On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Jaime Casanova wrote:
> I don't think you could create indexes on text fields... there are
> other type of indexes for that... tsearch2 for example
You can index text fields, but you can't insert values bigger then
BLOCKSIZE/3 when you have an index on that column.
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/Den
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Poul Møller Hansen wrote:
> I have a problem creating a usable index for the following simple query:
> SELECT * FROM my.table WHERE node = '10' ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1
>
> id is a serial, so the query is to find the latest entry to a given node
> and id is the primary key.
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Mage wrote:
> 2005-08-12 19:08:43: ERROR: duplicate key violates unique constraint
> "common_adviewnum_adid_site_day_index"
Between your select and your insert someone else inserted a row making the
insert fail.
See this example of how you can update or insert depending
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> I've been working a lot on the Wikipedia PostgreSQL page, but I'd like
> to see other people jump in as well
What license do the following logotype image have?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:PostgreSQL_Logo.png
It would be good if this ima
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Robert Treat wrote:
> > Wikipedia commons only allow images licensed as Public Domain or GPL.
>
> That's goofy... the wikipedia "commons" wont accept creative commons
> licenses?
Hmm, on a swedish doc page they list Public Domain and GPL, but on the
english information they
On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Joseph Shraibman wrote:
> BEGIN;
> SELECT ... FROM table WHERE a = 1 FOR UPDATE;
> UPDATE table SET ... WHERE a = 1;
> if that resturns zero then
> INSERT INTO table (...) VALUES (...);
> END;
>
> The problem is that I need to avoid race conditions. Sometimes I get
> primary
On 8 Jul 2005, Adam Pritchard wrote:
> so I have a singleton table that keeps track of where we are in the
> pseudo-sequence. The table is very simple:
>
> CREATE TABLE t ( next BIGINT );
> INSERT INTO t ( next ) VALUES ( 0 );
>
> UPDATE t SET next = $1; -- $1 = next+1
>
> The problem is that
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Claudio Lapidus wrote:
> The command prompt for psql defaults to the database name, but is there a
> way to change it to some other string/value?
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/app-psql.html#APP-PSQL-PROMPTING
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/Dennis
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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Stephan Szabo wrote:
> it says that the two types must be comparable. We basically implement the
> latter, basically using the existance of a usable equality operator as the
> determination of comparable.
Is it possible to drop the equality operator when one have FK that nee
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004, Stephane Pinel wrote:
> the last inserted id in the table like we do with MySQL using the
> GetLastInsertID ?
>
> My need is to get back the new id just after inserting.
Use currval() after you have inserted.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-sequence.
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> The fault is with your program components that are insisting on upper
> case rather than accepting either case.
In defence of this unknown component, the sql specifications says that
identifiers should be upper cased where pg do lower case.
I would w
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Mike Nolan wrote:
> I personally believe that there is value in a database-generated unique
> value like Oracle's ROWID. (Part of what I like about it is that since
> it is a system column it simplifies some application issues, since the
> app never has to worry about that co
Here is a cast function I wrote some years ago to convert a couple of
money columns to numeric
http://zigo.org/postgresql/#cast_money_to_numeric
You already have a solution, but maybe it is of value to someone else.
/Dennis
Ken Winter skrev:
Right you are, Tom!
In case anyone else is fa
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