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HOW TO BUILD ht4nBuilding ht4n from source requires at least Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional.###Browse through or download the ht4n source###Browse through or download the ht4n source from github.To download the latest sources press the 'Downloads' button and choose one of the following files, either theDownload.tar.gz or the Download.zip.Alternatively, get the source from the repository, create a projects folder (the path must not contain any spaces) and use: mkdir hypertable cd hypertable git clone git://github.com/andysoftdev/ht4c.git git clone git://github.com/andysoftdev/ht4n.git###Download and build Hypertable for Windows###See How To build Hypertable for Windows.###Build ht4n###In order to build the ht4n API documentation download and install Sandcastle and the Sandcastle Help File Builder.In order to run the ht4n test suite download and install the MSBuild Community Tasks. Notice the ht4n x64 test suite requires a mstest64.exe: cd %VSInstallDir%\Common7\IDE copy mstest.exe mstest64.exe copy mstest.exe.config mstest64.exe.config corflags mstest64.exe /32BIT- /Forceand copy the complete registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\EnterpriseTools\QualityTools\TestTypesto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\EnterpriseTools\QualityTools\TestTypesOpen the ht4n solution (ht4n\ht4n.sln) with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and build its configurations. Alternatively, open the Visual Studio command prompt and type: cd ht4n msbuild ht4n.buildprojor, for a complete rebuild, type cd ht4n msbuild ht4n.buildproj /t:Clean;Make

January 9, 2019, 6:15pm 1 I’m working on an IIoT project using Ignition Edge + Ignition central MQTT broker. We are storing data to a postgreSQL database and we are using an abstraction layer called Timescale. Basically this abstraction layer automatically breaks your database into partitions and maintains performance up to 1 Billion rows. (PostegreSQL starts to drop performance after 50 million or so rows in a table) This is nice because you no longer have to use the Ignition Historian partitioning function and all of your timeseries data appears to you as if it’s stored in one table which is really nice for querying from external sources.Check it out: let me know if you would be interested in learning more about our application in a video. pturmel January 9, 2019, 7:02pm 2 I’ve heard very good things about Timescale, though I haven’t needed it (yet). FWIW, I have worked with hundreds of millions of rows in plain PostgreSQL without trouble. BRIN indices on timestamp columns are especially helpful. Thank you Phil! I appreciate that! That is reassuring. dtompkins February 24, 2019, 8:58pm 4 Zack - I stumbled across your post. We are an Ignition shop and are also evaluating Timescale. I was wondering how your project is progressing. Are you still bullish on the Timescale?? zacslade February 25, 2019, 4:21pm 5 Hi Zack! Also curious how you like Timescale. Post again about your experiences Ive been playing with it lately. Installing timescaledb was simple enough because the instructions were good on the Timescaledb website. The install will want to modify the Postgres conf file so make sure you back it up. Timescaledb modifies the conf file in order to optimize the db for insertions. For the most part the db will continue to behave normally but you will notice a bunch of extra tables in the query browser. These tables are for use by Timescaledb to manage the data. The ideal senario is for an Ignition transaction group to log to the Timscale hypertable. The hypertable is an ordinary timeseries table that timescale manages. Its a little tricky to set the transaction group up to use a hypertable but once you do the transaction group logs away as fast as you set it to do so. In a perfect world there would be a button on an historical transaction group that will create the hypertable for you. I thought about this some more. If transaction groups will create the table automatically then a great feature would be for the group to allow the use a preview and ability to edit the table create statement before starting the group. Alternatively the user can create the table first then point the

Group to it to acheive the same affect. pturmel April 4, 2019, 3:27pm 8 IIRC, the auto-create table functions of transaction groups take effect when saving edits on a group, not when the group runs. brandon1 April 29, 2021, 2:05pm 9 Can someone tell me if this will work with the native Ignition Historian module? Yes, it works. Just make sure you turn off ignition’s features for managing the history tables. This includes data partitioning, pruning, and pre-processing. You are are left with the single history table remaining. At this point, you need knowledge of timescale functionality and how to make that history table into a hypertable. It gets slightly complicated if you are not very comfortable with postgres or SQL.Things you will need to setup on the table (some optional):create hyper table and define how big each “chunk” will be in terms of time. This is timescale’s terminology for data partitions.Create function that translates the timestamp column for timescale standarddefine a “now” function for getting current time in the same formatsetup table for compressionadd a policy for compressing chunksadd a policy for dropping “chunks”. This is timescale’s data pruning.Their website has some good documentation for performing these operations. Can TSDB be used without a Transact-Group license? I can do this with MS SQL using Python scripts. Wondering if I can do the same with TSDB and Python ScriptsDo I just configure it as a PostgreSQL DB? wbaker December 7, 2021, 6:36pm 13 Hey yall,Most of this is defaulted, but I wanted to share my progress setting up the Ignition tag historian and converting it’s sqlth_table to a TimescaleDB hypertable. This thread was the kickstart I needed, so thank yall!Step 1:Connect Ignition to your Timescale DB database using the Postgres DriverStep 2:Modify the Datasource History Provider that your Timescale connection auto generated. Basically, disable all partition jobs, pruning, etc.Step 3:Make sure tags are configured to historize with your Timescale History Provider.Step 4:In pgAdmin, find the autogenerated ‘sqlth_1_data’ table, right-click > Query Tool.Step 5:Use - SELECT create_hypertable('sqlth_1_data','t_stamp',migrate_data => 'true', chunk_time_interval => 86400000)Data Output should display a result confirming creation of tag.An easy way to confirm the table has been converted is to run the SELECT statement again. If the table was created the first time, your result for the 2nd try will error and say table is already a hypertable.After these steps, my tags continued to populate the database, the native Perspective Tag Browers and History setup on the different charts worked as expected.I’ve attached some photos to share more detail. Now to dig further into the list of items @alexraymond shared for compression and more! tamerplc December 7, 2021, 6:59pm 14 thanks a lot for your guidance.what’s about performance with

Ignition compare with SQL DBfor transaction group as well, we have to do the same step for hypertable brandon1 December 7, 2021, 7:27pm 15 We have had issues where errant data got recorded to the partition data tables and we had to modify it. With this setup is it easy to modify specific rows of data? tamerplc December 7, 2021, 7:35pm 16 what about t_stamp format … as per mentioned by @alexraymond in the previous reply in the same post."Create a function that translates the timestamp column for timescale standard" tordvd December 28, 2021, 6:58am 18 Any performance increase with TimescaleDB? Or are people just using TSDB to get the external illusion that all rows are in one table? (which is nice)I thought that TSDB had an affinity for tags in separate columns? Meaning that we loose the performance increase that TSDB could give us. In other words: Are we loosing some functionality here? I mean, TSDB will look at the 3 value columns in the data table, and assume these are 3 tags.Further, if what I wrote above is not incorrect. Maybe the plain Ignition Historian(no TSDB), is faster?I love both TSDB and the Ignition Historian, and would very much like to combine them if there are any advantages. pturmel December 28, 2021, 1:01pm 19 The instructions from @wbaker above are for converting the Tag Historian to use TSDB, remaining one tag value per row. I haven’t used it, but the implication is that it is faster. wbaker December 28, 2021, 2:02pm 20 I became interested in Timescale to offload some of the load/responsibility from Ignition and let the database do more work with the partitioning, etc. Timescales ability to compress data is also a benefit for systems without the storage capacity or $$ to increase it. After following @alexraymond ’s guide, I haven’t experienced any negative impacts after 1.5 weeks of use, but really still have a ways on my side to ever know if it’s better.Currently the DB structure stays the same. It’s the tall sqlth_1_data table Ignition auto creates, along with the various other tables auto created by ignition. Currently, this has allowed Ignitions tag history bindings to function normally even with the sqlth_1_data table converted to a TimescaleDB Hypertable.I’ve watched a few videos on Timescale’s YouTube channel and the way they claim to be faster is the following. Say the sqlth_1_data table is 3 columns wide, but with a million rows. A TimescaleDB Hypertable will sample 2000 rows and compress/combine that data into a single row/3 column format, but the data is now in an array. So your t_stamp cell within this single row should have an array type list of t_stamp values for the

