Re: [SQL] Export Access 97 to PostgreSQL

2008-03-27 Thread Roberto Spier
Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe escreveu: Hello I have a db in MS Access 97 and now i have to import the data in PostgreSQL. I can create the table structure in PostgreSql but in what format can i export the table from Access so Postgresql can read it? Thanks Shavonne Export the data, instea

Re: [SQL] date problems

2007-08-30 Thread Roberto Spier
ivan marchesini escreveu: Dear PG users, I have an access db and I'm trying to pass all to postgres I have used mdbtools to export the schema and all went quite well. then I exported the single tables... to csv.. a lot of table have some timestamp fields containing data as DD/MM/, and I'm no

Re: [SQL] Having the sum of two queries

2007-07-16 Thread Roberto Spier
Dani Castaños escreveu: ... And have the result of both added. I've tried something like SELECT tot.status, COUNT(total) Should be SELECT tot.status, SUM(total) FROM( QUERY A UNION QUERY B ) AS tot GROUP BY tot.status But it doesn't works. It doesn't add the total columns with the same s

Re: [SQL] Open a Transaction

2007-02-08 Thread Roberto Fichera
a melhor das ditaduras >The worst of democracies is still better than the better of dictatorships >http://ezequiasrocha.blogspot.com/ > >---(end of broadcast)--- >TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend > Roberto Fichera. --

Re: [SQL] Query aid

2004-12-16 Thread Roberto Fichera
At 12.21 16/12/2004, you wrote: Am Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2004 11:34 schrieb Roberto Fichera: > Hi all, > > I have a table acct as (username, terminatedate, terminatecause) > I would like to build a query which returns three columns orderd by data > like: > > date_trunc(

[SQL] Query aid

2004-12-16 Thread Roberto Fichera
04| 1 | 1 Thanks in advance. Roberto Fichera. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the ma

Re: [SQL] Database diagram

2004-01-20 Thread Roberto Mello
t.ca/autodoc/ dbVisualizer - gratis, but not Free and many others. Search in freshmeat.net and google. -Roberto -- +----| Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software & GNU/L

Re: [SQL] postgresql and ColdFusion

2003-12-08 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:38:56PM -0800, viola wrote: > Hi, > How to call PostgreSql function from ColdFusion, if > that function returns result set using cursor? Through ODBC. Don't know it they have native access now. -Roberto -- +| Roberto Mel

Re: [SQL] Postgres with OpenSSL

2003-10-18 Thread Roberto Mello
#x27;s described in detail in the Administrator's Manual: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/ssl-tcp.html It's important to note that PostgreSQL has supported SSL connections for much longer than MySQL. -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--

[SQL] select

2003-10-14 Thread roberto
Dear friends, I have this table table work{ day date, hour integer, } select * from work; date | text --- 1-1-20031 1-1-20031 2-1-20035 3-1-200310 5-1-200315 how can i obtain this? date |text --- 1-1-20032 2-1-20035 3-1-2003

Re: [SQL] PL/PGSQL TUTORIAL

2003-10-11 Thread Roberto Mello
, blog, to an entire online education vertical application: dotLRN (www.dotlrn.org) -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software & GNU/L

Re: [SQL] Case Insensitive comparison

2003-09-26 Thread Roberto Mello
next week, after my exams. -Roberto -- +----|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club - http://fslc.usu.edu/ + -

Re: [SQL] Case Insensitive comparison

2003-09-24 Thread Roberto Mello
t know what the impact on index usage would be. > Another problem is in creating function... > How can i create a function that accept and return any type. the type "any" is not > allowing as parameter or return type. Is it possible? i want to create a functio

[SQL] Test, please ignore

2003-09-09 Thread Roberto João Lopes Garcia
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Re: [SQL] logging messages from inside pgPLSQL routine?

