Re: [GENERAL] How to handle larger databases?

2004-11-23 Thread Karsten Hilbert
> In postgresql there is no difference in storage method between text, > varchar(n) and char(n). However, there's an additional length check for (var)char(n) involved meaning an ever so tiny performance penalty if that's of concern. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291

Re: [GENERAL] Can COPY skip a header line?

2004-11-23 Thread Adam Witney
On 19/11/04 6:46 pm, "Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> can do this fine with small files But if I get above a 1000 rows it >> takes so long it time out. > > PHP is slow, but not *that* slow, you have a problem somewhere ! Aha yes, I was reading the file doing this

[GENERAL] Bug in queries ??

2004-11-23 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi all, I have three questions about 1 table CREATE TABLE public.logs ( rule_name varchar(32) NOT NULL, bytes int8 NOT NULL, pkts int8 NOT NULL, hostname varchar(100), that_time int4 NOT NULL ) WITH OIDS; Question 1. If I run the following query: select cast(min(that_time) as abstim

[GENERAL] Lexical question...

2004-11-23 Thread Net Virtual Mailing Lists
Hello, I have a table with a timestamp column and I want to set this to a value of now() - a random number of days between 0 and 45 for each row... I've tried to do this a bunch of different ways and can't figure it out... Here is my latest version: update sometable set entered_dt = now() - inte

Re: [GENERAL] null value of type java.sql.Time

2004-11-23 Thread Net Virtual Mailing Lists
Try: select * from event where game_clock IS NULL - Greg >Occasionally I want to store a null value for my java.sql.Time--> Time >column in Postgresql. >update event set game_clock=null where event_id=1; > > I can retreive the record with the null value (type Time) if I select >on the primary

Re: [GENERAL] Lexical question...

2004-11-23 Thread Net Virtual Mailing Lists
Err, I just read my latest digest and saw the solution: update datafrenzy.jobdata set entered_dt= now() - CAST(round(random()*45) || ' days' AS interval); - Greg >Hello, > >I have a table with a timestamp column and I want to set this to a value >of now() - a random number of days between 0 and

Re: [GENERAL] Bug in queries ??

2004-11-23 Thread Richard Huxton
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote: If I run the following query: select cast(min(that_time) as abstime), cast(max(that_time) as abstime), (sum(bytes)/(1024*1024)) as "Totaal in Megabytes" from logs where that_time between cast( abstime('2004-10-1 00:00') as int4) and cast( abstime('2004-11-1 00:00') as int

Re: [GENERAL] Bug in queries ??

2004-11-23 Thread Jim Seymour
"Joost Kraaijeveld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > I have three questions about 1 table > > CREATE TABLE public.logs > ( > rule_name varchar(32) NOT NULL, > bytes int8 NOT NULL, > pkts int8 NOT NULL, > hostname varchar(100), > that_time int4 NOT NULL > ) WITH OIDS; > >

Re: [GENERAL] Bug in queries ??

2004-11-23 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi Jim and Richard, Thank for pointing out something that I should have known. Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-3608416 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.askesis.nl ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [GENERAL] Lexical question...

2004-11-23 Thread John DeSoi
On Nov 23, 2004, at 5:33 AM, Net Virtual Mailing Lists wrote: I have a table with a timestamp column and I want to set this to a value of now() - a random number of days between 0 and 45 for each row... I've tried to do this a bunch of different ways and can't figure it out... Here is my latest v

[GENERAL] Will B4->B5 require an Initdb?

2004-11-23 Thread Jerry LeVan
I guess the subject says it all, can I install the B5 release to a B4 db without starting from scratch? Jerry ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [

Re: [GENERAL] Will B4->B5 require an Initdb?

2004-11-23 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 09:49:05AM -0500, Jerry LeVan wrote: > I guess the subject says it all, can I install the > B5 release to a B4 db without starting from scratch? I think upgrading to beta5 requires an initdb. You can find out by comparing catalog versions between your current database and

Re: [GENERAL] Lexical question...

2004-11-23 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 09:03:26AM -0500, John DeSoi wrote: > select now() - ((round(random()*45))::text || ' days')::interval; Or one of the following (add round() if desired): select now() - 45 * random() * interval'1 day'; select now() - random() * interval'45 day'; -- Michael Fuhr http://w

Re: [GENERAL] Will B4->B5 require an Initdb?

2004-11-23 Thread Tom Lane
Jerry LeVan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess the subject says it all, can I install the > B5 release to a B4 db without starting from scratch? Afraid not. When in doubt, the authoritative answer for such questions can be found by consulting the catversion revision history: http://developer.p

[GENERAL] null value of type java.sql.Time

2004-11-23 Thread phil campaigne
Thanks for the insight Thomas and Gregory. I think I can make a work around. Phil ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])

[GENERAL] Can you help solve restore problem?

2004-11-23 Thread Ennio-Sr
Hi all! Trying to restore one of my db on PG-7.4.3 (on Debian-Sarge): $ psql finanza < finanza.out I get: - [...] ERROR: invalid input syntax for type double precision: "-" CONTEXT: COPY dep_tit, line 1, column ultima_quot: "-" ERROR: invalid input syntax for type double precision: "-"

[GENERAL] I need to add a column to a table

2004-11-23 Thread Krause, Lewis
I know there is a command to add the column. I want to back up the table before I alter it. What is the best way. It has a couple indexes and a trigger. If I am in the wrong forum please direct me to the right one. Thanks. Lewie

Re: [GENERAL] Can you help solve restore problem?

2004-11-23 Thread Tom Lane
Ennio-Sr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is an extract of the dump file: > CREATE TABLE "dep_tit" ( > "cod_rif" character(3), > "titolo" character varying(20), > "quantity" integer, > "costo_med_fisc" double precision, > "data_rif" date, > "ultima_quot" double precision,

[GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Due to recent action by Google concerning the comp.databases.postgresql.* hierarchy, we are going to make some changes that should satisfy just about everyone ... over the next 24hrs or so, traffic *to* comp.databases.postgresql.* from the mailing lists will cease and be re-routed to pgsql.* in

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Jim Seymour
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Due to recent action by Google concerning the comp.databases.postgresql.* > hierarchy, we are going to make some changes that should satisfy just > about everyone ... over the next 24hrs or so, traffic *to* > comp.databases.postgresql.* from

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Did you warn the proponent of comp.databases.postgresql.* that you were going to do this? Did you read any of the arguments for and against a completely separate hierarchy that were posted to the RFD thread in news.groups? Interesting point. What did come of all the arguments? These news server c

[GENERAL] Table name as parameter in function

2004-11-23 Thread Alexander Pucher
Hi, struggling around with this for some time: How can I use a table name as a parameter in a PL/pgSQL function ?? I tried this but it didn't work... CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_row_count(text) RETURNS int4 AS ' DECLARE num_rows int4; BEGIN num_rows := (select count(*) from $1); RETURN n

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Gary L. Burnore
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:37:56 -0400 (AST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Marc G. Fournier") wrote: > >Due to recent action by Google concerning the comp.databases.postgresql.* >hierarchy, we are going to make some changes that should satisfy just >about everyone ... over the next 24hrs or so, traffic *to*

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Gary L. Burnore
At 03:44 PM 11/23/2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Did you warn the proponent of comp.databases.postgresql.* that you were going to do this? Did you read any of the arguments for and against a completely separate hierarchy that were posted to the RFD thread in news.groups? Interesting point. What did

Re: [GENERAL] Table name as parameter in function

2004-11-23 Thread Timothy Perrigo
You'll need to use the EXECUTE command to build the SQL dynamically. See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/plpgsql- statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN On Nov 23, 2004, at 2:56 PM, Alexander Pucher wrote: Hi, struggling around with this for some time: How can I use a ta

