[GENERAL] on delete rules returned rowcount

2008-01-25 Thread Enrico Sirola
Hi, short summary of the problem follows :) I'm writing an on delete rule for a view and I need to set the status message (DELETE XXX) for number of deleted tuples. Is it possible? A brief, working use case follows: I have a view restricting the access to a table, as the following: create

Re: [GENERAL] [ADMIN] Backup

2008-01-25 Thread Simon Riggs
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 11:34 +1100, Phillip Smith wrote: We have a center in Europe who has just started to use PostgreSQL and was asking me if there are any Symantec product or other products that backup this type of database. It doesn't appear to. The design of the PITR system allows a

[GENERAL] exporting postgre data

2008-01-25 Thread User Map
is it posible to transfer data from postgres of one computer to the postgres in another computer. In SQL server this is easily done by the export utility of the sql server. - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage.

Re: [GENERAL] exporting postgre data

2008-01-25 Thread Gevik Babakhani
Check out the docs for pg_dump utility. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/app-pgdump.html _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of User Map Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:18 AM To: pgsql Subject: [GENERAL] exporting postgre data is it posible to

Re: [GENERAL] REINDEX on large DB vs. DROP INDEX/CREATE INDEX

2008-01-25 Thread Gregory Stark
Wes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess I should also turn off fsync for the duration. It shouldn't make a big difference. fsync only happens at the end of a transaction or at a checkpoint. Since you're concerned with very long operations the slowdown at the end of the transaction won't make a

Re: [GENERAL] check constraint question

2008-01-25 Thread Gregory Stark
Tim Rupp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: where start_time = '2008-01-01'::date AND start_time '2008-01-10'::date should give the same rows as where start_time = '2008-01-01'::date AND end_time = '2008-01-09'::date I think you'll need to do the same thing to the constraints as well. You'll

Re: [GENERAL] exporting postgre data

2008-01-25 Thread Harald Armin Massa
Bill, pgadmin3 provides the same: just dig down to the table, use the backup link and give the options. It also calls pg_dump just with the right parameters, you can copy that command for a .cmd for professional automatic backup. Best wishes, Harald MSSQL has a fancy GUI wizard. It

Re: [GENERAL] best way to query

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Clark
Tom Lane wrote: Steve Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: explain shows: Aggregate (cost=4712921585.30..4712921585.31 rows=1 width=0) - Seq Scan on t_event_ack_log a (cost=103170.29..4712920878.60 rows=282677 width=0) Filter: (NOT (subplan)) SubPlan -

[GENERAL] Only a week left for PostgreSQL Conference talk submissions

2008-01-25 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Talk submissions close on February 3rd and thus far we have had over two dozen submissions and we want more. This is your chance to get that talk that you keep meaning to give accepted! Some of the current talk topics include: * PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] match accented chars with ASCII-normalised version

2008-01-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 24, 2008 11:02 PM, brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The client for a web application I'm working on wants certain URLs to contain the full names of members (SEO-friendly links). Scripts would search on, say, a member directory entry based on the name of the member, rather than the row ID.

Re: [GENERAL] ascii to utf-8

2008-01-25 Thread Tom Hart
Ok, that did it. Thank you for the help. Tomasz Ostrowski wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Tom Hart wrote: pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed: ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding UTF8: 0xc52f Try editing your dump-file and change the line which reads SET client_encoding =

Re: [GENERAL] shouldn't all tables have Object Descriptions?

2008-01-25 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 25/01/2008 19:54, Geoffrey wrote: Question is, why does the avlds table not have an entry in the Object descriptions? According to \? in psql, \dd shows the comment on the tableso I suppose if there's no comment, then \dd won't show one. Comments are created by executing

[GENERAL] shouldn't all tables have Object Descriptions?

2008-01-25 Thread Geoffrey
We've stumbled upon an issue that we don't understand. I'm assuming that any given table should contain 'Object Descriptions.' For example, we have two tables as follows: mwv=# \dd carr; Object descriptions Schema | Name | Object | Description

Re: [GENERAL] best way to query

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Clark
Daniel Verite wrote: Steve Clark wrote: any way i have 2 table - A and B. each table has a key field and if a row is in B it should have a corresponding row in A - but theres the problem it doesn't for all the rows in B. So I want to do something like delete from B where key not in

Re: [GENERAL] best way to query

2008-01-25 Thread Daniel Verite
Steve Clark wrote: any way i have 2 table - A and B. each table has a key field and if a row is in B it should have a corresponding row in A - but theres the problem it doesn't for all the rows in B. So I want to do something like delete from B where key not in (select key from A

