[GENERAL] materialized view

2005-05-19 Thread Himanshu Baweja
does postgres support materialized view.. if yes can somebody post any links which might be useful in learning how to use them... thx Himanshu__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

[GENERAL] securing an information system

2005-05-19 Thread BARTKO, Zoltán
Hello folks, Problem: I would need some help with the system I am working on. It is an information system built on PgSQL 8 and after searching all over the net I found no function I could use to determine where the request to the DB (select...) came from. I need it to prevent using fake user ID n

Re: [GENERAL] numeric precision when raising one numeric to another.

2005-05-19 Thread Greg Stark
"Dann Corbit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Probably, the important meaningful cases are ones that have small > exponents (HOPEFULLY less than 25) used in interest calculations. No, even in interest calculation floating point arithmetic is perfectly fine. You do your floating point arithmetic to

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-19 Thread OpenMacNews
OpenMacNews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The short answer seems to be "when you update to 10.4, don't forget to update to Xcode 2 as well". does it make sense to have configure check for min req'ts of xcode2 if os >= v10.4? No, I don't think so. There is such an astonishing variety of ways to brea

Re: [GENERAL] numeric precision when raising one numeric to another.

2005-05-19 Thread Dann Corbit
At CONNX, we just do 100 digits using qfloat (about 104 actually). Internally, all math is done using this type. Then we convert to the smaller types [or character types] as requested. I don't think that there is any business need for more than that. A package like Maple might need to worry abou

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
OpenMacNews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The short answer seems to be "when you update to 10.4, don't forget to >> update to Xcode 2 as well". > does it make sense to have configure check for min req'ts of xcode2 if os >= > v10.4? No, I don't think so. There is such an astonishing variety of

Re: [GENERAL] bulk loader

2005-05-19 Thread Christopher Browne
After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hrishikesh Deshmukh) belched out: > Is there a "bulk loader" in postgresql with which one can read in say > a tab delimited format text file. Before one does all one has to do is > create the table with text file column names as attribut

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-19 Thread OpenMacNews
hi tom, OpenMacNews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: reading here, it seems builds on 'virgin' Tiger are behaving themselves ... The short answer seems to be "when you update to 10.4, don't forget to update to Xcode 2 as well". regards, tom lane does it make sense to have configure check for min req'

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
OpenMacNews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > reading here, it seems builds on 'virgin' Tiger are behaving themselves ... The short answer seems to be "when you update to 10.4, don't forget to update to Xcode 2 as well". regards, tom lane ---(end of br

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-19 Thread OpenMacNews
hi all, reading here, it seems builds on 'virgin' Tiger are behaving themselves ... just fyi & fwiw, a pgsql v803 build on OSX 10.4.1 is also very nicely tolerant of a /usr/local mod'd system, resulting in: % otool -L /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postgres: /usr/lib/libSyste

Re: [GENERAL] Image storage questions

2005-05-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Guy Rouillier wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: External storing is useful but I prefer LO because all my data (binary and meta) is all in the same place for management. But if that's a big L in LO, performance and maintenance will be negatively affected, perhaps significantly. How? The DBMS will

Inherited constraints and search paths (was Re: [GENERAL] Preserving data after updates)

2005-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
Berend Tober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now what, oh most wise one? OK, now I finally get the point: you are creating child tables in different schemas than their parents live in. This creates a problem because reverse-listing of the constraints varies depending on what the search path is. An

Re: [GENERAL] Locale C?

2005-05-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
CSN wrote: I'm installing PG8 for Windows and the default locale is "C" in the installer. What is locale C? No locale. :) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake CSN __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.ya

Re: [GENERAL] Preserving data after updates

2005-05-19 Thread Berend Tober
Tom Lane wrote: What do you get from select conname, consrc from pg_catalog.pg_constraint where contype = 'c' and conrelid = 'person'::regclass; conname | consrc -

Re: [GENERAL] Preserving data after updates

2005-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
Berend Tober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Interesting. The consrc column values differ in that the explicit schema > qualification on the function calls is missing for the descendent table. > So, you think maybe if I remove the explicit schema qualification from > the function calls in the cons

Re: [GENERAL] Preserving data after updates

2005-05-19 Thread Berend Tober
Tom Lane wrote: What do you get from select conname, consrc from pg_catalog.pg_constraint where contype = 'c' and conrelid = 'person'::regclass; conname | consrc --

[GENERAL] Locale C?

2005-05-19 Thread CSN
I'm installing PG8 for Windows and the default locale is "C" in the installer. What is locale C? CSN __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---(end of broadc

Re: [GENERAL] Image storage questions

2005-05-19 Thread Douglas McNaught
"Guy Rouillier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > >> External storing is useful but I prefer LO because all my data (binary >> and meta) is all in the same place for management. > > But if that's a big L in LO, performance and maintenance will be > negatively affected, perha

Re: [GENERAL] bulk loader

2005-05-19 Thread Douglas McNaught
Hrishikesh Deshmukh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All, > > Is there a "bulk loader" in postgresql with which one can read in say > a tab delimited format text file. Before one does all one has to do is > create the table with text file column names as attributes, once it is > on DBMS world it w

Re: [GENERAL] Image storage questions

2005-05-19 Thread Guy Rouillier
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > External storing is useful but I prefer LO because all my data (binary > and meta) is all in the same place for management. But if that's a big L in LO, performance and maintenance will be negatively affected, perhaps significantly. The DBMS will have to scan over all t

Re: [GENERAL] bulk loader

2005-05-19 Thread Guy Rouillier
Hrishikesh Deshmukh wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a "bulk loader" in postgresql with which one can read in say > a tab delimited format text file. Before one does all one has to do > is create the table with text file column names as attributes, once > it is on DBMS world it will be a simple table

[GENERAL] bulk loader

2005-05-19 Thread Hrishikesh Deshmukh
Hi All, Is there a "bulk loader" in postgresql with which one can read in say a tab delimited format text file. Before one does all one has to do is create the table with text file column names as attributes, once it is on DBMS world it will be a simple table (non-relational) Thanks, Hrishi

Re: [GENERAL] numeric precision when raising one numeric to another.

2005-05-19 Thread Dann Corbit
Probably, the important meaningful cases are ones that have small exponents (HOPEFULLY less than 25) used in interest calculations. Million digit numbers are really only interesting in the field of pure mathematics, since the number of elementary particles in the universe is well under a googol (1

Re: [GENERAL] numeric precision when raising one numeric to another.

2005-05-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:25:58PM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote: > Hmmm > I underestimated. > > pow(9.9,9.9) = Yeah, a number with x digits raised to the power with something y digits long could have a length approximating: x * (10^y) digits So two numbers both 4 digits long can

Re: [GENERAL] Preserving data after updates

2005-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
Berend Tober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried a simpler example than my original, as you have, and the problem > bahavior didn't manifest, but it still happens in my dev copy of my > production database. The immediately obvious difference between the > simpler example, like yours, and the a

Re: [GENERAL] numeric precision when raising one numeric to another.

2005-05-19 Thread Dann Corbit
Hmmm I underestimated. pow(9.9,9.9) = 9.998748785736894607828527462269893046126336085 91664915498635306081273911645075964079222720857427 35641018572673827935330501923067157794798212338823 24997145234949798725508071849154834025252682619864 096759311051141601075735428135733340

Re: [GENERAL] numeric precision when raising one numeric to another.

2005-05-19 Thread Dann Corbit
If you want to create a pow() function for numeric using existing numeric functions, it [the new function] should be aware of the precision of the inputs, and the precision of the output should be their product. So, if you do pow(numeric(10,5), numeric(10,5)) then the result column should be numer

Re: [GENERAL] Preserving data after updates

2005-05-19 Thread Berend Tober
Tom Lane wrote: The case I tested seems to work in 7.3 as well: CREATE TABLE person (last_name varchar(24), first_name varchar(24), CONSTRAINT person_name_check CHECK (((last_name IS NOT NULL) OR (first_name IS NOT NULL; CREATE TABLE person_change_history( action VARCHAR(6), update_dat

Re: [GENERAL] preserving data after updates

2005-05-19 Thread Berend Tober
Greg Patnude wrote: Yeah… this is where the inheritance model gets a little funky… What do you have “SQL_INEHERITANCE” set to when you dump the database ? I’ve never tested this so I don’t know if it makes a difference being on or off when you dump a table…. You might try it and compare the two

Re: [GENERAL] numeric precision when raising one numeric to another.