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Patrick B Kelly
On Nov 23, 2004, at 3:59 PM, Gary L. Burnore wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:37:56 -0400 (AST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Marc G. Fournier") wrote: Due to recent action by Google concerning the comp.databases.postgresql.* hierarchy, we are going to make some changes that should satisfy just about everyon

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Gary L. Burnore
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:23:19 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick B Kelly) wrote: > >On Nov 23, 2004, at 3:59 PM, Gary L. Burnore wrote: > >> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:37:56 -0400 (AST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ("Marc G. Fournier") wrote: >> >>> >>> Due to recent action by Google concerning the >>> comp.

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Gary L. Burnore
On 23 Nov 2004 21:41:16 GMT, Woodchuck Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick B Kelly) wrote in news:E55E257B-3D95-11D9- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> On Nov 23, 2004, at 3:59 PM, Gary L. Burnore wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:37:56 -0400 (AST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> ("Marc

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Jim Seymour
"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [I had written] > > > > Did you warn the proponent of comp.databases.postgresql.* that you were > > going to do this? Did you read any of the arguments for and against a > > completely separate hierarchy that were posted to the RFD thread in > > new

[GENERAL] Way to check for function existance

2004-11-23 Thread Jim C. Nasby
Sorry if this has been covered before, but the mailing list search is down right now. What's the best way to check for the existance of a function? I saw pg_function_is_visible(), but the problem is that I'd need to use ::regprocedure with it, and ::regprocedure generates an error if the function

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Gary L. Burnore
On 23 Nov 2004 21:57:22 GMT, Woodchuck Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Gary L. Burnore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> And not helping postgres since less NSP's will carry the groups and >> the postgres message. >> >> It's ok. Mysql's better anyway. >> > >Gary, why d

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
[snip] I'm not clear on what exactly "as a whole" means, but I would suggest that arbitrary and peremptory behaviour, perceived or real, is not likely to endear the pgsql community to Usenet newsmasters. All I meant was, has core talked about it? Personally I think the fact that Marc has been as p

[GENERAL] Testing Gatway to pgsql.* hierarchy

2004-11-23 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[GENERAL] VACUUM and ANALYZE With Empty Tables

2004-11-23 Thread Mark Dexter
Title: VACUUM and ANALYZE With Empty Tables We use a development environment that works with Postgres via ODBC and uses cursors to insert and update rows in Postgres tables.  I'm using Postgres version 7.4.5. I have a test program that reads 34,000 rows from an external file and inserts them

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Jim Seymour
Patrick B Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > Marc appears to be the only one NOT making this situation worse. Appearances can be deceiving--particularly when you're unfamiliar with the territory. > Let's > review. Si

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:49:24PM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote: > >Perhaps this should > > be taken up as a whole? > [snip] > > I'm not clear on what exactly "as a whole" means, but I would suggest > that arbitrary and peremptory behaviour, perceive

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Jim Seymour
"Gary L. Burnore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > It's ok. Mysql's better anyway. Was that absolutely necessary? Jim ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] Way to check for function existance

2004-11-23 Thread Tom Lane
"Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm also working on trying to do a select out of pg_proc, but I'm not > having a lot of luck there either... > # select oid,* from pg_proc where proname='user_write_lock_oid' and > proargtypes = ARRAY((SELECT oid FROM pg_type WHERE > typname='oid'))::

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Jim Seymour wrote: "Gary L. Burnore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] It's ok. Mysql's better anyway. Was that absolutely necessary? Yes. It shows his lack of credibility ;) Jim ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives?

