[GENERAL] Re: View and function

2001-04-17 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
DaVinci wrote: > create function pilpot(calle) returns integer as ' this is your problem. try this: create function pilpot(text) returns integer as ' the syntax for creating postgres functions is to declare the types, not the identifiers of any parameters. -tfo -

Re: [GENERAL] index not used with subselect in where clause ?

2001-04-17 Thread Christian Fritze
> Adding a LIMIT 1 in the subplan may also help -- as you only need a > single match to make it true so additional finds are useless -- it'll > stop sooner or will be more likely to use an index than a full table > scan. > -- > Rod Taylor I'm not sure if I understand you correctly here: the subp

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with function invocation

2001-04-17 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 03:43:23PM +0200, DaVinci wrote: > Hello. > > When I create next function: > > create function pilpot() returns integer as ' > declare > foo integer; > begin > foo = insert into aviso(user) va

Re: [GENERAL] drastic reduction in speed of inserts as the table grows

2001-04-17 Thread Rini Dutta
--- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rini Dutta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Here is the performance statistics on the same > table. > > Note the fall in performance as the test proceeds. > > Try 7.1. I think you are running into the > lots-of-pending-triggers > problem that was found a

Re: [GENERAL] bpchar type

2001-04-17 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:39:50PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Patrick Dunford writes: > > > Zeos Database Explorer shows the type of these fields to be "bpchar", is > > this a Postgres data type? > > bpchar is the internal name for char(). short for "blank-padded character". as opposed to

RE: [GENERAL] failed sanity check, table answers was not found

2001-04-17 Thread Matthew
> I receive this error when trying to pg_dump -s > > failed sanity check, table answers was not found > > the failed table name varies. All the problematic tables > seem to work. vacuumdb (-z) also works without any comment. > I had some similar problems with pg_dump on 7.0.3 rec

Re: [GENERAL] index not used with subselect in where clause ?

2001-04-17 Thread Tom Lane
"Rod Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Adding a LIMIT 1 in the subplan may also help -- as you only need a > single match to make it true so additional finds are useless -- it'll > stop sooner or will be more likely to use an index than a full table > scan. I believe this is not necessary; th

Re: [GENERAL] failed sanity check, table answers was not found

2001-04-17 Thread Tom Lane
=?iso-8859-2?Q?Marek_P=EAtlicki?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I receive this error when trying to pg_dump -s > failed sanity check, table answers was not found I suspect you have a table whose owner no longer exists in pg_shadow. Check the pg_class.relowner value for that table, and creat

Re: [GENERAL] index not used with subselect in where clause ?

2001-04-17 Thread Rod Taylor
Adding a LIMIT 1 in the subplan may also help -- as you only need a single match to make it true so additional finds are useless -- it'll stop sooner or will be more likely to use an index than a full table scan. -- Rod Taylor There are always four sides to every story: your side, their side, the

[GENERAL] pg_dump error

2001-04-17 Thread mike
I'm trying to back up a table by dumping to a text file, but in the proccess of dumping I get the following error   dumpSequence(pilgram_en_id_seq): different sequence name returned by SELECT: pilgram_cross_id_seq   I'm not sure what this means, and I have no idea how to corect it.   Mike

Re: [GENERAL] local security

2001-04-17 Thread Tom Lane
"David M. Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... If you do that, you > can no longer do things like restores from backups without editing the > configuration file because postgresql wont let you change users. This is of > course not a great problem, but it is a bit annoying. What I really wan

Re: [GENERAL] parse error at or near $1

2001-04-17 Thread Tom Lane
Michael McDonnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And when I run "SELECT contactable_name(1);" I get the error message > "parse error at or near $1". $1 is a parameter placeholder; probably your problem is unexpected substitution (or lack of substitution) of a plplgsql variable or parameter into a

Re: [GENERAL] index not used with subselect in where clause ?

2001-04-17 Thread Tom Lane
Christian Fritze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >explain select * from allmain where exists (select distinct >dokids_as_int from allslwfull where dokids_as_int = idn and >wort_nouml_lower like 'gen%') Try dropping the "distinct" on the inner select. As a moment's thought will reveal,

[GENERAL] drastic reduction in speed of inserts as the table grows

2001-04-17 Thread Rini Dutta
Hi, I was comparing speed of inserts in C vs JDBC and found that as the table size increases the speed differential decreases till there is no difference (no problem). However inserts kept getting slower and slower as the table size increased and the performance became quite poor. Here is the dat

Re: [GENERAL] local security

2001-04-17 Thread Tom Lane
"David M. Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Even better would be that postgres uses the standard unix security > and that on connecting it asks for the appropriate unix password unless you > are a superuser in which case it just connects. This would tie Postgres usernames to usernames of the

[GENERAL] failed sanity check, table answers was not found

2001-04-17 Thread Marek Pętlicki
I receive this error when trying to pg_dump -s failed sanity check, table answers was not found the failed table name varies. All the problematic tables seem to work. vacuumdb (-z) also works without any comment. This is a production database on 7.0.3 I'd like to migrate to 7.1, but I a

Re: [GENERAL] Select

2001-04-17 Thread newsreader
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 09:23:02AM -0300, Marcelo Pereira wrote: > Hi All, > > > Now I would like to select all employees which name begins with the letter > "P". > > > Select * from employee where "name-begin-with-letter-P" :-) > select * from employee where email ~ '^P'; or if cas

[GENERAL] Re: Select

2001-04-17 Thread mike
SELECT * FROM employee WHERE empname LIKE 'P%' the above would work only if you want to search for people w/ names starting w/ P Mike - Original Message - From: "Marcelo Pereira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 5:23 AM Subject: Select > Hi All

[GENERAL] Select

2001-04-17 Thread Marcelo Pereira
Hi All, I'm in trouble to build a select... I have a table (for example) like this: Table: Employee empCod | empName | empDepth -+---+--- 1 | Anand |any 2 | Oliver |any 3 |Peter |any 4 | Bo

[GENERAL] View and function

2001-04-17 Thread DaVinci
Hello. I am trying to insert a tupla in a view with rules for inserting from a function. This is my data: --- create table dirección ( cod serial primary key, calle text, vía int2refe

Re: [GENERAL] Schema Import

2001-04-17 Thread Anand Raman
hi Bob, Try psql -h -U -f HTH Anand On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:36:06PM -0700, Bob McCormick wrote: >All, > >I've found a case tool that will generate a schema based on PostgreSQL >syntax and am wondering if it is possible to run this generated SQL script >to have the database schema create

Re: [GENERAL] Non-english articles on the techdocs.postgresql.org website

2001-04-17 Thread fabrizio . ermini
On 12 Apr 2001, at 0:00, Justin Clift wrote: > > Any there any people who can understand both english and non-english > languages, who wouldn't mind translating an article or two on the > techdocs.postgresql.org website to a different language? > I would gladly do some translation in italian. Wh

Re: [GENERAL] Inserting Unicode into Postgre

2001-04-17 Thread He Weiping
Firestar wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently using PostgreSQL 7.0 on Solaris. My Java program receives > strings in Big5 > encoding and will store them in PostgreSQL (via JDBC). However, the inserted > strings become > multiple '?' (question marks) instead everytime i do a insert command. And > when i