Re: [GENERAL] Query Assistance

2007-03-15 Thread Naz Gassiep
Indeed. Thanks for that! I keep getting bitten by that too hehe. - Naz. William Garrison wrote: My guess is that integer division is to blame: 50 divided by 1500 = 0.03 which rounds to zero. You probably have to cast them to real before doing the division. Naz Gassiep wrote: Is anyone able t

Re: [GENERAL] PgSql on Vista?

2007-03-15 Thread Brandon Aiken
It was clear to me after 20 minutes of actually trying to use the OS that UAC was a gimmick designed to supply plausible deniability for the fact that Windows XP suffered so many problems with malware. They can simply ask "were you using UAC?" every time someone complains that their box got inf

Re: [GENERAL] Query Assistance

2007-03-15 Thread William Garrison
My guess is that integer division is to blame: 50 divided by 1500 = 0.03 which rounds to zero. You probably have to cast them to real before doing the division. Naz Gassiep wrote: Is anyone able to tell me why in the last column of the returned result set, the value calculated is always 0?

[GENERAL] Query Assistance

2007-03-15 Thread Naz Gassiep
Is anyone able to tell me why in the last column of the returned result set, the value calculated is always 0? QUERY: SELECT products.productid, products.cost, products.srp, CASE WHEN products.srp > 0 THEN (products.srp - products.cost)

[GENERAL] Column does not exist when trying to insert data.

2007-03-15 Thread Parthan SR
Hello, My table 'orderitems' looks like this create table orderitem ( id serial not null primary key, item integer not null, quantity numeric(6,2) not null, unit varchar(10), conference integer not null, seller integer not null, incharge integer not null, orderdate date not null, duedate date no

Re: [GENERAL] Practical question.

2007-03-15 Thread louis gonzales
Hey Joshua, I appreciate the insight. That's clear. Thanks again, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Tom Lane wrote: louis gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: As an example: insertX which initiates the trigger reads the 'nextvalue' from the sequence and begins to create the associcated table

Re: [GENERAL] Practical question.

2007-03-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: > louis gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> As an example: >> insertX which initiates the trigger reads the 'nextvalue' from the >> sequence and begins to create the associcated table >> insertY happens almost at the same time, so that it gets the same >> 'nextvalue' from the

Re: [GENERAL] Practical question.

2007-03-15 Thread louis gonzales
:) , something that is analogous to a race condition. is this something I shouldn't be concerned with? I suppose if I knew for certain there was some kind of synchronous behavior, then I wouldn't fear a potentially subsequent event completing before the previous one doing so. As a possible so

Re: [GENERAL] Practical question.

2007-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
louis gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As an example: > insertX which initiates the trigger reads the 'nextvalue' from the > sequence and begins to create the associcated table > insertY happens almost at the same time, so that it gets the same > 'nextvalue' from the sequence [ blink... ]

Re: [GENERAL] pre-parser query manipulation

2007-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
Randall Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm at a loss as to how to remove the OF clause at the server. It it > possible to do it with a rule? No, because the syntax error will occur long before any rule has a chance to get involved. You'd have to actually hack the C code (see transformLocki

[GENERAL] Practical question.

2007-03-15 Thread louis gonzales
Hello List, I want to write a statement-level trigger - one that happens once per statement - such that, immediately after an insert into a table(which gets a unique integer value as an ID from a defined sequence, being the primary key on the table), a new table is created with foreign key con

Re: [GENERAL] pre-parser query manipulation

2007-03-15 Thread Randall Smith
Erik Jones wrote: This may be a dupe. I sent and had some issues with my mail client and afterwards it was sitting all alone in my outbox, if you've already seen this, sorry for the resend... On Mar 14, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Randall Smith wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to process a query written in

Re: [GENERAL] Role & User - Inheritance?

