Re: [GENERAL] getting list of columns from a query

2010-08-23 Thread c k
I am using PostgreSQL 8.4 on Fedora Linux 13 and using MS Access as the front end for our application. It is not the problem associated with MS Access. I got the some entries while searching for the said topic that Oracle provides such facility. DESCRIBE SELECT LIST which gives the details about th

Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] getting list of columns from a query

2010-08-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
Isn't this provided in odbc by myQuery.columns? Is that not accessible to MSAccess?? On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:02 AM, c k wrote: > I am using PostgreSQL 8.4 on Fedora Linux 13 and using MS Access as the > front end for our application. It is not the problem associated with MS > Access. I got the

[GENERAL] Sequence reset

2010-08-23 Thread SUNDAY A. OLUTAYO
How can I reset a sequence column due to deletion of some rolls? Sunday Olutayo Sadeeb Technologies Ltd -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

[GENERAL] disappearing data

2010-08-23 Thread Garry Saddington
We have had a problem with postgresql 8.3 on a Windows server 2008. I wonder whether there has been any other experiences like this. We have connected to Potsgres from Zope via a Psycopg adapter and noticed that sometimes when data is inserted via a form in Zope, the data is available in Zope b

Re: [GENERAL] Sequence reset

2010-08-23 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 23/08/2010 11:04, SUNDAY A. OLUTAYO wrote: > How can I reset a sequence column due to deletion of some rolls? You can use the setval() function to set its value to whatever you like: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/functions-sequence.html HTH Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway

Re: [GENERAL] disappearing data

2010-08-23 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:12, Garry Saddington wrote: > We have had a problem with postgresql 8.3 on a Windows server 2008. I wonder > whether there has been any other experiences like this. We have connected to > Potsgres from Zope via a Psycopg adapter and noticed that sometimes when > data is

Re: [GENERAL] Sequence reset

2010-08-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:04 AM, SUNDAY A. OLUTAYO wrote: > How can I reset a sequence column due to deletion of some rolls? Note that a design of a column that holds the output of a sequence and can't handle gaps is pretty much broken. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@post

Re: [GENERAL] disappearing data

2010-08-23 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Monday 23 August 2010 3:15:28 am Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:12, Garry Saddington > > I don't know anything about Zope, but it sounds like the db adapter > opens a transaction and never commits it. Perhaps the previous version > was working in autocommit mode by default,

Re: [GENERAL] Massively Parallel transactioning?

2010-08-23 Thread Ivan Voras
On 08/19/10 20:19, Benjamin Smith wrote: > On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 04:58:08 pm Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> Well if you are just using it for updates to the schema etc... you >> should only need to launch a single connection to each database to make >> those changes. > > And that's exactly the

Re: [GENERAL] Sequence reset

2010-08-23 Thread Randall Smith
I can't tell what a roll is based on your question, but here is how to set a sequence to a specific value. SELECT setval('foo', 42); Next nextval will return 43 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-sequence.html -Randall On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 05:04 -0500, SUNDAY A.

Re: [GENERAL] Npgsql Exception

2010-08-23 Thread Tom Lane
Mike Christensen writes: > Sorry, when I had emailed the NHibernate DL the exception was in the > subject line. I forgot to copy the subject this time. The exception > is: > ERROR: 42704: unrecognized configuration parameter > "ssl_renegotiation_limit" ssl_renegotiation_limit is a server param

[GENERAL] Tool to compare data between tables

2010-08-23 Thread akp geek
Hi all - Is there any open source tool available for postgres to compare data between 2 tables. Appreciate your help Regards

Re: [GENERAL] Sequence reset

2010-08-23 Thread Rikard Bosnjakovic
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:04, SUNDAY A. OLUTAYO wrote: > How can I reset a sequence column due to deletion of some rolls? ALTER SEQUENCE sequence_name RESTART 1; -- - Rikard -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://w

