Re: [GENERAL] pgAdmin3 not working with Gnome3

2011-09-02 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:12:59 -0700, Mike Christensen wrote: >> Hi all - >> >> I'm on openSuse running the latest stable release of Gnome3 (Just >> trying it out, so far the fact I can't minimize windows is perhaps >> more than my old school brain can handle).. >> >> I've noticed in pgAdmin, basical

[GENERAL] Missing DLL after unplaned server stop

2011-09-02 Thread gbrun
Hi everybody! I've encountered a problem similar to this mentioned on this thread: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2009-12/msg00207.php I've got the same problem: I'm unable to start PostGreSQL (trough PGAdmin or the service itself). Message is: "This application failed to start

Re: [GENERAL] md5 of table

2011-09-02 Thread Vincent de Phily
On Thursday 01 September 2011 11:47:24 Sim Zacks wrote: > Is there a way to get an md5 or other hash of an entire table? > > I want to be able to easily compare 2 tables in different databases. > > I thought about using dblink and the EXCEPT query, but then I need to > know the field list of each

Re: [GENERAL] UPDATE using query; per-row function calling problem

2011-09-02 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 02/09/11, Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > Rory Campbell-Lange writes: > > I'm doing an UPDATE something like this: > > UPDATE > > slots > > SET > > a = 'a' > > ,b = (SELECT uuid_generate_v1()) > > WHERE > > c = TRUE; > > > Each updated row in

Re: [GENERAL] Missing DLL after unplaned server stop

2011-09-02 Thread gbrun
So, some following for people who will go trough this problem! I tried many things to solve this problem, and after a while, I noticed that a lot of DLL were missing... Completely hopeless, I decided to erase my installed PostGreSQL version with fresh binaries downloaded at this adress: h

Re: [GENERAL] Memory leak somewhere at PQconnectdb?

2011-09-02 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, I now know it's somewhat an "academic exercise" of little practical importance, thanks for the clarification!! Cheers, Antonio 2011/9/2 Tom Lane : > Craig Ringer writes: >> Even better, add a valgrind suppressions file for the warnings and >> ignore them. They are "leaks" only in the se

Re: [GENERAL] UPDATE using query; per-row function calling problem

2011-09-02 Thread David Johnston
> > In my "-1" example, am I right in assuming that I created a correlated > subquery rather than an correlated one? I'm confused about the > difference. > > Correlated: has a where clause that references the outer query Un-correlated: not correlated Because of the where clause a correlated s

Re: [GENERAL] UPDATE using query; per-row function calling problem

2011-09-02 Thread pasman pasmański
That's interpretation of subselect is ok, when it contains only stable functions. Maybe add a warning when subselect contains volatile function. 2011/9/2, Rory Campbell-Lange : > On 02/09/11, Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: >> Rory Campbell-Lange writes: >> > I'm doing an UPDATE something l

[GENERAL] JDBC XA resource bug?

2011-09-02 Thread Andrey Vorobiev
There is a view named pg_prepared_xacts which contains list of prepared transactions in all databases of current instance. PGXAConnection uses following query to retrive prepared transactions: "SELECT gid FROM pg_prepared_xacts". Shouldn't it be the following: "SELECT gid FROM pg_prepared_xacts w

Re: [GENERAL] UPDATE using query; per-row function calling problem

2011-09-02 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-2?Q?pasman_pasma=F1ski?= writes: > That's interpretation of subselect is ok, when it contains only stable > functions. > Maybe add a warning when subselect contains volatile function. We're not likely to do that, because this sort of notation is actually fairly commonly used to hide t

Re: [GENERAL] Variable column name

2011-09-02 Thread Bob Pawley
-Original Message- From: Bill Moran Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 8:19 AM To: Bob Pawley Cc: Postgresql Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Variable column name http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/plpgsql-statements.html Section 39.5.4 If you're not familiar with plpgsql at all, you mi

Re: [GENERAL] Variable column name

2011-09-02 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 02/09/2011 18:33, Bob Pawley wrote: > > > -Original Message- >> From: Bill Moran > Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 8:19 AM > To: Bob Pawley > Cc: Postgresql > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Variable column name > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/plpgsql-statements.html > Section

Re: [GENERAL] Variable column name

2011-09-02 Thread Bob Pawley
-Original Message- From: Raymond O'Donnell Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 10:38 AM To: Bob Pawley Cc: Bill Moran ; Postgresql Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Variable column name On 02/09/2011 18:33, Bob Pawley wrote: -Original Message- From: Bill Moran Sent: Thursday, September

Re: [GENERAL] Variable column name

2011-09-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Bob Pawley" : > > I am getting an error -- "column "1" does not exist" > Select "1" into column ; Where are you selecting "1" from? This query has no FROM clause, so of course the column doesn't exist. The previous query, "SELECT 2 INTO point_array" is going to put the i

[GENERAL] pg_lock_status not documented

2011-09-02 Thread Martín Marqués
I'm searching for information on pg_lock_status() function, but there seams to be nothing in the docs. Maybe missing? Any hits, at least what each column outputed is. -- Martín Marqués select 'martin.marques' || '@' || 'gmail.com' DBA, Programador, Administrador -- Sent via pgsql-general mailin

Re: [GENERAL] pg_lock_status not documented

2011-09-02 Thread Tom Lane
=?UTF-8?B?TWFydMOtbiBNYXJxdcOpcw==?= writes: > I'm searching for information on pg_lock_status() function, but there > seams to be nothing in the docs. Maybe missing? It's not documented because it's an internal function that you shouldn't call directly. Look at the docs for the pg_locks view, w

Re: [GENERAL] pg_lock_status not documented

2011-09-02 Thread Jerry Sievers
Martín Marqués writes: > I'm searching for information on pg_lock_status() function, but there > seams to be nothing in the docs. Maybe missing? Any hits, at least > what each column outputed is. Have a look at the pg_locks view which wraps this function. \d+ pg_locks > Martín Marqués > sel

Re: [GENERAL] pgAdmin3 not working with Gnome3

2011-09-02 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 09:30 +0200, Guillaume Lelarge wrote: > > I guess the bug can be fixed as: > > > > If the bug is in pgAdmin3... Could not reproduce any of those issues on Fedora 15. -- Devrim GÜNDÜZ Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com PostgreSQL Danışman

Re: [GENERAL] Variable column name

2011-09-02 Thread Bob Pawley
-Original Message- From: Bill Moran Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 10:53 AM To: Bob Pawley Cc: Postgresql Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Variable column name In response to "Bob Pawley" : I am getting an error -- "column "1" does not exist" Select "1" into column ; Where are y

Re: [GENERAL] Variable column name

2011-09-02 Thread Scott Ribe
On Sep 2, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Bob Pawley wrote: > It seems to work when I hard code the column name and array point, so I was > hoping to make it work through a loop using variables for column and array > point. > > Does this make sense?? Building queries this way is tedious & error prone; that'

Re: [GENERAL] pg_lock_status not documented

2011-09-02 Thread Martín Marqués
I know pg_locks, but I thought maybe pg_lock_status had some extra info. Thanks anyway 2011/9/2 Tom Lane : > =?UTF-8?B?TWFydMOtbiBNYXJxdcOpcw==?= writes: >> I'm searching for information on pg_lock_status() function, but there >> seams to be nothing in the docs. Maybe missing? > > It's not docum

[GENERAL] Looking for an intro-to-SQL book which is PostgreSQL-friendly

2011-09-02 Thread Josh Berkus
All, I'm looking for an intro-to-SQL book for teaching a class, one aimed at folks who know *nothing* about RDBMSes, which is not based on MySQL or MSAccess. The ones I have on my desk are all based on one or the other, except The Manga Guide to Databases, which I can't use in a serious class. T

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for an intro-to-SQL book which is PostgreSQL-friendly

2011-09-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Josh Berkus wrote: I'm looking for an intro-to-SQL book for teaching a class, one aimed at folks who know *nothing* about RDBMSes, which is not based on MySQL or MSAccess. The ones I have on my desk are all based on one or the other, except The Manga Guide to Databases, whic

Re: [GENERAL] How can I merge two tables?

2011-09-02 Thread Jeff Davis
On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 13:09 -0400, Jerry LeVan wrote: > As time goes by the tables on the various computers get out of > sync. > > Is there an elegant way I can get all of the differences (uniquely) > merged into a single table? You can try a query involving NOT EXISTS, combined with dblink: ht

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for an intro-to-SQL book which is PostgreSQL-friendly

2011-09-02 Thread Bret Fledderjohn
SQL for Dummies is pretty agnostic. Follow that up with SQL Cookbook from O'Reilly and you have a good one two punch! On 2 September 2011 19:48, Josh Berkus wrote: > All, > > I'm looking for an intro-to-SQL book for teaching a class, one aimed at > folks who know *nothing* about RDBMSes, which i

[GENERAL] CentOS 6 - www.pgrpms.org - SELinux

2011-09-02 Thread Michael A. Peters
I'm setting up a new server for a CMS I have written (er, partially, needs work) that uses PostgreSQL as a backend. All my existing CentOS 5 servers, I use pgrpms for PostgreSQL. I would like to do the same with CentOS 6 but I also want to keep SELinux enabled on this box. Do the RPM's in pg