Re: [GENERAL] SQL query problem of a Quiz program

2016-12-17 Thread Torsten Förtsch
Did you try DISTINCT ON? postgres=# table x; id | qid | uid +-+ 1 | 25 | 1 2 | 25 | 1 3 | 25 | 1 4 | 26 | 1 5 | 26 | 1 6 | 27 | 1 7 | 27 | 1 8 | 25 | 2 9 | 25 | 2 10 | 25 | 2 11 | 26 | 2 12 | 26 | 2 1

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query problem of a Quiz program

2016-12-17 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 12/17/2016 07:25 AM, Arup Rakshit wrote: Hi, Here is a sample data from table "quiz_results": id | question_id | user_id +-+ 2 | 25 | 5142670086 3 | 26 | 4 | 26 | 5 | 27 | 6 | 25 | 5142670086 7 | 2

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query problem of a Quiz program

2016-12-17 Thread Melvin Davidson
On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Arup Rakshit wrote: > Hi, > > Here is a sample data from table "quiz_results": > > id | question_id | user_id > +-+ > 2 | 25 | 5142670086 > 3 | 26 | > 4 | 26 | > 5 | 27 | > 6 | 25

[GENERAL] SQL query problem of a Quiz program

2016-12-17 Thread Arup Rakshit
Hi, Here is a sample data from table "quiz_results": id | question_id | user_id +-+ 2 | 25 | 5142670086 3 | 26 | 4 | 26 | 5 | 27 | 6 | 25 | 5142670086 7 | 25 | 5142670086 8 | 25 | 5142670086

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-30 Thread David Noel
> There is nothing wrong with LATERALs, they just have no business being > used here. Sorry for the noise. Ah. No trouble. In fact I'm glad you chimed in -- it motivated me to learn about laterals so now I know some new SQL syntax! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgres

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-30 Thread Vik Fearing
On 04/30/2014 01:08 PM, David Noel wrote: >> For 9.3, you can write that as: >> >> select p.*, s.NoOfSentences >> from page p, >> lateral (select count(*) as NoOfSentences >> from sentence s >> where s."PageURL" = p."URL") s >> where "Classification" like case ... e

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-30 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 30 Duben 2014, 10:46, David Noel wrote: > Very strange. I ran the query and it seemed slow so I rewrote it with > a join instead. Using join it finished in 800ms. The query using the > lateral finished in more than a minute. I guess I need to do some > analysis on those queries to figure out why

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-30 Thread David Noel
> For 9.3, you can write that as: > > select p.*, s.NoOfSentences > from page p, > lateral (select count(*) as NoOfSentences > from sentence s > where s."PageURL" = p."URL") s > where "Classification" like case ... end > order by "PublishDate" desc > limit 100; > >

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-30 Thread David Noel
The FreeBSD system is running 9.3, the Windows systems are running 9.2. I am waiting on the output from the other developer. On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Tom Lane wrote: > David Noel writes: >> Both queries are run from a Java project using the latest JDBC driver. >> The PostgreSQL Server ve

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-30 Thread David Noel
Very strange. I ran the query and it seemed slow so I rewrote it with a join instead. Using join it finished in 800ms. The query using the lateral finished in more than a minute. I guess I need to do some analysis on those queries to figure out why there was such a vast difference in performance. %

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-29 Thread Tom Lane
David Noel writes: > Both queries are run from a Java project using the latest JDBC driver. > The PostgreSQL Server versions it's being run on are 9.2 and 9.3. The > query executes and returns just fine when run on a FreeBSD-based > platform, but executes forever when run under Windows. Um .. whi

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-29 Thread David Noel
> Is both server/client running on FreeBSD or Windows, or are you switching > only part of the stack? When I run it it's all FreeBSD. When the other developer working on it runs it it's all Windows. > It shouldn't get stuck. It might be slower on some platforms, but it > shouldn't really get stuc

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-29 Thread David Noel
> But there are two of them : ' and ' makes ''. If you use only one > psql/parser will complain. Ha! Wow. That one totally flew by me. It's not a double quotation mark (one character), it's a double _single_ quotation mark (two characters). Yeah, that makes complete sense. Wow. Can't believe I mis

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-29 Thread Tomas Vondra
On 29 Duben 2014, 8:59, David Noel wrote: > The query I'm running is: > > "select page.*, coalesce((select COUNT(*) from sentence where > sentence."PageURL" = page."URL" group by page."URL"), 0) as > NoOfSentences from page WHERE "Classification" LIKE CASE WHEN "<>" > THEN " ELSE '%' END ORDER BY "

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-29 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
On 29/04/2014 12:54, David Noel wrote: 'health'<>'' (if that is what you have) means a boolean expression that compares the literal 'health' with the empty literal '' which is of course always false. Ah. Gotcha. Thanks. I didn't know you could use a single double quotation mark in a query -- I t

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-29 Thread David Noel
> 'health'<>'' (if that is what you have) means a boolean expression that > compares the > literal 'health' with the empty literal '' which is of course always false. Ah. Gotcha. Thanks. I didn't know you could use a single double quotation mark in a query -- I thought like in most languages that

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-29 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
On 29/04/2014 12:39, David Noel wrote: Ehh, to clarify I'm referring to the lone _double_ quotation mark at the end of the condition 'health'<>''. I called it a "single quotation mark" because it was a quotation mark all by itself, but realize that could be misread. Single quotation marks are tec

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-29 Thread David Noel
Ehh, to clarify I'm referring to the lone _double_ quotation mark at the end of the condition 'health'<>''. I called it a "single quotation mark" because it was a quotation mark all by itself, but realize that could be misread. Single quotation marks are technically this: ' Sorry for the newbie sp

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-29 Thread David Noel
> select p.*, s.NoOfSentences > from page p, > lateral (select count(*) as NoOfSentences > from sentence s > where s."PageURL" = p."URL") s > where "Classification" like case ... end > order by "PublishDate" desc > limit 100; Great. Thanks so much! Could I make it

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-29 Thread Vik Fearing
On 04/29/2014 09:44 AM, David Noel wrote: > Ahh, sorry, copied the query over incorrectly. It should read as follows: > > select page.*, coalesce((select COUNT(*) from sentence where > sentence."PageURL" = page."URL" group by page."URL"), 0) as > NoOfSentences from page WHERE "Classification" LIKE

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-29 Thread John R Pierce
On 4/29/2014 12:42 AM, David Noel wrote: Ok, thanks for the heads up. It confused me, too. It's code I'm just picking up from another developer, so I don't know why it was done the way it was done. I'm not super proficient with SQL but I'll take a stab at rewriting it. wild guess says it was ba

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-29 Thread David Noel
Ahh, sorry, copied the query over incorrectly. It should read as follows: select page.*, coalesce((select COUNT(*) from sentence where sentence."PageURL" = page."URL" group by page."URL"), 0) as NoOfSentences from page WHERE "Classification" LIKE CASE WHEN 'health'<>'' THEN 'health' ELSE '%' END O

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-29 Thread David Noel
On 4/29/14, Achilleas Mantzios wrote: > On 29/04/2014 09:59, David Noel wrote: >> "select page.*, coalesce((select COUNT(*) from sentence where >> sentence."PageURL" = page."URL" group by page."URL"), 0) as >> NoOfSentences from page WHERE "Classification" LIKE CASE WHEN "<>" >> THEN " ELSE '%' EN

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-29 Thread Achilleas Mantzios
On 29/04/2014 09:59, David Noel wrote: The query I'm running is: "select page.*, coalesce((select COUNT(*) from sentence where sentence."PageURL" = page."URL" group by page."URL"), 0) as NoOfSentences from page WHERE "Classification" LIKE CASE WHEN "<>" THEN " ELSE '%' END ORDER BY "PublishDate"

[GENERAL] SQL query runs fine on one platform (FreeBSD), but hangs on another (Windows)

2014-04-29 Thread David Noel
The query I'm running is: "select page.*, coalesce((select COUNT(*) from sentence where sentence."PageURL" = page."URL" group by page."URL"), 0) as NoOfSentences from page WHERE "Classification" LIKE CASE WHEN "<>" THEN " ELSE '%' END ORDER BY "PublishDate" DESC Offset 0 LIMIT 100" I can post the

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query for Foreign constraint

2014-03-20 Thread Andy Colson
On 3/20/2014 4:45 PM, Raymond O'Donnell wrote: On 20/03/2014 07:48, Bhim Kumar wrote: Hi sir Currently I am using following query on mysql : * SHOW TABLES; ---> To get list of table in a particular db. Assuming you're using psql, did you take the advice you're given on connection and type

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query for Foreign constraint

