[GENERAL] how do you set foriegn keys in pgaccess?

2005-06-08 Thread jeremy `
I am a bit of a newbie to postgres, but I managed to install 8.0.4 on my windows box and it mostly appears to be working fine; I can set a primary key constraint, but when i try to set the foreign key it requires a 'reference' - but there is nothing there to chose from. I also have another quer

Re: [GENERAL] So maybe SQLERRM? Sb knows how to check it?

2005-06-08 Thread Neil Conway
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Huh, I meant a patch for getting the error message from RAISE EXCEPTION. Does Pavel's patch address that too? Yes. (I just posted a revised patch to -patches, I'll apply it later tonight.) -Neil ---(end of broadcast)--- T

Re: [GENERAL] So maybe SQLERRM? Sb knows how to check it?

2005-06-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 12:25:19PM +1000, Neil Conway wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >No, we don't have SQLERRM support yet. If you were asking about getting > >the messages from RAISE EXCEPTION, I'm afraid there's no way to get it > >in the EXCEPTION clause. > > > >If you want to contribute it,

Re: [GENERAL] Possible to ignore transactions > n?

2005-06-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:25:26 -0700, John Barham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is is possible to tell PostgreSQL to ignore transactions committed > after some point? In particular I want to get it to "rollback" a > faulty recovery. PITR will let you do this. You need to have a complete backup

Re: [GENERAL] So maybe SQLERRM? Sb knows how to check it?

2005-06-08 Thread Neil Conway
Alvaro Herrera wrote: No, we don't have SQLERRM support yet. If you were asking about getting the messages from RAISE EXCEPTION, I'm afraid there's no way to get it in the EXCEPTION clause. If you want to contribute it, patches are welcome ... Actually, Pavel Stehule sent in a patch for this

[GENERAL] Possible to ignore transactions > n?

2005-06-08 Thread John Barham
Is is possible to tell PostgreSQL to ignore transactions committed after some point? In particular I want to get it to "rollback" a faulty recovery. On a related note, how can I get the most recent transaction id from the WAL segment that I want to rollback to? TIA, John Barham -

Re: [GENERAL] Deleting orphaned records to establish Ref Integrity

2005-06-08 Thread Roman F
>> Another idea is to try an outer join: >> SELECT child_table.parentid INTO tmp_table >> FROM child_table LEFT JOIN parent_table >> ON (child_table.parentid = parent_table.parentid) >> WHERE parent_table.parentid IS NULL; > >There's also >DELETE >FROM child_table >WHERE NOT EXISTS (select 1 >from

Re: [GENERAL] IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION

2005-06-08 Thread Geoffrey
Matt Miller wrote: you will have to confirm your account by the following link Is this bogus? Yes, if you're look at the email as text rather then html, you'll see it's a phishing attempt. A very good reason to read your email in text. Clicking on the link goes to 62.193.220.183 which

[GENERAL] postgres and ggobi/xgvis

2005-06-08 Thread Hrishikesh Deshmukh
Hi All, How easy or difficult is it to get ggobi/xgvis working with postgresql?! Is it possible to write a query and send the output straight to ggobi/xgvis without much work? Any pointers. Thanks for your help. Hrishi ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [GENERAL] IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION

2005-06-08 Thread Arthur Hoogervorst
Hi, Phishing scam for sure. I thought it was hilarious in a way: "Why would the host of postgresql.org send himself a bill?". Kind of a silly paradox. Regards, Arthur On 6/8/05, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Miller wrote: > >>you will have to confirm your account by the f

Re: [GENERAL] IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION

2005-06-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Matt Miller wrote: you will have to confirm your account by the following link Is this bogus? Clicking on the link goes to 62.193.220.183 which is not postgresql.org Quite. It is a phising scam probably. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Hav

Re: [GENERAL] IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION

2005-06-08 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Matt Miller wrote: you will have to confirm your account by the following link Is this bogus? Yes... -- Devrim GUNDUZ devrim~gunduz.org, devrim~PostgreSQL.org, devrim.gunduz~linux.org.tr http://www.tdmsoft.com.tr http://www.gunduz.org -

Re: [GENERAL] IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION

2005-06-08 Thread Matt Miller
> you will have to confirm your account by the following link Is this bogus? Clicking on the link goes to 62.193.220.183 which is not postgresql.org ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.pos

Re: [GENERAL] Foreign keys and slow insert

2005-06-08 Thread Dan Black
I think 21 interns will be enough :)2005/6/8, Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 12:39, Dan Black wrote:> I've observed that inserts into slave table became slower when I use> foreign key than without one.> Can it be related to foreign key?> And I am interested how much  perfo

Re: [GENERAL] So maybe SQLERRM? Sb knows how to check it?