2007-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
"Alexi Gen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since user01 is tagged to dba01 (who has the SUPERUSER option) - should'nt > user01 also inherit this? No, he has to actually SET ROLE to the superuser account to make himself a superuser. SUPERUSER and the other non-GRANTable attributes of a role don't

[GENERAL] About the new day-time saving rule

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Su
Hi, I'm just wondering that does postgres have a time zone updater for the new day time saving rule like java has? (http://java.sun.com/javase/tzupdater_README.html). Or do I need to change the time manually myself? If that is the case, if the time changes again sometime in September then I wou

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump warning format?

2007-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
Erik Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Basically I need a way for my script to know if it needs to > abort because there were issues with the dump before it follows > through with the drop db... Well, just checking the exit status from pg_dump ought to give you at least a go/no-go indicator.

Re: [GENERAL] About the new day-time saving rule

2007-03-15 Thread Michael Su
Hi, Please ignore my previous email. Sorry, Michael _ From: Michael Su [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:43 PM To: 'pgsql-general@postgresql.org' Subject: About the new day-time saving rule Hi, I'm just wondering that does postgres have a time

Re: [GENERAL] exception handling in plperlu

2007-03-15 Thread Jasbinder Singh Bali
How about using a try catch block? isn't that more efficient that eval? ~Jas On 3/15/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Jasbinder Singh Bali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, if I rephrase my requirement, I need to catch an exception at any > point ,where ever it is raised, in th

Re: [GENERAL] exception handling in plperlu

2007-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
"Jasbinder Singh Bali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, if I rephrase my requirement, I need to catch an exception at any > point ,where ever it is raised, in the perl code. > E.g during an insert, there is a foreign key contraint violation, then i > need to catch this specific error and do

[GENERAL] exception handling in plperlu

2007-03-15 Thread Jasbinder Singh Bali
Hi, Actually, if I rephrase my requirement, I need to catch an exception at any point ,where ever it is raised, in the perl code. E.g during an insert, there is a foreign key contraint violation, then i need to catch this specific error and do something with it. Hope i make some sense here. Thank

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall and version confusion

2007-03-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Dave Page wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> I have *no* interest in trying to get it to support an --output-version >> switch... > > There speaks a man who has the luxury of not having to worry about > multi-version admin tools :-( I am afraid that I have to agree with Tom here. Pg_dump has plenty of o

Re: [GENERAL] PgSql on Vista?

2007-03-15 Thread Paul Lambert
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Dave Page escribió: Paul Lambert wrote: After install completes you can turn it back on... if you want - personally I leave it off, it's an incredibly annoying "feature". Doesn't the security center keep popping up to point out that it's turned off? You mean, like this

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall and version confusion

2007-03-15 Thread Paul Lambert
Porting it to Windows could be tricky though, given its use of symlinks and wrapper scripts. FWIW, as of Vista and Server Longhorn, Windows now supports Symlinks. I don't know about wrapper scripts though. -- Paul Lambert Database Administrator AutoLedgers ---(end

Re: [GENERAL] PgSql on Vista?

2007-03-15 Thread Dave Page
> --- Original Message --- > From: Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: 15/03/07, 22:32:50 > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PgSql on Vista? > > Dave Page escribió: > > Paul Lambert wrote: > > > > >After install completes you can turn it back on... if yo

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall and version confusion

2007-03-15 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:19:31PM +, Dave Page wrote: > Even if we went through the insane pain (for me at least) of maintaining > multiple branches of the Windows build of PostgreSQL, *and* custom > builds of the utilities built against a single libpq, we still couldn't > ship a single set

Re: [GENERAL] PgSql on Vista?

2007-03-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Dave Page escribió: > Paul Lambert wrote: > > >After install completes you can turn it back on... if you want - > >personally I leave it off, it's an incredibly annoying "feature". > > Doesn't the security center keep popping up to point out that it's > turned off? You mean, like this? http:/

[GENERAL] pg_dump warning format?

2007-03-15 Thread Erik Jones
Hello, I'm currently working on an automated data archival script that will dump an existing archive db, drop it, recreate it from a template, and then fill it with any data ready to be archived from our production db. My question here is: What is the format of the warnings and/or errors

Re: [GENERAL] plperl function called > once in cascading triggers

2007-03-15 Thread Kenneth Downs
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:09:24PM -0400, Kenneth Downs wrote: What I have noticed is that once the innermost instance exits, none of the outer instances execute any further, suggesting that the plperl routine is not "re-entrant" (if I am using that term correct

Re: [GENERAL] PgSql on Vista?

