Re: [GENERAL] (S)RPMS for 7.4.4 released.

2004-08-18 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 10:44, Gaetano Mendola wrote: > Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > For RPM users, (S)RPMS for 7.4.4 was just built. We have (S)RPMS for: > > > > * Red Hat Linux 9 > > * Fedora Core 1 > > * Fedora Core 2 > > * Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 > > > > They will be ava

Re: [GENERAL] Could not create a table named "USER" under postgreSQL

2004-08-18 Thread Dann Corbit
Are you aware that there is NO zero year? The common era starts with the year 1 AD. There is also no zero month, and there is no zero day. All three parts of your date are hence invalid. E.g. the date -00-00 does not exist, and neither does 0001-00-00 or -01-00 etc. If you are determine

Re: [GENERAL] Could not create a table named "USER" under postgreSQL

2004-08-18 Thread gnari
"Ying Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a question about "date" & "timestamp" types in PostgreSQL. I want > to setup the default value '-00-00' and "-00-00 00:00:00" for > them. However, it seems that PostgreSQL does not support it. Could > someone helps me please? if you want

Re: [GENERAL] Date and Timestamps

2004-08-18 Thread Stephan Szabo
[As a note, it's a bad idea to put a new message with a new problem in the same thread.] On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Ying Lu wrote: > I have a question about "date" & "timestamp" types in PostgreSQL. I want > to setup the default value '-00-00' and "-00-00 00:00:00" for > them. However, it seem

Re: [GENERAL] Could not create a table named "USER" under postgreSQL

2004-08-18 Thread Ying Lu
Thanks a lot. That is what I am looking for :) Emi Dann Corbit wrote: According to the current SQL language ANSI/ISO standard, the following are reserved words: ::= ABS | ALL | ALLOCATE | ALTER | AND | ANY | ARE | ARRAY | AS | ASENSITIVE | ASYMMETRIC | AT | ATOMIC | AUTHORIZATION | AVG | BEGIN |

Re: [GENERAL] Could not create a table named "USER" under postgreSQL

2004-08-18 Thread Dann Corbit
According to the current SQL language ANSI/ISO standard, the following are reserved words: ::= ABS | ALL | ALLOCATE | ALTER | AND | ANY | ARE | ARRAY | AS | ASENSITIVE | ASYMMETRIC | AT | ATOMIC | AUTHORIZATION | AVG | BEGIN | BETWEEN | BIGINT | BINARY | BLOB | BOOLEAN | BOTH | BY | CALL | CALLED

[GENERAL] Could not create a table named "USER" under postgreSQL

2004-08-18 Thread Ying Lu
Hello, I have a question about "date" & "timestamp" types in PostgreSQL. I want to setup the default value '-00-00' and "-00-00 00:00:00" for them. However, it seems that PostgreSQL does not support it. Could someone helps me please? The example table: T1 (col1 varchar(7) not null,

Re: [GENERAL] Could not create a table named "USER" under

2004-08-18 Thread Bill Moran
Ying Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a table named "USER" under MySQL database. When I am trying to > move tables from MySQL to PostgreSQL, I found that I could not create a > table namely "USER". I guess "USER" is a key string used by PostgreSQL > system so that we could not

Re: [GENERAL] Installing FullTextSearchTool tsearch2

2004-08-18 Thread George Essig
> could not access file$libdir/tsearch2: no such file or directory I'm guessing that you did not first run configure in the root directory of the postgresql source tree (not contrib/tsearch2). Tsearch2 doesn't know where to install its files. This might help: http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/post

Re: [GENERAL] Could not create a table named "USER" under postgreSQL

2004-08-18 Thread gnari
"Ying Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did write: > Hello, > > I have a table named "USER" under MySQL database. When I am trying to > move tables from MySQL to PostgreSQL, I found that I could not create a > table namely "USER". I guess "USER" is a key string used by PostgreSQL > system so that we co

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql feature

2004-08-18 Thread Andrew Rawnsley
If you use it enough, I think it is inevitable that something, sometime, somewhere will really honk you off about Oracle. With the feature bloat they're into these days, very likely it will be something you care nothing about that does it, too. On Aug 18, 2004, at 2:08 PM, Ben wrote: Is it just

