[GENERAL] Sequence value

2000-12-14 Thread Esa Pikkarainen
So, I want to insert new record and get immediately its sequence value (serial column) (or OID). I Use iHTML web interface. Now I have found out that I can give two queries in iHTML like this: SQL ="SELECT nextval('koe_pkey_id') as val; INSERT INTO koe (id, name) values (val, 'uusi');" No

RE: [GENERAL] Postgres failover implementation

2000-12-14 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, What you'll really want is a disk array that is shared by 2 machines. The primary database is allowed to modify the data in the array. When it dies, the secondary database machine is allowed write access to it. This basically how Oracle does things like this. Don't know if FreeBSD allows y

Re: [GENERAL] adding a C function with optional arguments

2000-12-14 Thread Tom Lane
Jim Mercer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i was wondering if someone could tell me how, if possible, to implement > a c function such that i can do: >> SELECT makecrypt('secret', 'salt'); > or >> SELECT makecrypt('secret'); > such that if salt is not specified, the c function would make one up.

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger/Function problem

2000-12-14 Thread Dan Wilson
That was it! Thanks Tom. I just put this functionality into phpPgAdmin and of course it is taking the newline char from the browser's OS. Thanks for all your help! -Dan > "Dan Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I get the following error: > > NOTICE: plpgsql: ERROR during compile of f_

[GENERAL] adding a C function with optional arguments

2000-12-14 Thread Jim Mercer
i've poked about and made a new function "makecrypt(plainpass, salt)", and it works ok. basically, it is just a hook to the unix crypt() function. i was wondering if someone could tell me how, if possible, to implement a c function such that i can do: > SELECT makecrypt('secret', 'salt'); or >

Re: [GENERAL] create trigger (can't compile example, problem with include files)

2000-12-14 Thread Tom Lane
"Robert B. Easter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I compared /usr/local/pgsql/include with > /usr/src/postgresql-7.0.3/src/include and found that the src has more > include files so that I tried: Yeah, we keep meaning to clean up the include-file situation so that you have some chance of compiling

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger/Function problem

2000-12-14 Thread Tom Lane
"Dan Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I get the following error: > NOTICE: plpgsql: ERROR during compile of f_auto_date near line 1 > "RROR: parse error at or near " Just like that, eh? It looks like the parser is spitting up on a \r in the function text. Try saving your script with Unix

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger/Function problem

2000-12-14 Thread Dan Wilson
If you look at my function definition, you can see that this is not within the function body. This is the testing of the trigger which produces the error. It's just a plain old SQL statment that initiates the trigger. -Dan - Original Message - From: "Robert B. Easter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger/Function problem

2000-12-14 Thread Robert B. Easter
On Thursday 14 December 2000 21:10, Robert B. Easter wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2000 21:27, Dan Wilson wrote: > > I'm totally fine up to this point... then I try this: > > > > UPDATE help SET site_id = 'APW' WHERE help_id = 2; > > > > I get the following error: > > > > NOTICE: plpgsql: ERRO

Re: [GENERAL] Trigger/Function problem

2000-12-14 Thread Robert B. Easter
On Thursday 14 December 2000 21:27, Dan Wilson wrote: > > I'm totally fine up to this point... then I try this: > > UPDATE help SET site_id = 'APW' WHERE help_id = 2; > > I get the following error: > > NOTICE: plpgsql: ERROR during compile of f_auto_date near line 1 > "RROR: parse error at or ne

[GENERAL] Trigger/Function problem

2000-12-14 Thread Dan Wilson
I'm having problems with a trigger/function and I think it's actually a system problem but I have no clue how to fix it. The trigger is supposed to automatically timestamp the record when it is altered. I've never used anything more than a sql function before so the plpgsql is new to me. Here's

Re: [GENERAL] Apache+Postgresql (mod_auth_pgsql)

2000-12-14 Thread Alvar Freude
Hi, > > Secondly, how can i have stadistics of how many times an users has got > into the privated directory. (any suggestion) Perhaps could be a script > to write into the database. ?¿? for this, you can use the standard Apache logfiles, if you don't need it inside the Database. For auth, I g

Re: [GENERAL] Does column header support multibyte character?

