Re: [ADMIN] Read-Only Views?

2003-07-18 Thread Arguile
On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 13:26, Naomi Walker wrote: I noticed in some (older) documentation that views were read-only? Is this still the case? Yes, views are read-only unless you define rules for how they can be inserted/updated/deleted from. See these for how to create those rules:

Re: [ADMIN] transactions and cursors......

2002-02-27 Thread Arguile
Chris Pesko writes: Can I put transactions and cursors into functions? As soon as I put BEGIN; and COMMIT; wrapping an insert statement within a function, I get errors. Do these programs need to reside outside of the database? Pg doesn't supported nested transactions or save points (yet).

Re: [ADMIN] Listing Triggers

2002-01-30 Thread Arguile
Brian McCane wrote: How can I list the triggers on a specific table? Just as I was typing this I noticed Tom already replied. Just incase you want to know all triggers referencing the table in addition to those on it (eg. foreign key constraints). SELECT t.oid, t.* FROM pg_trigger t,

Re: [ADMIN] replication

2002-01-10 Thread Arguile
Peter T. Brown writes: I want to add replication capabilities to my postgresql installation. Can anyone recommend a good way (open source or otherwise) to do so? [snip] Check the contrib/rserv/ directory in the PostgreSQL source. Also check

FW: [ADMIN] problems with postgresql speed

2001-12-03 Thread Arguile
Manuel wrote: Hi. I've serious problems with the speed of my database. If I execute any query like this; [big ugly query :] Yes I'd say so, that's a rather horrendous query. You're a better computer than I if you can make heads or tails of it :). So I ran it through an SQL tidier and