Re: [GENERAL] Vacuudb problem

2001-05-09 Thread Tom Lane
Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Help me please to resolve my problem. Postgres version? regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregiste

[GENERAL] Vacuudb problem

2001-05-09 Thread Igor
Hi, Help me please to resolve my problem. It is during vacuuming database .I resolved it last time in such a way: pg_dump and psql -e dbhttp://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl

Re: [GENERAL] Charset and encoding

2001-05-09 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> datname datdbaencodingdatpath > > courses 26 7 courses Hum. Look ok to me. > I have tested with LATIN1 - LATIN5 and I haven't got any result... > I'd need the Spanish 'ñ' (that is what I insert)... > Maybe I

Re: [GENERAL] COPY locking

2001-05-09 Thread Tom Lane
John Coers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to figure out what is slowing down multiple concurrent COPY > commands to my database and all I see is lots of semops. Are you talking about concurrent copies into the same table? That would suffer a lot of short-term lock interference, no dou

[GENERAL] COPY locking

2001-05-09 Thread John Coers
What mode of locking is associated with a COPY to the database? Is it a RowExclusiveLock and since it is brand new data, there should be no conflicts? I am trying to figure out what is slowing down multiple concurrent COPY commands to my database and all I see is lots of semops. CPU usage, disk

[GENERAL] RE: MS SQL 7.0 to PostgreSQL 7.1

2001-05-09 Thread Gordon Runkle
In article <08CD1781F85AD4118E0800A0C9B8580B094A74@NEZU>, "Jeff Eckermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also: > * Watch out for embedded tabs and carriage returns in your data: these > will cause problems during or after your COPY into PostgreSQL. * Check > the value used in the exported

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle to Pg tool

2001-05-09 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Where do people want this. Should it be in /contrib or on its own web > page? This is already linked on the related page. > I have an Xbase conversion utility too. Where should that go? What's the URL? > > > > Hi, > > > > As I previous searched a

RE: [GENERAL] MS SQL 7.0 to PostgreSQL 7.1

2001-05-09 Thread Jeff Eckermann
Also: * Watch out for embedded tabs and carriage returns in your data: these will cause problems during or after your COPY into PostgreSQL. * Check the value used in the exported file to represent NULL values (could be an empty string, or "NULL", or something else), and use that in you

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle to Pg tool

2001-05-09 Thread Gilles DAROLD
Add on on ora2pg. Table grant extraction is done. It is based on group/users grants. Oracle has ROLES that I understand as groups and users associated to these roles. So I create a group for each role and alter it by adding the users. And then set grants to each tables. Let me now if I have to

Re: [GENERAL] MS SQL 7.0 to PostgreSQL 7.1

2001-05-09 Thread Brent R. Matzelle
--- "Ryan C. Bonham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question is what is the best way to import my data from MS > SQL. I > installed the ODBC Drivers and tried exporting using the MS > import/export > tool.. It successfully creates the tables, but fails to import > any data, > with a error stating

Re: [GENERAL] more-than-one-SERIAL column per table

2001-05-09 Thread Jeff Daugherty
I see no reason why a second SERIAL column would be needed. As in the example for creating tbl_c, when you have a SERIAL as a primary key, the foreign keys that reference it should be int4 not SERIAL. jeff Jeff Daugherty Database Systems Engineer Great Bridge LLC will trillich wrote: > On

[GENERAL] more-than-one-SERIAL column per table

2001-05-09 Thread will trillich
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:59:31AM +0200, Morten Primdahl wrote: > > \d tbl_c_id_seq > > > > if it is not there, you can create it yourself > > Thanks, the sequence was not there. Just puzzled me that > when creating tbl_c, I get: > > test=# CREATE TABLE tbl_c > (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, > da

[GENERAL] Moving to 7.1.1

2001-05-09 Thread Tony Grant
Hello, I just wanted to end my day with a big THANK YOU to all the developpers. I upgraded from 7.1RC4 to 7.1.1 today and it went without a hich!!! In all the server was down for about 30 minutes the time to check out the different locale, multibyte and encoding issues that had been troubling me

[GENERAL] updating rows while selecting

2001-05-09 Thread Janning Vygen
Hi, i am new to concepts of SQL and postgresql. For tutorial purpose i wrote a little quotes database with columns: name, quote, timestamp a php html page should show every day another quote of the day. it works fine and like this: selecting a row with timestamp = today if there is no row se

