Re: [GENERAL] safety of vacuum verbose analyze on active tables

2000-04-17 Thread Wim Aarts
> Andrew Snow wrote: > > > > > > > what is the relative safety of doing a vacuum verbose analyze > > > on a 24Gb > > > > > table while there are selects and updates/inserts happening on it? > > > > > > > > As far as I know, the table is locked completely during a Vacuum. Any > > > > transactions a

Re: [GENERAL] excel to postgres

2000-04-17 Thread Tom Cook
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Andrew Perrin - Demography wrote: > Sure, VB works, as would perl with DBD::ODBC module. I've been using that > technique for porting a database from access to postgres, and it should > work equally well with excel-based ODBC connections. Disadvantage to the > original post

[ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL book completed though chapter 14

2000-04-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
I have completed the first draft of my book through chapter 14. New chapters include: Chapter 11, Performance: Indexes, CLUSTER, VACUUM, EXPLAIN Chapter 12, Controlling Results: LIMIT, Cursors Chapter 13, Table Management: Temporary tables, ALTER TABLE,

Re: [GENERAL] excel to postgres

2000-04-17 Thread Andrew Perrin - Demography
Sure, VB works, as would perl with DBD::ODBC module. I've been using that technique for porting a database from access to postgres, and it should work equally well with excel-based ODBC connections. Disadvantage to the original poster is that it does require a Windows machine to read the Excel f

[GENERAL] Trig functions in manual

2000-04-17 Thread James Thompson
I'm trying to use the trig functions mentioned in the postgresql manual. Namely the cosine function listed as cos(float8) float8cosine cos(0.4) In both 6.5.3 and 7.0beta3 the function doesn't exist. I get. . . obe-> \df cosine result|function|arguments|description --++

Re: [GENERAL] To BLOB Or Not To BLOB

2000-04-17 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 08:29 PM 17-04-2000 +0100, Peter Mount wrote: >On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Adam Ruth wrote: > >> > I'm using Linux and ext2fs has a 2GB limit on files, and it seems like >> > 6.5.3 tables are stored as single files, so better not go down that path >> :). >> >> I'm using 6.5.2 and it will split a tabl

Re: [GENERAL] Connecting website with SQL-database.....

2000-04-17 Thread Titus Brown
-> On 17-Apr-00 12:26:41, you wrote: -> -> >I've been looking on the internet for 2 hours for information how to connect -> >my SQL database to my website. I didn't find what I was looking for, this is -> >my problem -> >I have got a form on my site, that can be filled in by visitors.

Re: [GENERAL] excel to postgres

2000-04-17 Thread Tom Cook
On 17 Apr 2000, Hal Snyder wrote: > "Chris Carbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you really want to save the user some work/confusion, investigate > > what you can do with VB under XL. > > > > I would think XL allows you to set some options when export as CSV, > > with VB, you could wr

Re: [GENERAL] excell to postgres

2000-04-17 Thread Fabrice Scemama
I'm a Linux user. I've been using xlHTML and a home-made HTML2DBF rather than ODBC with Perl's DBD::Proxy and DBD::ODBC because, to be able to use ODBC, you need people to *name* the table they create when using Excel. Well, they never do so. Sometimes, they will name a table with 256 columns and

[GENERAL] Creating users on win32

2000-04-17 Thread Joseph
How do I create users for postgress on an NT workstation? > I am trying to run postgress on an NT workstation. > > Do I have to run it in a bash prompt? > > This is the error I get if I try to run postgres.exe at nt cmd prompt: > D:\cygnus\cygwin-b20>postgres > FATAL 1: SetPgUserName: no entr

Re: [GENERAL] Connecting website with SQL-database.....

2000-04-17 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello J.Post, On 17-Apr-00 12:26:41, you wrote: >I've been looking on the internet for 2 hours for information how to connect >my SQL database to my website. I didn't find what I was looking for, this is >my problem >I have got a form on my site, that can be filled in by visitors. I

Re: [GENERAL] excel to postgres

2000-04-17 Thread Hal Snyder
"Chris Carbaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you really want to save the user some work/confusion, investigate > what you can do with VB under XL. > > I would think XL allows you to set some options when export as CSV, > with VB, you could write your own Save function. How messy to Save to

RE: [GENERAL] excell to postgres

2000-04-17 Thread Chris Carbaugh
If you really want to save the user some work/confusion, investigate what you can do with VB under XL. I would think XL allows you to set some options when export as CSV, with VB, you could write your own Save function. Chris > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMA

RE: [GENERAL] Win32 Install

2000-04-17 Thread Joseph
> Log in as "postgres" (empty password) and create some users. Do I need to do this at the bash prompt somehow? I don't know how. Or do I log into my nt workstation and change users with the user manager? I guess I am confused how postgress works with users. Joseph -Original Message

Re: [GENERAL] To BLOB Or Not To BLOB

2000-04-17 Thread Thomas O'Dowd
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 06:12:37PM +0930, Stephen Davies wrote: > G'day. > > I do a lot of work with the BASIS textual/multi-media RDBMS package and > run into this question all the time. > > There is one pretty basic answer: > > If you leave BLOBS lying around in the file system - particularl

Re: [GENERAL] To BLOB Or Not To BLOB

2000-04-17 Thread Stephen Davies
G'day. I do a lot of work with the BASIS textual/multi-media RDBMS package and run into this question all the time. There is one pretty basic answer: If you leave BLOBS lying around in the file system - particularly if it is a Novell etc file system - people move them and the links get broke

Re: [GENERAL] To BLOB Or Not To BLOB

2000-04-17 Thread chewie
How do I start this? There are so many different ways to look at this question. Do I save files inside the database, or do I simply use the database as a tool to query information about a given file, it's properties, etc. Instead of making general statements, let me pick specific examples. Let