Re: [GENERAL] Getting relation/attribute names from inside UDT input/output function

2006-05-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:12:33PM -0600, Michael Fuhr wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:50:26PM -0300, Humberto Luiz Razente wrote: > > I'm trying to index data characteristics extracted from multimedia > > files (like a color distribution histogram from an image), in > > order to make k-nearest

Re: [GENERAL] compiling postgres on solaris and DBD::Pg

2006-05-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:55:04PM +0930, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: > Hi. > > I've been able to compile postgresql on solaris 10. > Now I want to install the perl DBD::Pg module but I get a complaint, namely: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] # make > rm -f blib/arch/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so > LD_RUN_PATH="/usr/local/p

[GENERAL] Debugging SQL queries

2006-05-11 Thread Anastasios Hatzis
I have sometimes very long queries, for example in setup-purposed sql file where plenty of tables of a new database are created in a single transaction. 600 lines of code or more is common. Sometimes, while developing, an error may appear after submitting such a query for testing purposes via

Re: [GENERAL] understanding explain data

2006-05-11 Thread Sim Zacks
Now you're talking about data warehouse design and not optimizing queries, though they are obviously interrelated. A human looking at the explain data would not be able to determine that it would be better to have a summary table either. However, first you would want to optimize your queries a

[GENERAL] Feature-Request: Login-Procedure

2006-05-11 Thread A. Kretschmer
Hello, Someone asks for a Login-Procedure like Sybase: set OPTION PUBLIC.LOGIN_PROCEDURE='meine_tolle_prozedur'; I think, this i possibly a nice feature, either per user or for all users. We have a 'ALTER USER name SET parameter ...', simply add a new Parameter 'login_procedure' and call this

Re: [GENERAL] Feature-Request: Login-Procedure

2006-05-11 Thread Tino Wildenhain
A. Kretschmer schrieb: Hello, Someone asks for a Login-Procedure like Sybase: set OPTION PUBLIC.LOGIN_PROCEDURE='meine_tolle_prozedur'; I think, this i possibly a nice feature, either per user or for all users. We have a 'ALTER USER name SET parameter ...', simply add a new Parameter 'login_

Re: [GENERAL] understanding explain data

2006-05-11 Thread Sim Zacks
Thanks for the script. It does a great job of finding exactly which path is taking the most time. Now for the hard part. Why is that part taking the longest time. Richard Huxton wrote: I've got a short perl script that I throw explain output into. It's not brilliant - can give false positives,

Re: [GENERAL] Feature-Request: Login-Procedure

2006-05-11 Thread A. Kretschmer
am 11.05.2006, um 11:56:51 +0200 mailte Tino Wildenhain folgendes: > A. Kretschmer schrieb: > >Hello, > >Someone asks for a Login-Procedure like Sybase: > > set OPTION PUBLIC.LOGIN_PROCEDURE='meine_tolle_prozedur'; > >I think, this i possibly a nice feature, either per user or for all > >users. W

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging SQL queries

2006-05-11 Thread Douglas McNaught
Anastasios Hatzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My problem is that I don't know where the given character number is > inside the query/file. I can search in my code editors (e.g. those of > Eclipse IDE) for line number + character number in given line > number... but I can not search for an overal

Re: [GENERAL] Feature-Request: Login-Procedure

2006-05-11 Thread Tino Wildenhain
A. Kretschmer schrieb: am 11.05.2006, um 11:56:51 +0200 mailte Tino Wildenhain folgendes: A. Kretschmer schrieb: Hello, Someone asks for a Login-Procedure like Sybase: set OPTION PUBLIC.LOGIN_PROCEDURE='meine_tolle_prozedur'; I think, this i possibly a nice feature, either per user or for al

Re: [GENERAL] Feature-Request: Login-Procedure

2006-05-11 Thread A. Kretschmer
am 11.05.2006, um 12:30:13 +0200 mailte Tino Wildenhain folgendes: > >>I wonder what this procedure should do? :-) > >For instance: > >- the database-administrator can set a flag in one table to deny > > user-logins, a syste-wide logon-proc can check this flag. > > say like pg_hba.conf? ;) Yes,

Re: [GENERAL] Feature-Request: Login-Procedure

2006-05-11 Thread Tino Wildenhain
A. Kretschmer schrieb: am 11.05.2006, um 12:30:13 +0200 mailte Tino Wildenhain folgendes: I wonder what this procedure should do? :-) For instance: - the database-administrator can set a flag in one table to deny user-logins, a syste-wide logon-proc can check this flag. say like pg_hba.con

