[GENERAL] Indexing for geographic objects?

2000-11-24 Thread Franck Martin
I'm building a new geo type and would like to index it. I have heard about RTREE and boundary box but I'm clueless for the moment about the implementation I have tried to look into PG source code to find the location where the indexing is done of current line object is done, but couldn't pin

Re: SV: [GENERAL] Table whose name has Capital letters

2000-11-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Jarmo Paavilainen writes: > PS: Im thinking of making a own hack of pg where selects are case sensitive > (ie Nov2000 and "Nov2000" are the same). If someone is interested, Ill > upload the diff somewhere. DS. Not that I particularly approve of this plan ;-) but look for tolower() calls in src/b

Re: [GENERAL] pgaccess

2000-11-24 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Olivier Cherrier writes: > I have : > _ a server Postgresql > _ my workstation > I want to install the minimum configuration under the Postgresql server. > On my workstation, I installed pgaccess and would like to connect to > server and design databases. > The server and the workstatio

Re: [GENERAL] create snapshot?

2000-11-24 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 11:23:41AM -, Alistair Hopkins wrote: > assuming users are logging on as psqluser but the db is owned by psqlowner: > create table mysnapshot as select * from myuser; > grant select on mysnapshot to psqluser; o.k. but updating it requires to drop table, and recreate us

SV: [GENERAL] Table whose name has Capital letters

2000-11-24 Thread Jarmo Paavilainen
Hi, ... > I have created a table with the name 'Nov2000' and now it is impossible to > access it, because psql is always searching for the table 'nov2000'. Put the table name inside quotes. ie: SELECT FROM "Nov2000" _not_ SELECT FROM Nov2000 ... > Have I done something wrong or is it a bug ? I

Re: [GENERAL] pgaccess

2000-11-24 Thread Olivier Cherrier
Hello > >That document is not correct. --with-tcl is enough. > OK, I will reconpile my PostgreSQL server with only the tcl option. >> Thus, I have no X-server on its. Is it a problem ? > >If you don't have an X server then you're going to have a pretty tough >time running graphical ap

Re: [GENERAL] Automatic Addslashes

2000-11-24 Thread GH
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 01:29:41PM +0100, some SMTP stream spewed forth: > I do > > copy tmp from '/home/algobit/product.txt > > tmp ia a table with one record (line varchar(255)) > > in product.txt I have many line as: > > 2;"100";"Parmigiano Reggiano";"Parmigiano Reggiano stagionato 2 > ann

Re: [GENERAL] plz, Help!! HOW CAN I GET THE ROWNUM IN POSTGRES TABLE AS I DID WITH ORACLE!!

2000-11-24 Thread Pawel Dubin
List z dnia: Pi? 24. Listopad 2000 05:51, : > On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 08:35:34AM +0300, some SMTP stream spewed forth: > > On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 12:44:20PM +0800, BaiJie wrote: > > > I KNOW THERE IS A OID FIELD ,BUT IT 'S WIRED , NOT A INTEGER INDEX FROM > > > I TO CURRENT ROW NUMBER!! HOW CAN

[GENERAL] Automatic Addslashes

2000-11-24 Thread Enrico Comini
I do copy tmp from '/home/algobit/product.txt tmp ia a table with one record (line varchar(255)) in product.txt I have many line as: 2;"100";"Parmigiano Reggiano";"Parmigiano Reggiano stagionato 2 anni";4;"parmigiano4.jpg";2;"Fette 1 Kg";0.18;1;1.00;"true" Then with "select * from tmp" the re

[GENERAL] create snapshot?

2000-11-24 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
hi, i was wondering if there is something in postgresql like "create snapshot". i once saw ti on friend's database (dont know what it was), and i really like it. snapshot is something like materialized view. it is a physically existing table, with only select's allowable, and update snapshot comma

RE: [GENERAL] Comparing dates in 3.0

2000-11-24 Thread Francis Solomon
Hi Ellen, Subtracting one timestamp from another returns an interval type, like this: stasis=# select 'now'::timestamp - '10 Sep 2000'::timestamp; ?column? - 75 12:06:57 (1 row) But if you just want the days only, try this: stasis=# select date_part('days', 'now'::timestamp - '1

Re: [GENERAL] [NOVICE] Skipping numbers in a sequence.

2000-11-24 Thread Robert Boyd
Try a dump of your database using pg_dump. 4294967296 is the maxval if I remember correctly. 32 bit integers are a good thing. Your question still holds, what is the condition of overflow after maxval has been reached. Typically, you want to use a sequence like this for a unique opaque indent

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dump:cannot find function for trigger

2000-11-24 Thread Claudio Jose Zanardi Grillo
Hi : I was using the wrong version(6.5.2) of pg_dump,that was in my PATH !!! With the correct version(7.0.2) the dump was OK !! Thanks !! Claudio Grillo Quoting Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Claudio Grillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > getTables(): relation 'tb_bomb

[GENERAL] Table whose name has Capital letters

2000-11-24 Thread Gabriel Fernandez
Hi , I have created a table with the name 'Nov2000' and now it is impossible to access it, because psql is always searching for the table 'nov2000'. The only solution I have found is to manually modify the pg_class table and the name of the physical file associated to the table. Have I done som

[GENERAL] Pivotal system

2000-11-24 Thread j . logsdon
Hi As a newbie to SQL and databases, someone has asked me what is a "pivotal system". Since in my experience most concepts are common across a number of disciplines, just the vocabulary changes, can anyone (i) point me in the right direction and (ii) can Postgres be set up to implement such a sy