[HACKERS] Encoding issues

2001-10-10 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
Receiving a request to add ISO 8859-15 and 16, I review the multibyte support code and found several errors in it. 1) There is a confusion between LATIN5 and ISO 8859-5. LATIN5 is not ISO 8859-5, but is actually ISO 8859-9. Should we rename LATIN5 to ISO8859-5 (or whatever) as the encoding

Re: [HACKERS] Connections, table locks, disk space

2001-10-10 Thread Haller Christoph
Hi, I've done some research on your request, but I could not find very much to help you. What I've found about 1) Connections http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?runtime-config.html enable LOG_CONNECTIONS (boolean), LOG_PID (boolean) to log database users 2) Table locks nothing 3)

[HACKERS] Setting Password

2001-10-10 Thread Balaji Venkatesan
Hi List, Iam pretty new to this list as well as PostgreSQL. I hope to find some crucial info from here. Thnx in advance to all those who would contribute to it. Iam basically an Oracle Consultant. At first i would like to clarify how to enforce password for a user i have created. I use the

Re: [HACKERS] TOAST and TEXT

2001-10-10 Thread Jan Wieck
Rod Taylor wrote: It should be noted that there is still a limit of about 1GB if I remember correctly. You're right, there is still a practical limit on the size of a text field. And it's usually much lower than 1GB. The problem is that first, the (encoded) data has to be put

Re: Daily snapshots hosed (was Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [HACKERS] What

2001-10-10 Thread Marc G. Fournier
okay, daily snapshots are now being generated on the new server ... right now, all the mirror sites are stale while Vince does some finishing touches on the mirroring scripts/cgi's ... once he gerts that done, then, from my perspective, we'll be ready for beta ... On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Tom Lane

[HACKERS] pg_dump oid problems

2001-10-10 Thread steve
Apologies for posting to [Hackers], have already posted to [Patches] with no reply. When trying to pg_dump on 7.1.2 ( 7.1.3) I get the following error message: bash-2.04$ pg_dump dwh getTables(): SELECT (for PRIMARY KEY NAME) failed for table nlcdmp. Explanation from backend: ERROR: dtoi4:

Re: [HACKERS] Encoding issues

2001-10-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tatsuo Ishii writes: BTW, should we support ISO 8859-6 and beyond for 7.2? If possible we should. Otherwise people might spread the word that PostgreSQL is not ready for the Euro. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter ---(end

[HACKERS] extract(timezone_hour) funny business

2001-10-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
peter=# select current_timestamp; timestamptz --- 2001-10-10 01:04:54.965162+02 (1 row) peter=# select extract(timezone_hour from current_timestamp); date_part --- -2 (1 row) Plus or minus? peter=# select extract(timezone_hour from

Re: [HACKERS] Mule internal code ?

2001-10-10 Thread Patrice Hd
* Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011010 18:20]: As said in another mail, I have tried to add iso-8859-15 (Latin 9) iso-8859-16 (Latin 10) to PostgreSQL, I think I have done mostly all that's necessary. But I miss two things : ISO-8859-15 and 16! I don't know anything beyond

Re: [HACKERS] Encoding issues

2001-10-10 Thread Patrice Hd
* Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011010 18:21]: Receiving a request to add ISO 8859-15 and 16, I review the multibyte support code and found several errors in it. 1) There is a confusion between LATIN5 and ISO 8859-5. LATIN5 is not ISO 8859-5, but is actually ISO 8859-9. Should we

[HACKERS] iso-8859-15/16 to MULE

2001-10-10 Thread Patrice Hd
I've been looking a bit at the MULE encoding wrt to latin 9 and 10. It seems that there is no support for the Euro at all in it. e.g. when I tried to use recode, which does recognise iso-8859-15 and 16, and convert to MULE, whatever I do, I obtain EUR for the euro sign, OE, oe, s, S, z, Z, Y

[HACKERS] How to add a new encoding support?

2001-10-10 Thread forth
Hi, I need to use some Chinese characters in charset MS950(CP950) but not in Big5. Big5 and MS950 encoding are very much similiar but currently there is no support for MS950 and I will need to add it. I've read files in src/backend/utils/mb directory but still not sure what files to modify. Or

Re: [HACKERS] ALTER RENAME and indexes

2001-10-10 Thread Rod Taylor
Of course, in 7.1 foreign key constraints become rather confused when you rename columns on them. create table parent (id serial); create table child (id int4 references parent(id) on update cascade); alter table parent rename column id to anotherid; alter table child rename column id to junk;

[HACKERS] Patch for OSX 10.1 and Postgresql 7.3.1

2001-10-10 Thread Serge Sozonoff
Hi, It apears that getting Postgres and OSX 10.1 to work is not just a case of some compiler flags. I have attached a patch, not sure who wrote this patch, but it seems to work for me! I am asuming that the author has submitted it to the pgsql team, but if not here it is. Have fun,

Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [HACKERS] What about CREATE OR REPLACE FUNC

2001-10-10 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 October 2001 15:13 To: Dave Page Cc: 'Jean-Michel POURE'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bruce Momjian; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [HACKERS] What about CREATE OR REPLACE FUNC TION? Dave Page

[HACKERS] Mule internal code ?

2001-10-10 Thread Patrice Hd
Hi, As said in another mail, I have tried to add iso-8859-15 (Latin 9) iso-8859-16 (Latin 10) to PostgreSQL, I think I have done mostly all that's necessary. But I miss two things : - latin92mic/mic2latin9/latin102mic/mic2latin10 in conv.c - the leading character value in pg_wchar.h I don't

Re: Temprary issue gripes(was:Re: [HACKERS] cvs problem)

2001-10-10 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday 08 October 2001 09:37 pm, John Summerfield wrote: I don't see for whom the long name would be a problem; certainly if it has been that way for five years, it couldn't have been a serious problem. Ask Marc why he changed it. Correction: Marc Fournier controls the entire disk

[HACKERS] FAQ error

2001-10-10 Thread Bruce Momjian
Our FAQ, item 4.16.2 has: $newSerialID = nextval('person_id_seq'); INSERT INTO person (id, name) VALUES ($newSerialID, 'Blaise Pascal'); Is this correct Perl? I don't see a nextval() function in Perl. Can you call SQL server-side functions natively from Perl? -- Bruce

Re: [HACKERS] FAQ error

2001-10-10 Thread Brent Verner
On 10 Oct 2001 at 17:12 (-0400), Bruce Momjian wrote: | | Our FAQ, item 4.16.2 has: | | $newSerialID = nextval('person_id_seq'); | INSERT INTO person (id, name) VALUES ($newSerialID, 'Blaise Pascal'); | | Is this correct Perl? I don't see a nextval() function in Perl. Can | you

Re: [HACKERS] Mule internal code ?

2001-10-10 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
ISO-8859-15 and 16! I don't know anything beyond ISO-8859-10. Can you give me any pointer (URL) explaining what they are? http://www.evertype.com/sc2wg3.html It links to files describing iso-8859-14 to 16. [snip] Thanks for the info. Well, for the history iso-10646 was 32 bits from

Re: [HACKERS] iso-8859-15/16 to MULE

2001-10-10 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
e.g. when I tried to use recode, which does recognise iso-8859-15 and 16, and convert to MULE, whatever I do, I obtain EUR for the euro sign, OE, oe, s, S, z, Z, Y for the different characters which are specific to 15 for example, and that's even worse for 16. Apparently MULE currently does

Re: [HACKERS] TOAST and TEXT

2001-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Bitmead [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... I don't like the old large object implementation, I need to store very large numbers of objects and unless this implementation has changed in recent times it won't cut it. Have you looked at 7.1? AFAIK it has no particular problem with lots of

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump oid problems

2001-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When trying to pg_dump on 7.1.2 ( 7.1.3) I get the following error message: bash-2.04$ pg_dump dwh getTables(): SELECT (for PRIMARY KEY NAME) failed for table nlcdmp. Explanation from backend: ERROR: dtoi4: integer out of range Several of my tables have

Re: [HACKERS] iso-8859-15/16 to MULE

2001-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, the conversion to/from UTF-8 for ISO 8859-10 or later is pretty easy and should be supported, I think. Actually I already have generated mapping tables for these charsets. I will make patches against current and leave it for the core's decision,

Re: [HACKERS] Patch for OSX 10.1 and Postgresql 7.3.1

2001-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Serge Sozonoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have attached a patch, not sure who wrote this patch, but it seems to work for me! I am asuming that the author has submitted it to the pgsql team, but if not here it is. It has not been submitted, and it certainly won't get accepted as-is (it

Re: [HACKERS] row value constructor bug?

2001-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Tatsuo Ishii [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In my understanding below row value constructors(I hope this term is correct) exaples should return true, but PostgreSQL does not. By my reading, a row value constructor is one of the things in parentheses, while the whole clause is a comparison predicate

[HACKERS] Suitable Driver ?

2001-10-10 Thread Balaji Venkatesan
HI I have to setup PERL to interact with PGSQL. I have taken the following steps. 1.Installation of perl_5.6.0 under Redhat Linux 7.0 2.Installation of POSTGRESQL under Redhat Linux7.0 Both are working perfectly as seperate modules. Now I need to

Re: [HACKERS] Encoding issues

2001-10-10 Thread Karel Zak
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:40:25PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote: Receiving a request to add ISO 8859-15 and 16, I review the multibyte support code and found several errors in it. 1) There is a confusion between LATIN5 and ISO 8859-5. LATIN5 is not ISO 8859-5, but is actually ISO 8859-9.

Re: [HACKERS] Setting Password

2001-10-10 Thread Mike Mascari
You need to change the pg_hba.conf file in your PostgreSQL installation so that password authentication is used. Check out: http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?client-authentication.html for details. Hope that helps, Mike Mascari [EMAIL PROTECTED] Balaji Venkatesan wrote: Hi List,

Re: [HACKERS] Unhappiness with forced precision conversion

2001-10-10 Thread F Harvell
We use timestamps and intervals quite a bit in our applications. We also use several different databases. Unfortunately, the time/date/ interval area is one that is not at all consistent between databases. It makes life particularly difficult when trying to re-use application code. So far, as

Re: [HACKERS] Unhappiness with forced precision conversion

2001-10-10 Thread F Harvell
On Fri, 05 Oct 2001 19:35:48 -, Thomas Lockhart wrote: ... Have you actually used ANSI SQL9x time zones? istm that one offset fits all is really ineffective in supporting real applications, but I'd like to hear about how other folks use it. Fortunately, most of our date/time

Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [HACKERS] What about CREATE OR REPLACE FUNC

2001-10-10 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Jean-Michel POURE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 October 2001 14:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Tom Lane; Bruce Momjian; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] [HACKERS] What about CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION? Dear all, 1) CREATE OR

[HACKERS] Problem in pg_dump 7.1.2 dump order

2001-10-10 Thread Dmitry Chernikov
Hello, In dump file statement which grants permissions on view exists before statement which create view. For tables and sequences permissions dumped in correct order. --TOC Entry ID 124 (OID 150248) GRANT ALL on my_view to group sales; ... skipped --TOC Entry ID 123 (OID 194103) CREATE VIEW

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres server locks up, HELP!

2001-10-10 Thread Ryan
Tom, Bruce, any suggestions? [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ryan) wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I changed the number of shared buffers to 3000 and my database locks on a simple query. I must kill the database with pg_ctl stop -m i. Neither smart nor fast stops appear to succeed. One CPU

Re: [HACKERS] TOAST and TEXT

2001-10-10 Thread Chris Bitmead
Chris Bitmead [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... I don't like the old large object implementation, I need to store very large numbers of objects and unless this implementation has changed in recent times it won't cut it. Have you looked at 7.1? AFAIK it has no particular problem with