Re: [GENERAL] Query caching

2000-11-01 Thread Poul L. Christiansen
Daniel Freedman wrote: On the topic of query cache (or maybe this is just tangential and I'm confused): I've always heard that Oracle has the ability to essentially suck in as much of the database into RAM as you have memory to allow it, and can then just run its queries on that in-RAM

[GENERAL] Character type delimiters - can they be changed?

2000-11-01 Thread Nick Fankhauser
Howdy- Is there a way to change the delimiters for character/date types from single quotes to any other character? For instance, if I'm inserting "O'Brien", rather than doing something like INSERT INTO Names VALUES ('O''Brien'); I'd like to be able to use: INSERT INTO Names VALUES (~O'Brien~);

Re: [GENERAL] Query caching

2000-11-01 Thread Denis Perchine
PostgreSQL hits the disk on UPDATE/DELETE/INSERT operations. SELECT's are cached, but the default cache is only ½MB of RAM. You can change this to whatever you want. I'm using Cold Fusion and it can cache queries itself, so no database action is necessary. But I don't think PHP and others

[GENERAL] Character type delimiters - Can they be changed?

2000-11-01 Thread Nick Fankhauser
I apologize for the second post- I think my digital signature may have screwed up the first one, so I'm sending this again just to be sure... -NF Howdy- Is there a way to change the delimiters for character/date types from single quotes to any other character? For instance, if I'm inserting

Re: [GENERAL] Query caching

2000-11-01 Thread Frank Joerdens
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:16:58AM +, Poul L. Christiansen wrote: PostgreSQL hits the disk on UPDATE/DELETE/INSERT operations. SELECT's are cached, but the default cache is only ½MB of RAM. You can change this to whatever you want. That sound like a very cool thing to do, and the default

Re: [GENERAL] SQL question - problem with INTERSECT

2000-11-01 Thread Keith L. Musser
If I remove the "GROUP BY messages.msgid ...", then the result will be messages whose subject contains either 'Hello' or 'There' in the subject, but not necessarily both. I want messages which have both 'Hello' and 'There' in the subject, and both 'Jim' and 'Jones' in the author. (For example,

Re: [GENERAL] True ACID under linux (no fsync)?

2000-11-01 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On 31 Oct 2000, Gary Howland wrote: Just a quickie - I heard that linux does not have a working fsync() call At least the manpage for fsync says that it does. The implementation: /* .. finally sync the buffers to disk */ dev = inode-i_dev; return sync_buffers(dev, 1);

[GENERAL] mysqldump export and pg_dump import

2000-11-01 Thread Alberto Otero García
Hello everybody, We have a MySQL database, and we're planning to migrate all to a PostgreSQL database. We must migrate all the data to a development system, in order to take real performance numbers. The problem is we don't know how to convert the files generated by mysqldump in order to

Re: [GENERAL] Query caching

2000-11-01 Thread Poul L. Christiansen
Frank Joerdens wrote: On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:16:58AM +, Poul L. Christiansen wrote: PostgreSQL hits the disk on UPDATE/DELETE/INSERT operations. SELECT's are cached, but the default cache is only ½MB of RAM. You can change this to whatever you want. That sound like a very cool

[GENERAL] Does column header support multibyte character?

2000-11-01 Thread Dave
Can I use chinese as the column header? Thanks Dave

RE: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0

2000-11-01 Thread Robert D. Nelson
In general I am pretty pissed at RH attitude to system upgrade, if I were working in a Production environment, I would either hire them and not try anything myself, which kinda contradicts the whole Linux philosophy. Can this kind of stuff get put on a Red Hat mailing list, rather than sent

Re: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0

2000-11-01 Thread Adam Lang
It also relates back to a post I made many moons ago. I don't upgrade any OS (outside of minor patches). If it is a new OS version, backup and then clean install. Just too many variables to contend with to trust a type of upgrade script. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance

Re: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0

2000-11-01 Thread Adam Lang
I wouldn't say ditch out on Redhat because of Postgres upgrades. As was mentioned on the list before, there is no current silver bullet upgrade for postgres. Dump, install new version, import old data. I would assume then that means SUSE would be no better on that regard either. Also, any bad

Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive LIKE queries

2000-11-01 Thread Adam Lang
select * from myTable where upper(myField) like 'TEST'; Upper will change the fields to upper case for testing purposes. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company - Original Message - From: "Yann Ramin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [GENERAL] postgres on redhat 7.0

2000-11-01 Thread Lamar Owen
"Robert D. Nelson" wrote: In general I am pretty pissed at RH attitude to system upgrade, if I were working in a Production environment, I would either hire them and not try anything myself, which kinda contradicts the whole Linux philosophy. Can this kind of stuff get put on a Red Hat

Re: [GENERAL] Case insensitive LIKE queries

2000-11-01 Thread Oliver_Hall
Or use the regular expression syntax for case insensitive pattern matching e.g. SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE foo *= 'aBc'; For more info, see: http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/user/operators2123.htm Hope that helps, Ol. select * from myTable where upper(myField) like 'TEST';

[GENERAL] Array Problem

2000-11-01 Thread John Burski
I'm working with version 6.5.2 and I've created a test table that contains both a one and a two dimensional array. CREATE TABLE testa ( name text, links int2[], vals int2[][] ); I'v populated the table with at least one record, so I should be able run 'select' requests that

[GENERAL] Newbie Question

2000-11-01 Thread John Pilley
Is there an upper limit on the size of a "text" character field? If so, how can I extend it? Thanks, John begin:vcard adr;dom:;;232 E. Lyons;Spokane;WA;99208; n:Pilley;John x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Settlement Plus, Inc. version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Software Engineer

Re: [GENERAL] Array Problem

2000-11-01 Thread Stephan Szabo
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, John Burski wrote: I'm working with version 6.5.2 and I've created a test table that contains both a one and a two dimensional array. CREATE TABLE testa ( name text, links int2[], vals int2[][] ); I'v populated the table with at least one

[GENERAL] psql defaults file?

2000-11-01 Thread Jonathan Ellis
I couldn't find anything in the man page about this -- does psql check for ~/.psql or anything so I don't have to manually --pset pager=off every time I run it? If there is such a file, what is the format for specifying options? -Jonathan

RE: [GENERAL] Newbie Question

2000-11-01 Thread Nick Fankhauser
John- According to the documentation and Bruce M's book, there is no limit. I've never hit a limit while putting some pretty large (three page) narratives in a text field. Practically speaking, I would guess that one will take a performance hit due to fragmentation when storing big chunks of

[GENERAL] a web interface to visualize tables

2000-11-01 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
Hello, I need a tool to interactively visualize (not administer) DB tables from a web interface. Ideally this tool would let me: - rename column headers, - set cell alignments, widths, background colors, - reorder columns, - save all these visualisation settings in a DB, - it would be written

Re: [GENERAL] Increasing Table Column Size in 7.0 Syntax

2000-11-01 Thread Wade D. Oberpriller
This requires you to change NAMEDATALEN in src/include/postgres_ext.h. Note this requires a recompile, initdb, createdb, etc. Also note that databases with different NAMEDATALEN's can't interoperate. Wade Hello, Looking at the docs for pgsql I have only found stuff on altering a table

Re: [GENERAL] Newbie Question

2000-11-01 Thread Richard Poole
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 12:32:58PM -0500, Nick Fankhauser wrote: According to the documentation and Bruce M's book, there is no limit. I've never hit a limit while putting some pretty large (three page) narratives in a text field. There is no limit on the "text" type as such, but there is

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2000-11-01 Thread Winston Williams
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