2003-08-21 Thread Roberto Mello
he documentation mentions this in several places and examples. -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club - http://fslc.usu.edu/ + C

Re: [SQL] Porting from PL/SQL to PLPGSQL

2003-08-20 Thread Roberto Mello
ow can we convert them into PostGres. You can recompile to change the number of parameters. PG 7.3 can have up to 32 arguments by default, IIRC. -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University

[SQL] PostgreSQL and Journaled File Systems

2003-08-10 Thread Roberto Mello
ks in advance, -Roberto -- +| Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club - http://fslc.usu.edu/ + If I only had a nickel for every time Window

Re: [SQL] Very strange 'now' behaviour in nested triggers.

2003-07-27 Thread Roberto Mello
rnt in corner cases, > like you were. > > Any comments? I think that is a preferred behavior. -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software &a

Re: [SQL] pesky plpgsql

2003-04-03 Thread Roberto Mello
t;non-standard tab character"? Are you saying tab is non-standard or that there's some sort of weird tab character that could be being used in this case? I've always used tabs in my PL/pgSQL functions and it works just fine. -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -h

[SQL] Return type of triger functions from OPAQUE to TRIGGER in 7.3

2003-02-25 Thread Roberto Mello
ype of every trigger for TRIGGER (which means no 7.2 compatibility) or stay stuck in 7.2-land. Are there plans to make the behavior of CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION consistent with that of CREATE FUNCTION? Thanks, -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |

Re: [SQL] get # of rows while doing SELECT with LIMIT at same time ?

2003-02-06 Thread Roberto Mello
ed chunk and cache it in RAM. Users usually only look at the first few pages, so it suffices for most cases. -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Softwar

Re: [SQL] Trigger para fazer log

2003-02-06 Thread Roberto Mello
ar uma "EXCEPTION" e mesmo assim gravar em outra >tabela?!?! Não dá. Quando você levanta uma exceção (exception) o controle volta para quem chamou o gatilho. Não há como contornar, que eu saiba. Você tem que fazer a inserção na relação desejada antes de levantar a exceção (talvez c

Re: [SQL] to_date has beaten me...

2003-02-05 Thread Roberto Mello
ent with Oracle, evidently. > Next I'll be wondering why DECODE doesn't work... Because DECODE is non-standard AFAIK. You can use CASE WHEN in PostgreSQL, which IIRC, started being supported in Oracle 8.1.7. -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |

Re: [SQL] Cross-database references

2003-01-28 Thread Roberto Mello
Look at the dblink module under the contrib section of PostgreSQL. It implements the feature you're looking for. -Roberto -- +| Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Softwa

Re: [SQL] Getting multiple rows in plpgsql function

2003-01-24 Thread Roberto Mello
L documentation that show you how to do it. -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club - http://fslc.usu.edu/ + And God said: E = ½mv²

Re: [SQL] Scheduling Events?

2003-01-23 Thread Roberto Mello
script that invokes psql with the appropriate queries 2) Schedule a cron job to the end of the month Each tool doing its own small task well done. -Roberto -- +----| Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah Stat

Re: [SQL] SQL to list databases?

2003-01-23 Thread Roberto Mello
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:33:55PM -0600, Kristopher Yates wrote: > I have been wondering the same thing.. SELECT * FROM pg_databases ? > >Is there a query that will return all the databases available, similar > >to what psql -l does? The handy "-E" flag to psql h

Re: [SQL] Perform a Select on an Oracle Database from PG

2002-12-19 Thread Roberto Mello
cle and INSERT into PostgreSQL. That assumes the database structure has already been migrated. You might want to look at conversion tools in the PostgreSQL contrib tree (see ftp site) and related articles at http://techdocs.postgresql.org/ -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello

Re: [SQL] Stored Procedure Problem

2002-12-12 Thread Roberto Mello
ot;). The part on returning record sets is only relevant to 7.3 -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software & GNU/L

Re: [SQL] primary + foreign key

2002-12-12 Thread Roberto Mello
Read "An Introduction to Database Systems" by C.J. Date. -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club

Re: [SQL] SQL syntax for concating values in different rows together

2002-12-10 Thread Roberto Mello
f the resolution to query the complaints table and return the concatenation of all the details. That way you could just: SELECT id, foo, bar, concat_resolution_details(id) FROM resolutions; I'd give it a shot at the function, but you didn't give the structure of the

Re: [SQL] Ran out of connections

2002-12-04 Thread Roberto Mello
he box." Oh, it's > free/open-source as well. I second that suggestion. Having used AOLserver for the past few years, it's a very nice application/web server with superb database support. -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ +

Re: [SQL] Ran out of connections

2002-12-04 Thread Roberto Mello
out put of the ps command can be > seen at http://dominion.dyndns.org/~mdiehl/ps.txt Are you using PHP by chance? I've seen this behavior under Apache+PHP before. My "fix" (workaround rather) was to disable persistent connections. -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.b

Re: [SQL] changing the size of a column without dump/restore

2002-11-25 Thread Roberto Mello
update pg_attribute set atttypmod = 204 where attrelid = ( select oid from pg_class where relname = 'bar' ) and attname = 'foo'; -Roberto P.S: I don't know if this has any bad side effects. -Roberto -- +|Roberto M

Re: [SQL] Time difference without intervals

2002-11-10 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 04:11:05PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Roberto Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there any way to make a timestamp difference operation not return an > > interval? I'd like to get hours, minutes and seconds only, not the "1 day&quo

[SQL] Time difference without intervals

2002-11-08 Thread Roberto Mello
al? I'd like to get hours, minutes and seconds only, not the "1 day" or whatnot. lbn-dev=# select now() - '2002-11-07 7:42'::timestamp; ?column? --- 1 day 02:01:57.987838 (1 row) Thanks, -Roberto -- +|Robert

Re: [SQL] CoreReader

2002-10-28 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 10:32:00PM -0500, John Ragan wrote: > > Does anybody know of CoreReader being run against > PostGresql? > > If so, I would appreciate knowing the results. What's CoreReader? -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http:

Re: [SQL] multiple databases

2002-10-28 Thread Roberto Mello
greSQL, called dblink, that allows it. Look at the contrib tree on the PostgreSQL archives. -Roberto -- +| Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club - h

Re: [SQL] Foreign character struggles

2002-10-25 Thread Roberto Mello
rocedure for working with i18n'd characters described in the documentation? I'm looking for something that mentions the specifics of locale interaction and all that. I ask because the sort of question Tim asked is a recurrent one in a portuguese PostgreSQL mailing list I subscribe

Re: [SQL] Select table from other database

2002-10-21 Thread Roberto Mello
A? > (something like "SELECT * FROM A.X ...") See the dblink module in the PostgreSQL contrib tree (available via ftp. packages available). -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State

Re: [SQL] functions that return a dataset or set of rows

2002-10-18 Thread Roberto Mello
7.2 documentation). http://developer.postgresql.org/ -Roberto -- +| Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club - http://fslc.usu.edu/ + Bill Gates made $6.3

Re: [SQL] SELECT with INNER data bases

2002-10-10 Thread Roberto Mello
PostgreSQL contrib/ directory. See its documentation. And here goes the same as above, but in Portuguese :) O PostgreSQL não permite isso por padrão. Você pode usar 7.3 e schemas como foi sugerido, ou usar um módulo chamado dblink com 7.2. Esse módulo está no diretório contrib do PostgreSQL. Ve

[SQL] epoch to date

2002-10-03 Thread Roberto Mello
Hi all, Maybe I missed something obvious, but is there a built-in function to convert epoch to date? I couldn't find it in the documentation for extract and friends. Thanks, -Roberto -- +| Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Gra

Re: PROBLEM SOLVED RE: [SQL] please help with converting a view in oracle into postgresql readably code

2002-10-02 Thread Roberto Mello
th this > for a number of days now. Argh, that's right, I forgot the ENDs. Ugh! Shame on me. Glad that's working for you now. -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University

