postgresql-9.3

I've recently been playing around with Docker and QGIS and have installed a container following the instructions in this tutorial . Everything works great, although I am unable to connect to a localhost postgres database that contains all my GIS data. I figure this is because my postgres database is not configured to accept remote connections and have been editing the postgres conf files to allow remote connections using the instructions in this article . I'm still getting an error message when I try and connect to my database running QGIS in Docker: could not connect to server: Connection

I have a materialized view on a PostgreSQL 9.3 database which seldom changes (about twice a day). But when it does, I'd like to update its data promptly. Here is what I was thinking about so far: There is a materialized view mat_view which gets its data from tables table1 and table2 using some join statement. Whenever something in table1 or table2 changes, I already have a trigger wich updates a little configuration table config consisting of table_name | mat_view_name | need_update -----------+---------------+------------ table1 | mat_view | TRUE/FALSE table2 | mat_view | TRUE/FALSE So if

In a Postgres 9.3 table I have an integer as primary key with automatic sequence to increment, but I have reached the maximum for integer . How to convert it from integer to serial ? I tried: ALTER TABLE my_table ALTER COLUMN id SET DATA TYPE bigint; But the same does not work with the data type serial instead of bigint . Seems like I cannot convert to serial ? Erwin Brandstetter serial is a pseudo data type, not an actual data type. It's an integer underneath with some additional DDL commands executed automatically: Create a sequence (with matching name by default). Set the column NOT NULL