Re: [GENERAL] Sync production DB with development?

2014-10-08 Thread Jeff Ross
On 10/8/14, 2:24 PM, Israel Brewster wrote: Agreed. and no, I don't need all the data. But pg_dump doesn't give me an option to, say, only grab the last week of data. You might want to check out pg_sample. It lets you get a referentially consistent sample of a database. You specify the numb

Re: [GENERAL] Question about plan difference between 9.3 and 9.3.2

2014-01-17 Thread Jeff Ross
On 1/17/14, 11:02 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross writes: I had to move our production database to a new server with virtually identical hardware. At the same time I went to 9.3.2 from 9.3. Queries on the old server (nirvana) run many magnitudes faster than on the new server (dukkha). The two

[GENERAL] Question about plan difference between 9.3 and 9.3.2

2014-01-17 Thread Jeff Ross
.depesz.com/s/fiHh More complex queries that run in a couple hundred ms on the old server are taking about 9 seconds to complete on the new server, and postgres is using 90+% of cpu for the entire time. I've vacuumed analyzed the new server but that didn't seem to make a difference. Thanks for any insight! Jeff Ross

Re: [GENERAL] After upgrade to 9.3, streaming replication fails to start--SOLVED

2013-11-07 Thread Jeff Ross
On 11/6/13, 12:26 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: On 11/6/13, 11:32 AM, Jeff Janes wrote: On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Jeff Ross <mailto:jr...@wykids.org>> wrote: _postgresql@nirvana:/var/postgresql $ cat start_hot_standby.sh #!/bin/sh backup_label=wykids_`date +%Y-%m-%d` #r

Re: [GENERAL] After upgrade to 9.3, streaming replication fails to start

2013-11-06 Thread Jeff Ross
On 11/6/13, 11:32 AM, Jeff Janes wrote: On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Jeff Ross <mailto:jr...@wykids.org>> wrote: _postgresql@nirvana:/var/postgresql $ cat start_hot_standby.sh #!/bin/sh backup_label=wykids_`date +%Y-%m-%d` #remove any existing wal files on th

[GENERAL] After upgrade to 9.3, streaming replication fails to start

2013-11-06 Thread Jeff Ross
/postgresql.5432 The standby server fails to start with the following: 2013-11-06 07:50:23.436056500 <%> LOG: database system was interrupted; last known up at 2013-11-06 07:47:07 MST 2013-11-06 07:50:23.495849500 <%> LOG: entering standby mode 2013-11-06 07:50:23.495854500 <%> LOG: in

Re: [GENERAL] Largest PG database known to man!

2013-10-01 Thread Jeff Ross
Maybe some of these folks can chime in? http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/ Simbad (and I think VisieR) runs on PostgreSQL. A friend of mine is a grad student in astronomy and he told me about them. Jeff Ross On 10/1/13 3:49 PM, Mark Jones wrote: Hi all, We are currently working with a customer who

Re: [GENERAL] Split_part on a CR

2012-11-19 Thread Jeff Ross
On 11/19/12 12:58, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross writes: Hi, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to use split_part with a carriage return (hex 0a) as the delimiter. Um, 0x0a is line feed last I checked. But you should be able to write the literal as E'\r' (if you wanted CR) o

[GENERAL] Split_part on a CR

2012-11-19 Thread Jeff Ross
Hi, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to use split_part with a carriage return (hex 0a) as the delimiter. Would someone please offer me a clue? Thanks! Jeff Ross -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction question

2012-07-11 Thread Jeff Ross
On 7/11/12 5:13 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/11/2012 04:02 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: On 7/11/12 3:52 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: Is there an index on this table? If so have you tried a REINDEX? Here's the table definition: jross@nirvana:/home/jross $ psql wykids psql (9.1.4, server

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction question

2012-07-11 Thread Jeff Ross
On 7/11/12 4:24 PM, Marcin Mańk wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Jeff Ross <mailto:jr...@wykids.org>> wrote: 2012-06-19 15:37:36.283752500 LOG: statement: update survey_response set srv_resp_submitted = now() where srv_resp_srv_id = 2 and srv_resp_pp_i

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction question

2012-07-11 Thread Jeff Ross
On 7/11/12 3:52 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/11/2012 02:41 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: On 7/11/12 2:07 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/11/2012 07:01 AM, Jeff Ross wrote: On 7/10/12 8:39 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/10/2012 07:30 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: On 7/10/12 6:21 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction question

2012-07-11 Thread Jeff Ross
On 7/11/12 2:07 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/11/2012 07:01 AM, Jeff Ross wrote: On 7/10/12 8:39 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/10/2012 07:30 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: On 7/10/12 6:21 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/10/2012 01:06 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: Hi all, Thanks for any and all ideas

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction question

2012-07-11 Thread Jeff Ross
On 7/10/12 8:39 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/10/2012 07:30 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: On 7/10/12 6:21 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/10/2012 01:06 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: Hi all, Thanks for any and all ideas! For your initial attempt everything was done in one session? All the inserts were

Re: [GENERAL] Transaction question

2012-07-10 Thread Jeff Ross
On 7/10/12 6:21 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: On 07/10/2012 01:06 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: Hi all, I have an anomaly on my hands that I'm at a loss to understand. We recently ran a small survey where participants were required to answer all the questions. After validation for skipped questions

[GENERAL] Transaction question

2012-07-10 Thread Jeff Ross
33 | 2012-06-19 15:33:05.547012 | 2012-06-19 15:38:16.724393 5595 | 2 | 19361 | 2012-06-19 15:12:39.37469 | 2012-06-19 18:26:00.391711 | 2012-06-19 18:38:47.068152 (3 rows) After finding these anomalies, I cut and pasted the insert statements from the logs i

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: terminating connection due to conflict with recovery

2011-08-31 Thread Jeff Ross
On 08/30/11 18:03, Fujii Masao wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Jeff Ross wrote: Is there a setting in this or something else that I should tweak so this query can complete against the replica? Google turned up some threads on the error code associated with the error but I didn't

[GENERAL] FATAL: terminating connection due to conflict with recovery

2011-08-30 Thread Jeff Ross
inst the replica? Google turned up some threads on the error code associated with the error but I didn't find much else that seems applicable. Thanks, Jeff Ross Wyoming Children's Action Alliance Cheyenne, Wyoming -- 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] Book recommendation?

2011-02-01 Thread Jeff Ross
On 02/01/11 08:55, Herouth Maoz wrote: As a result of my recent encounter with table bloat and other tuning issues I've been running into, I'm looking for a good resource for improving my tuning skills. My sysadmin ran into the following book: PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance, by Gregory Smith

Re: [GENERAL] Almost full pg_xlog/

2011-01-31 Thread Jeff Ross
On 01/31/11 17:13, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross writes: In the meantime, I now have 242 16MB files in pg_xlog/. The archive_status directory in pg_xlog/has a matching .done file for all but the most recent of those pg_xlog files. What have you got checkpoint_segments set to? I had

[GENERAL] Almost full pg_xlog/

2011-01-31 Thread Jeff Ross
t found it yet. Thanks, Jeff Ross -- 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] Instructions/status of modpglogger

2010-11-11 Thread Jeff Ross
version from Digital Stratum doesn't work and you (or anyone else for that matter) would like my slightly modified version let me know off list and I'll get it to you. Jeff Ross -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscript

Re: [GENERAL] Schema tool

2010-11-11 Thread Jeff Ross
and shows me some, um, interesting things in my database that probably need addressing. Warm regards from snowy Wyoming! Jeff Ross -- 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] psql \q hang

2010-10-05 Thread Jeff Ross
On 10/05/10 10:35, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross writes: Thanks for the hint, Greg! It was indeed the .psql_history file. Although I'm using the default history size, the file was over 5MB in size and full of a table dump. I truncated the file and no more delay quitting psql. Huh ...