2007-03-15 Thread Paul Lambert
Dave Page wrote: Paul Lambert wrote: After install completes you can turn it back on... if you want - personally I leave it off, it's an incredibly annoying "feature". Doesn't the security center keep popping up to point out that it's turned off? Regards Dave Ahh, but there is an optio

Re: [GENERAL] PgSql on Vista?

2007-03-15 Thread Dave Page
Paul Lambert wrote: After install completes you can turn it back on... if you want - personally I leave it off, it's an incredibly annoying "feature". Doesn't the security center keep popping up to point out that it's turned off? Regards Dave ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall and version confusion

2007-03-15 Thread Dave Page
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Dave Page wrote: Tom Lane wrote: I have *no* interest in trying to get it to support an --output-version switch... There speaks a man who has the luxury of not having to worry about multi-version admin tools :-( Is it more difficult for you to ship a pg_dump-8.0, pg_dum

Re: [GENERAL] PgSql on Vista?

2007-03-15 Thread Paul Lambert
Arkan wrote: Hi all, have anybody installed PgSQL on Windows Vista? I tried yesterday but I fail... on XP and linux i've installed pgsql much times but on vista... nothing to do! Version in 8.2.3 with the installer. If I install with my user account (with administrative rights), the installlat

Re: [GENERAL] CREATE TABLESPACE dynamically

2007-03-15 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Richard Huxton wrote: William Garrison wrote: I am writing scripts to create a database that I want to run in my development, testing, and production environments. That means I need to be able to do something like IF CREATE TABLESPACE foo LOCATION E'C:\database'; ELSE CREATE TABLESPACE

Re: [GENERAL] Native type for storing fractions (e.g 1/3)?

2007-03-15 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:11:23PM +0100, Florian G. Pflug wrote: You'd need a type for large integers first - otherwise your ty_fraction will be quite limited. I think numeric could be used for that, though I don't know if numeric guarantees that at least the opera

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Question - Group By and % results per row

2007-03-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 12:53:11 -0700, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do I get access to the total of all clicks on per row basis so I > can divide it? The only solution that comes to my mind is create a > subquery that does a (select count(*) from... where... ) of the > original group

Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] PostgreSQL to Oracle

2007-03-15 Thread Jonah H. Harris
On 3/15/07, Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you find this works well? I've used it from some older Oracle instances connecting back into PostgreSQL and the results I had have been flakey at best. It really just depends on the data types in use... but I've never really had anything I

Re: [GENERAL] Is This A Set Based Solution?

2007-03-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:15:01 -0700, Stefan Berglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an app where the user makes multiple selections from a list. I > can either construct a huge WHERE clause such as SELECT blah blah FROM > foo WHERE (ID = 53016 OR ID = 27 OR ID = 292 OR ID = 512) or I

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall and version confusion

2007-03-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Dave Page wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > >I have *no* interest in trying to get it to support an --output-version > >switch... > > There speaks a man who has the luxury of not having to worry about > multi-version admin tools :-( Is it more difficult for you to ship a pg_dump-8.0, pg_dump-8.1, etc a

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall and version confusion

2007-03-15 Thread Dave Page
Tom Lane wrote: I have *no* interest in trying to get it to support an --output-version switch... There speaks a man who has the luxury of not having to worry about multi-version admin tools :-( /D ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you sear

Re: [GENERAL] simple coordinate system

2007-03-15 Thread Webb Sprague
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/datatype-geometric.html Have you looked at these yet? If not, you asked your question prematurely and should have read the docs. If so, in what respect do they not work for you? On 3/15/07, Robin Ericsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/15/07, Webb S

Re: [GENERAL] Native type for storing fractions (e.g 1/3)?

