[GENERAL] typecaste object to array

2010-02-23 Thread beulah prasanthi
i am doing j2ee project .I am getting list from the user i want to insert that list into array in postgres DB by doing this i cannot caste an instance object pgemail to type Type ARRAY Can we caste the object to array .please tell me

[GENERAL] Explaining duplicate rows in spite of unique index

2010-02-23 Thread Albe Laurenz
We recently found a couple of rows in a production database that had identical values in the columns constituting the primary key (The problem surfaced because a pg_dump could not be restored). Now I'm looking for explanations how this could happen. The rows originate from around the time when

Re: [GENERAL] Sorting performance vs. MySQL

2010-02-23 Thread Greg Stark
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Scott Marlowe scott.marl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm relieved that Postgresql itself does not, in fact, suck, but slightly disappointed in the behavior of psql. I suppose it needs to buffer everything in memory to properly format its tabular output, among other

Re: [GENERAL] typecaste object to array

2010-02-23 Thread John R Pierce
beulah prasanthi wrote: i am doing j2ee project .I am getting list from the user i want to insert that list into array in postgres DB by doing this i cannot caste an instance object pgemail to type Type ARRAY Can we caste the object to array .please tell me normally, you would want to store

[GENERAL] make check failed on 8.4.2 install

2010-02-23 Thread adam_pgsql
Hi, I am trying to upgrade to 8.4.2 but my usual compile from source failed $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql_8.4 --with-pgport=6235 --with-perl --with-openssl --with-libraries=/usr/local/ssl/lib/ --with-includes=/usr/local/ssl/include/ $ make $ make check .. ==

[GENERAL] Re: [ADMIN] how do I do dump and restore without bugging with constraint?

2010-02-23 Thread Net Tree Inc.
Why am I keep getting error with version issues I am trying to restore a backup file from a 8.4 postgresql server to a 8.3 postgresql server. [postg...@localhost ~]$ pg_restore -C -d postgres -i isamdb.backup pg_restore.bin: [archiver] unsupported version (1.11) in file header On Tue, Feb

Re: [GENERAL] Sorting performance vs. MySQL

2010-02-23 Thread John Gage
I am under the impression that MySQL does not have anything resembling Postgres' support for regular expressions. Though some might think that regular expressions are a sort of poor man's SQL, in any application which manages large amounts of text they are crucial. Postgres definitely

[GENERAL] Alternative to UPDATE (As COPY to INSERT)

2010-02-23 Thread Yan Cheng CHEOK
I realize update operation speed in PostgreSQL doesn't meet my speed expectation. Is there any fast alternative to UPDATE? as using fast COPY to INSERT operation. Thanks! I am using update in the following case : CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION update_or_insert_statistic(integer, text[], text[],

[GENERAL] pg_dump new version

2010-02-23 Thread Oliver Kohll - Mailing Lists
Hello, May I take a lull between PG releases to ask an upgrade Q? Documentation and people often recommend that when doing a major version upgrade, to dump data from the old server with the new version of pg_dump, since the new pg_dump may have bugfixes not available to the old. I've never

Re: [GENERAL] Sorting performance vs. MySQL

2010-02-23 Thread Yeb Havinga
Greg Stark wrote: You can do \set FETCH_COUNT to have psql use a cursor automatically. It seems like a big win in this case. What would be the downside of having a fetch_count set default in psql? regards Yeb Havinga -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

[GENERAL] pg_dump: aborting because of version mismatch

2010-02-23 Thread Net Tree Inc.
I am keep getting error of mismatch of pg_dump version. how should one dealing with different version of pg_dump normally? C:\Program Files\pgAdmin III\1.8\pg_dump.exe -h 192.168.222.129 -p 5433 -U postgres -F c -b -v -f C:\Documents and Settings\steven\Desktop\template.backup template_postgis

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump: aborting because of version mismatch

2010-02-23 Thread Magnus Hagander
2010/2/23 Net Tree Inc. nettree...@gmail.com: I am keep getting error of mismatch of pg_dump version. how should one dealing with different version of pg_dump normally? C:\Program Files\pgAdmin III\1.8\pg_dump.exe -h 192.168.222.129 -p 5433 -U postgres -F c -b -v -f C:\Documents and

Re: [GENERAL] SET Role doesn't work from Security Definer Function...

