Re: [GENERAL] Sort by foreign date column

2001-08-21 Thread Mike Mascari
"Andrey Y. Mosienko" wrote: > > Stephan Szabo wrote: > > > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Andrey Y. Mosienko wrote: > > > > > > > > I have table with date type column: > > > > > > chdate date; > > > > > > SELECT chdate from mytable; > > > > > >chdate > > > 1999-01-02 > > > > > > But in Russia we hav

[GENERAL] Question about ODBC!!

2001-08-21 Thread Fariba Noorbakhsh
Hi, I try to use odbc on Digital unix platform . I installed iodbc as well and run the configuration with --enable-odbc option (pgsql v7.1.2), What shall I do for my driver manager (iodbc in this case), I know that I should write a .odbc.ini file for configuration, is that all? Because I have som

Re: [GENERAL] Printable report generation

2001-08-21 Thread Tony Grant
> > 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 > > functionality is not provided by postgresql itself. I have the same proble

[GENERAL] Postgresql backend error

2001-08-21 Thread Nigel Gilbert
I have PHP 4.06, PostgreSQL 7.1.2 on sparc-sun-solaris2.7, compiled by GCC 2.8.1, and Apache on a Solaris server. Most of the time all works as expected. Occasionally I get an database error: Database error There was a database error when accessing Database zwg: pqReadData() -- backend close

Re: [GENERAL] middleware for PostgreSQL: sneak preview

2001-08-21 Thread Gunnar Rønning
* "Jon Garfunkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | This is similar in functionality to some commerical and opensource O/R | toolkits I've seen, except that I've created a much more rigorous XML | framework. In addition, I'm putting much application-level development | constructs into the XML. I also

Re: [GENERAL] Sort by foreign date column

2001-08-21 Thread omid omoomi
and how about this: SELECT TO_CHAR(chdate, 'DD-MM-') FROM mytable ORDER BY chdate::date; >From: Mike Mascari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Andrey Y. Mosienko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Postgres ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Sort by foreign dat

Re: [GENERAL] Sort by foreign date column

2001-08-21 Thread Mike Mascari
omid omoomi wrote: > > and how about this: > > SELECT TO_CHAR(chdate, 'DD-MM-') > FROM mytable > ORDER BY chdate::date; Yes, but Andrey says that the chdate field is declared as a date: > > > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Andrey Y. Mosienko wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I have table with dat

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres hangs during VACUUM (autocommit = false)

2001-08-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Mark Coffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, I want autocommit off because there is a perl script that runs between > the BEGIN and END blocks, and that script uses transactions. I just add the > $dbh->commit(); to the END block to try to FORCE it to not be idle in > transaction. I am havi

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres hangs during VACUUM (autocommit = false)

2001-08-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Mark Coffman \(Epilogue Programmer\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the reply. I use Perl and DBI to make my database conneciton. > In the > BEGIN {} > part of the module, I check for the persistant connection, and make one if > none is present, autocommit off > in the > END {} > blo

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres hangs during VACUUM (autocommit = false)

2001-08-21 Thread Mark Coffman \(Epilogue Programmer\)
Thanks for the reply. I use Perl and DBI to make my database conneciton. In the BEGIN {} part of the module, I check for the persistant connection, and make one if none is present, autocommit off in the END {} block, I do a $dbh->commit(); They all still have idle in transaction :( - Origi

Re: [GENERAL] New RPMS ?

2001-08-21 Thread Fernando Lozano
Hi Carlos, > For your information, we, brazilians, do not have to fight lions on the > street or whatever other things you may imagine. Actually, we are doing very > well as it comes to tecnology. I, for instance, work everyday on a Pentium > III 1Ghz with 256MB of memory and a 17 inch

[GENERAL] Re: Postgres hangs during VACUUM (autocommit = false)

2001-08-21 Thread Robert L Mathews
At 8/21/01 3:51 PM, Mark Coffman wrote: >I am having trouble with setting up a scheduled VACUUM. Since VACUUM needs >an exclusive lock, I can never get it to run. I am using persistant >connections from a web server and use a single module to make the >connection. I cannot autocommit because I

[GENERAL] Comparing fixed precision to floating

2001-08-21 Thread Mike Finn
I am using numeric(p,s) fields in a database schema. Using queries that contain a comparison like ... where numericField = 456.789 will generate an error Unable to identify an operator '=' for types 'numeric' and 'float8' You will have to retype this query using an explic

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres hangs during VACUUM (autocommit = false)

2001-08-21 Thread newsreader
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 07:19:42PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > What I suspect is that "autocommit off" causes the DBD driver to send a > fresh BEGIN immediately after the COMMIT. You might be better off with > "autocommit on" which I think suppresses any automatic issuance of > BEGIN/COMMIT. The

Re: [GENERAL] Sort by foreign date column

2001-08-21 Thread Andrey Y. Mosienko
Tom Lane wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Andrey Y. Mosienko wrote: > > But in Russia we have the next date format: DD-MM-. > > Just setting DateStyle to 'SQL' would get you approximately what you > want: > > regression=# set DateStyle TO SQL; > SET VARIABLE > regression=# select now(); >

Re: [GENERAL] Sort by foreign date column

2001-08-21 Thread Tom Lane
"Andrey Y. Mosienko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If DD/MM/ is not close enough for you, maybe the right answer is to >> add another DateStyle. > Sorry for disturbing, but how can I do this or where is it in documentation? It's not documented; you'd have to dig into the code and see how th

[GENERAL] add, subtract bool type

2001-08-21 Thread Jeff Davis
I made some simple functions that create the operators + and - for any combination of int4's and bool's. The reasoning that propted this operator was that I wanted to use the following syntax in a query: SELECT *,((col_a == 'foo') + (col_b == 'bar')) as relevance WHERE relevance > 0; The idea