2005-05-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:41:51AM -0700, Dann Corbit wrote: > We use Moshier's excellent qfloat numbers. > http://www.moshier.net/qlib.zip > Documentation: > http://www.moshier.net/qlibdoc.html > > So, if you do the following query using CONNX: > select convert(pow(9.5,5.9), varchar) > You will g

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-19 Thread Matthew Hixson
I also thought I saw quite a few more warnings this time than in the past. -M@ On May 19, 2005, at 11:05 AM, Jerry LeVan wrote: For what it is worth... I have 10.4.1 (Tiger) (archived and ) installed on my old 933MHZ QuickSiver. I also have Xcode 2.0 installed. When I compiled 8.0.3 it seemed

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres in government

2005-05-19 Thread Mark Harrison
Sadly, lots of people in positions of power still want scape goats, rather than proven results. No, it could be that the OP's organization is looking for some proof of postgresql's results. A lot of people are familiar with the criteria for evaluating a company or commercial product. Open source p

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql 7.4.7 docs(PDF)

2005-05-19 Thread Hrishikesh Deshmukh
What they have is for version 7.2 and i want for 7.4.7 only, i have tried to follow instructions on how to make the pdf/ps version and all i get is errors. If someone already has a pdf/ps and can email it, will be a big help. Thanks, Hrishi On 5/19/05, Richard Huxton wrote: > Hrishikesh Deshmukh

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres in government

2005-05-19 Thread P.J. \"Josh\" Rovero
The NOAA National Data Buoy Center is a government customer (there are many commercial customers) for our wXstation(R) product, which uses PostgreSQL as its database. The number of government customers may increase dramatically in the near future. -- P. J. "Josh" Rovero

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres in government

2005-05-19 Thread Stephen Frost
* Mark Steckel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So, if you have used Postgres (or know that it has been used) for a > government project, especially in a 24x7 environment, I would greatly > appreciate hearing about it. Ideally, I need more than just the project > name. Specifically, A brief descript

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-19 Thread Jerry LeVan
For what it is worth... I have 10.4.1 (Tiger) (archived and ) installed on my old 933MHZ QuickSiver. I also have Xcode 2.0 installed. When I compiled 8.0.3 it seemed to generated many more warnings with 4.0 gcc than the older 3.3 gcc. At least that is my recollection... I have installed the rascal

Re: [GENERAL] numeric precision when raising one numeric to another.

2005-05-19 Thread Dann Corbit
We use Moshier's excellent qfloat numbers. http://www.moshier.net/qlib.zip Documentation: http://www.moshier.net/qlibdoc.html So, if you do the following query using CONNX: select convert(pow(9.5,5.9), varchar) You will get: 586906.97548405202106027547827738573075504470845684721318303336760202394

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres in government

2005-05-19 Thread Richard_D_Levine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/19/2005 11:35:07 AM: > >>> ...We are proposing that Postgres be used for the application database. > >>> Not too surprisingly we are being asked for additional > information because > >>> Postgres is open source. > >>> > > So is the implication that they think open

Re: [GENERAL] Temp tables as session var containers

2005-05-19 Thread Richard Huxton
James Croft wrote: Hi, I've seen the session variable question pop up a fair bit on this list. The temporary table solution seems good but I've got a question before using it... Another option is to use one of the procedural languages that provide global variable storage. The attached examples a

Re: [GENERAL] numeric precision when raising one numeric to another.

