Re: [GENERAL] Postgreqsl & Package

2003-10-22 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 16:41, Birahim FALL wrote: > Hi, > I was an oracle dev/admin and I'm quite new to postgresql. > Postgresql is great, but something bothers me. > It seems that there's no concept of PACKAGE in PL/pgSQL as in Oracle > PL/SQL. > Is is definitely that? or did I missed somet

Re: [GENERAL] Postgreqsl & Package

2003-10-22 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 17:11, Birahim FALL wrote: > Thanks, Shridhar, > I've read something like that in my search this morning! > But doing that you can have only one package in the scope of a schema. > Then in a multipackage project these packages cannot access directly to > the same object

[GENERAL] Identifier max length

2003-10-22 Thread Birahim FALL
Title: Message Hi, Certainly a stupid question : What is the max length for identifiers. A test shows me 63 for a table name. I just imagine it's the same for constraint name, view name etc ... but I'm not sure. Or where can I get this info, because it's not in the Postgresl docs ! Thanks

[GENERAL] Atrybutes ???

2003-10-22 Thread Grendel
Hello !!! I have store some attrybutes to database. Attrybutes are set of integer values. {1,5,7} is valid set, but {1,3,1} is not valid set I have to build compare relation i.e. {1,5,7} is equivalent to {5,7,1} or {1,7,5} etc. but {1,5,7} is not equivalent to {5,1} or {1,4,2} What's best solut

Re: [GENERAL] Same conditions, different planning?

2003-10-22 Thread Doug McNaught
Pedro Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As a final attempt I tryed a pg_dumpall; initdb; psql -f . It > seems to work as expected (!) It may have been a case of index bloat--did you ever REINDEX? That might have fixed it without a dump/reload. 7.4 has fixes for the index bloat proble

Re: [GENERAL] Indexes and querys

2003-10-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Josué Maldonado writes: > I have a table with an index in a foreing key field (int4), if I do > select from pedido where prvdfk=3, explain says is using seq scan to > access it. I noticed all my querys runs in that way, except in the > querys where the PK field (unique type index) is included in t

Re: [GENERAL] database files

2003-10-22 Thread Dann Corbit
> -Original Message- > From: Gail Zacharias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 12:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [GENERAL] database files > > > I am investigating the possibility of using pgsql as the > database in an application. I have some unusua

[GENERAL] database files

2003-10-22 Thread Gail Zacharias
I am investigating the possibility of using pgsql as the database in an application. I have some unusual requirements that I'd like to ask you all about. I apologize in advance if my terminology is a little "off", I'm not familiar with pgsql (yet). I need to be able to move the database files,

Re: [GENERAL] Identifier max length

2003-10-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Birahim FALL wrote: > Hi, Certainly a stupid question : What is the max length for > identifiers. A test shows me 63 for a table name. I just > imagine it's the same for constraint name, view name etc ... > but I'm not sure. Or where can I get this info, because it's > not in the Postgresl docs

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql: return multiple result sets or temp table

2003-10-22 Thread Jeff Eckermann
--- Oksana Yasynska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff, > > thank you for the time and suggestion. > I'm also trying to use SETOF custom_type as a > solution I don't believe that works in 7.2. But if you do make it work, be sure to tell me how ;-) That will work with 7.3, but I am assuming that,

Re: [GENERAL] Adding fields on the fly

2003-10-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Gail Zacharias writes: > Is this even possible? Is ALTER TABLE supported? Yes. (RTFM) > If so, what performance characteristics can I expect? Compared to, say, > inserting a record, can I expect this to be 10 times slower? 1000 times > slower? What does the performance depend on? Number of row

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL v7.4 Beta5 Available for Testing

2003-10-22 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Oct 3rd, we released beta4 in the hopes that it would be the final beta before going into the "Release" phase of development ... due to several bug fixes over the past 3 weeks, we've decided to release a Beta5 in order to flesh out any bugs that may have been introduced ... Beta5 contains seve

[GENERAL] Adding fields on the fly

2003-10-22 Thread Gail Zacharias
I am investigating the possibility of using pgsql as the database in an application. I have some unusual requirements that I'd like to ask you all about. I apologize in advance if my terminology is a little "off", I'm not familiar with pgsql (yet). My first requirement is that I need to be abl

[GENERAL] Indexes and querys

2003-10-22 Thread Josué Maldonado
Hello list, I have a table with an index in a foreing key field (int4), if I do select from pedido where prvdfk=3, explain says is using seq scan to access it. I noticed all my querys runs in that way, except in the querys where the PK field (unique type index) is included in the where clause.

