Re: [GENERAL] Missing uuid_generate_v1()

2010-10-07 Thread Mike Christensen
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 05:09, Mike Christensen wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> Mike Christensen writes: >>>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >>>&

[GENERAL] Postgres won't start after setting ssl=on

2010-10-09 Thread Mike Christensen
Hi, I'm trying to require SSL for Postgres connections from certain IPs.. This is on Postgres 9.0. First, I've followed the directions at: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/ssl-tcp.html I've created the files server.crt and server.key. I've also removed the passphrase from the key so P

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres won't start after setting ssl=on

2010-10-09 Thread Mike Christensen
7;root'. > In my case I run Red Hat which uses the 'postgres' user, so: > > chown postgres.postgres /var/lib/pgsql/data/server.* > > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Mike Christensen > wrote: >> >> Hi, I'm trying to require SSL for Postgres co

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres won't start after setting ssl=on

2010-10-09 Thread Mike Christensen
In > any event, you should have another user; running programs or servers as root > when they don't need root powers is generally a bad idea.) -- Darren Duncan > > Mike Christensen wrote: >> >> Hi, I'm trying to require SSL for Postgres connections from certain &

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres won't start after setting ssl=on

2010-10-10 Thread Mike Christensen
While I do appreciate the vote of confidence, rest assured you will never see a post from me that starts with "So I've been hacking the pg code and..." On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Darren Duncan > wrote: >> The owner of these new files

[GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-17 Thread Mike Christensen
Okay my required n00b question of the week, hopefully this'll be an easy one.. I decided to give pgAgent a shot, because there's this stored sproc (sorry, function) I need to run nightly and I think spending hours figuring out pgAgent would somehow be better than the 3 minutes it would take to add

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Mike Christensen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: >> Okay my required n00b question of the week, hopefully this'll be an easy >> one.. >> >> I decided to give pgAgent a shot, because there's this sto

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Mike Christensen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Dave Page wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: >>> Okay my required n00b question of the week, hopefully this'll be an easy >>> one.. >

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Mike Christensen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: >> Sorry, it looks like it defaulted to the wrong DB.  I created the >> schema in the "postgres" database and now I see a Jobs node.. > > :-) > >>

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Mike Christensen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Dave Page wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Mike Christensen >>> wrote: >>>> Sorry, it look

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Mike Christensen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: >> Okay I found one that I can use.. >> >> One question..  Should the connection string in the script have the >> password for "root" hard coded i

Re: [GENERAL] Need some help setting up pgAgent

2010-10-18 Thread Mike Christensen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Dave Page wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Dave Page wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Mike Christensen >>> wrote: >>>> Okay I found one

Re: [GENERAL] Missing uuid_generate_v1()

2010-10-22 Thread Mike Christensen
. I think now it's legit now.. On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Alexia Lau wrote: > Does anyone know where I can see what’s already fixed at 9.0.2? > > Thanks, > > Alexia > > On 2010-10-07 09:54, Dave Page wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Tom Lane wrote: &

[GENERAL] pgAdmin on Mac connecting to Postgres 9 on Linux - SSL/timeout issue

2010-10-29 Thread Mike Christensen
I have a Postgres 9 server running on a server out on the Internet and I connect to it with pgAdmin on OS/X over an SSL connection. I notice if I keep the connection open and idle for maybe an hour or so, when I try to run a query it either times out or pgAdmin just kinda freezes up and I have to

Re: [GENERAL] pgAdmin on Mac connecting to Postgres 9 on Linux - SSL/timeout issue

2010-10-30 Thread Mike Christensen
Maybe that's it.. It's definitely some sort of SSL thing since it didn't start happening until I enabled SSL. I guess I'll just have to close pgAdmin when I'm not using it.. On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Basil Bourque wrote: > > On Oct 29, 2010, at 15:36,

Re: [GENERAL] large xml database

2010-10-30 Thread Mike Christensen
Gz. Maybe you can lease a bunch of Amazon EC2 high computing slices and parallelize it? I think throwing ridiculous amounts of hardware at things is always the best approach. On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Viktor Bojović wrote: > Hi, > i have very big XML documment which is larger tha