Re: [SQL] please help with converting a view in oracle into postgresql readably code

2002-10-01 Thread Roberto Mello
LSE 'void') as order_state FROM events_registrations GROUP BY order_id ) o_states WHERE o_states.order_id = o.order_id; Oracle 9 does support SQL92-compliant CASE WHEN. It's much more clear than using cryptic decode to me. See http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/inde

Re: [SQL] Stored Procedures

2002-10-01 Thread Roberto Mello
ished through returning a cursor from the function. See the 7.3 documentation to see how to do that (AFAIK, this is not documented in the 7.2 docs, although it does work). In 7.3 you can return true record sets without the use of cursors. Again, see the docs for 7.3 in the developers site. -Roberto

Re: [SQL] [GENERAL] Monitoring a Query

2002-09-23 Thread Roberto Mello
ave GUC 'log_duration' which will show query duration. Forgive my ignorance here, but what is GUC? And how would I access the query duration? -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State Universi

Re: [SQL] [GENERAL] Monitoring a Query

2002-09-23 Thread Roberto Mello
ackage called "Developer Support" that shows you (among other things) how long a query took to be executed. Very good to finding out slow-running queries that need to be optimized. -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + USU Fre

Re: [SQL] License

2002-08-01 Thread Roberto Mello
the code originated in > Postgres. It is even more free than MySQL. It should be mentioned that PostgreSQL has great community support. If you require commercial support, that is provided by several companies, including Pgsql Inc., Red Hat, Aglio, etc. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU F

Re: RES: [SQL] RES: [GENERAL] set DateStyle to 'SQL'

2002-07-29 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 08:57:12AM -0300, Elielson Fontanezi wrote: > Bom dia Roberto! Bom Dia! :-) > I have just read these documents. > The variables listed in the link below, say about variable that I > cannot > set from a .profile file. > By the way, if I

Re: [SQL] RES: [GENERAL] set DateStyle to 'SQL'

2002-07-26 Thread Roberto Mello
likely there are much more variables rather than PGDATA, > PGHOST and PGPORT. > Where can I find them? Perhaps you're looking for http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?runtime-config.html Please trim your replies to the list. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.e

Re: [SQL] Scan SQL

2002-07-23 Thread Roberto Mello
enerate the source in delphi, but I > need a sql specification (BNF, EBNF) and I do not know where to find it. You could look at how PostgreSQL does its parsing. The source code is open. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mell

Re: [SQL] Editor for pgsql

2002-07-22 Thread Roberto Mello
bian.org ("unstable" distribution) and unpacking them (Debian packages are just "ar" packages with extra headers). -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net/ h

Re: [SQL] Editor for pgsql

2002-07-22 Thread Roberto Mello
QL installations all the time. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net/ http://www.sdl.usu.edu/ - Space Dynamics Lab, Developer Microsoft has been doing a really bad

Re: [SQL] manipulating the database in plsql

2002-07-08 Thread Roberto Mello
an. A PL/pgSQL function is already part of the database it belongs to. It doesn't need a handle. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net/ http://www.sdl.usu.ed

Re: [SQL] newbie question

2002-07-08 Thread Roberto Mello
eresting, more useful, more feature-complete (as far as Relational database servers go), more fun and what you could learn with PostgreSQL you could take to other database servers who are out to be real database servers, not the case with MySQL. AFAIK, MySQL is more common. -Roberto -- +| ht

Re: [SQL] How do i return a dataset from a stored procedure

2002-07-05 Thread Roberto Mello
achive that effect by returning a cursor in PG 7.2 (the section on returning cursors is ommitted from the current docs in www.postgresql.org/idocs, so you need to look at the developer docs - see www.us.postgresql.org). -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Clu

Re: [SQL] pl/pgsql capabilities?

2002-07-01 Thread Roberto Mello
u currently have, as far as I could understand it. I didn't read the procedure very attentively because it's horribly written in all caps, and my eyes started scrambling the letters half way through. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--

Re: [SQL] pl/pgsql capabilities?