Adding a user-defined action to your database is a 2-step process:Define a function or procedureRegister the action with the job schedulerDefine a function or procedureTo create an action, begin by defining thefunction orprocedure that you want your database to execute.Your function needs to be wrapped in a CREATE statement. You can also useCREATE OR REPLACE, although this is not recommended. This statement alsoallows you to define the language of your commands in this statement.User-defined actions can be written in any language you choose. This guide usesthe SQL procedural language PL/pgSQL.This example defines a simple procedure that raises a notice:CREATE PROCEDURE user_defined_action(job_id INT, config JSONB) RAISE NOTICE 'Executing job % with config %', job_id, config;Register an actionTo make the job scheduler run your action, you need to register it. Use theadd_job function. Supply the name of your action, the scheduleyou want it to run on, and the content of your config. If your job needs noparameters, use a NULL config.For example:SELECT add_job('user_defined_action', '1h', config => '{"hypertable":"metrics"}');The add_job call returns a job_id. It stores the job_id and config inthe TimescaleDB catalog.The action runs on the schedule you set. It also runs when you manually start itby calling run_job with the job_id. When it runs, thejob_id and config are passed as arguments to the procedure.To list all currently registered jobs, querytimescaledb_information.jobs:SELECT * FROM timescaledb_information.jobs;

Edition.Install TimescaleDBTo use timescaleDB, make sure that you allowlist the extension, load its library, and install the extension in the database on which you plan to use its functionality.You can now create a TimescaleDB hypertable from scratch or migrate existing time-series data in PostgreSQL.For more information on restoring a Timescale database using pg_dump and pg_restore, see Timescale documentation.Restore a Timescale database using timescaledb-backupWhile running the SELECT timescaledb_post_restore() procedure, you might get permissions denied when updating timescaledb.restoring flag. The reason why you get this error is because of the limited ALTER DATABASE permission in Cloud PaaS database services. In this case, you can perform an alternative method using the timescaledb-backup tool to back up and restore the Timescale database. Timescaledb-backup is a program that makes dumping and restoring a TimescaleDB database simpler, less error-prone, and more performant.To do so, follow these steps:Install tools as detailed here.Create a target Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server instance and database.Enable Timescale extension.Grant the azure_pg_admin role to the user that is used by ts-restore.Run ts-restore to restore database.More details on these utilities can be found here.Extensions and major version upgradeAzure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server offers an in-place major version upgrade feature that performs an in-place upgrade of the Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server instance, with just a simple interaction from the user. In-place major version upgrade simplifies the Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server upgrade process, minimizing the disruption to users and applications accessing the server. In-place major version upgrades don't support specific extensions, and there are some limitations to upgrading certain extensions.The extensions anon, Apache AGE, dblink, orafce, pgaudit, postgres_fdw, and timescaledb are unsupported for all Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server versions when using in-place major version update feature.Modules with specific considerationsThe following list enumerates all the supported modules that require specific considerations when used in an Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server:pg_failover_slotspg_failover_slotsThe pg_failover_slots extension enhances Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server when operating with both logical replication and high availability enabled servers. It effectively addresses the challenge within the standard PostgreSQL engine that doesn't preserve logical replication slots after a failover. Maintaining these slots is critical to prevent replication pauses or data mismatches during primary server role changes, ensuring operational continuity and data integrity.The extension streamlines the failover process by managing the necessary transfer, cleanup, and synchronization of replication slots, thus providing a seamless transition during server role changes.You can find more information and instructions on using the pg_failover_slots extension on its GitHub page.To use the pg_failover_slots extension, make sure that its library was loaded when the server started.Related contentExtensionsAllow extensionsList of extensions and modules by nameList of extensions and modules by version of PostgreSQL --> Feedback Additional resources In