Re: [GENERAL] Could not create a table named "USER" under postgreSQL

2004-08-18 Thread Mike Mascari
Ying Lu wrote: Hello, I have a table named "USER" under MySQL database. When I am trying to move tables from MySQL to PostgreSQL, I found that I could not create a table namely "USER". I guess "USER" is a key string used by PostgreSQL system so that we could not create a table named "USER". Is t

[GENERAL] can postgresql handle these large tables

2004-08-18 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi folks, I'm busy with analyzing some data and therefore will have to store 2 big tables containing 50 million obs & 25 million obs. Selecting some interesting obs can decrease these tables with maybe a factor 10 but eventually I will have to combine them using a join. These tables contain almost

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] tracking db changes / comparing databases

2004-08-18 Thread Marius Andreiana
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 16:09 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On of the problems I'm having is keeping a development/test-session > seperate from a production-system. I *Want* to have a seperate > production-installation, develop on my test-installation and when a > feature is complete and tested p

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql feature

2004-08-18 Thread Ben
Is it just me, or has there been a rash of "I'm thinking about postgres and coming from an oracle background" questions recently? Was there some writeup of postgres in a db rag in the last month or so? On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, John Sidney-Woollett wrote: > Bit more info (from my own findings migrat

[GENERAL] Could not create a table named "USER" under postgreSQL

2004-08-18 Thread Ying Lu
Hello, I have a table named "USER" under MySQL database. When I am trying to move tables from MySQL to PostgreSQL, I found that I could not create a table namely "USER". I guess "USER" is a key string used by PostgreSQL system so that we could not create a table named "USER". Is that true? Than

Re: [GENERAL] Installing FullTextSearchTool tsearch2

2004-08-18 Thread Jeffrey Melloy
Oleg Bartunov wrote: Marcel, it's very difficult from you message where do you lost. pgsql version, OS version, cut'n paste of commands you run and output would be fine. To install tsearch2 most people need (as postgresql superuser): 1. install postgresql and headers 2. cd contrib/tsearch2 3. make;

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql feature

2004-08-18 Thread John Sidney-Woollett
Bit more info (from my own findings migrating from Oracle -> Postgres) Sequences - YES Packages - NO (concept doesn't exist in PG) Functions - YES, Procedures - NO (also no INOUT or OUT parameters) Full-text - YES, tSearch2 Triggers - YES Jobs - NO, (but scheduled tasks can be implemented in other

Re: [GENERAL] (S)RPMS for 7.4.4 released.

2004-08-18 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Robert, On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Robert Treat wrote: > I've still got some RH7.3 servers around, which is the best SRPM to use for > those.. RHEL3 ? I'd use none of them for RH 7.3. I'm not sure that any of the srpms will work. But you might give

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: invalid frontend message type 8

2004-08-18 Thread Tom Lane
Steve Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've started seeing the following in my logs: > FATAL: invalid frontend message type 8 > I searched back over a month and there are 5 instances of this error > of which 4 are in the last 24 hours. > I could not find this error defined. Any ideas of w

Re: [GENERAL] Installing FullTextSearchTool tsearch2

2004-08-18 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Marcel, it's very difficult from you message where do you lost. pgsql version, OS version, cut'n paste of commands you run and output would be fine. To install tsearch2 most people need (as postgresql superuser): 1. install postgresql and headers 2. cd contrib/tsearch2 3. make; make install; mak

[GENERAL] FATAL: invalid frontend message type 8

2004-08-18 Thread Steve Crawford
I've started seeing the following in my logs: FATAL: invalid frontend message type 8 I searched back over a month and there are 5 instances of this error of which 4 are in the last 24 hours. I could not find this error defined. Any ideas of what it means, it's severity, how to track the cause

Re: [GENERAL] Autoincremental value

2004-08-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 12:22, Pierre-FrÃdÃric Caillaud wrote: > Suppose your table is like : > > key1key2 > 1 1 > 1 2 > 2 1 > > To get the next value to insert for key1=1 you can do this : > > SELECT key2 FROM ... WHERE key1=1 ORDER