Re: [SQL] GiST and full text search

2003-09-22 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Wei Weng wrote: > The production server uses PostgreSQL 7.3.1 right now, so I am only > looking at contrib/tsearch. you may download tsearch2 for 7.3.X from http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearc/V2 > > I read through the README file. It only seems to offer a way

Re: [SQL] Using sql statements in file

2003-09-22 Thread A.Bhuvaneswaran
> 1. put create database, create tables sql statements in a file and > execute through prompt > 2. insert or update data that is put in a file Place your commands in a file & execute them either from the prompt or from psql. Remember to create your file in the below order: 1) create database 2) c

Re: [SQL] Oracle 'connect by prior' now eaiser in 7.3?

2003-09-22 Thread Joe Conway
Merrall, Graeme wrote: Am I right in thinking that recursive procedures and procs returning row sets would allow us to better emulate this behaviour? As anyone looked at it yet? See connectby() in contrib/tablefunc. Someone was working on SQL99 recursive queries but it didn't get done for 7.4 -- p

Re: [SQL] selecting duplicate records

2003-09-22 Thread Christopher Browne
The world rejoiced as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Haller) wrote: >> 1. How to select duplicate records only from a single table using a > select >> query. >> > e.g. > select sid,count(sid) from location group by sid having count(sid)>1; > > Do you get the idea? > Your request is pretty unspecific,

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2003-09-22 Thread Rudi Starcevic
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[SQL] Oracle 'connect by prior' now eaiser in 7.3?

2003-09-22 Thread Merrall, Graeme
I'll start by admitting that I've not looked at it myself yet but I'm just wondering if any others have looked at this yet. A while ago we migrated a complex web-app from Oracle to postgres. It went very well when it came to replace 'connect by prior'. Because we were time poor we couldn't spend

Re: [SQL] Backup of multiple tables

2003-09-22 Thread Bertrand Petit
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 12:34:00AM +0200, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote: > > I've never looked at the code-base of pgsql before, but I'll give it a try. > Don't expect anything real soon tho. If you acheive to add the selection of tables to dump, you may at the same time try to add a simila

Re: [SQL] Backup of multiple tables

2003-09-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 23 Sep 2003 at 0:34, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote: > On Friday 19 September 2003 17:38, Tom Lane wrote: > > > pg_dump can only handle one -t option at a time. It'd make sense to > > allow multiple -t options (likewise -n) but no one's got round to > > improving the code in that particular direct

Re: [SQL] Backup of multiple tables

2003-09-22 Thread Andreas Joseph Krogh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 September 2003 17:38, Tom Lane wrote: > Andreas Joseph Krogh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I usually backup my database with pg_backup without the -t option. But > > now I need to only backup certain tables(say tab1 and tab2), is this >

Re: [SQL] GiST and full text search

2003-09-22 Thread Andrew J. Kopciuch
On Monday 22 September 2003 09:41, Wei Weng wrote: > The production server uses PostgreSQL 7.3.1 right now, so I am only > looking at contrib/tsearch. > tsearch2 is compatible, and available for any version of PosgreSQL 7.3. It is not included in the contrib directory. It is available in CVS he

Re: [SQL] GiST and full text search

2003-09-22 Thread Richard Huxton
On Monday 22 September 2003 16:41, Wei Weng wrote: > The production server uses PostgreSQL 7.3.1 right now, so I am only > looking at contrib/tsearch. > > I read through the README file. It only seems to offer a way to FTS > through one 'text' column in the table. How do I create a 'txtidx' column

[SQL] Using sql statements in file

2003-09-22 Thread Suresh Basandra
Hi,   I would like to do the following using files:   1. put create database, create tables sql statements in a file and execute through prompt 2. insert or update data that is put in a file   Please let me know if there are any examples that lists how sql statements can be  put in a

Re: [SQL] Using sql statements in file

2003-09-22 Thread Wei Weng
try psql -f filename On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Suresh Basandra wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to do the following using files: > > 1. put create database, create tables sql statements in a file and > execute through prompt > 2. insert or update data that is put in a file > > Please let me know i

[SQL] Using sql statements in file

2003-09-22 Thread Suresh Basandra
Hi,   I would like to do the following using files:   1. put create database, create tables sql statements in a file and execute through prompt 2. insert or update data that is put in a file   Please let me know if there are any examples that lists how sql statements can be  put in a

