On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Peter Headlandpheadl...@actuate.com wrote:
I know, I know, PostgreSQL has Booleans that work very nicely.
Unfortunately, I have to create a schema that will work on Oracle as well as
PostgreSQL, by which I mean that a single set of Java/JDBC code has to work
The most transportable method would be to use either a char(1) or an
int with a check constraint.
mybool char(1) check (mybool in ('t','f'))
mybool int check (mybool =0 and =1)
I would decide depending on the application requirement. If my Oracle
should look similar to PostgreSQL use the
On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 00:13 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote:
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Peter Headlandpheadl...@actuate.com wrote:
I know, I know, PostgreSQL has Booleans that work very nicely.
Unfortunately, I have to create a schema that will work on Oracle as well as
PostgreSQL, by
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Simon Riggssi...@2ndquadrant.com wrote:
Integer works best since it converts easily to boolean
mybool smallint check (mybool in (0, 1))
You can use char also, but the syntax is less clear.
Hm, I was going to suggest using boolean in postgres and making a
I've tried the different wal_sync_method settings and nothing seems to work.
I don't know if it matters, but I'm running PostgreSQL on an XP Embedded
system. Initially, I had most of my tables installed in the default
location, c:\program files\postgresql\8.3\data, on compact flash -- which is
One of our programmers has come to me with a problem. On 3 new Centos 5.3
servers running Postgres 8.2.13 query's are taking 3500ms-5000ms to complete,
where the same query on an older server (same hardware, older software
revisions) the same query on the same data comes back in 50 ms. After
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:33 PM, ja...@aers.ca wrote:
After some investigation it seems that the new server is refusing to use the
index's but if I
limit the number of arguments in the latter part of the statement to 100 then
it works as
expected in the expected amount of time using the
Greg Stark gsst...@mit.edu writes:
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:33 PM, ja...@aers.ca wrote:
After some investigation it seems that the new server is refusing to use the
index's but if I
limit the number of arguments in the latter part of the statement to 100
then it works as
expected in the