[GENERAL] ECPG & threads

2010-08-23 Thread Leif Jensen
Hello guys, PostgreSQL 8.3.5. Compiled and installed on Slackware 10.2, kernel 2.6.15. We have a transaction based system that creates a new process every time a user connects (just fork()s, no exec()s). Each of these processes has several threads. Some database connections are opened

[GENERAL] IBATIS support for postgres cursors

2010-08-23 Thread Atul.Goel
Hi, Can cursors be returned to IBATIS. If so how. This is what I have written. This does not work. Please help. Regards, Atul Goel SENIOR DEVELOPER Global DataPoint Middlesex House, 34-42 Cleveland Street London W1T 4LB, UK T: +44 (0)20 7079 4827 M: +44

Re: [GENERAL] Tool to compare data between tables

2010-08-23 Thread Arjen Nienhuis
http://phpsqldiff.sourceforge.net/ On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 4:32 PM, akp geek wrote: > Hi all - > > Is there any open source tool available for postgres to compare > data between 2 tables. Appreciate your help > > Regards >

[GENERAL] Mammoth Replicator

2010-08-23 Thread Eliot Gable
Has anyone on this list (other than Command Prompt people) had any experience with Mammoth Replicator? If so, what are your thoughts / opinions of the system? Are there any drawbacks you can think of for using it verses something else? I like the fact that it is integrated into PostgreSQL, and I l

Re: [GENERAL] Npgsql Exception

2010-08-23 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
Are you using Npgsql with NHibernate? We added an option to send this command when starting a connection. But the setting is inside a try catch error handler, so you aren't supposed to receive it. On my tests I couldn't reproduce the error. The only error we got about that was a user who had a b

Re: [GENERAL] Npgsql Exception

2010-08-23 Thread Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
Whooops, I didn't check the message header... You can ignore my first question :) On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 15:56, Francisco Figueiredo Jr. wrote: > Are you using Npgsql with NHibernate? > > We added an option to send this command when starting a connection. > > But the setting is inside a try ca

[GENERAL] pg_notify but no pg_listen?

2010-08-23 Thread A.M.
There is a new pg_notify function in pgsql 9.0 but no pg_listen equivalent? Why? It sure would be handy to pass quoted strings... Cheers, M -- 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] Warm Standby and resetting the primary as a standby

2010-08-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
Yaroslav Tykhiy wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:45:44PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Derrick Rice wrote: > > > I've been reading up on the documentation for WAL shipping and warm > > > standby > > > configuration. One concern that I have (a common one, I'm sure) is that it > > > seems that

Re: [GENERAL] Warm Standby and resetting the primary as a standby

2010-08-23 Thread Derrick Rice
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Sorry, I don't know. I think the timelines are only there for safety if > you have to fall back to the previous timeline, and to prevent timeline > mixing. Thanks for the helpful answers. Two follow up questions which, if they can be

Re: [GENERAL] Warm Standby and resetting the primary as a standby

2010-08-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
Derrick Rice wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > > > Sorry, I don't know. I think the timelines are only there for safety if > > you have to fall back to the previous timeline, and to prevent timeline > > mixing. > > > Thanks for the helpful answers. > > T

Re: [GENERAL] pg_notify but no pg_listen?

2010-08-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
A.M. wrote: > There is a new pg_notify function in pgsql 9.0 but no pg_listen > equivalent? Why? It sure would be handy to pass quoted strings... Notify sends the notify; there is no place to send a 'listen' payload. -- Bruce Momjian http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB

[GENERAL] select from pipe-delimited field

2010-08-23 Thread san man
Hello all, I am trying to do a SELECT operation with a WHERE condition. However, the column with which I am trying to do the comparison has several values which are pipe-delimited. I want to return a match(true) if the WHERE condition matches any of the bar-delimited values. For example, SELECT i

Re: [GENERAL] select from pipe-delimited field

2010-08-23 Thread David Fetter
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 05:44:09PM -0500, san man wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to do a SELECT operation with a WHERE condition. However, the > column with which I am trying to do the comparison has several values which > are pipe-delimited. I want to return a match(true) if the WHERE condit

