Re: jdbc problem

2023-09-24 Thread Laurenz Albe
ms"; > PreparedStatement statement = connection.prepareStatement(query); > ResultSet resultSet = statement.executeQuery(); You should ask the JDBC driver mailing list. As a first measure, try upgrading to 42.6.0 and see if the error persists. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Postgres 11.5 not logging all sqls

2023-09-25 Thread Laurenz Albe
t the log will certainly have the complete statement. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: log_statement vs log_min_duration_statement

2023-09-27 Thread Laurenz Albe
t from each other. So PostgreSQL logs all statements that are DDL *OR* that take longer than a millisecond, rather than all statements that are DDL *AND* take longer than a millisecond, as you seem to expect. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: valid casts to anyarray

2023-09-27 Thread Laurenz Albe
type has to be an array type... For example, here is the definition of "cardinality()", which takes "anyarray" as argument: Datum array_cardinality(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) { AnyArrayType *v = PG_GETARG_ANY_ARRAY_P(0); PG_RETURN_INT32(ArrayGetNItems(AARR_NDIM(v), AARR_DIMS(v))); } Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Cancelling "vacuum full" in single user mode?

2023-10-02 Thread Laurenz Albe
lkind = 'r' ORDER BY age(relfrozenxid) DESC; And VACUUM the tables (FREEZE is not necessary) starting with the top ones on the list. Upgrade as soon as possible. Not only are you missing out on tons of fixed bugs, but VACUUM performance and smartness has greatly improved since 9.5. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: How to investigate deadlocks

2023-10-02 Thread Laurenz Albe
, which probably requires deeper knowledge of the application. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: How to force "re-TOAST" after changing STORAGE or COMPRESSION?

2023-10-02 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Tue, 2023-10-03 at 12:33 +1100, rob stone wrote: > Would running CLUSTER on the table use the new parameters for the re- > write? No, as far as I know. You'd need something like -- rewrite all tuples UPDATE tab SET id = id; -- get rid of the bloat VACUUM (FULL) tab; You

Re: How to force "re-TOAST" after changing STORAGE or COMPRESSION?

2023-10-03 Thread Laurenz Albe
ompression. If it finds that the data grew after compression, it will discard the compressed value and continue with the original value. To avoid that useless compression attempt, you should use STORAGE EXTERNAL in such cases. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: pg_stat_statements IN problem

2023-10-03 Thread Laurenz Albe
ussion is here: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ca+q6zcwtubt_sxj0v6hy6ez89uv5wug5aefpe_9n0jr3vwn...@mail.gmail.com You could comment on that patch or review it. Useful reviews and supporting comments help move the patch forward. That would best serve your interests. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Ask about Foreign Table Plug-in on Windows Server.

2023-10-05 Thread Laurenz Albe
u please advise us? There are no official releases of tds_fdw for Windows. But in this issue (https://github.com/tds-fdw/tds_fdw/issues/53) somebody claims to have build the extension on Windows. You could try the same. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Proposal to Compile a 256-Byte Identifier Length Version Alongside the Current 64-Byte Version

2023-10-09 Thread Laurenz Albe
icularly useful for databases that make extensive use of multi-byte > character > sets like UTF-8. Wouldn't it be a good solution if we promote the #define to a configure option, like "./configure --identifier-length-limit=256"? Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Proposal to Compile a 256-Byte Identifier Length Version Alongside the Current 64-Byte Version

2023-10-10 Thread Laurenz Albe
ange the storage format and break pg_upgrade? Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: A question about possible recovery inconsistency

2023-10-11 Thread Laurenz Albe
ant to do that, if all that you have to do is specify "recovery_target = 'immediate'" to recover to the end of the backup? Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Can not drop partition if exist foreign keys

2023-10-11 Thread Laurenz Albe
a partition of a table if a foreign key points to it. Create the foreign key constraints between the partitions instead. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: moving data with pg_dump/pg_restore between database with different locale

