[SQL] Insert Rule, Multiple Insert, Update Problem

2007-12-10 Thread Scott
trigger but it is driving me crazy as to why this won't work as a rule. If I put something like the following: insert into foo values(NEW.points); Then every transaction points value is copied to foo. Any help is very appreciated. Thanks, Scott. ---(en

[SQL] Granting of permissions on tables

2000-10-05 Thread Saltsgaver, Scott
postgres user to correct the situation. Is this a bug or desired behavior? I would imagine since I owned the tables and then granted permissions to another user, I wouldn't lose my permissions. Any help or explanation would be appreciated. Thanks, Scott Saltsgaver

RE: [SQL] Granting of permissions on tables

2000-10-06 Thread Saltsgaver, Scott
nd be to grant permissions to yourself first and then to all other users? Scott -Original Message- From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 5:38 PM To: Saltsgaver, Scott Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [SQL] Granting of permissions on tables

[SQL] unwritable /tmp causes initdb to crash

2001-05-14 Thread John Scott
this is a goofy situtation. we had a new linux 2.4.4 kernel with a /tmp not writable by postgres. granted, this is categorically hosed, but initdb still dumped core under these circumstances. changing the /tmp to writable immediately fixed the problem. -j = John Scott Senior Partner

[SQL] Get A Tree from a table

2002-10-07 Thread Scott Yaung
ult like this 'A1', 'A', 'B1', 'B' 'B1', 'B', 'C1', 'C' 'C1', 'C', 'D1', 'D' 'B1', 'B', 'C2', 'C' 'B1', 'B', 'C5', 'C' 'A1', 'A', 'B3', 'B' 'A1', 'A', 'B4', 'B' or I just like to get another tree start with 'B1' like this 'B1', 'B', 'C1', 'C' 'C1', 'C', 'D1', 'D' 'B1', 'B', 'C2', 'C' 'B1', 'B', 'C5', 'C' How can i make it by sql , and sql functions Thanks lot and regards. Scott ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SQL] point <-> polygon not supported?

2003-02-20 Thread Scott Ding
Tomasz, This works! Thanks, Scott Ding -Original Message- From: Tomasz Myrta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 9:06 AM To: Scott Ding Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SQL] point <-> polygon not supported? Scott Ding wrote: > Tomasz, > >

[SQL] Cannot insert dup id in pk

2003-07-15 Thread Scott Cain
27;1000.007327','41',NULL,'+',NULL,'12358',NULL,NULL) Jul 14 12:48:47 localhost postgres[2998]: [108] ERROR: Cannot insert a duplicate key into unique index pk_fdata Note that I do not try to insert anything into fid, the primary key on this table. Why does Post

Re: [SQL] Cannot insert dup id in pk

2003-07-15 Thread Scott Cain
27;t realize it. I'll have to change my "bulk loading" script to update the sequence after the load is done. Thanks much, Scott -- ---- Scott Cain, Ph. D. [EMAIL PRO

[SQL] OR vs UNION

2003-07-17 Thread Scott Cain
r this particular query, explain analyze indicates that this is the more efficient form, but I could easily see that at other times/for other parameters, a set unioned together would be better. Are there any guidelines for this? Thanks,

Re: [SQL] OR vs UNION

2003-07-17 Thread Scott Cain
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 15:00, Josh Berkus wrote: > Scott, > > > I have a query that uses a series of ORs and I have heard that sometimes > > this type of query can be rewritten to use UNION instead and be more > > efficient. > > I'd be interested to know whe

[SQL] Cannot insert dup id in pk

2003-07-19 Thread Scott Cain
nd,fphase,gid,ftarget_start,ftarget_stop) Jul 14 12:48:47 localhost postgres[2998]: [107-2] VALUES('XX',7327656,7327658,'1000.007327','41',NULL,'+',NULL,'12358',NULL,NULL) Jul 14 12:48:47 localhost postgres[2998]: [10

