Re: [GENERAL] FDWs, foreign servers and user mappings

2012-03-08 Thread Joe Abbate
On 03/08/2012 12:06 AM, Shigeru Hanada wrote: > I think that makes, and will make sense. Because SQL/MED standard > mentions about schema for only foreign table in "4.12 SQL-schemas" section. > > FYI, pgAdmin III shows them as a tree like: > > Database > FDW > Server > User Mapping >

[GENERAL] FDWs, foreign servers and user mappings

2012-03-07 Thread Joe Abbate
Hi, We've been discussing the subject in the pyrseas-general ML, but I think it would be beneficial to get feedback from a broader audience. The Pyrseas dbtoyaml utility outputs the objects in YAML, which ends up looking like a tree (see http://pyrseas.readthedocs.org/en/latest/dbtoyaml.html ) an

Re: [GENERAL] copying few fields into an existing table

2011-10-22 Thread Joe Abbate
On 10/22/2011 04:31 PM, Alexander Farber wrote: > Hello, > > sadly I have to ban few users from my game web > site daily and so I'm trying to write a procedure for > first copying their id, name, city, IP into a pref_ban table > and then erasing their comments and statistics: > > create o

Re: [GENERAL] how to disable all pkey/fkey constraints globally

2011-10-20 Thread Joe Abbate
On 10/20/2011 05:10 PM, J.V. wrote: > Is there a simpler way than this to query the database for meta-data and > get the constraint definitions? > > If I have the constraint name (which I do), I could store the constraint > definition to a file or database table and recreate them if I could get >

Re: [GENERAL] how to find primary key field name?

2011-10-11 Thread Joe Abbate
On 10/11/2011 06:54 PM, J.V. wrote: > If I have a table name, I know how to find the primary key constraint > name, but see no way to find the primary key field name. > > select constraint_name from information_schema.tabale_constraints where > table_name = and constraint_type = 'PRIMARY KEY'; >

Re: [GENERAL] how to save primary key constraints

2011-10-11 Thread Joe Abbate
On 10/11/2011 05:16 PM, J.V. wrote: > I need to be able to query for all primary keys and save the table name > and the name of the primary key field into some structure that I can > iterate through later. > > How would I go about this? I want to hard code the number of tables and > be able to it

Re: [GENERAL] how to disable all pkey/fkey constraints globally

2011-10-05 Thread Joe Abbate
On 10/05/2011 04:49 AM, depst...@alliedtesting.com wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general- >> ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of J.V. >> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 10:00 PM >> To: pgsql-general >> Subject: [GENERAL] how to disable

Re: [GENERAL] auto-increment column

2011-10-04 Thread Joe Abbate
On 10/04/2011 08:05 AM, Robert Buckley wrote: > Thanks for the replies, > > I have one question regarding this comment... > > "You also need to add a DEFAULT expression and optionally > make the sequence owned by the column:" > > What difference does it make if a table "owns" a sequence of not?.

Re: [GENERAL] PL/Python

2011-10-03 Thread Joe Abbate
On 10/03/2011 04:14 AM, Sim Zacks wrote: > I don't know if there is an official definition, but an extension is > generally a compiled program that is accessed by the SQL. It must be > compiled with the postgresql headers and have the magic number defined. > The compiled file must then be put into

Re: [GENERAL] PL/Python

2011-10-02 Thread Joe Abbate
Hi Sim, On 10/02/2011 08:02 AM, Sim Zacks wrote: > If I understand plpython correctly, it uses the python installed on the > machine. In other words, plpythonu doesn't support the new style > classes, it depends on what version of python is installed. Well, Python has had new style classes since

[GENERAL] PL/Python

2011-09-29 Thread Joe Abbate
Hi, I'm toying with the idea of making the Pyrseas utilities a true PostgreSQL extension. Currently, the utilities (dbtoyaml and yamltodb) rely on a library of Python functions: over 16 modules and 4000+ lines of code. The programs would remain as Python command line front-ends, but there would b

Re: [GENERAL] regclass and search_path

2011-03-17 Thread Joe Abbate
HI Tom, On 03/18/2011 12:42 AM, Joe Abbate wrote: For my immediate needs, the query was actually the target of a NOT IN subquery of a query against pg_index (trying to exclude tuples of indexes for UNIQUE constraints) and I've solved that by using conrelid in the subquery (and indrelid i

Re: [GENERAL] regclass and search_path

2011-03-17 Thread Joe Abbate
Hi Tom, On 03/18/2011 12:17 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Joe Abbate writes: I'm using this to validate a tool I'm building and I get an error on the following query: autodoc=> SELECT conname::regclass FROM pg_constraint autodoc->WHERE contype = '

[GENERAL] regclass and search_path

2011-03-17 Thread Joe Abbate
Hi, I'm using the autodoc regression database available at http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/autodoc/autodoc/regressdatabase.sql?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup This has several schemas that have cross-schema foreign key constraints such as the following: autodoc=> \d pr

[GENERAL] Web application development on Win32, deployment on Linux

2005-06-27 Thread Joe Abbate
I currently maintain a website which is deployed on LAMP, but it is developed on Windows (WAMP?). I'm considering moving both to use PostgreSQL. I'm curious as to whether others are following a similar development/deployment model and if so, what pitfalls/gotchas they have found. For example,