Re: [GENERAL] can I define own variables?

2007-10-13 Thread Trevor Talbot
On 10/12/07, Guy Rouillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had several occasions when a user-defined variable would have come > in handy. What is the scope of user_vars as you've defined them above? > Are they unique to a connection? A user_id? Or defined globally? > Ideally, they would be

Re: [GENERAL] convert binary string to datum

2007-10-13 Thread Ron Peterson
2007-10-13_01:22:06-0400 Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Ron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is this a legitimate/blessed way to go about it? > > > > aval = (bytea *)palloc( len + VARHDRSZ ); > > VARATT_SIZEP(aval) = len + VARHDRSZ; > > memcpy( VARDATA(aval), myrawdata, len ); >

Re: [GENERAL] contrib / fuzzystr documentation

2007-10-13 Thread Tom Lane
"brien colwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there documentation for the contrib / fuzzystr module? I haven't been > able to find it ... Should be a couple of README files whereever your contrib documentation is installed ... $ ls contrib/fuzzystrmatch CVS/ fuzzystrma

Re: [GENERAL] convert binary string to datum

2007-10-13 Thread Ron Peterson
2007-10-13_08:50:56-0400 Ron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2007-10-13_01:22:06-0400 Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > And normally you would define your own datatype and not use bytea. > > Actually, I already have my data in a structure much like varlena. Pght, I misunderstood what you we

Re: [GENERAL] can I define own variables?

2007-10-13 Thread Scott Ribe
> can I define connection-global variables within a ODBC connection ? Temp table, containing only 1 row, one column per variable. If you so wish, wrap it up in stored procedures for creating, setting, and accessing. -- Scott Ribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.killerbytes.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice

Re: [GENERAL] convert binary string to datum

2007-10-13 Thread Gregory Stark
"Ron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2007-10-13_08:50:56-0400 Ron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 2007-10-13_01:22:06-0400 Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > And normally you would define your own datatype and not use bytea. >> >> Actually, I already have my data in a structure mu

[GENERAL] CHAR SETS

2007-10-13 Thread Cesar Alvarez
Good day everyone I got a question, what are the differences of SQL_ASCII and UTF8, witch one should i use?? regards Cesar Alvarez. begin:vcard fn:Cesar Alvarez n:;Cesar Alvarez title:Web Development Asesor and Software Enginner version:2.1 end:vcard ---(end of broad

Re: [GENERAL] CHAR SETS

2007-10-13 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 11:23:41AM -0600, Cesar Alvarez wrote: > Good day everyone > > I got a question, what are the differences of SQL_ASCII and UTF8, witch > one should i use?? Well, SQL_ASCII means basically that what you put in you get out, but the DB is going treat it as ASCII, umlauts/etc

Re: [GENERAL] convert binary string to datum

2007-10-13 Thread Ron Peterson
2007-10-13_11:12:05-0400 Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Ron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 2007-10-13_08:50:56-0400 Ron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> 2007-10-13_01:22:06-0400 Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> > And normally you would define your own datatype and

Re: [GENERAL] convert binary string to datum

2007-10-13 Thread Gregory Stark
"Ron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think I can get where I want to go without completely figuring that out > right now though... What are you trying to do? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)--

Re: [GENERAL] convert binary string to datum

2007-10-13 Thread Ron Peterson
2007-10-13_13:44:33-0400 Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Ron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think I can get where I want to go without completely figuring that out > > right now though... > > What are you trying to do? I've implemented the RSA PKCS #1 v2.1 public key cryptog

Re: [GENERAL] convert binary string to datum

2007-10-13 Thread Ron Peterson
2007-10-13_14:15:06-0400 yrp001: > select * from generate_rsa_key(); Am I making this way too complicated? Do I only have to return a C string representation of three bytea values as a tuple? (I still think a bona-fide user-defined type in C is probably better.) -- Ron Peterson https://www.ye

Re: [GENERAL] convert binary string to datum

2007-10-13 Thread Gregory Stark
"Ron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am I making this way too complicated? Do I only have to return a C > string representation of three bytea values as a tuple? No, if you want to define a composite type and return it then you're on the right track to be using heap_form_tuple. And usin

Re: [GENERAL] convert binary string to datum

2007-10-13 Thread Gregory Stark
"Ron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My first thought was to just do something like: > > CREATE TYPE __full_key AS ( n bytea, e bytea, d bytea ); > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION > generate_rsa_key( ) > RETURNS > __full_key Oh, incidentally you probably don't want to name your type star

Re: [GENERAL] can I define own variables?

2007-10-13 Thread Martin Gainty
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/libpq-envars.html use environment variables PGHOST is the host for Postgres PGHOSTADDR is the Numeric Host Address for Postgres PGPORT is the port for the PostgresServer to listen on PGDATABASE is the default Database Name PGUSER is the default Username t

Re: [GENERAL] convert binary string to datum

2007-10-13 Thread Ron Peterson
2007-10-13_15:22:34-0400 Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Ron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My first thought was to just do something like: > > > > CREATE TYPE __full_key AS ( n bytea, e bytea, d bytea ); > > > > CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION > > generate_rsa_key( ) > > RETURNS >

[GENERAL] atomic commit;begin for long running transactions , in combination with savepoint.

2007-10-13 Thread syan tan
I was wondering whether there could be an atomic commit;begin command for postgresql, in order to open up a transaction at the beginning of a unit of work in a client session, so that client applications don't have to duplicate work with having optimistic locking and version id fields in their tabl

[GENERAL] INSERT RETURNING

2007-10-13 Thread Cesar Alvarez
Hello im working in a proyect in ORACLE 10g and one of the things i like is using the INSERT RETURNING with the parameters, im not sure that i read about postgres 8.2 suporting this feature... if its true where can i read more about it. regards Cesar Alvarez. begin:vcard fn:Cesar Alvarez n:;Ce

Re: [GENERAL] INSERT RETURNING

2007-10-13 Thread CaT
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 12:01:45AM -0600, Cesar Alvarez wrote: > Hello > im working in a proyect in ORACLE 10g and one of the things i like is > using the INSERT RETURNING with the parameters, im not sure that i read > about postgres 8.2 suporting this feature... if its true where can i > read m

[GENERAL] Recommended method for creating file of zeros?

2007-10-13 Thread Jason L. Buberel
I have a recover situation related to: Oct 13 23:04:58 66-162-145-116 postgres[16955]: [1-1] LOG: database system was shut down at 2007-10-13 23:04:54 PDT Oct 13 23:04:58 66-162-145-116 postgres[16955]: [2-1] LOG: checkpoint record is at F0/E21C Oct 13 23:04:58 66-162-145-116 postgres[169