[SQL] Creating an aggregate function

2000-09-09 Thread Roberto Mello
y. Anybody has any ideas or worked with CREATE AGGREGATE before? Sorry about the long email and TIA. -Roberto Mello -- Roberto Mello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - GNU/Linux Reg.User #96240 Computer Science - Utah State University USU Free Software and GNU/Linux Club, President http://fslc.usu.edu - http://www.brasileiro.net/roberto

[SQL] Isolation and Concurrency in PG functions?

2000-09-10 Thread Roberto Mello
cause transactions are not supported in functions (anybody knows when will this be around?). Thanks, -Roberto Mello -- Roberto Mello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] - GNU/Linux Reg.User #96240 Computer Science - Utah State University USU Free Software and GNU/Linux Club, President http://fslc.usu.edu -

[SQL] UNION in views

2000-11-06 Thread Roberto Mello
Hi all, I am part of the team that's porting the ArsDigita Community System (ACS), a toolkit to create community-oriented db-backed websites, from Oracle to PostgreSQL. We call the projet OpenACS. We are thinking of using PG 7.1b for the port (since it'll take some time, a

Re: [SQL] Requests for Development

2000-11-09 Thread Roberto Mello
Josh Berkus wrote: > > Tom, Bruce, Jan, etc.: > > As a PGSQL developer and business customer, I wanted to make some > public requests as to the development path of PGSQL. While, obviously, > you will develop the functionality *you* are interested in, I thought it > might be valuable to

Re: [SQL] Using Array-Values in subselect

2000-11-14 Thread Roberto Mello
enacs.org and arsdigita.com's web/db web bulletin boards, you'll find several hits. -Roberto Mello P.S: I know this doesn't directly anwser your question, but points you to where to find the answer for yourself. -- Computer ScienceUtah State Universit

Re: [SQL] Requests for Development

2000-11-17 Thread Roberto Mello
les on the documentation. I'd be glad to finish it up, add more things to it and then put it somewhere for review, comments, suggestions, additions, etc. Part of this document will be on how to port Oracle PL/SQL to Postgres' PL/SQL and PL/Tcl. - Roberto Mello ---

Re: [SQL] how many rows? [was Re: fetching rows]]

2000-11-17 Thread Roberto Mello
"Robert B. Easter" wrote: > If someone has done it a better way, I'd like to hear how. However, > sometimes it is possible to cache a count(*) value somewhere in the database > so it doesn't have to be found everytime - it depends on your database and > what the select is if you can store the co

Re: [SQL] Persistent Connects (pg_pconnect)

2000-11-22 Thread Roberto Mello
Itai Zukerman wrote: > > Not sure if this is related, but under the non-threading Apache > server, you get 1 persistent connection per Apache process. I don't > think you can be sure which process gets the page with the connection > request, so if you have a limit of, say, 50 processes, and your

Re: [SQL] a script that queries database periodically

2000-11-27 Thread Roberto Mello
"Poul L. Christiansen" wrote: > > I was thinking of writing up a PHP script and put into crontab, which is > > somehow easier than a shell script, but PHP is an apache module, so I > > cannot execute PHP under crontab (it has to be executed in a browser > > right?). I guess a shell script is nec

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

2000-11-27 Thread Roberto Mello
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 list :) Because

Re: [SQL] OpenACS

2000-11-24 Thread Roberto Mello
Edmar Wiggers wrote: > > Is there any PostgreSQL developer working on the OpenACS (PG version of the > ArsDigita Community Sytem) project? > > I have installed it and I am very much interested. There are a lot of small > bugs though, mostly related to Oracle->Postgres migration, and some which >

Re: [SQL] String function page incorrect?

2000-11-30 Thread Roberto Mello
Jonathan Ellis wrote: > > I'm trying to find the correct function that returns the location of a > substring within a string. Looking at > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/user/x2731.htm, it gives the Function name as > "textpos" but in the Example column it uses "position". But neither one > wor

Re: [SQL] I can be a BUG?

2000-12-01 Thread Roberto Mello
Tom Lane wrote: > > It kinda sounds like your wife created those tables in template1. > > Duplicating template1's contents into new databases isn't a bug, > it's a feature ;-) I've seen this behaviour too. Yesterday I pg_dumpall my 7.01 db compiled from scratch and loaded in PG 7.02 ins

Re: [SQL] I can be a BUG?

2000-12-01 Thread Roberto Mello
"Ross J. Reedstrom" wrote: > > When I went into psql, I was some of my databases with all the pg_* > > tables. Why? Also, if I dropdb the database and createdb it again, it's > > as if I never deleted it. Is that normal/bug/feature? Why? > > > > Ah, the Debian PostgreSQL package uses a dif

Re: [SQL] Postgres closing the connection too fast with php4+apache

2000-12-13 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:55:03AM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > despite this i still get sometimes the dreaded: > Warning: 45 is not a valid PostgreSQL link resource in > /home/bboett/www/fibu/includes/global.php on line 344 >Erreur durant la requete conn = Resource id #45 Pardo

Re: [SQL] postgres

2000-12-13 Thread Roberto Mello
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:44:55PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > Mr. Daoust, > > You have reached the PostgreSQL SQL developers mailing list. We are > not PostgreSQL sales people, and we have no marketing information to > sell you. Please have a clue. Errr... forgive me, but maybe

Re: [SQL] Four Odd Questions

2001-02-02 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 04:37:34PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: > Folks, > > 1. Has anyone had experience with trying to link Informix's 4GL as a > procedural language extension for PostgreSQL? ANyone care to > speculate? I happen to have access to a couple of former Informix > employees ...

[SQL] Contributing Documentation to PG

2001-02-11 Thread Roberto Mello
I finally came around to writing some extra documentation for PL/PgSQL (and maybe PL/Tcl) and how to do PL/SQL-to-PL/PgSQL porting. I downloaded the documentation sources, intending to use its nice configure/make scheme but I can't find the configure script as described in the curr

[SQL] PL/PgSQL FOR syntax

2001-02-16 Thread Roberto Mello
Hi, What's the correct syntax to access rows in a FOR loop? I'm writing a PL/PgSQL doc and seem to be making a mistake somewhere. I am referring to this: [<>] FOR record | row IN select_clause LOOP statements END LOOP; How do I access the

Re: [SQL] Help Retrieving Latest Record

2001-02-16 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:41:09AM -0500, Steve Meynell wrote: > > I know this doesn't work but I need something like it. > or something like > > select * from basket where max(date) and fruit='Apples'; > This would yield me: > 15Apples July 20, 1999

[SQL] PL/SQL-to-PL/PgSQL-HOWTO beta Available

2001-02-17 Thread Roberto Mello
Hi all, I finished the beta version of my PL/SQL-to-PL/PgSQL-HOWTO last night and put it in http://www.brasileiro.net/roberto/howto . It explains basic differences between Oracle's PL/SQL and PG's PL/PgSQL and how to port apps from one to the other. It also includes my ins

[SQL] Passing a table to PL/pgSQL

2001-02-24 Thread Roberto Mello
meter that's a member of a table (e.g. users.user_id%TYPE)? - Can a parameter have a default value? Thanks, -Roberto Mello P.S: I searched lots in the PG search engine, but couldn't find anything. -- Computer ScienceUtah S

Re: [SQL] quotes in pl/pgsql

2001-03-07 Thread Roberto Mello
on quotes on the PL/SQL-to-PL/pgSQL-HOWTO. It's called "Quote me on that" and mentions several cases on quote usage in PL/pgSQL and what to do about it. http://www.brasileiro.net/roberto/howto -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux

[SQL] Contribute to the PL/pgSQL CookBook !!

2001-03-15 Thread Roberto Mello
Oh, did I mention that you get your own "PostgreSQL Powered" button when you contribute a function/trigger? :) -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club|--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.br

[SQL] Contribute to the PL/pgSQL CookBook !!

2001-03-15 Thread Roberto Mello
t/postgres Oh, did I mention that you get your own "PostgreSQL Powered" button when you contribute a function/trigger? :) -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club|--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.br

Re: [SQL] drop table in PL/pgSQL

2001-03-23 Thread Roberto Mello
u can't roll back. -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, Web Developer "Carrier detected." Go to the dentist...

Re: [SQL] Help

2001-03-25 Thread Roberto Mello
s jsp files and PostgreSQL does not have a Java virtual machine. But you can use PostgreSQL from your Java program by using JDBC. Look for Jakarta/Tomcat for an open source servlet container. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club|--+ Rober

Re: [SQL] Oracle -> Postgresql migration

2001-03-28 Thread Roberto Mello
w to change some Oracle'isms (e.g. nvl, decode, etc.) to PostgreSQL, sticking to the standard where possible. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club|--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http:/

Re: [SQL] Calling functions inside a function: behavior

2001-04-02 Thread Roberto Mello
et of the functions here? -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 TOFU -> Text Oben Fullquote Unten -

Re: [SQL] Sorting and then...

2001-04-09 Thread Roberto Mello
select max(id) from ; -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 Backup is for whimps!

[SQL] Timezone conversion

2001-04-11 Thread Roberto Mello
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 Ad astra, per ardua nostra. ---(end of broadcast)

Re: [SQL] Function overlaps_interval

2001-04-12 Thread Roberto Mello
ot;PostgreSQL Powered" button! We've been getting many hits from techdocs.postgresql.org, which shows that many are going to techdocs looking for solutions to common problems. Very useful. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ R

[SQL] Debian Package problems

2001-04-13 Thread Roberto Mello
at or anything. I've looked. Thanks, -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] Debian Package problems

2001-04-13 Thread Roberto Mello
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:00:45AM -0600, Roberto Mello wrote: > If I try to connect through psql, it asks me for the password again. > It looks like it's using password auth instead of ident auth, which used > to be the default. > There's nothing pointed in the

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 &

Re: [SQL] Using Random Sequence as Key

2001-04-16 Thread Roberto Mello
| 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 Oh my GOSH! A Prompt!!! HELP A PROMPT ! HELP ! ---

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] Where are the 7.1 RPM's?

