Re: [GENERAL] logging hook

2014-05-13 Thread Susan Cassidy
You can log to syslog, and use the syslog definitions file (syslog.conf) to pipe the output to a program that can do whatever you want with it. Susan On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Alan Nilsson wrote: > All > > Is there a hook that someone could direct me to that I can use to redirect > logg

Re: [GENERAL] Could use some advice on search architecture

2014-04-18 Thread Susan Cassidy
First, I would not restrict color to 30 colors, if anything like furniture or clothing, etc. is involved. Colors are very important to consumers, and exact colors are important. I would re-think my color selections. Make sure you have indexes on all the appropriate columns, of course. Susan O

Re: [GENERAL] Re: any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-17 Thread Susan Cassidy
help. Susan On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Vincent Veyron < vincent.vey...@libremen.org> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 10:02:00 -0700 > Susan Cassidy wrote: > > > I moved the code in the function inline into the code, and I still cannot > > find the newly inserted i

Re: [GENERAL] Re: any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-17 Thread Susan Cassidy
2014 at 8:13 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > So any chance of a self-contained test case so we're not all chasing our > tails? > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Susan Cassidy > wrote: > > Except for the fact that I get the new id returned from the first insert, > >

Re: [GENERAL] Re: any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-17 Thread Susan Cassidy
Except for the fact that I get the new id returned from the first insert, which means that the insert probably did happen. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Alban Hertroys wrote: > On 17 Apr 2014, at 2:49, David G Johnston > wrote: > > > Robert DiFalco wrote > >> Two common cases I can

Re: [GENERAL] Re: any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-17 Thread Susan Cassidy
I suppose it's possible. I've never seen this behavior before, but I don't think I've ever used this same scenario before. It is slightly unusual. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Alban Hertroys wrote: > On 17 Apr 2014, at 2:49, David G Johnston > wrote: > > > Robert DiFalco wrote >

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-17 Thread Susan Cassidy
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 04/16/2014 05:24 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: > >> I marked it volatile, and still the next time I call the function after >> the first insert, using the previous new id as as input parameter, it >> still can't &q

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-17 Thread Susan Cassidy
No. One gets done automatically when the transaction fails, however. I can see it in the log. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Andy Colson wrote: > On 04/16/2014 07:06 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: > >> Yes, it is the same connection. It is all the same transaction.

Re: [GENERAL] Re: any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-17 Thread Susan Cassidy
No, I am doing: begin transaction Loop: Do some selects, including id on second iteration of the inserted id Do the insert (function call), which also does a select on an id. Save the newly inserted id for select on the next iteration. This id will be selected by the insert function on the next it

Re: [GENERAL] Re: any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-17 Thread Susan Cassidy
It is never committed, because the lookup for the insert fails. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:39 PM, David G Johnston < david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > Susan Cassidy-3 wrote > > Nor can any regular SELECTs in the main program find it. > > Ever? > > If

Re: [GENERAL] Re: any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-17 Thread Susan Cassidy
it be because the insert is done inside a function? >> >> Not by itself; but that factor could be interacting with something else to >> cause the observed behavior. As noted above functions are able to >> maintain >> their own "schema" environment so what is

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
r 16, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Susan Cassidy < susan.cass...@decisionsciencescorp.com> wrote: > It isn't marked as one of those as all, so whatever the default is. > > That could be it. I'll look up the default. > > Thanks, > Susan > > > On Wed, Apr 16, 20

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
It isn't marked as one of those as all, so whatever the default is. That could be it. I'll look up the default. Thanks, Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Susan Cassidy writes: > > It is a fairly large and complex Perl program, so no, not really.

