[HACKERS] plpgsql question.

2001-10-05 Thread Bill Shui
Hi, I have encountered a problem with plpgsql and I would appreciated it if anyone could help me with this. If I have a relation say: emp_id | salary --- 1 | 4.00 --- 2 | 45600.00 --- 3 | 4.00 --

Re: [HACKERS] cvs problem

2001-10-05 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, John Summerfield wrote: > > > I don't think I was being rude. It's true I'm no diplomat. I've > > criticised actions (and, I think, with considerable justice), but I've > > not actually criticised people. > > How can your criticis

Re: [HACKERS] cvs problem

2001-10-05 Thread John Summerfield
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday 04 October 2001 09:40 pm, John Summerfield wrote: > > Well, remember I only arrived here in the past two weeks. What I've seen > > has not been reassuring. > > May I be so bold as to suggest your taking a few hours of your time and > reading th

Re: [HACKERS] Unhappiness with forced precision conversion for

2001-10-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: > regression=# select '2001-10-04 13:52:42.845985-04'::timestamp; > timestamptz > > 2001-10-04 13:52:43-04 > (1 row) > > Throwing away the clearly stated precision of the literal doesn't > seem like the right behavior to me. That depends on the ex

Re: [HACKERS] Darwin 1.4 (OS X 10.1) Broken Compile, Snapshot and

2001-10-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Alex Avriette writes: > /usr/bin/ld: -undefined error must be used when -twolevel_namespace is in effect In src/makefiles/Makefile.darwin, add -flat_namespace to CFLAGS_SL. I'm checking in a patch to fix this in 7.2. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

[HACKERS] Rules and missing inserts

2001-10-05 Thread Martín Marqués
I have found some kind of problems with a rule I have on one of my databases, and after some mailling with Tom, and re-checking my logs I find out that the inserts look like the are getting (if I look at the logs) but the data is not there! This is the RULE: CREATE RULE admin_insert AS ON IN

Re: [HACKERS] Unhappiness with forced precision conversion for timestamp

2001-10-05 Thread Thomas Lockhart
> So far, as compared to many other databases, PostgreSQL, remains > pretty close to the standard (at least for our projects). The only > areas that we have had issues with is the default inclusion of the > timezone information when retriving the timestamp information and the > slightly non-stand

Re: [HACKERS] Interval bug

2001-10-05 Thread Tom Lane
Laurette Cisneros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Should I file a bug or is this known (or fixed)? The problem appears to be gone in current development sources: regression=# select interval( 301.00 ); interval -- 00:05:01 (1 row) The particular code you mentioned seems unchanged, so t

Re: [HACKERS] Problem on AIX with current

2001-10-05 Thread Tom Lane
"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Of course the working source is 3rd October. > Tom, do you have an idea what you might have fixed to that effect ? No idea. I've been fixing some portability issues in dynahash.c, but AFAIK they only affected the pgstats collector proce

[HACKERS] Interval bug

2001-10-05 Thread Laurette Cisneros
Howdy hackers, Should I file a bug or is this known (or fixed)? Thanks! Laurette ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Here's the psql ready test and description: -- -- BUG Description: -- A float with zeros on the right of the decimal -- fails conversion to an interval. -- interval ( int ) works -- interval (

Re: [HACKERS] Problem on AIX with current

2001-10-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
> > > > I am quite sure that all AIX Versions accept the CLOBBER method, > > > thus I ask you to apply the following patch, to make it work. > > > > CLOBBER does not work with AIX5L, nor CHANGE_ARGV. (SETPROCTITLE, > > PSTAT and PS_STRINGS can not be used since AIX5L does not have > > appropreat

Re: [HACKERS] Problem on AIX with current

2001-10-05 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
> > > BTW, still I'm getting the stucking backends. New info: a snapshot > > > dated on 10/3 works fine. > > > > I allways have trouble with those different date formats. Do you > > mean, that the problem is fixed as of 3. October, or that an old > > snapshot from 10. March still worked ? > > O

Re: [HACKERS] cvs problem

2001-10-05 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday 04 October 2001 09:40 pm, John Summerfield wrote: > Well, remember I only arrived here in the past two weeks. What I've seen > has not been reassuring. May I be so bold as to suggest your taking a few hours of your time and reading the last six months to a year of the list's archives

Re: [HACKERS] Darwin 1.4 (OS X 10.1) Broken Compile, Snapshot and

2001-10-05 Thread Neil Tiffin
At 9:41 AM -0400 10/5/01, Alex Avriette wrote: >I had a catastrophic crash on one of our webservers here and took the >opportunity to upgrade it. Unfortunately, after the upgrade, I am unable to >compile either 7.1.3 or the current snapshot of postgres. > >The error I get is rather opaque: > >/usr

Re: [HACKERS] Darwin 1.4 (OS X 10.1) Broken Compile, Snapshot and

2001-10-05 Thread Neil Tiffin
At 9:41 AM -0400 10/5/01, Alex Avriette wrote: >I had a catastrophic crash on one of our webservers here and took the >opportunity to upgrade it. Unfortunately, after the upgrade, I am unable to >compile either 7.1.3 or the current snapshot of postgres. > >The error I get is rather opaque: > >/usr

[HACKERS] OSX 10.1

2001-10-05 Thread Serge Sozonoff
Hi All, I am having troubles compiling Postgresql 7.1.3 on OSX 10.1 I have the following error: cut cc -no-cpp-precomp -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -bundle -undefined suppress -bundle -undefined suppress fe-auth.o fe-connect.o fe-exec.o fe-misc.o fe-print.o

Re: [HACKERS] ALTER RENAME and indexes

2001-10-05 Thread Brent Verner
On 05 Oct 2001 at 09:46 (-0400), Tom Lane wrote: | Brent Verner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > 'ALTER TABLE tbl RENAME col1 TO col2' does not update any indices that | > reference the old column name. | | It doesn't need to; the indexes link to column numbers, not column | names. Forgive my inc

Re: [HACKERS] Problem on AIX with current

2001-10-05 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> > BTW, still I'm getting the stucking backends. New info: a snapshot > > dated on 10/3 works fine. > > I allways have trouble with those different date formats. Do you > mean, that the problem is fixed as of 3. October, or that an old > snapshot from 10. March still worked ? Of course the work

Re: [HACKERS] Darwin 1.4 (OS X 10.1) Broken Compile, Snapshot and 7.1.3

2001-10-05 Thread Tom Lane
Alex Avriette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /usr/bin/ld: -undefined error must be used when -twolevel_namespace is in > effect All we know at this point is that Apple changed something between 10.0.4 and 10.1. If you want to look into it and figure out how to fix it, that'd be great. Attached i

Re: [HACKERS] ALTER RENAME and indexes

2001-10-05 Thread Tom Lane
Brent Verner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 'ALTER TABLE tbl RENAME col1 TO col2' does not update any indices that > reference the old column name. It doesn't need to; the indexes link to column numbers, not column names. regards, tom lane ---(end

[HACKERS] Darwin 1.4 (OS X 10.1) Broken Compile, Snapshot and 7.1.3

2001-10-05 Thread Alex Avriette
I had a catastrophic crash on one of our webservers here and took the opportunity to upgrade it. Unfortunately, after the upgrade, I am unable to compile either 7.1.3 or the current snapshot of postgres. The error I get is rather opaque: /usr/bin/ld: -undefined error must be used when -twolevel_

[HACKERS] I NEED HELP

2001-10-05 Thread Fábio Santana
My friends,I'm brazilian and I am developing a project that need to develop a function that returns me the amount of users connected in the bank, and the amount of lock's in a table, and the space in disk placed for one determined database! Can you help me with the solution ? How can I get t

[HACKERS] Windows native version of PostgreSQL.

2001-10-05 Thread mlw
I just finished up some work bringing a Linux/FreeBSD server project to Windows. Enough to test at least. (I have to find a version of getopt() for Windows) What I found was surprising. My server project is like a database cache for Web servers. It is used to keep session information across page

Re: [HACKERS] cvs problem

2001-10-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, John Summerfield wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Stephan Szabo wrote: > > > > of the message this was in response to which appears to be what Lamar was > > responding to. Besides, there's a far cry from a message of constructive > > criticism and the message this was in response

Re: [HACKERS] cvs problem

2001-10-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, John Summerfield wrote: > I don't think I was being rude. It's true I'm no diplomat. I've > criticised actions (and, I think, with considerable justice), but I've > not actually criticised people. How can your criticisms be 'with considerable justice' (justification?) when yo

Re: [HACKERS] Problem on AIX with current

2001-10-05 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
> BTW, still I'm getting the stucking backends. New info: a snapshot > dated on 10/3 works fine. I allways have trouble with those different date formats. Do you mean, that the problem is fixed as of 3. October, or that an old snapshot from 10. March still worked ? Snapshot of 1. Oct 2001 does

Re: [HACKERS] Patch for fixing a few memory leaks

2001-10-05 Thread Teodor Sigaev
>>Tom, I want to notice that initGISTstate is called for every inserting >>value (for each row). I think it's not good, because this function >>called 'fmgr_info' 7 times. 'fmgr_info' call a >>'load_external_function' with execution of sequence search on library >>name. Any suggestion? >> > > fmg

Re: [HACKERS] Problem on AIX with current

2001-10-05 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
> > > I am quite sure that all AIX Versions accept the CLOBBER method, > > > thus I ask you to apply the following patch, to make it work. > > > > CLOBBER does not work with AIX5L, nor CHANGE_ARGV. (SETPROCTITLE, > > PSTAT and PS_STRINGS can not be used since AIX5L does not have > > appropreate h

Re: [HACKERS] Timestamp, fractional seconds problem

2001-10-05 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
> > ... then trailing zeros are hacked out, > > two digits at a time. > > I was wondering why it seemed to always want to produce an even number > of fractional digits. Why are you doing it 2 at a time and not 1? > I should think timestamp(1) would produce 1 fractional digit, not > two digits o

Re: [HACKERS] Problem on AIX with current

2001-10-05 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD
> > I am quite sure that all AIX Versions accept the CLOBBER method, > > thus I ask you to apply the following patch, to make it work. > > CLOBBER does not work with AIX5L, nor CHANGE_ARGV. (SETPROCTITLE, > PSTAT and PS_STRINGS can not be used since AIX5L does not have > appropreate header files