2010-02-23 Thread dipti shah
You are correct Tom that I want to perform some portion of function as postgres user and other portion as current user. As per you suggestion I did refactor and separated the portion that needs to be executed as superuser to another function. But the thing is PostGreSQL recognize when I call this

[GENERAL] Implementing an Index Access Method in PG 8.4

2010-02-23 Thread Carsten Kropf
Hi *, I have a question according to the implementation of a new index access method in Postgres. Is it necessary to implement a new resource manager for XLog when I am trying to achieve a stable new index access method? I actually don't know how to register a new ressource manager (if I would

Re: [GENERAL] Sorting performance vs. MySQL

2010-02-23 Thread Greg Stark
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Yeb Havinga yebhavi...@gmail.com wrote: Greg Stark wrote: You can do \set FETCH_COUNT to have psql use a cursor automatically. It seems like a big win in this case. What would be the downside of having a fetch_count set default in psql? They were mentioned

Re: [GENERAL] Implementing an Index Access Method in PG 8.4

2010-02-23 Thread Greg Stark
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Carsten Kropf ckro...@fh-hof.de wrote: I have a question according to the implementation of a new index access method in Postgres. Is it necessary to implement a new resource manager for XLog when I am trying to achieve a stable new index access method?

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump: aborting because of version mismatch

2010-02-23 Thread Net Tree Inc.
Thanks.. This is what I am confused about. I installed a ver. 8.4 postgresql, why it's pg_dump is 8.3.9?? For first one, how could this possibly having problem using pg_dump that comes with the server install?? the first one I backup using pgAdmin III ver. 1.8.4 on a ver 8.3.9 postgreSQL server

Re: [GENERAL] Implementing an Index Access Method in PG 8.4

2010-02-23 Thread Carsten Kropf
Ok, thanks so far. The main question for me now is how to support all the XLog stuff in my own access method. I cannot set it up using the WAL recovery procedure. So, what do I have to insert when doing a XLogInsert for example? I don't know which values to put in there or doesn't it just

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump: aborting because of version mismatch

2010-02-23 Thread Magnus Hagander
2010/2/23 Net Tree Inc. nettree...@gmail.com: Thanks.. This is what I am confused about. I installed a ver. 8.4 postgresql, why it's pg_dump is 8.3.9?? For first one, how could this possibly having problem using pg_dump that comes with the server install?? Comes with what server install? It

[GENERAL] Minor systax error but not able to resolve it...

2010-02-23 Thread dipti shah
Hi, could anyone please help me to sort out below error. I have spent lot of time but couldn't resolved it. mydb= CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_create() RETURNS void AS $BODY$ $cmd = CREATE TABLE test-table(col varchar not null);; spi_exec_query(CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_tmp_func()

[GENERAL] Subqueries or Joins? Problems with multiple table query

2010-02-23 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Hi there, gush, shouldn't be that complicated. But neither in Postgres, nor in Access I succeed in getting the result I wish. I have a couple of times for the Environmental Conventions (Kyoto, Montreal, CITES etc.). They look like this: id_country,year,value 4,1992,0 4,1993,0 4,1994,0

Re: [GENERAL] Subqueries or Joins? Problems with multiple table query

2010-02-23 Thread Thom Brown
On 23 February 2010 11:44, Stefan Schwarzer stefan.schwar...@grid.unep.ch wrote: Hi there, gush, shouldn't be that complicated. But neither in Postgres, nor in Access I succeed in getting the result I wish. I have a couple of times for the Environmental Conventions (Kyoto, Montreal, CITES

Re: [GENERAL] Minor systax error but not able to resolve it...

2010-02-23 Thread Richard Huxton
On 23/02/10 11:25, dipti shah wrote: Hi, could anyone please help me to sort out below error. I have spent lot of time but couldn't resolved it. ERROR: error from Perl function test_create: syntax error at or near CREATE at line 3. spi_exec_query(CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION my_tmp_func()

Re: [GENERAL] Subqueries or Joins? Problems with multiple table query

2010-02-23 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to Stefan Schwarzer : Hi there, gush, shouldn't be that complicated. But neither in Postgres, nor in Access I succeed in getting the result I wish. I have a couple of times for the Environmental Conventions (Kyoto, Montreal, CITES etc.). They look like this:

Re: [GENERAL] Alternative to UPDATE (As COPY to INSERT)

2010-02-23 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 23 Feb 2010, at 10:26, Yan Cheng CHEOK wrote: I realize update operation speed in PostgreSQL doesn't meet my speed expectation. Is there any fast alternative to UPDATE? as using fast COPY to INSERT operation. Well, since an UPDATE is just a DELETE + INSERT and you're already doing

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump new version

2010-02-23 Thread Alban Hertroys
On 23 Feb 2010, at 10:45, Oliver Kohll - Mailing Lists wrote: Hello, May I take a lull between PG releases to ask an upgrade Q? Documentation and people often recommend that when doing a major version upgrade, to dump data from the old server with the new version of pg_dump, since the new

Re: [GENERAL] Subqueries or Joins? Problems with multiple table query

2010-02-23 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Select countries.name, basel.year, basel.value, cites.year, cites.value From countries Left Join basel on basel.id_country = countries.id_country and basel.value=1 Left Join cites on cites.id_country = countries.id_country and cites.value=1 I would have thought so, but the query turns

Re: [GENERAL] Subqueries or Joins? Problems with multiple table query

2010-02-23 Thread Thom Brown
On 23 February 2010 13:23, Stefan Schwarzer stefan.schwar...@grid.unep.ch wrote: Select countries.name, basel.year, basel.value, cites.year, cites.value From countries Left Join basel on basel.id_country = countries.id_country and basel.value=1 Left Join cites on cites.id_country =

Re: [GENERAL] Alternative to UPDATE (As COPY to INSERT)

2010-02-23 Thread Richard Huxton
On 23/02/10 09:26, Yan Cheng CHEOK wrote: I realize update operation speed in PostgreSQL doesn't meet my speed expectation. Is there any fast alternative to UPDATE? as using fast COPY to INSERT operation. No. But you haven't said where the limit is on your operation. EXECUTE

Re: [GENERAL] Subqueries or Joins? Problems with multiple table query

2010-02-23 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Select countries.name, basel.year, basel.value, cites.year, cites.value From countries Left Join basel on basel.id_country = countries.id_country and basel.value=1 Left Join cites on cites.id_country = countries.id_country and cites.value=1 I would have thought so, but the query turns

Re: [GENERAL] Subqueries or Joins? Problems with multiple table query

2010-02-23 Thread Thom Brown
On 23 February 2010 13:43, Stefan Schwarzer stefan.schwar...@grid.unep.ch wrote: Select countries.name, basel.year, basel.value, cites.year, cites.value From countries Left Join basel on basel.id_country = countries.id_country and basel.value=1 Left Join cites on cites.id_country =

Re: [GENERAL] Subqueries or Joins? Problems with multiple table query

2010-02-23 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to Stefan Schwarzer : You may also wish to review Andreas' suggestions as they propose a more sensible table structure rather than having a table for each convention. The table proposal really looks nice. But our database is structured by variable - so each convention has its

Re: [GENERAL] Subqueries or Joins? Problems with multiple table query

2010-02-23 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Select countries.name, basel.year, basel.value, cites.year, cites.value From countries Left Join basel on basel.id_country = countries.id_country and basel.value=1 Left Join cites on cites.id_country = countries.id_country and cites.value=1 I would have thought so, but the query turns

Re: [GENERAL] Re: [ADMIN] how do I do dump and restore without bugging with constraint?

2010-02-23 Thread Richard Huxton
On 23/02/10 09:17, Net Tree Inc. wrote: Why am I keep getting error with version issues I am trying to restore a backup file from a 8.4 postgresql server to a 8.3 postgresql server. Well, an 8.4 dump isn't always going to be compatible with an 8.3 server, is it? If there weren't

Re: [GENERAL] Subqueries or Joins? Problems with multiple table query

2010-02-23 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to Thom Brown : On 23 February 2010 13:43, Stefan Schwarzer stefan.schwar...@grid.unep.ch wrote: Select countries.name, basel.year, basel.value, cites.year, cites.value From countries Left Join basel on basel.id_country = countries.id_country and basel.value=1 Left Join

Re: [GENERAL] Subqueries or Joins? Problems with multiple table query

2010-02-23 Thread A. Kretschmer
In response to A. Kretschmer : In response to Thom Brown : On 23 February 2010 13:43, Stefan Schwarzer stefan.schwar...@grid.unep.ch wrote: Select countries.name, basel.year, basel.value, cites.year, cites.value From countries Left Join basel on basel.id_country =

Re: [GENERAL] Subqueries or Joins? Problems with multiple table query

2010-02-23 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
You may also wish to review Andreas' suggestions as they propose a more sensible table structure rather than having a table for each convention. The table proposal really looks nice. But our database is structured by variable - so each convention has its own table. It is a really bad design -

Re: [GENERAL] SET Role doesn't work from Security Definer Function...

