[GENERAL] Highload website database architecture

2006-12-03 Thread a
Hi, I am building a web app backed by database postgresql and currently the site is under a humongous torrent of hits. I have a question regarding the database backend config. The database folder has a file called postgresql.cons where we can specify no of active connections to the database -N

[GENERAL] db question - dynamic fields in db

2006-07-01 Thread a
hi i want to know how to add a list of items to a database it is basically text, but different fields but the problem is i dont know how many fields are there before hand so i m not sure how to store them in the db sometime i need to store 10 elements and some other times 5 thanks a lot a

Re: [GENERAL] db question - dynamic fields in db

2006-07-02 Thread a
you mean there are 3 tables the list of items purchased - this is what i am asking for the list of items purchased What is difference between T_SALES_CC_DETAIL and > T_SALES_DETAIL thanks a lot

Re: [GENERAL] select unique items in db

2006-09-13 Thread a
elements in LINK thanks Stijn Vanroye wrote: > a schreef: > > "select unique id" - i found this line in google search > > but i want to make > > select * as unique > > > > select unique * is > > or select distinct > > > > pls point out

Re: [GENERAL] select unique items in db

2006-09-16 Thread a
it returns nill now or nuthing and it is very very very slow Stijn Vanroye wrote: > a schreef: > > this doesnt work > > > > SELECT DISTINCT on link *, rank(ts_vec, to_tsquery('default', $qtxt)) > > FROM feed_entry WHERE ts_vec @@ to_tsquery('

[GENERAL] max cocurrent connection

2001-02-06 Thread a
When stress test Postgres, It can only hold about 200 cocurrent connection while keep calling DriverManager.getConnection() Is this number configurable? Or it is the limitation of postgres? Any suggestion? Thanks Feng

[GENERAL] My DB has has 5TB, many operations are very slow (on Google Cloud Compute)

2016-10-11 Thread David A
Hi, My DB has has 5TB, it's on Google Cloud Compute, mostly on SSDs, part on Standard Persistent Disks. Querying is ok, but deleting, moving between tablespaces, dropping tables, etc, etc is hugely slow (note: I do have a number of indexes) Instance RAM: 60GB Instance CPU: 16Cores I&#

Re: [GENERAL] Call a program

2007-05-28 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Tue, dem 22.05.2007, um 16:19:55 -0400 mailte Pablo Hume folgendes: > Hi, sorry for my english, i?m from Paraguay. > > I need to know if exists a way to call a program like CMD (command prompt) > from > a procedure or a trigger, and execute an external application. Yes, t

Re: [GENERAL] Adding auto-increment / sequence

2007-05-28 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 21.05.2007, um 18:29:46 -0700 mailte camb folgendes: > Hey all, > Is there any way to add some kind of sequence of auto-incrementing > column to the result set returned by a SELECT? Yes. You can use an sequence similar this: test=# select * from foo; col1 | co

Re: [GENERAL] Will a DELETE violate an FK?

2007-05-29 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Tue, dem 29.05.2007, um 10:48:21 -0400 mailte Robert James folgendes: > I'd like to be able to detect if a record has associations. I don't want to > actually delete it, just know if it could be deleted. (This is to build an > intelligent menu on a GUI) Set a savepoint

Re: [GENERAL] Corruption of files in PostgreSQL

2007-05-30 Thread Purusothaman A
before corruption. You also confirm you problem like this. And I strongly believe that, there is some bug in PostgreSQL. Kindly don't forget to alert me once u find solution/cause. Regards, Purusothaman A On 5/30/07, Paolo Bizzarri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/30/07, Richa

Re: [GENERAL] Corruption of files in PostgreSQL

2007-06-01 Thread Purusothaman A
find any pattern to corrupt the file objects. Regards, Purusothaman A On 6/2/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Paolo Bizzarri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Any hint? Please provide a reproducible test case ... regards, tom lane

Re: [GENERAL] general features

2007-06-03 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Sun, dem 03.06.2007, um 10:34:47 +0200 mailte Badawy, Mohamed folgendes: > Hi all > > am very new to postgres & actually am just collecting information about but I > having a problem with time so I was asking if someone could help me with quick > anserws about these f

Re: [GENERAL] Foreign keys and indexes

2007-06-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Tue, dem 05.06.2007, um 11:49:20 +0200 mailte Marc Compte folgendes: > Dear list, > > This might be too basic for a question but I just couldn't find the > answer so far. > > Does PostgreSQL create an implicit index also for foreign keys? No, only for primary keys to

Re: [GENERAL] How to count pairs?