2023-10-11 Thread Laurenz Albe
ently). That's about it. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: log wal file transfer in error logs

2023-10-11 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Wed, 2023-10-11 at 22:15 +0530, Atul Kumar wrote: > I need to log all wal files that are getting transferred to all standby > servers in the postgresql error logs. WAL files are not transferred to standby servers... WAL is streamed, so what would you want to log? Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: log wal file transfer in error logs

2023-10-12 Thread Laurenz Albe
reamed has been replayed > on standby. > > I need to keep a track of these wal files in db error logs. I don't think you can do that, and it seems like a strange requirement to me. Instead, you should monitor pg_stat_replication. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Question About PostgreSQL Extensibility

2023-10-12 Thread Laurenz Albe
eleases, but it could be a basis for you to work upon. My big question for me is: Why on earth would you want to run .NET code inside a database? Why not run it on the client? Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Can not drop partition if exist foreign keys

2023-10-12 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Thu, 2023-10-12 at 17:56 +0300, Олег Самойлов wrote:  > 11.10.2023, 14:20, "Laurenz Albe" : > > On Wed, 2023-10-11 at 14:08 +0300, Олег Самойлов wrote: > > >  There are two common practice to drop partition from partitioned table: > > > just drop or deta

Re: Question About PostgreSQL Extensibility

2023-10-16 Thread Laurenz Albe
hem. Yes, you'll have to rewrite them. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: A few questions about foreign tables

2023-10-18 Thread Laurenz Albe
what tables on the server > they correspond to) of existing foreign tables? \d+ > (May I ask to be cc'd since I'm not subscribed to the list?) But please reply to the list. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: PostgreSQL inheritance vs https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This

2023-10-23 Thread Laurenz Albe
an make an interesting talk. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: REINDEX in tables

2023-10-25 Thread Laurenz Albe
he issue that the number of > > > > rows in some of the above tables has increased. Is this possible? > > > > no, reindex will not add rows to the table. But if the indexes were corrupted before the REINDEX, it is possible that a query that didn't find a result before the REINDEX can find one afterwards. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Correct way of using complex expressions as partitioning key

2023-10-27 Thread Laurenz Albe
t=# explain analyze select * from test where ((v1 + v2) % 10) = 0 and v1 = > 100 and v2 = 100; > [partition pruning] Yes, you only get partition pruning if the WHERE clause contains a comparison with the partitioning key. There is no way around that. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: xmax not zero?

2023-10-30 Thread Laurenz Albe
updated or deleted in a current transaction, row locked by a > SELECT FOR UPDATE, and perhaps others I don't remember right now. INSERT ... ON CONFLICT could also cause this. As long as the transaction corresponding to the "xid" is marked as "aborted", that number is not valid and is treated like a 0. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Help with a good mental model for estimating PostgreSQL throughput

2023-10-30 Thread Laurenz Albe
ond. The network latency might well be a killer. Use pgBouncer with transaction mode pooling. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Help with a good mental model for estimating PostgreSQL throughput

2023-10-30 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 08:59 -0700, David Ventimiglia wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 8:46 AM Laurenz Albe wrote: > > On Mon, 2023-10-30 at 08:05 -0700, David Ventimiglia wrote: > > > Can someone help me develop a good mental model for estimating PostgreSQL > > > thro

Re: xmax not zero?

2023-10-31 Thread Laurenz Albe
rst! VACUUM won't modify "xmax", nor will it remove the row. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: pg_dump/pg_restore --jobs practical limit?

