Re: [GENERAL] Case sensitivity

2001-08-14 Thread Digital Wokan
Very good book. I have the .pdf file of it from before they took it off the site. John Clark Naldoza y Lopez wrote: > > Hello Scott, > > PostgreSQL also supports regular expressions, _VERY_ useful..;-) > > ~* regular expression, case-insensitive..;-) > > Try to get a copy of Bruce's book >

[GENERAL] Perfomance decreasing

2001-08-14 Thread Alexander Loginov
Hello. I have a question about perfomance. I'm running PostgreSQL 7.1.2 at FreeBSD 4.3. For the first 1-2 days of running perfomance is excellent. But after that, speed began to decrease. And after a week of operation, perfomance falls 8-10 times, th

[GENERAL] PostgreSQL library functions

2001-08-14 Thread Jeff Davis
A question has intrigued me ever since I started to learn about Berkeley DB (well after I had started using postgres): does PostgreSQL seperate the data management routines such that I could use them in a way similar to Berkeley DB? I find the concept useful for people who don't want to start

Re: [GENERAL] Perfomance decreasing

2001-08-14 Thread Erwin Lansing
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 02:06:40PM +0600, Alexander Loginov wrote: > Hello. > >I have a question about perfomance. >I'm running PostgreSQL 7.1.2 at FreeBSD 4.3. > >For the first 1-2 days of running perfomance is excellent. But >after that, speed began to dec

[GENERAL] Is the bug system active?

2001-08-14 Thread Lee Kindness
Is the bug system at: http://www.ca.postgresql.org/bugs/ actively in use? I recently reported the following bug: http://www.ca.postgresql.org/bugs/bugs.php?4~415 and after doing so browsed through a number of earlier bugs it appears that the vast majority are still 'unassigned' and not

[GENERAL] help on delete trigger.

2001-08-14 Thread Sundararajan
I am developing a db application in postgresql and i need to write a delete trigger on one of the tables.   the environment is   table1   field1 varchar(64) other fields.   table 2.   field1 varchar(64) other fields   I need a delete trigger on the table 1, so that if I delete a row from ta

[GENERAL] PostgresQL equivalent of NOCOUNT

2001-08-14 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Does PostgresQL have some way to make update, insert and delete queries not return the number of affected rows? I know that in MS SQL one would use NOCOUNT for that. TIA, Jochem ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet,

Re: [GENERAL] Is the bug system active?

2001-08-14 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > Lee Kindness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is the bug system at: > > http://www.ca.postgresql.org/bugs/ > > actively in use? I recently reported the following bug: > > http://www.ca.postgresql.org/bugs/bugs.php?4~415 > > and after doing so browsed

[GENERAL] Re: help on delete trigger.

2001-08-14 Thread Gregory Wood
This code looks fine to me, other than missing the actual trigger statement is missing. Assuming table 1 is named apps: DROP TRIGGER OnApplicationsDelete ON apps; DROP FUNCTION ApplicationsDeleteFn(); CREATE FUNCTION ApplicationsDeleteFn() RETURNS OPAQUE AS ' BEGIN delete from ports where appNam

[GENERAL] cmd-line interface

2001-08-14 Thread Craig Longman
i have been using postgresql in preparation for supporting it with our product. one thing that i do a lot is run scripts from the cmd-line, and i have noticed a few things that seem to be lacking from the psql app. first off though, i must say how much it rocks. i absolutely hate having to go

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresQL equivalent of NOCOUNT

2001-08-14 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 03:38:08PM +0200, Jochem van Dieten wrote: > Does PostgresQL have some way to make update, insert and delete queries > not return the number of affected rows? I know that in MS SQL one would > use NOCOUNT for that. Just ignore the result. Postgres has to find all the row

Re: [GENERAL] delete columns from table!

2001-08-14 Thread Fariba Noorbakhsh
Thanks, it helps! Tim Barnard wrote: > Another way SELECT INTO a new table, omitting the column you want to delete. > > Tim > > - Original Message - > From: "Patrick Welche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Fariba Noorbakhsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, August

Re: [GENERAL] Perfomance decreasing

2001-08-14 Thread Tom Lane
>> For the first 1-2 days of running perfomance is excellent. But >> after that, speed began to decrease. And after a week of >> operation, perfomance falls 8-10 times, than at first day of >> using. >> >> I'm doing vacuum periodically (once a hour), but perfomance >> still falls d

Re: [GENERAL] Is the bug system active?

2001-08-14 Thread Lee Kindness
Stephan Szabo writes: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Lee Kindness wrote: > > Is the bug system at: > > http://www.ca.postgresql.org/bugs/ > > actively in use? > It's mostly a front end for the pgsql-bugs mailing list. I don't > think the discussion and actions are generally copied back to the >

Re: [GENERAL] Is the bug system active?

