Re: [GENERAL] shared data for different applications

2010-11-21 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 22 Nov 2010, at 4:43, Kent Tong wrote: > Hi Alban, > > Thanks a lot for your useful info! > >> I think most companies have ended up at that point just by the progress >> of time. They have several different databases (often from different >> vendors even) that they need to aggregate their inf

[GENERAL] What is Dialect

2010-11-21 Thread Adarsh Sharma
Dear all, I am reading about Dialects of different databases. Yet I can't understand what is the need of dialect in Postgres or any other like Hibernate uses Dialect of all Databases for ORM. What is it & How can we create our own Dialect ? Thanks in Advance Adarsh Sharma -- Sent via pgsql-g

[GENERAL] Removing duplicates from multiple self left joins

2010-11-21 Thread James Moriarty
I am dynamically generating a query like below that creates different combinations of rules by left joining (any number of times) on itself and avoiding rules with some of the same attributes as part of the joins conditions e.g. SELECT count(*) FROM rules AS t1 LEFT JOIN rules AS t2

Re: Fwd: [GENERAL] [pgsql-www] Forums at postgresql.com.au

2010-11-21 Thread Craig Ringer
On 22/11/10 07:40, Elliot Chance wrote: > It does surprise me a bit that when I (or someone else) signs up to a mailing > list (not postgres specifically) that there is no fine print or agreement > that says something along the lines of "Your email address will be plastered > all over the inter

Re: Fwd: [GENERAL] [pgsql-www] Forums at postgresql.com.au

2010-11-21 Thread David Fetter
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:40:34AM +1100, Elliot Chance wrote: > It does surprise me a bit that when I (or someone else) signs up to > a mailing list (not postgres specifically) that there is no fine > print or agreement that says something along the lines of "Your > email address will be plastered

Re: [GENERAL] shared data for different applications

2010-11-21 Thread Kent Tong
Hi Alban, Thanks a lot for your useful info! > I think most companies have ended up at that point just by the progress > of time. They have several different databases (often from different > vendors even) that they need to aggregate their information from. So, is this the result of lack of cent

Re: Fwd: [GENERAL] [pgsql-www] Forums at postgresql.com.au

2010-11-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 10:40 +1100, Elliot Chance wrote: > > I would argue that if the person wants to use a forum, aren't they > > saying they don't want to be contacted via email. I think we just throw > > it only to the forum (that is the user) and leave it that. Forum users > > don't get the

Re: [GENERAL] SYSCONFDIR, initdb and postgresql.conf

2010-11-21 Thread KM
On 2010-11-21, Tom Lane wrote: > SYSCONFDIR is only used for global configuration files, like the default > psqlrc or pg_service.conf. OK, so it doesn't regard postgresql.conf and friends as conf files in that sense. > It would be pretty inappropriate to put postgresql.conf there > because postg

Re: Fwd: [GENERAL] Postgres forums ... take 2

2010-11-21 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 16:54, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Elliot Chance wrote: >> > Also, if someone registers on the forum, do they get a major domo >> > registration email?  And if so, would this be set to receive no emails >> > upon registration?  I'm not clear as to how this step would work beca

Fwd: [GENERAL] [pgsql-www] Forums at postgresql.com.au

2010-11-21 Thread Elliot Chance
On 21/11/2010, at 2:59 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Magnus Hagander wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 14:46, Elliot Chance wrote: > for...@postgresql.com.au is pointed to a black hole so that email > disappears but the mailing list gets another copy. When the mailing list > gets its c

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-www] Forums at postgresql.com.au

2010-11-21 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 21 Nov 2010, at 16:16, Trevor Talbot wrote: >> I do see a difficulty here; if the forum software is only subscribed with >> one e-mail address, how is it going to distinguish between a reply-all and a >> private reply? >> Maybe it would help to subscribe it using two or three addresses, so tha

