Re: [GENERAL] The connection is dead

2006-01-09 Thread pairat
I use ODBC instead of Npgsql because the ODBC can use with MS Access, MS SQL and PostgreSQL database. Here is the code. System.DateTime dateTimeNow = System.DateTime.Now; int i=0; dataView1.RowFilter = "Posted = true"; dataView1.Sort = "GLTran, ID"; //GLTran Table int n = this.BindingContext[data

Re: [GENERAL] The connection is dead

2006-01-09 Thread pairat
Hi Jonel Thank you for your response. I use ODBC instead of Npgsql because the program can use with MS Access, MS SQL and PostgreSQL. Here is the code. int n = this.BindingContext[dataView1].Count - 1; string _Journal; DataRowView DataRowView1; this.cmdInsert.Transaction = _Transaction; this.cm

Re: [GENERAL] userdefined types

2006-01-09 Thread Tom Lane
Assad Jarrahian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > UPDATE userprofiles SET address = ROW( > ,'','','',,'',,'','','','','','','','','','') where > username='mooreg3'; > ERROR: syntax error at or near "," at character 41 That first comma is wrong, or else you forgot to put in a value before it ...

Re: [GENERAL] The connection is dead

2006-01-09 Thread pairat
Thank you for your response. I use ODBC instead of Npgsql because I can use ODBC with other database such as MS Access, and MS SQL. Here is the code. System.DateTime dateTimeNow = System.DateTime.Now; int i=0; dataView1.RowFilter = "Posted = true"; dataView1.Sort = "GLTran, ID"; //GLTran Table in

Re: [GENERAL] Fedora + Yum + 8.1

2006-01-09 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Sydney-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am running Fedora core 4 with nightly "yum" update. Presently it is > not picking up version 8.1 as an upgrade. > 1) If I wait will 8.1 get added to the "yummy" list Nope. FC4 is locked to the PG 8.0.x release series. This goes along with Re

[GENERAL] Unregister Windows Service pg_ctl error

2006-01-09 Thread Gevik
When I try to unregister the windows service I get an error like: C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\bin>pg_ctl.exe unregister -N "pgsql-8.1" pg_ctl: could not open service manager This is on Windows XP and the logged user is postgres ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] Unregister Windows Service pg_ctl error

2006-01-09 Thread Magnus Hagander
> When I try to unregister the windows service I get an error like: > > C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\bin>pg_ctl.exe unregister -N > "pgsql-8.1" > pg_ctl: could not open service manager > > This is on Windows XP and the logged user is postgres You need administrative privileges to unregister

Re: [GENERAL] Unregister Windows Service pg_ctl error

2006-01-09 Thread Gevik
> You need administrative privileges to unregister a service. Can't run it > as user postgres. I did the same under "Administrator" but then I get an access violation error like: Unhandled exception at 0x77c478c0 in pg_ctl.exe: 0xC005: Access violation reading location 0x. What am I

Re: [GENERAL] Fedora + Yum + 8.1

2006-01-09 Thread Richard Sydney-Smith
Thanks Tom. 8.1 has some very tempting features running it on the windows box ... ayah but I like the lazy days approach of having yum do the updates so guess the FC4 box will have to await the release of FC5. r Tom Lane wrote: Richard Sydney-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Re: [GENERAL] programming in pgsql

2006-01-09 Thread Richard Huxton
Angshu Kar wrote: Hi Pgsql, Could anyone please advise whether the following program can be implemented using pgsql cursors/anythign else (or do we need some external scripts)?If yes, could you give please some function names etc? [snip series of queries] Any procedural language will be able t

Re: [GENERAL] [ANNOUNCE] CRITICAL RELEASE: Minor Releases to Fix DoS

2006-01-09 Thread Markus Bertheau
В Пнд, 09/01/2006 в 02:33 -0400, Marc G. Fournier пишет: > -- Character string locale comparison bug. This may require a REINDEX > on text column indexes in some locales, such as Hungarian. Can we be more specific here? How is an administrator supposed to know, whether he needs to reindex his

[GENERAL] pgpool and ODBC

2006-01-09 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Does the system running pgpool have to be permanently running or can it be rebooted without deranging open but quiescent ODBC connections? If it /can/ be rebooted can it also be transferred from one machine to another, e.g. by changing the location of the IP alias? If it /can't/ be rebooted witho

Re: [GENERAL] Fedora + Yum + 8.1

2006-01-09 Thread Devrim GUNDUZ
Hi, On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Richard Sydney-Smith wrote: Thanks Tom. 8.1 has some very tempting features running it on the windows box ... ayah but I like the lazy days approach of having yum do the updates so guess the FC4 box will have to await the release of FC5. Instead, you can downloa

[GENERAL] Authentication via LDAP

2006-01-09 Thread Helbling Julien
Hi,   I've got Postgres 8.1.1 running on a Win32 platform. I would like to authenticate users through an LDAP server and I saw that is possble to do this under a Unix platform with the pam_ldap package.   Does anybody know if something similar is at the moment available (or will be available

Re: [GENERAL] Authentication via LDAP

2006-01-09 Thread Magnus Hagander
> Hi, > > I've got Postgres 8.1.1 running on a Win32 platform. I would > like to authenticate users through an LDAP server and I saw > that is possble to do this under a Unix platform with the > pam_ldap package. > > Does anybody know if something similar is at the moment > available (or wi

Re: [GENERAL] [ANNOUNCE] CRITICAL RELEASE: Minor Releases to Fix DoS

2006-01-09 Thread Jaime Casanova
On 1/9/06, Markus Bertheau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > В Пнд, 09/01/2006 в 02:33 -0400, Marc G. Fournier пишет: > > > -- Character string locale comparison bug. This may require a REINDEX > > on text column indexes in some locales, such as Hungarian. > > Can we be more specific here? How is an

Re: [GENERAL] E-mail harvesting on PG lists?

2006-01-09 Thread Ian Harding
On 1/8/06, Guy Rouillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carlos Moreno wrote: > > > Any comments? If it is the first option above, then it feels like > > by definition there is absolutely nothing that can be done, now or > > ever :-( > > I got an IMAP account with BurntMail.com. I belong to a doze

Re: [GENERAL] Drop user doesn't drop granted privs?

2006-01-09 Thread Jaime Casanova
On 1/6/06, Pete Deffendol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that PostgreSQL 7.4 does not remove a > user's privileges on tables when that user is dropped. The privileges are > still showing up if I do a \z in psql, but with the SYSID instead of the > username (obvi

Re: [GENERAL] userdefined types

2006-01-09 Thread Assad Jarrahian
Why is the first commaa wrong? I guess thats my question how do I set a value of a type to null? I mean if type is made up of type a,b,c how do I set them all at once, but having b to be null? I thought using the ,, with nothing in between would do that I guess I was wrong. Any help would be much

Re: [GENERAL] userdefined types

2006-01-09 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Assad Jarrahian schrieb: > Why is the first commaa wrong? > I guess thats my question > > how do I set a value of a type to null? > I mean if type is made up of type a,b,c > how do I set them all at once, but having b to be null? > > I thought using the ,, with nothing in between would do that I

[GENERAL] help with rules for system table

2006-01-09 Thread rlhsiao
Hi, I have to archieve functions like this: When users define a new index, I will do something (for instance, increase an counter in my table or do some other statistics). However, I defined rule for insert on pg_class and when the entry is actually an index, I do my thing. Obviously my rule

[GENERAL] pg_dump creates bad dump / pgadmin crash issue

2006-01-09 Thread Daniel Whitter
Hello, I'm new to postgresql and during testing for a script I've found some curious things. If I do the following things a bad dump will be created that can't be restored (using pgadmin3, pg_dump and pg_restore or psql). There's also a issue that pgadmin crash. In pgadmin3 do 1) Create a new d

[GENERAL] function overloading

2006-01-09 Thread Robert Greimel
Hi, I have a question regarding function overloading: assume that you have a function that takes several numeric arguments - lets for example say 4 arguments: f(a,b,c,d) Now further assume that internally in the function the first thing you do is to convert the arguments to double precision, do

[GENERAL] Vacuum all tables unders under one schema (not under one database)

2006-01-09 Thread Emi Lu
Greetings, I'd like to vacuum all tables under a specific schema. Instead of specifying tables one by one under the schema (not one Database), is there a simple way to do it? Thanks and have a nice weekend, Emi ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: d

[GENERAL] read txt and insert table

2006-01-09 Thread MARCELO_LIMA/Blnet
Dear friends, read txt and insert table (pgsql). can i do help anyone ?. att, Marcelo Lima. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] help with rules for system table

2006-01-09 Thread Jaime Casanova
> Does this mean that I can't create rules for system tables? that's right... you cannot create rules for system tables... -- regards, Jaime Casanova (DBA: DataBase Aniquilator ;) ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner w

Re: [GENERAL] help with rules for system table

2006-01-09 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Does this mean that I can't create rules for system tables? Not ones that will be invoked by system operations, anyway. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postma

Re: [GENERAL] function overloading

2006-01-09 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Greimel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a question regarding function overloading: > assume that you have a function that takes several numeric arguments - > lets for example say 4 arguments: f(a,b,c,d) > Now further assume that internally in the function the first thing you > do is t

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql question

2006-01-09 Thread Matthew Peter
snip WHERE my_tbl_id = $1AND CASE WHEN $2 IS NULL THEN TRUE ELSE $2 = username ENDor WHERE my_tbl_id = $1 AND COALESCE($2 = username, TRUE)or WHERE my_tbl_id = $1 AND COALESCE($2, username) = usernameWith predicates such as these you wouldn't need to use EXECUTE andyou could write the query

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump creates bad dump / pgadmin crash issue

2006-01-09 Thread Tom Lane
"Daniel Whitter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I do the following things a bad dump will be created that can't be > restored (using pgadmin3, pg_dump and pg_restore or psql). > There's also a issue that pgadmin crash. You should report the pgadmin crash to the pgadmin people (who may or may not

[GENERAL]

2006-01-09 Thread Matthew Peter
is using IN to query a list of values in an function supported? or is there a work around for this type of query?e.g. ... SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE u_id IN (0$1) $$ LANGUAGE SQL;  Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP.

Re: [GENERAL]

2006-01-09 Thread Jaime Casanova
On 1/9/06, Matthew Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is using IN to query a list of values in an function supported? or is there > a work around for this type of query? > > e.g. > ... > SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE u_id IN (0$1) > > $$ LANGUAGE SQL; > if you mean SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE u_id IN (0, 1)

Re: [GENERAL]

2006-01-09 Thread Matthew Peter
How come when I pass in a list in it doesn't use it as a list of integers? Do I need to somehow make $1 be interpreted as a list of ints? Rather than just passing a text value that contains the list?CREATE TABLE my_tbl (u_id int);INSERT INTO my_tbl (u_id) values (1);INSERT INTO my_tb

Re: [GENERAL] autocommit to off

2006-01-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marcelo Lima wrote: > Help me please! > > I need change autocommit to off in fedora core 3 in postgresql.conf i don?t > know. > > How can i do? No, only in psql using AUTOCOMMIT. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (61

Re: [GENERAL] Relational Inheritance Features.

2006-01-09 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 10:31:49AM -0700, Trent Shipley wrote: > Actually, lack of DEFINE is a major gap in SQL itself. Most modern > programming languages make a distinction between *defining* a > ???multi-variable > precursor??? (sort of a light weight type) and *instantiating* a variable.

