Re: [GENERAL] making another super user other than postgres

2004-11-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 15:31, Bob Powell wrote: My systems admin says that he needs to have use of the Postgres user without a password. His Debian package manager requires this. The PostgreSQL user postgres is given the ability to connect to any database on the local machine without

[GENERAL] query with table alias

2004-11-12 Thread Rodríguez Rodríguez, Pere
Title: query with table alias Hello, I think I have found a query problem when the query has an alias for a table and use alias item and table name. I ilustrate the problem with a simple table and query. prr=# create table foo (c1 int2, c2 int2); CREATE TABLE prr=# insert into foo

Re: [GENERAL] query with table alias

2004-11-12 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Nov 12, 2004, at 7:48 PM, Rodríguez Rodríguez, Pere wrote: prr=# select foo.c1, f.c2 from foo f;  -- Incorrect result  c1 | c2 +   1 |  1   2 |  1   1 |  2   2 |  2 (4 filas) If you alias a table, you can only reference the table using the alias. It is in effect renamed: foo is no

Re: [GENERAL] query with table alias

2004-11-12 Thread Patrick Fiche
Title: query with table alias The correct query would be "select f.c1, f.c2 from foo f;" if you want to use alias Patrick --- Patrick Fiche email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] tél : 01 69 29 36 18

Re: [GENERAL] query with table alias

2004-11-12 Thread Matteo Beccati
prr=# select foo.c1, f.c2 from foo f; -- Incorrect result The result of the select foo.c1, f.c2 from foo f isn't correct, it do a cartesian product of foo table. foo is aliased to f, so there's no table named foo in the from clause. By default postgres tries to add the missing table name, so

Re: [GENERAL] simple query question: return latest

2004-11-12 Thread Goutam Paruchuri
If 2 days are equal for color red, you still would get 2 rows returned. Maybe the below is accurate. SELECT g.color, g.date, g.entered_by FROM giventable g WHERE g.color = 'red' AND g.date = (SELECT MAX(g2.date) FROM giventable g2

[GENERAL] How many secondary databases can I create?

2004-11-12 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello all, I have accidently :-) found 'initlocation' and now I like to know, how many secondary database i can create. I like to do that, because I have a Virtual Webserver and for each VirtualHost I have a local $USER. Now I like to create seperatly secondary databases for each $USER/VHost.

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header in block 52979 of relation pg_attribute

2004-11-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:29:38PM -0700, Steve Crawford wrote: True. I hadn't come up with a good time to get past that 7.4.1 - 7.4.2 initdb requirement. I guess I'll have to go with the manual method. IIRC, the initdb is recommended, but not required. It can be done without an initdb too.

Re: [GENERAL] How many secondary databases can I create?

2004-11-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
As many as you have disk space for I guess. You might need one postmaster per location but I'm not sure about that, check the docs... On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 04:18:13PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello all, I have accidently :-) found 'initlocation' and now I like to know, how many

Re: [GENERAL] How many secondary databases can I create?

2004-11-12 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Martijn, Am 2004-11-12 17:01:20, schrieb Martijn van Oosterhout: As many as you have disk space for I guess. You might need one postmaster per location but I'm not sure about that, check the docs... I have read, that the secondary databases are attached to the main database which mean,

Re: [GENERAL] simple query question: return latest

2004-11-12 Thread Michael Fuhr
[Top-posting fixed] On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:06:08AM -0500, Goutam Paruchuri wrote: Scott Frankel wrote: ORDER BY DESC LIMIT 1 is much simpler and more readable than a sub-query. Though the sub-query approach looks to be a good template for ensuring more accurate results by being more

Re: [GENERAL] simple query question: return latest

2004-11-12 Thread Scott Frankel
On Nov 12, 2004, at 8:24 AM, Michael Fuhr wrote: [Top-posting fixed] On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:06:08AM -0500, Goutam Paruchuri wrote: Scott Frankel wrote: ORDER BY DESC LIMIT 1 is much simpler and more readable than a sub-query. Though the sub-query approach looks to be a good template for

[GENERAL] How to use custom functions created by my2pg.pl?

2004-11-12 Thread Scott Chapman
The my2pg.pl script creates custom functions that help with the MySQL set column type. I can't figure out how to use the functions once I have the database migrated into Postgres. Can someone please explain how to make use of them? In MySQL, the table exists: CREATE TABLE accessright (

[GENERAL] sub-query question

2004-11-12 Thread Scott Frankel
How does one embed a sub-query lookup to one table in order to replace a foreign key id number with it's name in a SELECT on a second table? i.e.: given the following two tables, I want to replace the color_id of 1 with the color_name 'red.' (The SQL to create the two tables follows below.)

