Re: [SQL] date infinity

2001-01-02 Thread Tom Lane
Ferruccio Zamuner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > expire date default 'infinity'); > ERROR: Unrecognized date external representation 'infinity' infinity is a timestamp (or datetime) feature, not a date feature. regards, tom lane

RE: [SQL] Date/Time problem -(((

2001-01-02 Thread Francis Solomon
Hi Boris, I know Kaare Rasmussen posted a URL to the online documentation already, but this might be a direct solution to your problem: DELETE FROM onlineuser WHERE datum < ('now'::datetime - '5 minutes'::interval); Hope this helps Francis Solomon > Hello > > I am moving from MySQL to Postgre

[SQL] Re[2]: Date/Time problem -(((

2001-01-02 Thread Boris
Hello Francis, Tuesday, January 02, 2001, 3:23:49 AM, you wrote: FS> Hi Boris, FS> I know Kaare Rasmussen posted a URL to the online documentation already, FS> but this might be a direct solution to your problem: FS> DELETE FROM onlineuser WHERE datum < ('now'::datetime - '5 FS> minutes'::inte

Re: [SQL] Looking for comments

2001-01-02 Thread Ron Peterson
Thomas SMETS wrote: > > > ISBN's have a checkdigit; it would be sensible to provide a > function to be used in a CHECK constraint to ensure that the > ISBN is valid. > Here's a URL with more information:http://www.isbn.spk-berlin.de/html/userman/usm4.htm. I've written a similar algorithm in

Re: [SQL] Looking for comments

2001-01-02 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Thomas SMETS writes: > > ISBN's have a checkdigit; it would be sensible to provide a > function to be used in a CHECK constraint to ensure that the > ISBN is valid. > > > OK I'll start searching for it but haven't implemented yet In the PostgreSQL distribution there's a directory contrib/isbn_

[SQL] sql99 / sql3

2001-01-02 Thread Ron Peterson
I just recieved SQL in a Nutshell from O'Reilly. I bought the book because it covers the SQL99 standard. It's my understanding that this is the most recent SQL standard. Am I correct about this? What is the current status of SQL standards? What is the most recent approved standard, and what a

[SQL] About Index

2001-01-02 Thread Najm Hashmi
Hi, I have created a table songs as follwoing: CREATE TABLE songs ( song_id serial NOT NULL, title character varying(50) NOT NULL, composer varchar(50), performer varchar(50), artist_id int4 not null, file_size int4, description text, extrInfo t

[SQL] FUNCTION returing multiple rows

2001-01-02 Thread Brett Schwarz
I have seen in the postings that it is not possible to return multiple rows from a function. However, when I look at the programmers guide (Ch. 4), it almost leads me to believe otherwise: -8<--- The following more interesting e

[SQL] Release date for 7.5?

2001-01-02 Thread Diehl, Jeffrey
Hi all. I'm hoping to migrate from mysql to postgresql but need some of the features in 7.5. Any idea when it will be out? Thanx, Mike Diehl.

Re: [SQL] Release date for 7.5?

2001-01-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
I assume you mean 7.1. We are in beta now. That usually takes a month. [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > Hi all. > > I'm hoping to migrate from mysql to postgresql but need some of the features > in 7.5. Any idea when it will be out? > > Thanx, > Mike Diehl. > > -- B

Re: [SQL] Release date for 7.5?

2001-01-02 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Diehl, Jeffrey wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm hoping to migrate from mysql to postgresql but need some of the features > in 7.5. Any idea when it will be out? well, we have to get through 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 first ... at a 6mo turnaround on each release, sometime in '03? :) ser

[SQL] Weird problem with script...

2001-01-02 Thread jkakar
Hi, I'm building a script to create the tables in my database. Everything works fine except one thing with this part of my script: create table tbl_resume_free_text_type ( type_id int, type text ); -- insert into tbl_resume_free_text_type (type_id, type) values (1, 'Hobbies');

Re: [SQL] Rules

2001-01-02 Thread Jan Wieck
Peeter Smitt wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to make updateable view useing rules. > > CREATE RULE update_rule AS ON UPDATE TO table DO INSTEAD > SELECT fun1(new); > > Thing is that backend gives this error. > ERROR: parser: parse error at or near ")" > > What i'm doing wrong? Are there any other

Re: [SQL] Weird problem with script...

2001-01-02 Thread Tom Lane
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I'm building a script to create the tables in my database. Everything > works fine except one thing with this part of my script: > create table tbl_resume_free_text_type ( > type_id int, > type text > ); > -- insert into tbl_resume_free_text_type

[SQL] order by day or month, etc

2001-01-02 Thread Leo Xavier
Hello first time I post something... good morning everyone! short presentation: Leo Xavier, Lisbon - Portugal, 17 years, my home-made site: www.megabenfica.com Sql7, win 2000... The question: How for example do I select all entrys from a certain month (of a certain year, of course) ? Or from a ce

Re: [SQL] FUNCTION returing multiple rows

2001-01-02 Thread Tom Lane
Brett Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, when I look at the programmers guide (Ch. 4), it almost leads me to > believe otherwise: > The following more interesting example takes a single argument of type EMP, > and retrieves multiple results: > select function hobbies (EMP) returns se

Re: [SQL] order by day or month, etc

2001-01-02 Thread Jens Hartwig
Hello Leo, which version of PostgreSQL are you running? I tested: select to_char(abm_dat, 'DD/MM/') AS new_date from t_dummy; And it works fine: new_date 31/03/1992 15/06/1994 11/09/1993 19/11/1993 ... Regards, Jens Leo Xavier schrieb: > [...] > doing this: > SELECT