[SQL] How can I to solute this problem?

2003-07-29 Thread Christopher Browne
HT solution is to use a Java class implementing a connection pool manager. -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "ofni.smrytrebil@" "enworbbc")) <http://dev6.int.libertyrms.info/> Christopher Browne (416) 646 3304 x124 (land) ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [SQL] duplicate dates

2003-08-01 Thread Christopher Browne
le times :-(. You may also want to be more precise about what you mean by 'date/time fields are the same'. They go down to fractions of a second, so you shouldn't have a huge number of collisions. -- output = ("cbbrowne" "@" "libertyrms.info"

Re: [SQL] INSERT INTO ... SELECT

2003-08-14 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Silke Trissl) would write: > I would like to insert into a table values from a table and user > defined ones. Here is the example: > > I found this statement to insert values from another table: > > INSERT INTO test_table (cust_id, cust_nam

Re: [SQL] A simple way to Create type ...?

2003-09-16 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (ow) writes: > I had a look at "create type" docs and it seems somewhat complex, involving > creation of functions and etc. I hope there's a simpler way for the following: > > How should one declare a new custom type, say, "AddressType" that corresponds > internally to "varchar(50

Re: [SQL] Automated Backup

2003-09-19 Thread Christopher Browne
Oops! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Kumar") was seen spray-painting on a wall: > Is there a way to automate the backup databases using pg_dump (like in SQL server)? If you can come up with a way of automating the running of programs, then I imagine that might be possible. I have heard that a program called

Re: [SQL] virus warning

2003-09-19 Thread Christopher Browne
The world rejoiced as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Huxton) wrote: > I've been getting something similar myself. Roughly 100 per day. Only 100, eh? I have been seeing that many per hour, give or take... -- "aa454","@","freenet.carleton.ca" http://cbbrowne.com/info/x.html People can be set wondering

Re: [SQL] Datafiles for Databases

2003-09-19 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Kumar") wrote: > I was looking for a structure like oracle or ms Sql server in Postgres. What I have > expected is individual > datafiles for individual databases. But i cant fine such items in the > /usr/local/pgsql/data directory. > > Will the p

Re: [SQL] auto_increment

2003-09-20 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Muhyiddin A.M Hayat") wrote: > Ok, but if i do rollback, the auto_increment don't roolback. Right, it's not supposed to. Think about the situation where you have 5 clients connecting to the database and adding records to this table. The current f

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,

Re: [SQL] does postgresql execute unions in parallel?

2003-09-26 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gaetano Mendola) writes: > teknokrat wrote: >> If I have several selects joined with unions does postgresql >> execute the concurrently or not? > > nope. I was talking with Jan about that very idea yesterday; this would seem to be the place where PostgreSQL might take some (poss

Re: [SQL] indexing timestamp fields

2003-10-15 Thread Christopher Browne
m creating a partial index as with: create index by_some_date on my_table(some_date) where some_date is not null; -- "cbbrowne","@","libertyrms.info" <http://dev6.int.libertyrms.com/> Christopher Browne (416) 646 3304 x124 (land) ---(en

Re: [SQL] indexing timestamp fields

2003-10-15 Thread Christopher Browne
teknokrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Christopher Browne wrote: > >> teknokrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>Is it a good idea to index timestamp fields? what about date fields in >>>general? >> If you need to order by a timestamp, then

Re: [SQL] Which is faster SQL or PL/PGSQL

2003-10-19 Thread Christopher Browne
The world rejoiced as [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("George A.J") wrote: > i am converting an MSSQL database to Postgres. there is a lot of procedures to > convert. > > which language is best for functions, SQL or plpgsql. > > which is faster . i am using postgres 7.3.2 Hmm? This doesn't seem to make much

Re: [SQL] Max input parameter for a function

2003-10-20 Thread Christopher Browne
After a long battle with technology,[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Kumar"), an earthling, wrote: > While trying to allocate about 36 input parameters, I got an error saying that the > max input parameter for a function is only 32. > > Is it right? How to overcome this? Because I wanna insert records into a t

Re: [SQL] index and min()

2003-10-26 Thread Christopher Browne
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] transmitted: > SELECT min(inserttime) FROM acc_pb; which takes about 11 seconds to > complete. > > On the mssql server this takes less than 1 second. If you have NO index on inserttime, then the best that can be done is the se

Re: [SQL] numeric and float converts to int differently?

2003-10-28 Thread Christopher Browne
action'); the '001' part is a repeating group, and wherever you terminate it, you lose exactness. -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "ofni.smrytrebil" "@" "enworbbc")) <http://dev6.int.libertyrms.com/> Christopher Browne (416) 646 3304 x124 (land) ---

Re: [SQL] A tricky sql-query...

2003-11-02 Thread Christopher Browne
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Stosberg): > On 2003-10-22, Timo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> You can't have any recursion in an pure sql-query, can you? > > It depends on how you think of recursion, I'd say. You join on the same > table a number of times, by giving it a different alias each time

Re: [SQL] SQL to PLC to diverter gate, can this be done?

2003-11-07 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Razorbak71) would write: > First, I know nothing about PLC's, but I was wondering is there a > way to extract data from a SQL database file, feed that to a PLC is > some manner, and then have the PLC trigger a diverter gate based on > the v

Re: [SQL] transaction management in plpgsql functions

2003-11-09 Thread Christopher Browne
After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, Cris Carampa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> belched out...: > It seems that transaction management statements (begin work...commit > work) are not allowed into plpgsql functions. Is it true? If true, > what happens if I put a DML statement into a function? Is it > au

Re: [SQL] help me...

2003-11-09 Thread Christopher Browne
The world rejoiced as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ron_tabada) wrote: > Hello everyone, Good day! Could anyone help me translate this query > in Microsoft Access to Postgresql. I'm having a difficulty. Pls... > > Query1: > SELECT items.description, Sum(supplieditems.qty) AS SumOfqty > FROM items INNER JOIN s

Re: [SQL] Programatically switching database

2003-11-16 Thread Christopher Browne
Clinging to sanity, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) mumbled into her beard: > ow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> My concern though ... wouldn't pgSql server collapse when faced with >> transaction spawning across 100M+ records? > > No. You're extrapolating from Oracle-specific assumptions again. Or f

Re: [SQL] Stored Procedures

2003-12-28 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (beyaRecords - The home Urban music) wrote: > I am new to this list and the world of postgreSQL, and would like to > know how create stored procedures in postgreSQL. Have you considered looking at the documentation? It is fairly well documented there. % man "CREATE FUNCTION"

Re: [SQL] comparing nulls

2004-01-20 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Gonsalves) would write: > On Tuesday 20 January 2004 19:26, Chris Bowlby wrote: >> Under 7.3.x this option was removed, you need to test via: >> >> SELECT * from table where field IS NULL; > thanx - works in both 7.1 and 7.3 - wh

Re: [SQL] update more than 1 table (mysql to postgres)

2004-02-01 Thread Christopher Browne
Oops! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("treeml") was seen spray-painting on a wall: > I am migrating from MySQL to Postagres. I have problem with postgres > updating 2 tables with one statement. > > In MySQL I can update 2 tables (parent, child) with a statement like this > > UPDATE parent LEFT JOIN child ON par

Re: [SQL] timestamptz - problems

2004-02-09 Thread Christopher Browne
Oops! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Mark Roberts") was seen spray-painting on a wall: > Hi im using 'timestamptz' in a function called: 'getdate' to enter > the start and finish time into a db field, however the date appears > to be inserted into the db in a random format, i wish for it to only > be entered

Re: [SQL] postgresql multiple insert slow

2004-02-21 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Michael L. Hostbaek") would write: > I runs fine - and I get no errors - but it takes almost 25 minutes to > complete.. I tried running the script while just grabbing the rows from > the oracle database and writing to a text file - and th

Re: [SQL] Field list from table

2004-02-26 Thread Christopher Browne
"Jan Pips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I, using SELECT, get the full list of fields from a given table? portfolio=# select column_name, data_type from information_schema.columns where table_catalog = 'portfolio' and table_schema = 'public' and table_name = 'stocktxns'; column_name |

Re: [SQL] User defined types -- Social Security number...

2004-02-29 Thread Christopher Browne
The world rejoiced as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Chaney) wrote: > Look, you're thinking way too hard on this. An SSN is a 9-digit number, > nothing more. There are some 9-digit numbers which aren't valid SSN's, > and you might want to get fancy and create a constraint for that. > > Regardless, yo

Re: [SQL] Trying to make efficient "all vendors who can provide all items"

2004-03-08 Thread Christopher Browne
Clinging to sanity, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mumbled into her beard: > My mind is drawing a blank. Please consider: > TABLE 1: items: list of items in catalog > item_id | item_description > > TABLE 2: vendors: list of vendors who provide 1 or more items > vendor_id | vendor_name > > TABLE 3: item_vend

Re: [SQL] plpgsql vs. SQL in stored procedures

2004-03-31 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ivan Sergio Borgonovo) wrote: > Is there a way to declare variables and use IF in plain SQL, not in > plpgsql inside stored procedures? The forthcoming support for recursive queries using a WITH clause might provide, after a fashion, a way to declare variables. As for IF, there

Re: [SQL] User defined types -- Social Security number...

2004-06-06 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, "Greg Patnude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Josh -- I understand that there are valid and invalid SSN's -- > similar rules apply to zip codes and area codes... > > I tried this: > > SELECT to_char(123456789, '000-00-'); > which yields 123-45-6789 -- nicely,

Re: [SQL] Secure DB Systems - How to

2004-07-14 Thread Christopher Browne
In the last exciting episode, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rajesh Kumar Mallah) wrote: > Sarah Tanembaum wrote: > >>I was wondering if it is possible to create a secure database system >>usingPostgreSQL/PHP combination? >> >>I have the following in mind: >> >>I wanted to store all my( and my brothers and sis

Re: [SQL] what is maximum size of "text" datatype in postgres?

2004-09-13 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Smit") would write: > i wanted to know, what is maximum size of "text" > datatype in postgres. > It is given as "unlimited characters" in the postgres > documentation. > But it doesn't store characters more than 5000. The > connection get

Re: [SQL] How to check postgres running or not ?

2004-09-18 Thread Christopher Browne
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Sandeep Gaikwad") transmitted: > Hello Sir, > I want to know how to check whether postgres database > is running or not ? when I give command like ./postmaster -i &, > whether all databases in that postgres

Re: [SQL] How to check postgres running or not ?

2004-09-19 Thread Christopher Browne
Clinging to sanity, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Worik) mumbled into her beard: > [snip] >> Just to enforce the test is better looking for the entire executable >> path: >> ps aux | grep /usr/bin/postmaster | grep -v grep >> > > Does not work for me! > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps aux | grep /usr/bin/po

Re: [SQL] Export tab delimited from mysql to postgres.

2004-10-11 Thread Christopher Browne
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Theo Galanakis): >     Could you provide a example of how to do this? > >     I actually ended up exporting the data as Insert statements, > which strips out cf/lf within varchars. However it takes an eternity > to import 200,000 records... 24 hours infact Is th

Re: [SQL] Scheduling Jobs In PostgreSQL

2004-11-07 Thread Christopher Browne
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chethana Kuloor) wrote: > Is it possbile to schedule jobs in postgres? No. You may schedule jobs using cron. -- select 'cbbrowne' || '@' || 'ntlug.org'; http://linuxfinances.info/info/spiritual.html "If you were to implement this i

Re: [SQL] create stored procedure from temporary table

2004-11-29 Thread Christopher Browne
Oops! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Nurdin") was seen spray-painting on a wall: > i was wondering, how to create dynamic table like temporary table > but create from function and the result from function toocos i > want count same calculation from other table migh be a multiple > table so i need looping

Re: [SQL] Found Large Files.. what objects are they?