2014-03-20 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 20/03/2014 07:48, Bhim Kumar wrote: > Hi sir > > Currently I am using following query on mysql : > > * SHOW TABLES; ---> To get list of table in a particular db. Assuming you're using psql, did you take the advice you're given on connection and type "help"? Anyway, to see a list of tables

[GENERAL] SQL Query for Foreign constraint

2014-03-20 Thread Bhim Kumar
Hi sir Currently I am using following query on mysql : * SHOW TABLES; ---> To get list of table in a particular db. * SELECT TABLE_NAME, CONSTRAINT_NAME, COLUMN_NAME, REFERENCED_TABLE_NAME, REFERENCED_COLUMN_NAME from information_schema.key_column_usage WHERE constraint_schema ='myDBName';

Re: [GENERAL] sql query bug???

2012-02-05 Thread Scott Ribe
On Feb 5, 2012, at 10:46 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Drop the parentheses in the GROUP BY. I had the suspicion that it was some kind of a late-night brain fart ;-) I don't know where the hell the parens came from, since I've *NEVER* put spurious parens in a group by clause before. But it took someone

Re: [GENERAL] sql query bug???

2012-02-05 Thread Tom Lane
Scott Ribe writes: > Is this a bug (in 9.0.4), or have I just gone cross-eyed from too much work? > The query: > select t0."ICD9", t0."Description", count(*) > from (select distinct "Person_Id", "ICD9", "Description" from > "PatientDiagnoses") as t0 > group by (t0."ICD9", t0."Description") >

[GENERAL] sql query bug???

2012-02-05 Thread Scott Ribe
Is this a bug (in 9.0.4), or have I just gone cross-eyed from too much work? The query: select t0."ICD9", t0."Description", count(*) from (select distinct "Person_Id", "ICD9", "Description" from "PatientDiagnoses") as t0 group by (t0."ICD9", t0."Description") order by count(*) desc limit 10;

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query Help Please !

2010-07-06 Thread Guy Rouillier
On 7/6/2010 3:06 AM, GrGsM wrote: Hi all I am using the following query for data to be displayed in crosstab : SELECT closedate,status, SUM (CASE WHEN empcode = 'NT-028' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS NT028, SUM (CASE WHEN empcode = 'NT-031' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS NT031,

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query Help Please !

2010-07-06 Thread Sam Mason
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 12:06:06AM -0700, GrGsM wrote: > SELECT closedate,status, >SUM (CASE WHEN empcode = 'NT-028' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS NT028, >SUM (CASE WHEN empcode = 'NT-031' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS NT031, >SUM (CASE WHEN empcode = 'NT-050' THEN 1 ELSE 0

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query Help Please !

2010-07-06 Thread Thomas Kellerer
GrGsM, 06.07.2010 09:06: Now i need a column in the same result of the query which shows the difference between the two columns . For Example : the result shoud be Closedate , status , NT028, NT031, NT050,NT062 , NT028-NT031 Please note the last column in bold, i need the difference . Alr

[GENERAL] SQL Query Help Please !

2010-07-06 Thread GrGsM
Hi all I am using the following query for data to be displayed in crosstab : SELECT closedate,status, SUM (CASE WHEN empcode = 'NT-028' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS NT028, SUM (CASE WHEN empcode = 'NT-031' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS NT031, SUM (CASE WHEN empcode = 'NT-0

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query

2008-11-22 Thread Tom Lane
"Michael Thorsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... I gave a simple example above, but the query runs over 2 tables > with about a million entries in each. So I am unable to verify what is > wrong, but I know the count is incorrect as I should not have more than what > is in the user_table. You co

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query

2008-11-22 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 22/11/2008 16:07, Michael Thorsen wrote: > For the most part yes. The price and value were "real" columns, > otherwise the rest of it is the same. On a small data set I seem to get That's almost certainly the problem, so - rounding errors are causing the equality test in the join to fail. You s

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query

2008-11-22 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 22/11/2008 04:33, Michael Thorsen wrote: > select count(*) > from user_table u, locations l > where u.user_code = l.code > and u.price = l.price > and u.value = l.value; > > The answer to this should be 2, but when I run my query I get 4 (in fact Are you sure that's the query that'

[GENERAL] SQL query

2008-11-22 Thread Michael Thorsen
I am running the Postgres(8.2.11) on Windows. I have 2 tables, one with users and one with locations. user_table --- user_id user_code price value 1 245.23 -97.82 2 3 42.67 -98.32 3