Re: [GENERAL] Fwd: [pgsql-www] Forums at postgresql.com.au

2010-11-21 Thread Tom Lane
Elliot Chance writes: > On 21/11/2010, at 2:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote: >> Elliot Chance writes: >>> Then I can create a catch-all so that when an email is sent to >>> forums-chan...@postgresql.com.au it finds the user "chancey" gets the real >>> address and sends it on. If there were a way we could

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-www] Forums at postgresql.com.au

2010-11-21 Thread Tom Lane
Alban Hertroys writes: > I'm not one of the people who've been communicating off-list about this with > him, so I may be wrong, but to my understanding what Magnus wants (the > requirement, not a solution to it) is this: > - Person A is on the forums and sends a message that ends up on the ML (

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-www] Forums at postgresql.com.au

2010-11-21 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 18:12, Tom Lane wrote: > Alban Hertroys writes: >> I'm not one of the people who've been communicating off-list about this with >> him, so I may be wrong, but to my understanding what Magnus wants (the >> requirement, not a solution to it) is this: > >> - Person A is on

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-www] Forums at postgresql.com.au

2010-11-21 Thread Stuart McGraw
On 11/21/2010 06:04 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote: > On 21 Nov 2010, at 24:17, Trevor Talbot wrote: > >>> I can't explain it any clearer, your email response goes to the mailing >>> list and that mailing list sends a copy to the original person thats how a >>> mailing list works. It also sends a copy

Re: [GENERAL] SYSCONFDIR, initdb and postgresql.conf

2010-11-21 Thread Tom Lane
KM writes: > On an OpenBSD machine I just compiled and installed 9.0.1. The > ./configure arguments included '--sysconfdir=/etc'. Running > 'pg_config --sysconfdir' returns '/etc/postgresql'. The cluster is > running and I can create a database and connect to it. > However, initdb put the conf

Re: [GENERAL] finding rows with invalid characters

2010-11-21 Thread Dmitriy Igrishin
Hey Sim, Maybe this helps: http://blog.tapoueh.org/articles/blog/_Getting_out_of_SQL_ASCII,_part_2.html 2010/11/21 Sim Zacks > I am using PG 8.2.17 with UTF8 encoding. > "PostgreSQL 8.2.17 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 > (Gentoo 4.1.1)" > > One of my tables somehow has i

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-www] Forums at postgresql.com.au

2010-11-21 Thread Trevor Talbot
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 05:04, Alban Hertroys wrote: > On 21 Nov 2010, at 24:17, Trevor Talbot wrote: >> Elliot, Magnus wants forum->list email to come from a per-user address >> so that when he replies directly to that address (without sending it >> to the list), the response is mapped to a PM.

Re: [GENERAL] shared data for different applications

2010-11-21 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 21 Nov 2010, at 5:08, Kent Tong wrote: > Hi, > > Let's say that there is some data that should be logically shared by > many applications in the company, such as some core information about > its customers (name, address, contact info). In principle, such data > should be stored in a DB for sh

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-www] Forums at postgresql.com.au

2010-11-21 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 21 Nov 2010, at 24:17, Trevor Talbot wrote: >> I can't explain it any clearer, your email response goes to the mailing list >> and that mailing list sends a copy to the original person thats how a >> mailing list works. It also sends a copy to the forum which is parses you >> and that person

[GENERAL] finding rows with invalid characters

2010-11-21 Thread Sim Zacks
I am using PG 8.2.17 with UTF8 encoding. "PostgreSQL 8.2.17 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1)" One of my tables somehow has invalid characters in it: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa9 HINT: This error can also happen if the byte sequenc

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 9.0 RPMs for RHEL 6 and Fedora 14 released

2010-11-21 Thread Allan Kamau
2010/11/14 Devrim GÜNDÜZ : > > I just released PostgreSQL 9.0 RPM for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and > Fedora 14, on both x86 and x86_64. > > Please note that 9.0 packages have a different layout as compared to > previous ones. You may want to read this blog post about this first: > > http://people