Re: [GENERAL] Numeric Type and VB/ODBC

2009-11-10 Thread Andrei
You can try If (IsNumeric(varToTest) And 0 = CDbl(varToTest)) Then IsNothing = True Bret wrote: This may not be the right group, if so, just let me know. I have a table with a type [numeric]. When executing queries, I get the data which happens to be (6.5) in this case, but my VB6 function w

[GENERAL] Numeric Type and VB/ODBC

2009-11-10 Thread Bret
This may not be the right group, if so, just let me know. I have a table with a type [numeric]. When executing queries, I get the data which happens to be (6.5) in this case, but my VB6 function which traps for nulls (below) returns a null. If I change it to type [real]. No problems Function I

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump native format will not restore correctly

2009-11-10 Thread Scot Kreienkamp
I'm still not buying the theory that the dump/restore method has something to do with it. You might try the test yourself: run pg_restore's output into a text file and compare with the text dump. regards, tom lane Haven't figured out exactly why yet, but I did find the

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.3.8 on AIX5.3 : compilation failed

2009-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
"Albe Laurenz" writes: > The problem is that both _LARGE_FILES and _LARGE_FILE_API are #defined > in this case, which makes #include fail. > Does anyone have an idea how to best fix this problem in the > source tree? I'm willing to implement and test. I've committed changes for this in CVS, plea

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.3.8 on AIX5.3 : compilation failed

2009-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> In most of the other cases the #include is done in an associated .y >> file, but there is none in psql. Anyone have a thought which of >> psql's .c files would be the most appropriate host? > mainloop.c? Yeah, that's about the same conclusion I had co

Re: [GENERAL] Incremental Backups in postgres

2009-11-10 Thread akp geek
I have set up the replication using Bucardo. This is just an additional set up regards On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:09 PM, silly wrote: > How about using replication instead of incremental backups? > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Alan Hodgson wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 November 2009, akp g

Re: [GENERAL] Editor for sgml files

2009-11-10 Thread Richard Broersma
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Well, a lot of hard work. ;-)  Just like there are coding standards and > best practices, there are standards and customs in writing and > publishing. Are these published anywhere? -- Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. Visit the Los Angel

Re: [GENERAL] Incremental Backups in postgres

2009-11-10 Thread silly8888
How about using replication instead of incremental backups? On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Alan Hodgson wrote: > On Tuesday 10 November 2009, akp geek wrote: >> So Is it always good to have the backup using PG_dump instead of PITR or >> a combination of both >> > > I like to do both. Ongoing P

Re: [GENERAL] Editor for sgml files

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tis, 2009-11-10 at 07:00 -0800, David Fetter wrote: > Well, there's the whole Docbook thing, which was pretty well thought > out. Apart from that, I don't know. Peter? Well, a lot of hard work. ;-) Just like there are coding standards and best practices, there are standards and customs in wr

Re: [GENERAL] Incremental Backups in postgres

2009-11-10 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Tuesday 10 November 2009, akp geek wrote: > So Is it always good to have the backup using PG_dump instead of PITR or > a combination of both > I like to do both. Ongoing PITR, daily base backups (by updating an rsync copy), and weekly pg_dumps that in turn go to tape. PITR gives a very rece

Re: [GENERAL] Incremental Backups in postgres

2009-11-10 Thread akp geek
So Is it always good to have the backup using PG_dump instead of PITR or a combination of both Please advice Regards On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Scott Mead wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Greg Stark wrote: > >> >> It's always worth having the dump, even if you also implement

Re: [GENERAL] Incremental Backups in postgres

2009-11-10 Thread akp geek
I have tested the procedure in the URL and it worked fine. I have accidentally deleted my PGDATA folder after the backup procedure is done. I could able to restore it. But still have few questions Thanks for the help Regards On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Jing Tan wrote: > I wrote an article

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.3.8 on AIX5.3 : compilation failed

2009-11-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: > In most of the other cases the #include is done in an associated .y > file, but there is none in psql. Anyone have a thought which of > psql's .c files would be the most appropriate host? mainloop.c? -- Alvaro Herrerahttp://www.CommandPrompt.co

Re: [GENERAL] Absolute value of intervals

2009-11-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua Berry wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Jasen Betts wrote: > | > | for this case: convert to seconds and then do abs. > | > | ?select * from enviados e, recibidos r where abs(extract ( epoch from > | ?(e.fecha - r.fecha) )) < 1 > > Cheers for that. The query cost is pretty heavy, bu

Re: [GENERAL] Problem to use remote cygwin server using ssh and native psql 8.3.5

2009-11-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 06:15, Jukka Inkeri wrote: > >> >> The native psql is written for Windows, not for Cygwin. You really >> shouldn't be using it there... If you are using Cygwin, you should be >> using a Cygwin psql.exe. >> >> > > PG pages says: use native, not cygwin version anymore. Yes, t

