[SQL] Invalid message format Exception

2010-05-12 Thread Gnanakumar
Hi, Because there was no response for this question already posted in pgsql-j...@postgresql.org mailing list, I'm posting it here. I'm using PostgreSQL 8.2 and my production server is based on CentOS release 5.2 (Final). JDBC Jar: postgresql-8.2-508.jdbc4.jar I noticed from my server log that s

Re: [SQL] Invalid message format Exception

2010-05-13 Thread Gnanakumar
Hi Rob, > I'm sure most will urge you to move to UTF-8 encoding asap. Did you mean the database encoding to changed from SQL_ASCII to UTF-8? > Have you tracked down the "offending" insert statement? Perhaps it's a > trigger trying to generate a log message? No, I don't have any trigger on this t

[SQL] Regular Expression Match Operator escape character

2010-12-08 Thread Gnanakumar
Hi, We're running PostgreSQL v8.2.3 on RHEL5. In some places in our application, we use Regular Expression Match Operator (~* => Matches regular expression, case insensitive) inside WHERE criteria. Example: SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE (SKILLS ~* '(^|\\^|\\||[^0-9|^a-z|^A-Z]|$)C#(^|\\^|\\||[^0-9|^

[SQL] Is it possible to get DISTINCT rows from RETURNING clause?

2011-02-16 Thread Gnanakumar
Hi, Is it possible to get DISTINCT rows from an UPDATE statement using RETURNING clause? "MYTABLE" columns are: APRIMARYKEYCOLUMN ABOOLEANCOLUMN EMAIL COLUMN1 COLUMN2 COLUMN3 UPDATE using RETURNING clause query: UPDATE MYTABLE SET ABOOLEANCOLUMN =

Re: [SQL] Is it possible to get DISTINCT rows from RETURNING clause?

2011-02-17 Thread Gnanakumar
Any ideas? -Original Message- From: Gnanakumar [mailto:gna...@zoniac.com] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 12:36 PM To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Is it possible to get DISTINCT rows from RETURNING clause? Hi, Is it possible to get DISTINCT rows from an UPDATE statement using

Re: [SQL] Is it possible to get DISTINCT rows from RETURNING clause?

2011-02-21 Thread Gnanakumar
Hi Dmitriy Igrishin, Thanks. That's a good idea too. From: Dmitriy Igrishin [mailto:dmit...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 3:31 PM To: gna...@zoniac.com Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [SQL] Is it possible to get DISTINCT rows from RETURNING clause? Hey Gnana

[SQL] Calculating relative time/distance from CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

2011-08-04 Thread Gnanakumar
Hi, Is there any built-in function/add-on module available in PostgreSQL, that converts a given "timestamp"/"timestamptz" value into its relative distance from CURRENT_TIMESTAMP? For example, relative distance as today, yesterday, 5 minutes ago, 1 week ago, etc. Regards, Gnanam -- Sent via p

Re: [SQL] Calculating relative time/distance from CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

2011-08-04 Thread Gnanakumar
postgresql.org Subject: Re: [SQL] Calculating relative time/distance from CURRENT_TIMESTAMP Have you looked into the date time functions already ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/functions-datetime.html Amitabh Kant On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Gnanakumar wrote: Hi, Is there any

Re: [SQL] Calculating relative time/distance from CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

2011-08-05 Thread Gnanakumar
> If you really want a flexible function for doing this, I suspect you could replicate the functionality of jquery's 'timeago' module in a stored proc relatively easily. http://timeago.yarp.com/ It is MIT licensed, so you can copy the logic without restriction.  It makes reference to being derivati