I'm using Postgresql 7.3.4, FreeBSD 4.7, Apache 2.0.47. I have a
perl script which uses the DBI module and it works great from the
command line as long as I have '/usr/local/pgsgl/lib' in
LD_LIBRARY_PATH or else it would give me an 'libpq.so.3 not found'
error.
Now, I've turned that perl script
Hi, I am new to postgresql. I have done some small applications with MS
Access. Are there some PG tools out there that can build applications like
MS Access does out there?
Thanks
Gary
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug McNaught) writes:
Network Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ok, I did see the autocommit flag setting in DBD:Pg when I starting
reading up on the DBI/DBD interfacing methods so I guess I could
recode for that. However, how do you maintain the current
Oops! [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nigel J. Andrews) was seen spray-painting on a wall:
I've not looked at many RPMs but I must say that the few I have have
never been relocatable. Can the postgresql RPMs not be made
relocatable?
Unfortunately, relocation would have to include the init scripts, and
that
Hello all,
I've been meaning to get back to you all but I just haven't had time.
Okay, I've got a little bit of time now so here goes
I received many useful answers from many of you including Tom Lane,
Joe Conway, and Josh Berkus. Max Nachlinger in particular on October
5th (which was my
QUICK VERSION: How do I create an index on a field of type MONEY?
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LONG VERSION:
I have a table with a field of type money. I very often need to
access records by the purchase price so I thought I'd create an index
to help out my selects:
CREATE INDEX
hi all,
im developing a site in perl with mason on a postgreSQL backend.
i currently have a page that lists all items in a table, but would like to
do the
PREVIOUS 1 2 3 4 NEXT
sort of thing - say LIMIT of 10 records to a page.
can someone help me out.
thanks
PP
It seems so elementary, but how I get a list of which tables are
available in a database. I can't find an SQL command for this, but there
must be a way!
Thanks.
Bertwim
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Hi,
I have question:
why such condition:
foofield not like '%bar%'
where foofield is varchar
returns false (or rather even ignore row) on record where foofield is null
but
returns true on records where foofield is '' (empty string)
regards
Robert
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I just discovered that SuSE provides the sample pg_hba.conf in
/usr/share/pgsql
but the real pg_hba.conf file is located in
/var/lib/pgsql/data
Fixed!
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Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Sullivan) would
write:
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 05:48:23PM -0700, Dennis Gearon wrote:
projects.) I want to use as my main argument, the fact (at this time,
only from my previous usage), that MySQL really doesn't have foreign
On Friday October 10 2003 4:46, Ed L. wrote:
I have libpq client program that repeatedly connects to a DB, queries,
and then disconnects. After a seemingly random number of such successful
sessions (sometimes 30, sometimes hundreds), the backend mysteriously
exits after the client calls
Hi,
We are using postgresql as the underlying RDBMS for one of our
application.
When in a transaction if we execute an query that causes database to
return
a failure. The whole transaction gets roll backed.
Below are 2 examples
which illustrate this problem. We want the
Is the rewrite only for the literal 'X = NULL' or will it do a test
against a value such as 'X = OLD.X' (and rewrite is OLD.X is NULL)?
Is there any way to match NULLS to each other (as I am looking for a
literal row, not using NULL as the UNKNOWN). I suppose I could put in a
dummy value for
The problem I would face is that this still needs to be a sequential scan
in the table rather than an index lookup.
Regards,
Ed
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Arthur Ward wrote:
Is the rewrite only for the literal 'X = NULL' or will it do a test
against a value such as 'X = OLD.X' (and rewrite is
Hello,
How can I typecast a date generated from VARCHAR fields into
a date field
ie:
UPDATE inventory SET date_field = vc_year||'-'||vc_month||'-'||vc_day;
where the date string is built up from varchar fields?
Thanks for any help.
Peter
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Edmund Dengler wrote:
The problem I would face is that this still needs to be a sequential scan
in the table rather than an index lookup.
IIRC, NULL values aren't indexed, only actual values, which is an
implementation detail but yet-another reason why NULL-elimination
through normalization is
On Friday 10 October 2003 08:52 pm, Christopher Browne wrote:
Oops! [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nigel J. Andrews) was seen
spray-painting on a wall:
I've not looked at many RPMs but I must say that the few I have have
never been relocatable. Can the postgresql RPMs not be made
relocatable?
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 10:53, B.W.H. van Beest wrote:
It seems so elementary, but how I get a list of which tables are
available in a database. I can't find an SQL command for this, but there
must be a way!
In psql use \d or \dt
If you start psql with the -E flag it will show you how it
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 17:54, pw wrote:
Hello,
How can I typecast a date generated from VARCHAR fields into
a date field
ie:
UPDATE inventory SET date_field = vc_year||'-'||vc_month||'-'||vc_day;
... SET date_field = CAST(vc_year...vc_day AS date)
or
... SET date_field =
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 04:53, B.W.H. van Beest wrote:
It seems so elementary, but how I get a list of which tables are
available in a database. I can't find an SQL command for this, but there
must be a way!
$ man psql, then search for the string list of all tables
$ psql test1
Welcome to
--- G Lam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I am new to postgresql. I have done some small
applications with MS
Access. Are there some PG tools out there that can
build applications like
MS Access does out there?
MS Access works well with PostgreSQL via ODBC. Check
here:
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 17:15, Richard Huxton wrote:
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 16:38, Edwin Quijada wrote:
How can I use NOtify to do this?
Please make sure you reply to the list too.
In your daemon you do something like: LISTEN signal1, and in a trigger (say)
you issue NOTIFY signal1.
I was just helped with this last week (see threat Interfaces that support
cursors that started on 10/10 if its in the archives. The two ways to do it-
either issuing a selects with limit/offset modifiers or with a cursor. On the
above thread today, it was posted that large datasets are going to
Robert Partyka wrote:
Hi,
I have question:
why such condition:
foofield not like '%bar%'
where foofield is varchar
returns false (or rather even ignore row) on record where foofield is null
but
returns true on records where foofield is '' (empty string)
SQL specifications.
Empty string and
pw writes:
How can I typecast a date generated from VARCHAR fields into
a date field
Using CAST().
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Robert Partyka wrote:
why such condition:
foofield not like '%bar%'
where foofield is varchar
returns false (or rather even ignore row) on record where foofield is
null
Actually, it probably returns unknown(NULL) on such records.
NULL LIKE '%bar%' is unknown, so
NULL
B.W.H. van Beest writes:
It seems so elementary, but how I get a list of which tables are
available in a database. I can't find an SQL command for this, but there
must be a way!
SELECT * FROM pg_tables;
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Hello,
This has been resolved.
As I told a previous poster, CAST() wasn't working.
I have no idea why.
I finally used:
UPDATE inventory SET date_field=date(vc_year||'-'||vc_month||'-'||vc_day );
Peter
pw writes:
How can I typecast a date generated from VARCHAR fields into
a date field
If you are experienced in Oracle, this might be confusing since Oracle
treats empty string and NULL as being the same.
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Robert Partyka wrote:
why such condition:
foofield not like '%bar%'
where foofield is varchar
returns false (or rather even ignore row) on record
hi!
i am developing with version 7.3.2 under cygwin. my production
evironment is 7.3.3 on a suse machine.
language settings (lc_...) for the server are on developing and
production machine the same, 'C'.
now i encoutered the following behaviour. i use a union select to unify
a query result
Patrick Hatcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Trying to create a plperl function to strip non-friendly mainframe
characters from a string. However, when I try to add the Trademark symbol
(™) as a replace criteria, PG spits back an error:
ERROR: Could not convert UTF-8 to ISO8859-1
AFAICT this
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