hello hai,
I am new to linux,now i have a job to maintain database using postgre
in debian,so i want to know the completebasic details about how to use
this.
thanking you
hi
how to select second heigest salary from employeetable field are id,name ,salary...plz help-- Deepak PalSoftware DeveloperWicenet ltd.Pune(M.H)
am 06.04.2006, um 10:19:21 +0530 mailte deepak pal folgendes:
hi
how to select second heigest salary from employee table field are
id,name ,salary...plz help
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select id, name, salary from employee order by salary desc limit 1 offset 1;
karthick muthu scrisse in data 04/06/06 07:54:
hello hai,
I am new to linux,now i have a job to maintain database using postgre
in debian,so i want to know the completebasic details about how to use
this.
thanking you
There are very useful manual online: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/
Thanks Tom, that worked great!!
Regards Jonas:))
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 15:09 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Jonas F. Henriksen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, the problem is I want the result on one row for each depth, so it
will fit nicely into a table, like this:
depth measuretype1_value
$ ./config.sh
config.sh : bad sustitution
Simple workaround: take dictionary generated on Gentoo.
I'll look at the problem, but I suspect that reason is a difference with Sun and
GNU environment (echo, sed and so on).
--
Teodor Sigaev E-mail: [EMAIL
On Apr 1, 2006, at 0:19 , Robert Treat wrote:
On Thursday 30 March 2006 03:03, Aaron Glenn wrote:
Anyone care to share the great books, articles, manifestos, notes,
leaflets, etc on data modelling they've come across? Ideally I'd like
to find a great college level book on data models, but I
dear all,
i want to encrypt and decrypt one of the fields in my table (i.e-password field)
i have searched and with the help of pgcrypto package, using function crypt, i am able to encrypt my data,
but there is nothing which i found to decrypt that same data,
plz anybody give me the function to
On 4/6/06, AKHILESH GUPTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dear all,
i want to encrypt and decrypt one of the fields in my table (i.e-password
field)
i have searched and with the help of pgcrypto package, using function
crypt, i am able to encrypt my data,
but there is nothing which i found to
On 4/6/06 12:12 AM, surabhi.ahuja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i have heard somewhere that writing a stored procedure, is much better than
firing a sql query(such as select * from table_name) onto the database.
is it true and if yes how?
This isn't going to be true most of the time, I think.
I am totally new to postgres and I wondering what settings should I be
using for autovacuum ?
For now I just uncommented all the defaults, is this good enough ? The
database is not large but it is a web database so there is a lot of
inserts and updates.
autovacuum = on #
There's always VNC: http://www.realvnc.com/ That way Windows won't know
you're not sitting in front of it, and if you've got to access it from
across the country on a linux or BSD or MAC box, it still works.
VNC requires additional port to be opened.
I have no free opened ports in W2K
Hi list,
We are using Linux SuSE 9.3 with psycopg 1.18 and postgresql 7.4.8.
Sometimes we get the following error message on varying queries:
2006-01-18 13:19:17,807 ERROR SQLDict 185 Fout in Select ERROR: user with ID
322 does not exist
SELECT per_id, per_naam1, per_naam2,
i have heard somewhere that writing a stored procedure, is much better than
firing a sql query(such as select * from table_name) onto the database.
is it true and if yes how?
stored procedures (functions on postgresql) eliminate a lot of
overhead. they also provide a lot of covenience of
Merlin Moncure wrote:
It has been
more or less proven that functional, declaritive style coding has less
errors and is more reliable than mixed sql/procedural applciation code
given developers with equal skill.
I did not know there were empirical studies on this, I would love to be
able to
On Apr 3, 2006, at 11:23 PM, Chris Browne wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Nasby) writes:
On Mar 31, 2006, at 4:17 AM, Dave Page wrote:
Given the tendency people have to remove the capitalised bits to get
'postgre', we'd probably end up with 'ostres'
Man I hate when people do that.
I think we
Hi,
I wasn't prepared to ask this question, yet : but
all the talk of stored procedures, etc. suggests
this might be a good time to venture forth...
Humor me: assume I have done the analysis and *know*
this to be correct for my situation :
I want to embed a good deal of the invariant
Don Y wrote:
Hi,
I wasn't prepared to ask this question, yet : but
all the talk of stored procedures, etc. suggests
this might be a good time to venture forth...
