Re: [GENERAL] predefined functions

2006-10-08 Thread Rafal Pietrak
On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 01:44 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Yeah: current_user (without the parens) is specified by the SQL standard, but we're not about to adopt such a brain-dead syntax for any of the functions defined by Postgres itself --- as you I see. One of committee's work gems :( And yet,

Re: [GENERAL] Storing images in PostgreSQL databases (again)

2006-10-08 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 05:08:27PM -0600, Leonel Nunez wrote: Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Storing images in PostgreSQL databases (again) User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8 Leonel Nunez wrote: I think the arguments for keeping stuff inside the database are (a) far easier to maintain transactional

Re: [GENERAL] exploiting features of pg to obtain polymorphism

2006-10-08 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 18:12:22 -0700 (PDT) Richard Broersma Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any good documentation, example, tutorial, pamphlet, discussion... to exploit pg features to obtain polymorphic behavior without renouncing to referential integrity? Inheritance seems *just*

Re: [GENERAL] exploiting features of pg to obtain polymorphism maintaining ref. integrity

2006-10-08 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:09:29PM +0200, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: Is there any good documentation, example, tutorial, pamphlet, discussion... to exploit pg features to obtain polymorphic behavior without renouncing to referential integrity? In GNUmed we use it to aggregate text fields

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2006-10-08 Thread stevegy
Hi, Martijn I think I mis-understand the UTF-8 sorting in different collation by culture. I google the utf8 +chinese +sort and find some basic information about the sorting in the UTF8. I think the UTF8 encoding sorting result use the sql statement "order by column" on the solaris maybe correct.

Re: [GENERAL] exploiting features of pg to obtain polymorphism

2006-10-08 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006 14:09:53 +0200 Karsten Hilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 11:09:29PM +0200, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: Is there any good documentation, example, tutorial, pamphlet, discussion... to exploit pg features to obtain polymorphic behavior without

Re: [GENERAL] pg web hosting with tsearch2?

2006-10-08 Thread John DeSoi
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[GENERAL] PL/SQL: function call like $1($2)

2006-10-08 Thread Jean-Gerard Pailloncy
I want to create a function in PL/SQL as CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f_do (text, double precision[]) RETURNS double precision AS ' DECLARE f text := $1; p double precision[] := $2; res double precision; BEGIN SELECT f(p) into res; RETURN res; END;' LANGUAGE plpgsql STABLE

Re: [GENERAL] Potentially annoying question about date ranges (part 2)

2006-10-08 Thread Eberhard Lisse
Ok, Ok, Ok, Practical PostgreSQL, Chapter 5, date_part(), to_char() I got it :-)-O el on 10/8/06 9:43 AM Eberhard Lisse said the following: Thank you very much. Sorry to be unclear, they are time stamped, and I wondered if someone could give me ssome advise how I do this aggregation. In

Re: [GENERAL] Potentially annoying question about date ranges (part 2)

2006-10-08 Thread Eberhard Lisse
Thank you very much. Sorry to be unclear, they are time stamped, and I wondered if someone could give me ssome advise how I do this aggregation. In particular do I not know how to write such a scalar function. Anything re-usable lying around as examples somewhere? el on 10/4/06 9:46 PM Guy

[GENERAL] Automatic locale detection?

2006-10-08 Thread Matthew Peter
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[GENERAL] refcursor error 55000

2006-10-08 Thread Karen Hill
I get an error message 55000 when I try to traverse backwards in an refcursor. Works fine going forward. The hint says I need to use scroll. What is the syntax for using scroll in a stored procedure that returns an refcursor? Or do refcursors only support traversing forward?

Re: [GENERAL] refcursor error 55000

2006-10-08 Thread Tom Lane
Karen Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get an error message 55000 when I try to traverse backwards in an refcursor. Works fine going forward. The hint says I need to use scroll. What is the syntax for using scroll in a stored procedure that returns an refcursor? Or do refcursors only

Re: [GENERAL] PL/SQL: function call like $1($2)

2006-10-08 Thread David Fetter
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 05:49:11PM +0200, Jean-Gerard Pailloncy wrote: I want to create a function in PL/SQL as CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION f_do (text, double precision[]) RETURNS double precision AS ' DECLARE f text := $1; p double precision[] := $2; res double precision;