Re: [GENERAL] Problem with Crosstab (Concatenate Problem)

2010-11-04 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
What version of PostgreSQL are you running? The error seems to indicate that you don't have the crosstab(text,text) form of the function. In psql do: contrib_regression=# \df crosstab List of functions Schema | Name | Result data type | Argument data types |

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with Crosstab (Concatenate Problem)

2010-11-04 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
What version of PostgreSQL are you running? The error seems to indicate that you don't have the crosstab(text,text) form of the function. In psql do: contrib_regression=# \df crosstab List of functions Schema | Name | Result data type | Argument data types |

[GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Michael Gould
I know that this is probably a religion issue but we are looking to move Postgres to a Linux server.  We currently have a Windows 2008 R2 active directory and all of the other servers are virtualized via VMWare ESXi.  One of the reasons is that we want to use a 64 bit Postgres server and the UUID

[GENERAL] check constraint on insert but not delete

2010-11-04 Thread Gauthier, Dave
This is a longshot, but here goes... Is there a way to require that a check constraint be checked on insert but not update?Worth knowing is that my check constraint runs a PLPgsql proc which returns a yes/no kinf of flag which the constraint proper checks. Thanks !

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Michael Gould mgo...@intermodalsoftwaresolutions.net wrote: I know that this is probably a religion issue but we are looking to move Postgres to a Linux server.  We currently have a Windows 2008 R2 active directory and all of the other servers are virtualized via

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread David Boreham
On 11/4/2010 9:00 AM, Michael Gould wrote: What and why should I look at certain distributions? It appears from what I read, Ubanta is a good desktop but not a server. We use CentOS. I don't know of a good reason to look at other distributions for a server today. You may or may not see

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Michael Gould mgo...@intermodalsoftwaresolutions.net: I know that this is probably a religion issue but we are looking to move Postgres to a Linux server.  We currently have a Windows 2008 R2 active directory and all of the other servers are virtualized via VMWare ESXi.  One of

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Steve Clark
On 11/04/2010 11:10 AM, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Michael Gouldmgo...@intermodalsoftwaresolutions.net: I know that this is probably a religion issue but we are looking to move Postgres to a Linux server. We currently have a Windows 2008 R2 active directory and all of the other

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Karsten Hilbert
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 11:10:24AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Beyond that, I think that any Linux distro that caters to a server environment will work well for you. The thing (in my experience) that's going to make you happy or angry is how well the packaging system works. Find a distro whos

Re: [GENERAL] PHP Web Auditing and Authorization

2010-11-04 Thread Mathieu De Zutter
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Gabriel Dinis gabriel.di...@vigiesolutions.com wrote: Dear all, Imagine I have two users Maria and Ana using a PHP site. There is a common Postgres user phpuser for both. I'm creating audit tables to track the actions made by each PHP site user. (...)

Re: [GENERAL] check constraint on insert but not delete

2010-11-04 Thread Vick Khera
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Gauthier, Dave dave.gauth...@intel.com wrote: Is there a way to require that a check constraint be checked on insert but not update?    Worth knowing is that my check constraint runs a PLPgsql proc which returns a yes/no kinf of flag which the constraint proper

Re: [GENERAL] check constraint on insert but not delete

2010-11-04 Thread Richard Broersma
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Gauthier, Dave dave.gauth...@intel.com wrote: Is there a way to require that a check constraint be checked on insert but not update?    Worth knowing is that my check constraint runs a PLPgsql proc which returns a yes/no kinf of flag which the constraint proper

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Michael Gould mgo...@intermodalsoftwaresolutions.net wrote: I know that this is probably a religion issue but we are looking to move Postgres to a Linux server.  We currently have a Windows 2008 R2 active directory and all of the other servers are virtualized via

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On 4 November 2010 15:00, Michael Gould mgo...@intermodalsoftwaresolutions.net wrote: I know that this is probably a religion issue but we are looking to move Postgres to a Linux server.  We currently have a Windows 2008 R2 active directory and all of the other servers are virtualized via

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Vick Khera
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: We have used FreeBSD but are moving to CentOS. Main reason is longer support window. FreeBSD usually goes EOL in a year or two. CentOS 5.x is supported thru at least 2014. FreeBSD 6.x was released in 2005 and was EOL'd

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Robert Gravsjö
On 2010-11-04 16.00, Michael Gould wrote: I know that this is probably a religion issue but we are looking to move Postgres to a Linux server. We currently have a Windows 2008 R2 active directory and all of the other servers are virtualized via VMWare ESXi. One of the reasons is that we want

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Chris Browne
mgo...@intermodalsoftwaresolutions.net (Michael Gould) writes: What and why should I look at certain distributions? It appears from what I read, Ubanta is a good desktop but not a server. There are Ubuntu versions that don't promise support (e.g. - ongoing bug security fixes, and such) for

[GENERAL] problem with select

2010-11-04 Thread Adrian Johnson
Dear group: I have a table structure like following: city: city_blockage_from age_to name SF 10 20grade1 SF 21 30grade1 SF 35 40grade1 SF 53 19grade2 SF 100 153 grade2

[GENERAL] Please Help...

2010-11-04 Thread Gavin Burrows
Hi I'm sure you have had this question many times before but I feel as though I have genuinely exhausted all of my option and followed all the advise I can find online. During installation of Postgresql at the time when it tries to create the account I get the message ' user account

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread André Fernandes
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 11:23:07 -0400 From: scl...@netwolves.com To: wmo...@potentialtech.com CC: mgo...@intermodalsoftwaresolutions.net; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Linux On 11/04/2010 11:10 AM, Bill Moran wrote: () We have used FreeBSD but are

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Esmin Gracic
I would recommend Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS (long time support - 5 years for ongoing bug security fixes, and such). Also, Ubuntu is in focus now, has great community and a most of recent books on Linux target Ubuntu (which is valid factor for educating people on new platform). Ubuntu is great for

Re: [GENERAL] Please Help...

2010-11-04 Thread Andrej
Now if you told people the OS, and the version of Postgres maybe ... ? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Please Help...

2010-11-04 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Gavin Burrows gavin_burr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi I'm sure you have had this question many times before but I feel as though I have genuinely exhausted all of my option and followed all the advise I can find online. During installation of Postgresql at the time

Re: [GENERAL] Please Help...

2010-11-04 Thread Satoshi Nagayasu
Hi Gavin, On 2010/11/04, at 17:58, Gavin Burrows gavin_burr...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm sure you have had this question many times before but I feel as though I have genuinely exhausted all of my option and followed all the advise I can find online. During installation of Postgresql at the

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Esmin Gracic esmin.gra...@gmail.com wrote: I would recommend Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS (long time support - 5 years for ongoing bug security fixes, and such). Also, Ubuntu is in focus now, has great community and a most of recent books on Linux target Ubuntu

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Michael Gould
Whilst I won't discourage you from a move to Linux, which I think is a good idea in general (and personally, my choice is RHEL - or CentOS if you want free - for a production server), I will note that Hiroshi Saito has ported ossp-uuid to Win64 now, and we're working on getting it included in

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Michael Gould
Thanks for all of the information. I will now need to spend some time looking at the various distributions that were mentioned here. Best Regards -- Michael Gould, Managing Partner Intermodal Software Solutions, LLC 904.226.0978 904.592.5250 fax -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] Save and load jpg in a PostgreSQL database

2010-11-04 Thread Dmitriy Igrishin
Hey Fernando, If you need to store binary data in a table you should use bytea data type. Than, in case of libpq: If you want to transmit binary data from client to server in text format you must prepare (escape) it for including into you SQL command (e.g., INSERT). If you can transmit the data

[GENERAL] Installing PostgreSQL on Windows 7 64-bit system

2010-11-04 Thread Christopher Farah
Hi, I've read through numerous forumshttp://forums.enterprisedb.com/posts/list/2328.pageto get past the following error An error occurred executing the Microsoft VC++ runtime installer. As far as I can tell, the error can arise if user privileges are not correctly set or if a firewall or

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Marco Colombo
On 11/04/2010 04:00 PM, Michael Gould wrote: I know that this is probably a religion issue but we are looking to move Postgres to a Linux server. We currently have a Windows 2008 R2 active directory and all of the other servers are virtualized via VMWare ESXi. One of the reasons is that we want