Re: [GENERAL] What is Dialect

2010-11-22 Thread Mike Christensen
If I understand your question correctly, a Dialect is an abstraction layer that allows Hibernate to talk with different database backends (MySQL, PG, Oracle, SQLServer, etc). Since different databases have different syntaxes, various features, etc. This seems more of a Hibernate question though,

Re: [GENERAL] What is Dialect

2010-11-22 Thread Mike Christensen
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Andreas wrote: > Am 22.11.2010 08:32, schrieb Adarsh Sharma: >> >> I am reading about Dialects of different databases. Yet I can't understand >> what is the need of dialect in Postgres or any other like Hibernate uses >> Dialect of all Databases for ORM. >> What i

Re: [GENERAL] json data type

2010-11-23 Thread Mike Christensen
> A project  in which i'm involved, make use of json data type for storing > some data sets. I have read that there is some work in progress to implement > json datatype support in postgres. So my question is; when and in which > version of postgres we can expect this implementation? I actually st

Re: [GENERAL] Type cast removal - proposed exceptions for xml,enum

2010-12-06 Thread Mike Christensen
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: > Hi all > > I'm finding a few areas where PostgreSQL's refusal to implicitly cast > from 'text' to another type is causing real problems, particularly when > using the PgJDBC driver. I'd like to propose a couple of relaxations of > the implicit

Re: [GENERAL] UUID column as pimrary key?

2011-01-05 Thread Mike Christensen
2011/1/5 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz : > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Scott Ribe > wrote: >> On Jan 5, 2011, at 1:31 AM, Radosław Smogura wrote: >> >>> * simple to generate, and 128bit random is almost globally unique, >> >> Almost? Should be totally unique, as long as your random source is decent >>

Re: [GENERAL] Installing Postgres with MS SQL Server 2005

2011-01-20 Thread Mike Christensen
> I have a machine on which MS SQL Server 2005 is already installed. Now I > want to install PostgreSQL 8.3 along with MS SQL Server. > > > > Can  this combination cause  any problems to any of the database servers? You should not run into any problems, both servers run on different ports (by defa

[GENERAL] Error trying to install Ruby postgres gems on OS/X

2011-01-28 Thread Mike Christensen
I'm trying to install the Postgres gem on OS/X but getting errors no matter what I try.. In theory, it should be as simple as "gem install postgres", correct? Here's what I get: >sudo gem install postgres Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing postgres:

Re: [GENERAL] Error trying to install Ruby postgres gems on OS/X

2011-01-28 Thread Mike Christensen
le not created Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/postgres-0.7.9.2008.01.28 for inspection. Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/postgres-0.7.9.2008.01.28/ext/gem_make.out /Library/PostgreSQL/9.0> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Thom Brown wrote: > On 2

Re: [GENERAL] Error trying to install Ruby postgres gems on OS/X

2011-01-28 Thread Mike Christensen
m just learning for now).. However, if anyone has any ideas how to install the native adapter, lemme know! On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: > Now I get: > > /Library/PostgreSQL/9.0>export ARCHFLAGS='-arch i386' > /Library/PostgreSQL/9.0>sudo -E

Re: [GENERAL] Error trying to install Ruby postgres gems on OS/X

2011-01-28 Thread Mike Christensen
> You might have to tell it where the PostgreSQL binaries live first then: > > export PATH=$PATH:/Library/PostgreSQL/9.0/bin Hey that seems to have fixed it! Thanks! Mike -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.post

[GENERAL] One last Ruby question for tonight - Regarding UUID type

2011-01-28 Thread Mike Christensen
My goal is to learn Ruby by porting one of my existing PG web applications over to Rails.. However, my existing data heavily relies on the UUID data type. I've noticed when I create a new model with something like: guidtest name:string value:uuid And then do a rake:migrate, the CREATE TABLE tha

Re: [GENERAL] One last Ruby question for tonight - Regarding UUID type

2011-01-28 Thread Mike Christensen
> My goal is to learn Ruby by porting one of my existing PG web > applications over to Rails..  However, my existing data heavily relies > on the UUID data type.  I've noticed when I create a new model with > something like: > > guidtest name:string value:uuid > > And then do a rake:migrate, the CR

[GENERAL] Permission denied error - best way to fix?

2011-02-08 Thread Mike Christensen
Here's the error: pg_dump: SQL command failed pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR: permission denied for relation pantryitems pg_dump: The command was: LOCK TABLE public.pantryitems IN ACCESS SHARE MODE Does the user need to be a superuser, or is there some way to GRANT this permission (if

Re: [GENERAL] Permission denied error - best way to fix?

2011-02-08 Thread Mike Christensen
>> Here's the error: >> >> pg_dump: SQL command failed >> pg_dump: Error message from server: ERROR:  permission denied for >> relation pantryitems >> pg_dump: The command was: LOCK TABLE public.pantryitems IN ACCESS SHARE >> MODE >> >> Does the user need to be a superuser, or is there some way to

[GENERAL] Any feedback on this query?

2011-02-17 Thread Mike Christensen
Here's my query: SELECT R.RecipeId, R.Title, R.Description, R.ImageUrl, R.Rating, R.PrepTime, R.CookTime, R.OwnerId, U.Alias FROM Recipes R INNER JOIN Users U ON U.UserId = R.OwnerId WHERE (R.PrepTime <= :maxprep) ORDER BY R.Rating DESC LIMIT 100; SELECT COUNT(*) FROM Recipes R WHERE (R.PrepTime <

Re: [GENERAL] Any feedback on this query?

2011-02-18 Thread Mike Christensen
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Dean Rasheed wrote: > On 18 February 2011 07:19, Mike Christensen wrote: >> Here's my query: >> >> SELECT R.RecipeId, R.Title, R.Description, R.ImageUrl, R.Rating, >> R.PrepTime, R.CookTime, R.OwnerId, U.Alias >> FROM Recip

Re: [GENERAL] Explicit NULL for no INTEGER data? -- Update

2011-02-18 Thread Mike Christensen
Judging from: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/sql-copy.html It looks like you have to specify your own NULL string with the NULL AS parameter of the COPY command. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> Do I need an explicit

Re: [GENERAL] Explicit NULL for no INTEGER data? -- Update

2011-02-18 Thread Mike Christensen
>> It looks like you have to specify your own NULL string with the NULL >> AS parameter of the COPY command. > > Mike, > >  I completely missed that option when I've read the copy page. My > apologies! > > Rich Awesome, I'm the one usually asking easy questions on this mailing list so I'm just gla

Re: [GENERAL] Web Hosting

2011-03-05 Thread Mike Christensen
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 1:08 PM, matty jones wrote: > I already have a domain name but I am looking for a hosting company that I > can use PG with.  The few I have contacted have said that they support MySQL > only and won't give me access to install what I need or they want way to > much.  I don't

Re: [GENERAL] WARNING: database must be vacuumed within 8439472 transactions

2014-07-07 Thread Mike Christensen
Sounds like you just have to wait until it finishes.. On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Prabhjot Sheena < prabhjot.she...@rivalwatch.com> wrote: > Hello >We are using postgresql 8.3 database for last 5 yrs for this > production database and its running fine. This is our critical database

[GENERAL] Regular expression question with Postgres

2014-07-24 Thread Mike Christensen
I'm curious why this query returns 0: SELECT 'AAA' ~ '^A{,4}$' Yet, this query returns 1: SELECT 'AAA' ~ '^A{0,4}$' Is this a bug with the regular expression engine?

Re: [GENERAL] Regular expression question with Postgres

2014-07-24 Thread Mike Christensen
, David G Johnston < david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mike Christensen-2 wrote > > I'm curious why this query returns 0: > > > > SELECT 'AAA' ~ '^A{,4}$' > > > > Yet, this query returns 1: > > > > SELECT 'AAA'

Re: [GENERAL] Regular expression question with Postgres

2014-07-24 Thread Mike Christensen
Yea looks like Postgres has it right, well.. per POSIX standard anyway. JavaScript also has it right, as does Python and .NET. Ruby is just weird. On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Mike Christensen writes: > > I'm curious why this query returns 0: > > S

[GENERAL] Any Postgres experts not afraid of the camera?

2014-09-03 Thread Mike Christensen
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/270574/an-experiment-stack-overflow-tv?cb=1

Re: [GENERAL] how to create materialized view in postgresql 8.3

2013-04-08 Thread Mike Christensen
This is the number one requested feature on Uservoice: http://postgresql.uservoice.com/forums/21853-general/suggestions/247548-materialized-views On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 9:27 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 4/7/2013 11:58 PM, Zahid Quadri wrote: > > > is it possible to created materialized view

[GENERAL] dblink does not resolve DNS, but works with IP

2013-05-14 Thread Mike Christensen
If I have this: CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW Link.Foo AS select * from dblink( 'hostaddr=123.123.123.123 dbname=KitchenPC user=Website password=secret', 'select * from Foo') as ... Then it works. However, if I do: CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW Link.Foo AS select * from dblink( 'hostaddr=db.d

Re: [GENERAL] dblink does not resolve DNS, but works with IP

2013-05-14 Thread Mike Christensen
Excellent! Thanks so much. On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 05/14/2013 09:17 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: > >> If I have this: >> >> CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW Link.Foo AS >>select * from dblink( >> 'hostaddr=123.

Re: [GENERAL] dblink does not resolve DNS, but works with IP

2013-05-14 Thread Mike Christensen
Though I'm a bit curious why there's a host and hostaddr. Why can't it just resolve whatever you give it? On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:31 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: > Excellent! Thanks so much. > > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > &

Re: [GENERAL] dblink does not resolve DNS, but works with IP

2013-05-15 Thread Mike Christensen
Ah, gotcha! I guess whatever sample I was originally copying from used hostaddr for some reason.. Thanks for the clarification, Tom! On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:08 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > Mike Christensen writes: > > Though I'm a bit curious why there's a host and host

Re: [GENERAL] Success stories of PostgreSQL implementations in different companies

2013-05-23 Thread Mike Christensen
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Steve Crawford < scrawf...@pinpointresearch.com> wrote: > On 05/23/2013 02:36 PM, Oscar Calderon wrote: > >> Hi, this question isn't technical, but is very important for me to know. >> Currently, here in El Salvador our company brings PostgreSQL support, but >> Ora

[GENERAL] PERFORM statement

2013-07-08 Thread Mike Christensen
I was reading about Postgres stored procs in the FAQ: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FAQ#Does_PostgreSQL_have_stored_procedures.3F It claims that an alternative syntax to: SELECT theNameOfTheFunction(arg1, arg2); Is: PERFORM theNameOfTheFunction(arg1, arg2); However, when I try the followin

Re: [GENERAL] PERFORM statement

2013-07-08 Thread Mike Christensen
Ah ok that makes sense. The FAQ wasn't exactly clear about that. On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Tony Theodore wrote: > > On 09/07/2013, at 2:20 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: > > > PERFORM MyInsert(1,101,'2013-04-04','2013-04-04',2,'f' ); >

Re: [GENERAL] function with unknown params

2013-07-09 Thread Mike Christensen
You passed in: 22/1/2013 Which is 22 divided by 1, divided by 2013 - which is an integer.. On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:17 AM, giozh wrote: > ok, it works. But why on error message i had that two unknown data type? if > was an error on date type, why it don't signal that? > > > > -- > View this

[GENERAL] Perf differences between timestamp and timestamp with timezone

2009-06-15 Thread Mike Christensen
Hi all - I'm considering changing all my "timestamp" columns to "timestamp with timezone" columns instead. The reason is I want to use UTC time for everything in the DB and on the web server, and only ever convert to local time on the client itself. I could use a timestamp and just "know" that t

Re: [GENERAL] Perf differences between timestamp and timestamp with timezone

2009-06-15 Thread Mike Christensen
: > Mike Christensen wrote: > > Hi all - > > > > I'm considering changing all my "timestamp" columns to "timestamp with > > timezone" columns instead. The reason is I want to use UTC time for > > everything in the DB and on the web serve

Re: [GENERAL] SET TIMEZONE doesn't affect to SELECT statement

2009-06-18 Thread Mike Christensen
Strange, maybe there's some server setting because I get different results on mine.. set timezone to 'Europe/London'; select '2008-01-01 12:00:00 GMT+2'::timestamptz; Result: '2008-01-01 14:00:00+00' set timezone to 'Europe/Moscow'; select '2008-01-01 12:00:00 GMT+2'::timestamptz; Result: '2008-

[GENERAL] What's wrong with this query?