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
It seems to be returning the right id. It should be next for the serial datatype. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Bosco Rama wrote: > On 04/16/14 17:08, Susan Cassidy wrote: > > The function does a select to see if the id number exists, and it fails. > > NOT FOUND

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
The function does a select to see if the id number exists, and it fails. NOT FOUND causes a RAISE EXCEPTION. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Susan Cassidy < susan.cass...@decisionsciencescorp.com> wrote: > It is a fairly large and complex Perl program, so no, not really. &g

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
teven Schlansker wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Susan Cassidy writes: > >> > Is there any way to let a transaction "see" the inserts that were done > >> > earlier in the transaction? > >&g

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
Yes, it is the same connection. It is all the same transaction. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:00 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 4/16/2014 4:53 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: > >> Well, it isn't working for me right now. It can't "see" a row that was >> inser

Re: [GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
Well, it isn't working for me right now. It can't "see" a row that was inserted earlier in the transaction. It is a new primary key, and when I SELECT it, it isn't found. Susan On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Susan Cassidy writes: &

[GENERAL] any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

2014-04-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
Is there any way to let a transaction "see" the inserts that were done earlier in the transaction? I want to insert a row, then later use it within the same transaction. If not, I will have to commit after each insert, and I don't want to do that until add the rows are added, if I can possibly av

[GENERAL] Problem with query

2014-04-11 Thread Susan Cassidy
I have a query with several joins, where I am searching for specific data in certain columns. If I do this: SELECT distinct on (s.description, st1.description, s.scene_id) s.description, s.scene_id, to_char(s.time_of_creation, 'MM/DD/YY HH24:MI:SS'), position_0_0_0_info, st.scene_thing_i

Re: [GENERAL] puzzling perl DBI vs psql problem

2014-03-13 Thread Susan Cassidy
c/functions-info.html for more > functions) > Do the same from your "psql". Compare the output. Are you 110% sure that > you are connecting to the same database, as the same user, and using the > same schema? > > > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 3:44 PM, S

Re: [GENERAL] puzzling perl DBI vs psql problem

2014-03-13 Thread Susan Cassidy
wrote: > On 03/13/2014 03:23 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: > >> The only one that comes out different is inet_server_addr, via the >> program, it comes out: >> ::1 >> whereas via psql it comes out empty. >> >> Yes, I am 100% sure I am using the same schema (which

Re: [GENERAL] puzzling perl DBI vs psql problem

2014-03-13 Thread Susan Cassidy
14:25 0:00 ps auxww 103a105 > scassidy 25360 0.0 0.0 103256 856 pts/2S+ 14:25 0:00 grep p Susan On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Rob Sargent wrote: > On 03/13/2014 02:44 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: > > No, I don't have 2 instances running. I default the port

Re: [GENERAL] puzzling perl DBI vs psql problem

2014-03-13 Thread Susan Cassidy
lez wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:28:38 -0700 > Susan Cassidy wrote: > > > No, it is connecting to localhost, which is the same system I am > > running psql on. > > > > Susan > > > Well, if one query is logged and the other one is not it means that it

Re: [GENERAL] puzzling perl DBI vs psql problem

2014-03-13 Thread Susan Cassidy
No, it is connecting to localhost, which is the same system I am running psql on. Susan On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Rodrigo Gonzalez wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:20:53 -0700 > Susan Cassidy wrote: > > > Another odd thing is that it is apparently not logging statement

Re: [GENERAL] puzzling perl DBI vs psql problem

2014-03-13 Thread Susan Cassidy
oddity. The identical test database is working fine. Only this database is giving me trouble. Naturally the "live" database is causing problems. Susan On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Susan Cassidy writes: > > I have a weird issue that I can't figu

Re: [GENERAL] puzzling perl DBI vs psql problem

2014-03-13 Thread Susan Cassidy
# special values: Could it have something to do with permissions on /var/log/postgresql? It is writeable by root only. The perl program runs under apache. Susan On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Steve Atkins wrote: > > On Mar 13, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Susan Cassidy &l

[GENERAL] puzzling perl DBI vs psql problem

2014-03-13 Thread Susan Cassidy
I have a weird issue that I can't figure out. If I run the exact same query through psql as through perl DBI, I get different results. I get far fewer results with DBI than through the psql command line. Any ideas why that would be? The query is: SELECT st.description, st.scene_thing_instan

Re: [GENERAL] another trigger problem

2014-03-07 Thread Susan Cassidy
3:18 PM, Rob Sargent wrote: > On 03/07/2014 04:06 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > >> On 03/07/2014 02:48 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: >> >>> I have another problem with a slightly different trigger. It's very >>> weird, because it is exactly the same as the firs

[GENERAL] another trigger problem

2014-03-07 Thread Susan Cassidy
I have another problem with a slightly different trigger. It's very weird, because it is exactly the same as the first trigger, that now works, except for the table name. The error is: ERROR: query string argument of EXECUTE is null CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function metric_int_insert_func() line 5 at

[GENERAL] problem with trigger function

2014-03-06 Thread Susan Cassidy
I'm having a problem with a trigger function. I've been googling for over an hour, with no luck with my specific problem. I get this error: ERROR: missing FROM-clause entry for table "new" LINE 1: insert into metric_double_values_201203 values (NEW.metricID...

