[GENERAL] Daylight saving time question

2009-05-18 Thread Bayless Kirtley
How can I tell PostgreSQL to use daylight saving time when applicable? Times returned by the database are one hour behind. TIA Bayless

Re: [GENERAL] Daylight saving time question

2009-05-18 Thread John R Pierce
Bayless Kirtley wrote: How can I tell PostgreSQL to use daylight saving time when applicable? Times returned by the database are one hour behind. it uses your client's specified local time zone to determine whether or not DST is in effect. SET TIME ZONE 'America/New York'; or SET

[GENERAL] Is this a bug or a feature? Column visibility in subquery from outer query

2009-05-18 Thread Paolo Saul
postgres=# create table public.ps_test_x (x1 oid, x2 oid, x3 oid); CREATE TABLE postgres=# create table public.ps_test_y (y1 oid, y2 oid, y3 oid); CREATE TABLE postgres=# explain select * from public.ps_test_x where x1 in (select x1 from public.ps_test_y); QUERY PLAN

Re: [GENERAL] [fulltext]Gin index full scan

2009-05-18 Thread Stuart Bishop
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:04 PM, esemba ese...@gmail.com wrote: I've a table with tsvector column named meta_vector. Over this column there is a gin index. When I execute query like: select id from theses where meta_vector @@@ to_tsquery('cs', 'foo | (!bar)') I get an errror message: query

[GENERAL] pg_dump and 2gb limit on windows and version 8.1.3

2009-05-18 Thread jub4
Hello, I have problem with 2gb limit for pg_dump on windows that was fixed in version 8.2.4. I have a server with postgresql version 8.1.3, which unfortunately cannot be upgraded. Is there some way how to use safely pg_dump (and if needed pg_restore) version 8.2.4 or newer with the server

Re: [GENERAL] Need help

2009-05-18 Thread Albe Laurenz
Zico wrote: our server suddenly went down and after searching, i found out that, the OS crashed. So, i had to re-install my OS again. But, the problem is, I couldnot take the dump file for my postgresql database. Now, i have the raw data, that means, my datas are in a disk. Is it possible to

Re: [GENERAL] Excel and pg

2009-05-18 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Mon, 18 May 2009 09:14:41 +0800 Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au wrote: Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: I'd like to know if: - it is possible to load in an Excel sheet a table (view, query result) coming from postgresql and to use those data to do further

Re: [GENERAL] Need help

2009-05-18 Thread Zico
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Albe Laurenz laurenz.a...@wien.gv.atwrote: Copy all the files that belong to the PostgreSQL server (everything under the data directory) to a working machine with PostgreSQL installed, and you should be able to start the server there. the problem is, i don`t

Re: [GENERAL] Need help

2009-05-18 Thread Albe Laurenz
Zico wrote: [wants to restore a database without a backup] Copy all the files that belong to the PostgreSQL server (everything under the data directory) to a working machine with PostgreSQL installed, and you should be able to start the server there. the problem is, i don`t have files of

Re: [GENERAL] Need help

2009-05-18 Thread Zico
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Albe Laurenz laurenz.a...@wien.gv.atwrote: Could you explain that in more detail? What is a pds or docs? PDF == Portable Document Format files Docs == Documents Means, i have the backup of my files only which was in that database. -- Best, Zico

[GENERAL] preforked processes

2009-05-18 Thread Developer
Hello, I can not find configuration option to set init_children_process. Where I can do it? -- -- -- Publicidad y Servicios http://www.pas-world.com Directorio http://www.precioventa.com Tienda http://informatica.precioventa.com/es/ Autoridad certificadora

Re: [GENERAL] preforked processes

2009-05-18 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 02:04:46PM +0200, Developer wrote: Hello, I can not find configuration option to set init_children_process. Where I can do it? postgresql doesn't have this option. Best regards, depesz -- Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/depesz / blog: http://www.depesz.com/

Re: [GENERAL] Need help

2009-05-18 Thread Albe Laurenz
Zico wrote: [wants to restore a database without a backup] Could you explain that in more detail? What is a pds or docs? PDF == Portable Document Format files Docs == Documents Means, i have the backup of my files only which was in that database. I'm still not sure what that means, but

[GENERAL] referring to calculated column in sub select

2009-05-18 Thread Scara Maccai
Hi, why column acoltest is not found by the subselect in this select: SELECT acol + 100 as acoltest, (select max(t) from mytab where anothercol=acoltest) as col2 FROM mytab2 group by somet ??? Only columns belonging to a table can be used in a subselect??? What about calculated

Re: [GENERAL] Is this a bug or a feature? Column visibility in subquery from outer query

2009-05-18 Thread Tom Lane
Paolo Saul paolo.s...@telogis.com writes: I just want to point out that the sub-query is using a column from the outer query (eg. x1) without an alias from the table in the outer query. This behavior is required by the SQL standard. It's called an outer reference.

