Re: [GENERAL] COPY and triggers

2001-08-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Oliver Elphick writes: When using the COPY command to load data into a Great Bridge PostgreSQL database, the triggers and constraints on tables are disabled. Perhaps that's a feature of Great Bridge PostgreSQL, but it's not a feature of Plain Old PostgreSQL. ;-) (It would be correct to say

Re: [GENERAL] Serial not so unique?

2001-08-18 Thread Stephen Robert Norris
On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 03:49:10PM -0700, Joe Conway wrote: Sometimes (about 20%, it seems) with several of the data sets, we get an error trying to insert rows into the table with the serial in it. On investigation, it seems that the serial number has got to 101, then set itself

Re: [GENERAL] COPY and triggers

2001-08-18 Thread Tom Lane
Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been reading Great Bridge's document on Administration and Tuning (PDF document under http://www.greatbridge.com/product/software.php) and came across this statement on page 27: When using the COPY command to load data into a Great Bridge

Re: [GENERAL] Serial not so unique?

2001-08-18 Thread Justin Clift
Hi Stephen, That's weird behaviour. If you'd manually created the sequence like this : CREATE SEQUENCE foo_seq MINVALUE 4 MAXVALUE 101 CYCLE Then referenced it as the default like this : CREATE TABLE bar (idnum integer UNIQUE DEFAULT nextval('foo_seq') NOT NULL, otherstuff varchar(20));

Re: [GENERAL] Serial not so unique?

2001-08-18 Thread Stephen Robert Norris
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 12:42:36PM +1000, Justin Clift wrote: Hi Stephen, That's weird behaviour. If you'd manually created the sequence like this : CREATE SEQUENCE foo_seq MINVALUE 4 MAXVALUE 101 CYCLE Then referenced it as the default like this : CREATE TABLE bar (idnum integer

Re: [GENERAL] Serial not so unique?

2001-08-18 Thread Stephen Robert Norris
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 01:23:13PM +1000, Justin Clift wrote: Hmmm... Well, that would be a CREATE SEQUENCE foo_seq START 1 MINVALUE 4 MAXVALUE 101 CYCLE Still, that's not helpful. :( Is there any chance that the application created the sequence, or that someone created it

[GENERAL] Re: Serial not so unique?

2001-08-18 Thread Stephen Robert Norris
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 10:02:02AM +0800, Lincoln Yeoh wrote: At 09:18 AM 8/19/01 +1000, Stephen Robert Norris wrote: Recreating the sequence solves the problem, of course. So does setval(102). My problem is that it got into this state originally. The test case that demonstrates it sometimes