Re: [GENERAL] Huge backends / self joins / long queries

1999-08-19 Thread Jérome Knöbl
Hello, I had the same trouble! And It's why I install the version 6.5 of postgres. In the 6.4, you cannot make some INTERSECT. Try to use the Intersection It's very powerfull JK Dirk Lutzebaeck wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know if this fits into the current thread but I have also a > problem wit

[GENERAL] long object names vs object description

1999-08-19 Thread Yury Don
Hi All. Once I asked already on similar subject but haven't got any reply. Try to formulate my question on other way. I would like to show table names and field names to users who not familiar with databases and programming etc. Therefore I need to show them something understandable. Postgres all

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger documentation? Need more examples.. pleeeze.. ;-)

1999-08-19 Thread Henrique Pantarotto
Yeah, I really need to do "external stuff" (messing with external files, executing programs), and if I understood it correctly, PL/pgSQL can't do that, right? Thanks! On qui, 19 ago 1999, you wrote: > perhaps using PL/pgSQL is easier? in the doc there are examples, > also, the one in the /test i

[GENERAL] Error during 'vacuum analyze'

1999-08-19 Thread Mark Dalphin
Hi, Running PostgreSQL 6.5.1 on SGI Irix 6.5. When I ran vacuum analyze over my database, I had an unexpected error occur: htg=> vacuum analyze; NOTICE: AbortTransaction and not in in-progress state pqReadData() -- backend closed the channel unexpectedly. This probably means the backen

[GENERAL] Trigger documentation? Need more examples.. pleeeze.. ;-)

1999-08-19 Thread Henrique Pantarotto
Hello PostgreSQL friends! I'm new to PostgreSQL, but I've been using MySQL/mSQL for a long time now. I switched to PostgreSQL mostly because of it's features: triggers, specially. I've studied, compiled and tried the examples from the crontrib/spi directory. They all worked, but without some k

[GENERAL] Character Constants

1999-08-19 Thread Bruce Tong
I found in the documention where you can use \tab and from playing I see I can use \n in a string and \ooo and use an octal value, but I've not found a way to include a character based on a hex representation of its ascii code... \x03 \X03 \0x03 \0X03 ...all failed in cases like this ... INSERT

[GENERAL] Huge backends / self joins / long queries

1999-08-19 Thread Dirk Lutzebaeck
Hi, I don't know if this fits into the current thread but I have also a problem with backends growing up to 100MB and more. This is on 6.5: CREATE TABLE docobj ( envelopeOID NOT NULL, docspec OID, docindexINTEGER, attrid INTEGER,