2023-11-01 Thread Laurenz Albe
store (which would be run on the > RHEL 8 VM). Test, test, test. Theoretical considerations are pretty worthless, and it is easy to measure that. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Postgres Out Of Memory Crash

2023-11-02 Thread Laurenz Albe
s (PID 16024) was terminated by signal 9: Killed DETAIL: Failed process was running: SELECT ... It is not certain, but often that statement is the one that used up all that memory. At least it is a starting point for your investigation. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Maximum xid increasing

2023-11-08 Thread Laurenz Albe
1. a prepared transaction (check pg_prepared_xacts) 2. a long-running query on a standby, and "hot_standby_feedback = on" Yours, Laurenz Albe

Weirdness (bug?) with aggregates and subqueries

2023-11-08 Thread Laurenz Albe
ROM xx LIMIT 1) FROM aa; ERROR: column "aa.a" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used in an aggregate function LINE 1: SELECT a, (SELECT sum(a) FROM xx LIMIT 1) FROM aa; ^ I think that the optimizer is going astray here... But perhaps I am missing something

Re: Weirdness (bug?) with aggregates and subqueries

2023-11-08 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Wed, 2023-11-08 at 16:36 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Laurenz Albe writes: > > I found this in a blog > > (https://buttondown.email/jaffray/archive/sql-scoping-is-surprisingly-subtle-and-semantic/): > > CREATE TABLE aa (a INT); > > INSERT INTO aa VALUES (1), (2), (3

Re: Interpreting MessageQueueSend state

2023-11-13 Thread Laurenz Albe
" column in the "pg_stat_activity" line above and see what that process is doing. I wouldn't worry about a parellel worker in that state, as long as there is no problem with the parallel leader. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Is "DISTINCT" making a diffence in: SELECT [DISTINCT] ... EXCEPT

2023-11-15 Thread Laurenz Albe
e that does not achieve anything except slowing down the query. Remove the DISTINCT. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: db size difference on primary and standby

2023-11-15 Thread Laurenz Albe
ke, you'll corrupt your database. Orphaned files like that can be left behind after a database crash. Did you experience crashes on the standby? Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: pg_basebackup

2023-11-20 Thread Laurenz Albe
ating walsender process due to > replication timeout > > Why the PostgreSQL server says something about "replication", we do > pg_basebackup? Because "pg_basebackup" uses a replication connection. > Some more information: > > - wal_sender_timeout has

Re: Prepared statements versus stored procedures

2023-11-20 Thread Laurenz Albe
you are using has special support for that. Currently, only functions and procedures written in PL/pgSQL cache execution plans of static SQL statements. And you are right, that is usually a good thing. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Connection fails on one system in a address range allowed to connect

2023-11-22 Thread Laurenz Albe
range > hostssl all all 150.135.124.0/25 password > > Anywhere else that I should look for a cause? "no encryption" does not match a "hostssl" entry. Either add "sslmode=require" to the connection string, or use a "hostnossl" entry. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Feature request: pg_get_tabledef(text)

2023-11-22 Thread Laurenz Albe
tement, depending on the answer to the previous question. No unsurmountable questions, but someone would have to come up with a clear design and implement it. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: pg_restore enhancements

2023-11-23 Thread Laurenz Albe
ctory can grow to be very large. You can avoidwriting WAL if you set "wal_level = minimal", restart PostgreSQL and restore the dump with the --single-transaction option. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: strange behavior of pg_hba.conf file

2023-11-23 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Wed, 2023-11-22 at 23:33 +0530, Atul Kumar wrote: > Please can you share any command  for due diligence whether ip is resolved to > ipv6 ?. Not a lot of diligence is due to figure out that you can use ping localhost Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: General support on postgres replication

2023-11-23 Thread Laurenz Albe
requires option: pg1-path >    HINT: does this stanza exist? It looks like you have a bad "restore_command" configured. It would be intereseting to see the log lines before the ones you are showing. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Configuration knobs & dials to speed up query optimization

2023-11-23 Thread Laurenz Albe
evant parameters would be "join_collapse_limit" and "from_collapse_limit". But without knowing your query, we can say nothing. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: General support on postgres replication

2023-11-23 Thread Laurenz Albe
he standby server. This is certainly one of the major problems introduced by commit 2dedf4d9a8: If you ever recovered a database, you may end up having recovery parameters set in your configuration file. You don't notice them until you build a standby server, which will then get into trouble. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: replication primary writting infinite number of WAL files

2023-11-24 Thread Laurenz Albe
; moved > millions of steps within a single minute. That looks like some application went crazy and inserted millions of rows, but the inserts were rolled back. But it is hard to be certain with the clues given. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: replication primary writting infinite number of WAL files

2023-11-24 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Fri, 2023-11-24 at 16:59 +0100, Les wrote: > > > Laurenz Albe   (2023. nov. 24., P, 16:00): > > On Fri, 2023-11-24 at 12:39 +0100, Les wrote: > > > Under normal circumstances, the number of write operations is relatively > > > low, with an > > > aver

Re: Could not read from file "pg_subtrans/00F5" at offset 122880: Success.

2023-11-27 Thread Laurenz Albe
Time to restore your backup. Investigate how you got there. Did you run "pg_resetwal"? Did you restore a database from a file system backup? Did you remove a "backup_label" file? Is your hardware broken? Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Feature request for INITCAP() function

2023-11-30 Thread Laurenz Albe
rift into locale-dependent rules. Such a function would be even more special-case than the current "initcap()", which is already pretty specific to certain languages. I don't know if there is enough value for the general public in it. But it should be easy to implement it yourself, for example in PL/pgSQL. Why don't you try that? Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: vacuum visibility relevance

2023-12-03 Thread Laurenz Albe
ou are running a version older than v12, the default value for "autovacuum_vacuum_cost_delay" is 20ms, which makes autovacuum really slow. You should change that parameter to 2ms, and if that is still too slow, use ALTER TABLE to set it to 0 on the affected table. Then aut

Re: Invalid Parent Index Issue Will Not Resolve Despite Multiple Attempts To Fix

2023-12-07 Thread Laurenz Albe
disvalid = > FALSE > and indisready = FALSE. You forgot to ALTER INDEX ... ATTACH PARTITION to turn the invalid index on the partitioned table into a valid index. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: how can I fix my accent issues?

2023-12-08 Thread Laurenz Albe
"1952" is just a typo), you should set the client encoding to WIN1252, so that PostgreSQL knows how to convert the data correctly. You can do that in several ways; the simplest might be to set the environment variable PGCLIENTENCODING to WIN1252. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: how can I fix my accent issues?

2023-12-12 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Mon, 2023-12-11 at 13:54 -0500, Igniris Valdivia Baez wrote: > El sáb, 9 dic 2023 a las 1:01, Laurenz Albe () > escribió: > > > > On Fri, 2023-12-08 at 23:58 -0500, Igniris Valdivia Baez wrote: > > > hello, I have an ETL process collecting data from a postgresql &

Re: how can I fix my accent issues?

2023-12-12 Thread Laurenz Albe
n't convert characters to replacement characters. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: what do you do after pg_walreset ?

2023-12-22 Thread Laurenz Albe
ll files after the reset ? You cannot do that. > 3, How can I determine the amount of data lost ? Well, everything from after the "backup". Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding UTF8: 0x00

2024-01-09 Thread Laurenz Albe
contains 0x00. > How to resolve this error ? any workaround to load the data with 0x00 values ? This is not about loading data into a "bytea", but into a "text", "varchar" or "char" column. Check again. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Postgres 13 streaming replication standby not sending password, 'fe_sendauth: no password supplied'

2024-01-11 Thread Laurenz Albe
ord > *:*:replication:repl:repl_user_password make sure that .pgpass is in the home directory of the PostgreSQL user and has restrictive permissions (0600). Try using it with a manual connection attempt via "psql". Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Nested-Internal Functions