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging SQL queries

2006-05-11 Thread Anastasios Hatzis
Douglas McNaught wrote: Emacs has the "goto-char" function and runs on Windows, so you could use that (there are probably other editors with this feature as well).. Doug, thank you. I will use it. - Ha, I never thought I will ever use legendary Emacs. Probably I will even become an entry-clas

Re: [GENERAL] Feature-Request: Login-Procedure

2006-05-11 Thread Berend Tober
Tino Wildenhain wrote: A. Kretschmer schrieb: Someone asks for a Login-Procedure like Sybase: set OPTION PUBLIC.LOGIN_PROCEDURE='meine_tolle_prozedur'; I think, this i possibly a nice feature, either per user or for all users. We have a 'ALTER USER name SET parameter ...', simply add a new

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging SQL queries

2006-05-11 Thread Nikolay Samokhvalov
From my point of view, more important problem is that log doesn't help to find the query (in other words, log message doesn't show context) On 5/11/06, Douglas McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anastasios Hatzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My problem is that I don't know where the given cha

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging SQL queries

2006-05-11 Thread chris smith
On 5/11/06, Nikolay Samokhvalov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From my point of view, more important problem is that log doesn't help to find the query (in other words, log message doesn't show context) Yes it does.. but it depends on your logging setup. in psql: test=# blah; ERROR: syntax error

Re: [GENERAL] Recovery problem with PostgreSQL

2006-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Shoaib Mir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While running the recovery process I am getting the following errors for > cannot stat: > cp: cannot stat `/data1_node5/arch/0001.history': No such file or > directory What makes you think this is an error? As pointed out in the docs, the archive_re

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging SQL queries

2006-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Anastasios Hatzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have sometimes very long queries, for example in setup-purposed sql > file where plenty of tables of a new database are created in a single > transaction. 600 lines of code or more is common. Sometimes, while > developing, an error may appear aft

[GENERAL] Reindexdb

2006-05-11 Thread Carlos Oliva
Hi, Where can I find information about installing and running contrib/reindexdb?  I have searched the manuals and appendixes without much luck.  I just know that there is a contrib for reindexing an entire database.   We run postgresql (v 7.4.x) in Linux RedHat.

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging SQL queries

2006-05-11 Thread Dave Page
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Lane > Sent: 11 May 2006 15:00 > To: Anastasios Hatzis > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Debugging SQL queries > > pgAdmin needs to cat

Re: [GENERAL] Recovery problem with PostgreSQL

2006-05-11 Thread Shoaib Mir
That should be true about `/data1_node5/arch/0001.history'  since there may not be any timelines created by previous archiver recoveriesBut the messagecp: cannot stat  `/data1_node5/arch/00010007'' suggests that it was not able to restore one of the log files while doing the rec

Re: [GENERAL] Feature-Request: Login-Procedure

2006-05-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 05:58, Tino Wildenhain wrote: > A. Kretschmer schrieb: > > am 11.05.2006, um 12:30:13 +0200 mailte Tino Wildenhain folgendes: > > > >>I was not aware so many people working at the psql console > >>regulary :-) > > > > > > No? I'm amazed ;-) There are other clients? > > I

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging SQL queries

2006-05-11 Thread Tony Caduto
In CVS tip you just see regression=# select 1 2; ERROR: syntax error at or near "2" LINE 1: select 1 2; ^ regression=# We still include "at character N" if the message is written to the server log, but the "primary message text" field of the error report sent to the client does

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging SQL queries

2006-05-11 Thread Tony Caduto
Tom Lane wrote: We have actually removed the "at character N" bit from the default message format in CVS Tom, What will the error format be for 8.2? Since the char number has been removed, what will it show? Line number? Thanks, -- Tony Caduto AM Software Design http://www.amsoftwared

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging SQL queries

2006-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Tony Caduto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> We have actually removed the "at character N" bit from the default message >> format in CVS >> > What will the error format be for 8.2? In CVS tip you just see regression=# select 1 2; ERROR: syntax error at or near "2" LINE 1: selec

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging SQL queries

2006-05-11 Thread Wayne Conrad
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:56:20AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > We still include "at character N" if the message is written to the > server log, but the "primary message text" field of the error report > sent to the client doesn't have it any more. Will the text returned by PQerrorMessage still includ

Re: [GENERAL] Reindexdb

2006-05-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Carlos Oliva wrote: --> Hi, Where can I find information about installing and running contrib/reindexdb? I have searched the manuals and appendixes without much luck. I just know that there is a contrib for reindexing an entire database. We run postgresql (v 7.4.x) in Linux RedHat.

