[SQL] PRIMARY KEY

2007-03-07 Thread Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe
Hello I have created a table CREATE TABLE MOD48_00_2007 ( ID text, N_GEN int PRIMARY KEY, FORMSTORE text, COD_NOTAIO text, PA_COGNOME text); And i insert the rows via a form in ASP. When the form loads i have a functin that goes and gets the value of the field N_GEN adds 1 to it and shows it to

Re: [SQL] PRIMARY KEY

2007-03-07 Thread Richard Huxton
Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe wrote: Hello I have created a table CREATE TABLE MOD48_00_2007 ( ID text, N_GEN int PRIMARY KEY, FORMSTORE text, COD_NOTAIO text, PA_COGNOME text); And i insert the rows via a form in ASP. When the form loads i have a functin that goes and gets the value of the fi

Re: [SQL] PRIMARY KEY

2007-03-07 Thread M.P.Dankoor
Hello, Is it possible to redesign your table as follows: create table Mod48_00_2007 ( IDtext, N_GEN serial not null, FORMSTORE text, COD_NOTATIO text, PA_COGNOMEtext, constraint pk_Mod48_00_2007 primary key (N_GEN) ); Your insert simply becomes: INSERT INTO MOD

Re: [SQL] PRIMARY KEY

2007-03-07 Thread M.P.Dankoor
Phillip Smith wrote: If you actually need to know the value of N_GEN in your ASP application, you will need to query the database first and select the NEXTVAL from the sequence that the "serial" data type will create, then use that returned value in your insert - ie, DON'T exclude it from the

Re: [SQL] PRIMARY KEY

2007-03-07 Thread Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe
Thanks alot Mario. It did exactly what i wanted. I shall also take alook at the link you gave for more details.. Shavonne Wijesinghe - Original Message - From: M.P.Dankoor To: Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:57

[SQL] tesearch2 question

2007-03-07 Thread Sumeet
Hi All, I'm trying to udpate a table containing 13149741 records. And its taking forever to complete this process. The update query i'm trying to run is for full text indexing similiar to UPDATE tblMessages SET idxFTI=to_tsvector(strMessage); Below are some of the stats which might be helpfu

Re: [SQL] best index for ~ ordering?

2007-03-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:28:57AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, im wondering if is possible using LIKE '%blah%', even better would be > upper/lower(string) like '%blah%', Your better bet then is either to index lower(string) or better, on insert convert everything to lower(). A -- An

Re: [SQL] tesearch2 question

2007-03-07 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Sumeet wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to udpate a table containing 13149741 records. And its taking forever to complete this process. The update query i'm trying to run is for full text indexing similiar to UPDATE tblMessages SET idxFTI=to_tsvector(strMessage); How big are

[SQL] SHA-1 vs MD5

2007-03-07 Thread Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha
Hi list, I know that there is a md5 internal function on postgresql, but I noticed that it isn't the more secure today. I would like to know if there is a SHA-1 function implemented yet of, if not, if the team has plan to introduce it on PostgreSQL. Regards ... -- Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha ht

Re: [SQL] SHA-1 vs MD5

2007-03-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:04:18PM -0300, Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha wrote: > Hi list, > > I know that there is a md5 internal function on postgresql, but I noticed > that it isn't the more secure today. I would like to know if there is a > SHA-1 function implemented yet of, if not, if the team h

Re: [SQL] SHA-1 vs MD5

2007-03-07 Thread Andrej Ricnik-Bay
On 3/8/07, Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the problem you're trying to solve? Md5 is probably good enough for many cases, but for long-term use, you're right that sha-1 is what you need. Actually, you need sha-256, quite frankly. Looking at his last mail he's after a passwo

Re: [SQL] tesearch2 question

2007-03-07 Thread Sumeet
Thanks Oleg, My String message are Abstracts of papers, I did a $ select avg(len) from (select length(abstract) as len from master_table limit 500) E; avg --- 1355.5907859078590786 (1 row) so length is approx 1400. I couldn't find any appropriate way to analyze t

Re: [SQL] tesearch2 question

2007-03-07 Thread Oleg Bartunov
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Sumeet wrote: Thanks Oleg, My String message are Abstracts of papers, I did a $ select avg(len) from (select length(abstract) as len from master_table limit 500) E; avg --- 1355.5907859078590786 (1 row) so length is approx 1400. that'is abou

Re: [SQL] SHA-1 vs MD5

2007-03-07 Thread Chad Wagner
On 3/7/07, Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know that there is a md5 internal function on postgresql, but I noticed that it isn't the more secure today. I would like to know if there is a SHA-1 function implemented yet of, if not, if the team has plan to introduce it on P