Re: [GENERAL] Perl and Postgres

2003-11-02 Thread Will Trillich
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:10:03PM +, Edwin Quijada wrote: > Where can I find examples to accesing postgres with perl. if you have DBD::Pg and DBI, check out their respective manpages. that's the easy way to get into postgres from perl. as far as having perl available from inside postgres, c

Re: [GENERAL] "user"

2001-10-16 Thread will trillich
Marshall Spight wrote: > "Daniel Åkerud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > 007101c13b96$834e8960$c901a8c0@automatic100">news:007101c13b96$834e8960$c901a8c0@automatic100... > > > > Anyway I called it "uzer" now. Maybe usr is better... users is out of the > > question since table names are supp

[GENERAL] binding tcp connections to certain addresses

2001-10-16 Thread will trillich
i'm trying to get postgresql to listen on 127.0.0.1:5432, 192.168.1.1:5432 but not on xx.yy.zz.qq:5432 -- from the admin guide i see: VIRTUAL_HOST (string) Specifies the TCP/IP hostname or address on which the postmaster is to listen for connections from c

Re: [GENERAL] !! Newbie question!!!! connecting to multiple databases

2001-09-05 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:53:00PM +, uncleleo wrote: > I am attemping to create multiple databases with Postgresql ver. 7.0.3 > running on Mandrake 8.0 rpm. The tool that I am using is Pgadmin ver 7.1.0. > > Can someone tell me how I can connect to different databases in a single > select s

[GENERAL] perl: $sth->{TYPE} ...?

2001-09-05 Thread will trillich
in looking for a way to abstract the generation of formatting methods based on field type (dates=center & formatted; numerics right-flush; text left-flush, etc) for web pages i've run into a gap i don't know how to close: using perl (5.005_03) and DBI (1.13, which refers to DBD/Pg

Re: [GENERAL] Indexes

2001-09-05 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:44:56AM +0200, Stan wrote: > How can I change the sequence of characters in PostgreSQL character indexes create index some_ix on some_tbl ( substr(some_fld,3,1) || substr(some_other_fld,12,5) ); but if you look hard enough, you'll usually find a better model by

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Syntax for wildcard selection

2001-08-22 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:11:28PM -0700, Scott Holmes wrote: > It would seem that my database has unseen garbage in the field being queried. > On further testing I find that > > select * > from people > where peopcode LIKE 'AB%AH%' > order by peopcode; > > works, however > > select * > f

Re: [GENERAL] Printable report generation

2001-08-22 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:25:35AM +0200, Tony Grant wrote: > > > > For example, say I've got a postgresql database of client information > > > (names, addresses, etc.), and I want to use this information to generate > > > envelopes for mailouts. As far as my understanding goes, such > > > funct

[GENERAL] openlinksw odbc vs. postgresql on linux ??

2001-07-30 Thread will trillich
on Technology Providers -Original Message- From: will trillich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 24 July 2001 06:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: hmm. stage one of four -- where's the rest? i'm hoping to install your odbc connection package so my os 8.1 powermac can connect to my debian

[GENERAL] RULE vs TRIGGER

2001-07-29 Thread will trillich
i have a solution using RULES and PLGPSQL functions (instead of triggers) for insert-unless-found, using perl lingo: # perlish pseudoCode unless (select(tbl.fld == val)) { insert tbl.fld = val }; i'd love to hear the skinny on why the following is a bad idea, which i presume it i

Re: [GENERAL] Errors in logs

2001-07-18 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:06:33PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Seems to usually happen during vacuums. Should I be worried? > > Nope. You're just watching VACUUM notify the other backends that it's > moving system catalog entries around. this

[GENERAL] cron do.maintenance: "RegisterSharedInvalid,InvalidateSharedInvalid"

2001-07-18 Thread will trillich
Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ -x /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance ] && /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance -a X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: X-Cron-Env: Sender: CronDaemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 04:00:33 -0500 NOTICE: RegisterSharedInvalid: SI buffer

Re: [GENERAL] psql -l

2001-07-18 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:57:35AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > $ psql -V > > No database specified > > This seems awfully fishy, since (a) there is no such error message > anywhere in 7.1, and (b) I don't get that be