2010-02-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
dipti shah escribió: For your reference I did something like this: 1. Create Function foo1 (this is without SECURITY DEFINER where I am using SET ROLE to current user). 2. Create Function foo2 with SECURITY DEFINER ... spi_exe_query(select foo1()); == Here it throws the

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump new version

2010-02-23 Thread Tom Lane
Oliver Kohll - Mailing Lists oliver.li...@gtwm.co.uk writes: May I take a lull between PG releases to ask an upgrade Q? Documentation and people often recommend that when doing a major version upgrade, to dump data from the old server with the new version of pg_dump, since the new pg_dump

Re: [GENERAL] Minor systax error but not able to resolve it...

2010-02-23 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Huxton d...@archonet.com writes: You're interpolating $cmd here but not quoting it, so you end up with: ... RETURNS void AS CREATE TABLE test-table... whereas you want: ... RETURNS void AS 'CREATE TABLE test-table...'... Probably best to use dollar-quoting: $TMP$ or similar, but

Re: [GENERAL] tuning bgwriter in 8.4.2

2010-02-23 Thread Ben Chobot
On Feb 22, 2010, at 6:47 PM, Greg Smith wrote: Ben Chobot wrote: Is it reading it correctly to say that the bgwriter probably wouldn't help much, because a majority of the dirty pages appear to be popular? Yes. The background writer cleaner process only does something useful if there

Re: [GENERAL] Re: [ADMIN] how do I do dump and restore without bugging with constraint?

2010-02-23 Thread Net Tree Inc.
yeah that's what I means to do. How do I use 8.4 pg_restore? the DB server I am trying to restore is using 8.3. Do you mean do pg_restore on the same machine that I did pg_dump?? I am thinking of doing that too, but I am not sure how to do the command. Is this correct? pg_restore -h (my target

[GENERAL] Re: [ADMIN] how do I do dump and restore without bugging with constraint?

2010-02-23 Thread Net Tree Inc.
Thanks. Is it by doing these steps I can avoid constrain restriction? for step 3, how should I modify the schema? and which schema? the target DB's schema that I am trying to dump the schema and data in? But this is the problem, I am not sure whats different between the two schema's, there are

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump new version

2010-02-23 Thread Wang, Mary Y
I'm not clear when you said that old pg_dump should work fine for this purpose in practically all cases, so it's not worth your trouble to try to figure out a workaround. Did you mean that it's OK to use the old version of pg_dump when you are doing a major version upgrade when working with a

Re: [GENERAL] Sorting performance vs. MySQL

2010-02-23 Thread Alex Hunsaker
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 00:02, Yang Zhang yanghates...@gmail.com wrote: Thing is, this is how I got here: - ran complex query that does SELECT INTO. - that never terminated, so killed it and tried a simpler SELECT (the subject of this thread) from psql to see how long that would take. You

[GENERAL] FOREIGN KEY composite_type.its_field REFERENCES ....

2010-02-23 Thread Belka Lambda
Hi everyone! Is there a way to construct FOREIGN KEYs from parts of composite-typed field? The code returns an error: - create table aaa ( a_id integer primary key, a_str varchar) ; create type content_of_bbb (a_id integer, b_str varchar); create table

Re: [GENERAL] Minor systax error but not able to resolve it...