[GENERAL] why does documentation use "END CASE" when that doesn't work

2014-02-25 Thread Susan Cassidy
The documentation says: CASE search-expression WHEN expression [, expression [ ... ]] THEN statements [ WHEN expression [, expression [ ... ]] THEN statements ... ] [ ELSE statements ] END CASE; And it repeats the "END CASE" phrase in other examples. However, that d

Re: [GENERAL] problem with query and group by error

2014-02-21 Thread Susan Cassidy
error in the first place. Someone said something about "Yes, except those that are inside the aggregate." but I don't have an aggregate specified. Susan On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Susan Cassidy > wrote: &g

[GENERAL] problem with query and group by error

2014-02-21 Thread Susan Cassidy
I have a large query: SELECT distinct on (srs.scan_run_id) srs.scan_run_id, srs.run_request_number, srs.container_id, srs.manifest_id, srs.scan_system_name_id, srs.scan_site_name_id, srs.scan_site_nickname_id, to_char(srs.start_time, 'MM/DD/YY HH24:MI:SS'), to_char(srs.stop_time, '

Re: [GENERAL] way to custom sort column by fixed strings, then by field's content

2014-02-03 Thread Susan Cassidy
Works great, thanks a bunch. Susan On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Rob Sargent wrote: > On 02/03/2014 01:01 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: > > description| description > ---+- > 18 cm long wrench | Scene 1 > absolute root | > blue s

Re: [GENERAL] way to custom sort column by fixed strings, then by field's content

2014-02-03 Thread Susan Cassidy
e 1 blue screwdriver | Scene 1 red toolbox | Scene 1 small wrench | Scene 1 tire | Scene 2 (9 rows) On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 02/03/2014 12:01 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: > > CCing the list. > > This didn't sort the way I wa

Re: [GENERAL] way to custom sort column by fixed strings, then by field's content

2014-02-03 Thread Susan Cassidy
| Scene 2 On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 02/03/2014 10:53 AM, Susan Cassidy wrote: > >> I have a column that contains items like >> 'absolute root' >> 'root 3' >> 'root 4' >> 'root 5

[GENERAL] way to custom sort column by fixed strings, then by field's content

2014-02-03 Thread Susan Cassidy
I have a column that contains items like 'absolute root' 'root 3' 'root 4' 'root 5' 'scene 1' 'scene 2' 'scene 3' and I would like them to sort in that order. I tried: select sti.description, sc.description from scene_thing_instances sti join scenes sc on sti.scene_id = sc.scene_id order by CAS

Re: [GENERAL] problem with grant all privileges

2014-01-28 Thread Susan Cassidy
It turns out IT screwed something up when they installed 9.2. The actual server/client running is still pointing to 8.4. Thanks, guys. Susan On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Susan Cassidy writes: > > This is 9.2 > > I'd bet a very good dinner that it

Re: [GENERAL] problem with grant all privileges

2014-01-27 Thread Susan Cassidy
This is 9.2 On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Adrian Klaver writes: > > On 01/27/2014 01:45 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: > >> I tried: > >> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA public TO testuser; > >> and I get: > >> ER

[GENERAL] problem with grant all privileges

2014-01-27 Thread Susan Cassidy
I tried: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA public TO testuser; and I get: ERROR: syntax error at or near "ALL" LINE 1: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA public TO te... also the same thing for tables, with the same results. Am I misinterpreting the syntax for this?