Re: [GENERAL] psql -l

2001-07-17 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:26:02PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > will trillich writes: > > > in the old days (7.0.3) i could list databases via > > > > psql -l > > > > but these days (7.1) i must > > > > psql -l [-d] nameOfADatabaseFrom

Re: [GENERAL] bit operations

2001-07-17 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 02:56:06PM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > From: "Johan Björk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Have a little problem with bit operaitions that I cannot find the answer > to on the Internet. Have been searching through the archives but no result. > > > > In MySQL you can have a IN

[GENERAL] 7.1 docs -- "create table"?

2001-07-01 Thread will trillich
after upgrading from 7.0.3 to 7.1 i find some snags in the indexing and 'references' -- ERROR: UNIQUE constraint matching given keys for referenced table "d_language" not found so i try going to /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/user to find the 'create table' documentation... where exactly

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2001-06-29 Thread will trillich
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:56:56PM +0530, Kapil Tilwani wrote: > Though I found extensive documentation on the Postgres > web-site for Postgres, where can I get a similarly extensive > docket for Linux... please... including how to make linux > behave as a server for Windows clients... remember, t

Re: [GENERAL] Complicated query... is there a simpler way?

2001-06-29 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 02:24:24AM +0100, Ryan Mahoney wrote: > *Disclaimer* - me sleepy, no guarantee of intelligebility or relevence ;) > > First thing that strikes me is that you should use varchar datatype for > almost all of your fields with the exception of the body within posts. > > If I

Re: [GENERAL] newbie primary key problem

2001-06-21 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 05:33:02PM +0100, Dan wrote: > Hello, > > I have a small php script to log web access that writes to a psql database. > The error I get everytime I do a refresh is: > Warning: PostgreSQL query failed: ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into > unique index session_pkey in

Re: [GENERAL] Moving rows to another database

2001-06-21 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:18:40AM +0100, Mark wrote: > How would I go about moving or copying data between databases on the same > server, without actually doing a dump ? Using an SQL statement, > something like: > > SELECT dbase_a.sometable.somefield > INTO dbase_b.sometable > FROM dbase_a

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Newbie question: How to check how many tables avaliable at that database?

2001-06-21 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:25:46PM +0200, Nils Zonneveld wrote: > > > Carfield Yim wrote: > > > > I am a new user of PostgreSQL dbms, how can I check how many tables > > avaliable at that database? > > To get a list of tables through SQL: > > SELECT tablename FROM pg_tables WHERE tablename N

Re: [GENERAL] OT: Apache::Session::DBI vs postgresql? --help

2001-06-18 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 12:41:57AM -0400, Alex Pilosov wrote: > Actually, I just tried your original example, and it worked for me: > use Apache::Session::Postgres; > > #if you want Apache::Session to open new DB handles: > > tie %hash, 'Apache::Session::Postgres', $id, {

Re: [GENERAL] OT: Apache::Session::DBI vs postgresql? --help

2001-06-18 Thread will trillich
Alex Pilosov wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, will trillich wrote: > > > the manpages for Apache::Session::DBI still say that it > > uses Apache::Session::DBIStore for its grunt work. whereas > You still have the old manpages (and probably old scripts). > CPAN's

Re: [GENERAL] template1, can there be a template2/3/4?

2001-06-06 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:16:40AM -0400, Jim Mercer wrote: > would it be possible for me to create a template2 and have some arbitrary > database use it instead of template1? > > the reason i ask this is that it would be useful to have something to the > effect of: > > database access startup f

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Updating views

2001-06-06 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:17:00AM +0200, Rasmus Resen Amossen wrote: > > Problem is not 'where'. Views in Postgresql doesn't allows you insert, > > update or delete unless you define especila rules that explain Postgresql > > what to do in each case. > > Look Postgresql programming manual. Yo

[GENERAL] Re: *** Newbie Question About PostgreSQL ***

2001-05-30 Thread will trillich
get install postgresql-doc) the objects you can grant and revoke priviliges from tables, but not databases. you can specity 'public' meaning "everyone at large that's not specifically mentioned in a contrary access rule" but it looks like you'll need to iterate for each

[GENERAL] more-than-one-SERIAL column per table

2001-05-09 Thread will trillich
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:59:31AM +0200, Morten Primdahl wrote: > > \d tbl_c_id_seq > > > > if it is not there, you can create it yourself > > Thanks, the sequence was not there. Just puzzled me that > when creating tbl_c, I get: > > test=# CREATE TABLE tbl_c > (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, > da

Re: [GENERAL] Re: SQL Where Like - Range it?!

