Re: [GENERAL] Releases: 7.0.1, 7.0.2

2000-06-07 Thread Eugene Karpachov
Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 03:24:56PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker ÐÉÛÅÔ: On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Eugene Karpachov wrote: Excuse me, but why postgresql team doesn't release patches? I mean something like postgresql-7.0-7.0.1.diff.gz etc. It is big waste of traffic to download all the source

Re: [GENERAL] index problem

2000-06-07 Thread Tom Lane
Lincoln Yeoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 10:53 AM 05-06-2000 +0200, Marcin Inkielman wrote: drop index oceny_stud_numer_albumu_protokoloceny_stud; failed so I used: drop index "oceny_stud_numer_albumu_protokoloceny_stud"; and it worked for me 8-))) I wonder why it worked tho. How

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql

2000-06-07 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] The following is a quote from a consultant's opinion on my intention to migrate to Postgresql. Quote: The use of Postgres is cautioned for mission critical data by the developers of Postgres

Re: [GENERAL] Dump

2000-06-07 Thread Tom Lane
Trurl McByte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Error in dumpig defaults on serial type! If table name have non-statndart name (example: "Order") sequenser auto created with name "Order_id_seq". In the dump filed definition is: ... "id" int4 DEFAULT nextval ( 'Order_id_seq' ) NOT NULL, ... , but

Re: [GENERAL] 32KB Tuples

2000-06-07 Thread Jurgen Defurne
Patrick Welche wrote: On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 06:42:08PM +0200, Jurgen Defurne wrote: A 'tuple' is an element of a set. A set is also called a table. When you do N insertions on a table, then you get a table/set of N tuples. When you query a table/set, then your result is also a set. This

Re: [GENERAL] anoncvs access

2000-06-07 Thread Tom Lane
Travis Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to get the tree from the cvs: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot login It's /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot now. I notice http://www.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/cvs28436.htm still has the old location :-( ... that needs to be

Re: [GENERAL] Dump

2000-06-07 Thread Tom Lane
Mihai Gheorghiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wanted to back up a database prior to upgrading to 7.0.2 pg_dump dbname dbname.bak FATAL 1: Memory exhausted in AllocSetAlloc() PQendcopy: resetting connection SQL query to dump the contents of Table 'tblname' did not execute correctly. Hmm,

Re: [GENERAL] Composite Types

2000-06-07 Thread mjp
Tom, Thanks for your feedback and insight. Consider this: Wouldn't it be fantastically powerful and also type-behavior-consistent if user-defined composite types (using CREATE TABLE) behave somewhat similar to base types defined by CREATE TYPE? Again, going back to the earlier example, the

Re: [GENERAL] anoncvs access

2000-06-07 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Tom Lane wrote: Travis Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to get the tree from the cvs: cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot login It's /home/projects/pgsql/cvsroot now. I notice http://www.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/cvs28436.htm still

[GENERAL] WINNT ODBC not connecting to FREEBSD PostgreSQL

2000-06-07 Thread lampe
Installed PostgreSQL 7.0 on FreeBSD 4.0, went prefectly. Installed PostgreSQL ODBC Driver/manager on NT Workstation 4.0, went perfectly. Tried to establish a connection between ODBC and FreeBSD, the driver says the connection can not be established. Does there need to be a port entry in

Re: [GENERAL] Dump

2000-06-07 Thread Trurl McByte
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 (Yesterday), Tom Lane wrote: TL Trurl McByte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TL Error in dumpig defaults on serial type! TL If table name have non-statndart name (example: "Order") TL sequenser auto created with name "Order_id_seq". TL In the dump filed definition is:

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql

2000-06-07 Thread Jim Jennis
I agree Bruce! Sounds like a quote from an Oracle or SQL Server sales rep/consultant to me! Postgres is fantastic! Thanks to the team and keep up the great work! Regards, Jim At 15:57 6/7/2000 -0400, you wrote: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] The following is a quote from

[GENERAL] Re: [SQL] oracle rownum equivalent?

2000-06-07 Thread Ed Loehr
mikeo wrote: thanks for the response. oid is equivalent to oracle rowid. rownum can be used similar to the limit option of select in postgres but in oracle it can also be used in a where clause, or as an assigment in an update statement for instance. eg: update ctmaster set bsc_id =

[GENERAL] Book nearing final form

2000-06-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
I have been told by the publisher that most changes to the book must be done by next week. The book is at: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html Again, many thanks to those that have supplied suggestions for the book. -- Bruce Momjian|

Re: [GENERAL] Dump

2000-06-07 Thread Tom Lane
Mihai Gheorghiu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pg_dump... outputs nothing!? I did it with -f filename too, and the file is empty. Size of the file in question: 5MB, 7062 rows. Name of table: tblReservations. Mixed case huh? It's a little tricky to get pg_dump's -t switch to work with that; I

Re: [GENERAL] Re: [SQL] oracle rownum equivalent?

2000-06-07 Thread Cary O'Brien
thanks for the response. oid is equivalent to oracle rowid. I think there is a fundamentel difference between oid and rownum. Oid is just a serial number. Rownum is a long string that tells oracle where exactly the row is. So *I think* rownum can be used for fast lookups, where oid,

Re: [GENERAL] plpgsql question...

2000-06-07 Thread Tom Lane
Steve Wampler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PostgreSQL 6.5.3 appdb= create function insert_or_update() returns opaque as ' appdb' begin appdb' insert into attributes_table values(new.id,new.name, appdb'new.units,new.value); appdb' return NULL; appdb' end;'

Re: [GENERAL] make us of old database.

2000-06-07 Thread Tom Lane
Marcos Lloret [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i want to make us of an old recovered database from a dead hard disk. i just copied the directory /usr/local/pgsl/data/base/[database-name] i install postgres 6..4 (as before) and i created a new database directory and copied all the database.

[GENERAL] Retry: php_pgsql.dll needed

2000-06-07 Thread John Steele
Hello, I'm still looking for a php_pgsql.dll file for PHP4/win9x. Currently working with PG 6.5.3, but probably 7.0.x soon. Does anybody out there have one I can get a copy of? Please reply directly, since I doubt many people on these lists care :) Thanks, John -- /* SteeleSoft

Re: [GENERAL] Column types via ODBC interface

2000-06-07 Thread Tom Lane
Matt Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: f10 decimal(9,2) SQL_VARCHAR, 254 SQL_DECIMAL, 9 f11 numeric(9,2) SQL_VARCHAR, 254 SQL_DECIMAL, 9 The 6.5 ODBC driver doesn't know about type numeric, so it returns its default assumption, which is varchar as above. The 7.0 version

Re: [GENERAL] Postgresql

2000-06-07 Thread Tom Dryden
excuse me but I have been attempting to drop my subscription ti this list How does one get off of this list? Jim Jennis wrote: I agree Bruce! Sounds like a quote from an Oracle or SQL Server sales rep/consultant to me! Postgres is fantastic! Thanks to the team and keep up the great

RE: [GENERAL] Re: [SQL] oracle rownum equivalent?

2000-06-07 Thread Hiroshi Inoue
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ed Loehr mikeo wrote: thanks for the response. oid is equivalent to oracle rowid. IMHO,tid is equivalent to Oracle's rowid. rownum can be used similar to the limit option of select in postgres