Re: [GENERAL] Update and bytea problem...

2005-12-09 Thread Jerry LeVan
Begin forwarded message: From: Jerry LeVan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: December 9, 2005 10:45:35 PM EST To: Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Postgres General Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Update and bytea problem... On Dec 9, 2005, at 9:35 PM, Michael Fuhr wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:46:

Re: [GENERAL] Update and bytea problem...

2005-12-09 Thread Jerry LeVan
On Dec 9, 2005, at 9:35 PM, Michael Fuhr wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:46:17PM -0500, Jerry LeVan wrote: I am trying to write a general update command where there might be "bytea" fields involved. The update command is generated programatically. I am having some problems when a bytea fie

Re: [GENERAL] Update and bytea problem...

2005-12-09 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 08:46:17PM -0500, Jerry LeVan wrote: > I am trying to write a general update command where > there might be "bytea" fields involved. > > The update command is generated programatically. > > I am having some problems when a bytea field is > involved. What language are you

Re: [GENERAL] random delays

2005-12-09 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 02:29:02PM +0100, Baldur Norddahl wrote: > I noticed that sometimes we seem to have a problem with simple queries > that take a long time to execute. For example "select * from config > where key='abc'" which normally only takes a few milliseconds, but in > some rare case

[GENERAL] Update and bytea problem...

2005-12-09 Thread Jerry LeVan
Hi, I am trying to write a general update command where there might be "bytea" fields involved. The update command is generated programatically. I am having some problems when a bytea field is involved. A generated command might look like: update pics set info='moof.jpg', byteafield='moof.jpg

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch2: How to use different configurations for two

2005-12-09 Thread Stephan Vollmer
[Andrew, sorry for the PM - I pressed the wrong button.] Andrew J. Kopciuch wrote: >>You could write a one trigger for the table to handle both. > > Something like this : [...] > You can modify the function to be slightly more configurable with parameters > taking the column names, and config

R: [GENERAL] find last day of month

2005-12-09 Thread Luciano Bastianello
>> "Andrus Moor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I have a table containing month column in format mm. >>> >>> create table months ( tmkuu c(7)); >>> insert into months values ('01.2005'); >>> insert into months values ('02.2005'); >>> >>> How to create select statement which converts this

Re: [GENERAL] find last day of month

2005-12-09 Thread Sven Willenberger
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 15:27 -0500, Chris Browne wrote: > "Andrus Moor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a table containing month column in format mm. > > > > create table months ( tmkuu c(7)); > > insert into months values ('01.2005'); > > insert into months values ('02.2005'); > > > >

Re: [GENERAL] find last day of month

2005-12-09 Thread Chris Browne
"Andrus Moor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a table containing month column in format mm. > > create table months ( tmkuu c(7)); > insert into months values ('01.2005'); > insert into months values ('02.2005'); > > How to create select statement which converts this column to date type

Re: [GENERAL] swap relations to be able to execute a left join

2005-12-09 Thread David Rio Deiros
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:29:02PM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 02:17:59PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > > Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hmm...I get errors in MySQL 5.0.16 with the query as posted so I > > > have to wonder what the real query was. > > > > (tries

Re: [GENERAL] swap relations to be able to execute a left join

2005-12-09 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 02:17:59PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hmm...I get errors in MySQL 5.0.16 with the query as posted so I > > have to wonder what the real query was. > > (tries it...) After removing the bogus comma, MySQL 4.1.14 swallows > the query

Re: [GENERAL] swap relations to be able to execute a left join

2005-12-09 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:47:19PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Your coworker is depending on a flat-out-incorrect behavior of MySQL. > Hmm...I get errors in MySQL 5.0.16 with the query as posted so I > have to wonder what the real query was. (tries it...)

Re: [GENERAL] swap relations to be able to execute a left join

2005-12-09 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:47:19PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Right. MySQL apparently thinks that JOIN has the same precedence as > comma in a FROM-list, but anyone who has bothered to read the SQL > standard knows that JOIN is supposed to bind tighter than comma. > Your coworker is depending on a f

Re: [GENERAL] swap relations to be able to execute a left join

2005-12-09 Thread Tom Lane
Jaime Casanova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12/9/05, David Rio Deiros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am sure there is a good reason why you have to swap the relations >> in PostgreSQL. Anyone? > Because PostgreSQL is not broken... > What i see in this SELECT is an LEFT JOIN between AT and U

Re: [GENERAL] swap relations to be able to execute a left join

2005-12-09 Thread Jaime Casanova
On 12/9/05, David Rio Deiros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > The other day, a coworker who loves mysql was complaining to me because > he had a hard time to find out why this query didn't work on PostgreSQL: > [..select..] >FROM >Artifact_Revisions AR, >Revisions_to_T

Re: [GENERAL] PgSQL 8.1.0 Solaris w/ Sun's cc

2005-12-09 Thread William
Yep, I'm aware, I've had a 8.0.2 custom built pkgadd package for Solaris 10 with SMF support for awhile now. Just didn't remembre how I got it going. Till I know what version Sun is going with and how they got it setup, I prefer to use my own package. Thanks! -William --- Wes Williams <[EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] Solaris 10 Sun Studio 11 compile error configtest

2005-12-09 Thread William
Thanks, I figured that was as far as I had to go for the error. Turned out readline was searching for GCC (Sun's Companion) version. Disabled readline and went without a hitch. Thanks! --- Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > checking test program... fa

Re: [GENERAL] swap relations to be able to execute a left join

2005-12-09 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:16:15AM -0800, David Rio Deiros wrote: > The other day, a coworker who loves mysql was complaining to me because > he had a hard time to find out why this query didn't work on PostgreSQL: ... > FROM > Artifact_Revisions AR, > Revisions_to_Types RTT, >

Re: [GENERAL] Solaris 10 Sun Studio 11 compile error configtest

2005-12-09 Thread Tom Lane
William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > checking test program... failed > configure: error: > *** Could not execute a simple test program. This may > be a problem > *** related to locating shared libraries. Check the > file 'config.log' > *** for the exact reason. > $ more config.log You need to r

[GENERAL] swap relations to be able to execute a left join

2005-12-09 Thread David Rio Deiros
Hi there, The other day, a coworker who loves mysql was complaining to me because he had a hard time to find out why this query didn't work on PostgreSQL: SELECT AR.artifact_id, AT.type_nm, AR.title, U.dept, FROM Artifact_Revisions AR, Revis

[GENERAL] Solaris 10 Sun Studio 11 compile error configtest

2005-12-09 Thread William
1239 Hello, I'm having problems compiling pgsql 8.1.0 for Solaris 10 using Sun Studio 11. I'm giving configure the following arguments: OS: Solaris 10 Hardware: SunFire V100 PATH (the /usr/ucb/cc was renamed to /usr/ucb/cc.old and chmod 000) /opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/usr

Re: [GENERAL] PgSQL 8.1.0 Solaris w/ Sun's cc

2005-12-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
William wrote: > configure:2295: checking whether we are using the GNU > C compiler > configure:2319: cc -c conftest.c >&5 > "conftest.c", line 18: undefined symbol: choke > "conftest.c", line 18: syntax error before or at: me > cc: acomp failed for conftest.c > configure:2325: $? = 2 > > configu

Re: [GENERAL] bug or not? Trigger preventing delete causes circumvention

2005-12-09 Thread Luca Pireddu
On Friday 09 December 2005 09:22, Jan Wieck wrote: > On 12/8/2005 9:12 PM, Luca Pireddu wrote: > > I wrote a trigger function with the intent of preventing the deletion of > > a parent record when a referencing record would not allow it. However, > > the result is that the referencing record stays

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch2: How to use different configurations for two columns?

2005-12-09 Thread Andrew J. Kopciuch
> You could write a one trigger for the table to handle both. > Something like this : - CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION multi_tsearch2() RETURNS TRIGGER AS ' DECLARE BEGIN NEW.fti_title = to_tsvector(''default'', NEW.title); NEW.fti_author_list = to_tsvector(''simple'', NEW.author_list);

[GENERAL] PgSQL 8.1.0 Solaris w/ Sun's cc

2005-12-09 Thread William
Hello, I'm having problems compiling pgsql 8.1.0 for Solaris 10 using Sun Studio 11. I'm giving configure the following arguments: OS: Solaris 10 Hardware: SunFire V100 PATH (the /usr/ucb/cc was renamed to /usr/ucb/cc.old and chmod 000) /opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/us

[GENERAL] random delays

2005-12-09 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Hi, I noticed that sometimes we seem to have a problem with simple queries that take a long time to execute. For example "select * from config where key='abc'" which normally only takes a few milliseconds, but in some rare cases suddenly takes 10-30 seconds. It is a production system, so the

Re: [GENERAL] after vacuum, db is still "growing" :(

2005-12-09 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 10:00:45AM +0100, Rafael Martinez Guerrero wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 08:45, gabor wrote: > [...] > > > > are there any cases, where a normal vacuum is unable to reclaim some > > space > > Hello > > We have det same problem in some databases running 7.4.8. Hav

Re: [GENERAL] bug or not? Trigger preventing delete causes circumvention

2005-12-09 Thread Jan Wieck
On 12/8/2005 9:12 PM, Luca Pireddu wrote: I wrote a trigger function with the intent of preventing the deletion of a parent record when a referencing record would not allow it. However, the result is that the referencing record stays, but the referenced one is gone, so that my foreign key con

Re: [GENERAL] find last day of month

2005-12-09 Thread Edmund
"Andrus Moor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a table containing month column in format mm. > > create table months ( tmkuu c(7)); > insert into months values ('01.2005'); > insert into months values ('02.2005'); > > How to create select statement which converts this column to date type

Re: [GENERAL] tsearch2: How to use different configurations for two columns?

2005-12-09 Thread Andrew J. Kopciuch
> > The configuration seems to work fine, but I can't get tsearch2 to > use the 'author' config for column 'author_list' and 'default' > config for column 'title'. Is there any way to accomplish this? > It's totally possible. I don't think you can accomplish this using the simple tsearch trigger

[GENERAL] tsearch2: How to use different configurations for two columns?

2005-12-09 Thread Stephan Vollmer
Hi all, is it possible to index 2 columns in a table with tsearch2 using different configurations for each column index? I have a table publications that is defined as follows (simplified): CREATE TABLE publications ( title text, author_list text, fti_title tsvector,

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump problems

2005-12-09 Thread A. Kretschmer
am 09.12.2005, um 12:21:25 +0100 mailte [EMAIL PROTECTED] folgendes: > Hi ! > > We have an old web service with a pgsql database (in Suse Linux). This > database created by another programmer who no accessible now. > > We want to dump this database to get data from it. But I have no passwords.

[GENERAL] pg_dump problems

2005-12-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi ! We have an old web service with a pgsql database (in Suse Linux). This database created by another programmer who no accessible now. We want to dump this database to get data from it. But I have no passwords. I do many things, but I cannot create dump from this database. I know the name

Re: [GENERAL] memory leak under heavy load?

2005-12-09 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:15:44PM +0800, Kathy Lo wrote: > > See the shmctl() manpage: > > > >int shmctl(int shmid, int cmd, struct shmid_ds *buf); > > > > One of the command ids is IPC_RMID > > > Do I need to change the source code of postgresql if I want to set > IPC_RMID flag to solve t

[GENERAL] GnuPG / PGP signed MD5 and SHA1 checksums for PostgreSQL 8.1.0

2005-12-09 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Source code MD5 and SHA1 checksums for PostgreSQL 8.1.0 For instructions on how to use this file, please see: http://www.gtsm.com/postgres_sigs.html ## Created with md5sum: 5e1f1a7c5f62170b56a3bf2512fdec2d postgresql-8.1.0.tar.bz2 61ada6238aebbe

Re: [GENERAL] after vacuum, db is still "growing" :(

2005-12-09 Thread Rafael Martinez Guerrero
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 08:45, gabor wrote: [...] > > are there any cases, where a normal vacuum is unable to reclaim some > space Hello We have det same problem in some databases running 7.4.8. Having max_fsm_pages and max_fsm_relations properly configurated does not help. It looks like