Re: [GENERAL] Bizarre problem: Python stored procedure using protocol buffers not working

2010-05-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On lör, 2010-05-15 at 15:40 -0700, Yang Zhang wrote: yang=# select * from qapb; id | pb + 0 | \012\006hello?\020\000\030\000 \000*\014\012\006hello!\020\000\030\000 (1 row)

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2010-05-12 at 15:24 +0200, John Gage wrote: Yes it would. In fact, I have often wondered why this doesn't exist. How can I do it? cd doc/src/sgml make html JADEFLAGS='-V nochunks -V rootchunk' That will produce an index.html file with the entire documentation in it. -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] Documentation availability as a single page of text

2010-05-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On lör, 2010-05-08 at 11:06 +0200, John Gage wrote: Is the documentation available anywhere as a single page text file? This would be enormously helpful for searching using regular expressions in Vim, for example, or excerpting pieces for future reference. It would be pretty easy to

Re: [GENERAL] information_schema.parameters

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tis, 2010-05-04 at 09:19 +0100, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: 2010/5/3 Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net: It was a convenient choice. You could propose a different method for generating the specific routine name, but given that it has to fit into an identifier and has to allow for function

Re: [GENERAL] information_schema.parameters

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On fre, 2010-04-30 at 17:36 +0100, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: why specific_name column on that view contains also OID ? This makes two databases that are identical, have different values there. Is there any specific reason for that ? It was a convenient choice. You could propose a different

Re: [GENERAL] psql's \d display of unique index vs. constraint

2010-04-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On fre, 2010-04-09 at 18:01 -0400, Josh Kupershmidt wrote: I often come across tables with either a unique index or a unique constraint on them, and psql isn't helpful at showing the difference between the two. Normally, I don't care which is which, except for when I have to manually drop and

[GENERAL] Call for translations

2010-03-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
In anticipation of the release of PostgreSQL 9.0, it is once again time to update the message translations. We are not very near a string freeze yet, which has traditionally been associated with the first release candidate, but I feel that things are already stable enough to begin this work now.

Re: [GENERAL] error: C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check

2010-03-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2010-03-10 at 12:04 +0600, AI Rumman wrote: I am getting the following error during Postgresql 8.1 installation: error: C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check Please any suggestion how to solve it. Check the config.log file. I would guess it's somewhat likely that you don't

Re: [GENERAL] 8.4.1 8.4.2 require map=... for ident in the pg_hba.conf file, will this be the new way?

2010-01-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tis, 2010-01-05 at 16:35 +0100, Claudio Eichenberger wrote: Hello, In older PostgreSQL installations 8.4 I used the following pg_hba.conf syntax: local all pgsql ident PGSQL but 8.4.1 8.4.2 require the following syntax: local all pgsql ident

Re: [GENERAL] XML Type validates against xml schema?

2010-01-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tis, 2010-01-05 at 16:06 -0800, Andrew Lardinois wrote: Poking around in the 8.5 Devel Documentation section 8.13.1, the XML Type, I noticed that: The xml type does not validate input values against a document type declaration (DTD), even when the input value specifies a DTD I suppose

Re: [GENERAL] getaddrinfo.c error

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2009-12-14 at 09:27 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes: Tom Lane wrote: Hm, I wonder whether the reason the OP ran into trouble was that he followed that guide :-(. Relying on manual invocation of configure is a sure recipe for hitting weird

Re: [GENERAL] Dependency tracking tool

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2009-12-14 at 16:58 +0100, Philippe Lang wrote: My idea was to parse the functions definitions in order to build dependencies between the functions. I'm not sure how difficult it is, especially with overloaded functions, which require more than a simple pattern search inside the

Re: [GENERAL] pg_attribute.attnum - wrong column ordinal?