2007-06-10 Thread A. Kretschmer
etable (7 rows) test=*# select word_a || ',' || word_b as pair, count(1) from ( select a.word as word_a, b.word as word_b from foo a join foo b on a.id=b.id where a.word != b.word and a.word > b.word) as bla group by pair; pair | count -+---

Re: [GENERAL] Create a table B with data coming from table A

2007-06-12 Thread A. Kretschmer
0 6 > 1235 1 0 1 7 > 1235 1 1 1 12 > > I have to create a new table B: > > IDB1 B2 B3 S > 1234 4 8 5 17 > 1235 6 7 12 25 > > The combination (A1=1,A2=0,A3=0) gives B

Re: [GENERAL] Historical Data Question

2007-06-14 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Thu, dem 14.06.2007, um 10:57:43 -0700 mailte Lza folgendes: > Can anyone help me with this problem? > > I have a table in my database that holds information on policies and > this table is linked to a number of other tables. I need to be able to > keep a history of all chan

Re: [GENERAL] "Constant" fields in a table

2007-06-15 Thread A. Kretschmer
ort of "id", account names, etc., which are > often not only stored in the database but also in external places so > changing is just a definitive DON'T). > > Obviously I can check this with triggers, but it occured me that some kind > of "CONSTANT" field a

Re: [GENERAL] Historical Data Question

2007-06-15 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Fri, dem 15.06.2007, um 8:21:45 -0400 mailte Francisco Reyes folgendes: > Lza writes: > > >I have a table in my database that holds information on policies and > >this table is linked to a number of other tables. I need to be able to > >keep a history of all chang

Re: [GENERAL] Exec a text variable as select

2007-06-18 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 18.06.2007, um 10:14:32 -0300 mailte Ranieri Mazili folgendes: > Hello, > > I'm creating a function that will create a select statement into a > while, this select will be stored into a text variable, after while ends > I need to execute this query stor

Re: [GENERAL] Loop through all views with PHP

2007-06-18 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 18.06.2007, um 14:59:34 +0200 mailte Stefan Schwarzer folgendes: > Hi there, > > my app is creating views for a certain task; now, I would like to run > on a regular basis a script which deletes these views. As they are > named with the date/hour/min/sec-append

Re: [GENERAL] How to prevent modifications in a tree of rows, based on a condition?

2007-06-19 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Tue, dem 19.06.2007, um 12:23:51 +0200 mailte Philippe Lang folgendes: > > I'd like to prevent any kind of modification (insert, update, delete) in > a order (and its lines, and steps) if all the steps in the lines of the > order are "checked". If that condition is

Re: [GENERAL] date time function

2007-06-28 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Thu, dem 28.06.2007, um 16:04:48 -0400 mailte Jasbinder Singh Bali folgendes: > Hi, > > I have a timestamp field in my talbe. > I need to check its difference in days with the current date. > > field name is time_stamp and I did it as follows: > > select age(tim

Re: [GENERAL] Create user

2007-06-29 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Fri, dem 29.06.2007, um 13:31:03 +0530 mailte Ashish Karalkar folgendes: > Hello All, > > I am trying to create a user and i dont understand why it is showing me any > massage even after giving parameter -e to the command. Maybe you should use -q: -q --quiet

Re: [GENERAL] Tables not created in proper schema

2007-07-02 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 02.07.2007, um 11:13:54 +0530 mailte Ashish Karalkar folgendes: > Hello All, > I am trying to create databse with script. > I run this script from root prompt with command > > > $ su - postgres -c 'path to script.sql' > > > In the script I follow following steps > > > 1) cr

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger Priority

2007-07-03 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Tue, dem 03.07.2007, um 12:11:01 -0400 mailte Mike Gould folgendes: > Is there a way to determine the order that triggers are executed? We are alphabetically Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID: 0x3FFF606C,

Re: [GENERAL] Date for a week day of a month

2007-07-03 Thread A. Kretschmer
ay'); > Result: 2007-04-26 Write you own function. You can get the last date for a month like this: select '2007-04-01'::date+'1month'::interval-'1day'::interval; You can get the weekday with: select extract('dow' from '2007-04-01'::date+&

Re: [GENERAL] Mugs 'n stuff

2007-07-03 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Tue, dem 03.07.2007, um 23:37:57 +0100 mailte Raymond O'Donnell folgendes: > Hi all, > > Is it still possible to get PostgreSQL merchandise? A friend of mine is > looking for some, but I can't seem to find where its available. Can you or your fried visit the pgday.it

Re: [GENERAL] Database Insertion commitment

2007-07-09 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 09.07.2007, um 2:53:48 -0400 mailte Jasbinder Singh Bali folgendes: > Hi, > > If I have a series of Insert statements within a loop in a function on the > same > table. > Would an Insert be able to see the values of previous insert in that table ? Inside

Re: [GENERAL] free scheduled import utility

2007-07-10 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Tue, dem 10.07.2007, um 14:32:58 +0200 mailte Zlatko Matic folgendes: > Hello. > Is there any free program/utility for batch imports from .csv files, that > can be easily scheduled for daily inserts of data to PostgreSQL tables? > Regards, You can use the scheduler from your OS. For Unix-like

Re: [GENERAL] odbc parameters

2007-07-11 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 11.07.2007, um 14:15:02 +0200 mailte Zlatko Matic folgendes: > Hello, please don't hijack other threads. If you only change the subject for a new question, your mail will be sorted completely wrong. (within modern email-clients such thunderbird or mutt) > > I use MS A

Re: [GENERAL] odbc parameters

2007-07-11 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 11.07.2007, um 14:55:28 +0200 mailte Zlatko Matic folgendes: > I have already tried COPY. > But, it has problems with type castings. > For example, COPY operation fails because PostgreSQL can't copy value > 7.844,000 into NUMERIC field... Either copy such values i

Re: [GENERAL] multirow insert

2007-07-13 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Fri, dem 13.07.2007, um 18:50:26 +0200 mailte Zlatko Mati? folgendes: > When using multirow INSERT INTO...VALUES command, are all rows inserted in a > batch, or row by row? Within one transaction, yes. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639

[GENERAL] Altering a plan

2007-07-17 Thread Shruthi A
Hi, I want to take a plan generated by the postgres optimizer and insert a constant in place of another constant in the plan. There is a function OidOutputFunctionCall() to get the constant. Similarly, is there any function to set the value of the constant? What does OidInputFunctionCall() do

Re: [GENERAL] redirecting output of pg_dump

2007-07-18 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 18.07.2007, um 15:39:01 +0530 mailte Ashish Karalkar folgendes: > Hello all, > > I want to take backup from one server and save it to another machine hard > drive. > The backup will be taken through a shell script attached to a cron job. > > something l

Re: [GENERAL] Using COALESCE nside function

2007-07-23 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 23.07.2007, um 13:58:22 -0400 mailte Robert Fitzpatrick folgendes: > Is it possible to use COALESCE function inside a function as a cursor > variable? Yes, why not? > > test cursor (myvar varchar) for > (coalesce(SELECT...,0)); I guess: wrong syntax. Try

Re: [GENERAL] regexp_replace

2007-07-24 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 23.07.2007, um 7:50:35 -0700 mailte [EMAIL PROTECTED] folgendes: > Hi all, > > I would like to change a sub-string in a text-field by using > > UPDATE tablename SET > fieldname=regexp_replace(fieldname,old_sub_string,new_sub_string) > WHERE (fieldname

Re: [GENERAL] Database Select Slow

2007-08-10 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Fri, dem 10.08.2007, um 17:46:11 +0800 mailte carter ck folgendes: > Hi all, > > I am facing a performance issue here. Whenever I do a count(*) on a table > that contains about 300K records, it takes few minutes to complete. Whereas > my other application which is counting

Re: [GENERAL] INSERT before UPDATE?