2010-02-23 Thread dipti shah
Thanks. Putting $cmd in single quote resolve the error but it generated other error. :( mydb= CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_create() RETURNS void AS $BODY$ $cmd = CREATE TABLE testtable(col varchar not null);; spi_exec_query(CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION myfunc() RETURNS void AS '$cmd'LANGUAGE

Re: [GENERAL] tuning bgwriter in 8.4.2

2010-02-23 Thread Greg Smith
Ben Chobot wrote: Hm, my shared_buffers is already 10GB, but I'm using about 80GB for filesystem cache. Would a larger shared_buffers make sense? I thought I read somewhere that 10GB is on the high end of the useful size for shared_buffers. Yeah, I figured that out when I was analyzing your

Re: [GENERAL] SET Role doesn't work from Security Definer Function...

2010-02-23 Thread dipti shah
No, I tried that but that can't be done in my requirements because my function has to be run in super user context to create the table in schema where normal users have only USAGE permissions. If I remove SECURITY DEFINER then my stored procedure will be failed for all users by saying permission

Re: [GENERAL] FOREIGN KEY composite_type.its_field REFERENCES ....

2010-02-23 Thread Tom Lane
Belka Lambda lambda-be...@yandex.ru writes: Is there a way to construct FOREIGN KEYs from parts of composite-typed field? No, and even if the system let you do it, the performance would probably suck. Composite-type fields are not something to be used with abandon. To me your example looks

Re: [GENERAL] make check failed on 8.4.2 install

2010-02-23 Thread Tom Lane
adam_pgsql adam_pg...@witneyweb.org writes: I am trying to upgrade to 8.4.2 but my usual compile from source failed $ make check == shutting down postmaster ==

Re: [GENERAL] make check failed on 8.4.2 install

2010-02-23 Thread adam_pgsql
On 23 Feb 2010, at 17:41, Tom Lane wrote: adam_pgsql adam_pg...@witneyweb.org writes: I am trying to upgrade to 8.4.2 but my usual compile from source failed $ make check == shutting down postmaster ==

Re: [GENERAL] Minor systax error but not able to resolve it...

2010-02-23 Thread Richard Huxton
On 23/02/10 17:15, dipti shah wrote: Thanks. Putting $cmd in single quote resolve the error but it generated other error. :( mydb= CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_create() RETURNS void AS $BODY$ $cmd = CREATE TABLE testtable(col varchar not null);; spi_exec_query(CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION

[GENERAL]

2010-02-23 Thread Shu Ho
All do you clean up the server file by removing them use find $logfile -mtime +$NUMBER_DAYS_TO_KEEP -type f -print -exec rm -f {} \; in postgres ? How to remove the archive log files in postgres ? is the same way as remove backup files and server log files ? thanks Amy

[GENERAL] how to clear server log

2010-02-23 Thread Amy Smith
All do you clean up the server file by removing them use find $logfile -mtime +$NUMBER_DAYS_TO_KEEP -type f -print -exec rm -f {} \; in postgres ? How to remove the archive log files in postgres ? is the same way as remove backup files and server log files ? thanks Amy

[GENERAL] Npgsql connection string editor?

2010-02-23 Thread Radcon Entec
Greetings! I have found references on the Internet to a connection string designer for npgsql, but I haven't found where to get it. I don't seem to have it with my download of npgsq. Or am I just looking in the wrong place? For example,

Re: [GENERAL] COPY command character set

2010-02-23 Thread Peter Headland
As Tom says, this doesn't really address my original issue, which was not that I read the material on encoding and misunderstood it, but that I didn't even see that material because it was mixed in with a bunch of other notes on all sorts of random subjects. To address this issue in the

Re: [GENERAL] how to clear server log

2010-02-23 Thread Ben Chobot
On Feb 23, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Amy Smith wrote: All do you clean up the server file by removing them use find $logfile -mtime +$NUMBER_DAYS_TO_KEEP -type f -print -exec rm -f {} \; in postgres ? How to remove the archive log files in postgres ? is the same way as remove backup

Re: [GENERAL]

2010-02-23 Thread Reid Thompson
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 13:50 -0500, Shu Ho wrote: All do you clean up the server file by removing them use find $logfile -mtime +$NUMBER_DAYS_TO_KEEP -type f -print -exec rm -f {} \; in postgres ? How to remove the archive log files in postgres ? is the same way as remove

Re: [GENERAL] how to clear server log

2010-02-23 Thread Reid Thompson
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 13:49 -0500, Amy Smith wrote: All do you clean up the server file by removing them use google logrotate man logrotate -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] make check failed on 8.4.2 install

