Re: [GENERAL] How to know the indexes on a Table

2009-06-13 Thread Frank Heikens
Hi all, Is there any way, to know the name of indexes on a table, defined in a database. I mean can I query something like Select Index_name from pg_class where relname = "Table_name" . Thanks in advance. --- Thanks & Reagrds Anirban Pal | Software Engineer Newgen Software Tech

Re: [GENERAL] String Manipulation

2009-06-13 Thread Alban Hertroys
On Jun 13, 2009, at 12:35 AM, Christine Penner wrote: Sam, The problem with making it a numeric field is that I have seen things like A123, #123a or 23-233. This is only here to make most sorting work better, not perfect. It all depends on how they enter the data. Wont the different forma

Re: [GENERAL] Maintenance database SQL_ASCII

2009-06-13 Thread Alban Hertroys
On Jun 13, 2009, at 1:52 AM, Brad Schick wrote: After a new pgsql installation the "postgres" maintenance database has an encoding of SQL_ASCII. pgAdmin III gave me a warning about that, and I may want to create users or databases that are not restricted 7bit ASCII. SQL_ASCII <> 7 bit ASC

Re: [GENERAL] How to store text files in the postgresql?

2009-06-13 Thread Alban Hertroys
On Jun 12, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Yaroslav Tykhiy wrote: I cannot but ask the community a related question here: Can such design, that is, storing quite large objects of varying size in a PostgreSQL database, be a good idea in the first place? I used to believe that what RDBMS were really good

Re: [GENERAL] accessing anyarray elements

2009-06-13 Thread Tom Lane
Michael Glaesemann writes: > I'd like to be able to access individual elements of anyarray, > treating them as type anyelement to take advantage of the > polymorphism. Using pg_stats.histogram_bounds as a convenient example > of an anyelement array, here's an example of the issue I'm running