Re: [GENERAL] Re: extra spaces

2000-12-19 Thread Denis A. Doroshenko
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:35:01AM +1100, Mark Cowlishaw wrote: > > According to "Postgres: Introduction and Concepts", varchar is slower > > than char. So if you (like me) want to use char and get rid of the > > padding spaces, you may use a regex replacement, as in > > > > while (@row=$r

Re: [GENERAL] extra spaces

2000-12-19 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to "Postgres: Introduction and Concepts", varchar is slower > than char. So if you (like me) want to use char and get rid of the > padding spaces, you may use a regex replacement, as in > while (@row=$result->fetchrow) > {

Re: [GENERAL] grant a db

2000-12-19 Thread Dan Wilson
Just recently added this functionality to phpPgAdmin. You can now update the ACL of all the objects (tables, sequences, views) of a database at the same time. This will be part of the next release (2.2.1) which should happen this week sometime. Look for the announcement. -Dan - Original M

Re: [GENERAL] Character encoding problem using Tcl

2000-12-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
Tom Lane wrote: >"Johann Woeckinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But when using a Tcl-based interface (e.g. pgaccess or home made tcl >> based programs) to insert such characters into a table, they are not corre >ct >> displayed on queries by use of psql - they appear as two 'un

[GENERAL] Re: extra spaces

2000-12-19 Thread Mark Cowlishaw
> > Soma> All values called from the database are still padded with > > Soma> extra spaces from the column size in the database. Is this > > Soma> normal - I don't remember this happening when I was using > > Soma> MySQL. I thought usually the database stripped the extra > > S

RE: [GENERAL] Trigger with superuser privileges

2000-12-19 Thread Edmar Wiggers
> Anobody could tell-me how can I make a Trigger thats execute some things > whith "postgres" superuser privileges (like INSERT INTO a table that the > user logged in don't have access) I think triggers should run with table-owner user permissions. That way you could have a table owned by superus

[GENERAL] Insert where not duplicate

2000-12-19 Thread Bryan White
I need to insert a bunch of records in a transaction. The transaction must not abort if the a duplicate is found. I know I have seen the syntax for the before. Can someone jog my memory? Bryan White, ArcaMax.com, VP of Technology The avalanche has already begun. It is too late for the pebbles

[GENERAL] Trigger with superuser privileges

2000-12-19 Thread Tulio Oliveira
Hi, all Anobody could tell-me how can I make a Trigger thats execute some things whith "postgres" superuser privileges (like INSERT INTO a table that the user logged in don't have access) regards, Tulio Oliveira -- == AKACIA TECNOLOGIA Des

[GENERAL] type bytea and large objects

2000-12-19 Thread Mateu Batle
Hi all, I'm pretty new in PostgreSQL and I have some problems and questions. I'll list them here, maybe someone can help me :) 1) I wanted to use a binary type. I've seen in some place a type called bytea which I can use, but I cannot use it as a primary key. Is that possible somehow or with ano

Re: [GENERAL] TODAY and CURRENT?

2000-12-19 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:37:42AM -0500, Raymond Chui wrote: > delete from tablename where datetime < TODAY-10; delete from tablename where datetime < timestamp 'now' - interval '10 days'; or delete from tablename where age(datetime) > '10 days'; -- Mike Castle Life is like a cl

RE: [GENERAL] TODAY and CURRENT?

2000-12-19 Thread Francis Solomon
Hi Raymond, You might try something like this: DELETE FROM tablename WHERE datetime < ('now'::timestamp - '10 days'::interval); and DELETE FROM tablename WHERE datetime BETWEEN ('now'::timestamp - '10 hours'::interval) AND 'now'::timestamp; If you just want the date stamp, you can use 'now'::da

[GENERAL] help

2000-12-19 Thread Joseph
Help me for "DBI->connect failed: Sorry, too many clients already."my cgi program is test.cgi:###require "./connectdb.pl";&connectdatabase();$query="select count(*) from messages";$sth=$dbh->prepare($query);$sth->execute();$count=$sth->fetchrow_array();print "Content-typ

Re: [GENERAL] Help me for "DBI->connect failed: Sorry, too many clients already."

2000-12-19 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Joseph wrote: > $dbh=DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname",$dbusername,$dbpassword) or die "can I would assume that if you never disconnect and are running under mod_perl, you will have problems.

[GENERAL] TODAY and CURRENT?

2000-12-19 Thread Raymond Chui
I have a table with columns datetime timestamp, valuefloat(8) I want to delete rows 10 days older or 10 hours older by delete from tablename where datetime < TODAY-10; or delete from tablename where datetime between CURRENT-10 and CURRENT; So are there key words TODAY, CURRENT in Pos

[GENERAL] Help me for "DBI->connect failed: Sorry, too many clients already."

