENERAL] Synchronizing a table that is in two different databases : Need to dump a table as inserts from db1 and change the insert statements into UPDATE statements

2014-03-28 Thread Khangelani Gama
Hi Chris I did replace foo and bar tables with my tables, in db2 I have table foo(the one to be updated) and the table bar(the one which has data I got from db1) *From:* ccur...@gmail.com [mailto:ccur...@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Curvey *Sent:* Friday, March 28, 2014 1:50 PM *To:* Khang

Re: [GENERAL] Synchronizing a table that is in two different databases : Need to dump a table as inserts from db1 and change the insert statements into UPDATE statements

2014-03-28 Thread Rémi Cura
Not sure, but maybe update foo set br_desc = bar.br_desc , br_active = bar.br_active (rest of columns) where br_cde = bar.br_cde; Anyway it seem sto be terribly bad idea to give those kind of names ! Cheers, Rémi-C

Re: [GENERAL] Synchronizing a table that is in two different databases : Need to dump a table as inserts from db1 and change the insert statements into UPDATE statements

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Curvey
I think the convention on this list is to bottom-post. On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Khangelani Gama wrote: > Hi Chris > > > > I did replace foo and bar tables with my tables, in db2 I have table > foo(the one to be updated) and the table bar(the one which has data I got > from db1) > > > > *

Re: [GENERAL] Synchronizing a table that is in two different databases : Need to dump a table as inserts from db1 and change the insert statements into UPDATE statements

2014-03-28 Thread Khangelani Gama
Thank you very much, I on my previous try I did not include the FROM. I will just do thoroughly checks before COMMIT. Thanks very much. *From:* ccur...@gmail.com [mailto:ccur...@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Chris Curvey *Sent:* Friday, March 28, 2014 2:38 PM *To:* Khangelani Gama *Cc:* pgsql *Subje

Re: [GENERAL] is there a way to dump the version of extensions

2014-03-28 Thread Michael Paquier
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Manuel Kniep wrote: > Hi, > > when doing a pg_dump on postgres 9.2 the resulting sql file only has > > CREATE EXTENSION extension_name; > > I would like to include the specific version of the extension to make sure > that the correct version > is installed when lo

Re: [ADMIN][GENERAL] openvz and shared memory trouble

2014-03-28 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 03/28/2014 01:51 AM, Willy-Bas Loos wrote: Hi, I have a problem with postgres in combination with openvz. My hot standby crashes on me when i give it a normal value for shared_buffers (4GB, which 25% of the memory in the container). When i tune down the shared_buffers, it works again. But of

Re: [GENERAL] Synchronizing a table that is in two different databases : Need to dump a table as inserts from db1 and change the insert statements into UPDATE statements

2014-03-28 Thread Khangelani Gama
Hi Chris or anyone who can help When I try this just below, it complains about foo , saying "ERROR: schema "foo" does not exist." I got stuck on this error for a while now but still trying to see why but still no luck so far. If you have something please help begin; update foo set br_de

[GENERAL] The result of the last function call overwrites the result of previous function calls

2014-03-28 Thread Michael Ainsworth
Hello PostgreSQL community! I'm a big fan of PostgreSQL, but am new to the development side of things, so I apologise in advance if this email is not directed to the correct location. I have been working on an extension to PostgreSQL server to provide JSON support. This JSON support is differen

Re: [GENERAL] Synchronizing a table that is in two different databases : Need to dump a table as inserts from db1 and change the insert statements into UPDATE statements

2014-03-28 Thread Khangelani Gama
Hi Chris or anyone who can help When I try this just below, it complains about foo , saying "ERROR: schema "foo" does not exist." I got stuck on this error for a while now but still trying to see why but still no luck so far. If you have something please help begin; update foo set br_de

Re: [GENERAL] Help with exclusion constraint

2014-03-28 Thread Moshe Jacobson
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:45 PM, wrote: > > I want to ensure that for any given value of fk_col that there is a > maximum > > of one row with bool_col = true. > > This should be what you want: > > ALTER TABLE exclusion_example > ADD CONSTRAINT ex > EXCLUDE (fk_col WITH =) WHERE (bool_col); Yes

Re: [GENERAL] Synchronizing a table that is in two different databases : Need to dump a table as inserts from db1 and change the insert statements into UPDATE statements

