Re: [HACKERS] psql \d option list overloaded

2004-01-04 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Couldn't agree more - syntax like SHOW TABLES; is inituitive and somehow right - [chuckles] - Mysql does not have *everything* wrong! regards Mark Bruce Momjian wrote: I like the idea of adding a new syntax to show that information using simple SQL command syntax, and putting it in the

Re: [HACKERS] time format

2004-01-04 Thread Martin Marques
El Sáb 03 Ene 2004 18:20, ivan escribió: ok, bat each time where i want to do select .. a nie tu use to_char, but it should be in function timestamp_out to convert time to string it would be easer and faster. Look deeper into what Christopher said and use casting to get the right output:

Re: [HACKERS] ecpg's minor bug

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:59:45PM +0800, William ZHANG wrote: in preproc.y:2021: ... Thanks for the report. I just fixed it in HEAD and 7.4. Michael -- Michael Meskes Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein

[HACKERS] Remote Procedures

2004-01-04 Thread A E
Hi, I was wondering is there or will there be support for remote procedures/functions in Postgresql? Not only server to server, but database to database? Such as calling a function in DB "B" from DB "A" or Server Gaia DB "B"from Server Zeus DB "A"? Alex

Re: [HACKERS] Need a good .

2004-01-04 Thread Neil Conway
Thomas Hallgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm working on a pljava module. In it, I'd like to cache some allocated structures (allocated using TopMemoryContext) using a string as the key. I need a hash or binary-search table with dynamic size where I can store arbitrary structures and then find

Re: [HACKERS] *sigh*

2004-01-04 Thread Neil Conway
Simon Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Select count(*) could be evaluated against any available index sub-tables, since all that is required is to count the rows. That would be significantly faster than a full file scan and accurate too. PostgreSQL stores MVCC information in heap tuples only,

Re: [HACKERS] PL/Java issues

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Joe Conway said: Andrew Dunstan wrote: AFAIK it is not available except for $$$. It looks like the relevant standards are parts 1 and 2 of the SQLJ standard (Part 0 covers embedded SQL). For working drafts try: http://www.wiscorp.com/sql/sql_2003_standard.zip (5WD-13-JRT-2003-09.pdf)

Re: [HACKERS] time format

2004-01-04 Thread Tom Lane
Martin Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Look deeper into what Christopher said and use casting to get the right output: prueba= select now()::timestamp(0); There's also current_timestamp(0), which is a more standards-compliant way of doing the same thing. regards,

Re: [HACKERS] (Mis?)Behavior of \copy with -f and \i

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Mark Feit wrote: Peter Eisentraut declared that from that point on, stdin would be whatever stream the \copy command came from. I'd like to propose a variant on the FROM clause which makes good on Peter's declaration without breaking anything already using FROM STDIN and expecting it to

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml Tag: REL7_4_STABLE r ...

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: (It might be good if we had a more standardized way of generating HISTORY though. I tried a couple different versions of lynx and got a couple different outputs, none perfectly matching whatever version Bruce is using ...) There lies the problem. Making these text files is

Re: [HACKERS] Spinlock support for linux-hppa?

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Oliver Elphick wrote: I can't very easily get cvs tip built on linus-hppa, because I couldn't make a package of that except for experimental, but experimental doesn't get processed by the autobuilders. Time to break out the old configure; make; make install... ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] psql \d option list overloaded

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian wrote: I am starting to agree that our \d* handling is just too overloaded. Look at the option list from \?: Can anyone remember all those? Yes. I like the idea of adding a new syntax to show that information using simple SQL command syntax, and putting it in the backend so

Re: [HACKERS] psql \d option list overloaded

2004-01-04 Thread Alex J. Avriette
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:25:21PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: I finally figure it out, I just end up forgetting again later. I still have no clue how I'd find the same data without using psql. In MySQL I can run those queries from PHP, PERL...etc. I know you can find that data in

[HACKERS] Adding help to psql

2004-01-04 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Someone mentioned in passing something on general: To this day, I have trouble with that in PostgreSQL. I'm constantly doing: psql help; ERROR: syntax error at or near help at character 1 I seem to recall some past discussion about

Re: [HACKERS] Remote Procedures

2004-01-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
A E wrote: Hi, I was wondering is there or will there be support for remote procedures/functions in Postgresql? Not only server to server, but database to database? Such as calling a function in DB B from DB A or Server Gaia DB B from Server Zeus DB A? You could use dblink from contrib.

[HACKERS] Anything akin to an Evaluate Statement in Postgresql?

2004-01-04 Thread A E
Hi, Was wondering if there was anything akin to an evaluate statement in Postgresql for dynamic strings? Alex

Re: [HACKERS] time format

2004-01-04 Thread ivan
i know, but i talking about default time output, it would be for time, date and date with time, not formating all the time. On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Tom Lane wrote: Martin Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Look deeper into what Christopher said and use casting to get the right output: prueba=

Re: [HACKERS] PL/Java issues

2004-01-04 Thread Thomas Hallgren
I'm working on a pl/java project and have come quite far with it. Triggers and Functions are both callable, there's support for complex types etc. I have a project on GBorg (pljava) where I'll post all source in a CVS repository in a matter of days (the code is ready but my ISP have a router

Re: [HACKERS] [JDBC] PL/Java issues

2004-01-04 Thread Thomas Hallgren
I think much of the issues should be resolved using JDBC and java.sql.ResultSet and a couple of interfaces that can be used when mapping specific types to specific Java objects (SQLData, SQLReader/SQLWriter). A PL/Java needs a hook where a connection is initialized for JDBC access in the backend.

Re: [HACKERS] Anything akin to an Evaluate Statement in Postgresql?

2004-01-04 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Was wondering if there was anything akin to an evaluate statement in Postgresql for dynamic strings? By dint of tricky programming you can a function that can generate and execute arbitrary strings. I believe there's even an example of this in the docs. Chris ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] Remote Procedures

2004-01-04 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Try the contrib/dblink module. Chris A E wrote: Hi, I was wondering is there or will there be support for remote procedures/functions in Postgresql? Not only server to server, but database to database? Such as calling a function in DB B from DB A or Server Gaia DB B from Server Zeus DB A?

Re: [HACKERS] (Mis?)Behavior of \copy with -f and \i

2004-01-04 Thread Mark Feit
Peter Eisentraut writes: [Patch to make psql's \copy read from the current input, not just the standard input or a file.] I'm not sure about the proposed syntax, but the feature sounds quite reasonable. I have a patch written for this that uses the - syntax: \copy junk

Re: [HACKERS] Anything akin to an Evaluate Statement in Postgresql?

2004-01-04 Thread A E
Thanks. I searched for it and I found something. It tells me to use the perl module. But Tom Lanementions using the execute command see(http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2001-03/msg01614.php). Since I have no interest inpickingup yet anotherlanguage,I tried this: qry := ''select *

Re: [HACKERS] time format

2004-01-04 Thread Martin Marques
Quoting Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Martin Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Look deeper into what Christopher said and use casting to get the right output: prueba= select now()::timestamp(0); There's also current_timestamp(0), which is a more standards-compliant way of doing the same

Re: [HACKERS] Anything akin to an Evaluate Statement in Postgresql?

2004-01-04 Thread Tom Lane
A E [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried to execute a dynamic sql string using the dynamic record column name but I getting this error: ERROR: syntax error at or near into at character 8. Does the execute statement not allow the into keyword It does not :-(. The best way of getting data back

[HACKERS] Composite GiST indexes?

2004-01-04 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Is it possible to make a composite GiST index? I want to create an index on a txtidx and a timestamp column - is that at all possible? Chris ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Composite GiST indexes?

2004-01-04 Thread Tom Lane
Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to make a composite GiST index? I want to create an index on a txtidx and a timestamp column - is that at all possible? Yeah. If you have a problem with that, it's grounds for a bug report. Note though that GiST can't handle

Re: [ADMIN] [HACKERS] IEEE 754

2004-01-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Dec 29, 2003, at 11:28 AM, Sai Hertz And Control Systems wrote: I would like to share my concerns about the IEEE 754 specification and floating point handling by PostgreSQL . What specifically are your concerns regarding floating point handling and

Re: [ADMIN] [HACKERS] IEEE 754

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jan 4, 2004, at 6:51 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Dec 29, 2003, at 11:28 AM, Sai Hertz And Control Systems wrote: I would like to share my concerns about the IEEE 754 specification and floating point handling by PostgreSQL . What specifically are your concerns