[GENERAL] ANNOUNCE: Bricolage-Devel 1.7.0

2003-10-22 Thread David Wheeler
It give me great pleasure to announce the release of Bricolage-Devel 1.7.0, the first development release for what will eventually become Bricolage 1.8.0. In addition to all of the bug fixes included in the 1.6.x series, this version of the open-source content management system adds a number of s

[GENERAL] ANNOUNCE: Bricolage 1.6.7

2003-10-22 Thread David Wheeler
I'm pleased to announce the release of Bricolage 1.6.7. This maintenance release addresses a few issues discovered since the release of version 1.6.6. Some of the more important changes include: * Fixed "bric_soap" to accept a "--server" argument starting with "https", which is more f

Re: [GENERAL] database files

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Gail Zacharias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is the file format of the pgsql database files compatible between >> OS's? E.g. could I take some database files from Linux and use them >> on Windows? > I don't know the answer to that, but I would be interested in finding

Re: [GENERAL] database files

2003-10-22 Thread jearl
Gail Zacharias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am investigating the possibility of using pgsql as the database in > an application. I have some unusual requirements that I'd like to > ask you all about. I apologize in advance if my terminology is a > little "off", I'm not familiar with pgsql (ye

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger

2003-10-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
scott.marlowe writes: > A trigger inside a transaction should automagically roll back should the > transaction fail, shouldn't it? The database actions that the trigger possibly executed are rolled back just like any other database actions. But if your trigger does something external to the data

[GENERAL] ANNOUNCE: Bricolage 1.6.7

2003-10-22 Thread David Wheeler
I'm pleased to announce the release of Bricolage 1.6.7. This maintenance release addresses a few issues discovered since the release of version 1.6.6. Some of the more important changes include: * Fixed "bric_soap" to accept a "--server" argument starting with "https", which is more f

[GENERAL] plpgsql extract epoch problem

2003-10-22 Thread Darren Ferguson
Hey all I am trying to extract the epoch from a timestamp variable in plpgsql. The function is as follows: create or replace function test() returns integer as ' declare _test timestamp with time zone; _f integer; begin _test := current_timestamp; _f := extract(epoch from timestamp _test); re

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger

2003-10-22 Thread scott.marlowe
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Peter Childs wrote: > Is it possible to deferr a trigger until commit, Or to have the > trigger not occur if the transaction is rolled back? Like transaction. > I think its possible since constraints use triggers and if so why > is this a standard feature. >

Re: [GENERAL] [Erserver-general] alternate eRServer build

2003-10-22 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 03:03 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:43:54PM -0400, Andrew Rawnsley wrote: This is to announce an alternate fork/build of the eRServer 1.2 code base, provided to the community for testing purposes. If everything works out fine, and the Powe

Re: [GENERAL] Identifier max length

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis Gearon
Bruce Momjian wrote: Birahim FALL wrote: Hi, Certainly a stupid question : What is the max length for identifiers. A test shows me 63 for a table name. I just imagine it's the same for constraint name, view name etc ... but I'm not sure. Or where can I get this info, because it's not in the

Re: [GENERAL] [Erserver-general] alternate eRServer build

2003-10-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 02:43:54PM -0400, Andrew Rawnsley wrote: > > This is to announce an alternate fork/build of the eRServer 1.2 code > base, provided to the community for testing purposes. If > everything works out fine, and the Powers That Be approve, we can work > on moving some of it to

Re: [GENERAL]

2003-10-22 Thread Fernando Nasser
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Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql extract epoch problem

2003-10-22 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:50:22PM -0400, Darren Ferguson wrote: > create or replace function test() returns integer as ' > declare > _test timestamp with time zone; > _f integer; > begin > _test := current_timestamp; > _f := extract(epoch from timestamp _test); Why not simply _f := extract(e

[GENERAL] Prepared Statements

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Dahnke
Does anyone know the exact definition of a Prepared Statement? String sql = "SELECT count(id) FROM customer"; executeQuery(sql); I assume the sql string is a prepared statement? Semantic debate here. - Thx ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql extract epoch problem

2003-10-22 Thread Darren Ferguson
Sorry found the answer I was taking the docs to literal It should be extract(epoch from _test) Sorry for the email Darren Darren Ferguson wrote: Hey all I am trying to extract the epoch from a timestamp variable in plpgsql. The function is as follows: create or replace function test() returns in

Re: [GENERAL] poor cpu utilization on dual cpu box

2003-10-22 Thread Andreas Fromm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is probably not really a pg issue that you don't get your CPUs fully used. I would guess that one CPU saturates the memory bus or the disk bandwidth depending on where your data is. This is the typical behavior for memory bounded applications where

[GENERAL] SCSI vs. IDE performance test

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
http://hardware.devchannel.org/hardwarechannel/03/10/20/1953249.shtml?tid=20&tid=38&tid=49 -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA I can't make you have an abortion, but you can *make* me pay child support for 18 y

Re: [GENERAL] unexpected query behavior with UTF text

2003-10-22 Thread Indra Heckenbach
Hi, Thanks for the response. I actually have tried to re initdb with locale=C and I got the same results. If my locale is ignoring Ja chars, how can I change that? I expected that UTF-8 would consider all characters, being a universal encoding. A colleague also tried the same test with a

[GENERAL] poor cpu utilization on dual cpu box

2003-10-22 Thread Simon Sadedin
Folks,   I’m hoping someone can give me some pointers to resolving an issue with postgres and it’s ability to utilize multiple CPUs effectively.   The issue is that no matter how much query load we throw at our server it seems almost impossible to get it to utilize more than 50% cpu on a dual-cpu