[GENERAL] Encodings

2006-02-19 Thread Jan Cruz
When restoring a dump from sql_ascii encoding to latin9/utf8 the "THIS STRING|" result to "THIS STRINGŠ" thus it aborted the restore. When I tried to dump a latin9/utf8 and restore it with the same encoding having same string it goes well but it took a very long time to copy all data. (1.6gb dump

[GENERAL] psql Copy question

2006-02-19 Thread Virag Saksena
Hi,     I am using copy command in psql to load several million rows from a file Is it possible to have a progress indicator print a dot after every 100,000 rows are inserted ?   Regards,   Virag

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Functions / PL-Language

2006-02-19 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:36:04PM +0800, Jan Cruz wrote: > BTW I also got something like this: > > CREATE FUNCTION func2() RETURNS SETOF foo as $$ > DECLARE > row foo; > BEGIN > SELECT INTO ROW * from FOO; >return next foo; > END; > $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql STABLE; Please post the actual code i

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Functions / PL-Language

2006-02-19 Thread Jan Cruz
On 2/19/06, Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 04:48:55PM +0800, Jan Cruz wrote:  CREATE TABLE foo (id integer, t text);INSERT INTO foo VALUES (1, 'one'); INSERT INTO foo VALUES (2, 'two'); Thanks for the correct syntaxing Mike. BTW I also got something like this: C

[GENERAL] simple explain output.

2006-02-19 Thread Chris
Hi all, I'm pretty sure the answer to this is "not possible" but I'll ask just in case. Is there a way to simplify the output that comes from explain? I'm writing a script to check my database logs to see whether I am missing any indexes. Basically the process goes like this: - Find a se

Re: [GENERAL] Domains

2006-02-19 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Feb 18, 2006, at 20:46 , Harald Armin Massa wrote: I do not know about the word "domains" in this usage. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-createdomain.html Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] Backslashes in data in version 8.1.2

2006-02-19 Thread Mike Nolan
> Could this be a locale issue? The one where it does not work uses the C > locale, the others use the default locale, en_US.UTF-8. Nope, it's not a locale issue, it works on the test system using the C locale as well as the default locale. I though I had the backslash issue under control in my

Re: [GENERAL] Backslashes in data in version 8.1.2

2006-02-19 Thread Mike Nolan
> This has not changed from prior versions. It looks like you are > neglecting to allow for the fact that backslash is an escape character > both at the string-literal level and at the regex-pattern level. > Therefore you must write twice as many backslashes as you normally > would write in a rege

Re: [GENERAL] Backslashes in data in version 8.1.2

2006-02-19 Thread Tom Lane
Mike Nolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I moved up to 8.1.2 one of my PHP programs appears to be broken, > I am getting backslashes in my data that I don't want. > Investigating further, I have found some inconsistencies in how verion > 8.1.2 handles data with backslashes in it: This has n

Re: [GENERAL] restoring under a different owner?

2006-02-19 Thread Tom Lane
"Christopher J. Bottaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to use pg_dump to backup an entire Postgres database, including BLOB > data. Then I want to restore it on a different machine with a different db > owner and all the tables restored under that owner. I want the restore to > create the

Re: [GENERAL] restoring under a different owner?

2006-02-19 Thread John DeSoi
On Feb 19, 2006, at 3:25 PM, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: I want to use pg_dump to backup an entire Postgres database, including BLOB data. Then I want to restore it on a different machine with a different db owner and all the tables restored under that owner. I want the restore to cre

[GENERAL] restoring under a different owner?

2006-02-19 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
Hi, I want to use pg_dump to backup an entire Postgres database, including BLOB data. Then I want to restore it on a different machine with a different db owner and all the tables restored under that owner. I want the restore to create the db and all the tables. What are the commands to do this?

[GENERAL] Backslashes in data in version 8.1.2

2006-02-19 Thread Mike Nolan
When I moved up to 8.1.2 one of my PHP programs appears to be broken, I am getting backslashes in my data that I don't want. Investigating further, I have found some inconsistencies in how verion 8.1.2 handles data with backslashes in it: uscf=> \d backtest; Table "mikenolan.backtest" Column |

Re: [GENERAL] pgplsql and notifications

2006-02-19 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ken=E9z_Attila?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to implement a function in plpgsql (or sql if it is possible) > that can say me if I had some notification of some listened table. Notifications are delivered to the client (and then promptly forgotten by the backend). The

Re: [GENERAL] Domains

2006-02-19 Thread Peter
Hi, Thanks for the suggestion. However I just wanted to give a brief description of something I want to achieve. I believe such feature will be very useful in more complicated environments. Kind regards, Peter Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Feb 19, 2006, at 2:12 , Stephan Szabo wrote: O

Re: [GENERAL] Mixing different LC_COLLATE and database encodings

2006-02-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 08:16:07PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Is the Holy Grail encoding and lc_collate settings per column? Well yes. I've been trying to create a system where you can handle multiple collations in the same database. I posted the details to -hackers and got part of the way, but

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL New RPM Sets for FC/RH

2006-02-19 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
- PostgreSQL New RPM Sets 2006-02-19 Versions: 8.1.3, 8.0.7, 7.4.12, 7.3.14 Set labels: 8.1.3-1PGDG, 8.0.7-1PGDG, 7.4.12-1PGDG, 7.3.14-1PGDG -

[GENERAL] pgplsql and notifications

2006-02-19 Thread Kenéz Attila
Hi all, I would like to implement a function in plpgsql (or sql if it is possible) that can say me if I had some notification of some listened table. I mean something like this: create procedure do_i_have_notifications(text) returns boolean as ' ... ' language (plpg)sql; (or: create pro

Re: [GENERAL] Same data, different results in Postgres vs. FrontBase

2006-02-19 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Brendan Duddridge wrote: > Hi, > > I have a query that returns 569 rows in FrontBase, but only 30 rows > in Postgres. The data is the same as I just finished copying my > entire database over from FrontBase to Postgres. > > I've reduced my problem to the following statement an