Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and AMD?

2008-06-17 Thread John Tregea
this could be a black hole here. I note your comments about disk controllers and will investigate that area too for our next, larger, install. Thanks again and regards John Greg Smith wrote: On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, John Tregea wrote: The machines would be running Windows XP Pro (our clien

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL and AMD?

2008-06-15 Thread John Tregea
reSQL runs fine on the AMD platform and specifically does anyone have experience with the AMD Phenomâ„¢ Quad Core Processors 9600B. Thanks in advance John Tregea Technology Director Debraneys www.debraneys.com

Re: [GENERAL] Return the primary key of a newly inserted row?

2006-06-26 Thread John Tregea
Hi all, Thanks for the continued suggestions on this question. I will reply again once it is implemented and working. Kind regards John Alban Hertroys wrote: Scott Ribe wrote: You won't have duplicates[1], it's a sequence. It's its purpose. Now I may have missed something, I didn't follow

Re: [GENERAL] Return the primary key of a newly inserted row?

2006-06-23 Thread John Tregea
Scott, Ken and Tim, Thanks for the assistance, I appreciate the advice. Scott, The example of select id1 = nextval(somesequence) could work for me. I have multiple users with our GUI and imagine I could use transaction protection to ensure no duplicates between selecting and incrementing th

Re: [GENERAL] Return the primary key of a newly inserted row?

2006-06-21 Thread John Tregea
again. Regards John Tim Allen wrote: John Tregea wrote: Greeting again, I am writing records to postgreSQL from an IDE called revolution. At the time I perform the INSERT command I need to retrieve the value of the serial_id column from the newly created row. Is it possible to have a spec

Re: [GENERAL] Return the primary key of a newly inserted row?

2006-06-21 Thread John Tregea
Sorry, I just realised this should have gone to the SQL list... (Bloody Newbie's) :-[ John Tregea wrote: Greeting again, I am writing records to postgreSQL from an IDE called revolution. At the time I perform the INSERT command I need to retrieve the value of the serial_id column fro

[GENERAL] Return the primary key of a newly inserted row?

2006-06-21 Thread John Tregea
the number of rows affected) ? That would save me doing a SELECT select statement after every INSERT. Please excuse the terminology if it is not SQL'esque, but I hope you know what I am getting at. Thanks in advance John Tregea ---(end of broa

Re: [GENERAL] Help with storing spatial (map coordinates) data?

2006-06-12 Thread John Tregea
Hi Brent, Excellent advice, thanks for taking the time with what must be a fairly newbie question in GIS terms. I appreciate your help. Cheers John Brent Wood wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, John Tregea wrote: Thanks Brent, I will be cautious in my approach. The public schema is the

Re: [GENERAL] Help with storing spatial (map coordinates) data?

2006-06-12 Thread John Tregea
my reluctance to modify those tables with the necessary geometry functions, types etc. Regards John Brent Wood wrote: On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, John Tregea wrote: Hi Brent, I will look at postGIS today. I will try and keep the whole GIS functionality as a separate schema to avoid confusing

Re: [GENERAL] Help with storing spatial (map coordinates) data?

2006-06-12 Thread John Tregea
orer LLC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of John Tregea Sent: Sun 6/11/2006 11:18 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Cc: Subject:[GENERAL] Help with storing spatial (map coordinates) data? Hi, I have recently switched to PostgreSQL and had no problem

Re: [GENERAL] Help with storing spatial (map coordinates) data?

2006-06-12 Thread John Tregea
Hi Brent, I will look at postGIS today. I will try and keep the whole GIS functionality as a separate schema to avoid confusing myself, so a postGIS may be exactly what I am looking for. Thanks and regards John Brent Wood wrote: On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, John Tregea wrote: Hi, I have

Re: [GENERAL] Help with storing spatial (map coordinates) data?

2006-06-12 Thread John Tregea
hed on but will be used to put risk assessment matrices into the correct order along a supply chain. I will try as you suggest and look at the "cube" datatype Thanks for your fast reply. Regards John T Tino Wildenhain wrote: John Tregea schrieb: Hi, I have recently switched to P

[GENERAL] Help with storing spatial (map coordinates) data?

2006-06-11 Thread John Tregea
n for the GUI development and have only some general experience with SQL. Thanks in advance John Tregea ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend