[GENERAL] Windows install/uninstall as a "service"

2005-04-20 Thread Typing80wpm
When I did the windows install (NOT as a windows service) but as a task to be manually started and stopped, it did not creat a DATA directory, nor did it create a postgresql.conf file.I even used windows explorer search to confirm that no such file exists.  I did the uninstall and then reinst

Re: [GENERAL] What means Postgres?

2005-04-20 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Apr 21, 2005, at 1:28, Marc G. Fournier wrote: He was: http://www.discoverfrance.net/France/Art/Ingres/Ingres.shtml And its pronounced: {ang'-gruh} Could we get Bruce to record an MP3 for the site? Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com ---(end of broadcast)---

[GENERAL] windows, cant find ostgresql.conf

2005-04-20 Thread Typing80wpm
  I just did a windows install of postgresql.  I cannot find or edit the postgresql.conf.  This is a new Dell machine running XP Professional OS.   I chose not to install as a windows service, but as a job which I can start and stop.   Where should I look for help.   Is it easy to uninstall?

Re: [GENERAL] Baffling sequential scan plan when index scan would

2005-04-20 Thread Chris Smith
Hi Jeff, Maybe because the key is a bigint - you're looking for an int (int4). Try casting it to a bigint ? Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: I always thought I would not be the kind of person who writes to this list asking why the planner is using a sequential scan. I always looked upon such people as newc

Re: [GENERAL] Encoding problem

2005-04-20 Thread Andreas Seltenreich
Fritz Bayer schrob: > The problem is that alls the "ü" characters get displayed as "". > > Why is that so? This could happen when your locale isn't properly set up. If, for example, LC_CTYPE is set to C, your pager thinks this character isn't printable and tries to do something smart with it. You

Re: [GENERAL] Baffling sequential scan plan when index scan would

2005-04-20 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > I always thought I would not be the kind of person who writes to this > list asking why the planner is using a sequential scan. I always looked > upon such people as newcomers who would eventually learn the mysterious > wonders of the Pg query execu

[GENERAL] Baffling sequential scan plan when index scan would be best

2005-04-20 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
I always thought I would not be the kind of person who writes to this list asking why the planner is using a sequential scan. I always looked upon such people as newcomers who would eventually learn the mysterious wonders of the Pg query execution planner. But really, this plan is bizarre! Why

Re: [GENERAL] CURRENT_TIMESTAMP vs actual time

2005-04-20 Thread John DeSoi
On Apr 20, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: I understand that CURRENT_TIMESTAMP marks the beginning of the current transaction. I want it to be the actual time. How do I do this? timeofday() returns a string, how do I convert that into a TIMESTAMP? timeofday()::timestamp; Is it p

[GENERAL] CURRENT_TIMESTAMP vs actual time

2005-04-20 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
Hi, I understand that CURRENT_TIMESTAMP marks the beginning of the current transaction. I want it to be the actual time. How do I do this? timeofday() returns a string, how do I convert that into a TIMESTAMP? Is it possible to create a column with DEFAULT value evaluated to the actual current t

Re: [GENERAL] Strange interaction of union and expressions

2005-04-20 Thread Kevin Murphy
On Apr 20, 2005, at 1:24 PM, Aaron Bingham wrote: create table a (foo varchar); insert into a (foo) values ('baz'); create table b (foo varchar); insert into b (foo) values ('woof'); select '"' || foo || '"' as foo from (select foo from a) as bar union select foo from b; No, it's doing

Re: [GENERAL] Strange interaction of union and expressions

2005-04-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 07:24:08PM +0200, Aaron Bingham wrote: Hi, > create table a (foo varchar); >x insert into a (foo) values ('baz'); > create table b (foo varchar); > insert into b (foo) values ('woof'); > select '"' || foo || '"' as foo > from (select foo from a) as bar > unio

Re: [GENERAL] Strange interaction of union and expressions

2005-04-20 Thread Oleg Bartunov
I see no problem. You get what you want. Correct query is: select '"' || foo || '"' as foo from (select foo from a union select foo from b ) as bar; Oleg On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Aaron Bingham wrote: Hello all, We noticed some very odd behavior today with Postgres 7.4.5 Running the following SQL: c

Re: [GENERAL] I'm OWNER of the db but I get `permission denied` when

2005-04-20 Thread Jan Wieck
On 3/23/2005 11:22 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: David Gagnon wrote: Hi all, I just created a new db wich userX is owner. I log via pgAdminIII with the same user but I can't update the pg_class. You are a datdba but not a superuser :). You have to be a super user to update pg_class. and not only a

Re: [GENERAL] Strange interaction of union and expressions

2005-04-20 Thread Aaron Bingham
Kevin Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Apr 20, 2005, at 1:24 PM, Aaron Bingham wrote: >> create table a (foo varchar); >> insert into a (foo) values ('baz'); >> create table b (foo varchar); >> insert into b (foo) values ('woof'); >> select '"' || foo || '"' as foo >> from (select foo f

[GENERAL] Strange interaction of union and expressions

2005-04-20 Thread Aaron Bingham
Hello all, We noticed some very odd behavior today with Postgres 7.4.5 Running the following SQL: create table a (foo varchar); insert into a (foo) values ('baz'); create table b (foo varchar); insert into b (foo) values ('woof'); select '"' || foo || '"' as foo from (select foo from a) as

Re: [GENERAL] Regular expression. How to disable ALL meta-character in a regular expression

2005-04-20 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:28:28AM -0400, David Gagnon wrote: > > I have a web interface with offers a search field. This search field > will look for the string X in 12 different columns. If the string is > found anywhere I return the row. > > The problem is that the user is eable to put spa

[GENERAL] electronic-izing unicode texts

2005-04-20 Thread A. Cropi
hi everyone, i have several hundred books that were typed using unicode and would liek to put them into a database so that i can perform searches on them. how does one design a database for this? i was planning to make a table with these columns: ID, Title, Authors, Publishers, Content the Cont

Re: [GENERAL] Regular expression. How to disable

2005-04-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 13:05, David Gagnon wrote: > Hi Scott, > > > >I would generally scrub the input before it go to postgresql. Basically > >do a simple string_replace type function that replaces anything that > >ISN'T alphanum with nothing. > > > > > > > If I change the original string the

Re: [GENERAL] Regular expression. How to disable ALL meta-character

2005-04-20 Thread David Gagnon
Hi Scott, I would generally scrub the input before it go to postgresql. Basically do a simple string_replace type function that replaces anything that ISN'T alphanum with nothing. If I change the original string the user may not get what he expects as result. abc[d] is not the samething tha

Re: [GENERAL] Regular expression. How to disable ALL

2005-04-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 12:36, David Gagnon wrote: > Michael Fuhr wrote: > > >On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:28:28AM -0400, David Gagnon wrote: > > > > > >>I have a web interface with offers a search field. This search field > >>will look for the string X in 12 different columns. If the string is

Re: [GENERAL] Regular expression. How to disable ALL meta-character

2005-04-20 Thread David Gagnon
Michael Fuhr wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:28:28AM -0400, David Gagnon wrote: I have a web interface with offers a search field. This search field will look for the string X in 12 different columns. If the string is found anywhere I return the row. The problem is that the user is eable

Re: [GENERAL] What means Postgres?

2005-04-20 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Simon Riggs wrote: On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 03:03 +, Patrick TJ McPhee wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Schuchardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: % but there it is only clear that Postgres is based in Ingres. But i also % don't know what Ingres means. Ingres was a Sp

Re: [GENERAL] Filesystem options for storing pg_data

2005-04-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:18, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:07, Joe Maldonado wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I am in a position where I'm torn between using ext2 vs ext3 to keep the > > pg_data, pg_xlog, and pg_clog contents. > > > > The main concern is that switching to ext2 will

Re: [GENERAL] What means Postgres?

2005-04-20 Thread tony
Le mercredi 20 avril 2005 à 17:12 +0100, Simon Riggs a écrit : > > Ingres was a Spanish painter. Not every name has to mean something. > > Spanish? I always thought he was a French painter. You can't be good in history of art and database systems. Oh wait a minute... =:-D Jean Auguste Dominique

Re: [GENERAL] Filesystem options for storing pg_data

2005-04-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 11:07, Joe Maldonado wrote: > Hello all, > > I am in a position where I'm torn between using ext2 vs ext3 to keep the > pg_data, pg_xlog, and pg_clog contents. > > The main concern is that switching to ext2 will not respond well to an > improper shutdown, power loss. > > My

Re: [GENERAL] What means Postgres?

