[GENERAL] function example?

2005-10-29 Thread Matthew Peter
Could someone help me and give me a basic example of how to write a similiar functional function to the one below that would use a dynamic table and update a column only if it held a value. I've been reading around and can't seem to find the answer I'm looking for. I just need a simple examle to

Re: [GENERAL] Installation trouble -- oops

2005-10-29 Thread Tom Lane
Steve Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is postgresql (or some parts thereof) now using relative pathing and > has that behavior changed? As of 8.0 we attempt to determine the libdir, sharedir etc as relative to the location of the executable. So you can't just "cp" the PG executables to so

Re: [GENERAL] Installation trouble -- oops

2005-10-29 Thread Steve Crawford
On Friday 28 October 2005 19:18, you wrote: > Try: > > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb --no-locale -D /var/lib/pgsql/data OK. That works (even without the --no-locale). Which makes me puzzled and worried.The initdb I used and the one I used earlier are identical (as verified by the fact that I copi

Re: [GENERAL] difficulty formating interval datatypes in 7.4

2005-10-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 16:22:29 -0400, Chris Matheson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I am working to format an interval in using the to_char() SQL function > on postgresql 7.4.8. I've had nothing but disapointment so far. > My confusion occurs when I'm trying to format using day

Re: [GENERAL] Generating an ANSI compliant schema recreation script

2005-10-29 Thread J French
No problems.  I am about to write a python script to cleanup the output of pg_dump.  Before I do I just wanted to verify that there wasn't an already available script which I could feed  directly into another ansi compliant database without modification.  No sense reinventing the wheel.  The output

Re: [GENERAL] Generating an ANSI compliant schema recreation script

2005-10-29 Thread Tom Lane
J French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did read the page. Been there done that, ran the script. My question was > if there was a canned script out there that I didn't have to clean up on the > fly. This will be an cron job for a convoluted development process. If your schema isn't using any non-

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql "info" files?

2005-10-29 Thread Andreas Seltenreich
Martijn van Oosterhout schrob: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 08:29:32PM +0100, mike dixon wrote: >> I really love the "info" help system (don't know its name; "info >> emacs" on cmd line if it's installed calls it up; filenames are >> "texinfo-info*" for example); anyone know if info files are availab

Re: [GENERAL] Generating an ANSI compliant schema recreation script

2005-10-29 Thread Douglas McNaught
J French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did read the page. Been there done that, ran the script. My question > was if there was a canned script out there that I didn't have to clean up > on the fly. This will be an cron job for a convoluted development > process. Thanks though. Yeah, that wo

Re: [GENERAL] Generating an ANSI compliant schema recreation script

2005-10-29 Thread J French
I did read the page.  Been there done that, ran the script.  My question was if there was a canned script out there that I didn't have to clean up on the fly.  This will be an cron job for a convoluted development process.  Thanks though. On 10/29/05, Douglas McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: J

Re: [GENERAL] Generating an ANSI compliant schema recreation script

2005-10-29 Thread Douglas McNaught
J French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I need to capture the schema on a postgres database and recreate it on > another ansi compliant platform. Is it possible to generate a file > (perhaps from pg_dump?) as a sequence of ansi compliant SQL commands > which can be used to recreate the structure?

[GENERAL] Generating an ANSI compliant schema recreation script

2005-10-29 Thread J French
I need to capture the schema on a postgres database and recreate it on another ansi compliant platform.  Is it possible to generate a file (perhaps from pg_dump?)  as a sequence of ansi compliant SQL commands which can be used to recreate the structure?   Thanks in advance!

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql "info" files?

2005-10-29 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 08:29:32PM +0100, mike dixon wrote: > I really love the "info" help system (don't know its name; "info > emacs" on cmd line if it's installed calls it up; filenames are > "texinfo-info*" for example); anyone know if info files are available > anywhere for pgsql? I looked at

[GENERAL] pgsql "info" files?