Re: [SQL] [PERFORM] EXTERNAL storage and substring on long strings

2003-08-04 Thread Scott Cain
tten a plpgsql function before, so I don't have much experience with it; is there anything obviously wrong with this function, or are there things that could be done better? At least this appears to work and is much faster, completing substring op

Re: [SQL] [PERFORM] EXTERNAL storage and substring on long strings

2003-08-04 Thread Scott Cain
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:55, Richard Huxton wrote: > On Monday 04 August 2003 16:25, Scott Cain wrote: > [snip] > > [snip] > > You might want some checks to make sure that smin < smax, otherwise looks like > it does the job in a good clean fashion. Good point--smin <

Re: [SQL] [PERFORM] EXTERNAL storage and substring on long strings

2003-08-04 Thread Scott Cain
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 11:53, Tom Lane wrote: > Scott Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > At least this appears to work and is much faster, completing substring > > operations like above in about 0.27 secs (that's about two orders of > > magnitude improvement!) &g

Re: [SQL] [PERFORM] EXTERNAL storage and substring on long strings

2003-08-06 Thread Scott Cain
Joe, Good idea, since I may not get around to profiling it this week. I created a dump of the data set I was working with. It is available at http://www.gmod.org/string_dump.bz2 Thanks, Scott On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 16:29, Joe Conway wrote: > Is there a sample table schema and data

Re: [SQL] [PERFORM] EXTERNAL storage and substring on long strings

2003-08-09 Thread Scott Cain
Oh, and I forgot to mention: it's highly compressed (bzip2 -9) and is 109M. Scott On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 11:01, Scott Cain wrote: > Joe, > > Good idea, since I may not get around to profiling it this week. I > created a dump of the data set I was working with. It is av

[SQL] SQL function to validate money input

2003-10-15 Thread Zhao, Scott
Title: Message Hi All,   Is there a function available to validate if the input is a correct money format? For exapmle, "23.56" is a correct number but "23.567" is incorrect. I just like to do this in postgres level not in my application code.   Thanks   Scott  

[SQL] relation X does not exist

2004-04-19 Thread Laura Scott
Morning, I see lots of references to this error, but currently no fix for my situation. I am converting an INFORMIX ESQL/C system to PostgreSQL embedded C. I have hit several road blocks along the way and running out of time to complete and test this convert - so I am coming to the pros for some

[SQL] Aggregate query for multiple records

2004-08-25 Thread Scott Gerhardt
-50-24w3/0 | 2003 (20 rows) Thanks, -- Scott A. Gerhardt, P.Geo. Gerhardt Information Technologies ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [SQL] Aggregate query for multiple records

2004-08-28 Thread Scott Gerhardt
681 | 260.8 | 0 | 563.9 | 47899 | 9G/6-1-50-24w3/0 | 2003 200305 | 452 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47899 | 9G/6-1-50-24w3/0 | 2003 200309 | 637 | 244.6 | 0 | 193.8 | 47899 | 9G/6-1-50-24w3/0 | 2003 Thanks, -- Scott A. Gerhardt, P.Geo. Gerhardt Information Technologies ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings

Re: [SQL] [GENERAL] SQL update function faililed in Webmin Interface

2004-10-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 01:03, Kathiravan Velusamy wrote: > Hello All, >I am a newbie to PostgreSQL. I am using postgreSQL 7.4.5 in > HP-Unix 11.11 PA , and 11.23 PA. > I have a problem with postgreSQL Webmin (Webmin Version > 1.070) testing in update function. > This

Re: [SQL] [GENERAL] Log

2004-10-25 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 07:52, Davide Negri wrote: > Hello, > > i have installed the 8.0 beta3-dev1 version of postgres on my pc, and > I want to disable log. How can I do? It is possible to disable and > donât write all the log, or how can I write all the log in a specific > directory?? If you us