2005-04-20 Thread Simon Riggs
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 03:03 +, Patrick TJ McPhee wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Daniel Schuchardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > % but there it is only clear that Postgres is based in Ingres. But i also > % don't know what Ingres means. > > Ingres was a Spanish painter. Not every

Re: [GENERAL] Data migration from oracle

2005-04-20 Thread Guy Rouillier
Santharam wrote: > Hi All, > I am looking for a free data migration tool for migrating > data from oracle tables to PostgreSQL. Can anybody help me on this? Ora2pg. -- Guy Rouillier ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the post

[GENERAL] Filesystem options for storing pg_data

2005-04-20 Thread Joe Maldonado
Hello all, I am in a position where I'm torn between using ext2 vs ext3 to keep the pg_data, pg_xlog, and pg_clog contents. The main concern is that switching to ext2 will not respond well to an improper shutdown, power loss. My question is what is the prefered filesystem to keep this data to be

Re: [GENERAL] Encoding problem

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Huxton
Fritz Bayer wrote: Hi, when I enter the following SELECT into psql select * from mytable where data like '%ü%' I get a selection of a couple of rows. The problem is that alls the "ü" characters get displayed as "". Why is that so? Probably something in your terminal setup. I always have endless t

Re: [GENERAL] reorder table data

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Huxton
vinita bansal wrote: Oh Sorry!! I gave a wrong example for update. It includes "where clause" as well which esentially mean that not all the rows will be modified each time. If suppose I already know (assuming that I can find out which rows will bw accessed) is there a way to organize the table

[GENERAL] Regular expression. How to disable ALL meta-character in a regular expression

2005-04-20 Thread David Gagnon
Hi all, I have a web interface with offers a search field. This search field will look for the string X in 12 different columns. If the string is found anywhere I return the row. The problem is that the user is eable to put spacial character like : [* This create invalid regular expression an

Re: [GENERAL] lots of puzzling log messages

2005-04-20 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:39:42PM -0700, Dennis Sacks wrote: >> I am Seeing twelve of these messages every five to ten seconds in the >> Postgresql serverlog when my java application is running: >> >> 2005-04-19 16:43:03 LOG: 0: duration: 0.246 ms

Re: [GENERAL] Binary or compiled version?

2005-04-20 Thread Jaqui Greenlees
Alejandro D. Burne wrote: Hi, I'm installing 8.0.2 on Mandrake and I saw binarys rpms only for RH. Can someone tell me if is better install a rpm version or compile from source in this case? Thanks, Alejandro the rpm should work fine, even though it's rh. if not, rpmdrake ( urpmi ) will remove 8.0.

[GENERAL] Encoding problem

2005-04-20 Thread Fritz Bayer
Hi, when I enter the following SELECT into psql select * from mytable where data like '%ü%' I get a selection of a couple of rows. The problem is that alls the "ü" characters get displayed as "". Why is that so? fritz BTW: I set client encoding to latin1 and the database stores data in utf8

Re: [GENERAL] lots of puzzling log messages

2005-04-20 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:39:42PM -0700, Dennis Sacks wrote: > > I am Seeing twelve of these messages every five to ten seconds in the > Postgresql serverlog when my java application is running: > > 2005-04-19 16:43:03 LOG: 0: duration: 0.246 ms > LOCATION: exec_simple_query, postgres.c:96

Re: [GENERAL] export data into xml

2005-04-20 Thread Pavel Stehule
> hello everybody! > > i just subscribed to the list, so hello to all friends of pgsql. Hello here ;-) > > now here is my concrete problem: > > i have to exchange data with an other company. they are running a ms sql > 2000 serer and want to import our data via xml. so, how do i get it out of

[GENERAL] Binary or compiled version?

2005-04-20 Thread Alejandro D. Burne
Hi, I'm installing 8.0.2 on Mandrake and I saw binarys rpms only for RH. Can someone tell me if is better install a rpm version or compile from source in this case? Thanks, Alejandro ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archive

Re: [GENERAL] What means Postgres?

2005-04-20 Thread Patrick TJ McPhee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Schuchardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: % but there it is only clear that Postgres is based in Ingres. But i also % don't know what Ingres means. Ingres was a Spanish painter. Not every name has to mean something. -- Patrick TJ McPhee North York Canada [

[GENERAL] Data migration from oracle

2005-04-20 Thread Santharam
Hi All,         I am looking for a free data migration tool for migrating data from oracle tables to PostgreSQL. Can anybody help me on this?   Thanks in advance Regards Santharam A.B.

[GENERAL] export data into xml

2005-04-20 Thread Thomas Radnetter
hello everybody! i just subscribed to the list, so hello to all friends of pgsql. now here is my concrete problem: i have to exchange data with an other company. they are running a ms sql 2000 serer and want to import our data via xml. so, how do i get it out of the pgsql database? i looked in

Re: [GENERAL] Simplified (a-la [G|N]DBM) DB access

2005-04-20 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexandre) writes: > On Apr 19, 2005, at 23:24, Dan Sugalski wrote: > >> At 9:40 PM +0400 4/19/05, Alexandre wrote: >>> Lane, thank you, but it is not: PostISAM "generates SQL statements >>> on the fly from traditional ISAM (read, write, start) statements", >>> so it just add ov

Re: [GENERAL] Simplified (a-la [G|N]DBM) DB access

2005-04-20 Thread Alexandre
On Apr 20, 2005, at 17:09, Dan Sugalski wrote: Does your own ISAM interface also convert ISAM calls to the SQL queries? Yes of course -- it has to, there's no other way to access Postgres. Some server specific API? If so, then it is also add overhead: make a call to the some wrapper, which will g

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql start/stop/status script

2005-04-20 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Baldur Norddahl wrote: >> Is there a better way to query the status of postgresql? I would >> expect it to at least check that the process in the PID is actually >> running and that it is a postgresql process. > Maybe try > test $(readlink /proc/$pid/

Re: [GENERAL] UNSUBSCRIBE

2005-04-20 Thread Terry Lee Tucker
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/ Please follow the above link and click the "To subscribe or unsubscribe" link. On Wednesday 20 April 2005 09:18 am, K.RajaSekar saith: > Please Unsubcribe My Mail Id ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Hav

Re: [GENERAL] Simplified (a-la [G|N]DBM) DB access

2005-04-20 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:05 AM +0400 4/20/05, Alexandre wrote: On Apr 19, 2005, at 23:24, Dan Sugalski wrote: At 9:40 PM +0400 4/19/05, Alexandre wrote: Lane, thank you, but it is not: PostISAM "generates SQL statements on the fly from traditional ISAM (read, write, start) statements", so it just add overhead, and

[GENERAL] UNSUBSCRIBE

2005-04-20 Thread K.RajaSekar
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Re: [GENERAL] reorder table data

2005-04-20 Thread vinita bansal
Oh Sorry!! I gave a wrong example for update. It includes "where clause" as well which esentially mean that not all the rows will be modified each time. If suppose I already know (assuming that I can find out which rows will bw accessed) is there a way to organize the table data such that update

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql 8.0.2 SLES 9 rpm - libpq.so.3 broken

2005-04-20 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, R WARRINER wrote: Anyone ran across a broken libpq.so.3 link from the SLES rpm, and if so found a solution to fix it? Update: Reinhard has fixed the problem and uploaded the new binaries. They are now available from: ftp://ft

Re: [GENERAL] reorder table data

2005-04-20 Thread Richard Huxton
vinita bansal wrote: Hi, There is no particular pattern but it is generally the update queries of the form "update tableName set colName='something'" that are taking a lot of time incase there is a lot of background data. Well, that query will obviously update the entire table, but if you can't

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql start/stop/status script

2005-04-20 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Baldur Norddahl wrote: Is there a better way to query the status of postgresql? I would expect it to at least check that the process in the PID is actually running and that it is a postgresql process. Maybe try test $(readlink /proc/$pid/exe) = /