Chris Travers wrote:
Why not have the people who have rights to review this all write to the
master database and have that replicated back? It seems like latency is
not really an issue. Replication here is only going to complicate
What master database? Having a single master defeats the
Matt A. wrote:
Anyone know how I could alter the cast of the nullif()
function directly to return INT?
We use NULLIF() for adding [1|0|null] according to the
evalution of nullif('x','') into integer columns.
Where x is an integer and sometimes a empty string,
which if it's an empty string
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 01:28:51PM +0530, Surabhi Ahuja wrote:
Dear All,
This is in reference to a problem which I had put up sometime back.
Please take some time to study it
The piece of code that i am trying to execute is attached (itsa cpp file)
The stored procedure (that the
Surabhi Ahuja wrote:
BEGIN
patKey := $4;
select patient_id into patId from patient where patient_key = patKey;
if not found
THEN
insert into
patient(patient_name,org_pat_id,birth_date,patient_key)
values($1,trim($2),$3,$4);
The output that i
Thank you so much for the reply. I inserted the
function as you said in pgsql. I tried testing it and
got...
PERFECT RESULTS!
THAAANKKK YOUUU!
*kisses feet* j/k But honestly, Thank you very much.
You saved me from suicide.
--- Richard Huxton
I have a serial column on a test box DB. I'm
using select nextval('some_seq') as id to insert a
id in sequence. It doesn't return the next value but
at least 4 or so (random) ahead of the current
value. Is this to be expected?
Is this the most efficient way to retreive an id value
for insert a
Matt A. wrote:
I have a serial column on a test box DB. I'm
using select nextval('some_seq') as id to insert a
id in sequence. It doesn't return the next value but
at least 4 or so (random) ahead of the current
value. Is this to be expected?
Quite possibly. The sequence generator doesn't skip
I tried that, but it didn't work ;o)
On Friday 26 August 2005 01:11 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith:
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:30:07AM +0800, Richard Sydney-Smith wrote:
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Then follow
Is there going to be a 8.1 beta for win32?
Thanks,
P.S.
I did find the 8.1 beta docs, it took a little searching on google.
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/
--
Tony Caduto
http://www.amsoftwaredesign.com
Home of PG Lightning Admin for Postgresql 8.x
Hi:
I am working on postgres optimizer code to add some statistics
collection features for an academic project. At some point in my work, I
need to be able to tell if a join is a foreign key join or not. Also in
case of a foreign key join, I need to identify which input to the join
operator
Whilst there is so much attention on the copy command it might be a good
time to chime in with some of the features that it would be nice for
copy to support, as I have run into it's limitations on a number of
projects were the bulk loading of CSV files are a requirement.
1. I would love there
William Yu wrote:
This system sounds ok for documents and general data that can always
be revived via version control/history. But I can't see how this would
work for financial transactions where you're dealing with money and
bank accounts. Suppose I have $100 in my account. I decided to
Hi!
I've the following Problem and hope someone can help me. My PostgreSQL
Database were running on a Debian Linux. Some day the OS crahsed and -
here's the Problem - there is no dump file from Database. But I still
have the files in base, global, pg_clog. So I did a fresh setup and
copied the
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 08:56:40AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
I've the following Problem and hope someone can help me. My PostgreSQL
Database were running on a Debian Linux. Some day the OS crahsed and -
here's the Problem - there is no dump file from Database. But I still
have the
Hi,
I am going to create binary objects in a database which are compressed
eml files (1K - 10 Mbytes in size). Am I better using the bytea or large
objects?
Is there still an issue with backup and restore of databases using large
objects with pg_dump/restore?
Thanks in advance.
Howard
Is there going to be a 8.1 beta for win32?
I assume you are talking about a binary version. The source version is
already available.
Yes, there is. But we're not quite ready yet, so it'll be a few days
before it'll be out. Until then you can use the source version if youh
ave the tools required
Thanks Magnus, yes by default I meant binary since that is how the
majority of win32 software is distributed.
I am a Delphi programmer, so I will wait for the binary installer to be
released :-)
Thanks again for the info.
Tony
Is there going to be a 8.1 beta for win32?
I assume you
It appears to die in CheckAvailableDLLs(). See question 3.1 in the FAQ
at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_windows.html.
//Magnus
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Trewern
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 4:58 PM
To:
Hossein S. Attar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am working on postgres optimizer code to add some statistics
collection features for an academic project. At some point in my work, I
need to be able to tell if a join is a foreign key join or not. Also in
case of a foreign key join, I need to
I'm trying to write some code in a trigger that fires on both an insert
and an update.
At one point I need to update a column either on an insert or if the
value of the column has changed.
The following code fails because the OLD value is not defined:
if TG_OP = ''INSERT''
or (TG_OP =
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 01:41:12 -0700,
All I need is integer columns evaluting in a
nullif('1','') returns int = 1
nullif('','') returns int = null
nullif('0','') returns int = 0
fashion upon inserting to an INTEGER column. Forget
booleans. Forget text. Just integers. Is this
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Starting PostgreSQL database server: postmaster(FAILED)
ERROR: There is no PostgreSQL database framework in /srv/postgres/data.
Run initdb as the postgres user to create it
There is no such error string in Postgres proper -- I suppose the
complaint is coming from
Hi,
I´mthinking to test your suggestion, basically because there are only few sites to connect, but there are some points that aren´t very clear to me.
My doubts:
1. How to make a view updatable? Using the rule system?
1. Why are insertshandled differently from updates?
2. Can not I use the
Howard Cole wrote:
Hi,
I am going to create binary objects in a database which are compressed
eml files (1K - 10 Mbytes in size). Am I better using the bytea or large
objects?
Is there still an issue with backup and restore of databases using large
objects with pg_dump/restore?
Thanks in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Travers) writes:
William Yu wrote:
This system sounds ok for documents and general data that can
always be revived via version control/history. But I can't see how
this would work for financial transactions where you're dealing
with money and bank accounts. Suppose I
Postgresql 8.0.3
Windows XP with SP2
C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.0\binpg_restore --dbname=smedb --verbose
--ignore
-version --host=localhost --username=postgres c:\backup2005-08-08 10
.47.06
when it was restoring data of one big table,it returned error msg like
[custom archive] can not read
Hi,
I have started a function/howto repository on my forums and seeded it
with a few functions/howtos
http://www.milwaukeesoft.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=12
Feel free to post any handy functions you wouldn't mind sharing with
everyone.
Thanks,
Tony
---(end of
I've just re-written our Whitebeam code to drop large-objects in favour
of BYTEA fields.
All the old problems of large objects in backups exist, but the killer
for us was that none of the current replication systems, at least that I
could find, would replicate large objects. This became a
Tom Lane wrote:
Hossein S. Attar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am working on postgres optimizer code to add some statistics
collection features for an academic project. At some point in my work, I
need to be able to tell if a join is a foreign key join or not. Also in
case of a foreign key
I know the installer will be a while, but can someone put up a
binary-no-installer type zip file on the server somewhere? I know this
is done for other releases.
Thanks,
Matt
Tony Caduto wrote:
Thanks Magnus, yes by default I meant binary since that is how the
majority of win32 software
Mike Nolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The following code fails because the OLD value is not defined:
if TG_OP = ''INSERT''
or (TG_OP = ''UPDATE'' and NEW.column1 != coalesce(OLD.column1,''--''))
then
column2 := ''CHANGED'';
end if;
Shouldn't OLD.column1 not even be
Hi folks,
this is my first post to this emailing list. We are using postgres-7.4
in a Server based application which requires frequent updates and
inserts of the database. We have observed a substantial fall in the
performance of database server over the time. It works fine for some
initial days
I did not know that about every call to nextval, but
that does make sense.
I need a way to return the new ID of the SERIAL column
on INSERT to add the related rows into the proper
tables explictly. Similiar to how I could use
@@identity to retrive the value in sql2000.
The only ways I saw was
Joshua D. Drake wrote:
I've just re-written our Whitebeam code to drop large-objects in
favour of BYTEA fields.
All the old problems of large objects in backups exist, but the killer
for us was that none of the current replication systems, at least that
I could find, would replicate large
Matt A. wrote:
I did not know that about every call to nextval, but
that does make sense.
I need a way to return the new ID of the SERIAL column
on INSERT to add the related rows into the proper
tables explictly. Similiar to how I could use
@@identity to retrive the value in sql2000.
Once
hi,
I am not sure if this is a bug.
My PG_HBA.CONF
local all all trust
host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust
host all all 192.168.0.0/16 trust
hostssl dbm all 192.168.200.201 255.255.255.255 md5
CODE
---
PGConn*
William Yu wrote:
Chris Travers wrote:
Why not have the people who have rights to review this all write to
the master database and have that replicated back? It seems like
latency is not really an issue. Replication here is only going to
complicate
What master database? Having a
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 22:13:04 +0530,
sunil arora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
this is my first post to this emailing list. We are using postgres-7.4
in a Server based application which requires frequent updates and
inserts of the database. We have observed a substantial fall in
I need to fine tuning my postgresql for
performance, I depend a lot in a couple and few SPs to made a sort of kind of
tasks, the most of those pgsql sps are made in pl/pgsql, most of them are
simple:
create or replace function sp_one(id
integer)
returns setof table1 as
$$
declare
var
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 17:45 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
The replicator surely is not optional, and must be centralized.
From http://pgcluster.projects.postgresql.org/1_3/index.html:
Several replication server can be set up. When an problem occurs at the
replication server, Cluster DB automatically
How do I get this to work?
create function nullif_bool(boolean) returns
bool as ' select nullif(''$1'',)::bool;' language
sql;
???
Thank you.
Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page
I'm wondering if adding a GROUP BY (as required by Postgres) will
change the results of a select on a view.
I have the following view which joins a class with a teacher. A
teacher is a person and I have an instructors link table.
CREATE VIEW class_list (id, class_time, instructor )
AS
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:23:10AM -0700, vishal saberwal wrote:
OUTPUT:
connection failure: SSL error: sslv3 alert handshake failure
What appears in the server's log when this happens?
I do have (ssl=true) in postgresql.conf and have tested the
certificates and they are working right.
How
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:22:27PM -0700, Matt A. wrote:
How do I get this to work?
create function nullif_bool(boolean) returns
bool as ' select nullif(''$1'',)::bool;' language
sql;
If an empty string is a possible input then the argument type can't
be boolean because you'll get a
Steve Manes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anyone applied this patch? Any comments on it?
The pg-hier thing? The fact that it hasn't gotten into the distribution
should give you a clue what the principal hackers think of it ;-).
Still, I hear there are people using it. Beware that it makes an
Greetings,
I met a question about Copy. I tried to run :
copy test(studid) from '/myownDIR/a.txt';
But I got an error as the following:
ERROR: must be *superuser* to COPY to or from a file
May I know is it possible that instead of supervuser, regular users are
able to use COPY as well?
Michael Fuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is it possible that your program is linked against an old version
of libpq? I can reproduce the above error with an otherwise working
8.0.3 setup if I link the program against a 7.4.8 libpq.
The CVS logs show quite a bit of work done on SSL support
Has anyone applied this patch? Any comments on it?
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TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
I have source to the old PL/PgSQL cookbook. Do you want it?
