[GENERAL] NULLS and <> : Discrepancies ?

2000-12-29 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier,,,
uot; from "Utilisateurs" where "Cle" not in test1-# (select distinct "CleUtil" from "Histoires" where "CleUtil" is not null); Cle - 2 3 4 (3 rows) -- That's what I expected in the first place. Could someone explain to me why not eliminating nulls destroys the potential results of the query ? In other words, for any X not null, X not in (some NULLs) is false. Emmanuel Charpentier

Re: [GENERAL] group by and order by question

2000-12-29 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier,,,
lcomed of course. You should peruse a good database/SQL primer. I have good things to say about Bruce Momjian's book, available from Addison-Wesley or readable online on Postgresql's site at : http://www.postgresql.org/docs/aw_pgsql_book/index.html Hope this helps ! Emmanuel Charpentier

[GENERAL] Re: Delete and self-join

2001-01-24 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
appreciated. [ Donning dumb hat ... ] Did you try : DELETE FROM serviceproviders AS sp1 ? [ Leaving dumb hat ] [ Donning dumber hat ] Did you try using another name ? [ Leaving dumber hat ] [ Donning asbestos longjohns ] Hope this helps ! Emmanuel Charpentier -- Emmanuel Charpentier

Re: [GENERAL] Re: couple of general questions

2001-01-24 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
ile ... Baaah ! The IS unit is Newtons per square meter, and all decimal powers of it. Emanuel Charpentier Decimal since 1798 (Year VII of the Republic) -- Emmanuel Charpentier

Re: [GENERAL] PL/pgSQL Question

2001-01-24 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
ing a Codd-conformant RDBMS ! No hassles with updates and/or deletions in invoice_payments ... Emmanuel Charpentier -- Emmanuel Charpentier

Re: [GENERAL] Debian packages of 7.1beta4 available

2001-02-06 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
ger ? Sincerely yours, Emmanuel Charpentier -- Emmanuel Charpentier

[GENERAL] Trouble with views (7.1beta4 Debian) and PgAccess 0.98.7.

2001-02-07 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
eem not to be at the time ... -- Emmanuel Charpentier

[GENERAL] Questions to lists / translations

2001-02-22 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
Agreed. But keep in mind that a tralnslation is a *huge* work, especially in a domain such as computers where most competent people are used to more-or-less "think in English" about their domain of expertise. Furthermore, PostgreSQL docs are a hell of a moving target ... Therefore,

[GENERAL] Re: Slowdown problem when writing 1.7million records

2001-02-27 Thread Emmanuel Charpentier
se" your DB ? This seems to be essential to PG performance, for various reasons. Do you have a unique index on your primary key ? HTH, Emmanuel Charpentier