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

[GENERAL] How to get libpq.dll for 7.1 RCs

2001-04-14 Thread Steve Jorgensen
OK, I've decided to get PostgreSQL running on Windows by using the 7.1 RC2 build that is now available through the Cygwin setup. I was finally able to build, install, and run it. Now, I'm going to need to run pgAccess under native Windows and connect to the PostgreSQL server, but the pgAccess do

[GENERAL] Re: Access 97/Postgres migration

2001-04-14 Thread Steve Jorgensen
I have significant experience using Access with Microsoft SQL Server, and the situation is similar. Even when the server has something like an Auto-increment or Identity column type, using it will be problematic. The best thing you can to is to make your own auto-increment system. For each regu

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 Tom Lane
"Oliver Elphick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A view creates a virtual table; there is no implicit ordering in a table, > so it follows that you should not be able to impose one in a view. This is indeed the pure-SQL attitude, but it may be worth pointing out that Postgres 7.1 does allow ORDER B

Re: [GENERAL] Backend sent D message without prior T

2001-04-14 Thread Tom Lane
Jeff Eckermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Based on past posts I have read, this error is usually associated with > running out of memory for the query result. Problem is, I am only > expecting about 30 lines of moderate length to be returned Have you verified that by doing select

Re: [GENERAL] Order in CREATE VIEW

2001-04-14 Thread Oliver Elphick
Tom Lane wrote: >"Oliver Elphick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> A view creates a virtual table; there is no implicit ordering in a table, >> so it follows that you should not be able to impose one in a view. > >This is indeed the pure-SQL attitude, but it may be worth pointing out >th

[GENERAL] Storing Photographs in Postgres?

2001-04-14 Thread B.N.V. Raman
Hi All, Is there a way to store photographs in postgres? I'm creating an employee master kind of thing, so i would like to store photos of my company employees also. If there is, is there a file size limitation or something? Regards, Raman. ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] anti Christian bias?

2001-04-14 Thread Jan Wieck
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Karl DeBisschop wrote: > As for postgresql > > having an anit-Christian bias? I think Lamar and > Bruce, among > > others, could not be accused of an anti-Christian bias. > > > > Thanks, Karl. > > > > As a matter of fact, I am an ordained Baptist mini

Re: [GENERAL] anti Christian bias?

2001-04-14 Thread Lamar Owen
Jan Wieck wrote: > I'm not able to find any applicable disclaimers in my copy of > the Bible. A quick look into the Koran didn't show up > anything either. FWIW, the 1611 King James text is in the Public Domain, as is the source Hebrew and Greek from which it is translated. T

Re: [GENERAL] Is PostgreSQL database write to cooked files?

2001-04-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Raymond Chui writes: > I am wonder are those files under $PGDATA/data/base/dbname/ > directory cooked files? > Can I copy or ftp them to other machine running PostgreSQL without > export/import (pg_dump)? No. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-e/ ---

[GENERAL] 7.1RC2->7.1 Final dump/restore needed?

2001-04-14 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, I have one machine running 7.1RC2, that I now want to upgrade to 7.1final. I guess I don't need a dump restore then? Konstantin -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 --

Re: [GENERAL] anti Christian bias?

2001-04-14 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Jan Wieck wrote: > Is it allowed to borrow the Cristian rules even if I don't > believe in God and don't pray? Do they fall under the GPCL > (General Public Christian License) or are they distributed > under a BSDish style license? What if I link myse

[GENERAL] sets and insert-select with rule

2001-04-14 Thread Gyozo Papp
Hello,     First of all: I' m using postgresql v7.0.2 on debian 2.2. (and I have two completely different questions)     i) What is the most effective representation of type "set" in postgres? As I remember there is no attribute type to represent definitely sets. (Please, correct me if  I'm

[GENERAL] 7.1 SRPM woes (Mandrake 7.2)

2001-04-14 Thread Len Morgan
I'm sure my problem relates more to my ignorance than the srpm set but here goes: I am trying to build on a Mandrake 7.2 system (rpm v3.0.5) The source install (rpm -i postgresql-7.1-1.src.rpm) seemed to do everything it was supposed to. I followed the directions in the README.rpm-dist file as

Re: [GENERAL] 7.1 SRPM woes (Mandrake 7.2)

2001-04-14 Thread Lamar Owen
Len Morgan wrote: > Am I missing something? I am assuming that since Mandrake RPMs were done > before, they are not the same as the RedHat RPMs and I will have to rebuild > from source. I tried the build from the RPM directory (as stated above) and > from the SPECS directory as stated in the "Ma

Re: [GENERAL] sets and insert-select with rule

2001-04-14 Thread Tom Lane
"Gyozo Papp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I solve this ? Maybe an upgrade to v7.1 blows the whole thing out? Possibly. It's hard to tell what your problem is with such an incomplete, fuzzily-described example. But there have been a number of bugs fixed in that general area.

[GENERAL] 7.1 dumps with large objects

2001-04-14 Thread David Wall
Wonderful job on getting 7.1 released. I've just installed it in place of a 7.1beta4 database, with the great advantage of not even having to migrate the database. It seems that 7.1 is able to handle large objects in its dump/restore natively now and no longer requires the use of the contrib pro

Re: [GENERAL] 7.1 dumps with large objects

2001-04-14 Thread Tom Larard
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, David Wall wrote: > It seems that 7.1 is able to handle large objects in its dump/restore > natively now and no longer requires the use of the contrib program to dump > them. Large objects are represented by OIDs in the table schema, and I'm > trying to make sure that I under

[GENERAL] Re: anti Christian bias?

2001-04-14 Thread Stefan Waidele jun.
I might not be able to change the standard but: How specific is BCE? 1973 Before the Current Era my birth year, but _only_ under that very pro-christian assumption that BC = BCE ! the last item in the Example column is January 8, 99 BC. The corresponding Description item reads "Year 99 before t

Re: [GENERAL] Re: anti Christian bias?

2001-04-14 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: > How specific is BCE? > 1973 Before the Current Era my birth year, > but _only_ under that very pro-christian > assumption that BC = BCE ! This brings up another question nto related to religion but just time keeping in PostgreSQL: can PostgreSQL

[GENERAL] Re: anti Christian bias?

2001-04-14 Thread Robert Vogt IV
To all, Ok, this is ridiculous. >> On page 29 of the PostgreSQL User's Guide, distributed with version 7.0.3, >> in table 3-8 Postgres Date Input, the last item in the Example column is >> January 8, 99 BC. The corresponding Description item reads "Year 99 before >> the Common Era". Th