App store subscription not activating
Posted by Kyle Hankinson Febuary 2, 2021
TLDR;
Uninstall the app and reinstall it from the App Store. (No data will be lost).
Details
The App Store uses 'Receipts' generated by macOS to let SQLPro know that a subscription is valid. Normally users never need to know about these receipts, as its all taken care of in the background. In some cases, receipts may not be downloaded and even though you have paid for the app it may not recognize this. If this happens, a steps can be taken:
First, try the 'Restore purchase' button on the subscription dialog. Unfortunately, this does not always seem to work.
The second method which has yet to fail, is to Uninstall the app then re-install from the App Store. SQLPro stores your connections securely in the iCloud keychain so no data is lost doing so.
Notes
This may continue to occur. Sadly, developers using the Mac App Store have no control over this. If you find this problem persists, I suggest purchasing via the SQLPro website (and use the promo code MAS10 to save 10%). Purchasing through the SQLPro website does not require Apples Receipts and is a much smoother experience for those running into this issue.
Tags: Support
Execute query in cursor range
Posted by Kyle Hankinson September 29, 2020
Disabled
When the option is disabled, no Current query background highlighting will occur. The Run query button will default to Run all and will not contain a Run current option.
Enabled (as default)
When enabled, the Current query will have a slight highlight. The Run query button will default to Run current, however the dropdown will contain a Run all option.
Enabled (but not default)
When enabled, the Current query will have a slight highlight. The Run query button will still default to Run all, however the dropdown will contain a Run current option.
Multi-cursors
Posted by Kyle Hankinson September 23, 2020
SQLPro supports multiple cursors. This allows a users to perform certain actions with fewer keystrokes.
There are two different ways available to select multiple cursors. The first, is by holding Option while dragging the mouse cursor up or down between lines.
The second method is by using the keyboard shortcut Command + Option along with ↑/↓.
Once multiple cursors have been selected, the following keyboard shortcuts are available.
←/→to move text selection to the left and right one character.Option+←/→to move text selection left/right one word.Shift+←/→to move and highlight text selection to the left and right.Shift+Option+←/→to move and highlight text selection left/right one word.Cmd+Deleteto delete from the curors beginnings to the end of the next word.Option+Deleteto delete from the curors beginnings to the end of the line.Shift+Option+Iturns selected text over multiple lines into multiple cursors.
Any feedback or issues with multi-cursor support should be added to the origional request ticket.
Tags: Feature
Counting tables rows in a PostgreSQL database
Posted by Kyle Hankinson August 14, 2020
Overview
Need to find out how many rows, or how much data your PostgreSQL tables are consuming? Possibly, looking to find out what the largest tables in the database are? There are a couple of options available depending on your needs.
Single Table
Finding out how many rows are in a single table is the easiest task. Simply run the query:
SELECT COUNT(1) FROM <TABLE>You will get a single row result which contains the number of rows:from the specified table.
+----------+ | count(1) | +----------+ | 7 | +----------+
Multiple Tables
Counting rows from multiple tables at once is a bit more difficult. You can get an estimate by using the following query:
SELECT
schemaname as table_schema, relname as table_name, n_live_tup as row_count
FROM
pg_stat_user_tables
ORDER BY
n_live_tup DESC;A more accurate way to get exact row counts courtesy of stackoverflow would be:
select table_schema,
table_name,
(xpath('/row/cnt/text()', xml_count))[1]::text::int as row_count
from (
select table_name, table_schema,
query_to_xml(format('select count(*) as cnt from %I.%I', table_schema, table_name), false, true, '') as xml_count
from information_schema.tables
where table_schema = 'public' --<< change here for the schema you want
) t order by 3 DESCUsing this second method will take longer and be more likely to slow-down other database operations, however the count will be more accurate.
Size on disk
Sometimes row count might not be exactly what you are looking for. If you need to find out how large a table is in bytes, the pg_relation_size method will come to your help. Finding the size for all tables would be:
SELECT
schemaname,
tablename,
pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(schemaname || '.' || tablename))
FROM
pg_tables
ORDER BY 1, 2Which will give the schema, table and pretty printed size for each table.
Tags: PostgreSQL
Killing/cancelling a long running Postgres query
Posted by Kyle Hankinson August 12, 2020
Finding the PID
The first thing you will need to do in order to kill or cancel a PostgreSQL query is to find the PID. This can be found by running the following query:
SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE state = 'active';Now that you have the PID, there are two options for killing the query.
Option #1 (graceful):
SELECT pg_cancel_backend(<PID>);Option #2 (forceful):
SELECT pg_terminate_backend(<PID>);Generally, Option #1 should be used as it gracefully terminates the query. Sometimes, however the query still continues to run for a long period of time even after being gracefull terminated. This is when Option #1 should be used.
Terminate all queries
If you want to terminate all running queries, the following statement can be executed:
SELECT pg_cancel_backend(pid) FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE state = 'active' and pid <> pg_backend_pid();The above statement will kill all active queries and should only be used in special situations.