Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Very slow query in PostgreSQL 9.3.3

2014-03-13 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2014-03-14 4:26 GMT+09:00 : > PostgreSQL 9.3.3 RHEL 6.4 > > Total db Server memory 64GB (...) > effective_cache_size = 48MB I'm not sure if this will help directly, but is the value for 'effective_cache_size' intentional? 48 *GB* would be a more likely setting. Regards Ian Barwick -- Sent v

Re: [GENERAL] Materialized view from PG to Oracle?

2014-03-12 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2014-03-12 12:00 GMT+09:00 Roy Anderson : > Good day. We are transitioning over one database to Postgres as a test but > retain an Oracle presence. The PG db in question is (it is currently still > running Oracle) feeds a couple other Oracle dbs via materialized view logs > and materialized views.

Re: [GENERAL] Moving data from M$ JetDB file to Postgres on Linux

2014-02-28 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2014-03-01 9:34 GMT+09:00 Rich Shepard : > On Fri, 28 Feb 2014, Adrian Klaver wrote: > >> Well JET is the database engine for Access and mdb is one of the file >> format extensions for Access database files. JET has been used in other MS >> products and Access has used different file formats(extens

Re: [GENERAL] Replacing Ordinal Suffixes

2014-02-28 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2014-03-01 8:16 GMT+09:00 George Weaver : > >> - Original Message - From: Steve Atkins > > >> On Feb 28, 2014, at 2:43 PM, George Weaver wrote: >> >> >Maybe this? >> >> >select regexp_replace('300 North 126th Street', '(\d+)(?:st|nd|rd|th)', >> >'\1', 'gi'); >> >> Hi Steve, >> >> Thanks, b

Re: [GENERAL] How to turn off DEBUG statements from psql commends

2014-02-10 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2014-02-11 0:43 GMT+09:00 peterlen : > We are using PostgreSQL 9.3. Something seems to have changed with our psql > command-line output since we first installed it. When I run commands at my > plsql prompt, I am getting a lot of debug statements which I was not getting > before. I am just trying

Re: [GENERAL] Fwd: lots of errors from fmgr.h when I try to write a C UDF

2014-01-31 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2014-02-01 Anh Pham : > Hi, > I had Postgres 9.3 setup and run successfully in Eclipse (MacOSX) > I am trying to write a C user-defined function: > > #include > ... > #ifdef PG_MODULE_MAGIC > PG_MODULE_MAGIC; > #endif > ... > > However, when I tried to compile the code: > gcc -fpic -c ... > It gav

Re: [GENERAL] fastest dump/restore

2014-01-27 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2014-01-27 Vincent Veyron : > Le dimanche 26 janvier 2014 à 10:27 -0700, Scott Ribe a écrit : >> Is there an article anywhere which documents everything the current state of >> the art for the fastest dump/restore? What dump/restore format & options? >> What things to tweak in the config? I've pi

Re: [GENERAL] postgres-fdw questions

2014-01-24 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2014/1/24 Emmanuel Medernach : > Hello, > > I'm currently testing postgres_fdw feature on PostgreSQL 9.3.2 and I have > some questions: > > - What are the limits to the number of foreign tables ? As far as I know, there is no limit (beyond the usual PostgreSQL limits). > - What is the current s

Re: [GENERAL] How to list and describe tables in psql???

2014-01-01 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2014/1/2 peterlen : > Thanks for the responses. I found that I was using an older version of psql > (one that got installed when I installed Cygwin on my windows box. I > changed it so now the \d+ > gives me the description but \d and \dt still gives me "No relations > found" so I must be usi

Re: [GENERAL] How to list and describe tables in psql???

2014-01-01 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
014/1/2 peterlen : > I am using PostgreSQL 9.1 and have boon looking for psql commands to list all > tables in the current database as well as how to "describe" a given table. > I have come across some info on the web (older mostly) that lists commands > like \d, \dt, or \d+ but I get results like

Re: [GENERAL] connect using quirrel sql client

2013-12-20 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/12/20 Adrian Klaver : > On 12/20/2013 01:08 AM, Arindam Mondal wrote: >> >> Hi , >> please let me know how I can connect postgresql using squirrel sql >> client 3.4.0. > > > Make sure you have the Postgres JDBC driver: > > http://jdbc.postgresql.org/download.html > > Configure SQuirrel: > > h

Re: [GENERAL] Q: regarding backends

2013-12-10 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/12/10 Stephan Fabel : > Hi all, > > and sorry if I'm asking a question that has been answered before; has the > PostgreSQL community ever considered different key/value backends (sort of > like > MySQL with its many different options)? > > We'd be very interested in seeing the effects of inte

Re: [GENERAL] pgadmin III query

2013-12-06 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/12/6 Peter Kroon : > When you click on a table in the "Object browser" you'll see in the "SQL > pane" the sql that is needed to create that table. > > Which function can I call to get that SQL? You can use the pg_dump command line function for this: pg_dump -s -t name_of_table name_of_data

Re: [GENERAL] Preserving the source code of views

2013-10-21 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/10/22 Stephen Frost : >> You also mentioned an external CMS. Any suggestions? > > I'm a big fan of git, but if you really want to keep things in-database > and track dependencies, etc, it occurs to me that you might be able to > use an actual table in the database to store the raw form of you

Re: [GENERAL] Index creation fails with automatic names

2013-10-17 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/10/18 Kevin Grittner : > Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote: > >> It works fine for me on Pg 9.3.1: >> >> postgres=# CREATE TABLE foo(val1 text, val2 text); >> CREATE TABLE >> postgres=# CREATE INDEX on foo((lower(val1))); >> CREATE INDEX >> postgres

Re: [GENERAL] Index creation fails with automatic names

2013-10-17 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/10/14 Florian Nigsch : > Hi all, > > I am not sure if this is a bug or a misuse on my part. > > I am creating a number of indices in parallel on a table by using xargs. To > do that, I write all my indices in a file indices.idx, and then have the > indices build in parallel (in this case with

Re: [GENERAL] Comparing Oracle vs Postgres Fwd: [ADMIN] Database replication to 50-80 nodes

2013-10-03 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/10/4 Jaime Casanova : > what version of postgres is this? starting in 9.3 you can create > foreign tables between postgres databases, before that you can create > a foreing server and use the functions from th dblink module to > connect to that server and query the table on it Read-only forei

Re: [GENERAL] Column names for INSERT with query

2013-08-22 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/8/23 Robert James : > I would like to: > > INSERT INTO t > SELECT * FROM r, (x + y) AS field3 > > How do I correlate the names of the fields? That is, how do I indicate > which fields from r or field3 should be inserted into the right > columns in t? INSERT INTO t (t_field1, t_field2, t_field

Re: [GENERAL] archive folder housekeeping

2013-08-09 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/8/9 ascot.m...@gmail.com : > Is there any PG manual command available to remove archived files by > (archive) date/time? pg_archivecleanup might be of use to you: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/pgarchivecleanup.html Regards Ian Barwick -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing

Re: [GENERAL] DB transactions when browser freezes

2013-08-08 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/8/8 dafNi zaf : > Hello to everybody, > > I started to upload (via phpPgAdmin) to a local server a huge file (20GB) in > order to fill up a database. 20GB is a lot to be uploading from a browser, even in this day and age. Is the web server configured to accept uploads of that size? -- Sen

Re: [GENERAL] Fwd: Trigger on VIEW not firing

2013-07-30 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/7/30 Massimo Costantini : > > Hi, > > I have a problem with Triggers on VIEW: > > suppose I have: > > CREATE TABLE work ( > id integer NOT NULL, > work TEXT, > worktype TEXT > ); > > CREATE VIEW worksub AS SELECT FROM work WHERE worktype='subordinate'; > > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION wr

Re: [GENERAL] Viewing another role's search path?

2013-07-29 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/7/23 Adrian Klaver : > On 07/23/2013 05:15 AM, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote: >> >> Is there some simple way of viewing the search path (or other >> role-specific setting) for a role different to the current role? Apart >> from >> querying 'pg_db_role_sett

Re: [GENERAL] Viewing another role's search path?

2013-07-23 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/7/23 Michael Paquier : > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Ian Lawrence Barwick > wrote: >> >> Is there some simple way of viewing the search path (or other >> role-specific setting) for a role different to the current role? Apart >> from >> querying

[GENERAL] Viewing another role's search path?

2013-07-23 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
Is there some simple way of viewing the search path (or other role-specific setting) for a role different to the current role? Apart from querying 'pg_db_role_setting' directly? Just wondering if I'm missing something obvious. Regards Ian Barwick -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-

Re: [GENERAL] Concatenate table name in Pl/Pgsql

2013-06-25 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
> Thanks > > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Ian Lawrence Barwick > wrote: >> >> 2013/6/26 Adarsh Sharma : >> > Hi , >> > >> > Today i m creating a function that includes dynamic concatenation of a >> > partitioned tab

Re: [GENERAL] Concatenate table name in Pl/Pgsql

2013-06-25 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/6/26 Adarsh Sharma : > Hi , > > Today i m creating a function that includes dynamic concatenation of a > partitioned table name as below :- > > test=# CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION tmp_trigger_function() > test-# RETURNS TRIGGER AS $$ > test$# DECLARE > test$# tbl_name text; > test$# abc varchar;

Re: [GENERAL] Function tracking

2013-06-07 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/6/7 Rebecca Clarke : > Hi all > > I'm looking for suggestions on the best way to track the updates to a > function. > > We have two databases, Dev & Live, so I want to update Live with just the > functions that have been modified in the DEV databas3e. > Is there another, easier way to track th

Re: [GENERAL] Differences in Unicode handling on Mac vs Linux?

2013-06-02 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/6/3 Tom Lane : > Matt Daw writes: >> Howdy, I loaded a client's DB on my Mac to debug an unrelated bug, but >> I'm blocked because my Mac is rejecting SQL that works on our Linux >> production servers. Here's a simple case: > >> # select * from shots where sg_poznÁmka is NULL; >> ERROR: colu

Re: [GENERAL] Random numbers

2013-05-25 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/5/26 bricklen : > > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Karel Riveron Escobar > wrote: >> >> I want to generate random numbers in Pl/pgSQL. How can I do this? >> To be more specific, I have to generate random numbers among 0 and 5. > > > One way: > select n from unnest(ARRAY[0,1,2,3,4,5]) n orde

Re: [GENERAL] Success stories of PostgreSQL implementations in different companies

2013-05-24 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/5/25 Scott Marlowe : > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Bèrto ëd Sèra wrote: >> The Greater London Authority is also ditching Oracle in favour of PG. I >> consulted them while they kick started their transition and the first new >> PG/PostGIS only project is already delivered. The number of c

Re: [GENERAL] Help, How to start the server??

2013-05-24 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/5/24 YuChi : > i use postgresql-9.2.4 install on ubuntu11.04(natty) > and i use the command: > > *postgres@ubuntu:/$ postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data* > > or use > > *postgres@ubuntu:/$ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D > /usr/local/pgsql/data* > > to start the server > but it's stopping at

Re: [GENERAL] Upgrading postgresql from version 7.4.3

2013-05-09 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/5/9 Arun P.L : > Hi, > > How can I upgrade to latest postgresql version 9.2 from my current version > 7.4.3? How complicated this will be as the db contains large amount of data? > I have installed the latest version 9.2 in new server and while restoring > the dump from old version, data in so

Re: [GENERAL] OK to put temp tablespace on volatile storage or to omit it from backups?

2013-04-30 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/5/1 Yang Zhang : > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Darren Duncan > wrote: >> On 2013.04.30 4:55 PM, Yang Zhang wrote: >>> >>> I would intuit that it's fine, but I just want to make sure there are >>> no gotchas from a recovery point of view: >>> >>> If I were to lose my temp tablespace upo

Re: [GENERAL] pgAdmin shows two servers with the identical data

2013-04-27 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
013/4/28 Bob Futrelle : > I have two PG servers with the same data. > > I know the data is the same, because if I change a value in a table > on one server, it changes the value in a table with the same > name in the other server. > > in pgAdmin III: > > Properties for server Local (localhost:5432)

Re: [GENERAL] list non alphanumeric

2013-04-12 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
> From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org > [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce > Sent: 12 April 2013 08:41 AM > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] list non alphanumeric > > > > On 4/11/2013 11:23 PM, Baboo, Isa wrote: > > Firstly let me me

Re: [GENERAL] Update

2013-04-11 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/4/11 Joshua Berry : > >> Am 11.04.2013 10:29, schrieb jpui: >> > Hi, >> > I'm running a server using postgres 8.3 and i was adviced to update >> > it... >> > what i have to do in order to update it and don't stop the service? >> >> 8.3 is out of support so you will need to at a very minimum 8

Re: [GENERAL] AWS and postgres issues

2013-04-08 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/4/9 Tatsuo Ishii : >> While debugging this with a coworker we figured out that pg_ctl was >> attaching to the tty and then it clicked >> that we needed to be using '-t' where I was using -T or (neither). > > Are you sure? I checked the pg_ctl source code and could not find any > place attachi

Re: [GENERAL] Backup advice

2013-04-08 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/4/8 Johann Spies : > I would appreciate some advice from the experts on this list about the best > backup strategy for my database. (...) > > I have read about using pg_basebackup in an article from Shaun Thomas' > booklet on Packt Publishers (I will probably buy the booklet). Get the bookle

Re: [GENERAL] bug in COPY implementation (all versions of Postgres)?

