Re: [HACKERS] Converting PL/SQL to PL/PGSQL

2001-05-11 Thread Klaus Reger
Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2001 19:23 schrieb Roberto Mello: On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:33:27PM +0200, Klaus Reger wrote: Have you looked at the Porting From Oracle PL/SQL chapter of the PostgreSQL Programmer's Guide? I am expanding that guide to include more things, like queries. The goas

Re: [HACKERS] 7.1.2 release

2001-05-11 Thread Philip Warner
At 01:28 11/05/01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Philip Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes - it's waiting on the problem Zoltan reported (the select from pg_rewrite etc). I can't reproduce the problem on any of my DBs. I've just realized that the problem is a lot simpler than it appears. The given

[HACKERS] AW: WAL and raw devices (was: volume management)

2001-05-11 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB
As an aside, I do however think, that optimizing the O_SYNC path of the WAL code to block writes to larger blocks (doesn't need to be more than 256k) would lead to nearly the same performance as a raw device on most filesystems. (Maybe also add code to reuse backed up logfiles to avoid

[HACKERS] Converting PL/SQL to PL/PGSQL

2001-05-11 Thread Klaus Reger
Hi all! I have to convert functions and procedures from Oracle to PostgreSQL. I looked at all the stuff of the Pg-Homepage and I ask me if there are any tools, that support the conversion. Writing PS/PGSQL tools seems to be a bit hard, because of the existing tool-infrastructure on linux.

Re: [HACKERS] Odd results in SELECT

2001-05-11 Thread Kovacs Zoltan
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Tom Lane wrote: Philip Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone suggest why this might be happening (I think it's in 7.1b4): Can't duplicate in current sources: regression=# SELECT definition as viewdef, regression-# (select oid from pg_rewrite where

Re: [HACKERS] Problem with a rule on upgrade to v7.1.1

2001-05-11 Thread Jon Lapham
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 06:44:39PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Next question: do you still have your 7.0.* DB up? Can you get an EXPLAIN that shows how it did it (on the real tables)? Tom- Okay. I started from a clean slate, by recompiling both Pgv7.1.1 and Pgv7.1RC1, initdb'ing each (after

[HACKERS] PostgreSQL HOWTO Version 42.0 is available for public...

2001-05-11 Thread Al Dev
Hello: I can bet that in about a year's time, PostgreSQL user base will explode. (there is broadband connection everywhere in USA and Europe!!! 63% of american households have internet connection compare that to India, where 0.002% of Indian homes have internet connection and there are 1.1

[HACKERS] Problems in porting from Oracle to Postgres

2001-05-11 Thread Amit
Hi! I am facing two problems in porting from oracle to Postgres SQL. 1 There is a code in Oracle like Type Tstate is table of number(9) index by binary_integer; . To define a runtime table, basically it works like a array, How can it be possible in Postgres SQL, I have tried

[HACKERS] Re: AW: AW: Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

2001-05-11 Thread test
On Tue, 8 May 2001 09:09:08 + (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Giles Lean) wrote: Good performance on such storage systems might depend on keeping as much work up to it as possible, to let the device determine what order to service the requests. Attempts to minimise head movement may hurt, not

[HACKERS] Re: New Linux xfs/reiser file systems

2001-05-11 Thread Yaacov Akiba Slama
Hello ! I am forwarding the following from lkml It seems that the only case when XFS is slow is the 'rm -rf linux' [which can be considered as a good sign for linux]. For all other operation XFS is the winner. YAS MessageFromLKML From: Ricardo Galli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Date: Wed May 09 2001

Re: [HACKERS] Odd results in SELECT

2001-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
See my prior reply to Philip: the problem is that the given string is longer than NAMEDATALEN. When you write rulename = 'foo' (rulename is of type NAME) the untyped literal string 'foo' gets coerced to NAME, ie truncated to fit, and all is well. When you write rulename = ('foo'

Re: [HACKERS] Problem with a rule on upgrade to v7.1.1

2001-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Jon Lapham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I didn't do Pgv7.0.3 b/c I think it may be unnecessary since 7.1RC1 doesn't show this problem, while 7.1.1 does. But, if you really think it necessary, I will repeat his using 7.0.3. No, that seems like useless work. 1) As usual, the 7.1RC1 returns from

Re: [HACKERS] 7.2 items

2001-05-11 Thread Ned Wolpert
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:41:57 +1200 Here is a small list of big TODO items. I was wondering which ones people were thinking about for 7.2? The need for stored procedures that return a record set. This is required to migrate from MSSQL, Interbase and others.

[HACKERS] Re: 7.2 items

2001-05-11 Thread Thomas F. O'Connell
Bruce Momjian wrote: Here is a small list of big TODO items. I was wondering which ones people were thinking about for 7.2? * Allow inherited tables to inherit index, UNIQUE constraint, and primary key [inheritance] i was wondering if there was any thought still being given to Oliver

Re: 7.1.2 schedule (was Re: [HACKERS] Posted 7.1 RPMs for Mandrake 7.2)

2001-05-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 08 May 2001 10:16, Tom Lane wrote: Thomas Lockhart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've built RPMs for 7.1.1, but perhaps we should wait until 7.1.2 to post them given the pgtcl problem? Lamar, what are you planning for 7.1.1? Given my plpgsql screwup, and the dump-7.0-views thing

Re: 7.1.2 schedule (was Re: [HACKERS] Posted 7.1 RPMs for Mandrake 7.2)

2001-05-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 08 May 2001 11:14, Thomas Lockhart wrote: As to the group write permissions, Thomas.. The perms on the RPMS subdir now set g+w. Sorry. I'll need to set my umask a little more appropriately. Great. I'll move things around. btw, I've found that things like scp don't

Re: [HACKERS] Problem with a rule on upgrade to v7.1.1

2001-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Jon Lapham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But, there is definitely something wrong here, b/c the rule that is causing this *should* only need to run the subselect [SELECT count(*) FROM tplantorgan WHERE tplantid=NEW.tplantid AND sampleidNEW.sampleid AND active='t'] one time! My understanding

Re: [HACKERS] Bug or feature?

2001-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Olivier PRENANT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just noticed that (after a upgrade from 7.0.3 to 7.1) the following did'nt work anymore: create tabla a (n1 serial, n2 int); grant all on a to nobody; reconnect as user nobody insert into a (n2) value (1); n1.nextval: you don't have

Re: [HACKERS] Rtree on custom data types; type conversion stops index use.

2001-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Dave Blasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gives the correct results. Postgres automatically uses the agg_points3d() function to convert the BOX3D into an AGG_POINTS3D. Unfortunately, it doesn't use the index scan anymore; it does a sequence scan. First question: what Postgres version? Next

Re: [HACKERS] Rtree on custom data types; type conversion stops index use.

2001-05-11 Thread Dave Blasby
I'm using 7.1.1, and your suggestion WORKED! Thanks for your prompt reply! Refractions Research will be releasing (open source) postGIS very soon (as soon as its in a releasable state). It will contain GIS data types (box3d, multi-point3d, multi-polyline3d, multi-complex-polygon3d) and GIS

Re: [HACKERS] Converting PL/SQL to PL/PGSQL

2001-05-11 Thread Jean-Michel POURE
Hello, PgAdmin http://www.greatbridge.org/project/pgadmin/projdisplay.php is the windows administration interface of PostgreSQL. The new upcoming version features a function, trigger and view IDE. When functions are modified, it is possible to rebuild dependencies. It is the perfect tool for

[HACKERS] Trouble with initdb when the #define NAMEDATALEN = 51

2001-05-11 Thread G. Anthony Reina
I'm not sure if this is still needed in postgres to define the length of a variable/table name. In postgres_ext.h, I changed: #define NAMEDATALEN 32 to #define NAMEDATALEN 51 Everything compiled and installed. However, the initdb started up but then just said that it failed. I did a gmake

[HACKERS] Installation on SGI IRIX 6.5.10

2001-05-11 Thread G. Anthony Reina
In addition to my RedHat 6.2 server, I'm installing Postgres 7.1.1 on an SGI O2 (IRIX 6.5.10). The configure works, but the 'gmake all' fails when it tries to compile 'xact.c': cc-1521 cc: WARNING File = /usr/include/setjmp.h, Line = 26 A nonstandard preprocessing directive is used. #ident

[HACKERS] Addition to: Trouble with initdb when the #define NAMEDATALEN = 51

2001-05-11 Thread G. Anthony Reina
Sorry, I forgot to include that I'm compiling this on RedHat 6.2, Pentium III with Postgres 7.1.1. -Tony I'm not sure if this is still needed in postgres to define the length of a variable/table name. In postgres_ext.h, I changed: #define NAMEDATALEN 32 to #define NAMEDATALEN 51

[HACKERS] inserts on a transaction blocking other inserts

2001-05-11 Thread Rachit Siamwalla
I am having problems with transactions and foreign key constraints in postgres 7.0-3 (RPM distribution). . The foreign key constraints were blocking concurrent transactions. Here is an example where something blocked but shouldn't have blocked: create table hello10 (myid serial primary key,

Re: [HACKERS] Addition to: Trouble with initdb when the #define NAMEDATALEN = 51

2001-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
G. Anthony Reina [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In postgres_ext.h, I changed: #define NAMEDATALEN 32 to #define NAMEDATALEN 51 Everything compiled and installed. However, the initdb started up but then just said that it failed. I have not tried that in awhile, but the last time I did, it

Re: [HACKERS] REL7_1_STABLE tag/branch

2001-05-11 Thread The Hermit Hacker
it is a branch ... for lack of a better way to work it: symbolic names: REL7_1_STABLE: 1.106.0.2 REL7_1_BETA: 1.79 REL7_1_BETA3: 1.86 REL7_1_BETA2: 1.86 REL7_1: 1.102 REL7_0_PATCHES: 1.70.0.2 REL7_0: 1.70 REL6_5_PATCHES: 1.52.0.2

Re: [HACKERS] 7.1.2 release

2001-05-11 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Tom Lane wrote: The Hermit Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't this only critical for those that are using it? Does it affect those that don't use plpgsql? No, but I think it's pretty critical for those that do ... So, why not create a quick patch for those that

Re: [HACKERS] Converting PL/SQL to PL/PGSQL

2001-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With our new /contrib policy, we could put it right in our PostgreSQL CVS contrib. ?? What new contrib policy? I didn't notice any discussion of policy changes ... regards, tom lane ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] REL7_1_STABLE tag/branch

2001-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone confirm that REL7_1_STABLE is a branch and not a tag? Seems to work for committing stuff into the branch, so it must be a branch ... regards, tom lane ---(end of