[SQL] JOIN not being calculated correctly

2004-10-30 Thread Scott Pederick
ld be greatly appreciated. I've taken it as far as I can and don't really know where to move from here. Thanks in advance, Scott Pederick ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate

Re: [SQL] JOIN not being calculated correctly

2004-11-20 Thread Scott Pederick
producttypeid_fkey FOREIGN KEY (producttypeid) REFERENCES producttypes(producttypeid) ON UPDATE RESTRICT ON DELETE RESTRICT; CONSTRAINT jobs_quarryid_fkey FOREIGN KEY (quarryid) REFERENCES quarries(quarryid) ON UPDATE RESTRICT ON DELETE RESTRICT; CONSTRAINT jobs_salesid_fkey FOREIGN KEY (salesi

Re: [SQL] Column with recycled sequence value

2005-01-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 11:08, KÃPFERL Robert wrote: > Hi, > > suppose I have a let's say heavy used table. There's a column containing > UNIQUE in4 > values. The data type musn't exceed 32-Bit. Since however the table is heavy > used 2^32 will be reached soon and then? There are far less than 4G-re

Re: [SQL] Column with recycled sequence value

2005-01-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 15:19, Michael Fuhr wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:48:47PM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 11:08, KÃPFERL Robert wrote: > > > > suppose I have a let's say heavy used table. There's a column containing > > >

Re: [SQL] Column with recycled sequence value

2005-01-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 15:43, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:31:54PM -0600, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > Any method that tries to reuse sequence numbers is a bad idea (TM) and > > Why? I can think of a dozen cases where it can be useful. It just > depends

Re: [SQL] number os commands inside transaction block

2005-01-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 16:29, Luiz Rafael Culik Guimaraes wrote: > Hi Michael Fuhr > >> how i can increse the number of commands in an transaction block > > > > What do you mean? What problem are you trying to solve? > > iÂm trying to solve the follow message > current transaction is aborted, quer

Re: [SQL] MSSQL versus Postgres timing

2005-02-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 10:54, Joel Fradkin wrote: > All is moving along well. > > I have all my views and data and am testing things out a bit. > > A table with 645,000 records for associates has view (basically select > * from tblassociates where clientnum = âtestâ) What does explain analyze s

Re: [SQL] getting back autonumber just inserted

2005-02-03 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 16:16, lorid wrote: > I could have sworn I kept a copy of prior emails that discussed how to > get back a value that was just inserted into a autonumber (or in > postgresql case a sequence number) If you know the name of the sequence the number came from you can use currva

Re: [SQL] More efficient OR

2005-02-16 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 10:02, Keith Worthington wrote: > Hi All, > > In several of my SQL statements I have to use a WHERE clause that contains > mutiple ORs. i.e. > > WHERE column1 = 'A' OR > column1 = 'B' OR > column1 = 'C' > > Is there a more efficient SQL statement that accomplis

Re: [SQL] Postgres performance

2005-03-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 04:52, mauro wrote: > > Not always, AFAICT. The four most common reasons why PG tests slower > > than Mysql are: > > 1. You haven't configured or have misconfigured PostgreSQL. > > 2. You are testing a MySQL-tuned application (lots of small, simple > > queries, no views, no

Re: [SQL] Postgres performance

2005-03-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:45, PFC wrote: > > The reason PostgreSQL is slower is because it (and by extension the team > > behind it) cares about your data. > > Sure, postgres is (a bit but not much) slower for a simple query like > SELECT * FROM one table WHERE id=some number, and postgres

Re: [SQL] best way to auto-update a field when row is updated

2005-03-10 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 14:09, Henry Ortega wrote: > I have the following table > > FIELD_A| FIELD_B | TSTAMP > > x y

Re: [SQL] "Flattening" query result into columns

2005-03-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 15:57, Thomas Borg Salling wrote: > I am looking for a way to âflattenâ a query result, so that rows are > âtransposedâ into columns, just as asked here for oracle: > > http://groups.google.dk/groups?hl=da&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&selm=aad10be0.0401

Re: [SQL] Postgres 7.3 migrate to 8.0 date problems.

