Re: [GENERAL] encode, lower and 0x8a

2007-01-29 Thread Michael Artz
On 1/27/07, Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:28:38PM -0500, Michael Artz wrote: > Perhaps my understanding of the 'encode' function is incorrect, but I > was under the impression that I could do something like: > > SELECT lower(e

[GENERAL] encode, lower and 0x8a

2007-01-25 Thread Michael Artz
Perhaps my understanding of the 'encode' function is incorrect, but I was under the impression that I could do something like: SELECT lower(encode(bytes, 'escape')) FROM mytable; as it sounded like (from the manual) that 'encode' would return valid ASCII, with all the non-ascii bytes hex escaped

Re: [GENERAL] bytea hex input/output

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Artz
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Michael Artz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:> Silly little question, but is there something to input/output hex> escaped data into a bytea, alaPQescapeBytea, perhaps?  The way you are doing it has multiple problems. regards, tom lane

[GENERAL] bytea hex input/output

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Artz
Silly little question, but is there something to input/output hex escaped data into a bytea, ala CREATE TABLE a (lob BYTEA); INSERT into a (lob) VALUES ('\x01\x02\x00\x03\x04'); INSERT into a (lob) VALUES ('\x01\x00\x02\x00\x03\x04'); It seems to work (doesn't error), but when selecting the data

Re: [GENERAL] Partitioning on ip4 datatype using <<=

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Artz
Forgot important part ... running on RHEL 4 Update 3 x86_64 using the 8.1.3 PG distributed in the RH Web Application Beta. SELECT version() PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC x86_64-redhat-linux-gcc (GCC) 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2) -Mike

[GENERAL] Partitioning on ip4 datatype using <<=

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Artz
I'm trying to partition my table on the first octet of an ip4 column and can't seem to get the planner to do the constraint_exclusion. The following SQL (copied by hand): CREATE TABLE a (ip ip4); CREATE TABLE a_1 ( CHECK (ip <<= '1.0.0.0/8' ) INHERITS(a); CREATE TABLE a_2 ( CHECK (ip <<= '2.0.0.0

Re: [GENERAL] Pass in variable from user???

2006-05-15 Thread Michael Artz
Use 'EXECUTE' to dynamically build SQL:http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN -MikeOn 13 May 2006 14:15:52 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Using PL/PGSQL, I am trying to create a procedure to display the count of

Re: [GENERAL] Cygwin psql with Windows native Postgres

2006-05-14 Thread Michael Artz
> The postmaster log might have something enlightening ... hmm, perhaps. I had a couple of these messages in there: postgresql-2006-05-14_105843.log:2006-05-14 11:01:34 LOG: could not receive data from client: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. however

[GENERAL] Cygwin psql with Windows native Postgres

2006-05-14 Thread Michael Artz
I thought I'd be clever and use the cygwin 'psql' client to connect to the Windows native PostgreSQL 8.1.3 running on the same box, since the the cygwin port feels more like home (keybindings). Unfortunately, I get the following message when connecting (after about a minute): $ psql -h 127.0.0.1

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: database "dspace" does not exist"

2006-05-04 Thread Michael Artz
I highly suggest reading the manuals, specifically the first link to the windows installation instructions: http://pginstaller.projects.postgresql.org/faq/FAQ_windows.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/index.html You are getting an error because either you entered in the wrong pas

Re: [GENERAL] FATAL: database "dspace" does not exist"

2006-05-03 Thread Michael Artz
How do you know that the database exists?  If you load up psql, and then \c dspace, does it let you?  If you \l in psql, do you see dspace?On 5/2/06, Christo Romberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hi!I have some problems with PostgreSQL v8.1.3.My system is Windows XP Professional Edition.An error occu

Re: [GENERAL] Disk Failure Scenarios

2006-04-27 Thread Michael Artz
> -Disk 2: If the transaction log dies, all changes since the last> checkpoint are lost, right?  Again, if I set up an empty pg_xlog > directory somewhere else, the DB should run just fine, right?No, because there's no way to know what state the data pages are in.Data may have made it to disk, may

[GENERAL] Disk Failure Scenarios

2006-04-26 Thread Michael Artz
(Sorry if this gets posted twice ... forgot that the list doesn't like new, unregistered email addresses) I'm setting up PG, and am curious about the failure scenarios of Postgres with respect to crashed disks.  In a given Postgres installation across many disks, which sections of Postgres can fai