Re: [GENERAL] why postgresql over other RDBMS

2007-05-27 Thread Lincoln Yeoh
At 03:25 AM 5/25/2007, A.M. wrote: Indeed. Wouldn't it be a cool feature to persists transaction states across connections so that a new connection could get access to a sub- transaction state? That way, you could make your schema changes and test them with any number of test clients (which

[GENERAL] Problems with anyelement after upgrading from 8.1.4 to 8.1.9

2007-05-27 Thread Rafael Martinez
Hello I am using an application that has this function defined in the database: Schema | Name | Result data type | Argument data types | Owner| Language | Source code | Description

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with anyelement after upgrading from 8.1.4 to 8.1.9

2007-05-27 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 12:02:35PM +0200, Rafael Martinez wrote: Until postgresql 8.1.4, this has been working without problems. Yesterday I upgraded this database to 8.1.9 and select queries using the IF function fail with this error message: ERROR: cannot display a value of type

Re: [GENERAL] User permissions/Data separation.

2007-05-27 Thread Michael Glaesemann
Conor, You're covering a few different areas here. Rather than go into depth on each one, I'll just point out a few things that came to mind while reading your post. On May 20, 2007, at 23:17 , Conor McTernan wrote: I'm using Postgres for my web app, I users that interface with the

[GENERAL] JOIN with ORDER on both tables does a sort when it souldn't

2007-05-27 Thread Dániel Dénes
Hi, I have three tables involved in my problem: forums_grps [means: Forum-Groups] - id (PRIMARY KEY) - title forums [means: Forums] - id (PRIMARY KEY) - forum_group_id (NOT NULL, FOREIGN KEY) - order (defines listing order of forums in the same forum_group) INDEX: (forum_group_id, order)

[GENERAL] CUBE SYNTAX

2007-05-27 Thread ABHANG RANE
Hi, I need to use the cube operator in postgresql 8.2. Whats the syntax for the cube or a link to the documentation which clearly explains how to use cube operator syntactically. Thanks Abhang ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is

Re: [GENERAL] CUBE SYNTAX

2007-05-27 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On May 27, 2007, at 12:23 , ABHANG RANE wrote: I need to use the cube operator in postgresql 8.2. Whats the syntax for the cube or a link to the documentation which clearly explains how to use cube operator syntactically. PostgreSQL does not have a native CUBE operator. There may be an

Re: [GENERAL] JOIN with ORDER on both tables does a sort when it souldn't

2007-05-27 Thread Tom Lane
=?ISO-8859-2?Q?D=E1niel_D=E9nes?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But even then, it won't realize that the result are in correct order, and does a sort! Why? In general the output of a nestloop doesn't derive any ordering properties from the inner scan. It might happen to work in your particular

[GENERAL] createdb.exe prompting for password on Vista

2007-05-27 Thread Greg Quinn
I am using createdb to automatically create a database from a .sql file, but in Vista it seems to prompt me for the postgres password. How can I stop this from happening? I'm not using the -W or -password option so why does it ask me for a password? Here is my command... createdb.exe -U

[GENERAL] Triggers to allow user create table?

2007-05-27 Thread CAJ CAJ
Had a question on best approach with some security issues around on the fly table creation by a user. I want to users to create dynamic tables from the application. This means that the user logged in should have create table privileges at the database level. Assuming this is a security risk for

[GENERAL] cube

2007-05-27 Thread ABHANG RANE
Hi, Can you please let me know if anyone has used cube.c file in postgresql. I have installed the contrib modules required, but I just need to know how to implement cube operator on a table. Thanks Abhang ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 9: In

Re: [GENERAL] cube

2007-05-27 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Sunday 27 May 2007 2:25 pm, ABHANG RANE wrote: Hi, Can you please let me know if anyone has used cube.c file in postgresql. I have installed the contrib modules required, but I just need to know how to implement cube operator on a table. Thanks Abhang ---(end

Re: [GENERAL] JOIN with ORDER on both tables does a sort when it souldn't

2007-05-27 Thread Dániel Dénes
Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] írta: Daniel Denes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But even then, it won't realize that the result are in correct order, and does a sort! Why? In general the output of a nestloop doesn't derive any ordering properties from the inner scan. It might happen to work in

Re: [GENERAL] swap storm created by 8.2.3

2007-05-27 Thread Joseph S
I set the ulimit for data to 4194304k: core file size (blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) 4194304 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) 1024 max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 32 max memory size (kbytes, -m)

Re: [GENERAL] Triggers to allow user create table?

2007-05-27 Thread John DeSoi
See the SECURITY DEFINER option for CREATE FUNCTION. This way you don't have to give them create table privileges, but they can still create a table through your function. You'll need to use EXECUTE to create a table in pl/pgsql. On May 27, 2007, at 4:50 PM, CAJ CAJ wrote: Had a

Re: [GENERAL] How to create trigger if it does not exist

2007-05-27 Thread Rodrigo De León
On May 26, 5:58 pm, Andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you. This doc says that dropping trigger drops depending objects also. Only if you use CASCADE (default is RESTRICT). ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

Re: [GENERAL] Geographic data sources, queries and questions

2007-05-27 Thread Chuck D.
On Thursday 24 May 2007 13:02, John D. Burger wrote: We also have a hodge-podge of other sources, but those are the main ones. (By the way, we have found USGS to very amenable to dumping their data in arbitrary ways. Those state files essentially try to fit everything into a single CSV