Re: [GENERAL] how can I create the DML for an existing database - within an application

2006-04-13 Thread Magnus Hagander
I want to get the output from pg_dump --struct-only --table=whatever inside a programm. Of course I could call pg_dump in a seperate process and capture the output and all; but ... as PGAdmin is doing it someway, I strongly suspect there is a kind of call to recreate the DML language

Re: [GENERAL] how can I create the DML for an existing database - within an application

2006-04-13 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Magnus Hagander Sent: 13 April 2006 08:40 To: Harald Armin Massa; pgsql-general Subject: Re: [GENERAL] how can I create the DML for an existing database - within an application I want to get

[GENERAL] unattened dump

2006-04-13 Thread Paolo Sala
Hi all I am a newbe in postgres and I'm trying to obtain an unattended dump to pgsql. I mean, I've tryed to use pg_dump using the -U flag but I havn't found a way to pass a password in a unattended way. So I have to guess the only solution is to configure pg_hba.conf to use ident as

Re: [GENERAL] how can I create the DML for an existing database - within an application

2006-04-13 Thread Dave Page
From: Harald Armin Massa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 April 2006 09:37To: Dave PageSubject: Re: [GENERAL] how can I create the DML for an existing database - within an application Dave, AFAIK, pgadmin opens a pipe to pg_dump.Yes, when creating an actual

Re: [GENERAL] unattened dump

2006-04-13 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 10:35:55AM +0200, Paolo Sala wrote: Hi all I am a newbe in postgres and I'm trying to obtain an unattended dump to pgsql. I mean, I've tryed to use pg_dump using the -U flag but I havn't found a way to pass a password in a unattended way. So I have to guess the only

[GENERAL] Is a high tab_reloid worrying?

2006-04-13 Thread John Sidney-Woollett
I just added a new table to a slony relication set. The new table seems to have a really high tab_reloid value of 94,198,669 I'm using Slon 1.1.5 with pg 7.4.6 and 7.4.11 on unix On the master I see (wcprogallery is the new table added to set 4) tab_id|tab_reloid|tab_relname

Re: [GENERAL] [Slony1-general] Is a high tab_reloid worrying?

2006-04-13 Thread Hannu Krosing
Ühel kenal päeval, N, 2006-04-13 kell 10:06, kirjutas John Sidney-Woollett: I just added a new table to a slony relication set. The new table seems to have a really high tab_reloid value of 94,198,669 ... Is this something I should be worried about? Can I find out where all the intermediate

[GENERAL] corrupted item pointer:???

2006-04-13 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
hi.basic information:machine: desktop computer, with sata hard drive, no bad blocks. 2g ram.AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2600+system: linux debian testing, using 2.6.11 kernel.postgresql: 8.1.3 compiled by hand using: ./configure \ --prefix=/home/pgdba/work \ --without-debug \ --disable-debug \

Re: [GENERAL] corrupted item pointer:???

2006-04-13 Thread Richard Huxton
hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: hi. basic information: machine: desktop computer, with sata hard drive, no bad blocks. 2g ram.AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2600+ system: linux debian testing, using 2.6.11 kernel. postgresql: 8.1.3 compiled by hand using: ... version() - PostgreSQL 8.1.3 on

Re: [GENERAL] [Slony1-general] Is a high tab_reloid worrying?

2006-04-13 Thread John Sidney-Woollett
My tables are defined WITHOUT OID - does that make a difference? John Hannu Krosing wrote: Ühel kenal päeval, N, 2006-04-13 kell 10:06, kirjutas John Sidney-Woollett: I just added a new table to a slony relication set. The new table seems to have a really high tab_reloid value of 94,198,669

Re: [GENERAL] corrupted item pointer:???

2006-04-13 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On 4/13/06, Richard Huxton dev@archonet.com wrote: Hmm - I believe that means a data/index block was corrupted.indices were recreated (reindex table), so i think this is data related problem. Have you seen any crashes, or hardware-related errors in your logs?nope. uptime is over 40 days.the

Re: [GENERAL] unattened dump

2006-04-13 Thread Paolo Sala
Martijn van Oosterhout scrisse in data 04/13/06 10:47: On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 10:35:55AM +0200, Paolo Sala wrote: Hi all I am a newbe in postgres and I'm trying to obtain an unattended dump to pgsql. I mean, I've tryed to use pg_dump using the -U flag but I havn't found a way to pass a

Re: [GENERAL] Is a high tab_reloid worrying?