2007-08-16 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Thu, dem 16.08.2007, um 10:30:01 +0200 mailte Ji?í N?mec folgendes: > Hello, > > I would like to ask you for an advice. > > There are two tables in my PostgreSQL database - main table with datas and > second with translations for all languages of these records. > >

Re: [GENERAL] INSERT before UPDATE?

2007-08-16 Thread A. Kretschmer
lpgsql trigger function which will UPDATE a record (or > INSERT new record) when the record is not found. But as far as I know > a trigger is not executed when a updated record is not found, so this > solution doesn't work for me. I don't want to change my application - > I woul

Re: [GENERAL] copy command - date

2007-08-17 Thread Raj A
Thanks again guys =) I've managed to use temp table to load the data and create new table/s Now, how do I convert a text field with 'YY/MM/DD' to date field 'DD/MM/YY'? On 13/08/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: [GENERAL] Help creating a function

2007-08-20 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 15.08.2007, um 17:29:17 -0400 mailte Madison Kelly folgendes: > What I would like to do is create a function that would do the same > thing so I could read out the IP addresses as standard dotted-decimal > format. Could anyone help me with this? I am quite the n00

[GENERAL] Join query help

2007-08-20 Thread Raj A
Hi, We have the following three tables. safety=> SELECT record_id, record_date FROM record; record_id | record_date ---+ 1 | 2007-07-23 11:30:37+10 2 | 2007-07-27 11:30:14+10 3 | 2007-07-17 13:15:03+10 (3 rows) safety=> SELECT obser

Re: [GENERAL] history table

2007-08-21 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Tue, dem 21.08.2007, um 20:20:38 +0200 mailte Robin Helgelin folgendes: > Hi, > > I want to save history for a few tables using triggers on update and > creation. What's the best approach to do this in a webapp environment > where I want to save which webapp user that is d

Re: [GENERAL] [ERROR] syntax error at end of input

2007-08-27 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 27.08.2007, um 9:40:45 -0300 mailte Marcelo de Moraes Serpa folgendes: > Hello list, > > I'm trying to execute the following sentences in a pl/pgsql function. > aNomeProcAudita and pTabAudit are both variables. > >DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS aNomePro

Re: [GENERAL] Read Access to database

2007-08-27 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Tue, dem 28.08.2007, um 10:56:38 +0530 mailte Ashish Karalkar folgendes: > Hello all, > > I have a database abc with owner c . > I want to grant only read access on this DB abc to user d. > More specificaly to a schema abcs in the databse abc. > Is ther any way to do so?

Re: [GENERAL] One database vs. hundreds?

2007-08-28 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Tue, dem 28.08.2007, um 8:08:36 -0400 mailte Kynn Jones folgendes: > I'm hoping to get some advice on a design question I'm grappling with. > I have a database now that in many respects may be regarded as an > collection of a few hundred much smaller "parallel data

Re: [GENERAL] One database vs. hundreds?

2007-08-28 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Tue, dem 28.08.2007, um 14:23:00 +0200 mailte Kamil Srot folgendes: > > Kynn Jones wrote: > >I'm hoping to get some advice on a design question I'm grappling with. > > I have a database now that in many respects may be regarded as an > >collection of a

Re: [GENERAL] How to avoid "Seq Scans"?

2007-08-29 Thread A. Kretschmer
QUERY PLAN > - > Sort (cost=958786.20..970734.55 rows=4779338 width=28) >Sort Key: f2,f3 >-> Seq Scan on t (cost=0.00..85501.38 rows=4779338 width=28) > > I'd like to know a hint about a technicque to avoid the se

Re: [GENERAL] \copy only select rows

2007-08-30 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Thu, dem 30.08.2007, um 14:59:06 +0800 mailte Ow Mun Heng folgendes: > Is there a way to do a dump of a database using a select statement? A complete database or just a simple table? > > eg: \copy trd to 'file' select * from table limit 10 Since 8.2 you can use COPY (

Re: [GENERAL] temp tables and sequences in functions

2007-09-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 05.09.2007, um 6:58:30 -0700 mailte Rob folgendes: > What is the proper why to deal with temp tables and sequences? Why aren't they > being dropped after the function ends? Why do I get OID errors if I delete the > temp table/sequence at the end of the function and then try to rerun t

Re: [GENERAL] work hour calculations

2007-09-06 Thread Raj A
correction: > The result I'm expecting for the above to be > >notification_time| finished_time | actual > ++- > 2007-07-06 15:50:00+10 | 2007-07-09 07:10:00+10 | 01:20:00 > 2007-07-07 12:30:00+10 | 2007-07-09 07

Re: [GENERAL] Tutorial EXPLAIN for idiots?

