[GENERAL] Creating numeric type by hand?

2000-02-04 Thread Paulo Jan
Hi all: I have Postgres 6.5.3 installed on Linux... well, sort of. The problem is that the installation in question must be screwed up somewhere, because I can't find the "numeric" type in it (while I can find it in another clean 6.5.3 install), and now I need it for a project. My questio

Re: [GENERAL] using ID as a key

2000-02-04 Thread Ed Loehr
Marc Tardif wrote: > > I recommend you read Momjian's online book, very informative and provides > all the necessary information about using various kinds of id's: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/aw_pgsql_book/index.html In glancing at Momjian's stuff on this just now, I noticed the book could

[GENERAL] Tough question from a potential user.

2000-02-04 Thread James Maxwell
  We're a small startup company with several projects at the brink of deployment.  When I say deployment, I'm talking potentially thousands/100 thousands of users with lots of concurrent connections to the database.  Currently we use Oracle, but for the level we need we're talking *obscene

[GENERAL] Re: [SQL] Re: [HACKERS] Proposed Changes to PostgreSQL

2000-02-04 Thread Marten Feldtmann
> Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > > This is a really stu^H^H^H bad idea. I have hierarchies 5 levels deep > with > multiple inheritance, and I > don't want to do a 10 way join just to retrieve an object. > > This is why RDBMS's performance sucks so incredibly badly on some > applications. > an ODBM

Re: [GENERAL] using ID as a key

2000-02-04 Thread Marc Tardif
I recommend you read Momjian's online book, very informative and provides all the necessary information about using various kinds of id's: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/aw_pgsql_book/index.html As for referential integrity using foreign keys, you can add this functionality to postgresql using tr

RE: [GENERAL] using ID as a key

2000-02-04 Thread Barnes
Take a look at Bruce's book at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html He explains oid's and sequences extremely well, and that might be what you are looking for. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of sheila bel Sent: Friday, February 04,

Re: [GENERAL] max query length

2000-02-04 Thread Marc Tardif
I think there is no maximum on the actual query length, but there is a limit on the max row size. If I remember correctly, there is an 8k limit to the contents of an entire row. If you need more than that, either split your data across multiple rows are use the blob data type. Marc On Fri, 4 Feb

Re: [GENERAL] using ID as a key

2000-02-04 Thread Ed Loehr
sheila bel wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm new to data base design so please bare with me if my > question is so basic.. > I'm designing a database, two of the tables are EMPLOYEES and > AGENCIES. I need an ID for each of them. I would also need to > have the agencyID in the EMPLOYEES table so that I can

Re: [GENERAL] using ID as a key

2000-02-04 Thread kaiq
search for oid and serial or sequence, referential or foreign key in the doc or archive of this list. there are a lot lot very good advices. On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, sheila bel wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to data base design so please bare with me if my > question is so basic.. > I'm designing a dat

[GENERAL] using ID as a key

2000-02-04 Thread sheila bel
Hi, I'm new to data base design so please bare with me if my question is so basic.. I'm designing a database, two of the tables are EMPLOYEES and AGENCIES. I need an ID for each of them. I would also need to have the agencyID in the EMPLOYEES table so that I can identify which agency they belong

Re: [GENERAL] Need help creating a function

2000-02-04 Thread Jose Soares
create function money(float8) returns money as ' declare f2 float8; m money; i2 int2; i1 int4; txt text; begin if $1 isnull then return NULL; end if; --integer part... i1:= dtrunc($1); -- decimal part..

[GENERAL] max query length

2000-02-04 Thread dean browett
Hi, Can anyone tell me whether there is a maximum query length using 'insert'? We want to insert a text statement into our db. This statement may be up to 20k in size. Dean

[GENERAL] pl/pgsql and national characters

2000-02-04 Thread Yury Don
Hello All, I have a following problem. I have a tables and fields whith names, consisting of cyrillic characters and getting an error. When I am doing the same things but with only english characters, everything ok. All other things works properly, only pl/pgsql functions. Does anybody knows how

[GENERAL] pl/pgsql and national characters

2000-02-04 Thread Yury Don
Hello All, create function round_mark() returns opaque as ' begin NEW."" := 1; return NEW; end; ' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'; CREATE CREATE TRIGGER marks_round_marks BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON "rr" FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE round_mark(); CREATE UPDATE "rr" SET "òò"=1 WHERE "òò" = 1; NOTICE: