Re: [GENERAL] cyclical redundancy checksum algorithm(s)?

2006-09-28 Thread Joachim Wieland
ata so you might want to make sure that data really got modified. -- Joachim Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key available ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [GENERAL] ECPG: non-integer constant in group by

2006-09-15 Thread Joachim Wieland
w arguments". Why? Can I correct the > query to avoid the error message? (sqlca.sqlerrd[2] does contain the # > of elements in spite of error) The problem is that you are selecting a value but you don't say where ecpg should store the result. You're missing the "INTO

Re: [GENERAL] ECPG. Badly stuck

2006-07-26 Thread Joachim Wieland
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 02:46:02PM -0400, Jasbinder Bali wrote: > Tried writing the follwoing code but doesn't give me any result. > Don't know if i have to do somethin else apart from what i've already done. There are many ways your program can fail before actually reaching the select line but yo

Re: [GENERAL] ECPG. Badly stuck

2006-07-23 Thread Joachim Wieland
On July 22, 7:46 pm "Jasbinder Bali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a C program and have some ECPG code in it. > > How do i display the data that i retrieve from the postgres database > using a simple select statment or calling a stored procedure. > > Is it mandatory to use cursor or there's

Re: [GENERAL] How can I retrieve a function result?

2006-06-13 Thread Joachim Wieland
Luis, On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 01:19:32PM -0500, Luis Alberto Pérez Paz wrote: > The program works fine, actually I can verify that it executes the FUNCTION > 'myFunction', however I dont know how can I get the return value of the > FUNCTION 'myFunction' (as you can see in the little example the re

Re: [GENERAL] How can I retrieve a function result?

2006-06-12 Thread Joachim Wieland
Luis, On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 06:24:24PM -0500, Luis Alberto Pérez Paz wrote: > res = PQexecParams ( conn, "select myFunction($1,$2,$3)" , 3, NULL, > paramValues, paraLenghts, paramFormats, resultFormat); > It's works fine, however I dont know how can I retrieve the result that > return the FUNCT

Re: [GENERAL] Querying for strings that match after prefix

2006-06-02 Thread Joachim Wieland
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:47:22AM -0700, badlydrawnbhoy wrote: > I need to locate all the entries in a table that match , but only after > a number of characters have been ignored. I have a table of email > addresses, and someone else has erroneously entered some addresses > prefixed with 'mailto:

Re: [GENERAL] reindexdb program error under PG 8.1.3

2006-05-25 Thread Joachim Wieland
David, On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:07:27PM -0700, David Wall wrote: > >object. Look in template1 and see if you see a table with that OID. > Thanks, but I clearly lack that expertise. How do I find "a table with > that OID"? Do a normal select against pg_class. Something like: select oid, rel

Re: [GENERAL] VACUUM FULL hangs on ordinary table

2006-05-19 Thread Joachim Wieland
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:58:19PM +0400, Ivan Zolotukhin wrote: > There are no clients connected to the > database except me in that moment since I switched application to > another DB. Did you check for not yet committed prepared transactions? Check the pg_prepared_xacts system view. Joachim

Re: [GENERAL] switch / case in plpgsql functions

2006-02-15 Thread Joachim Wieland
he switch / case construct so you'll have to use IF ... ELSIF. Joachim -- Joachim Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTED] C/ Usandizaga 12 1°B ICQ: 37225940 20002 Donostia / San Sebastian (Spain)

Re: [GENERAL] Sequences/defaults and pg_dump

2006-02-08 Thread Joachim Wieland
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:03:54AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Joachim Wieland wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:49:02AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > The correct solution to this is to forbid ALTER COLUMN SET DEFAULT on > > > > a serial column

Re: [GENERAL] Sequences/defaults and pg_dump

2006-02-08 Thread Joachim Wieland
f a SERIAL column This should go along with another command like ... ALTER COLUMN DROP SERIAL which drops the serial and removes the dependencies to get rid of it in a clean way, right? Joachim -- Joachim Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [GENERAL] logging settings

2006-02-05 Thread Joachim Wieland
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 02:37:53PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Joachim Wieland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> There's been various discussions in the past about making this behavior > >> less non-intuitive, but nothing's been settled on ... > > So what a

Re: [GENERAL] logging settings

2006-02-05 Thread Joachim Wieland
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 07:59:06PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 07:43:47PM +0100, Joachim Wieland wrote: > > I propose to change it on the grounds that: > > - other unix daemons reset their values to defaults before reading > >conffil

Re: [GENERAL] logging settings

2006-02-05 Thread Joachim Wieland
o you don't even take a look at the conf file but look for the problem elsewhere... Joachim -- Joachim Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTED] C/ Usandizaga 12 1°B ICQ: 37225940 20002 Donostia / San Se

Re: [GENERAL] Basic questions about PQprepare()

2006-01-29 Thread Joachim Wieland
ften you want to execute the same query with different arguments. You're always welcome to improve the documentation by submitting a documentation patch that adds more examples ;-) Joachim -- Joachim Wieland [EMAIL PR

[GENERAL] Create role question

2005-11-20 Thread Joachim Wieland
Hi, I wonder if the following behavior is intentional or not: template1=# create role r1 nocreatedb createrole; CREATE ROLE template1=# set role r1; SET template1=> create role r2 createdb; CREATE ROLE template1=> set role r2; SET template1=> create database d1; CREATE DATABASE So in effect, if y

Re: [GENERAL] Transparent encryption in PostgreSQL?

2005-07-14 Thread Joachim Wieland
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:18:04PM -0500, Bob wrote: > Here is the link in case your fingers are broken and it hurts to type;) > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/encryption-options.html I think the "Password Storage Encryption" paragraph needs a note similar to what Stephen Frost wr

Re: [GENERAL] oracle synchronization strategy

2004-11-01 Thread Joachim Wieland
Hi Randall, On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 11:25:46PM -0600, Randall Smith wrote: > 1. Set up stored proc on oracle that records a INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE > SQL action taken on a table into a log table. > 2. Program reads the log table on oracle and issues the same SQL command > on the postgres db. In

[GENERAL] ripe whois server and postgresql

2003-11-20 Thread Joachim Wieland
Hi there, I want to use the RIPE whois server that uses MySQL by default. However I'd prefer a PostgreSQL solution. :-) Does anybody know if there exists a patch to support PostgreSQL? Thanks, Joachim ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get