2013-04-04 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/4/5 Konstantin Izmailov : > I came across an issue that looks like a bug in COPY. There are many similar > posts, e.g. > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13485030/strange-postgresql-value-too-long-for-type-character-varying500, > without a good unswer. > > Simplified steps to reproduce the i

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL: CPU utilization creeping to 100%

2013-04-02 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/4/3 David Noel : > I'm running into a strange issue whereby my postgres processes are > slowly creeping to 100% CPU utilization. I'm running > postgresql-server-9.2.3, FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p6, and using the > postgresql-9.2-1002.jdbc4 driver. (...) > postgresql.conf, all standard/default excep

Re: [GENERAL] Understanding behavior of SELECT with multiple unnested columns

2013-03-27 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/3/27 Tom Lane : > Gavin Flower writes: >> The rule appears to be, >> where N_x & N_y are the number of entries returned for x & y: >> N_result = is the smallest positive integer that has N_x & N_y as factors. > > Right: if there are multiple set-returning functions in a SELECT list, > the num

Re: [GENERAL] Understanding behavior of SELECT with multiple unnested columns

2013-03-27 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/3/27 Ken Tanzer > Basically you are getting Cartesian joins on the row output of >> unnest() > > > Well that's what I expected too. Except look at this example, after you > delete c: > > testdb=# DELETE FROM t2 where val='c'; > DELETE 1 > testdb=# SELECT * from t1, t2; > val | val > -+

Re: [GENERAL] Understanding behavior of SELECT with multiple unnested columns

2013-03-26 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/3/27 Ken Tanzer > > I've been working on some queries involving multiple unnested columns. At > first, I expected the number of rows returned would be the product of the > array lengths, so that this query would return 4 rows: > > SELECT unnest2(array['a','b']),unnest2(array['1','2']); > >

Re: [GENERAL] How to use daterange type?

2013-03-16 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/3/17 Csanyi Pal : > Hi, > > I'm using postgresql 9.2. > > I'm trying to figure out how can I use daterange type in my database > that is supposed to be a school calendar. > > I did the followings at the postgresql command prompt: > > create database schoolcalendar; > create table semester_1 (

Re: [GENERAL] Using psql to feed a file line by line to a table column

2013-03-14 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/3/14 Alexander Farber : > Thank you - > > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Ian Lawrence Barwick > wrote: >>> I also have an INSERT trigger on my table, >>> can I return a NULL from it or something similar? >> >> Yes, if you test for the presence

Re: [GENERAL] Using psql to feed a file line by line to a table column

2013-03-14 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/3/13 Alexander Farber : > Thank you, this was indeed the > (uneeded) semicolon at end of the COPY line. > > May I ask another question - (...) > When I add few more words to my text file > and then try to load it into my table again, > then the COPY command will fail, > because of the already

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT 1 = ANY (SELECT ARRAY[1,2,3]) -> ERROR: operator does not exist: integer = integer[] ?

2013-03-13 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/3/13 Thor Michael Støre : > Hello, > > Could someone make sense of this for me? > > $ /Library/PostgreSQL/9.2/bin/psql -d postgres postgres > psql (9.2.3) > Type "help" for help. > > postgres=# select 1 = ANY (ARRAY[1,2,3]); > ?column? > -- > t > (1 row) > > postgres=# select 1 = ANY

Re: [GENERAL] Using psql to feed a file line by line to a table column

2013-03-12 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/3/13 Alexander Farber : > Unfortunately doesn't work - > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Ian Lawrence Barwick > wrote: >> 2013/3/13 Alexander Farber : >>> >>> I have a list of 40 non-english words, >>> each on a separate line and in U

Re: [GENERAL] Using psql to feed a file line by line to a table column

2013-03-12 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/3/13 Alexander Farber : > Hello, > > I have a list of 40 non-english words, > each on a separate line and in UTF8 format, > which I'd like to put in the "word" column > of the following table (also in UTF8 and 8.4.13): > > create table good_words ( > word varchar(64) primary key, >

Re: [GENERAL] indexing elements of a csv ?

2013-03-12 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/3/13 Ian Lawrence Barwick : > 2013/3/12 Gauthier, Dave : >> Hi: >> >> v9.0.1 on linux. >> >> I have a table with a column that is a csv. Users will select records based >> upon the existence of an element of the csv. There is an index on that >>

Re: [GENERAL] indexing elements of a csv ?