2007-09-07 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Fri, dem 07.09.2007, um 12:30:06 +0200 mailte Erwin Moller folgendes: > Hi group, > > Does anybody know of an tutorial for EXPLAIN for idiots like me? > (I am fairly confortable with Postgres, but never used EXPLAIN before.) > > I need to optimize a few slow running que

Re: [GENERAL] Database reverse engineering

2007-09-08 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Sat, dem 08.09.2007, um 11:44:17 +0200 mailte Thorsten Kraus folgendes: > Hello, > > I am looking for a tool which is able to generate a database diagramm > including the relationships from an existing database schema. The only > tool I know for this purpose is the Clay data

Re: [GENERAL] Timestamp from an OID?

2007-09-12 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 12.09.2007, um 7:32:45 -0600 mailte Dennis Muhlestein folgendes: > I've been passively collecting data for a few months. I realized, after > a while, that I never added a timestamp column to the table the data is > being stored in. I've since added that. >

Re: [GENERAL] Timestamp from an OID?

2007-09-12 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 12.09.2007, um 15:41:44 +0200 mailte A. Kretschmer folgendes: > am Wed, dem 12.09.2007, um 7:32:45 -0600 mailte Dennis Muhlestein folgendes: > > I've been passively collecting data for a few months. I realized, after > > a while, that I never added a timestamp

Re: [GENERAL] get a list of table modifications in a day?

2007-09-13 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Thu, dem 13.09.2007, um 10:44:41 +0200 mailte Ottavio Campana folgendes: > > http://ads.wars-nicht.de/blog/archives/100-Log-Table-Changes-in-PostgreSQL-with-tablelog.html > > since I already use triggers on that table, can I use table_log? > > I mean, can I have two triggers for the same even

Re: [GENERAL] UPDATE pg_catalog.pg_class as NO Superuser??

2007-09-13 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Thu, dem 13.09.2007, um 11:25:39 +0200 mailte Kai Behncke folgendes: > But always if I sent as user xy the > "UPDATE pg_catalog.pg_class SET reltriggers = 0;"-command I get: > > "SQL error: > > ERROR: permission denied for relation pg_class" > >

Re: [GENERAL] UPDATE pg_catalog.pg_class as NO Superuser??

2007-09-13 Thread A. Kretschmer
test=*# \h alter table Command: ALTER TABLE Description: change the definition of a table Syntax: ALTER TABLE [ ONLY ] name [ * ] Okay: ALTER TABLE foo DISABLE TRIGGER ALL; Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG-ID

Re: [GENERAL] ON INSERT => execute AWK/SH/EXE?

2007-09-18 Thread A. Kretschmer
in my UNIX System? > > If yes, how do I do this and if no, thanks for telling. You can do this, you need a untrusted language like plperlU or plsh. Then you can write a TRIGGER and call external programs. Hope that helps, Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150,

Re: [GENERAL] help w/ SRF function

2007-09-18 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 17.09.2007, um 9:21:22 +0800 mailte Ow Mun Heng folgendes: > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo_func(fromdate timestamp, todate > timestamp, code text) > RETURNS SETOF foo AS > $BODY$ > SELECT > TRH.ID, > TRH.data1, > TRH.data2, > FROM D > INNER JOIN

Re: [GENERAL] how to know the current size of a database

2007-09-19 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 19.09.2007, um 22:36:02 +1200 mailte [EMAIL PROTECTED] folgendes: > Hello > > I want to know about the size of my database. For example, I want to know > how many Mb of data for current myDatabase database in a postgres server. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1

Re: [GENERAL] Stuck on Foreign Keys

2007-09-19 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Thu, dem 20.09.2007, um 14:13:40 +1000 mailte Chester folgendes: > Hi > > I have a question regarding foreign keys, I just cannot get it to create > them for meI must be doing something wrong but I have no idea what > that might be :) > > I have a table "clien

Re: [GENERAL] more problems with count(*) on large table

2007-09-28 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Fri, dem 28.09.2007, um 11:56:46 -0400 mailte Mike Charnoky folgendes: > Hi, > > I am still having problems performing a count(*) on a large table. This > > Now, certain count(*) queries are failing to complete for certain time > ranges (I killed the query after about 24

Re: [GENERAL] more problems with count(*) on large table

2007-09-28 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Fri, dem 28.09.2007, um 12:50:34 -0400 mailte Alvaro Herrera folgendes: > A. Kretschmer wrote: > > am Fri, dem 28.09.2007, um 11:56:46 -0400 mailte Mike Charnoky folgendes: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am still having problems performing a count(*) on a

Re: [GENERAL] multiple row insertion

2007-10-04 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Thu, dem 04.10.2007, um 18:47:01 +0500 mailte test tester folgendes: > > > On 10/4/07, test tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i have version 8.1 and i want to know how to insert multiple rows in this > version. Please no silly top post. You can insert multiple values with one i

Re: [GENERAL] Error while database creation

2007-10-04 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Fri, dem 05.10.2007, um 11:43:09 +0530 mailte Ashish Karalkar folgendes: > Hello All, > > I am getting following error when trying to create new database. > > > createdb: database creation failed: ERROR: could not create directory "base/ > 1923827": No space left on device > can anybody

Re: [GENERAL] How to convert rows into HTML columns?

2007-10-04 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Fri, dem 05.10.2007, um 8:20:32 +0200 mailte Stefan Schwarzer folgendes: > Before I was used that the yearly values were all to be found in a > single SQL row; now for each year of each country I have a separate > row. How do I convert that into a single (HTML) row again? Yo

Re: [GENERAL] How to convert rows into HTML columns?

2007-10-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Fri, dem 05.10.2007, um 9:13:10 +0200 mailte Stefan Schwarzer folgendes: > >> > >>And the next question coming up is: How should my query look like so > >>that I can sort the (HTML) table by a specific year in ascending or > >>descending order? So, that

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / "humorous" X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
come through as Do you mean me? > flagged messages in Outlook, it throws off my email rules processing > and the messages end up into the wrong groups. (With the volume of This header is a special Outlook-Feature. If this header realy make problems in _this_ software, then i think, _this

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with SELECT

2007-10-08 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 08.10.2007, um 3:28:04 -0700 mailte marwis1978 folgendes: > I have a following table > -+ > day | quantity > -+ > > where day is a date and quantity is an integer value. Now I need to > make a SELECT statement on this table wh

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / "humorous" X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-08 Thread A. Kretschmer
ick to jump on my use of Outlook as an email client (thus assuming > I was just one of "those" terrible horrible know-nothing Windows users). I can speak only for myself, but when i see damaged mails (with, for instance, broken quoting-line as you can see above, then i think: 'apparent

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / "humorous" X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-08 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 08.10.2007, um 12:00:30 -0700 mailte Richard Broersma Jr folgendes: > --- "A. Kretschmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > at least post them and see what kind of response you get, > > > > rather than judge the list as a whole due to th

Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus / "humorous" X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off

2007-10-08 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 08.10.2007, um 15:46:04 -0500 mailte Scott Marlowe folgendes: > Actually CC to the sender is the norm on this list. I believe there Okay, no problem. I'm knowing other lists like the german debian user list and there is this CC to the sender unwanted. Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer

Re: [GENERAL] not work in IE

2007-10-11 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Fri, dem 12.10.2007, um 5:06:38 +0100 mailte manju arumugam folgendes: > Hi, > > > In my site when am update the edit user info page its > prperly works in firefox .But not works in IE...But > the updation takes place in the database but the page > is not displayed...Wats the reason? IE is

Re: [GENERAL] DROP VIEW lasts forever

2007-10-17 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 17.10.2007, um 13:01:25 +0200 mailte Christian Rengstl folgendes: > Hi list, > > Whenever I try dropping a view using DROP VIEW myschema.myview the > query runs forever. The last time I tried was ten minutes ago and the > query is still running even though the view qu

Re: [GENERAL] Suggestions for Remote Procedure Calls from PG, please?

