[GENERAL] Given: Win98, Cygwin, postgresql-7.0.3.tar.gz | Need: to make libpg/(++) libraries?

2001-04-10 Thread Francis K Shim
Hi, As the Subject line says, all I am looking to do is to make the libraries so I can write some C/C++ postgresql client programs under Cygwin (under Win98) using the GNU C/C++ compilers. I guess I could use ODBC and MSVC++, but I just don't want to get stuck in a rut. I do not need to build a

[GENERAL] plpgsql -- arrays/temporary tables?

2001-04-10 Thread Steven D. Arnold
The following function doesn't work when called multiple times: CREATE FUNCTION foo(INTEGER) RETURN BOOLEAN AS ' DECLARE y INTEGER; BEGIN CREATE TEMP TABLE a ( x INTEGER ); INSERTINTO a VALUES(4); SELECTINTO

[GENERAL] Re: Speaking of Indexing... (Text indexing)

2001-04-10 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> Furthermore, after trying to just index on a 8191-character long substring > of the resume, I run into the following: > ERROR: btree: index item size 3948 exceeds maximum 2713 > The only way I could actually get the index created was to substring the > body of the resumes down to 2k. I also lat

[GENERAL] Re: COPY from file to table containing unique index

2001-04-10 Thread Joel Burton
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Joe Johnson wrote: > I have a table with over 1,000,000 records in it containing names and phone > numbers, and one of the indexes on the table is a unique index on the phone > number. I am trying to copy about 100,000 more records to the table from a > text file, but I get

[GENERAL] Re: newbie question - INSERT

2001-04-10 Thread Joel Burton
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Cefull Lo wrote: > When I type INSERT INTO friend > VALUES ('', '', ''); > it returns > INSERT 19748 1 > > what means of 19748 and 1? It's the OID, a unique idenifier for everything in the database. Read the Momjian book on the website -- it explains this very well. -- Jo

[GENERAL] Re: Speaking of Indexing... (Text indexing)

2001-04-10 Thread Joel Burton
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Poet/Joshua Drake wrote: > I've been experimenting a bit with Full Text Indexing in PostgreSQL. I > have found several conflicting sites various places on the net pertaining > to whether or not PostgreSQL supports FTI, and I was hoping I could find > an authoritative answer h

Re: [GENERAL] point-in-time restore

2001-04-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
No, not yet. Hopefully 7.2. You can perform a pg_dump anytime, though. > Is there a way to perform a point in time restore with postgresql ? > > /Claes > > > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > -- Bruce M

[GENERAL] newbie question - INSERT

2001-04-10 Thread Cefull Lo
When I type INSERT INTO friend VALUES ('', '', ''); it returns INSERT 19748 1 what means of 19748 and 1? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to

Re: [GENERAL] newbie question - INSERT

2001-04-10 Thread Dominic J. Eidson
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Cefull Lo wrote: > When I type INSERT INTO friend > VALUES ('', '', ''); > it returns > INSERT 19748 1 > > what means of 19748 and 1? 19748 is the OID of that record, and 1 means one record was inserted. For information on OID's, look in the documentation. -- Dominic J.

Re: [GENERAL] point-in-time restore

2001-04-10 Thread GH
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 09:27:50PM +0200, some SMTP stream spewed forth: > Is there a way to perform a point in time restore with postgresql ? > Nope, not yet anyway, to the best of my knowledge. dan > /Claes > > > > ---(end of broadcast)---

[GENERAL] Re: JDBC and Perl compiling problems w/ postgresql-7.1rc4

2001-04-10 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> The reason I need to compile w/ Perl > support turned on is what I am reading > in the README.rserv of the ERServer > available in contrib directory. > It says that the requirements are: > - PostgreSQL >= 7.0.X >A separate Makefile is required for PostgreSQL 7.0.x and earlier > - Perl5 and t

[GENERAL] COPY from file to table containing unique index

2001-04-10 Thread Joe Johnson
I have a table with over 1,000,000 records in it containing names and phone numbers, and one of the indexes on the table is a unique index on the phone number. I am trying to copy about 100,000 more records to the table from a text file, but I get an error on copying because of duplicate phone nu

Re: [GENERAL] JDBC and Perl compiling problems w/ postgresql-7.1rc4

2001-04-10 Thread Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh
Thought that I share this with the group. Thanks Marco. The problem was gone once I created a soft link to JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar in the default directory JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext/. I have not set specific CLASSPATH variable and I could understand the problem better if I had seen the problem when u

[GENERAL] Re: Indexes not used in 7.1RC4: Bug?