2001-05-02 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:11:21AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Always remember that the cost estimates quoted by EXPLAIN are estimates, > not reality. > > In this case the reason for the difference is that the planner doesn't > have any detailed understanding of the semantics of bracket-expressions

Re: [GENERAL] Re: crypt(table.field) ?

2001-04-28 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:04:18PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >Care to explain -- in terms a Debian newbie might grok -- what > > >"contrib/pgcrypto" means? > > > > Peter

Re: [GENERAL] crypt(table.field) ?

2001-04-26 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:20:53PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > will trillich writes: > > > i know "password" can be used in creating/altering user > > information (as used via GRANT and REVOKE) but is there any > > facility within postgres to CRYPT() a va

Re: [GENERAL] Seral field value after INSERT !

2001-04-26 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:32:07AM +0200, Berényi Gábor wrote: > I have been inserting records into a table using the SQL insert statement. > One of the field types is serial, and I have been > trying to figure out how to get the value that was assigned in the field as > a result of the insert. Th

[GENERAL] crypt(table.field) ?

2001-04-26 Thread will trillich
i know "password" can be used in creating/altering user information (as used via GRANT and REVOKE) but is there any facility within postgres to CRYPT() a value? create rule new_folk as on insert to view_folk do instead insert into folk_table (create

Re: [GENERAL] Re: BETWEEN clause

2001-04-24 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:07:41AM -0400, Joel Burton wrote: > On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Paul Tomblin wrote: > > > Is the "BETWEEN" clause inclusive or exclusive? ie if I say "WHERE > > latitude BETWEEN 45 and 55", will I get examples where the latitude equals > > 45 or not? Also, is "latitude BETWE

Re: [GENERAL] Var substitution in SELECT statements

2001-04-24 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:41:51PM -0400, Randall Perry wrote: > on 4/23/01 9:20 PM, Randall Perry at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This works: > > $res = $conn->exec("select cust, contact, user_name, email from $t where > > user_name = a1a"); > > > > This doesn't: > > $c = "a1a"; > > $res =

Re: [GENERAL] corrupted database?

2001-04-18 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:01:21PM +0300, P. A. Bagyenda wrote: > I am in the middle of a rather nasty experience that I hope > someone out there can help solve. > > My hard disk partition with the postgres data directory got > full. I tried to shut down postgres so I could clear some > space

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with function invocation

2001-04-17 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 03:43:23PM +0200, DaVinci wrote: > Hello. > > When I create next function: > > create function pilpot() returns integer as ' > declare > foo integer; > begin > foo = insert into aviso(user) va

Re: [GENERAL] bpchar type

2001-04-17 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:39:50PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Patrick Dunford writes: > > > Zeos Database Explorer shows the type of these fields to be "bpchar", is > > this a Postgres data type? > > bpchar is the internal name for char(). short for "blank-padded character". as opposed to

Re: [GENERAL] Help on PGSQL

2001-04-14 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:28:29PM +0530, Masood Rezvi wrote: > We are a firm of web developers in Lucknow, India. We are new > to PGSQL but have this database on the webserver (Apache > running on Linux Red Hat). We need help on learning PGSQL > information on tutorials and also to know whether i

Re: [GENERAL] Order in CREATE VIEW

2001-04-14 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:25:24AM +0200, Marcin Wasilewski wrote: > hello everybody, > Can you help me? > > I have POSTGRESQL 7.0.3, > I try to create simple view by typing. > > create view "xx" as select "aa.yy", "bb.yy" from "yy" order by "bb.yy" > > the problem is that parameter order is no

Re: [GENERAL] function to operate on same fields, different records?