2001-04-17 Thread Roberto Mello
-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 -°*'. (Explosive Tagline)

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] maybe Offtopic : PostgreSQL & PHP ?

2001-04-18 Thread Roberto Mello
OT longer. -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 Tetris tagline: @@ o@o @oo oo@

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] plpgsql

2001-04-20 Thread Roberto Mello
c.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 If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. ---(end of broadcast)-

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] Information passing, Perl, Unix and Postgresql Database

2001-05-09 Thread Roberto Mello
-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 _ _ _ _ _ _ || < domino effect at work --

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

[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] 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

Re: [SQL] Is this possible?

2001-05-11 Thread Roberto Mello
| 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 "Data! I thought you were dead!" "No, Sir. I rebooted." --

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] 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] 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

[SQL] Large Objects Documentation

2001-05-25 Thread Roberto Mello
| 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 Be a pessimist. A pessimist is never disappointed. ---(en

Re: [SQL] PGAccess/pgplsql Blues

2001-06-01 Thread Roberto Mello
+| 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'm only a droid and not very knowledgeable about such things. ---

Re: [SQL] php-nuke

2001-06-06 Thread Roberto Mello
du 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 what this button does? *&^(&^)#@$*&_% NO CARRIER --

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] PL/PGSQL

2001-06-12 Thread Roberto Mello
lc.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 Death to all fanatics!!! ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you

Re: [SQL] Better Archives?

2001-06-18 Thread Roberto Mello
at fts.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, Developer Windows? HA! CD\WINDOWS. DELETE *.* AH! That

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] Changing PL/pgSQL triggers

2001-06-21 Thread Roberto Mello
Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.edu - Space Dynamics Lab, Developer *> -| <- Tribble Archery ---(end of broadcast)-

[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

[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

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

Re: [SQL] Group by date_part

2001-07-10 Thread Roberto Mello
but can't you just add a: CASE WHEN count(*) > 0 THEN count(*) ELSE 0 END AS count -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 Dynami

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

2001-07-10 Thread Roberto Mello
-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 Dente lupus, cornu taurus petit. ---(end

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

[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

Re: [SQL] Converting epoch to timestamp?

2001-08-01 Thread Roberto Mello
+ '996654342 seconds'::interval; > ?column? > > 2001-08-01 08:25:42+01 > (1 row) Duh! Guess I could have thought of that. Thanks a lot. -Roberto -- +| Roberto Mello - http://www.brasileiro.net |---

Re: [SQL] Checking for table existence

2001-09-17 Thread Roberto Mello
Table "blah" Attribute | Type | Modifier ---+--+--- something | timestamp with time zone | default 'now' name | character(50) -Roberto -- +| Roberto Mello - http://www.brasileiro.net |+

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

2001-10-23 Thread Roberto Mello
Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.sdl.usu.edu - Space Dynamics Lab, Developer Windows is not the problem. Ignorance is the problem. ---(end of broadcast)

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

2001-10-31 Thread Roberto Mello
e non-standard. -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 NY cops go bar-hopping; LA cops go night-clubbing.

Re: [SQL] PL/pgSQL syntax for strings

2001-11-01 Thread Roberto Mello
know if the \' way of escaping quotes works. I never tried within a PL/pgSQL function. My guess is that it doesn't. -Roberto -- +| http://fslc.usu.edu USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club |--+ Roberto Mello - Computer Science, USU - http://www.brasileiro.net http://www.

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] 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] graphical interface - admin

2002-07-01 Thread Roberto Mello
to -- +| 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 * * * <- Tribbles § § § <- teenage mutant ninja tribbles ---

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] 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] 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] newbie question

2002-07-08 Thread Roberto Mello
tp://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 Why trying to DRINK and DRIVE, while you can SMOKE and FLY? -

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

2002-07-26 Thread Roberto Mello
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Re: RES: [SQL] RES: [GENERAL] set DateStyle to 'SQL'

2002-07-29 Thread Roberto Mello
at http://br.groups.yahoo.com/group/postgresql-br/ The archives are searchable, so you could try there. -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

Re: [SQL] License

2002-08-01 Thread Roberto Mello
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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] [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] 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: 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

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

2002-10-01 Thread Roberto Mello
x.php?functions-conditional.html Hope this works. -Roberto P.S.: Some indenting goes a long way through helping to understand your code. -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU

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

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] Foreign character struggles

2002-10-25 Thread Roberto Mello
to. Thanks, -Roberto -- +|Roberto Mello -http://www.brasileiro.net/ |--+ + Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University + + USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club - http://fslc.usu.edu/ + ---(end of broadcast)

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] 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] 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:

[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] 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

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

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