Re: [GENERAL] Autoincremental value

2004-08-13 Thread gnari
"Josué Maldonado" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > El 13/08/2004 10:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] en su mensaje > escribio: > > ... > > insert into table1 (field1) values (1); > > insert into table1 (field1) values (1); > > insert into table1 (field1) values (2); > > > > and then select * from table1, you

[GENERAL] psql wishlist: value completion

2004-08-13 Thread David Garamond
Wouldn't it be cool if someday psql could do value completion? # delete from person where lastname = 'Garam # delete from person where lastname = 'Garamond' _ # delete from person where firstname = 'Da # delete from person where firstname = 'Da Damian Darren DaveDavidDawson # delete

Re: [GENERAL] Autoincremental value

2004-08-13 Thread Ben
Yep, use the serial datatype. And then use the helpful documention. :) http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/datatype.html#DATATYPE-SERIAL http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html#4.15.2 On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi I'm a newbie in postgresql, I came from MSSQL, MySQ

Re: [GENERAL] Autoincremental value

2004-08-13 Thread Mage
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when insert rows: insert into table1 (field1) values (1); insert into table1 (field1) values (1); insert into table1 (field1) values (2); and then select * from table1, you get: field1| field2 --+--- 1 | 1 1 | 2 2 | 1 --+--- Do you mean: field

Re: [GENERAL] Autoincremental value

2004-08-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 13:50:48 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi I'm a newbie in postgresql, I came from MSSQL, MySQL and now > I'm testing postgres. > In mysql there is a way to make a second autoincrement field, just: Use serial for the type. You probably want to read up on sequences and

Re: [GENERAL] Autoincremental value

2004-08-13 Thread Josué Maldonado
Hello, El 13/08/2004 10:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] en su mensaje escribio: Hi I'm a newbie in postgresql, I came from MSSQL, MySQL and now I'm testing postgres. In mysql there is a way to make a second autoincrement field, just: create table table1 (field1 integer, field2 integer autoincrement, prim

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql 8.0 beta 1 service issue

2004-08-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Right, you can not use them both because the statistics per statement and per-stage can't be done with the one set of system counters we have. The server logs should show the cause with a description of this. This wasn't documented in the docs but I just added something. ---

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql 8.0 beta 1 service issue

2004-08-13 Thread Shelby Cain
Thanks for the info. --- Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right, you can not use them both because the > statistics per statement > and per-stage can't be done with the one set of > system counters we have. > > The server logs should show the cause with a > description of this. > >

[GENERAL] Autoincremental value

2004-08-13 Thread adburne
Hi I'm a newbie in postgresql, I came from MSSQL, MySQL and now I'm testing postgres. In mysql there is a way to make a second autoincrement field, just: create table table1 (field1 integer, field2 integer autoincrement, primary key (field1,field2)) when insert rows: insert into table1 (field1)

[GENERAL] Postgresql 8.0 beta 1 service issue

2004-08-13 Thread Shelby Cain
When I enable log_statement_stats AND log_parser_stats in my postgresql.conf file and attempt the start the service I receive the following error: "Could not start the PostgreSQL Database SErver 8.0-beta1 service on Local Computer. The service did not return an error." Attempting to start the se

Re: [GENERAL] Clustering, mirroriing, or replication?

2004-08-13 Thread Chris Ochs
> > Does anyone know what's the most reliable platform postgresql can run on? > With or without scheduled downtime? This reminded me... Not long ago I was looking at used sun servers. You can pick up refurbished sun enterprise systems for between $4,000 and $10,000 fairly easily. For instance

Re: [GENERAL] Clustering, mirroriing, or replication?

2004-08-13 Thread terry
I find 7.3 and 7.4 to be rock solid on dual processor servers of Intel P4 and Xeon running RH9 and Xeon running Fedora Core 2. My systems run heavy load for about 6 hours straight each night when it is syncing data with legacy systems (disk io and cpu maxed out). I don't use replication, just n

[GENERAL] Postgres 8.0 -> BEGIN EXCEPTION END Syntax????

2004-08-13 Thread Daniel Schuchardt
Hi , can anybody tell me the postgres - syntax for begin excepion end if I want to ignore the error? BEGIN exception ... EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN ?what to write for do nothing? END; in oracle it's WHEN OTHERS THEN null; but this syntax doesn't work in postgres. thnx Daniel

Re: [GENERAL] Clustering, mirroriing, or replication?

2004-08-13 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
Most replication systems add a fair amount of complexity. How reliable are current replication systems? Are they replication systems for performance or for reliability+availability? How much does it cost to make sure that the probability of both master and failover machines failing is lower or

Re: [GENERAL] heap errors - should I be worried?

2004-08-13 Thread Ulrich Wisser
Hi Tom, WARNING: Index pg_statistic_relid_att_index: NUMBER OF INDEX' TUPLES (163) IS NOT THE SAME AS HEAP' (345). Recreate the index. Should these errors worry me? Yeah, they should. A REINDEX will probably get you out of the immediate problem, but the more interesting question is how

Re: [GENERAL] heap errors - should I be worried?

2004-08-13 Thread Tom Lane
Ulrich Wisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > WARNING: Index pg_statistic_relid_att_index: NUMBER OF INDEX' TUPLES > (163) IS NOT THE SAME AS HEAP' (345). > Recreate the index. > Should these errors worry me? Yeah, they should. A REINDEX will probably get you out of the immediate proble

Re: [GENERAL] REINDEX problem

2004-08-13 Thread Tom Lane
Ulrich Wisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -bash-2.05b$ postgres -D /var/lib/pgsql/data/ -O -P CLIX1 > ... > backend> REINDEX DATABASE CLIX1 > ERROR: REINDEX DATABASE: Can be executed only on the currently open > database. The database name is evidently all upper case, so you need double quotes

Re: [GENERAL] ODBC Driver Standards

2004-08-13 Thread Richard Huxton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; I am being asked if the ODBC drivers are "compliant to 3.x standards with backwards compatibility to 2. x functions". We are currently using 7.3.5 and the last ODBC driver I downloaded for use on Windows is psqlodbc-07_03_0200.zip I have had a peruse about and not

[GENERAL] ODBC Driver Standards

2004-08-13 Thread val
Hi; I am being asked if the ODBC drivers are "compliant to 3.x standards with backwards compatibility to 2. x functions". We are currently using 7.3.5 and the last ODBC driver I downloaded for use on Windows is psqlodbc-07_03_0200.zip I have had a peruse about and not found any info about st

[GENERAL] heap errors - should I be worried?

2004-08-13 Thread Ulrich Wisser
Hello, yesterday I took our database down and started in single user mode. After reindexing of three tables I thought a vacuum would be a good idea. backend> VACUUM FULL VERBOSE ANALYZE WARNING: Index pg_statistic_relid_att_index: NUMBER OF INDEX' TUPLES (163) IS NOT THE SAME AS HEAP' (345).

[GENERAL] REINDEX problem

2004-08-13 Thread Ulrich Wisser
Hello, the maintainance chapter in the docs gave me the impression that a reindex of some tables would be a good idea. Last night I took the database down, started up in single user mode and tried to reindex. The reindex of tables did work fine, but a reindex of the database did not. Please see