2009-12-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tor, 2009-12-03 at 10:09 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com writes: Should we recast the attributes and columns views in information_schema? I notice they still use attnum. I'd vote against it, at least until we have something better than a row_number

Re: [GENERAL] Enum on-disk format

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2009-11-18 at 22:33 -0800, Scott Bailey wrote: The only I/O functions I'm aware of are send, recv, in and out. What controls converting from/to wire and on-disk formats? send and recv And why is wire format little endian and disk big endian? The wire format is network order

Re: [GENERAL] all empty tables

2009-11-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On lör, 2009-11-14 at 10:12 +, Garry Saddington wrote: How could I list all the tables in a database that do not contain any data? I have looked at reltuples but can't quite work out how to use it, any pointers would be much apreciated. select * from pg_class where relkind = 'r' and

Re: [GENERAL] Editor for sgml files

2009-11-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tis, 2009-11-10 at 14:10 -0800, Richard Broersma wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: Well, a lot of hard work. ;-) Just like there are coding standards and best practices, there are standards and customs in writing and publishing

Re: [GENERAL] Editor for sgml files

2009-11-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2009-11-11 at 08:32 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net: * The Elements of Style Hope this doesn't start a flame war, but: http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/25497 Yeah, you need to be prepared to reject about 30

Re: [GENERAL] What to install to be able to build docs on Arch Linux?

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2009-11-09 at 23:13 +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: configure:27984: checking for DocBook V4.2 onsgmls:/etc/xml/catalog:2:78:E: name expected onsgmls:/etc/xml/catalog:2:18:E: cannot find PUBLIC; tried /etc/xml/PUBLIC, /usr/share/sgml/PUBLIC, /usr/share/xml/PUBLIC Looks like

Re: [GENERAL] What to install to be able to build docs on Arch Linux?

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2009-11-09 at 19:49 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: = pacman -Ql docbook-sgml docbook-sgml /usr/ docbook-sgml /usr/share/ docbook-sgml /usr/share/sgml/ docbook-sgml /usr/share/sgml/docbook-sgml-4.2/ docbook-sgml

Re: [GENERAL] Editor for sgml files

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On tis, 2009-11-10 at 07:00 -0800, David Fetter wrote: Well, there's the whole Docbook thing, which was pretty well thought out. Apart from that, I don't know. Peter? Well, a lot of hard work. ;-) Just like there are coding standards and best practices, there are standards and customs in

Re: [GENERAL] What to install to be able to build docs on Arch Linux?

2009-11-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2009-11-09 at 20:16 +0100, hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote: my docbook related packages: = pacman -Q | grep -i docbook docbook-xml 4.5-3 docbook-xsl 1.74.0-1 docbook2x 0.8.8-7 You need the SGML version of DocBook. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] Which locale to use for multiple-language support?

2009-11-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On mån, 2009-11-09 at 10:57 +, David Edwards wrote: If we have users from all over the world storing data in our database with all sorts of languages, which locale should we use to ensure these string functions behave as they expect? Try en_US.utf8. It is pretty language neutral. --

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2009-10-28 at 14:13 +, Thom Brown wrote: http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-8-5.html Thanks Adrian. I just wasn't looking hard enough obviously :) That list still doesn't appear to be explicit enough though as we have Multiple improvements in

Re: [GENERAL] Emal reg expression

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2009-10-28 at 05:45 -0700, Xai wrote: i want to create a type for an email field but i'm not good with regx can some one help me? I suggest that you make use of an already written module in some language such as Perl. See http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Email_address_parsing for an

Re: [GENERAL] Design question about partitioning order information across tables

2009-10-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 03:13 -0700, Mike Christensen wrote: It has occurred to me that there might be some advantages of creating a separate table called OrderArchive which would be used to store order states 3 or 4. This would allow me to get rid of an index on order state as well as probably

Re: [GENERAL] auth problem

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 15:17 +0400, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote: Hello. Today i'm try to install postresql an init database initdb --pgdata=/media/pgsql --encoding=utf8 --locale=en_US.UTF-8 --auth=crypt --username=postgres --pwprompt password is crypted $1$qJzh/8AD$Q0wVsHF9XE9NmA/8uKjy2/

Re: [GENERAL] auth problem

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 16:06 +0400, Vasiliy G Tolstov wrote: В Пнд, 12/10/2009 в 15:04 +0300, Peter Eisentraut пишет: Use --auth=md5. Why? crypt is deprecated? Yes, and removed in 8.4. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [GENERAL] Best data type to use for sales tax percent

2009-10-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 00:10 -0700, Mike Christensen wrote: Wouldn't (4,3) let me store 0.000 through 9.999? Maybe I'm still not following what both numbers mean. Yes. If you want 0.000 through 0.999, use numeric(3,3). Adding a check constraint might increase clarity. And put it in a domain

Re: [GENERAL] Best data type to use for sales tax percent

2009-10-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 11:46 -0700, Christophe Pettus wrote: Domains are basically type aliases with an optional CHECK clause, so you could do something like: CREATE DOMAN sales_tax_rate AS DECIMAL(5,5) CHECK (VALUE = 0); Then, you can use the type sales_tax_rate in your tables,

Re: [GENERAL] How useful is the money datatype?

2009-10-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 11:33 +0100, Thom Brown wrote: I've found that I unwittingly compiled PostgreSQL on my web server without specifying locale, PostgreSQL isn't compiled with a locale or without one. and now the money type is represented in dollars. In order to change that, it would

Re: [GENERAL] Collation in ORDER BY not lexicographical

2009-09-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 03:21 -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Paul Gaspar devl...@revolversoft.com wrote: Hi! We have big problems with collation in ORDER BY, which happens in binary order, not alphabetic (lexicographical), like:. A B Z a z Ä Ö

Re: [GENERAL] sync structures

2009-09-29 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 10:08 -0700, John wrote: On Monday 28 September 2009 09:56:33 am Filip Rembiałkowski wrote: BTW, you did not specify what exactly did not work when you tried apgdiff. this would help others to help you. To be honest I could not determine how to start the app.

Re: [GENERAL] [HACKERS] libpq port number handling

2009-09-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 20:36 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: BTW, are port numbers still limited to 16 bits in IPv6? Port numbers are in TCP, not in IP. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL nonstandard use of escape in a string literal

2009-09-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On fre, 2009-09-18 at 14:05 +1000, Johnson, Trevor wrote: Using Moodle with PostgreSQL 8.4 and we get warning messages... 2009-09-18 13:48:11 ESTWARNING: nonstandard use of escape in a string literal at character 209 2009-09-18 13:48:11 ESTHINT: Use the escape string syntax for escapes,

Re: [GENERAL] invalid byte sequence for encoding

2009-09-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 00:36 +0200, Daniel Schuchardt wrote: I know you are true with definition's and standards, however, that code works for about 6 years ;o) Well, we will change our parser behavoir. We will check out that standard_conforming_strings parameter too but i see a lot of

Re: [GENERAL] invalid byte sequence for encoding

2009-09-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On sön, 2009-09-13 at 18:51 +0200, Daniel Schuchardt wrote: UPDATE belzeil_frei SET bz_zubez= '*', bz_zubez_rtf= '{\\rtf1\\ansi\\deff0{\\fonttbl{\\f0\\fnil\\fcharset0 Arial;}}\r\n\\viewkind4\\uc1\\pard\\lang1031\\fs20 *\r\n\\par }\r\n\0' WHERE dbrid=295116 Result : ERROR: invalid byte

Re: [GENERAL] invalid byte sequence for encoding

2009-09-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On sön, 2009-09-13 at 22:21 +0200, Daniel Schuchardt wrote: First:In Postgres81 everything is working fine. In general, older versions of PostgreSQL treated encoding issues much mroe loosely, which subsequently lead to user errors, bugs, and confusion. Later versions are more strict.

Re: [GENERAL] Installing postgresql on Debian Lenny--my /etc/apt/sources.list.

2009-09-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 13:17 +0700, Ricky Tompu Breaky wrote: It seems that the aptitude can not find the postgresql. Please post the exact output from the screen. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql function to validate e-mail

2009-08-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 21:10 +0100, Andre Lopes wrote: I need a plpgsql function to validade e-mail addresses. I have google but I can't find any. My question: Anyone have a function to validate e-mails? I recommend something based on the following recipe in PL/Perl.

Re: [GENERAL] Relational Algebra and Aggregate Functions

2009-07-29 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 04:38:03 Jeff Davis wrote: On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 21:05 -0400, Robert James wrote: 1) Introduction to Database Systems http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Database-Systems-Kannan-Swamynathan/dp /B001BVYKY4/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1248742811sr=1-5 and 2)

Re: [GENERAL] Building from source vs RPMs

2009-07-29 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 02:53:19 Christophe Pettus wrote: I'm moving from a long time in BSD-land to using Linux. I've always been in the habit of building PostgreSQL from the source tarballs. On Linux, is there an advantage either way to using the RPMs as opposed to building from source?

Re: [GENERAL] xml to string, ascii x utf8 conversion

2009-07-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Monday 20 July 2009 19:46:01 Radek Novotný wrote: query_to_xml('select Nazev as TITLE, Datum as DATE, Autor_Akce as meta rel=''action_author'', gave me table xmlns:xsi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance; row TITLETest/TITLE DATE2009-07-20/DATE

Re: [GENERAL] First query very slow. Solutions: memory, or settings, or SQL?

2009-07-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Tuesday 21 July 2009 04:36:41 Phoenix Kiula wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Peter Eisentrautpete...@gmx.net wrote: On Monday 20 July 2009 06:45:40 Phoenix Kiula wrote: explain analyze select * from sites where user_id = 'phoenix' order by id desc limit 10;

Re: [GENERAL] First query very slow. Solutions: memory, or settings, or SQL?

2009-07-20 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Monday 20 July 2009 06:45:40 Phoenix Kiula wrote: explain analyze select * from sites where user_id = 'phoenix' order by id desc limit 10; QUERY PLAN ---

Re: [GENERAL] initdb --locale=LATIN1 fails on Windows

2009-07-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 15 July 2009 23:02:47 Abraham, Danny wrote: Actually the command is:initdb --encoding=LATIN1. It fails on Windos. fails on Windows The same command worked fine on PG 8.2.4. Now, using 8.3.7, the command succeeds only with encoding 1252. It comments something on wrong

Re: [GENERAL] How to DB export XML File in PostgreSQL?

2009-07-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Thursday 16 July 2009 09:03:09 Steve Choi wrote: Hello. Thank you for your int If I queryed on PostgreSQL, SELECT Item_ID FROM Engine, I want to export the result to Single XML file. How can I make it? Have a nice day. Thank you for your answer. :)

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with 8.4, FLOAT8PASSBYVAL and x86_64 GNU/Linux

2009-07-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Thursday 16 July 2009 12:14:48 Rafael Martinez wrote: ERROR: incompatible library /usr/local/lib/pg_uname_8.4.so: magic block mismatch DETAIL: Server has FLOAT8PASSBYVAL = true, library has false. You need to recompile your module. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] psql \du

2009-07-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Thursday 16 July 2009 02:12:05 ANdreas Wenk wrote: Hi, I recognized in psql using the internal help (\?) that the *+* sign is missing for the shortcut \du: # \du List of roles Role name | Attributes | Member of --+--+--- # \du+

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL-License

2009-07-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Tuesday 14 July 2009 13:02:14 Nenad Milasinovic wrote: Hello, I am interested can PostgreSQL be used in commercial applications, and what is licensing policy. I know that PostgreSQL is released under BSD licence, but still i want to be sure are there any costs when distributing

Re: [GENERAL] Installing plpython on 8.4

2009-07-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Saturday 04 July 2009 02:57:35 Scott Bailey wrote: On ubuntu from command line: createlang -h localhost -p 5433 plpythonu template1 createlang: language installation failed: ERROR: could not load library /opt/postgres/8.4/lib/postgresql/plpython.so: libpython2.3.so.1.0: cannot open

Re: [GENERAL] Installing plpython on 8.4

2009-07-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Friday 03 July 2009 06:09:37 Scott Bailey wrote: I'm having trouble installing plpython in 8.4. I tried under Windows (one click installer from EDB) and under Ubuntu (linux binary). In both cases I was told: could not load library 8.4/lib/postgresql/plpython.(so|dll) Both systems have

Re: [GENERAL] pl/sql resources for pl/pgsql?

2009-06-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 03:16:19 gvimrc wrote: I'm fairly new to PostgreSQL and completely new to using pl/pgsql though I've used MySQL's procedural language a little. I heard pl/pgsql is similar to Oracle's pl/sql so would it be possible, given that pl/pgsql literature is a bit thin on the

Re: [sfpug] [GENERAL] Rails and PostgreSQL now up on media.postgresql.org

2009-06-14 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Thursday 11 June 2009 21:48:22 Dave Page wrote: Can you embed the files on the PUGs page like JD suggests? What I want to avoid is an ad-hoc website springing up on media.postgresql.org that ends up in Google and being linked from who-knows-where. While there is a point to that, having the

Re: [GENERAL] xml to table (as oppose to table to xml)

2009-06-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Monday 01 June 2009 12:53:08 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: is there any way currently to convert xml file in format like below, to a table ? I have some code that does this, but it was written a long time ago and will probably need some polishing. One main problem is how you specify that

Re: [GENERAL] Compiler versions on different platforms

2009-05-12 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Tuesday 12 May 2009 02:30:56 Vikram Patil wrote: I was able to compile on all of the platforms but I want to know about minimum and recommended version requirements for these systems. I am concerned about performance of these binaries and looking to achieve performance of these binary as

Re: [GENERAL] recover corrupt DB?

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Thursday 23 April 2009 18:30:27 Dan Armbrust wrote: I had a test system (read as not backed up, sigh) which had the disk go full while PostgreSQL was loaded, consequently, PostgreSQL will no longer start. It is logging an error about detecting an invalid shutdown, trying to replay

Re: [GENERAL] utf8 encoding for template0 and template1?

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Thursday 23 April 2009 20:33:56 zach cruise wrote: is it recommended to change encodings for template0 and template1 to utf8 (by recreating databases) for 8.1? Not if you don't have a specific reason for doing so. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To

Re: [GENERAL] Yet another drop table vs delete question

2009-04-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 20:26:24 marek.patr...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if dropping a table is more efficient in PostgreSQL 8.x in comparison to deleting it's content ? Yes, but if you are asking that question, you probably really want to use TRUNCATE. -- Sent via pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] One command to rule them all?

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Sunday 19 April 2009 19:57:40 Raymond O'Donnell wrote: I remember some time back there was a discussion about implementing a single catch-all command for PostgreSQL, to replace (or perhaps rather encompass) the various other utilities we currently use (psql, pg_dump, createdb, etc etc).

Re: [GENERAL] Breaking national language support in Solaris 8

2009-03-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Sunday 22 March 2009 13:03:29 Gregory Stark wrote: Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: This will, however, only work with GNU Gettext (as used in Linux and BSD distributions) and Solaris 9 or later, and it is not easy to provide a backward compatible mode. Eh? I thought

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple natural joins

2009-03-20 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Sam Mason wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 04:22:56PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Joins nest from left to write, so tbl_c NATURAL JOIN tbl_a NATURAL JOIN tbl_b means (tbl_c NATURAL JOIN tbl_a) NATURAL JOIN tbl_b If you want a different order, you can set the parentheses differently

[GENERAL] Breaking national language support in Solaris 8

2009-03-20 Thread Peter Eisentraut
There is a proposal being discussed on the hackers list about adding gettext plural support to the national language support (NLS) feature (--enable-nls) in the upcoming PostgreSQL 8.4. This would mean that plurals of translated messages (e.g., in psql: 1 row/n rows) will work properly in

Re: [GENERAL] Multiple natural joins

2009-03-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Thom Brown wrote: SELECT tbl_a.location, tbl_b.language FROM tbl_c NATURAL INNER JOIN tbl_a NATURAL INNER JOIN tbl_b The confusion comes when 2 of those tables reference the 3rd table using the same column. So are natural joins only allowed to join 2 tables? If not, how can it be used for

Re: [GENERAL] configure question

2009-03-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 19:50:17 Jeffrey Trimble wrote: I've got a question regarding ./configure. In v. 8.013 (okay, I'm running old stuff) we had the following options: --with-java --with-multibyte --with-unicode In attempting to upgrade to 8.3.7, those flags are ignored. That's

Re: [GENERAL] Custom datestyle for timestamps

2009-03-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Thursday 05 March 2009 00:19:02 Daniel Verite wrote: SET DATESTYLE takes predefined keywords such as ISO or US as arguments, but I can't find a way to specify a custom format string for timestamps. There is no support for that. What I'd like to find is an equivalent to Oracle's ALTER

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres with phpScheduleIt

2009-03-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Thursday 05 March 2009 18:39:11 Stuart Luppescu wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install phpScheduleIt (an on-line calendaring application) on my system that has postgres 8.0.15 running. I have to admit upfront that I have very little idea how postgres works; my small-business accounting system

Re: [GENERAL] Problem with Mauritius summer time (MUST)

2009-03-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Xavier Bugaud wrote: Postgresql is supposed to have the correct Mauritius timezone since 8.3.5 (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/release-8-3-5.html). From a debian box configured in the Mauritius timezone : PostgreSQL on Debian uses the operating system's time zone database.

Re: [GENERAL] db_restore and xml data

2009-03-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Friday 27 February 2009 19:09:57 Enrico Sirola wrote: Hello, I have a pgsql database hosting xml data in xml columns. The data, have !DOCTYPE declarations at the beginning, so it is saved with XMLPARSE (DOCUMENT text) when I try to restore a database from dump, pg_restore complains

Re: [GENERAL] xpath functions

2009-02-21 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Thursday 19 February 2009 16:46:42 Francisco wrote: Hi List, I have installed postgreSQL 8.3 in my Ubuntu Hardy Heron. I want to use xpath functions (like xpath_table), but I can't. An error appears xpath_table does not exists. How could I intregrate xpath funtions with my postgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL clustering with DRBD

2009-02-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Serge Fonville wrote: Can PostgreSQL use DRBD as its storage? Yes, many deployments use this. Since the in-memory database would be synchronized with the on-disk database. If this would be done with every query, this would greatly impact performance. Performance with DRBD is usually

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL clustering with DRBD

2009-02-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Serge Fonville wrote: So, DRBD dual primary and Cybercluster multimaster, cannot be combined? If you have questions on Cybercluster, you should perhaps ask there for details. For normal PostgreSQL, using DRBD dual primary is not possible. My endgoal is a two node cluster with load

Re: [GENERAL] Pet Peeves?

2009-02-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Gregory Stark wrote: I'm putting together a talk on PostgreSQL Pet Peeves for discussion at FOSDEM 2009 this year. Perhaps you could post a conclusion to this, with some worst of statistics or something. I didn't see your talk, but I was getting a sense that the feedback seen on this list

Re: [GENERAL] encoding of PostgreSQL messages

2009-02-11 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 11 February 2009 18:00:31 Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net writes: Tom Lane wrote: Reflecting on the bigger picture ... I would imagine that the vast majority of existing applications depend on client_encoding settings that come from postgresql.conf, ALTER

Re: [GENERAL] encoding of PostgreSQL messages

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: Reflecting on the bigger picture ... I would imagine that the vast majority of existing applications depend on client_encoding settings that come from postgresql.conf, ALTER USER SET, ALTER DATABASE SET, or just the default (== database encoding). I don't think a solution that

Re: [GENERAL] encoding of PostgreSQL messages

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: I believe the only real fix is to guarantee that messages are sent as untranslated ASCII until we have sent an encoding indicator at the end of the startup sequence. Which has its own pretty clear downside: no more translation of authorization failures. We should process the

Re: [GENERAL] ora2pg or dbi_link ?

2009-02-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
SHARMILA JOTHIRAJAH wrote: Ive been struggling to query some of my oracle tables from postgres using the dbi_link and its not working. Have anyone tried ora2pg for querying the oracle database from postgres? ora2pg is not really made for that. It is for a one-time conversion. -- Sent via

Re: [GENERAL] encoding of PostgreSQL messages

2009-02-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Momjian wrote: Can someone comment on this? Looks like a horrible hack to me. Recoding stuff to the client encoding in the server outside the existing recoding mechanism looks pretty evil to me. Plus, it does not address the problem of what happens to messages sent before this, it

Re: [GENERAL] Pet Peeves?

2009-02-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Alvaro Herrera wrote: A trivial, stupid implementation is perhaps not too difficult. The problem is getting the smarts right, i.e. an optimized version. You certainly don't want to be executing a query against a large table for every INSERT on another one, for example; it's better if if you

Re: [GENERAL] Pet Peeves?

2009-02-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: also, how hard would it be to implement CREATE ASSERTION, and where do you see it (and maybe Tom could anwer that one too). Would you say, it would be possible for someone with my knowledge of postgresql internals (vague), but with very good C to do it I think you

Re: [GENERAL] Pet Peeves?

2009-02-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 20:36:24 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: I dream about db wide checks on tables, without need to write expensive triggers. Basically, something that would run a select query after insert/update/delete and based on result commit or rollback. unless there's something

Re: [GENERAL] Pet Peeves?

2009-02-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 19:39:42 John DeSoi wrote: Somewhat related, it would be nice if columns had a unique identifier in the catalog rather than just a sequence number for the table. This would make it possible to distinguish between altering a column versus dropping/adding when

Re: [GENERAL] Which is best, timestamp as float or integer ?

2009-02-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 15:48:41 A B wrote: From the manual I read that timestamps are stored as double but they can also be stored as 8 byte integers. The advantage of the integer storage is mainly that calculations and comparisons have a predictable error and don't suffer from some of

Re: [GENERAL] Pet Peeves?

2009-01-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Gregory Stark wrote: So, what do people say? Is Postgres perfect in your world or does it do some things which rub you the wrong way? * No offer of anything-but-CVS on pgfoundry.org * Lack of REINDEX CONCURRENTLY * Too many obscure configuration options: memory management, autovacuum

Re: [GENERAL] conexiones ssl

2009-01-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Tuesday 20 January 2009 03:27:14 Henry Interiano wrote: Hola a todos necesito ayuda como configurar mi base de datos como aceptar conexiones ssl desde cualquier ip, mi base de datos esta instalada en Windows: - pgsql-es-ay...@postgresql.org -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list

Re: [GENERAL] Error: column host does not exist

2009-01-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
A. Kretschmer wrote: Not sure, but host is a reserved word, see: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/sql-keywords-appendix.html That list says that HOST is reserved in SQL:1999, but not in PostgreSQL. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [GENERAL] encoding of PostgreSQL messages

2009-01-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 31 December 2008 20:23:47 Tom Lane wrote: The proper fix is probably to include the client encoding in the connection startup message. What of errors occurring before such an option could be applied? Connection errors are handled by the client, which knows the client encoding.

Re: [GENERAL] encoding of PostgreSQL messages

2008-12-31 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 31 December 2008 18:57:29 Karsten Hilbert wrote: The solution is to find the right layer to take control of the encoding but this is eventually only possible if the encoding is *known*. Thus the plea for 7-bit-ascii English by default until the encoding *can* be known. Going to

Re: [GENERAL] Other queries locked out during long insert

2008-12-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Joshua J. Kugler wrote: OK, that makes sense. There was nothing on the TRUNCATE page to suggest that TRUNCATE would lock the tables. Maybe an addition to the documentation is in order? Where do I go to suggest that? I have added something to document this. -- Sent via pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Error: Operator does not exist: char=integer

2008-12-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
novnov wrote: I have restored a postgres 8.2.4-1 db onto a postgres 8.3.1-1 server, and when I try to work with a table I get this error: Error: Operator does not exist: char = integer Hopefully that is enough of a clue to be useful. Maybe this is the first time I've tried moving one of my

Re: [GENERAL] A bit confused about Postgres Plus

2008-12-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 11:40:18 Thomas Kellerer wrote: as the Enterprise DB distribution (One Click Installer) seems to be the recommendation from the Postgres team for a binary download, I wonder what the exact difference between Postgres and Postgres Plus is. There is actually a bit

Re: [GENERAL] Other queries locked out during long insert

2008-12-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Wednesday 17 December 2008 12:18:04 Joshua J. Kugler wrote: Begin Truncate table1, table2 for row in file1: insert into table1 sleep(0.001) # see note below for row in file2: insert into table2 sleep(0.001) # see note below Commit During the time where the insert

Re: [GENERAL] Large XML file

2008-12-15 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Letinarh wrote: I have a large XML file (about 130 Mb) and I want to parse it using plpg/sql. here comes two questions: 1. How can I upload it? (only by means of `Large Object`?) You can just insert it normally using INSERT or whatever other method you use for getting data into the database.

Re: [GENERAL] et_EE locale not found in debian

2008-12-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Andrus wrote: Peter, You probably want et_EE. (Language and country codes are not always consistent.) I don't understand this. Command line which I posted uses et_EE What is the exact command line ? Uh, forget that. Does locale -a show the locale you want? If not, run dpkg-reconfigure

Re: [GENERAL] master/detail: master rows without details

2008-12-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Thomas Guettler wrote: My naive first solution was quite slow. Why is it so slow? I guess (select d.master_id from detail as d) gets executed for every master-row. But why? Shouldn't it be possible to calculate it once and then reuse it? Please show exact schema dumps and your PostgreSQL

Re: [GENERAL] et_EE locale not found in debian

2008-12-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Andrus wrote: How to create cluster with et_EE locale ? You probably want et_EE. (Language and country codes are not always consistent.) -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription:

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres mail list traffic over time

2008-11-22 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Friday 21 November 2008 19:10:45 Tom Lane wrote: Yeah, I think this is most probably explained by repeat postings of successive versions of large patches. Still, Ron might be on to something. I had not considered message lengths in my previous numbers ... Also consider that since we

Re: [GENERAL] start/stop error message

2008-11-20 Thread Peter Eisentraut
David wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/init.d$ sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.2 start * Starting PostgreSQL 8.2 database server * Error: specified cluster does not exist [fail] and the same error when passing stop The cluster clearly

Re: pg_casts view (was Re: date_trun() with timezones? (was Re: [GENERAL] TIME column ...))

2008-11-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Tom Lane escribió: However, the interval version of the function can capture the time case because there's an implicit cast from time to interval: regression=# select casttarget::regtype,castcontext,castfunc::regprocedure from pg_cast where castsource = 'time'::regtype;

Re: pg_casts view (was Re: date_trun() with timezones? (was Re: [GENERAL] TIME column ...))

2008-11-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane escribi�: regression=# select casttarget::regtype,castcontext,castfunc::regprocedure from pg_cast where castsource = 'time'::regtype; BTW it very much looks like we should have a pg_casts view that displays these things in a

Re: [GENERAL] Are there plans to add data compression feature to postgresql?

2008-11-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Craig Ringer wrote: So - it's potentially even worth compressing the wire protocol for use on a 100 megabit LAN if a lightweight scheme like LZO can be used. LZO is under the GPL though. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

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