[GENERAL] Tools for converting XML file with dtd to table?

2009-03-24 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, Are there any tools available for converting XML files for which a dtd is available into a PostgreSQL table without any programming on my part? The files are basically XML formatted table dumps, with some elements having attributes. TIA -- Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V.

Re: [GENERAL] debugging in pgadmin

2009-03-24 Thread josep porres
good morning, I have a demo database, but it's empty. if you tell me where is the creation script, I will try it 2009/3/23 Dave Page dp...@pgadmin.org On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:56 PM, josep porres jmpor...@gmail.com wrote: well, now a log with only trying to debug setting a breakpoint Hmmm

Re: [GENERAL] Single missing WAL in long sequence..

2009-03-24 Thread Simon Riggs
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 21:51 -0700, Aimon Bustardo wrote: Hi, I ran into a recovery problem where I have a single missing WAL file in a long sequence. I need a way to recover past that missing WAL archive. I am desperately hoping there is a way to do this. Any help that can be given

Re: [GENERAL] Accessing large objects

2009-03-24 Thread Albe Laurenz
how to access large objects from the database when using PGAdmin like client applications? When a normal select is executed on lo type columns it gives only the number which refers to large objects stored in 'pg_largeobjects' table. When records from pg_largeobjects are fetched using

Re: [GENERAL] Move PG installation to a new computer

2009-03-24 Thread Albe Laurenz
Thomas Kellerer wrote: I'm getting a new notebook and want to confirm that my idea on how to move my Postgres installation will work This is a development/test installation and not a production system, so it doesn't need to be 100% fail safe. Both systems are Windows XP 32bit. My plan

Re: [GENERAL] Single missing WAL in long sequence..

2009-03-24 Thread Albe Laurenz
Aimon Bustardo wrote: Hi, I ran into a recovery problem where I have a single missing WAL file in a long sequence. I need a way to recover past that missing WAL archive. I am desperately hoping there is a way to do this. Any help that can be given will be extremely appreciated! I am

[GENERAL] lots of WAL files retained with restore_command through %r parameter

2009-03-24 Thread Duco Fijma
Hello, I'm having a problem with a warm standy-by / continuous archiving setup. The archive of WAL segments on the slave server sometimes (and only sometimes) grows _huge_. I'm using a warm standy-by / continuous archiving setup with two servers. The slave servers, in stand-by mode, is

Re: [GENERAL] Accent insensitive search?

2009-03-24 Thread Jasen Betts
On 2009-03-18, cifroes cifr...@netcabo.pt wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_=_NextPart_001_01C9A7E6.B32BBA87 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I have a DB in utf-8 and postgres 8.3.x.=20 How can I

Re: [GENERAL] Move PG installation to a new computer

2009-03-24 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Albe Laurenz, 24.03.2009 10:34: Thomas Kellerer wrote: I'm getting a new notebook and want to confirm that my idea on how to move my Postgres installation will work This is a development/test installation and not a production system, so it doesn't need to be 100% fail safe. Both systems are

[GENERAL] Timezone calculation question

2009-03-24 Thread Роман Маширов
Seems I've missed something important about time zones. On my server i've got local timezone 'W-SU' (Moscow time): = show timezone; TimeZone -- W-SU = select now(); now --- 2009-03-24 13:23:39.655057+03 Till now all seems ok. Than

Re: [GENERAL] text column constraint, newbie question

2009-03-24 Thread Daniel Verite
RebeccaJ wrote: Thanks, everyone, for your contribution to this thread. I'm approaching the database design of my web application differently, now. Before, I was planning to have CHECK constraints in all of my text or char fields, to keep out all semicolons, single quotes, and anything

Re: [GENERAL] 1- and 2-dimensional indexes on same column: why is the 2d one preferred?

2009-03-24 Thread Marinos Yannikos
Tom Lane schrieb: Marinos Yannikos m...@geizhals.at writes: i_a btree (a) i_ab btree (a, b) I suspect that these indexes are exactly the same size --- look at pg_class.relpages or use the pg_relation_size() function to verify. For some reason, the first one is actually about twice the size

Re: [GENERAL] debugging in pgadmin

2009-03-24 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:50 AM, josep porres jmpor...@gmail.com wrote: Ooops,   I haven't realized the second schema, I've found the function. Here you are your test log. OK, I think we've tracked down the problem. Can I send you some updated DLLs to try offlist? -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB

Re: [GENERAL] debugging in pgadmin

2009-03-24 Thread josep porres
i've just upgraded the server to 8.3.7 holding the same data directory select * from pldbg_get_proxy_info(); serverversionstr,serverversionnum,proxyapiver,serverprocessid PostgreSQL 8.3devel on i686-pc-mingw32, compiled by GCC gcc.exe (GCC) 3.4.2 (mingw-special),80300,3,2948 is it ok for testing

Re: [GENERAL] debugging in pgadmin

2009-03-24 Thread josep porres
by the way, after upgrading, i get the same behaviour even executing the function in a query window created after setting the breakpoint. 2009/3/24 josep porres jmpor...@gmail.com i've just upgraded the server to 8.3.7 holding the same data directory select * from pldbg_get_proxy_info();

Re: [GENERAL] debugging in pgadmin

2009-03-24 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:42 PM, josep porres jmpor...@gmail.com wrote: i've just upgraded the server to 8.3.7 holding the same data directory select * from pldbg_get_proxy_info(); serverversionstr,serverversionnum,proxyapiver,serverprocessid PostgreSQL 8.3devel on i686-pc-mingw32, compiled

Re: [GENERAL] Timezone calculation question

2009-03-24 Thread Tom Lane
=?UTF-8?B?0KDQvtC80LDQvSDQnNCw0YjQuNGA0L7Qsg==?= m...@nandu.ru writes: Seems I've missed something important about time zones. On my server i've got local timezone 'W-SU' (Moscow time): = show timezone; TimeZone -- W-SU = select now(); now

[GENERAL] [win32] 8.3.5 - 8.3.7 install trouble

2009-03-24 Thread Kev
I went to upgrade an installation and was stopped with (approximately) the following message after clicking Next on the step where I told it to use the same data directory: The existing data directory (date time: floating-point numbers) is not compatible with this server (date time: 64-bit

Re: [GENERAL] Fulltext: problem with english words in german text

2009-03-24 Thread Torsten Zühlsdorff
Torsten Zühlsdorff schrieb: Hello, i have a problem with understanding fulltext search in PG 8.3. [..] I solved it. I have to specify the language in to_tsquery(). -.- Greetings, Torsten -- http://www.dddbl.de - ein Datenbank-Layer, der die Arbeit mit 8 verschiedenen Datenbanksystemen

Re: [GENERAL] Fulltext: problem with english words in german text

2009-03-24 Thread Torsten Zühlsdorff
[..] I've just noticed, that i forgot to change the subject. While writing i figured out, that the question is not the one, i want to ask. I am sorry for confusions. Greetings, Torsten -- http://www.dddbl.de - ein Datenbank-Layer, der die Arbeit mit 8 verschiedenen Datenbanksystemen

[GENERAL] Fulltext: problem with english words in german text

2009-03-24 Thread Torsten Zühlsdorff
Hello, i have a problem with understanding fulltext search in PG 8.3. Example: CREATE TABLE tfulltext (body text, fulltext tsvector); INSERT INTO tfulltext VALUES ('title und description sind wichtige grundlagen', to_tsvector('pg_catalog.german', 'title und description sind wichtige

Re: [GENERAL] LISTEN/NOTIFY problem

2009-03-24 Thread Dmitri Girski
Thank you guys for your replies! It is definitely something wrong with my code, here is the thread which does the listening: http://mitek.id.au/flex/DBListener.cpp The rest of application is fairly big and does not relate to the database. For libpq calls I am using the SPTK (http://sptk.net)

Res: [GENERAL] [win32] 8.3.5 - 8.3.7 install trouble

2009-03-24 Thread Berdam
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[GENERAL] Case sensitivity problems with user name

2009-03-24 Thread Will Rutherdale (rutherw)
Hi. I have a little problem with user names and Postgres commands. Due to quirks in corporate account management using ADS, some user names come out as, say, Mickey when you log into Linux instead of mickey. This unfortunate user tries to run Postgres commands and gets for instance: $

Re: [GENERAL] Case sensitivity problems with user name

2009-03-24 Thread John R Pierce
Will Rutherdale (rutherw) wrote: When I try going into psql as user postgres to change the user name, I get this problem: postgres=# alter user mickey rename to Mickey; ERROR: role “mickey” already exists you might try... alter user mickey rename to Mickey; -- Sent via pgsql-general

Res: [GENERAL] Case sensitivity problems with user name

2009-03-24 Thread Berdam
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Re: [GENERAL] Case sensitivity problems with user name

2009-03-24 Thread Will Rutherdale (rutherw)
Yes, that worked, thanks. After also doing this: alter database mickey rename to Mickey; it solved the problem. Pardon my newness to Postgres. -Will -Original Message- From: John R Pierce [mailto:pie...@hogranch.com] Sent: 24 March 2009 16:21 To: Will Rutherdale (rutherw) Cc:

Re: [GENERAL] Defer a functional index calculation?

2009-03-24 Thread Randall Lucas
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Sam Mason s...@samason.me.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 05:37:33PM -0700, Randall Lucas wrote: I added a functional index. create table example (id serial primary key, stuff text, parent_id int); create index example_root_idx on example

Re: [GENERAL] Case sensitivity problems with user name

2009-03-24 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 24/03/2009 20:38, Will Rutherdale (rutherw) wrote: Pardon my newness to Postgres. We've all been there at some point! - except of course for Tom Lane. :-) Ray. -- Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral,

Re: Res: [GENERAL] Case sensitivity problems with user name

2009-03-24 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
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Re: [GENERAL] Proper entry of polygon type data

2009-03-24 Thread Brent Wood
Hi Peter, If you want to use Postgres to store/manage/query spatial data, I strongly recommend you look at PostGIS, not the native Postgres geometry types. Brent Wood Brent Wood DBA/GIS consultant NIWA, Wellington New Zealand Peter Willis pet...@borstad.com 03/24/09 10:35 AM Hello, I

Re: [GENERAL] Last modification time of a database?

2009-03-24 Thread Erik Jones
On Mar 23, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Craig Ringer wrote: Erik Jones wrote: Am I missing something obvious here? If not, has anyone come up with a reliable way to do this? Triggers on all your tables that append to a logging table? Have the client do it? Note that you do *NOT* want to have

Re: [GENERAL] Last modification time of a database?

2009-03-24 Thread Tom Lane
Erik Jones ejo...@engineyard.com writes: These are all client databases at the web hosting company I work at. I can't go putting triggers on all of their tables. I think I'll just start taking snapshots of pertinent data from pg_stat_activity and after I've been collecting data for a

Re: Res: [GENERAL] Case sensitivity problems with user name

2009-03-24 Thread berdam
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Re: [GENERAL] debugging in pgadmin

2009-03-24 Thread berdam
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Re: [GENERAL] Single missing WAL in long sequence..

2009-03-24 Thread berdam
how to unsubscribe of this list?? Simon Riggs escreveu: On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 21:51 -0700, Aimon Bustardo wrote: Hi, I ran into a recovery problem where I have a single missing WAL file in a long sequence. I need a way to recover past that missing WAL archive. I am desperately