2004-12-01 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Yudie") would write: > I found bunch of large files (more than 1 gb) in one of database directory. > > The files looks like this: > > > 69233123 > > 69233123.1 > > > 69233123.2 > > 69233123.3 > > 69233123.4 > > ...and so on. > > These larg

Re: [SQL] plpgsql.. SELECT INTO ... WHERE FIELD LIKE

2004-12-16 Thread Christopher Browne
Try: SELECT INTO RS ID FROM CUSTOMER WHERE FIRSTNAME LIKE KEYWORD || ''%'' LIMIT 1; You append KEYWORD and a '%' together using ||. You need to use doubled quotes inside the quoted environment; one gets stripped off so that the stored procedure will contain the query SELECT INTO RS ID FRO

Re: [SQL] plpgsql.. SELECT INTO ... WHERE FIELD LIKE

2004-12-16 Thread Christopher Browne
Oops! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Yudie") was seen spray-painting on a wall: > How in plpgsql use LIKE with a variable? > > let say I want to do this query: > SELECT INTO RS id FROM customer WHERE firstname LIKE keyword% LIMIT 1; > > keyword is a variable, in this case I want to find name like 'Jo%' >

Re: [SQL] postgressql.org

2004-12-13 Thread Christopher Browne
e.com" expecting to get information about the US White House (home of the US president), instead of "whitehouse.gov", its actual address. "postgressql.org" seems of pretty dubious value; I wouldn't worry too much about it. -- "cbbrowne&q

Re: [SQL] Postgres performance

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (PFC) writes: >> The reason PostgreSQL is slower is because it (and by extension the team >> behind it) cares about your data. > > Sure, postgres is (a bit but not much) slower for a simple > query like SELECT * FROM one table WHERE id=some number, and > postgres is a lot sl

Re: [SQL] Nested Sets

2005-04-16 Thread Christopher Browne
After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Troels Arvin) belched out: > On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:14:57 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: >> You shouldn't need to do anything special around table >> locking. > > - Except of one wants "True Serializability" (see chapter 12.2 in the > man

Re: [SQL] Debet-Credit-Balance Calculation

2005-04-19 Thread Christopher Browne
Oops! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Muhyiddin A.M Hayat") was seen spray-painting on a wall: > everything is ok, but when record > 100 that query eat all my > cpu process and take a long time, i have wait for 3 mimutes > but query doesn't finish. (pgsql-8.0-1 running on Dual Xeon 2.8 and > 2GB of RAM)

Re: [SQL] How to select from many database ??

2005-04-23 Thread Christopher Browne
Oops! [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Art - Feping) was seen spray-painting on a wall: > i want to select from many databases, for example , i want to select table > master in database A, and table master in database B. > can i do it like this : " select * from A.Master, B.Master " just like > in SQL Serv

Re: [SQL] Make COUNT(*) Faster?

2005-07-08 Thread Christopher Browne
> I'm also claiming that a true count for any active table is > meaningless and am *not* suggesting that effort be spent on trying > to produce such a true count. That's a pretty big assumption that would in fact be WRONG. We have managers interested in counting the number of objects we have arou

Re: [SQL] REINDEX DATABASE

2005-07-26 Thread Christopher Browne
> Hello > > Would you like to advice to use REINDEX DATABASE on regular basis ? > > if (yes) > how it should be connected with VACUUM FULL ANALYZE which is run > regularly ? (reindex before vacuum or vacuum before reindex?) > > else > haw to determine _when_ to run REINDEX ? If you are doing ordi

Re: [SQL] How to secure PostgreSQL Data for distribute?

