[SQL] moving DB

2000-06-05 Thread rocael
Hi all! well, can somebody tell me how to move a DB (e.g. I have a DB named NET in PC1 under pg6.5.3 and I want to put it in PC2 under pg7.0) should I copy just the data/base/NET/ directory and the paste it in the data/base of the PC2... which are the exactly steps... :o) thanx Rocael ___

[SQL] Is it possible to "truncate" a LOB?

2000-06-05 Thread Stephen Crawley
Suppose that I have created a LOB, written a bunch of data to it, and committed. Is it now possible to rewrite the LOB to contain a lesser amount of data? In other words can I do the equivalent of UNIX open(..., O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC) or ftruncate(...) on a LOB? Or am I forced to delete the exis

Re: [SQL] Vacuum problem in my system ?

2000-06-05 Thread Tom Lane
Fabrice Scemama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No core dump could be found within the data/base/* directories. Hm. When I've seen a backend crash without leaving a core file, it's usually because the backend ran up against the system's per-process memory limit. (Many kernels seem to choose not t

[SQL] nested sub-select ?

2000-06-05 Thread Chris Martin
Hi, Anyone know if Postgresql can replicate this Oracle nested sub-select query (it uses the Oracle CURSOR operator) SELECT deptname, CURSOR (SELECT Empname, Sal FROM emp WHERE emp.deptno=department.deptno) AS Employees FROM department Where deptno=x I want

[SQL] Finding number of updated rows in pl/pgsql

2000-06-05 Thread Aaron Sethman
Is there any easy way to find out the number of rows updated by a update or insert statement in pl/pgsql? I searched the mailing list archives and didn't come up with anything. Oh and BTW doing an insert/update combined with select following won't exactly work as it is possible for this table to

[SQL] Index Scans

2000-06-05 Thread Michael Fork
Oops, ignore that first post :) I am unable to get the following query to use an index scan, any suggestions? Query - SELECT username, acctsessiontime, acctinputoctets, acctoutputoctets FROM radacct WHERE ((tstamp >= '06-04-2000 00:00:00-04') AND (tstamp < '06-05-2000 00:00:00-04') AND (acct

Re: [SQL] Vacuum problem in my system ?

2000-06-05 Thread Fabrice Scemama
No core dump could be found within the data/base/* directories. The cron is executed by user root, but on my system root is a PostgreSQL superuser. Tom Lane wrote: > > Fabrice Scemama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [ vacuum appears to be coredumping ] > > That's odd ... not so much that vacuum

[SQL] Problem with array

2000-06-05 Thread Bernie Huang
Hi, Instead of using select car_name from car_table where car_property[1]='1995'; (*) Can I use where car_property['year']='1995'; in Postgres?? I want to use a more descriptive name than just using index for the array (not just during insertion but as well as to specify it i

RE: [SQL] Default timestamp value

2000-06-05 Thread Rob S.
Thanks very much everyone! > BTW, this *is* covered in the FAQ, see > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq-english.html#4.22 Ahh, but I did look at a FAQ! I just went back and checked the date, I guess I shouldn't have just skimmed down the page: Last updated: Mon Oct 14 08:05:23 EDT 1996.

Re: [SQL] Vacuum problem in my system ?

2000-06-05 Thread Tom Lane
Fabrice Scemama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [ vacuum appears to be coredumping ] That's odd ... not so much that vacuum could be failing, which is probably a garden-variety bug; but it sounds like the postmaster is failing to do the system restart that it should do after one of the backends fai

[SQL] Vacuum problem in my system ?

2000-06-05 Thread Fabrice Scemama
Hi people. For a few days, i've been experiencing some problems. There's a cron-scheduled vacuum, performed every night. But, on the morning, my DBs can't be accessed. Error message says "DB busy, too many connected" (about so). And, ps ax|grep post shows a lot of backends, waiting for an unlock

Re: [SQL] SQL functions - bug?

2000-06-05 Thread Tom Lane
Kovacs Zoltan Sandor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a function "function_y(...)" which returns int4; a table z and > two functions: > CREATE FUNCTION function_x1() RETURNS int4 AS ' > select function_y(any_of_fields_of_table_z) from z; > ' LANGUAGE 'SQL'; > This calls function_y(...) onl

Re: [SQL] Default timestamp value

2000-06-05 Thread Jeff Hoffmann
Tom Lane wrote: > > "Rob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ...but I still don't see how to have the default value of a timestamp to be > > the time at which the individual record is inserted. I just get the time I > > created the table. > Versions before 7.0 are not entirely consistent abou

Re: [SQL] cron job INSERT appears to bail.

2000-06-05 Thread Tom Lane
Allan Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The intranet mirror for the client later grabs the file from the ISP > and attempts the same 'psql -f' but appears to stop after a few > inserts. "Appears to stop" is hardly enough of a problem description to allow useful advice to be given. Does the pro

Re: [SQL] Default timestamp value

2000-06-05 Thread Tom Lane
"Rob S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ...but I still don't see how to have the default value of a timestamp to be > the time at which the individual record is inserted. I just get the time I > created the table. Specifically, what to put where the '?' is at. > ... "TimeDate" TIMESTAMP DEFAULT

[SQL] CREATE FUNCTION- Table as argument

2000-06-05 Thread p . lam
I am running PostgreSQL 6.5.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc egcs-2.91.66. I have currently a table like the following: TABA: a|start|finish -+-+-- R|4| 8 S|6|10 I want the output a table with start incremented by 1, and fininsh as the maximum of fininish in all r

[SQL] [OT] Book on Postgres (Not a question)

2000-06-05 Thread Poet/Joshua Drake
Hello, I know this is off topic but I thought you might like to know that the following book explains how to compile, install and secure postgresql. It can be purchased from http://www.linuxports.com/ (just click on the books) and 20% goes back to the OpenSource Documentation Fund. THe Origina

[SQL] cron job INSERT appears to bail.

2000-06-05 Thread Allan Kelly
Hi, I have mirrored our Web site to a client's intranet, using tried and tested techniques. Every day I generate a new file containing some table drops, some table creates and about 7000 insert statements. This is ftp'd up to our ISP, where a cronjob uses 'psql -f' to update the Website data. Grea

[SQL] SQL functions - bug?

2000-06-05 Thread Kovacs Zoltan Sandor
I realized the following facts using SQL language functions: There is a function "function_y(...)" which returns int4; a table z and two functions: CREATE FUNCTION function_x1() RETURNS int4 AS ' select function_y(any_of_fields_of_table_z) from z; ' LANGUAGE 'SQL'; This calls function_y(...) on

Re: [SQL] Default timestamp value

2000-06-05 Thread Thomas Behr
"Rob S." wrote: > > As a precursor to this question, I read: > > CREATE TABLE > Date/Time Types (and corresponding input/output) > Date/Time Functions > > ...but I still don't see how to have the default value of a timestamp to be > the time at which the individual recor

[SQL] Default timestamp value

2000-06-05 Thread Rob S.
As a precursor to this question, I read: CREATE TABLE Date/Time Types (and corresponding input/output) Date/Time Functions ...but I still don't see how to have the default value of a timestamp to be the time at which the individual record is inserted. I just get the time