2007-03-15 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:11:23PM +0100, Florian G. Pflug wrote: > You'd need a type for large integers first - otherwise your > ty_fraction will be quite limited. I think numeric could be > used for that, though I don't know if numeric guarantees that > at least the operators +,-,* and modulo ret

Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] PostgreSQL to Oracle

2007-03-15 Thread Robert Treat
On Friday 09 March 2007 13:32, Jonah H. Harris wrote: > To copy the data and table definitions, I'd use a database link (on > the Oracle side) with hsodbc connecting to your PostgreSQL system via > ODBC. > Do you find this works well? I've used it from some older Oracle instances connecting back

Re: [GENERAL] Problem to install pgAdmin

2007-03-15 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Ezequias R. da Rocha wrote: Hi, We here in my job are having many trouble of compatibility with the wx-widgets and it has been a quite difficult job. Having so many installation dependencies we are almost give up. Could someone list all dependencies to install pgAdmin (actually I just need

Re: [GENERAL] Native type for storing fractions (e.g 1/3)?

2007-03-15 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Ron Johnson wrote: CREATE TYPE ty_fraction AS ( n SMALLINT, d SMALLINT ); You'd need a type for large integers first - otherwise your ty_fraction will be quite limited. I think numeric could be used for that, though I don't know if numeric guarantees that at least th

Re: [GENERAL] PITR and WAL archiving

2007-03-15 Thread Florian G. Pflug
Adam Groves wrote: I have been ramming my head against the wall for the past two evenings, trying to get PITR working and it's gotten to the point where I need to ask someone for help. I'm basically trying to follow the instructions in the manual in chapter 23.3. Which postgres version are you

[GENERAL] Problem to install pgAdmin

2007-03-15 Thread Ezequias R. da Rocha
Hi, We here in my job are having many trouble of compatibility with the wx-widgets and it has been a quite difficult job. Having so many installation dependencies we are almost give up. Could someone list all dependencies to install pgAdmin (actually I just need to put pgAgent to run) on Red

Fwd: [GENERAL] Native type for storing fractions (e.g 1/3)?

2007-03-15 Thread John D. Burger
Oops, I though Ken had written privately to me - here's my reply: (From the Booost rational package - http://www.boost.org/libs/ rational/rational.html) I'd try to link to an existing library that provides rationals, or model my code closely after one. Yes, it may be easy to create composite

Re: [GENERAL] Native type for storing fractions (e.g 1/3)?

2007-03-15 Thread Ken Johanson
John D. Burger wrote: Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: But he can write one in PostgreSQL quite easily. Rational numbers are always the first exercice in CS courses about Abstract Data Types :-) It's a little tricky to get good performance for all the operations: The addition and subtraction opera

Re: [GENERAL] Lifecycle of PostgreSQL releases

2007-03-15 Thread Erik Jones
On Mar 15, 2007, at 1:55 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Your other four points are mere rehashings of that one. Yes. All of my points directly revolve around the reality that 8.2 is a short cycle release and that 8.3 is a long cycle release. Further that due to 8.2 being a short cycle releas

Re: [GENERAL] Lifecycle of PostgreSQL releases

2007-03-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
> > Your other four points are mere rehashings of that one. Yes. All of my points directly revolve around the reality that 8.2 is a short cycle release and that 8.3 is a long cycle release. Further that due to 8.2 being a short cycle release, it will not see as much production action as 8.3 (and

Re: [GENERAL] Lifecycle of PostgreSQL releases

2007-03-15 Thread Brandon Aiken
If they have a support contract for, say, RHEL, why migrate to something that support contract doesn't cover? Those had better be some very important features or some very critical bug fixes, the latter of which are very likely to get backported if they're versions covered by a support contract.