2005-10-29 Thread mike dixon
I really love the "info" help system (don't know its name; "info emacs" on cmd line if it's installed calls it up; filenames are "texinfo-info*" for example); anyone know if info files are available anywhere for pgsql? I looked at what gentoo's "emerge" installed and don't see anything... Mike

Re: [GENERAL] dynamic table naming in function

2005-10-29 Thread Matthew Peter
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I read about EXECUTE in the docs now. > Most of the other PLs don't cache query plans > at all, and so all queries are effectively EXECUTE'd > and there's no issue. I'm not sure what you mean... Is there a more suitable LANGUAGE declaration you wo

Re: [GENERAL] function that resolves IP addresses

2005-10-29 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 14:36:46 +0200, Marcel Gsteiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all Does anybody know how I could create a database function that accepts an INET parameter and reverse-lookups the hostname via DNS PTR lookup? Something like the dnsname command l

Re: [GENERAL] dynamic table naming in function

2005-10-29 Thread Tom Lane
Matthew Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Out of curiosity, I was wondering if it is possible to > use dynamic table names in a function? In plpgsql, you can do this by building dynamic query strings and EXECUTE'ing them. Most of the other PLs don't cache query plans at all, and so all queries

Re: [GENERAL] dynamic table naming in function

2005-10-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 10:45:21 -0700, Matthew Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Out of curiosity, I was wondering if it is possible to > use dynamic table names in a function? AND whether or > not you can test a value prior to insert to see > whether or not you want to update that column. Wher

[GENERAL] dynamic table naming in function

2005-10-29 Thread Matthew Peter
Out of curiosity, I was wondering if it is possible to use dynamic table names in a function? AND whether or not you can test a value prior to insert to see whether or not you want to update that column. Where you could pass in the name of the table for it use ANY name passed in rather than statica

Re: [GENERAL] function that resolves IP addresses

2005-10-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 14:36:46 +0200, Marcel Gsteiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > Does anybody know how I could create a database function that accepts > an INET parameter and reverse-lookups the hostname via DNS PTR lookup? > Something like the dnsname command line utility in the

Re: [GENERAL] which charset use for cyrilic?

2005-10-29 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am Samstag, den 29.10.2005, 13:11 +0400 schrieb Zet: > Hi > > Which charset is need to be set in database for cyrilic? > > I've used till now WIN, but today I found a problem win? > > for example: > > SELECT * > FROM table > WHERE a = 'слово' > > returns me a record, where a = 'фраза' > > af

[GENERAL] Enhancement Request : Expressions for format string in PlPgsql RAISE statement

2005-10-29 Thread Laurent HERVE
Hi, I don't know where to submit enhancement requests. So I'm doing there. I have to send error messages in several languages within PlPgSQL code. I would like RAISE to work like that : RAISE EXCEPTION get_my_format_string(MY_ERR_NBR,USER_LANG),a,b,a+b/c; where the get_my_format_string returns

Re: [GENERAL] querying while copying into a table and optimizations

2005-10-29 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 06:22:43PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is postgresql 7.4 > I am trying to check that postgres is updating a table. > I have a pretty large ascii table file (+- 210 Mb) which I am copying into a > table with pgsql, but it is taking a long time, and any select quer

Re: [GENERAL] Can I use variable to store sql data?

2005-10-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
Please post questions to relevant lists. This question did not belong on the patches list. I have moved the discussion to the general list. Please don't reply to other threads to start new ones. This messes up the archives and won't help people see your question. On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:55:50

Re: [GENERAL] which charset use for cyrilic?

2005-10-29 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Zet, there is pgsql-ru-general list (russian), btw. see http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/subscribe for subscription info. You did't get us enough info and examples (cut'n paste form psql would be nice). Oleg On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Zet wrote: Hi Which charset is need to be

Re: [GENERAL] mysql replace in postgreSQL?

2005-10-29 Thread Kostas Maistrelis
blackwater dev wrote: In MySQL, I can use the replace statement which either updates the data there or inserts it. Is there a comporable syntax to use in postgreSQL? I need to do an insert and don't want to have to worry about if the data is already there or not...so don't want to see if it th

[GENERAL] which charset use for cyrilic?

2005-10-29 Thread Zet
Hi Which charset is need to be set in database for cyrilic? I've used till now WIN, but today I found a problem for example: SELECT * FROM table WHERE a = 'слово' returns me a record, where a = 'фраза' after I tried UNICODE but for most of cyrilic words PG gives error like "invalid byte seque