2005-03-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 13:44, Thomas Seeber wrote: > Hi, > > We were upgrading from postgres 7.3 -> 8.0 and having a little > problems importing dates from some of our data sources. Say we have a > date like '2004-17-05'. In postgres 7.3, postgres would intrept this > as Year Day Month automatica

Re: [SQL] cost of CREATE VIEW ... AS SELECT DISTINCT

2005-03-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 15:43, T E Schmitz wrote: > Hello, > How expensive would it be to maintain the following VIEW: > > CREATE VIEW origin AS SELECT DISTINCT origin FROM transaktion > > if there is in index on transaktion.origin; the table transaktion has > thousands of records and there are on

Re: [SQL] getting count for a specific querry

2005-04-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:08, Joel Fradkin wrote: > Thanks all. > I might have to add a button to do the count on command so they don't get > the hit. > I would want it to return the count of the condition, not the currently > displayed number of rows. > > Is there any other database engines that p

Re: [SQL] getting count for a specific querry

2005-04-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:23, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Apr 8, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Joel Fradkin wrote: > > > I set up the data on 4 10k scsi drives in a powervault and my wal on 2 > > 15k > > drives. I am using links to those from the install directory. It > > starts and > > stops ok this way, but ma

Re: [SQL] getting count for a specific querry

2005-04-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:35, Bob Henkel wrote: > On Apr 8, 2005 3:23 PM, Vivek Khera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 8, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Joel Fradkin wrote: > > > I set up the data on 4 10k scsi drives in a powervault and > my wal on 2 > > 15k >

Re: [SQL] getting count for a specific querry

2005-04-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:36, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Apr 8, 2005, at 4:31 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > Note that there are several different RAID controllers you can get with > > a DELL. I had good luck with the PERC 4C (AMI MegaRAID based) at my > > > > I'v

Re: [SQL] getting count for a specific querry

2005-04-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 15:41, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Apr 8, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Bob Henkel wrote: > > > desktop SATA drive with no RAID? I'm by any means as knowledgeable > > about I/O > > setup as many of you are but my 2 cents wonders if the Dell RAID is > > really > > that much slower than a co

Re: [SQL] Getting the output of a function used in a where clause

2005-04-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
Why not just do: SELECT zipcode, zipdist($lat1d,$lon1d,lat,long) as distance from zipcodes where zipdist($lat1d,$lon1d,lat,long) <= $dist;"; On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 20:25, Bill Lawrence wrote: > Boy I sure thought that would work... I received the following from postgres: > > ERROR: Attribute "d

Re: [SQL] getting count for a specific querry

2005-04-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 14:29, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Apr 8, 2005, at 4:50 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > Do you run your 2650s with hyperthreading on? I found that slowed mine > > down under load, but we never had more than a couple dozen users > > hitting > >

Re: [SQL] getting count for a specific querry

2005-04-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 15:32, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Apr 12, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > How much memory is in the box? I've heard horror stories about > > performance with >2 gigs of ram, which is why I made them order mine > > with 2 gigs. D

Re: [SQL] How to install Postgres that supports 64-bit

2005-04-22 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 00:30, Dinesh Pandey wrote: > How to install Postgres 8.0.1 that supports 64-bit integer/date-time. > > > > # ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/pgsql > --with-tclconfig=/usr/local/lib --with-tcl > > checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.8 > > checking host syst

Re: [SQL] pg_dump without data

2005-05-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 04:14, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > how do i get a dump of a postgresql database without the data? pg_dump -s for the schema pg_dumpall -g for the globals, like usernames and all. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9'

Re: [SQL] Replacing a table with constraints

2005-05-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
Are the constraints deferrable? If they are, then you can replace the data with a single transaction. If not, then you'll have to look at disabling triggers for the update. On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 14:55, Mark Fenbers wrote: > True, but Counties has about 8 or 9 rules, view, or pk constraints > att