Humor me: assume I have done the analysis and *know*
this to be correct for my situation :
I want to embed a good deal of the
Bernhard Weisshuhn wrote:
Don Y wrote:
[snip]
For example, the title may match an existing entry -- but
the author may be different (e.g., misspelled, or some
other author listed on a book having multiple authors, etc.).
Ideally, I would like the database to suspend the INSERT,
ask for
On 4/6/06, Don Y [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example, the title may match an existing entry -- butthe author may be different (e.g., misspelled, or someother author listed on a book having multiple authors, etc.).Ideally, I would like the database to suspend the INSERT,
ask for confirmation (and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (surabhi.ahuja) writes:
i have heard somewhere that writing a stored procedure, is much
better than firing a sql query(such as select * from
table_name) onto the database.
is it true and if yes how?
It can be way more efficient.
Consider two alternative ways of handling
Hi. I have PostgreSQL 7.4.8 installed on a SuSE Enterprise Server 9.
When I create a database, everything works fine until I restart the
computer. When I do that, and I try to connect to the database, I get
the following message;
psql: FATAL: database mydb does not exist
DETAIL: The
Hello All,
We have a project which is built on postgresql and freeradius on debian system.
I
have installed postgresql-8.1 on the Debian system, and lately freeradius-1.1.0
also. Things seems ok, but when we started to test, we found that the postgresql
module of freeradius is missing in the
I am on version 7.3. I have been able
to build a case insensitive index to keep the refullname column unique
with the following:
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX resource_refullname
ON resource USING btree
(upper(refullname) text_ops);
However I have a table where I want
to allow a duplicate refullname if
On Wed, 2006-05-04 at 22:29 +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 15:42 -0400, Bob Powell wrote:
I have a systems admin that is backing up our Linux computers
(postgres) by backing up the directory structure. This of course
includes all the files that pertain to my postgres
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Diego_Manilla_Su=E1rez?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi. I have PostgreSQL 7.4.8 installed on a SuSE Enterprise Server 9.
When I create a database, everything works fine until I restart the
computer. When I do that, and I try to connect to the database, I get
the following
Don Y wrote:
Hi,
I wasn't prepared to ask this question, yet : but
all the talk of stored procedures, etc. suggests
this might be a good time to venture forth...
Humor me: assume I have done the analysis and *know*
this to be correct for my situation :
I want to embed a good deal of the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX resource_refullname
ON resource USING btree (redtid, (upper(refullname) text_ops));
You need something newer than PG 7.3 to do that. 7.3 can't handle
functional indexes with more than one column. There are many other good
reasons to upgrade
In a BEFORE INSERT trigger, depending on input values, I need to lock
a table and do a few selects. Of course, the lock table isn't much
use if not currently in a transaction.
So my question is this: can I tell if I'm inside a transaction or
not and issue a BEGIN if not. And then also set a
Summary: Long running transaction from an orphaned database connection
caused major slowness on very active and frequently vacuumed tables
because vacuum could not remove rows that were newer than the long
running transaction.
A while ago, I asked for opinions on the effects of long running
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/06/2006
11:33:57 AM:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX resource_refullname
ON resource USING btree (redtid, (upper(refullname)
text_ops));
You need something newer than PG 7.3 to do that. 7.3 can't handle
functional indexes with more
On Thursday 06 April 2006 02:36 pm, Bill Moseley saith:
In a BEFORE INSERT trigger, depending on input values, I need to lock
a table and do a few selects. Of course, the lock table isn't much
use if not currently in a transaction.
So my question is this: can I tell if I'm inside a
Guy Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How do you suggest one does PITR ?
It has been a while since I read the Docs, but do not recall
any tools that allow one to do such a thing.
PITR went in to 8.0 (IIRC); the docs for that version will cover it.
-Doug
---(end of
Hello,
How to check whether a table is locked? Is there a way that I can find
all deadlocks under postgresql 8.0.1 ?
Thanks alot!
Ying Lu
---(end of broadcast)---
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I want to execute a command line from trigger function.
The reason is I want to execute myperl script from stored procedure.
any idea?
Yudie
On Thursday 06 April 2006 03:48 pm, Yudie Pg saith:
I want to execute a command line from trigger function.
The reason is I want to execute my perl script from stored procedure.
any idea?
Yudie
Yudie,
You might want to write your perl script as a trusted perl funcion and call
from your
Hello!
My queries work fine with Regular Expressions, as:
SELECT field FROM table WHERE field ~ 'something';
SELECT field FROM table WHERE field ~* 'something';
SELECT field FROM table WHERE field ~* 'som[i,e]thing';
And it works fine for special characters:
SELECT field FROM table WHERE field
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 14:48, Yudie Pg wrote:
I want to execute a command line from trigger function.
The reason is I want to execute my perl script from stored procedure.
Why not just install perl as a procedural language? It's one of a dozen
or more available to you. Then you can write
Teodor Sigaev wrote:
$ ./config.sh
config.sh : bad sustitution
Simple workaround: take dictionary generated on Gentoo.
I'll look at the problem, but I suspect that reason is a difference
with Sun and GNU environment (echo, sed and so on).
Thank you Teodor
What I did was run config.sh
But I just can't make it work correctly using brackets:
SELECT field FROM table WHERE field ~* 'ch[aã]o';
It just returns tuples that have 'chao', but not 'chão'.
My queries are utf-8 an the database is SQL_ASCII.
I suspect the bracketed expression is turning into [aXY], where XY is
the
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:44:57PM -0500, Terry Lee Tucker wrote:
Triggers fire inside a transaction.
Ah, thanks. Makes sense since each statement is in an implicit
transaction.
Granted, would help to see the trigger, but
these are basically the same?
-- fires a trigger that updates more
Ah, OK. More elegant. But, it still moves responsibility for this
to the application layer, not the database, itself. I can't see
any way of avoiding this :-(
Sure, I had a similar problem where newer data is required to specify
certain fields, but a legacy application can't provide that
On Thursday 06 April 2006 03:27 pm, Bill Moseley saith:
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:44:57PM -0500, Terry Lee Tucker wrote:
Triggers fire inside a transaction.
Ah, thanks. Makes sense since each statement is in an implicit
transaction.
Granted, would help to see the trigger, but
these are
We're got the need to replicate (two-way) some data between
postgresql and oracle.
Does anybody have versions of pg_dump or equivalents that
can go back and forth between the two databases?
It would be great if I could get both --schema-only
and --data-only functionality from this.
Thanks!
Mark
John D. Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My queries are utf-8 an the database is SQL_ASCII.
I suspect the bracketed expression is turning into [aXY], where XY is
the two-byte sequence corresponding to ã in UTF8.
That's what it looks like to me. You can hardly blame the database for
this,
John, it worked completely fine! Thank you! I don't understand exactly
the difference between [] and () for REs, but I'm starting to study
them deeply.
Thank you very much! Pg is great!
On 4/6/06, John D. Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I just can't make it work correctly using brackets:
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:27:36AM -0700, lmyho wrote:
After desperately checking, we were told that debian doesn't distribute the
binary
module of freeradius for postgresql because of the incompatible license of
these two
apps! However we can build the debian pkg from the source ourself if
I am not sure I should be posting this here, but I guess you are the
people most likely be able to answer this.
I have been looking for a user friendly php script to import csv into
Postgres (set separator, preview data, match columns - or any of these).
I found many for MySQL but none that
hello,
I use an automated script that if it detects a problem in a database
uses a dumb from another db to recover data.
'pg_dump -c -h host1 d1 | psql -a -h host2 -d db2 recover_dump 21'
now my recover_dump tells me a unix index could`nt be created as the
table contains duplicated keys.
My
Hi,
I need to encrypt some fields in my database. The solution I came up with
is:
- create an additional field w/suffix _encr for every field which must be
encrypted;
- create update triggers which write the encrypted value into the new field
and null into the original field (not null
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], kleptog@svana.org says...
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 12:45:05PM +0200, SunWuKung wrote:
This sounds like a very interesting concept.
It wouldn't be 'case insensitive' just insensitive.
The way I imagine it now is a special case of the ~ function.
I create
After desperately checking, we were told that debian doesn't distribute the
binary
module of freeradius for postgresql because of the incompatible license of
these
two
apps! However we can build the debian pkg from the source ourself if we
need.
So
Sounds terribly unlikely,
Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org wrote:
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 10:27:36AM -0700, lmyho wrote:
After desperately checking, we were told that debian doesn't distribute the
binary
module of freeradius for postgresql because of the incompatible license of
these two
apps! However
Hi,
I need to store text entries and i use text datatype. I want to ask if
it will be better to split text and entry information?