Re: [GENERAL] exporting postgre data

2008-01-25 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:02:41 -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of User Map Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:18 AM To: pgsql Subject: [GENERAL] exporting postgre data is it posible to transfer data from

[GENERAL] best way to query

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Clark
Hello List, this is a noobie question: I have had to take over an existing system - it was supposed to have some contraints that prevented dangling references - but... any way i have 2 table - A and B. each table has a key field and if a row is in B it should have a corresponding row in A -

Re: [GENERAL] exporting postgre data

2008-01-25 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 25/01/2008 16:51, johnf wrote: The issue I have with pgAdmin3 and backing up a table is with the restore. The associated sequences are not restored. Granted that might be a different problem. But from a users perspective I see it as a major problem. Oh? Works fine for me, on PG 8.2.5 -

Re: [GENERAL] REINDEX on large DB vs. DROP INDEX/CREATE INDEX

2008-01-25 Thread Wes
On 1/25/08 5:40 AM, Gregory Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It shouldn't make a big difference. fsync only happens at the end of a transaction or at a checkpoint. Since you're concerned with very long operations the slowdown at the end of the transaction won't make a big difference. Ok, I

Re: [GENERAL] exporting postgre data

2008-01-25 Thread johnf
On Friday 25 January 2008 02:56:12 am Gevik Babakhani wrote: Check out the docs for pg_dump utility. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/app-pgdump.html _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of User Map Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:18 AM To: pgsql

Re: [GENERAL] exporting postgre data

2008-01-25 Thread Harald Armin Massa
JohnF, But how do you backup only a single table or transfer only a signle table. please use pg_dump. You can find excellent documentation at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/app-pgdump.html please pay special attention to the --table option. Best wishes, Harald -- GHUM

Re: [GENERAL] exporting postgre data

2008-01-25 Thread johnf
On Friday 25 January 2008 07:21:34 am Harald Armin Massa wrote: Bill, pgadmin3 provides the same: just dig down to the table, use the backup link and give the options. It also calls pg_dump just with the right parameters, you can copy that command for a .cmd for professional automatic

Re: [GENERAL] exporting postgre data

2008-01-25 Thread Bill Moran
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of User Map Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:18 AM To: pgsql Subject: [GENERAL] exporting postgre data is it posible to transfer data from postgres of one computer to the postgres in another computer. In SQL server this

Re: [GENERAL] best way to query

2008-01-25 Thread Tom Lane
Steve Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: explain shows: Aggregate (cost=4712921585.30..4712921585.31 rows=1 width=0) - Seq Scan on t_event_ack_log a (cost=103170.29..4712920878.60 rows=282677 width=0) Filter: (NOT (subplan)) SubPlan - Materialize

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql + digital signature

2008-01-25 Thread Luis Alberto PĂ©rez Paz
Hi Marko, Actually I have it, However I was thinking the problem in a wrong way. In my particular case, the fact of the private key in memory is a good reason for discard the electronic signature, I mean, in order to have a real protection against the data modification I need a TSA (time

Re: [GENERAL] best way to query

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Clark
Tom Lane wrote: Steve Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: Also, whatever is the ORDER BY for? without the order by it wants to do a seq scan of t_unit_event_log. see below: explain select count(*) from t_event_ack_log where event_log_no not in (select event_log_no from

[GENERAL] again on returning records from functions

2008-01-25 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
http://people.planetpostgresql.org/xzilla/index.php?/archives/149-out-parameter-sql-plpgsql-examples.html#extended Is there any difference in terms of performance and returning rows a bit at a time between myuser2 and myuser3? thanks -- Ivan Sergio Borgonovo http://www.webthatworks.it

[GENERAL] what is it that \d actually does

2008-01-25 Thread Geoffrey
It seems that I recall there is a way to display the actual select statement that is executed when you execute the \d command. Anyone? -- Until later, Geoffrey Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin

Re: [GENERAL] what is it that \d actually does

2008-01-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Jan 25, 2008 1:34 PM, Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that I recall there is a way to display the actual select statement that is executed when you execute the \d command. psql --help says: -E display queries that internal commands generate psql -E

Re: [GENERAL] best way to query

2008-01-25 Thread Tom Lane
Steve Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: Also, whatever is the ORDER BY for? without the order by it wants to do a seq scan of t_unit_event_log. see below: explain select count(*) from t_event_ack_log where event_log_no not in (select event_log_no from t_unit_event_log);