2001-08-14 Thread Tom Lane
Lee Kindness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is the bug system at: > http://www.ca.postgresql.org/bugs/ > actively in use? I recently reported the following bug: > http://www.ca.postgresql.org/bugs/bugs.php?4~415 > and after doing so browsed through a number of earlier bugs it appears > that

[GENERAL] LARGE db dump/restore for upgrade question

2001-08-14 Thread Philip Crotwell
Hi I have a very large database of seismic data. It is about 27 Gb now, and growing at about the rate of 1 Gb every 3-4 days. I am running postgres 7.1.2. I might possibly try to upgrade to 7.2 when it comes out, but I don't know if it will be possible for me to do 7.3 due to the pg_dump/pg_rest

[GENERAL] Re: [BUGS] triggers

2001-08-14 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Martin Kuria wrote: > Hi, I have a problem I am using postgresql database and I want to enforce >>triggers between my related tables ( tables with relationship), one > table >>has a foreign key and the other the a primary key, I would like to use >>triggers to up

Re: [GENERAL] [Fwd: MySQL Benchmark page - Problem with vacuum() in PostgreSQL]

2001-08-14 Thread Michael Widenius
Hi! > "Tom" == Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> Justin Clift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> forwards: >> The problem was that when we run the benchmark with the --fast option, >> which basicly does a vacuum() between after each batch of updates, >> postmaster started to fill up disk with log

[GENERAL] [ADMIN] initdb on postgresql 7.1.2 running under cygwin on win 2000

2001-08-14 Thread Steve SAUTETNER
Hello ! I've got a little problem with launching initdb on postgresql 7.1.2 under cygwin : when i launch it, it says : $ initdb -d -n -D $PG_DATA Running with debug mode on. Running with noclean mode on. Mistakes will not be cleaned up. Initdb variables: PGDATA=/data/pgsql datadir=/usr/sha

Re: [GENERAL] Is the bug system active?

2001-08-14 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Lee Kindness wrote: > Is the bug system at: > > http://www.ca.postgresql.org/bugs/ > > actively in use? I recently reported the following bug: > > http://www.ca.postgresql.org/bugs/bugs.php?4~415 > > and after doing so browsed through a number of earlier bugs it a

[GENERAL] do I have a reserved word here or something???

2001-08-14 Thread Jeremy Hansen
INSERT into env_info (username,useremail,servicelevel,accountmanager,company) values ('$env_array{User}','$env_array{UserEmail}','$env_array{ServiceLevel}' ,'$env_array{AccountManager}','$env_array{Company}' I sometime get a parse error near username, but for the life of me, can't figure out

Re: [GENERAL] Is the bug system active?

2001-08-14 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Lee Kindness wrote: > Stephan Szabo writes: > > On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Lee Kindness wrote: > > > Is the bug system at: > > > http://www.ca.postgresql.org/bugs/ > > > actively in use? > > It's mostly a front end for the pgsql-bugs mailing list. I don't > > think the di

[GENERAL] nextval, sequences and sequencenames

2001-08-14 Thread Wieger Uffink
Hi, I'm pretty new to PostgreSQL so please bear with me if this is a newbie question that has been answered before on this list. I have created several tables containing a SERIAL column-type as primary key. What I would like to do is get the last value of these columns after Ive inserted a new r

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresQL equivalent of NOCOUNT

2001-08-14 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Tom Lane wrote: > Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Does PostgresQL have some way to make update, insert and delete queries >>not return the number of affected rows? I know that in MS SQL one would >>use NOCOUNT for that. >> > > Uh ... why? Seems like a useless anti-feature.

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresQL equivalent of NOCOUNT

2001-08-14 Thread Tom Lane
Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does PostgresQL have some way to make update, insert and delete queries > not return the number of affected rows? I know that in MS SQL one would > use NOCOUNT for that. Uh ... why? Seems like a useless anti-feature. Certainly suppressing the co

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresQL equivalent of NOCOUNT

2001-08-14 Thread Tom Lane
Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Uh ... why? Seems like a useless anti-feature. Certainly suppressing >> the count wouldn't save a noticeable number of cycles. > I am not in it for the cycles, just for the laziness ;) > Currently working with a ColdFusion frontend through ODBC,

RE: [GENERAL] postgreSQL on windows2000

2001-08-14 Thread Robert J. Sanford, Jr.
yes you can. go to http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/lists.html and download the cygnus windows tool kit. the binary install comes with postgres pre-built so if you don't want to build it yourself you don't have to. after you install cygwin you will need to read the postgres config document found