2009-06-21 Thread Mike Christensen
I just tracked down a bug in my software due to an "unexpected" behavior in Postgres.. Can someone clarify why this doesn't work (I haven't tried it on MSSQL or anything else, so I'm not sure if this is the official SQL standard or anything).. CREATE TABLE test ( value uuid ); INSERT INTO test

Re: [GENERAL] What's wrong with this query?

2009-06-21 Thread Mike Christensen
> > From: spam_ea...@gmx.net > > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] What's wrong with this query? > > Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:37:41 +0200 > > > > > Mike Christensen wrote on 22.06.2009 00:10: > > > I just tracked down a bug in my software due to an "unexpected" >

Re: [GENERAL] What's wrong with this query?

2009-06-21 Thread Mike Christensen
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Re: [GENERAL] Replication

2009-06-23 Thread Mike Christensen
Rubyrep looks very interesting, I just watched their 5min video and looks very easy to setup. Few questions.. The left/right database looks very limiting (you can only replicate two databases at a time).. Their documentation says that the solution is to setup a chain. To keep A, B and C in sync

Re: [GENERAL] Replication

2009-06-23 Thread Mike Christensen
> > Hi Mike > > thanks for your interest in rubyrep. I developed rubyrep. Let me > answer your questions. > > On Jun 23, 4:16 pm, m...@kitchenpc.com (Mike Christensen) wrote: > > There will be a set of triggers for each replication. Since MySql > doesn't >

Re: [GENERAL] Replication

2009-06-24 Thread Mike Christensen
We need to stop this thread, you guys are making me want to ditch Postgres and get Oracle (after taking out a second mortgage on my house that is).. Mike On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > Craig Ringer wrote on 24.06.2009 04:07: > >> Thomas Kellerer wrote:

Re: [GENERAL] haversine formula with postgreSQL

2009-09-17 Thread Mike Christensen
This behavior kinda gets me sometimes too, especially in WHERE clauses.. I'm a bit curious as to why this is so bad. I could see why it would be expensive to do, since your clause wouldn't be indexed - but why is the syntax itself not allowed? Repeating the clause isn't gonna gain you any speed,

Re: [GENERAL] Functions returning multiple rowsets

2009-09-28 Thread Mike Christensen
One thing I like about Microsoft SQL is you can write a sproc that does: SELECT * FROM TableA SELECT * FROM TableB And in .NET, you'll have a DataSet object with two DataTables, one for each table. Do either of the techniques outlined below provided this functionality, though I suppose in .NET y

[GENERAL] Best data type to use for sales tax percent

2009-10-08 Thread Mike Christensen
(Sorry for the super-easy question) I want to store sales tax (as a percent) in the DB, such as 9.5%. What's the best data type for this? I'm guessing numeric(2,3) should be fine, yes? I'm not too familiar with the numeric type (I was using "real" before), but as I understand the data will be st

Re: [GENERAL] Best data type to use for sales tax percent

2009-10-08 Thread Mike Christensen
8, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: >> (Sorry for the super-easy question) >> >> I want to store sales tax (as a percent) in the DB, such as 9.5%. >> What's the best data type for this?  I'm gue

Re: [GENERAL] Best data type to use for sales tax percent

2009-10-09 Thread Mike Christensen
5:23 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Mike Christensen wrote: > >> I'll probably just use 3,3 and store this value between 0 and 1, since all >> I'll be doing with this number is using it to multiply against a subtotal. >> 3,3 gives me 0.000 through 0.9

Re: [GENERAL] Best data type to use for sales tax percent

2009-10-09 Thread Mike Christensen
simply because it seems "cleaner" to me. At work, we use multipliers all over the place in our DB and it has turned into a complete nightmare. I'm somewhat of a believer in just storing data exactly how you need to use it. Thanks! Mike On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Sam Ma