2006-04-13 Thread Christopher Browne
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Sidney-Woollett) transmitted: I just added a new table to a slony relication set. The new table seems to have a really high tab_reloid value of 94,198,669 I presume the database instance has been around for a while?

[GENERAL] Regex with patterns in table field

2006-04-13 Thread pgdb
Hi, like to know how, if possible, for patterns asattribute in a table to be used in a regex search with a fixed string. The query should therefore return the rows that have matching patterns with the single text. Regards pgdb Free POP3 Email from

[GENERAL] How to compile PostGreSQL on Windows 64 bits ?

2006-04-13 Thread DANTE ALEXANDRA
Hello List, After having compiled and installed PostGreSQL on IA64, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS, I had to do the same thing on Windows 64 bits... I have read that PostGreSQL wasn't test on Windows 64 bits, is it still correct ? My problem is to find how obtain an Unix/Linux environnement

Re: [GENERAL] How to compile PostGreSQL on Windows 64 bits ?

2006-04-13 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of DANTE ALEXANDRA Sent: 13 April 2006 14:02 To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Cc: DANTE ALEXANDRA Subject: [GENERAL] How to compile PostGreSQL on Windows 64 bits ? Hello List, After having

Re: [GENERAL] Regex with patterns in table field

2006-04-13 Thread A. Kretschmer
am 13.04.2006, um 12:47:38 + mailte pgdb folgendes: HTMLDIV class=bgcolor STYLE=background-color: ;DIV DIV DIV DIVHi,/DIV DIVnbsp;/DIV DIVlike to know how, if possible, for patterns asnbsp;attribute in a table to be used in a regex search with a fixed string. The query should

[GENERAL] the integer type

2006-04-13 Thread Zahir Lalani
Hello All I have only recently started to use Postgresql and have a problem. I am using v8.1 on windows. I cannot seem to get the DB to accept either INT or INTEGER as a type when using the admin tool. Only INT2 or INT4 work. I even downloaded Navicat trial and this has the same issue. Is there a

[GENERAL] browser shows garbage instead of UTF-8 characters

2006-04-13 Thread Sadm sadm
Hello! I have a PostgreSQL database with UTF-8 encoding. It stores russian characters. When I fetch a record from this database and output it to the web browser as html page, it looks like a garbage instead of normal russian characters. I'm using html with meta http-equiv=Content-Type

[GENERAL] posting request

2006-04-13 Thread Anton Andreev
I want to post some questions. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match

Re: [GENERAL] case insensitive match in unicode

2006-04-13 Thread Balazs . Klein
This perl function doesn't work for me. I keep getting a Cannot decode string with wide characters at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/i386-linux/Encode.pm line 166 error Do you have any suggestion? Thanks Balázs ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if

[GENERAL]

2006-04-13 Thread Sadm sadm
Hello! I have a PostgreSQL database with UTF-8 encoding and Resin application server. When I fetch a record from database using jdbc connection and output it to the web browser as html page, it looks like a garbage instead of normal russian characters. html meta http-equiv=Content-Type

Re: [GENERAL] Is a high tab_reloid worrying?

2006-04-13 Thread John Sidney-Woollett
Thanks for the reassurance. You're right the db has been around for a while. Doea anyone know if OIDs for data and system (DDL) objects from the same number generator? John Christopher Browne wrote: In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John

Re: [GENERAL] posting request

2006-04-13 Thread chris smith
On 4/13/06, Anton Andreev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to post some questions. Go ahead and post them :) We don't bite :) -- Postgresql php tutorials http://www.designmagick.com/ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading through

Re: [GENERAL] browser shows garbage instead of UTF-8 characters

2006-04-13 Thread Harald Armin Massa
Sadm,what is the encoding setting of your database driver?What happens if you put out the retrieved Data to a console or a debug window?Have you analyzed the garbage, what is it? Escaped Characters? Hungarian? Arabian? Chinese?? How do you fetch a record, how do you output it to THE Web browser?

