April 2016 - users-list

[MonetDB-users] Proofreading your professional documents
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24 Feb '24

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SUM() OVER (ORDER BY..)
by Anthony Damico 13 Dec '16

13 Dec '16

hi, monetdb does not support SUM() OVER commands.. does anyone have a smart alternative to implement this? thanks SELECT batch_id, job_count, SUM(job_count) OVER (ORDER BY duration) as cumjobs, SUM(job_count) over () as totjobs, duration FROM test_data ;

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[Low level] Understanding duplicate entries in delta BAT (delete BAT)
by Frédéric Jolliton 08 Aug '16

08 Aug '16

Hi, As per MonetDB Solution suggestion, we are asking here about this topic. We are studying how MonetDB store its database on disk. So far we were able to understand pretty much all the files (BAT, journal, BBP.dir, heap, hash, imprints, and so on). We have custom tools to decode and dump them (experimental at this point). There is one thing however that is unclear: we thought that "delta BAT", which are the BAT assigned to an SQL tables to list the OIDs of rows that were deleted (named "D_<schema>_<table>" internaly), would contains only *uniques* values (since you can never delete twice the same row). But on several databases that we are running, we found that some of theses BATs contain duplicates. Lot of duplicates actually. Especially on D_sys__columns and D_sys__tables BATs (respectively for the sys._columns and sys._tables system tables). Some databases do not have this "issue" (while they all have the same schema, and process the same kind of data as the other ones). Can someone explain if duplicates are expected in theses BATs ? Here is an excerpt of D_sys__tables: # hexdump -C 02/210.tail 00000000 2e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |......../.......| 00000010 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |0.......1.......| 00000020 32 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 33 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |2.......3.......| 00000030 34 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |4.......5.......| 00000040 36 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 37 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |6.......7.......| 00000050 42 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |B.......C.......| 00000060 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 45 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |D.......E.......| 00000070 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 47 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |F.......G.......| 00000080 48 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 49 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |H.......I.......| 00000090 4a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |J.......K.......| 000000a0 4c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |L.......M.......| 000000b0 4e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4f 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |N.......O.......| 000000c0 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |P.......P.......| 000000d0 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |Q.......P.......| 000000e0 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 52 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |Q.......R.......| 000000f0 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |P.......Q.......| 00000100 52 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 53 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |R.......S.......| 00000110 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 51 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |P.......Q.......| 00000120 52 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 53 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |R.......S.......| ... You can clearly see duplicates OID (the first one being 0x50 at 0xc8). Its entry in BBP.dir (split into sections): 136 32 tmp_210 tmpr_210 02/210 610523782 2 171807 0 0 171807 172032 0 0 0 0 void 0 1 1793 0 0 0 0 0 1000651 0 0 0 oid 8 0 1024 24 25 27 1 46 773603235 1374456 1376256 1 We are using: MonetDB 5 server v11.21.14 (64-bit, 64-bit oids, 128-bit integers). -- Frédéric Jolliton Sécuractive

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Why aren't hashes preserved by joins?
by Roberto Cornacchia 10 Jun '16

10 Jun '16

I noticed a difference between - a hash-based string selection from a persistent, read-only table - a hash-based join on the same table and same column They both build a hash on the same string column (verified with gdb), but the select can reuse the hash (second call is almost free), while the join keeps rebuilding the hash. Is this expected? Roberto

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group_concat in MAL not working due to algebra.uselect
by Puthick Hok 04 Jun '16