2002-07-01 Thread Roberto Mello
res/plpgsql-cursors.html -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu/ USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net/ http://www.sdl.usu.edu/ - Space Dynamics Lab, Developer I wonder if Singapore has any c

Re: [SQL] graphical interface - admin

2002-07-01 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 02:29:27PM +0300, Oleg Bartunov wrote: > > I tried 1.2.4 but didn't found how to configure tora to work > with postgresql. Tora is very nice. I'm using 1.3.5 with PG 7.2 (Debian). I had to compile the PostgreSQL Qt 3 module for it to work. -Rober

Re: [SQL] PL/pgSQL syntax for strings

2001-11-01 Thread Roberto Mello
As the documentation for PL/pgSQL clearly states with several examples, you have to double the quotes in strings> INSERT INTO rtest(xz,yz,xy) VALUES (''(0,2), (1,3)'', ''(1,2), (2,3)'', ''(0,1), (1,2)''); I don't

Re: [SQL] Primary key with oid + name : error, which solution ?

2001-10-31 Thread Roberto Mello
ass Unless it's some OO extension in PostgreSQL that I don't know about, I have never heard of the type "repertory" and "name". I don't think you can use your table name as a data type. BTW, you should also stay away from arrays (IMHO), since they ar

Re: [SQL] can't update 'c:\windows'

2001-10-23 Thread Roberto Mello
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 05:14:32PM +0800, guard wrote: > dear all > > IF update table set field='c:\windows' > but > > c:\windows -> c:windows Errr. Some context please? My crystal ball is still getting fixed :) -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU

Re: [SQL] SQL-Programmer tool and field%type support

2001-10-08 Thread Roberto Mello
You can use function overloading if you need the same function to return different types. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.e

Re: [SQL] CHECK problem really OK now...

2001-09-24 Thread Roberto Mello
e". Give it for free and you'll > get plenty of it when you need some. I couldn't agree more! -Roberto -- +| Roberto Mello - http://www.brasileiro.net |+ Computer Science, Utah State University -http://www.usu.edu USU Free Software &a

Re: [SQL] Checking for table existence

2001-09-17 Thread Roberto Mello
You can have psql output its internal queries and that will give you some insight: roberto@brasileiro:~/documents/pictures$ psql -e foobar Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal. ... foobar=# \d blah * QUERY * SELECT relhasindex, relkind, relchecks, reltriggers,

Re: [SQL] Converting epoch to timestamp?

2001-08-01 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:28:39AM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > Hi Roberto - long time no see. Hey Richard. Yeah. Summer classes and summer jobs :-) I have to finish my expanded "Porting From Oracle" thingy. > > richardh=> select '1970-01-01'::date

[SQL] Converting epoch to timestamp?

2001-07-31 Thread Roberto Mello
I searched the docs for function to convert epoch to timestamps but couldn't find any. Are there any? Thanks, -Roberto -- +----| Roberto Mello - http://www.brasileiro.net |+ Computer Science, Utah State University - http://www.usu.edu

[SQL] How to get the server version??

2001-07-24 Thread Roberto João Lopes Garcia
Hi Is there any way, possible an SQL or pgsql command, to get the server version? Thank you Roberto ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [SQL] Get the tables names?

2001-07-20 Thread Roberto Mello
ot; part is to avoid getting the PostgreSQL internal tables in the output. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.edu - Space Dynamics Lab, Develo

Re: [SQL] Re: [INTERFACES] distinguishing different database connections

2001-07-10 Thread Roberto Mello
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 11:07:35AM -0500, Manika Dey wrote: > > Hi, > Is postgresql database available for WindowsNT platform. Yes. Download CygWin at http://www.cygwin.com and read the documentation in postgresql.org regarding installation on Windows.