Re: [GENERAL] [ANNOUNCE] CRITICAL RELEASE: Minor Releases to Fix DoS

2006-01-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jaime Casanova wrote: > On 1/9/06, Markus Bertheau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ? ???, 09/01/2006 ? 02:33 -0400, Marc G. Fournier ?: > > > > > -- Character string locale comparison bug. This may require a REINDEX > > > on text column indexes in some locales, such as Hungarian. > > > > Can

[GENERAL] calling stored procedure with array paramenter (for psql)

2006-01-09 Thread Assad Jarrahian
I have a pg_psql stored procedure getlms(_int4) from psql SELECT * fROM get_lms(ARRAY[12,23,34]); that does not work. How do I pass an array to a function in psql? Please help. Thanks. -assad ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading thr

Re: [GENERAL] calling stored procedure with array paramenter (for psql)

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:33:53PM -0700, Assad Jarrahian wrote: > I have a pg_psql stored procedure > > getlms(_int4) > > from psql > > SELECT * fROM get_lms(ARRAY[12,23,34]); > > that does not work. How do I pass an array to a function in psql? Could you explain what "does not work" means?

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql question

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 01:01:33PM -0800, Matthew Peter wrote: > One other quick question, (figure it still applies to the subject > line :) when returning a row from a function I'm trying to include an > aggregate, but it's not showing up in the query result and I think > it's because it's not

Re: [GENERAL] calling stored procedure with array paramenter (for psql)

2006-01-09 Thread Assad Jarrahian
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION getlms(_int4) RETURNS SETOF tp_locationmessage_object AS $BODY$ DECLARE ... SELECT * FROM getLMs(); ... so lets say I want to send an array contain 1,23,34 ... how do I do that .. whats the syntax? On 1/9/06, Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon,

Re: [GENERAL] Passing a list of values to a function

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Fuhr
[Please don't use a blank subject. I've added a subject to this message.] On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 03:26:45PM -0800, Matthew Peter wrote: > How come when I pass in a list in it doesn't use it as a list of > integers? Do I need to somehow make $1 be interpreted as a list of > ints? Rather than ju

Re: [GENERAL] calling stored procedure with array paramenter (for psql)

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:17:17PM -0700, Assad Jarrahian wrote: > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION getlms(_int4) > RETURNS SETOF tp_locationmessage_object AS > $BODY$ > DECLARE > ... > > > SELECT * FROM getLMs(); > > ... so lets say I want to send an array contain 1,23,34 ... > > how do I do

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql question

2006-01-09 Thread Matthew Peter
Terminology point: you used the word "aggregate" but the function below doesn't have an aggregate. Aggregates are functions thatoperate on multiple rows, like count() and sum(); substr() doesn'tdo that so it's not an aggregate. ya. my mistake.[snip] 1. Create a composite type with the

Re: [GENERAL] Passing a list of values to a function

2006-01-09 Thread Matthew Peter
You could write the function to take an array of integers instead of a text string:CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION getlist(integer[]) RETURNS SETOF my_tbl as $$SELECT * FROM my_tblWHERE u_id = 0 OR u_id = ANY($1)$$ LANGUAGE SQL STABLE STRICT;SELECT * FROM getlist('{1,2,3}');Another way would be to bu

Re: [GENERAL] Vacuum all tables unders under one schema (not under one database)

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:39:09AM -0500, Emi Lu wrote: > I'd like to vacuum all tables under a specific schema. Instead of > specifying tables one by one under the schema (not one Database), is > there a simple way to do it? VACUUM works either on a specific table or on an entire database; it d

Re: [GENERAL] read txt and insert table

2006-01-09 Thread Guy Rouillier
MARCELO_LIMA/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear friends, > > read txt and insert table (pgsql). > can i do help anyone ?. > You've provided way too little information for anyone to respond helpfully. What do you mean by your first statement? (1) Read comma-separated data from a CSV file and load

[GENERAL] Best programming language / connectivity for best performance

2006-01-09 Thread Nico Callewaert
Hi,   I was wondering what is the best database connectivity and programming language to get the best performance with PostgreSQL.  I'm currently working with Delphi, but I don't know if that is the best way to go ?   Many thanks in advance, Best regards,   Nico Callewaert Yahoo! Photos R