Re: [GENERAL] Inserting a new column in between.

2007-02-25 Thread Noel Faux
Hi RPK My suggestion would be to create a view which presents the columns as you wish. eg CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW tableView AS SELECT a, b, c FROM table Then when you add add a new column, just adjust the view as required. Cheers Noel RPK wrote: Andreas, I am talking about inserting a f

Re: [GENERAL] database design ...

2006-11-14 Thread Noel Faux
Hi, Have you added the ability to store reservations, if a book is out. Maybe having a table for this, requests/reservations id pk user_id fk item_id fk date_requested (so that the first person on the list for this book is notified) Also, I'll assume there is more than one book per title, thu

[GENERAL] Data corruption zero a file - help!!

2006-02-28 Thread Noel Faux
Hi all, I posted this on the novice mailing list and as yet had no response, hopefully someone here can help. While we where trying to do a vacuum / pg_dump we encountered the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pg_dumpall -d > dump.pg pg_dump: dumpClasses(): SQL command failed pg_dump:

Re: [GENERAL] Need a GNU SQL CLI tool for Win32 with ODBC support.

2006-03-01 Thread Noel Faux
activestate perl works a treat and crimson editor (http://www.crimsoneditor.com/) as an editor.  If you want a gui database manager with sql scripting try aqua data : http://www.aquafold.com/ Cheers Noel Roy Souther wrote: I love Linux, any tool you need it has it. Just try to find the

Re: [GENERAL] Data corruption zero a file - help!!

2006-03-02 Thread Noel Faux
Thanks for the pointers Michael! Which config file will tell us how big the bock sizes are? Cheers Noel Michael Fuhr wrote: On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:12:53PM +1100, Noel Faux wrote: Now after doing some searches I managed to work out that the data corruption starts at

Re: [GENERAL] Data corruption zero a file - help!!

2006-03-05 Thread Noel Faux
Is your table really over 100G? Yeap 600+ million rows. Anyway, if the block size is 8192 then 902292 sould be in the .6 file. If you can spare the time then you might run the dd and od commands that Tom Lane mentions in the above message and post the output. Here's the output: 000 0

Re: [GENERAL] Data corruption zero a file - help!!

2006-03-08 Thread Noel Faux
Noel Michael Fuhr wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 01:41:44PM +1100, Noel Faux wrote: Here is the output from the pg_filedump; is there anything which looks suss and where would we re-zero the data, if that's the next step

Re: [GENERAL] Data corruption zero a file - help!!

2006-03-08 Thread Noel Faux
Thanks for all your help Michael, we wish to do a vacuum and dump before the upgrade to 8.02.  Do you believe this data corruption is a postgres issue of an OS / hardware issue? Cheers Noel Michael Fuhr wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:13:40AM +1100, Noel Faux wrote: Ok it

Re: [GENERAL] Data corruption zero a file - help!!

2006-03-08 Thread Noel Faux
n Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 11:13:40AM +1100, Noel Faux wrote: Ok it worked but we ran into another bad block :( /vacuumdb: vacuuming of database "monashprotein" failed: ERROR: invalid page header in block 9022937 of relation "gap" / So the command we used was: dd bs=8k seek=

Re: [GENERAL] Data corruption zero a file - help!!

2006-03-08 Thread Noel Faux
hives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-03/msg2.php Your thoughts / comments... Cheers Noel Michael Fuhr wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 12:37:52PM +1100, Noel Faux wrote: I've been watching the post: Re: [GENERAL] Fixing up a corrupted toast table In there they mention deleti

Re: [GENERAL] Data corruption zero a file - help!!

2006-03-09 Thread Noel Faux
To clarify, when set on, every time it hits this error, postgres will rezero that block? Michael Fuhr wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:57:46PM +1100, Noel Faux wrote: Given that this seems problem has occurred a number of times for a number I've written a small step by

[GENERAL] apparent loss of sys tables!! - help

2006-03-15 Thread Noel Faux
Hi all, Has anyone had this problem? while in psql: monashprotein=> \d alignment ERROR: column c2.reltablespace does not exist monashprotein=> \d region ERROR: column c2.reltablespace does not exist monashprotein=> monashprotein=> \d ERROR: relation "pg_catalog.pg_roles" does not exist Any

Re: [GENERAL] apparent loss of sys tables!! - help

2006-03-15 Thread Noel Faux
Klint Gore wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:33:26 +1100, Noel Faux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Has anyone had this problem? while in psql: monashprotein=> \d alignment ERROR: column c2.reltablespace does not exist monashprotein=> \d region ERROR: column c2.reltablesp

Re: [GENERAL] apparent loss of sys tables!! - help

2006-03-15 Thread Noel Faux
a64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13) (1 row) Please reply to all, ensuring that the post is placed on the pqsql-general mailing list. Klint Gore wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:51:03 +1100, Noel Faux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a multi-part m

Re: [GENERAL] apparent loss of sys tables!! - help

2006-03-15 Thread Noel Faux
Chris wrote: Noel Faux wrote: On the client machine: $ psql --version psql (PostgreSQL) 8.1.3 At the host: monashprotein=> select version(); vers

Re: [GENERAL] How to join to delete

2006-05-02 Thread Noel Faux
Hi Chris, I think the best bet would be to use a nested select: Delete from A WHERE A.bk = (SELECT bk FROM B) where A.ak = x; Cheers Noel Chris Velevitch wrote: I'm using pg 7.4.5 on Win XP SP1. I want to delete rows from a table B, but need to join it to another table A in order to select t