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-13 Thread Ranbeer Makin
Hello All: Ashish wants latest output_date but less than now() >want to retrieve all the output_id which are having latest >output_date but less than now() (no future output_dates) The query written by Tirnath will return count of all output ids given parent id where output_date is less than no

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-13 Thread Trinath Somanchi
Hi , Try this out SELECT count(o.id) FROM output_table o , parent_table p WHERE o.pid=p.pid AND o_date < now() GROUP BY p.pid ; On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:00:56 + (GMT) Ashish Karalkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello List member, > I have a table which ha sfollowing structure > > my_t

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:43:08AM +, Steve Grey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 153 lines which said: > First work out the maximum number of times each value of X will occur in the > table A better solution, when you do not know this maximum number, is CREATE AGGREGATE (http://www

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 05.12.2007, um 3:46:26 -0800 mailte David Fetter folgendes: > Use the array_accum aggregate from the docs as follows: > > SELECT x, array_to_string(array_accum(y),':') > FROM your_table > GROUP BY x; Yes, no noubt a better solution as my new aggregat... Andreas -- Andreas Kretsch

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread David Fetter
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:24:04AM +, Ashish Karalkar wrote: > Hello List member, > > Iha a table containing two columns x and y . for single value of x there are > multiple values in y e.g > > XY > > 1ABC > 2PQR > 3 XYZ > 4 LMN > 1

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread Steve Grey
Hi, Its not elegant, and certainly not dynamic or the perfect solution or for anything but a static dataset but I've approached this in SQL before as... First work out the maximum number of times each value of X will occur in the table - something like "select max(subfoo.ycount) from (select foo.

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 05.12.2007, um 10:47:44 + mailte Ashish Karalkar folgendes: > > X Y > > > > 1 ABC > > 2 PQR > > 3 XYZ > > 4 LMN > > 1 LMN > > 2 XYZ > > > > I want a query that will give me following output > > > > 1 ABC:LMN > > 2 PQR

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread Ashish Karalkar
"A. Kretschmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: am Wed, dem 05.12.2007, um 10:24:04 + mailte Ashish Karalkar folgendes: > Hello List member, > > Iha a table containing two columns x and y . for single value of x there are > multiple values in y e.g > > X Y > > 1 ABC > 2

Re: [GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread A. Kretschmer
am Wed, dem 05.12.2007, um 10:24:04 + mailte Ashish Karalkar folgendes: > Hello List member, > > Iha a table containing two columns x and y . for single value of x there are > multiple values in y e.g > > X Y > > 1 ABC > 2 PQR > 3 XYZ > 4 LMN > 1

[GENERAL] SQL Query

2007-12-05 Thread Ashish Karalkar
Hello List member, Iha a table containing two columns x and y . for single value of x there are multiple values in y e.g XY 1ABC 2PQR 3 XYZ 4 LMN 1 LMN 2 XYZ I want a query that will give me following output 1ABC:LMN 2

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query with IFs (?) to "Eliminate" NULL Values

2007-09-06 Thread Nis Jørgensen
Stefan Schwarzer skrev: > Hi there, > > I want to calculate per Capita values on-the-fly, taking for example the > "Total GDP" data set and divide it by "Total Population". Now, each of > these data sets have a couple of "0" or "-" values (the latter being > the indicator for : "no data availa

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query with IFs (?) to "Eliminate" NULL Values

2007-09-05 Thread Scott Marlowe
On 9/5/07, Stefan Schwarzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I want to calculate per Capita values on-the-fly, taking for example > the "Total GDP" data set and divide it by "Total Population". Now, > each of these data sets have a couple of "0" or "-" values (the > latter being the i

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query with IFs (?) to "Eliminate" NULL Values

2007-09-05 Thread hubert depesz lubaczewski
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:15:43AM +0200, Stefan Schwarzer wrote: > SELECT DISTINCT (tpes_total.y_2004 / pop_total.y_2004) AS > y_2004, countries_view.name AS name > FROM pop_total, countries_view > LEFT JOIN tpes_total ON tpes_total.id = countries_view.id > WHERE pop_total.y_2004

[GENERAL] SQL query with IFs (?) to "Eliminate" NULL Values

2007-09-05 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
Hi there, I want to calculate per Capita values on-the-fly, taking for example the "Total GDP" data set and divide it by "Total Population". Now, each of these data sets have a couple of "0" or "-" values (the latter being the indicator for : "no data available"). Until now I have it

