Re[2]: [GENERAL] COALESCE() or NVL()

1998-07-10 Thread Sferacarta Software
Hello Robin, giovedì, 18 giugno 98, you wrote: RT> At 12:03 PM 6/17/98 +, Jose' Soares Da Silva wrote: >>> Jose' Soares Da Silva writes: >>> > SELECT name,NVL(salary)+100 AS dream FROM emp; >>> > name |dream >>> > ---+- >>> > Sam| 1300 >>> > Claire | 5100 >

Re: [GENERAL] What to do with no foreign keys

1998-07-10 Thread Sferacarta Software
Hello Brian, giovedì, 9 luglio 98, you wrote: B> If I have two tables, which are like this: B> baseball_team B> - B> team_name B> number_of_players B> games_played B> total_runs B> baseball_game B> - B> home_team_name B> visitor_team_name B> home_runs B> visitor_runs

[GENERAL] Defining 'C' functions in Postgres

1998-07-10 Thread Konstantinos Vassiliadis
Hello I am using Postgres for the first time. I tried to define a 'C' function in Postgres using the CREATE FUNCTION command but encountered the following: ERROR: Only users with Postgres superuser privilege are permitted to create a function in the 'C' language. Others may use the 'sql' lang

[GENERAL] Palloc library

1998-07-10 Thread Konstantinos Vassiliadis
Hi, I wrote a user-defined function and inside the source make use of palloc. Somebody from the novice mailing list told me that the "palloc" source is included in libpq and therefore I have included "libpq-fe.h" as the documentation says. The program compiled fine. However, today I read in the FA

Re: [GENERAL] Moving Databases

1998-07-10 Thread Maarten Boekhold
On Thu, 9 Jul 1998, Jeffrey Napolitano wrote: > I have two Postgresql databases - one on machine a, one on machine b. > Both are currently running. I want to put a copy of the database on a > onto machine b. I know I have to stop the postmaster (obviously) on > database b, but what else is the

Re: [GENERAL] What to do with no foreign keys

1998-07-10 Thread Bruce Tong
> How can I insure that for example "home_team_name" is one of > "baseball_team.team_name"? > > I have seen in books things like: > > PRIMARY KEY: home_team > FOREIGN KEY: home_team JOIN TO baseball_team.team_name > > is there anyway to do this in postgresql? I asked the same question a week o

Re: [GENERAL] What to do with no foreign keys

1998-07-10 Thread Brian
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Bruce Tong wrote: > > How can I insure that for example "home_team_name" is one of > > "baseball_team.team_name"? > > > > I have seen in books things like: > > > > PRIMARY KEY: home_team > > FOREIGN KEY: home_team JOIN TO baseball_team.team_name > > > > is there anyway to

Re: [GENERAL] What to do with no foreign keys

1998-07-10 Thread Bruce Tong
> B> PRIMARY KEY: home_team > B> FOREIGN KEY: home_team JOIN TO baseball_team.team_name > Take a look at .../contrib/spi/refint.example. I don't suppose you could post the full URL for that? I checked the examples I use frequently, and I'm not familiar with where that one might be. Bruce Tong

RE: [GENERAL] How to rename a database?

1998-07-10 Thread Jackson, DeJuan
try: pg_dump > tmp.sql then edit tmp.sql to change the old_database name to new_database name. then: cat tmp.sql | psql template1 -DEJ > -Original Message- > From: James Olin Oden [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 1998 11:45 AM > To: Aleksey Dashevsky > Cc:

RE: [GENERAL] Triggers: options besides compiled code?

1998-07-10 Thread Jackson, DeJuan
> > I started to look at the triggers documentation and was immediately > > dismayed to discover that I would have compile code to create a > > trigger. I have been using the old "rules" mechanism to > automatically > > put a sequence number into a tuple when inserting new rows. Are my > > choic