[GENERAL] DeadLocks

2001-08-14 Thread Gordon Campbell
This is my first posting to this site, but it's my last resort. We're running 7.0.3. I have 20 servlets that make use of our postgres database. All of the programs are able to perform their assigned SQL tasks, but not on a consistent basis. Often and unpredictably, different programs perform

[GENERAL] Re: Perfomance decreasing

2001-08-14 Thread Allan Engelhardt
Tom Lane wrote: > >> I'm doing vacuum periodically (once a hour), but perfomance > >> still falls down. > > It sounds to me like you may be running into index growth problems. > VACUUM is presently not good about shrinking indexes. I always enjoy Tom's comments - he is the master of understa

Re: [GENERAL] cmd-line interface

2001-08-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Craig Longman writes: > 1) stop on error > this seems to be doable through the env-var ON_ERROR_STOP, but i do wish > it was also parm i could pass on the cmd-line to psql. its just so much > easier than setting the everytime i want the stop behaviour. i guess i > could just set it and leave it

[GENERAL] A fourth PostgreSQL article

2001-08-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
Here is a fourth article discussing MySQL and PostgreSQL: http://webtechniques.com/archives/2001/09/jepson/ -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Aven

Re: [GENERAL] help on delete trigger.

2001-08-14 Thread Jan Wieck
Sundararajan wrote: > I am developing a db application in postgresql and i need to write a delete > trigger on one of the tables. > > the environment is > > table1 > > field1 varchar(64) > other fields. > > table 2. > > field1 varchar(64) > other fields > > I need a delete trigger on the table 1,

[GENERAL] explain, planner and more..

2001-08-14 Thread Svenne Krap
Hi, how has the following to be read.. (ie. what is the total cost of the query)... 4.05, 5.88 or ? Why does the planner choose not to use numberdomain_pkey as index on numberdomain ? The table layout is quite bad (due to a lot of last minute-changes) # explain select c.*, (select count(*) f

Re: [GENERAL] LARGE db dump/restore for upgrade question

2001-08-14 Thread Joseph Shraibman
Philip Crotwell wrote: > Hi > > I have a very large database of seismic data. It is about 27 Gb now, and > growing at about the rate of 1 Gb every 3-4 days. I am running Out of curiosity, how long does it take you to vacuum that? -- Joseph Shraibman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Increase signal to nois

[GENERAL] Ugrading to 7.1 from 7.1

2001-08-14 Thread Paul Grenda
I am trying to upgrade from pg7.1 from 7.0 on RH7.0. I do: rpm -Fvh postgresql*7.1.2*rpm but I get: "file /usr/bin/pg_id from install of postgresql-server-7.1.2-4PGDG conflicts with file from package postgresql-7.0.2-17". I've attached pg_id to this message. I don't know what pg_id does (apa

[GENERAL] dump/restore failing in 7.1.2

2001-08-14 Thread Joseph Shraibman
In dumping from one 7.1.2 install and trying to restore in another fresh install: You are now connected to database template1. DELETE 0 psql:/local/dumpall-8-14:7: ERROR: CREATE USER: sysid 101 is already assigned CREATE USER DELETE 0 You are now connected to database template1 as user postgr

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresQL equivalent of NOCOUNT

2001-08-14 Thread Dwayne Miller
Jochem van Dieten wrote: > Dwayne Miller wrote: > >> >> SELECT nextval('mysequence') AS PKEY FROM DUAL; >> ... >> Your inserts and updates using #queryname.pkey# > > > I know, but it has 2 queries again, which is exactly the reason why I > don't want it (I am actually developing this to be use

[GENERAL] Null Conversion

2001-08-14 Thread Mike Withers
Can anyone tell me how I might convert a null attribute value into a zero attribute value such that it can be multiplied in a query. In Oracle I could do: sal*12*NVL(COMM, 0) AS "Annual Income" where COMM is an attribute (a salesman commission, in an employes table) which has null values. This

Re: [GENERAL] PGSQL Intro & Concepts PDF

2001-08-14 Thread Geoffrey Gallaway
Me! :) Geoffeg This one time, at band camp, Digital Wokan wrote: > Who besides Daniel asked me for this? > > ---(end of broadcast)--- > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster -- Geoffrey Gallaway || I dunno, I dream in Perl sometimes. [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [GENERAL] Null Conversion

2001-08-14 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Mike Withers wrote: > Can anyone tell me how I might convert a null attribute value into a zero > attribute value such that it can be multiplied in a query. > > In Oracle I could do: > > sal*12*NVL(COMM, 0) AS "Annual Income" > > where COMM is an attribute (a salesman com

