Re: [GENERAL] Does pg_dump have result codes to indicate success or failure

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 02:23:15AM +, frank church wrote: > I want to use pg_dump in a php program. Does pg_dump have specific error > codes? > > Does use the normal shell result codes to indicate success or failure ? A quick look through the pg_dump source code finds exit codes of 0 (succes

[GENERAL] Does pg_dump have result codes to indicate success or failure

2006-01-22 Thread frank church
I want to use pg_dump in a php program. Does pg_dump have specific error codes? Does use the normal shell result codes to indicate success or failure ? This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. ---

Re: [GENERAL] Numbers

2006-01-22 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Sunday 22 January 2006 02:47 pm, Bob Pawley wrote: > Hi Tom > > I found a datatype called 'interval' which seems to separate time from its > unit. > > Is that what you were thinking of?? > > Bob > - Original Message - > From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Bob Pawley" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [GENERAL] Numbers

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 02:47:51PM -0800, Bob Pawley wrote: > I found a datatype called 'interval' which seems to separate time from its > unit. > > Is that what you were thinking of?? I think Tom might be referring to Martijn van Oosterhout's tagged types: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-

Re: [GENERAL] Numbers

2006-01-22 Thread Bob Pawley
Hi Tom I found a datatype called 'interval' which seems to separate time from its unit. Is that what you were thinking of?? Bob - Original Message - From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bob Pawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Postgresql" Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 11:25 AM Su

Re: [GENERAL] Working out diskspace taken by database and tables 7.4

2006-01-22 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 12:53:57PM +, frank church wrote: > I am trying to work out how much space is taken up by a given > database in the file system. On Unix-like systems a simplistic way is to use "du" on the database directory, which is generally $PGDATA/base/database_oid. You can find t

Re: [GENERAL] Numbers

2006-01-22 Thread Tom Lane
Bob Pawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My initial tables have columns containing values such as 12 feet. > I want to perform calculations. > Is there a method in Postgresql to separate the 12 from the unit feet or > am I forced to make two columns to separate the feet from the 12? Are you stor

[GENERAL] Numbers

2006-01-22 Thread Bob Pawley
My initial tables have columns containing values such as 12 feet.   I want to perform calculations.   Is there a method in Postgresql to separate the 12 from the unit feet or am I forced to make two columns to separate the feet from the 12?   Bob Pawley

[GENERAL] Memory Allocation error using pg_dump on 7.4

2006-01-22 Thread frank church
I repeatedly get this error whenever I try to backup a database The command used is: pg_dump -Fc -O -U username tablename > tablename.20060122 pg_dump: ERROR: invalid memory alloc request size 4294967290 pg_dump: SQL command to dump the contents of table "cc_ratecard" fail

Re: [GENERAL] numeric data type?

2006-01-22 Thread Doug McNaught
Zlatko Matić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, it seems that numeric without parameters (precision, scale) behave > similar to float, but is much exact. Am I right or I missunderstood? Right. It's also considerably slower, since floating point calculations can use the hardware. Unless you're do

[GENERAL] Working out diskspace taken by database and tables 7.4

2006-01-22 Thread frank church
I am trying to work out how much space is taken up by a given database in the file system. I have googled the archives and found the stuff there looks dated. Is there some script or query that can work it all out? My current version is 7.4. Knowing abut 8.x.x will be fine too? --

Re: [GENERAL] numeric data type?

2006-01-22 Thread Zlatko Matić
Thanks for answer, but in documentation I found that Numeric can be without scale and precision defined: "Specifying NUMERICwithout any precision or scale creates a column in which numeric values of any precision and scale can be stored, up to the implementation limit on precision. A column of

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Top 10 Wishlist

2006-01-22 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Tony Caduto schrieb: > I think a client that tells me the columns are a, b, c but then > >> gives me an error on "insert into table values (aval, bval, cval)" >> because >> the actual logical order is different is probably fairly broken. > > > I guess that could be a problem, I was thinking in