Re: [GENERAL] New geographic types....

2000-06-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
Toast will be in 7.1, scheduled for August. [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > As part of the Fmaps project (Fmaps.sourceforge.net), Eric Miller is > developing some new geographic types for Postgres. We have several questions > relating to the implementation of new types, variab

[GENERAL] Re: FreeBSD PostgreSQL7 port and v7.0.2

2000-06-12 Thread Palle Girgensohn
John Daniels wrote: > > (After I have installed 7.0.2, I will send a diff and comments to the port > maintainer to help him when he updates the port.) John, Since Andreas is busy for so long, I'd suggest you send-pr your patches so people can upgrade postgres before he gets back and commits th

Re: [GENERAL] does vacuum rebuild index?

2000-06-12 Thread Tom Lane
mikeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > we have a 34 million row table. after many inserts, updates, deletes > the performance degraded so we vacuumed the table. the output indicated > that the index was also vacuumed but the size didn't change. it was still > 80m so we dropped and recreated it

[GENERAL] Hmm... Yet another bug:

2000-06-12 Thread Trurl McByte
#create group "users"; CREATE GROUP #create user "user1" with password 'pass1' in group "users"; CREATE USER #create user "user2" with password 'pass2' in group "users"; CREATE USER #create user "user3" with password 'pass3' in group "users"; CREATE USER . #create user "user2012" with passwo

[GENERAL] does vacuum rebuild index?

2000-06-12 Thread mikeo
hi, we have a 34 million row table. after many inserts, updates, deletes the performance degraded so we vacuumed the table. the output indicated that the index was also vacuumed but the size didn't change. it was still 80m so we dropped and recreated it reducing it to 20m. no big deal but i

[GENERAL] Installing clients (psql) only

2000-06-12 Thread Rick Delaney
Is there a source distribution to install just psql? What I'm looking for is a quick and easy way to install psql and DBD::Pg (which needs libpq) on a bunch of different unix client machines. I realize that all the source is there in the main postgresql distribution but I can't make heads or tai

Re: [GENERAL] (no subject)

2000-06-12 Thread Dustin Sallings
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, I'm Your Handiman -Online- wrote: # > test # # kewl i'm in..sorry all for the test...:( # anywayjust installed postgresSQL 7.0 and everything took fine It's OK to just post your question, the test is kinda redundant if you're going to ask a question imme

Re: [GENERAL] (no subject)

2000-06-12 Thread I'm Your Handiman -Online-
I'm Your Handiman -Online- wrote: > test kewl i'm in..sorry all for the test...:( anywayjust installed postgresSQL 7.0 and everything took fine is this normal? [postgres@localhost postgres]$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D /usr/local/pgsql/data DEBUG: Data Base System is startin

[GENERAL] (no subject)

2000-06-12 Thread I'm Your Handiman -Online-
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Re: [GENERAL] Problem with upper() in select statement

2000-06-12 Thread Tom Lane
John Cochran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> John Cochran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Why isn't the upper() function working in the first query? >> >> Odd. You aren't by some chance working in a non-ASCII locale where >> "upper('Boulevard')" yields something besides 'BOULEVARD', are you? >

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with upper() in select statement

2000-06-12 Thread Tom Lane
John Cochran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why isn't the upper() function working in the first query? Odd. You aren't by some chance working in a non-ASCII locale where "upper('Boulevard')" yields something besides 'BOULEVARD', are you? regards, tom lane

Re: [GENERAL] sql select challenge

2000-06-12 Thread davidb
Hi Travis, I know this is not what you're asking for, and I imagine you have already thought of this, but just in case . . . You could add an extra column to each of your tables. These columns would be populated by a procedure that runs through the existing recordset and assigns sequential numb

[GENERAL] Problem when doing join from multiple views

2000-06-12 Thread Denis Perchine
Hello all, I have quite strange problem. I have one table for lots of dicts: CREATE TABLE dicts ( id serial, type int4, name text ); And dicts_type table with textual description of types. Don't blame me... I know that this is not fast. I just try to be as close as the

[GENERAL] Problem with upper() in select statement

2000-06-12 Thread John Cochran
Greetings, I'm having problems with what I believe to be a simple query and I assume that either there is a bug in PostgreSQL in handling functions during a select or I'm doing something very stupid. I have a table of words and abbreviations where the word is being used as a primary key. Everyth

[GENERAL] Cursor Problems

2000-06-12 Thread Marcos Barreto de Castro
Hi, I have the following situation: I AM USING THE C LANGUAGE INTERFACE (LIBPQ) but I have also tried the situation described below from within psql and got the same results. I am using PostgreSQL version 6.4. - I Have to keep a cursor for a select * from open most of the time and somet

[GENERAL] Hiding table structure

2000-06-12 Thread Travis Bauer
How do I prevent users from seeing the names of tables/structure of tables on which they do not have permission to perform operations. I would like to make the database appear, to clients, to only contain the view to which they have permissions, and nothing else. -

[GENERAL] sql select challenge

2000-06-12 Thread Travis Bauer
Let's say I have two tables with the follwing data: Table_X A | B - 1 | Cat 2 | Dog 3 | Mouse 4 | Hat Table_Y C | D - 2 | Eat 4 | Book I would like a select statement that joins these two tables to produce the following. It lines up the rows one by one against

[ANNOUNCE] Re: [GENERAL] Book nearing final form

2000-06-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
> At 06:28 PM 07-06-2000 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >I have been told by the publisher that most changes to the book must be > >done by next week. > > > >The book is at: > > > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html > > > >Again, many thanks to those that have supplied suggestions for

[ANNOUNCE] Re: [GENERAL] Book nearing final form

2000-06-12 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 06:28 PM 07-06-2000 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: >I have been told by the publisher that most changes to the book must be >done by next week. > >The book is at: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html > >Again, many thanks to those that have supplied suggestions for the book. More