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Tom Lane
"Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All I meant was, has core talked about it? There has been no private discussion among core about it; it's not part of our charter IMHO. Personally I think Marc should have waited awhile longer to see whether the news.groups process would produce a p

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Gary L. Burnore
At 05:28 PM 11/23/2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Jim Seymour wrote: "Gary L. Burnore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] It's ok. Mysql's better anyway. Was that absolutely necessary? Of course not. Yes. It shows his lack of credibility ;) My credibility isn't the issue. That yet another news server

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Gary L. Burnore
At 05:43 PM 11/23/2004, Tom Lane wrote: "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > All I meant was, has core talked about it? There has been no private discussion among core about it; it's not part of our charter IMHO. Personally I think Marc should have waited awhile longer to see whether the

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Jim Seymour
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > Personally I think Marc should have waited awhile longer to see whether > the news.groups process would produce a positive vote, but that's just > my own $0.02. That's the way *I* would've preferred to see it handled. Then again: *I* was lookin

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Tom Lane wrote: "Joshua D. Drake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: All I meant was, has core talked about it? There has been no private discussion among core about it; it's not part of our charter IMHO. Personally I think Marc should have waited awhile longer to see whether the news

Re: [GENERAL] Can you help solve restore problem?

2004-11-23 Thread Ennio-Sr
* Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [231104, 14:37]: > Ennio-Sr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is an extract of the dump file: > > > > COPY dep_tit (cod_rif, titolo, quantity, costo_med_fisc, data_rif, > > ultima_quot, data_ult_q) FROM stdin; > > 1 Tit. a 100 3.9112 2004-07-23

Re: [GENERAL] Can you help solve restore problem?

2004-11-23 Thread Ennio-Sr
* Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [231104, 14:37]: > Ennio-Sr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is an extract of the dump file: > > [...] > > If that is the correct analysis then the easiest fix is probably to edit > the COPY commands to add WITH NULL AS '-' (this assumes that you don't > have an

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Jim Seymour wrote: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Personally I think Marc should have waited awhile longer to see whether the news.groups process would produce a positive vote, but that's just my own $0.02. That's the way *I* would've preferred to see it handled.

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Tom Lane
"Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I've done doesn't eliminate (or shouldn't) the desire for a comp.* > hierarchy of groups for postgresql, it just means that the what will end > up still being considered bogus groups will be able to still be accessible > by those that wish to

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Due to recent action by Google concerning the > comp.databases.postgresql.* hierarchy, we are going to make some > changes that should satisfy just about everyone ... over the next > 24hrs or so, traffic *to* > comp.databases.postgresql.* from the mailing lists will cease

[GENERAL] Regexp matching: bug or operator error?

2004-11-23 Thread Ken Tanzer
Using Postgres V. 7.4.1, the following query: SELECT substring('X12345X' FROM '.*?([0-9]{1,5}).*?'); Returns '1'. I would expect it to return '12345'. Is this a bug, or am I missing something? Thanks. begin:vcard fn:Kenneth Tanzer n:Tanzer;Kenneth org:Downtown Emergency Service Center;Inform

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Gary L. Burnore
At 05:57 PM 11/23/2004, Jim Seymour wrote: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > Personally I think Marc should have waited awhile longer to see whether > the news.groups process would produce a positive vote, but that's just > my own $0.02. That's the way *I* would've preferred to see i

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Gary L. Burnore
At 06:16 PM 11/23/2004, Tom Lane wrote: "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I've done doesn't eliminate (or shouldn't) the desire for a comp.* > hierarchy of groups for postgresql, it just means that the what will end > up still being considered bogus groups will be able to still

Re: [GENERAL] Can you help solve restore problem?

2004-11-23 Thread Tom Lane
Ennio-Sr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > May I ask how to 'edit the COPY commands'? Perhaps you mean to edit the > dump file and add "WITH NULL AS '-' " ? Yeah. > Mmmh, I tried to add that in the dump file (at the end of the COPY > command) and got these errors: > You are now connected as new user

Re: [GENERAL] Table name as parameter in function

2004-11-23 Thread Alexander Pucher
Tim, I'm afraid, I didn't get the point. Could you give me an example code snippet of how to use the EXECUTE command in my case. Do I have to use the EXECUTE within my function? Thanks a lot, alex. Timothy Perrigo wrote: You'll need to use the EXECUTE command to build the SQL dynamically. See: h

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Tom Lane wrote: "Marc G. Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: What I've done doesn't eliminate (or shouldn't) the desire for a comp.* hierarchy of groups for postgresql, it just means that the what will end up still being considered bogus groups will be able to still be access

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: Due to recent action by Google concerning the comp.databases.postgresql.* hierarchy, we are going to make some changes that should satisfy just about everyone ... over the next 24hrs or so, traffic *to* comp.databases.postgresql.*

Re: [GENERAL] Regexp matching: bug or operator error?

2004-11-23 Thread Thomas Hallgren
Ken Tanzer wrote: Using Postgres V. 7.4.1, the following query: SELECT substring('X12345X' FROM '.*?([0-9]{1,5}).*?'); Returns '1'. I would expect it to return '12345'. Is this a bug, or am I missing something? Thanks. The regexp {1,5} is satisfied with the minimum of 1 digit. It looks ahe

[GENERAL] Copying into Unicode - Correcting Errors

2004-11-23 Thread Hunter Hillegas
I need to import a file into a Unicode database. I am getting an error: ERROR: Unicode characters greater than or equal to 0x1 are not supported CONTEXT: COPY mailing_list_entry, line 30928, column first_last_name: "Ver?nica" The source file came from pg_dump... Is there a way I can easily

Re: [GENERAL] Regexp matching: bug or operator error?

2004-11-23 Thread Tom Lane
Ken Tanzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Using Postgres V. 7.4.1, the following query: > SELECT substring('X12345X' FROM '.*?([0-9]{1,5}).*?'); > Returns '1'. I would expect it to return '12345'. Is this a bug, or am > I missing something? Thanks. Hmm ... playing with it, it seems that t

Re: [GENERAL] Regexp matching: bug or operator error?

2004-11-23 Thread Tom Lane
Checking in the Tcl bug tracker reveals that this is an open issue for them as well: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=219219&group_id=10894&atid=110894 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=219358&group_id=10894&atid=110894 The first entry has Henry Spen

Re: [GENERAL] Regexp matching: bug or operator error?

2004-11-23 Thread gnari
From: "Ken Tanzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Using Postgres V. 7.4.1, the following query: > > SELECT substring('X12345X' FROM '.*?([0-9]{1,5}).*?'); > > Returns '1'. I would expect it to return '12345'. Is this a bug, or am > I missing something? Thanks. the results of mixing greedy and non-

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread terry
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Seymour > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 5:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ... > > > > "Gary L. Burnore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [snip]

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Gary L. Burnore
At 07:47 PM 11/23/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Seymour > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 5:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ... > > > > "Gary L.

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
BTW, you indicated that one of the reasons pressing you to move was that Google had dropped indexing services for the comp.* groups. Have they given you an indication that they would index pgsql.*, or are we just out of luck on that service? Just FYI, it seems that the comp.* groups are fine o

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Gary L. Burnore
At 08:12 PM 11/23/2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: BTW, you indicated that one of the reasons pressing you to move was that Google had dropped indexing services for the comp.* groups. Have they given you an indication that they would index pgsql.*, or are we just out of luck on that service? Just FYI,

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Woodchuck Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Gary L. Burnore") wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > At 03:44 PM 11/23/2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > >>>Did you warn the proponent of comp.databases.postgresql.* that you >>>were going to do this? Did you read any of the arguments for and >>>against a completely separate hi

Re: [GENERAL] Google (was RFD: comp.databases.postgresql.*)

2004-11-23 Thread Woodchuck Bill
Robert McClenon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I have not checked that out, but am very pleased to hear it. Have a look.. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&group=comp.databases.postgresql Just goes to show you, there are things that can be done about rogue gr

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Woodchuck Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick B Kelly) wrote in news:E55E257B-3D95-11D9- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > The list has been deluged with > countless angry process oriented messages filled with vitriol and > devoid of any content regarding the purpose of this forum, we have been > bombarded with profanity,

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Gary L. Burnore wrote: > At 07:47 PM 11/23/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Seymour > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 5:18 PM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subj

Re: [GENERAL] PostegreSQL 8.0.0 Beta4 Win32

2004-11-23 Thread GreyGeek
Tom Lane wrote: > regards, tom lane Tom, >From the content of some of your posts I gather that you are a contributor to the PostgreSQL development effort. I just wanted to say thanks for such a fine applications. -- -- GreyGeek ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] RFD: comp.databases.postgresql.*

2004-11-23 Thread Woodchuck Bill
Patrick May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Interesting. Does this affect anyone's views on the group name > (yes, I'm looking at you, Ms. Morgan) or is the feeling that existing > users wouldn't switch to a new name, even if it were archived by > Google? If they wer

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Woodchuck Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Marc G. Fournier") wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Due to recent action by Google concerning the > comp.databases.postgresql.* hierarchy, we are going to make some > changes that should satisfy just about everyone ... over the next > 24hrs or so, traffic *to* comp.databa

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Woodchuck Bill
Gary L. Burnore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > And not helping postgres since less NSP's will carry the groups and > the postgres message. > > It's ok. Mysql's better anyway. > Gary, why do your posts show up twice in postgresql.general? Different message IDs for each

[GENERAL] bitmap index

2004-11-23 Thread Pawe³ Niewiadomski
Hello, I saw discussion about bitmap indexes few weeks ago. I wonder if any of you is working on it (in secret)? I will be chosing subject of my master thesis and thougth about implementing bitmap indexes. -- **Paweł Niewiadomski**, new()foo-baz.com, http://new.foo-baz.com/ Podręcznik Administra

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Joshua D. Drake
ctlinnd rmgroup comp.databases.postgresql.interfaces.php ctlinnd rmgroup comp.databases.postgresql.ports.general ctlinnd rmgroup comp.databases.postgresql.interfaces ctlinnd rmgroup comp.databases.postgresql.ports ctlinnd rmgroup comp.databases.postgresql.interfaces.general ctlinnd rmgroup comp.da

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Woodchuck Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Seymour) wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > The key words there being "think about," IMO. For example, the part > about "would have even more prestige." Really? My news server at work > doesn't carry such newsgroups at all. Which is pretty much the point > somebody else

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Woodchuck Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick B Kelly) wrote in news:E55E257B-3D95-11D9- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Nov 23, 2004, at 3:59 PM, Gary L. Burnore wrote: > >> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:37:56 -0400 (AST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ("Marc G. Fournier") wrote: >> >>> >>> Due to recent action by Google concerning the

Re: [GENERAL] Testing Gatway to pgsql.* hierarchy

2004-11-23 Thread \"Marc G. Fournier From\"@svr1.postgresql.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Marc G. Fournier") writes: to usenet works, how about back to mail? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread \"Marc G. Fournier From\"@svr1.postgresql.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Seymour) writes: >Here's another factoid for you. When a new big-8 newsgroup is >approved, an "official" newsgroup creation control message is sent. >Well, somebody *forged* just such a control message for one-or-more >comp.databases.postgresql.* newsgroups. That was *not*

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread \"Marc G. Fournier From\"@svr1.postgresql.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Gary L. Burnore") writes: >At 05:28 PM 11/23/2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >>Jim Seymour wrote: >>>"Gary L. Burnore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>[snip] >>> It's ok. Mysql's better anyway. >>> >>>Was that absolutely necessary? >Of course not. >>Yes. It shows his lack of

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Gary L. Burnore
At 08:58 PM 11/23/2004, you wrote: ctlinnd rmgroup comp.databases.postgresql.interfaces.php ctlinnd rmgroup comp.databases.postgresql.ports.general ctlinnd rmgroup comp.databases.postgresql.interfaces ctlinnd rmgroup comp.databases.postgresql.ports ctlinnd rmgroup comp.databases.postgresql.interfac

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Jim Seymour
"\"Marc G. Fournier From\"@svr1.postgresql.org"@linxnet.com: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Seymour) writes: > > >Here's another factoid for you. When a new big-8 newsgroup is > >approved, an "official" newsgroup creation control message is sent. > >Well, somebody *forged

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall + restore = missing view

2004-11-23 Thread Thomas F.O'Connell
For the record, you shouldn't have needed to do a dump restore between 7.4.1 and 7.4.6 should you? -tfo -- Thomas F. O'Connell Co-Founder, Information Architect Sitening, LLC http://www.sitening.com/ 110 30th Avenue North, Suite 6 Nashville, TN 37203-6320 615-260-0005 On Nov 19, 2004, at 7:24 PM,

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall + restore = missing view

2004-11-23 Thread Jim Seymour
"Thomas F.O'Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the record, you shouldn't have needed to do a dump restore between > 7.4.1 and 7.4.6 should you? IIRC, it was 7.4.1 -> 7.4.2 that required either that or some manual fixing-up. Jim ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [GENERAL] Table name as parameter in function

2004-11-23 Thread Timothy Perrigo
Sorry for the brief response earlier; I was a bit rushed. After looking into it, it's a bit messier than I thought (at least, as far as I can tell...perhaps one of the gurus on this list can show us a better way). Ordinarily, when you write select statements (for example) in a plpgsql functio

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread \"Marc G. Fournier From\"@svr1.postgresql.org
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Gary L. Burnore") writes: >At 07:47 PM 11/23/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > -Original Message- >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Seymour >> > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 5:18 PM >> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Subject: R

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Gary L. Burnore
At 11:56 PM 11/23/2004, Stephan Szabo wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Gary L. Burnore wrote: > At 07:47 PM 11/23/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > -Original Message- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Seymour > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 5:1

Re: [GENERAL] Table name as parameter in function

2004-11-23 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Timothy Perrigo wrote: > Sorry for the brief response earlier; I was a bit rushed. After > looking into it, it's a bit messier than I thought (at least, as far as > I can tell...perhaps one of the gurus on this list can show us a better > way). > > Ordinarily, when you write

Re: [GENERAL] Upcoming Changes to News Server ...

2004-11-23 Thread Greg Stark
I'm not sure, (RFC2822 grammar parsing is touchy stuff) but I think this email address you posted from is messed up: "\"\\"Marc G. Fournier From\\"@svr1.postgresql.org\":" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That is, I think the display-name part of the address after unquoting is: "\Marc G. Fournier From [EMAI

[GENERAL] Fedora core 3 is slower than Fedora core 1?

2004-11-23 Thread songsubo
in Fedora core 1: abc=# select version();explain select * from abc;select count(*) from abc; version -

[GENERAL] pgdump of schema...

2004-11-23 Thread Net Virtual Mailing Lists
Hello, When I do a "pgdump --schema=someschema somedatabase > something.dump", the results of the dump file look like this: REVOKE ALL ON SCHEMA someschema FROM PUBLIC; GRANT ALL ON SCHEMA someschema TO PUBLIC; SET search_path = someschema, pg_catalog; CREATE SEQUENCE emailtemplate_email_t

Re: [GENERAL] Fedora core 3 is slower than Fedora core 1?

2004-11-23 Thread Tom Lane
"songsubo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > in Fedora core 1: > Time: 35.84 ms > in Fedora core 3: > Time: 29.876 ms And your problem was what exactly? regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increas

Re: [GENERAL] Any good report/form generators for postgresql?

2004-11-23 Thread Alberto Cabello Sanchez
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 05:50:30PM +, Chris Green wrote: > I'm after a good report generator for a postgresql database. I am > using Rekall at the moment which is quite good but I'm not quite able > to do some of the things I want. > > Has anyone got any recommendations for forms/reports gene