Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-11 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
es > for todos... etc. A wiki for *discussion*? I thought email was for that. A wiki is nice to work toghether on a document (in some circumstances). -- __ "Nothing is as subjective as reality" Reinoud van Leeuwen[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [HACKERS] POWER vs. POW ???

2005-11-24 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
_____ "Nothing is as subjective as reality" Reinoud van Leeuwen[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xs4all.nl/~reinoud __ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3

Re: [HACKERS] US Patents vs Non-US software ...

2005-01-20 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
stmas was revoked. So no software patents in Europe for now. (and the opposition against it seems to grow!) -- __ "Nothing is as subjective as reality" Reinoud van Lee

Re: Postgres development model (was Re: [HACKERS] CVS comment)

2004-08-10 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
angesets you'll never want to go back to cvs. Producing an Open Source product does not mean that all tools are Open Source. Windows isn't and Postgresql is going to support windows. -- __________ "Nothing is as subjective as reality" R

Re: [HACKERS] cache control?

2004-01-18 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
nently -- __ "Nothing is as subjective as reality" Reinoud van Leeuwen[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xs4all.nl/~reinoud __ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched o

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?

2003-11-19 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
SQL Anywhere (forgot the firm they bought it from). It took them a few years to make this product 100% SQL compatible with ASE. This product was ported to some Unix platforms around that time too. -- __________ "Nothing is as subjective a

[HACKERS] plpgsql strangeness with select into

2003-07-18 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
- 1 (1 row) i_hierarchy_id is declared as integer and is not used before this code nor as a column name anywhere. Does anyone have a clue what is going wrong? I use Postgresql 7.3.3 on FreeBSD 4.5. -- __________ "Nothing is as su

[HACKERS] how to make a trigger deferrable

2002-12-16 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
igger. TIA, Reinoud -- __ "Nothing is as subjective as reality" Reinoud van Leeuwen[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xs4all.nl/~reinoud __ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

[HACKERS] Why an array in pg_group?

2002-11-26 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
thers :-( -- __ "Nothing is as subjective as reality" Reinoud van Leeuwen[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xs4all.nl/~reinoud __ ---(end of broadcast)

[HACKERS] Why an array in pg_group?

2002-11-21 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
thers :-( -- __ "Nothing is as subjective as reality" Reinoud van Leeuwen[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xs4all.nl/~reinoud __ ---(end of broadcast)--- TI

[HACKERS] status of IPv6 Support for INET/CIDR types

2002-04-02 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
ready for some time now. What is the status of IPv6 types at this moment? -- __ "Nothing is as subjective as reality" Reinoud van Leeuwen[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xs4all.n

Re: [HACKERS] What executes faster?

2001-10-01 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
> [HACKERS] What executes faster? > Now that I've found the solution for my duplicate key problem, > I'm wondering what executes faster when I have to check for > duplicates. > 1. try to update >if no row affected -> do the insert >else done > 2. do a select >if row not found -

[HACKERS] optimizer question

2001-09-26 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
Hi, I have a table that contains almost 8 milion rows. The primary key is a sequence, so the index should have a good distribution. Why does the optimizer refuse to use the index for getting the maximum value? (even after a vacuum analyze of the table) radius=# explain select max(radiuspk) fr

Re: [HACKERS] performance question

2001-08-28 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Reinoud van Leeuwen wrote: > >> Can somebody explain to me: >> >> > radius=# explain select count (radiuspk) from radius ; >> > NOTICE: QUERY PLAN: >> > >> > Aggregate (cost=12839.79..12839.79 rows=1 width=8) &g

[HACKERS] performance question

2001-08-28 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
Can somebody explain to me: > radius=# explain select count (radiuspk) from radius ; > NOTICE: QUERY PLAN: > > Aggregate (cost=12839.79..12839.79 rows=1 width=8) > -> Seq Scan on radius (cost=0.00..11843.43 rows=398543 width=8) > > EXPLAIN This query answers me *instantly* after hitting r

Re: [HACKERS] Link to bug webpage

2001-08-21 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Lamar Owen wrote: [...] > > What who thinks of what has actually become irrelevant. The following > is clear: > > o No tool will replace the mailing lists > o The mailing lists are where discussion will be held > o Many/most maintainers have no desire to

Re: [HACKERS] plpgsql: Checking status on a 'INSERT INTO ...'

2001-07-25 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
> I'm porting some stored procedures from a MSSQL server, and thought I'd > use PL/pgSQL. > > The original code is checking the insert with the line: > >if (@@Error != 0) You might want to use something like: SELECT INTO variable_name * FROM table WHERE field = some_value; IF FOUND

Re: AW: [HACKERS] functions returning records

2001-06-27 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
> >> For the result from foo() you must somewhere define attributes >> (names). >> Where? In CREATE FUNCTION statement? Possible must be: >> >> select name1, name2 from foo() where name1 > 10; > > Yes, optimal would imho also be if the foo() somehow had access to the > where restriction, so

Re: [HACKERS] functions returning records

2001-06-26 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
. Something like "resultfunction (argument) INTO TABLENAME" or "INSERT INTO TABLENAME resultfunction(argument) -- __________ "Nothing is as subjective as reality" Reinoud van Leeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xs4all.nl/~rein

Re: [HACKERS] POSTMASTER

2001-06-18 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
as subjective as reality" Reinoud van Leeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xs4all.nl/~reinoud __ ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://www.postgresql.org/search.mpl

Re: AW: AW: [HACKERS] Postgres Replication

2001-06-12 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
in different continents might not work with 2-phase commit over the network And we have not even started talking about *managing* replicated environments. A lot of fail-over scenarios stop planning after the backup host has take control. But how to get back? -- ___

Re: [HACKERS] Migration from FoxPro

2001-06-12 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
ostgresql - install postgresql odbc drivers - generate a database creation script and execute it through the ODBC connection - create a report of your database for your documentation :-) -- __ "Nothing is as subjective as reality" Rei

Re: [HACKERS] Postgres Replication

2001-06-11 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
eplication server (or different versions etc). I do not know how much of this is patented or copyrighted, but the architecture seems elegant and robust to me. I have done implementations of bi-directional replication too. It *is* possible but does require some funky setup and maintenance. (bu

Re: [HACKERS] capturing stored procedure return values from php??please help .

2001-06-06 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
> > hi, > > i am developing an application using php and postgresql. i do not > know how to capture the return values of functions (stored > procedures) from php. > select myfunction(parameter) ; ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have

Re: [HACKERS] ORDER BY Problem...

2001-06-06 Thread Reinoud van Leeuwen
> Hello... > > Why does Postgresql order the uppercase letters first? > > I have e.g. a table with one row an in this row there are follow > values: > > row1 > > ADC > aa > ABC > > With this select-syntax > > select * from table order by row1 > > I become this output > > ABC > ADC > a