2013-03-12 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/3/12 Gauthier, Dave : > Hi: > > v9.0.1 on linux. > > I have a table with a column that is a csv. Users will select records based > upon the existence of an element of the csv. There is an index on that > column but I'm thinking that it won't be of much use in this situation. Is > there a wa

Re: [GENERAL] HwTo Foreign tables anybody?

2013-03-08 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/3/8 Frank Lanitz : > Hi folks, > > I'm looking for a HowTo of Foreign Tables feature. We are thinking of > connecting two postgres databases via this way and I wanted to try > before I do say yes or no ;) However, I didn't find any good HowTo on > via §search_engine. If it's postgres_fdw you'

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: syntax error at or near ":"

2013-03-06 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/3/7 Graham Leggett : (...) >> Which psql version are you using, and what is the table definition? > > Version as below, from RHEL6: > > psql (PostgreSQL) 8.4.13 Aha, there is your problem: testdb=# SELECT version(); version ---

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: syntax error at or near ":"

2013-03-06 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
Greg, 2013/3/7 Greg Williamson : > > > Graham -- (...) > The colon (":") is not needed, just remove it. A pair of colons is used to > indicate a cast of a value; off hand I am not coming up with any use of a > colon in basic SQL. This is psql-specific syntax; the colon should cause the value of

Re: [GENERAL] ERROR: syntax error at or near ":"

2013-03-06 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/3/7 Graham Leggett : > Hi all, > > I have a text file, and I need to update the value of an element in a table > with the contents of this text file. Following the instructions at > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10968039/postgresql-inserting-value-of-a-column-from-a-file > I tried this

Re: [GENERAL] How to remove an item from integer array type

2013-02-20 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/2/21 Russell Keane > > > > >>Sorry, > > >> > > >>It's not ordered by value. It's not sorted list unfortunately. It can be > >>'{100, 120, 102, 130, 104}'. > > >> > > >>Do you have other suggestion? > > >> > > >>Thank you, > > >>Choon Park > > > > > >This should work: > > >update a set f2 = (

Re: [GENERAL] How to remove an item from integer array type

2013-02-20 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/2/21 ChoonSoo Park > > Hello Gurus, > > Table A has integer[] column. I need to delete specific integer value from > that column. > > f1 | f2 > 1 {100, 101, 102, 103} > 2 {200, 300, 400} > > I want to remove 101 from f2 and also preserve the order. > > f1 |

Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive hstore.

2013-02-15 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/2/16 Glenn Pierce : > Hi > > Does anyone know how one would > select from a table with a hstore field treating the key of the hstore as > case insensitive. > > ie > > SELECT id, lower(additional_info->'type') AS type FROM table > > I would like this to work even if if the store tyoe is > > 'Ty

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade

2013-02-14 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/2/15 Ian Harding > > > On Feb 14, 2013, at 9:50 PM, Ian Lawrence Barwick wrote: > > 2013/2/15 Ian Harding >> >> When I run pg_upgrade, it tries to start the old cluster with the -w flag, >> which waits a while and declares failure, even though it starts

Re: [GENERAL] pg_upgrade

2013-02-14 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/2/15 Ian Harding > When I run pg_upgrade, it tries to start the old cluster with the -w flag, > which waits a while and declares failure, even though it starts the > server. If I start/stop without -w everything is great. > > Can I tell pg_upgrade not to use that flag, or is there a reason

Re: [GENERAL] Graphing query results from within psql.

2013-02-13 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/2/14 Aleksey Tsalolikhin : > Below is an example of feeding query output to gnuplot without leaving psql. > I'd like to call it as "select graph(select * from example)", just for fun. > What do I need to learn to do that, please? Can I create a function that > uses "\o"? I think not, because

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 8.4 tar

2013-01-14 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
2013/1/15 Martin Gainty : > Hi Guys > > anyone know where I can zip or tar version of PostgreSQL 8.4 ? Here? http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/v8.4.15/ Ian Lawrence Barwick -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscript

Re: [GENERAL] INSERT... WHERE

2013-01-13 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
to do a INSERT... VALUES ... > WHERE... INSERT INTO ... SELECT is what you are looking for. Simple example: CREATE TABLE seltest (id INT); INSERT INTO seltest (id) SELECT 1; HTH Ian Lawrence Barwick -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to

Re: [GENERAL] How can I detect if a schema exists?

2013-01-09 Thread Ian Lawrence Barwick
w the schemas owned by the user if the user is not a superuser). Ian Lawrence Barwick