Re: [GENERAL] PL/java?

2001-08-31 Thread Thomas Lockhart
... > Java stored procedures are the #1 most-desired-by-me feature for PostgreSQL. > Oracle and Sybase are examples of databases that have this feature already. ... How does java manage its resources when it is an embedded component? When it is standalone, the Sun JDK seems to want to have a fixe

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL On the Mac? OS9 or OSX?

2001-08-31 Thread james
i've got it installed and running on osx on an imac :) james - Original Message - From: "Peter Eisentraut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Israel Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 1:17 PM Subject: Re: PostgreSQL On the Mac? OS9 or OSX? > Israel Ev

Re: [GENERAL] Regarding Vacuumdb

2001-08-31 Thread Mike Mascari
Shaun Thomas wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Bhuvaneswari wrote: > > > hi, > > I am getting the following error while doing vacuumdb, > > > > ERROR: mdopen: couldn't open test1: No such file or directory > > vacuumdb: database vacuum failed on db1. > > We got this error a lot in 6.5. Usually i

Re: [GENERAL] Newbie ...Function error (Stored Procedure)?

2001-08-31 Thread Jeff Eckermann
I think you need to double the single quotes around the sequence name: (''seq1''). Statements inside function definitions go through an extra level of parsing, which strips off one set of single quotes. - Original Message - From: "Ron S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: M

Re: [GENERAL] Deployment of PostgreSQL Applications

2001-08-31 Thread Steve Wolfe
> > 2) More importantly, is it possible to prevent a customer from peeking into > > said database once it is deployed on their machine? ROT13 it, then threaten them with the DMCA. (Yes, that was a joke.) steve ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [GENERAL] Regarding Vacuumdb

2001-08-31 Thread Jeff Eckermann
Before doing anything so drastic, you may want to check the archives for recent messages on a similar error. IIRC, this problem can be caused by rolling back a "drop table" command. The effect is that the table structure in the database remains, but the physical file is gone. The fix is to crea

Re: [GENERAL] PL/java?

2001-08-31 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Marshall Spight wrote: > This was a major issue in 1996. It's been solved for several years now, but > the perception of Java having a speed problem remains. > > Java stored procedures are the #1 most-desired-by-me feature for PostgreSQL. > Oracle and Sybase are examples of

[GENERAL] PgAdmin question - superuser

2001-08-31 Thread Susan Lane
Hi - I set up a user and database using psql. Then when I added the DSN connection for PgAdmin and tried it out with my new user id, it told me I had to log in as superuser. So, I did. Then I disconnected and logged in again as the new user I had created. The second time, it worked. Anybody

Re: [GENERAL] Deployment of PostgreSQL Applications

2001-08-31 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:59:53AM -0400, Mike Arace wrote: > 2 questions: I'll let someone else handle the first one. > 2) More importantly, is it possible to prevent a customer from peeking into > said database once it is deployed on their machine? A large part of what > makes my applicatio

Re: [GENERAL] getting the oid for a new tuple in a BEFORE trigger

2001-08-31 Thread Mikheev, Vadim
> we need to control database changes within BEFORE triggers. > There is no problem with triggers called by update, but there is > a problem with triggers called by insert. > > We strongly need to know the oid of a newly inserted tuple. > In this case, we use tg_newtuple of the TriggerData struct

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL On the Mac? OS9 or OSX?

2001-08-31 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Israel Evans writes: > In looking over the documentation, I haven't seen any evidence of PostgreSQL > working on the Mac. Is this the case, or am I missing something. You're missing something. ;-) 7.1 works on MacOS X. See the installation instructions. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [GENERAL] Deployment of PostgreSQL Applications

2001-08-31 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Mike Arace wrote: > 1) Is it legal to bundle Postgresql with another commercial application, > assuming the database will have to be significantly reconfigured and tuned? > (at the application level, not the source code level) I read over the > licenses I could find on th

Re: [GENERAL] Deployment of PostgreSQL Applications

2001-08-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:59:53AM -0400, Mike Arace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2) More importantly, is it possible to prevent a customer from peeking into > said database once it is deployed on their machine? A large part of what > makes my application proprietary is the data model in t