Re: [GENERAL] Reindexdb

2006-05-11 Thread Carlos Oliva
Hi Joshua, I think that it was installed from a RedHat distribution and the installation left out reindexdb from the contrib folder. I will look into this. In the mean time maybe I can ask you: Does VACUUM FULL ANALYZE of a database would also reindex the user indexes of a database? I am trying

Re: [GENERAL] Reindexdb

2006-05-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Carlos Oliva wrote: Hi Joshua, I think that it was installed from a RedHat distribution and the installation left out reindexdb from the contrib folder. I will look into this. In the mean time maybe I can ask you: Does VACUUM FULL ANALYZE of a database would also reindex the user indexes of a

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging SQL queries

2006-05-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hi Tom, I guess I didn't know there was a error-position field returned, I have been parsing out the "at character xx" to get the char number. Do you know offhand if there is the error-position field is discussed in the docs anywhere? Not a C guy but possibly? http://www.commandprompt.co

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging SQL queries

2006-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Tony Caduto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess I didn't know there was a error-position field returned, I have > been parsing out the "at character xx" to get the char number. > Do you know offhand if there is the error-position field is discussed in > the docs anywhere? See PQresultErrorFie

[GENERAL] string primary key

2006-05-11 Thread Mark Gibson
Is there a disadvantage to having the primary key for a table be a text type vs. an integer type? Performance? Any difference between having a varchar or char as a primary key? My instinct tells me that an integer is preferred, but I'm looking for a more concrete answer. Thanks, Mark

Re: [GENERAL] string primary key

2006-05-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 10:52, Mark Gibson wrote: > Is there a disadvantage to having the primary key for a table be a text > type vs. an integer type? Performance? Any difference between having a > varchar or char as a primary key? > > My instinct tells me that an integer is preferred, but I'm

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and grants to PUBLIC

2006-05-11 Thread Blair Lowe
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 21:08 +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:52:32AM -0600, Blair Lowe wrote: > > In my test I do not see stuff2 either. The problem here is that I have > > sensitive production data, so my tests are hard to read, and not able to > > submit here. >

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and grants to PUBLIC

2006-05-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:41:51AM -0600, Blair Lowe wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# psql temp99 > Welcome to psql 7.3.4, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. > > Type: \copyright for distribution terms >\h for help with SQL commands >\? for help on internal slash commands >

Re: [GENERAL] string primary key

2006-05-11 Thread Mark Gibson
Scott Marlowe wrote: If you need a unique constraint on the text field anyway, and it's a natural key, you're generally better of using that field as the pk. However, if it's not a natually unique key, then it shouldn't be the pk, and int is a perhaps better choice. There are two VERY opposit

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and grants to PUBLIC

2006-05-11 Thread Blair Lowe
On Thu, 2006-11-05 at 18:44 +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 10:41:51AM -0600, Blair Lowe wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# psql temp99 > > Welcome to psql 7.3.4, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. > > > > Type: \copyright for distribution terms > >\h for

Re: [GENERAL] Reindexdb

2006-05-11 Thread Carlos Oliva
Thank you again Joshua. Perhaps I can ask you another question: How does the VACUUM FULL ANALYZE differ from a reindex? A VACUUM FULL ANALYZE is outputting messages about pages recuperated for indexes. Hence I was under the impression that obsolete index pages were recuperated by the VACUUM FULL

Re: [GENERAL] string primary key

2006-05-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 11:43, Mark Gibson wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > > > If you need a unique constraint on the text field anyway, and it's a > > natural key, you're generally better of using that field as the pk. > > > > However, if it's not a natually unique key, then it shouldn't be t

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and grants to PUBLIC

2006-05-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
select relname from pg_class where oid = 17736; relname - bbs_auth_access (1 row) phpbb_mainlandpc=> \q To access this user's table, I can be logged on as anyone, and that is expected in SQL when there are public grants. I am not expecting to get everyone else's stu

[GENERAL] SIGSEGV happens over once a day

2006-05-11 Thread Richard Yen
Hi all, I'm experiencing signal 11 (segmentation fault) failures on the master node of a 3-node Slony-I cluster. In the past week, we've averaged a little more than one segfault per day (11 times in the past 10, including today). Any ideas what's going on? Would anyone know how to track

