[GENERAL] dbi-link freezing up DBs, needing reboot

2009-08-30 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I was playing around with dbi-link, hoping to get it connected to a teradata database. However, before I dive into that, I figured that I might as well try it out first on a PG Database (on another server) So, it installed dbi-link fine. I did a select on a 30GB table and it froze the Originating

Re: [GENERAL] Snow Leopard and PG 8.4 problems....

2009-08-30 Thread Jan Otto
Hi Jerry, I have been able to use just the ip in the host field but Snow Leopard seems to have broken using a 'name' in the host field... see below. It appears that compiling pg 8.4 gives rise to libs with architecture of x386_64... hm, i have no problems to compile postgresql on snow leo

Re: [GENERAL] best practise/pattern for large OR / LIKE searches

2009-08-30 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2009-08-26, Ries van Twisk wrote: > > --Apple-Mail-1173-222712773 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=US-ASCII; > format=flowed; > delsp=yes > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Hey All, > > I am wondering if there is a common pattern for these sort of queries : > > SELECT

Re: [GENERAL] New database or New Schema?

2009-08-30 Thread Eric Comeau
""Filip RembiaƂkowski"" wrote in message news:92869e660908250856g62561141n557f88015cd21...@mail.gmail.com... 2009/8/25 Eric Comeau "David Fetter" wrote in message news:20090821170259.ga6...@fetter.org... > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:16:45PM -0400, Eric Comeau wrote: >>

[GENERAL] Trouble using TG_TABLE_NAME in BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE trigger

2009-08-30 Thread Stephen Cuppett
Using PostgreSQL 8.4.0, I have the following generic trigger defined for use by a collection of the same structured tables: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pdf_active_check() RETURNS trigger AS $BODY$ DECLARE var_active BOOLEAN; BEGIN SELECT p.active INTO STRICT var_active FROM

Re: [GENERAL] export a schema / import as new schema

2009-08-30 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2009-08-21, David Kerr wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:00:11PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > - On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 11:56 -0700, David Kerr wrote: > - > Is there an easy way, that I'm missing, where I can export a schema from > - > database A and then rename it on load into database B?

Re: [GENERAL] Removing older versions

2009-08-30 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2009-08-29, Blueb wrote: > I installed PostgreSQL 8.4 over a PostgreSQL 8.3 installation (using msi) on > a Windows machine. there's a msi installer for 8.4? > My pgAdmin3 program correctly displays only PostgreSQL 8.4 on localhost. > > I went to my harddrive and noticed that I have PostgreSQ

Re: [GENERAL] Select data for current week only

2009-08-30 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2009-08-27, BlackMage wrote: > > Hey all, > > I've been trying to figure this problem out with just using sql but I'm not > sure how too. I have a table that holds events for each week but I only want > to select events happening for the current week(Mon-Sun). So can anyone help > me out with t

Re: [GENERAL] Trouble using TG_TABLE_NAME in BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE trigger

2009-08-30 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello you cannot use variable as table or column name in direct query. look on execute statemen: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN or don't use generic triggers. regards Pavel Stehule 2009/8/30 Stephen Cuppett : > Using PostgreSQ

Re: [GENERAL] best practise/pattern for large OR / LIKE searches

2009-08-30 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello > regex is compiled to a finite state machine and then the datanumber > column is scanned in a single pass (for each row) > >> Searches are currently taking to long and we would like to optimize >> them, but before we dive into our own solution we >> where wondering if there already common s

Re: [GENERAL] Trouble using TG_TABLE_NAME in BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE trigger

2009-08-30 Thread Stephen Cuppett
Sorry, found my answer wrt "dynamic queries", etc. Restructured trigger to look like this: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pdf_active_check() RETURNS trigger AS $BODY$ DECLARE var_curs1 refcursor; var_active BOOLEAN; BEGIN open var_curs1 FOR EXECUTE 'SELECT p.active FRO

Re: [GENERAL] Trouble using TG_TABLE_NAME in BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE trigger

2009-08-30 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 03:22:16PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote: > Hello > > you cannot use variable as table or column name in direct query. > > look on execute statemen: > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS-EXECUTING-DYN > > or don't use generic

Re: [GENERAL] Trouble using TG_TABLE_NAME in BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE trigger

2009-08-30 Thread Pavel Stehule
2009/8/30 Martijn van Oosterhout : > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 03:22:16PM +0200, Pavel Stehule wrote: >> Hello >> >> you cannot use variable as table or column name in direct query. >> >> look on execute statemen: >> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/plpgsql-statements.html#PLPGSQL-STATEMENTS

Re: [GENERAL] dbi-link freezing up DBs, needing reboot

2009-08-30 Thread Andy Colson
Ow Mun Heng wrote: I was playing around with dbi-link, hoping to get it connected to a teradata database. However, before I dive into that, I figured that I might as well try it out first on a PG Database (on another server) So, it installed dbi-link fine. I did a select on a 30GB table and it

Re: [GENERAL] dbi-link freezing up DBs, needing reboot

2009-08-30 Thread Ow Mun Heng
-Original Message- From: Andy Colson [mailto:a...@squeakycode.net] Ow Mun Heng wrote: >> I was playing around with dbi-link, hoping to get it connected to a >teradata >> database. However, before I dive into that, I figured that I might as >well >> try it out first on a PG Database (on a

[GENERAL] Connecting to Teradata via Postgresql

2009-08-30 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi All, Anyone here has a teradata box ? Are you able to connect to it from withing postgresql? I would like to pull 1or 2 tables from the box (sync) and was wondering if there's anyway to do that w/o using dbi-link. I actually am trying dbi-link but it seem as though it doesn't support DBD::Ter

[GENERAL] convert epoch to date

2009-08-30 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi all; I know how to convert a date to an epoch: select extract ('epoch' from timestamp '2009-08-12') How do I do the opposite, I want to convert epoch values to a date Thanks in advance -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscript

Re: [GENERAL] Connecting to Teradata via Postgresql

2009-08-30 Thread David Fetter
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:21:55PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi All, > > Anyone here has a teradata box? Are you able to connect to it from > withing postgresql? If you can get me a test environment including Teradata, I'd be delighted to add support to DBI-Link, most likely in the form of exa

Re: [GENERAL] Lotus Approach like "find" function (ie CTRL-F) in some libre forms client?

