Re: [GENERAL] transaction safety

2001-02-12 Thread DaVinci
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 10:22:30AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > DaVinci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:08:01PM -, Michael Ansley wrote: > >> Typically, the insert for a person, and for all the associated addresses > >> would be done in the same transaction so that if th

[GENERAL] Vacuum and Owner

2001-02-12 Thread Matt Friedman
I run as user "spry" on psql, I created the database as "spry" but when I run vacuum, all the system tables get skipped because "spry" is not the owner. Is there a way to fully vacuum my db and the system tables as a user other than "postgres"? Is is very important that the system tables are "vac

[GENERAL] Re: Trapping NOTICE using PHP

2001-02-12 Thread Matt Friedman
If you can run the program psql via php's exec command or something then the stdout might be available to you. Might work. If php is in safe mode this can be a challenge. Matt Friedman Spry New Media - Original Message - From: "Dan Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "pgsql general" <[EMA

[GENERAL] Trapping NOTICE using PHP

2001-02-12 Thread Dan Wilson
Is there any way to trap the NOTICE output (specifically in PHP)? I would like to impliment an EXPLAIN feature in phpPgAdmin and have been unsuccessful in finding a way to do this because all the information returned by EXPLAIN is in a NOTICE. Any ideas? -Dan

Re: [GENERAL] jdbc connection pool settings

2001-02-12 Thread Anand Raman
it depends on what kind of concurrent connections u will be getting.. For admin interfaces the kind of settingu mentioned might be OK but in case it is a heavily loaded site then u need to think.. Anand On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:55:08PM -0800, Culley Harrelson wrote: >I'm in the process of imp

Re: [GENERAL] strange query results

2001-02-12 Thread Anand Raman
Hi tom The table description is as follows arttoday=> \d exhibit_distributions Table "exhibit_distributions" Attribute | Type | Modifier --+---+-

Re: [GENERAL] Re: 7.1 Docs WAS:Auto-timestamp generator (attached)

2001-02-12 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > As a suggestion regarding the docs ... as a newbie, I went straight to > > the"user's lounge" and didn't check out the "developer's corner" because > > I figured those docs would be pretty hard-core technical. But in > > reality, many of the developer

Re: [GENERAL] Howto install postgresql 7.03 on Darwin 1.2

2001-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
James Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having a great deal of difficulting installing postgresql 7.03 on > Darwin 1.2. > Can anyone give me a few pointers? Sure: forget 7.0.3, give 7.1beta4 (or current snapshot) a try instead. There's no port for Darwin in 7.0.*.

Re: [GENERAL] performance - self-joins vs. subqueries

2001-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
"K. Ari Krupnikov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Many queries can be formulated as either a self-join or a subquery on > the same table. > Is there any difference in performance, or does the analyzer treat them > the same? You're a lot better off with a self-join, at present.

Re: [GENERAL] Importing a Database

2001-02-12 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 11:16:45AM -0500, wrote: > If i have a dbf database, how can I import it into PostgreSQL? > > Thanks > I have a program that does this. I've set up a project at SourceForge for it, but I'm still fighting with them over CVS access etc. If you're interested, I can email

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Oracle vs DB2 vs MySQL - Which should I use?

2001-02-12 Thread Paul M Foster
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:55:18AM +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > It is supported by a very competent team of developers who are not only > determined to stay at the front of open source database race, but also > quite patently give the impression that they actually _care_ about their >

[GENERAL] jdbc connection pool settings

2001-02-12 Thread Culley Harrelson
I'm in the process of implementing connection pooling and the setup I'm using (http://www.javaexchange.com - really slick!) has settings for min # connections and max # connection. Any suggestions on where I should set these values? min=2, max=6? My site will be outside the firewall, open to the

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs Oracle vs DB2 vs MySQL - Which should I use?