Re: [GENERAL] the integer type

2006-04-13 Thread chris smith
I have only recently started to use Postgresql and have a problem. I am using v8.1 on windows. I cannot seem to get the DB to accept either INT or INTEGER as a type when using the admin tool. Only INT2 or INT4 work. I even downloaded Navicat trial and this has the same issue. Is there a

Re: [GENERAL] how to prevent generating same clipids

2006-04-13 Thread Ian Harding
This problem has been solved, by the use of sequences. If you can't use them as a default, you can use them instead of MAX(clipid) You would use NEXTVAL(clipid_seq) assuming you had first done CREATE SEQUENCE clipid_seq; SELECT SETVAL('clipid_seq', (select MAX(clipid) from whatevertable));

[GENERAL] table as hashtable

2006-04-13 Thread Anton Andreev
Hi, Can I use a Postgre table as hashtable\\? when I do select where column='test', I want this to be done by hashtable, not linear, not by b-tree. I do not need to sort, sum or else I just want to get the value as fast as possible. 10x to anyone answering me Cheers, Anton

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] RH9 postgresql 8.0.7 rpm

2006-04-13 Thread Gaetano Mendola
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Devrim GUNDUZ wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 13:07 +0200, Gaetano Mendola wrote: I was able to create it with: --nodeps --define 'buildrhel3 1' --define 'build9 1' I'll be hppy if you send the RPMs directly to me; so that I can upload

Re: [GENERAL] Select first ten of each category?

2006-04-13 Thread Brent Wood
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Benjamin Smith wrote: I'm stumped on this one... I have a table defined thusly: create table items ( id serial, category integer not null references category(id), name varchar not null, price real, unique(category, name)); I think this should work select *

Re: [GENERAL] the integer type

2006-04-13 Thread chris smith
On 4/14/06, Zahir Lalani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Chris I am using pgAdmin III. Created a table, then started adding fields. This is where the problem hits - the drop down does not give you an INTEGER option, so you cannot shoose it. Also I tried creating a script in the query view and

Re: [GENERAL] table as hashtable

2006-04-13 Thread Richard Huxton
Anton Andreev wrote: Hi, Can I use a Postgre table as hashtable\\? It's PostgreSQL or Postgres, BTW when I do select where column='test', I want this to be done by hashtable, not linear, not by b-tree. I do not need to sort, sum or else I just want to get the value as fast as possible.

Re: [GENERAL] corrupted item pointer:???

2006-04-13 Thread Tom Lane
hubert depesz lubaczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4/13/06, Richard Huxton dev@archonet.com wrote: Hmm - I believe that means a data/index block was corrupted. indices were recreated (reindex table), so i think this is data related problem. AFAICS, the only non-index-related occurrence

Re: [GENERAL] posting request

2006-04-13 Thread Peter L. Berghold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 chris smith wrote: We don't bite :) much. :-D - -- Peter L. Berghold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those who fail to learn from history are

[GENERAL] export from views

2006-04-13 Thread Tomas Lanczos
Hello everybody, I am quite a newbie in the database business, so sorry for stupid questions. Is there any convenient and simple method/tool to export data from views to file, something like COPY TO (file) from a table? I am using WinXP and Postgresql 8.1. Many thanks in advance Tomas

Re: [GENERAL] export from views

2006-04-13 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Apr 13, 2006, at 23:58 , Tomas Lanczos wrote: Is there any convenient and simple method/tool to export data from views to file, something like COPY TO (file) from a table? In psql, take a look at \o (and \? while you're at it). Hope this helps. Michael Glaesemann grzm myrealbox com

Re: [GENERAL] the integer type

2006-04-13 Thread Tony Caduto
chris smith wrote: What error do you get? I'm sure pgAdmin will show something. Try it from console: psql.exe dbname create table t1(a int); (Always CC the list, someone else might be able to help you if I don't know the answer). It's not a error, pgAdmin III simply does not display the

Re: [GENERAL] browser shows garbage instead of UTF-8 characters

2006-04-13 Thread Leif B. Kristensen
On Thursday 13 April 2006 13:12, Sadm sadm wrote: Hello! I have a PostgreSQL database with UTF-8 encoding. It stores russian characters. When I fetch a record from this database and output it to the web browser as html page, it looks like a garbage instead of normal russian characters. I'm

