[Mapserver-users] RE: [postgis-users] RE: gone are my queryresults

Charlton Purvis cpurvis at asg.sc.edu
Sun May 2 20:05:21 PDT 2004


Let's hear it for the Canadians!!!
 
FabulOUS, Paul.  You're an absolute life savior / saver / whatever!
 
Talk about premature graying.  That was an unpleasant couple of days, but it was solved by binding the UNIQUE to a home-grown column, and now everything is golden.
 
Whew!
 
Infinte thanks.  So . . . are you interested in inheriting Alaska?  Maybe I can talk Dubya into a little trade since I owe you big time.
 
How about we start off w/ a case or two (thousand) of beer?
 
Charlton

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Paul Ramsey [mailto:pramsey at refractions.net] 
	Sent: Sun 5/2/2004 12:45 AM 
	To: Administrator at netnation.refractions.net 
	Cc: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu; PostGIS Users Discussion 
	Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] RE: [postgis-users] RE: gone are my queryresults
	
	

	Got your back, Charlton :) 
	The problem is that your PostgreSQL oids are larger than the mapserver  
	row number variable can store. The oid is larger than a signed 32 bit  
	integer can store. 
	So, solution. 
	Do not use oid as your "unique" field. Make use of the "using unique"  
	clause in your data statement, and reference a different unique field  
	in your table. Make sure that field is indexed. If you have loaded your  
	data with shp2pgsql, you probably have a 'gid' field you can use that  
	is a primary key (and therefore already indexed). 
	Yours, 
	Paul 

	On Saturday, May 1, 2004, at 08:42 PM, Charlton Purvis wrote: 

