Re: [GENERAL] Operations widh CURSORS

2000-06-03 Thread Jurgen Defurne
Marcos Barreto de Castro wrote: Hi, Is it possible to declare 2 cursors in the same transaction? I am issuing a "BEGIN WORK" statement, after that I am issuing "DECLARE c_cursor FOR SELECT * FROM table". When, after that, I issue "DECLARE c_cursor1 FOR SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table" I

Re: [GENERAL] to pickle or not to pickle

2000-06-03 Thread Jurgen Defurne
Marc Tardif wrote: I'm writing a search engine using python and postgresql which requires to store a temporary list of results in an sql table for each request. This list will contain at least 50 records and could grow to about 300. My options are either to pickle the list and store a single

Re: [GENERAL] Saving MPEG video ???

2000-06-03 Thread Tatsuo Ishii
My question is : 1. Is postgres Large Object saving MPEG video/audio or at least MPEG video ?? I have used it with Quicktime video data with no problme. Should be ok with MPEG data too. 2. Is there a limitation in size to saving something in postgres large object At least up to 1GB should

Re: [GENERAL] Anybody got Postgress Binaries working on NT ?

2000-06-03 Thread Kees Kuip
Hello, initdb is a shell-script. The first line in the script declares the shell it will be using to execute in. It looks like this : #!/bin/sh Your problem is that /bin/sh doesn't excist ! You'll have to mount the cygwin-executable-path to /bin Kees.

[GENERAL] Re: Industrial-Strength Logging

2000-06-03 Thread Giles Lean
--- Blind-Carbon-Copy To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Industrial-Strength Logging In-reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 22:59:34 +1000 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Giles Lean [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 01:48:33 +0200 (CEST) Peter Eisentraut wrote:

[GENERAL] child table doesn't inherit PRIMARY KEY?

2000-06-03 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
When creating a child (through CREATE TABLE ... INHERIT (parent)) it seems the child gets all of the parent's contraints _except_ its PRIMARY KEY. Is this normal? Should I add a PRIMARY KEY(id) statement each time I create an inherited table? Cheers, -- Louis-David Mitterrand - [EMAIL

[GENERAL] Re: child table doesn't inherit PRIMARY KEY?

2000-06-03 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 05:22:56PM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: When creating a child (through CREATE TABLE ... INHERIT (parent)) it seems the child gets all of the parent's contraints _except_ its PRIMARY KEY. Is this normal? Should I add a PRIMARY KEY(id) statement each time I

[GENERAL] Any monitor programs?

2000-06-03 Thread Kari Lempiainen
Are there any monitor programs for administrator to find out what operations are in progress and possibly killing deadlocking queries? Regards, Kari Lempiäinen

[GENERAL] Problems with Large Databases

2000-06-03 Thread carl garland
In a previous post Ed Loer wrote: Don't even think about 10 separate tables in a database :-(.It's not so much that PG's own datastructures wouldn't cope,as thatvery few Unix filesystems can cope with 10 filesin a directory.You'd be killed on directory search

[GENERAL] Using embedded SQL.

2000-06-03 Thread Robert J. Sprawls
Hello, I'm trying to learn embedded SQL in C. However, it's not working and reading the documentation is not answering my question(s). Here is my code: #include stdlib.h #include stdio.h exec sql include sqlca; int main( int argc, char *argv[] ) { exec sql whenever sqlerror

Re: [GENERAL] Any monitor programs?

2000-06-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Kari Lempiainen writes: Are there any monitor programs for administrator to find out what operations are in progress `ps' should work on many systems. and possibly killing deadlocking queries? Truly "deadlocked" queries kill themselves, btw. -- Peter Eisentraut

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with Large Databases

2000-06-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
carl garland writes: This didnt really answer the initial question of how long does it take to locate a table in a large 100+ table db and where and when do these lookups occur. In the current system there are several places that do sequential scans on pg_class (which holds information

Re: [GENERAL] child table doesn't inherit PRIMARY KEY?

2000-06-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Louis-David Mitterrand writes: When creating a child (through CREATE TABLE ... INHERIT (parent)) it seems the child gets all of the parent's contraints _except_ its PRIMARY KEY. Is this normal? It's kind of a bug. -- Peter Eisentraut Sernanders väg 10:115 [EMAIL