Re: [GENERAL] Pokey Fedora Updates for Postgresql?

2012-02-17 Thread Tom Lane
Jerry Levan writes: > On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> I beg your pardon? > Sorry, they do not appear in *my* 'yum update' or yumex or the software > update program. Huh. Something broken on your end, but what? The only thing that looks funny to me in your output is > [jerry@b

Re: [GENERAL] Pokey Fedora Updates for Postgresql?

2012-02-17 Thread Jerry Levan
On Feb 17, 2012, at 4:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Jerry Levan writes: >> Seems like Postgresql 9.1.2 has been out for a while but it has >> not appeared in the updates for Fedora 16. > > I beg your pardon? Sorry, they do not appear in *my* 'yum update' or yumex or the software update program. I

Re: [GENERAL] Pokey Fedora Updates for Postgresql?

2012-02-17 Thread Tom Lane
Jerry Levan writes: > Seems like Postgresql 9.1.2 has been out for a while but it has > not appeared in the updates for Fedora 16. I beg your pardon? https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-0346/postgresql-9.1.2-2.fc16 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2011-16803/postgre

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL search query is not executing in Postgres DB

2012-02-17 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 02/17/2012 08:01 AM, Marti Raudsepp wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 17:13, Adrian Klaver wrote: Why not use: " SELECT * FROM WHERE CAST(Table.ID as TEXT) LIKE '1%' " as the MySQL query also? MySQL supports the CAST function. Nope, trying to use CAST() in an interoperable manner is a lost

Re: [GENERAL] select as params to function

2012-02-17 Thread Andy Colson
On 2/17/2012 2:49 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Andy Colson wrote: On 2/17/2012 2:11 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote: Hello PostgreSQL has no table data type. You can use a array of records instead and then select fx((select array(select * from tab))); select fx(arra

Re: [GENERAL] select as params to function

2012-02-17 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Andy Colson wrote: > On 2/17/2012 2:11 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote: >> >> Hello >> >> PostgreSQL has no table data type. You can use a array of records instead >> >> and then >> >> select fx((select array(select * from tab))); select fx(array(select t from tab t)); f

Re: [GENERAL] select as params to function

2012-02-17 Thread Andy Colson
On 2/17/2012 2:11 PM, Pavel Stehule wrote: Hello PostgreSQL has no table data type. You can use a array of records instead and then select fx((select array(select * from tab))); regards Pavel Stehule 2012/2/17 Andy Colson: Hi all, Trying to clean up some data so I wrote myself a function

Re: [GENERAL] select as params to function

2012-02-17 Thread Pavel Stehule
Hello PostgreSQL has no table data type. You can use a array of records instead and then select fx((select array(select * from tab))); regards Pavel Stehule 2012/2/17 Andy Colson : > Hi all, > > Trying to clean up some data so I wrote myself a function which will insert > the new stuff okay b

[GENERAL] Postgres 9.1 package for i.MX51X processor from Freescale

2012-02-17 Thread Jayashankar K B
Hi, Anybody with any ideas on using Postgres on ARM CORTEX A8 based processors.. ? Thanks! Jay From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jayashankar K B Sent: 16 February 2012 PM 04:00 To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] Po

[GENERAL] select as params to function

2012-02-17 Thread Andy Colson
Hi all, Trying to clean up some data so I wrote myself a function which will insert the new stuff okay but the existing data... I'm not sure how to run it through the function. To make life a little simpler on myself, the old data is in table webserv2 and the new data will go into table webs

[GENERAL] Pokey Fedora Updates for Postgresql?

2012-02-17 Thread Jerry Levan
I guess I am feeling a bit cranky today :(… Seems like Postgresql 9.1.2 has been out for a while but it has not appeared in the updates for Fedora 16. Today I cruised koji.fedoraproject.org and noticed that a set of rpms appear to been built by , ummm, 'tgl' back in early January. Does anyone kn

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL search query is not executing in Postgres DB

2012-02-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Marti Raudsepp wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 18:19, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> Have you tried casting to varchar(1000) or something like that? > > MySQL's CAST() doesn't accept varchar or varchar(N). It accepts char, > which behaves like varchar. It's a shame you

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL search query is not executing in Postgres DB

