Re: [ADMIN] Actual expression of a constraint

2006-02-08 Thread Kris Deugau
lrotger wrote: I read some of the logs up until 7.3 (from my old 7.2.1); I should benefit from upgrading but there are issues to consider, for example, I see 'timestamp' was changed from with to without time zone in 7.3, I'll have to follow these changes carefully to upgrade without problems.

Re: [ADMIN] Actual expression of a constraint

2006-02-08 Thread lrotger
Tom Lane wrote: Yes, you should. Someday one of those bugs will eat your data. The fact that it hasn't happened yet does not mean you're not at risk; a lot of them are simply race conditions with very small windows. regards, tom lane I read some of the logs up until

Re: [ADMIN] Actual expression of a constraint

2006-02-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
lrotger wrote: > Well it probably would, changelogs are scary and I really appreciate the > work of the postgres hackers, but you know the old adage: "if it's not > broken, don't fix it"; The problem is that it _is_ broken, so it needs fixing. You have just been lucky, or haven't yet detected

Re: [ADMIN] Actual expression of a constraint

2006-02-07 Thread Tom Lane
lrotger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Egad, don't tell me you're still using 7.2.1 for anything important :-( > Well it probably would, changelogs are scary and I really appreciate the > work of the postgres hackers, but you know the old adage: "if it's not > broken, don't fix

Re: [ADMIN] Actual expression of a constraint

2006-02-07 Thread lrotger
Tom Lane wrote: lrotger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I forgot to mention that my version is 7.2.1. Egad, don't tell me you're still using 7.2.1 for anything important :-( The list of bugs fixed since then would curl your toes. http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/release.html

Re: [ADMIN] Actual expression of a constraint

2006-02-07 Thread Tom Lane
lrotger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I forgot to mention that my version is 7.2.1. Egad, don't tell me you're still using 7.2.1 for anything important :-( The list of bugs fixed since then would curl your toes. http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/release.html re

Re: [ADMIN] Actual expression of a constraint

2006-02-07 Thread lrotger
Tom Lane wrote: lrotger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I know I could dig this out of the manuals so don't be too hard on me, I'd like to know how to query the actual text of the expression of a constraint. I know the name of the constraint and of the table. Something like this: regression=#

Re: [ADMIN] Actual expression of a constraint

2006-02-06 Thread Tom Lane
lrotger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know I could dig this out of the manuals so don't be too hard on me, > I'd like to know how to query the actual text of the expression of a > constraint. I know the name of the constraint and of the table. Something like this: regression=# create table t1

[ADMIN] Actual expression of a constraint

2006-02-06 Thread lrotger
Hi, I know I could dig this out of the manuals so don't be too hard on me, I'd like to know how to query the actual text of the expression of a constraint. I know the name of the constraint and of the table. Thanks, L Rotger ---(end of broadcast)--