Re: [GENERAL] need for concrete info

2003-10-12 Thread Keary Suska
on 10/11/03 6:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said: > Well, now I am writing a proposal, which among many other points, > proposes to switch from the current hosting site of a non profit to a > slightly more expensive one running PostgreSQL, (where I have some other > projects.) I want to use

Re: [GENERAL] Temporary tables and miscellaneous schemas

2003-10-12 Thread Tom Lane
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To follow-up then, if the temp schemas do not disappear, then over time > what happens (as temp tables are instantiated during normal application > usage), does the database end up with an ever-increasing number of these > temp schemas? No, you will never have more th

Re: [GENERAL] Temporary tables and miscellaneous schemas

2003-10-12 Thread Tom Lane
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's up with these miscellaneous schemas? Are they in fact related to > the creation of temporary tables? Should they disappear when the session > closes, as should the temporary table? If they continue persisting after > the session closes, how do I get rid of them?

Re: [GENERAL] A conditional DROP TABLE function

2003-10-12 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Hi David, David Link wrote: Hi All, Here's a Conditional drop_table func for those interested. There was a thread on this a long time back. We do this all the time : DELETE TABLE sales; CREATE TABLE sales (...); Hm. "all the time" enables all the warning lights - what are you doing to have

Re: Redhat RPMs (Was: [GENERAL] Debian experimental packages

2003-10-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 00:28, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:17:53PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > I haven't got any further than this, but I wonder if this is something > > that would be useful to the whole project and not just to the > > distributions. Any comments? > > N

[GENERAL] Temporary tables and miscellaneous schemas

2003-10-12 Thread btober
Whenever I create a temporary table, with something like CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE temptable1 AS SELECT * FROM paid.ad_hoc_query; New schemas appear, with names like "pg_temp_1". I guess the appearance of these schemas with "temp" in the name indicates that they are "temporary" schemas and related t

Re: Redhat RPMs (Was: [GENERAL] Debian experimental packages

2003-10-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 10:21:39AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I imagine a lot of people have such in-house set-ups. The question is > whether the project itself should provide the structure to do it. I'd love to have something like this. It'd be really useful to be able to install multiple ve

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 7.4 : ECPG not Thread-safe

2003-10-12 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 04:42:18PM +0200, Thierry Missimilly wrote: > I don't know if it is really link to Postgres and ECPG but if you > modifiy pgbch.pgc in the way that the > transaction is limited to "BEGIN; END; ", it will never hang. Do you mean it only hangs if you do automatic transaction