Re: [GENERAL] Best data type to use for sales tax percent

2009-10-09 Thread Mike Christensen
Can you explain what you mean by "put it in a domain" - I'd love extra style points, but this sounds like a feature I haven't learned about yet. On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 00:10 -0700, Mike Christensen wrote: >>

Re: [GENERAL] Best data type to use for sales tax percent

2009-10-09 Thread Mike Christensen
e On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Christophe Pettus wrote: > > On Oct 9, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: > >> Can you explain what you mean by "put it in a domain" - I'd love extra >> style points, but this sounds like a feature I haven&

Re: [GENERAL] Urgent Help required

2009-10-16 Thread Mike Christensen
Hmm would this be a bad time to ask for PostGres 1.0 support? On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Jeff Davis wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 11:26 +0100, Neha Patel wrote: >> We are running with postgres sql 7.3.2. We were trying to create an >> index on a big table. The create index command ran for

Re: [GENERAL] Free Tool to design Postgres Databases

2009-10-21 Thread Mike Christensen
I tried Power Architect for about 5 minutes, just enough time to notice it had no support for UUIDs which makes it all but useless.. I mean, seriously who doesn't use UUIDs :) Maybe they'll fix that, it does look promising.. >> >> Search the archives this came up within the last couple of months

[GENERAL] Design question about partitioning order information across tables

2009-10-22 Thread Mike Christensen
Hi - I have a fairly simple design question that I'd like some input on. I have a table called "Orders" which, along with various order information, contains an "OrderState" column. OrderState can contain one of the following values: 1 - Order is in preview mode and has not been committed yet.

Re: [GENERAL] Call for design: PostgreSQL mugs

2013-09-09 Thread Mike Christensen
How about something incredibly cheesy like SELECT * FROM Mug; On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > Inside of the mug: > > - runs of 0's and 1's = data > - neatly aligned or in compartments/boxes/shelved ? > > Outside of mug: > > 10 elephants > >

Re: [GENERAL] Call for design: PostgreSQL mugs

2013-09-12 Thread Mike Christensen
Oooh can we make the handle an elephant trunk? (Ok, now I'm sure I'm adding all sorts of expense - but hey you'll save so much money using Postgres you can afford an expensive coffee mug!) On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:30 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum < adsm...@wars-nicht.de> wrote: > On 09/10/2013 10

[GENERAL] Npgsql - Where can I find Npgsql.NpgsqlServices

2013-12-11 Thread Mike Christensen
It seems I need NpgsqlServices to use Npgsql with EF6, however I can't figure out where you get this thing! I've tried installing it through NuGet: PM> Install-Package Npgsql -pre Installing 'Npgsql 2.0.14.1'. Successfully installed 'Npgsql 2.0.14.1'. Adding 'Npgsql 2.0.14.1' to EFTest. Successfu

Re: [GENERAL] Npgsql - Where can I find Npgsql.NpgsqlServices

2013-12-12 Thread Mike Christensen
ityFramework.dll in the EntityFramework/bin folder. > > I hope it helps. > > Let me know if you have any question. > > > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:24 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: > >> It seems I need NpgsqlServices to use Npgsql with EF6, however I can't >&g

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL specific datatypes very confusing for beginners who use wrappers around JDBC

2014-01-28 Thread Mike Christensen
I've had the same problem as well with NHibernate (On .NET) with Postgres ENUM types. Luckily, NHibernate is incredibly powerful and you *can* get everything working flawlessly, however it takes some serious digging into the source code and reading the docs to figure it out. The main issue is tha

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL specific datatypes very confusing for beginners who use wrappers around JDBC

2014-01-28 Thread Mike Christensen
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:46 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 1/28/2014 2:35 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: > >> This works. However, to agree with the original poster's point, if >> Postgres could be a little more forgiving about values that could be >> interpreted as

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL specific datatypes very confusing for beginners who use wrappers around JDBC

2014-01-28 Thread Mike Christensen
How do you create casts in Postgres? On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 02:55:03PM -0800, Mike Christensen wrote: > > > I'd be curious as to what types of bugs were caused by these implicit > > casts.. > > Typically, t