2005-06-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:03:40PM +0200, Gorodowienko Daniel wrote: > Maybe I ask another way. > In Oracle there is a variable SQLERRM, where error message is placed. > How to get some message in PostgreSQL? > I searched documentation 3 or 5 times, and Google, and wrote on forums > topics and I h

[GENERAL] WinXP installation

2005-06-08 Thread Rodrigo Katsumoto Sakai
I need some help please! I'm using PostgreSQL for a long time (about two yeas), but always in a Linux box. So, I always could install and use it with no major problems! Unfortunetly now I have to use it on WinXP. So, here is my problem: I intalled PostgreSQL 8.0.3 in WInXP (SP1) with ad

Re: [GENERAL] Foreign keys and slow insert

2005-06-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 12:39, Dan Black wrote: > I've observed that inserts into slave table became slower when I use > foreign key than without one. > Can it be related to foreign key? > And I am interested how much performance of database with foreign > keys can be different from performance of

[GENERAL] So maybe SQLERRM? Sb knows how to check it?

2005-06-08 Thread Gorodowienko Daniel
Maybe I ask another way. In Oracle there is a variable SQLERRM, where error message is placed. How to get some message in PostgreSQL? I searched documentation 3 or 5 times, and Google, and wrote on forums topics and I have enough. --

Re: [GENERAL] Foreign keys and slow insert

2005-06-08 Thread Dan Black
I've observed that inserts into slave table became slower when I use foreign key than without one. Can it be related to foreign key? And I am interested how much  performance of database with foreign keys can be different from performance of database without foreign keys? In other words, how much

[GENERAL] Two updates problem

2005-06-08 Thread Yuri B. Lukyanov
I have table: CREATE TABLE "public"."test" ( "id" INTEGER, "text1" VARCHAR(25), "text2" VARCHAR(25) ) WITH OIDS; INSERT INTO test VALUES (1, 'qwerty', '111'); INSERT INTO test VALUES (2, 'asdfgh', '222'); --

Re: [GENERAL] vulnerability/SSL

2005-06-08 Thread dong changyu
Hi, A possible countermeasure on Windows platform, inspired by Magnus.Thanks ;) First we remove the passphrase from the key file, making it plain. Windows provides a feature "encrypted file system", provide transparent encryption/decryption. We can log on using the account we run Postgres with and

Re: [GENERAL] Copying data from int column to array column

2005-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
Adam Witney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > UPDATE test SET field2 = field1; > UPDATE test SET field3[1] = field1; > Why does the UPDATE of field2 work, but the UPDATE of field3 does not? Works for me in 8.0 ;-). Before 8.0, if you tried to assign to just one value of an array that was initially N

Re: [GENERAL] Foreign keys and slow insert

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Huxton
Dan Black wrote: I read in documentation that primary key doesn't require additional indexes but I could find nothing about foreign keys. Do I need to create additional indexes when I create foreign keys? Example: create table master create table slave Do I need to create index CREATE IN

Re: [GENERAL] Bug with view definition?

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Huxton
Sebastian Böck wrote: Richard Huxton wrote: Sebastian Böck wrote: Hello all, why is the last definition of a view not working, although the documentation says all three are equal? CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW not_working AS SELECT one.* FROM one.one, two.two JOIN join1 ON join1.id

Re: [GENERAL] Foreign keys and slow insert

2005-06-08 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Dan Black wrote: > I read in documentation that primary key doesn't require additional indexes > but I could find nothing about foreign keys. > Do I need to create additional indexes when I create foreign keys? > Example: > create table master > { > master_id INT4, > master_nam

Re: [GENERAL] Bug with view definition?

2005-06-08 Thread Sebastian Böck
Tom Lane wrote: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sebastian_B=F6ck?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: why is the last definition of a view not working, although the documentation says all three are equal? The documentation says no such thing... So I misinterpreted the following: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.

Re: [GENERAL] Bug with view definition?

2005-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sebastian_B=F6ck?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > why is the last definition of a view not working, although the > documentation says all three are equal? The documentation says no such thing... > CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW not_working AS > SELECT one.* > FROM one.one, two.

Re: [GENERAL] Bug with view definition?

2005-06-08 Thread Sebastian Böck
Richard Huxton wrote: Sebastian Böck wrote: Hello all, why is the last definition of a view not working, although the documentation says all three are equal? CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW not_working AS SELECT one.* FROM one.one, two.two JOIN join1 ON join1.id = one.id; I think it'

Re: [GENERAL] return two elements

2005-06-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
I dropped [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the Cc: because that account has serious issues. On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:16:32AM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:28:56AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hmm, be aware that you can't return a set

Re: [GENERAL] Bug with view definition?

