Re: [GENERAL] Help me with this multi-table query

2010-03-24 Thread Dean Rasheed
On 24 March 2010 05:17, Nilesh Govindarajan li...@itech7.com wrote: On 03/24/2010 12:45 AM, Dean Rasheed wrote: On 23 March 2010 11:07, Nilesh Govindarajanli...@itech7.com  wrote: Hi, I want to find out the userid, nodecount and comment count of the userid. I'm going wrong somewhere.

Re: [GENERAL] PL/pgSQL OVERLAPS operator (SOLVED!)

2010-03-24 Thread Tuo Pe
--- On Tue, 3/23/10, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Yeah --- that SELECT will result in no change to the variables, ie, they'll still be NULL.  So the OVERLAPS always fails. Tom Andreas, I thank you for your help. Renaming the variables solved the problem. :-) Regards, Tuo -- Sent

[GENERAL] Concatenate

2010-03-24 Thread Frank jansen
Hi, can you help me with this tricky concat i have? I have a function with an execute statement, one line of it doing an md5 hash of some concatenated xml paths with values. I cannot get this one work, postgres is always complaing about some things, like: functions and operators can take at

Re: [GENERAL] Help me with this multi-table query

2010-03-24 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 03/24/2010 01:14 PM, Dean Rasheed wrote: On 24 March 2010 05:17, Nilesh Govindarajanli...@itech7.com wrote: On 03/24/2010 12:45 AM, Dean Rasheed wrote: On 23 March 2010 11:07, Nilesh Govindarajanli...@itech7.comwrote: Hi, I want to find out the userid, nodecount and comment count

[GENERAL] Out of Memory during Insert

2010-03-24 Thread yue peng
Dear, Psqlers, I encountered an out of memory error during executing un INSERT into table1(v1,v2,v3) SELECT c1,c2,c3 from table2 where . The recordset of Select query is around 30M record. And I got following Message : --- ERROR: out of memoryDETAIL: Failed on request of size 40.' in

Re: [GENERAL] Out of Memory during Insert

2010-03-24 Thread Thom Brown
On 24 March 2010 10:57, yue peng pengyueb...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any other ways to still insert same amount of data and avoid this OOM error ? I'd expect COPY to be the most effective way of bulk loading data into a database. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-copy.html

Re: [GENERAL] Concatenate

2010-03-24 Thread Albe Laurenz
Frank jansen wrote: can you help me with this tricky concat i have? I have a function with an execute statement, one line of it doing an md5 hash of some concatenated xml paths with values. I cannot get this one work, postgres is always complaing about some things, like: functions and

Re: [GENERAL] Concatenate

2010-03-24 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Frank jansen jan...@fumarium.de wrote: Hi, can you help me with this tricky concat i have? I have a function with an execute statement, one line of it doing an md5 hash of some concatenated xml paths with values. I cannot get this one work, postgres is

Re: [GENERAL] Concatenate [solved]

2010-03-24 Thread Frank jansen
Am 24.03.2010 14:41, schrieb Merlin Moncure: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Frank jansenjan...@fumarium.de wrote: Hi, can you help me with this tricky concat i have? I have a function with an execute statement, one line of it doing an md5 hash of some concatenated xml paths with

Re: [GENERAL] Out of Memory during Insert

2010-03-24 Thread Tom Lane
yue peng pengyueb...@gmail.com writes: I encountered an out of memory error during executing un INSERT into table1(v1,v2,v3) SELECT c1,c2,c3 from table2 where . Most likely the OOM is because of growth of the pending-trigger-event queue --- do you have any foreign key references in that

Re: [GENERAL] Warm Standby Setup Documentation

2010-03-24 Thread Bryan Murphy
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Ogden li...@darkstatic.com wrote: I have looked all over but could not find any detailed docs on setting up a warm standby solution using PostgreSQL 8.4. I do know of http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/warm-standby.html but was wondering if there was a

[GENERAL] Revoking CREATE TABLE

2010-03-24 Thread Tony Webb
Hi, I would like a setup with the following: Three users - one, called OWNER, that owns the tables and can drop, alter and change data in the tables; another called USER that can edit data in the tables created by the owner but cannot create new tables or drop any tables and a third user

Re: [GENERAL] Revoking CREATE TABLE

2010-03-24 Thread Tom Lane
Tony Webb a...@sanger.ac.uk writes: I can grant table privileges to the USER and RO but how do I stop these two users from creating new tables etc? Revoke CREATE privilege on the public schema from PUBLIC (and then grant it back to OWNER and whoever else you want to have it). If you don't

[GENERAL] Clipping values

2010-03-24 Thread Ovid
I have the following domain defined: CREATE DOMAIN percentage AS real CONSTRAINT percentage_check CHECK (((VALUE = 0.0) AND (VALUE = 1.0))); The various values (aa,bb,cc and dd) defined as percentage can increase over time, to a maximum value of 1.0. In fact, I have one table

