Re: [GENERAL] How to define automatic filter condition?

2008-11-11 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 12.11.2008, um 8:08:08 +0100 mailte Csaba Együd folgendes: > Hi All, > > --PG8.3 > --Windows 2k3 SBS > > I would like to apply an automatic filter condition to a table. I create a > TEMP table at the beginning of the session to store a value to build up a > filter condition and I wo

[GENERAL] How to define automatic filter condition?

2008-11-11 Thread Csaba Együd
Hi All, --PG8.3 --Windows 2k3 SBS I would like to apply an automatic filter condition to a table. I create a TEMP table at the beginning of the session to store a value to build up a filter condition and I would like to apply this condition to every select statement to a table during the current

Re: [GENERAL] still gin index creation takes forever

2008-11-11 Thread Tom Lane
Ivan Sergio Borgonovo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any suggestion about how to track down the problem? What you are describing sounds rather like a use-of-uninitialized-memory problem, wherein the behavior depends on what happened to be in that memory previously. If so, using a debug/cassert-ena

Re: [GENERAL] Problem using COPY command to load data

2008-11-11 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Tuesday 11 November 2008 6:31:04 pm Adrian Klaver wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2008 6:20:09 pm Glen Beane wrote: > > Python with the psycopg2 library. I swear this was working earlier > > today. Maybe I am imagining things :) > > It does work with a unix socket, and I have a deadline to meet

Re: [GENERAL] Problem using COPY command to load data

2008-11-11 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Tuesday 11 November 2008 6:20:09 pm Glen Beane wrote: > > Python with the psycopg2 library. I swear this was working earlier today. > Maybe I am imagining things :) > It does work with a unix socket, and I have a deadline to meet, so for now > I just need to make sure I am running this on the

Re: [GENERAL] Avoiding seq scan over 3.2 millions rows

2008-11-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Andrus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > explain analyze SELECT sum(xxx) >FROM dok JOIN rid USING (dokumnr) >WHERE dok.kuupaev BETWEEN '2008-04-01' AND '2008-04-30' > "Hash Join (cost=29584.84..308259.32 rows=142686 width=0) (actual > time=68510.748..96932.174 rows=117883 loops=1)" > " Ha

Re: [GENERAL] Problem using COPY command to load data

2008-11-11 Thread Glen Beane
On 11/11/08 9:09 PM, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glen Beane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On 11/11/08 2:25 PM, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The most direct evidence about why it's stuck would probably be had by >>> attaching to the backend process with gdb and getting

Re: [GENERAL] Problem using COPY command to load data

2008-11-11 Thread Tom Lane
Glen Beane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11/11/08 2:25 PM, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The most direct evidence about why it's stuck would probably be had by >> attaching to the backend process with gdb and getting a stack trace. > It wasn't built with debugging symbols so there is

Re: [GENERAL] Problem using COPY command to load data

2008-11-11 Thread Glen Beane
On 11/11/08 2:25 PM, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The most direct evidence about why it's stuck would probably be had by > attaching to the backend process with gdb and getting a stack trace. It wasn't built with debugging symbols so there is some missing info, but here is what I ge

Re: [GENERAL] SHMMAX and shared_bufffers

2008-11-11 Thread Greg Smith
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Thom Brown wrote: I've noticed that if I set my SHMMAX to 256 * 1024 * 1024 (268435456) and my shared_buffers value in postgresql.conf to 256MB the server fails to start. I managed to find a tipping point: 249MB seems to be too much and 248MB seems to be okay. Buffers are

[GENERAL] still gin index creation takes forever

2008-11-11 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
I'm still fighting with my very long gin index creation that happens randomly. At the beginning I had a pretty long transaction that filled several tables starting from some "temporary"[1] tables. After filling the tables I updated a tsvector column in one of them and finally in another connection

[GENERAL] Announce: PGUnit - xUnit test framework for pl/pgsql

2008-11-11 Thread Dmitry Koterov
Hello. Hope this will be helpful for agile developers. http://en.dklab.ru/lib/dklab_pgunit/ PGUnit is a xUnit-style framework for stored procedures in PostgreSQL 8.3+. It allows database developers to write automated tests for existed stored procedures or develop procedures using concepts of Tes