2012-02-17 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 17 February 2012 17:19, Scott Marlowe > Have you tried casting to varchar(1000) or something like that? Don't MySQL's varchars only go to 255? That's why every MySQL database uses blobs for text data, isn't it? -- If you can't see the forest for the trees, Cut the trees and you'll see there i

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL search query is not executing in Postgres DB

2012-02-17 Thread Marti Raudsepp
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 18:19, Scott Marlowe wrote: > Have you tried casting to varchar(1000) or something like that? MySQL's CAST() doesn't accept varchar or varchar(N). It accepts char, which behaves like varchar. Regards, Marti -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresq

Re: [GENERAL] Set returning functions in select column list

2012-02-17 Thread Marti Raudsepp
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 17:31, David W Noon wrote: > The words to search for are "Cartesian product".  This is the way > RDBMSes have handled unconstrained implicit joins since the days of > SQL/DS. Yeah, that's what Jack was confused about -- it's actually *not* a cartesian product. It simply st

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL search query is not executing in Postgres DB

2012-02-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Marti Raudsepp wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 17:13, Adrian Klaver wrote: >> Why not use: >> " SELECT * FROM WHERE CAST(Table.ID as TEXT) LIKE '1%' " >> >> as the MySQL query also?  MySQL supports the CAST function. > > Nope, trying to use CAST() in an interope

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL search query is not executing in Postgres DB

2012-02-17 Thread Marti Raudsepp
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 17:13, Adrian Klaver wrote: > Why not use: > " SELECT * FROM WHERE CAST(Table.ID as TEXT) LIKE '1%' " > > as the MySQL query also?  MySQL supports the CAST function. Nope, trying to use CAST() in an interoperable manner is a lost cause. Sadly MySQL and PostgreSQL don't ag

Re: [GENERAL] Set returning functions in select column list

2012-02-17 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:19:16 -0600, Jack Christensen wrote about [GENERAL] Set returning functions in select column list: [snip] > I really don't understand what is going on here. I have checked > Google and the PostgreSQL docs, but it appears either I do not know > the key words to search for or

Re: [GENERAL] Set returning functions in select column list

2012-02-17 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:19:16 -0600, Jack Christensen wrote about [GENERAL] Set returning functions in select column list: [snip] > I really don't understand what is going on here. I have checked > Google and the PostgreSQL docs, but it appears either I do not know > the key words to search for or

Re: [GENERAL] Set returning functions in select column list

2012-02-17 Thread Tom Lane
David Johnston writes: > On Feb 16, 2012, at 14:19, Jack Christensen wrote: >> Can someone explain how set returning functions in a select clause work? > You apparently just did...it CROSS JOINs except in the special case where > multiple functions each return the same number of records (genera

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL search query is not executing in Postgres DB

2012-02-17 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Friday, February 17, 2012 5:01:47 am premanand wrote: > In MySQL the below query is executing properly. > > SELECT * FROM WHERE (Table.ID LIKE '1%') > > But when i try to execute the above query in Postgres, i get the following > Exception "org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: operator d

Re: [GENERAL] Set returning functions in select column list

2012-02-17 Thread David Johnston
On Feb 16, 2012, at 14:19, Jack Christensen wrote: > Can someone explain how set returning functions in a select clause work? You apparently just did...it CROSS JOINs except in the special case where multiple functions each return the same number of records (generally due to them all operating

[GENERAL] MySQL search query is not executing in Postgres DB

2012-02-17 Thread premanand
In MySQL the below query is executing properly. SELECT * FROM WHERE (Table.ID LIKE '1%') But when i try to execute the above query in Postgres, i get the following Exception "org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: operator does not exist: integer ~~ unknown Hint: No operator matches the giv

Re: [GENERAL] Check if backup is in progress

2012-02-17 Thread sodik
thanks, it looks exactly as I was searching for On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 23:05, Marti Raudsepp wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 18:53, sodik > wrote: > > is there any way how to check that postgres 9.1 is currently in backup > > mode? > > You can check the existence of the "backup_label" file in

[GENERAL] One transaction by connection - commit subdetails without release master transaction?

2012-02-17 Thread Durumdara
Dear PGSQL Masters! I got a new project: porting a DBASE based application to PGSQL. Some theoretic question I have before I coding/typing. OS: Win, IDE: Delphi. Preface: Delphi uses TDataSet-s (every of them have records/rows). When use Post method to save the actual record. In DBASE or flat ta