[ADMIN] self defined counter function

2004-04-20 Thread Enrico Ortmann
Hi admins, I got a conceptual question on creating a stored procedure I need for my app. First the description of the problem: I need a counter which works with 36 possible values per character [0-9 and thereafter A-Z]. That means if incremented it should return values as follows:

[ADMIN] Data replication

2004-04-20 Thread GP
Hi all, I am quite new in Postgresql and I am wondering if it supports data replication. If I understand correctly postgresql has only the pg_dumpall function that makes a copy/backup of the database, and it does not support a functionality for automatic data replcation in a backup database

Re: [ADMIN] Data replication

2004-04-20 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:08:12AM +0300, GP wrote: Hi all, I am quite new in Postgresql and I am wondering if it supports data replication. Yes. There are several projects supporting it, some in contrib/ and some on the gborg.postgresql.org site. My employer, Afilias uses erserver today,

Re: [ADMIN] self defined counter function

2004-04-20 Thread Paul Breen
Hello Enrico, You could try this. create table codes (code_urn integer, code char(1)); create sequence code_urn_seq minvalue 0 maxvalue 35 cycle; insert into codes values(0,'0'); ... insert into codes values(35,'Z'); Then the following query would give you the incrementing code

Re: [ADMIN] self defined counter function

2004-04-20 Thread Enrico Ortmann
Hi Paul, PB select code from codes where code_urn = (select nextval('code_urn_seq')); Yes this is a great idea, but it only manages one character. But I need a counter with at least a variable length and it has to be filled with leading zero-values, so that the length of the generated counter

Re: [ADMIN] Going from a DB using SQL_ASCII to UNICODE

2004-04-20 Thread CoL
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[ADMIN] Unfamiliar recovery message afer server crash

2004-04-20 Thread Arthur Ward
For unknown reasons, our PG server died overnight. (PG 7.4.2, RedHat 8, ext3 ordered data mode, and battery backed RAID5) When it came back up, I saw an unfamiliar line in the recovery output from Postgres: Apr 20 11:28:14 postgres: [6203] LOG: database system was interrupted at 2004-04-20

[ADMIN] Problems doing a restore under 7.4.2

2004-04-20 Thread Chris White (cjwhite)
I have just migrated from 7.2.1 to 7.4.2 and I have the following tables defined in my database. /* */ /* Table: vm_config */ /* */ create table vm_config ( Parameter

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Re: [ADMIN] self defined counter function

2004-04-20 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
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