2001-04-10 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> I have the following table, containing about 57 Rows, but some > indexes are not used, on 7.1RC4, freshly vacuumed (analyse). It was the > same at least in 7.1RC1 > CREATE TABLE access_log( > access_time timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW(), > method_num int2NO

Re: [GENERAL] LOs and pg_dump, restore, vacuum for 7.1

2001-04-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
David Wall writes: > Does 7.1 "natively" handle large objects in dumps, restores and vaccums? In > 7.0.3 there was a contrib for LOs. Yes. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-e/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6:

[GENERAL] Re: Converting from access to pgsql..questions...

2001-04-10 Thread Joel Burton
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, mazzo wrote: > First of all, since i'm new to this mailing listHi all..!! > My first question.. > I have to convert an access 97 database to pgsql...are there any tools to do > this?? I checked the website but the link for the tools are not working so i > tried to export

[GENERAL] Converting from access to pgsql..questions...

2001-04-10 Thread mazzo
First of all, since i'm new to this mailing listHi all..!! My first question.. I have to convert an access 97 database to pgsql...are there any tools to do this?? I checked the website but the link for the tools are not working so i tried to export the tables from access using the ODBC driver.

Re: [GENERAL] personel appliactions?

2001-04-10 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:42:13PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > I have been suing PostgreSQL quite happily in projects for > several years now. i have the smae porbelm -- you might wnat to solw down wehn you tyep your email msesaegs. Suing is quite different from Using. :) -- americans should n

Re: [GENERAL] JDBC and Perl compiling problems w/ postgresql-7.1rc4

2001-04-10 Thread Marko Kreen
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 03:33:19PM -0700, Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh wrote: > > I first ran configure with the following options > > ./configure --with-perl --with-tcl --enable-odbc --with-java > --enable-syslog --enable-debug > > and then compiled postgresql-7.1rc4 on Redhat 7.0 successfully >

[GENERAL] Re: personel appliactions?

2001-04-10 Thread Joel Burton
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Stan Brown wrote: > I have been suing PostgreSQL quite happily in projects for several years > now. > > Now, I am thinking about actually using the computers at home for something > useful (what a concept :-)). > > So, I was wandering if anyone knows wehre I could find a fe

[GENERAL] personel appliactions?

2001-04-10 Thread Stan Brown
I have been suing PostgreSQL quite happily in projects for several years now. Now, I am thinking about actually using the computers at home for something useful (what a concept :-)). So, I was wandering if anyone knows wehre I could find a few small applicationsUsing PostgreSQL as abckaends? I'm

[GENERAL] LOs and pg_dump, restore, vacuum for 7.1

2001-04-10 Thread David Wall
Does 7.1 "natively" handle large objects in dumps, restores and vaccums? In 7.0.3 there was a contrib for LOs. Thanks, David ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] JDBC and Perl compiling problems w/ postgresql-7.1rc4

2001-04-10 Thread Doug McNaught
"Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The reason I need to compile w/ Perl > support turned on is what I am reading > in the README.rserv of the ERServer > available in contrib directory. > It says that the requirements are: > > - PostgreSQL >= 7.0.X >A separate Makefile is

Re: [GENERAL] JDBC compile

2001-04-10 Thread Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh
Tony Grant wrote: > Can someone please point me to a precompiled jdbc driver for 7.1RC4 and > JDK1.3 > > I just don't have the patience to figure out what is going wrong here. > > /usr/share/ant > > Ant install made a /usr/share/java withe the jar files in it. > > Java is installed on the

[GENERAL] JDBC compile

2001-04-10 Thread Tony Grant
Can someone please point me to a precompiled jdbc driver for 7.1RC4 and JDK1.3 I just don't have the patience to figure out what is going wrong here. /usr/share/ant Ant install made a /usr/share/java withe the jar files in it. Java is installed on the machine as /usr/java/jdk1.3 [javac]

[GENERAL] Re: Very long running query

2001-04-10 Thread Joel Burton
On 10 Apr 2001, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > Hi, > > I have a query running for 97hours now and I am wondering if this can be made > any faster. > The Query is: > insert into dailyreport select timestamp(date >'1-8-2001'),a.category,'Observed',sum(b.count) as count from websensebycat a, >nets