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL specific datatypes very confusing for beginners who use wrappers around JDBC

2014-01-28 Thread Mike Christensen
Oh. The CREATE CAST command. Wow, I was totally unaware of this entire feature! On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: > How do you create casts in Postgres? > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 0

[GENERAL] Converting uuid primary key column to serial int

2011-06-08 Thread Mike Christensen
Hi all - For most of my database I use UUIDs as primary keys because, well, I just like it better and like being able to generate a key in the middle tier when I create new data. However, I have one table that has a very fixed and immutable set of data with a few thousand ingredients in it. This

Re: [GENERAL] Converting uuid primary key column to serial int

2011-06-08 Thread Mike Christensen
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:06 PM, David Johnston wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general- >> ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Mike Christensen >> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 2:57 PM >> To: pgsql-gen

Re: [GENERAL] Converting uuid primary key column to serial int

2011-06-08 Thread Mike Christensen
>> I'm assuming I can still have a "Serial" column that is NOT a primary key, > and >> it'll incremement just the same as I add rows?  If that's the case, I > think that's >> a superior approach.. >> >> BTW, this table is too small to worry about disk space of UUIDs and/or >> perhaps any sort of pe

[GENERAL] Constraint to ensure value does NOT exist in another table?

2011-06-15 Thread Mike Christensen
I know I can setup a FK constraint to make sure Table1.ColA exists in Table2.Key, however what if I want to do the reverse? I want to ensure Table1.ColA does NOT exist in Table2.Key.. Can I do this with any sort of CHECK constraint, trigger, custom function, etc? Thanks! Mike -- Sent via pgsq

Re: [GENERAL] You could be a PostgreSQL Patch Reviewer!

2011-06-15 Thread Mike Christensen
Did anyone ever fix the annoying thing where uuid_generate_v4() doesn't work on Windows 64bit? On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Craig Ringer writes: >> Any chance of flagging patches on the commitfest when they're platform >> specific? I'm hurting for time but will check out Wi

Re: [GENERAL] You could be a PostgreSQL Patch Reviewer!

2011-06-15 Thread Mike Christensen
Wouldn't it be faster/better/easier if Postgres just had its own built in UUID generator? Last I tested generating a bunch of UUIDs, it was quite slow (well compared to MS SQL anyway).. On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Mike Christensen writes: >> Did anyon

Re: [GENERAL] You could be a PostgreSQL Patch Reviewer!

2011-06-15 Thread Mike Christensen
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Mike Christensen writes: >> Wouldn't it be faster/better/easier if Postgres just had its own built >> in UUID generator? > > Why would it be?  If you think you can easily improve on uuid-ossp, > you should go help

Re: [GENERAL] Constraint to ensure value does NOT exist in another table?

2011-06-15 Thread Mike Christensen
>> I know I can setup a FK constraint to make sure Table1.ColA exists in >> Table2.Key, however what if I want to do the reverse? >> >> I want to ensure Table1.ColA does NOT exist in Table2.Key..  Can I do >> this with any sort of CHECK constraint, trigger, custom function, etc? > > > The most comm

Re: [GENERAL] Constraint to ensure value does NOT exist in another table?

2011-06-16 Thread Mike Christensen
>> I know I can setup a FK constraint to make sure Table1.ColA exists in >> Table2.Key, however what if I want to do the reverse? >> >> I want to ensure Table1.ColA does NOT exist in Table2.Key..  Can I do >> this with any sort of CHECK constraint, trigger, custom function, etc? >> Thanks! > > > Pe

Re: [GENERAL] Constraint to ensure value does NOT exist in another table?