Re: [GENERAL] psql \q hang

2010-10-05 Thread Jeff Ross
On 10/04/10 15:55, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 This is more of an odd anoyance than anything, but for the past month or so when I \q out of psql I have to wait 20-25 seconds for the return to the shell prompt. This is the only copy of psql run

[GENERAL] psql \q hang

2010-10-04 Thread Jeff Ross
.4.4 on OpenBSD and primarily PostgreSQL is powering Drupal. Searching Google turned up nothing. I can live with it but I'd be more interested in fixing it. Thanks! Jeff Ross -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to you

Re: [GENERAL] Question about joins, left outer and others

2010-05-07 Thread Jeff Ross
Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross writes: To get the output I want above, I'd think I'd need to do a left outer join like this: jr...@wykids localhost# select ed_cat_name as "Level", pp_ed_cat_subject as "Subject", pp_ed_cat_institution as "Institution" fr

[GENERAL] Question about joins, left outer and others

2010-05-07 Thread Jeff Ross
but that only gives me this: Level | Subject| Institution ---++- Bachelors | Elementary Education/Fine Arts | (1 row) In fact, every join combination (left|right|full|inner|outer) I've tried gives me the s

Re: [GENERAL] Plpgsql function syntax error at first coalesce statement

2010-04-25 Thread Jeff Ross
On 04/25/10 14:20, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross writes: Now I'm *really* confused. I thought the table structure I created at the beginning of the function was where the results would be returned to. Uh, you're using that as the destination for the FOR loop's SELECT. What

Re: [GENERAL] Plpgsql function syntax error at first coalesce statement

2010-04-25 Thread Jeff Ross
On 04/25/10 12:32, Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross writes: I'm trying to write my first plpgsql function and I'm running into a problem that may or may not have to do with a coalesce statement. No, it's not the coalesce ... When I try to run this I get the following error: jr..

[GENERAL] Plpgsql function syntax error at first coalesce statement

2010-04-25 Thread Jeff Ross
e trs_tr_level_core_area_id = 6 and trs_tr_level_pp_id = $45 ) is not null then 't'::boolean else 'f'::boolean end as $46 , case when (select sum(trs_tr_level) from trainers_trainer_levels where trs_tr_level_core_area_id = 7 and trs_tr_level_pp_id = $47 ) is not null then 't'::boolean else 'f'::boolean end as $48 , case when (select sum(trs_tr_level) from trainers_trainer_levels where trs_tr_level_core_area_id = 8 and trs_tr_level_pp_id = $49 ) is not null then 't'::boolean else 'f'::boolean end as $50 from people join trainers on $1 = tr_pp_id join trainers_trainer_dates as ttd1 on $1 = trs_tr_date_pp_id join trainer_dates on tr_date_id = trs_tr_date_id WHERE NOT EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM trainers_trainer_dates as ttd2 where ttd1.trs_tr_date_pp_id = ttd2.trs_tr_date_pp_id and ttd1.trs_tr_date_recorded < ttd2.trs_tr_date_recorded ) and tr_date_name not in ('Application Date','Last Updated Date') and $1 = $51 CONTEXT: SQL statement in PL/PgSQL function "view_all_trainers" near line 151 I'm sure this is something simple but I've been staring at it so long now I can't see the forest for the trees. Thanks! Jeff Ross -- 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] Joining one-to-one and one-to-many tables

2010-03-12 Thread Jeff Ross
on to figure this out. Jeff -Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Ross Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 11:37 AM To: PostgreSQL Subject: [GENERAL] Joining one-to-one and one-to-many tables I'm stumped

[GENERAL] Joining one-to-one and one-to-many tables

2010-03-11 Thread Jeff Ross
into a hitch in the gitalong there. I'm sure there's a better way to accomplish what I'm trying to get here (especially since this really doesn't quite *work*) but I can't see it. This type of query has become important for me to get because more and more we are movi

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Usage and OpenBSD

2010-02-13 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Smith wrote: Jeff Ross wrote: I think I'm doing it right. Here's the whole script. I run it from another server on the lan. That looks basically sane--your description was wrong, not your program, which is always better than the other way around. Note that everything your

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Usage and OpenBSD

2010-02-11 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Smith wrote: Jeff Ross wrote: pgbench is run with this: pgbench -h varley.openvistas.net -U _postgresql -t 2 -c $SCALE pgbench with scale starting at 10 and then incrementing by 10. I call it three times for each scale. I've turned on logging to 'all' to try and