[GENERAL] Views - Under the Hood

2010-11-04 Thread Terry Lee Tucker
Greetings: Lately, I've begun using views quite often especially when queries for various reports, etc. become complicated. I am now wondering if there is a price to pay in terms of overhead for this. In truth, I don't really understand how a view works. I know that it takes on many of the

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Marco Colombo pg...@esiway.net wrote: On 11/04/2010 04:00 PM, Michael Gould wrote: I know that this is probably a religion issue but we are looking to move Postgres to a Linux server. We currently have a Windows 2008 R2 active directory and all of the other

Re: [GENERAL] Views - Under the Hood

2010-11-04 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Terry Lee Tucker te...@chosen-ones.org wrote: Greetings: Lately, I've begun using views quite often especially when queries for various reports, etc. become complicated. I am now wondering if there is a price to pay in terms of overhead for this. In truth, I

Re: [GENERAL] Views - Under the Hood

2010-11-04 Thread Terry Lee Tucker
On Thursday, November 04, 2010 15:03:49 Scott Marlowe wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Terry Lee Tucker te...@chosen-ones.org wrote: Greetings: Lately, I've begun using views quite often especially when queries for various reports, etc. become complicated. I am now wondering if

Re: [GENERAL] Views - Under the Hood

2010-11-04 Thread Chris Browne
te...@chosen-ones.org (Terry Lee Tucker) writes: Lately, I've begun using views quite often especially when queries for various reports, etc. become complicated. I am now wondering if there is a price to pay in terms of overhead for this. In truth, I don't really understand how a view

[GENERAL] INSERT trigger into partitioned table

2010-11-04 Thread Elford,Andrew [Ontario]
using PostgreSQL 8.4.5 on Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS I'm trying to create an INSERT trigger (plpgsql) based on the example provided here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/ddl-partitioning.html to automatically insert data into the currect yearly table partition. For some reason, it

Re: [GENERAL] Views - Under the Hood

2010-11-04 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 04/11/2010 19:58, Chris Browne wrote: Under the hood, views represent a rewriting of the query. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/rules-views.html If you have two tables that are joined together, in a view, then when you query the view, you're really running a more complex query

Re: [GENERAL] Views - Under the Hood

2010-11-04 Thread Ivano Luberti
One of the benefits of writing views instead of using SQL in your code, is that any developer or developer tool can use the view. So the DB developer writes the view and maybe define indexes that can speed up the query and any developer of any software that uses the DB can refer to the View

[GENERAL] pg_hba LDAP Authentication syntax

2010-11-04 Thread David Kerr
Howdy, I was hoping someone could help me with ye olde ldap authentication syntax. I'm currently using PG 8.3.9 and an upgrade is not an option. Now, that being said, since i'm very new to LDAP i decided to use PG 9 to experiment with since it looks like it has an easier syntax. So what i've

Re: [GENERAL] pg_hba LDAP Authentication syntax

2010-11-04 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 13:54, David Kerr d...@mr-paradox.net wrote: Howdy, I was hoping someone could help me with ye olde ldap authentication syntax. I'm currently using PG 8.3.9 and an upgrade is not an option. Now, that being said, since i'm very new to LDAP i decided to use PG 9 to

Re: [GENERAL] pg_hba LDAP Authentication syntax

2010-11-04 Thread David Kerr
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 02:07:29PM -0700, Magnus Hagander wrote: - - I'm trying to translate that to the old syntax of: - hba stuff     ldap ldap://w.x.y.z/ou=postgresql,dc=domain,dc=com;stuff - - basically, i don't know how to fit cn=admin and ldapbindpassword into that string. - - The

Re: [GENERAL] pg_hba LDAP Authentication syntax

2010-11-04 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 15:30, David Kerr d...@mr-paradox.net wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 02:07:29PM -0700, Magnus Hagander wrote: - - I'm trying to translate that to the old syntax of: - hba stuff     ldap ldap://w.x.y.z/ou=postgresql,dc=domain,dc=com;stuff - - basically, i don't

Re: [GENERAL] pg_hba LDAP Authentication syntax

2010-11-04 Thread David Kerr
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 03:35:11PM -0700, Magnus Hagander wrote: - On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 15:30, David Kerr d...@mr-paradox.net wrote: - On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 02:07:29PM -0700, Magnus Hagander wrote: - - - - I'm trying to translate that to the old syntax of: - - hba stuff     ldap

[GENERAL] Streaming replication + pgpool-II tutorial

2010-11-04 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
Hi, It seems there are some demand to seek how to deal with automated failover while using Streaming replication and Hot standby. I wrote a small tutorial how to implement this by using pgpool-II. Please visit: http://pgpool.projects.postgresql.org/contrib_docs/simple_sr_setting/index.html if you

[GENERAL] Changing boolean to a smallint

2010-11-04 Thread Christine Penner
I have a table column I want to change from a boolean to a smallint. changing false to 0 and true to 1. How do I do that? Christine Penner Ingenious Software 250-352-9495 ch...@fp2.ca -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] Changing boolean to a smallint

2010-11-04 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
On 2010-11-04 15:41, Christine Penner wrote: I have a table column I want to change from a boolean to a smallint. changing false to 0 and true to 1. How do I do that? Christine Penner Ingenious Software 250-352-9495 ch...@fp2.ca ALTER TABLE ALTER col_name TYPE SMALLINT USING CASE WHEN

Re: [GENERAL] Changing boolean to a smallint

2010-11-04 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
Oops; see correction below: On 2010-11-04 16:41, Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) wrote: On 2010-11-04 15:41, Christine Penner wrote: I have a table column I want to change from a boolean to a smallint. changing false to 0 and true to 1. How do I do that? Christine Penner Ingenious Software

Re: [GENERAL] Linux

2010-11-04 Thread Jorge Godoy
The choice depends more on what you want / need to have than what people think you want / need. If your corporation requires a support agreement, go either with Red Hat or with SuSE (Novell). If possible, have at least one of each of the above for a while -- one or two years -- and see what is

[GENERAL] select to_char(current_timestamp, 'YYYY-WW');

2010-11-04 Thread Alexander Farber
Hello, sorry for the stupid question, but why has the week number changed from 44 to 45 this night? It is Friday, 2010-11-05 01:10, but I get now: pref= SELECT to_char(current_timestamp, '-WW'); to_char - 2010-45 (1 row) pref= SELECT CURRENT_DATE; date 2010-11-05

Re: [GENERAL] select to_char(current_timestamp, 'YYYY-WW');

2010-11-04 Thread Tom Lane
Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com writes: sorry for the stupid question, but why has the week number changed from 44 to 45 this night? WW is defined as starting the first week on the first day of the year. 2010 started on a Friday so the week number increments on Fridays. There are

[GENERAL] How do you control IMMUTABLE PG PROC results?

2010-11-04 Thread Carlo Stonebanks
We have procs that would benefit from returning IMMUTABLE results. The procs are dependent on external tables that rarely change, but when they DO change, it would be great if we could expire the cache that the procs read from so that the procs are forced to re-evaluate the results. Is this

Re: [GENERAL] select to_char(current_timestamp, 'YYYY-WW');

2010-11-04 Thread Alexander Farber
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote: WW is defined as starting the first week on the first day of the year. 2010 started on a Friday so the week number increments on Fridays. There are some other format codes with different behavior ... Thank you, that is what I

Re: [GENERAL] select to_char(current_timestamp, 'YYYY-WW');

2010-11-04 Thread Alexander Farber
I will try -IW On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Alexander Farber alexander.far...@gmail.com wrote: But is there a format code for a week starting on Sunday or Monday? Sorry, I can't find it at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-formatting.html -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] How do you control IMMUTABLE PG PROC results?

2010-11-04 Thread Leif Biberg Kristensen
On Friday 5. November 2010 01.24.14 Carlo Stonebanks wrote: We have procs that would benefit from returning IMMUTABLE results. The procs are dependent on external tables that rarely change, but when they DO change, it would be great if we could expire the cache that the procs read from so

Re: [GENERAL] How do you control IMMUTABLE PG PROC results?

2010-11-04 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:24:14PM -0400, Carlo Stonebanks wrote: We have procs that would benefit from returning IMMUTABLE results. The procs are dependent on external tables that rarely change, but when they DO change, it would be great if we could expire the cache that the procs read from