Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] OLS BOF for linux & postgresql

2005-01-28 Thread Mark Wong
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:10:07PM -0500, Robert Bernier wrote: > On January 28, 2005 05:06 pm, Mark Wong wrote: > > I wanted to bounce the idea of a BOF at the Linux Symposium in > > Ottawa and see if anyone would like to attend. The deadline to > > proposal is Feb 1st, sort of short notice... I

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-advocacy] OLS BOF for linux & postgresql

2005-01-28 Thread Robert Bernier
On January 28, 2005 05:06 pm, Mark Wong wrote: > I wanted to bounce the idea of a BOF at the Linux Symposium in > Ottawa and see if anyone would like to attend. The deadline to > proposal is Feb 1st, sort of short notice... I thought the dicussion > could revolved around these two topics: > > Lin

Re: [GENERAL] Mail list / web issues

2005-01-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Steve Crawford wrote: A couple of issues. I went to unsubscribe from one of the many PG lists to which I'm subscribed so I went to my original confirmation message and followed the directions. After a couple hours I got a response that the password I used was not valid (I cut a

Re: [GENERAL] Allowing update of column only from trigger

2005-01-28 Thread PFC
First you should use a ltree type for the uri field : - you write it foo.bar instead of /foo/bar - there are operators on ltree types to express "is parent of", "is children of" - these operators are indexed Check the readme : http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/ltree/ If you h

[GENERAL] Bug in COPY from CSV?

2005-01-28 Thread Rick Schumeyer
I think I’ve found a bug in PG 8.0 that occurs while copying from CSV files. I checked the bugs list but didn’t see anything similar.   This occurs when reading a CSV file where one of the ‘text’ fields has a blank line.  I included an example that shows the problem below. I found that

[GENERAL] Postgresql v8.0 debian packages.

2005-01-28 Thread Mike Benoit
Hi there, I read back in Dec. that the debian packages for v8.0 will need to be re-done completely and might be delayed because of that. I was curious if they are out yet, and if not, is there a ftp site I could point apt-get to in order to pick them up when they do become available? Tha

Re: [GENERAL] Moving from Sybase to Postgres - Stored Procedures

2005-01-28 Thread Andre Schnoor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > CREATE PROCEDURE do_something > > @song_id int, > > @user_id int, > > @method int, > > @length int = 0, > > @date_exact datetime, > > @default_country int = null > > AS > >-- temporary variables > >

Re: [GENERAL] rowset-returning function mismatch

2005-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
"Ed L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I ask because it seems like "char" and char should match as type names, > but don't. No, they don't. char without any quotes is a SQL reserved word that is equivalent to CHARACTER(1). "char" with quotes is not a reserved word, by definition. For largely hi

Re: [GENERAL] Rule problem with OLD / NEW record set (repost)

2005-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
Ralph Graulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CREATE VIEW view_table1 AS SELECT * FROM table1; > -- create a rule for update > CREATE OR REPLACE RULE ru_view_table1_update > AS > ON UPDATE TO view_table1 DO INSTEAD >( >-- insert a new record with the old id, old version number incremented >

Re: [GENERAL] rowset-returning function mismatch

2005-01-28 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Ed L. wrote: > I ask because it seems like "char" and char should match as type names, > but don't. Unfortunately, "char" and char are actually different types in declarations like that AFAIK. When in quotes it refers to the postgres single byte single character type, IIRC

[GENERAL] Mail list / web issues

2005-01-28 Thread Steve Crawford
A couple of issues. I went to unsubscribe from one of the many PG lists to which I'm subscribed so I went to my original confirmation message and followed the directions. After a couple hours I got a response that the password I used was not valid (I cut an pasted from the confirmation message

[GENERAL] Moving within a cursor declared in plpgsql function

2005-01-28 Thread Sven Willenberger
I have searched the web/archives for a solution to this and have found a few entries to my question but nothing definitive. In essence I have a function that opens a cursor (refcursor). It would appear though that one can only traverse the cursor forward-only and only one record at a time; is there

[GENERAL] rowset-returning function mismatch

2005-01-28 Thread Ed L.
I am seeing a minor error and curious to learn if it is user error or a bug. I have a function (using 8.1devel) that returns a set of rows listing the sizes of the various components of a relation (indices, toast, etc). Here's an example of a successful call: select * from relation_size_compon

Re: [GENERAL] Moving from Sybase to Postgres - Stored Procedures

2005-01-28 Thread John Sidney-Woollett
Have you tried looking at this section of the manual? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/plpgsql.html It details all the PL/pgSQL language constructs - I found it fine when converting from Oracle to Postgres... Just make sure you have installed the pl/pgsql language in template1 or y

[GENERAL] Rule problem with OLD / NEW record set (repost)

2005-01-28 Thread Ralph Graulich
Hello, I posted the question below to the pgsql-sql list, but did not receive any answer yet. Therefore I repost it on pgsql-general in hope for any information regarding that issue. Thanks alot. Best regards ... Ralph ... --- given is a table with a version history kind of thing I am currently

