Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Cookbook

2009-03-04 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Greg Smith wrote: On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Artacus wrote: So it looks like at one time we had a cookbook. But the links are dead now. I'm not sure why Roberto Mello stopped hosting that, but you can see the last content posted there at http://web.archive.org/web/20031207045017/http://www.brasile

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with Mauritius summer time (MUST)

2009-03-04 Thread Xavier Bugaud
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 16:32:27 Gregory Stark wrote: > Xavier Bugaud writes: > > > > $ psql -c "SELECT '2009-01-01 00:56:00 MUST'::timestamp" > > ERROR: invalid input syntax for type timestamp: "2009-01-01 00:56:00 > > MUST" > > I think the problem is that MUST is missing from the Default > t

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Cookbook

2009-03-04 Thread Greg Smith
On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Artacus wrote: So it looks like at one time we had a cookbook. But the links are dead now. I'm not sure why Roberto Mello stopped hosting that, but you can see the last content posted there at http://web.archive.org/web/20031207045017/http://www.brasileiro.net/postgres/co

[GENERAL] Postgres Cookbook

2009-03-04 Thread Artacus
So it looks like at one time we had a cookbook. But the links are dead now. Does anyone know what ever happened to that, or if it lives on somewhere else? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpr

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql announce now on twitter

2009-03-04 Thread Mark Styles
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:38:39PM -0500, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > I really wanted to let everyone know that I've created @PGSQL_Announce on > Twitter and setup a cron job to parse the feed and post it to Twitter. > It's been working for a little while now and I think it's stable enough to > an

[GENERAL] New version of TurnKey LAPP appliance (Re: New version of TurnKey PostgreSQL appliance)

2009-03-04 Thread Liraz Siri
Almost forgot to mention this, we also released a new version of the LAPP appliance: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/appliances/lapp * Includes phpPgAdmin (listening on port 12322 - uses SSL) * Added Python and Perl support for apache2 and postgresql, so the P in our LAPP stack appliance now stand

[GENERAL] TurnKey PostgreSQL now includes PostGIS

2009-03-04 Thread Liraz Siri
Brent Wood wrote: > I was wondering if this includes, or could include, Postgis either by default > or as an option? > Postgis is easily the best FOSS OGC compliant spatial database implementation > available & is inherently compatible with many FOSS GIS related applications. FYI, thanks to your

[GENERAL] New version of TurnKey PostgreSQL appliance

2009-03-04 Thread Liraz Siri
Hello everyone, The PostgreSQL community gave our project amazing feedback when we first announced TurnKey PostgreSQL appliance a few months back. This was a huge encouragement for us to push forward with our development efforts. Since then we've been busy busy beavers and have just released a ne

Re: [GENERAL] Smartest way to resize a column?

2009-03-04 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 14:42 +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote: > > ALTER COLUMN TYPE is intended for cases where actual transformation of > > the data is involved. Obviously varchar(20) to varchar(35) doesn't > > really require any per-row effort, but there's no operation in the > > system that handles t

Re: [GENERAL] Unable to drop sequence due to dependency?

2009-03-04 Thread Glen Parker
Tom Lane wrote: Glen Parker writes: For some reason I got into my head the notion that a sequence could be dropped even if reference by a field default. This seems pretty silly now. It was true once upon a time, but we have an enforcement mechanism now to catch that. Did you find the defaul

Re: [GENERAL] Unable to drop sequence due to dependency?

2009-03-04 Thread Tom Lane
Glen Parker writes: > For some reason I got into my head the notion that a sequence could be > dropped even if reference by a field default. This seems pretty silly now. It was true once upon a time, but we have an enforcement mechanism now to catch that. Did you find the default you needed to

Re: [GENERAL] Unable to drop sequence due to dependency?

2009-03-04 Thread Glen Parker
Tom Lane wrote: What's the whole contents of the rows with refobjid matching the sequence's OID? In particular, classid::regclass would tell you where to look for the dependent object. oms=# select * from pg_depend where objid = 1011680210; classid | objid| objsubid | refclassid | refob

Re: [GENERAL] Unable to drop sequence due to dependency?

