[GENERAL] migrate mysql to postgres

2000-12-19 Thread Lambert Sonna Momo
please I have an application developed with my-sql , but iI want to migrate it to postgress. What can my do Thanks -- Lambert SONNA MOMO

[GENERAL] Auto incrementing fields. How?

2000-12-19 Thread Harry Wood
Anyone know how to create auto incrementing fields? -- Harry [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~hw97/Nojer2 Nojer2 on chat.yahoo.com and zapidonia.com ICQ number 18519769

Re: [GENERAL] newbie question:

2000-12-19 Thread Dan Wilson
ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD '[enter password]' http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/user/sql-alteruser.htm - Original Message - From: "Leon van Dongen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 1:56 AM Subject: [GENERAL] newbie question

Re: [GENERAL] Auto incrementing fields. How?

2000-12-19 Thread Dan Wilson
Use the column type of SERIAL in your create table statement. This will automatically create a sequence and default for the given column. http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/user/sql-createsequence.htm for more on sequences. - Original Message - From: "Harry Wood" <[EMAIL P

Re: [GENERAL] Auto incrementing fields. How?

2000-12-19 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Harry Wood wrote: > Anyone know how to create auto incrementing fields? create sequence my_seq; create table my_table ( my_id integer primary key default nextval('my_seq'), another_field varchar(10), ... ); OR, you can create an implicit sequence:

[GENERAL] Re: Auto incrementing fields. How?

2000-12-19 Thread Tulio Oliveira
Harry Wood wrote: > > Anyone know how to create auto incrementing fields? > > -- > Harry > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~hw97/Nojer2 > Nojer2 on chat.yahoo.com and zapidonia.com > ICQ number 18519769 CREATE TABLE test ( teste_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, namevarch

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres Win32

2000-12-19 Thread Peter Eisentraut
carolina writes: > Can Postgres run in Windows 95 or Windows 98? No. (You can compile the client library on Windows 95/98, but that's it.) You can run PostgreSQL on Windows NT using the Cygwin toolkit, but getting that to work can sometimes be a final project as well. My advice would be to fi

[GENERAL] Schema

2000-12-19 Thread gerardo tagliani
Somebody knows how to get a sql "schema" of a Postgresql database?? Thanks!! Gerardo Tagliani Linux Registred User #139437 --- FREE! The World's Best Email Address @email.com Reserve your name now at http://www.email.com

Re: [GENERAL] Schema

2000-12-19 Thread Adam Haberlach
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 12:51:26PM -0500, gerardo tagliani wrote: > Somebody knows how to get a sql "schema" of a Postgresql database?? pg_dump -s -d -- Adam Haberlach|A cat spends her life conflicted between a [EMAIL PROTECTED] |deep, passionate, and profound desire for htt

RE: [GENERAL] Postgres Win32

2000-12-19 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
> You can run PostgreSQL on Windows NT using the Cygwin > toolkit, but getting > that to work can sometimes be a final project as well. I disagree. Using the instructions on http://people.freebsd.org/~kevlo/postgres/portNT.html it is almost a no-brainer. Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenst

Re: [GENERAL] Schema

2000-12-19 Thread Steve Heaven
At 12:51 19/12/00 -0500, gerardo tagliani wrote: >Somebody knows how to get a sql "schema" of a Postgresql database?? > >Thanks!! pg_dump -s databasename -- thorNET - Internet Consultancy, Services & Training Phone: 01454 854413 Fax: 01454 854412 http://www.thornet.co.uk

Re: [GENERAL] Schema

2000-12-19 Thread Steve Heaven
At 10:04 19/12/00 -0800, Adam Haberlach wrote: >On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 12:51:26PM -0500, gerardo tagliani wrote: >> Somebody knows how to get a sql "schema" of a Postgresql database?? > >pg_dump -s -d > No. -d does something to the INSERT strings -- thorNET - Internet Consultancy, Services

Re: [GENERAL] grant a db

2000-12-19 Thread Martin A. Marques
El Mar 19 Dic 2000 10:29, Nick Fankhauser escribió: > I believe it has to be each table- Oracle has a nice "all tables" option > which might be worth the developer's consideration on the next round. I > need to do this regularly, so I'll probably see if I can write a tool to > create a SQL script.

[GENERAL] logs

2000-12-19 Thread Martin A. Marques
I have a linux instalation (from rpm) of postgres-7.0.3, which puts the logs of the server (AFAIK) in /var/log/postgresql. But the file is empty, and I start making activity on the database and it stays empty. Does anyone have an idea of what is happening? Also, on a Solaris 8 machine, compiled

[GENERAL] TODAY and CURRENT?

2000-12-19 Thread Raymond Chui
I have a table with columns datetime timestamp, valuefloat(8) I want to delete rows 10 days older or 10 hours older by delete from tablename where datetime < TODAY-10; or delete from tablename where datetime between CURRENT-10 and CURRENT; So are there key words TODAY, CURRENT in Pos

Re: [GENERAL] Help me for "DBI->connect failed: Sorry, too many clients already."

2000-12-19 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Joseph wrote: > $dbh=DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname",$dbusername,$dbpassword) or die "can I would assume that if you never disconnect and are running under mod_perl, you will have problems.

RE: [GENERAL] TODAY and CURRENT?

2000-12-19 Thread Francis Solomon
Hi Raymond, You might try something like this: DELETE FROM tablename WHERE datetime < ('now'::timestamp - '10 days'::interval); and DELETE FROM tablename WHERE datetime BETWEEN ('now'::timestamp - '10 hours'::interval) AND 'now'::timestamp; If you just want the date stamp, you can use 'now'::da

Re: [GENERAL] TODAY and CURRENT?

2000-12-19 Thread Mike Castle
On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:37:42AM -0500, Raymond Chui wrote: > delete from tablename where datetime < TODAY-10; delete from tablename where datetime < timestamp 'now' - interval '10 days'; or delete from tablename where age(datetime) > '10 days'; -- Mike Castle Life is like a cl

[GENERAL] type bytea and large objects

2000-12-19 Thread Mateu Batle
Hi all, I'm pretty new in PostgreSQL and I have some problems and questions. I'll list them here, maybe someone can help me :) 1) I wanted to use a binary type. I've seen in some place a type called bytea which I can use, but I cannot use it as a primary key. Is that possible somehow or with ano

[GENERAL] Trigger with superuser privileges

2000-12-19 Thread Tulio Oliveira
Hi, all Anobody could tell-me how can I make a Trigger thats execute some things whith "postgres" superuser privileges (like INSERT INTO a table that the user logged in don't have access) regards, Tulio Oliveira -- == AKACIA TECNOLOGIA Des

[GENERAL] Insert where not duplicate

2000-12-19 Thread Bryan White
I need to insert a bunch of records in a transaction. The transaction must not abort if the a duplicate is found. I know I have seen the syntax for the before. Can someone jog my memory? Bryan White, ArcaMax.com, VP of Technology The avalanche has already begun. It is too late for the pebbles

RE: [GENERAL] Trigger with superuser privileges

2000-12-19 Thread Edmar Wiggers
> Anobody could tell-me how can I make a Trigger thats execute some things > whith "postgres" superuser privileges (like INSERT INTO a table that the > user logged in don't have access) I think triggers should run with table-owner user permissions. That way you could have a table owned by superus

[GENERAL] Re: extra spaces

2000-12-19 Thread Mark Cowlishaw
> > Soma> All values called from the database are still padded with > > Soma> extra spaces from the column size in the database. Is this > > Soma> normal - I don't remember this happening when I was using > > Soma> MySQL. I thought usually the database stripped the extra > > S

Re: [GENERAL] Character encoding problem using Tcl

2000-12-19 Thread Oliver Elphick
Tom Lane wrote: >"Johann Woeckinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But when using a Tcl-based interface (e.g. pgaccess or home made tcl >> based programs) to insert such characters into a table, they are not corre >ct >> displayed on queries by use of psql - they appear as two 'un

Re: [GENERAL] grant a db

2000-12-19 Thread Dan Wilson
Just recently added this functionality to phpPgAdmin. You can now update the ACL of all the objects (tables, sequences, views) of a database at the same time. This will be part of the next release (2.2.1) which should happen this week sometime. Look for the announcement. -Dan - Original M

[GENERAL] help

2000-12-19 Thread Joseph
Help me for "DBI->connect failed: Sorry, too many clients already."my cgi program is test.cgi:###require "./connectdb.pl";&connectdatabase();$query="select count(*) from messages";$sth=$dbh->prepare($query);$sth->execute();$count=$sth->fetchrow_array();print "Content-typ

[GENERAL] Help me for "DBI->connect failed: Sorry, too many clients already."

2000-12-19 Thread Joseph
my cgi program is test.cgi:###require "./connectdb.pl";&connectdatabase();$query="select count(*) from messages";$sth=$dbh->prepare($query);$sth->execute();$count=$sth->fetchrow_array();print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";print <<"TAG"; The count is $count. TAGexit 0;#

Re: [GENERAL] extra spaces

2000-12-19 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to "Postgres: Introduction and Concepts", varchar is slower > than char. So if you (like me) want to use char and get rid of the > padding spaces, you may use a regex replacement, as in > while (@row=$result->fetchrow) > {

Re: [GENERAL] Re: extra spaces

2000-12-19 Thread Denis A. Doroshenko
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:35:01AM +1100, Mark Cowlishaw wrote: > > According to "Postgres: Introduction and Concepts", varchar is slower > > than char. So if you (like me) want to use char and get rid of the > > padding spaces, you may use a regex replacement, as in > > > > while (@row=$r