Re: [GENERAL] Problem using COPY command to load data

2008-11-11 Thread Glen Beane
On 11/11/08 2:25 PM, "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glen Beane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I am using the copy_from command from the python psycopg2 library to do some >> bulk data loading of a postgres database. This had been working OK, until >> my script barfed because I was bei

[GENERAL] Avoiding seq scan over 3.2 millions rows

2008-11-11 Thread Andrus
explain analyze SELECT sum(xxx) FROM dok JOIN rid USING (dokumnr) WHERE dok.kuupaev BETWEEN '2008-04-01' AND '2008-04-30' "Hash Join (cost=29584.84..308259.32 rows=142686 width=0) (actual time=68510.748..96932.174 rows=117883 loops=1)" " Hash Cond: ("outer".dokumnr = "inner".dokumnr)" " -

Re: [GENERAL] Timestamp precission question

2008-11-11 Thread Adriana Alfonzo
Por favor no quiero seguir recibiendo mensajes Vaclav TVRDIK escribió: Tom Lane wrote: Hm, I can't replicate that here --- but if you're using floating-point timestamps, as is default in 8.3, then a certain amount of machine-dependent roundoff fuzziness is not surprising.

Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Adriana Alfonzo
Por favor, no quiero seguir recibiendo mensajes Tom Lane escribió: Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: If you connect via psql and then (as root, in another terminal) do: ps auxw | grep postgres you should see the backend that corresponds to your psql connection. strace -p should t

Re: [GENERAL] Timestamp precission question

2008-11-11 Thread Vaclav TVRDIK
Tom Lane wrote: > Hm, I can't replicate that here --- but if you're using floating-point > timestamps, as is default in 8.3, then a certain amount of > machine-dependent roundoff fuzziness is not surprising. > > regards, tom lane > Column is defined in such way: CREATE_

Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you connect via psql and then (as root, in another terminal) do: > ps auxw | grep postgres > you should see the backend that corresponds to your psql connection. > strace -p > should then show system calls as they are executed (assuming you have

Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Sergey Konoplev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Finally - did you compile this from source yourself, or is it installed >> via apt? I'm wondering whether you have an unusual version of a library >> linked in, and it's taking a long time to parse the query. > I've compiled it from sources. BTW, I

Re: [GENERAL] Timestamp precission question

2008-11-11 Thread Tom Lane
Vaclav TVRDIK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have one question about converting timestamps to text. I believed > that using to_char function with proper mask and casting by style > COLUMN::text is equal, but when I issue following query against 8.3.3 > database it returns me different values (the

Re: [GENERAL] SHMMAX and shared_bufffers

2008-11-11 Thread Tom Lane
Sam Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 02:17:20PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> shared_buffers is not the only factor to shared memory, so you need to >> provide some extra SHMMAX slop. > what is this "extra slop" needed for? See table 17-2 here http://www.postgresql.or

Re: [GENERAL] Problem using COPY command to load data

2008-11-11 Thread Tom Lane
Glen Beane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using the copy_from command from the python psycopg2 library to do some > bulk data loading of a postgres database. This had been working OK, until > my script barfed because I was being careless, and it seemed to leave the > database in a strange stat

[GENERAL] Problem using COPY command to load data

2008-11-11 Thread Glen Beane
I'm not sure if this is the write place to post this question or not, but I hope someone can help me out. I am using the copy_from command from the python psycopg2 library to do some bulk data loading of a postgres database. This had been working OK, until my script barfed because I was being car

Re: [GENERAL] SHMMAX and shared_bufffers

2008-11-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Scott Marlowe escribió: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Sam Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what is this "extra slop" needed for? > free space map and temp buffers. Not sure what else. Lock space, pg_clog, pg_subtrans and pg_multixact buffers, FSM, and some other things. External modu

Re: [GENERAL] SHMMAX and shared_bufffers

2008-11-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Sam Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 02:17:20PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> Thom Brown escribió: >> > I've noticed that if I set my SHMMAX to 256 * 1024 * 1024 (268435456) >> > and my shared_buffers value in postgresql.conf to 256MB th

Re: [GENERAL] ordered pg_dump

2008-11-11 Thread Brent Wood
It isn't guaranteed, but I think a clustered index on the attrs you want the dump ordered by will give an ordered dump. This may depend on your filesystem, and on what else your system is doing at the time, as interupted disk reads may disrupt the sequence. It has worked for me on Suse Linux wit

Re: [GENERAL] SHMMAX and shared_bufffers

2008-11-11 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 02:17:20PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > Thom Brown escribió: > > I've noticed that if I set my SHMMAX to 256 * 1024 * 1024 (268435456) > > and my shared_buffers value in postgresql.conf to 256MB the server > > fails to start. I managed to find a tipping point: 249MB seems

Re: [GENERAL] how to best resync serial columns

2008-11-11 Thread Brent Wood
Thanks Erik... I found an alternative to psql copy to stdout | psql copy from stdout. I used pg_dump -n schema | psql This approach replicated the entire schema, rather than just the table contents, into the new database, and therefore copied over all the seq data as well. It worked well in

Re: [GENERAL] SHMMAX and shared_bufffers

2008-11-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Thom Brown escribió: > Hi, > > I've noticed that if I set my SHMMAX to 256 * 1024 * 1024 (268435456) > and my shared_buffers value in postgresql.conf to 256MB the server > fails to start. I managed to find a tipping point: 249MB seems to be > too much and 248MB seems to be okay. > > Could someon

Re: [GENERAL] SHMMAX and shared_bufffers

2008-11-11 Thread Thom Brown
Actually, I think I may have solved it, but I would like someone to verify it. The temp_buffers takes up 8MB which suggests that needs to be taken into account, so 256MB - 8MB = 248MB. Is this right? Thanks Thom On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Thom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I

[GENERAL] SHMMAX and shared_bufffers

2008-11-11 Thread Thom Brown
Hi, I've noticed that if I set my SHMMAX to 256 * 1024 * 1024 (268435456) and my shared_buffers value in postgresql.conf to 256MB the server fails to start. I managed to find a tipping point: 249MB seems to be too much and 248MB seems to be okay. Could someone explain what I'm missing here? I t

Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Richard Huxton
Sergey Konoplev wrote: > >> Finally - did you compile this from source yourself, or is it installed >> via apt? I'm wondering whether you have an unusual version of a library >> linked in, and it's taking a long time to parse the query. > > I've compiled it from sources. BTW, I tested it on both

Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Sergey Konoplev
>> I did \timing and run my query in console. You can find the result in >> attachement. Will it be enough? > > Very strange. > > The explain runtime is 3.1 seconds, but \timing shows 37.8 seconds > before it returns. > > And it only does this for the NOT IN version of the query, but the IN > versi

[GENERAL] Timestamp precission question

2008-11-11 Thread Vaclav TVRDIK
Hello all, I have one question about converting timestamps to text. I believed that using to_char function with proper mask and casting by style COLUMN::text is equal, but when I issue following query against 8.3.3 database it returns me different values (they differ on last position of microsecc

Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Richard Huxton
Sergey Konoplev wrote: >> Maybe something to do with process startup is delaying things - could >> you tweak the test script to send the outputs of the explain somewhere >> other than /dev/null? That way we'd know if there was a big difference >> between query-execution-time and process-execution-t

Re: [GENERAL] Web Application Engineer - Drupal, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Postgresql

2008-11-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
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[GENERAL] Web Application Engineer - Drupal, PHP, CSS, JavaScript, Postgresql

2008-11-11 Thread NetGraviton
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Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Helio Campos Mello de Andrade
Hi Sergey, - It's just guess but it could be the range of a SERIAL TYPE that is generating this behavior. An example is: Knowing that "table1_id" is primary a key ( the table will be ordered by it ) and that a serial range is 2147483647 long. (a) you use 2000 different numbers of this range

Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Richard Huxton
Sergey Konoplev wrote: > > Another thing is that even I set statement_timeout to 20s the query > with NOT IN finishes working after 30+ seconds without "canceled by > statement timeout" error. Maybe it's not taking that long to execute the query then. Maybe something to do with process startup i

Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Richard Huxton
Sergey Konoplev wrote: >> I've never heard of EXPLAIN ANALYSE being *faster* than the actual >> query, it's usually slower due to all the timing calls. The only thing >> it doesn't do is actually send the results over the connection to the >> client. In your case, you're not actually selecting any

Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Sergey Konoplev
>> I've never heard of EXPLAIN ANALYSE being *faster* than the actual >> query, it's usually slower due to all the timing calls. The only thing >> it doesn't do is actually send the results over the connection to the >> client. In your case, you're not actually selecting any columns, so that >> can

Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Sergey Konoplev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've faced strange parser (or may be planner) behaviour. When I do > "EXPLAIN SELECT 1 FROM table1 WHERE table1_id IN (...~2000 ids > here...);" it works as fast as I expect (50 ms). But when I rewrite it > using NOT IN "EXPLAIN SELECT 1 FROM table1 W

Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Sergey Konoplev
> I've never heard of EXPLAIN ANALYSE being *faster* than the actual > query, it's usually slower due to all the timing calls. The only thing > it doesn't do is actually send the results over the connection to the > client. In your case, you're not actually selecting any columns, so that > can't be

Re: [GENERAL] db_user_namespace, md5 and changing passwords

2008-11-11 Thread Magnus Hagander
Bruce Momjian wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: >> Alvaro Herrera wrote: >>> Tom Lane escribi?: Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't know of a way to make MD5 and db_user_namespace work cleanly so > we are considering removing db_user_namespace in 8.4. We are? It's no

Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Richard Huxton
Tom Lane wrote: > Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've never heard of EXPLAIN ANALYSE being *faster* than the actual >> query, it's usually slower due to all the timing calls. The only thing >> it doesn't do is actually send the results over the connection to the >> client. In your ca

Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've never heard of EXPLAIN ANALYSE being *faster* than the actual > query, it's usually slower due to all the timing calls. The only thing > it doesn't do is actually send the results over the connection to the > client. In your case, you're not actuall

Re: [GENERAL] SQL injection, php and queueing multiple statement

2008-11-11 Thread Tom Lane
Yasuo Ohgaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would be nice to have API like PQquerySingle that allows only a single SQL > statement at a time. We have one (the "extended query" protocol). regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql

Re: [GENERAL] merge 2 dumps

2008-11-11 Thread Richard Huxton
Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 11:16 +, Richard Huxton wrote: >> Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: >>> hello all, >>> >>> I have 2 dumps of the same Pg database in diferent instants. >>> >>> I'dd like to merge the two dumps into one single dump in order to >>> restore all data at o

Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Richard Huxton
Sergey Konoplev wrote: >> Can you post the EXPLAIN ANALYSE output from your NOT IN query? >> > > Seq Scan on table1 (cost=0.00..12648.25 rows=3351 width=0) (actual > time=0.054..140.596 rows=5000 loops=1) >Filter: (table1_id <> ALL ('{123456789000, ... plus 1999 ids'::bigint[])) > Total run

Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Sergey Konoplev
> > Can you post the EXPLAIN ANALYSE output from your NOT IN query? > Seq Scan on table1 (cost=0.00..12648.25 rows=3351 width=0) (actual time=0.054..140.596 rows=5000 loops=1) Filter: (table1_id <> ALL ('{123456789000, ... plus 1999 ids'::bigint[])) Total runtime: 142.303 ms (3 rows) But ac

Re: [GENERAL] Current log files when rotating?