2009-03-04 Thread Tom Lane
Glen Parker writes: > I can't drop a sequence. I get the error "cannot drop sequence > because other objects depend on it". I've tried to use > the pg_depend table to find out what object(s) depend on it, and have > found nothing. What's the whole contents of the rows with refobjid matching

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql announce now on twitter

2009-03-04 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 15:39:36 Mark Styles wrote: > On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:38:39PM -0500, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > > I really wanted to let everyone know that I've created @PGSQL_Announce on > > Twitter and setup a cron job to parse the feed and post it to Twitter. > > It's been working f

[GENERAL] Unable to drop sequence due to dependency?

2009-03-04 Thread Glen Parker
I can't drop a sequence. I get the error "cannot drop sequence because other objects depend on it". I've tried to use the pg_depend table to find out what object(s) depend on it, and have found nothing. I tried drop cascade in a transaction, hoping to see a list of objects dropped in the c

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [GENERAL] pgsql announce now on twitter

2009-03-04 Thread Josh Berkus
Christophe wrote: On Mar 4, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Not sure what the complainer is talking about here. pgsql-announce is moderated so spam should be almost nil. I'm not 100% sure what "Twitter spam" *is*, for that matter. Redundant. ;-) --Josh -- Sent via pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Why not working under 8.3

2009-03-04 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > > - "Andreas Moeller" wrote: > >> Following lines produce an error message under 8.3. - but not under >> 8.1. >> Why? >> >> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION dodi() RETURNS boolean AS >> $$ >> BEGIN >> SELECT 'abc' INTO TEMPORARY foonana; >> RE

[GENERAL] Custom datestyle for timestamps

2009-03-04 Thread Daniel Verite
Hi, SET DATESTYLE takes predefined keywords such as ISO or US as arguments, but I can't find a way to specify a custom format string for timestamps. What I'd like to find is an equivalent to Oracle's ALTER SESSION SET nls_date_format='DD/MM/ HH24' for example, where the format follows th

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql announce now on twitter

2009-03-04 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:19:01PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > The problem are the peoples, whish create an accound there and then > promoting the stuff per spam... The Debian Mailinglists are regulary > hit by this shit. But since my e-mails (23 in total) have found there > way in

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql announce now on twitter

2009-03-04 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 04/03/2009 17:54, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Anyway, I think this is a great thing that you have done as it allows > further exposure to our great project. Good Work. +1 I think it's a great idea. Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell, Direc

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql announce now on twitter

2009-03-04 Thread Christophe
On Mar 4, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Not sure what the complainer is talking about here. pgsql-announce is moderated so spam should be almost nil. I'm not 100% sure what "Twitter spam" *is*, for that matter. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) T

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql announce now on twitter

2009-03-04 Thread Andrej
2009/3/5 Joshua D. Drake : > Not sure what the complainer is talking about here. pgsql-announce is > moderated so spam should be almost nil. Isn't she the one who keeps complaining about the reply-to-all on the list and isn't subscribed because of the volume? ;} -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing

Re: [GENERAL] encoding of PostgreSQL messages

2009-03-04 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 12:35:37AM +0900, Hiroshi Saito wrote: > Sorry very late reaction. > I desire problem solution. So do I :-) Ganbatte ! Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-gene

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql announce now on twitter

2009-03-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 07:58 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2009-03-03 21:38:39, schrieb Douglas J Hunley: > > Hi everyone: > > I really wanted to let everyone know that I've created @PGSQL_Announce on > > Twitter and setup a cron job to parse the feed and post it to Twitter. > > It's been wo

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql announce now on twitter

2009-03-04 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 12:19:01 Michelle Konzack wrote: > > I'm sorry you've had such a bad experience. If I could do something for > > you, I would. I'm also not at all sure what led to your situation as I > > literally receive no emails from Twitter. It's all SMS for me. > > The problem are t

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql announce now on twitter

2009-03-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2009-03-04 09:48:30, schrieb Douglas J Hunley: > I'm sorry you've had such a bad experience. If I could do something for you, > I > would. I'm also not at all sure what led to your situation as I literally > receive /no/ emails from Twitter. It's all SMS for me. The problem are the peoples,

Re: [GENERAL] Why not working under 8.3

2009-03-04 Thread Tom Lane
Adrian Klaver writes: > Out of curiosity I went back to 8.0 and ran the function and got: > production=> SELECT dodi(); > WARNING: column "?column?" has type "unknown" > DETAIL: Proceeding with relation creation anyway. Pre-8.2 plpgsql was willing to treat INTO as not special if the word right

Re: [GENERAL] Why not working under 8.3

2009-03-04 Thread Adrian Klaver
- "Adrian Klaver" wrote: > - "Andreas Moeller" wrote: > > > Following lines produce an error message under 8.3. - but not under > > 8.1. > > Why? > > > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION dodi() RETURNS boolean AS > > $$ > > BEGIN > > SELECT 'abc' INTO TEMPORARY foonana; > > RETURN FALSE; >

Re: [GENERAL] Why not working under 8.3

2009-03-04 Thread Adrian Klaver
- "Andreas Moeller" wrote: > Following lines produce an error message under 8.3. - but not under > 8.1. > Why? > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION dodi() RETURNS boolean AS > $$ > BEGIN > SELECT 'abc' INTO TEMPORARY foonana; > RETURN FALSE; > END; > $$ > LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'; > > > FEHLER: synta

[GENERAL] Why not working under 8.3

2009-03-04 Thread Andreas Moeller
Following lines produce an error message under 8.3. - but not under 8.1. Why? CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION dodi() RETURNS boolean AS $$ BEGIN SELECT 'abc' INTO TEMPORARY foonana; RETURN FALSE; END; $$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql'; FEHLER: syntax error at "TEMPORARY" DETAIL: Expected record

Re: [GENERAL] php4 and postgresql 8.3

2009-03-04 Thread Marco Colombo
Tom Lane wrote: > shadrack writes: >> My basic question is...are php4 and postgresql 8.3 compatible? >> I'm running Linux Redhat 3.4.6, php4.3.9, and postgresql 8.3. I know, >> some of those versions are old...its government, and I unfortunately >> don't have control over the version. > > Er ...

Re: [GENERAL] pgsql announce now on twitter

2009-03-04 Thread Douglas J Hunley
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 01:58:14 Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2009-03-03 21:38:39, schrieb Douglas J Hunley: > > Hi everyone: > > I really wanted to let everyone know that I've created @PGSQL_Announce on > > Twitter and setup a cron job to parse the feed and post it to Twitter. > > It's been w

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with Mauritius summer time (MUST)

2009-03-04 Thread Gregory Stark
Xavier Bugaud writes: > Hi, > > Mauritius use daylight saving since 2008-11. > The Olson database has been updated to reflect the Mauritius timezone change > at the end of 2008 (maybe since tzdata-2008f or tzdata-2008g, not really > sure). > > Postgresql is supposed to have the correct Mauriti

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with Mauritius summer time (MUST)

2009-03-04 Thread Xavier Bugaud
On Wednesday 04 March 2009 15:04:56 Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Xavier Bugaud wrote: > > Postgresql is supposed to have the correct Mauritius timezone since 8.3.5 > > (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/release-8-3-5.html). > > > > From a debian box configured in the Mauritius timezone :

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with Mauritius summer time (MUST)

2009-03-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Xavier Bugaud wrote: Postgresql is supposed to have the correct Mauritius timezone since 8.3.5 (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/release-8-3-5.html). From a debian box configured in the Mauritius timezone : PostgreSQL on Debian uses the operating system's time zone database. So

Re: [GENERAL] Date/time of last commit

2009-03-04 Thread Richard Huxton
Tom Spencer wrote: > Is there a way to get the date/time of the last commit on a database? Not unless you're logging them or have triggers on all the tables you want to monitor. What problem are you trying to solve? -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pg