Re: [GENERAL] Limits of SQL

2005-06-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 11:31:02 +0200, Joachim Zobel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: These are both things I want to avoid. I am not trying to solve a real world problem, I want to understand the limits of SQL. And it seems that a plain SELECT that tells me if a path exists is not possible.

Re: [GENERAL] Limits of SQL

2005-06-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 21:53:24 +0200, Joachim Zobel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Samstag, den 04.06.2005, 07:38 -0500 schrieb Bruno Wolff III: On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 11:31:02 +0200, Joachim Zobel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... And it seems that a plain SELECT that tells me

Re: [GENERAL] adding columns with defaults is not implemented

2005-06-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 16:57:14 -0400, Douglas McNaught [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A serial column is basically just syntactic sugar for the above, so you're not losing anything. In recent versions of postgres, I do think you lose something. I don't believe the dependency will get tracked as

Re: [GENERAL] Preventing Multiple Inheritance

2005-06-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 14:09:32 -0500, Peter Fein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi- Let's say I have a base table B (with a PK id, say) and two derived tables D1 D2 (with different cols). For a given B.id, I'd like to allow only a corresponding row in *either* D1 or D2, but not both. Any

Re: [GENERAL] Preventing Multiple Inheritance

2005-06-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 16:04:26 -0500, Peter Fein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, this makes a lot of sense is just cleaner. Would you continue to do it this way if there were around a dozen derived tables (most with one or two columns)? I remember reading somewhere (perhaps the PG docs?)

Re: [GENERAL] index row size 2728 exceeds btree maximum, 27

2005-06-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 14:08:54 +0200, KÖPFERL Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me it seems that the definer of this table missed the concept index ... or the concept database One usually looks up data using a key, but if the whole row is the key, what data shall be looked up. You

Re: [GENERAL] interval integer comparison

2005-06-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 13:26:32 +0200, Havasvölgyi Ottó [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to simulate this unexpected result, but with no success. Here in Hungary we had daylight saving this year on the 27th of March (http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html). So I tried these:

Re: [GENERAL] Determining when a row was inserted

2005-06-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 06:22:01 +0100, Eisenhut, Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks - hi Is it possible to determine when a row was inserted into a table using the system catalogs or such. I have the situation where I need to find out when a user was added to a user table - the

Re: [GENERAL] index row size 2728 exceeds btree maximum, 2713

2005-06-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 17:48:47 +0530, Dinesh Pandey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I am storing some error messages in data column, and the PK columns are party of search criteria. If you need to be able to search based on the entire stored error message, than you might try adding an indexed

Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] index row size 2728 exceeds btree maximum, 27

2005-06-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 13:40:53 +0100, Richard Huxton dev@archonet.com wrote: Actually, Dinesh didn't mention he was using this for the speed of lookup. He'd defined the columns as being the PRIMARY KEY, presumably because he feels they are/should be unique. Given that they are rows

Re: [GENERAL] [SQL] index row size 2728 exceeds btree maximum, 27

2005-06-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 18:00:17 +0100, Richard Huxton dev@archonet.com wrote: Certainly, but if the text in the logfile row is the same, then hashing isn't going to make a blind bit of difference. That's the root of my concern, and something only Dinesh knows. Sure it is. Because the

Re: [GENERAL] SQL call to get pid of current connection

2005-06-02 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 17:04:22 -0400, David Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a function call that will return the pid of the postgres process associated with the current client connection? I thought I remembered seeing one, but I looked through the development docs and didn't see a

Re: [GENERAL] prevent user change password?

2005-06-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 18:03:04 +0100, Richard Hayward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to prevent a user from changing their password? I have a database with a 'Guest' account, that will have limited access. I don't want any of my guests to change the Guest account password. Your

Re: [GENERAL] interval integer comparison

2005-06-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 01:54:12 +0200, Havasvölgyi Ottó [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Tom. It was a bit confusing because my WHERE clause looked something like this: ... WHERE date_field - current_date '21 days'::interval; And then I got records, whose with date_field's year was

Re: [GENERAL] table synonyms

2005-05-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 13:49:40 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another feature I missed is the returning clause of the Oracle INSERT SQL command, which allow the user to retrieve the serial value after an insert command, which works even in a concurrent network environment. While it

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL release schedule

2005-05-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 19:31:28 -0300, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2005, James Croft wrote: Scott Marlowe wrote: I'd go for 8.0. It's quite stable now, and 8.1 will take as long as it needs to take to come out, which could be anything, but will likely be no

Re: [GENERAL] securing an information system

2005-05-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:40:26 +0200, BARTKO, Zoltán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks, Problem: I would need some help with the system I am working on. It is an information system built on PgSQL 8 and after searching all over the net I found no function I could use to determine

Re: [GENERAL] numeric precision when raising one numeric to another.

2005-05-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 08:19:58 -0400, John D. Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find all these statements about the near-uselessness of NUMERIC^NUMERIC to be pretty amazing. It's fine to say, no one seems to be asking for this, so we haven't implemented it yet, but, c'mon, folks,

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL XA ?

2005-05-17 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 14:05:46 -0500, Kris Jurka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2005, FERREIRA, William (COFRAMI) wrote: hi at present my j2ee application use an Oracle database with XA transactions. i'm migrating Oracle to PostgreSQL, and i'm looking for a XA driver for

Re: [GENERAL] Named Notation for Functions' Parameteres

2005-05-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 13:59:00 +0200, Samer Abukhait [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does PostgreSQL support by anyhow the parameter named notation in function calling?? (like oracle's: parameter_name = argument_value) If not, is it on the wish list? It is on the TODO list.

Re: [GENERAL] is in postgres solution

2005-05-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:43:09 +0300, Margus Roo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have 2 variables type timestamp. Example date1 = 2005-01-01 23:00 and date2 = 2005-05-04 12:00. I want get something like age(date2,date1) but ouput format must by hours::minutes. Is that bossible?

Re: [GENERAL] WHERE

2005-05-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 15:48:44 -0400, Hrishikesh Deshmukh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, How can one use a table created for saving the results for a query be used in WHERE for subsequent query!!! Step 1) create table temp as select gene from dataTable1 intersect select gene from

Re: [GENERAL] Age() calculation question

2005-05-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 18:32:39 -0700, Bob Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two timestamps -- start and end. I use age(end,start) to give me a session time and then I subtotal those. If the total times are less than 24 hours I get a time is the format of XX:xx:xx -- this is great. But if

Re: [GENERAL] Anyone doing a 8.0.2-x86_64-RHEL4.rpm?

2005-05-05 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 15:46:16 -0700, Daniel Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [I posted this recently to ports, but I think this is a more proper location] Is anyone working on an 8.0.2 RPM for x86_64 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4? There is a i686 version for RHEL4, and a x86_64 version

Re: [GENERAL] [INTERFACES] calculated identity field in views, again...

2005-05-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:56:25 +0200, Zlatko Matic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will try...if it will be useless, I will quite. Then the only solution will be make-table query based on nested pass-through query, so I will be working on local JET tables that will be refreshed from server on

Re: [GENERAL] [INTERFACES] calculated identity field in views, again...

2005-05-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 11:47:12 -0400, Greg Stark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I create sequence ? You can't create a sequence for a view. You would need to have it in a table that is joined as part of the view. Sure you can. You can

Re: [GENERAL] nonremovable row ?

2005-05-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 18:24:53 +0200, Hervé Piedvache [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why I get 26927405 nonremovable row versions in 185707 pages ? How to remove them ? I need to free the space quickly ! Those rows will still be visible to transactions that started before the delete was

Re: [GENERAL] BUG #1633: about transactions and row level locking

2005-04-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 13:56:02 +0100, deepak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following bug has been logged online: This isn't a bug, its a question. I am moving the discussion over to the general list. Bug reference: 1633 Logged by: deepak Email address: [EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] Reduce size of $PGDATA for demo cdrom?

2005-04-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:23:19 -0500, Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first recommendation would be to put everything into one database. it looks like you've got 6 databases. If you've still got the template0 database, you can probably get rid of that one as well. If you're

Re: [GENERAL] Calculated bigserial column in a view

2005-04-25 Thread Bruno Wolff III
view has a unique numeric field. It would help to know how it knows that a column has those properties and how it uses the information. - Original Message - From: Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Zlatko Matic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: Monday, April

Re: [GENERAL] Calculated bigserial column in a view

2005-04-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 22:16:14 +0200, Zlatko Matic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that it sounds crazy, but I need a bigserial coulumn in a view that is consisted of several tables. That column should not be based on bigserial column of any table, but should be a calculated column...

Re: [GENERAL] postgres user work with any password!

2005-04-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:14:35 -0300, Leandro Repolho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys, i installed my postgresql 8.0.2 successfuly and its working fine, but my postgres user works with any password, how can i solve ? I already tryed to change the password trough the pgAdmin3 but didn´t

Re: [GENERAL] Table modifications with dependent views - best

2005-04-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 11:34:29 +0100, David Roussel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually put DDL statements in a transaction, for a couple of reasons: so that a mistake doesn't leave me with half-done work (any error will cause the entire transaction to roll back), and to make the

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Question

2005-04-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 21:58:31 +1000, Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i have a table ProdId | LastUpdate ---+ 100| 2005-04-01 100| 2005-03-01 100| 2005-02-01 200| 2005-04-01 200| 2005-03-01 200| 2005-02-01 - How can i select only the

Re: [GENERAL] psql vs perl prepared inserts

2005-04-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:57:09 -0400, Matt Van Mater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I forgot to mention earlier that I tried using transactions to speed things up, but since I expect to see certain inserts fail I would need to rework my code so the whole transaction doesn't fail if one

Re: [GENERAL] Foreign Keys Question

2005-04-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 13:54:05 +0200, Matthias Loitsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I thought I could make a foreign key on a different Schema (db), and use the same table And well, thats where I started to search if this is possible ... and, in fact my main question is: Is this a

Re: [GENERAL] create user with database and contrib

2005-04-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 15:19:58 +0200, Michal Hlavac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oleg Bartunov wrote: so, what's the problem ? psql diplo ltree.sql ok, I can add ltree via superuser, but I must grant access for user diplo to every function... it is possible to do that easier? Functions

Re: [GENERAL] using limit with delete

2005-04-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:51:10 +1000, Chris Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there another way to approach this? I'm trying to delete records through a webapp and if there are 500,000 records for example, I can't really leave the page open and expect it to finish... Maybe you could

Re: [GENERAL] 8.0.2beta1 RPMs

2005-04-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 18:40:56 +0200, Robin Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: PostgreSQL RPM Building Project[1] has built RPMs for 8.0.2beta1. RPMs for Red Hat Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Server 3.0, Fedora Cor 1,2,3 are now available, and more to

Re: [GENERAL] Recovering real disk space

2005-04-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 13:09:33 -0500, Adam Siegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We perform a vacuum full after each mass delete. This cycle can happen many times during over a couple of weeks. We are in a test lab environment and are generating a lot of data. One of the problems we have

Re: [GENERAL] Empty date

2005-04-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 11:06:22 +0200, Karsten Hilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:43:27AM +0300, Andrus wrote: Empty data is a date which is less that all other dates. Why would that be ? Empty of type unknown cannot be less than (nor more than nor equal to)

Re: [GENERAL] Empty date

2005-04-03 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 15:46:18 +0200, Karsten Hilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: type date or some such. However the best would be to use -infinity. +/- infinity are only available as timestamps, not dates. Hm, any particular reason why ? Apart from no one having gotten around to

Re: [GENERAL] Debugging deadlocks

2005-04-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 10:37:11 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And idea that just came up around here that sounds like a pretty neat workaround, which we're gonna try, is to drop the foreign key constraints, and just use a check constraint for the allowed values. If the cardinality of

Re: [GENERAL] FW: Help with order by into a RECORD

2005-04-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:42:35 +0200, Shaun Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a questions regarding my order by problem. If you index a table, can you query the table using ORDER BY. ? Whether or not a table is indexed doesn't affect whether or not you can use ORDER BY. It may

Re: [GENERAL] case sensitive group by

2005-04-01 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 14:00:40 -0700, Krause, Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to do a case sensitive group by. It should be that way by default. If you want case insensitive, then you can group by lower(whatever). ---(end of

Re: [GENERAL] Days in month query

2005-03-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 16:45:43 -0700, Mark Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I want is SELECT statement that references no tables but returns the days in a given month. I'm now thinking that I might be able to come up with something using an IN clause and using EXTRACT, but haven't

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle Migration. Don't Care about the Corbomite Maneuver, Spock.

2005-03-30 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 00:35:25 -, Mohan, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any pointers? The online documentation is very good. For generic Postrges questions, that is probably your best resource. There may be better places to get answers about questions on converting from Oracle to

Re: [GENERAL] Tablespaces and indexes

2005-03-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 19:46:41 -0600, Related question: Once I switch the 8.0.1 system over to be the production, can I reverse the direction and restore .dmp files on the 7.4.5 system or are the tablespace terms in the dump files going to cause problems? The 8.0.1 dumps will probably

Re: [GENERAL] Parallel Query should be a top priority

2005-03-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 23:58:35 -0500, Mike Mascari mascarm@mascari.com wrote: Without parallel query, the *only* way to decrease the execution time of a single query whose data has been fully cached is to buy the latest-and-greatest which is increasing in speed at decreasing rates,

Re: [GENERAL] sub query constraint

2005-03-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 16:13:59 -0600, Dale Sykora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CREATE TABLE user_data( name varchar(32), write_access bool DEFAULT 'f' ); CREATE TABLE actions( action varchar(32), user varchar(32) -- somehow make sure user = user_data.name where

Re: [GENERAL] PG constraint

2005-03-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 08:04:01 +0100, Szmutku Zoltán [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody , I tried using Postgre, but I have some problems. I create a constraint ( R1=0 ), and after connect to server from VFP via ODBC . In the client program I turn on the transactions . (

Re: [GENERAL] Using sequence name depending on other column

2005-03-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 20:47:36 +0200, Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought about this. 1. It seems that user prefer to see separate numbers for each sequence. First invoice has number 1 , second invoice has number 2 This suggests that invoices for different categories can have

Re: [GENERAL] Good Books

2005-03-24 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 14:37:59 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am new to PostgreSQL and find that the standard documentation is very thin. I would like to buy a more comprehensive book. All the available books seem very out of date!!! Firstly, does it matter if I buy a book that

Re: [GENERAL] Extracting object source code from database to store in CVS...

2005-03-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 14:10:30 +0200, Adrianna Pinska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More specifically, I've been looking for a way to persuade postgresql to output the create script for a single object - without much success. It seems that pg_dump can output a dump of the entire database

Re: [GENERAL] grant problem

2005-03-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 17:27:25 +0530, Rajarshi Mukherjee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, i have a function that updates a table. I gave execute grant on it to a particular user but no grant on the table in question. when logging in as that user and executing the function, i

Re: [GENERAL] grant problem

2005-03-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 17:47:48 +0530, Rajarshi Mukherjee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLEASE GIVE ME AN EXAMPLE.. Please read the documentation of the CREATE FUNCTION command. On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 06:24:58 -0600, Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 17:27:25

Re: [GENERAL] pseudo-serial values in dual primary key?

2005-03-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 01:43:07 -0800, Benjamin Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to have the equivalent of a serial data type in a table, sub-categorized? [snip] Now, I want to create an entries table, and by default, count serially by category, so that category 1 has

Re: [GENERAL] Using sequence name depending on other column

2005-03-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 22:37:55 +0200, Andrus Moor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have table containing different types of documents (type A, B and C). Each document type must have separate sequential ID starting at 1 ID of first inserted record of type A must be set to 1 ID of first

Re: [GENERAL] Question about database restrict

2005-03-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:57:52 +0800, Qingqing Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yu Jie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, If I want to restrict the maximum size of one table to 5MB, restrict the maximum size of database file to 100MB, how can I do that restriction? Is

Re: [GENERAL] Oracle's Virtual Private Database functionality

2005-03-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 13:52:28 -0500, Doug Bloebaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's apparent why: the view determines which table it's going to use at view creation time, not at query time, so this method is no good. Is there a right way to accomplish what I'm trying to do? I think the

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres stored proc that extracts data from Oracle

2005-03-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 17:12:46 -0800, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you guys have thoughts on how to implement this? I am not expecting an easy solution but I wish to get started asap. Any advice would be appreciated. My usual solution is to use a perl script which talks to both

Re: [GENERAL] Partial or incomplete dates

2005-03-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 11:30:03 +0100, Leif B. Kristensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In MySQL, the checking on dates is very relaxed, so it's totally legal to enter a date as '1731-00-00', and let your own program logic decide that this means just the year 1731. Do I have to make my own

Re: [GENERAL] Unique Indexes

2005-03-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:41:08 +, ILove TheSpam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lets say I have 3 tables: surnames - surnameid serial (Primary Key), surname varchar (Unique) firstnames - firstnameid serial (Primary Key), firstname varchar (Unique) users - userid serial (Primary Key),

Re: [GENERAL] Using sequence name depending on other column

2005-03-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 23:05:41 +0200, Andrus Moor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have table containing different types of documents (type A, B and C). Each document type must have separate sequential ID starting at 1 ID of first inserted record of type A must be set to 1 ID of first

Re: [GENERAL] row numbering

2005-03-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 13:22:05 +0100, Karsten Hilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also notice that we do have views that display the missing shots per schedule per patient. I just have not found a way to join the two views (that is, given and missing) because that would AFAICT require the

Re: [GENERAL] Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time

2005-03-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 15:25:28 +0100, Együd Csaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'd like to ask your opininon about how to handle DST on an 7/24 system. My advice would be to use GMT and not have to worry about DST while collecting data. When displaying data you might convert the

Re: [GENERAL] hosting - asking for advice

2005-02-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
. For just playing around the file system problem shouldn't be a problem. Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] írta: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 21:19:34 +0100, Berényi Gábor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dotgeek.org free account, but they are about to leave PostgreSQL for MySQL which

Re: [GENERAL] Possible to run the server with ANSI/ISO string

2005-02-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:13:00 -0700, Ken Johanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides, the version-deprecation / version requirements you mention exists in every piece of software I've even seen. Sometime they're okay with a really old version, sometime only the newest will do. This is

Re: [GENERAL] row numbering

2005-02-28 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 17:46:43 +0100, Karsten Hilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are 5 vaccinations in a given vaccination schedule. Patient had 3 shots. I want the view to show me that shot 4 and 5 are missing without having to enter the cardinality of the vaccination in the

Re: [GENERAL] postgresql 8.0 on windows 2003 server

2005-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 15:12:07 -0800, Si Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. Thanks for the answers earlier about the new 8.0 version. We have a client who is thinking about putting postgresql 8.0 on Windows 2003 Server, but he is concerned because this is the first version to

Re: [GENERAL] hosting - asking for advice

2005-02-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 21:19:34 +0100, Berényi Gábor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a dotgeek.org free account, but they are about to leave PostgreSQL for MySQL which is too bad. Can you suggest me a free/cheap PostgreSQL host where I can test an open-source program? No web hosting is

Re: [GENERAL] Question regarding threaded mode

2005-02-16 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 15:25:15 -0500, Milla Erdee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The updating view syntax in many cases might be preferred in certian cases and other types of syntax in other cases, and it should be up to the programmer to decide which is best for a certian application.. A

Re: [GENERAL] Help with seq numbers...

2005-02-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 15:12:56 -0600, Cristian Prieto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And it is working fine, but when I get a Unique_Violation (cuz there is a iduser already) the sequence still advance to the next value. There is any way to rollback or avoid holes in the sequence? I've read

Re: [GENERAL] Website Documentation

2005-02-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 13:06:52 +1100, Russell Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, There does not seems to be the latest version of the PostgreSQL documentation online. The release notes for 8.0 and 7.4 only go to version 8.0.0 and 7.4.6. Where can I find the changes made from

Re: [GENERAL] find next in an index

2005-02-12 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 14:03:02 +1100, Neil Dugan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to find out how to get the next record according to a particular index. I have a table with a name field and a serial field. The name field isn't unique so I made an index on name(varchar)

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query

2005-02-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:07:24 +, David Goodenough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought of using an inner select for the join, and using limit 1 to get just the one, and forcing the order by to give me the billing address by preference, but I am then dependant on the sort order of the

[GENERAL] Removing duplicates

2005-02-08 Thread Bruno Wolff III
Please use a relevant subject for your posts. On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 23:14:57 +0530, Surabhi Ahuja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a table in which duplicate rows occur. now i have to remove the duplicates. Please note that however, only the duplicate rows have to be deleted and not

Re: [GENERAL] Sorting when * is the initial character

2005-02-07 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 16:20:36 -0500, Berend Tober [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SELECT * FROM sample_table ORDER BY 1; account_id,account_name 100,First account 110,Second account *115,Fifth account 120,Third account *125,Fourth account I would expect to see

Re: [GENERAL] Help with sorting (ie. ORDER BY expression)

2005-02-06 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 17:25:06 -0500, Reuben D. Budiardja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am running postgres-7.3. I have a query like this: SELECT question_id, question_text FROM quiz_table WHERE question_id IN (2,10,3,6,4,5); But I want the output to be sorted in the way I give

Re: [GENERAL] How to delete duplicate rows?

2005-02-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 23:04:57 -0200, Clodoaldo Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one must be obvious for most here. I have a 170 million rows table from which I want to eliminate duplicate would be keys and leave only uniques. I found a query in

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres using up all my memory

2005-02-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 05:59:26 -0800, Stephan Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Eric Jain wrote: I'm trying to fill a table with several million rows that are obtained directly from a complex query. For whatever reason, Postgres at one point starts using several

Re: [GENERAL] [OT] PostgreSQL: bytea help needed.

2005-02-04 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 08:56:37 -0600, Shawn Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message Well, yes. You have to be a member of the mailing list you want to post to even if you are posting through usenet. Otherwise your post will bounce to you *email*

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump in 7.2.4 with trigger functions

2005-01-31 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:45:16 -0700, Steve Wampler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Wampler wrote: I realize 7.2.4 is long in the tooth, but it's an old system that's been running for several years now. Someday we'll upgrade... There are more recent releases even within the 7.2.x series.

Re: [GENERAL] MySQL worm attacks Windows servers

2005-01-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 00:34:07 -0800, Chris Travers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe we should set the default authentication to only use TRUST on local sockets only. At least as of 7.4, the default was to trust network ports. I believe the previous default was not to allow network

Re: [GENERAL] Scanning the PGSQL DB

2005-01-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 05:54:24 -0800, Anil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I inserted a new DB with somewhere around 200 tables and each table having some 100 entries. The table insertion went fine. But I wanted to know whether the DB is perfect ...I mean my DB is not corrupted. Are there any

Re: [GENERAL] inet-type sequence

2005-01-29 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 22:24:46 +0300, Andrey V. Semyonov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. How do I create a sequence of type inet for automatic assignment an IP/32 to a new row? Neither nextval() nor CREATE SEQUENCE seem for me to work with type inet (PostgreSQL 8.0.0, pgAdmin III v

Re: [GENERAL] last tuple affected

2005-01-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:45:13 +0100, Miguel Angel Tribaldos Hervas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only need to know if a table has changed since the last check (create, update...), but I want to avoid a trigger + artificial records table. Is this information recorded somewhere, in a system

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump shell script with ~/.pgpass

2005-01-27 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:47:40 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What should the command look like using ~/.pgpass ? You might also consider using using ident as the authentication method if it is supported by your os. ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] self-join on subselect

2005-01-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 23:12:25 +0100, PFC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you do a self-join on a subselect ? like SELECT a.x+b.x FROM (subselect) a, (subselect) b WHERE a.id = b.id+10 but without performing the subselect twice

Re: [GENERAL] Return value of 'serial' column on insert

2005-01-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 00:35:25 -0500, Madison Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have several tables with an 'id' column which is a simple 'serial unique' type. Often when I insert a record the next thing I need is to add or edit another table elsewhere using the ID of the

Re: [GENERAL] serialization errors when inserting new records

2005-01-23 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 10:23:50 +0100, Ralph van Etten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I think there are situations where a serial isn't convenient Like when you want an primary key which consists of the current year and an sequence number. Like ('05', 1), ('05', 2), ('05', 3) etc. With a

Re: [GENERAL] Multiline plpython procedure

2005-01-21 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 12:02:09 +0100, Marco Colombo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Greg Stark wrote: Anyway, think of floats. If you want do to FP maths fast, you need to use the native format supported by the CPU. When you dump, you get a text form of the FP number, and

Re: [GENERAL] what happened to the website?

2005-01-19 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:06:56 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does that mean? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] to_char(interval, text) deprecated in future - how do we get consistent interval output without it?

2005-01-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:36:26 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw the note in the docs that to_char(interval, text) is deprecated, and will be removed. I searched the archives and saw more mentions of this, but no real explanation as to how it is planned for us to get consistent output

Re: [GENERAL] serial increments on failed insert

2005-01-15 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 17:49:42 -0800, Steve Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's correct, documented behaviour. A serial column is mostly just a sequence in disguise. A sequence is guaranteed to give unique, increasing values, but in many cases may miss a value (for several reasons -

Re: [GENERAL] Problem Dropping a Database with users connected to it

2005-01-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:16:16 -0500, Eric Dorland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Disconnecting all other users before dropping the db, but that doesn't seem possible (I could start and stop the db, but that doesn't stop any clients from just reconnecting right away). You could use an alter

Re: [GENERAL] Adding UNIQUE constraint on NULL column

2005-01-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 09:01:08 -0500, Dave Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to add a unique constraint on a column that can be null. The documentation states that null is treated as non equal values but I want them to be equal. Is there another way of doing this other than writing

Re: [GENERAL] Limiting USAGE to only certain objects within a schema

2005-01-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 14:40:46 -0800, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically what I want is to limit a user to not being able to view certain tables within a schema, in this case the public schema. Say we have 300 tables in a database but a particular user only needs access to 3 of

Re: [GENERAL] Private or publice function

2005-01-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 18:36:17 +, Richard Huxton dev@archonet.com wrote: Nirmalya Lahiri wrote: Thanks Richard, for your reply. Now I am explaining you what I want. Let I have 4 functions..function_1(),function_2(),function_3(),function_4(). [snip] Now after creating these

Re: [GENERAL] problems with 8.0 Rc4

2005-01-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 15:40:07 +, Peter Childs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought pg_autovaccum was going to be built into 8.0 or was that only a rumor. Due to some unfortunate things it was not ready by the beta cutoff, so it is staying in contrib for the 8.0 release.

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