Re: [GENERAL] sub-query question

2004-11-12 Thread Franco Bruno Borghesi
something == otherthing is a boolean expression, you are asking the database to compare both values, u.color_id is not equal c.color_name, that's why you get 'f'. I guess that you want to replace the color_id from users by the corresponding color_name from colors: SELECT c.color_name,

Re: [GENERAL] sub-query question

2004-11-12 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Frankel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's my query: SELECT ( u.color_id = ( SELECT c.color_name FROM colors c WHERE color_id = 1)) AS color_name, u.name, u.the_date FROM users u WHERE u.color_id

Re: [GENERAL] sub-query question

2004-11-12 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:52:09AM -0800, Scott Frankel wrote: How does one embed a sub-query lookup to one table in order to replace a foreign key id number with it's name in a SELECT on a second table? You're talking about joins.

Re: [GENERAL] sub-query question

2004-11-12 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:26:14AM -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote: There are at least four ways to write the join query you want: I may have misunderstood what results you're looking for, but the examples I gave may nevertheless be useful. Sorry if they cause any confusion. -- Michael Fuhr

Re: [GENERAL] invalid page header in block 52979 of relation pg_attribute

2004-11-12 Thread Steve Crawford
On Friday 12 November 2004 7:54 am, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 04:29:38PM -0700, Steve Crawford wrote: True. I hadn't come up with a good time to get past that 7.4.1 - 7.4.2 initdb requirement. I guess I'll have to go with the manual method. IIRC, the initdb is

Re: [GENERAL] Postresql RFD version 2.0 Help Wanted.

2004-11-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc G Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are doing that specifically for that reason ... In order to provide redundancy, we currently have two mail-news gateways of the mailing lists in place, and the MessageIds are what prevents duplicates ... Yeah, I just found out about that today.

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-12 Thread Woodchuck Bill
Mike Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] berlin.de: Uhh. My head is spinning with the complexity of this. Marc is fine with being in the big eight official *if* the groups stay the same and it doesn't affect the mailing list. This will just have to be a bug in the system if

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-12 Thread Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
On Sunday, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Cox wrote: Also, he pointed out that for those who want to get the postgresql groups when their usenet sever doesn't carry them, the solution would be to point their newsreaders to news.postgresql.org. Which only confirms my

Re: [GENERAL] dumping on 7.4.6 importing on 7.4.1

2004-11-12 Thread stig erikson
Tom Lane wrote: Is it possible to dump a database on a 7.4.6 server and then restore it on a 7.4.1 server? Should work, but why aren't you updating the 7.4.1 server? There were some pretty nasty bugs fixed between .1 and .6. problem is i dont have full power over that machine. i will try to

Re: [GENERAL] dumping on 7.4.6 importing on 7.4.1

2004-11-12 Thread Tom Lane
stig erikson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i could not find any official builds for rh8, does the rh9 rpms work? Doubtful. What I'd recommend is getting the source RPM and building your own binary RPMs --- that's pretty much certain to work. All you need is rpmbuild --rebuild

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-12 Thread Jeff Eckermann
--- Brian {Hamilton Kelly} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which only confirms my opinion that he's a fuckwit. Evidently some of the nastiness out there on Usenet is propagating into our lists in advance of any change. __ Do you Yahoo!? Check out

Re: [GENERAL] Postresql RFD version 2.0 Help Wanted.

2004-11-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Russ Allbery wrote: Yeah, I understand it's not how the groups are set up, but it does seem a little confusing. (Posting to a Usenet newsgroup and getting an e-mail reply saying that my mailing list message is being held for approval, for example.) I think it's a really

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with showing time diff?

2004-11-12 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:55:33AM +0100, Bjørn T Johansen wrote: select to_char((Log_Fortrykk.SistePlate::time - OrdreNew.SistePlate::time)::interval,'HH24:MI') as diff from Log_Fortrykk I need the output to be HH:MM, e.g. 00:09... But my prb is when this diff is less than 0, it shows

Re: [GENERAL] I spoke with Marc from the postgresql mailing list.

2004-11-12 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Gary L. Burnore wrote: This isn't about encouraging ISP's to carry your lists. It's about fixing a problem caused by your list's gateways. A problem that you perceive, yet nobody else seems to ... very isolated problem ... of coufse, you *could* set the group to moderated on