Re: [HACKERS] Composite GiST indexes?

2004-01-04 Thread Tom Lane
Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it possible to make a composite GiST index? I want to create an > index on a txtidx and a timestamp column - is that at all possible? Yeah. If you have a problem with that, it's grounds for a bug report. Note though that GiST can't handle

[HACKERS] Composite GiST indexes?

2004-01-04 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Is it possible to make a composite GiST index? I want to create an index on a txtidx and a timestamp column - is that at all possible? Chris ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] Anything akin to an Evaluate Statement in Postgresql?

2004-01-04 Thread Tom Lane
A E <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to execute a dynamic sql string using the dynamic record > column name but I getting this error: ERROR: syntax error at or near > "into" at character 8. Does the execute statement not allow the into > keyword It does not :-(. The best way of getting data

Re: [ADMIN] [HACKERS] IEEE 754

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jan 4, 2004, at 6:51 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Dec 29, 2003, at 11:28 AM, Sai Hertz And Control Systems wrote: I would like to share my concerns about the IEEE 754 specification and floating point handling by PostgreSQL . What specifically are your concerns regardin

Re: [HACKERS] time format

2004-01-04 Thread Martin Marques
Quoting Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Martin Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Look deeper into what Christopher said and use casting to get the right > > output: > > prueba=> select now()::timestamp(0); > > There's also "current_timestamp(0)", which is a more standards-compliant > way o

Re: [HACKERS] Anything akin to an Evaluate Statement in Postgresql?

2004-01-04 Thread A E
Thanks. I searched for it and I found something. It tells me to use the perl module. But Tom Lane mentions using the execute command see(http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2001-03/msg01614.php).   Since I have no interest in picking up yet another language, I tried this:      qry := ''se

Re: [HACKERS] (Mis?)Behavior of \copy with -f and \i

2004-01-04 Thread Mark Feit
Peter Eisentraut writes: > > [Patch to make psql's \copy read from the current input, not just > the standard input or a file.] > > I'm not sure about the proposed syntax, but the feature sounds quite > reasonable. I have a patch written for this that uses the "-" syntax: \copy junk

Re: [HACKERS] Remote Procedures

2004-01-04 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Try the contrib/dblink module. Chris A E wrote: Hi, I was wondering is there or will there be support for remote procedures/functions in Postgresql? Not only server to server, but database to database? Such as calling a function in DB "B" from DB "A" or Server Gaia DB "B" from Server Zeus D

Re: [HACKERS] Anything akin to an Evaluate Statement in Postgresql?

2004-01-04 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
Was wondering if there was anything akin to an evaluate statement in Postgresql for dynamic strings? By dint of tricky programming you can a function that can generate and execute arbitrary strings. I believe there's even an example of this in the docs. Chris ---(end o

Re: [HACKERS] [JDBC] PL/Java issues

2004-01-04 Thread Thomas Hallgren
I think much of the issues should be resolved using JDBC and java.sql.ResultSet and a couple of interfaces that can be used when mapping specific types to specific Java objects (SQLData, SQLReader/SQLWriter). A PL/Java needs a "hook" where a connection is initialized for JDBC access in the backend

Re: [ADMIN] [HACKERS] IEEE 754

2004-01-04 Thread Bruce Momjian
Michael Glaesemann wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2003, at 11:28 AM, Sai Hertz And Control Systems wrote: > > I would like to share my concerns about the IEEE 754 specification and > > floating point handling by PostgreSQL . > > What specifically are your concerns regarding floating point handling > and

Re: [HACKERS] PL/Java issues

2004-01-04 Thread Thomas Hallgren
I'm working on a pl/java project and have come quite far with it. Triggers and Functions are both callable, there's support for complex types etc. I have a project on GBorg (pljava) where I'll post all source in a CVS repository in a matter of days (the code is ready but my ISP have a router proble

Re: [HACKERS] time format

2004-01-04 Thread ivan
i know, but i talking about default time output, it would be for time, date and date with time, not formating all the time. On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > Martin Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Look deeper into what Christopher said and use casting to get the right > > output: > >

[HACKERS] Anything akin to an Evaluate Statement in Postgresql?

2004-01-04 Thread A E
Hi,   Was wondering if there was anything akin to an evaluate statement in Postgresql for dynamic strings?   Alex

Re: [HACKERS] Remote Procedures

2004-01-04 Thread Joshua D. Drake
A E wrote: Hi, I was wondering is there or will there be support for remote procedures/functions in Postgresql? Not only server to server, but database to database? Such as calling a function in DB "B" from DB "A" or Server Gaia DB "B" from Server Zeus DB "A"? You could use dblink from cont

[HACKERS] Adding "help" to psql

2004-01-04 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Someone mentioned in passing something on general: > To this day, I have trouble with that in PostgreSQL. > I'm constantly doing: > > psql> help; > ERROR: syntax error at or near "help" at character 1 I seem to recall some past discussion abou

Re: [HACKERS] psql \d option list overloaded

2004-01-04 Thread Alex J. Avriette
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:25:21PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I finally figure it out, I just end up forgetting again later. I still > > have no clue how I'd find the same data without using psql. In MySQL > > I can run those queries from PHP, PERL...etc. I know you can find that > > data

Re: [HACKERS] psql \d option list overloaded

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian wrote: > I am starting to agree that our \d* handling is just too overloaded. > Look at the option list from \?: > Can anyone remember all those? Yes. > I like the idea of adding a new syntax to show that information using > simple SQL command syntax, and putting it in the backend

Re: [HACKERS] Spinlock support for linux-hppa?

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Oliver Elphick wrote: > I can't very easily get cvs tip built on linus-hppa, because I > couldn't make a package of that except for experimental, but > experimental doesn't get processed by the autobuilders. Time to break out the old configure; make; make install... ---(e

Re: [HACKERS] [COMMITTERS] pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml Tag: REL7_4_STABLE r ...

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: > (It might be good if we had a more standardized way of generating > HISTORY though. I tried a couple different versions of lynx and > got a couple different outputs, none perfectly matching whatever > version Bruce is using ...) There lies the problem. Making these text files i

Re: [HACKERS] (Mis?)Behavior of \copy with -f and \i

2004-01-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Mark Feit wrote: > Peter Eisentraut declared that from that point on, stdin would be > whatever stream the \copy command came from. I'd like to propose a > variant on the "FROM" clause which makes good on Peter's declaration > without breaking anything already using FROM STDIN and expecting it > t

Re: [HACKERS] time format

2004-01-04 Thread Tom Lane
Martin Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Look deeper into what Christopher said and use casting to get the right > output: > prueba=> select now()::timestamp(0); There's also "current_timestamp(0)", which is a more standards-compliant way of doing the same thing. rega

Re: [HACKERS] PL/Java issues

2004-01-04 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Joe Conway said: > Andrew Dunstan wrote: >> AFAIK it is not available except for $$$. It looks like the relevant >> standards are parts 1 and 2 of the SQLJ standard (Part 0 covers >> embedded SQL). >> > > For working drafts try: > > http://www.wiscorp.com/sql/sql_2003_standard.zip > (5WD-13-JRT-200

Re: [HACKERS] *sigh*

2004-01-04 Thread Neil Conway
"Simon Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Select count(*) could be evaluated against any available index > sub-tables, since all that is required is to count the rows. That would > be significantly faster than a full file scan and accurate too. PostgreSQL stores MVCC information in heap tuples o

Re: [HACKERS] Need a good .

2004-01-04 Thread Neil Conway
"Thomas Hallgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm working on a pljava module. In it, I'd like to cache some allocated > structures (allocated using TopMemoryContext) using a string as the key. I > need a hash or binary-search table with dynamic size where I can store > arbitrary structures and th

[HACKERS] Remote Procedures

2004-01-04 Thread A E
Hi,   I was wondering is there or will there be support for remote procedures/functions in Postgresql? Not only server to server, but database to database? Such as calling a function in DB "B" from DB "A" or Server Gaia DB "B" from Server Zeus DB "A"?   Alex

Re: [HACKERS] ecpg's minor bug

2004-01-04 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:59:45PM +0800, William ZHANG wrote: > in preproc.y:2021: > ... Thanks for the report. I just fixed it in HEAD and 7.4. Michael -- Michael Meskes Email: Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De ICQ: 179140304, AIM/Yahoo: michaelmeskes, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Go SF 49ers! Go Rhei

Re: [HACKERS] time format

2004-01-04 Thread Martin Marques
El Sáb 03 Ene 2004 18:20, ivan escribió: > ok, bat each time where i want to do select .. a nie tu use to_char, > but it should be in function timestamp_out to convert time to string > it would be easer and faster. Look deeper into what Christopher said and use casting to get the right output: p

Re: [HACKERS] psql \d option list overloaded

2004-01-04 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Couldn't agree more - syntax like SHOW TABLES; is inituitive and somehow "right" - [chuckles] - Mysql does not have *everything* wrong! regards Mark Bruce Momjian wrote: I like the idea of adding a new syntax to show that information using simple SQL command syntax, and putting it in the bac