2005-05-19 Thread Dann Corbit
PostgreSQL has a numeric exp() function and a numeric ln() function, so a numeric pow() function is trivial. pow(A,z) = exp(z*ln(A)) Probably, it could be made a bit more efficient if specially tuned so as to not require these functions. Newton's method (or something of that nature) could obviou

[GENERAL] Temp tables as session var containers

2005-05-19 Thread James Croft
Hi, I've seen the session variable question pop up a fair bit on this list. The temporary table solution seems good but I've got a question before using it... - My app creates a temp table for session vars - UPDATE, INSERT and DELETE triggers on tables use this data My question is: If I run a qu

Re: [GENERAL] Preserving data after updates

2005-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
Berend Tober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Hmm, it shouldn't do that ... and in a quick test here I couldn't >> reproduce any such bug. What version of pg_dump are you using? > Sorry I failed to specify. Production version is 7.3.1 (change is > hard!), although I origianally w

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-19 Thread Matthew Hixson
On May 19, 2005, at 9:27 AM, Jeff Trout wrote: On May 18, 2005, at 9:27 PM, Matthew Hixson wrote: /usr/bin/libtool: for architecture: cputype (16777234) cpusubtype (0) file: -lSystem is not an object file (not allowed in a library) I had some issues with this error on a few other things on my T

Re: [GENERAL] CREATE TABLE problem in plpgsql trigger

2005-05-19 Thread James Croft
Stephan Szabo wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2005, James Croft wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to create a trigger function for a few tables that will store old versions of rows prior to any update on them. Part of the function needs to creates other tables (the table to store these snapshots in). When this trig

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres in government

2005-05-19 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:35, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > >>> ...We are proposing that Postgres be used for the application database. > >>> Not too surprisingly we are being asked for additional information > >>> because > >>> Postgres is open source. > >>> > > So is the implication that they thin

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres in government

2005-05-19 Thread Philip Hallstrom
...We are proposing that Postgres be used for the application database. Not too surprisingly we are being asked for additional information because Postgres is open source. So is the implication that they think open source is a bad thing? I would think they would question a recommendation for us

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-19 Thread Jeff Trout
On May 18, 2005, at 9:27 PM, Matthew Hixson wrote: /usr/bin/libtool: for architecture: cputype (16777234) cpusubtype (0) file: -lSystem is not an object file (not allowed in a library) I had some issues with this error on a few other things on my Tiger box. After I installed Xcode2 things worked

Re: [GENERAL] Shared memory and FreeBSD's jail()

2005-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
lister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This was the topic of 20 minutes of conversation in 2 tutorials > at BSDCan. Well, if the BSD people are so concerned about it, why don't they fix their bleedin' OS? It's inexcusable to have a "jail" feature that doesn't cover such a major part of Unix as the

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres in government

2005-05-19 Thread Ron Mayer
Mark Steckel wrote: I have also scrounged the Internet looking for examples of Postgres being used in government, preferably in 24x7 capacities. I find googling for vendors who are known to use PostgreSQL and searching for people's resumes is a good way to find descriptions of Government project

Re: [GENERAL] Count and Results together

2005-05-19 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On 5/19/05, Dawid Kuroczko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/19/05, Jan Sunavec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using libpg.so. I tryed find solution for this problem in internet > > but, I don't find nothing yet. I have idea get rowcount throught some > > function write in C. Or is there any p

Re: [GENERAL] Count and Results together

2005-05-19 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
On 5/19/05, Jan Sunavec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using libpg.so. I tryed find solution for this problem in internet > but, I don't find nothing yet. I have idea get rowcount throught some > function write in C. Or is there any plan add this feature into PostgreSQL? Theoretically you could

Re: [GENERAL] Shared memory and FreeBSD's jail()

2005-05-19 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 10:49, lister wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > >On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:46, lister wrote: > > > > > >> At the BSDCan tutorial last week on jails (and several other times) > >>there was discussion regarding Postgres's use of system V style > >>shared memory, and an unfortu

Re: [GENERAL] Preserving data after updates

2005-05-19 Thread Berend Tober
Tom Lane wrote: Berend Tober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: But after doing a dump of the modified data base, the script created by pg dump wants to recreate the history table as ... CONSTRAINT person_name_check CHECK (((last_name IS NOT NULL) OR (first_name IS NOT NULL))), Hmm, it shouldn

Re: [GENERAL] Shared memory and FreeBSD's jail()

2005-05-19 Thread lister
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:46, lister wrote: At the BSDCan tutorial last week on jails (and several other times) there was discussion regarding Postgres's use of system V style shared memory, and an unfortunate side effect of making jail() less secure. Specifically, to allow P

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres in government

2005-05-19 Thread Berend Tober
Scott Marlowe wrote: On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 21:24, Mark Steckel wrote: ...We are proposing that Postgres be used for the application database. Not too surprisingly we are being asked for additional information because Postgres is open source. So is the implication that they think open sour

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-19 Thread Matthew Hixson
On May 19, 2005, at 5:42 AM, John DeSoi wrote: On May 19, 2005, at 1:34 AM, Matthew Hixson wrote: /usr/bin/libtool: for architecture: cputype (16777234) cpusubtype (0) file: -lSystem is not an object file (not allowed in a library) After upgrading to 10.4.1 and using Michael's parameters to ./

Re: [GENERAL] Preserving data after updates

2005-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
Berend Tober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But after doing a dump of the modified data base, the script created by > pg dump wants to recreate the history table as > ... > CONSTRAINT person_name_check CHECK (((last_name IS NOT NULL) OR > (first_name IS NOT NULL))), Hmm, it shouldn't do that .

Re: [GENERAL] Shared memory and FreeBSD's jail()

2005-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
lister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At the BSDCan tutorial last week on jails (and several other times) > there was discussion regarding Postgres's use of system V style > shared memory, and an unfortunate side effect of making jail() less > secure. Specifically, to allow Postgres to operate in a

Re: [GENERAL] unique index with bool

2005-05-19 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > CREATE UNIQUE INDEX name on table(param1,param2); > > How to create such unique index when param2 is bool type, and this param2 > should be accepted only in case of true ? > > I tried: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX name on table(param1,(param2 = 'tru

Re: [GENERAL] Shared memory and FreeBSD's jail()

2005-05-19 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 09:46, lister wrote: > At the BSDCan tutorial last week on jails (and several other times) > there was discussion regarding Postgres's use of system V style > shared memory, and an unfortunate side effect of making jail() less > secure. Specifically, to allow Postgres to oper

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres in government

2005-05-19 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 21:24, Mark Steckel wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry for the cross post. > > I am working on a requirements and recommendation document for a division > of the State of Hawaii Attorney General's office. We are proposing that > Postgres be used for the application database. Not to

Re: [GENERAL] unique index with bool

2005-05-19 Thread Alban Hertroys
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX name on table(param1,param2); How to create such unique index when param2 is bool type, and this param2 should be accepted only in case of true ? I tried: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX name on table(param1,(param2 = 'true')); but it's not working. CREATE UNIQUE I

Re: [GENERAL] Shared memory and FreeBSD's jail()

2005-05-19 Thread Douglas McNaught
lister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At the BSDCan tutorial last week on jails (and several other times) > there was discussion regarding Postgres's use of system V style > shared memory, and an unfortunate side effect of making jail() less > secure. Specifically, to allow Postgres to operate in

Re: [GENERAL] Count and Results together

2005-05-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 08:58:13AM +0200, Jan Sunavec wrote: > I am using libpg.so. I tryed find solution for this problem in internet > but, I don't find nothing yet. I have idea get rowcount throught some > function write in C. Or is there any plan add this feature into PostgreSQL? You're mi

Re: [GENERAL] unique index with bool

2005-05-19 Thread Richard Huxton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX name on table(param1,param2); How to create such unique index when param2 is bool type, and this param2 should be accepted only in case of true ? I tried: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX name on table(param1,(param2 = 'true')); but it's not working. Something like:

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql 7.4.7 docs(PDF)

2005-05-19 Thread Richard Huxton
Hrishikesh Deshmukh wrote: Hi All, If someone can email Postgresql 7.4.7 docs(PDF). It will be a big help. I am unable to get pdf docs for this version on debian system. Please help. Available from here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/manuals/ See the links on the right-hand-side of the page. --

Re: [GENERAL] error explanation

2005-05-19 Thread Tom Lane
Omachonu Ogali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > PANIC: right sibling is not next child Apparently you have a corrupted index --- REINDEX should fix it. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all list

[GENERAL] TSearch2 & Phonemes

2005-05-19 Thread Stephen Aaron Knott
Hi, I hope someone can help me out... I read some research a little while ago about someone using TSearch2 but searching using phonemes; but I cannot find that article anymore. Does anyone remember it & can point me to a link of the article? Thanks in advance. ---(end

[GENERAL] unique index with bool

2005-05-19 Thread tmpmac
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX name on table(param1,param2); How to create such unique index when param2 is bool type, and this param2 should be accepted only in case of true ? I tried: CREATE UNIQUE INDEX name on table(param1,(param2 = 'true')); but it's not working. Regards, Mac -

[GENERAL] Shared memory and FreeBSD's jail()

2005-05-19 Thread lister
At the BSDCan tutorial last week on jails (and several other times) there was discussion regarding Postgres's use of system V style shared memory, and an unfortunate side effect of making jail() less secure. Specifically, to allow Postgres to operate in a jail()ed environment, the sysctl : jail.sys

[GENERAL] Postgresql 7.4.7 docs(PDF)

2005-05-19 Thread Hrishikesh Deshmukh
Hi All, If someone can email Postgresql 7.4.7 docs(PDF). It will be a big help. I am unable to get pdf docs for this version on debian system. Please help. Thanks, Hrishi ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

[GENERAL] Preserving data after updates

2005-05-19 Thread Berend Tober
A few months ago, a question by Scott Frankel produced a suggestion from Greg Patnude which I found very exciting that had to do with using pg table inheritance to maintain an audit or row change history table. I've been testing Patnude's idea and ran into a problem, described below, and wanted

Re: [GENERAL] Ayuda con postgresql

2005-05-19 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
Si necesitás una lista en español, podés ir a http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-es-ayuda y suscribirte, los suscriptores de esta lista hablan inglés y no te va a resultar fácil conseguir ayuda :( El tipo de datos que buscas se llama SERIAL (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/datatyp

Re: [GENERAL] CREATE TABLE problem in plpgsql trigger

2005-05-19 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Thu, 19 May 2005, James Croft wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to create a trigger function for a few tables that will store > old versions of rows prior to any update on them. Part of the function > needs to creates other tables (the table to store these snapshots in). > > When this trigger run

Re: [GENERAL] Count and Results together

2005-05-19 Thread Jan Sunavec
I am using libpg.so. I tryed find solution for this problem in internet but, I don't find nothing yet. I have idea get rowcount throught some function write in C. Or is there any plan add this feature into PostgreSQL? JOhn On Wed, 18 May 2005 17:37:09 +0200, Sean Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[GENERAL] CREATE TABLE problem in plpgsql trigger

2005-05-19 Thread James Croft
Hi all, I'm trying to create a trigger function for a few tables that will store old versions of rows prior to any update on them. Part of the function needs to creates other tables (the table to store these snapshots in). When this trigger runs I get the and error of 'syntax error at or near "

[GENERAL] Postgres in government

2005-05-19 Thread Mark Steckel
Hello, Sorry for the cross post. I am working on a requirements and recommendation document for a division of the State of Hawaii Attorney General's office. We are proposing that Postgres be used for the application database. Not too surprisingly we are being asked for additional information bec

[GENERAL] need clarification

2005-05-19 Thread palanivel . kumaran
i need a clarification in the pypgsql... iam executing the statement like result=connection.query("Update emp set empname="Don" where empid=15") what will be result value if the empid 15 doesn't exists. vel Important Email Information :- The information in this email is confidential an

[GENERAL] Callable Statements are not supported at this time

2005-05-19 Thread rama mohan
Hi, I am getting an exception when I try to use JDBC CallableStatement for executing a stored procedure. Exception - Callable Statements not supported at this time. Postgres version - 7.3.2 OS - Linux It will be very useful for me if you could help me in cracking this. Regards, RamaMohan.T _

[GENERAL] Ayuda con postgresql

2005-05-19 Thread Maribel Pérez Engroñatt
Hola! buenos días!   Estoy usando su base de datos y quisiera saber como creo un campo que sea auntonumérico o lo que en sql server es identiti, también quisiera como pudiera hacer una copia de toda mi base de datos (restore) para copiarla igual en otra computadora.   Saludos Maribel   Correo Ya

Re: [GENERAL] Call dynamic PL/PGSQL function

2005-05-19 Thread Richard Huxton
Hannes Dorbath wrote: Hi, what's the best way in pl/pgsql to call a function with a dynamic name from inside another pl/plsql function? like.. SELECT INTO function_name name FROM functions WHERE bar; EXECUTE function_name..?? Almost my_query = ''SELECT '' || function_name ''()''; EXECUTE

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-19 Thread John DeSoi
On May 19, 2005, at 1:34 AM, Matthew Hixson wrote: /usr/bin/libtool: for architecture: cputype (16777234) cpusubtype (0) file: -lSystem is not an object file (not allowed in a library) After upgrading to 10.4.1 and using Michael's parameters to ./configure I still get the exact same build error.

[GENERAL] Call dynamic PL/PGSQL function

2005-05-19 Thread Hannes Dorbath
Hi, what's the best way in pl/pgsql to call a function with a dynamic name from inside another pl/plsql function? like.. SELECT INTO function_name name FROM functions WHERE bar; EXECUTE function_name..?? Thanks in advance ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.3 build error on Mac OS X 10.4

2005-05-19 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On May 19, 2005, at 12:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Michael Glaesemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On May 19, 2005, at 10:27 AM, Matthew Hixson wrote: 8.0.3 does not build for me on Mac OS X 10.4. Anyone else seeing this error, and will it be fixed in the next release? I just built 8.0.3 on Mac OS X 10

Re: [GENERAL] analyze at startup?

2005-05-19 Thread Sean Davis
See here for more details: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/maintenance.html In short, you don't need to do a vacuum analyze for each connection--it is a database-specific or table-specific task, not a connection-specific one. You can use vacuum analyze when you think things have chang

Re: [GENERAL] analyze at startup?

2005-05-19 Thread Richard Huxton
Surabhi Ahuja wrote: Analyze command helps increase performance. More exactly, it updates statistics so the planner knows that (e.g.) you have lots of different values in the invoice_date column. Suppose i have n connections to the database..and each connection i query. So does this mean that i n

[GENERAL] analyze at startup?

2005-05-19 Thread Surabhi Ahuja
Title: analyze at startup? Analyze command helps increase performance. Suppose i have n connections to the database..and each connection i query. So does this mean that i need to do an analyse over each of those connections. Cant analyze be done one time... and also please tell if there is a

Re: [GENERAL] numeric precision when raising one numeric to another.

2005-05-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:32:40PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:46:50PM -0400, John Burger wrote: > > For one thing. For another, I believe the standard C library only has > > floating point exponentiation functions, not that there aren't plenty > > of numeric librar

Re: [GENERAL] CREATE TABLE problem in plpgsql trigger

2005-05-19 Thread James Croft
James Croft wrote: The problems seems to be with the table_name arg being a variable and not a literal but can't see how to fix this. If anyone knows what's going on here or has any pointers it would be appreciated. Thanks, James Sorry, I'm running PgSQL 7.4.7 on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.

Re: [GENERAL] How can I write trigger on a columns insert/update?

2005-05-19 Thread Richard Huxton
Dinesh Pandey wrote: How can I write trigger on a columns insert/update? CREATE TRIGGER mytrigger BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE OF mycolumn ON mytable You don't I'm afraid. It's not a feature that's supported yet. You have to check which column(s) were changed in your functions. It is on the

[GENERAL] error explanation

2005-05-19 Thread Omachonu Ogali
I deleted all the rows, approximately 3 million, in a table earlier in the day, so during the nightly routine vacuum, I received the following: dbname=# vacuum verbose analyze table; INFO: vacuuming "public.table" INFO: index "table_attempt_idx" now contains 3895682 row versions in 103829 pages

[GENERAL] How can I write trigger on a columns insert/update?

2005-05-19 Thread Dinesh Pandey
How can I write trigger on a columns insert/update?     CREATE TRIGGER mytrigger BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE   OF mycolumn ON mytable FOR EACH ROW   EXECUTE PROCEDURE myfunction();   I am getting error “syntax error at or near "OF"   Thanks  

Re: [GENERAL] Executing Dynamic DDL

2005-05-19 Thread Samer Abukhait
That was very helpful, many thanks About timestamp, I understood that as long as the DB server is the one to log times it is safe to use it without timezones?? (I am not using any of the different timezoned clients??) am i missing the point? about all_table_columns, it is just a simple view to ha