Re: [HACKERS] COPY (query) TO file

2006-06-06 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Mark Woodward wrote: >> Tom had posted a question about file compression with copy. I thought >> about it, and I want to through this out and see if anyone things it is a >> good idea. >> >> Currently, the COPY command o

Re: [HACKERS] Porting MSSQL to PGSQL (Was: [OT] MySQL is bad, but THIS bad?)

2006-05-22 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martijn van Oosterhout writes: > On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:00:22AM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: >> > T-SQL has statement-level triggers, and they get used a lot (some big apps >> > ONLY put code in triggers). Statement-level triggers are very efficient >> > for >

Re: [HACKERS] Question about Postgresql time fields(possible bug)

2006-01-10 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harald Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Bruce Momjian writes: >>> A leap second will show as 24:00:00. It is a valid time. >> Shouldn't such a leap second be represented

Re: [HACKERS] Question about Postgresql time fields(possible bug)

2006-01-10 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Momjian writes: > Tony Caduto wrote: >> Hi, >> I just noticed today that Postgresql accepts a value of 24:00:00, this >> is for sure not correct as there is no such thing as 24:00:00 >> >> PG Admin III will display this value just fine which is also incorre

Re: [HACKERS] Oddity with extract microseconds?

2005-12-07 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: mysql> SELECT EXTRACT(MICROSECOND FROM '2003-01-02 10:30:01.00123'); >> +---+ >> | EXTRACT(MICROSECOND FROM '2003-01-02 10:30:01.00123') | >> +---

Re: [HACKERS] Using multi-row technique with COPY

2005-11-29 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 07:44:55PM +, Simon Riggs wrote: >> not have any unique indexes or row triggers. It should be possible to >> take advantage of this automatically when those requirements are met, >> without any

Re: [HACKERS] 8.1 substring bug?

2005-11-11 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Martijn van Oosterhout writes: > It's even sillier than that: > test=# SELECT substring ('1234567890' FOR 4::bigint); > substring > --- > (1 row) > test=# SELECT substring ('1234567890' FOR 4::int); > substring > --- > 1234 > (1 row) > Look

[HACKERS] 8.1 substring bug?

2005-11-11 Thread Harald Fuchs
Consider the following: CREATE TEMP TABLE tbl ( id SERIAL NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id) ); COPY tbl (id) FROM stdin; 1 2 3 4 \. SELECT substring ('1234567890' FOR (SELECT count (*) FROM tbl)::int); This returns '1234', as expected. But SELECT substring ('1234567890' F

Re: [HACKERS] Supporting NULL elements in arrays

2005-11-08 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> "Pavel Stehule" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> it's great news. My personal opinion about formating NULL values >>> '{a, NULL, b}' -- longer, clean NULL is NULL >>> >> >> Unfortunately, that alr

Re: [HACKERS] Reducing the overhead of NUMERIC data

2005-11-05 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11/4/05, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: >> Yeah, and while one way of removing that dependance is to use ICU, that >> library wants everything in UTF-16. So we replace "copying to add NULL >> to string" with "converti

Re: [HACKERS] Call for 7.5 feature completion

2005-08-29 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * optional interface which sends a row typeoid along with each row in a >> result set > Oh, and 'select rowid, * from table' which returns special rowid > column that just incrementally numbers each row. Why?

Re: [HACKERS] Continue transactions after errors in psql

2005-04-26 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Huxton writes: >> I just don't see why non-interactive mode does need such a switch >> because there is no way to check if there was an error. So just put >> two queries there and hope one will work? > DROP TABLE foo; > CREATE TABLE foo... Ah, my pet peev

Re: [HACKERS] invalidating cached plans

2005-03-20 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One possible approach is to do the invalidation on a sufficiently coarse > grain that we don't care. For example, I would be inclined to make any > change in a table's schema invalidate all plans that use that table at > all;

Re: [HACKERS] invalidating cached plans

2005-03-14 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One possible approach is to do the invalidation on a sufficiently coarse > grain that we don't care. For example, I would be inclined to make any > change in a table's schema invalidate all plans that use that table at > all;

Re: [HACKERS] libpq and prepared statements progress for 8.0

2004-09-21 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Sep 20, 2004, at 12:34 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: >>> I think we should favor libpq usage wherever possible and only >>> re-implement it in the native language when required, like f

Re: [HACKERS] Calling PL functions with named parameters

2004-08-14 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Oliver Jowett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think you just made my point for me. C++ allows default parameters > and resolves the ambiguity by disallowing ambiguous calls when they > happen. > I'm not sure why C++ doesn't disallow it at declaration time off the

Re: [HACKERS] Add Missing From?

2004-08-12 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Right, the reason it's important is that there are some things now that > are potentially tied together. If you have table A with rows A1,...,An and > table B with rows B1,...,Bm and the delete join condition gives the two

Re: [HACKERS] Add Missing From?

2004-08-11 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> In exactly the same order as for single-table DELETEs - >> implementation-defined. > I think you probably meant in an unspecified order. > Implementation-defined really doesn't mean anything when you're trying to > defin

Re: [HACKERS] Add Missing From?

2004-08-11 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harald, >> You're talking about "the deletion target table".  Sorry to mention >> the M word again, but MySQL allows deleting from more than one table >> at the same time.  Should we support that? > Nope. In fact, I'd arg

Re: [HACKERS] Add Missing From?

2004-08-10 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> What about >> DELETE FROM staff JOIN users ... >> then? > I don't much care for that, mainly because in my mind "x JOIN y" should > always be semantically equivalent to "y JOIN x". I t

Re: [HACKERS] Add Missing From?

2004-08-09 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Robert Treat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Well, as yall have pointed out, the feature is not sql spec (for some >> reason I thought it had been put in) so since the update syntax seems >> quite similar to oracles, perhaps the

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump bug fixing

2004-07-20 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 12:36, Josh Berkus wrote: >> Rod, >> >> > I think what we want is a clean template without all of the extras that >> > template1 has. >> >> We have this, it's called Template0. > Doesn't work for me.

Re: [HACKERS] Converting postgresql.conf parameters to kilobytes

2004-06-02 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Shridhar Daithankar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I was toying around with idea of converting all the memory related >> parameters in postgresql.conf to kilobytes for simplicity and >> uniformity. > Why is that a good idea?

Re: [HACKERS] pg_dump --comment?

2004-06-01 Thread Harald Fuchs
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harald Fuchs wrote: >> Why don't you just do >> ( echo "-- This is my comment" >> pg_dump whatever >> ) > dumpfile >> ? > How could I dump using the c