Re: [GENERAL] Moving from Sybase to Postgres - Stored Procedures

2005-01-28 Thread mmiranda
> CREATE PROCEDURE do_something > @song_id int, > @user_id int, > @method int, > @length int = 0, > @date_exact datetime, > @default_country int = null > AS >-- temporary variables >DECLARE > @artist int, > @sample int, > @date varchar(32), >

[GENERAL] OLS BOF for linux & postgresql

2005-01-28 Thread Mark Wong
I'm told these lists were more appropriate for this kind of announcement than hackers, so here it is. - Forwarded message from Mark Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:59:16 -0800 To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org From: Mark Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [HACKERS] OLS

Re: [GENERAL] upgrading to postgresql 8

2005-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
guegue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i finally realized that name of the variable can no longer be the same > as the name of a column in the select statement. That generally didn't work before, either. I think it might have accidentally failed to not work for record/rowtype variables, but those a

Re: [GENERAL] Moving from Sybase to Postgres - Stored Procedures

2005-01-28 Thread Andre Schnoor
"Joshua D. Drake" wrote: > Andre Schnoor wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am moving from Sybase to pgsql but have problems with stored procedures. > > The typical procedure uses > > > > a) named parameters, > > b) local variable declarations and assignments > > c) transactions > > d) cursors, views, etc.

[GENERAL] Allowing update of column only from trigger

2005-01-28 Thread Shawn Harrison
I have a table like this: create table objects ( id serial primary key, namevarchar not null, parent integer references objects(id) default 1 not null, uri varchar not null ) without oids; The uri column is a denormalization for performance, storing a "

[GENERAL] upgrading to postgresql 8

2005-01-28 Thread guegue
when i upgraded from 7.4 to 8 many of my functions no loger worked, they all had something in common: DECLARE produto RECORD; BEGIN FOR producto IN SELECT producto FROM p LOOP the error reported was: record "producto" is not assigned yet i finally realized that name of the variable can no lo

Re: [GENERAL] Moving from Sybase to Postgres - Stored Procedures

2005-01-28 Thread Jaime Casanova
--- "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > a. > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/plpgsql- > > declarations.html > b. (same page) > c. ? > d. > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/plpgsql-control- > > structures.html#PLPGSQL-RECORDS-ITERATING > > > T

Re: [GENERAL] Pg database, need a solution to a problem

2005-01-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Does anyone have any suggestions for how to get the testcase id's and suite's replicated to the production database with out touching the other tables in there? I would just do a pg_dump on selected tables, but there are sequences in the DB for adding new suites, and testcases and I don't want th

Re: [GENERAL] Moving from Sybase to Postgres - Stored Procedures

2005-01-28 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Andre Schnoor wrote: Hi, I am moving from Sybase to pgsql but have problems with stored procedures. The typical procedure uses a) named parameters, b) local variable declarations and assignments c) transactions d) cursors, views, etc. I can't seem to find these things in the Postgres function synta

Re: [GENERAL] Moving from Sybase to Postgres - Stored Procedures

2005-01-28 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 a. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/plpgsql- declarations.html b. (same page) c. ? d. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/plpgsql-control- structures.html#PLPGSQL-RECORDS-ITERATING This brings about a new question: Doesn'

[GENERAL] Pg database, need a solution to a problem

2005-01-28 Thread Adam Wilson
I'm running Postgres on a Redhat Linux 9 server to keep track of testcases we run in our lab. The interface to add new testcases to the DB is cumbersome for adding large groups, well actually it isn't possible really. So on the development Linux machine, when someone writes a new test case and a

[GENERAL] Moving from Sybase to Postgres - Stored Procedures

2005-01-28 Thread Andre Schnoor
Hi, I am moving from Sybase to pgsql but have problems with stored procedures. The typical procedure uses a) named parameters, b) local variable declarations and assignments c) transactions d) cursors, views, etc. I can't seem to find these things in the Postgres function syntax. Procedures can

Re: [GENERAL] Splitting queries across servers

2005-01-28 Thread Dann Corbit
Suppose that you currently need 16 GB to cache everything now. I would install (perhaps) 32 GB ram for the initial configuration. The price of memory drops exponentially, and so waiting for the price to drop will give a much lower expense for the cost of the RAM. The reason to double the ram is t

Re: [GENERAL] changing sort_mem on the fly?

2005-01-28 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 02:43:13AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Neil Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > A malicious user who can execute SELECT queries can already consume an > > arbitrary amount of memory -- say, by disabling GEQO and self-joining > > pg_class to itself 50 times. I'm not sure that

Re: [GENERAL] Splitting queries across servers

2005-01-28 Thread William Yu
Without memory, the prices are roughly: 4x846 = $5500 4x848 = $6500 4x850 = $8000 Memory costs would be: 16GB (1GB DIMMs) = $3000 32GB (2GB DIMMs) = $7500 64GB (4GB DIMMs) = $24000 128GB (8GB DIMMs) = $6 The prices on the 4GB & 8GB DIMMs are bleeding edge of course. I see a wide range of for t

Re: [GENERAL] Extended unit

2005-01-28 Thread Pailloncy Jean-Gerard
De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet: Rép : [GENERAL] Extended unit Date: 28 janvier 2005 18:18:18 GMT+01:00 À:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I have done a new version with - a new conversion function - possibility to enter value as fraction - addition of the operator + -

Re: [GENERAL] Shared Memory/Shared Buffers

2005-01-28 Thread Tom Lane
Alex Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have noticed that I can't set the shared buffers above 15512 which > is exactly 128MB of RAM. Even if I set /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax above > that, postgres refuses to start with a setting over 128MB. Check your shmall setting, too.