Re: [SQL] Does Postgresql have a similar pseudo-column "ROWNUM" as

2005-05-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 14:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi: > > Oracle has a pseudo-column "ROWNUM" to return the sequence number in which a > row was returned when selected from a table. The first row ROWNUM is 1, the > second is 2, and so on. > > Does Postgresql have a similar pseudo-column "

Re: [SQL] ERROR: unterminated quoted string... help

2005-05-17 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 13:15, Postgres Admin wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to insert encrypted data into the database and I'm noticing > error dealing with quotes. Below is the error print out... > > suggestions and/or at least point me in the direction to find a solution, > > Thanks, > J > > >

Re: [SQL] Does Postgresql have a similar pseudo-column "ROWNUM" as

2005-05-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 13:27, Keith Worthington wrote: > Scott, > > I realize that this thread went off in another direction however your > suggestion proved very helpful for a problem that I was trying to solve. I > wanted the row number of a set returned by a function. He

Re: [SQL] Tip ?

2005-05-24 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 13:26, Alain wrote: > This tip was at the end of a message (from Szűcs Gábor). > > > TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your > > joining column's datatypes do not match > > it looks very important, but I cannot understand it. Sound as

Re: [SQL] SELECT very slow

2005-06-16 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 17:08, Thomas Kellerer wrote: > PFC wrote on 15.06.2005 22:04: > > > > >> It's not the program or Java. The same program takes about 20 seconds > >> with Firebird and the exactly same data. > > > > > > Hm, that's still very slow (it should do it in a couple seconds l

Re: [SQL] Unique primary index?

2005-06-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 12:01, PFC wrote: > > > > What are the major differences between Unique, primary index & just > > plain index? > > > > When creating tables I nominate one of these, but not sure what the > > difference is? > index is... an index ! > > UNIQUE is an index which won't allow du

Re: [SQL] ENUM like data type

2005-06-28 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 13:22, Martín Marqués wrote: > El Mar 28 Jun 2005 13:58, PFC escribió: > > > > >> Here is where I get uncertain as to if this is possible. My idea is to > > >> create a pseudo type that triggers the creation of it's lookup tables > > >> the same way the SERIAL type triggers c

Re: [SQL] ORDER records based on parameters in IN clause

2005-06-29 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 09:22, Russell Simpkins wrote: > fair enough. but a simple order by id would never work. > Try this: select *, case when id=2003 then 1 when id=1342 then 2 when id=799 then 3 when id=1450 then 4

Re: [SQL] getting back autonumber just inserted

2005-07-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 15:14, Theodore Petrosky wrote: > you have to use currval inside a transaction... > > begin; > insert something that increments the counter; > select currval('sequence_name'); > end; > > using currval inside a transaction guarantees that the > value is correct for your inser

Re: [SQL] Generating a range of integers in a query

2005-07-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 04:13, Aaron Bingham wrote: > Hello, > > I've got an interesting problem: I need to select all possible values > of an attribute that do /not/ occur in the database. > > This would be easy (in my case at least) if there were a way to > generate a table containing all integer

Re: [SQL] how to do a select * and decrypt a column at the same

2005-08-24 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 14:53, The One wrote: > Hello, > > I have a table with one encrypted column. > How can I do a select statement such that it will select all columns > from the table and at the same time will decrypt it too? A view should be able to do that... ---(en

Re: [SQL] booleans and nulls

2005-08-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 21:25, Matt L. wrote: > Out of curiousity, > > 1. Does a boolean column occupy 1byte of disk whether > or not the value is null or not? No. Nulls are stored, one bit per, to a byte at a time. I.e. if you have 8 null fields, they are stored in the same byte. > 2. Is matc

Re: [SQL] insert only if conditions are met?

2005-08-31 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:54, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > SELECT sum(hours) FROM table WHERE emp_name = 'JSMITH' AND work_date = > '8-15-2005'::date will give you the hours. So... > > INSERT INTO table > SELECT blah > WHERE (SELECT sum(hours) FROM table WHERE emp_name = 'JSMITH' AND > work_date

Re: [SQL] Why doesn't the SERIAL data type automatically have a

2005-09-27 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 20:03, Tom Lane wrote: > Ferindo Middleton Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is there some reason why the SERIAL data type doesn't automatically have > > a UNIQUE CONSTRAINT. > > It used to, and then we decoupled it. I don't think "I have no use for > one without the other

Re: [SQL] Selecting count of details along with details columns

2005-09-29 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 14:08, Axel Rau wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > Exactly, that query works as I expected. Thank you. > Can you answer this question as well: > > Looking for a workaround, I learned that aggregate functions are not > > allowed in WHERE clauses. > > Q

[SQL] creating postgres tables by passing a string to function

2005-10-04 Thread Scott cox
27;0509' on them and I want to move the data to appropiate monthly tables. '0510' would represent shipped on 2005 october. Eventually I want to create, insert, select all based on passing a string such as '0509' to a function. I am a newbie. Th

Re: [SQL] Selecting records not present in related tables

2005-10-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 14:43, Hector Rosas wrote: > Hello, I'm trying to select records in a table not present in a > related table, in example, I've a table with message information > (subject, message, date, etc) and another (usermessages) with where > user(s) has that message, its state, etc. Rec

Re: [SQL] pg, mysql comparison with "group by" clause

2005-10-11 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 16:12, Rick Schumeyer wrote: > I'm not sure what I was thinking, but I tried the following query in pg: > > SELECT * FROM t GROUP BY state; > > pg returns an error. > > Mysql, OTOH, returns the first row for each state. (The first row with > "AK", the first row with "PA",

Re: [SQL] pg, mysql comparison with "group by" clause

2005-10-12 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 16:54, Greg Stark wrote: > Stephan Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Rick Schumeyer wrote: > > > > > I'm not sure what I was thinking, but I tried the following query in pg: > > > > > > SELECT * FROM t GROUP BY state; > > > > > > pg returns an erro

Re: [SQL] pg, mysql comparison with "group by" clause

2005-10-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 20:13, Greg Stark wrote: > Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hehe. When I turn on my windshield wipers and my airbag deploys, is it > > a documented "feature" if the dealership told me about this behaviour > > ahead of

Re: [SQL] pg, mysql comparison with "group by" clause

2005-10-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 13:26, Greg Stark wrote: > Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sorry, but it's worse than that. It is quite possible that two people > > could run this query at the same time and get different data from the > > same se

Re: [SQL]

2005-10-18 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 10:31, Shavonne Marietta Wijesinghe wrote: > how can i do a query with 2 databases?? This is only supported by an add on called dblink, and it's a little bit klunky. Could schemas solve your problem? ---(end of broadcast)--- T

Re: [SQL] Blank-padding

2005-10-24 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 00:39, Chris Travers wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > >"Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>I remember that discussion, and I was for the change. However, upon > >>doing some testing after reading the above, I wonder if the > >>blank-strip

Re: [SQL] why vacuum

2005-10-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:45, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > hi, > i was in a minor flame war with a mysql guy - his major grouse was that > 'I wouldnt commit mission critical data to a database that needs to be > vacuumed once a week'. So why does pg need vacuum? The absolutely funniest thing about

Re: [SQL] why vacuum

2005-10-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:45, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > hi, > i was in a minor flame war with a mysql guy - his major grouse was that > 'I wouldnt commit mission critical data to a database that needs to be > vacuumed once a week'. So why does pg need vacuum? Oh man oh man. After reading the ar

Re: [SQL] Combining two SELECTs by same filters

2005-10-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 10:16, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > => SELECT > -> (SELECT count(id) FROM sales > -> WHERE id = 2 > -> AND date_trunc('hour', dt) = '2005-10-25 21:00:00'), > -> (SELECT count(id) FROM sales > -> WHERE id = 2 > -> AND date_trunc('hour', dt) =

