Re: [GENERAL] Problem : Pound to Hash sign

2001-10-10 Thread Doug McNaught
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi there, > > This is Sanjay from Dublin, Ireland. I have a query related to JDBC. > > In the web based application we have designed we have used Oracle 8i to > store the data and Java as a front end. > > When a user enters some description against a field containi

Re: [GENERAL] kinda newbie - ish question

2001-10-10 Thread Marko Kreen
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 07:31:36PM -0700, Mike Judkins wrote: > Im trying to insert a record with a php script. I insert a NULL value > to get my auto increment unique key to automatically populate as > usual. Then I want to be able to insert another value in this same row > which is a URL. This U

Re: [GENERAL] Where to count

2001-10-10 Thread H. Wade Minter
The COUNT tells me how many times a particular combination of source IP, destination IP, and service appears in the logs. The ORDER BY puts it in decending order, and the LIMIT only shows me the top 25/50/etc. entries. It works like I want it to - I'm just checking to see if this is the most eff

Re: [GENERAL] kinda newbie - ish question

2001-10-10 Thread Sykora, Dale
Mike, Perhaps you could just insert the url into the record and then use a string function to return "url"+"id" when needed. This would eliminate the extra insert and save space in the row. Dale > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent

Re: [GENERAL] database field "pointer"

2001-10-10 Thread Doug McNaught
Jeff Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering is there is a good method to make a database field a > pointer, similar to C. Here is an example I made up of why this could be > useful: > Suppose I have a table 'coworkers' with 2 email address fields: work_email > and home_email. It w

Re: [GENERAL] kinda newbie - ish question

2001-10-10 Thread Doug McNaught
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Judkins) writes: > to get my auto increment unique key to automatically populate as > usual. Then I want to be able to insert another value in this same row > which is a URL. This URL is basically a path plus a filename which I > want to have the exact same name as the un

Re: [GENERAL] Contents of greatbridge.com?

2001-10-10 Thread Nick Fankhauser
try this: http://gborg.postgresql.org -Nick - Nick Fankhauser Business: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone 1.765.965.7363 Fax 1.765.962.9788 doxpop - Court records at your fingertips - http://www.doxpop.com/ Personal: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [GENERAL] triggers

2001-10-10 Thread Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos
> I started looking at the trigger support in PostgreSQL and found what I > needed except I'm not sure how to write the "body" of the trigger. In > Oracle I write PL/SQL but it seems I may have to write C code on the > PostgreSQL side. Is this true? Is there a PostgreSQL procedural language > t

[GENERAL] database field "pointer"

2001-10-10 Thread Jeff Davis
I was wondering is there is a good method to make a database field a pointer, similar to C. Here is an example I made up of why this could be useful: Suppose I have a table 'coworkers' with 2 email address fields: work_email and home_email. It would be useful to have another fie

Re: [GENERAL] Contents of greatbridge.com?

2001-10-10 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Tommy wrote: > >From what I understand they went out of business. I have not seen the site > morrored anywhere. > > I wonder what this means for the future of PostgreSQL? You must be new here 'cuze this has been covered many times in the last few weeks. PostgreSQL is not now

Re: [GENERAL] Conditional Adding to a Table

2001-10-10 Thread Aasmund Midttun Godal
just add a unique constraint on the things you want to be unique... On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:37:09 -0600, Glenn Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I need to check a table to see if an item already exist in the table. > It if does not, then I want to add it. Unfortunately, multip

Re: [GENERAL] database field "pointer"

2001-10-10 Thread Aasmund Midttun Godal
CREATE TABLE coworkers ( id serial PRIMARY KEY, name varchar(63) ); CREATE TABLE email_types ( type VARCHAR(10) PRIMARY KEY ); INSERT INTO email_types VALUES ('home'); INSERT INTO email_types VALUES ('work'); CREATE TABLE emails ( owner INTEGER REFERENCES coworke

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: Unrecognized language specified ...

2001-10-10 Thread Stephan Szabo
You'll need to use createlang to add the handler. IIRC, it's createlang On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Kevin HaleBoyes wrote: > I'm creating a function (for use in a trigger) from the example in the > documentation and encountered an error. If I type the following at > the psql prompt (database and us

Re: [GENERAL] Error Codes?