Re: [GENERAL] Create table syntax

2001-08-31 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 06:52:36AM -, satish rao wrote: > Hi > > Entered below is the SQL create table syntax: > > CREATE TABLE lists ( > [listid] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL , > [listname] [varchar] (200) NULL , > [listcreator] [varchar] (200) NULL , > [listdesc]

Re: [GENERAL] Deployment of PostgreSQL Applications

2001-08-31 Thread Doug McNaught
"Mike Arace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1) Is it legal to bundle Postgresql with another commercial application, > assuming the database will have to be significantly reconfigured and tuned? > (at the application level, not the source code level) I read over the > licenses I could find on

Re: [GENERAL] urgently wanted - plpgsql.so for pg 6.4.2

2001-08-31 Thread Doug McNaught
"Lee Crampton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If anyone could supply me with a plpgsql.so for postgres 6.4.2 I would be > very grateful indeed. > I need it for my planned triggers to work and have tried a later version of > the lib but it doesn't work. Ummm, I hate to break it to you, but if ther

Re: [GENERAL] Regarding Vacuumdb

2001-08-31 Thread Shaun Thomas
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Bhuvaneswari wrote: > hi, > I am getting the following error while doing vacuumdb, > > ERROR: mdopen: couldn't open test1: No such file or directory > vacuumdb: database vacuum failed on db1. We got this error a lot in 6.5. Usually it means your table has somehow been corru

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL On the Mac? OS9 or OSX?

2001-08-31 Thread Doug McNaught
Israel Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In looking over the documentation, I haven't seen any evidence of PostgreSQL > working on the Mac. Is this the case, or am I missing something. Has > anyone heard of it ever being used on a mac? It runs on OS X just fine from what I've heard, thought

Re: [GENERAL] Indexes and Timestamp Comparisons

2001-08-31 Thread Andrew Snow
Sequential scans are always going to be faster than using the index if a large number of rows are going to be returned. Consider this: if you are doing regular DELETEs, will there be that many rows selected for deletion each time? Probably not, so Postgres will most likely use the index for tho

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL On the Mac? OS9 or OSX?

2001-08-31 Thread Paul Ramsey
Indeed, on OSX. http://www.pgmac.com Israel Evans wrote: > > In looking over the documentation, I haven't seen any evidence of PostgreSQL > working on the Mac. Is this the case, or am I missing something. Has > anyone heard of it ever being used on a mac? > > Thanks, > > ~Israel~ > > -

Re: [GENERAL] !! Newbie question!!!! connecting to multiple databases

2001-08-31 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, uncleleo wrote: > I am attemping to create multiple databases with Postgresql ver. 7.0.3 > running on Mandrake 8.0 rpm. The tool that I am using is Pgadmin ver 7.1.0. > > Can someone tell me how I can connect to different databases in a single > select statement? Such as,

Re: [GENERAL] speed of communication and pgsql development

2001-08-31 Thread Gowey, Geoffrey
I'm having a hard time not chuckling on this end as this response continues to be received and then I think about the subject. Geoff -Original Message- From: Alex Knight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 4:08 PM To: Gowey, Geoffrey; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [

Re: [GENERAL] Deployment of PostgreSQL Applications

2001-08-31 Thread Mitch Vincent
> 2) More importantly, is it possible to prevent a customer from peeking into > said database once it is deployed on their machine? A large part of what > makes my application proprietary is the data model in the database, and it'd > be tough to maintain a competative edge when everyone can see e

Re: [GENERAL] Variable case database names

2001-08-31 Thread Peter Eisentraut
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How can i create variable case data bases ? Double quote the database name: psql -c 'create database "MiXeD";' -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] Getting data out of database with a bad WAL file

2001-08-31 Thread Mikheev, Vadim
> I've got a database where I've lost the WAL files. Since PG > won't start with > bad WAL files, is there anyway I can get the data out of the > actual database > files? contrib/pg_resetxlog. Please read README. Could you tell us how did you lose WAL files? Vadim

[GENERAL] market share

2001-08-31 Thread Matt Fair
Does anyone know of what market share Postgresql is in the RDBM market including Mysql along with Oracle, msql, etc.? Thanks Matt ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

