Re: [SQL] Holiday Calculations?

2001-09-19 Thread clayton cottingham
clayton cottingham wrote: Brett Schwarz wrote: I couldn't resist, so I went ahead and did all of them. I might be using these in a future app anyways. Again these are Tcl procs, but you may be able to transfer the logical to another language, if you want. if you need this in perl

Re: [SQL] Holiday Calculations?

2001-09-19 Thread clayton cottingham
Brett Schwarz wrote: I couldn't resist, so I went ahead and did all of them. I might be using these in a future app anyways. Again these are Tcl procs, but you may be able to transfer the logical to another language, if you want. if you need this in perl i think Data::Manip might hep:

Re: [SQL] calling a shell script from pl/pgsql

2001-09-10 Thread clayton cottingham
Stephan Szabo wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Jeff Barrett wrote: How can I call a shell script from within a pl/pgsql function that is called as from a trigger. I do not want to interact with the script I just want it to run. I do want the trigger to wait for the script it called to

Re: [SQL] Feature Requests for 7.2 or 7.3 ...

2001-08-03 Thread clayton cottingham
Chris Ruprecht wrote: Hi guys, There are a number of features, I would love to see implemented in a future release of PostGreSQL, more specific, into PL/PGSQL. Is there a central place somewhere, where we (the PostGreSQL user community, I guess that is), is able to see what is planned

Re: [SQL] plperl

2001-06-07 Thread Clayton Cottingham aka drfrog
Time Co-Ordinate Tue, 05 Jun 2001 19:45:55 -0400, The Organism labeled Tom Lane said: clayton cottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how does one execute an sql statement from inside a plperl function? At the moment, one doesn't. This is one of a number of features that have

[SQL] list of returns types for functions

2001-06-02 Thread Clayton Cottingham aka drfrog
is there a list of all possible returns for all procedural language types? aka perl can return these types c can return these .. thanks! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [SQL] execute client application from PL/pgSql

2001-05-11 Thread clayton cottingham
Jack wrote: Is that possible to execute a client application from server site by PL/Pgsql, such as pg_dump? Because my client sites are running Windows OS, or is there any Windows version of all Client Applications come from PostGreSQL V7.1? Jack ---(end of

Re: [SQL] Cannot build PL/Perl ...

2001-05-02 Thread clayton cottingham
did you get this error when you tried to : createlang plperl template1? me too! then i did this find /usr -name libperl.so /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux/CORE/libperl.so and then added that dir {/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux/CORE/} to the /etc/ld.so.conf ldconfig and vroom it all went

Re: [SQL] any proper benchmark scripts?

2001-04-19 Thread clayton cottingham
Justin Clift wrote: Hi Clayton, Was it opening a new connection to the database every time, or did it open one connection each time and pump multiple queries through it? It would be a good things to develop your script and benchmark this both ways. Could become a useful tool for

Re: [SQL] any proper benchmark scripts?

2001-04-18 Thread Clayton Cottingham aka drfrog
hello on the modperl list a good thread was happening called 'fast db access' find attached scripts used to do this here are my results: [drfrog]$ perl fast_db.pl postgres 16 wallclock secs ( 0.05 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.05 CPU) @ 400.00/s (n=20) mysql 3 wallclock secs ( 0.07 usr + 0.00 sys

[SQL] any proper benchmark scripts?

2001-04-17 Thread clayton cottingham
hello: im try to find out how mysql or postgresql perform i was wondering if there are any benchmarking scripts out there? if so please lemme see em try em etc!! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

[SQL] is this proper sql?

2001-04-17 Thread clayton cottingham
hi one of the developers here at work say this should work insert into detail (det_id,det_mas_id,det_date,det_amt) values (0,0,now(),'0'), (1,1,now(),'1'); but when i try that in postgres like: insert into detail (det_id,det_mas_id,det_date,det_amt) values (0,0,datetime'now','0'),

Re: Calling Java from psql (was Re: [SQL] requesting help)

2001-03-29 Thread clayton cottingham
Peter Mount wrote: At 10:33 26/03/01 +0200, Mathijs Brands wrote: Has anybody ever tried calling Java code from a pgsql trigger written in C? Shouldn't this be possible using JNI? This was discussed recently. I'm not exactly a Java expert myself, but this is the way PHP allows you

Re: [SQL] Postgres XML

2001-03-19 Thread clayton cottingham
Najm Hashmi wrote: Hi all, I was just wondering if there is way or some sort of utility to incorporate XML in postgrres. Thanks in advance. ---(end of