[GENERAL] Shared Memory/Shared Buffers

2005-01-28 Thread Alex Turner
I have noticed that I can't set the shared buffers above 15512 which is exactly 128MB of RAM. Even if I set /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax above that, postgres refuses to start with a setting over 128MB. Anyone have any ideas about this? I guess there are a couple of questions - would I ever need a sha

Re: [GENERAL] Import SVG file

2005-01-28 Thread Richard Huxton
Miguel Angel Tribaldos Hervas wrote: I want to do the import from the psql client. I try to find something like that: INSERT INTO "controller" (notes, enabled, diagram, ...) VALUES ('Example controller', TRUE, load_svg('controller.svg'), ...) with diagram of type TEXT, and diagram field correc

Re: [GENERAL] Splitting queries across servers

2005-01-28 Thread William Yu
With a Quad Opteron (4 memory slots per CPU), you could put 64GB of RAM onto a single machine using 4GB DIMMs in every slot. The other option is to explore static memory storage. It's probably too expensive to put your entire DB onto such a device but moving just the WAL there would give you a

Re: [GENERAL] How to get back the current count of a auto incrementing number.

2005-01-28 Thread PFC
This question pops about once a day... can't the list server grep for "auto increment" and send a link to the docs itself ;) hi How to get the current value of a auto incrementing number generated using CREATE SEQUENCE seqname START 1 Is there any way and if yes what is it. Can we run a

Re: [GENERAL] Splitting queries across servers

2005-01-28 Thread Mike Rylander
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:17:29 -0800, Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > With a Quad Opteron (4 memory slots per CPU), you could put 64GB of RAM > > onto a single machine using 4GB DIMMs in every slot. > > We were talking about a similar solution today, but not quite as good as > this. You r

Re: [GENERAL] How to get back the current count of a auto incrementing number.

2005-01-28 Thread Sean Davis
On Jan 28, 2005, at 6:36 AM, sid tow wrote: hi How to get the current value of a auto incrementing number generated using CREATE SEQUENCE seqname START 1 Is there any way and if yes what is it. Can we run a select query and may be a inbuilt function which will return the current value of that

Re: [GENERAL] How to get back the current count of a auto incrementing number.

2005-01-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Friday 28 Jan 2005 5:06 pm, sid tow wrote: > hi > > How to get the current value of a auto > incrementing number generated using CREATE SEQUENCE > seqname START 1 > > Is there any way and if yes what is it. Can we run a > select query and may be a inbuilt function which will > return the cu

Re: [GENERAL] How to get back the current count of a auto

2005-01-28 Thread Csaba Nagy
Sid, Postgres has an excellent documentation. You can find about what you asked here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/functions-sequence.html It always pays off to read the docs first. Cheers, Csaba. On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 12:36, sid tow wrote: > hi > > How to get the current val

[GENERAL] How to get back the current count of a auto incrementing number.

2005-01-28 Thread sid tow
hi How to get the current value of a auto incrementing number generated using CREATE SEQUENCE seqname START 1 Is there any way and if yes what is it. Can we run a select query and may be a inbuilt function which will return the current value of that number? Regards. _

Re: [GENERAL] Import SVG file

2005-01-28 Thread Miguel Angel Tribaldos Hervas
I want to do the import from the psql client. I try to find something like that: INSERT INTO "controller" (notes, enabled, diagram, ...) VALUES ('Example controller', TRUE, load_svg('controller.svg'), ...) with diagram of type TEXT, and diagram field correctly escaped. Best regards. --

Re: [GENERAL] Import SVG file

2005-01-28 Thread Miguel Angel Tribaldos Hervas
I want to do the import from the psql client. ... Something like that: -- ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] convert mdb files to pg?

2005-01-28 Thread manfred
Am Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:14:32 -0500 hat Rick Schumeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> geschrieben: Is there a way to import mdb files from Access into pg? I found a web page for mdbtools but I can't get it to compile. Have a look at Access2PgConverter here http://www.talon.nl/eng/site/start/projects/main.

Re: [GENERAL] Import SVG file

2005-01-28 Thread Richard Huxton
Miguel Angel Tribaldos Hervas wrote: Hi, how can I import a SVG file to a row?? The main problem is that it has many postgres scape symbols. Can I utilize the 'text' type for that? Have I to do some byte-stuffing before the import? If you want to create a text-file with a COPY or INSERT statement a

[GENERAL] Import SVG file

2005-01-28 Thread Miguel Angel Tribaldos Hervas
Hi, how can I import a SVG file to a row?? The main problem is that it has many postgres scape symbols. Can I utilize the 'text' type for that? Have I to do some byte-stuffing before the import? Thanks -- Miguel A. Tribaldos ---(end of broadcast)---