Re: [GENERAL] plperl function called > once in cascading triggers

2007-03-15 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:09:24PM -0400, Kenneth Downs wrote: > What I have noticed is that once the innermost instance exits, none of > the outer instances execute any further, suggesting that the plperl > routine is not "re-entrant" (if I am using that term correctly). Doesn't sound right, do

Re: [GENERAL] Lifecycle of PostgreSQL releases

2007-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. More people will run 8.3 than 8.2. Why? Because 8.3 will be in the > wild as current stable longer than 8.2. Oh, gimme a break, Josh. A year or more from now that argument would be relevant, but unless you are going to counsel your customers not

Re: [GENERAL] simple coordinate system

2007-03-15 Thread Robin Ericsson
On 3/15/07, Webb Sprague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... planning a simple coordinate system, where objects are described > as x, y and z. Are there any contribs or extensions available that can > help me with datatypes, calculation of length between two points, etc? google postgis. It is for ge

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall and version confusion

2007-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
Tony Caduto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> What's wrong with that? 8.2 will understand the GRANT ON SEQUENCE >> without a problem. >> > Yes, but 8.1 and earlier wont! You're missing the point entirely. The versioning contract for pg_dump is that version M.N can dump from

Re: [GENERAL] simple coordinate system

2007-03-15 Thread Webb Sprague
... planning a simple coordinate system, where objects are described as x, y and z. Are there any contribs or extensions available that can help me with datatypes, calculation of length between two points, etc? google postgis. It is for geographic stuff, so maybe overkill, but maybe not. Ther

[GENERAL] simple coordinate system

2007-03-15 Thread Robin Ericsson
Hi, I'm planning a simple coordinate system, where objects are described as x, y and z. Are there any contribs or extensions available that can help me with datatypes, calculation of length between two points, etc? -- regards, Robin ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall and version confusion

2007-03-15 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 11:53, Tony Caduto wrote: > Dave Page wrote: > > This is a problem I've been thinking about on and off recently - and I > > am starting to come to the conclusion that shipping each version of > > the utilities is the only way things are likely to work unless someone > > put

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall and version confusion

2007-03-15 Thread Tony Caduto
Dave Page wrote: This is a problem I've been thinking about on and off recently - and I am starting to come to the conclusion that shipping each version of the utilities is the only way things are likely to work unless someone puts some really significant effort into adding backwards compatibi

Re: [GENERAL] Lifecycle of PostgreSQL releases

2007-03-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I can't really argue for 8.2 versus 8.3, but I can argue that as 8.3 is >> literally around the corner, it may make sense to wait. > > Today is the ides of March ... while the most optimistic estimate I've > heard for 8.3 release i

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall and version confusion

2007-03-15 Thread Dave Page
Tony Caduto wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: What's wrong with that? 8.2 will understand the GRANT ON SEQUENCE without a problem. Yes, but 8.1 and earlier wont! If you dump a 8.1 database (with 8.2 pg_dump) and then use that dump to restore to another 8.1 server, any permissions on sequenc

Re: [GENERAL] [Bulk] Re: quoted identifier behaviour

2007-03-15 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Randall Smith wrote: > Stephan Szabo wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Randall Smith wrote: > > > >> Scott Marlowe wrote: > >>> This whole discussion is reminding me of one of my personal mantras, and > >>> that is that relying on "artifacts" of behaviour is generally a bad > >>

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall and version confusion

2007-03-15 Thread Tony Caduto
Alvaro Herrera wrote: What's wrong with that? 8.2 will understand the GRANT ON SEQUENCE without a problem. Yes, but 8.1 and earlier wont! If you dump a 8.1 database (with 8.2 pg_dump) and then use that dump to restore to another 8.1 server, any permissions on sequences will fail to res

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall and version confusion

2007-03-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tony Caduto wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > >We try to make pg_dump > >cope with prior server releases, but since we lack a time machine we > >can't go back and teach old versions about subsequent server changes... > > > Tom, > How come version 8.2 of pg_dump uses GRANT ON SEQUENCE when dumping a > 8

Re: [GENERAL] DST problem on Windows Server

2007-03-15 Thread MargaretGillon
>Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:39:17 +0100 >From: Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: George Weaver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: pgsql-general >Subject: Re: DST problem on Windows Server >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >George Weaver wrote: > A client has PostgreSQL 8.2.1 installed on a Windows 2000

Re: [GENERAL] plperl question: how to specifiy perl version?

