Re: [GENERAL] has anybody gotten cygwin1.1.8 to work with postgresql?

2001-03-01 Thread Peter Schindler
Jeff, Jeff wrote: I've tried fruitlessly to install cygwin1.1.8 work with postgresql7.03 Has any body out there done it? What is actually wrong with the install? If you can't start the postmaster, because its complains about the IPCs, I fall over the same problem, but actually with 7.1.

[GENERAL] Counting elements of an array

2001-03-01 Thread Renaud Tthonnart
Good morning all, I would like to know how I can get the number of elements of an array. regards, Renaud THONNART

[GENERAL] DES in Postgres?

2001-03-01 Thread drevil
Is there a function in Postgres which will DES-encrypt a given string with a given key? If not, has anyone out there written a linkable C function to do that? I know it's easy to do, if you know C, but I don't know C. Thanks

Re: AW: [GENERAL] Addison-Wesley looking for authors

2001-03-01 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 21:04, Jens Hartwig wrote: Hello all, hello Bruce, first of all I want to say, that Bruces Book was very well done in my opinion! I think we all concur with that opinion. To answer the question, I already began writing a book about PostgreSQL for Addison Wesley in

[GENERAL] Thought on OIDs

2001-03-01 Thread Patrik Kudo
Hi! A thought just hit me and I got a bit worried... If OIDs are "globaly" unique and I have a very high data-throughput on my database, i.e. I do a lot of inserts and deletes, is it then possible to "run out" of OIDs? If this can occur, will it cause any problems? Need I worry? =) Regards,

[GENERAL] something more about my question about performance

2001-03-01 Thread Enrico Mangano
I wrote : Hello, i have one postgresql server (7.0) where several users access. Is there any way to improve performance for: i) accesses of different users at different dbs ii) accesses of different users at the same db Thanks. My question simple wanted know if it is possible, to improve

[GENERAL] Re: DES in Postgres?

2001-03-01 Thread Karel Zak
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 08:59:38AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a function in Postgres which will DES-encrypt a given string with a given key? If not, has anyone out there written a linkable C function to do that? I know it's easy to do, if you know C, but I don't know C. In

[GENERAL] Count and Intersect

2001-03-01 Thread Michaƫl Fiey
Hi, Is it possible to count the number of rows returned by a command which use the intersect operator, such as : SELECT col1 as my_col FROM table WHERE conditions 1 INTERSECT SELECT col1 as my_col FROM table WHERE conditions 2 INTERSECT SELECT col1 as my_col FROM table WHERE conditions 2 Any

Re: [GENERAL] Counting elements of an array

2001-03-01 Thread Renaud Tthonnart
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 21:53, you wrote: Good morning all, I would like to know how I can get the number of elements of an array. create function array_element_count(_int4) returns integer as ' declare a alias for $1; i integer; begin i := 1;

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL 7.1 Linux Installation

2001-03-01 Thread Paulo Parola
Dear Mirko, Thanks for the reply. I have now PostgreSQL7.1 installed, but need to re-install package "php-pgsql-4.0.1pl2-9.i386.rpm". The installation procedure reports me the following: error: failed dependencies: libpq.so.2.1 is needed by php-pgsql-4.0.1pl2-9 And I have found the

Re: [GENERAL] 7.1 stable

2001-03-01 Thread The Hermit Hacker
yOn Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Peter Gubis wrote: hi all, i have some questions about new postgres version: - how many weeks or month will be 7.1 release in beta testing? 7.1 release should be out by march 15th (+/- a couple of days) - have 7.1 implemented database replication? and can we use it in

Re: [GENERAL] 7.0 vs 7.1 running select count(*) FROM table WHERE (SELECT count(*) ) 0;

2001-03-01 Thread Rod Taylor
Sorry... Exact same data. Did a pg_dumpall from one to the other first, then analyzed. -- Rod Taylor There are always four sides to every story: your side, their side, the truth, and what really happened. - Original Message - From: "Joseph Shraibman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Tom Lane"

Re: [GENERAL] Re: DES in Postgres?

2001-03-01 Thread Marko Kreen
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:27:15AM +0100, Karel Zak wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 08:59:38AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a function in Postgres which will DES-encrypt a given string with a given key? If not, has anyone out there written a linkable C function to do that?

[GENERAL] database diff

2001-03-01 Thread chris markiewicz
hello i want to find the differences between two database schemas...is there a function for this or do i just pg_dump both of them and do a diff in unix? thanks chris

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres eats up memory when using cursors

2001-03-01 Thread Tom Lane
Denis Perchine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I declare a cursor on the table of approx. 1 million rows. And start fetching data by 1000 rows at each fetch. Data processing can take quite a long time (3-4 days) Theoretically postgres process should remain the same in size. But it grows... In the

[GENERAL] JOIN of a table with many detail tables

2001-03-01 Thread DaVinci
Hi all. I want to make a LEFT JOIN of table A with detail tables B and C. How can I make that?: SELECT A.*, B.*, C.* FROM A LEFT JOIN B ON A.foo = B.bar ??? I don't know where to put info of JOIN between A and C. Any help, please? Thanks.