2008-11-11 Thread Sam Mason
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 02:30:41PM -0800, Steve Atkins wrote: > On Nov 10, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > >Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>It seems that there is enough need for this feature, that it has been > >>implemented multiple times -- but most of them will fail in corner

Re: [GENERAL] merge 2 dumps

2008-11-11 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 11:16 +, Richard Huxton wrote: > Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > > hello all, > > > > I have 2 dumps of the same Pg database in diferent instants. > > > > I'dd like to merge the two dumps into one single dump in order to > > restore all data at one time. > > Is there any o

Re: [GENERAL] merge 2 dumps

2008-11-11 Thread Richard Huxton
Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: > hello all, > > I have 2 dumps of the same Pg database in diferent instants. > > I'dd like to merge the two dumps into one single dump in order to > restore all data at one time. Is there any overlap in the data? If so, simplest might be to restore dump1, rename all

Re: [GENERAL] Question about weird construct

2008-11-11 Thread Richard Huxton
Diego Manilla Suárez wrote: > Hi. I found this somewhere: > > select a from b order by a using ~<~ > > I've been searching the docs but I found nothing about this weird ~<~ > comparator. Not in comparison operators, String functions and operators, > nor the order by clause. Maybe it has something

Re: [GENERAL] LIKE, "=" and fixed-width character fields

2008-11-11 Thread Richard Huxton
Dmitry Teslenko wrote: >> richardh=> SELECT * FROM chartbl WHERE c LIKE '111'; >> c >> --- >> (0 rows) >> >> richardh=> SELECT * FROM chartbl WHERE c LIKE '111 '; >> c >> >> 111 >> (1 row) >> >> richardh=> SELECT * FROM chartbl WHERE c LIKE '111%'; >> c >>

Re: [GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Richard Huxton
Sergey Konoplev wrote: > > I've faced strange parser (or may be planner) behaviour. When I do > "EXPLAIN SELECT 1 FROM table1 WHERE table1_id IN (...~2000 ids > here...);" it works as fast as I expect (50 ms). But when I rewrite it > using NOT IN "EXPLAIN SELECT 1 FROM table1 WHERE table1_id NOT I

Re: [GENERAL] Current log files when rotating?

2008-11-11 Thread Andrus
It seems that there is enough need for this feature, that it has been implemented multiple times -- but most of them will fail in corner cases. Seems an obvious candidate for an in-core function ... ... which will still fail in corner cases. Not to mention the race condition when the logger ha

[GENERAL] merge 2 dumps

2008-11-11 Thread Joao Ferreira gmail
hello all, I have 2 dumps of the same Pg database in diferent instants. I'dd like to merge the two dumps into one single dump in order to restore all data at one time. Is this possible ? are there any helper tools to aid in dealing with text dump files ? thanks Joao -- Sent via pgsql-gener

[GENERAL] Question about weird construct

2008-11-11 Thread Diego Manilla Suárez
Hi. I found this somewhere: select a from b order by a using ~<~ I've been searching the docs but I found nothing about this weird ~<~ comparator. Not in comparison operators, String functions and operators, nor the order by clause. Maybe it has something to do with regular expressions, but s

Re: [GENERAL] SQL injection, php and queueing multiple statement

2008-11-11 Thread Yasuo Ohgaki
Developers, It seems you are overlooking application user/system admin perspective. I agree developers should use prepared statement, but application user or system admins are not able to modify codes usually. There are many PostgreSQL/MySQL applications that generating SQL statements. MySQL's

[GENERAL] Very slow queries w/ NOT IN preparation (seems like a bug, test case)

2008-11-11 Thread Sergey Konoplev
Hi all, Here is my environment information: # select version(); version PostgreSQL 8.3.4 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.

Re: [GENERAL] Chart of Accounts

2008-11-11 Thread WaGathoni
Appreciate all the help. Thank you On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Michael Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James, > > It is not good practice to delete an account with out first transfering the > amount in that account to another account. You will also need to make sure > the account has a ze

[GENERAL] Change of Identity

2008-11-11 Thread WaGathoni
Dear Group, Please note that to avoid confusion with a previously subscribed member, I have unsubscribed as James N Hitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), and I am now using WaGathoni ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). After all.. I realized GMail "knits" the threads together better than Yahoo. Just thought, I should clea

Re: [GENERAL] LIKE, "=" and fixed-width character fields

2008-11-11 Thread Dmitry Teslenko
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 18:14, Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dmitry Teslenko wrote: >> Hello! >> There's table: >> CREATE TABLE table1 ( >> field1 CHARACTER(10), >> ... >> ); >> >> Then there's record: INSERT INTO table1(field1, ..) VALUES ('111', ...); >> >> Then I query