Re: [GENERAL] problem connecting to postgres via apache

2014-01-24 Thread Susan Cassidy
I tried: setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1 But I get: Cannot set persistent booleans without managed policy. Could not change policy booleans I don't know what that means. Susan On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 01/24/2014 09:35 AM, Susan Cassi

Re: [GENERAL] problem connecting to postgres via apache

2014-01-24 Thread Susan Cassidy
rights to execute the perl code? > > Try disabling SELinux.. > You'll get it.. > > On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 09:35 -0800, Susan Cassidy wrote: > > I've already checked that. It is enabled. I am running Scientific > > Linux. > > > > > > > &g

Re: [GENERAL] problem connecting to postgres via apache

2014-01-24 Thread Susan Cassidy
:28 AM, Tom Lane > <mailto:t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>> wrote: >> >> Susan Cassidy > <mailto:susan.cass...@decisionsciencescorp.com>> writes: >> > $dbh = >> DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname;host=${dbserver};port=$dbport;&q

Re: [GENERAL] problem connecting to postgres via apache

2014-01-24 Thread Susan Cassidy
I've already checked that. It is enabled. I am running Scientific Linux. On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Susan Cassidy writes: > > $dbh = > DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname;host=${dbserver};port=$dbport;", > > $dbuser, $dbpasswd) or

Re: [GENERAL] problem connecting to postgres via apache

2014-01-24 Thread Susan Cassidy
2014 at 3:08 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 01/23/2014 02:55 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: > >> I'm having a problem connecting to postgres via a CGI program. I can >> connect just fine using the same connect string in a non-cgi perl >> program as in the perl cgi program. The er

[GENERAL] problem connecting to postgres via apache

2014-01-23 Thread Susan Cassidy
I'm having a problem connecting to postgres via a CGI program. I can connect just fine using the same connect string in a non-cgi perl program as in the perl cgi program. The error I get is this: ERROR: Unable to connect to dbname testdb2, err: could not connect to server: Permission denied Is t

Re: [GENERAL] Fully-automatic streaming replication failover when master dies?

2014-01-23 Thread Susan Cassidy
pgpool-II may do what you want. Lots of people use it. On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Dmitry Koterov wrote: > Hello. > > I googled 1 hour approximately, but have not found a ready solution for > this. So maybe this feature is in PostgreSQL todo-list, or something > similar exists somewhere...

Re: [GENERAL] Prepared statements and cursors

2014-01-23 Thread Susan Cassidy
Sorry, answered wrong posting. On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Andreas Lubensky wrote: > Hello, > When implementing a database backend with libpq I realized that it seems > to be impossible to declare a cursor on a prepared statement. Is this > correct? What is the reason for this limitation? >

Re: [GENERAL] Prepared statements and cursors

2014-01-23 Thread Susan Cassidy
pgpool-II may do what you want. On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Andreas Lubensky wrote: > Hello, > When implementing a database backend with libpq I realized that it seems > to be impossible to declare a cursor on a prepared statement. Is this > correct? What is the reason for this limitation?

Re: [GENERAL] CREATE EXTENSION does not seem to work in 9.2

2014-01-22 Thread Susan Cassidy
rrors went away. Susan On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 01/21/2014 02:51 PM, Susan Cassidy wrote: > >> When I tried to do CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS >> /usr/pgsql-9.2/share/extension/plpgsql.control with schema public; >> >> it ga

[GENERAL] CREATE EXTENSION does not seem to work in 9.2

2014-01-21 Thread Susan Cassidy
When I tried to do CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS /usr/pgsql-9.2/share/extension/plpgsql.control with schema public; it gave me ERROR: syntax error at or near "EXTENSION" CREATE LANGUAGE worked just fine. I only tried CREATE EXTENSION because the manual said that CREATE LANGUAGE was deprecated.

Re: [GENERAL] Any freeware graphic display of DDL software available?

2014-01-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
What are the "dot" lines for? They don't seem to work on my Linux installation. I tried adding them to the initial line, and I see no .pdf output. I just see: Producing testdb.dia from /usr/share/postgresql_autodoc/dia.tmpl Producing testdb.dot from /usr/share/postgresql_autodoc/dot.tmpl Produ

Re: [GENERAL] Any freeware graphic display of DDL software available?

2014-01-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
It doesn't appear that DBVisualizer does an ER type diagram, which is what I really need. Thanks, Susan On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Bartosz Dmytrak wrote: > Hi, > > try DBVisualizer > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Bartek >

[GENERAL] Any freeware graphic display of DDL software available?

