[GENERAL] QUERY PLAN:

1999-10-27 Thread Tim Joyce
can someone point me at documentation so that i can unserstand the results of an EXPLAIN, eg: Index Scan using words_id_idx on books_idx (cost=441.19 rows=7644 width=8) explain select * from books_idx where wrd_id=1; I am paticularly interested in what the rows= figure means. TIA timj ***

[GENERAL] large objects

1999-07-26 Thread Tim Joyce
Hi, I have an existing table and want to change the type of a column from text to oid. I have tried pg_dumping and psql -e, but get "broken pipe" when inserting the date into the new table. pastgresql 6.4 on linux thanks for your help timj [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [GENERAL] PL/pgSQL help

1999-06-03 Thread Tim Joyce
> MH> Question 2: > MH> is there a way to get the value of the newly assigned primary key > MH> after an insert? (rather then following the insert with a select) > > MH> e.g. (this would be nice if it worked (networkID is the PKey)) > MH> INSERT into Network (parentID, networkName) values (pid,