Re: [SQL] why vacuum

2005-10-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 11:09, Jan Wieck wrote: > On 10/26/2005 11:19 AM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:45, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > >> hi, > >> i was in a minor flame war with a mysql guy - his major grouse was that > >> '

Re: [SQL] why vacuum

2005-10-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 11:12, Tom Lane wrote: > Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 23:45, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > >> i was in a minor flame war with a mysql guy - his major grouse was that > >> 'I wouldnt commit mission cri

Re: [SQL] child fk problem

2005-11-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 12:42, Luis Silva wrote: > I there, I'm trying to work with postgre, but i'm having a problem > with inherits. I have a table (parent) that as an fk to another table. > When i create a child, i loose the connection to the other table. i > dont need to insert values in the par

Re: [SQL] DB design and foreign keys

2005-12-13 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 12:16, Gianluca Riccardi wrote: > hello all, > i'm usign PostgreSQL 7.4.7 in a Debian 3.1 > > following is the SQL schema of my (very)small DB for a (very small)web > business application: > CREATE TABLE orders ( >id serial, >order_code serial, >customer_code i

[SQL] JOIN question with multiple records

2006-01-04 Thread Scott, Casey
I have 2 tables. One containing information about servers, and the other containing information about IP addresses. E.G. Server table: namemac mac2 - SERVER1 00:0d:56:ba:ad:92 SERVER2 00:0d:56

Re: [SQL] Update in all tables

2006-02-22 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 12:08, Judith wrote: >Hello everybody I need to update a field with the same value in the > tables of my data base but this field exists in almost all tables and > has the same value, I don't want to code a script, so my question is if > there is some way to update that

Re: [SQL] Update in all tables

2006-02-22 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 15:13, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:59:06AM -0600, Judith Altamirano Figueroa wrote: > > Hello everybody I need to update a field with the same value in the > > tables of my data base but this field exists in almost all tables and > > has the same va

Re: [SQL] Replication - state of the art?

2006-03-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 11:51, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > I'm interested in creating a mirror database, for use in case one our > primary machine goes down. Can people here help sort out which of the > several replication projects is most viable? > > As far as I can tell, the winner is slony1 at > http

Re: [SQL] Interval subtracting

2006-03-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 14:18, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Stephan Szabo wrote: > > > justify_days doesn't currently do anything with this result --- it > > > thinks its charter is only to reduce day components that are >= 30 days. > > > However, I think a good case could be made that it should normalize

Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Interval subtracting

2006-03-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 14:27, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 14:18, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Stephan Szabo wrote: > > > > > justify_days doesn't currently do anything with this result --- it > > > > > thi

Re: [SQL] pg_dump and diffrent sizes

2006-03-03 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 14:10, Maciej Piekielniak wrote: > Hello pgsql-sql, > > I dump db with pg_dump v.8.1.3 on database postgresql server 7.4.7. > Data directory with my db on pg 7.4.7 had 1,8GB and > file with dump had 2,7GB. > Database have blob fields. > > When I restore db on pg 8.1 - data d

Re: [HACKERS] [SQL] Interval subtracting

2006-03-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 06:07, Markus Schaber wrote: > Hi, Scott, > > Scott Marlowe wrote: > > >>But it isn't '-2 months, -1 day'. I think what you are saying is what I > >>am saying, that we should make the signs consistent. > > Pretty much.

[SQL] Savepoint/Rollback in functions

2006-03-14 Thread Scott Petersen
a test function and the function failed. Question 1: does pg/psql functions allow "SAVEPOINT/ROLLBACK" functionality? (if so how?) Question 2: if the answer to question 1 is "NO", what would be required to get this implemented in the standard produ

Re: [SQL] have you feel anything when you read this ?

2006-03-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 02:06, Eugene E. wrote: > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/news-5-0-19.html > --- cut --- > mysql no longer terminates data value display when it encounters a NUL > byte. Instead, it displays NUL bytes as spaces. (Bug #16859) > --- cut --- Everyone here realizes that t

Re: [SQL] Referential integrity broken (8.0.3), sub-select help

2006-03-21 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 08:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I've got 2 tables, "url" (U), and "bookmark" (B), with "bookmark" pointing to > "url" via FK. > Somehow I ended up with some rows in B referencing non-existent rows in U. > This sounds super strange and dangerous to me, and it's n

Re: [SQL] generate_series to return row that doesn't exist in

2006-03-24 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 14:30, MaXX wrote: > Hi, > > I have a table wich contains aggregated data, > table stats_activity > logtime timestamptz, > count int > > given this dataset > "2006-03-24 03:00:00+01";55 > "2006-03-24 04:00:00+01";33 > "2006-03-24 06:00:00+01";46 > "2006-03-24 07

Re: [SQL] Flight numbers data

2006-03-29 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 02:17, Achilleus Mantzios wrote: > Hi, i am in the process of writing an application about > tickets, flights, etc, and i am thinking of getting the primitive > data ready at the begining and doing it the right way, > (e.g. the user will just select a flight number and doesnt

Re: [SQL] How to copy data between joined columns?

2006-04-07 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 15:32, Bryce Nesbitt wrote: > I have a need to copy/update data from one column to another, based on a > join condition. Is this easy to do in pure SQL? I have google'ed > without luck for a easy solution (that's not Microsoft specific, that > is). For example: > > postgre

Re: [SQL] LinkedList

2006-04-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 11:09, Ray Madigan wrote: > I have a table that I created that implements a linked list. I am not an > expert SQL developer and was wondering if there are known ways to traverse > the linked lists. Any information that can point me in the direction to > figure this out would

[SQL] PL/PGSQL - How to pass in variables?

2006-05-14 Thread Scott Yohonn
Using PL/PGSQL, I am trying to create a procedure to display the count of rows in any single table of a database. The End-user would pass in a table name and the prodecure would display the table name with the row count. I am able to hardcode the variable for table and get the appropriate results

Re: [SQL] Find min and max values across two columns?

2006-05-15 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 16:40, Emi Lu wrote: > Hello, > > I tried "select greatest(max(a), max(b)) from public.test", but I got > the following errors: > > ERROR: function greatest(integer, integer) does not exist > HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You may > need to

Re: [SQL] Am I crazy or is this SQL not possible

2006-06-01 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 14:47, Yasir Malik wrote: > > It is a hack, but when someone wants you to do something in a way > > different from the norm, aren't they asking for a hack? > > > > SQL Server does something like > > select top (1) from > > > > I am thinking this is NOT a SQL-99 standard.

Re: [SQL] Advanced Query

2006-06-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 10:30, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: > > Personally: I think your posts are getting annoying. This isn't SQLCentral. > > Learn to write your own damn queries or even better - buy a book on SQL... > > Personally: (being a newbie with an interest in developing a strong rdms > sk

Re: [SQL] How to get list of days between two dates?

2006-06-06 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 16:17, Aaron Bono wrote: > Though there may be a more eligant way to do it, when we did things > like this in the past we created a function (or stored procedure) that > got the min and max dates and then created a result set that iterated > through the dates to create a virtu

Re: [SQL] empty set

2006-06-08 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 16:40, CG wrote: > PostgreSQL 8.1 > > I've been trying to write a SQL prepare routine. One of the challenging > elements I'm running into is an empty set ... > > "select foo from bar where foo in ? ;" > > What if "?" is an set with zero elements? What is the proper value to

Re: Fwd: [SQL] Start up question about triggers

2006-06-26 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 08:59, Forums @ Existanze wrote: > Hello again, > > The problem is not tracking WHAT changed, this can be done, as we have > discussed in this thread, the problem is how to replicate the necessary > commands that will alter a mirror database to reflect what has been changed,

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