2005-06-08 Thread Richard Huxton
Sebastian Böck wrote: Hello all, why is the last definition of a view not working, although the documentation says all three are equal? CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW not_working AS SELECT one.* FROM one.one, two.two JOIN join1 ON join1.id = one.id; I think it's trying to join "two"

[GENERAL] deadlocks in multiple-triggers environment

2005-06-08 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
hi i have a stituation a situation where i have multiple tables, and multiple triggers on all of them. at least 1 or 2 triggers on at lease 4 different tables does updates to main cache table. now. i have tasks which involve simultaneously (from different machines even) modifying all of the "sourc

[GENERAL] Foreign keys and slow insert

2005-06-08 Thread Dan Black
I read in documentation  that primary key doesn't require additional indexes but I could find nothing about foreign keys. Do I need to create additional indexes when I create foreign keys? Example: create table master {   master_id INT4,   master_name VARCHAR(64),   CONSTRAINT master_pkey PRIMARY K

[GENERAL] Bug with view definition?

2005-06-08 Thread Sebastian Böck
Hello all, why is the last definition of a view not working, although the documentation says all three are equal? Testcase: CREATE SCHEMA one; CREATE SCHEMA two; CREATE TABLE one.one ( id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY ); CREATE TABLE two.two ( id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY ); CREATE TABLE joi

Re: [GENERAL] vulnerability/SSL

2005-06-08 Thread Marco Colombo
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 16:08 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > Hi, > > I¡¯m using postgreSQL with SSL these days. The version I¡¯m > > using is 8.0.3. I found that it¡¯s impossible to use an > > encrypted key file. > > When you use a protected server.key file, you will be > > prompted to input y

Re: [GENERAL] vulnerability/SSL (fwd)

2005-06-08 Thread Edmund Dengler
Greetings! Does anybody know how well the optimizer works when dealing with inherited tables? I am currently using 8.0.1. I have a table called eventlog.record_main, and a number of inherited tables to partition the data (called eventlog_partition.___record_main). is the primary key (all tables

[GENERAL] Optimizer and inherited tables

2005-06-08 Thread Edmund Dengler
(Sorry, wrong subject line got sent) Greetings! Does anybody know how well the optimizer works when dealing with inherited tables? I am currently using 8.0.1. I have a table called eventlog.record_main, and a number of inherited tables to partition the data (called eventlog_partition.___record_m

Re: [GENERAL] Where to find translation of Postgres error messages?

2005-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
=?iso-8859-2?Q?Egy=FCd_Csaba?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I looked into Postgres installation directories and found several .mo files > under the locale directory. But I wasn't able to find the string "no > password supplied" for example in neither of them. I think we deliberately don't localiz

Re: [GENERAL] To SPAM or not to SPAM...

2005-06-08 Thread Shelby Cain
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I post to this list occasionally, and yet get maybe one spam email a > month. > YMMV. Don't tell anyone, but I got a line on a great deal in > Nigeria. > > Rick > I posted on this list with this yahoo.com address and now receive upwards of 30-40 spam emails per

FW: [GENERAL] Where to find translation of Postgres error messages?

2005-06-08 Thread Együd Csaba
-Original Message- From: Együd Csaba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 4:31 PM To: 'Tom Lane' Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Where to find translation of Postgres error messages? Ah, I see. OK. So there are two ways of mine: 1. to translate myself the whole stuff in my

Re: [GENERAL] Backup Compatibility between minor versions.

2005-06-08 Thread Douglas McNaught
Howard Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To improve compatibility, I created a backup on the linux system > (8.0.1) using plain format, data only with triggers disabled. However, > when I try to restore the plain sql on the windows machine (8.0.3) it > fails because the first insert command fails

Re: [GENERAL] return two elements

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:28:56AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hmm, be aware that you can't return a set if you have OUT/INOUT > > parameters. > > ? News to me --- what are you worried about exactly? > > It's surely possible that our idea of what this

Re: [GENERAL] vulnerability/SSL

2005-06-08 Thread Magnus Hagander
> Hi, > I¡¯m using postgreSQL with SSL these days. The version I¡¯m > using is 8.0.3. I found that it¡¯s impossible to use an > encrypted key file. > When you use a protected server.key file, you will be > prompted to input your passphrase EVERYTIME IT¡¯S USED, not > only when you start the se

Re: [GENERAL] Backup Compatibility between minor versions.

2005-06-08 Thread Howard Cole
There appears to be a problem with pgadminIII where the option to disable triggers does not actually do anything! If I switch to the pg_dump command line then the disable triggers works. Unfortunately I still cannot restore a database backed up from a linux machine running 8.0.1 to an windows m

Re: [GENERAL] Where to find translation of Postgres error messages?

2005-06-08 Thread John DeSoi
On Jun 8, 2005, at 9:12 AM, Együd Csaba wrote: thank you very much for your suggestion. I downloaded the file (hu.po) and tried to find the given error message in it (using a text editor) with no success. There was no e.g. "SQL Error: fe_sendauth: no password supplied" lines in the po file. A

Re: [GENERAL] Where to find translation of Postgres error messages?

