[GENERAL] limit select question

1999-03-31 Thread Kevin Heflin
I've been asked if there is a way to LIMIT the number of results displayed when doing a SELECT with postgresql, by a former user of mysql. Wasn't sure if there is an easy way to do this or not. I've don't it before, but in a very round about way... any suggestions. > with mySQL and SELECT querie

Re: [GENERAL] limit select question

1999-03-31 Thread Chris Bitmead
Kevin Heflin wrote: > > I've been asked if there is a way to LIMIT the number of results displayed > when doing a SELECT with postgresql, by a former user of mysql. Wasn't > sure if there is an easy way to do this or not. I've don't it before, but > in a very round about way... any suggestions.

RE: [GENERAL] limit select question

1999-03-31 Thread Michael Davis
Select * From table_name limit 1; -Original Message- From: Kevin Heflin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 10:00 PM To: PGSQL-General (E-mail) Subject:[GENERAL] limit select question I've been asked if t

RE: [GENERAL] limit select question

1999-03-31 Thread Kevin Heflin
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Michael Davis wrote: > Select * From table_name limit 1; I'm running postgres6.4.2, and this query fails with: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near "1" I was told I could gain this feature by adding the 6.4.2 feature patch. But when I tried installing the patch, anything

RE: [GENERAL] limit select question

1999-03-31 Thread Michael Davis
Good point. I am running 6.5. So it has been fixed. I am not sure what patch is needed to make this work on 6.4.2. -Original Message- From: Kevin Heflin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 12:26 AM To: Michael Davis C

RE: [GENERAL] limit select question

1999-03-31 Thread Kevin Heflin
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Michael Davis wrote: > Good point. I am running 6.5. So it has been fixed. I am not sure what > patch is needed to make this work on 6.4.2. Is version 6.5 to be had some where, or is it only in beta? I sure could use that feature on a project I'm working on right now...

RE: [GENERAL] limit select question

1999-03-31 Thread Michael Davis
It entered into beta test this week. There are several features that I really need so am jumping in early. You have to know how/where to get the source code because it will not even be available for download until next week. -Original Message- From: Kevin Heflin [SMTP:

Re: [GENERAL] Performance

1999-03-31 Thread Maarten Boekhold
> 1) All Celerons ship with a 128K on chip cache. Which means the cache runs > at the same clock rate as the chip. > 2) The PIIs ship with 512K cache, however it's level 2 so it only runs at bus > speed. No, it runs at half the core speed. Maarten ps. do you also find it annoying when ppl quote

[GENERAL] Unix crypt() for PostgreSQL

1999-03-31 Thread Richi Plana
Hi, Does PostgreSQL 6.4.2 have a build in Unix crypt() function? Or has someone implemented it that you'd like to share? L L Richi Plana 8^) ,-,-. ,-,-. ,-,-. ,-,-. ,- LL LL Systems Administrator / / \ \ / / \ \ / / \ \ / / \ \ / / L Mosaic Communications,

RE: [GENERAL] Unix crypt() for PostgreSQL

1999-03-31 Thread Jackson, DeJuan
It's depends upon your needs, but if you're on a Unix system why not just access the system crypt function. You could create a PostgreSQL C function to easily access it. Just look in contrib for an example of the code. If you're on a Windows system I'd say give up now unless you want to implemen

RE: [GENERAL] limit select question

1999-03-31 Thread Rudy Gireyev
May be I'm missing something, but why not use the cursor? Do the select once and then fetch as many rows as you need. Rudy On 31 Mar 99, at 1:20, Michael Davis wrote: > Select * From table_name limit 1; > > -Original Message- > From:Kevin Heflin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Se

Re: [GENERAL] Performance

1999-03-31 Thread Rudy Gireyev
> > 1) All Celerons ship with a 128K on chip cache. Which means the cache > > runs at the same clock rate as the chip. 2) The PIIs ship with 512K > > cache, however it's level 2 so it only runs at bus speed. > > No, it runs at half the core speed. Oh shoot. You are absolutely right. I'm terribly

Re: [GENERAL] Performance

1999-03-31 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Rudy Gireyev wrote: > :-) That's funny. Although I think ppl do this for the archives. That way when > someone is searching for an answer and reads an email they don't need to go > scouring for the entire thread and can get all the info in that one email. Just a > thought. An