Re: [GENERAL] the integer type

2006-04-13 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Caduto Sent: 13 April 2006 16:19 To: chris smith Cc: Zahir Lalani; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] the integer type It's not a error, pgAdmin III simply does not

Re: [GENERAL] the integer type

2006-04-13 Thread Tony Caduto
Dave Page wrote: Which allows you to use any custom datatype or domain that you like. double precision == float8 (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype.html) which works just fine. Regards, Dave. Actually if you try and type in integer in the combobox, it accepts the

Re: [GENERAL] the integer type

2006-04-13 Thread Zahir Lalani
This is exactly how I felt - It made me wonder whether I should go back to MS SQL - the whole UI experience is much better. But now that I have seen lightning - hopefully it will get easier. Also, I was trying to connect this to ColdFusion/Dreamweaver. Since the field was defined as int4,

Re: [GENERAL] the integer type

2006-04-13 Thread Tony Caduto
Zahir Lalani wrote: This is exactly how I felt - It made me wonder whether I should go back to MS SQL - the whole UI experience is much better. But now that I have seen lightning - hopefully it will get easier. Also, I was trying to connect this to ColdFusion/Dreamweaver. Since the field was

Re: [GENERAL] the integer type

2006-04-13 Thread Zahir Lalani
Tony Just a thought. I have spent the last couple of weeks googling for admin tools for Postgres - and never came across yours! Zahir PG Lightning Admin was created with input from several MS SQL server DBAs who just absolutely detested pgAdmin III. We where converting a large MS SQL

Re: [GENERAL] corrupted item pointer:???

2006-04-13 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On 4/13/06, Richard Huxton dev@archonet.com wrote: All looks fine. Can you isolate the row(s) in question that seem to bethe problem? Then we can have a look at the system columns.http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/ddl-system-columns.html i ran the test to find it. as soon as i will get it

Re: [GENERAL] corrupted item pointer:???

2006-04-13 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On 4/13/06, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hubert depesz lubaczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4/13/06, Richard Huxton dev@archonet.com wrote: Hmm - I believe that means a data/index block was corrupted. indices were recreated (reindex table), so i think this is data related problem.AFAICS,

Re: [GENERAL] corrupted item pointer:???

2006-04-13 Thread Tom Lane
hubert depesz lubaczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4/13/06, Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAICS, the only non-index-related occurrence of that error message is in PageRepairFragmentation, which is invoked by VACUUM. I'd say it indicates a real problem and you shouldn't ignore it.

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL's XML support comparison against other RDBMSes

2006-04-13 Thread Balazs . Klein
Maybe add to it the insert/update data in tables based on an XML (a'la MS updategram) Balázs ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

[GENERAL] Where is client/server compatibility documented?

2006-04-13 Thread Wes
Where can I find documentation on what client library version interoperate with which server versions? I've been unable to find anything in the manual or archives. The only thing I've found is some information in the archives on certain psql versions. Is there a compatibility matrix somewhere

Re: [GENERAL] Where is client/server compatibility documented?

2006-04-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 15:06, Wes wrote: Where can I find documentation on what client library version interoperate with which server versions? I've been unable to find anything in the manual or archives. The only thing I've found is some information in the archives on certain psql versions.

Re: [GENERAL] Off-Topic: DBMS Market Research

2006-04-13 Thread Ron Mayer
Renato Cramer wrote: Can someone where I can found DBMS Market Researches? What institutes publish reliable researchs? Gartner, IDC? Note it's hard for any company to provide reliable research that spans both open-source and non-open-source products. For example, one company I'm familiar with

Re: [GENERAL] Regex with patterns in table field

2006-04-13 Thread pgdb
Hi Andreas, strange but I don't see html from my original email received from the mailing list, hope this reply is ok:) If I'm not wrong, the example you've provided is trying to return matching rowsfrom multiple patterns and texts as inputs in the regex search. The text in regular

Re: [GENERAL] Regex with patterns in table field

2006-04-13 Thread chris smith
On 4/14/06, pgdb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Andreas, strange but I don't see html from my original email received from the mailing list, hope this reply is ok:) If I'm not wrong, the example you've provided is trying to return matching rows from multiple patterns and texts as inputs in