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and 2gb limit on windows and version 8.1.3

2009-05-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
j...@email.cz wrote: Hello, I have problem with 2gb limit for pg_dump on windows that was fixed in version 8.2.4. I have a server with postgresql version 8.1.3, which unfortunately cannot be upgraded. Is there some way how to use safely pg_dump (and if needed pg_restore) version 8.2.4

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump and 2gb limit on windows and version 8.1.3

2009-05-18 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes: I think you should upgrade to 8.1.17 which likely contains the fix as well. If you are thinking of this fix: 2007-02-19 10:05 mha * src/bin/pg_dump/: pg_backup_archiver.c, pg_backup_archiver.h, pg_backup_custom.c,

Re: [GENERAL] Excel and pg

2009-05-18 Thread Sam Mason
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:01:15AM +0200, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: On Mon, 18 May 2009 09:14:41 +0800 Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au wrote: Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: I'd like to know if: - it is possible to load in an Excel sheet a table (view, query result) coming

Re: [GENERAL] Need help

2009-05-18 Thread Zico
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Albe Laurenz laurenz.a...@wien.gv.atwrote: I'm still not sure what that means, but if you have the contents of the database, but the database itself is gone without a trace, then what else can you do but create a new database and fill it anew? That`s what

Re: [GENERAL] referring to calculated column in sub select

2009-05-18 Thread Sam Mason
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 06:49:30AM -0700, Scara Maccai wrote: why column acoltest is not found by the subselect in this select: The acoltest identifier is only visible from outside the query, not within its defining query or any of its sub-queries. If you're trying to solve a problem like the

Re: [GENERAL] Need help

2009-05-18 Thread Sam Mason
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 09:21:41PM +0430, Zico wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Albe Laurenz laurenz.a...@wien.gv.atwrote: then what else can you do but create a new database and fill it anew? That`s what i am asking about. :) Fill it anew? That means, i have to insert all 2000

Re: [GENERAL] Daylight saving time question

2009-05-18 Thread Bayless Kirtley
- Original Message - From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com To: Bayless Kirtley bk...@cox.net; PostgreSQL pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 10:19 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Daylight saving time question Bayless Kirtley wrote: How can I tell PostgreSQL to use

Re: [GENERAL] Need help

2009-05-18 Thread John R Pierce
Zico wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Albe Laurenz laurenz.a...@wien.gv.at mailto:laurenz.a...@wien.gv.at wrote: I'm still not sure what that means, but if you have the contents of the database, but the database itself is gone without a trace, then what else can you do

Re: [GENERAL] Need help

2009-05-18 Thread Sam Mason
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 06:15:28PM +0100, Sam Mason wrote: You need to get the contents of the database from somewhere; the obvious choices seem to be an existing copy of the PG database directory, a backup of the database, or the original data. Your previous messages seem to indicate that

Re: [GENERAL] Daylight saving time question

2009-05-18 Thread Tom Lane
Bayless Kirtley bk...@cox.net writes: For some reason I can't seem to make it work. I have tried setting the timezone in postgresql.conf as timezone = 'America/Chicago' and timezone = 'CST6CDT' both of which still returned one hour behind. I also tried both of your suggestions as SQL

Re: [GENERAL] Daylight saving time question

2009-05-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Bayless Kirtley bk...@cox.net wrote: - Original Message - From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com Bayless Kirtley wrote: How can I tell PostgreSQL to use daylight saving time when applicable? Times returned by the database are one hour behind. it

Re: [GENERAL] Daylight saving time question

2009-05-18 Thread Bayless Kirtley
Thanks Tom and Scott. You got me looking in the right direction. In this case the client and server are on the same machine (testing/development) and psql does return the right result. I tried all the possibilities from the java program, show timezone, select current_time and select

