postgresql

No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You might need to add explicit type casts. -- Netbeans, Postgresql 8.4 and Glassfish

I am trying to edit a table in Postgresql using JPA in Glassfish using EclipseLink. When I insert an entity, it runs fine. But, when I try to edit or remove the same entity, it fails with the following error. Any idea? Caused by: Exception [EclipseLink-4002] (Eclipse Persistence Services - 2.0.1.v20100213-r6600): org.eclipse.persistenc...

noob confused regarding sequel ORM usage

Hi, I am currently doing small pet project web programming stuff using ruby. I am new to web programming, MVC, ORM and so on, so lots of hurdles here. Anyway, I have difficulties using sequel as ORM. I already have a postgres db running (created without using sequel whatsoever, just used plain postgresql command) but don't know wher...

heroku db:push failing (randomly?) w/ "duplicate key value violates unique constraint"

I'm trying to push a large database (1.6 GB over 8 tables) to Heroku via db:push and having strange issues. It keeps failing, at different points in the transfer process, with: HTTP CODE: 500 Taps Server Error: PGError: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "letters_pkey" letters is a large table (1.3 M records) b...

GIS: PostGIS/PostgreSQL vs. MySql vs. SQL Server?

I need to analyze a few million geocoded records, each of which will have latitude and longitude. These records include data of at least three different types, and I will be trying to see if each set influences the other. What database is best for the underlying data store for all this data? Here's my desires: I'm familiar with the DB...

JNDI Can't Create a JDBC Connection on Tomcat 6

I'm getting this error when I try to view the page: SQLException: Cannot create JDBC driver of class '' for connect URL 'null' I have the following /WEB-INF/web.xml: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app> <display-name>WSwartzendruber.net</display-name> <description>Personal Website</description> <!-- Servlet st...

Undefined method auto_upgrade! when pushing Sinatra/DataMapper app to Heroku

Does anybody know the magic incantation required to get a Sinatra application that uses DataMapper up and running on Heroku's Bamboo stack? The Bamboo stack doesn't include any pre-installed system gems and no matter what combination of gems I try I keep getting this error: undefined method `auto_upgrade!' for DataMapper:Module (NoMetho...

May we interact with a psql script ?

Can we do something like \echo 'Type username to show its properties'; SELECT * FROM mY_users WHERE username = ?; \echo 'End of script'; in a psql script file ? The system would wait until we enter something then echo the 'End of script' string. ...

Books & Resources on using PostgreSQL?

I'm from an Oracle background, and with each release there are plenty of excellent books on using Oracle as a database. I've found several good MySQL books as well, but I have no idea which of the PostgreSQL books or resources is good and up-to-date. With an upcoming 9.0 release, what are your recommendations? ...

Doctrine SQL/table generation failing

Hello, I am trying to make Doctrine generate SQL from a set of models that I created earlier with a YAML schema. Using the code below which comes from the manual the output should be a set of queries. <?php // test.php require_once('bootstrap.php'); try { $models = Doctrine_Core::generateSqlFromModels('models/generated'); ec...

Postgres rule to help with CSV import

I need to import a csv file that has 10's of thousands of rows into a Postgres database daily. I'm looking into the most efficient way to do that as each line in the csv file can be a new record or an existing one that should be updated if it's there. After many searches, I stumbled upon a solution, which I used: CREATE OR REPLACE RULE ...

Postgresql full-text-search on heroku

Hello I want to use full-text search using postrgresql but the problem on heroku, i can not think of a way to have custom dictionary using my language (Greek). on my pc I did CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY greek_ispell ( TEMPLATE = ispell, DictFile = greek, AffFile = greek, StopWords = greek ); and setup the sharedir using the custom...

Mysql Postgresql cast

I have a column (varchar in mysql and a character varying in postgresql). I need to apply sum on the column and I need a cast syntax that works for both. The db structure is old and has both int and varchar values. I can't change that. ...

Django ORM with Postgres: rows unexpectedly deleted - Bug?

Hi, I have the problem that objects were unexpectedly deleted and created a minimal example. I dont't know whether it's a bug or if a made a thinking error. The models are something like that: class A(models.Model): related = models.ForeignKey('C', blank = True, null = True) class B(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max...

How to send table to function as argument?

How to send a table to function as argument? Need something like that: CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test(argTable TABLE( field1 integer, field1 integer, etc smallint )) RETURNS integer AS $BODY$ ... Is it possible btw? UPD: I'm going to send a temp table to function so I suppose I need table structure decla...

Postgres: complex CASCADE question - making sure you only delete unique foreign key references?

I've got some linked tables in a Postgres database, as follows: Table "public.key" Column | Type | Modifiers --------+------+----------- id | text | not null name | text | Referenced by: TABLE "enumeration_value" CONSTRAINT "enumeration_value_key_id_fkey" FOREIGN KEY (key_id) REFERENCES key(id) Table "public.enumera...

JSF 2.0 Simple login page

Hi, I need to restrict the access to a part of the application. In order to access that part, user needs to log in. I have a table in my database called User, with usernames and hashed passwords and a login form that consists of two inputs and a submit. However, I don't know which classes/mathids should I use to log in the user (I assume...

hot to install pgsql php on mac

i look the bocument at http://blog.visionsource.org/2010/05/31/installing-php-extensions-on-mac-os-x-under-xampp/ try install the pgsql extend, success build the extend, and copy the pgsql.so to /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626 but i get a warning when i tap 'php' conmment in the terminal: PHP Startup: Invalid library (...

org.hibernate.exception.SQLGrammarException: could not insert:

Hi Im running example using hibernate with postgresql 8.4, when i try to add it will dispay following error org.hibernate.exception.SQLGrammarException: could not insert: [com.claystone.db.OrWorkgroup] at org.hibernate.exception.SQLStateConverter.convert(SQLStateConverter.java:67) at org.hibernate.exception.JDBCExceptionHelper.c...

Moving from MySQL to to Postgres on Rails 3

Aside from removal of some MySQL specific queries, the migration was pretty smooth. The problem now is, that during developement there is a lot more queries to the DB than before. Started GET "/profiles/data" for 127.0.0.1 at Tue Sep 21 10:26:18 +0200 2010 Processing by ProfilesController#data as JSON User Load (24.3ms) SELECT "users...

PostGIS : nearest linestring to a given point

Hi guys. I've been using PostGIS in a long time now but never had to use the LINESTRING geometry ... yet! :) Here's what I would like to do : I have a table of linestrings (representing streets of a given city, SRID 3395) and I would like to find the nearest linestrings to a given point (GPS position, SRID 4326). The solution I found ...