[GENERAL] Re: problems transfering databases

2001-08-24 Thread Rob Arnold
to the new installation, where they could cause real problems with any app that tries to use those fields, and a headache to debug. > - Original Message - > From: Rob Arnold > To: Jeff Eckermann ; Miroslav Koncar > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 2

[GENERAL] Re: pqReadData() - backend unexpectedly closed the channel

2001-03-12 Thread Rob Arnold
I can make this happen consistently with Perl DBI by placing a $dbh->disconnect() in the DESTROY subroutine of an object. I doubt the two issues have much in common, but there's my $.02. You might post to the list (not me, I'm ignorant) how you managed to make this happen. --rob - Original

[GENERAL] Re: concatenate 2 numeric columns..

2001-01-25 Thread Rob Arnold
The coalesce function can help with nulls. It takes a list of attributes or literals and returns the first non-null value. I use it like this: select coalesce(numeric_attrib, 0) from some_table; --rob - Original Message - From: "Bruno Wolff III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "postgresql" <[

[GENERAL] Re: VACUUM ANALYZE FAILS on 7.0.3

2001-01-24 Thread Rob Arnold
I had a machine with a bad CPU that did that, but I don't know that this is your case. Perhaps a bad index? Can you determine if only one table is the cause (i.e. Vacuum Analyze ). Anything in the logs? --rob - Original Message - From: "Dave Cramer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PRO