[GENERAL] v8.3 + UTF8 errors when restoring DB

2008-03-09 Thread Mitchell D. Russell
New to the list, so please forgive me in advance :) I've been running 8.2 on windows server 2003 for quite some time now. The database that I take care of stores records with various languages in it (russian, chinese, etc) and has been working fine. I did a PG_dump of the database tonight, and

Re: [GENERAL] v8.3 + UTF8 errors when restoring DB

2008-03-09 Thread Mitchell D. Russell
Just as an update to this matter, I created another new database with SQL_ASCII encoding and imported the data, and it worked fine, however, I don't think that's the best solution because SQL_ASCII's not a good way to have the database encoding set, right? Thanks again for any suggestions.

Re: [GENERAL] v8.3 + UTF8 errors when restoring DB

2008-03-09 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:12:14AM -0400, Mitchell D. Russell wrote: Just as an update to this matter, I created another new database with SQL_ASCII encoding and imported the data, and it worked fine, however, I don't think that's the best solution because SQL_ASCII's not a good way to have

Re: [GENERAL] v8.3 + UTF8 errors when restoring DB

2008-03-09 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
On 2008-03-09 01:45, Mitchell D. Russell wrote: New to the list, so please forgive me in advance :) I've been running 8.2 on windows server 2003 for quite some time now. The database that I take care of stores records with various languages in it (russian, chinese, etc) and has been working

Re: [GENERAL] ER Diagram design tools (Linux)

2008-03-09 Thread David Fetter
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:49:02AM -0800, Colin Fox wrote: David Fetter wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:22:49PM -0800, Colin Fox wrote: I've created a pg_foundry project for this. Assuming the project gets approved, I'll post the link here. Wouldn't it be better just to

Re: [GENERAL] loading a psql input file on win xp

2008-03-09 Thread Reid Thompson
akshay bhat wrote: HELLO i have psql file which is to be used for loading a database it was downloaded from this link http://conceptnet.media.mit.edu/ the description says The ConceptNet 3 database, as a PostgreSQL input file. You will need to be running a PostgreSQL server to install

Re: [GENERAL] how do you write aggregate function

2008-03-09 Thread Justin
I got the aggregate function for weighted average done. I finely left alone for more than 10 minutes to actual get it written. It takes 2 value input Weight and the Value. it will sum the weighted entries to create the constant then does the normal formula, but does not percentage number

Re: [GENERAL] how do you write aggregate function

2008-03-09 Thread dmp
Array appends are usually a performance hit, as you said. I'm not sure though with PostgreSQL. Why not try it with two arrays and see what happens. At least you would reducing the single array and the eliminating the append. danap. I got the aggregate function for weighted average done. I

Re: [GENERAL] how do you write aggregate function

2008-03-09 Thread Justin
If i use two arrays how do i append new entries into these arrays. array_append only allows for 1 dimension. what other methods are there to add new entries to the array. dmp wrote: Array appends are usually a performance hit, as you said. I'm not sure though with PostgreSQL. Why not try

Re: [GENERAL] v8.3 + UTF8 errors when restoring DB

2008-03-09 Thread Mitchell D. Russell
Dean: I did the dump as so: Psql –Upostgres databasename c:\temp\dump.sql I think the database was set to SQL_ASCII before I dumped it, because when I did the 2nd restore last night to a new SQL_ASCII database, it worked fine, so that’s where I am at right now, the database is

Re: [GENERAL] Watch your PlanetPostgreSQL.org blogs

2008-03-09 Thread Josh Berkus
Lewis, I have no problem with having a policy or following a policy. My problem is: Where is it? When was the last time someone's blog was booted from planetpostgresql? Is it documented, i.e. an open discussed event? Actually, the policy was discussed on pgsql-www mailing list in

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2008-03-09 Thread Justin
DMP you did give me an idea on how to call the append array sfunc looks like this create or replace function wcost_average_sf (numeric[], numeric, numeric) returns numeric[] as $Body$ begin return array_append(array_append($1, $2), $3); end; $Body$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' VOLATILE;

Re: [GENERAL] how do you write aggregate function

2008-03-09 Thread dmp
Justin, I'm really not a expert in this area, on how to code this, or functions in PostgreSQL. All I could offer is some ideas which you might try. Sometimes this is all it takes. Perhaps someone else will respond that might be more helpful. With that said I have read in the documentation the use

Re: [GENERAL] v8.3 + UTF8 errors when restoring DB

2008-03-09 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
On 2008-03-09 11:49, Mitchell D. Russell wrote: Dean: I did the dump as so: psql –Upostgres databasename c:\temp\dump.sql I assume you meant pg_dump, not psql. I think the database was set to SQL_ASCII before I dumped it, because when I did the 2^nd restore last night to a new

Re: [GENERAL] v8.3 + UTF8 errors when restoring DB

2008-03-09 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 09/03/2008 18:49, Mitchell D. Russell wrote: I think the database was set to SQL_ASCII before I dumped it, because when I did the 2^nd restore last night to a new SQL_ASCII database, it worked fine, so that’s where I am at right now, the database is running fine on 8.3 as SQL_ASCII but I

Re: [GENERAL] loading a psql input file on win xp

2008-03-09 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 09/03/2008 15:34, Reid Thompson wrote: you'll also probably have to add the parameter -h 127.0.0.1 psql defaults to connecting to the local machine unless you tell it otherwise, so this is redundant; though it certainly won't do any harm either. Ray.

Re: [GENERAL] data import - duplicates

2008-03-09 Thread brian
Webb Sprague wrote: I haven't tested but this is what I would do (uses arrays, which are handy when you need them), with the names changed to protect the innocent: begin; -- create a table with some duplicates in one of the columns (y is ck); wsprague=# select x, x%4 as y into temp fbar from

Re: [GENERAL] Cumulative (Running) Sum

2008-03-09 Thread Matt Culbreth
On Mar 8, 4:46 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (hubert depesz lubaczewski) wrote: you might find this useful:http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2007/08/17/rownum-anyone-cumulative-s... please also read comments. depesz This is very helpful. It sees that there's a way to do it without hacking it

[GENERAL] Nested xpath() calls lose namespace support

2008-03-09 Thread Matt Magoffin
I was trying to extract XML fragments within a pl/pgsql function by nested xpath() function calls, and found that when namespaces are used in the XML, only the first xpath() call is able to correctly use namespaces. First here is an example that works, when no namespaces are used: BEGIN; CREATE

Re: [GENERAL] loading a psql input file on win xp

2008-03-09 Thread Reid Thompson
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 19:41 +, Raymond O'Donnell wrote: On 09/03/2008 15:34, Reid Thompson wrote: you'll also probably have to add the parameter -h 127.0.0.1 psql defaults to connecting to the local machine unless you tell it otherwise, so this is redundant; though it certainly

[GENERAL] large object import

2008-03-09 Thread postgre
Hi all, I am having a stored function in plperlU which is called from php script then. It select data from a table, export them to a file and zips the file. The problem is that it should store this file into temporary table. Then it should return some identificator to php, so that the user can

[GENERAL] gsoc ideas

2008-03-09 Thread longlong
hi,all. i want some advice about ideas for gsoc. i don't konw if it is appropriate that i send a email here, so if you feel uncomfortable, please accept my apology. 1.release8.2 make COPY TO can copy the output of an arbitrary SELECT statement. so i think maybe COPY FROM can get data from output