Re: [GENERAL] Cast null string '' to integer 0

2006-08-19 Thread Berend Tober
Guy Rouillier wrote: Dwight Emmons wrote: I am upgrading from Postgres 7.2 to 8.1. We have multiple systems already in place that took advantage of the implicit cast of a null '' string to an integer of '0'. It is not financially feasible for us to modify all the instances. Does anyone kn

Re: [GENERAL] count and limit

2006-08-19 Thread Fabio Victora Hecht
Ok, so I think the best that can be done is to EXPLAIN the query and check if it's gonna take long. If it is, I could use the estimated count. Thanks, FabioOn 8/17/06, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Fuhr wrote:> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 10:34:44AM +1000, Chris wrote:>> Fabio Victora Hech

Re: [GENERAL] text formatting in a query, a la sprintf

2006-08-19 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 01:59:17PM -0700, Reece Hart wrote: > I often desire text and number formatting that's not available with > functions like to_char. I'd really like to have functionality akin to > sprintf, such as: > > $ select no_hits,term,sprintf('http://google.com?q=% > s',replace(queryt

Re: [GENERAL] Cast null string '' to integer 0

2006-08-19 Thread Guy Rouillier
Dwight Emmons wrote: > I am upgrading from Postgres 7.2 to 8.1. We have multiple systems > already in place that took advantage of the implicit cast of a null > '' string to an integer of '0'. It is not financially feasible for > us to modify all the instances. Does anyone know of a fix? Wel

[GENERAL] Locale, encoding, sort order confusion

2006-08-19 Thread John Gunther
I've been reading about locales, encodings, sort orders, the to_ascii function but I'm more confused than enlightened. What I want is very simple: 1) I want the database to correctly accept, store, and display alphabetic characters, including European accented characters, entered and viewed in H

[GENERAL] Locale, encoding, sort order confusion

2006-08-19 Thread John Gunther
I've been reading about locales, encodings, sort orders, the to_ascii function and, embarrasingly, I'm more confused than enlightened.: What I want is very simple: 1) I want the database to correctly accept, store, and display alphabetic characters, including European accented characters,

[GENERAL] text formatting in a query, a la sprintf

2006-08-19 Thread Reece Hart
I often desire text and number formatting that's not available with functions like to_char. I'd really like to have functionality akin to sprintf, such as: $ select no_hits,term,sprintf('http://google.com?q=%s',replace(queryterm,' ','+')) as url from queries; $ select event,sprintf("%.2g",prob

Re: [GENERAL] problem with postgres SQL db

2006-08-19 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 10:52:24PM +0200, Rodion Raskolnikov wrote: > > now i dont remember SYNTAX what we use when we export db. You need to use the _latest_ pg_dump. If you used the 7.2 pg_dump, it for sure won't work. There are functional changes between 7.2 and 8.1 that might make this upgr

Re: [GENERAL] Cast null string '' to integer 0

2006-08-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
Dwight Emmons wrote: > I am upgrading from Postgres 7.2 to 8.1. We have multiple systems already > in place that took advantage of the implicit cast of a null '' string to an > integer of '0'. It is not financially feasible for us to modify all the > instances. Does anyone know of a fix? You wo

Re: [GENERAL] Connection string

2006-08-19 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 03:36:42PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:54:19PM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote: > > It works with a double-quoted string but not with a single-quoted > > string as the documentation mentions. > > It's not supposed to work with single-quoted strings.

Re: [GENERAL] Arrays and backslashes

2006-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Colin DuPlantis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having trouble inserting a value into the array column that > contains a single '\' (no quotes) character. The following examples are > my attempts to produce a value of 'x\y' (no quotes) in both the regular > text and the text array columns in

Re: [GENERAL] Connection string

2006-08-19 Thread Michael Meskes
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:54:19PM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote: > It works with a double-quoted string but not with a single-quoted > string as the documentation mentions. It's not supposed to work with single-quoted strings. This is a documentation bug. Or does anyone think we should support single

Re: [GENERAL] Query optimization and indexes

2006-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> only the a = 5 clause would be used with the index. As of 8.1 it will >> consider using nonconsecutive index columns > Really? Is this the "skip scan" plan people were pining for? No, there's no skip scan, it jus

Re: [GENERAL] Database GUI creater that exports to SQL

2006-08-19 Thread Shervin Asgari
I forgot to say that I preferably want a free utility that works on Ubuntu. Shervin Asgari Shervin Asgari wrote: Hello, does anyone know of any applications that can create database easily using an interface which exports to SQL so that I can just run it in postgresql? -

[GENERAL] Database GUI creater that exports to SQL

2006-08-19 Thread Shervin Asgari
Hello, does anyone know of any applications that can create database easily using an interface which exports to SQL so that I can just run it in postgresql? -- Shervin Asgari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

[GENERAL] Arrays and backslashes

2006-08-19 Thread Colin DuPlantis
I'm running: colin=# select version(); version --- PostgreSQL 8.1.1 on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc

[GENERAL] Cast null string '' to integer 0

2006-08-19 Thread Dwight Emmons
I am upgrading from Postgres 7.2 to 8.1.  We have multiple systems already in place that took advantage of the implicit cast of a null ‘’ string to an integer of ‘0’.  It is not financially feasible for us to modify all the instances.  Does anyone know of a fix?   Any help would be apprec

[GENERAL] problem with postgres SQL db

2006-08-19 Thread Rodion Raskolnikov
hi. my name is grzegorz. i have som problem with postgres sql.i am sorry because my english is very bad, but i dont have any other chance to contact with you.in the company when i work we hame 2 www servers, at the older we have postres 7.2,  and at the new we have postgres 8.1. we have to insert

Re: [GENERAL] Query optimization and indexes

2006-08-19 Thread Gregory Stark
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Before (if memory serves) 8.1, the planner would only consider leading > index columns as potential indexscan qualifiers. So given > > where a = 5 and c = 4; > > only the a = 5 clause would be used with the index. As of 8.1 it will > consider using

Re: [GENERAL] Importance of re-index

2006-08-19 Thread Nicolas Barbier
2006/8/10, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: How aggressively does PostgreSQL keep b-trees in balance? Inserting the range [1..1000] should result in a right- unbalanced tree. Are you talking about a tree that is unbalanced regarding its height (ie, has some leaves that are further away fr