2014-03-28 Thread Markella Skempri
have you tried update foo set br_desc = bar.br_desc , br_active = bar.br_active (rest of columns) from bar where foo.br_cde = bar.br_cde; From: Khangelani Gama Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 9:59 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Synchronizing a table that is in two

Re: [GENERAL] Help with exclusion constraint

2014-03-28 Thread hari . fuchs
Moshe Jacobson writes: > Take the following table: > > CREATE TABLE exclusion_example AS > ( > pk_col integer primary key, > fk_col integer not null references other_table, > bool_col boolean not null > ); > > I want to ensure that for any given value of fk_col that there is a max

Re: [GENERAL] Help with exclusion constraint

2014-03-28 Thread Moshe Jacobson
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Igor Neyman wrote: > For this: > "any given value of fk_col that there is a maximum of one row with > bool_col = true." > > why don't you (instead) create partial unique index: > CREATE UNIQUE INDEX on exclusion_example(fk_col, bool_col) WHERE bool_col > IS TRUE;

[GENERAL] upgrading from debian 6 to 7--do in place or wipe-and-install?

2014-03-28 Thread Kevin Goess
We're looking at upgrading our database hosts running postgres 9.2 from debian 6/squeeze to debian 7/wheezy. It seems to me that using apt to upgrade in-place would be less work than wiping the boxes and reinstalling debian 7 from scratch, but the latter way would be cleaner. Does anybody have an

[GENERAL] Help with exclusion constraint

2014-03-28 Thread Moshe Jacobson
Take the following table: CREATE TABLE exclusion_example AS ( pk_col integer primary key, fk_col integer not null references other_table, bool_col boolean not null ); I want to ensure that for any given value of fk_col that there is a maximum of one row with bool_col = true. I wan

Re: [GENERAL] The result of the last function call overwrites the result of previous function calls

2014-03-28 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Ainsworth writes: > My question is: Can someone please enlighten me as to why the result of the > last function call overwrites the results to the previous function calls? Sounds to me like your function is using a static area for its result, or something along that line.

Re: [GENERAL] Dead rows not getting removed during vacuum

2014-03-28 Thread Granthana Biswas
Thank you Tom. We will be upgrading soon. Regards, Granthana On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Granthana Biswas writes: > > Version is PostgreSQL 9.1.4. > > You do realize you're missing almost two years' worth of bug fixes? > The current release in that branch is 9.1.13, and

Re: [GENERAL] Help with exclusion constraint

2014-03-28 Thread Igor Neyman
From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Moshe Jacobson Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 10:31 AM To: pgsql-general Subject: [GENERAL] Help with exclusion constraint Take the following table: CREATE TABLE exclusion_example AS ( pk_col i

[GENERAL] what is sublinks in query planner?

2014-03-28 Thread Sandeep Gupta
Hi, I looked for description of sublinks in the code as well as online but failed to come with any information. Was wondering someone can provide a line or two of what sublinks are suppose to do? Thanks. Sandeep

Re: [GENERAL] what is sublinks in query planner?

2014-03-28 Thread Tom Lane
Sandeep Gupta writes: > I looked for description of sublinks in the code as well as online but > failed to come with any information. Was wondering someone can provide a > line or two of what sublinks are suppose to do? They're sub-SELECTs used in expression contexts (ie, not directly in a FROM

Re: [GENERAL] what is sublinks in query planner?

2014-03-28 Thread Sandeep Gupta
Hi Tom, Sure. Thanks for the info. This helps. I will look into primnodes.h as well. -Sandeep On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Sandeep Gupta writes: > > I looked for description of sublinks in the code as well as online but > > failed to come with any information. Was

Re: [GENERAL] PG choosing nested loop for set membership?

2014-03-28 Thread Jeff Janes
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Brian Crowell wrote: > Hello, it's me, a Postgres n00b again. I'm dealing with a query that > scans a rather large table (94,000,000 tuples or so) and just picks > out certain rows and sums them: > > select dci.snapshot_time as "time", round(sum(dci.todays_pl)::nu

Re: [GENERAL] EBCDIC conversion

2014-03-28 Thread David W Noon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/03/14 00:31, David W Noon wrote: > I think the real issue is that you need icu or libiconv installed. > You will also need to know which EBCDIC code page you want: U.S. > EBCDIC is cp37, IIRC. > > I suspect you will need to write a C or Python