Re: [GENERAL] Revoking CREATE TABLE

2010-03-24 Thread Tony Webb
Thanks Tom, I think I'm still doing something wrong. As a superuser I run: #revoke create on schema public from public; REVOKE As the read only user straight after running the above: create table barney2(col1 integer); CREATE TABLE \d barney2 Table public.barney2 Column | Type |

Fw: [GENERAL] Clipping values

2010-03-24 Thread Ovid
In response to a private email from someone else on this list, I thought I should send the following clarification. I have a table with four values which are constantly lowered by user action. These four values must rise over time, in five minute intervals. The core of the function, in

Re: [GENERAL] Revoking CREATE TABLE

2010-03-24 Thread Tom Lane
Tony Webb a...@sanger.ac.uk writes: Thanks Tom, I think I'm still doing something wrong. As a superuser I run: #revoke create on schema public from public; REVOKE As the read only user straight after running the above: create table barney2(col1 integer); CREATE TABLE It works for me:

Re: Fw: [GENERAL] Clipping values

2010-03-24 Thread Tom Lane
Ovid curtis_ovid_...@yahoo.com writes: I have a table with four values which are constantly lowered by user action. These four values must rise over time, in five minute intervals. The core of the function, in pseudo-code, would look something like this: FOREACH row IN SELECT * FROM

Re: [GENERAL] Revoking CREATE TABLE

2010-03-24 Thread Tony Webb
Hi Tom, Thanks for your help and the hint (off-line) to use the \dn+ command. You've hit the nail on the head sir! \dn+ WARNING: nonstandard use of \\ in a string literal at character 281 HINT: Use the escape string syntax for backslashes, e.g., E'\\'.

[GENERAL] question (or feature-request): over ( partition by ... order by LIMIT N)

2010-03-24 Thread A. Kretschmer
Hello @all, I know, i can do: select * from (select ... row_number() over (...) ...) foo where row_number N to limit the rows per group, but the inner select has to retrieve the whole set of records and in the outer select most of them discarded. Why isn't there an over ( ... LIMIT N) ?

Re: Fw: [GENERAL] Clipping values

2010-03-24 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us You could code that directly with CASE operations, but it would probably be easier to use GREATEST/LEAST, along the lines of new_percentage = LEAST(num_intervals * .1, 1); Ah, I didn't know about the LEAST function! I

[GENERAL] Large index operation crashes postgres

2010-03-24 Thread Frans Hals
Hi, running a geo-database from a dump restore where still one of the most important indexes is missing and so the search is slow. Whenever I try to add the follwing index to the table placex, one of the postmaster processes dies and the server restarts. I try: CREATE INDEX idx_placex_sector ON

Re: [GENERAL] Large index operation crashes postgres

2010-03-24 Thread Tom Lane
Frans Hals fha...@googlemail.com writes: Whenever I try to add the follwing index to the table placex, one of the postmaster processes dies and the server restarts. Can you provide a stack trace from the crash? I try: CREATE INDEX idx_placex_sector ON placex USING btree

Re: [GENERAL] Large index operation crashes postgres

2010-03-24 Thread Paul Ramsey
Can you do? alter table placex add column geometry_sector integer; update placex set geometry_sector = geometry_sector(geometry); P. On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Frans Hals fha...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, running a geo-database from a dump restore where still one of the most important

[GENERAL] find a string contained in an attribute

2010-03-24 Thread Karina Guardado
Hi, I want to know if it is possible to search for a string of characters inside an attribute for example I have the following table and values cod_unidad | nombre_uni +- 1 | Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y

Re: [GENERAL] find a string contained in an attribute

2010-03-24 Thread Szymon Guz
2010/3/24 Karina Guardado kguard...@gmail.com Hi, I want to know if it is possible to search for a string of characters inside an attribute for example I have the following table and values cod_unidad | nombre_uni +-

Re: [GENERAL] find a string contained in an attribute

2010-03-24 Thread Karina Guardado
Thanks a lot for your help that's exactly what I wanted. It worked fine. regards, karina On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Szymon Guz mabew...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/3/24 Karina Guardado kguard...@gmail.com Hi, I want to know if it is possible to search for a string of characters inside an

[GENERAL] data type to store a lot of text and tables of data

2010-03-24 Thread Karina Guardado
Hi, Is there a special data type to use to store a lot of text and tables of data in a column or attribute? thanks in advance, regards, karina El Salvador, Centroamerica

Re: [GENERAL] data type to store a lot of text and tables of data

2010-03-24 Thread Szymon Guz
2010/3/24 Karina Guardado kguard...@gmail.com Hi, Is there a special data type to use to store a lot of text and tables of data in a column or attribute? thanks in advance, regards, karina El Salvador, Centroamerica Normally text can be stored in a type named TEXT. Maybe there would