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Christensen
I know I can setup a FK constraint to make sure Table1.ColA exists in Table2.Key, however what if I want to do the reverse? I want to ensure Table1.ColA does NOT exist in Table2.Key..  Can I do this with any sort of CHECK constraint, trigger, custom function, etc? Than

Re: [GENERAL] pgAdmin on Mac connecting to Postgres 9 on Linux - SSL/timeout issue

2011-07-14 Thread Mike Christensen
; tcp_keepalives_count = 5# TCP_KEEPCNT; Hope this helps someone else! On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Mike Christensen wrote: > Maybe that's it..  It's definitely some sort of SSL thing since it > didn't start happening until I enabled SSL.  I guess I'll ju

Re: [GENERAL] pgAdmin3 not working with Gnome3

2011-09-01 Thread Mike Christensen
> 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, basically no popup works.  If I right click > on the "Databases" branch an

[GENERAL] pgAdmin3 not working with Gnome3

2011-09-01 Thread Mike Christensen
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, basically no popup works. If I right click on the "Databases" branch and select "New

[GENERAL] Am I best off keeping large chunks of text in a separate table?

2011-09-17 Thread Mike Christensen
I have a table that looks something like this: url - character varying(1024) date - timestamptz body - text Url is a unique primary key. Body can potentially be a couple hundred k of text. There will at first be perhaps 100,000 rows in this table, but at some point it might get into the million

Re: [GENERAL] Am I best off keeping large chunks of text in a separate table?

2011-09-17 Thread Mike Christensen
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: >> I have a table that looks something like this: >> >> url - character varying(1024) >> date - timestamptz >> body - text >> >> Url is a unique primary key.  Body can potentially be a cou

[GENERAL] Clean way to insert records if they don't exist, update if they do

2011-09-17 Thread Mike Christensen
Here's my situation. I have a table with a bunch of URLs and crawl dates associated with them. When my program processes a URL, I want to INSERT a new row with a crawl date. If the URL already exists, I want to update the crawl date to the current datetime. With MS SQL or Oracle I'd probably us

[GENERAL] Materialized views in Oracle

2011-09-21 Thread Mike Christensen
So I used to think materialized views in Postgres would be an awesome feature. That is until I had to endure the hell hole which is Oracle's implementation.. what a complete joke.. did MS SQL's indexed views do any better? Hopefully if PG 10 implements this, they'll make it actually useful to p

Re: [GENERAL] Materialized views in Oracle

2011-09-21 Thread Mike Christensen
e pg guys to do materialized views right! On Sep 21, 2011 1:54 PM, "Ben Chobot" wrote: > On Sep 21, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Mike Christensen wrote: > >> So I used to think materialized views in Postgres would be an awesome feature. That is until I had to endure the hell hole which is Orac

Re: [GENERAL] Materialized views in Oracle

2011-09-21 Thread Mike Christensen
>> Hmm I think a materialized view you have to update yourself is called a >> "table"..  but after dealing with the nightmare that is Oracle 11g, I >> think it'd be much more fun going that route with triggers and >> everything.  Yes this thread is a complete vent, and also a plea to the >> pg guys

Re: [GENERAL] Materialized views in Oracle

2011-09-23 Thread Mike Christensen
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: [snip] > This can get complicated when you have triggers acting recursively on a > table and it isn't always that easy to understand exactly what a trigger > will see. I do agree with most all your points. The value I got out of this experien

Re: [GENERAL] (another ;-)) PostgreSQL-derived project ...

2011-09-24 Thread Mike Christensen
> ~ >  I have been searching for a PostgreSQL-derived project with a > "less-is-best" Philosophy. Even though I have read about quite a bit > of PG forks out there, what I have in mind is more like a baseline > than a fork. > ~ >  My intention is not wrapping the same thing in a different package o

Re: [GENERAL] Why PGSQL has no developments in the .NET area?

2011-10-02 Thread Mike Christensen
>> PgSQL has just one old NPGSQL driver for .NET, which is itself sluggish. >> The ODBC driver works better as compared to NPGSQL, but I suspect the ODBC >> driver is not the right choice for ORM framework of .NET. >> >> I want to know whether there is any efficient .NET provider and is PGSQL >> co

Re: [GENERAL] Searching for "bare" letters

2011-10-02 Thread Mike Christensen
>> I don't see the problem - you can have a dictionary, which does all work >> on recognizing bare letters and output several versions. Have you seen >> unaccent >> dictionary ? > > This seems to be the direction that everyone is suggesting, and I'm quite > grateful for that.  (I really hadn't ever

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