[GENERAL] COPY statement REAL vs VARCHAR precision issue

2011-02-10 Thread Samuel Gilbert
Hello all, I'm using a COPY statement to load data into a PostGIS. The issue I am facing is that if I define fields with the REAL type, the COPY will only preserve 4 decimals which is not sufficient for my application. Here is the commands I'm running and a sample of the results : CREATE TA

[GENERAL] Issues with patitionning and triggers

2014-02-18 Thread Samuel Gilbert
every child. To my great surprise, the insert below failed with a message saying that NULLs are not allowed in the modificationdate column. INSERT INTO observation (dataset, station, method, startdate, duration, value) VALUES (9, 2, 128, '2014-01-01 00:00:00', '24 hours', 42)

Re: [GENERAL] Issues with patitionning and triggers

2014-02-18 Thread Samuel Gilbert
On 2014-02-18 14:25:59 Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 02/18/2014 02:10 PM, Samuel Gilbert wrote: > > I have data warehousing DB 2 fairly big tables : one contains about 200 > > million rows and the other one contains about 4 billion rows. Some > > queries > > are now takin

Re: [GENERAL] Issues with patitionning and triggers

2014-02-18 Thread Samuel Gilbert
h of my post as short as possible. As Tom Lane pointed out, it's hard to get help without a complete self- contained example. I will work on writing that up tomorrow. Cheers! On 2014-02-18 15:02:41 Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 02/18/2014 02:42 PM, Samuel Gilbert wrote: > > On 2014-02-18 14

Re: [GENERAL] Issues with patitionning and triggers

2014-02-18 Thread Samuel Gilbert
On 2014-02-18 17:59:35 Tom Lane wrote: > Samuel Gilbert writes: > > All of this was done on PostgreSQL 9.2.0 64-bit compiled from the official > > > source. Significant changes in postgresql.conf : > Why in the world are you using 9.2.0? You're missing a year and a

Re: [GENERAL] Issues with patitionning and triggers

2014-02-19 Thread Samuel Gilbert
INTO child_split1 (split, happiness) VALUES (1, 42); -- NOTICE: NEW row is now : (1, 42, 2014-02-19 16:37:27.134194) -- INSERT 0 1 So, we clearly see that trigger_insert_00 is called in both cases. I don't understand why the query fails on the parent, but works when the INSERT targets the chil

[GENERAL] Extra space when converting number with to_char

2012-10-26 Thread Samuel Gilbert
-+-- 00042 | 10 | " 00042" Is there a reason why to_char adds a leading space? Is this a bug? I can easily fix this with trim(leading ' ' from to_char(num, '0')), but, being of a curious nature, I'd like ton know why

Re: [GENERAL] Extra space when converting number with to_char

2012-10-26 Thread Samuel Gilbert
00' (fill mode, doesn't leave an > extra space for sign) > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Samuel Gilbert wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've encountered an unexpected behavior when converting a number to > > > > char. I > > need to m

[GENERAL] Blocked inserts on tables with FK to tables for which UPDATE has been revoked

2010-07-23 Thread Samuel Gilbert
Hello, I have encountered a problem with inserts failing because of permissions issues when the table in which I try to insert has foreign key constraints to tables for which UPDATE has been revoked. The script bellow show how to reproduce the problem with a bare-bones test case. Reproducib

Re: [GENERAL] Blocked inserts on tables with FK to tables for which UPDATE has been revoked

2010-07-26 Thread Samuel Gilbert
er role. In the end, I got mixed up and sent the wrong version of the test script to the list. However, even if it is not the right user, the problem remains. Samuel On Saturday, July 24, 2010 06:08:23 Alban Hertroys wrote: > On 23 Jul 2010, at 20:39, Samuel Gilbert wrote: > > Hel