[GENERAL] Replace NULL values

2006-09-07 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Hi there,is there a simple way to replace NULL values in multiple columns within the SQL statement? I changed the underlaying country template of your database; so now there are a couple of NULL values when I join the stats-table with the country table. Unfortunately, my queries have always

[GENERAL] postgres and emacs on windows os

2006-09-07 Thread C.Strobl
hi all, hasanybody experience using psql with emacs (M-x sql-postgres) on windows. if iexecute this command emacs prompts for user, database and host, but not for the password, so i think there is no response from psql. but if am looking at the emacs messages there is no error message

Re: [GENERAL] Thought provoking piece on NetBSD

2006-09-07 Thread Tim Tassonis
Shane Ambler wrote: On 2/9/2006 4:11, Scott Marlowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that with either the GPL or BSD, code is returned under a type of coercion. Not necessarily a bad thing, understand. The coercion of the GPL is legalistic. If you distribute GPL stuff, you've got to give

Re: [GENERAL] Tsearch2 Hebrew

2006-09-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
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Re: [GENERAL] Problems with sequences

2006-09-07 Thread Alban Hertroys
Arturo Perez wrote: What happens is that if I do a select nextval('seq') I get a number that's lower than the max primary key id. This is inspite of my doing SELECT setval('seq', ((SELECT MAX(seq_ID) FROM table)+1)) ALTER SEQUENCE seq RESTART WITH max + 1; select pg_catalog.setval(seq,

Re: [GENERAL] Replace NULL values

2006-09-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:45:19AM +0200, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: Hi there, is there a simple way to replace NULL values in multiple columns within the SQL statement? I changed the underlaying country template of your database; so now there are a couple of NULL values when I join the

Re: [GENERAL] Replace NULL values

2006-09-07 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:45:19AM +0200, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: Hi there, is there a simple way to replace NULL values in multiple columns within the SQL statement? I changed the underlaying country template of your database; so now there are a couple of NULL values when I join the

Re: [GENERAL] Replace NULL values

2006-09-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 11:54:43AM +0200, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: As I said, I couldn't figure out how COALESCE would work on multiple columns (without naming them explicitly). So, say I have a table with columns for each year between 1970 and 2005. For specific countries the values

Re: [GENERAL] Replace NULL values

2006-09-07 Thread Sim Zacks
Aside from your database structure being problematic, what are you trying to accomplish? In other words, what do you want to replace the nulls with and in what circumstance? I imagine your table looks like this ID,country,1950,1951,1952,1953, 1 usa50 null 70 10 2 canada 10 45

Re: [GENERAL] Asynchronous trigger

2006-09-07 Thread Sim Zacks
You want to use the Notify/Listen framework. 1) You need a rule on a table that says on Update (or insert or delete) do also notify {key} 2) You need a daemon running against the server that calls listen {key} 3) when the table is updated (or inserted or deleted) then your application will be

Re: [GENERAL] Replace NULL values

2006-09-07 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
I have an internet map server connected to my database. Until now, no data fields within the table were filled with a -, i.e. - equalled no data available. Now, for displaying a map with different classes (red for values from 0-100, green for values from 100-200) I need to

Re: [GENERAL] Replace NULL values

2006-09-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 12:58:17PM +0200, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: Unfortunately the mapserver can't deal with NULL values. So, I can't build a class saying if values = NULL do something but instead it only works with fake NULL values as - if values = - do something

[GENERAL] Fwd: Help using user rights

2006-09-07 Thread Valentin Militaru
Hello, I have a question regarding user rights. I have one user in postgres8.01. which connects from a webserver and inserts some data into a table. It only has INSERT access on that table. ON the other hand, on the same table a have an after-insert trigger which executes a function owned by a

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with sequences

2006-09-07 Thread Arturo Perez
On Sep 7, 2006, at 5:35 AM, Alban Hertroys wrote: Arturo Perez wrote: What happens is that if I do a select nextval('seq') I get a number that's lower than the max primary key id. This is inspite of my doing SELECT setval('seq', ((SELECT MAX(seq_ID) FROM table)+1)) ALTER SEQUENCE seq

Re: [GENERAL] Replace NULL values

2006-09-07 Thread Sim Zacks
Once again Martijn is correct, and you have to use is null not =null One thing you might want to consider is adding - as a default value in the table so that when new data is entered it with a null it automatically gets the correct value. Using coalesce with the value will probably be the

Re: [GENERAL] Replace NULL values

2006-09-07 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Thanks for your suggestions. You're right with the is versus = for NULL values. Unfortunately the coding for the mapserver does not allow an IS statement. Concerning the coalesce(datafield,-) it seems rather unusable for me, if I have to explicitly stated each column, as a) for many

Re: [GENERAL] Majordomo drops multi-line Subject:

2006-09-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Alvaro Herrera wrote: In any case I don't see any reason to let the broken software continue to be broken. Surely there must be an updated version which corrects this bug? A patch at least? I mean, I can't be the only

Re: [GENERAL] Fwd: Help using user rights

2006-09-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:12:57PM +0300, Valentin Militaru wrote: I have one user in postgres8.01. which connects from a webserver and inserts some data into a table. It only has INSERT access on that table. ON the other hand, on the same table a have an after-insert trigger which executes a

Re: [GENERAL] archives is not working was (Re: [NOVICE] Removing duplicate keys)

2006-09-07 Thread Ray Stell
fixed now: * From: kynn ( at ) panix ( dot ) com * To: pgsql-novice ( at ) postgresql ( dot ) org * Subject: SQL for removing duplicates? * Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 12:11:41 -0400 (EDT) Hi. I'm stumped. I have a large table (about 8.5M records), let's call it t, whose columns

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with sequences

2006-09-07 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:15:43AM -0400, Arturo Perez wrote: Note that all of the above was in an attempt to reset the sequence to the proper value. I'm beginning to think that it's a library problem as this morning I get: iht= select max(article_id) from article; max -- 4992

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with sequences

2006-09-07 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 9/7/06, Arturo Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried statement logging but I am not sure it reported anything useful. When I get into work I'll send in those logs. More than likely they are large and should not be sent through the mailing list. contact me off list and I'll arrange it.

Re: [GENERAL] On DNS for postgresql.org

2006-09-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 06:23:06PM -0700, Steve Atkins wrote: DNS clue might be relevant. We're not, though. Rather I'm saying that publicly criticizing people who volunteer services to a project, about things that are not related to the services they're providing is at best a little

Re: [GENERAL] Majordomo drops multi-line Subject:

2006-09-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Alvaro Herrera wrote: In any case I don't see any reason to let the broken software continue to be broken. Surely there must be an updated version which corrects this bug? A patch at least? I mean,

Re: [GENERAL] Replace NULL values

2006-09-07 Thread Sim Zacks
It seems like the mapserver is quite inflexible. Maybe there are options to loosen it up a little? (I've found that pouring beer into the keyboard after a long week does not help.) I would venture that your best option is to write a quick pgpsql function that goes over all the fields in the

Re: [GENERAL] Replace NULL values

2006-09-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 01:39:06PM +0200, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: You're right with the is versus = for NULL values. Unfortunately the coding for the mapserver does not allow an IS statement. There's a hack for this; you need to turn it on in the config file. I think it's called

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with sequences

2006-09-07 Thread Arturo Perez
From: Alban Hertroys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:15:43AM -0400, Arturo Perez wrote: iht= select max(article_id) from article; max -- 4992 (1 row) iht= select nextval('pk_article'); nextval - 4986 (1 row) Assuming

Re: [GENERAL] Majordomo drops multi-line Subject:

2006-09-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Alvaro Herrera wrote: In any case I don't see any reason to let the broken software continue to be broken. Surely there must be an updated version which corrects this bug?

Re: [GENERAL] Majordomo drops multi-line Subject:

2006-09-07 Thread Magnus Hagander
ever noticed/commented about it ... ya, you are the only one complaining about it :) Honestly, it may be time we start looking at mailman. Please don't, unless Majordomo is really broken and unfixed (i.e. there isn't a newer version with the bug fixed). What version are we running?

Re: [GENERAL] Majordomo drops multi-line Subject:

2006-09-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Mailman is a supported, large, active, FOSS community project that is battle tested in the current field much more so then Majordomo. Holding on with a dying breaths to old software is silly. Can Mailman do moderation over email? If it can do that, then I'm all for it. If it can't, which

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with sequences

2006-09-07 Thread Alban Hertroys
Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 07:15:43AM -0400, Arturo Perez wrote: iht= select max(article_id) from article; max -- 4992 (1 row) iht= select nextval('pk_article'); nextval - 4986 (1 row) Assuming the sequence number is being used correctly why would

Re: [GENERAL] Majordomo drops multi-line Subject:

2006-09-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Seriously, I think that's the first time anybody said anything good about the mailman interfaces Just the stuff I have to do for the pgFoundry lists (of which I have only *two*) is just so much pain. (who came up with such a brilliant thing as different-password-for-everything-you-do? It's

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with sequences

2006-09-07 Thread Alban Hertroys
Arturo Perez wrote: In any case, at this point in time it's looking like Cayenne doesn't honor the rules of the sequence. It appears to (and is documented as) internally incrementing rather than fetching the sequence for each insert. I have no experience with Cayenne, but reading

Re: [GENERAL] Majordomo drops multi-line Subject:

2006-09-07 Thread Magnus Hagander
Seriously, I think that's the first time anybody said anything good about the mailman interfaces Just the stuff I have to do for the pgFoundry lists (of which I have only *two*) is just so much pain. (who came up with such a brilliant thing as

Re: [GENERAL] Majordomo drops multi-line Subject:

2006-09-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Mailman is a supported, large, active, FOSS community project that is battle tested in the current field much more so then Majordomo. Holding on with a dying breaths to old software is silly. Can Mailman do moderation over email? If it can do that, then I'm all

Re: [GENERAL] Majordomo drops multi-line Subject:

2006-09-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Same goes as a user of mailman lists. What I want is to log in to lists.postgresql.org, and get an interface that wil show me everything about the lists i'm subscribed to (capability to change my flags etc) and everything about the ones I'm admin for (which I'm not for any on pgsql.org, but in

Re: [GENERAL] Majordomo drops multi-line Subject:

2006-09-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I don't see how the web stuff can be any simpler. I view a single page, select the items I wish to keep, hit a single button, I am done and I don't have to clutter my inbox. This discussion is all about how people work. Most people *DO NOT* work from email the way Alvaro and and some of

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with sequences

2006-09-07 Thread Arturo Perez
From: Alban Hertroys [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arturo Perez wrote: In any case, at this point in time it's looking like Cayenne doesn't honor the rules of the sequence. It appears to (and is documented as) internally incrementing rather than fetching the sequence for each insert. I have no

Re: [GENERAL] Majordomo drops multi-line Subject:

2006-09-07 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED]; General pgsql-general@postgresql.org Sent: 07/09/06 14:27 Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Majordomo drops multi-line Subject: O.k.

Re: [GENERAL] pgFoundry.org not working!

2006-09-07 Thread Ben Trewern
Working again now! Regards, Ben Ben Trewern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm currently getting: PgFoundry Could Not Connect to Database when I try to visit http://pgfoundry.org Regards, Ben ---(end of

[GENERAL] Problems with upgrade Postgre 8.1.2 to 8.1.4

2006-09-07 Thread matalab
In Windows XP Pro (SP2) I tried to upgrade PostgreSQL server from 8.1.2 to 8.1.4., by using upgrade.bat. Everything goes nice until end of installation when the following error apears: Service 'PostgreSQL Database Server 8.1' (pgsql-8.1) could not be installed. Verify that you have sufficient

[GENERAL] Database design and triggers...

2006-09-07 Thread romantercero
Hi everybody. Hope I'm posting in the correct group. My question is part design and part implementation. Since we are creating an inventory system we need to have the clients pull up current inventory. Also, we need to have the past transactions stored for reference and billing. In our previous

[GENERAL] Help using user rights

2006-09-07 Thread Valentin Militaru
Hello, I have a question regarding user rights. I have one user in postgres8.01. which connects from a webserver and inserts some data into a table. It only has INSERT access on that table. ON the other hand, on the same table a have an after-insert trigger which executes a function owned by

[GENERAL] pglogger and utf-8

2006-09-07 Thread Pailloncy Jean-Gérard
Hi, I discorver yesterday pgllogger and try to use it. OS: OpenBSD 3.8 DB: postgreSQL 8.1 I have a database with UNICODE encondings. Sometimes in the log of PostgreSQL I got the error: LOG: statement: PREPARE unnamed AS INSERT INTO apache.log

[GENERAL] AYUDA POR FAVOR

2006-09-07 Thread María Soledad Ibarra Díaz
hola...Cómo estas? ..Sabes cómo hacer en postgres plpgsql hacer varios join?..además,necesito hacer un select dentro de otro select y asignarle el resultado a una variable de tipo record, pero no me deja, y necesito tomar en el record una variable fecha y hora pero el datetime pareciera que es

Re: [GENERAL] plz unsubscribe me

2006-09-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 02:11:11PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Actually, what I'd like to see done is to get majordomo to bounce list messages containing unsubscribe in the subject, with an explanatory message about the right way to unsubscribe. There's no reason the rest of us should be

Re: [GENERAL] Two billion records ok?

2006-09-07 Thread Brent Wood
Nick Bower wrote: We're considering using Postgresql for storing gridded metadata - each point of our grids has a variety of metadata attached to it (including lat/lon, measurements, etc) and would constitute a record in Postgresql+Postgis. Size-wise, grids are about 4000x700 and are

[GENERAL] uConnect Voip

2006-09-07 Thread Frank Church
Does this device allow connection to other phones besides Skype, like Xten Xlite? http://www.voipvoice.com/UConnect-2.html. Compatibility with standard voip is not mentioned on their website? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: if posting/reading

Re: [GENERAL] Foxpro + PostgreSQL

2006-09-07 Thread MargaretGillon
Hi Mike, I have been using Visual FoxPro with Postgresql for two years. Currently my front end is Visual Foxpro 9. I do not have the Postgresql on a Windows server, I am on a Linux server that is running RedHat 9. I upgraded my Postgresql two months ago and I am on version 8.1.4. My clients

Re: [GENERAL] Majordomo drops multi-line Subject:

2006-09-07 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As someone who does a lot of moderation using both mailman and majordomo every single day, I can assure everyone that both of them suck in their own way. Majordomo is nice in that I can view a whole bunch of lists at once, and accept/reject en

Re: [GENERAL] uConnect Voip

2006-09-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 10:38, Frank Church wrote: Does this device allow connection to other phones besides Skype, like Xten Xlite? http://www.voipvoice.com/UConnect-2.html. Compatibility with standard voip is not mentioned on their website? I think you sent this to the wrong list... :)

Re: [GENERAL] uConnect Voip

2006-09-07 Thread Jan de Visser
On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:38, Frank Church wrote: Does this device allow connection to other phones besides Skype, like Xten Xlite? http://www.voipvoice.com/UConnect-2.html. Compatibility with standard voip is not mentioned on their website? wrong list.

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with sequences

2006-09-07 Thread Kelly Burkhart
On 9/6/06, Arturo Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens is that if I do a select nextval('seq') I get a number that's lower than the max primary key id. This is inspite of my doing SELECT setval('seq', ((SELECT MAX(seq_ID) FROM table)+1)) ALTER SEQUENCE seq RESTART WITH max + 1;

Re: [GENERAL] AYUDA POR FAVOR

2006-09-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
María Soledad Ibarra Díaz wrote: hola...Cómo estas? ..Sabes cómo hacer en postgres plpgsql hacer varios join?..además,necesito hacer un select dentro de otro select y asignarle el resultado a una variable de tipo record, pero no me deja, y necesito tomar en el record una variable fecha y

Re: [GENERAL] postgres and emacs on windows os

2006-09-07 Thread Bill Bartlett
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:46 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] postgres and emacs on windows os hi all, has anybody experience using psql with emacs (M-x sql-postgres) on

Re: [GENERAL] uConnect Voip

2006-09-07 Thread Frank Church
Sorry, I realized that. On 9/7/06, Jan de Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:38, Frank Church wrote: Does this device allow connection to other phones besides Skype, like Xten Xlite? http://www.voipvoice.com/UConnect-2.html. Compatibility with standard voip

Re: [GENERAL] Database design and triggers...

2006-09-07 Thread Brandon Aiken
It's not clear to me how your data is organized or exactly what you're counting. If I understand you correctly, yes, you could use triggers to maintain a table in this manner. However, why can't you simply use a SELECT query using the SUM() or COUNT() aggregate functions? If the queries are

Re: [GENERAL] Foxpro + PostgreSQL

2006-09-07 Thread MargaretGillon
I have not had problems with integers but I am using a VFP class for SQL server backends that was written by someone else. Best thing is to try it yourself. If you need support sign up for the psql-general list. They're a good resource and have subscribers from all platforms. *** *** *** *** ***

[GENERAL] pgpool on Opteron server running FreeBSD 6.0

2006-09-07 Thread andy rost
I'm running postgres 8.1.3 on a 2-CPU dual-core Opteron server with 8-Gigs of RAM. The server's operating system is FreeBSD 6.0. We migrated our client applications from Informix and went through all of the standard steps to resolve differences between the two databases packages. However,

[GENERAL] Differences lang with or without u example:pltcl and pltclu

2006-09-07 Thread SebaM
Hi all I wonderring what could be differences beetwen languages with and without u for example: pltcl - pltclu plperl - plperlu Is anybodu know and could point me suitable link or something? Kindly regards Sebastian ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP

Re: [GENERAL] Foxpro + PostgreSQL

2006-09-07 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 9/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not had problems with integers but I am using a VFP class for SQL server backends that was written by someone else. Best thing is to try it yourself. If you need support sign up for the psql-general list. They're a good resource

Re: [GENERAL] Query performance inconsistant.

2006-09-07 Thread Matthew Schumacher
Tom Lane wrote: Jeff Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From what you described, I would not expect many locking problems. Are there any other types of queries you run that may cause a lock? Row locks (SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE) are a possible problem, particularly if this is a pre-8.1 Postgres

Re: [GENERAL] Foxpro + PostgreSQL

2006-09-07 Thread MargaretGillon
I think the ODBC pass through engine has been enchaned in newer versions of foxpro because many companies are moving to SQLserver backends. At recent VFP conferences there are sessions devoted entirely to this subject. *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***

Re: [GENERAL] Differences lang with or without u example:pltcl

2006-09-07 Thread Chris
SebaM wrote: Hi all I wonderring what could be differences beetwen languages with and without u for example: pltcl - pltclu plperl - plperlu Is anybodu know and could point me suitable link or something? It's trusted versus untrusted languages. Trusted languages only work within the

Re: [GENERAL] Differences lang with or without u example:pltcl

2006-09-07 Thread Jeff Davis
On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 22:56 +0200, SebaM wrote: Hi all I wonderring what could be differences beetwen languages with and without u for example: pltcl - pltclu plperl - plperlu Languages with a u should be untrusted by PostgreSQL, because they are free to do anything the language can do.

Re: [GENERAL] Database design and triggers...

2006-09-07 Thread Gregory S. Williamson
Roman -- You can certainly use a trigger to track changes (as well as creating an audit trail and enforcing rules); performance on inserts,updates and deletes will suffer accordingly since there's extra operations involved, but it definitely be a winner on the other end in generating reports