2001-02-12 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 02:39, you wrote: > Please could someone explain what are the major differences between > PostgreSQL, Pro:- It's free in all senses of the word. ( BSD Licence ) Thus no new licence required if you migrate to more powerful hardware. It works well enough to run a set of Ledgers

Re: [GENERAL] Howto install postgresql 7.03 on Darwin 1.2

2001-02-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
James Patterson writes: > I am having a great deal of difficulting installing postgresql 7.03 on > Darwin 1.2. 7.0.3 [sic] doesn't work on Darwin. Try a 7.1 beta. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-e/

[GENERAL] Re: [SQL] Re: SQL Join - MySQL/PostgreSQL difference?

2001-02-12 Thread clayton cottingham
heya there are a couple of good example on how to do this in the perl cookbook the trim function in chapter one might help the source code from the book is avail at ora.com

[GENERAL] (Update) Implicit smallint to boolean conversion?

2001-02-12 Thread Brice Ruth
Here's a code snippet that shows the problem: +--+ boolean bNeuroPsych = objResults.getBoolean("NeuroPsych"); short sNeuroPsych = objResults.getShort("NeuroPsych"); System.out.println("Neurologic/Psychiatric: "+bNeuroPsych); System.out.println("Neurologic/Psychiatric: "+sNeuroPsych); +--+ The "

[GENERAL] Re: (Update) Implicit smallint to boolean conversion?

2001-02-12 Thread Brice Ruth
Found the problem: In org/postgresql/jdbc2/ResultSet.java The following line determines true/false: return ((c == 't') || (c == 'T')); Changing this to: return ((c == 't') || (c == 'T') || (c == '1')); Fixes the problem. This could probably be improved to: return ((c == 't') || (c == 'T')

Re: [GENERAL] 7.1 installation problem

2001-02-12 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Alexander Jerusalem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running into problems while trying to install 7.1 beta 4 (on > RedHat Linux 7 with bug fixes applied) > I've downloaded the rpms but when I do an rpm -iv > postgres-7.1beta4-1.i386.rpm it complains about an unresolved > dependency on libreadli

Re: [GENERAL] 7.1 installation problem

2001-02-12 Thread Lamar Owen
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Alexander Jerusalem writes: > > I'm running into problems while trying to install 7.1 beta 4 (on RedHat > > Linux 7 with bug fixes applied) > > I've downloaded the rpms but when I do an rpm -iv > > postgres-7.1beta4-1.i386.rpm it complains about an unresolved dependency o

Re: [GENERAL] Casting help

2001-02-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Mitch Vincent writes: > if I try to cast minority to varchar (or anything else for that matter) I > get > > ERROR: Cannot cast type 'bool' to 'varchar' Try: CASE WHEN minority THEN 'value of true' ELSE 'value if false' END -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-

[GENERAL] Casting help

2001-02-12 Thread Mitch Vincent
hhs=# INSERT INTO applicants_test (SELECT app_id ,old_id ,emp_id ,inv_id ,createdate ,updatedon ,todelete ,appstatus ,apptype ,infosent ,empinitials ,firstname ,lastname ,salutation ,fontype1 ,fonnumber1 ,fonext1 ,fontype2 ,fonnumber2 ,fonext2 ,fontype3 ,fonnumber3 ,fonext3 ,address1 ,address2 ,ci

[GENERAL] System Tables

2001-02-12 Thread Nelio Alves Pereira Filho
Is it possible to accomplish any SQL statement manipulating the System tables? I was wondering about the possibility to substitute the unrecognized SQL statements (ALTER TABLE table COLUMN , for instance) through some queries to the system tables. Nelio -- Nelio Alves Pereira Filho IFX Networ

Re: [GENERAL] making functions take arrays

2001-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
Kyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to make a compiled C function take an array as an > argument? Sure, although disassembling the array is not quite trivial (a Postgres array is not the same as a C array). In the 7.1 code, there is a deconstruct_array() function in src/backend/uti

[GENERAL] making functions take arrays

2001-02-12 Thread Kyle
Is it possible to make a compiled C function take an array as an argument? Right now I've got a function that takes 32 arguments, all declared as separate variables (int arg1, int arg2, ...) and it would be a lot more natural for the function to be called with an array (int *array, int num_elemen

Re: Failover (was Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL over NFS?)