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.3.8 on AIX5.3 : compilation failed

2009-11-10 Thread Tom Lane
"Albe Laurenz" writes: >> Why the "OBJECT_MODE" exported to 32 is not sufficient ? > I dug around a little, and the problem is in psqlscan.c which is generated > from psqlscan.l by flex. > The problem is that both _LARGE_FILES and _LARGE_FILE_API are #defined > in this case, which makes #include

Re: [GENERAL] Incremental Backups in postgres

2009-11-10 Thread Scott Mead
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Greg Stark wrote: > > It's always worth having the dump, even if you also implement PITR. > The dump allows you to restore just specific tables or to restore onto > a different type of system. The PITR backup is a physical > byte-for-byte copy which only works if

Re: [GENERAL] How can I calculate differences between values

2009-11-10 Thread Andrei
Hi; also you can try this query which should work for any version SELECT a.userid, a.data, max(f.data), a.data - max(f.data) FROM (SELECT userid, data FROM foo EXCEPT SELECT userid, min(data) FROM foo GROUP BY userid) a LEFT JOIN foo f ON (f.userid = a.userid AND f.data < a.data) GROUP B

Re: [GENERAL] -c argument not recognized

2009-11-10 Thread Thom Brown
2009/11/10 Antonio Ruggiero : > I am running PostgresSQL 8.3.8 on windows XP-64Bit.  I am using psql > client from the PostgreSQL installation and not the Cygwin client. > > My issue is that the command line argument "-c command" is not > recognized. For example, if I run (from Cygwin) > > psql -h

Re: [GENERAL] How can I calculate differences between values

2009-11-10 Thread A B
> With 8.4's analytic capabilities you can do this: > select * from ( >   select userid, data - lag(data) over (partition by userid order by data) > diff >     from foo) q >   where diff is not null; Thank you! That worked perfectly! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgres

[GENERAL] -c argument not recognized

2009-11-10 Thread Antonio Ruggiero
I am running PostgresSQL 8.3.8 on windows XP-64Bit. I am using psql client from the PostgreSQL installation and not the Cygwin client. My issue is that the command line argument "-c command" is not recognized. For example, if I run (from Cygwin) psql -h localhost -p 5432 -d $database postgres -c

Re: [GENERAL] Editor for sgml files

2009-11-10 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 06:23:16AM -0800, Richard Broersma wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:34 PM, David Fetter wrote: > > > You might be, but that's approximately what happened.  Common editors > > for this task are Emacs and Vim, each of which has varying levels of > > support for SGML :) >

Re: [GENERAL] How can I calculate differences between values

2009-11-10 Thread Vyacheslav Kalinin
With 8.4's analytic capabilities you can do this: select * from ( select userid, data - lag(data) over (partition by userid order by data) diff from foo) q where diff is not null; On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 5:40 PM, A B wrote: > Hello there! > > I have a tablefoo( userid integer, data

Re: [GENERAL] How can I calculate differences between values

2009-11-10 Thread Richard Broersma
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 6:40 AM, A B wrote: > For example > if the table contains: > > 4, 100 > 5, 200 > 5, 210 > 5, 231 > > > I want the values > > 5,10 > 5,21 > I guess that will work, but I'm curious, are there other ways? I think this kind of operation is best suited for CTEs and Windowing.

Re: [GENERAL] Incremental Backups in postgres

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Stark
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote: > IMHO The simplest solution is to just write a dump to the same file every > now and then and have the backup software take care of storing only the > differences. It does have a few drawbacks; it means you'll have a file about > as large as

[GENERAL] How can I calculate differences between values

2009-11-10 Thread A B
Hello there! I have a tablefoo( userid integer, data integer); with the constraint unique(userid,data) Now I wish to select one userid and calculate the differences between the data -values (when they are sorted) . For example if the table contains: 4, 100 5, 200 5, 210 5, 231 I want the

Re: [GENERAL] Editor for sgml files

2009-11-10 Thread Richard Broersma
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:34 PM, David Fetter wrote: > You might be, but that's approximately what happened.  Common editors > for this task are Emacs and Vim, each of which has varying levels of > support for SGML :) That is amazing. The layout and organization of the PostgreSQL manual (to me)

Re: [GENERAL] Editor for sgml files

2009-11-10 Thread Richard Broersma
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Greg Smith wrote: > On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Richard Broersma wrote: > >> Out of curiosity,  what are the favorite editor for authoring the >> PostgreSQL document sgml files? > > http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/docguide-authoring.html I'll have to take

[GENERAL] Need help to do an insert from other table in the new table just created by default ( like a trigger to fire after create table )

2009-11-10 Thread NMarcu
Hello all, I need, after one specific table is created, with syncdb, to insert in that new table some values from other table. Exactly I need to add in a column of the new table all fields from other table. How can I do this, I know that trigger can't fire after a create table event, what else

Re: [GENERAL] Dynamically-sized WAL files

2009-11-10 Thread Simon Riggs
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 09:39 +, Thom Brown wrote: > Is there a reason we require fixed-size WAL files? Currently we reuse the files, which is much easier with fixed size files. It might have been interesting once to pass the size at log switch through to the archiver as a parameter, though we

Re: [GENERAL] What to install to be able to build docs on Arch Linux?

2009-11-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On mån, 2009-11-09 at 19:49 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > > > > > => pacman -Ql docbook-sgml > > > docbook-sgml /usr/ > > > docbook-sgml /usr/share/ > > > docbook-sgml /usr/share/sgml/ > > > docbook-sgml /usr/share/sgml/docbook-sgml-4

Re: [GENERAL] Editor for sgml files

2009-11-10 Thread Bill Moran
David Fetter wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 06:09:19PM -0800, Richard Broersma wrote: > > Out of curiosity, what are the favorite editor for authoring the > > PostgreSQL document sgml files? (I would be shocked if the whole > > thing was developed from scratch using a simple text editor.) >

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.3.8 on AIX5.3 : compilation failed

2009-11-10 Thread Albe Laurenz
I CC: this to the hackers list as it seems to be an old problem that was never fixed. See at the bottom. Alexandra Roy wrote: > This is a summary of what I have noticed concerning > PostgreSQL 8.3.8 compilation on AIX 5.3 TL9. > > 1. To do a successful 64-bit build, specify and execute: > > >

Re: [GENERAL] Incremental Backups in postgres

2009-11-10 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 10 Nov 2009, at 3:48, akp geek wrote: Dear all - Is there way to create incremental backups in postgres. I am currently using 8.4.1 on solaris.. I am new to postgres. Can you please share your thoughts Regards IMHO The simplest solution is to just write a dump to t

Re: [GENERAL] [Fwd: Returning multiple rows in 8.4]

2009-11-10 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 9 Nov 2009, at 23:30, Baris Gerze wrote: I have users table such as create table users( user_id bigserial, user_name varchar(50), user_surname varchar(100) ); how can I write a function to return multiple rows? ( in plpgsql ) You can create set-returning functions (http://www.postg

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.3.8 on AIX5.3 : compilation failed

2009-11-10 Thread Alexandra Roy
Hi Laurenz, hi all, This is a summary of what I have noticed concerning PostgreSQL 8.3.8 compilation on AIX 5.3 TL9. 1. To do a successful 64-bit build, specify and execute: # export OBJECT_MODE="64" # export CFLAGS="-maix64"       # export LDFLAGS="-maix64 -Wl,-bbigtoc" # ./co

Re: [GENERAL] Where I can find "SSL specification"?

2009-11-10 Thread Raimon Fernandez
Hello, More on this ... To be clear, just after receiving the S confirmation that PostgreSQL can handle SSL connections, I have to switch my TCPSocket into SSL. Immediatly, I receive some errors, depending my configuration: 0 - SSLv2: SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) version 2. ERROR =>

[GENERAL] Dynamically-sized WAL files

2009-11-10 Thread Thom Brown
Hi all, Is there a reason we require fixed-size WAL files? Thanks Thom -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.3.8 on AIX5.3 : compilation failed

2009-11-10 Thread Albe Laurenz
Alexandra Roy wrote: > I have always run "gmake distclean" before relaunching a build. > > Maybe the32-bit build failed because I have not set and exported the > "OBJECT_MODE" environment variable. > I will try to build PostgreSQL once again with "export > OBJECT_MODE=32". I will look at the 32

Re: [GENERAL] What to install to be able to build docs on Arch Linux?

2009-11-10 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 07:49:12PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > > > => pacman -Ql docbook-sgml > > docbook-sgml /usr/ > > docbook-sgml /usr/share/ > > docbook-sgml /usr/share/sgml/ > > docbook-sgml /usr/share/sgml/docbook-sgml-4.2/ > > docbook-sgml /usr/share/s

Re: [GENERAL] What to install to be able to build docs on Arch Linux?

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2009-11-09 at 19:49 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > > > => pacman -Ql docbook-sgml > > docbook-sgml /usr/ > > docbook-sgml /usr/share/ > > docbook-sgml /usr/share/sgml/ > > docbook-sgml /usr/share/sgml/docbook-sgml-4.2/ > > docbook-sgml /usr/share/sgml/doc

Re: [GENERAL] What to install to be able to build docs on Arch Linux?

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2009-11-09 at 23:13 +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: > configure:27984: checking for DocBook V4.2 > onsgmls:/etc/xml/catalog:2:78:E: name expected > onsgmls:/etc/xml/catalog:2:18:E: cannot find "PUBLIC"; tried > "/etc/xml/PUBLIC", "/usr/share/sgml/PUBLIC", "/usr/share/xml/PUBLIC" Lo