Re: [HACKERS] Upgrade issue (again).

2001-05-16 Thread Tom Lane
>> I am loathe to even bring this up, but with two messages today about >> it, I am going to be short and sweet: >> >> We don't have a reasonable upgrade path. This is one of many, many things that need work. It happens to be a thing that requires a *lot* of work for, well, not so much payback

Re: [HACKERS] Re: Queries across multiple databases (was: SELECT from a table in another database).

2001-05-16 Thread Tom Lane
Nils Zonneveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > support. If not, there are workarounds. At the moment PostgreSQL doesn't > have schema support. But there's light at the end of the tunnel: I've > heard Tom Lane mention schema support several times (can you give us an > estimate when schema support wil

Re: [HACKERS] Upgrade issue (again).

2001-05-16 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 16 May 2001, Lamar Owen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I am loathe to even bring this up, but with two messages today about it, I am > going to be short and sweet: > > We don't have a reasonable upgrade path. ASCII dump->install > new->initdb->restore is not

Re: [HACKERS] Followup to IRIX6.5 installation of PG 7.1.1

2001-05-16 Thread G. Anthony Reina
Tom Lane wrote: > is included in every Postgres source file (via c.h). > Yep. That's what I expected. SGI technical support seems to think that the problem is with the POSIX flag. " Have you defined any POSIX variables, such as -D_POSIX_SOURCE or included pthread.h? When you enable POSI

[HACKERS] error on INSERT - connection is read only

2001-05-16 Thread Nisha Srinivasan
Hi, l see that a lot of people have the same problem and have posted questions but I couldn't find an answer on the web. I have Postgresql 6.5.3 running on Debian Linux. And I use the iODBC driver manager 2.50.3 to make the ODBC calls. Am not able to insert data into Postgres tables across ODBC

Re: [HACKERS] Triggers might be caching broken fmgr info

2001-05-16 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My best guess is that the trigger fmgr lookup in trigger.c:846 > if (trigger->tgfunc.fn_oid == InvalidOid) > fmgr_info(trigger->tgfoid, &trigger->tgfunc); > might be reading out of an incompletely initialized trigger->tgfunc > stru

Re: [HACKERS] Followup to IRIX6.5 installation of PG 7.1.1

2001-05-16 Thread Tom Lane
"G. Anthony Reina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I noticed in your code string.h is not included. The man page for strdup >> specifies the inclusion of this header. Please advise. > Any comments? is included in every Postgres source file (via c.h). regards, tom lane

[HACKERS] Followup to IRIX6.5 installation of PG 7.1.1

2001-05-16 Thread G. Anthony Reina
I've been talking with SGI tech support about my problem with installing Postgres 7.1.1 on the SGI (IRIX 6.5.12 using the MIPSPro 7.3 compiler). Fortunately, one of my SGI's (an octane) built PG without any problem so this is just academic now (but probably useful for others wanting to install PG

Re: [HACKERS] Fw: Running config vars

2001-05-16 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
I was looking for some way via standard SQL (I use perl DBI) to list these variables. I don't believe the SHOW command is available via DBI Jim > > I think the way to do this is for SHOW ALL to show all setttings. > > [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > > > > Hi all (I hope t

[HACKERS] Fw: Running config vars

2001-05-16 Thread Jim Buttafuoco
Hi all (I hope this is the correct list), Under Oracle there is v$parameter which list ALL config varables. Under psql there is the SHOW command, but this only lists 1 variable. I have written a shell script (attached) that shows ALL know variables. My questions is can this script get include

[HACKERS] Grammar-problems with pl/pgsql in gram.y

2001-05-16 Thread Klaus Reger
Hi, I want to learn, how the pl/plsql-parser/compiler works. Therefore I planned to implement a simple ELSIF, like oracle does. I added the following K_ELSIF branch to gram.y, in the hope that, when ELSIF is parsed, simply another if-structure in inserted.