Re: [GENERAL] data type to store a lot of text and tables of data

2010-03-24 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 24/03/2010 21:48, Karina Guardado wrote: Hi, Is there a special data type to use to store a lot of text and tables of data in a column or attribute? For large amounts of text, just use the TEXT data type: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/datatype-character.html Not sure

Re: [GENERAL] data type to store a lot of text and tables of data

2010-03-24 Thread Karina Guardado
for example something like the following : *Table 9-25. Date/Time Operators* OperatorExampleResult + date '2001-09-28' + integer '7'date '2001-10-05' + date '2001-09-28' + interval '1 hour'timestamp '2001-09-28 01:00:00' + date '2001-09-28' + time '03:00'timestamp '2001-09-28 03:00:00' + interval

Re: [GENERAL] data type to store a lot of text and tables of data

2010-03-24 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 24/03/2010 22:01, Karina Guardado wrote: for example something like the following : *Table 9-25. Date/Time Operators* Operator Example Result + date '2001-09-28' + integer '7' date '2001-10-05' + date '2001-09-28' + interval '1 hour' timestamp '2001-09-28 01:00:00' +

Re: [GENERAL] data type to store a lot of text and tables of data

2010-03-24 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 24/03/2010 22:01, Karina Guardado wrote: what should be the data type to store a file that can be xls, doc, pdf for example. Sorry, I missed this bit - for binary files you can use the bytea type. Look under Binary data types in the docs. Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell :: Galway :: Ireland

Re: [GENERAL] How to dump JUST procedures/funnctions?

2010-03-24 Thread Carlo Stonebanks
Hi Tony, Thanks VERY much! That got me on my way. I'm going to try and convert this to a PG stored function, Since you know that the script has limitations, you or othres reading might want to know the ones I've found: 1) Regardless of what you set the schema to, the only ones that are dumped

Re: [GENERAL] data type to store a lot of text and tables of data

2010-03-24 Thread Karina Guardado
You know I need to design a table where some attributes have a data type that allow me to store text mixed with tables and other information. I use PHP code to get the information and store it in to the database so I wonder if this is posible to do. I found in the link you provided me that If

Re: [GENERAL] data type to store a lot of text and tables of data

2010-03-24 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 24/03/2010 22:39, Karina Guardado wrote: You know I need to design a table where some attributes have a data type that allow me to store text mixed with tables and other information. I use PHP code to get the information and store it in to the database so I wonder if this is posible to do.

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[GENERAL] \d pg_class fails in PG 8.4

2010-03-24 Thread Tadipathri Raghu
Hi All, Following is the error when i try to describe the catalog table. Version Info postgres=# select version(); version

[GENERAL] How to retrive List of Tables in a Database using...

2010-03-24 Thread Yogi Yang 007
Hello, I am new to pgSQL. I would like to know if there is a way to do the following using pure SQL: 1. Retrieve list of all Tables in a database 2. Retrieve list of all Functions, Triggers, Sequences, Views, etc. 3. Retrieve list of all Group Roles 4. Retrieve list of all Login Roles 5.

Re: [GENERAL] \d pg_class fails in PG 8.4

2010-03-24 Thread Tom Lane
Tadipathri Raghu traghu@gmail.com writes: Following is the error when i try to describe the catalog table. postgres=# \d pg_class ERROR: column reltriggers does not exist at character 41 STATEMENT: SELECT relhasindex, relkind, relchecks, reltriggers, relhasrules, relhasoids ,

Re: [GENERAL] How to retrive List of Tables in a Database using...

2010-03-24 Thread Tadipathri Raghu
Hi Yogi Yang, Psql is a very strong tool, and easy to use. Please find the answers for your queries 1. Retrieve list of all Tables in a database 2. Retrieve list of all Functions, Triggers, Sequences, Views, etc. 3. Retrieve list of all Group Roles postgres=#\d{t|i|s|v|S|g|n} you can use any of

Re: [GENERAL] \d pg_class fails in PG 8.4

2010-03-24 Thread Tadipathri Raghu
Hi Tom, As you are best always on this Community Fourm. Thanks for your help. It got resolved. Regards Raghavendra On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: Tadipathri Raghu traghu@gmail.com writes: Following is the error when i try to describe the catalog

Re: [GENERAL] How to retrive List of Tables in a Database using...

2010-03-24 Thread John R Pierce
Yogi Yang 007 wrote: Hello, I am new to pgSQL. I would like to know if there is a way to do the following using pure SQL: 1. Retrieve list of all Tables in a database 2. Retrieve list of all Functions, Triggers, Sequences, Views, etc. 3. Retrieve list of all Group Roles 4. Retrieve list of