2000-12-19 Thread Joseph
my cgi program is test.cgi:###require "./connectdb.pl";&connectdatabase();$query="select count(*) from messages";$sth=$dbh->prepare($query);$sth->execute();$count=$sth->fetchrow_array();print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";print <<"TAG"; The count is $count. TAGexit 0;#

[GENERAL] logs

2000-12-19 Thread Martin A. Marques
I have a linux instalation (from rpm) of postgres-7.0.3, which puts the logs of the server (AFAIK) in /var/log/postgresql. But the file is empty, and I start making activity on the database and it stays empty. Does anyone have an idea of what is happening? Also, on a Solaris 8 machine, compiled

Re: [GENERAL] grant a db

2000-12-19 Thread Martin A. Marques
El Mar 19 Dic 2000 10:29, Nick Fankhauser escribió: > I believe it has to be each table- Oracle has a nice "all tables" option > which might be worth the developer's consideration on the next round. I > need to do this regularly, so I'll probably see if I can write a tool to > create a SQL script.

Re: [GENERAL] Schema

2000-12-19 Thread Steve Heaven
At 10:04 19/12/00 -0800, Adam Haberlach wrote: >On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 12:51:26PM -0500, gerardo tagliani wrote: >> Somebody knows how to get a sql "schema" of a Postgresql database?? > >pg_dump -s -d > No. -d does something to the INSERT strings -- thorNET - Internet Consultancy, Services

Re: [GENERAL] Schema

2000-12-19 Thread Steve Heaven
At 12:51 19/12/00 -0500, gerardo tagliani wrote: >Somebody knows how to get a sql "schema" of a Postgresql database?? > >Thanks!! pg_dump -s databasename -- thorNET - Internet Consultancy, Services & Training Phone: 01454 854413 Fax: 01454 854412 http://www.thornet.co.uk

RE: [GENERAL] Postgres Win32

2000-12-19 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
> You can run PostgreSQL on Windows NT using the Cygwin > toolkit, but getting > that to work can sometimes be a final project as well. I disagree. Using the instructions on http://people.freebsd.org/~kevlo/postgres/portNT.html it is almost a no-brainer. Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenst

Re: [GENERAL] Schema

2000-12-19 Thread Adam Haberlach
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 12:51:26PM -0500, gerardo tagliani wrote: > Somebody knows how to get a sql "schema" of a Postgresql database?? pg_dump -s -d -- Adam Haberlach|A cat spends her life conflicted between a [EMAIL PROTECTED] |deep, passionate, and profound desire for htt

[GENERAL] Schema

2000-12-19 Thread gerardo tagliani
Somebody knows how to get a sql "schema" of a Postgresql database?? Thanks!! Gerardo Tagliani Linux Registred User #139437 --- FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Win32

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
carolina writes: > Can Postgres run in Windows 95 or Windows 98? No. (You can compile the client library on Windows 95/98, but that's it.) You can run PostgreSQL on Windows NT using the Cygwin toolkit, but getting that to work can sometimes be a final project as well. My advice would be to fi

[GENERAL] Re: Auto incrementing fields. How?

2000-12-19 Thread Tulio Oliveira
Harry Wood wrote: > > Anyone know how to create auto incrementing fields? > > -- > Harry > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~hw97/Nojer2 > Nojer2 on chat.yahoo.com and zapidonia.com > ICQ number 18519769 CREATE TABLE test ( teste_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, namevarch

Re: [GENERAL] Auto incrementing fields. How?

2000-12-19 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Harry Wood wrote: > Anyone know how to create auto incrementing fields? create sequence my_seq; create table my_table ( my_id integer primary key default nextval('my_seq'), another_field varchar(10), ... ); OR, you can create an implicit sequence:

Re: [GENERAL] Auto incrementing fields. How?

2000-12-19 Thread Dan Wilson
Use the column type of SERIAL in your create table statement. This will automatically create a sequence and default for the given column. http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/user/sql-createsequence.htm for more on sequences. - Original Message - From: "Harry Wood" <[EMAIL P

Re: [GENERAL] newbie question:

2000-12-19 Thread Dan Wilson
ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD '[enter password]' http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/user/sql-alteruser.htm - Original Message - From: "Leon van Dongen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 1:56 AM Subject: [GENERAL] newbie question

[GENERAL] Auto incrementing fields. How?

2000-12-19 Thread Harry Wood
Anyone know how to create auto incrementing fields? -- Harry [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~hw97/Nojer2 Nojer2 on chat.yahoo.com and zapidonia.com ICQ number 18519769

[GENERAL] migrate mysql to postgres

2000-12-19 Thread Lambert Sonna Momo
please I have an application developed with my-sql , but iI want to migrate it to postgress. What can my do Thanks -- Lambert SONNA MOMO