2014-01-16 Thread Susan Cassidy
Is there any free or cheap software that will read in DDL and output a graphic display of it? Preferably showing links for foreign keys. I know about Erwin, but it is too expensive. Thanks, Susan

Re: [GENERAL] When starting postgres, it hangs like it is still connected to stdout

2014-01-07 Thread Susan Cassidy
The initdb command said I could use that command, but pg_ctl works fine now. I should have tried that before. I have always used pg_ctl in the past, don't know why I just went with the postgres command. Thanks, Susan On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Shaun Thomas wrote: > > When I start postgr

[GENERAL] When starting postgres, it hangs like it is still connected to stdout

2014-01-07 Thread Susan Cassidy
When I start postgres using postgres -D $PGDATA, it hangs, and I see that postgres and all the other attendant processes are running, but I never get my prompt back. If I hit ctl/C, postgres ends running. I can't seem to figure out why. This is postgres 9.2. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, Susa

[GENERAL] problem with initdb

2014-01-07 Thread Susan Cassidy
I ran an initdb, but got a message that the Encoding I specified was invalid, so I tried to run it again, and now I get: initdb: directory "/var/lib/pgsql/data" exists but is not empty If you want to create a new database system, either remove or empty the directory "/var/lib/pgsql/data" or run in

Re: [GENERAL] problem with distinct not distincting...

2012-10-17 Thread Susan Cassidy
I see you have the length included. Perhaps, UTF8 characters in one and ascii in the other? Susan -Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Susan Cassidy Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:27 AM To: John Beynon

Re: [GENERAL] problem with distinct not distincting...

2012-10-17 Thread Susan Cassidy
Are you sure that one of those entries doesn't have a trailing space? Susan -Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of John Beynon Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:48 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject:

Re: [GENERAL] windows 2008 scheduled task problem

2012-02-06 Thread Susan Cassidy
See my reply below: From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Ralph Dell Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 8:26 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] windows 2008 scheduled task problem I am running postgresql 8.4.3/ postgis

Re: [GENERAL] SQL function and input variables

2011-09-21 Thread Susan Cassidy
You can do something like: DECLARE p ALIAS FOR $1; in the function, if you want. Susan -Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Martín Marqués Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 6:09 AM To: Thomas Kellerer C

Re: [GENERAL] Backend process that won't die

2011-09-06 Thread Susan Cassidy
-Original Message- > From: Tom Lane [mailto:t...@sss.pgh.pa.us] > Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 9:57 AM > To: Susan Cassidy > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Backend process that won't die > Susan Cassidy writes: >> I have

[GENERAL] Backend process that won't die

2011-09-06 Thread Susan Cassidy
I have a couple of backend processes that are "stuck", and do not respond to a pg_cancel_backend. This is PostgreSQL 8.3.5. The pg_cancel_backend returns true, but the process keeps running. I have also done a "kill 12345" from the command-line, with no effect. The processes are running a "s

Re: [GENERAL] SQL-ASCII database cleanup

2011-07-21 Thread Susan Cassidy
Use the Encode module to test/convert back and forth between UTF8 characters and bytes for the SQL ASCII database. Assuming the input is already UTF-8: use Encode qw(:all); # connect to db, prepare insert statement, etc. my $bytes = encode('utf8', $utf8_text); $sth->execute($bytes, $i) or er

Re: [GENERAL] Error Importing CSV File

2011-07-15 Thread Susan Cassidy
There seems to be no reason it should be looking for an integer, if your table definition as shown is correct. You don't have any integers listed. Also, why does it think that the column id is 96799? Stupid question, but are you logged into the right database? Maybe a different db has a diffe

Re: [GENERAL] Error Importing CSV File

2011-07-15 Thread Susan Cassidy
The default quote character is ", so I believe it is expecting quotes to be around text fields. That is the norm for CSV files. Susan -Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Nelson Sent: Friday, July 15,

Re: [GENERAL] Read MS-SQL data into Postgres via ODBC link?