Re: [SQL] Group by date_part

2001-07-10 Thread Roberto Mello
SQL: > > SELECT date_part('day', date), count(*) > FROM client_order WHERE (date >= '01/05/01' AND date < '01/06/01') AND > status = 'Processing' > GROUP BY date_part('day', date); Didn't look very hard,

Re: [SQL] CREATE TYPE function examples

2001-07-10 Thread Roberto Mello
t, > hint...) How so? Would you please elaborate? I'm note familiar with the update. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.edu

[SQL] CREATE TYPE function examples

2001-07-10 Thread Roberto Mello
INPUT = my_procedure_1, OUTPUT = my_procedure_2); What would the functions my_procedure_1 and my_procedure_2 look like? Thanks, -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net

[SQL] PL/TclU

2001-07-06 Thread Roberto Mello
I've heard quite a bit about PL/TclU, but what's the difference between that and regular PL/Tcl?? Thanks, -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |------+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.ne

Re: [SQL] Changing PL/pgSQL triggers

2001-06-21 Thread Roberto Mello
ange. Is there an easier way? pgAcess should make it easier. It lets you look at the definition and lets you modify/drop/recreate it. If you're on windows, you might want to look a pgAdmin (available at greatbridge.org). -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU

Re: [SQL] About primary keys.

2001-06-19 Thread Roberto Mello
sileiro.net/postgres/cookbook/view-one-recipe.adp?recipe_id=36 -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.edu - Space Dynamics Lab, Developer TAG

Re: [SQL] Better Archives?

2001-06-18 Thread Roberto Mello
there anything we can do about this? It seems tailor-made for a > PostgreSQL app ... I volunteer for design/SQL if someone can find a PHP > or Java coder for the interface. I think this has already been done, but I don't know if it has been linked from the man pg.org site. It's

Re: [SQL] PL/PGSQL

2001-06-12 Thread Roberto Mello
om trigger. It is > possible to do this without triggers? A little RTFM'ing wouldn't hurt. Currently you can't return tuples from "regular" PL/pgSQL functions. It heard this functionality will make it in 7.2. -Roberto -- +| http://fs

Re: [SQL] Tutorial : using foreign keys, retrictions etc

2001-06-06 Thread Roberto Mello
or examples of functions, head to http://www.brasileiro.net/postgres -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.edu - Space Dynamics Lab, Developer

Re: [SQL] php-nuke

2001-06-06 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 11:14:38PM +0530, Sharmad Naik wrote: > hi, > I wanted to know that does postgresql database support php-nuke This is a php-nuke question. Head to their website and it should be stated there somewhere. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.e

Re: [SQL] PGAccess/pgplsql Blues

2001-06-01 Thread Roberto Mello
ter PGAccess > editing are met with: 'Parse error at or near ""' IIRC, pgaccess does quote-escaping for you, so if you try to write "standard" PL/pgSQL (escaping single quotes), it'll barf this error. Just something to check. -Roberto --

[SQL] Large Objects Documentation

2001-05-25 Thread Roberto Mello
I couldn't find the documentation for dealing with Large Objects on the documentation. Any pointers? The only info I found on Large Objects was on the programming guide, but I'm not looking to write C functions with largo objects. Thanks, -Roberto -- +

Re: [SQL] Give me a suggestion 'START WITH .. CONNECT BY'.

2001-05-16 Thread Roberto Mello
n use to do this. The OpenACS folks used that approach to port Oracle's CONNECT BY to PostgreSQL, so you could probably ask them over at openacs.org/bboard. -Roberto P.S: I plan to add this to my expanded "Porting From Oracle" chapter of the documentation. -- +| htt

Re: [SQL] Exp/Imp Problems...

2001-05-16 Thread Roberto Mello
the PostgreSQL database. For Oracle support you should look for an Oracle forum/list or call their support. http://www.arsdigita.com/bboard (web/db forum) has lots of Oracle users. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto

Re: [SQL] Is this possible?