2001-04-12 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 02:02:51PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:21:34AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Inheritance seems to work for this in current sources: > > > > regression=# create table p1 (f1 int); > > CREATE > > regression=# crea

Re: [GENERAL] personel appliactions?

2001-04-10 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:42:13PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote: > I have been suing PostgreSQL quite happily in projects for > several years now. i have the smae porbelm -- you might wnat to solw down wehn you tyep your email msesaegs. Suing is quite different from Using. :) -- americans should n

Re: [GENERAL] Virtual domains ?

2001-04-09 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 05:41:54PM +0300, Kris Van Hulle wrote: > On 3 Apr 2001, at 10:31, Tom Lane wrote: > > > "Kris Van Hulle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Does PostgreSQL have support for virtual domains ? > > > > In 7.1 you can configure the postmaster to bind only to one specific IP >

Re: [GENERAL] Views and default values

2001-04-09 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:26:39PM +0200, DaVinci wrote: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 12:24:09PM +0100, Michael Ansley wrote: > > >> Data Base: > > >> > > >> create table foo ( > > >> cod serial primary key, > > >> explication text, > > >>

Re: [GENERAL] Re: information on users

2001-04-09 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 05:44:28AM -0400, Joel Burton wrote: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Nick T wrote: > > I see that we can add users and delete or drop users. As the database > > administrator, I'd like to be able to view all of the users and all of the > > information about them. Couldn't find out

Re: [GENERAL] function to operate on same fields, different records?

2001-04-02 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:21:34AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > i've tried > > create function gpa(OPAQUE) > > and psql tells me it successfully > > CREATED > > something, but > >

Re: [GENERAL] function to operate on same fields, different records?

2001-03-30 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:34:45PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:40:13PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > even using PLPGSQL, is it possible to send VARYING relation > > tuples to a procedure/function -- so long as the attributes > > (fields) munge

Re: [GENERAL] plperl -- postgresql married to perl

2001-03-30 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:02:27PM -0800, Soma Interesting wrote: > At 06:47 PM 3/30/2001 -0600, you wrote: > > > I may be able to use array's if postgres will allow using variables to > > > reference points in the array. > > > OK, so how do I reference a specific element of an array in a record

Re: [GENERAL] dynamic field names in a function.

2001-03-30 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 12:42:29AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Soma Interesting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In the following, is there something I can do so that postgres will > > evaluate NEW.qty to NEW.name, treating qty as a variable and evaluating it > > before evaluating the field referenc

[GENERAL] plperl -- postgresql married to perl

2001-03-30 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 04:39:21PM -0800, Soma Interesting wrote: > At 05:47 PM 3/30/2001 -0600, you wrote: > >HOWEVER -- we do have arrays, don't forget... sometimes they can > >be bent to do more than intended (but usually not!) > > > > create table mailing( > > person_id

Re: [GENERAL] Re: function to operate on same fields, different records?

2001-03-30 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:27:39AM -0500, Gregory Wood wrote: > > SELECT sum(grade) / count(grade) As GPA FROM grades; > > (bad juju if 0) > > No kidding... that kid totally failed ALL his classes! And before someone > points it out, yes I saw the DBZ. dbz? -- does a

Re: [GENERAL] function to operate on same fields, different records?

2001-03-30 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 06:05:04PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:17:29PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > is this kind of thing possible---? > > > > select gpa(student) from student where id=7121; > > select gpa(course)

Re: [GENERAL] dynamic field names in a function.

2001-03-30 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:57:42AM -0800, Soma Interesting wrote: > In the following, is there something I can do so that postgres will > evaluate NEW.qty to NEW.name, treating qty as a variable and evaluating it > before evaluating the field reference? At this time it errors on an INSERT > wit

Re: [GENERAL] inconsistent functionality with LIKE operator

2001-03-29 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:25:30AM +, Phuong Ma wrote: > I'm using PostgreSQL version 7.1, and I'm having trouble with the LIKE > statement. How would I find the value "a\bc"? I tried using the > backslash to escape it: LIKE 'a\\b%'; > > If I specify: LIKE 'a\\bc', then it works, but if I w

Re: Fwd: Re: [GENERAL] timestamp/function question

2001-03-29 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:46:42PM -0800, Soma Interesting wrote: > > >blah blah blah > > > >...and that all meant what? The postgres manual is open to much > >interpretation to anyone new trying to understand its contents. Combine > >that with documentation that's still not written, or broken

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Patch (tiny): \cd (change dir) for psql.

2001-03-27 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:52:05AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:07:37 + (UTC), Mark Hamby > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >Here's a patch for a \cd (change dir) command in psql program. > > >It's very small and only adds a few lines. > > >Personally, I

Re: [GENERAL] Supertypes?

2001-03-27 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 03:58:39PM +0200, Christian Marschalek wrote: > > Pg DOES support it! > Oh... My fault :o) > > > However, it doesn't really have anything > > to do with data redundancy. Data redundancy means storing > > the same DATA in more than one table meaning that if it > > change

Re: [GENERAL] Free PostgreSQL Database Hosting - Needs Beta Testers

2001-03-26 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:18:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 26 Mar 2001, at 3:42, Gary Huntress wrote: > > > I am looking for PostgreSQL users to beta test the following free database > > hosting service: > > > > http://superid.dyndns.org:8080/freesql/index.php > > > > I've done

Re: [GENERAL] Free PostgreSQL Database Hosting - Needs Beta Testers

2001-03-26 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:42:43AM +, Gary Huntress wrote: > I am looking for PostgreSQL users to beta test the following free database > hosting service: > > http://superid.dyndns.org:8080/freesql/index.php > > I've done a fair amount of testing myself, but I need a few more people to >

[GENERAL] currval -- per session -- UNDERSTOOD!

2001-03-24 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:28:24PM -0500, Gregory Wood wrote: > Well, the problem is that currval() is the value last inserted by *that* > backend into the database. The reasoning for this is simple: okay ... :) > If Paul just inserted a record and wants to find out what sequence value was > ins

Re: [GENERAL] internationalizing text

2001-03-23 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:29:17AM -, Michael Ansley wrote: > I think that the standard way to do this is to use a resource identifier, > and then have a separate table with all strings. That's the way that most > internationalisation is done in programs, and it's probably not bad for > datab

Re: [GENERAL] Re: Rules, views, sequences and returned values

2001-03-23 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:53:49AM -0500, Gregory Wood wrote: > > I have a table and want to make a view updateable with rules. Table has a > > sequence that creates default value to primary key when inserting. > > > > And now the question: Is it posible to return value of primary key from > >

Re: [GENERAL] from string to table...?

2001-03-23 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 07:53:39AM +, Richard Huxton wrote: > will trillich wrote: > > is there a way to write sql/plpgsql that'll take a varchar > > argument (table and field names) and be able to turn it into the > > appropriate query? > > You can use th

[GENERAL] from string to table...?

2001-03-22 Thread will trillich
let's say you have the name of a table in a string. 'mytable' you also have field names, such as 'lookupfield' 'valuefield' which would be assembled like this select valuefield from mytable where lookupfield = '?' is there a way to write sql/plpgsql that'll take a var

[GENERAL] internationalizing text

2001-03-22 Thread will trillich
so who's got a clever implementation of cross-linguistic texts? create table something ( id serial, yadayada int4, whatever date, mumble float8, en varchar(50), -- english es varchar(50), -- e

Re: [GENERAL] Updates on Views?

2001-03-22 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:14:49PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > CREATE VIEW who AS > SELECT * from _who; > > CREATE RULE > who_insert > AS ON > INSERT TO who > DO INSTEAD >

[GENERAL] clever COMMENT/description usage -- internationalizing?

2001-03-20 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 08:26:58AM -0800, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, will trillich wrote: > > i'm wondering if any devious minds out there are using it for > > something clever and useful, instead of doing the > > roll-your-own table cross-looku

Re: [GENERAL] Fw: Please Help

2001-03-15 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:35:27AM -0500, Russell Hires wrote: > Sure did help me! Thanks! Since Debian does a lot of that stuff for you it's > hard to follow along the instructions because they assume a source compile > and install. The Debian related docs should say "After you've done 'apt-get >

Re: [GENERAL] can a trigger on insert -> update other tables?

