Re: [GENERAL] hung postmaster?

2005-02-20 Thread Edmund Bacon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Ed L.") writes: > > Workin' on gdb/strace build, but having trouble with both. Gdb > just doesn't build from source, not sure why yet, and no depots > found at porting center. It doesn't appear that strace is > supported for 11.23 itanium based on strace README/PORTING fi

Re: [GENERAL] error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.3

2005-02-22 Thread Edmund Bacon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russell Smith) writes: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 08:05 pm, Surabhi Ahuja wrote: > > do you still experience problems when you run > > LDLIBRARY=/usr/local/pgsql/lib ./sample > > Note there is no SPACE in the example I have given. > LDLIBRARY=/usr/local... > > NOT > > LDLIBRARY =

Re: [GENERAL] basic trigger using OLD not working?

2005-02-28 Thread Edmund Bacon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Casey) writes: > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION logPedigreesDel() RETURNS TRIGGER AS ' > begin > RAISE EXCEPTION ''OLD.famindid = '', OLD.famindid; RAISE EXCEPTION ''OLD.famindid = %'', OLD.famindid; ^ > return OLD; > end;

Re: [GENERAL] Novice Question

2005-03-01 Thread Edmund Bacon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Romagnoli) writes: > What kind of command would I run if I wanted to copy an entire table > (along with renaming it, and, of course, all data from the first table > - > some of which is binary)? SELECT * INTO newtable FROM oldtable; Note that this doesn't construct ind

Re: [GENERAL] fied separator change from the shell command line

2005-03-13 Thread Edmund Bacon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello, > > I'm trying to change the usal "|" table field separator from the shell > command line: > psql -d ect -f pl_lost.sql -o pl_lost.out.txt -F "\t" -U asaadmin > > But it doesn't work. It keeps the same "|" separator in the output > file. > Can anyone please he

Re: [GENERAL] Stuck with a query...

2005-03-13 Thread Edmund Bacon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Stark) writes: > Geoff Caplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi folks, > > > > Sorry to ask a newbie SQL question but I'm struggling... > > There's no efficient way to write this in standard SQL. However Postgres has > an extension DISTINCT ON that would do it: > > s

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging deadlocks

2005-04-02 Thread Edmund Bacon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruno Wolff III) writes: > Using domains is a good way to keep column constraints in just one place. > Speaking of domains, how do you find out what the range of a domain is? eg: test=# create domain fruit as text check( value in ('apple', 'orange', 'banana', 'pear')); CREAT

Re: [GENERAL] CSV delim quoting differences PgCOPY, Excel etc...

2005-05-18 Thread Edmund Bacon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Sievers) writes: > Hello. > > Anyway, I am often enough having to load Pg databases using SQL COPY > from CSV output written by Excel, that I've had to write a script to > change the quoting behavior from Excel's putting double quotes around > a field having embedded deli

Re: [GENERAL] Count and Results together

2005-05-20 Thread Edmund Bacon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Jan Sunavec") writes: > I am using libpg.so. I assume that you mean libpq ? >I tryed find solution for this problem in > internet but, I don't find nothing yet. I have idea get rowcount > throught some function write in C. Or is there any plan add this > feature into Postgre

Re: [GENERAL] hpw to Count without group by

2005-06-02 Thread Edmund Bacon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yudie Pg) writes: > Hello, > I have a table, structure like this: > create table product( > sku, int4 not null, > category int4 null, > display_name varchar(100) null, > rank int4 null > ) > let say example data: > sku, category, display_name > === > 10

Re: [GENERAL] ON DELETE trigger blocks delete from my table

2004-10-30 Thread Edmund Bacon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Naeem Bari") writes: > I understand. Makes sense. Is there anyway for my trigger function to > "know" that it is being called on a delete or on an update? Because I do > need to "return new" on update... and I really don't want to write 2 > different functions, one for update a

Re: [GENERAL] Issue adding foreign key

2004-10-30 Thread Edmund Bacon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("George Woodring") writes: > I have 2 existing tables in my db: > > iss=> \d pollgrpinfo > Table "public.pollgrpinfo" > Column | Type | Modifiers > ---++--- > pollgrpinfoid | integer

Re: [GENERAL] adding missing FROM-clause

2004-10-31 Thread Edmund Bacon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("C G") writes: > Dear All, > > I have a simple join query > > SELECT c1 FROM t1 > INNER JOIN > t2 ON t2.c2 = t1.c2 WHERE t3.c3= t2.c3; > > Which gives the expected result but I get the message > NOTICE: adding missing FROM-clause entry for table "t3" > > How do I get rid of

Re: [GENERAL] disabling constraints

2004-11-07 Thread Edmund Bacon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vivek Khera) writes: > > "DP" == David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > DP> I would like to be able to truncate all of the tables in a schema > DP> without worrying about FK constraints. I tried issuing a "SET > DP> CONSTRAINTS ALL DEFERRED" before truncating, but I s

[GENERAL] Spurious rows returned with left join?

2006-04-04 Thread Edmund Bacon
I think I have stumbled on a bug, though I'm not entirely sure about that. Things do seem to get a little fuzzy when using outer joins Consider the following: create table t1(t1_a int); insert into t1 values (1); insert into t1 values (2); insert into t1 values (3); create table t2(t2_

Re: [GENERAL] Spurious rows returned with left join?

2006-04-04 Thread Edmund Bacon
Tom Lane wrote: Edmund Bacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Consider the following: ... Note that I get 2 rows where t1_a = 3. Are you getting a Merge Right Join plan for that? If so, you're likely getting bit by this bug: 2006-03-17 14:38 tgl That's correct.

Re: [GENERAL] SELECT based on function result

2004-07-18 Thread Edmund Bacon
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I have a function that tells me if a record is positive and negative > based on several field values. I use it in select statements: > > ohc=> SELECT sample_id, is_wipe_positive(tblleadwipe.sample_id) AS > positive FROM tblleadwipe WHERE hud_building_id IS NOT NULL; >

Re: [GENERAL] earthdistance is not giving correct results.

2004-10-03 Thread Edmund Bacon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mike cox) writes: > I'm running PostgreSQL 8.0 beta 1. I'm using the > earthdistance to find the distance between two > different latitude and logitude locations. > Unfortunately, the result seems to be wrong. > > Here is what I'm doing: > select > earth_distance(ll_to_earth(