---
Tony Caduto wrote:
Hi,
I have started a function/howto repository on my forums and seeded it
with a few functions/howtos
sorry, but forgot to mention,
when i change to sslmode=allow, it lets me connect and runs my query
on 'select * from test_table' which is a dummy table ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] serv]# ./bin/test_lib
ret=0
GOT CONNECTION
NAME AGE
me
Emi Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Greetings,
I met a question about Copy. I tried to run :
copy test(studid) from '/myownDIR/a.txt';
But I got an error as the following:
ERROR: must be *superuser* to COPY to or from a file
May I know is it possible that instead of supervuser, regular
hi tom and michael,
thanks for your response ... i guess i am not that smart with libraries ...
I am not sure as to how i can find the version of libpq that i am
using on my server. My test file has sslmode=prefer. This is what i
did:
(a)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] serv]# ./bin/test_lib
Connection
Ian Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brand X doesn't do it in their backend either.
If your Brand X is the same as my Brand X then it's worth noting that they
didn't previously do anything sane in their backend. It used to invalidate all
your views and you had to recompile them before they
Hi Bruce,
That would be great :-) Thank you very much.
I will keep the author information etc intact.
Thanks again,
Tony
Bruce Momjian wrote:
I have source to the old PL/PgSQL cookbook. Do you want it?
---
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 04:54:06PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
Ian Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brand X doesn't do it in their backend either.
If your Brand X is the same as my Brand X then it's worth noting that they
didn't previously do anything sane in their backend. It used to
We use NULLIF() for adding [1|0|null] according to the
evalution of nullif('x','') into boolean columns.
Where x is [1|0|null], which if it's an empty string
(x='') then we add NULL cause NULLIF says if '' == ''
then return NULL into boolean.
An example wrapper function for this with an integer
Douglas McNaught [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can use \copy in 'psql' on the client side, but you have to be a
superuser to do COPY on the server side, for security reasons.
I wonder if there's any way to relax this constraint.
If you're connected via a unix domain socket we can know the
Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Douglas McNaught [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can use \copy in 'psql' on the client side, but you have to be a
superuser to do COPY on the server side, for security reasons.
I wonder if there's any way to relax this constraint.
If you're connected
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 01:57:36PM -0700, vishal saberwal wrote:
I am not sure as to how i can find the version of libpq that i am
using on my server. My test file has sslmode=prefer. This is what i
did:
(a)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] serv]# ./bin/test_lib
Connection failed: SSL error: sslv3 alert
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:03:05PM -0700, vishal saberwal wrote:
sorry, but forgot to mention,
when i change to sslmode=allow, it lets me connect and runs my query
That's because allow attempts a non-SSL connection first, whereas
prefer attempts an SSL connection first. If the server permits
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 06:04:52PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
Douglas McNaught [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can use \copy in 'psql' on the client side, but you have to be a
superuser to do COPY on the server side, for security reasons.
I wonder if there's any way to relax this constraint.
Hey. I used your suggestion and it worked like a
charm! The...
CREATE FUNCTION nullif_bool(text) RETURNS boolean AS '
BEGIN
RETURN nullif($1, );
END;
' LANGUAGE plpgsql IMMUTABLE STRICT;
THANK YOU!
--- Michael Fuhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:22:27PM
Chris Travers wrote:
I guess I am thinking along different lines than you. I was thinking
that the simplest solution would be to have master/slave replication for
*approved* transactions only and no replication for initial commits
prior to approval. This makes the assumption that a single
William Yu wrote:
Chris Travers wrote:
I guess I am thinking along different lines than you. I was thinking
that the simplest solution would be to have master/slave replication
for *approved* transactions only and no replication for initial
commits prior to approval. This makes the
Jim C. Nasby wrote:
I wonder whether it would be saleable to have an option to work around this
feature. I'm thinking one of two directions:
1) An alternate type of view that just stores the text of the view and is
interpreted at time of use like:
CREATE DYNAMIC VIEW foo AS (SELECT
Douglas McNaught [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you're connected via a unix domain socket we can know the UID of the
client
end. I don't see reproducing the entire unix semantics but if file is owned
by
the same uid as the user connecting it seems
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