Re: [GENERAL] Addison-Wesley looking for authors

2001-03-01 Thread Bruce Momjian
[ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:54, Joseph Shraibman wrote: About what? Your book covered all the basics. Bruce Momjian wrote: As many of you know, I wrote a PostgreSQL book last year. If you were to repeat the exercise would you use the LyX

Re: [GENERAL] Counting elements of an array

2001-03-01 Thread Tom Lane
Renaud Tthonnart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know how I can get the number of elements of an array. There is a function that returns an array's dimensions as a text string: regression=# select array_dims( '{1,2,3}'::int[] ); array_dims [1:3] (1 row) regression=#

Re: [GENERAL] has anybody gotten cygwin1.1.8 to work with postgresql?

2001-03-01 Thread Brent R. Matzelle
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried at one point though I don't know the cygwin version. I didn't work; said c compiler cannot produce executeable This happened to me as well. It occurs because you haven't applied the source patch. You can read out and download it here:

[GENERAL] Publisher seeks authors/technical reviewers

2001-03-01 Thread Patricia . Barnes
Sams Publishing, a computer book publisher based in Indianapolis, is looking for authors to write high-level PostgreSQL books and for technical reviewers. Interested parties should contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Patricia G. Barnes Acquisitions Editor Sams Publishing 201 W. 103rd Street

Re: [GENERAL] pg_dumpall - fails SOLVED

2001-03-01 Thread will trillich
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

Re: [GENERAL] database diff

2001-03-01 Thread GH
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 10:21:53AM -0500, some SMTP stream spewed forth: hello i want to find the differences between two database schemas...is there a function for this or do i just pg_dump both of them and do a diff in unix? As far as I know, such a function (or program/script) does not

Re: [GENERAL] PG_PWD and PG_PASSWORD Security

2001-03-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Anthony Metzidis writes: Is there any way to keep postgres from saving the passwords in plain text? No. This seems to be a huge security hole. No, because the directory that contains these files shouldn't be world readable. The issue has been noted though, but no one has implemented a

[GENERAL] showing rules/triggers with psql

2001-03-01 Thread Metzidis, Anthony
hey, kind of a simple question. How can you show the rules/triggers on a database using psql. Even better: how can you show all rules/triggers/constrains/etc that pertain to a given table? as always...thanks. --tony -Original Message- From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

[GENERAL] functional indices with functions taking row as argument

2001-03-01 Thread Tomek Zielonka
Hi. I have a table which represents clients' sessions / orders. CREATE TABLE sessions ( id INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT nextval('sessions_seq'), ... finishedTIMESTAMP, bl_confirmedBOOL NOT NULL DEFAULT false, bl_sent BOOL NOT NULL DEFAULT false,

[GENERAL] Perl DBI/DBD::Pg confusion with finish

2001-03-01 Thread David Lynn
Hello - When using DBD::Pg through DBI, can somebody tell me if it is necessary to be calling the $sth-finish routine? The DBI.pm documentation states that there is no need to call it if you call $sth-fetchrow_xxxref until the rows are exhausted - finish should get called automatically, and

Re: [GENERAL] Users in pg_shadow

2001-03-01 Thread Frank Miles
One possible part of a cron script: su --command="psql -d $PGUSER -c 'vacuum analyze;' /dev/null" $PGUSER where 'PGUSER' has been defined as the appropriate user name. Of course, you'll need a bit more if your database has a different name. HTH... -frank

Re: R: [GENERAL] Date types in where clause of PreparedStatement

2001-03-01 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 05:33:21PM +0100, Paolo Sinigaglia wrote: Can anybody show any reason why the code using a prepared statement with a where clause using a date won't find any records on PostgreSQL but WILL work using Access and the jdbc-odbc bridge? Assuming you are running

[GENERAL] EXECUTE in PLPGSQL

2001-03-01 Thread Wade D. Oberpriller
Is the EXECUTE command supported in v 7.0.3 or is that new in 7.1? Wade Oberpriller

Re: [GENERAL] Perl DBI/DBD::Pg confusion with finish

2001-03-01 Thread David Wheeler
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, David Lynn wrote: Hello - When using DBD::Pg through DBI, can somebody tell me if it is necessary to be calling the $sth-finish routine? The DBI.pm documentation states that there is no need to call it if you call $sth-fetchrow_xxxref until the rows are exhausted -

AW: AW: [GENERAL] Addison-Wesley looking for authors

2001-03-01 Thread Jens Hartwig
Hello Christopher, [...] Please could you encourage them to do this, or perhaps do it yourself? You seem to have a good knowledge of English. [...] I will see, if I can encourage Addison Wesley to translate the book. Regarding the translation on my own - thank you very much for your

Re: [GENERAL] serial properties

2001-03-01 Thread Richard Huxton
From: "Martin A. Marques" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I would like to know which are the properties of the SERIAL type. Is a column defined SERIAL a primary key? Saludos... :-) Basically serial is NOT NULL with DEFAULT of nextval(some-sequence) and a primary key index defined on it. In fact if

Re: [GENERAL] EXECUTE in PLPGSQL

2001-03-01 Thread Richard Huxton
"Wade D. Oberpriller" wrote: Is the EXECUTE command supported in v 7.0.3 or is that new in 7.1? Wade Oberpriller 7.1 according to CHANGES - Richard Huxton