2001-02-12 Thread Chris Jones
Shaw Terwilliger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Besides dumping and COPY'ing the data into the second server, is there > another form of easy one-way replication available? My schema has just Have you looked at PG's replication? It's included in 7.1, and you can get it from (I think) www.postgr

Re: [GENERAL] strange query results

2001-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
Anand Raman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The second query is not priniting out site_section column. Odd. What is the exact definition of table exhibit_distributions? Does it have any indices? What plan is printed by EXPLAIN for the problem query? regards, tom lane

Re: [GENERAL] Error from index "pg_type_typname_index"????

2001-02-12 Thread fabrizio . ermini
On 12 Feb 2001, at 10:10, Tom Lane wrote: > > ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index > > pg_type_typname_index > > The query causing it it's an innocent query that duplicates a table > > in a temporary one, i.e. > > "select * into forum_clone from forums" > > I think you're pro

[GENERAL] Re: startup Postgres on NT

2001-02-12 Thread Fred Yankowski
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:56:04PM +0700, Jarungwit J. wrote: > Now I can start ipc-daemon as NT Service by using invoker methood. But > when I start postmaster with invoker method, it shows error: >Error 0203: The sytem could not find the environment option that was >entered. > Note that

Re: [GENERAL] transaction safety

2001-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
DaVinci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:08:01PM -, Michael Ansley wrote: >> Typically, the insert for a person, and for all the associated addresses >> would be done in the same transaction so that if the insert for one of the >> addresses failed, then the whole lot wo

RE: [GENERAL] transaction safety

2001-02-12 Thread Michael Ansley
Title: RE: [GENERAL] transaction safety There should be no locks on the table for insert.  The sequence number is retained by the session, not locked on the database.  What this means is that somebody else may start their insert after you, and then you roll back, leaving a gap in the sequences

Re: [GENERAL] Error from index "pg_type_typname_index"????

2001-02-12 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've a postgresql 7.0.2 used as a backend for a website. Randomly, > and not very frequently, an error pops up saying that the following > problem has happened: > ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index > pg_type_typname_index > The query causing it it

Re: [GENERAL] transaction safety

2001-02-12 Thread DaVinci
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 01:08:01PM -, Michael Ansley wrote: > The number returned by the sequence for the serial ID is retained within the > session, and so it can be returned by calling currval, e.g.: ...[a detailed example]... > Typically, the insert for a person, and for all the associa

RE: [GENERAL] transaction safety

2001-02-12 Thread Michael Ansley
Title: RE: [GENERAL] transaction safety Hi, The number returned by the sequence for the serial ID is retained within the session, and so it can be returned by calling currval, e.g.: CREATE TABLE person (     id serial primary key,     name varchar not null,     dob timestamp no

Re: [GENERAL] transaction safety

2001-02-12 Thread DaVinci
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:08:55AM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > DaVinci wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I want to create a new tuple of main info and detail tuples (in > > different tables) that are joined by a key field. Key field is created by > > generator automatically and I need that n

Re: [GENERAL] transaction safety

2001-02-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
DaVinci wrote: > Hi all. > > I want to create a new tuple of main info and detail tuples (in > different tables) that are joined by a key field. Key field is created by > generator automatically and I need that number in order to assign to detail > tuples. How can I to get that number

[GENERAL] transaction safety

2001-02-12 Thread DaVinci
Hi all. I want to create a new tuple of main info and detail tuples (in different tables) that are joined by a key field. Key field is created by generator automatically and I need that number in order to assign to detail tuples. How can I to get that number in a safe way?. Thanks for idea

[GENERAL] Error from index "pg_type_typname_index"????

2001-02-12 Thread fabrizio . ermini
Hi all... I've a postgresql 7.0.2 used as a backend for a website. Randomly, and not very frequently, an error pops up saying that the following problem has happened: ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index pg_type_typname_index The query causing it it's an innocent query that