2001-10-10 Thread Fran Fabrizio
> Rob Arnold wrote: > > > Look at $db->errstr That has the text version of the error code. > > > > --rob Yes, but I want to know about the codes, not the text. If the codes exist, they are easier to work with than the text. -Fran ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [GENERAL] Performance problem with 50,000,000 rows

2001-10-10 Thread Feite Brekeveld
David Link wrote: Just, reading it and I always enter these kind of queries like: select i.isbn, t.vendor, i.store, i.qty from bk_inv i, bk_title t where t.vendor = '01672708' and i.isbn = t.isbn; Don't know if it makes a difference but I

Re: [GENERAL] PG mailing list problems (was Re: Support issues)

2001-10-10 Thread Jim Caley
Has anyone heard any more about this problem? I also haven't gotten anything from pgsql-general since Oct. 1. The other lists seem to be working fine for me. I tried re-subscribing, plus sending an e-mail to pgsql-general-admin. The re-subscribe seemed to go normally and successfully, but I st

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM, 24/7 availability and 7.2

2001-10-10 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just to keep things in perspective, how large are your current databases, and > what do you or the company consider to be a signficant length of time? Right > now I have a development database with just a few thousand records of test data, > and v

[GENERAL] Conditional Adding to a Table

2001-10-10 Thread Glenn Sullivan
Greetings, I need to check a table to see if an item already exist in the table. It if does not, then I want to add it. Unfortunately, multiple processes (Solaris system) can be running at the same time. Sometimes, one process checks to see if an item exist and it does not. At the same time ano

Re: [GENERAL] A tool for making console/text data enrty/display

2001-10-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, David. E. Goble wrote: > I am lazy. I which to write some c console/text programs to interface > with postgresql. Are there any tools/utilities, to help make the data > entry/display screens...? David, ncurses-5.2. Rich Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President

Re: [GENERAL] PG mailing list problems (was Re: Support issues)

2001-10-10 Thread Alvar Freude
Hi, > Has anyone heard any more about this problem? I also haven't gotten > anything from pgsql-general since Oct. 1. The other lists seem to be > working fine for me. I got since about one hour mails to an old account, which I disabled months ago. Perhaps someone took an old backup? Ciao

Re: [GENERAL] Session identifier

2001-10-10 Thread Mihai Gheorghiu
I want to design some (a significant number of) views able to select records from various tables for, say, current_client_account_number, which I would like to store/set in a table (not in a variable). Creating a temp table for storing these current_client_account_number would not help, because an

[GENERAL] Problems install with Python...

2001-10-10 Thread Eric D Nielsen
Hello, we're installing PostGreSQL 7.1.3 on a RH 7.1 system and we need the --with-python option. The ./configure step works fine, but gmake fails on the first occurence of an #include . We added a - --with-includes=/path/to/Python/includes, but doesn't seem to solve the problem. What else sho

[GENERAL] Performance problem with 50,000,000 rows

2001-10-10 Thread David Link
I'm new to PG but this just seems wrong. Can someone take a look: .---. .---. | bk_inv| | bk_title | |---| |---| | isbn |<--->| isbn | | store | | vendor| | qty | | | | week | `-

[GENERAL] Where to count

2001-10-10 Thread H. Wade Minter
I'm running a DB query on a database of firewall log entries (right now around 700k rows). What I want to do is pull out some common entries, as well as the number of times that they occur in the table. Right now, I'm doing a query like: select source,destination,service,count(*) FROM logs WHER

[GENERAL] Postgres --with-python problems..

2001-10-10 Thread Eric D Nielsen
Please ignore if this is a resend, but I got an error message on my mail that was unreadable in my mail reader. We are install PostGreSQL 7.1.3 on a RH 7.1 system with python. ./configure works fine, but gmake fails on the first file that has a #include with a file not found error. We've trie

[GENERAL] Sqlstatement with !=-1 fails

2001-10-10 Thread Dave Cramer
Hello, I get the following error pl=# select * from person where id !=-1; ERROR: Unable to identify an operator '!=-' for types 'int8' and 'int4' You will have to retype this query using an explicit cast pl=# select * from person where id =-1; id | name | last_update_time +--

[GENERAL] Error Codes?

2001-10-10 Thread Fran Fabrizio
I'm a bit confused about the current state of error codes in Pg. The docs and the mailing list archives seem to indicate that this is a TODO item, however, at least when using Perl with DBD::Pg, when I call $db->err() or examine $DBI::err I get a number back. For instance, 7 if I try to insert