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query question

2006-06-21 Thread Gurjeet Singh
Another way is to use correlated-subqueries (refrencing outer query's columns inside a subquery; hope this feature is supported): select * fromFileVersionHistory H1 where modificationDate = ( select max(modificationDate) fromFileVersionHistory H2

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query question

2006-06-18 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 16:50:59 -0700, Kevin Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For example > > filename date revision > file110/05/06 1 > file110/05/07 2 > file210/05/08 1 > > I want to do a query that will return the greatest date for each > unique filename If the revisi

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query question

2006-06-17 Thread Michael Glaesemann
On Jun 18, 2006, at 8:50 , Kevin Jenkins wrote: I have a beginner question. I have a table with a bunch of filenames and each of them have a date. Multiple files may have the same name. For example filename date revision file110/05/06 1 file110/05/07 2 file210/05/08 1 I

[GENERAL] SQL query question

2006-06-17 Thread Kevin Jenkins
Hi! First I want to say thanks for writing PostgreSQL. It's nice to have a free alternative. I have a beginner question. I have a table with a bunch of filenames and each of them have a date. Multiple files may have the same name. For example filename date revision file110/05/0

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query

2005-02-11 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 11 February 2005 13:39, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:07:24 +, > > David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought of using an inner select for the join, and using limit 1 to > > get just the one, and forcing the order by to give me the billing > > ad

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query

2005-02-11 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 11 February 2005 11:41, Janning Vygen wrote: > Am Freitag, 11. Februar 2005 12:07 schrieb David Goodenough: > > I have an address table, with all the normal fields and a customer name > > field and an address type. There is a constraint that means that the > > combination of customer and

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query

2005-02-11 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 11 February 2005 11:46, Richard Huxton wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > I realise this is not strictly a Postgreslql question, but if the best > > way to solve it involves using PG extensions, such as the PG procedural > > languages I am only going to do this on PG and so I am happy t

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query

2005-02-11 Thread David Goodenough
On Friday 11 February 2005 11:31, Matt K wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > >I could do this by doing a select * from addresses where customer = ? > >and type = 'billing', looking to see if there is a result row and if not > >repeating the query with type = 'default', but that seems inelegant to >

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query

2005-02-11 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 11:07:24 +, David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought of using an inner select for the join, and using limit 1 to > get just the one, and forcing the order by to give me the billing > address by preference, but I am then dependant on the sort order >

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query

2005-02-11 Thread Richard Huxton
David Goodenough wrote: I realise this is not strictly a Postgreslql question, but if the best way to solve it involves using PG extensions, such as the PG procedural languages I am only going to do this on PG and so I am happy to use them. I have an address table, with all the normal fields and a

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query

2005-02-11 Thread Janning Vygen
Am Freitag, 11. Februar 2005 12:07 schrieb David Goodenough: > > I have an address table, with all the normal fields and a customer name > field and an address type. There is a constraint that means that the > combination of customer and type have to be unique. Normally the > only record per cust

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query

2005-02-11 Thread Matt K
David Goodenough wrote: I could do this by doing a select * from addresses where customer = ? and type = 'billing', looking to see if there is a result row and if not repeating the query with type = 'default', but that seems inelegant to me. Use NULL to indicate that the customer type is defa

[GENERAL] SQL query

2005-02-11 Thread David Goodenough
I realise this is not strictly a Postgreslql question, but if the best way to solve it involves using PG extensions, such as the PG procedural languages I am only going to do this on PG and so I am happy to use them. I have an address table, with all the normal fields and a customer name field and

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query question

2005-02-03 Thread Markus Schulz
Am Donnerstag, 3. Februar 2005 08:32 schrieb Uwe C. Schroeder: > Maybe it's to late for me to think correctly (actually I'm sure of > that). I'm going to ask anyways. > I have a table like > > id int4 > user_id int4 > photo varchar > image_type char(1) > > where image_type is either G or X > What I

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query question

2005-02-03 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2005-02-02 23:32:28 -0800: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Maybe it's to late for me to think correctly (actually I'm sure of > that). I'm going to ask anyways. I have a table like > > id int4 > user_id int4 > photo varchar > image_type char(1) > >