2005-06-08 Thread Együd Csaba
Hi John, thank you very much for your suggestion. I downloaded the file (hu.po) and tried to find the given error message in it (using a text editor) with no success. There was no e.g. "SQL Error: fe_sendauth: no password supplied" lines in the po file. A also searched over the de.po and no such li

Re: [GENERAL] Copying data from int column to array column

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:21:19PM +0100, Adam Witney wrote: > > UPDATE test SET field3[1] = field1; > > Why does the UPDATE of field2 work, but the UPDATE of field3 does not? What version of PostgreSQL are you using? The example should work in 8.x. See the Release Notes: http://www.postgresql

Re: [GENERAL] To SPAM or not to SPAM...

2005-06-08 Thread Richard_D_Levine
I post to this list occasionally, and yet get maybe one spam email a month. YMMV. Don't tell anyone, but I got a line on a great deal in Nigeria. Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/07/2005 09:56:16 PM: > Wes wrote: > > It seems that for some time this list has been mirrored to Usenet without >

[GENERAL] vulnerability/SSL

2005-06-08 Thread dong changyu
Hi, I¡¯m using postgreSQL with SSL these days. The version I¡¯m using is 8.0.3. I found that it¡¯s impossible to use an encrypted key file. When you use a protected server.key file, you will be prompted to input your passphrase EVERYTIME IT¡¯S USED, not only when you start the server but also when

Re: [GENERAL] Backup Compatibility between minor versions.

2005-06-08 Thread Howard Cole
To improve compatibility, I created a backup on the linux system (8.0.1) using plain format, data only with triggers disabled. However, when I try to restore the plain sql on the windows machine (8.0.3) it fails because the first insert command fails a foreign key constraint. Can I disable fore

Re: [GENERAL] Copying data from int column to array column

2005-06-08 Thread Sean Davis
On Jun 8, 2005, at 8:21 AM, Adam Witney wrote: Hi, I am trying to copy the data from an integer column into an array column in the same table. Something like this CREATE TABLE test (field1 INT, field2 INT, field3 INT[]); INSERT INTO test VALUES(1); INSERT INTO test VALUES(2); INSERT INTO

[GENERAL] Copying data from int column to array column

2005-06-08 Thread Adam Witney
Hi, I am trying to copy the data from an integer column into an array column in the same table. Something like this CREATE TABLE test (field1 INT, field2 INT, field3 INT[]); INSERT INTO test VALUES(1); INSERT INTO test VALUES(2); INSERT INTO test VALUES(3); INSERT INTO test VALUES(4); INSERT IN

Re: [GENERAL] Where to find translation of Postgres error messages?

2005-06-08 Thread John DeSoi
On Jun 8, 2005, at 4:47 AM, Együd Csaba wrote: I'd like to use a Postgres 8 server from different locales (english, german, hungarian, etc.). I can implement gettext into my client application so the only thing i'd need (at least I think so) is a .po (or an .mo) file for each locale. I look

[GENERAL] Backup Compatibility between minor versions.

2005-06-08 Thread Howard Cole
Hi, Should it be possible to create a compressed backup of a version 8.0.1 database running on linux and restore that backup on version 8.0.3 running on XP? I ask this because it does not seem to work for me. Many problems seem to arise to do with tsearch2 extensions to tables, even though ts

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 8.0.1 configure failed

2005-06-08 Thread Dinesh Pandey
Sorry I forgot to set " LD_LIBRARY_PATH" , after setting able to install. LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH Thanks Dinesh Pandey -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Neil Conway Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 11:42 AM T

[GENERAL] Where to find translation of Postgres error messages?

2005-06-08 Thread Együd Csaba
Hi, I'd like to use a Postgres 8 server from different locales (english, german, hungarian, etc.). I can implement gettext into my client application so the only thing i'd need (at least I think so) is a .po (or an .mo) file for each locale. I looked into Postgres installation directories and fou

Re: [GENERAL] blocking INSERTs

2005-06-08 Thread Csaba Nagy
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 05:31, Joseph Shraibman wrote: > I want to do the following: > > BEGIN; > SELECT ... FROM table WHERE a = 1 FOR UPDATE; > UPDATE table SET ... WHERE a = 1; > if that resturns zero then > INSERT INTO table (...) VALUES (...); > END; > > The problem is that I need to avoid rac

Re: [GENERAL] return two elements

2005-06-08 Thread Rodríguez Rodríguez, Pere
Title: RE: [GENERAL] return two elements For my it would be sufficient that I could return a basic type in OUT/INOUT parameters, if in addition I could return a set fantastic! -Mensaje original- De: Alvaro Herrera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Enviado el: martes 7 de junio de 2005 1