[GENERAL] handling results of pl/pgsql functions

2001-08-31 Thread wabi youssouf
Hi everybody , I' d like to know if there's a way to store the result of a pl/pgsql function in a file (like the \w command for the query buffer ). Thanks . ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Un e-mail gratuit @yahoo.fr ! Yahoo! Courrier : http://

Re: [GENERAL] Too many open files in system FATAL2

2001-08-31 Thread Shaun Thomas
On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Christian MEUNIER wrote: > got the following happened yesterday: > > postmaster: StreamConnection: accept: Too many open files in system > postmaster: StreamConnection: accept: Too many open files in system > postmaster: StreamConnection: accept: Too many open files in system

Re: [GENERAL] Locate on Max() and Group By

2001-08-31 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, A. Snelders wrote: > I have the next problem: > > I open an table with > > select dnkey, Max(dvnaam) as dvnaam2, Max(dvpersoonnr) as dvpersoonnr from > tbmedewerker > group by dnkey > > When I want to locate like > > TblTbPGSMedew.Locate( 'dvnaam2', 'Hallo', [ ]); >

[GENERAL] Is it possible to default all number data to numeric type?

2001-08-31 Thread Pls Help Me
My company had a old program with written by Powerbuilder. It work fine in MSSQL 6.5. Now, my boss required to use another SQL server. Someone told me PostgreSQL is totally free and powerful. I installed it in a Linux machine (RedHat 7 + PostgreSQL 7.1.2), and transfer the old data from MSSQL 6.

[GENERAL] 2 tables, joins and same name...

2001-08-31 Thread Marc André Paquin
Hello, Here is 2 tables: airport - airport_id name code city_id destination --- destination_id dest_name ... airport_dep_id // using airport.airport_id (departure) airport_arr_id // using airport.airport_id has well (arrival) I have 2 columns in the second table that uses th

[GENERAL] Getting data out of database with a bad WAL file

2001-08-31 Thread GB Clark II
Hi, I've got a database where I've lost the WAL files. Since PG won't start with bad WAL files, is there anyway I can get the data out of the actual database files? Thanks GB -- GB Clark II | Roaming FreeBSD Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] | General Geek CTHULU for Presiden

Re: [GENERAL] Error in trying to dump any database

2001-08-31 Thread Colin Campbell
Hi, I recently had a similar problem (7.1.2) and I suspect you are suffering the same. It turned out to (probably) be a compiler optimzation problem. I could do select int4(4::int8/4::int8); and it would work on a machine compiled under gcc 2.95.2 but failed with "int8 conversion to in

Re: [GENERAL] PL/java?

2001-08-31 Thread Marshall Spight
>> -Original Message- >> From: Dr. Evil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 7:38 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [GENERAL] PL/java? >> >> >> What do you think of having java as a procedural language available in >> PG? It seems like java has many advantag

[GENERAL] plpgsql function parameter questions

2001-08-31 Thread augie
these 2 questions are actually unrelated... 1. what version of pg do i need to go to in order to eliminate the '16 parameter maximum' restraint? 2. can i pass an array of integers to a function? can i return an array of integers? if so, what would the function definition look like? thanks

[GENERAL] Questions about unicode.

2001-08-31 Thread Corn
Hi all, I had create a database that encoded as unicode. And then, I put some data into the database by two different machine(win2000), but using different character set used, Traditional & Simplified Chinese. But I cannot read all chinese in right format. like, on traditional windo

[GENERAL] Newbie ...Function error (Stored Procedure)?

2001-08-31 Thread Ron S
I have a sequence called seq1. In psql I am trying to create a function which simply calls this sequence with the nextval() function. CREATE FUNCTION testid() RETURNS INTEGER AS 'SELECT NEXTVAL('seq1');' LANGUAGE 'SQL'; I get the following error ERROR: parser: parser error at or near "seq

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL On the Mac? OS9 or OSX?

2001-08-31 Thread Israel Evans
In looking over the documentation, I haven't seen any evidence of PostgreSQL working on the Mac. Is this the case, or am I missing something. Has anyone heard of it ever being used on a mac? Thanks, ~Israel~ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3:

Re: [GENERAL] Compaq iPAQ and Postgresql

2001-08-31 Thread Tilman Schweitzer
Hi, we would anyway use a microdrive. We have quite large DICOM images so only a few would fit into RAMdisk/Flash on the iPAQ. We could use DICOMDIR then although it's not very performant. Maybe this situtation changes with 32MB of FlashROM and 64MB of RAM as proposed in future iPAQ releases. Ti

[GENERAL] Indexes and Timestamp Comparisons

2001-08-31 Thread Josh Voils
I have a table called session: Table "session" Attribute | Type | Modifier +--+-- sessionid | character(32)| not null usernumber | integer | not null timestamp | timestamp with time

[GENERAL] Regarding Vacuumdb

2001-08-31 Thread Bhuvaneswari
hi, I am getting the following error while doing vacuumdb, ERROR: mdopen: couldn't open test1: No such file or directory vacuumdb: database vacuum failed on db1. Here 'db1' is the database and 'test1' is a table. When, displaying the structure of the table 'test1', it comes correctly. But I can'

[GENERAL] Variable case database names

2001-08-31 Thread amprasad
Whenever i create a database with command : psql -h HostName -p PortName -c "create database DATABASENAME " template1 The database is created with small case . How can i create variable case data bases ? regards AMBIKA ---(end of broa

[GENERAL] !! Newbie question!!!! connecting to multiple databases

2001-08-31 Thread uncleleo
I am attemping to create multiple databases with Postgresql ver. 7.0.3 running on Mandrake 8.0 rpm. The tool that I am using is Pgadmin ver 7.1.0. Can someone tell me how I can connect to different databases in a single select statement? Such as, I have a database named "Customer" and another n

[GENERAL] Error on postgresql driver (or pg_hba)

2001-08-31 Thread Ron Looi
I'm getting the following error from my application log file. I'm using Postgres 7.1.2 running on HP-UX 11.0. These errors are results from our Java servlet programs using the postgresql driver: "Something unusual has occured to cause the driver to fail. Please report this exception: java.sql.

Re: [GENERAL] speed of communication and pgsql development

2001-08-31 Thread Alex Knight
There is an IRC channel already on EFnet... Visit #postgresql. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gowey, Geoffrey Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 8:35 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [GENERAL] speed of communication and pgsql development

[GENERAL] Apache authentication

2001-08-31 Thread Giorgio Volpe
I have a problem with apache authentication. I recently upgrade to postgresql v7.1, upgrading debian distribution (to woody, testing distribution) and i discovered that  the pakage for apache authentication is no longer there. (may be they suggest to use PAM instead) This is really a problem for

[GENERAL] Deployment of PostgreSQL Applications

2001-08-31 Thread Mike Arace
Hi everyone, I'm working on a (sorry) closed source application which consists of Java servlets, beans, and client applications talking to a postgresql database. Now, lets say I'm interested in bundling this all together and selling it to customers. 2 questions: 1) Is it legal to bundle Pos

[GENERAL] m4 macro for pgsql

2001-08-31 Thread Andrzej Roszkowski
Hi! Where I can find m4 macro for pgsql for auto* ? Code reviews are like sex, just anyone can do it, but skill and training can make you a lot better at it." - LJ Thomas ---(end of broadcast)---

[GENERAL] Create table syntax

2001-08-31 Thread satish rao
Hi Entered below is the SQL create table syntax: CREATE TABLE lists ( [listid] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL , [listname] [varchar] (200) NULL , [listcreator] [varchar] (200) NULL , [listdesc] [text] NULL) We need to know that this syntax will work properly in

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT FOR UPDATE

2001-08-31 Thread Cody
I just finished reading Bruce M's book, so this thread confuses me, esp. Jan's posts. I take full heed of the need for application level user/thread management, but I was interested in using a parallel set-up in PG (however redundant that might be). Now that Jan has discounted "SELECT...FOR UPDA

[GENERAL] Wanted: Postgres 6.5.3 dll

2001-08-31 Thread Jacek Lampart
Hi, For reasons beyond my control I really need a binary version of Postgres 6.5.3. for WinNT. Could anyone please tell me where I can find it? I'd compile it myself, but I have a lousy modem connection and downloading the sources would take forever. Any help will be appreciated. TIA ;-) --

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT FOR UPDATE

2001-08-31 Thread Cody
> It seems to me that SELECT ... FOR UPDATE is not the way to go if > it is possible that the selected record may be held for any length > of time. But transactions are supposed to occur very quickly. > For instance, say you are storing web pages in the database, and you > want a number of devel

[GENERAL] Locate on Max() and Group By

2001-08-31 Thread A. Snelders
I have the next problem: I open an table with select dnkey, Max(dvnaam) as dvnaam2, Max(dvpersoonnr) as dvpersoonnr from tbmedewerker group by dnkey When I want to locate like TblTbPGSMedew.Locate( 'dvnaam2', 'Hallo', [ ]); then 'Hallo' isn't find but when I open the table without Max(

[GENERAL] ERROR: Function 'format_type(oid, int4)' does not exist

2001-08-31 Thread Ben Udkow
I am converting my PostgreSQL database to 7.1.2. I dumped my database out of the old server, then dumped it into the new one. Everything takes okay, but my Indexes are not working. When I do a "\d" it lists the Name, Type, and Owner, but when I try and do a \d on a specific table, I get thi

Re: [GENERAL] Newbie ...Function error (Stored Procedure)?

2001-08-31 Thread Arne Weiner
You have to escape the ' inside of your function definition: CREATE FUNCTION testid() RETURNS INTEGER AS 'SELECT nextval(\'seq1\');' LANGUAGE 'SQL'; The quotationmark in front of seq1 terminated the literal string that should contain your SQL statement and the parser was confused to find an 's'

Re: [GENERAL] query help

2001-08-31 Thread wsheldah
For one specific label: select TableB.label from TableA, TableB where TableA.idA=TableB.idA and TableA.name='test2'; To get a list of name-label pairs: select TableA.name, TableB.label from TableA, TableB where TableA.idA=TableB.idA order by TableA.name, TableB.label; "G.L. Grobe" <[EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] PL/java?

2001-08-31 Thread Alex Knight
I keep hearing all this talk about Java being slow, and how compiled Java is nearly as slow as interpreted languages... If Java was _that_ slow, do you think it would be powering a majority of the Enterprise level sites out there? Java is really more than just hype. Surely it isn't nearly as fast

[GENERAL] Interaction Record (Journal Table?)

2001-08-31 Thread Clark C . Evans
I was thinking that for the application I'm working on, it'd be nice to have a journal (as an XML fragment) which describes the interactions within the database... 3493 Clark Evans Cameron I was wondering if anyone has done something simi

Re: MySQL's (false?) claims... (was: Re: [GENERAL] PL/java?)

2001-08-31 Thread Denis A. Doroshenko
yeah, by the way, doing dump/restore not such a bad thing, as mysql may say. supporting old stuff is sometimes horrible. look at micro$oft, which carries all the sh.t through its OSs... -- Denis A. Doroshenko [GPRS engineer] .-._|_ | [Omnitel Ltd., T.Sevcenkos st. 25,

Re: MySQL's (false?) claims... (was: Re: [GENERAL] PL/java?)

2001-08-31 Thread Denis A. Doroshenko
how that can come, that table locking is faster than versioning? from how i understand versioning it can't be slower. and saying that "possible access problems" with table can be avoided be specially designing application. God! i must design specially for mysql, being locking whole tables. this p

Re: [GENERAL] PL/java?

2001-08-31 Thread Sean Chittenden
> I'm just wondering if people have thoughts or ideas on this, and if > someone is actually working on it, that would be cool. Why would that be cool? Because it's an OO language? If that's the criteria for cool, check out pl/Ruby. It's a pure OO language (java isn't) and is a joy to w

Re: [GENERAL] What's wrong about this sql statement?

2001-08-31 Thread Arne Weiner
Corn wrote: There is a comma missing. The Statement must be CREATE TABLE usersright ( userid INTEGER NOT NULL, rightid INTEGER NOT NULL, allow BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT FALSE, ^^^ CONSTRAINT pk_usersright PRIMARY KEY (userid, rightid) );