2010-02-23 Thread Tom Lane
adam_pgsql adam_pg...@witneyweb.org writes: On 23 Feb 2010, at 17:41, Tom Lane wrote: That's very peculiar. It looks more like dynamic linker breakage than Postgres' fault, though. What platform is this (no, the kernel version doesn't do it for me)? What have you changed since you last

Re: [GENERAL] COPY command character set

2010-02-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Headland wrote: In respect of Bruce's proposed changes, I prefer the original wording (for the same reasons as Tom), but with the addition of the mention of the server - ... read from or written to a file directly by the server. OK, done with the attached patch. -- Bruce Momjian

[GENERAL] pg_buffercache's usage count

2010-02-23 Thread Ben Chobot
I'm looking at the usage count column of pg_buffercache's info, and I'm confused. Several buffers that supposed have LRU values of 5 belong to non-unique indices which supposedly have never been used. As I understand things, that shouldn't happen. Am I missing something? -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] pg_buffercache's usage count

2010-02-23 Thread Ben Chobot
On Feb 23, 2010, at 3:06 PM, Ben Chobot wrote: I'm looking at the usage count column of pg_buffercache's info, and I'm confused. Several buffers that supposed have LRU values of 5 belong to non-unique indices which supposedly have never been used. As I understand things, that shouldn't

[GENERAL] Trying to get a C function built with MSVC

2010-02-23 Thread Bryan Montgomery
Hello, I have a very simple function that I've created. I can compile it in linux without any problems. However, I've tried creating a dll for windows and am not having much luck. I first tried MSVC 2008 but after seeing some comments have tried compiling it in MSVC 2005 as well. In both I get

[GENERAL] select t.name from tbl t (where name is not a column name)

2010-02-23 Thread raf
hi, i've just noticed the following behaviour and was wondering if there's any documentation to explain what it's for. create table tbl(id serial primary key, a text, b text, c text); insert into tbl(a, b, c) values ('abc', 'def', 'ghi'); insert into tbl(a, b, c) values ('jkl', 'mno',

[GENERAL] Re: [ADMIN] how do I do dump and restore without bugging with constraint?

2010-02-23 Thread Net Tree Inc.
Quote: However if you have to modify table definitions, you will probably not be able to import data in that new schema and it will be necesary to look for a new strategy. For schema, are we talking about attribute columns (structure of table) and table definitions referraled you talking about

Re: [GENERAL] how do I do dump and restore without bugging with constraint?

2010-02-23 Thread Net Tree Inc.
I see something related with Deferrable and Initially deferrable that seems like something could avoid constraints when dumping and restore, but it has to modify the table or re-create all of them to have such option (maybe is what you referraled table definitions). Is it what it can be use for to

Re: [GENERAL] select t.name from tbl t (where name is not a column name)

2010-02-23 Thread Joe Conway
On 02/23/2010 05:07 PM, raf wrote: i've just noticed the following behaviour and was wondering if there's any documentation to explain what it's for. create table tbl(id serial primary key, a text, b text, c text); insert into tbl(a, b, c) values ('abc', 'def', 'ghi'); insert into

Re: [GENERAL] Sorting performance vs. MySQL

2010-02-23 Thread Baron Schwartz
Hi, On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Yang Zhang yanghates...@gmail.com wrote: When running the query in MySQL InnoDB: $ vmstat 10 procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- -cpu--  r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in   cs us sy id wa

Re: [GENERAL] how do I do dump and restore without bugging with constraint?

2010-02-23 Thread Thillai Selvan
I have tried like this. But in my case it is not working when trying to access a column that is not exists in the table. Example: CREATE TABLE test_str (te_id text); INSERT INTO test_str VALUES ('a'); INSERT INTO test_str VALUES ('b'); INSERT INTO test_str VALUES ('c'); SELECT t.name from

Re: [GENERAL] Minor systax error but not able to resolve it...

2010-02-23 Thread dipti shah
Wonderful! Thanks. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Richard Huxton d...@archonet.com wrote: On 23/02/10 17:15, dipti shah wrote: Thanks. Putting $cmd in single quote resolve the error but it generated other error. :( mydb= CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_create() RETURNS void AS

Re: [GENERAL] SET Role doesn't work from Security Definer Function...