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query question

2005-02-03 Thread Jonel Rienton
Hi Uwe, I did a solution for you using PLPgSQL, create or replace function countem() returns varchar as $$ declare gcount integer; xcount integer; result varchar; begin select count(*) into gcount from pix where image_type = 'G'; select count(*) into xcount

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query question

2005-02-03 Thread Jonel Rienton
you're right it's late, i better to get to bed myself, i forgot to throw in the parameter for the user_id in there, i'm sure you can figure that one out. regards, - Jonel Rienton http://blogs.road14.com Software Developer, *nix Advocate On Feb 3, 2005, at 1:32 AM, Uwe C. Schroeder wrote: ---

[GENERAL] SQL query question

2005-02-02 Thread Uwe C. Schroeder
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maybe it's to late for me to think correctly (actually I'm sure of that). I'm going to ask anyways. I have a table like id int4 user_id int4 photo varchar image_type char(1) where image_type is either G or X What I want to do is have ONE query that

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query question

2004-12-22 Thread Tomasz Myrta
Hi all, I have 2 tables, with a 1-n relation: parent( oid, parent_name) child(oid, child_name, iod_parent) How do I get the parent_names of all parents without a child? select parent_name from parent left join child on (parent.oid=child.iod_parent) where child.oid is null; or select parent_name

[GENERAL] SQL query question

2004-12-22 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi all, I have 2 tables, with a 1-n relation: parent( oid, parent_name) child(oid, child_name, iod_parent) How do I get the parent_names of all parents without a child? TIA Groeten, Joost Kraaijeveld Askesis B.V. Molukkenstraat 14 6524NB Nijmegen tel: 024-3888063 / 06-51855277 fax: 024-36084

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query - single text value from group by

2004-09-08 Thread mike
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 17:13 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote: > mike wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am trying to work out if this is possible in a select query > > > > I have a group by query which could result in several rows, what I want > > to do is do a text equivalent of a sum() eg: > > > > SELECT sum(

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query - single text value from group by

2004-09-08 Thread Richard Huxton
mike wrote: Hi I am trying to work out if this is possible in a select query I have a group by query which could result in several rows, what I want to do is do a text equivalent of a sum() eg: SELECT sum(inv_id),date,cust from invoice group by date,cust Is there any way to get to a single concat

[GENERAL] SQL query - single text value from group by

2004-09-08 Thread mike
Hi I am trying to work out if this is possible in a select query I have a group by query which could result in several rows, what I want to do is do a text equivalent of a sum() eg: SELECT sum(inv_id),date,cust from invoice group by date,cust Is there any way to get to a single concatenated in

Re: [GENERAL] sql query to get field types

2004-06-09 Thread scott.marlowe
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Alexander Cohen wrote: > What sql query can i use to get all relative data to the types of > fields that a table contains? select column_name,data_type from information_schema.columns where table_name='test'; works in 7.4 ---(end of broadcast)-

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query not returning the value expected !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2003-11-11 Thread Najib Abi Fadel
thanx this was the problem : the null values - Original Message - From: "Stephan Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Najib Abi Fadel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "generalpost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 07:58 PM Su

[GENERAL] SQL query not returning the value expected !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2003-11-10 Thread Najib Abi Fadel
Hi if you take  a look at the following query's you can see that the third query should logically return  043219but instead it's not returning any rows ?? What's happening ??   dragon=> SELECT cod_etu from parcours_v where cod_etu = '043219'; cod_etu-(0 rows)   dragon=> S

Re: [GENERAL] SQL query problem

2003-10-09 Thread Karsten Hilbert
> fine). PG returns: ERROR: Relation "_con" does not exist > > This is my query: > > SELECT > _CON.con_id, Please make sure you get the quoting right regarding table names. PostgreSQL will fold _CON into _con unless quoted "_CON". So, it may be that you created the table with quotes ("_CON").

Re: [GENERAL] Sql query with partial matching

2000-12-12 Thread Steve Heaven
At 14:58 07/12/00 -0500, Travis Bauer wrote: >How would I write an sql statement which would select all the >records from a table where some string field contains >some substring? Example: find all the records where f1 contains >the world "cool." select * from table where f1 ~ 'cool'; or case i

Re: [GENERAL] Sql query with partial matching

2000-12-12 Thread Brett W. McCoy
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Travis Bauer wrote: > How would I write an sql statement which would select all the > records from a table where some string field contains > some substring? Example: find all the records where f1 contains > the world "cool." SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE f1 LIKE '%cool%'; or