Re: [GENERAL] Need help

2009-05-18 Thread Zico
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:48 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: we still don't understand exactly what you have to work from Do you have a backup of the Postgres data directory, No, I don`t have any data of Postgres data directory. which typically is something like C:\Program

[GENERAL] Providing an alternative result when there is no result

2009-05-18 Thread Joshua Berry
Hello all, Is there an easy and efficient way to return a boolean false for a query that returns no result, and true for one that does return a result? Currently we select the result into a temp table. SELECT INTO temp_table id FROM ... ; IF temp_table IS NULL THEN resp:= 'NO'; ELSE

Re: [GENERAL] Providing an alternative result when there is no result

2009-05-18 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello look on GET DIAGNOSTIC statement or FOUND variable CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION foo() RETURNS boolean AS $$ BEGIN SELECT INTO temp_table ... RETURN found; END; $$ language plpgsql; regards Pavel Stehule 2009/5/18 Joshua Berry yob...@gmail.com: Hello all, Is there an easy and

Re: [GENERAL] Providing an alternative result when there is no result

2009-05-18 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 03:13:56PM -0400, Joshua Berry wrote: Hello all, Is there an easy and efficient way to return a boolean false for a query that returns no result, and true for one that does return a result? Currently we select the result into a temp table. SELECT INTO temp_table id

Re: [GENERAL] Providing an alternative result when there is no result

2009-05-18 Thread David Wilson
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Joshua Berry yob...@gmail.com wrote: Any hints/tips? Is our original solution okay, or is there something we can do to improve things? It seems as if you don't really care about the results of the query- just whether or not it returns any rows. In that case, why

Re: [GENERAL] Providing an alternative result when there is no result

2009-05-18 Thread Reece Hart
On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 15:13 -0400, Joshua Berry wrote: Is there an easy and efficient way to return a boolean false for a query that returns no result, and true for one that does return a result? Presuming that you're not using the values in temp_table, I think you should be using PERFORM *

Re: [GENERAL] Daylight saving time question

2009-05-18 Thread Tom Lane
Bayless Kirtley bk...@cox.net writes: Is this a flaw in the JDBC driver or is that the expected behavior? You'd be more likely to get the correct answer on pgsql-jdbc. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [GENERAL] Need help

2009-05-18 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:33:03PM +0430, Zico wrote: we still don't understand exactly what you have to work from Do you have a backup of the Postgres data directory, No, I don`t have any data of Postgres data directory. Well, in that case I would suggest to IMMEDIATELY STOP WRITING

[GENERAL] Data in a table to a csv file

2009-05-18 Thread aravind chandu
Hello, I have a small problem,I need to export data from a table into a csv file.For this i am using pqxx library to work on it.I can able to retrieve the data from the database but the only problem is I am unable to store it in a csv file.Can you guys please help me how to do that.

Re: [GENERAL] Data in a table to a csv file

2009-05-18 Thread Joshua Berry
I have a small problem,I need to export data from a table into a csv file.For this i am using pqxx library to work on it.I can able to retrieve the data from the database but the only problem is I am unable to store it in a csv file.Can you guys please help me how to do that.

[GENERAL] Commit visibility guarantees

2009-05-18 Thread Marsh Ray
Hello Everyone, I'm looking at an easy real-time application using PostgreSQL. Looking at the pg docs, I see lots of discussion about cases where MVCC may reflect different versions of the data to different connections. For example: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/mvcc.html while

[GENERAL] array/function question

2009-05-18 Thread Joshua Berry
Hello All, I'm trying to optimize a few slow queries and helper functions, and have found a poor performing function. To improve performance, I'd like to create a function that does the following: Inputs: A: an array of integers. for example: { 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 } B: an array of integers. for

Re: [GENERAL] Data in a table to a csv file

2009-05-18 Thread Steve Crawford
Joshua Berry wrote: I have a small problem,I need to export data from a table into a csv file.For this i am using pqxx library to work on it.I can able to retrieve the data from the database but the only problem is I am unable to store it in a csv file.Can you guys please help me

Re: [GENERAL] Commit visibility guarantees

2009-05-18 Thread Sam Mason
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 04:38:36PM -0500, Marsh Ray wrote: The central question: So if I successfully commit an update transaction on one connection, then instantaneously issue a select on another previously-opened connection, under what circumstances am I guaranteed that the select will see

Re: [GENERAL] Commit visibility guarantees

2009-05-18 Thread Marsh Ray
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Ben Chobot be...@silentmedia.com wrote: On Mon, 18 May 2009, Marsh Ray wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm looking at an easy real-time application using PostgreSQL. As I understand real-time applications, PostgreSQL is inherintly unsuited for the task. There is

Re: [GENERAL] Commit visibility guarantees

2009-05-18 Thread Sam Mason
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 05:18:06PM -0500, Marsh Ray wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Ben Chobot be...@silentmedia.com wrote: On Mon, 18 May 2009, Marsh Ray wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm looking at an easy real-time application using PostgreSQL. As I understand real-time applications,

[GENERAL] Where is tsearch2.sql

2009-05-18 Thread Howard Cole
Hi, Just installed 8.3.7 on a W2K3 machine using the pginstaller. I cannot find contrib/tsearch2.sql - I need to import an 8.2 backup with the old tsearch2 but cannot find the new compatibility layer sql file. Where is it??? Thanks, Howard Cole www.selestial.com -- Sent via pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Commit visibility guarantees

2009-05-18 Thread Marsh Ray
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Sam Mason s...@samason.me.uk wrote: Even then it's not useful to class it as real-time; nothing bad happens if you don't get a response before timeout the user just gets an error message.  Real-time applies when if you don't get a response the plane crashes or

Re: [GENERAL] Commit visibility guarantees

2009-05-18 Thread Marsh Ray
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Sam Mason s...@samason.me.uk wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 04:38:36PM -0500, Marsh Ray wrote: The central question: So if I successfully commit an update transaction on one connection, then instantaneously issue a select on another previously-opened

[GENERAL] need to do force uninstall of postgres on windows vista 64

2009-05-18 Thread Steve Howell
Hi, I'm having some pain getting Postgres 8.3 installed on windows vista 64. The first time I tried to install it, I was using the .msi version, which eventually hit permissions problems, and when I aborted the install, the uninstall did not seem to take. Then I tried the .exe version of 8.3,

Re: [GENERAL] Commit visibility guarantees

2009-05-18 Thread Tom Lane
Marsh Ray marsh5...@gmail.com writes: The central question: So if I successfully commit an update transaction on one connection, then instantaneously issue a select on another previously-opened connection, under what circumstances am I guaranteed that the select will see the effects of the

Re: [GENERAL] Commit visibility guarantees

2009-05-18 Thread Marsh Ray
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Marsh Ray marsh5...@gmail.com writes: The central question: So if I successfully commit an update transaction on one connection, then instantaneously issue a select on another previously-opened connection, under what

Re: [GENERAL] array/function question

2009-05-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua Berry escribió: Inputs: A: an array of integers. for example: { 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 } B: an array of integers. for example: { 1, 4, 8, 9 } Returns C: an array of bools the same dimensions as Array A. In this example: { true, false, false, false, true, false } Effectively, this function

Re: [GENERAL] Commit visibility guarantees

2009-05-18 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Marsh Ray escribió: On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Marsh Ray marsh5...@gmail.com writes: The central question: So if I successfully commit an update transaction on one connection, then instantaneously issue a select on another previously-opened

Re: [GENERAL] array/function question

2009-05-18 Thread Nagy Zoltan
hi, you should use something similar to 'merge sort' but only if your input is sorted (m_bx expects this) if your subjects (numbers) are not going beyond a certain limit eg(65535) take up an array and filter you can generate a poly for array B's roots, and calculate A's points -where it's 0,

Re: [GENERAL] Is this a bug or a feature? Column visibility in subquery from outer query

2009-05-18 Thread Paolo Saul
Thank you for clearing that up. Regards, Paolo Saul This behavior is required by the SQL standard. It's called an outer reference. regards, tom lane

Re: [GENERAL] array/function question

2009-05-18 Thread Pavel Stehule
2009/5/18 Joshua Berry yob...@gmail.com: Hello All, I'm trying to optimize a few slow queries and helper functions, and have found a poor performing function. To improve performance, I'd like to create a function that does the following: Inputs: A: an array of integers. for example: { 1,