Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-19 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 03:59 PM 8/19/2003 +0200, Bo Lorentsen wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 15:47, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > Or have bugzilla setup somewhere. That way the tracking will be hell lot > visible to outside world.. I agree on this, as it seems messy from outside not to be able to get an overview of bot

Re: [GENERAL] Mailing list in French

2003-08-19 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:40:31PM +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On 19 Aug 2003 at 10:01, Francois Suter wrote: > > > I am pleased to announce the start of a PostgreSQL general mailing list > > in French. Its name is pgsql-fr-generale. I hope many of you will join > > it so that we can mak

[GENERAL] Bulk Insert / Update / Delete

2003-08-19 Thread Philip Boonzaaier
I want to be able to generate SQL statements that will go through a list of data, effectively row by row, enquire on the database if this exists in the selected table- If it exists, then the colums must be UPDATED, if not, they must be INSERTED. Logically then, I would like to SELECT * FROM WHERE

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-19 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Lincoln Yeoh wrote: > AFAIK bugzilla requires mysql (for now). > > I've recently installed it and if it can be easily made to work with > postgresql I'd like to know. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/index.cgi Bugzilla News === January 1st, 2003 Current Red Hat v

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-19 Thread Bo Lorentsen
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 16:03, Tom Lane wrote: > It's still bolted on. The entire concept that "transactional integrity > is optional" is ludicrous, IMHO. "Integrity" and "optional" are > contradictory. Good point. Also the problem of MyISAM and InnoDB RI :-) > One thing you should ask about MySQ

Re: [GENERAL] 7.3.4 RPM

2003-08-19 Thread Guy Fraser
Before anyone can make an rpm for you they will need some more information. What type of CPU are you using ? {SPARC, ALPHA, Pentium ...} What kernel, and libraries are you using? Good luck Guy Vilson farias wrote: Hi again I'm still using RedHat 6.2. I would be happy if I could find some Pos

Re: [GENERAL] Bulk Insert / Update / Delete

2003-08-19 Thread Jason Godden
Hi Philip, Pg is more ansi compliant than most (GoodThing (TM)). You can use the 'when' conditional but not to do what you need. If I understand you correclty you should be able to acheive the same result using two seperate queries and the (NOT) EXISTS or (NOT) IN clause. Failing that have a

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-19 Thread Bo Lorentsen
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 16:20, Lincoln Yeoh wrote: > Install an application that can use both DBs. Muck around with it. If you > can't tell the difference, then I'd say go with postgresql - transactions > isn't bolted on, quite a number of other design wins too. If you can tell > the difference a

Re: [GENERAL] Mailing list in French

2003-08-19 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yeah, but there's not too much you can do about it. You can check what > goes on in the spanish list at > http://tlali.iztacala.unam.mx/mailman/listinfo/pgsql-ayuda > There's a respectable amount of traffic, and I don't think there's > anyone who would

Re: [GENERAL] Mailing list in French

2003-08-19 Thread Erwan DUROSELLE
> > I am pleased to announce the start of a PostgreSQL general mailing list > > in French. Its name is pgsql-fr-generale. I hope many of you will join > > it so that we can make it an interesting place. I'd be glad to join, but I couldn't find where or how to subscribe... Erwan ---

Re: [GENERAL] Bulk Insert / Update / Delete

2003-08-19 Thread Doug McNaught
"Philip Boonzaaier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to be able to generate SQL statements that will go through a list of > data, effectively row by row, enquire on the database if this exists in the > selected table- If it exists, then the colums must be UPDATED, if not, they > must be INSERT

Re: [GENERAL] Bulk Insert / Update / Delete

2003-08-19 Thread Doug McNaught
Doug McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Philip Boonzaaier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This message is privileged and confidential and intended for the addressee only. > > If you are not the intended recipient you may not disclose, copy or > > in any way use or publish the content her

Re: [GENERAL] Bulk Insert / Update / Delete

2003-08-19 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 20:54, Doug McNaught wrote: > Doug McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have companies that force crap like this on mailing list postings... > > hate > > Arrghh. Not to troll, but another mailing list I am on, anybody posting such messages/footers is poli

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-19 Thread Vivek Khera
> "BL" == Bo Lorentsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BL> Hi ... BL> I'm trying to convince my boss to use posgresql (I need RI, transactions BL> and views), but he keeps comparing the project to mysql. Until now, I BL> found the answers to he's questions on the www.postgresql.org page, but BL> n

Re: [GENERAL] Mailing list in French

2003-08-19 Thread Francois Suter
I'd be glad to join, but I couldn't find where or how to subscribe... It's not yet posted on the web site, but you can subscribe by sending a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], leave the subject line blank and put in the body "SUBSCRIBE pgsql-fr-generale". Bye --- Francois Home page: http:/

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-19 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 21:03, Vivek Khera wrote: > Tops on my wish list is that postgres automatically notice when a row > is no longer needed (all transactional references to it are gone) and > 'free' it at that time, rather then needing a special scan to > determine the row is no longer needed

Re: [GENERAL] Mailing list in French

2003-08-19 Thread Guillaume LELARGE
Le Mardi 19 Août 2003 15:27, Erwan DUROSELLE a écrit : > I'd be glad to join, but I couldn't find where or how to subscribe... > Juste send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe pgsql-fr-generale in your email's body. -- Guillaume . ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [GENERAL] Grouping by date range

2003-08-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 02:56, Alexander Litvinov wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I home your date field have date type. If it is try this: > > select date_part('year', date), count(*) from your_table group by > date_part('year', date) order by date_part('year', date);

Re: [GENERAL] Mailing list in French

2003-08-19 Thread Guillaume LELARGE
Le Mardi 19 Août 2003 15:35, Francois Suter a écrit : > > I'd be glad to join, but I couldn't find where or how to subscribe... > > It's not yet posted on the web site, but you can subscribe by sending a > mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], leave the subject line blank and put > in the body "SUBSCRIBE pgsq

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 19:17:31 +0530, Shridhar Daithankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Making pgsql-bugs a open to non-subscription but moderated list might be a > good idea. It really does not matter if a bug gets filed couple of days late > but having to have subscribe to another list co

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-19 Thread Joshua D. Drake
It's still bolted on. The entire concept that "transactional integrity is optional" is ludicrous, IMHO. "Integrity" and "optional" are contradictory. Obviously you have never voted in a major election ;) regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-19 Thread scott.marlowe
On 19 Aug 2003, Bo Lorentsen wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 18:17, Vivek Khera wrote: > > > Since the beginning of time (at least MySQL v3.22) MySQL has silently > > ignored the foreign key references in table create statement. Now > > that they have foreign key support (version 4.x), do they ho

Re: [GENERAL] 7.3.4 RPM

2003-08-19 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, > Before anyone can make an rpm for you they will need some more information. > > What type of CPU are you using ? {SPARC, ALPHA, Pentium ...} > > What kernel, and libraries are you using? I will build them for RedHat 6.2 and 7.3 this afternoon. You can find them in a few hours at http://open

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-19 Thread Bo Lorentsen
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 23:10, scott.marlowe wrote: > So the syntaxes are different, and one is apparently swallowed without > error or anything, but in fact you have no fks in place. Thanks, that helped. /BL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-19 Thread Ian Barwick
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 23:10, scott.marlowe wrote: > On 19 Aug 2003, Bo Lorentsen wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 18:17, Vivek Khera wrote: > > > Since the beginning of time (at least MySQL v3.22) MySQL has silently > > > ignored the foreign key references in table create statement. Now > > >

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-19 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 12:13, Vivek Khera wrote: > There's a big difference between "noticing that a table needs to be > vacuumed and running it" and "automatically having the backend free a > row as soon as we know it is eligible to be (as would normally be > determined by vacuum)". Changing Post

Re: [GENERAL] postmaster(s) have high load average

2003-08-19 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 21:25, Christopher Browne wrote: > In 7.3 and 7.4, the "contrib" application, pg_autovacuum can do the > trick, vacuuming anything that reaches thresholds of > inserts/deletes/updates, and do so more or less as often as necessary. Actually pg_autovacuum is not included with

Re: [GENERAL] Buglist

2003-08-19 Thread Vivek Khera
> "MTO" == Matthew T O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MTO> MTO> Changing Postgres to perform as mentioned above is non-trivial, it would MTO> basicially change the entire core of the system. I think this is due to MTO> the fact that postgres uses a non-overwriting storage manager. This

Re: [GENERAL] 7.3.4 RPM

2003-08-19 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 19 August 2003 17:46, Sander Steffann wrote: > I will build them for RedHat 6.2 and 7.3 this afternoon. You can find them > in a few hours at http://opensource.nederland.net/, and maybe Lamar can put > them on ftp.postgresql.org. Ah, there you are. Good. I'll upload them tomorrow when

[GENERAL] native win32 version

2003-08-19 Thread Christian Traber
Hi, sometime ago I heard that there will be a native win32 version of postgresql 7.4. Is this true or will there only be a cygwin version like now? What do you think, how stable and fast is the cygwin version? Best regards, Christian ---(end of broadcast)