Re: [GENERAL] Releases: 7.0.1, 7.0.2

2000-06-06 Thread Eugene Karpachov
Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 03:24:56PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker ÐÉÛÅÔ: > On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Eugene Karpachov wrote: > > > Excuse me, but why postgresql team doesn't release patches? I mean something > > like postgresql-7.0-7.0.1.diff.gz etc. It is big waste of traffic to download > > all the source dis

Re: [GENERAL] getting inet out of char?

2000-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a table mapping names to ips; the access to users is through PHP3. > Now, PHP's module to PostgreSQL does not know about the data type inet. I > could just forget about it, but it seems to me the inet data type offers a > number of advantages

Re: [GENERAL] Composite Types

2000-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I appreciate any help I can get on this...Recently, I've been experimenting > with the user defined base-types (using CREATE TYPE) with successful results. > But, when it comes to handling classes as composite types, things are not > as straight forward. The function-r

Re: [GENERAL] Are the subscription CDs version 7

2000-06-06 Thread The Hermit Hacker
They are definitely v7.0 ... I've CC'd Jeff in to see about getting that image updated ... thanks for the poiner ... On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, George Dau wrote: > The pictures of the subscription CDs still show version 6.5. If I ordered a > subscritpion today, what version whould I get on CD? > >

[GENERAL] Are the subscription CDs version 7

2000-06-06 Thread George Dau
The pictures of the subscription CDs still show version 6.5. If I ordered a subscritpion today, what version whould I get on CD? ** The information contained in this E-Mail is confidential and is intended only for the use of the address

Re: [GENERAL] index problem

2000-06-06 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 10:53 AM 05-06-2000 +0200, Marcin Inkielman wrote: >On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Lincoln Yeoh wrote: >I solved my problem simplier: > >drop index oceny_stud_numer_albumu_protokol_id; > >and > >drop index oceny_stud_numer_albumu_protokoloceny_stud; > >failed > > >so I used: > >drop index "oceny_st

Re: [GENERAL] Dump

2000-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
Mihai Gheorghiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wanted to back up a database prior to upgrading to 7.0.2 > pg_dump dbname > dbname.bak > FATAL 1: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc() > PQendcopy: resetting connection > SQL query to dump the contents of Table 'tblname' did not execute correctly. Hm

[GENERAL] Composite Types

2000-06-06 Thread mjp
Hi, I appreciate any help I can get on this...Recently, I've been experimenting with the user defined base-types (using CREATE TYPE) with successful results. But, when it comes to handling classes as composite types, things are not as straight forward. Here is a case. Suppose I define a composit

[GENERAL] deferred primary key

2000-06-06 Thread Merrill Oveson
Fellow postgresers: According to the web site the following syntax is permitted: PRIMARY KEY clause SQL92 specifies some additional capabilities for PRIMARY KEY: Table Constraint definition: [ CONSTRAINT name ] PRIMARY KEY ( column [, ...] ) [ {INITIALLY DEFERRED | INITIALLY IMMEDIATE} ]

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum Question

2000-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
Ed Loehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> I can't reproduce any problem with just a "vacuum" (with or without >> analyze) and no following command. >> >> I did, however, notice that very occasionally the inserting process >> would spit out weird error messages like "Function '(int

Re: [GENERAL] Precision of calculated numeric fields

2000-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
Travis Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is this the mod field of the Field class in JDBC2? Sounds right, but I haven't looked at the JDBC code. > Does -1 alway mean, for > numeric types, that the precision is undefined? Right. In general, -1 is the default typmod if Postgres doesn't have an

[GENERAL] getting inet out of char?

2000-06-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Hi, Since everyone here has been so helpful in the past (even when I recently overlooked something obvious in The Fine Material), I wonder if I might get a pointer about what to do in this case. I have a table mapping names to ips; the access to users is through PHP3. Now, PHP's module to Postg

[GENERAL] Dump

2000-06-06 Thread Mihai Gheorghiu
I wanted to back up a database prior to upgrading to 7.0.2 pg_dump dbname > dbname.bak FATAL 1: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc() PQendcopy: resetting connection SQL query to dump the contents of Table 'tblname' did not execute correctly. After we read all the table contents from the backend, P

[GENERAL] Running PostgreSQL 7.0 on WinNT w/cygwinb20 and cygwin-ipc

2000-06-06 Thread Gregory Krasnow OpenSourceCRM
I keep seeing the following whenever there is a new client connection to the database: Error semaphore semaphore not equal 0 anyone know what this means? Thanks. - Greg

Re: [GENERAL] Releases: 7.0.1, 7.0.2

2000-06-06 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Eugene Karpachov wrote: > Excuse me, but why postgresql team doesn't release patches? I mean something > like postgresql-7.0-7.0.1.diff.gz etc. It is big waste of traffic to download > all the source distribution again. we've tried in the past, and so far nobody has been able

[GENERAL] 'BETWEEN' documentation pointer?

