Re: [HACKERS] Error when comparing an integer to an empty string.

2002-11-22 Thread David Pradier
i compared an integer to an empty string, i ran in an error. Is this a bug or a feature of the new 7.3 version ? Is there a purpose ? What number do you expect '' to represent? Probably you either want to use: = '0' or is null depending on what you are really trying to do. It's

[HACKERS] connectby with schema

2002-11-22 Thread Masaru Sugawara
Hi, all While testing RC1, I found CONNECTBY had another problem. It seems to me that SCHEMA can't be used in CONNECTBY. Is it just in time for 7.3 to be added to TODO items ? CREATE TABLE test (id int4, parent_id int4, t text); INSERT INTO test VALUES(11, null, 'aaa'); INSERT INTO test

Re: [HACKERS] Optimizer boolean syntax

2002-11-22 Thread scott.marlowe
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Stephan Szabo wrote: On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: col isn't of the general form indexkey op constant or constant op indexkey which I presume it's looking for given the comments in indxpath.c. I'm not sure what the best way to make

Re: [HACKERS] nested transactions

2002-11-22 Thread Scott Lamb
Bruce Momjian wrote: I am going to work on nested transactions for 7.4. If you're going to do a lot of reworking of how transactions are handled, maybe this is a good time to beg for cursors that stay open across commits. It looks like the JDBC driver is moving to using cursors with

quote_ident and schemas (was Re: [HACKERS] connectby with schema)

2002-11-22 Thread Joe Conway
Masaru Sugawara wrote: CREATE SCHEMA ms; CREATE TABLE ms.test (id int4, parent_id int4, t text); INSERT INTO ms.test VALUES(11, null, 'aaa'); INSERT INTO ms.test VALUES(101, 11, 'bbb'); INSERT INTO ms.test VALUES(110, 11, 'ccc'); INSERT INTO ms.test VALUES(111, 110, 'ddd'); SELECT * FROM

Re: quote_ident and schemas (was Re: [HACKERS] connectby with schema)

2002-11-22 Thread Joe Conway
Joe Conway wrote: Is quote_ident_required incorrectly dealing with schemas? Sorry to reply to myself, but another related question; shouldn't the following produce Ms.Test? test=# select quote_ident('Ms.Test'); quote_ident - Ms.Test (1 row) Joe

Re: quote_ident and schemas (was Re: [HACKERS] connectby with schema)

2002-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joe Conway wrote: Is quote_ident_required incorrectly dealing with schemas? Sorry to reply to myself, but another related question; shouldn't the following produce Ms.Test? test=# select quote_ident('Ms.Test'); quote_ident - Ms.Test

[HACKERS] Interesting thought from an article about Sun technologies

2002-11-22 Thread Justin Clift
Hi everyone, Was just reading an article regarding Sun technologies on TheRegister: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/28259.html *** The real problem with databases is administrative, he argued, where the DBA must do index rebuilds. Clustra had eliminated that problem because it was

[HACKERS] value a reserved word

2002-11-22 Thread Joe Conway
I see we just recently made the word value reserved: http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/parser/keywords.c.diff?r1=1.130r2=1.131 I noticed it because it breaks the contrib/tablefunc regression test. ISTM like this will break quite a few applications. Joe

Re: [HACKERS] value a reserved word

2002-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see we just recently made the word value reserved: http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/parser/keywords.c.diff?r1=1.130r2=1.131 I noticed it because it breaks the contrib/tablefunc regression test. ISTM like this will

Re: [HACKERS] value a reserved word

2002-11-22 Thread Hannu Krosing
Tom Lane kirjutas L, 23.11.2002 kell 03:43: Joe Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see we just recently made the word value reserved: http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/backend/parser/keywords.c.diff?r1=1.130r2=1.131 I noticed it because it breaks the

Re: [HACKERS] value a reserved word

2002-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
Hannu Krosing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In light of trying to become fully ISO/ANSI compliant (or even savvy ;) could we not make a jump at say 7.4 to having the same set of reserved keywords as SQL92/SQL99 and be done with it? I disagree ... especially for SQL99 keywords that we're not even

Re: [HACKERS] Fw: Missing file from CVS?

2002-11-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Patch applied. Thanks. --- Al Sutton wrote: Heres a patch which will create the sql_help.h file if it doesn't already exist using an installed copy of perl. I've tested it using perl v5.6.1 from ActiveState and all

[HACKERS] regression failures

2002-11-22 Thread Joe Conway
I'm getting lots of regression failures: 25 of 89 tests failed. all pretty much looking like: SELECT '' AS one, o.* FROM OID_TBL o WHERE o.f1 = 1234; ! ERROR: Relation pg_constraint_contypid_index does not exist SELECT '' AS five, o.* FROM