Re: [GENERAL] serial data type usage

2008-11-06 Thread Berend Tober
EXT-Rothermel, Peter M wrote: I have a table where I would like the primary key to be generated during the insert. Here is a simplified example: CREATE TABLE employee_type { tname varchar(10) PRIMARY KEY, id_prefix char(1) ; ... } tname | id_prefix --+--

Re: [GENERAL] I'm no longer puzzled by a foreign key constraint problem

2008-11-06 Thread Craig Ringer
Jonathan Guthrie wrote: >> Tom Lane pointed out where to go from here re the server logging. It'll >> be interesting to see what turns up once you've got new logs that show >> the backend pid and the involved xid. > > I'll be keeping Mr. Lane's message for the logging tips. For my own > part, si

Re: [GENERAL] serial data type usage

2008-11-06 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Thursday 06 November 2008, "EXT-Rothermel, Peter M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have thought about using the serial data type for the employee.id but > I also want to automate the prepending of the { W, M, E } prefix. > You'll need write a before-insert trigger to assign the ID. -- Alan

Re: [GENERAL] I'm no longer puzzled by a foreign key constraint problem

2008-11-06 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 12:14 +0900, Craig Ringer wrote: > Jonathan Guthrie wrote: > > > The thing is, the C++ code does this > > > > BEGIN transaction 1 > > INSERT project > > COMMIT > > > > BEGIN transaction 2 > > SET permissions > > COMMIT > > > > or, at least, it's supposed to. > > OK, and w

[GENERAL] serial data type usage

2008-11-06 Thread EXT-Rothermel, Peter M
I have a table where I would like the primary key to be generated during the insert. Here is a simplified example: CREATE TABLE employee_type { tname varchar(10) PRIMARY KEY, id_prefix char(1) ; ... } tname | id_prefix --+-- worker | W manager | M exec

Re: [GENERAL] Equivalent for AUTOINCREMENT?

2008-11-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Michael, > > Am 2008-10-31 11:15:54, schrieb Michael Hall: >> > I have a table where I have a serialnumber which shuld be increased be >> > each INSERT. I know I can use max() to get the highest number, but how

Re: [GENERAL] Equivalent for AUTOINCREMENT?

2008-11-06 Thread Bruce Momjian
Michelle Konzack wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. > Hello Michael, > > Am 2008-10-31 11:15:54, schrieb Michael Hall: > > > I have a table where I have a serialnumber which shuld be increased be > > > each INSERT. I know I can use max() to get the highest number, but how > > > can I use i

Re: [GENERAL] Ayuda

2008-11-06 Thread Martin Gainty
porque no aprovecha JDBC? Saludos Cordiales desde EEUU! Martin __ Disclaimer and confidentiality note Everything in this e-mail and any attachments relates to the official business of Sender. This transmission is of a confidential nature and Sender

Re: [GENERAL] error en createlang

2008-11-06 Thread brian
Eduardo Arévalo wrote: Hola Lista: instale el postgres con el comando ./postgresql-8.3.4-1-linux-x64.bin instale la el postgres en /usr/local/... la base en /base/data como yo uso caracteres en español como los acentos y la ñ Ñ le puse es_ES.utf8 código 231 todo bien hasta que cree una base de

[GENERAL] error en createlang

2008-11-06 Thread Eduardo Arévalo
Hola Lista: instale el postgres con el comando ./postgresql-8.3.4-1-linux-x64.bin instale la el postgres en /usr/local/... la base en /base/data como yo uso caracteres en español como los acentos y la ñ Ñ le puse es_ES.utf8 código 231 todo bien hasta que cree una base de datos con: -bash-3.2$ .

Re: [GENERAL] Ayuda

2008-11-06 Thread Emanuel CALVO FRANCO
This mailing list is for eglish speakers, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is for spanish community. El día 6 de noviembre de 2008 11:29, Adriana Alfonzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Tengo problemas para conseguir una version de postgres para un servidor > solaris 9 sparc, donde puedo conseguirlo?? > Ademas

[GENERAL] Ayuda

2008-11-06 Thread Adriana Alfonzo
Tengo problemas para conseguir una version de postgres para un servidor solaris 9 sparc, donde puedo conseguirlo?? Ademas quiero instalar un driver ODBC para postgres en ese servidor y me tre problemas, supongo porque no tengo postgres ahi.. Agradeciendo de ante mano la respuesta, Me despido A

Re: [GENERAL] [pgsql-general] cant find postgres executable after initdb

2008-11-06 Thread Willy-Bas Loos
ok, when i start a new cmd window from runas, and run the pg_ctl command from there, the process will start. btw you also have to change the ownership and permissions on the postgresql.conf, pg_hba.conf and pg_ident.conf files. C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.3\bin>runas /user:postgres2 "cmd /k" Wil