2010-02-23 Thread dipti shah
This issue is driving me crazy. Could any one please suggest me any workaround? For summary of issue, 1. I don't want any users to perform any action on mydb schema without using my stored procedure. So I revoke ALL permissions from mydb schema and assigned only USAGE permissions. 2. As my

[GENERAL] Not able to change the owner of function

2010-02-23 Thread Jignesh Shah
Hi, could you tell me what could be the issue in below command. I could see that there is an option for changing OWNER of function but not sure why it is giving this error. techdb=# ALTER FUNCTION test_create() SET OWNER TO masanip; ERROR: unrecognized configuration parameter owner techdb=#

[GENERAL] How to get the permissions assigned to user?

2010-02-23 Thread Jignesh Shah
Hi, Is there any way to get the set of permissions list assigned to user? I want to know whether user has create table permissions on particular schema or not? Thanks in advance, Jack

Re: [GENERAL] [NOVICE] Not able to change the owner of function

2010-02-23 Thread Jignesh Shah
Hey, I have read it and current user is 'postgres' and the new_user is also looks fine but still the same error. techdb=# select current_user; current_user -- postgres (1 row) techdb=# CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_create() RETURNS void AS $BODY$ $cmd = CREATE TABLE

Re: [GENERAL] Not able to change the owner of function

2010-02-23 Thread Frank Heikens
Skip the SET-keyword: ALTER FUNCTION test_create() OWNER TO masanip; Regards, Frank Op 24 feb 2010, om 07:14 heeft Jignesh Shah het volgende geschreven: Hi, could you tell me what could be the issue in below command. I could see that there is an option for changing OWNER of function but

Re: [GENERAL] Not able to change the owner of function

2010-02-23 Thread Jignesh Shah
Thanks :) I am going crazy at times. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Frank Heikens frankheik...@mac.comwrote: Skip the SET-keyword: ALTER FUNCTION test_create() OWNER TO masanip; Regards, Frank Op 24 feb 2010, om 07:14 heeft Jignesh Shah het volgende geschreven: Hi, could you

[GENERAL] Row ordering after CREATE TABLE AS...SELECT regexp_split_to_table(source_text, regexp) AS new_column

2010-02-23 Thread John Gage
This is a two-part question: 1) I have a source_text that I want to divide into smaller subunits that will be contained in rows in a column in a new table. Is it absolutely certain that the initial order of the rows in the resultant table after this operation: CREATE TABLE new_table AS

Re: [GENERAL] Row ordering after CREATE TABLE AS...SELECT regexp_split_to_table(source_text, regexp) AS new_column

2010-02-23 Thread Bret S. Lambert
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 07:51:54AM +0100, John Gage wrote: This is a two-part question: 1) I have a source_text that I want to divide into smaller subunits that will be contained in rows in a column in a new table. Is it absolutely certain that the initial order of the rows in the

Re: [GENERAL] Trying to get a C function built with MSVC

2010-02-23 Thread Magnus Hagander
2010/2/23 Bryan Montgomery mo...@english.net: Hello, I have a very simple function that I've created. I can compile it in linux without any problems. However, I've tried creating a dll for windows and am not having much luck. I first tried MSVC 2008 but after seeing some comments have

Re: [GENERAL] Row ordering after CREATE TABLE AS...SELECT regexp_split_to_table(source_text, regexp) AS new_column

2010-02-23 Thread Tom Lane
John Gage jsmg...@numericable.fr writes: This is a two-part question: 1) I have a source_text that I want to divide into smaller subunits that will be contained in rows in a column in a new table. Is it absolutely certain that the initial order of the rows in the resultant table after

Re: [GENERAL] Row ordering after CREATE TABLE AS...SELECT regexp_split_to_table(source_text, regexp) AS new_column

2010-02-23 Thread John Gage
Thank you very much for this explanation/reply. It precisely answers my question. Unfortunately, it prompts a new question. I am using 8.4.2 which I assume is new enough to trigger a yes response to If you have a version new enough to have synchronize_seqscans I have absolutely no

Re: [GENERAL] typecaste object to array

2010-02-23 Thread Lew
beulah prasanthi wrote: i [sic] am doing j2ee project .I am getting list from the user i want to insert that list into array in postgres DB by doing this i cannot caste an instance object pgemail to type Type ARRAY Can we caste the object to array .please tell me John R Pierce wrote: