Re: [GENERAL] FDWs, foreign servers and user mappings

2012-03-08 Thread Joe Abbate
On 03/08/2012 12:06 AM, Shigeru Hanada wrote: I think that makes, and will make sense. Because SQL/MED standard mentions about schema for only foreign table in 4.12 SQL-schemas section. FYI, pgAdmin III shows them as a tree like: Database FDW Server User Mapping Schema

[GENERAL] FDWs, foreign servers and user mappings

2012-03-07 Thread Joe Abbate
Hi, We've been discussing the subject in the pyrseas-general ML, but I think it would be beneficial to get feedback from a broader audience. The Pyrseas dbtoyaml utility outputs the objects in YAML, which ends up looking like a tree (see http://pyrseas.readthedocs.org/en/latest/dbtoyaml.html )

Re: [GENERAL] copying few fields into an existing table

2011-10-22 Thread Joe Abbate
On 10/22/2011 04:31 PM, Alexander Farber wrote: Hello, sadly I have to ban few users from my game web site daily and so I'm trying to write a procedure for first copying their id, name, city, IP into a pref_ban table and then erasing their comments and statistics: create or

Re: [GENERAL] how to disable all pkey/fkey constraints globally

2011-10-20 Thread Joe Abbate
On 10/20/2011 05:10 PM, J.V. wrote: Is there a simpler way than this to query the database for meta-data and get the constraint definitions? If I have the constraint name (which I do), I could store the constraint definition to a file or database table and recreate them if I could get the

Re: [GENERAL] how to save primary key constraints

2011-10-11 Thread Joe Abbate
On 10/11/2011 05:16 PM, J.V. wrote: I need to be able to query for all primary keys and save the table name and the name of the primary key field into some structure that I can iterate through later. How would I go about this? I want to hard code the number of tables and be able to iterate

Re: [GENERAL] how to find primary key field name?

2011-10-11 Thread Joe Abbate
On 10/11/2011 06:54 PM, J.V. wrote: If I have a table name, I know how to find the primary key constraint name, but see no way to find the primary key field name. select constraint_name from information_schema.tabale_constraints where table_name = table_name and constraint_type = 'PRIMARY

Re: [GENERAL] auto-increment column

2011-10-04 Thread Joe Abbate
On 10/04/2011 08:05 AM, Robert Buckley wrote: Thanks for the replies, I have one question regarding this comment... You also need to add a DEFAULT expression and optionally make the sequence owned by the column: What difference does it make if a table owns a sequence of not?...does

Re: [GENERAL] PL/Python

2011-10-03 Thread Joe Abbate
On 10/03/2011 04:14 AM, Sim Zacks wrote: I don't know if there is an official definition, but an extension is generally a compiled program that is accessed by the SQL. It must be compiled with the postgresql headers and have the magic number defined. The compiled file must then be put into the

Re: [GENERAL] PL/Python

2011-10-02 Thread Joe Abbate
Hi Sim, On 10/02/2011 08:02 AM, Sim Zacks wrote: If I understand plpython correctly, it uses the python installed on the machine. In other words, plpythonu doesn't support the new style classes, it depends on what version of python is installed. Well, Python has had new style classes since

[GENERAL] PL/Python

2011-09-29 Thread Joe Abbate
Hi, I'm toying with the idea of making the Pyrseas utilities a true PostgreSQL extension. Currently, the utilities (dbtoyaml and yamltodb) rely on a library of Python functions: over 16 modules and 4000+ lines of code. The programs would remain as Python command line front-ends, but there would

[GENERAL] regclass and search_path

2011-03-17 Thread Joe Abbate
Hi, I'm using the autodoc regression database available at http://cvs.pgfoundry.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/autodoc/autodoc/regressdatabase.sql?rev=1.2content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup This has several schemas that have cross-schema foreign key constraints such as the following: autodoc= \d

Re: [GENERAL] regclass and search_path

2011-03-17 Thread Joe Abbate
Hi Tom, On 03/18/2011 12:17 AM, Tom Lane wrote: Joe Abbatej...@freedomcircle.com writes: I'm using this to validate a tool I'm building and I get an error on the following query: autodoc= SELECT conname::regclass FROM pg_constraint autodoc-WHERE contype = 'u'; ERROR: relation

Re: [GENERAL] regclass and search_path

2011-03-17 Thread Joe Abbate
HI Tom, On 03/18/2011 12:42 AM, Joe Abbate wrote: For my immediate needs, the query was actually the target of a NOT IN subquery of a query against pg_index (trying to exclude tuples of indexes for UNIQUE constraints) and I've solved that by using conrelid in the subquery (and indrelid

[GENERAL] Web application development on Win32, deployment on Linux

2005-06-27 Thread Joe Abbate
I currently maintain a website which is deployed on LAMP, but it is developed on Windows (WAMP?). I'm considering moving both to use PostgreSQL. I'm curious as to whether others are following a similar development/deployment model and if so, what pitfalls/gotchas they have found. For