2007-03-15 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 > I setup a plperl handler in Postgres 8.1 running under Solaris. The > machine has multiple versions of Perl installed, and plperl is not using > the correct Perl binary. How do I set which Perl binary plperl should use? You need to set the

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall and version confusion

2007-03-15 Thread Tony Caduto
Tom Lane wrote: We try to make pg_dump cope with prior server releases, but since we lack a time machine we can't go back and teach old versions about subsequent server changes... Tom, How come version 8.2 of pg_dump uses GRANT ON SEQUENCE when dumping a 8.1 or older database? Was it just a

Re: [GENERAL] Lifecycle of PostgreSQL releases

2007-03-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
> I also tend to run every other version. I've run 7.2, then 7.4, then > 8.1. I've tested and played with 8.2 and speed wise, it wasn't a > compelling enough upgrade to start the very long process of replacing > 8.1 with. By the time 8.3 comes out, I'll be about ready to start > evaluating our

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall and version confusion

2007-03-15 Thread Tom Lane
Alan J Batsford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I search my system for anything postgres I find a boatload of 8.0.4 > source, and a boatload of 7.4.8 documentation. "rpm -qa | grep postgres" would probably prove enlightening. It sounds like you have postgresql-server at 8.1.4 and the other sub

Re: [GENERAL] Lifecycle of PostgreSQL releases

2007-03-15 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 00:10, Tom Lane wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Erik Jones wrote: > >> I really hope you meant upgrades to 8.2.x. And, no, it's not worth > >> waiting. Upgrade at the soonest available opportunity, expecially the > >> 7.4.x servers. > > > I don't

Re: [GENERAL] Lifecycle of PostgreSQL releases

2007-03-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
>> There is zero question that 8.2 is faster than 7.4 *but* if 7.4 isn't >> slow for them... Note, that I meant no reason for him to upgrade 7.4 >> *right now*. He could wait for 8.3. (I think he should get off 7.4 in >> general) > > He could wait for 8.4 as well, as it will be probably faster an

Re: [GENERAL] [Bulk] Re: quoted identifier behaviour

2007-03-15 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 17:33, Randall Smith wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > This whole discussion is reminding me of one of my personal mantras, and > > that is that relying on "artifacts" of behaviour is generally a bad > > idea. > > > > For instance, many databases accept != for not equal, but

Re: [GENERAL] Exception handling in plperl

2007-03-15 Thread Jasbinder Singh Bali
Hi, Actually, if I rephrase my requirement, I need to catch an exception at any point ,where ever it is raised, in the perl code. E.g during an insert, there is a foreign key contraint violation, then i need to catch this specific error and do something with it. Hope i make some sense here. Thank

Re: [GENERAL] Native type for storing fractions (e.g 1/3)?

2007-03-15 Thread John D. Burger
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: But he can write one in PostgreSQL quite easily. Rational numbers are always the first exercice in CS courses about Abstract Data Types :-) It's a little tricky to get good performance for all the operations: The addition and subtraction operations are complex. They

Re: [GENERAL] PgSql on Vista?

2007-03-15 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 14.03.2007, um 1:24:01 -0700 mailte Arkan folgendes: > Hi all, > > have anybody installed PgSQL on Windows Vista? I tried yesterday but I > fail... on XP and linux i've installed pgsql much times but on > vista... nothing to do! Version in 8.2.3 with the installer. > > If I install

Re: [GENERAL] Automating access grants

2007-03-15 Thread Douglas McNaught
I would still recommend making it available as a web service rather than giving direct access; besides the security/load issues, it lets you change the representation of the data without necessarily affecting customers (of course, you can do this also at the DB level with views). The web service i

Re: [GENERAL] Role & User - Inheritance

2007-03-15 Thread David Legault
Unfortunately, Everything that is a permission (CREATEROLE, etc) when creating a role cannot be inherited. Only the GRANT stuff is inherited and I think only when the WITH .. is given on the GRANT. I may be wrong on the last part though. David On 3/15/07, Alexi Gen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [GENERAL] Is This A Set Based Solution?