04 Jun '16

Hi, Last year, I was looking for the MAL definition of group_concat and Nik Schuiling gave me the MAL definition which is below. We compile MonetDB from source and this definition was working on MonetDB-11.19.9 (Oct2014-SP2). Since this version, there has been a number of newer versions of MonetDB. So, I was trying to upgrade our system to the latest version of MonetDB (11.21.13). After the installation of the newer version, I ran: select "DataSetId", group_concat("FieldName") from datasetmarkermeta group by "DataSetId"; from mclient interface and got the following error message: TypeException:kddart.subgroup_concat[5]:'algebra.uselect' undefined in: TIDs:any := algebra.uselect(g:bat[:oid,:oid],grpid:oid); MALException:kddart.subgroup_concat[0]:Error in cloned function TypeException:user.s2_1[15]:'kddart.subgroup_concat' undefined in: X_27:bat[:oid,:str] := kddart.subgroup_concat(X_26:bat[:oid,:str],X_16:bat[:oid,:oid],r1_16:bat[:oid,:oid],true:bit); program contains errors It says algebra.uselect function is not defined. How do I fix this problem? group_concat MAL definition start ------------------------------------------- module kddart; command group_concat(b:bat[:oid,:str]):str address KDDARTgroup_concat comment "Mal kddart"; function group_concat(b:bat[:oid, :str]):str; value := ""; barrier (h, t) := iterator.new(b); value := value + t; value := value + ""; redo (h, t) := iterator.next(b); exit (h, t); return value; end group_concat; function subgroup_concat(b:bat[:oid,:any_1],g:bat[:oid,:oid],e:bat[:oid,:any_2],skip_nils:bit) :bat[:oid,:str]; nw := aggr.count(e); nl := calc.lng(nw); bn := bat.new(:oid, :str, nl); # check 'e' has some values - this is the list of group IDs in the head # 'g' is the group to the data BAT head ID mapping # 'b' is the data column BAT that we are aggregating over barrier (grpid, t) := iterator.new(e); # select GID from TID->GID map to get matching TIDs TIDs := algebra.uselect(g,grpid); # get DATA for matching TIDs b_data := algebra.kintersect(b,TIDs); # aggregate grpval := group_concat(b_data); # Store the result for this group bat.insert(bn, grpid, grpval); redo (grpid, t) := iterator.next(e); exit (grpid, t); return bn; end subgroup_concat;

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PCRE: references to captures in replace string
by Roberto Cornacchia 04 May '16

04 May '16

After declaring a wrapper for pcre.replace: sql>create function pcre_replace(s string, pattern string, repl string, flags string) returns string external name pcre."replace"; operation successful (6.187ms) I cannot get replacements with references to captures work (but the code in pcre.c seems to support it): sql>select pcre_replace('Apple Pear', '^([a-zA-Z]+)\\s*([a-zA-Z]+)$', '\\1 \\2', ''); +---------------------------+ | pcre_replace_single_value | +===========================+ | \1 \2 | +---------------------------+ 1 tuple (0.309ms) The pattern is matched, but the back references are replaced literally. Am I not getting the syntax correct? >From http://www.pcre.org/original/doc/html/pcresyntax.html I see I could use any of \1, \g1, \g{1] for back references, but none seem to work. Roberto

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Explain analyze
by Shmagi Kavtaradze 02 May '16

02 May '16

In postgres I could use explain analyze to see actions performed by database and their cost. I was not able to run explain analyze. I ran EXPLAIN, but can not see any plan or cost. Any ideas how to get costs and query plan like in Postgres?

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Crystal bindings for MonetDB
by Brian Hood 30 Apr '16

30 Apr '16

Hi Guys, I have got my Crystal Language bindings for MonetDB now working quite well. https://github.com/puppetpies/crystal-monetdb-libmapi I've seen options in the mapi code for a variable called mode that allow you format the response data in XML but it doesn't seem to be implemented fully in the mapi code. Are there any guide lines to processing this RAW query output. % threatmonitor.fruits, threatmonitor.fruits, threatmonitor.fruits, threatmonitor.fruits, threatmonitor.fruits # table_name % name, price, weight, comments, id # name % varchar, varchar, int, clob, int # type % 9, 4, 2, 11, 1 # length [ "Apple", "9.99", 50, NULL, 1 ] [ "Bananna", "3.99", 30, NULL, 2 ] [ "Orange", "7.99", 60, NULL, 3 ] [ "Peach", "5.00", 80, NULL, 4 ] [ "Kiwi", "9.00", 20, NULL, 5 ] [ "Tomato", "2.00", 20, "Yes a fruit", 6 ] [ "Pear", "4.00", 30, "Juicy", 7 ] [ "Nectarine", "6.00", 50, "Juicy", 8 ] Regards, Brian Hood

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Case sensitive
by Ariel Abadi 30 Apr '16

30 Apr '16

Hi All! We are facing a problem, we used to work with mysql with the case insensitive. Now we have moved into MonetDB and we are facing a problem with this issue. Some of our queries are not bringing any data because of the sensitive.. SELECT * FROM Country = 'jamaica' ... 0 Records SELECT * FROM Country = 'Jamaica' ... 10 Records Some cases we solved it using the ILIKE, but we still have some code on our app that cannot be modified. Does anybody know if there is any flag or setup or config for the Database in Monet to make it insensitive ? Thanks in advance for the help!

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Support for multi-column aggregate functions
by Anderson, David B 30 Apr '16

30 Apr '16

All, Does the current version of MonetDB support multi-column aggregate functions? I need to create a function which returns the "quantiles" of one column using another column as a weighting. It looks like PostgreSQL supports multi-column aggregates as of 8.2. I could write an embedded R function to compute this, but want to know if it is even possible to pass in multiple columns. Thanks, Dave

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