	> OK, Greg, I think we might be onto something.  But it still looks very  
	> grim. 
	> 
	> I turned on all the logging, and I notice that MS sends it this query: 
	> 
	> LOCATION:  pg_parse_query, postgres.c:464 
	> LOG:  00000: statement: DECLARE mycursor BINARY CURSOR FOR SELECT  
	> temperature_celcius::text,asbinary(force_collection(force_2d(the_geom)) 
	> ,'NDR'),OID::text from sst_map WHERE  
	> (date_trunc('hour',report_time_stamp + interval '1 hour' * -04) =  
	> date_trunc('hour',timestamp without time zone '2004-05-01 22:00:00')  
	> and (label_z <= 5 or label_z is null)) and (the_geom && setSRID(  
	> 'BOX3D(-83.0454044480208 24.3838940085927,-82.6541628156105  
	> 24.775135641003)'::BOX3D,find_srid('','sst_map','the_geom') )) 
	> 
	> OK.  That's good.  Because if I stick the SELECT part at a psql  
	> prompt, I get back the row I want.  And I also notice that its OID is  
	> 2185295089. 
	> 
	> But if I look at the last sql statement in the log, it's another  
	> cursor, but the OID is wrong. 
	> 
	> LOCATION:  pg_parse_query, postgres.c:464 
	> LOG:  00000: statement: DECLARE mycursor BINARY CURSOR FOR SELECT  
	> station_id::text,time_stamp::text,z::text,label_z::text,temperature_cel 
	> cius::text,temperature_fahrenheit::text,value_temperature_celcius::text 
	> ,value_temperature_fahrenheit::text,lon::text,lat::text,title::text,ins 
	> titution::text,institution_url::text,institution_dods_url::text,source: 
	> :text,refs::text,contact::text,report_time_stamp::text,asbinary(force_c 
	> ollection(force_2d(the_geom)),'NDR') from sst_map WHERE OID =  
	> 2147483647 
	> 
	> So had they kept the OID, I would be in good shape. 
	> 
	> This isn't looking good!!! 
	> 
	> Charlton 
	> 
	>       -----Original Message----- 
	>       From: Gregory S. Williamson [mailto:gsw at globexplorer.com] 
	>       Sent: Sat 5/1/2004 11:11 PM 
	>       To: PostGIS Users Discussion; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
	>       Cc: 
	>       Subject: RE: [postgis-users] RE: gone are my query results 
	>       
	>       
	> 
	> 
	>       If you turn on the logging of statements in postgres and run the  
	> mapserver side of things, does the query show up in the logs ? 
	>       
	>       If the query does not appear then I'd suspect networking or  
	> permissions or some darn thing keeping postgres from ever seeing the  
	> query. 
	>       
	>       It it does show up then maybe the problem is in the return trip to MS  
	> or in the processing of that data (perhaps your OID suspicions), since  
	> it sounds as if the query itself can be processed. 
	>       
	>       Any changes to *anything* on either server and anything in between ?  
	> (not likely but always worth ruling out) 
	>       
	>       Or, shot in the dark, something messing with TOLERANCE so no points  
	> are selected in a query ? 
	>       
	>       Very puzzling, I agree. 
	>       
	>       Greg W. 
	>       
	>       -----Original Message----- 
	>       From:   Charlton Purvis on behalf of Charlton Purvis 
	>       Sent:   Sat 5/1/2004 7:59 PM 
	>       To:     PostGIS Users Discussion; mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu 
	>       Cc: 
	>       Subject:        RE: [postgis-users] RE: gone are my query results 
	>       Thanks for your reply, Gregory.  I'm forwarding this onto the MS  
	> folks to see if they have any pearls of wisdom. 
	>       
	>       Everything looks great in the db.  If I render a map, I see all the  
	> points correctly.  If I take that query and plug it in to the command  
	> line, I see the rows.  But the moment I try to do either a cgi query,  
	> WFS query, or a PHP query, I get nothing back.  No error message. 
	>       
	>       I'm actually getting panicky which isn't any fun.  Has anyone seen  
	> anything like this before? 
	>       
	>       Queries rely on OID's and SRID's.  Is there any way they could have  
	> gotten mucked up?  Can I somehow refresh them? 
	>       
	>       Thanks, 
	>       
	>       Charlton 
	>       
	>       -----Original Message----- 
	>       From: Gregory S. Williamson [mailto:gsw at globexplorer.com] 
	>       Sent: Sat 5/1/2004 6:20 PM 
	>       To: PostGIS Users Discussion 
	>       Cc: 
	>       Subject: [postgis-users] RE: gone are my query results 
	>       
	>       
	>       
	>       
	>       If you do the query directly to postgres (via psql or pgAdmin or  
	> whatever) does the query return results ? 
	>       
	>       If so, then my guess is that this is not a database error, at least  
	> not directly. If ot then yes, it would seem that somehow the postGIS  
	> itself has gottent snarfled. 
	>       
	>       The change you made relating the geometryColumns doesn't sound to me  
	> like it should effect queries unless somehow the SRID info for the  
	> tables in your mapserver queries got clobbered; should be easy enough  
	> to confirm that this data is ok. 
	>       
	>       I am not familiar enough with PHP and mapserver to have a clue; does  
	> the mapserver log itself show anything ? 
	>       
	>       Not much help, I'm afraid, but perhaps posting this to the MMS list  
	> would add some more knowledge to the issue at hand ? 
	>       
	>       Greg Williamson 
	>       DBA 
	>       GlobeXplorer LLC 
	>       
	>       -----Original Message----- 
	>       From:   Charlton Purvis on behalf of Charlton Purvis 
	>       Sent:   Sat 5/1/2004 2:46 PM 
	>       To:     PostGIS Users Discussion 
	>       Cc: 
	>       Subject:        gone are my query results 
	>       Hi, folks: 
	>       
	>       Bizarre and unnerving problem here. 
	>       
	>       Up until last night, mapping was fine and point-query was fine.  Now  
	> it appears that the mapping is still great, but the point query and  
	> WFS are toast.  I don't get any errors in pgsql.log or php.log.  I get  
	> . . . nothing.  Even going mapserv cgi query returns empty for a query  
	> I know should work. 
	>       
	>       Maybe I'm being taught a lesson.  In a separate database, I noticed  
	> that addgeometrycolumn was taking too long -- I create about 400  
	> smaller tables per day.  So I commented out fix_geometry_columns();  
	> from the addgeometrycolumn function and did it once I had finished  
	> creating all my new tables.  So am I paying the price?  Has this  
	> corrupted this database as well as my other? 
	>       
	>       If all this is OID stuff, is there any way to refresh all OID's? 
	>       
	>       Restarted . . . yes.  VACUUM and ANALYZE'd . . . yes. 
	>       
	>       Thanks, 
	>       
	>       Charlton 
	>       
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