Re: [GENERAL] Backend died while dropping index

2000-06-17 Thread Tom Lane
Mike Mascari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> How do I fix this? This is on 6.5. > 1. Change to the location of the datafiles, which, for a > database, called "mydatabase" will look something like: > 2. Create an empty file of the name of the index: > 3. Delete the file u

[GENERAL] record-locking protocol for interactive users

2000-06-17 Thread K Parker
> What happens if someone else updates the > record *just* after the record is > reread for update and timestamp compared? SELECT FOR UPDATE means no one else can update the row, doesn't it? Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudorama

Re: [GENERAL] International Address Format Standard

2000-06-17 Thread Erich
International addresses can be very strange. To send a package to someone in Anguilla, you address it like this: John Doe 344 444 The Valley, Anguilla where 344 444 is the guy's phone number. In Laos, an address is like this: John Doe Near Wa

Re: [GENERAL] ALTER TABLE to add Foreign Key Constraint

2000-06-17 Thread Robert B. Easter
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Vipin Samtani wrote: > I am trying to designate foreign keys after tables "distributors" and > "addresses" have already been created with primary keys "distributor" > and "address" respectively. I am attempting to use ALTER TABLE to > accomplish this. I found this statement in

Re: [GENERAL] International Address Format Standard

2000-06-17 Thread Gunther Schadow
Ron, the Universal Postal Union [http://www.upu.int] keeps some record about internationally used address formats. However, what they have is also not a standard, but more of an inventory of national peculiarities [http://www.upu.int/addressing/AN/AN.pdf]. In HL7, an international health care s

Re: [GENERAL] Backend died while dropping index

2000-06-17 Thread Mike Mascari
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The backend died while I was dropping an index on a table. Now I cannot > access my data! Help! > > My table looks like > > create table user_usage (email varchar(100),date date); > > I created the index: > CREATE INDEX user_usage_email_idx on user_usage(email); >

[GENERAL] Backend died while dropping index

2000-06-17 Thread brianb-pggeneral
The backend died while I was dropping an index on a table. Now I cannot access my data! Help! My table looks like create table user_usage (email varchar(100),date date); I created the index: CREATE INDEX user_usage_email_idx on user_usage(email); When I dropped the index, the backend died. No

[GENERAL] ALTER TABLE to add Foreign Key Constraint

2000-06-17 Thread Vipin Samtani
I am trying to designate foreign keys after tables "distributors" and "addresses" have already been created with primary keys "distributor" and "address" respectively. I am attempting to use ALTER TABLE to accomplish this. I found this statement in the documentation ALTER TABLE distributors ADD

RE: [GENERAL] Lock rekord

2000-06-17 Thread Andrew Snow
> I usually prefer the following trick for preventing long locking > times. On every > table I define a timestamp field which is updated every time the record is > written to the database. If a user edits a record (without > locking) and commit his changes > the timestamp is returned from the cli

Re: [GENERAL] Lock rekord

2000-06-17 Thread Herbert Liechti
"Pawe³ Dubin" wrote: > Hello > > I was listening Your discusion. I have practical problem for which I write my > own locking system: > > Now A change zip and write all > B change adress and write > > so zip is unchanged. > > In pgsql I can solve it by SELECT FOR UPDATE but if user A goes for caff

Re: [GENERAL] copying table to a file

2000-06-17 Thread Trurl McByte
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 (Yesterday), Tyler Robert Wood wrote: TRW> TRW> Hi, TRW> I am attempting to copy the contents of a table to a file, like this: TRW> TRW> foodserver=> COPY company TO '/home/peter/copytest.out'; TRW> TRW> TRW> But I keep getting this error: TRW> TRW> ER

[GENERAL] Select data from multiple databases

2000-06-17 Thread Howard
Is it possible to select data from mulitple databases with a single sql statement? Does postgresSQL allow the DB link to other database as Oracle? Or any way to work around? Howard

Re: [GENERAL] copying table to a file

2000-06-17 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Tyler Robert Wood wrote: > > Hi, > I am attempting to copy the contents of a table to a file, like this: > > foodserver=> COPY company TO '/home/peter/copytest.out'; > > But I keep getting this error: > > ERROR: COPY command, running in backend with effective uid 100, could not > open file '/

Re: [GENERAL] [Fwd: SQL3 recursive unions]

2000-06-17 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 03:58:40PM -0400, Ron Peterson wrote: > PostgreSQL's TODO list (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/todo.html) makes > reference to implementing SQL3 recursive queries. Where does this task > fall in the overall priority of things? I hate to just whine without I want to imple

[GENERAL] Lock rekord

2000-06-17 Thread Pawe³ Dubin
Hello I was listening Your discusion. I have practical problem for which I write my own locking system: Personal rekords: Name zip adress Users A,B reads data from record: John Smith 124312 Xstreet 27 Now A change zip and write all B change adress and write so zip is unchanged. In pgsql I