Re: [GENERAL] Simulating an outer join

2000-01-13 Thread Julian Scarfe
Bruce Momjian wrote: I am just writing the EXISTS section from my book. I don't think it matters what fields are returned from an EXISTS subquery. If I am wrong, someone please let me know. Celko also writes (in his chapter on EXISTS in "SQL for Smarties"): "In general the SELECT * option

Re: [GENERAL] PSQL Function() help....

2000-01-13 Thread omid omoomi
Hello, Sure you can use arrays as returned results in your function. regards. Omid Omoomi From: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dale Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PSQL Function() help Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 04:58:53 +0100 On 2000-01-12,

[GENERAL] Confussion with table-lock levels and isolation levels

2000-01-13 Thread Gabriel Fernandez
Hi fellows ! I would only want to ask some questions concerning table-locking levels and isolation levels: * First of all: should I assume that AccessXXX modes imply locking the complete table and Row imply locking only the rows which have been accessed ? Will then the conflicts be

Re: [GENERAL] How do you live without OUTER joins?

2000-01-13 Thread Alessio Bragadini
Sarah Officer wrote: How about using a union? select cc.com_cat_long, co.company_name from company_category cc, company co where cc.com_cat_abbr = co.com_cat_abbr union select 'unknown' as com_cat_long, company_name from company where com_cat_abbr is null; Yes, would be the best way

Re: [GENERAL] Simulating an outer join

2000-01-13 Thread Bruce Momjian
Bruce Momjian wrote: I am just writing the EXISTS section from my book. I don't think it matters what fields are returned from an EXISTS subquery. If I am wrong, someone please let me know. Celko also writes (in his chapter on EXISTS in "SQL for Smarties"): "In general the SELECT