2024-01-16 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 13:15 +0100, Rossana Ocampos wrote: > I have a query about creating nested functions in PostgreSQL. There are no "nested functions" in PostgreSQL. You'd need to rewrite that to use a proper stand-alone function. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Postgres Database Service Interruption

2024-01-17 Thread Laurenz Albe
estore your backup. If you have no backup, and the data are important for you (which is a contradiction in terms), you should hire a consultant with extensive PostgreSQL knowledge in the hope that he or she can salvage some of your data. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re:

2024-01-26 Thread Laurenz Albe
DECLARE _v_explain jsonb; BEGIN EXECUTE 'EXPLAIN (FORMAT JSON) select ...' INTO _v_explain; RAISE NOTICE '%', _v_explain; END; Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Best practices for data buffer cache setting/tuning (v15)

2024-01-29 Thread Laurenz Albe
as a quarter of the available RAM and define enough huge pages on the Linux kernel to fit shared buffers. There are no tuning options for evicting buffers, and there cannot be any fragmentation. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Postgresql BUG / Help Needed

2024-01-31 Thread Laurenz Albe
ta corruption, and you should restore your backup. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Query running longer

2024-02-01 Thread Laurenz Albe
stics on SCHEMA1.TAB4 are either out of date or not detailed enough, which makes PostgreSQL underestimate the result size. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com

Re: Query running longer

2024-02-02 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Fri, 2024-02-02 at 10:14 +0530, veem v wrote: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 at 02:43, Laurenz Albe wrote: > > On Fri, 2024-02-02 at 02:27 +0530, veem v wrote: > > > We have the below query which is running for ~45 seconds on postgres > > > aurora reader instance. > &

Re: Question on partitioning

2024-02-05 Thread Laurenz Albe
ster? Similarly merging > multiple partitions > to one partition or splitting a single partition into multiple partitions? There is no way to do that. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Question on partitioning

2024-02-06 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Tue, 2024-02-06 at 00:26 +0530, veem v wrote: > On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 at 17:52, Laurenz Albe wrote: > > On Mon, 2024-02-05 at 03:09 +0530, veem v wrote: > > > In postgresql, Is it possible to partition an existing nonpartitioned > > > table having data > > >

Re: archive command doesnt work

2024-02-07 Thread Laurenz Albe
he server takes a long time to replay all the changes (if the "2 days delay" you mention are set in "recovery_min_apply_delay"). What do you get for SELECT pg_is_in_recovery(); Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: archive command doesnt work

2024-02-08 Thread Laurenz Albe
the standby. Either use pg_ctl promote -D /path/to/datadir on the command line or SELECT pg_promote(); in SQL. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: archive command doesnt work

2024-02-08 Thread Laurenz Albe
context of switchover :^/ Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Multiple connections over VPN password fail error

2024-02-09 Thread Laurenz Albe
ing client. Also, what is the error message 1) on the client side 2) in the PostgreSQL server log Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: How to do faster DML

2024-02-11 Thread Laurenz Albe
f these considerations (skipping over previous columns and padding) are relevant for performance, they are often a micro-optimization that you won't be able to measure, and you shouldn't lose too much sleep over them. > > > So there's a bit of a tradeoff between minimizing alignment overhead and > > arranging columns for fastest access. Precisely. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED and get locked row/avoid updating other row(s)

2024-02-13 Thread Laurenz Albe
;t think there is a way to enforce that. Your application code has to do the right thing. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: RowLock and multiple transactions

2024-02-14 Thread Laurenz Albe
andom, or if it was not, the > order would have been explained in the docs? Transactions queue behind a lock, and they get the lock in a "first come, first served" order. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Users and object privileges maintenance

2024-02-18 Thread Laurenz Albe
gt; As parting thoughts, let me add that I enjoy PostgreSQL more than Oracle. And > libpq way more than OCI. That goes without saying. I have never seen an API as terrible as OCI. As an aside, IBM has re-implemented the OCI API for DB2. I am sure that led to serial quitting and mental illness among IBM's developers. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Identifying optimizer usage of indexed expressions

2024-02-20 Thread Laurenz Albe
ightly longer. That may or may not be a problem for you, but if you could pay the price of the extra indexes, you will certainly be able to pay the price of advanced statistics. You could also consider the option to drop indexes and see if somebody complains, or watch out for changes in pg_stat_statements. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Postgresql assistance needed

2024-02-22 Thread Laurenz Albe
2anjma0-postgresql-14.9-lib/lib/libpq.so.5+0x1205e) >     #3 0xf78c05a2 in PQexecPrepared > (/nix/store/glkv3qv4y64xigwpjcwflp3ni2anjma0-postgresql-14.9-lib/lib/libpq.so.5+0x145a2) Perhaps you forgot to terminate a string with '\0'. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Postgresql assistance needed

2024-02-22 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Thu, 2024-02-22 at 16:13 +0530, Sasmit Utkarsh wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:20 PM Laurenz Albe wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-02-22 at 14:01 +0530, Sasmit Utkarsh wrote: > > > ==3343433==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address > > > 0xf337ba80 at pc

Re: Postgresql assistance needed

2024-02-22 Thread Laurenz Albe
quot;ROLLBACK TRANSACTION"); > 3563                                 res = PQexec(conn,"ROLLBACK > TRANSACTION"); > 3564                                 PQclear(res); > 3565                                 return 0; > 3566                         } To debug that, get the actual error message using PQerrorMessage(). That should tell you what is going on. Perhaps the sequence is not on your "search_path", and you should qualify the name with the schema. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Postgresql assistance needed

2024-02-22 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Thu, 2024-02-22 at 19:35 +0530, Sasmit Utkarsh wrote: >  Is there any configuration/query that can be checked to verify if  > "shc_uadmin" has the correct path set? The SQL statement "SHOW search_path" would return the current setting. But look at the error mess

Re: Creating table and indexes for new application

2024-02-22 Thread Laurenz Albe
INCLUDE is twofold: 1) The column only has to be stored in the leaf pages, since it is not used for searching. That makes the intermediate index entries smaller, which causes a wider fan-out of the index, which in turn makes the tree shallower and hence faster to search. 2) It is an implicit documentation that the column is not to be used for searching. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: could not open file "global/pg_filenode.map": Operation not permitted

2024-02-26 Thread Laurenz Albe
s, the server is no longer accessible, and we need to restart > the service (pg_ctl restart). > Once restarted, Popstgres runs fine again for a couple of days. > > We are running PostgreSQL 16.2 on macOS 14.3.1. Perhaps that is some kind of virus checker or something else that locks files. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Orphan table files at data/base/

2024-02-28 Thread Laurenz Albe
g to the table created with CREATE TABLE huge AS SELECT ... then you can do that. If you are not 100% certain, go the safe way and use dump/restore to a new database. Then DROP DATABASE on the old database, and all orphaned files will be gone. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Orphan files filling root partition after crash

2024-02-28 Thread Laurenz Albe
led crash, or that it provided some tools for the > job. (I tried VACUUM FULL on the table, but the orphaned files did not go > away). That is not so simple... Also, it would slow down crash recovery. But I agree that it would be nice to have a tool that reports or cleans up orphaned files. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Non-Stored Generated Columns

2024-02-28 Thread Laurenz Albe
support FKs and indexes on those too. > Would be great to have feature parity on this particular point, eventually. Isn't almost all of that functionality covered by a view? Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Orphan files filling root partition after crash

2024-02-28 Thread Laurenz Albe
re curious about such things, start reading the source. The object ID is immutable, and initially the filenode is the save, but it changes whenever the table is rewritten (TRUNCATE, ALTER TABLE, VACUUM (FULL), ...). Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Non-Stored Generated Columns

