Re: [GENERAL] Re: PostgreSQL vs Oracle vs DB2 vs MySQL - Which should I use?

2001-02-17 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 09:36:23AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: snip Funny you should mention PHP. I talked to Rasmus about the email volume when I first met him in the fall. He said the volume of email is so great that just reading the subject lines takes a long time. We aren't there

Re: [GENERAL] how to return more than 1 arg with a function ?

2001-02-17 Thread Richard Huxton
Feite Brekeveld wrote: I want to return mre than 1 arg create function func(varchar) -- returns var1, var2 as ' ... ' language 'sql'; How to deal with the return : The manual says to use SETOF can't figure out how that works no examples are given. Not quite right. SETOF

Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive selects?

2001-02-17 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Tom Lane wrote: [snip] Hmmm...I'd hate to have two indexes on every field I query like this, one case-senstive, one case-insensitve (like the one you create here). Is there a configuration option or something that will tell pgsql to do case-insensitive comparisons (kinda like MS SQL

[GENERAL] Last day for O'Reilly proposals

2001-02-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Today is the last day for O'Reilly proposals to be submitted: http://candle.pha.pa.us/oreilly/ I will make decisions on Monday and inform submitters. Once the list is finalized and accepted by O'Reilly, I will post the schedule. -- Bruce Momjian|

Re: [GENERAL] Annotatable on-line documentation

2001-02-17 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Richard writes: Would this lighten the work load on the folk that are currently maintaining the docs? Would it lighten the work load for the core developers? Would it stimulate the development of richer documetation? Would it draw some of the load off the

Re: [GENERAL] Are partial indicies supported?

2001-02-17 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
Tom Lane wrote: [snip] That's a very good explanation, thanks. Is it possible to get that explanation into the docs at that page I mentioned above? I'd like to see the feature brought back, myself, but I dunno when it will get to the top of someone's to-do queue. I'd like that too, but the

Re: [GENERAL] Annotatable on-line documentation

2001-02-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Martijn van Oosterhout writes: Well, one thing would be is that it would make it easier for other people to submit changes to a particular page on the docs. You can just go there and submit a change. Sending a patch much harder. The policy for documentation submissions has always been "Give

[GENERAL] terminal psql: wrong console keystrokes

2001-02-17 Thread Nico
Through Konsole, the Up, Down, Left, Right keys work properly, but through psql the keystrokes seem to be wrong: instead of up (for scrolling in the internel buffer) it appears ^[[A Down ^[[B Right ^[[C Left ^[[D Back_del (ok) Forward_del ^[[3~ It happened when I upgraded Mandrake from

[GENERAL]

2001-02-17 Thread Eric Nicolas
set nomail

Re: [GENERAL] how to return more than 1 arg with a function ?

2001-02-17 Thread Tom Lane
Richard Huxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can also return a tuple like: create function whole_row() returns foo as ... But - that can only be used to feed into another function, not in a "raw" select statement. You can make a function returning tuple (or setof tuple), but there are a

[GENERAL] Function reference

2001-02-17 Thread Bruce Richardson
Is there a function reference for Postgresql anywhere? I can't find one in the standard documentation. -- Bruce

[GENERAL] Default values?

2001-02-17 Thread Bruce Richardson
If I wanted to create a table in such a way that the default value of one column is the value of another column (or the oid value), is there a way to do that in the CREATE TABLE statement (with the DEFAULT keyword, I'd imagine)? Or would I need to create a trigger? -- Bruce

[GENERAL] DBD::Pg problem?

2001-02-17 Thread John Madden
The DBD::Pg perl module for some reason has a limit of 8140 bytes when inserting, and I don't see why (yeah, I'll be contacting the authors there too), but I thought I'd ask here... I'm writing a Postgres-backed mail client, and storing emails in the database is obviously a little difficult

[GENERAL] Re: DBD::Pg problem?

2001-02-17 Thread Mitch Vincent
In pre 7.0 versions there was an 8k query size limit and in all pre 7.1 versions a limit on the size of a field (BLCKSZ from 8k (default) to 32k)... I'd say it's either in there to prevent one or the other. Of course 8140 isn't quite 8k but *shrug*.. -Mitch - Original Message - From:

Re: [GENERAL] Function reference

2001-02-17 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Bruce Richardson writes: Is there a function reference for Postgresql anywhere? I can't find one in the standard documentation. http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/postgres/functions.htm -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-e/

Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive selects?

2001-02-17 Thread David Wheeler
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: Tom Lane wrote: [snip] Then why are you bothering to maintain a case-sensitive index? There's no free lunch available here; if you think there is, then you are misunderstanding what an index is. Either the index is in

[GENERAL] dump of dictionary

2001-02-17 Thread Feite Brekeveld
Hi, Is there a way to get a dictionary back in the (or almost the) same way the database is created ? When defining: create table xxx ( id varchar(10) not null, blabla varchar(100) ); create table refxx ( id varchar(10) not null, other values ... primary key(id), foreign

[GENERAL] troublesome inputs

2001-02-17 Thread Michelle Murrain
Hi Folks, I've got a question. Users that use the web-based databases that I've recently written (cgi-perl and pgsql) sometimes come up with errors when they input information. I have realized that I need to write some very rigorous error-checking routines in order to make sure that whatever