RE: [GENERAL] Removing constraints

2000-11-13 Thread Nathan Barnett
Stephan, Thanks for the initial help. I followed your instructions, but now I'm getting an error: "ERROR: RelationBuildTriggers: 2 record(s) not found for rel nametable". Where else would these triggers be referenced. - Nathan Barnett -Original

[GENERAL] 7.0.3 RPMs?

2000-11-13 Thread Matthew
When are the 7.0.3 RPM's expected to be released? Most of my production servers use the RPM install and I would like to keep it that way, however I would also like to move up to 7.0.3 some time soon. Just wondering...

Re: [GENERAL] 7.0.3 RPMs?

2000-11-13 Thread Lamar Owen
Matthew wrote: > > When are the 7.0.3 RPM's expected to be released? Most of my production > servers use the RPM install and I would like to keep it that way, however I > would also like to move up to 7.0.3 some time soon. > > Just wondering... Today. Working on it now. What distribution are

Re: [GENERAL] Removing constraints

2000-11-13 Thread Tom Lane
"Nathan Barnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the initial help. I followed your instructions, but now I'm > getting an error: "ERROR: RelationBuildTriggers: 2 record(s) not found for > rel nametable". Where else would these triggers be referenced. If you manually add/delete trigger

RE: [GENERAL] 7.0.3 RPMs?

2000-11-13 Thread Roger Wernersson
Will there be an RPM for Alpha? -Original Message- From: Lamar Owen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 6:57 PM To: Matthew Cc: pgsql-general Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 7.0.3 RPMs? Matthew wrote: > > When are the 7.0.3 RPM's expected to be released? Most of my produ

Re: [GENERAL] 7.0.3 RPMs?

2000-11-13 Thread Lamar Owen
Roger Wernersson wrote: > > Will there be an RPM for Alpha? What distribution? I haven't yet rebuilt the RPMset on an Alpha for 7.0.3 -- if you want to take a shot at it, you can try. It will be interesting to see if the 7.0.2 alpha patches apply smoothly and work correctly for 7.0.3, as Ryan h

[GENERAL] Platforms and performance

2000-11-13 Thread Roger Wernersson
Hi! I'm concidering Postgres instead of for example Oracle or DB2. Can anyone tell me what platforms Postgres runs on? * Alpha (True64) * Sparc (Solaris) * PowerPc (AIX) * IA-64 (HP-UX) What kind of performance can one expect from Postgres? Can I upload the database into memory and run without

Re: [GENERAL] PL/Perl

2000-11-13 Thread Edward Q. Bridges
when i did what's described below, i had no problems at all with PL/Perl (and, in fact, am using it for a couple of triggers that are lightly used in a production environment) http://www.postgresql.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/pl/plperl/README?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb- markup you can

Re: [GENERAL] PL/Perl

2000-11-13 Thread Edward Q. Bridges
n.b. to clarify, i got PL/Perl working on RH Linux 6.2 am in the process of attempting to get it working on NT. ==BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE== when i did what's described below, i had no problems at all with PL/Perl (and, in fact, am using it for a couple of trig

Re: [GENERAL] What does this mean? "NOTICE: AbortTransaction andnot in in-progress state"

2000-11-13 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I've upgraded to 7.0.3 and am logging. I'll let you know if I see it again. btw - do I need to send any signal to postmaster to let it know I've rotated the log file? btw2 - as far as upgrading goes, that was probably the quickest/easiest I've every done. wahoo! On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Tom Lane

Re: [GENERAL] What does this mean? "NOTICE: AbortTransaction and not in in-progress state"

2000-11-13 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Hallstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > btw - do I need to send any signal to postmaster to let it know I've > rotated the log file? AFAIK we don't really support log rotation currently --- you have to stop/restart the postmaster and direct its stdout/stderr into a new file :-(. There is

RE: [GENERAL] 7.0.3 RPMs?

2000-11-13 Thread Matthew
We run RH6.2 for production, but I have a few RH7.0 boxes that I would like to upgrade soon also > -Original Message- > From: Lamar Owen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 11:57 AM > To: Matthew > Cc: pgsql-general > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] 7.0.3 RPMs?

Re: [GENERAL] How do I list foreign key info/relation

2000-11-13 Thread Jason Davies
Hi, Thanks for that. My problem now is it would be nice to have a way to get this in one SQL query. I can't find a way to split up the pg_trigger.tgargs column up into components. The data I need is separated by "\000", but the column type is bytea. How do I split it up? I've tried using instr an

Re: [GENERAL] How do I list foreign key info/relation

2000-11-13 Thread Stephan Szabo
Unfortunately I don't think there's a good way to do it in SQL itself. You might be able to do something in one of the procedural languages. When i did the support for the older pg_dump (which may look nothing like the current one), all I did was enhance the code that was already there to handl

RE: [GENERAL] 7.0.3 RPMs?

2000-11-13 Thread Matthew
I just checked the FTP site, and found the 7.0.3 RPMS. thanks much... I will try them out tonight. > -Original Message- > From: Matthew [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 1:08 PM > To: 'Lamar Owen' > Cc: pgsql-general > Subject: RE: [GENERAL] 7.0.3 RPMs?