2007-10-17 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 17.10.2007, um 22:30:26 -0400 mailte Bret Schuhmacher folgendes: > Does anyone else invoke a process on a remote server? How do you do it? You can use any untrusted programming language like pl/perlU or plsh. Other solution: use LISTEN/NOTIFY, see http://www.postgresql.org/docs/

Re: [GENERAL] PG/Tcl and Expect?

2007-10-18 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Tue, dem 16.10.2007, um 21:55:38 -0700 mailte Bret Schuhmacher folgendes: > Does the PG/Tcl interface allow expect scripts? I want to create a stored > procedure that ssh's to another server and runs a Perl script. Expect could > do > it, but can I load the expect modu

Re: [GENERAL] "Concatenate" two queries - how?

2007-10-24 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 24.10.2007, um 15:08:51 +0200 mailte Stefan Schwarzer folgendes: > Now, I want to enable queries which display national as well as > regional values. I could probably work with independent queries, but > I think it would be "cleaner" and more efficient to get ev

Re: [GENERAL] Delete/Update with ORDER BY

2007-10-25 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Thu, dem 25.10.2007, um 5:25:14 -0700 mailte Evandro Andersen folgendes: > In Oracle you can use this: > > > > DELETE FROM A WHERE A1 = 10 ORDER BY A2 > > > > There is something in the Postgresql ? Can you explain this a little bit more? I can't see any

Re: [GENERAL] Query_time SQL as a function w/o creating a new type

2007-10-26 Thread A. Kretschmer
RETURN; > END; > $BODY$ > LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE; > > > ERROR: query has no destination for result data > HINT: If you want to discard the results of a SELECT, use PERFORM > instead. > CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function "query_time2" line 3 at SQL sta

Re: [GENERAL] active connections

2007-10-30 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Tue, dem 30.10.2007, um 14:51:33 -0300 mailte João Paulo Zavanela folgendes: > Hi, > > I would like to know how many active connections exist. > Is necessary show the number ip of client. ask pg_stat_activity (select * from pg_stat_activity;) Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz

Re: [GENERAL] how can I shut off "more"?

2007-10-31 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 31.10.2007, um 17:14:02 -0400 mailte Gauthier, Dave folgendes: > When I run a query, and the number of lines exceeds what the screen can hold, > the results seem to get piped into ?more? (or ?less?). How can I turn that > off > and just have everything stream out with

Re: [GENERAL] day of week

2007-11-01 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 31.10.2007, um 16:34:44 +0200 mailte Anton Andreev folgendes: > Hi, > > I have records with date column. Is there a way I can get which day of > week this date is? Yes, no problem. select extract (dow from date). Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz:

Re: [GENERAL] Would an index benefit select ... order by?

2007-11-02 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Sat, dem 03.11.2007, um 11:09:05 +0400 mailte rihad folgendes: > Hi, > > Should an index be used on a created_at timestamp column if you know you > will be using "ORDER BY created_at ASC|DESC" from time to time? Yes. And you should use EXPLAIN. Andreas -- Andr

Re: [GENERAL] reverse strpos?

2007-11-12 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 12.11.2007, um 10:54:53 -0500 mailte Gauthier, Dave folgendes: > Is there a function that?ll return the position of the last occurance of a > char > in a string? > > > > For Example, in the string ?abc/def/ghi? I want the position of the 2^nd ?/?. write a f

Re: [GENERAL] reverse strpos?

2007-11-12 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 12.11.2007, um 8:48:29 -0800 mailte David Fetter folgendes: > > > Is there a function that?ll return the position of the last > > > occurance of a char in a string? > > > > > > > write a function to revert the string and use strpos().

Re: [GENERAL] convert access sql to postgresql

2007-11-16 Thread A . M .
mn names in your output. However I was unable to find any information regarding using column aliases as variables, like in the code above. I'm not sure why this works in access, but does postgreSQL support using a column alias like a variable within the query that the alias was defined in

Re: [GENERAL] how should I do to disable the foreign key in postgres?