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid

2006-05-11 Thread Ron Mayer
On May 9, 2006, at 11:26 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: Of course not, but which drives lie about sync that are SATA? Or more specifically SATA-II? With older Linux drivers (before spring 2005, I think) - all of them - since it seems the linux kernel didn't support the write barriers needed to forc

[GENERAL] top predicate

2006-05-11 Thread Karen Hill
It seems PostgreSQL doesn't have a TOP Predicate. Why is that? Here is an example: SELECT TOP 10 products from sales; ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] SIGSEGV happens over once a day

2006-05-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Richard Yen wrote: Hi all, I'm experiencing signal 11 (segmentation fault) failures on the master node of a 3-node Slony-I cluster. In the past week, we've averaged a little more than one segfault per day (11 times in the past 10, including today). Any ideas what's going on? Would anyone

Re: [GENERAL] top predicate

2006-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Karen Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems PostgreSQL doesn't have a TOP Predicate. Why is that? It's not in the SQL standard. If we were to implement something like what I think you're asking for (your example is way underspecified), it'd probably look like SQL2003's window functions.

Re: [GENERAL] SIGSEGV happens over once a day

2006-05-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 12:07:04PM -0700, Richard Yen wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm experiencing signal 11 (segmentation fault) failures on the > master node of a 3-node Slony-I cluster. In the past week, we've > averaged a little more than one segfault per day (11 times in the > past 10, includ

Re: [GENERAL] top predicate

2006-05-11 Thread Jan de Visser
On Thursday 11 May 2006 16:34, Karen Hill wrote: > It seems PostgreSQL doesn't have a TOP Predicate. Why is that? Here > is an example: > > SELECT TOP 10 products from sales; Just for my understanding: This would return the 10 products with the most matching sales rows, right? jan -- --

Re: [GENERAL] top predicate

2006-05-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Karen Hill wrote: It seems PostgreSQL doesn't have a TOP Predicate. Why is that? Here is an example: SELECT TOP 10 products from sales; Just use: SELECT product from sales limit 10 OR SELECT products from sales order by products desc limit 10; Joshua D. Drake --

Re: [GENERAL] top predicate

2006-05-11 Thread Ben
Have you tried using the LIMIT clause? select porducts from sales limit 10; http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/queries-limit.html On Thu, 11 May 2006, Karen Hill wrote: It seems PostgreSQL doesn't have a TOP Predicate. Why is that? Here is an example: SELECT TOP 10 products fro

[GENERAL] ident authentication with named localhost

2006-05-11 Thread David Link
Hi, I am having trouble with ident authentication. Everything is working fine except when specifying host for connections on the local machine. pg_hba.conf: local all all ident wp hostall all 10.97.8.0/24 ident wp pg_ident.conf:

Re: [GENERAL] ident authentication with named localhost

2006-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
David Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone know how I can test ident? I'd try sniffing the IP traffic to and from it with a packet sniffer and/or tracing the daemon's system calls with strace. Manually invoking the daemon isn't going to prove a lot, you want to watch its reaction to Pos

[GENERAL] Querying libpq compile time options

2006-05-11 Thread spaminos-sql
Hi allI am writing an app that uses libpq, but because it is threaded I want to make sure that the dynamic library being used has been compiled with the right option.How do I do this?Is there a call such as "bool PQisThreadSafe()" that I can call?ThanksNicolas

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid

2006-05-11 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:59:55PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > Vivek Khera wrote: > > > > > > On May 9, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > > > >> Sorry that is an extremely misleading statement. SATA RAID is > > >> perfectly acceptable if you have a hard

Re: [PERFORM] [GENERAL] Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid

2006-05-11 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:10:32PM +0200, Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote: > > I myself can't see much reason to spend $500 on high end controller > > cards for a simple Raid 1. > > Naa, you can find ATA &| SATA ctrlrs for about EUR30 ! And you're likely getting what you paid for: crap. Such a contro

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid

2006-05-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
You want an in-depth comparison of how a server disk drive is internally better than a desktop drive: http://www.seagate.com/content/docs/pdf/whitepaper/D2c_More_than_Interface_ATA_vs_SCSI_042003.pdf BTW, someone (Western Digital?) is now offering SATA drives that carry the same MTBF

Re: [GENERAL] compiling postgres on solaris and DBD::Pg

2006-05-11 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi Martijn. Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:55:04PM +0930, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: Hi. I've been able to compile postgresql on solaris 10. Now I want to install the perl DBD::Pg module but I get a complaint, namely: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid

2006-05-11 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:38:31PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > >>You want an in-depth comparison of how a server disk drive is internally > >>better than a desktop drive: > >> > >> > >> http://www.seagate.com/content/docs/pdf/whitepaper/D2c_More_than_Interface_ATA_vs_SCSI_042003.pdf > >

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid

2006-05-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > >> You want an in-depth comparison of how a server disk drive is internally > >> better than a desktop drive: > >> > >> > >> http://www.seagate.com/content/docs/pdf/whitepaper/D2c_More_than_Interface_ATA_vs_SCSI_042003.pdf > > > > BTW, someone (Western Digital?) is

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid

2006-05-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Well western digital and Seagate both carry 5 year warranties. Seagate I believe does on almost all of there products. WD you have to pick the right drive. That's nice, but it seems similar to my Toshiba laptop drive experience --- it breaks, we replace it. I would rather not have to replace

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid

2006-05-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > >> Well western digital and Seagate both carry 5 year warranties. Seagate I > >> believe does on almost all of there products. WD you have to pick the > >> right drive. > > > > That's nice, but it seems similar to my Toshiba laptop drive experience > > --- it breaks,

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid

2006-05-11 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:20:27PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > > >> You want an in-depth comparison of how a server disk drive is internally > > >> better than a desktop drive: > > >> > > >> > > >> http://www.seagate.com/content/docs/pdf/whitepaper/D2c_More_than_In

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid

2006-05-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 07:20:27PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > > > > >> You want an in-depth comparison of how a server disk drive is > > > >> internally > > > >> better than a desktop drive: > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> http://www.seag

Re: [GENERAL] top predicate

2006-05-11 Thread Karen Hill
Tom Lane wrote: > "Karen Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It seems PostgreSQL doesn't have a TOP Predicate. Why is that? > > It's not in the SQL standard. If we were to implement something like > what I think you're asking for (your example is way underspecified), > it'd probably look like

[GENERAL] GUI Interface

2006-05-11 Thread Bart Butell
Is there a GUI interface to the database like Enterprise Manager for Microsoft SQL Server?   Thanks   Bart Butell Sasquatch Engineering email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cell: 503 703-0044  

Re: [GENERAL] Reindexdb

2006-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
"Carlos Oliva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the mean time maybe I can ask you: Does VACUUM FULL ANALYZE of a > database would also reindex the user indexes of a database? I am trying to > eliminate index bloating. VACUUM FULL not only doesn't do a REINDEX for you, it's more likely to bloat t

Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] Arguments Pro/Contra Software Raid

2006-05-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Hmm... I should figure out how to have OS X email me daily log updates like FreeBSD does... Logwatch. -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL so

Re: [GENERAL] GUI Interface

2006-05-11 Thread Kenneth Downs
Bart Butell wrote: Is there a GUI interface to the database like Enterprise Manager for Microsoft SQL Server? A couple of big ones are pgAdmin3 and phppgadmin pgAdmin3 is a desktop app and looks like Enterprise Mgr.  If you are used to Enterprise mgr, it can be almost good e

Re: [GENERAL] top predicate

2006-05-11 Thread Karen Hill
Jan de Visser wrote: > On Thursday 11 May 2006 16:34, Karen Hill wrote: > > It seems PostgreSQL doesn't have a TOP Predicate. Why is that? Here > > is an example: > > > > SELECT TOP 10 products from sales; > > Just for my understanding: This would return the 10 products with the most > matching

Re: [GENERAL] GUI Interface

2006-05-11 Thread Michael Schmidt
And then there is PG Lightning Admin (which I like quite a bit).  EMS has a GUI, although it has some limitations and I've heard that the folks that do the MySQL GUI have developed one for PostgreSQL.  Almost an embarrassment of riches!   Michael Schmidt - Original Message - Fr

Re: [GENERAL] GUI Interface

2006-05-11 Thread Tony Caduto
Bart Butell wrote: Is there a GUI interface to the database like Enterprise Manager for Microsoft SQL Server? Thanks Bart Butell Sasquatch Engineering email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] cell: 503 703-0044 Your in Luck Bart, Check out PG Lightning Admin, it was developed initially for us

Re: [GENERAL] string primary key

2006-05-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 09:52:41 -0600, Mark Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a disadvantage to having the primary key for a table be a text > type vs. an integer type? Performance? Any difference between having a > varchar or char as a primary key? You probably want to use 'text