Re: [ADMIN] [HACKERS] IEEE 754

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Wieck
Sai Hertz And Control Systems wrote: Dear Jan Wieck , Yes I agree with you Jan , most of the time we round the amount and this is done by truncating greater than 3 decimal digits and rounding the 3 digit to 2 in other words : select trunc(1000.236897,3); then selecr round(1000.236,2); This

Re: [ADMIN] [HACKERS] IEEE 754

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Wieck
Sai Hertz And Control Systems wrote: Dear Jan Wieck , Floating point math itself is not precise, but rather an approximation, usually of 8 or 14 digits. You can't approximate money. This isn't a PostgreSQL issue but rather a general programming issue. Thanks, Bruce. I assume the

Re: [ADMIN] [HACKERS] IEEE 754

2004-01-16 Thread Jan Wieck
Michael Glaesemann wrote: 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

Re: [ADMIN] [HACKERS] IEEE 754

2004-01-04 Thread Jan Wieck
Sai Hertz And Control Systems wrote: Dear all , I would like to share my concerns about the IEEE 754 specification and floating point handling by PostgreSQL . Also I would like to learn how professional users of PostgreSQL work with rounding of monetary terms . For all monetary values the P

Re: [ADMIN] [GENERAL] performance issues with DBI module when data too big

2002-06-04 Thread Jan Wieck
Nicolas Nolst wrote: [text/html is unsupported, treating like TEXT/PLAIN] > [...] > My problem is that populating my database is slower  when the data gets >bigger and the performance falls dramatically. I thought that is would be improve >with my indexes but the problem still persists. > Could

Re: [ADMIN] Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] pgmonitor and Solaris

2001-03-29 Thread Jan Wieck
Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Larry Rosenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > FYI, the WU-FTPD code (2.6.0 or better) has a couple of more platforms > > > including UnixWare. The UnixWare code will need /dev/kmem permission to > > > change it's stuff, so I don't know whether we want to do this or not

Re: [SQL] Re: [ADMIN] create view security

2000-06-02 Thread Jan Wieck
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Wallingford, Ted writes: > > > I am using 6.3 in this case. > > I'm sorry but that is pre-historic era around here and no one really > remembers what the problems might have been back then (other than that > they were surely plenty). Upgrading might be your best bet on al

Re: [ADMIN] problems Compiling C-Function refint.c

1999-07-27 Thread Jan Wieck
build the required shared object and use that. Jan -- #==# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] Extra Postgres Processes

1999-07-13 Thread Jan Wieck
Interested? Jan -- #==# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #= [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] Re: [HACKERS] Problems with src/pl/tcl/mkMakefile.tcldefs.sh.in in 6.5

1999-07-11 Thread Jan Wieck
#==# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #= [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] ERROR: stat failed on file /usr/local/pgsql/lib/plpgsql.so

1999-06-23 Thread Jan Wieck
ght want to grab 'em out of that and try if they build AND RUN with v6.3. Jan -- #==# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #= [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] Apache authentication & PostgreSQL

1999-06-11 Thread Jan Wieck
ard. If the user is already authenticated by Apache, why let PostgreSQL check the password again? Jan -- #==# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #= [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] Encrypted connections to Postgres

1999-06-10 Thread Jan Wieck
ing wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] IPC Problems - URGENT !!

1999-06-09 Thread Jan Wieck
me. # #= [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] XOpenDisplay Problem?

1999-06-02 Thread Jan Wieck
. Jan -- #==# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] tcl and tk directory problem

1999-06-02 Thread Jan Wieck
ond is omitted. Jan -- #==# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #======== [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] Re: [SQL] Data recovery

1999-06-01 Thread Jan Wieck
think that's worth the efford. Jan -- #==========# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] plpgsql installation

1999-05-06 Thread Jan Wieck
re anything else I need todo to install plpgsql. Which version of PostgreSQL? Jan -- #==# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] Modifying a portion of a text field?

1999-04-26 Thread Jan Wieck
. BTW: I love regular expressions [:-] Jan -- #==# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] initdb fails in SuSE 6.0

1999-03-26 Thread Jan Wieck
ll me on +49-40-5395-1404 (yepp - Hamburg) and we'll do it together. Jan -- #==# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me.

Re: [ADMIN] initdb fails in SuSE 6.0

1999-03-26 Thread Jan Wieck
pg_id from the commandline? Jan -- #==# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #======== [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] initdb fails in SuSE 6.0

1999-03-26 Thread Jan Wieck
=# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #======== [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump query about views.

1999-02-16 Thread Jan Wieck
familiar enough with parsetree's to fix things in them, you're welcome. Jan -- #==========# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] pg_dump query about views.

1999-02-12 Thread Jan Wieck
=# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] Running Postgres on a HP-Ux 10.10 System

1999-01-27 Thread Jan Wieck
t isn't available. So folks, low level HP/UX 10.10 know how required! Jan -- #==# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] Running Postgres on a HP-Ux 10.10 System

1999-01-27 Thread Jan Wieck
=# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] Feature patch

1999-01-25 Thread Jan Wieck
to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #======== [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] Feature patch

1999-01-21 Thread Jan Wieck
rgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #======== [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum command

1998-12-10 Thread Jan Wieck
og indices isn't allowed. Jan -- #==# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #======== [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] Vacuum command

1998-12-10 Thread Jan Wieck
t forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] Security for web server access?

1998-10-28 Thread Jan Wieck
to that before connecting will do it. Jan -- #==# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #======== [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #

Re: [ADMIN] 'C' function (spi?) for datetime UPDATE trigger - HOW?

1998-10-09 Thread Jan Wieck
ubdirectory. I could send you the latest versions if you can't cvsup. Jan -- #==# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # # [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Wieck) #