2007-11-17 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 14.11.2007, um 15:16:48 +0800 mailte froast folgendes: > in mysql, I used :"set foreign_key_check = 0;" to disable the foreign key > check, now I'm trying to migrate from mysql to postgres, how should I do > to disable it? You can define the constraints as deferrable. Later you can

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger problem

2007-11-27 Thread A. Kretschmer
, action, table_name) VALUES(current_user, > act, tab); > > Now the problem is that a tuple gets added to the table history, but > the field "action" (whatever the user did) is 99% empty, whereas the > others are filled and I don't see why... > > Any hint is great

Re: [GENERAL] Making a query from 2 tables at same time

2007-11-29 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Thu, dem 29.11.2007, um 15:48:45 +0100 mailte Pau Marc Munoz Torres folgendes: > Hi everybody > > I'm doing a two table query as follow > > mhc2db=> select t1.sp, t1.pos,t2.p1, t2.p4, t2.p6, t2.p7, t2.p9 from local as > t1, precalc as t2 where t1.ce='ACIAD

Re: [GENERAL] Moving lock file (/tmp/.s.PGSQL.)

2007-11-30 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Fri, dem 30.11.2007, um 5:22:34 -0500 mailte Madison Kelly folgendes: > Hi all, > > If there a ./configure switch (or config file/command line switch) to > tell postgresql to put the lock file '.s.PGSQL..lock' and socket > '.s.PGSQL.' in a different

Re: Fwd: Re: [GENERAL] Archiving problem on Windows

2007-12-04 Thread A. Kretschmer
hive\DBArchive\myfile<< failed: error code > 1 > >>copy pg_xlog\myfile C:\Archive\DBArchive\myfile<< failed: error code > 1 > >>copy pg_xlog\myfile C:\Archive\DBArchive\myfile<< failed: error code > 1 > WARNING: transaction log file could not be archived: too

Re: [GENERAL] Archiving problem on Windows

2007-12-04 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Mon, dem 03.12.2007, um 12:29:39 +0100 mailte Christian Rengstl folgendes: > Hi list, > > a have a problem using the following archiving command on windows: > 'copy %p C:\\Archive\\DBArchive\\%f' According the doc, the command should be: archive_command = 'copy

Re: [GENERAL] Archiving problem on Windows

2007-12-04 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Tue, dem 04.12.2007, um 12:05:41 +0100 mailte Christian Rengstl folgendes: > >> a have a problem using the following archiving command on windows: > >> 'copy %p C:\\Archive\\DBArchive\\%f' > > > > According the doc, the command should be: > >

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 05.12.2007, um 10:24:04 + mailte Ashish Karalkar folgendes: > Hello List member, > > Iha a table containing two columns x and y . for single value of x there are > multiple values in y e.g > > X Y > > 1 ABC > 2 PQR >

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with joining two tables

2007-12-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 05.12.2007, um 14:42:32 +0100 mailte Przemyslaw Bojczuk folgendes: > Hello! > > I have a problem joining two tables. I tried various types of join and > none seems to work as I expect > > Table 1: > > id | stuff > --- > 1 | sth1 > 2

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 05.12.2007, um 3:46:26 -0800 mailte David Fetter folgendes: > Use the array_accum aggregate from the docs as follows: > > SELECT x, array_to_string(array_accum(y),':') > FROM your_table > GROUP BY x; Yes, no noubt a better solution as my new aggregat

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 05.12.2007, um 10:47:44 + mailte Ashish Karalkar folgendes: > > X Y > > > > 1 ABC > > 2 PQR > > 3 XYZ > > 4 LMN > > 1 LMN > > 2 XYZ > > > > I want a query that will

Re: [GENERAL] simple update on boolean

2007-12-06 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Thu, dem 06.12.2007, um 10:25:26 +0100 mailte Cedric Boudin folgendes: > Most honourable members of the list, > > this is a simple one, but I can't find the solution ( probably a > forest/tree problem). > > update table set bolean_column = set_it_to_its_inverse where f

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