2001-05-11 Thread Roberto Mello
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 09:16:56PM -0400, Wei Weng wrote: > I have a table that has a serial for primary key. Is it possible to get > the new available primary key right after I insert a row of new entry? Yeah. Se the documentation on triggers. -Roberto -- +

Re: [SQL] Postgres function library

2001-05-11 Thread Roberto Mello
tions there. The more we have, the better. I am going to improve the site in a few days. http://www.brasileiro.net/postgres -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileir

[SQL] Re: [HACKERS] Problems in porting from Oracle to Postgres

2001-05-11 Thread Roberto Mello
Again, you're giving way too little detail. What error? What are you trying? Without this, it's very hard to help. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://w

Re: [SQL] Re: Escape Quotes

2001-05-10 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:17:41PM +1000, Keith Gray wrote: > > The problem is in ipqsql... What the heck is ipsql?? -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.bras

Re: [SQL] Information passing, Perl, Unix and Postgresql Database

2001-05-09 Thread Roberto Mello
t be able to do it with subqueries. PostgreSQL 7.1 has subqueries in the FROM clause as well al regular sebqueries. Read the subqueries chapter of Bruce Momjian's PostgreSQL book for more info, or give us more information. The book is at http://www.ca.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html

Re: [SQL] How to encode and decode password in pgsql !!

2001-05-03 Thread Roberto Mello
I usually do the encrypting in the client application (AOLserver, PHP), store the encrypted password, when the user comes back and enters the password I encrypt it and test it against what's on the database. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux

Re: [SQL] plpgsql

2001-04-20 Thread Roberto Mello
;s to answer your questions that we take the time to write docs in the first place :) Short answer: everything in your function is executed in one transaction. BEGIN and END in PL/pgSQL are NOT the same as in the transaction semantics. -Roberto -- +| http://fsl

Re: [SQL] any proper benchmark scripts?

2001-04-19 Thread Roberto Mello
ich one will survive the fall? Comparing MySQL to PostgreSQL, Oracle or any other real database is like comparing DOS with UNIX, or Emacs with an orange. -Roberto Mello -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Compute

Re: [SQL] Postgresql to Access

2001-04-19 Thread Roberto Mello
hat should I do. Look at the article an http://techdocs.postgresql.org -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.edu - Space Dynamics Lab, Develope

Re: [SQL] maybe Offtopic : PostgreSQL & PHP ?

2001-04-18 Thread Roberto Mello
tch (1994) so I hope this won't be much of an issue (but then PHP 4 still has threading problems AFAIK). Not using persistant connections is just too slow for me. It's instantaneous for AOLserver to generate a page, when the same page with the connection overhead in PHP takes A L

Re: [SQL] maybe Offtopic : PostgreSQL & PHP ?

2001-04-18 Thread Roberto Mello
penNSD world -- where ALL connections are persistant, pooled, and dstributed among threads -- I'd be interested in knowing the quirks of persistant connections in PHP. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Scie

Re: [SQL] Where are the 7.1 RPM's?

2001-04-17 Thread Roberto Mello
e then. > > Do anyone know where the 7.1 RPM's are so that I can install them? Have you tried postgresql.org? I am sure you can find it there :) It looks like it's bogged down with downloads now. You can get it from our mirror at http://fslc.usu.edu/downloads/pub

Re: [SQL] Re: DB porting questions...

2001-04-17 Thread Roberto Mello
handles properly doing auto > increments with the SERIAL type, and does the set/enum conversions? What do you mean by "propely doing auto increments"? What's the problem you are having? -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Softwar

Re: [SQL] Using Random Sequence as Key

2001-04-16 Thread Roberto Mello
use a howto or Bernardo, Do you really need the keys to be random numbers? Can't the keys be sequential numbers, like 1,2,3,4...? That'd be a lot easier to make unique, and as far as the user is concerned, it'll be random for him/her. -Roberto -- +

Re: [SQL] Debian Package problems

2001-04-13 Thread Roberto Mello
l for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system > originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit > company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. :) Remarkably accurate! -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software &

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