2001-03-04 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 04:52:16AM -0500, Jan Wieck wrote: > will trillich wrote: > > [...] > > > > CREATE TRIGGER _rating_propagate > >BEFORE INSERT ON _rating > >FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE _rating_propagate(); > > > > ERROR: NEW used in n

Re: [GENERAL] triggers vs "NEW" pseudorecord

2001-03-04 Thread will trillich
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 07:07:24AM -0500, Jan Wieck wrote: > will trillich wrote: > > so altho the docs elsewhere say NOT to rely on access to the > > pseudo table NEW within a trigger function, this part does work > > like it should. but when i add SELECT or UPDATE it compl

Re: [GENERAL] how to examin the database structure with an sql command

2001-03-02 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 05:11:07PM +0100, Hans Jeuken wrote: > > I am busy writing a table editor in Perl, using the module Pg.pm as > interface to Postgresql. When opening a table in that editor I would like > to find out how the tables in the database are defined. > > So far I have considere

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall -> fails SOLVED

2001-03-01 Thread will trillich
Mario Weilguni wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2001 10:43 schrieb will trillich: > > so i've got my data recovered (thanks to oliver) and now > > i wanna back it up with a pg_dumpall... > > > > instead, i get 'failed sanity check, type with oid 77992

[GENERAL] inserting to a view -> cascading to other tables

2001-02-28 Thread will trillich
hi. i've got a scenario i'd like to run past the pg/sql experts... short version: how can i have a trigger after insert, take the fresh data and propagate changes to other tables in the database? long version: i'm using postgresql 7.0.3 on debian/potato -- and in trying to implement a feedback

Re: [GENERAL] Re: the data is BACK! but... SOLVED!

2001-02-28 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:31:35AM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > will trillich wrote: > >NOW if i can just get PERL to work with DBD::Pg again, i'd > >be done! this is gonna be fun to track down now that my data > >is back... > > > >Can't loa

[GENERAL] pg_dumpall -> fails

2001-02-28 Thread will trillich
so i've got my data recovered (thanks to oliver) and now i wanna back it up with a pg_dumpall... instead, i get 'failed sanity check, type with oid 779927 was no found' in the oddest places... % pg_dumpall [snip!!] CREATE FUNCTION "get_disid" (int4,varchar ) RETURNS int4 AS ' SELECT

[GENERAL] postgresql upgrade/downgrade: the data is BACK! but...

2001-02-27 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 06:52:01AM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: > A pity the dump file got clobbered. indeed! > I suspect the dump from 6.5 was > in a form that 7.0 rejected - you had those two failed creates in the > log. the problem was apparently DEFAULT TEXT 'CURRENT_DATE' in the da

[GENERAL] Re: postgresql upgrade/downgrade -- help!

2001-02-27 Thread will trillich
Oliver Elphick wrote: > will trillich wrote: > >-rw---1 postgres postgres4 Feb 27 12:24 PG_VERSION > >-rw---1 postgres postgres0 Oct 13 21:05 active > >-rw---1 postgres postgres 8192 Feb 27 04:00 cust > >-rw---

[GENERAL] Re: postgresql upgrade/downgrade -- a clue?

2001-02-27 Thread will trillich
Oliver Elphick wrote: > > will trillich wrote: > >aha. i found /var/lib/postgresql/data/automatic_update.log > >containing, among other things: > > > >[snip] > >You are now connected to database template1 as user will. > >CREATE DATABASE >

Re: [GENERAL] Addison-Wesley looking for authors

2001-02-27 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:12:47PM +1100, Andrew Snow wrote: > Plus it might be a good idea if people teamed up and co-authored a book! I > personally would be interested in writing something about functions and > PL/PGSQL and so on, as it seems to me there needs to be somewhere with more > examp

[GENERAL] postgresql upgrades -> where's the dump go?

2001-02-27 Thread will trillich
when upgrading from version X to version Y of postgres, the install appears to dump the data and schema, and then suck it back in with the new binaries. [i just tried going from 6.5.3 to 7.0.3potato but the plpgsql.so module wasn't installed and data types were conflicting, so the new schema is a