[GENERAL] What is the purpose of PostGIS on PostgreSQL?

2017-01-23 Thread Kased, Razy (Chemistry and Geosciences)
I recently came across this question: "What is the purpose of PostGIS on PostgreSQL?"<http://gis.stackexchange.com/q/223487/35779> and wanted to know what this mailing list had to respond with. ?Thanks,

Re: [GENERAL] how long to wait on 9.2 bitrock installer?

2013-02-28 Thread Ronnie and Sandy
9.2.3, Was running overnight for 17 hours. Cancelled install. May investigate further. Installing to Windows. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/how-long-to-wait-on-9-2-bitrock-installer-tp5723762p5746908.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list

[GENERAL] loading a function from a file

2012-03-26 Thread and
Hi all, I would like to know how to load a user defined function from a file written in pl/pgsql. I have read it on logging psql -h host database < create_some_func.sql but then i am forced to redo the login.Is there another way to do it? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@po

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with plpgsql and FOR loops

2004-06-05 Thread V i s h a l Kashyap @ [Sai Hertz And Control Systems]
rser is getting confused between a FOR IN SELECT loop and a FOR integer loop. If its not top secret we would like to see the code -- Best Regards, Vishal Kashyap Director / Lead Developer, Sai Hertz And Control Systems Pvt Ltd, http://saihertz.rediffblogs.com Jabber IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ :

Re: [GENERAL] boolean to int

2004-03-15 Thread V i s h a l Kashyap @ [Sai Hertz And Control Systems]
Dear Mage , I'm wondering why pgsql doesn't support boolean typecasts like select true::int; Many client applications including php assign 1 to true and 0 to false This was a issue PHP < 4.2 + < PostgreSQL 7.3.x and supports it till now for backward compatibility -- Best

Re: [GENERAL] select statement against pg_stats returns inconsistent

2004-02-25 Thread V i s h a l Kashyap @ [Sai Hertz And Control Systems]
for any kinda answers. -- Best Regards, Vishal Kashyap Director / Lead Developer, Sai Hertz And Control Systems Pvt Ltd, http://saihertz.rediffblogs.com Jabber IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 264360076 --- You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire

Re: [GENERAL] embeding postgre

2004-02-20 Thread V i s h a l Kashyap @ [Sai Hertz And Control Systems]
Dear twosk I heard from somone that i could use PostgreSQL, but I cannot find any information that confirms or denies it. AFAIK There was a discussion on the same topic in Dec2003 please search the list and you will geta solution -- Best Regards, Vishal Kashyap Director / Lead Developer, Sai

Re: [GENERAL] backup and restore questions

2004-02-19 Thread V i s h a l Kashyap @ [Sai Hertz And Control Systems]
process This can work provided the database are on same system and have have same schema not tried though. 2) I read that when dumping and restoring data the insert option is safer but slower than copy? Does anyone know from experience how much slower (especially for a database containing millions

Re: [GENERAL] insertion with trigger failed unexpectedly

2004-01-12 Thread Sai Hertz And Control Systems
Dear Anton Nikiforov, The problem: From the very beginning everything was fine and all records that i was getting from routers were calculated just right. I spent a weeks monitoring and testing my software. Now i have 10.000.000 records in raw table and when i'm inserting data alot of record

Re: [GENERAL] OIDS and its limitations

2004-01-11 Thread Sai Hertz And Control Systems
Hi Amir Khawaja , I have a rather trivial (I hope) question about OID types and PostgreSQL. Since PostgreSQL creates tables "WITH OIDS" by default, I'm wondering if it is bad practice to allow the default behaviour. For example, if I have a database with 60+ tables (all tables

Re: [GENERAL] Parser does not like %ROWTYPE in the RETURNS clause of a

2003-12-24 Thread Sai Hertz And Control Systems
Dear ezra epstein ; Using Postgres 7.4, the function "test" gets this: psql:temp3.sql:10: ERROR: syntax error at or near "%" at character 135 the function "test2" gets this: psql:temp3.sql:10: ERROR: syntax error at or near "ROWTYPE" at character 141 Very odd. The first doesn't even like t

[GENERAL] Unix 2038 And PostgreSQL

2003-12-22 Thread Sai Hertz And Control Systems
Dear all, Before reading all this let me assure you nothing is out of control just DONT PANIC I was just going through the pages of http://www.2038.org and was concerned by the fact my computer using Linux will rollover to Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 after Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 Now

Re: [GENERAL] Excel, OpenOffice and Postgres

2003-12-17 Thread Sai Hertz And Control Systems
Hello javier garcia, Hello Bob; Some time ago I were using Postrges along with Excel via Microsoft Query and ODBC. I just remember that there was a problem when trying to see views but it worked with single tables. Perhaps you can experiment with that. This problem can be over come by

Re: [GENERAL] dump and sequence initilizing

2003-12-15 Thread Sai Hertz And Control Systems
Dear Markus Rebbert , what happens with sequences if i dump a database and i want to reload it? The pg_dump command also dumps the index value of sequences and you do not have to do any thing Just make sure your pg_restore and pg_dump with option --disable-tiggers Regards, Vishal kashyap

Re: [GENERAL] Shell access & send email from PLPGSQL?

2003-12-10 Thread Sai Hertz And Control Systems
Dear Philippe Lang, For e-mail from PgSQL function you need is http://pgmail.sourceforge.net/ Tell me if it help's n one of my project its a great help Regards, V Kashyap ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

[GENERAL] Upgrading to 7.1

2001-04-15 Thread Glen and Rosanne Eustace
Just a quick query, Does the RPM for 7.1 do a pg_dump/restore as part of rpm -Uvh or do I need to do this myself ? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Glen and Rosanne Eustace, GodZone Internet Services, a division of AGRE Enterprises Ltd., P.O. Box 8020

[GENERAL] FW: Porting PostgreSQL to Windows 2000 notes

2001-01-16 Thread Sam and Lisa Snow
Hello All-- Maybe someone here can benefit from what I noticed-- and/or answer my new problem I have run into. Thanks, Sam -Original Message- From: Sam and Lisa Snow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 2:20 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Porting Pos

[GENERAL] User names

2000-12-13 Thread Glen and Rosanne Eustace
is an existing unix/postgres user and changed the password for that entry. This isn't what I wanted to happen. After some experimentation I found that I could add a user xxx to the file with pg_passwd and then edit the file and change the xxx to the correct 14 character name. Is there a de

RE: [GENERAL] mailing list

2000-12-05 Thread Sam and Lisa Snow
have never seen a postgresQL news group on Usenet. It's really a hassle to move all messages in pgsql-general to a separate folder or to cut and paste when replying to a message within a digest. What do you think? Peter -- --

[GENERAL] Weird ODBC problem

2000-03-16 Thread Glen and Rosanne Eustace
I have been trying to get a colleague to update a database on my server using a form I sent him for MS Access. The form was developed using Access'97 and seems to work just fine on my PC. I just emailed the .mdb file. Everything worked well for the first couple of iterations of the fo