2011-07-05 Thread Susan Cassidy
>From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org >[mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Brinkman >Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 7:48 AM >To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org >Cc: 'Brent Wood' >Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Read MS-SQL data into Postgres via ODBC link? > >Thanks >I'm impor

Re: [GENERAL] { SELECT *->NOT(column1, column2) FROM table } syntax idea

2011-06-15 Thread Susan Cassidy
Wouldn't it be easy enough to write a little program to suck in the column names from the information schema, and output the CREATE VIEW statement, excluding all the columns you want to exclude? Then, if the tables have changed, just run the program, let it fetch the information from the inform

Re: [GENERAL] Remove Modifiers on Table

2011-05-17 Thread Susan Cassidy
sequence nextval as default, unless the sequence has been told what value to start with, it will start at 1. Per the documentation: SELECT setval('users_id_seq', 42); -- Next nextval (insert) will return 43 Susan Cassidy -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@po

Re: [GENERAL] Remove Modifiers on Table

2011-05-17 Thread Susan Cassidy
Don't forget to use setval to set the current value of the sequence to the highest number used in the data already, so that the next insertion uses a new, unused value. Susan Cassidy -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscri

[GENERAL] revoke permissions - not working as expected

2011-03-30 Thread Susan Cassidy
OK, I must be doing something wrong. I'm trying to create a user with only limited access to certain tables. The db is large, complicated, and has tons of users with some complex interactions of permission using groups, etc. I don't dare revoke any exist permissions, for fear of messing up a

Re: [GENERAL] postgres conferences missing videos?

2011-03-22 Thread Susan Cassidy
Personally, I vastly prefer written information to video. I can read far faster than someone can read/explain something to me. Plus, it is easier to refer back to. Susan -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.po

Re: [GENERAL] constraining chars for all cols of a table

2011-02-18 Thread Susan Cassidy
> From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org > [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Gauthier, Dave > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 1:24 PM > To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Subject: [GENERAL] constraining chars for all cols of a table > Hi: > I have to constrain the chars

Re: [GENERAL] OOO and postgres

2011-01-07 Thread Susan Cassidy
Per the error message, you need to enclose array values in braces. For example, something like: INSERT into "Bladetypes" ("ID", "type"), values ('1', '{"Knife"}'); -Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Bernha

Re: [GENERAL] Defining a Connection String in Windows XP

2010-12-13 Thread Susan Cassidy
>Ray, > >Thank you for responding. OK, that was my first trip into DSN setup >and I got lost: >The first step is to choose and existing MS driver for an Office app >or 'Add' one from this 'User DSN' tab. The other tabs are: >System dSN, File DSN, Drivers, Tracing, and Connection Pooling. >I did n

Re: [GENERAL] how do i count() similar items

2010-09-08 Thread Susan Cassidy
Use a CASE statement? something like: select case WHEN os ~* E'^windows' then 'windows' WHEN os ~* E'server' then 'server' WHEN os ~* E'nix$' then '*nix' else 'other' end as osval, count(*) from os_tbl group by osval order by osval; The hard part is making sure your regexes cover al

[GENERAL] weird empty return from select problem; periodically get no data returned - could it be a network issue?

2010-07-08 Thread Susan Cassidy
I have a number of Perl programs of similar form to this: $dbh=DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname;host=${dbserver};", $dbuser, $dbpasswd, {PrintError => 0, PrintWarn => 0, AutoCommit => $autocommit}) or errexit( "Unable to connect to dbname $dbname, err: $DBI::errstr"); errexit("No d

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger for modification timestamp column

2010-07-07 Thread Susan Cassidy
Can't you check it using something like this: IF OLD.modified = NEW.modified THEN NEW.modified = NOW(); END IF; RETURN NEW; Susan -Original Message- From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Johan Andersson Sent: Wednesday, July 0

[GENERAL] question about log entry from trigger execution

2010-05-05 Thread Susan Cassidy
I have a database I inherited with a number of triggers defined on various tables. One AFTER trigger, when executed, causes a database log entry with a "CONTEXT" entry, but no ERROR. I normally only see the CONTEXT entries when an ERROR occurs. The trigger is on table rbs, and it returns NULL

[GENERAL] Before update trigger causing another after trigger to fire, returning NULL, causing before trigger to not update - does this make sense?

2010-04-06 Thread Susan Cassidy
Hi, I was trying to update certain columns in a table, but the update never took place, but did not throw an exception. I investigated the code in the 'before update' trigger, and put in some RAISE NOTICE statements. I could then see that another update of the same table was happening, too, b