On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:10:03PM +, Edwin Quijada wrote:
Where can I find examples to accesing postgres with perl.
if you have DBD::Pg and DBI, check out their respective
manpages. that's the easy way to get into postgres from perl.
as far as having perl available from inside postgres,
in looking for a way to abstract the generation of formatting
methods based on field type (dates=center formatted; numerics
right-flush; text left-flush, etc) for web pages i've run into a
gap i don't know how to close:
using perl (5.005_03) and DBI (1.13, which refers to
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:53:00PM +, uncleleo wrote:
I am attemping to create multiple databases with Postgresql ver. 7.0.3
running on Mandrake 8.0 rpm. The tool that I am using is Pgadmin ver 7.1.0.
Can someone tell me how I can connect to different databases in a single
select
On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:44:56AM +0200, Stan wrote:
How can I change the sequence of characters in PostgreSQL character indexes
create index some_ix
on some_tbl ( substr(some_fld,3,1) || substr(some_other_fld,12,5) );
but if you look hard enough, you'll usually find a better model
by
On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 10:25:35AM +0200, Tony Grant wrote:
For example, say I've got a postgresql database of client information
(names, addresses, etc.), and I want to use this information to generate
envelopes for mailouts. As far as my understanding goes, such
functionality is
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:11:28PM -0700, Scott Holmes wrote:
It would seem that my database has unseen garbage in the field being queried.
On further testing I find that
select *
from people
where peopcode LIKE 'AB%AH%'
order by peopcode;
works, however
select *
from people
i have a solution using RULES and PLGPSQL functions (instead of
triggers) for insert-unless-found, using perl lingo:
# perlish pseudoCode
unless (select(tbl.fld == val)) { insert tbl.fld = val };
i'd love to hear the skinny on why the following is a bad idea,
which i presume it
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:57:35AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
$ psql -V
No database specified
This seems awfully fishy, since (a) there is no such error message
anywhere in 7.1, and (b) I don't get that behavior out of 7.1:
$ ~postgres/version71/bin
Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ -x /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance ]
/usr/lib/postgresql/bin/do.maintenance -a
X-Cron-Env: SHELL=/bin/sh
X-Cron-Env: HOME=/var/lib/postgres
X-Cron-Env: PATH=/usr/bin:/bin
X-Cron-Env: LOGNAME=postgres
Sender: CronDaemon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 18 Jul
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 02:56:06PM +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
From: Johan Björk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have a little problem with bit operaitions that I cannot find the answer
to on the Internet. Have been searching through the archives but no result.
In MySQL you can have a INT column and
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:26:02PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
will trillich writes:
in the old days (7.0.3) i could list databases via
psql -l
but these days (7.1) i must
psql -l [-d] nameOfADatabaseFromPreordainedKnowledge
probably because of some fuxnored
after upgrading from 7.0.3 to 7.1 i find some snags in the
indexing and 'references' --
ERROR: UNIQUE constraint matching given keys for referenced table d_language not
found
so i try going to /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/user
to find the 'create table' documentation...
where exactly
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 02:24:24AM +0100, Ryan Mahoney wrote:
*Disclaimer* - me sleepy, no guarantee of intelligebility or relevence ;)
First thing that strikes me is that you should use varchar datatype for
almost all of your fields with the exception of the body within posts.
If I were
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:56:56PM +0530, Kapil Tilwani wrote:
Though I found extensive documentation on the Postgres
web-site for Postgres, where can I get a similarly extensive
docket for Linux... please... including how to make linux
behave as a server for Windows clients... remember, that
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 07:25:46PM +0200, Nils Zonneveld wrote:
Carfield Yim wrote:
I am a new user of PostgreSQL dbms, how can I check how many tables
avaliable at that database?
To get a list of tables through SQL:
SELECT tablename FROM pg_tables WHERE tablename NOT LIKE
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:18:40AM +0100, Mark wrote:
How would I go about moving or copying data between databases on the same
server, without actually doing a dump ? Using an SQL statement,
something like:
SELECT dbase_a.sometable.somefield
INTO dbase_b.sometable
FROM
Alex Pilosov wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, will trillich wrote:
the manpages for Apache::Session::DBI still say that it
uses Apache::Session::DBIStore for its grunt work. whereas
You still have the old manpages (and probably old scripts).
CPAN's upgrades don't delete files that belong
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 12:41:57AM -0400, Alex Pilosov wrote:
Actually, I just tried your original example, and it worked for me:
use Apache::Session::Postgres;
#if you want Apache::Session to open new DB handles:
tie %hash, 'Apache::Session::Postgres', $id, {
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:17:00AM +0200, Rasmus Resen Amossen wrote:
Problem is not 'where'. Views in Postgresql doesn't allows you insert,
update or delete unless you define especila rules that explain Postgresql
what to do in each case.
Look Postgresql programming manual. You can
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:16:40AM -0400, Jim Mercer wrote:
would it be possible for me to create a template2 and have some arbitrary
database use it instead of template1?
the reason i ask this is that it would be useful to have something to the
effect of:
database access startup for
, but not databases.
you can specity 'public' meaning everyone at large that's not
specifically mentioned in a contrary access rule but it looks
like you'll need to iterate for each table you've got.
unless i'm wrong, of course.
--
DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #31 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
Ever
On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 02:59:31AM +0200, Morten Primdahl wrote:
\d tbl_c_id_seq
if it is not there, you can create it yourself
Thanks, the sequence was not there. Just puzzled me that
when creating tbl_c, I get:
test=# CREATE TABLE tbl_c
(id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
data
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:11:21AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Always remember that the cost estimates quoted by EXPLAIN are estimates,
not reality.
In this case the reason for the difference is that the planner doesn't
have any detailed understanding of the semantics of bracket-expressions
in
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 03:04:18PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Care to explain -- in terms a Debian newbie might grok -- what
contrib/pgcrypto means?
Peter is referring to a directory in the PostgreSQL sources
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 05:20:53PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
will trillich writes:
i know password can be used in creating/altering user
information (as used via GRANT and REVOKE) but is there any
facility within postgres to CRYPT() a value?
See contrib/pgcrypto for hashing
i know password can be used in creating/altering user
information (as used via GRANT and REVOKE) but is there any
facility within postgres to CRYPT() a value?
create rule new_folk as on insert to view_folk do instead
insert into folk_table
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:32:07AM +0200, Berényi Gábor wrote:
I have been inserting records into a table using the SQL insert statement.
One of the field types is serial, and I have been
trying to figure out how to get the value that was assigned in the field as
a result of the insert. The
On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 09:41:51PM -0400, Randall Perry wrote:
on 4/23/01 9:20 PM, Randall Perry at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This works:
$res = $conn-exec(select cust, contact, user_name, email from $t where
user_name = a1a);
This doesn't:
$c = a1a;
$res = $conn-exec(select
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:07:41AM -0400, Joel Burton wrote:
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Paul Tomblin wrote:
Is the BETWEEN clause inclusive or exclusive? ie if I say WHERE
latitude BETWEEN 45 and 55, will I get examples where the latitude equals
45 or not? Also, is latitude BETWEEN 45 and 55
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:01:21PM +0300, P. A. Bagyenda wrote:
I am in the middle of a rather nasty experience that I hope
someone out there can help solve.
My hard disk partition with the postgres data directory got
full. I tried to shut down postgres so I could clear some
space,
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:39:50PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
Patrick Dunford writes:
Zeos Database Explorer shows the type of these fields to be "bpchar", is
this a Postgres data type?
bpchar is the internal name for char().
short for "blank-padded character". as opposed to
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 03:43:23PM +0200, DaVinci wrote:
Hello.
When I create next function:
create function pilpot() returns integer as '
declare
foo integer;
begin
foo = insert into aviso(user) values(1);
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 10:25:24AM +0200, Marcin Wasilewski wrote:
hello everybody,
Can you help me?
I have POSTGRESQL 7.0.3,
I try to create simple view by typing.
create view "xx" as select "aa.yy", "bb.yy" from "yy" order by "bb.yy"
the problem is that parameter order is not
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:28:29PM +0530, Masood Rezvi wrote:
We are a firm of web developers in Lucknow, India. We are new
to PGSQL but have this database on the webserver (Apache
running on Linux Red Hat). We need help on learning PGSQL
information on tutorials and also to know whether it
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 02:02:51PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:21:34AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
Inheritance seems to work for this in current sources:
regression=# create table p1 (f1 int);
CREATE
regression=# create table p2 (f2 int) inherits (p1);
CREATE
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:42:13PM -0400, Stan Brown wrote:
I have been suing PostgreSQL quite happily in projects for
several years now.
i have the smae porbelm -- you might wnat to solw down wehn you
tyep your email msesaegs.
Suing is quite different from Using.
:)
--
americans should
On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 05:44:28AM -0400, Joel Burton wrote:
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Nick T wrote:
I see that we can add users and delete or drop users. As the database
administrator, I'd like to be able to view all of the users and all of the
information about them. Couldn't find out how to
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:26:39PM +0200, DaVinci wrote:
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 12:24:09PM +0100, Michael Ansley wrote:
Data Base:
create table foo (
cod serial primary key,
explication text,
silly bool
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:21:34AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i've tried
create function gpa(OPAQUE)
and psql tells me it successfully
CREATED
something, but
\df
shows no such function.
I believe \df suppresses opaque-argument
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:57:42AM -0800, Soma Interesting wrote:
In the following, is there something I can do so that postgres will
evaluate NEW.qty to NEW.name, treating qty as a variable and evaluating it
before evaluating the field reference? At this time it errors on an INSERT
with:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 06:05:04PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:17:29PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
is this kind of thing possible---?
select gpa(student) from student where id=7121;
select gpa(course) from course where id=29931;
select gpa(prof
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:27:39AM -0500, Gregory Wood wrote:
SELECT sum(grade) / count(grade) As GPA FROM grades;
(bad juju if 0)
No kidding... that kid totally failed ALL his classes! And before someone
points it out, yes I saw the DBZ.
dbz?
--
does a brain
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 04:39:21PM -0800, Soma Interesting wrote:
At 05:47 PM 3/30/2001 -0600, you wrote:
HOWEVER -- we do have arrays, don't forget... sometimes they can
be bent to do more than intended (but usually not!)
create table mailing(
person_id serial,
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 12:42:29AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
Soma Interesting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the following, is there something I can do so that postgres will
evaluate NEW.qty to NEW.name, treating qty as a variable and evaluating it
before evaluating the field reference?
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:02:27PM -0800, Soma Interesting wrote:
At 06:47 PM 3/30/2001 -0600, you wrote:
I may be able to use array's if postgres will allow using variables to
reference points in the array.
OK, so how do I reference a specific element of an array in a record within
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:34:45PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:40:13PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
even using PLPGSQL, is it possible to send VARYING relation
tuples to a procedure/function -- so long as the attributes
(fields) munged within the function
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 11:46:42PM -0800, Soma Interesting wrote:
blah blah blah snip
...and that all meant what? The postgres manual is open to much
interpretation to anyone new trying to understand its contents. Combine
that with documentation that's still not written, or broken
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 03:58:39PM +0200, Christian Marschalek wrote:
Pg DOES support it!
Oh... My fault :o)
However, it doesn't really have anything
to do with data redundancy. Data redundancy means storing
the same DATA in more than one table meaning that if it
changes in one
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:52:05AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 15:07:37 + (UTC), Mark Hamby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here's a patch for a \cd (change dir) command in psql program.
It's very small and only adds a few lines.
Personally, I am surprised psql
hosting is going over
well so far) and I hope people find it useful. Take the poll, and offer
suggestions too!
cool. i create database "trillich" and granted public select
access; two tables, one view, all worked like a charm. (all via
the php interface -- i tried from my own command
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 05:18:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 26 Mar 2001, at 3:42, Gary Huntress wrote:
I am looking for PostgreSQL users to beta test the following free database
hosting service:
http://superid.dyndns.org:8080/freesql/index.php
I've done a fair
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 05:28:24PM -0500, Gregory Wood wrote:
Well, the problem is that currval() is the value last inserted by *that*
backend into the database. The reasoning for this is simple:
okay ... :)
If Paul just inserted a record and wants to find out what sequence value was
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 07:53:39AM +, Richard Huxton wrote:
will trillich wrote:
is there a way to write sql/plpgsql that'll take a varchar
argument (table and field names) and be able to turn it into the
appropriate query?
You can use the "EXECUTE" statement in plp
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:53:49AM -0500, Gregory Wood wrote:
I have a table and want to make a view updateable with rules. Table has a
sequence that creates default value to primary key when inserting.
And now the question: Is it posible to return value of primary key from
rule of
On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 09:29:17AM -, Michael Ansley wrote:
I think that the standard way to do this is to use a resource identifier,
and then have a separate table with all strings. That's the way that most
internationalisation is done in programs, and it's probably not bad for
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:14:49PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
CREATE VIEW who AS
SELECT * from _who;
CREATE RULE
who_insert
AS ON
INSERT TO who
DO INSTEAD
INSERT INTO "_who" (
so who's got a clever implementation of cross-linguistic texts?
create table something (
id serial,
yadayada int4,
whatever date,
mumble float8,
en varchar(50), -- english
es varchar(50), --
let's say you have the name of a table in a string.
'mytable'
you also have field names, such as
'lookupfield' 'valuefield'
which would be assembled like this
select valuefield from mytable where lookupfield = '?'
is there a way to write sql/plpgsql that'll take a
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 08:26:58AM -0800, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, will trillich wrote:
i'm wondering if any devious minds out there are using it for
something clever and useful, instead of doing the
roll-your-own table cross-lookups that i've been hobbling
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 07:35:27AM -0500, Russell Hires wrote:
Sure did help me! Thanks! Since Debian does a lot of that stuff for you it's
hard to follow along the instructions because they assume a source compile
and install. The Debian related docs should say "After you've done 'apt-get
On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 07:07:24AM -0500, Jan Wieck wrote:
will trillich wrote:
so altho the docs elsewhere say NOT to rely on access to the
pseudo table NEW within a trigger function, this part does work
like it should. but when i add SELECT or UPDATE it complains of
"NEW used i
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 05:11:07PM +0100, Hans Jeuken wrote:
I am busy writing a table editor in Perl, using the module Pg.pm as
interface to Postgresql. When opening a table in that editor I would like
to find out how the tables in the database are defined.
So far I have considered
Mario Weilguni wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 28. Februar 2001 10:43 schrieb will trillich:
so i've got my data recovered (thanks to oliver) and now
i wanna back it up with a pg_dumpall...
instead, i get 'failed sanity check, type with oid 779927 was no
found' in the oddest places...
I'm
so i've got my data recovered (thanks to oliver) and now
i wanna back it up with a pg_dumpall...
instead, i get 'failed sanity check, type with oid 779927 was no
found' in the oddest places...
% pg_dumpall
[snip!!]
CREATE FUNCTION "get_disid" (int4,varchar ) RETURNS int4 AS '
SELECT
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 09:31:35AM +, Oliver Elphick wrote:
will trillich wrote:
NOW if i can just get PERL to work with DBD::Pg again, i'd
be done! this is gonna be fun to track down now that my data
is back...
Can't load '/usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux/auto/DBD/Pg
hi. i've got a scenario i'd like to run past the pg/sql
experts...
short version: how can i have a trigger after insert, take the
fresh data and propagate changes to other tables in the database?
long version:
i'm using postgresql 7.0.3 on debian/potato -- and in trying to
implement a feedback
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 01:12:47PM +1100, Andrew Snow wrote:
Plus it might be a good idea if people teamed up and co-authored a book! I
personally would be interested in writing something about functions and
PL/PGSQL and so on, as it seems to me there needs to be somewhere with more
examples
when upgrading from version X to version Y of postgres, the
install appears to dump the data and schema, and then suck it
back in with the new binaries.
[i just tried going from 6.5.3 to 7.0.3potato but the plpgsql.so
module wasn't installed and data types were conflicting, so the
new schema is
Oliver Elphick wrote:
will trillich wrote:
aha. i found /var/lib/postgresql/data/automatic_update.log
containing, among other things:
[snip]
You are now connected to database template1 as user will.
CREATE DATABASE
You are now connected to database puz as user
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 06:52:01AM +, Oliver Elphick wrote:
A pity the dump file got clobbered.
indeed!
I suspect the dump from 6.5 was
in a form that 7.0 rejected - you had those two failed creates in the
log.
the problem was apparently
DEFAULT TEXT 'CURRENT_DATE'
in the date
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