2007-03-15 Thread George Weaver
Stefan Berglund wrote: foo WHERE (ID = 53016 OR ID = 27 OR ID = 292 OR ID = 512) or I could alternatively pass the string of IDs ('53016,27,292,512') to a table returning function which TABLE is then JOINed with the table I wish to Stefan, The user selections will be in some sort of list. C

Re: [GENERAL] passing passords to pgsql/pg_create/pg_dump programmatically

2007-03-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
filippo wrote: > Hello, > > I have written a program perl/Tkprogram, based on postgres. For > maintenance reasons in my program I use these commands: > > `dropdb -U postgres -h $BACKUP_SERVER $BACKUP_DATABASE_NAME`; > `createdb -U postgres -h $BACKUP_SERVER $BACKUP_DATABASE_NAME`; >

Re: [GENERAL] Could you send me a copy of pg8.1beta1?Thank you very much!

2007-03-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Zhang Qian wrote: > Dear sirs, > > For some reason,I need a copy of pg8.1beta1,not other ones.But I can't find > one on the web.Would you please send it to me? > Waiting for your mail. You can obtain it via CVS, using the tag REL8_1_0BETA1. -- Alvaro Herrerahttp

Re: [GENERAL] Lifecycle of PostgreSQL releases

2007-03-15 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake escribió: > Tom Lane wrote: > > "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Erik Jones wrote: > >>> I really hope you meant upgrades to 8.2.x. And, no, it's not worth > >>> waiting. Upgrade at the soonest available opportunity, expecially the > >>> 7.4.x servers. > > > >>

[GENERAL] PgSql on Vista?

2007-03-15 Thread Arkan
Hi all, have anybody installed PgSQL on Windows Vista? I tried yesterday but I fail... on XP and linux i've installed pgsql much times but on vista... nothing to do! Version in 8.2.3 with the installer. If I install with my user account (with administrative rights), the installlation fails on se

Re: [GENERAL] Windows psql.exe password from pgpass.conf

2007-03-15 Thread Laurent
Apparently I forgot one combination, which was the correct one. For reference: localhost:*:databasename:username:password ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/

[GENERAL] PITR and WAL archiving

2007-03-15 Thread Adam Groves
I have been ramming my head against the wall for the past two evenings, trying to get PITR working and it's gotten to the point where I need to ask someone for help. I'm basically trying to follow the instructions in the manual in chapter 23.3. Here's how I'm starting out: === Co

Re: [GENERAL] How to write a function that manipulates a set of results

2007-03-15 Thread Stefan Berglund
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:50:27 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ashley Moran) wrote: in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >It's more complicated than that. What we need to do is something >along the lines of: > >results = SELECT * FROM foo(); >DELETE FROM results WHERE (some condition involving results); >some_valu

[GENERAL] Windows psql.exe password from pgpass.conf

2007-03-15 Thread laurentpointca
Postgres 8.1 on a windows machine. I followed instructions and went to APPDIR to setup the file pgpass.conf: * * myuser mypass I also tried: * * databasenamemyuser mypass I also tried: *:*:myuser:mypass When i start psql -U myuser, it always requests that I type the password. Wh

[GENERAL] java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

2007-03-15 Thread Gloria Rodriguez
Hello!! I am working with hermes 2 postgresql and I obtain this mistake I am thinking this mistake is because it not conect very well. Can someone help me?? thanks very mach 2007-03-15 11:02:51 [Thread-6] hk.hku.cecid.piazza.commons.net.ConnectionException: Unable to connect to incomin

[GENERAL] pg_dumpall and version confusion

2007-03-15 Thread Alan J Batsford
I inherited an existing system with no documents on how it was originally configuerd, so I'll provide as much as I can. OS is CentOS 4.3 Linux Distribution. When I search my system for anything postgres I find a boatload of 8.0.4 source, and a boatload of 7.4.8 documentation. postgres --version

Re: [GENERAL] Is This A Set Based Solution?

2007-03-15 Thread Stefan Berglund
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:41:21 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) wrote: in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Stefan Berglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:37:08 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) wrote: >>> It looks pretty ugly to me too, but you haven't explained your problem >>> cl

[GENERAL] plperl question: how to specifiy perl version?