2005-08-18 Thread Christopher Browne
> Premsun Choltanwanich wrote: > >> Dear All, >> I need to distribute my application that use PostgreSQL as >> database to my customer. But I still have some questions in my mind >> on database security. I understand that everybody who get my >> application database will be have a full contr

Re: [SQL] Design question: Scalability and tens of thousands of tables?

2005-11-04 Thread Christopher Browne
> On Nov 4, 2005, at 9:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> The problem is I am very concerned about scalability with having a >> different >> table created for each custom object. I want to design to site to >> handle >> tens of thousands of users. If each user has 3-5 custom objects the >> data

Re: [SQL] Extract table columns in tabular form

2005-11-05 Thread Christopher Browne
> How do you extract postgresql column names, types and comments in tabular > form, > using an SQL command?. I know they are stored in one of the system tables, but > I don't know which. - Table names are in pg_class - Column names are in pg_attribute, associated to pg_class via "where pg_att

Re: [SQL] Merging rows into one result?

2006-03-11 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Jesper K. Pedersen") would write: > Is it possible to use SQL to merge data into one result? > > A theorethical example to explain: > > tbl_test ( > id integer, > information varchar(25)) > > id | information > ---+-- > 1

Re: [SQL] Good examples of calling slony stored procedures

2006-06-14 Thread Christopher Browne
Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing when [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Mark Adan") wrote: > I looked there already and didn't find what I needed. I saw this web > page from cbbrowne and he briefly talked about using "bare metal" slony > functions, but doesn't have any examples. If you look at the source

Re: [SQL] mail alert

2009-08-14 Thread Christopher Browne
indicate that work is outstanding That is a little better than the "polling daemon" in that it doesn't need to wait the full polling period to start processing new work. Any of those three approaches are quite viable, as long as you're careful to cover scenarios like: -

Re: [SQL] Field or record level encryption / decryption

2009-08-14 Thread Christopher Browne
esql 8.3 I'd suggest referring to the fine manual... http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/pgcrypto.html -- output = reverse("ofni.sailifa.ac" "@" "enworbbc") Christopher Browne "Bother," said Pooh, "Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and l

Re: [SQL] sql error creating function

2006-08-11 Thread Christopher Browne
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("TJ O'Donnell"): > When I psql -f f.sql > I get the following error: > psql:f.sql:10: ERROR: relation "fragset" does not exist > CONTEXT: SQL function "fragments" > >> cat f.sql > Create Or Replace Function fragments(character varying) > Returns setof character varying >

Re: [SQL] RES: Lock Problem

2006-08-24 Thread Christopher Browne
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when [EMAIL PROTECTED] (André José Guergolet) would write: > Sorry, I have a table with 360 rows, in this table I control the state of > machines on network: > > > IpState StateDate > 172.20.0.39 Running 2006-08-23 00:00:0

Re: [SQL] Create Assertion -- Question from a newbie

2006-08-30 Thread Christopher Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Sullivan) wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 04:47:29PM -0400, Gregory Stark wrote: >> >> Do *any* databases implement SQL standard Assertions? > > Somebody must've had an implementation, or it'd never have made it > into the spec ;-) Supposedly, RDB had this feature... O

Re: [SQL] recursive SQL and with clause

2006-11-15 Thread Christopher Browne
After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (chrisj) belched out: > I was just wondering when we could reasonably expect recursive SQL to be > added to Postgres? > > I saw some posts from 2004 that made it sound like it was imminent, > but I guess something went wrong? I believe t

Re: [SQL] Desc Commnad in pgsql?

2008-04-19 Thread Christopher Browne
The world rejoiced as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (VG) wrote: > Hello All, > I like to know how can I achieve the same functionality that is give by desc > commnad in mysql or oracle. > Also specify me the book related to pgsql as a beginner. > Presently my task is going to be communication of ruby with pgs