Re: [SQL] GiST and full text search

2003-09-22 Thread Wei Weng
The production server uses PostgreSQL 7.3.1 right now, so I am only looking at contrib/tsearch. I read through the README file. It only seems to offer a way to FTS through one 'text' column in the table. How do I create a 'txtidx' column that combines two or even more 'text' columns in the tabl

Re: [SQL] GiST and full text search

2003-09-22 Thread Richard Huxton
On Monday 22 September 2003 16:02, Wei Weng wrote: > Hi all. > > I have been doing a little research on how to do full text search under > postgresql, and GiST seems to be the way to go. But the documentation on > this is pretty lacking and I wonder if there are better sources that > describe the d

[SQL] GiST and full text search

2003-09-22 Thread Wei Weng
Hi all. I have been doing a little research on how to do full text search under postgresql, and GiST seems to be the way to go. But the documentation on this is pretty lacking and I wonder if there are better sources that describe the details on how to implement full text search with GiST. Tha

Re: [SQL] auto_increment

2003-09-22 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:15:04 +0400, sad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 20 September 2003 10:23, you wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 06:10, Muhyiddin A.M Hayat wrote: > > > How to Create auto_increment field in PostreSQL. > > > Can I create them using Trigger. > > > > Use the SERIAL

Re: [SQL] selecting duplicate records

2003-09-22 Thread Christoph Haller
> 1. How to select duplicate records only from a single table using a select > query. > e.g. select sid,count(sid) from location group by sid having count(sid)>1; Do you get the idea? Your request is pretty unspecific, so if this is not what you're asking for, try again. Regards, Christoph ---

[SQL] Backup error - Please help

2003-09-22 Thread Senthil Kumar S
Hi,   I have 2 versions of Postgres server 7.2 & 7.3.4 installed on Linux server 7.3. I have not started the Postgres Server 7.2 which is located at /var/library/pgsql.   I am running and using only 7.3.4 located at /usr/local/pgsql.   After I login, I come to the /usr/local/pgsql/bin and the

Re: Fw: [SQL] Backup error - Pls help

2003-09-22 Thread Richard Huxton
On Monday 22 September 2003 13:15, Kumar wrote: > Dear Friend, > I understood what you are saying. But could you pls tell me how to change > the path of the pg_dump so that it should point to > /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump There's a guide on the Linux Documentation Project here: http://www.tldp.

Fw: [SQL] Backup error - Pls help

2003-09-22 Thread Kumar
Dear Friend, I understood what you are saying. But could you pls tell me how to change the path of the pg_dump so that it should point to /usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_dump Please help - Original Message - From: "Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Huxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "psql" <[EMA

Re: [SQL] Backup error - Pls help

2003-09-22 Thread Kumar
While I issue which pg_dump it is showed me /usr/local/pg_dump But how to run the backup utility pg_dump to backup my database. - Original Message - From: "Richard Huxton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "psql" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 3:2

[SQL] zero-length string

2003-09-22 Thread Chris_Wu
All Hello, Now I'm upgrade postgresql from 7.2.1 to 7.3.3. But It'can't use zero-length string . It raised error "patoi zero-length string". I use redhat linux 7.3. How to solve this problem. Thanks Chris.Wu ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [SQL] Backup error - Pls help

2003-09-22 Thread Richard Huxton
On Monday 22 September 2003 10:01, Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 versions of Postgres server 7.2 & 7.3.4 installed on Linux server > 7.3. I have not started the Postgres Server 7.2 which is located at > /var/library/pgsql. RedHat 7.3 I guess you mean? > I am running and using only 7.3.4 located

Re: [SQL] Unique Constraint Based on Date Range

2003-09-22 Thread Manfred Koizar
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:55:34 -0400, Kevin Houle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > SELECT INTO result * FROM table_rates WHERE > effective_date >= NEW.effective_date AND > expiry_date <= NEW.expiry_date AND > cost = NEW.cost; > IF FOUND THEN >RAISE EXCEPTION ''record ove

[SQL] Backup error - Pls help

2003-09-22 Thread Kumar
Hi,   I have 2 versions of Postgres server 7.2 & 7.3.4 installed on Linux server 7.3. I have not started the Postgres Server 7.2 which is located at /var/library/pgsql.   I am running and using only 7.3.4 located at /usr/local/pgsql.   After I login, I come to the /usr/local/pgsql/bin and th