2024-02-29 Thread Laurenz Albe
;logically". Yes, NULLs are stored in indexes, just like everything else. You could use conditional indexes, but then you have to make sure that the optimizer knows it can use these indexes. The sum of the sizes of these indexes shouldn't exceed the size of an unconditional index by much, but they would still be more expensive: each statement would have to look through all the indexes to decide which ones it can use and which ones not. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Content for talk on Postgres Type System at PostgresConf

2024-02-29 Thread Laurenz Albe
rom the SQL standard. Perhaps it would be good to warn people about using data types like "character", "time with time zone" and "money". Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Non-Stored Generated Columns

2024-02-29 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Thu, 2024-02-29 at 10:55 +0100, Dominique Devienne wrote: > On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 10:03 AM Laurenz Albe > wrote: > > Honestly, I'm not sure why supporting the non-stored variant of generated > columns is so controversial... >   > > I am sure there are some use

Re: Non-Stored Generated Columns

2024-02-29 Thread Laurenz Albe
y? You may want a "SELECT count(*) FROM tab" to consider an index-only scan on a small index, right? I'm not saying that it is a large overhead, but if you actually have dozens of indexes, it can make processing slower. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Voluntary Product Assessment For pgAdmin 8.3

2024-02-29 Thread Laurenz Albe
re. There is no entity that would fill in your forms. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Content for talk on Postgres Type System at PostgresConf

2024-03-01 Thread Laurenz Albe
ne, but an "absolute timestamp", and in combination with "timestamp" a great way to let the database handle the difficult task of time zone conversion for you. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Guarantees/Semantics of pg_stats

2024-03-02 Thread Laurenz Albe
ow count and cost of execution plan steps. You can never use them as proof. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Content for talk on Postgres Type System at PostgresConf

2024-03-02 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Fri, 2024-03-01 at 08:14 -0800, Adrian Klaver wrote: > [pointers to the documentation] I know. I was not searching for help with PostgreSQL, I was trying to point out the surprising behavior of "character" as a suggestion for the talk. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Orphan files filling root partition after crash

2024-03-03 Thread Laurenz Albe
On Mon, 2024-03-04 at 00:04 +0100, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > On 2024-02-28 20:30:35 +0100, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Feb 2024, Laurenz Albe wrote: > > > On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 12:16 +0100, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > > > > So what is the moral of the st

Re: When manual analyze is needed

2024-03-03 Thread Laurenz Albe
ct statistics on the partitions, but not the partitioned table itself) 2. after you create an index on an expression (otherwise you have to wait until autoanalyze runs to get statistics on the indexed expression) Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Guarantees/Semantics of pg_stats

2024-03-03 Thread Laurenz Albe
n the column? No. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: When manual analyze is needed

2024-03-04 Thread Laurenz Albe
queryid which we can refer to see past vs current plans difference > and identify > such issues quickly and fix it? Not that I know of. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Connection remains idle for more than 15 minutes, then the connection drops by IPVS setting in k8s kube-proxy

2024-03-05 Thread Laurenz Albe
nnect.html#LIBPQ-KEEPALIVES-IDLE Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: Query plans not identical for `id in(1,2,3)` and `(id=1 or id=2 or id=3)`

2024-03-10 Thread Laurenz Albe
use can only produce this SQL: > `SELECT ... WHERE (key=$1 or key=$2 or ...)`. > Surprisingly, PostgreSQL planner treats these two SQLs differently: > > Is it possible to configure PostgreSQL 12.16 to treat the second query as the > first? No, that is currently not possible. Yours, Laurenz Albe

Re: could not open file "global/pg_filenode.map": Operation not permitted

2024-03-11 Thread Laurenz Albe
now cluster B is > throwing errors in the log again. > > Any idea why this is happening? It does not occur with every restore, but it > seems to be related anyway. I don't know Barman, but with that incomplete description anybody will have problems determining the cause. For example, how are A and B connected? Yours, Laurenz Albe

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