Re: [GENERAL]

2000-05-23 Thread Robert B. Easter
Maybe try getting postgresql-7.0.tar.gz. from www.postgresql.org. Then do something like the following commands: su - groupadd postgres adduser postgres Note: make postgres user with default group postgres cd /usr/local/src tar -xvzf postgresql-7.0.tar.gz cd postgresql-7.0 less INSTALL

Re: [GENERAL] Join with other database's table

2000-05-23 Thread Sungchul Park
Thank you for your answer. I am developing WWW site that is serviced in 4 difference language, english, chinese, japanese, korean. I allocated one database for one language. each DB will have same tables that have same kind of information in different language. But I want to keep member's

Re: [GENERAL]

2000-05-23 Thread Mike Mascari
Janet wrote: Hello! I don't know if there is the right place to ask my question. If not, please accept my apology. I'm totally new to Linux. And I have troubles using the PostgreSQL. I installed Redhat 6.0 and find there is postgresql already installed on my computer. Running the

[GENERAL] Re: Join with other database's table

2000-05-23 Thread SL Baur
Sungchul Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am developing WWW site that is serviced in 4 difference language, english, chinese, japanese, korean. I allocated one database for one language. each DB will have same tables that have same kind of information in different

[GENERAL] plperl extensions

2000-05-23 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
How mature is the plperl language for writing functions and triggers? Is it fast? (ie: does the interpreter pre-compiles functions and persists?) I couldn't find any plperl package in the PG-7.0beta5 (the latest) debian packages, should I roll my own PG to get it? Thanks in advance for your

Re: [GENERAL] Join with other database's table

2000-05-23 Thread Chris Bitmead
I am developing WWW site that is serviced in 4 difference language, english, chinese, japanese, korean. I allocated one database for one language. Why?

Re: [GENERAL] Join with other database's table

2000-05-23 Thread Sungchul Park
Because I want to use same table name. I mean... For example, I have a BBS code. That code store data into 'pubbbs' table. As you know I need 4 tables for one service. Yes, I can use 4 different table name. As 'pubbbs_en', 'pubbbs_jp', 'pubbbs_kr', 'pubbbs_cn'. But I will make much more

Re: [GENERAL] Join with other database's table

2000-05-23 Thread Chris Bitmead
Sungchul Park wrote: Because I want to use same table name. I mean... For example, I have a BBS code. That code store data into 'pubbbs' table. As you know I need 4 tables for one service. Yes, I can use 4 different table name. As 'pubbbs_en', 'pubbbs_jp', 'pubbbs_kr', 'pubbbs_cn'. But I

[GENERAL] Timezones on Tru64 (Digital Unix)

2000-05-23 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
'set time zone 'GMT';', or any other 'set time zone' (even with numeric time zones), is completely ignored on my Tru64 machine (I always get dates in local time, UT+2). On Debian, everything is fine. Did I forget something when compiling PostgreSQL? Is there

[GENERAL]

2000-05-23 Thread Emmanuel Motchane
Hi, I am trying to figure out how to restrict user access to a database to a few defined functions, so that users could use the database (and update it) but only through a set of procedures, written for exemple in C and using the Server Programming interface. I am new to PostgreSQL so sorry if

Re: [GENERAL]

2000-05-23 Thread Chris Bitmead
Emmanuel Motchane wrote: Hi, I am trying to figure out how to restrict user access to a database to a few defined functions, so that users could use the database (and update it) but only through a set of procedures, written for exemple in C and using the Server Programming interface.

Re: [GENERAL] loading data from flat text file

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Peterson
"Voitenko, Denis" wrote: So I am almost there, except my data is formated as follows: "chunk1","chunk2","chunk3" how would I tell COPY that my data is encapsulated in " and separated by , ? Furthermore, I did not find a manual on the COPY command. Anyone? In /usr/local/pgsql/doc

Re: [GENERAL] Timezones on Tru64 (Digital Unix)

2000-05-23 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tuesday 23 May 2000, at 14 h 17, the keyboard of Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PostgreSQL 6.5. And for those who wonder why I don't use 6.5.3, it's because, unlike 6.5, it doesn't compile on Tru64: cc -I../../../include -I../../../backend -DNOFIXADE -std -O4 -Olimit

[GENERAL] quick (and probably dumb) question

2000-05-23 Thread ernie cline
Hello all, I just finished my very first postgresql installation (Version 7). I already like it much better than oracle 8, which took me the better part of a day to install. Anyway, I have a red-hat based VA Linux box, so I followed the red-hat startup instructions, putting a file in

Re: [GENERAL] INSERT WITH SELECT help

2000-05-23 Thread Jurgen Defurne
ozric wrote: I got help from one of our DBA's today here is what I was missing. This in not in Bruce's Book. INSERT INTO address (per_id,street_num,city,state,zip) SELECT per_id,'$3','$4','$5','$6' FROM from person WHERE last = '$1' AND first = '$2'; $1-6 will be supplied by user input

[GENERAL] Explain auth/access/priv system??

2000-05-23 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi - I'm new to postgres and have some questions regarding the authentication and access systems. I've got postgres installed and can connect from remote machines, but have some questions: - I cannot connect as the postgres user 'postgres' from remote machines? Why? - How is pg_shadow

[GENERAL] SQL Recursion

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Peterson
Aha! I have had this thing about trying to figure out how to program trees/hierarchies/graphs in SQL for awhile now. Something I've complained about in this list an others, including a Byte newsgroup. Well whaddya know, but I read Jon Udell's Byte column today, and it begins by quoting my

[GENERAL] postgresql on macosx server?

2000-05-23 Thread Francisco Hernandez
does postgresql compile and run on macosx server? if so, does anyone know if binaries for it exist? thanks..

Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] Postgresql OO Patch

2000-05-23 Thread Marten Feldtmann
the tree. If you do a "SELECT * FROM supertable*" (for example, if you were to redefine table* to mean select heterogeneous rows), what row will you get for a row that exists in a leaf? The same row is in all tables between supertable and the leaf. I suppose it would be necessary to have

Re: [GENERAL] Explain auth/access/priv system??

2000-05-23 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Hallstrom) writes: I'm new to postgres and have some questions regarding the authentication and access systems. I've got postgres installed and can connect from remote machines, but have some questions: - I cannot connect as the postgres user 'postgres' from

Re: [GENERAL] Can't delete Null value from a not null field

2000-05-23 Thread Tom Lane
"Bryan White" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get the output: ERROR: ExecutePlan: (junk) `ctid' is NULL! I get the same error if I try to update the null row. At this point I figured I would outsmart it and use the oid. However it appears the oid is null as well. Wow, that's bizarre. It