[GENERAL] inheritance and primary/foreign keys

2001-03-07 Thread Daniel J. Kressin
Question 1: If table A has as its primary key "a_pk" and table B inherits table A, then table B also has as its primary key a_pk. Is that correct? Question 2: If I want table C to have a foreign key on both A and B, is the following syntax correct? (I'm using 7.0.3) CREATE TABLE c (

Re: [GENERAL] table name case sensitivity

2001-03-09 Thread Daniel J. Kressin
Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > Daniel J. Kressin writes: > > > I know that you can make table names case-sensitive by putting them > > in quotes. Is there a way (compile-time option, anything?) to make > > them case-sensitive by default (i.e. without quotes)? > &

[GENERAL] sorting on inet type?

2001-03-20 Thread Daniel J. Kressin
I have a table with an inet column, which I entered in order initially, so they came out like: 1.2.3.4 1.2.3.5 1.2.3.40 1.2.3.41 After updating, say, 1.2.3.5, it moves to the end. I understand why, that's not the problem. Adding an 'ORDER BY host(ip)' clause causes the ordering to be:

Re: [GENERAL] sorting on inet type?

2001-03-20 Thread Daniel J. Kressin
Larry Rosenman wrote: > > I believe this is fixed in 7.1. > > LER Is there a workaround for 7.0.x? Short of adding extra columns to store the separate octets and sorting on them? -- Dan Kressin .---. /___ \/ __ \ | Unix SysAdmin