[Fwd: Re: [ADMIN] HELP ! With Money type]

2004-07-23 Thread Terry Hampton
All, I found the problem. I see at postrges.org that in 7.4.3 the "money" data type is no longer being used ( deprecated ). I'll replace it with am decimal instead. thanks, Terry Terr

[ADMIN] HELP ! With Money type

2004-07-23 Thread Terry Hampton
Everyone, Just ran across an odd situation. I have defined a field: amount | money| not null default '' Works fine until the dollar amounts get very large - into the tens of millions. At that point, the actual amount stored

[Fwd: Re: [ADMIN] Location of a new column]

2004-04-08 Thread Terry Hampton
Anyone know this list member, who was kind enought to reply? Original Message Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Location of a new column Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 06:58:56 -0700 From: "scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Terry Hampton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

[ADMIN] Location of a new column

2004-04-08 Thread Terry Hampton
All, I thought this was answered before, but I could not find anything in my saved email. I need to ALTER a table to add a new column. I want the new column to be between two existing columns, however. Didn't I see mention of an "AFTER" paramet

[ADMIN] Quick System Catalog Query Question

2004-03-29 Thread Terry Hampton
All, select attname, atttypmod, atttypid from pg_attribute where attrelid=3701787 and attnum > 0; returns: attname | atttypmod | atttypid -+---+-- acct_name | 132 | 1043 grp |54 | 1043 name | 260 | 10

[ADMIN] Raw vs Filesystem

2004-03-29 Thread Terry Hampton
Hello Jaime, I think you're on the right track but have gotten some concepts possibly confused. As I remember, the original email asked if Postgres could be run in a "raw" mode. Another submitter told us that it can not. ( Did I read t

Re: [ADMIN] Raw devices vs. Filesystems

2004-03-29 Thread Terry Hampton
Hello Jaime, I think you're on the right track but have gotten some concepts possibly confused. As I remember, the original email asked if Postgres could be run in a "raw" mode. Another submitter told us that it can not. ( Did I read that

[ADMIN] Default Transaction Mode

2004-01-09 Thread Terry Hampton
Is it possible to configure Postgres, or to start PG daemons so that it operates in a transaction mode by default ? We do a lot of work at the PG prompt, and I'd like to have one additional "safety net" - to manual commit all SQL's. Sure - I can "begin w

Re: [Fwd: [ADMIN] Quick Question Please]

2003-12-18 Thread Terry Hampton
Bruno, Excellent advise ! thanks to all, terry Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 15:48:14 -0500, Terry Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OOPS! This group is quick and

[Fwd: [ADMIN] Quick Question Please]

2003-12-18 Thread Terry Hampton
Original Message Subject: [ADMIN] Quick Question Please Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:30:41 -0500 From: Terry Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All, Seem to be having a brain lock. What is the method or syntax to return a list of column names for a given tabl

[ADMIN] Quick Question Please

2003-12-18 Thread Terry Hampton
All, Seem to be having a brain lock. What is the method or syntax to return a list of column names for a given table name ? many thanks for your quick help, Terry -- Terry L. Hampton Program Manager LimaCorp, LLC. www.limacorp.com 513.587.1874 -

Re: [ADMIN] object creation date

2003-09-12 Thread Terry Hampton
Hello Marie, In most of my tables, I have the same two columns: lastupdateTIMESTAMP not null default ('now'::text)::timestamp(8), createdateTIMESTAMP not null default ('now'::text)::timestamp(8) "crea

Re: [ADMIN] Kill Process ERROR !!!

2003-07-09 Thread Terry Hampton
scott.marlowe wrote: Please note that this is not necessarily true. If my server has been up a while and I stop/restart the postmaster, it may have a fairly high id number and it is quite possible that in x number of days time, the children will be created with a wrapped pid which is lower than

Re: [ADMIN] Kill Process ERROR !!!

2003-07-09 Thread Terry Hampton
ique degree of " strength " and purpose. No - the higher value is not a more powerfull kill.To more smoothly manage a UNIX system, use the appropriate kill signal value. You'll avoi

[ADMIN] White Paper

2003-06-08 Thread Terry Hampton
All, My CEO has asked for a PostgreSQL White Paper to give to a Client.Before I start typing - anyone have one or can point me to one ? Many thanks ( and thanks for the info this group provides ), Terry Hampton