2009-08-30 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Saturday 29 August 2009 4:59:14 pm Zenaan Harkness wrote: > I am charged with migrating a Lotus Approach db + forms. > > Approach (97 I think :) has this function where, when viewing a record > or within a form (or in the spreadsheet view for that matter) one can > press CTRL-F, for "find record

Re: [GENERAL] Problem libpython2.3.so.1.0

2009-08-30 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Saturday 29 August 2009 4:33:14 pm nesfree wrote: > Hello, > > I am not experienced PostgreSQL user but have following problem: > > I am unable to use plpythonu on linux (ubuntu 9.04). After I execute > command: > > psql# CREATE LANGUAGE plpythonu; > > I got following error message: > > ERROR:

Re: [GENERAL] convert epoch to date

2009-08-30 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello 2009/8/30 Kevin Kempter : > Hi all; > > I know how to convert a date to an epoch: > > select extract ('epoch' from timestamp '2009-08-12') > postgres=# select extract ('epoch' from timestamp '2009-08-12'); date_part 1250028000 (1 row) Time: 0,734 ms postgres=# select to_time

[GENERAL] Using WITH queries on VIEWs

2009-08-30 Thread Jorge Godoy
Hi! Is it possible to use WITH queries ( http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/queries-with.html) on VIEWs? I have a rather complex view that I could optimize with it... Regards, -- Jorge Godoy

[GENERAL] $Body$

2009-08-30 Thread bilal ghayyad
Hi List; What does it mean the $BODY$ when writing the function? In other words: why to use the $ sign? Regards Bilal -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] $Body$

2009-08-30 Thread Christophe Pettus
It's just a string constant: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-CONSTANTS It could be anything between the dollar signs, but BODY is self- documenting. On Aug 30, 2009, at 3:37 PM, bilal ghayyad wrote: Hi List; What does it mean the $

Re: [GENERAL] $Body$

2009-08-30 Thread David Fetter
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 03:37:56PM -0700, bilal ghayyad wrote: > Hi List; > > What does it mean the $BODY$ when writing the function? In other > words: why to use the $ sign? See http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-syntax-lexical.html#SQL-SYNTAX-DOLLAR-QUOTING Cheers, David. -- D

Re: [GENERAL] Using WITH queries on VIEWs

2009-08-30 Thread David Fetter
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 07:33:52PM -0300, Jorge Godoy wrote: > Hi! > > > Is it possible to use WITH queries ( > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/queries-with.html) on VIEWs? > > I have a rather complex view that I could optimize with it... A WITH query can go anywhere any other re

[GENERAL] short circuit joins

2009-08-30 Thread Marcus Engene
Hi, -- a select ... from base_table bt left outer join sub_table_1 st1 on (st1.base_table = bt.id) left outer join sub_table_2 st1 on (st2.base_table = bt.id) -- b select ... from base_table bt left outer join sub_table_1 st1 on (bt.objecttype = 1 AND st1.base_table = bt.id

Re: [GENERAL] $Body$

2009-08-30 Thread bilal ghayyad
This is the idea david: Why in the constant string we use the tag and we do not use the tag in the BODY? In other wrods, why we write it $BODY$ and does not write it as $q$BODY$q$ or as $$BODY$$? Also why in the single-quote syntax, each backslash will be written as four backslashes? While thi

Re: [GENERAL] $Body$

2009-08-30 Thread David Fetter
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 04:13:18PM -0700, bilal ghayyad wrote: > This is the idea david: > > Why in the constant string we use the tag and we do not use the tag > in the BODY? > > In other wrods, why we write it $BODY$ and does not write it as > $q$BODY$q$ or as $$BODY$$? The string BODY in $BOD

[GENERAL] Query and the number of row result

2009-08-30 Thread bilal ghayyad
Hi All; After doing a SELECT query, how can I know the number of returned rows from this query? If it returned 5 rows or 1 row or non? Regards Bilal -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/ma

Re: [GENERAL] Query and the number of row result

2009-08-30 Thread David Fetter
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 06:56:59PM -0700, bilal ghayyad wrote: > Hi All; > > After doing a SELECT query, how can I know the number of returned > rows from this query? If it returned 5 rows or 1 row or non? Lots of language bindings have this. Which language(s) are you using? Cheers, David. --

[GENERAL] indexes on partitioned tables - on the base table, or the partitioned tables?

2009-08-30 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi all; where's the best place for the indexes/constraints on a partitioned table. I assume it's best to place the FK constraints/triggers on the base/master table and the indexes on the individual partition tables. Thoughts? Thanks in advance. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-g

Re: [GENERAL] Query and the number of row result

2009-08-30 Thread bilal ghayyad
Postgresql. Is there alot of Postgresql? How can I know mine? Regards Bilal --- On Sun, 8/30/09, David Fetter wrote: > From: David Fetter > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Query and the number of row result > To: "bilal ghayyad" > Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org > Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 10:1

Re: [GENERAL] Query and the number of row result

2009-08-30 Thread David Fetter
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 07:35:42PM -0700, bilal ghayyad wrote: > Postgresql. > > Is there alot of Postgresql? How can I know mine? Are you connecting from C? PHP? Perl? Python? Ruby? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter