Re: [ADMIN] Delete subset of database

2003-10-01 Thread Hornyak Laszlo
Hi! What about this? (dirty hack, but worx) #!/bin/bash #sorry for syntax failures tables_to_drop=`psql olddb -c "select * from pg_class where relkind = 'r' and name not like 'pg_%'"`; for i in $tables_to_drop; do psql newdb -c "drop table $i "; done; Of course it is very ri

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2003-10-01 Thread enio
Hi, I'm using postgresql 7.2. While issuing the CLUSTER command on a table, I got some notices telling me "drop would implicitly delete ...". After the CLUSTER command, the table was like if was created again, and the grants were not preserved. The postgresql sql reference says "CLUSTER preserves

[ADMIN] leading choices

2003-10-01 Thread Scott
Hi, I got a newsletter from www.techieindex.com saying about PostgreSQL Relational database management systems (RDBMS) may be the next field to go open source, with fully SQL-compliant Ansi-(American National Standards Institute) approved open source databases threatening to enter the mainstream

[ADMIN] Delete accident

2003-10-01 Thread Anna Kanevsky
Title: Delete accident This is an almost embarrassing question, but I managed to delete all rows out of one of the tables by making a little typo in the WHERE statement. Is there any way to restore these? the db was NOT vacuumed after that. but then, it wasn't backed up before either. pleas

Re: [ADMIN] Return last value in of array (PostgreSQL 7.2.1)

2003-10-01 Thread Erwin Brandstetter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Crawford) wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > IIRC I heard talk of new max and min array dimension functions in > upcoming releases. I'm tired so there may be better or more elegant > solutions but this one works (r is the array): > > r[rtrim(substring(array_dims(r), po

Re: [ADMIN] Return last value in of array (PostgreSQL 7.2.1)

2003-10-01 Thread Erwin Brandstetter
Not that it makes much of a difference, but i guess the following code might work slightly better: r[(substring(array_dims(r), strpos(array_dims(r), ':') + 1, (length(array_dims(r)) - strpos(array_dims(r), ':')) - 1))::int] Regards Erwin Brandstetter -- no z in my mail. -

[ADMIN] Delete subset of database

2003-10-01 Thread j sk
Hi all, Ive got two databases, say full_db and sub_db. sub_db is nothing but a subset of full_db. What I would like to do is delete the data and tables in sub_db from full_db. In essence, Im trying to remove the redundant data and have distinct databases. This is an attempt to archive the histor

[ADMIN] initdb error on windows - urgent, please

2003-10-01 Thread Jarek Lubczyński
Hi, everybody, Please help me with an urgent problem. I have PostgreSQL version: 7.3.1Alfa1 for Windows (the only Win version available) I am training installation of ProgreSQL on various PC's WinNT, 2K, XP and 2003 installed. In some cases I've got such a problem (till now on W2K and W2003) W

Re: [ADMIN] Upgrade 7.2.1 to 7.3.4 datetime Error

2003-10-01 Thread Tom Lane
Eko Pranoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > select datetime(now()) as result' LANGUAGE 'sql'; "datetime" isn't a standard type name anymore. Use "timestamp". regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' t

Re: [ADMIN] Upgrade 7.2.1 to 7.3.4 datetime Error

2003-10-01 Thread scott.marlowe
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Eko Pranoto wrote: > Hey folks.. > I have problem when upgrade from 7.2.1 to 7.3.4 > with function I create... > > How I can fix it ? add this to template1 on the 7.3.4 database before importing into it: create domain datetime as timestamptz; ---(en

Re: [ADMIN] setting default date format

2003-10-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 11:34, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > In postgresql.conf: > > > > DATESTYLE = 'Postgres,European' > When I did this, and then did 'service postgresql restart' the service failed > to start. > BTW, I'm running 7.2.3 from the RH RPMS. The feature is available in 7.3 In 7.2 I see

Re: [ADMIN] setting default date format

2003-10-01 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:13 am, Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 10:41, Gary Stainburn wrote: > > I want to set the default date format to european dd-mm- format. > > > > Can someone tell me which file, and what I need to add. > > In postgresql.conf: > > DATESTYLE = 'Postgre

Re: [ADMIN] setting default date format

2003-10-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Gary Stainburn writes: > I can remember that I used to do it by adding '-o -e' to the command line > parameters but that was frowned upon a long time ago to be replaced by an > entry in a config file (postgresql.conf?). datestyle in postgresql.conf, starting in PostgreSQL 7.3. -o -e should still

Re: [ADMIN] setting default date format

2003-10-01 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 10:41, Gary Stainburn wrote: > I want to set the default date format to european dd-mm- format. > Can someone tell me which file, and what I need to add. In postgresql.conf: DATESTYLE = 'Postgres,European' -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTEC

[ADMIN] setting default date format

2003-10-01 Thread Gary Stainburn
Hi folks, I'm kicking myself (gently) cos I can't remember/find how to do this. I want to set the default date format to european dd-mm- format. I can remember that I used to do it by adding '-o -e' to the command line parameters but that was frowned upon a long time ago to be replaced by a