[GENERAL] Getting a total hit number and a LIMIT number at the same time

2001-05-09 Thread jeff.fitzmyers
I have a table with 5,000 rows in it. I also have a query that returns about 950 rows, but I only want items 50-60 from that match. What I want to show the user is - the total # of matches (950) - the 10 rows that I want The following works, but can it be reduced to a

[GENERAL] Oracle to Pg tool

2001-05-09 Thread Gilles DAROLD
Hi, As I previous searched a tool to convert Oracle database to PostgreSQL and really found nothing, there's now a piece of perl code I've written that can become a great tool to do this job. It currently extract the database schema table definition of an Oracle database and output a sql script

Re: [GENERAL] No reference to inherited columns?

2001-05-09 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Christian Marschalek wrote: > Can it be that I cannot reference to any inherited columns? Or is there > a special way to do it? The manual doesn't seem to cover this one... Well, if you mean reference a subtable's copy of an inherited column, you should be able to do this as

[GENERAL] MS SQL 7.0 to PostgreSQL 7.1

2001-05-09 Thread Ryan C. Bonham
Hi, I am looking at PostgreSQL as an alternative to Microsoft SQL. I have a database I would like to move to PostgreSQL to test how long it will take to move files, how to best change our software to access Postgre, etc.. I have PostgreSQL setup on a Test machine running Redhat 7.1. I have Postgr

Re: [GENERAL] Case sensitive order by

2001-05-09 Thread Tom Lane
> But I haven't found pg_controldata on my platform. > Is it installed with Postgresql 7.1 RPM for Redhat 7.0 ? Dunno. It's part of our contrib stuff. I thought there would be an RPM for the contrib stuff for 7.1, but maybe not, or maybe you didn't install that RPM. If you don't have it, just

Re: [GENERAL] Case sensitive order by

2001-05-09 Thread Michaël Fiey
You're right ! LC_ALL=C explain the difference. But I haven't found pg_controldata on my platform. Is it installed with Postgresql 7.1 RPM for Redhat 7.0 ? Thank's for your help regards - Original Message - From: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Michaël Fiey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

RE: [GENERAL] Inheritance and Referencing troubles... (confusing problem)

2001-05-09 Thread Christian Marschalek
Thanks for your help... Inheritance seem to be useless to me now ;) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html

[GENERAL] No reference to inherited columns?

2001-05-09 Thread Christian Marschalek
Can it be that I cannot reference to any inherited columns? Or is there a special way to do it? The manual doesn't seem to cover this one... Thx Chris ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Charset and encoding

2001-05-09 Thread Rosa Maria Carro Salas
datname datdbaencodingdatpath courses 26 7 courses I have tested with LATIN1 - LATIN5 and I haven't got any result... I'd need the Spanish 'ñ' (that is what I insert)... Maybe I need to insert this character i

Re: [GENERAL] Charset and encoding

2001-05-09 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> I have defined a database with the encoding SQL_ASCII. I fill the > database by using embedded SQL. When I insert the value "Señales", it is > correctly inserted. I read the correct value by typing the query in > postgres, but when I access this database from a Java program, via JDBC, > I ob

Re: [GENERAL] Questions about indexes

2001-05-09 Thread Frank Bax
At 11:10 AM 5/9/01 +0200, DaVinci wrote: >On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:31:27AM +0200, Renaud Thonnart wrote: >> How can I delete them in keeping integrity in the database? > > drop index?... Dropping the index will not maintain the PK integrity... http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1

[GENERAL] Charset and encoding

2001-05-09 Thread Rosa Maria Carro Salas
Hello, I have defined a database with the encoding SQL_ASCII. I fill the database by using embedded SQL. When I insert the value "Señales", it is correctly inserted. I read the correct value by typing the query in postgres, but when I access this database from a Java program, via JDBC, I obta

Re: [GENERAL] Questions about indexes

2001-05-09 Thread Renaud Thonnart
Thank you for your explaination, David ! Renaud THONNART ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Questions about indexes

2001-05-09 Thread DaVinci
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:31:27AM +0200, Renaud Thonnart wrote: > Does PostgreSQL create an index when a table is created? Yes, with PK. > Does it create index even if there is no PK for this table? No. > I know that indexes increase performance for SELECT but it is the > contrary when IN