2007-03-15 Thread Dave Thompson
Hi, I setup a plperl handler in Postgres 8.1 running under Solaris. The machine has multiple versions of Perl installed, and plperl is not using the correct Perl binary. How do I set which Perl binary plperl should use? Thanks -Dave ---(end of broadcast)--

[GENERAL] query advice

2007-03-15 Thread Nathanial Mayweather
I'm stuck on a query, I'm hoping someone can point me to the obvious I need to limit the results of a query based on 2 criteria: 1- total rows grouped by column_a 2- total rows all given: books: id , author , subject , title i need to SELECT * FROM books WHERE

[GENERAL] SQL Question - Group By and % results per row

2007-03-15 Thread Mike
I have a SQL statement that uses group-by to generate reports as such: GroupFieldClicks --- Page 1 50 Page 2 20 Page 3 30 Now, as an added field, I also want it to tell me what percent of total clicks each row represe

Re: [GENERAL] which is more scalable for the database?

2007-03-15 Thread Timasmith
On Mar 8, 2:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shane Ambler) wrote: > Timasmithwrote: > > Suppose I have a database table with 20 fields which are lookups to a > > single table. > > > configtable(configtable_id, a_field, something_lookup_id, > > another_lookup_id, ...) > > lookup(lookup_id, value, descripti

[GENERAL] passing passords to pgsql/pg_create/pg_dump programmatically

2007-03-15 Thread filippo
Hello, I have written a program perl/Tkprogram, based on postgres. For maintenance reasons in my program I use these commands: `dropdb -U postgres -h $BACKUP_SERVER $BACKUP_DATABASE_NAME`; `createdb -U postgres -h $BACKUP_SERVER $BACKUP_DATABASE_NAME`; `pg_dump -U postgres -h $D

[GENERAL] Could you send me a copy of pg8.1beta1?Thank you very much!

2007-03-15 Thread Zhang Qian
Dear sirs, For some reason,I need a copy of pg8.1beta1,not other ones.But I can't find one on the web.Would you please send it to me? Waiting for your mail. Thank you for your time. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?

[GENERAL] Role & User - Inheritance?

2007-03-15 Thread Alexi Gen
[GENERAL] Role & User - Inheritance? A ROLE dba01 has been given the option of SUPERSUSER. A USER user01 is created and tagged to the above ROLE dba01. When attempting to create a Tablespace (logged in as user01) it generates the following message: "permission denied to create tablespace (tblspc

Re: [GENERAL] Native type for storing fractions (e.g 1/3)?

2007-03-15 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 07:41:18AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 22 lines which said: > His goal may be to store and compute rational numbers exactly. The > answer is that there is no data type in PostgreSQL that supports > this. But he can write one in Postgr

Re: [GENERAL] Native type for storing fractions (e.g 1/3)?

2007-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/07 01:41, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/14/07 18:55, Ken Johanson wrote: >>> In SQL servers in general, or in PG, is there a native field type >>> to store fractions? Or must one resort to char or separate >>> numerator

Re: [GENERAL] Automating access grants

2007-03-15 Thread Kynn Jones
I realize that direct access gives an outside user the opportunity to overload the server. In fact, I am far less worried about malicious DOS-type attacks than I am about plain old incompetence, such as having a buggy script hammer our server with an infinite loop. BTW, is there a way to configu

[GENERAL] PLpgSQL debugger

2007-03-15 Thread Ashish Karalkar
Hello All, I have downloaded the PLpgSQl Debugger tarball edb-debugger-20061107-src.tar.gz after issuing gmake it gives me list of errors. But not getting how to install it. Can anybody tell me what are the steps to install it. Thanks in advance With Regards Ashish..

Re: [GENERAL] Automating access grants

2007-03-15 Thread Stephen Frost
* Kynn Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 3/15/07, Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >* Kynn Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >One big question I have is, is this completely read-only? > > Sorry, I should have made this clear: the access we had in mind is > strictly read-only, and

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