multiple entries for synchronous_standby_names - postgresql

Trying to achieve sync streaming to barman server and i need to add an entry to postgresql.conf for this parameter, which already has an entry and tried a few variations but does not work. Any ideas? Also tried '&&' but in vain
synchronous_standby_names='ANY 1 (*)',barman-wal-archive
2022-06-10 16:50:54.272 BST [11241-43] # app= LOG: syntax error in
file "/var/lib/pgsql/13/data/postgresql.conf" line 22, near token ","
2022-06-10 16:50:54.272 BST [11241-44] # app= LOG: configuration file
"/var/lib/pgsql/13/data/postgresql.conf" contains errors; no changes
were applied

The syntax you are using is not valid, and you won't be able to specify that Barman should be kept synchronous and any one of the others. The best you can do is
synchronous_standby_names = 'FIRST 2 ("barman-wal-archive", standby1, standby2, standby3)'
(You have to double quote all names that are not standard SQL identifiers, for example if they contain -.)
Then PostgreSQL will always keep Barman synchronized, as well as the first available standby server. But that won't have transactions fail if Barman is not available, which seems to be what you want.

Keep just
synchronous_standby_names='ANY 1 (*)'
and set
synchronous_commit = on
or
synchronous_commit = remote_write

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Disable logging of logical replication statements in Postgres 13.1

I have a simple process that is reading logical replication messages from postgres. This process runs every second and generates a lot of messages in the postgres logs like:
2021-02-15 20:35:11.032 UTC [35] STATEMENT: SELECT * FROM pg_logical_slot_get_changes('lazy_cloud', NULL, NULL);
2021-02-15 20:35:11.032 UTC [35] LOG: logical decoding found consistent point at 0/167C618
2021-02-15 20:35:11.032 UTC [35] DETAIL: There are no running transactions.
I've configured logging with the following settings:
log_min_messages=ERROR
log_statement=none
log_replication_commands=0
But, the logical replication logs are still produced.
Is there a setting to disable these messages? I can use sed or something like that, but would prefer a built in solution.
There is no way to disable that message short of setting
log_min_messages = fatal
in postgresql.conf, but that is not a smart idea, because then you'd miss out on all error messages in the log file and essentially disable logging.

Initializing data directory for postgresql not successful

I tried to initialize the postgresql data directory, and I get this error :
[postgres#vix-db1-1 ~]$ /usr/pgsql-9.5/bin/initdb --nodename=vix-db1-1 -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.5/data
The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "postgres".
This user must also own the server process.
The database cluster will be initialized with locale "en_US.UTF-8".
The default database encoding has accordingly been set to "UTF8".
The default text search configuration will be set to "english".
Data page checksums are disabled.
creating directory /var/lib/pgsql/9.5/data ... ok
creating subdirectories ... ok
selecting default max_connections ... 100
selecting default shared_buffers ... 128MB
selecting dynamic shared memory implementation ... posix
creating configuration files ... ok
creating template1 database in /var/lib/pgsql/9.5/data/base/1 ... ok
initializing pg_authid ... ok
initializing dependencies ... ok
creating system views ... ok
creating cluster information ... FATAL: syntax error at or near "-" at character 16
STATEMENT: CREATE NODE vix-db1-1 WITH (type = 'coordinator');
child process exited with exit code 1
initdb: removing data directory "/var/lib/pgsql/9.5/data"
It says “FATAL: syntax error at or near “-” at character 16”; but the hostname has to have the “-” due to new server version.
I tried doing it without nodename, but for that another problem :
[postgres#vix-db1-1 ~]$ /usr/pgsql-9.5/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.5/data
initdb: Postgres-XL node name is mandatory
Try "initdb --help" for more information.
[postgres#vix-db1-1 ~]$
How do I resolve this?
You must be using some fork of PostgreSQL, since initdb does not have a --nodename parameter.
Whoever wrote that fork didn't do a very good job, since they forgot to properly escape special characters somewhere. You should report that as a bug to the software vendor.
#anaigini I'll move the comment to answer since it worked:
You may have to pass the name in quotes, so that it substitutes in the
query, using --nodename='"vix-db1-1"'. The outer single-quotes will be
used by the shell, leaving the inner double-quotes for the query.