2000-06-06 Thread Ed Loehr
Can anyone point me to any online documentation on how to use the 'BETWEEN' operator/function? (As in "SELECT * FROM foo WHERE id BETWEEN ...") Regards, Ed Loehr

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum Question

2000-06-06 Thread Ed Loehr
Tom Lane wrote: > > Ed Loehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > % while test 1; do echo -n "`date`: "; psql -d pdb -c "vacuum analyze; > > select count(*) from foo;"; sleep 3; done > > > > This seems to consistently crash after the first vacuum with the > > following message: > >

Re: [GENERAL] Precision of calculated numeric fields

2000-06-06 Thread Travis Bauer
Is this the mod field of the Field class in JDBC2? Does -1 alway mean, for numeric types, that the precision is undefined? If so, I could patch up the ResultSet class to function properly. I traced through the ResultSet code this morning.

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum Question

2000-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
Ed Loehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > % while test 1; do echo -n "`date`: "; psql -d pdb -c "vacuum analyze; > select count(*) from foo;"; sleep 3; done > > This seems to consistently crash after the first vacuum with the > following message: >> >> This is a known gotcha tha

Re: [GENERAL] How to backup db with large objects?

2000-06-06 Thread Karel Zak
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Robert B. Easter wrote: > pg_dump/all do not dump the large objects (AFAIK). > > ftp://ftp2.zf.jcu.cz/users/zakkr/pg/pg_dumplo-0.0.4.tar.gz > might help you Nice. Not announced, but users know it :-) Test it anyone with 7.0? Karel /* -

[GENERAL] TRIGGER Syntax

2000-06-06 Thread Ron Peterson
What does 'STATEMENT' refer to in the following description for CREATE TRIGGER? CREATE TRIGGER name { BEFORE | AFTER } { event [OR ...] } ON table FOR EACH { ROW | STATEMENT } EXECUTE PROCEDURE func ( arguments ) Ron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] Precision of calculated numeric fields

2000-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
Travis Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Consider the following: > trbauer=# create table t1 (x numberic(3,2)); > trbauer=# \d t1 > Attribute | Type | Modifier > > X | numeric(3,2) | > trbauer=# create view v1 as select x*2 from t1; > trbauer

Re: [GENERAL] How to backup db with large objects?

2000-06-06 Thread Robert B. Easter
On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Ignas Saltis wrote: > Hello, > > I have database with large objects? > > I did following: > > pg_dump database1 > database.out > createdb database2 > psql -e database2 < database.out > > And I can not access any large objects on database2. > > > database2=# select lo_exp

Re: [GENERAL] 32KB Tuples

2000-06-06 Thread Patrick Welche
What exactly is a "tuple"? One entire row of a table? Or one "line" of a reply to a query? (I suspect it's the entire row of a table, but I have had a case with text fields, where one field was updated with about 7k. All selects would deal either with that field or the others. The first time the

Re: [GENERAL] Errors attempting to insert duplicate values

2000-06-06 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Bryan White wrote: > > I have a table with a unique index. When I go to insert a new value into > the table my code does not know if the record is already there. To me there > are two choices: > > 1) Do a select for the record and insert only if not found. > > 2) Do a blind insert and relay o

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum Question

2000-06-06 Thread Ed Loehr
Tom Lane wrote: > > Ed Loehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Then, start this one in another bash window/terminal/whatever... > >> > >> % while test 1; do echo -n "`date`: "; psql -d pdb -c "vacuum analyze; > >> select count(*) from foo;"; sleep 3; done > >> > >> This seems to consistently crash

[GENERAL] Precision of calculated numeric fields

2000-06-06 Thread Travis Bauer
Consider the following: trbauer=# create table t1 (x numberic(3,2)); trbauer=# \d t1 Attribute | Type | Modifier X | numeric(3,2) | trbauer=# create view v1 as select x*2 from t1; trbauer=# \d v1 Attribute | Type | Modifier ---

[GENERAL] How to backup db with large objects?

2000-06-06 Thread Ignas Saltis
Hello, I have database with large objects? I did following: pg_dump database1 > database.out createdb database2 psql -e database2 < database.out And I can not access any large objects on database2. database2=# select lo_export(picture_immage, '/home/postgres/image2.jpg') from pictures where

Re: [GENERAL] troubles installing postgresql6.4

2000-06-06 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Marcos Lloret wrote: > hi, > > i do not know what superuser account i made. so i am not able to do > initdb.. it says.. > > We are initializing the database system with username X > (uid=500). > This user will own all the files and must also own the server >

[GENERAL] troubles installing postgresql6.4

2000-06-06 Thread Marcos Lloret
hi, i do not know what superuser account i made. so i am not able to do initdb.. it says.. We are initializing the database system with username X (uid=500). This user will own all the files and must also own the server process. mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/pgs

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum Question

2000-06-06 Thread Tom Lane
Ed Loehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Then, start this one in another bash window/terminal/whatever... >> >> % while test 1; do echo -n "`date`: "; psql -d pdb -c "vacuum analyze; >> select count(*) from foo;"; sleep 3; done >> >> This seems to consistently crash after the first vacuum with th

Re: [GENERAL] Using embedded SQL.

2000-06-06 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 05:37:32PM -0500, Robert J. Sprawls wrote: > I'm trying to learn embedded SQL in C. However, it's not working > and reading the documentation is not answering my question(s). Here is my Please check the test cases in the source tree. They help a little bit. > #inclu