[GENERAL] Lock won't release

2001-02-07 Thread Matt Friedman
I have a lock on a table that won't release. I know this seems very unusual but there appears to be a severe deadlock and pgsql has not release the lock. I've tried everything including recreating the db and trying to delete the old one. psql wouldn't even let me delete the old db. It says that o

[GENERAL] Re: Select in function?

2001-02-07 Thread Alfonso Peniche
Thanks all, it's working great now. Cheers. :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As per the documentation at: > http://postgresql.planetmirror.com/users-lounge/docs/7.0/user/c40874113.htm#AEN4207 > > When using SELECT in a PL/PGSQL function, you must either SELECT .. INTO or > use the PERFORM query i

[GENERAL] Re: full text searching

2001-02-07 Thread Thomas T. Thai
On 7 Feb 2001, Gunnar R|nning wrote: > It is really not based on the FTI code in PostgreSQL, since with we started > out with a Progress database last year before porting to PostgreSQL. The > idea is the same though, a separate lookup table containing the words for > exact matching. Last time I ha

Re: [GENERAL] drop check constraint

2001-02-07 Thread Stephan Szabo
Yes. You need to remove the row on pg_relcheck and then change the value of relchecks for the row in pg_class for the relation the check constraint is on. On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Tamsin wrote: > Hello, > > Is it possible to drop a check constraint in any way without > dropping/recreating the tabl

Re: [GENERAL] Not using index

2001-02-07 Thread Crispin Miller
Hi Tom, Jeorg, Thanks for the help - I thought I might be being a bit vague... Jeorg's suggestion solved my problem - I need to create an index across both columns: 'create index foo on bar ( baz, bang )' Like what Jeorg said I should :-) Appreciated, Crispin

Re: [GENERAL] Cursors in SPI functions/procedures

2001-02-07 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > > > I have a patch which adds support for cursors in PL/pgSQL. If anybody > > is interested, I can provide that patch against either 7.0.3 or the > > current CVS sources. I have sent it to the maintainers, and they will > > con

Re: [GENERAL] Number of open files

2001-02-07 Thread Tom Lane
"Mark Alliban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 530MB of swap. top reports that the backends use around 17-19MB on average. > Are you saying then, that if I have 500 concurrent queries, I will need 8GB > of swap space? Something like that. You weren't expecting to support 500 concurrent queries on

Re: [GENERAL] Number of open files

2001-02-07 Thread Mark Alliban
> "Mark Alliban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have increased file-max to 16000. However after about 24 hours of running, > > pgsql crashed and errors in the log showed that the system had run out of > > memory. I do not have the exact error message, as I was in a hurry to get > > the system u

Re: [GENERAL] numeric type and odbc from access 2000

2001-02-07 Thread Richard Huxton
From: "Shahab Asgharzadeh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Access will write the sql as: > delete from "tablename" where "col1" = 1234 AND "col2" = 'text' AND "col3" = > 100.200 > > ERROR: Unable to identify an operator '=' for types 'numeric' and 'float8' > You will have to retype this query usin

Re: [GENERAL] Number of open files

2001-02-07 Thread Tom Lane
"Mark Alliban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have increased file-max to 16000. However after about 24 hours of running, > pgsql crashed and errors in the log showed that the system had run out of > memory. I do not have the exact error message, as I was in a hurry to get > the system up and runn

[GENERAL] mysql-est timestamp

2001-02-07 Thread Thomas T. Thai
i've browsed the archive and see that there is a way in using triggers to achieve automatic modification time stamp. i'm porting a mysql application, and need that same functiona. pgsql's timestamp is for date+time[+zone]. however, for mysql it's used to stamp the time when the record was inserted

[GENERAL] Re: full text searching

2001-02-07 Thread Gunnar R|nning
"Mitch Vincent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've been using a variant of the FTI system in an application, but this is > > far from sufficient when it comes to matching. Speed is OK, but the > quality > > of the results could have been a lot better. > > Really? How are you using it? If it's

Re: [GENERAL] Not using index

2001-02-07 Thread Joerg Hessdoerfer
At 14:47 07.02.01 +, you wrote: >Hi, >I have a table with about 8million tuples in it. I need to do a search >on two of the table's columns, so I've created a couple of indices, one >for each column. >Then I've run VACUUM ANALYZE. The query planner still wants to do a >sequential scan on the d

Re: [GENERAL] Not using index

2001-02-07 Thread Tom Lane
Crispin Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then I've run VACUUM ANALYZE. The query planner still wants to do a > sequential scan on the database. Any idea where I'm going wrong? Not providing enough detail to let anyone help you ;-) Let's see the table schema (pg_dump -s -t table is a useful w

[GENERAL] Not using index

2001-02-07 Thread Crispin Miller
Hi, I have a table with about 8million tuples in it. I need to do a search on two of the table's columns, so I've created a couple of indices, one for each column. Then I've run VACUUM ANALYZE. The query planner still wants to do a sequential scan on the database. Any idea where I'm going wrong? C

[GENERAL] Quotas on databases

2001-02-07 Thread Tressens Lionel
Hi all, Is it possible to set quotas for each user of my DBMS ? I run a web server and I gave the users the opportunity to have a personal database for their homepage but I don't want them to put large objects such as files in the DBMS, so I want to apply quotas. Thanks in advance for your help

[GENERAL] Re: Can you help a newbie?

2001-02-07 Thread Holger Klawitter
Jamie Bumsted wrote: > > Hi All, > I am new to pgsql, I have inherited a database with no documentation, i.e. > nobody knows the passwords for any of the database accounts. Anybody have > any ideas on how to change the passwords without first knowing the > passwords? > If this is a stupid questi

[SQL] Re: SQL Join - MySQL/PostgreSQL difference?

2001-02-07 Thread Brice Ruth
FYI: Here are the table definitions: CREATE TABLE TBLPEMDRUGLINK ( DRUGID VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL, MONOGRAPHID VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT PK_TBLPEMDRUGLINK PRIMARY KEY (DRUGID, MONOGRAPHID) ); CREATE TABLE TBLFDBMONO ( VERSIONID

[GENERAL] numeric type and odbc from access 2000

2001-02-07 Thread Shahab Asgharzadeh
Greetings, I am a newcomer to postgresql and so far so good. Although some may argue with the use of Access in developing front-end clients, I have created one. Everything works well except when a table contains numeric datatype, one can not delete rows or update them from access. I am using Pos

Re: [GENERAL] 7.1beta4-2 Debian packages... help!

2001-02-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
DaVinci wrote: >On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 10:26:12AM +, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> DaVinci wrote: >> > I have tried to install experimental Debian packages of Postgresql >> > 7.1beta4, but get a dependency error with libssl09. > >> libssl09 is a separate package, from unstable (n

[GENERAL] Table Locked - removing lock

2001-02-07 Thread Matt Friedman
I have a locked table that won't unlock. I do not appear to be able to select from the table. I suppose it's a deadlock, but I don't know how to release it. thanks, Matt Friedman

[GENERAL] Trouble with views (7.1beta4 Debian) and PgAccess 0.98.7.

2001-02-07 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
I installed (with some minor worries) 7.1beta4 Debian packages (a thousand thanks, Oliver !). On the whole, it looks *very* good. I have some problems with the ODBC interface, that seems partially broken (see the ODBC list). My present problem is with views : There seems no way to retrieve a vie

Re: [GENERAL] Number of open files

2001-02-07 Thread Mark Alliban
> "Mark Alliban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am having problems with the number of open files on Redhat 6.1. The value > > of /proc/sys/fs/file-max is 4096 (the default), but this value is reached > > with about 50 ODBC connections. Increasing the file-max value would only > > temporarily im

Re: [GENERAL] Can you help a newbie?

2001-02-07 Thread Richard Poole
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 06:53:13AM -0600, Jamie Bumsted wrote: > Hi All, > I am new to pgsql, I have inherited a database with no documentation, i.e. > nobody knows the passwords for any of the database accounts. Anybody have > any ideas on how to change the passwords without first knowing the >

[GENERAL] Re: Can you help a newbie?

2001-02-07 Thread Karel Zak
On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Jamie Bumsted wrote: > Hi All, > I am new to pgsql, I have inherited a database with no documentation, i.e. > nobody knows the passwords for any of the database accounts. Anybody have > any ideas on how to change the passwords without first knowing the > passwords? As syst

RE: [GENERAL] Can you help a newbie?

2001-02-07 Thread Mayers, Philip J
Hmm... very suspicious... However, if you have root on that machine, try this: su - root su - postgres cd /var/lib/pgsql/data vi pg_hba.conf add: local databasename trust Restart postgres, Switch back to your user, then try: psql databasename postgres Bingo, you're in as the DB admin. GRANT

[GENERAL] Can you help a newbie?

2001-02-07 Thread Jamie Bumsted
Hi All, I am new to pgsql, I have inherited a database with no documentation, i.e. nobody knows the passwords for any of the database accounts. Anybody have any ideas on how to change the passwords without first knowing the passwords? If this is a stupid question I apologize in advance. Thanks!

[GENERAL] drop check constraint

2001-02-07 Thread Tamsin
Hello, Is it possible to drop a check constraint in any way without dropping/recreating the table? I've managed to drop foreign key constraints by dropping the associated triggers, but check constraints don't seem to create triggers and there isn't an alter table drop constraint command. Is the

Re[2]: [GENERAL] Re: new type proposal

2001-02-07 Thread Alexey Borzov
Greetings, Joseph! At 07.02.2001, 13:13, you wrote: JS> I noticed that people are ignoring the time created part of my JS> proposal. How can a read only field be implemented? A trigger that JS> causes and error if that field is updated? Well, why not just do something like new.time_created_fiel

Re: [GENERAL] selecting a random record

2001-02-07 Thread Alexey Borzov
Greetings, Culley! At 06.02.2001, 13:11, you wrote: CH> Any suggestions on how to select a random record from CH> any given table? SELECT * FROM any_given_table ORDER BY random() LIMIT 1; -- Yours, Alexey V. Borzov, Webmaster of RDW

Re: [GENERAL] Re: new type proposal

2001-02-07 Thread Richard Huxton
Replying to my own post as I think things through. - Original Message - From: "Richard Huxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Maybe what we need is some sort of module system for these things so you > could do something like: > > USE MODULE auto_timestamp ON foo (last_modified) > > which coul

Re: [GENERAL] Re: PostreSQL SQL for MySQL SQL

2001-02-07 Thread fabrizio . ermini
On 6 Feb 2001, at 14:24, Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > At 01:10 PM 2/6/2001 -0600, John Burski wrote: > >interactively, via psql, via the Perl Pg module, or via PHP. If you > >attempt to drop a database that doesn't exist, PostgreSQL will issue an > >error message. If you're running interactively

Re: [GENERAL] Cursors in SPI functions/procedures

2001-02-07 Thread Jan Wieck
Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > Camm Maguire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Greetings! Just read that this functionality is planned for the > > future. Can 7.1 have cursors in pgsql functions, for example? > > No, it can't. > > I have a patch which adds support for cursors in PL/pgSQL. If anybody