Re: [GENERAL] grouping consecutive records

2013-02-04 Thread Morus Walter
Hallo Виктор, thanks a lot for your explanation :-) You rock! > > This example corresponds to the ORDER BY user_id, sort > while you claim you need to ORDER BY sort, user_id. > right, I confused the order. > I will explain this for the ordering that matches your sample. > > You need to group y

[GENERAL] grouping consecutive records

2013-02-04 Thread Morus Walter
Hallo, I have a question regarding a selection. I'd like to group and merge certain records having the same values in some columns, but only if they are contiguous with regard to some sort order. So for a table create table foo ( id int, user_id int, key varchar, s

Re: [GENERAL] deferrable foreign keys

2009-12-02 Thread Morus Walter
Hallo Tom, > Morus Walter writes: > > are there downsides of making foreign keys deferrable (but initially > > immediate) for updates, when the transaction does not set the > > constraint behaviour to deferred? > > > I'd expect that to have the same behaviour

[GENERAL] deferrable foreign keys

2009-12-02 Thread Morus Walter
Hi, are there downsides of making foreign keys deferrable (but initially immediate) for updates, when the transaction does not set the constraint behaviour to deferred? I'd expect that to have the same behaviour as non deferrable foreign keys. What I don't understand is, why is non deferrable the