2000-12-14 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
No. However an encoding "MULE_INTERNAL" would do almost what you want. MULE_INTERNAL is compatible with EUC_CN and EUC_TW. So you could create a table having EUC_CN and EUC_TW columns like this. create table t1(euc_cn text, euc_tw text); \encoding EUC_CN insert into t1(euc_cn) values('text in EUC

Re: [GENERAL] create trigger (can't compile example, problem with include files)

2000-12-14 Thread Sandeep Joshi
Robert, I am insert_username.* in contrib directory for reference. So far so good. Sandeep "Robert B. Easter" wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2000 18:54, Robert B. Easter wrote: > > Trigger functions, no matter what language, have be RETURNS OPAQUE. > > > > Here is an example (in the Post

Re: [GENERAL] create trigger (can't compile example, problem with include files)

2000-12-14 Thread Robert B. Easter
On Thursday 14 December 2000 18:54, Robert B. Easter wrote: > Trigger functions, no matter what language, have be RETURNS OPAQUE. > > Here is an example (in the PostgreSQL docs): > http://www.comptechnews.com/~reaster/postgres/triggers20290.htm > > Sorry I can't help more as I've never actually us

Re: [GENERAL] create trigger

2000-12-14 Thread Sandeep Joshi
Robert, Thanks. If you have any simple PL/pgSQL trigger that will also help. Indirectly. Sandeep > Trigger functions, no matter what language, have be RETURNS OPAQUE. > > Here is an example (in the PostgreSQL docs): > http://www.comptechnews.com/~reaster/postgres/triggers20290.htm > > Sorr

Re: [GENERAL] create trigger

2000-12-14 Thread Robert B. Easter
Trigger functions, no matter what language, have be RETURNS OPAQUE. Here is an example (in the PostgreSQL docs): http://www.comptechnews.com/~reaster/postgres/triggers20290.htm Sorry I can't help more as I've never actually used C triggers, just PL/pgSQL ones. On Thursday 14 December 2000 18:

Re: [GENERAL] extra spaces

2000-12-14 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Soma Interesting wrote: > I'm using PHP & PostgreSQL. > > All values called from the database are still padded with extra spaces from > the column size in the database. Is this normal - I don't remember this > happening when I was using MySQL. I thought usually the database s

[GENERAL] create trigger

2000-12-14 Thread Sandeep Joshi
I am trying to use "triggers". I get an error after "create trigger". Does anybody know why? create function insert_into_db2 RETURNS int AS '/work/posgresql/lib/libpq.so' language 'C'; create trigger trial before insert or update on db1user for each row execute procedure insert_into_db2();

Re: [GENERAL] extra spaces

2000-12-14 Thread Alex Pilosov
Make your fields to be varchar(x), not char(x) -alex On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Soma Interesting wrote: > I'm using PHP & PostgreSQL. > > All values called from the database are still padded with extra spaces from > the column size in the database. Is this normal - I don't remember this > happenin

[GENERAL] extra spaces

2000-12-14 Thread Soma Interesting
I'm using PHP & PostgreSQL. All values called from the database are still padded with extra spaces from the column size in the database. Is this normal - I don't remember this happening when I was using MySQL. I thought usually the database stripped the extra spaces when it retrieved the value

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres demographics?

2000-12-14 Thread Jeff MacDonald
which just happens to be a sym link all to the same dir :) jeff On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Tim Barnard wrote: > > > > > We have some demographics available at http://www.pgsql.com/user_gallery > > > > > I believe what was intended was: > > http://www.pgsql.com/register > > Tim > > Jeff MacD

Re: [GENERAL] is libpq thread-safe?

2000-12-14 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001214 13:20] wrote: > A staight forward question: > >Is "libpq" thread-safe?? > > And an elaboration: > >I want to write a server that opens-up a number of connections >to a PostgreSQL database, and then spawns threads handing a connection