Re: [SQL] Quick question MySQL -- PgSQL

2001-03-06 Thread clayton cottingham
"Brett W. McCoy" wrote: On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Josh Berkus wrote: Just a quick question ... I need to do a regular transfer (daily + on demand) of data from a MySQL database to a PostgreSQL database and back again. Can anybody steer me towards a good script for this, or do I have

Re: [SQL] Date question

2001-03-06 Thread clayton cottingham
Francis Solomon wrote: Hi Boulat, stasis=# select (now() + '1 year')::date; ?column? 2002-03-06 (1 row) Hope this helps Francis Hi, Im a little bit stuck here. Does anyone know how to get date in format '-MM-DD' of a date one year from now. So

[SQL] Veering OT opinions please XQL versus XML-QL

2001-01-24 Thread clayton cottingham
just wondering which of these two formats seems best pros and cons of each i know that supposedly xql is simpler in style than XML-QL but XML-QL has some nice sql like syntax the perl modules seem to work nicer too

[SQL] [notion]: a possible language addition: XQL

2001-01-23 Thread clayton cottingham
Hi all: has anyone heard of XQL? XQL is xml sql i just was catching up on some email and noticed this nugget http://www.ibiblio.org/xql/ anyways there is a xml::xql perl module so perl could do it but the ability to spit it right out of pg would be neato

Re: [SQL] How to represent a tree-structure in a relational database

2000-12-13 Thread clayton cottingham
Frank Joerdens wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:04:13AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: Frank, Please look in the list archives. About 2 months ago this topic came up and was discussed extensively (including a creative solution by yours truly). Hm, neither my archives nor a

Re: [SQL] How to represent a tree-structure in a relational database

2000-12-13 Thread clayton cottingham
Mathijs Brands wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:49:51PM -0800, Josh Berkus allegedly wrote: Stuart, I don't think I'd be comfortable with having the node_level column in the table structure. First, because you can derive that value using a function, it's duplicate data. Second,

Re: [SQL] how to execute a C program via trigger ?

2000-12-12 Thread Clayton Cottingham
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 18:20:29 -0800 (PST), S.F. Lee said: Thank for your hint, but I have some questions : 1. Do I have to compile the C program into a shared object (*.so)? yes 2. Do I have to use SPI (SPI is too complicate to me)? My request is very simple. I have a

Re: [SQL] Where Can I find JDBC driver.

2000-12-12 Thread clayton cottingham
Mateusz Mazur wrote: Hello. I wonder where I can find JDBC driver for Postgresql. I think it should be class (sorry I am newbie). I would be very greatfull for quick response. Mateusz. download the source tarball go into src/interfaces/jdbc and follow directions!1 bon appetite!!

Re: [PHP-DB] Re: [SQL] a script that queries database periodically

2000-12-03 Thread clayton cottingham
Roberto Mello wrote: Jason wrote: aolserver is a web/application server. PHP is a server-side scripting language. Why exactly *should* it have a job scheduler? Some (such as myself) might also ask why should a web server have a job scheduler, but that's a thread for a different

[SQL] Re: is there a mysql to postgresql sql converter?

2000-11-23 Thread Clayton Cottingham
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 01:13:23 +0200, Max Fonin said: Can give a link ? can do : http://freshmeat.net/projects/mysql2pgsql/?highlight=convert+sql i havent tried their's did try yours it was nice to have the transactions! On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:45:37 -0800 clayton cottingham [EMAIL

[SQL] Re: is there a mysql to postgresql sql converter?

2000-11-23 Thread clayton cottingham
Max Fonin wrote: Hi. I'm writing MySQL-Postgres dump converter. E.g. it will convert only database dumps produced by mysqldump. It's almost ready, problems are ENUM and SET types. I have problems with types emulation. Maybe someone help me guys ? Anyway, some half-working version

Re: [SQL] psql question

2000-11-23 Thread clayton cottingham
Joe Conway wrote: On machines where I've installed PostgreSQL 7.0.2 from RPM, psql allows use of the up arrow key for history and the escape/tab key for command completion, but on my remote web host (webpipe.net) those keys don't work. What do I need to do to get these features

[SQL] Re: MySQL - Postgres dump converter

2000-11-20 Thread Clayton Cottingham
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:01:33 +0200, Max Fonin said: Hi. MySQL-Postgres dump converter is now available at http://ziet.zhitomir.ua/~fonin/code/my2pg.pl. Still beta and bugsome version but working, supports MySQL ENUMs, near the end are SET emulation. Please help me to test. Max

Re: [SQL] How to call a shell command in rule

2000-10-25 Thread Clayton Cottingham
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 10:44:48 -0700, Jie Liang said: Hi, I want send a e-mail when the rows of mytable reaches 100,000, how? one way is to make a function using perl and use say mail::sender as the module to send the info use the code snippet in perldoc Mail::Sender another