Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs FreeBSD 7.0 as regular user

2008-07-26 Thread Ivan Voras
Greg Smith wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote: Zoltan Boszormenyi �rta: These three settings were also set with "sysctl -w ..." to take effect immediately. Rebooting FreeBSD solved it. Huh? Is it really like W#&@$#&? Looks like the PostgreSQL documentation here ( http://w

Re: [GENERAL] Problems Restarting PostgreSQL Daemon

2008-07-26 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 27/07/2008, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, that's the problem, Andrej. I have that script, and it worked fine > with postgres-6.x through -8.1, but failed to correctly start the > postmaster after the system reboot. I thought we had established that this issue was caused by

Re: [GENERAL] Wrapper to use correct version of psql?

2008-07-26 Thread Greg Smith
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Steve Atkins wrote: The obvious thing to do is write a wrapper that will transparently run the right version of psql for the database it's connecting to. Has anyone already done that? Several times, and I never seem to have the previous rev around when writing a new one

Re: [GENERAL] Problems Restarting PostgreSQL Daemon

2008-07-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008, Tom Lane wrote: Startup scripts invariably run as root, so 'su' isn't going to ask for a password... Tom, That occurred to me after I wrote the message. Think that I'll tune the script to use a command that I know is working with 8.3.3. Many thanks, Rich -- Richard B

Re: [GENERAL] Problems Restarting PostgreSQL Daemon

2008-07-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote: if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.postgres ]; then /etc/rc.d/rc.postgres start fi to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local Well, that's the problem, Andrej. I have that script, and it worked fine with postgres-6.x through -8.1, but failed to correctly start the postmaster

[GENERAL] procedure to load xml file data in postgesql

2008-07-26 Thread aravind chandu
Hello, I have to load xml file data into postgresql database table using a stored procedure,but I didn't have any idea how to start it.Can you please help me how to do this.Your suggestion is greatly appreciated.Its very important to me. Thanks in advance, Avin.

Re: [GENERAL] Problems Restarting PostgreSQL Daemon

2008-07-26 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 27/07/2008, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Startup scripts invariably run as root, so 'su' isn't going to ask > for a password... And it's nothing to worry about because the script he's using is suing to the postgres user anyway ... > regards, tom lane Cheerw, A

Re: [GENERAL] how to remove the duplicate elements from an array?

2008-07-26 Thread Yi Zhao
yes, it's work. thank u very much! Regards Yi On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 21:37 +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote: > hello > > try > > create function uniq(anyarray) > returns anyarray as $$ > select array(select distinct $1[i] from > generate_series(array_lower($1,1), array_upper($1,1)) g(i)); > $$ language

Re: [GENERAL] php + postgresql

2008-07-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tino Wildenhain wrote: Bill Wordsworth wrote: ... PHP is faster than Python, has a smaller memory foot-print than Python, has better SOAP features than Python, and is better suited for the web than Python. Python is better suited for the cli/mac/desktop/phone. Do you have proof for that? Or i

Re: [GENERAL] Problems Restarting PostgreSQL Daemon

2008-07-26 Thread Tom Lane
Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >My question is how best to modify the startup script so the postmaster > fires up when the system is rebooted. I don't see an option to 'su' to > specify the postgres user's password so I can script this. Startup scripts invariably run as root, so 'su'

Re: [GENERAL] Problems Restarting PostgreSQL Daemon

2008-07-26 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 27/07/2008, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrej, Hi Rich, > I found the thread in the archives for June of this year. > > Re-reading the posted results of running initdb I tried a different > approach to starting the server. Instead of using pg_ctl I used 'postgres > -D > /

Re: [GENERAL] php + postgresql

2008-07-26 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Bill Wordsworth wrote: ... PHP is faster than Python, has a smaller memory foot-print than Python, has better SOAP features than Python, and is better suited for the web than Python. Python is better suited for the cli/mac/desktop/phone. Do you have proof for that? Or is this similar to "MySQL

Re: [GENERAL] Problems Restarting PostgreSQL Daemon

2008-07-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote: Now there's an interesting piece of information :) How long ago did you upgrade it? Andrej, I found the thread in the archives for June of this year. Re-reading the posted results of running initdb I tried a different approach to starting the

Re: [GENERAL] how to remove the duplicate elements from an array?

2008-07-26 Thread Pavel Stehule
hello try create function uniq(anyarray) returns anyarray as $$ select array(select distinct $1[i] from generate_series(array_lower($1,1), array_upper($1,1)) g(i)); $$ language sql strict immutable; postgres=# select uniq(array[1,2,3,1,2,3,5,2,2]); uniq --- {1,2,3,5} (1 row) regards

[GENERAL] Casting composite types

2008-07-26 Thread Julian Scarfe
Using 8.1 # create table foo (a integer, b integer); # create table baz (b integer, c integer); # insert into foo values (8,9); # insert into baz values (9,1); # select * from foo; a | b ---+--- 8 | 9 (1 row) # select * from baz; b | c ---+--- 9 | 1 (1 row) # create view foobaz as select foo.

[GENERAL] how to remove the duplicate elements from an array?

2008-07-26 Thread Yi Zhao
hi all: if I create an array '{44,55,66,c4,55,66,b4,55,66}', how to remove the duplicate elements(55, 66) from it, after remove, the array will be '{44,55,66,c4,b4}' thanks. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.

Re: [GENERAL] Strange Postgresql behavior solved

2008-07-26 Thread owen hartnett
On Jul 26, 2008, at 2:32 AM, "Leif B. Kristensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 26. July 2008, Owen Hartnett wrote: Probably some funky stuff with the router (not one of their expensive ones) that caused all the consternation, but I originally thought corrupt database (because I co

[GENERAL] Wrapper to use correct version of psql?

2008-07-26 Thread Steve Atkins
I have a bunch of different version of postgresql installed, from 7.0 on forward, on various servers. As psql is fairly version specific, and tends to misbehave if the client and server versions don't match, I usually need to remember which version is running on which machine and port. Th

Re: [GENERAL] php + postgresql

2008-07-26 Thread Bill Wordsworth
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Bill Wordsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > years. It is newbies like him and fan-boys of Ruby/Python/Perl who > give PHP a bad name. But I fail to understand the little animosity > within some PostgreSQL users to PHP- is it the LAMP stack? On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at

Re: [GENERAL] php + postgresql

2008-07-26 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Leif B. Kristensen wrote: On Friday 25. July 2008, Christophe wrote: ... My 2 cents: The prime reason for the popularity of PHP is probably the very gentle learning curve. You can start with a static HTML page, and introduce a few PHP snippets to show dynamic content. For us self-taught peop

Re: [GENERAL] php + postgresql

2008-07-26 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Joshua D. Drake wrote: On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 11:13 +0930, admin wrote: Anyway, while I'm quite happy to continue banging out things that "just work" in PHP for the time being, you suggest (in a subsequent post) that there is one scripting language in particular that you'd use ... might I enqu

Re: [GENERAL] php + postgresql

2008-07-26 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Hi, Aarni Ruuhimäki wrote: On Friday 25 July 2008 15:33, you wrote: I would avoid that in favour of using $HOME/.pgpass http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/libpq-pgpass.html HTH Tino Hi, Quite right you are. Or something like this? require("/eg/unknown_path/deep_somewhere_els

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL vs FreeBSD 7.0 as regular user

2008-07-26 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
Zoltan Boszormenyi írta: > Joshua D. Drake írta: > >> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 22:39 +0200, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> is there anyone using PostgreSQL on FreeBSD 7.0 starting from scratch? >>> I compiled 8.3.3 and wanted to run initdb in my home directory but >>> it fa