Re: [GENERAL] Null Conversion

2001-08-14 Thread Jason Turner
> Can anyone tell me how I might convert a null attribute value into a zero > attribute value such that it can be multiplied in a query. > > In Oracle I could do: > > sal*12*NVL(COMM, 0) AS "Annual Income" sal * 12 * CAST(COMM AS float8) AS "Annual Income" Cheers Jason -- Indigo Industrial

[GENERAL] Re: nextval, sequences and sequencenames

2001-08-14 Thread Chris
Hi, > > My question: > > is there anyway of retreiving the sequence_name corresponding to the > > respective column, > > knowing just the tablename and columnname? > > > > The reason I need to do this, is because the application I write > > dynamicly creates new tables, and I have no way of knowi

RE: [GENERAL] why no stored procedures?

2001-08-14 Thread Robert J. Sanford, Jr.
Jan Wieck responded in an irritated manner thusly: > What exactly do you mean with "there are no stored > procedures"? i won't pretend to know what what the original poster had in mind when asking his question but i'm a newbie at postgres and i have some confusion as to how a function maps to a

Re: [GENERAL] Null Conversion

2001-08-14 Thread Mike Withers
At 06:30 PM 8/14/01 -0700, you wrote: >On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Mike Withers wrote: > >> Can anyone tell me how I might convert a null attribute value into a zero >> attribute value such that it can be multiplied in a query. >> >> In Oracle I could do: >> >> sal*12*NVL(COMM, 0) AS "Annual Income" >

Re: [GENERAL] explain, planner and more..

2001-08-14 Thread Tom Lane
Svenne Krap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why does the planner choose not to use numberdomain_pkey as index on > numberdomain ? > -> Seq Scan on numberdomain nd (cost=0.00..1.85 > rows=1 width=31) Evidently because it thinks numberdomain only has one disk block, and hence the

Re: [GENERAL] Null Conversion

2001-08-14 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Mike Withers wrote: > At 06:30 PM 8/14/01 -0700, you wrote: > >On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Mike Withers wrote: > > > >> Can anyone tell me how I might convert a null attribute value into a zero > >> attribute value such that it can be multiplied in a query. > >> > >> In Oracle I c

[GENERAL] OpenBSD 2.9 - installation works fine but psql won't run

2001-08-14 Thread Alexander Fordyce
Ay caramba. I'm trying to get PostreSQL 7.1.2 up and running on my i386 OpenBSD 2.9 machine. It seems like all is going well -- ./configure, gmake, gmake install, initdb, createdb test all work fine, but then when I try to psql test I get the following: - - - - - - - - - bash-2.05$ /usr/local/p

Re: [GENERAL] why no stored procedures?

2001-08-14 Thread Jan Wieck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey guys, > > Is there any reason why there are no stored procedures for postgresql or > does this have to do with the ability to add your own procedural > language? What exactly do you mean with "there are no stored procedures"? I mean, we have

RE: [GENERAL] LARGE db dump/restore for upgrade question

2001-08-14 Thread Andrew Snow
> Any suggestion on how to prepare for the next upgrade would be > appreciated. I think it has to be said that if you want decent performance on excessively large (50GB+) databases, you're going to need excessively good hardware to operate it on. Buy a 3ware IDE RAID controller (www.hypermicro.

Re: [GENERAL] I am confused about PointerGetDatum among other things

2001-08-14 Thread newsreader
If anyone cares I have figured out how to do this. I use SPI_getbinval and it works perfectly ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTE

[GENERAL] Re: nextval, sequences and sequencenames

2001-08-14 Thread Lee Harr
> My question: > is there anyway of retreiving the sequence_name corresponding to the > respective column, > knowing just the tablename and columnname? > > The reason I need to do this, is because the application I write > dynamicly creates new tables, and I have no way of knowing the sequence >

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] initdb on postgresql 7.1.2 running under cygwin on win 2000

2001-08-14 Thread Barry Lind
My guess is that you don't have the ipc-daemon running before you run initdb. --Barry Steve SAUTETNER wrote: > Hello ! > > I've got a little problem with launching initdb on postgresql 7.1.2 under > cygwin : > > when i launch it, it says : > > $ initdb -d -n -D $PG_DATA > Running with debug

Re: [GENERAL] OpenLDAP - Postgresql HOWTO

2001-08-14 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Gilles, That's cool. Was hoping you'd figure it out! Just updated the buggy link to point to your new HOWTO : http://techdocs.postgresql.org/oresources.php#ldap :-) Regards and best wishes, Justin Clift Gilles DAROLD wrote: > > Hi all, > > Some of you dream of that, I just had nigthm