I mean, i can use a table like, (id, authorid, insertdate, editdate,
threadid, textdata) or i can have an entrytexts table (id, entryid,
textdata) and a foreign key on
On Thu, 2006-06-04 at 15:21 -0400, Douglas McNaught wrote:
Guy Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How do you suggest one does PITR ?
It has been a while since I read the Docs, but do not recall
any tools that allow one to do such a thing.
PITR went in to 8.0 (IIRC); the docs for that
SunWuKung wrote:
I am not sure I should be posting this here, but I guess you are the
people most likely be able to answer this.
I have been looking for a user friendly php script to import csv into
Postgres (set separator, preview data, match columns - or any of these).
I found many for
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 17:27, Chris wrote:
SunWuKung wrote:
I am not sure I should be posting this here, but I guess you are the
people most likely be able to answer this.
I have been looking for a user friendly php script to import csv into
Postgres (set separator, preview data,
Dave Page wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 April 2006 01:21
...snip
2) pgAdmin uses a separate connection for query tool windows. Because
temp tables exist only for the life of the session, if
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 17:18, Antimon wrote:
Hi,
I need to store text entries and i use text datatype. I want to ask if
it will be better to split text and entry information?
I mean, i can use a table like, (id, authorid, insertdate, editdate,
threadid, textdata) or i can have an entrytexts
Mark Harrison wrote:
We're got the need to replicate (two-way) some data between
postgresql and oracle.
Does anybody have versions of pg_dump or equivalents that
can go back and forth between the two databases?
It would be great if I could get both --schema-only
and --data-only functionality
lmyho wrote:
After desperately checking, we were told that debian doesn't distribute the
binary
module of freeradius for postgresql because of the incompatible license of these
two
apps! However we can build the debian pkg from the source ourself if we need.
So
Sounds terribly
I've been working on this issue lately. There is quite a bit more to
a database than the tables (e.g., functions), and I'm not sure how you would go
about getting a backup of the entire database through SQL. I've been
working on a Java class to do the dump and restore. It doesn't look
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 03:36:33PM -0400, Emi Lu wrote:
How to check whether a table is locked?
You can monitor locks by querying the pg_locks view.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/monitoring-locks.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/view-pg-locks.html
Only a few
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is the ref was given:
The old / original BSD license is not compatible.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLIncompatibleLicenses
Anyway to change this?? So debian users can easily use postgresql and
freeradius
together...
Changing the
On Apr 4, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Tony Caduto wrote:
You wrote Unfortunately Red Hat's backwards-compatibility policy
forbids dropping
new major PG releases into old RHEL branches. So that means I cannot
upgrade to Postgresql 8.x on a RedHat9 server? Currently I am using
Postgresql 7.3 but was
On Apr 5, 2006, at 12:15 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
On 4/5/06, Clive Page [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since I discovered the facilities in Postgres for providing and
listing
column descrptions, I have found them very useful, especially for
adding a
string showing physical units to my columns.
On Apr 4, 2006, at 3:22 PM, Matthew Peter wrote:
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Peter writes:
What I'm trying to do is create a function that accepts a list
then sorts and groups the values (like in sql)... I will have an
unique list I can convert it to an array later or leave it
On Apr 4, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 06:36, Markus Wollny wrote:
Hi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone put MediaWiki up using the current version of Postgresql?
I have, although our Mediawiki installation is currently not openly
accessible. Can't say
On Apr 4, 2006, at 4:59 AM, venu gopal wrote:
Dear List,
I am trying to import tables from a file called choro.backup.I
have created a db called dhis.Is this not possible to import data
from a .backup file.If it is not possible then how can i import the
data into my database.Can you
On Apr 6, 2006, at 8:57 AM, Jebus wrote:
I am totally new to postgres and I wondering what settings should I be
using for autovacuum ?
For now I just uncommented all the defaults, is this good enough ? The
database is not large but it is a web database so there is a lot of
inserts and updates.
On Apr 5, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Dick Wieland wrote:
I'm running pgsql 8.1.3 and ran into an unexpected situation running
pg_dump remotely. We have 2 LAN's situated some distance apart. I can
run pg_dump against machine A on LAN1 from machine B on LAN1 with no
problem. But if I try to run it from
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