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Usage and OpenBSD

2010-02-10 Thread Jeff Ross
ll not have this problem, however, the amd64 kernel will not run on this particular server. I think that means that I'm going to be shopping for an Opteron based server before long. Thanks to all! Jeff Ross

Re: [GENERAL] Memory Usage and OpenBSD

2010-01-27 Thread Jeff Ross
Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross writes: Running a simple select only pgbench test against it will fail with an out of memory error as it tries to vacuum --analyze the newly created database with 750 tuples. Better look at the "ulimit" values the postmaster is started with; you sh

[GENERAL] Memory Usage and OpenBSD

2010-01-27 Thread Jeff Ross
d on request of size 67108864. Jeff Ross -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

[GENERAL] pgbench out of memory error

2010-01-05 Thread Jeff Ross
mation to help someone point me in the right direction. Even before I get to the out of memory error 4000 tps seems very low for what I think this hardware should be capable of doing. Thanks, Jeff Ross -- 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] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-23 Thread Jeff Ross
Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross writes: Tom Lane wrote: heap_update is broken. Details left as an exercise for the reader Well, as the reader that started this all ;-) should I be worried? Should I do a pg_dump and reinstall? Roll back to 8.3.7? Or just relax, don't

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-23 Thread Jeff Ross
Tom Lane wrote: Greg Stark writes: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Tom Lane wrote: Urgh. I bet that's where the problem is then. Some path is failing to clear that bit, or maybe there's a race condition that allows it to become set incorrectly (ie right after somebody else adds a tu

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-23 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Stark wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: pg_clog is 32K. �I've put it at http://www.openvistas.net/pg_clog Sorry, I'm getting a 404 Oops--fixed now. Jeff -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make chang

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-23 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Stark wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Greg Stark wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: Incidentally, may as well ask the usual questions: And just for reference, what does pg_controldata print? _postgre...@heinlein:/var/postgresql $ pg_controldata

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-23 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Stark wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: I had to modify your query slightly to make it run--hope I got what you are after! select (h).* from (select heap_page_items(get_raw_page('pg_namespace',0)) as h) as x; http://www.openvistas.net/pagein

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-23 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Stark wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Jeff Ross wrote: Greg Stark wrote: Actually, I wonder if this isn't more likely to show the problem -- it would explain why *all* your tables are showing up with duplicates rather than just one. select xmin,xmax,ctid,oid,*

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-22 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Stark wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: I browsed through the system catalogs but haven't found anything yet that can shine some light on this. Actually, I wonder if this isn't more likely to show the problem -- it would explain why *all* your

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-22 Thread Jeff Ross
Greg Stark wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Jeff Ross wrote: Hi, I recently upgraded to 8.4 and everything went great. �All databases are working as they are supposed to, no problems seen. Today, however, I did a \d on a database and was surprised to see sets of 5 identical table

[GENERAL] Multiple table entries?

2009-08-22 Thread Jeff Ross
e light on this. System is running OpenBSD -current. Thanks, Jeff Ross -- 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] Doubt about SELECT

2009-03-29 Thread Jeff Ross
service_id, people.name, people.address, test.price_serv, null as "total" from test, people where test.person_id = people.person_id union all select null as person_id, null as service_id, null as name, null as address

Re: [GENERAL] databases list to file

2008-10-09 Thread Jeff Ross
Joao Ferreira gmail wrote: Hello all, I need to print to a file a simple list of all the databases on my postgresql. I need to do this from a shell script to be executed without human intervention I guess something like: su postgres -c 'psql ...whatever > /tmp/my_databases.txt' but I don

Re: [GENERAL] Can interval take a value from a field?

2008-09-10 Thread Jeff Ross
Jeff Davis wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 17:03 -0600, Jeff Ross wrote: select ts_date as "Transcript Date", ts_expiration_date as "Current Expiration Date", expiration_value as "Expiration Interval" from transcript, t

[GENERAL] Can interval take a value from a field?

2008-09-09 Thread Jeff Ross
ts_expiration_date != ts_date + interval 'expiration_value'; and I'm getting the following error: ERROR: invalid input syntax for type interval: "expiration_value" Is there a way to use the value in expiration_value for the interval? Thanks, Jeff Ross -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] Column alias in where clause?

2008-08-13 Thread Jeff Ross
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:47:17AM -0600, Jeff Ross wrote: I'm a little confused about how to use a column alias in the where clause of a query. I'm sure the answer is something simple, but I haven't found anything searching through Google or f

[GENERAL] Column alias in where clause?

2008-08-13 Thread Jeff Ross
s is provided, it completely hides the actual name of the table or function; for example given FROM foo AS f, the remainder of the SELECT must refer to this FROM item as f not foo.". Does this apply in the WHERE clause as well? If it doesn't how can I refer to the results of the case sta

Re: [GENERAL] Alter sequence restart with selected value...

2007-09-18 Thread Jeff Ross
Scott Marlowe wrote: On 9/18/07, Jeff Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using copy to insert a bunch of rows into a new table with a unique primary key. Copy is correctly incrementing the primary key, but apparently the sequence itself is never updated because when I go to insert

[GENERAL] Alter sequence restart with selected value...

2007-09-18 Thread Jeff Ross
s); but that isn't working. Thanks in advance for any help! Jeff Ross ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org/

Re: [GENERAL] psql error while restoring database: unrecognized node type: 655

2007-07-16 Thread Jeff Ross
Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom Lane wrote: Hmm. Can you try that with \set VERBOSITY verbose so we can determine where the error is being thrown from? psql:/tmp/people.sql:79: ERROR: XX000: unrecognized node type: 655 LOCATION: _outValue, outfuncs.c:1707

Re: [GENERAL] psql error while restoring database: unrecognized node type: 655

2007-07-16 Thread Jeff Ross
Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: When psql begins loading this file, it throws the error: psql:/tmp/people.sql:79: ERROR: unrecognized node type: 655 Hmm. Can you try that with \set VERBOSITY verbose so we can determine where the error is being thrown from?

[GENERAL] psql error while restoring database: unrecognized node type: 655

2007-07-16 Thread Jeff Ross
ERROR: relation "people_pp_id_seq" already exists Line 79 of the file is the closing ");" at the end of the CREATE TABLE statement. The interesting thing is that this exact process works just fine to a third machine also running 8.2.4--my entire pg_dumpall script runs wit

Re: [GENERAL] Generate random password

2007-06-07 Thread Jeff Ross
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Can anyone suggest how one might be able to do this? I want to be able to generate an 8 character random password for users in their password field. Perhaps through the default setting of the field or a trigger function. I found the following, but is there anything that

[GENERAL] Shell script to determine if PostgreSQL is accepting connections?

2007-03-18 Thread Jeff Ross
r me under 8.2.3. I intend to fix a few of its problems (it does fine until the backend goes away ;-) and re-release it. Thanks, Jeff Ross P.S. Apologies to the owner of the list--I inadvertently sent this to the wrong address first. ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Mailing List management solution

2007-03-06 Thread Jeff Ross
Desire Athow wrote: I am looking for a email list management solution (can be a script, an open source application etc), which uses Postgre SQL (AKA Postgres) as database. Can you let me know whether this rare bird exist? ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] open source - content management system - that uses PostGreSQL

2007-02-19 Thread Jeff Ross
Vivek Khera wrote: On Feb 16, 2007, at 4:13 PM, Andrew Kirkness wrote: I am currently setting up a website and have PostGreSQL database I'm using for the backend. I'm researching an open source Content Management System that uses PostGreSQL. Do you have any recommendations? You need to def

Re: [GENERAL] invalid regular expression: invalid backreference number

2007-02-18 Thread Jeff Ross
Tom Lane wrote: Thanks for the reply, Tom. Jeff Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This used to work before my upgrade to 8.2.1. Which version were you using before? 8.1.x The error the function now throws is: ERROR: invalid regular expression: invalid backref

[GENERAL] invalid regular expression: invalid backreference number

2007-02-15 Thread Jeff Ross
us ways I can call substring, but I don't understand why this is throwing the error. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Jeff Ross ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly