Re: [GENERAL] Gborg down?

2004-11-06 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > >> >>> >>> I've posted details to the FreeBSD -stable and -current mailing list, >>> but the simple summary is that 'ifconfig -alias' with no ip >>> specific'd literally erases all IPs on that device, leaving the >>> server run

Re: [GENERAL] create a text file from postgres (like Oracle UTL_FILE package)

2004-11-06 Thread Leo Martin Orfei
ok. I gonna explain a little more my situation. I have a postgres server (Linux) and clients (Win2k+delphi application). I need create a text file with some columns from a table in the server machine, but this file must be created only when the user wants. (click button on my delphi program on t

Re: [GENERAL] create a text file from postgres (like Oracle

2004-11-06 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Hi, Am Sa, den 06.11.2004 schrieb Leo Martin Orfei um 13:52: > ok. I gonna explain a little more my situation. > > I have a postgres server (Linux) and clients > (Win2k+delphi application). > I need create a text file with some columns from a > table in the server machine, but this file must be

Re: [GENERAL] Gborg down?

2004-11-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Gaetano Mendola wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Joshua D. Drake wrote: I've posted details to the FreeBSD -stable and -current mailing list, but the simple summary is that 'ifconfig -alias' with no ip specific'd literally erases all IPs on that device, leavi

Re: [GENERAL] Retrieve ip client from postgres

2004-11-06 Thread Mario A. Soto Cordones
OK thank you > On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 04:21:52PM -0400, Mario A. Soto Cordones wrote: > >> How can i get the Client Host name/IP Address for the current >> connection(session). Is there any function or system table(view) which >> will these details. > > In 8.0 you'll be able to use inet_client_ad

Re: [GENERAL] Gborg down?

2004-11-06 Thread Alvaro Herrera Munoz
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:09:07AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Gaetano Mendola wrote: > > >I used to have a script on my remote server that I was running in BG before > >to touch the network, that script was bringing up the network if was down > >for more then 2 minutes. M

[GENERAL] Can this be indexed?

2004-11-06 Thread Net Virtual Mailing Lists
Is there a way to create an index that would make this query be efficient and not perform a sequential scan? SELECT count(*) AS count,id FROM sometable GROUP BY id; .. I've considered creating a rule on this table which would put the results of this into another table anytime it is updated, but I

Re: [GENERAL] Can this be indexed?

2004-11-06 Thread Ed L.
On Saturday November 6 2004 7:34, Net Virtual Mailing Lists wrote: > Is there a way to create an index that would make this query be efficient > and not perform a sequential scan? > > SELECT count(*) AS count,id FROM sometable GROUP BY id; > > .. I've considered creating a rule on this table which

[GENERAL] superuser equality

2004-11-06 Thread Ed L.
I'd like to have a DB client connect using a username ('psuedodba') different from the creator/owner ('dba') of the DB and its tables, but still have that username be able to do everything the creator/owner can do (alter tables, drop databases, etc). It appears that "createuser -d -a

Re: [GENERAL] Can this be indexed?

2004-11-06 Thread Net Virtual Mailing Lists
I am not clear how to use a trigger for this, I will need to look into that It is my understanding that Postgres does not have materialized views though (which I believe would solve this problem nicely) - am I mistaken?... - Greg >Net Virtual Mailing Lists wrote: >> Is there a way to cre

[GENERAL] Temporarily disable rule, is this possible?

2004-11-06 Thread Net Virtual Mailing Lists
Hello, I have a table with a rule that goes something like this: CREATE OR REPLACE RULE sometable_delete ON DELETE DO delete FROM cache WHERE tablename='sometable'; CREATE OR REPLACE RULE sometable_insert ON INSERT DO delete FROM cache WHERE tablename='sometable'; CREATE OR REPLACE RULE sometable

Re: [GENERAL] superuser equality

2004-11-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Ed L. wrote: > "createuser -d -a psuedodba" > > works for this purpose. Are there circumstances where 'psuedodba' > lacks powers that 'dba' has to > create/destroy/alter/update/insert/delete? Or are they truly > equivalent in powers? You have created a superuser, who can do anything. This

[GENERAL] Postresql RFD version 2.0 Help Wanted.

2004-11-06 Thread Mike Cox
Since we have the discussion going, someone mentioned that the group name should be comp.databases.postgresql. I think this is a good name and I'd like to see what everyone thinks of it. There is also the issue of the charter. I would like to get some feed back on what the best charter could be

[GENERAL] Report Generation

2004-11-06 Thread Randy Yates
At the risk of asking an ill-formed oft-asked question that's probably in the FAQ, is there any report generation tools that are particularly suited for use with postgres databases? -- % Randy Yates % "My Shangri-la has gone away, fading like %% Fuquay-Varina, NC% t

[GENERAL] Mass Import/Generate PKs

2004-11-06 Thread Hunter Hillegas
I have a CSV file with 400,000 lines of email mailing list information that I need to migrate to a new PostgreSQL database. Each line has all the info I need except a PK (I usually use an int4 column for a PK). If the file were smaller I would probably just use Excel to pop in a PK and then just

Re: [GENERAL] Report Generation

2004-11-06 Thread Ed L.
On Saturday November 6 2004 12:04, Randy Yates wrote: > At the risk of asking an ill-formed oft-asked question that's > probably in the FAQ, is there any report generation tools that > are particularly suited for use with postgres databases? Not sure if you're looking for open source products or c

[GENERAL] Trying to get postgres to use an index

2004-11-06 Thread Mike Wertheim
Hi, I'm using PostgreSQL 8. I have two tables that I am doing a join on, and the join executes very slowly. The table called Notification has a text field called NotificationID, which is its primary key. The Notification table also has an int4 field called ItemID, and it has an index on the It

Re: [GENERAL] Mass Import/Generate PKs

2004-11-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Hunter Hillegas wrote: > I have a CSV file with 400,000 lines of email mailing list > information that I need to migrate to a new PostgreSQL database. > > Each line has all the info I need except a PK (I usually use an int4 > column for a PK). You could import the file into PostgreSQL and add a pr

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to get postgres to use an index

2004-11-06 Thread Troels Arvin
On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 12:00:02 -0800, Mike Wertheim wrote: > Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make this query run faster? Does it help if you decrease the value of random_page_cost? - That value can be changed run-time, from within psql. If you find that a certain, lower value helps, you

Re: [GENERAL] Postresql RFD version 2.0 Help Wanted.

2004-11-06 Thread Mike Cox
Woodchuck Bill wrote: > Mike Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > berlin.de: > >> Since we have the discussion going, someone mentioned that the group name >> should be comp.databases.postgresql. I think this is a good name and I'd >> like to see what everyone thinks of it.

Re: [GENERAL] Mass Import/Generate PKs

2004-11-06 Thread Hunter Hillegas
That sounds nice and easy... So, I would do something like 'ALTER TABLE' to generate the PK column? What would be the best way to populate it? Is there an area of doco I should be looking at? Thanks, Hunter > From: Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 21:21:25 +0100 > To

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to get postgres to use an index

2004-11-06 Thread Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud
explain select notificationID from NOTIFICATION n, ITEM i where n.itemID = i.itemID; QUERY PLAN -- Hash Join (cost=47162.85..76291.32 rows=223672 width=44) Hash Cond: ("outer".itemid

Re: [GENERAL] Mass Import/Generate PKs

2004-11-06 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
the simplest way to do it seems to be adding a SERIAL column to your table, and then adding a primary key constraint: 1)insert data into table 2)ALTER TABLE ADD id SERIAL; 3)ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT _pk PRIMARY KEY (id); you can check the docs for the SERIAL type: http://www.postgresql.or

Re: [GENERAL] Mass Import/Generate PKs

2004-11-06 Thread Ed L.
On Saturday November 6 2004 2:13, Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote: > the simplest way to do it seems to be adding a SERIAL column to your > table, and then adding a primary key constraint: > > 1)insert data into table > 2)ALTER TABLE ADD id SERIAL; > 3)ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT _pk PRIMARY KEY (id);

Re: [GENERAL] Mass Import/Generate PKs

2004-11-06 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
I've tested it, and the SERIAL type populates the column when you add it On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 18:56, Ed L. wrote: On Saturday November 6 2004 2:13, Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote: > the simplest way to do it seems to be adding a SERIAL column to your > table, and then adding a primary key cons

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to get postgres to use an index

2004-11-06 Thread Joel Stevenson
At 10:11 PM +0100 11/6/04, Pierre-Frédéric Caillaud wrote: explain select notificationID from NOTIFICATION n, ITEM i where n.itemID = i.itemID; QUERY PLAN -- Hash Join (cost=47162.85..7

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to get postgres to use an index

2004-11-06 Thread mike.wertheim
> I'm not a SQL guru by any stretch but would a > constrained sub-select be appropriate here? > Well, you're joining the entire two tables, so yes, the seq scan might > be faster. My mistake! When composing the email to state the problem, I accidentally gave a wrong version of the join query.

[GENERAL] SQL question

2004-11-06 Thread Uwe C. Schroeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here's a question for the SQL guru's out there, which I've been trying to solve for the last couple of hours. There's got to be a solution to this, but somehow I can't find it. Tables: table1 ( uid int PK, uname varchar(64) ) tabl

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to get postgres to use an index

2004-11-06 Thread Tom Lane
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is the corrected version, which still has the sequential scan... > explain select notificationID from NOTIFICATION n, ITEM i where n.itemID > = i.itemID and i.projectID = 12; > QUERY PLAN >

[GENERAL] Sorting based on maximum value over several columns

2004-11-06 Thread Net Virtual Mailing Lists
Hello, Lets say I have data like this: value1|value2|value3|value4||value(N) --|--|--|--|| 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 || 10| 20 | | 40 || | 15 | | 16 || 5 | | | || Now I want to sort these based on t

Re: [GENERAL] SQL question

2004-11-06 Thread Uwe C. Schroeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If someone knows this it would be great - because I'm still curious how to solve it. However I just remodelled my db structure to eliminate the problem (basically I pulled the several tables into one since each of the table2/table3 tables only has

Re: [GENERAL] Postresql RFD version 2.0 Help Wanted.

2004-11-06 Thread Mike Cox
Devin L. Ganger wrote: > On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 11:11:09 -0800, Mike Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Since we have the discussion going, someone mentioned that the group >> name >> should be comp.databases.postgresql. I think this is a good name and >> I'd like to see what everyone thinks

Re: [GENERAL] Postresql RFD version 2.0 Help Wanted.

2004-11-06 Thread Mike Cox
Polarhound wrote: > Mike Cox wrote: > >> There is resistance in the mailing lists however, even though the groups >> are >> already on usenet and are in the managed "big 8" name space without RFD >> and CFV. > > This now brings up the question of traffic numbers. Historically, if > people are

Re: [GENERAL] Postresql RFD version 2.0 Help Wanted.

2004-11-06 Thread Mike Cox
Woodchuck Bill wrote: > Mike Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> I cannot handle the volume of email that a mailing list would place >> on my >> inbox. > > Ever heard of a digest version? > I don't care. Its too much of a hassle to dig through without being able t

Re: [GENERAL] Postresql RFD version 2.0 Help Wanted.

2004-11-06 Thread Mike Cox
Devin L. Ganger wrote: > On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 18:03:57 -0800, Mike Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Devin L. Ganger wrote: > >> > I think you're pursuing this backwards, Mike. You should contact the >> > current owner of the present mail-to-news gateway and build some sort >> > of consensus

Re: [GENERAL] Postresql RFD version 2.0 Help Wanted.

2004-11-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004, Mike Cox wrote: 1. I tried subscribing to comp.databases.postgresql.general through my usenet provider thinking it was a regular big 8 group. When it wasn't found, I sent a request to my news provider to include it. Most modern news readers allow for multiple news server ... j

Re: [GENERAL] Visual Designer in linux?

2004-11-06 Thread Alvaro Herrera Munoz
On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 10:32:30PM -0500, Eric wrote: > Is there a visual designer (open source) in linux for database? I would > like to developp my data model on the computer... > > I see "dia" with uml library but... it won't export to SQL. You can have UML diagrams exported to SQL with some

Re: [GENERAL] SQL question

2004-11-06 Thread Vincent Hikida
I'm afraid, I'm not used to SQL92 join syntax and almost all my experience is in Oracle but how about: SELECT t1.uid , t1.xname , t2.uid , t3.uid FROM table1 t1 INNER JOIN table2 t2 ON t1.uid = t2.uid