Re: [GENERAL] select from pipe-delimited field

2010-08-23 Thread Arjen Nienhuis
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:44 AM, san man wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to do a SELECT operation with a WHERE condition. However, the > column with which I am trying to do the comparison has several values which > are pipe-delimited. I want to return a match(true) if the WHERE condition > m

Re: [GENERAL] select from pipe-delimited field

2010-08-23 Thread san man
Thanks for the replies. David, I would have normalized it to 2 or more tables, but the number of bar-delimited are not fixed and as new data are added the maximum number of these values may change. Also, the problem with like I think is that matching is not strict and thus might give spurious hits.

Re: [GENERAL] Npgsql Exception

2010-08-23 Thread Mike Christensen
Sounds good, I think I'll take Tom's advice.. Actually I'm planning on waiting for the 9.0 release to upgrade, so in theory that should just fix everything.. This only happens if I break on all exceptions, which I usually have turned off.. Thanks! Mike On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Francis

Re: [GENERAL] Npgsql Exception

2010-08-23 Thread Mike Christensen
BTW, version is: 'PostgreSQL 8.3.4, compiled by Visual C++ build 1400' I don't have any such setting referenced in any .conf file. So I guess NHibernate tries to set this setting, assuming I have a more recent version of PG. If that's the case, it'll go away when I upgrade.. Mike On Mon, Aug

Re: [GENERAL] Warm Standby and resetting the primary as a standby

2010-08-23 Thread Tom Lane
Derrick Rice writes: > Is it possible to interpret the requested file and ignore the timeline > digits and provide a file from some other timeline? Or is the timeline mean > more than just the file name? Sounds dangerous as can be to me. The point of the timeline stuff is that a particular rang

Re: [GENERAL] IBATIS support for postgres cursors

2010-08-23 Thread Craig Ringer
On 08/24/2010 12:11 AM, atul.g...@globaldatapoint.com wrote: Hi, Can cursors be returned to IBATIS. If so how. This is what I have written. This does not work. Please help. http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Guide_to_reporting_problems -- Craig Ringer -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing

Re: [GENERAL] pg_notify but no pg_listen?

2010-08-23 Thread Craig Ringer
On 08/24/2010 06:43 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: A.M. wrote: There is a new pg_notify function in pgsql 9.0 but no pg_listen equivalent? Why? It sure would be handy to pass quoted strings... Notify sends the notify; there is no place to send a 'listen' payload. I assume what they want is the ab

Re: [GENERAL] select from pipe-delimited field

2010-08-23 Thread Craig Ringer
On 08/24/2010 07:07 AM, san man wrote: Thanks for the replies. David, I would have normalized it to 2 or more tables, but the number of bar-delimited are not fixed and as new data are added the maximum number of these values may change. Also, the problem with like I think is that matching is not

Re: [GENERAL] pg_notify but no pg_listen?

2010-08-23 Thread A.M.
On Aug 23, 2010, at 10:18 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 08/24/2010 06:43 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> A.M. wrote: >>> There is a new pg_notify function in pgsql 9.0 but no pg_listen >>> equivalent? Why? It sure would be handy to pass quoted strings... >> >> Notify sends the notify; there is no pl

Re: [GENERAL] pg_notify but no pg_listen?

2010-08-23 Thread Craig Ringer
On 24/08/2010 11:06 AM, A.M. wrote: On Aug 23, 2010, at 10:18 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: On 08/24/2010 06:43 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: A.M. wrote: There is a new pg_notify function in pgsql 9.0 but no pg_listen equivalent? Why? It sure would be handy to pass quoted strings... Notify sends the

Re: [GENERAL] select from pipe-delimited field

2010-08-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 08/24/2010 07:07 AM, san man wrote: >> >> Thanks for the replies. >> David, I would have normalized it to 2 or more tables, but the number of >> bar-delimited are not fixed and as new data are added the maximum number >> of these values may