Re: [GENERAL] ODBC Layer and the now() function

2005-12-05 Thread Pandurangan R S
Hi, I hope the following link will help you. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/plpgsql-expressions.htmlOn 12/5/05, Byrne Kevin-kbyrne01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone seen any strange behaviour as regards the now() function when accessing a db via odbc layer. The behaviour I have

Re: [GENERAL] Delete Question

2005-12-06 Thread Pandurangan R S
DELECT FROM table WHERE (ProdID,ChangeDate) not in (SELECT ProdID,MAX(ChangeDate) FROM table GROUP BY ProdID) I hope this works. On 12/7/05, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a table where I store changes made to an order. The looks like > ProdID, ChangeDate, Change1, Change2, ...

Re: [GENERAL] PostGreSQL 8.1.0 : out of memory during vacuum full analyze

2005-12-12 Thread Pandurangan R S
Hi, you need to increase maintenance_work_mem in postgresql.conf file. http://www.powerpostgresql.com/Downloads/annotated_conf_80.html Regards Pandu On 12/12/05, DANTE ALEXANDRA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > This is my first posting in this mailing list and I am a PostGreSQL newbie. >

Re: [GENERAL] UPDATE table .....

2005-12-13 Thread Pandurangan R S
UPDATE geom_summen a SET a.var228= a.var228 + (SELECT b.var228 FROM geom_ns_wrf b WHERE b.gid=a.gid); Use Coalesce if you want to substitute zero for null, otherwise the column will be updated to null, if any of the values that was summed was null. On 12/1

Re: [GENERAL] copying a database without dumping it

2005-12-15 Thread Pandurangan R S
This link explains lot of useful techniques for backup and restore http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/backup.html On 12/15/05, Marc Brünink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > I know this was asked a lot of times on this mailing list. But actually > no reply satisfied me :-) > Howeve

Re: [GENERAL] problems with currval and rollback

2005-12-22 Thread Pandurangan R S
Hi, Refer http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/functions-sequence.html On 12/23/05, Assad Jarrahian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, >So I started to make some changes with my code here and there > (nothing to do with the relevant lines) and suddenly currval and > rollback don't work

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql question

2006-01-04 Thread Pandurangan R S
Assuming records is the name of a table... create or replace function getrecord(int,text) RETURNS SETOF records as $$ DECLARE row records%rowtype; BEGIN FOR row IN SELECT * FROM my_tbl WHERE ... LOOP RETURN NEXT row; END LOOP; RETURN; END; $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql; On 1/5/06, Matthew Peter <[EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] Data loading from a flat file...

2006-01-05 Thread Pandurangan R S
To get rid of ^M characters you could use cat file | tr -d ^M you need to type ^V before you type ^M in the preceeding command. But ^V will not be displayed on the screen. You might need to change directory permission too. use chmod +rx . For this command to succeed you need to execute this co

Re: [GENERAL] Data loading from a flat file...

2006-01-05 Thread Pandurangan R S
; > C1 > > E1 > > B2 > > C2 > > E2 > > . > > . > > . > > > > > > > > Any more suggestions on how to solve this? :( > > > > > > > > > > > > On 1/6/06, Pandurangan R S <[EMAIL P

Re: [GENERAL] Data loading from a flat file...

2006-01-05 Thread Pandurangan R S
2 > > E2 > > . > > . > > . > > > > > > > > Any more suggestions on how to solve this? :( > > > > > > > > > > > > On 1/6/06, Pandurangan R S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To get rid of ^M characters you co

Re: [GENERAL] Data loading from a flat file...

2006-01-05 Thread Pandurangan R S
; entry(entry_id) ON UPDATE RESTRICT ON DELETE RESTRICT > "distance_subject_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (subject_id) REFERENCES > entry(entry_id) ON UPDATE RESTRICT ON DELETE RESTRICT > > > > On 1/6/06, Pandurangan R S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please

Re: [GENERAL] Create User

2006-01-20 Thread Pandurangan R S
I hope this error arises when you do a insert. Can u post your insert statement that caused this error? On 1/20/06, DB Subscriptions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have this table: > > CREATE TABLE users > ( > userid varchar(100) NOT NULL, > nama varchar(50) NOT NULL, > pword varchar

Re: [GENERAL] NOT HAVING clause?

2006-01-24 Thread Pandurangan R S
Hi, SELECT object_id FROM image GROUP BY object_id NOT HAVING sort_order = 1; After changing the "NOT HAVING" to "HAVING" the error message was "column "sort_order" must appear in the GROUP BY clause or be used in an aggregate function" The postgres document says "SELECT list and HAVING clau

Re: [GENERAL] How to find a temporary table

2006-01-27 Thread Pandurangan R S
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-01/msg01259.php On 1/27/06, Emil Rachovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I am using PostgreSQL 8.1.0 . How can I find a temp > table from my session, having the name of the table? > Can anyone show me what query should I execute? I've > tri

Re: [GENERAL] Change SERIAL to INTEGER

2006-01-27 Thread Pandurangan R S
Hi, Is there any way to change a SERIAL type to an INTEGER? I think that it should be easy, since SERIAL is, in fact, an INTEGER with some conditions. There serial column is just a integer, with default as nextval from a sequence, so there is no neccessity to change the datatype of the column. Yo

Re: [GENERAL] Finding missing records

2006-01-27 Thread Pandurangan R S
select f1,f2,f3,f4 from table1 EXCEPT ALL select f1,f2,f3,f4 from table2 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/sql-select.html On 1/27/06, Stefano B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have two identical tables > > table1 (f1,f2,f3,f4 primary key (f1,f2,f3,f4)) > > table2 (g1,g2,g3,g4 p

Re: [GENERAL] accidentally deleted rows

2006-02-05 Thread Pandurangan R S
You may be able to recover them, but you could make things worser if you do not do it correctly. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-02/msg00126.php http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-02/msg00091.php On 2/6/06, surabhi.ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > i ha

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump, pg_restore

2006-02-05 Thread Pandurangan R S
Did you check if your pg_restore was successful? I think you need to include the following option while using pg_dump & pg_restore -C, --create include/issue commands to create database On 2/6/06, surabhi.ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am trying to do : > > pg_dump -f op.tar

Re: [GENERAL] r trim of characters other than space

2006-02-10 Thread Pandurangan R S
You need to use two single quotes around ^ (like ''^'') or use the dollar quoting approach. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/plpgsql-development-tips.html On 2/10/06, surabhi.ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > but how should i do it within a stored procedure > something like: > > C

Re: [GENERAL]

2006-02-11 Thread Pandurangan R S
try using CACHE 1 (which is default) in the sequence defintion. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/sql-createsequence.html On 2/10/06, Jean-Christophe Roux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I have a table with and id field (primary key) which default value is the > result of a sequence