Can not set `task_executor_type`

When I trying to put citus cluster configuration value into postgresql.conf file:
citus.task_executor_type = "task-tracker"
I got the error:
service postgresql restart
Error: Invalid line 637 in /etc/postgresql/9.5/main/postgresql.conf: »citus.task_executor_type = "task-tracker"«
* No PostgreSQL clusters exist; see "man pg_createcluster"
Tell me please how can I set this configuration value by default?
I am not ready to run SET citus.task_executor_type TO "task-tracker" for each connection.
I am not sure but you are using double quote instead of single quote and this can be the problem. Try using single quote like:
citus.task_executor_type = 'task-tracker'

PostgreSQL timezone error with DbSchema

I want to setup my postgreSQL server to 'Europe/Berlin' but having an error:
SET time zone 'Europe/Berlin';
ERROR: invalid value for parameter "TimeZone": "Europe/Berlin"
But the real issue is with DdbSchema, when I want to connect to my DB i've got the error
FATAL: invalid value for parameter "TimeZone": "Europe/Berlin"
DbSchema works when I connect to my local db but not with my NAS (Synology) DB.
Any idea ?
Found a way to solve the problem:
You have to start java with the proper time zone.
In my case, my server is GMT, so i had to add the args -Duser.timezone=GMT
For DbSchema, edit the file DbSchema.bat or DbSchema.sh
Find the declaration of SWING_JVM_ARGS
Add the argument -Duser.timezone=GMT a the end of the line
Start DbSchema with this script DbSchema.bat or DbSchema.sh
I think your solution is only a workaround for the actual problem concerning the zoneinfo on the synology diskstation.
I got exactly the same error when trying to connect to the postgres database on my diskstation. The query select * from pg_timezone_names; gives you all timezone names postgresql is aware of.
There are 87 entries all starting with "Timezone":
name | abbrev | utc_offset | is_dst
------------------------+--------+------------+--------
Timezone/Kuwait | AST | 03:00:00 | f
Timezone/Nairobi | EAT | 03:00:00 | f
...
The configured postgres timezonesets contain much more entries, so there must be another source that postgres is building this view of at startup. I discovered that there is a compile-option --with-system-tzdata=DIRECTORY that tells postgres to obtain its values from system zoneinfo.
I looked in /usr/share/zoneinfo and found one subdirectory called Timezone with exactly 87 entries. And there obviously was no subdirectory called Europe (with a timezone file called Berlin). I did not quickly find a solution for the diskstation to update the tzdata automatically or manually by unpacking tzdata2016a.tar.gz and making (make not found...). As a quickfix I copied the Berlin timezone file from another linux system and the problem was solved, so that I now can connect via java/jdbc using the correct timezone "Europe/Berlin"!

Can I log query execution time in PostgreSQL 8.4?

I want to log each query execution time which is run in a day.
For example like this,
2012-10-01 13:23:38 STATEMENT: SELECT * FROM pg_stat_database runtime:265 ms.
Please give me some guideline.
If you set
log_min_duration_statement = 0
log_statement = all
in your postgresql.conf, then you will see all statements being logged into the Postgres logfile.
If you enable
log_duration
that will also print the time taken for each statement. This is off by default.
Using the log_statement parameter you can control which type of statement you want to log (DDL, DML, ...)
This will produce an output like this in the logfile:
2012-10-01 13:00:43 CEST postgres LOG: statement: select count(*) from pg_class;
2012-10-01 13:00:43 CEST postgres LOG: duration: 47.000 ms
More details in the manual:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/runtime-config-logging.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-LOGGING-WHEN
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/runtime-config-logging.html#RUNTIME-CONFIG-LOGGING-WHAT
If you want a daily list, you probably want to configure the logfile to rotate on a daily basis. Again this is described in the manual.
I believe OP was actually asking for execution duration, not the timestamp.
To include the duration in the log output, open pgsql/<version>/data/postgresql.conf, find the line that reads
#log_duration = off
and change it to
log_duration = on
If you can't find the given parameter, just add it in a new line in the file.
After saving the changes, restart the postgresql service, or just invoke
pg_ctl reload -D <path to the directory of postgresql.conf>
e.g.
pg_ctl reload -D /var/lib/pgsql/9.2/data/
to reload the configuration.
I think a better option is to enable pg_stat_statements by enabling the PG stats extension. This will help you to find the query execution time for each query nicely recorded in a view