Re: [GENERAL] Is my MySQL Gaining ?

2003-12-30 Thread Robert Treat
ry Douglas's book titled "PostgreSQL" from the same publisher must be somewhat similar. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735712573/qid=1072831905/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-2846574-6863256 Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Where can I find the "Contrib" page on the PostgreSQL site?

2003-12-30 Thread Robert Treat
It comes with the distribution (assuming by distribution you mean the main tarball, some "distributions" package it seperatly i think). You can view the contents on the web via webcvs: http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/contrib/ Robert Treat On Tuesday 30 Dec

Re: [GENERAL] what we need to use postgresql in the enterprise

2004-01-11 Thread Robert Treat
enses and think about spending that money to hire someone to develop those features in PostgreSQL, I'm thinking you'd save money in the long run. Robert Treat On Friday 09 January 2004 14:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I write this to tell you why we won't use postgresql ev

Re: [GENERAL] how to catch the error in procedure ?

2004-01-16 Thread Robert Treat
the moment). An error terminates a transaction immediately in > PG's current model. > Didn't someone say this could be implemented in some of the other pl's... plpython maybe? Or maybe they were using dblink to make a separate connection/query... ? Robert Treat -- Build A

Re: [GENERAL] Differences between postgres and mysql

2004-02-18 Thread Robert Treat
techdocs.postgresql.org/hosting.php) but barring that I think your going to have to turn to the mysql community for information about their database. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] GPG MD5 Checksum for postgres 7.4

2004-02-18 Thread Robert Treat
i On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 14:26, Simone Crider wrote: > Could you please tell me where I would find the GPG MD5 Checksum values > for the postgres 7.4? > http://www.gtsm.com/postgres_sigs.html Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} P

Re: [GENERAL] Differences between postgres and mysql

2004-02-18 Thread Robert Treat
tion, "troll" ??? > http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/t/troll.html :-) Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [GENERAL] Where are these tables??

2004-03-26 Thread Robert Treat
m full on your cluster to see if their filesizes change at all... but if you've got that cowboy feeling going i'd say shutdown the database, backup the directory, delete the files, and fire it back up... Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] Table Lock issue

2004-04-16 Thread Robert Treat
ry snapshot inside plpgsql whenever a lock table in exclusive access is issued follows along this line and would seem like one way to help most people get around this problem since it's hard to imagine any real world scenario where one would want to lock a table exclusively and still see ro

Re: [GENERAL] shadowing (like IB/Firebird)

2004-04-27 Thread Robert Treat
r; > > > > done by software. > > I recommend they keep clinging. :-) > Should we recommend they submit a patch instead? :-) Seriously though this sounds like it could be an extension of the tablespaces implementation couldn't it? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :

Re: [GENERAL] Postgre and Web Request

2004-04-29 Thread Robert Treat
that the OP is not likely to ever need such a high connection count, there's no reason that PostgreSQL can't support it given you have enough RAM, fast enough disks, and you don't shoot yourself in the foot with FK/Locking issues in the app. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: L

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] Clustering Postgres

2004-05-26 Thread Robert Treat
style benchmarks on the system, check the archives or the osdl site for more info on getting these up and running. Robert Treat On Monday 24 May 2004 09:59, Greg Spiegelberg wrote: > Robert, > > I am currently evaluating PolyServe Matrix Server which is a clustering > solution incl

Re: [GENERAL] The pgreplication project

2004-06-08 Thread Robert Treat
ndows and gui tools up on techdocs. I plan to do that as well, just need to find time to work it into the schedule. Robert Treat On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 08:46, Jan Wieck wrote: > I guess I have to address a slightly broader audience, or do I conclude > from the total lack of interest in this

[GENERAL] clear defunct entries from pg_stat_activity

2004-06-08 Thread Robert Treat
collector daemon. I'm curious if anyone knows if this was fixed in 7.4, and perhaps more importantly if there is a way to clear these entries in 7.3.4. (I was thinking perhaps some entries in the stats tables but didn't find anything...) Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Li

Re: [GENERAL] INSERT ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE

2004-06-18 Thread Robert Treat
apps but would be frowned upon by most postgresql users. Robert Treat On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 15:00, Duane Lee - EGOVX wrote: > I agree. You could always do a SELECT and if the record was found then > UPDATE otherwise INSERT. A little more effort than MYSQL but again I > don't belie

Re: [GENERAL] Where are all the users?

2004-08-04 Thread Robert Treat
n I can't create the Key. Have anybody an solution? I think the way you are "supposed to do this" is by using the CURRENT_USER variable to get the current user name for the person connected. If you are stuck on using the system id's you could create your own triggers to

Re: [GENERAL] (S)RPMS for 7.4.4 released.

2004-08-18 Thread Robert Treat
We wont update the website docs at least until the packages are officially announced, and even then might be a few days later. Oh, you'll know it has been officially released when you see Marc post an email to -announce telling everyone. Robert Treat -- Build A

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql feature

2004-08-19 Thread Robert Treat
acle like task schedular in postgresql. not sure how mature it is but might be worth a look for those interested in this. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/readin

Re: [GENERAL] Converting varchar() to text

2004-09-16 Thread Robert Treat
new column and then use a view with some coalesce magic to combine the two columns into one. HTH -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire

[GENERAL] trigger wont use internal function?

2001-07-23 Thread Robert Treat
I am trying to use the following trigger: CREATE TRIGGER formatname BEFORE update OR insert ON mytable FOR EACH row EXECUTE PROCEDURE lower(name); however, it gives me the message: ERROR: CreateTrigger: function lower() does not exist obviously this does exist, since I can do inserts/updates/

Re: [GENERAL] Role Models Wanted

2003-07-29 Thread Robert Treat
://www.sql-ledger.com/ double entry accounting system http://openacs.org/ enterprise level web community system Robert Treat -- PostgreSQL :: The Enterprise Open Source Database ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

[GENERAL] surppressing column names in COPY format

2003-07-31 Thread Robert Treat
to suppress column names for COPY only dumps. I also checked the message archives, but the only thing relevant seemed to be the original patch which didn't appear to allow for a way to suppress the column names, am I completely missing something here or did we los

Re: [GENERAL] plPHP -- sort of an announcement.. but not commercial

2003-08-04 Thread Robert Treat
r the weekend, the trigger feature seemed to work, and the complex array example function seemed to work ok, but the basic simple echo example failed. I've subscribed to the mailing lists, so we'll see if I can figure out where I went wrong. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter L

Re: v7.4 on Windows ... (Was: Re: [GENERAL] v7.4 Beta 1 Bundle ...)

2003-08-09 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 09:22, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Robert Treat wrote: > > > depends on what you mean by any. I believe that the standard tarball > > will compile under windows, but to what extent it will actually run I > > couldn't say. Thi

Re: [GENERAL] v7.4 Beta 1 Bundle Available for Testing ...

2003-08-10 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 11:17, scott.marlowe wrote: > On 6 Aug 2003, Robert Treat wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 20:18, Dann Corbit wrote: > > > > For me, I can only find these directories: > > > ftp://ftp8.us.postgresql.org/pub/pgsql/source/v7.4/ >

Re: [GENERAL] v7.4 Beta 1 Bundle Available for Testing ...

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Treat
ll compile under windows, but to what extent it will actually run I couldn't say. This release is not intended for native use on windows (that had to be pushed back to 7.5), though it will certainly run via cygwin. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] remove $ from money field

2003-08-14 Thread Robert Treat
eturn $workable ' language 'pltclu'; Robert Treat On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 20:04, Robby Russell wrote: > Should be a simple question. > > When selecting a field that is of type money, how can I remove the $ > when selected? > > example: $10.00 would return as 10.0

Re: [GENERAL] Dreamweaver

2003-08-18 Thread Robert Treat
unsuccessful > so far. > Well, some folks are certainly doing it, check out this blog entry: http://www.redev.org/archives/23.cfm#more Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [GENERAL] native win32 version

2003-08-20 Thread Robert Treat
ever see a recommendation from the development group to run postgresql on windows over a *nix OS for production purposes (even when native win32 comes about, theres just too much lacking in windows) however for development purposes it should be more than fine. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Li

Re: [GENERAL] Mail server load

2003-08-20 Thread Robert Treat
;) { > fileinto "INBOX.garbage"; > } > > I can't think of anyone using anything but *maybe* the Approved one in > their Subject, so there shouldn't be too many false positives ... > hopefully hear something from the mj2 guys relatively soon ... Little does Ma

Re: [GENERAL] Stored procedure advice needed

2003-08-22 Thread Robert Treat
This sounds an awful lot like crosstab functionality, Check out the tablefunc module in contrib, I think there is something in there that will help you with this. Robert Treat On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 16:11, Stephan Szabo wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Egor Shipovalov wrote: > > &g

Re: [GENERAL] pl/tcl trigger question

2003-08-26 Thread Robert Treat
t; something very simple but I don't know TCL (and I'm planning to keep > the serverside programming on pl'pgsql as much as possible). > You'll need a function a bit more complex than this, but to do what your trying to do in the function above the function would be writ

Re: [GENERAL] before trigger problem

2003-08-29 Thread Robert Treat
http://developer.postgresql.org/ftpsite/binary/v7.3.4/RPMS/ Robert Treat On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 11:18, Marie G. Tuite wrote: > Same issue - are there rpms anywhere for 7.3.4? > > Thanks. > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [GENERAL] About GPL and proprietary software

2003-09-24 Thread Robert Treat
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 13:50, Jan Wieck wrote: > > > Robert Treat wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 17:49, Christopher Browne wrote: > >> It would be most interesting if the makers of other GPLed software > >> such as Linux were to apply the same rule themselves.

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Beta4 Tag'd and Bundle'd ...

2003-10-06 Thread Robert Treat
he place, and has been since the beginning. Or sign up for -announce and read the weekly news, which gives a summary of each weeks developments* and updates some other ancillary information about the project. * save last week, which seems to have gotten lost in virtual space, but come Wednesday

[GENERAL] tracking down temp files

2003-11-17 Thread Robert Treat
is there some way to determine the query that creates the file pgsql_tmp15041.0? i thought maybe 15041 was the procpid but apparently not... anyone know? Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql vs. MySql - need feature matrix for

2003-11-21 Thread Robert Treat
and let's gloss over whether their implementation is acid compliant) so just be prepared if your going to do it. also, if you do do it, i'd like to see a feature comparison against some more interesting candidates, like oracle or informix Robert Treat On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 11:12, Jeff

Re: [GENERAL] PGSQL on shared hosting

2003-11-21 Thread Robert Treat
nce. Can you send your info to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org

Re: [GENERAL] Misplaced modifier in Postgresql license

2003-12-04 Thread Robert Treat
r they spoke with was... well, this is a family newsgroup so let's just say I don't feel his opinion is very credible. It would have been very easy for them to indemnify themselves had they wanted to, to not even try to sort this out speaks of some other agenda on their part IMHO. Robert

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