Re: [GENERAL] phonetic and/or synonym search

2001-10-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
We have /contrib/soundex and items to help here. 7.2 will have even more of them. > > On Sunday, October 7, 2001, at 01:47 AM, Frank Joerdens wrote: > > > Does anyone know how to do a phonetic and/or synonym search (this would > > be for the German language mostly)? What's the approach in t

Re: [GENERAL] Any Good Way To Do Sync DB's?

2001-10-12 Thread Gordan Bobic
On 12 Oct 2001, Doug McNaught wrote: > Joseph Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a project where a client has products stored in a large Progress > > DB on an NT server. The web server is a FreeBSD box though, and the > > client wants to try to avoid the $5,500 license for the Unlimi

Re: [GENERAL] COMMIT after an ERROR?

2001-10-12 Thread Doug McNaught
J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does an error during a transaction invalidate the transaction? Yes, the transaction goes into ABORTED state and nothing after the error will succeed. > Translation: Do I need to monitor for error conditions during a > transaction and manually do the RO

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

2001-10-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
> 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 user are opf): > > opf=> create function opf_user_fillin() returns opaque as ' > opf'> begin > opf'> new.opf_user_id := n

Re: [GENERAL] Any Good Way To Do Sync DB's?

2001-10-12 Thread Doug McNaught
Joseph Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a project where a client has products stored in a large Progress > DB on an NT server. The web server is a FreeBSD box though, and the > client wants to try to avoid the $5,500 license for the Unlimited > Connections via OpenLink software and wou

[GENERAL] what's going on with this list?

2001-10-12 Thread Vivek Khera
Three times this week I've been switched from "nomail" to getting mail for this group. Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to be a black hole. I don't need this cluttering my mailbox when I read it via news. None of the other lists is doing this to me! ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [GENERAL] COMMIT after an ERROR?

2001-10-12 Thread Charles Tassell
The failed query will abort the transaction, and throw out every command that comes before or after it until your rollback.  You don't have to specifically issue a rollback unless you want to issue more commands though.  When you disconnect from the DB it will automatically roll back the transacti

Re: [GENERAL] pop3 server and Postgresql

2001-10-12 Thread Palle Girgensohn
On 10 Oct 2001, Steve Heaven wrote: > Does anyone know of a POP3 server that can use a Postgresql DB to > authenticate usernames & passwords ? The cyrus mail server has an authentication scheme whereby one can very easily plug in different ways of authenticating users. It is really cyrus sasl tha

Re: [GENERAL] Unixtime from timedate?

2001-10-12 Thread Palle Girgensohn
Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > > Hi, > > I might be missing something in the documentation but what I would need is > the time in seconds since 1970 from a datetime-column in a table (in Perl using > DBD:Pg). Could someone help me without using Posix::mktime? select date_part('epoch',now()::date

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

2001-10-12 Thread Doug McNaught
Erwin Lansing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We are having some trouble with some tables in which we have lots of > update's (and insert/delete's). "A lot" being several thousands per day > (I haven't measured the exact numbers recently). VACUUM is running twice > a day and locks these tables a lo

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple postgresql installations on one machine.

2001-10-12 Thread Charles Tassell
I may be wrong, but I don't think it's possible to have them on the same port.  The problem is that the TCP/IP port defaults to the same as the UNIX sockets port, and UNIX sockets are local to the machine, so they are completely independent of IP addresses and can not be duplicated.  It is possibl

Re: [GENERAL] Joining Between Databases

2001-10-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Myself along with a couple of co-workers have been searching for a way to > join tables from two postgres database. So far there are no indication that > this is possible, can someone shed some light on this subject. > > (P.S We are attemping to do this in the same database instance) The curre

Re: [GENERAL] Another episode of the regular MySql-PostgreSQL war

2001-10-12 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Alessio Bragadini wrote: > What strikes me is that this time the chief developer of MySql, Michael > 'Monty' Widenius, had time available to reply talking about how good > MySql is (including his famous benchmarks), which at least shows some > impolite manners and probably th

Re: [GENERAL] Contents of greatbridge.com?

2001-10-12 Thread Bruce Momjian
> --- Tommy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > > I would imagine that it would slow down the development a bit > until things settle

[GENERAL] Another episode of the regular MySql-PostgreSQL war on Slashdot

2001-10-12 Thread Alessio Bragadini
As usual, a rather harmless article on Slashdot about MySql ("Major Changes To MySQL Coming Soon") turned into a flaming discussion about the different virtues of MySql and PostgreSQL. What strikes me is that this time the chief developer of MySql, Michael 'Monty' Widenius, had time available to

Re: [GENERAL] "Relation x does not exist" error when x does exist

2001-10-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Gaurav Priyolkar writes: > test=> SELECT foo(); > ERROR: Relation 5483738 does not exist > test=> > test=> SELECT relname, relfilenode FROM pg_class WHERE relfilenode=5483738; > relname | relfilenode > -+- > foo_1 | 5483738 > (1 row) relfilenode has nothing to do wit

Re: [GENERAL] error codes when running pg_dumpall from a perl script.

2001-10-12 Thread Simon Crute
"Allan Engelhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > You'll want to ask on the perl groups, but briefly you get an illegal seek when your command writes to the error file descriptor: > > % perl -e '`echo hi 1>&2` or warn "Oops: $! $?";' > h

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

2001-10-12 Thread tony
On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 00:03, Feite Brekeveld 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.is

Re: [GENERAL] error codes when running pg_dumpall from a perl script.

2001-10-12 Thread Allan Engelhardt
You'll want to ask on the perl groups, but briefly you get an illegal seek when your command writes to the error file descriptor: % perl -e '`echo hi 1>&2` or warn "Oops: $! $?";' hi Oops: Illegal seek 0 at -e line 1. It's a perl feature, not a bug ;-) Try % man perlop for se

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

2001-10-12 Thread Erwin Lansing
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:22:07PM -0400, [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 reco

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

2001-10-12 Thread Erwin Lansing
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 04:22:07PM -0400, [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 reco

[GENERAL] Understanding explain costs

2001-10-12 Thread David Link
Hi, Trying to understand the planner estimate costs ... one index scan seems to be much more expensive then another. Here are the facts: tiger=# \dbk_inv Table "bk_inv" Attribute | Type | Modifier ---+--+-- store | varchar(5) |

[GENERAL] Multiple postgresql installations on one machine.

2001-10-12 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
Hi, Is it possible to have multiple postgresql installations on one machine running on the same port but on different IP addresses? I've specified different IPs/hostnames for the virtual_host but the unix socket clashes when I try. Should I just move the unix sockets somewhere else with -k, wh