[GENERAL] escaping wildcard chars

1999-07-25 Thread Dan Wilson
I am trying to pull in the different types allowed by postgres for a create function statement and am having problems with the types that start with an underscore (_). Because the underscore is the wildcard for a single character, I cannot perform the following query correctly. SELECT typname

Re: [GENERAL] pg-dump -- primary Key

1999-07-25 Thread Dan Wilson
I understand this, but does it set the indisprimary flag in the pg_index table? The reason I ask is because I am writing a web based app to administer a pgsql database and am attempting to keep track of the indices/keys. This is the property I am looking at determine whether the index is a prima

Re: [GENERAL] speeding up INTERSECT/EXCEPT

1999-07-25 Thread Mike Mascari
--- Carl Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've searched the archives and docs without finding > any help on this. > > I want to use: > > select * from rel1 except select * from rel2; > > where rel1 and and rel2 each currently have about > 2000 records and are likely to grow to twice that > s

[GENERAL] speeding up INTERSECT/EXCEPT

1999-07-25 Thread Carl Hauser
I've searched the archives and docs without finding any help on this. I want to use: select * from rel1 except select * from rel2; where rel1 and and rel2 each currently have about 2000 records and are likely to grow to twice that size or more. The query works but takes inordinately long. Loo

Re: [GENERAL] Installation of postgresql-6.5.1 data missing ?

1999-07-25 Thread Mike Mascari
--- Herouth Maoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 14:37 +0300 on 24/07/1999, Jesper K. Pedersen > wrote: > > > I have been using a much older version of > postgresql and decided to > > "trash" it and go to the 6.5.1beta1 > > > > All installation of the server/client/devel went > fine - but i a

Re: [GENERAL] Installation of postgresql-6.5.1 data missing ?

1999-07-25 Thread Herouth Maoz
At 14:37 +0300 on 24/07/1999, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote: > I have been using a much older version of postgresql and decided to > "trash" it and go to the 6.5.1beta1 > > All installation of the server/client/devel went fine - but i am unable > to install the default database - postgresql-data-