Re: [GENERAL] 7.0.3 RPMs?

2000-11-13 Thread Lamar Owen
Matthew wrote: > > I just checked the FTP site, and found the 7.0.3 RPMS. thanks much... I > will try them out tonight. Wait until I announce their availability -- a minor dependency problem was just found that I need to fix before anyone uses those RPM's that have been uploaded. Silly little

[GENERAL] Question about functions..

2000-11-13 Thread Loren Koss
How would you do the simple task of returning multiple rows of multiple columns in a function? ie: create function test() return int, int as 'select col1, col2 from a' language 'sql'; assuming col1 and col2 are integers.. I would like to port my db app from MS SQL to postgres and would really

[GENERAL] Question regarding temporary tables & functions..

2000-11-13 Thread Loren Koss
Can you create a temporary table within a function? In my functions I need to calculate some stuff.. Do some manipulations.. Then return some values.. For this, in MS SQL, I currently use temporary tables in my stored procs.. Can you do this in postgres? I can't seem to get it to work.. Thanks

[GENERAL] Is this proper UNION behavior??

2000-11-13 Thread Edward Q. Bridges
According to my copy of SQL For Smarties by Joe Celko (2nd ed, p. 411): > The UNION removes all duplicate rows from the results and does > not care from which table the duplicate rows came. We could > use this feature to write a query to remove duplicates from a > table: >(TABLE tableA) >

Re: [GENERAL] Problems during doing reindex on 7.0.3

2000-11-13 Thread Hiroshi Inoue
Denis Perchine wrote: > > Hello, > > I have very interesting problem. I have quite highly loaded database. > Once a day I create new indices, and after that drop old ones. Ido this one > by one. > Your "reindex" is different from REINDEX command,isn't it ? > All is fine except this error messa

[GENERAL] Is this proper UNION behavior??

2000-11-13 Thread Edward Q. Bridges
According to my copy of SQL For Smarties by Joe Celko (2nd ed, p. 411): > The UNION removes all duplicate rows from the results and does > not care from which table the duplicate rows came. We could > use this feature to write a query to remove duplicates from a > table: >(TABLE tableA) >

[GENERAL] Array-Handling: use in subselect, push ...

2000-11-13 Thread Alvar Freude
Hi, I'm new on this list, so if the questions are better on some other lists, please let me know! Are there somewhere detailed informations about arrays? Has Postgres some special array functions like push, shift, unshift ... in Perl? How it is possible to use arrays in subselects? I tested

Re: [GENERAL] Problems during doing reindex on 7.0.3

2000-11-13 Thread Tom Lane
Hiroshi Inoue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Denis Perchine wrote: >> ERROR: Index 2050642 does not exist >> >> Looks like index oid was already resolved, but index was not locked yet... >> And it was dropped just under the feet... > Parser-rewriter-planner acquires a short term lock. > This may

Re: [GENERAL] Is this proper UNION behavior??

2000-11-13 Thread Tom Lane
"Edward Q. Bridges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ebridges=> (select * from has_some_dupes) > ebridges-> UNION > ebridges-> (select * from has_some_dupes); [ produces the same result as "select * from has_some_dupes" ] Yup, that's a bug in 7.0.* (and a version or two before). There's a planning

[GENERAL] GT.M database open sourced

2000-11-13 Thread Ned Lilly
Is anybody familiar with this? http://news.excite.com:80/news/bw/001107/pa-sanchez

Re: [GENERAL] GT.M database open sourced

2000-11-13 Thread Tom Lane
Ned Lilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is anybody familiar with this? > http://news.excite.com:80/news/bw/001107/pa-sanchez This strikes me as some people who hope to freeload off open-source efforts, without having actually learned anything about how the community works. Did you catch this: :

Re: [GENERAL] Problems during doing reindex on 7.0.3

2000-11-13 Thread Denis Perchine
On 14 November 2000 07:33, Hiroshi Inoue wrote: > Denis Perchine wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have very interesting problem. I have quite highly loaded database. > > Once a day I create new indices, and after that drop old ones. Ido this > > one by one. > > Your "reindex" is different from REINDEX c

[GENERAL] Trying to understand VACUUM VERBOSE

2000-11-13 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
Quickie questions: When VACUUM VERBOSE says a table has x pages, what is the size of the indicated page? I'm trying to correlate table size with the output of an EXPLAIN of the SELECT INTO which created it. I've got 33150 rows which the EXPLAIN said at top level would be 80-byte rows. VACUUM i

Re: [GENERAL] 7.0.3 RPMs?

2000-11-13 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:42:51AM -0600, Matthew wrote: > When are the 7.0.3 RPM's expected to be released? Most of my production > servers use the RPM install and I would like to keep it that way, however I > would also like to move up to 7.0.3 some time soon. there is polish(ed) linux distrib

Re: [GENERAL] PHPBuilder article -- Postgres vs MySQL

2000-11-13 Thread Poul L. Christiansen
And now it's on www.slashdot.org ... http://slashdot.org/articles/00/11/13/1342208.shtml Poul L. Christiansen Michael Fork wrote: > > Thought this may be of interest to some... > > http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/tim20001112.php3 > > Michael Fork - CCNA - MCP - A+ > Network Support - Toled